THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY ¢ OFFICE OF MEDIA RELATIONS
NATHALIE E, LAMPMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR © ROBERT H. RICE, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
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MAJOR CAREER COUNSELING PROGRAM SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
AT GIDEON PUTNAM, SARATOGA, JUNE 9-12
(with editor's note)
ALUMNI WEEKEND COMING UP AT UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
ALBANIAN RECEIVES LARGE MELLON FELLOWSHIP
ALBANY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR RECEIVES ROCKEFELLER GRANT
LIBRARIAN RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP FOR STUDY
WRITING AWARDS MADE AT ALBANY UNIVERSITY
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I ALBANY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR RECEIVES ROCKEFELLER GRANT
Joseph Zacek, professor of history and department
| chairman at The University at Albany, has received a
t major sabbatical grant from the Rockefeller Foundation
for 1977-78. It will enable him to spend the entire
year researching and writing "A Modern History of the
Czechs and Slovaks," the first in a series of scholarly
histories of the nations of Eastern Europe commissioned
| by the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American
| Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Re-
| search Council.
' Dr. Zacek, who joined the Albany university faculty
in 1968, will spend the year primarily at Columbia Uni-
versity, where he has been appointed visiting scholar
i in the Institute on East Central Europe, and at Harvard
University where he has been appointed associate of the
i Russian Research Center.
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LIBRARIAN RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP FOR STUDY
Anne Roberts, associate librarian at The University
at Albany, is one of 17 outstanding midcareer librarians
to receive a fellowship for 1977-78 from the Council on
Library Resources, Inc. Mrs. Roberts will study credit
courses in library instruction taught by librarians in
the university centers and four~year colleges of State
University of New York.
q The librarian, who resides at 13 Norwood Street,
Albany, has been employed at the university since 1967.
Currently she is reference librarian in charge of li-
brary orientation and instruction.
| Mrs. Roberts attended Stanford University and
| the University of California at Berkeley before enrol-
| ling at The University at Albany where she earned a
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Library Science, and a Master
of Arts in English.
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May 11, 1977
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NATHALIE E. LAMPMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR @ ROBERT H. RICE, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
ALBANIAN RECEIVES LARGE MELLON FELLOWSHIP
Dolores Rosenblum, assistant professor of English
at The University at Albany and a resident of Albany, has
been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow-
ship for 1977-78. She is one of 10 humanist scholars in
the nation to receive the $12,000 grant for the next
academic year.
Dr. Rosenblum will spend the year writing a book
on Christina Rossetti. As part of her duties as a
fellow, she will deliver a series of lectures at one of
the undergraduate colleges of the City University of
New York.
A native of Canada, the Albany University faculty
member received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 from Queens
University, Kingston, Ont. The following year she was
awarded a Master of Arts from Cornell University. Later,
after raising a family, Mrs. Rosenblum received a Doctor
of Philosophy from Cornell in 1975. Before joining the
Albany faculty, she taught at Northwestern University
and at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
KERK ARK ERK
May 11, 1977
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NATHALIE E. LAMPMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR ® ROBERT H. RICE, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
WRITING AWARDS MADE AT ALBANY UNIVERSITY
For the second time in Guo ‘years, a student has
won both English department writing awards at The Uni-
| versity at Albany. Cynthia Gregory, a senior, of 714
Madison Avenue, Albany, has received the Lovenheim prize
for the best poem, "this could happen", and the McIlwaine
j prize for the best short story, "Eating Sun." Last year
| Ellen White, who lives at 922 Park Avenue, Albany, and
graduates this year, won the two top awards.
| In the 1977 McIlwaine contest, James O'Rourke, of
t West Babylon, received a cash honorable mention award
for his short story, "Through the Hourglass, Darkly."
The Leah Lovenheim award was established in 1923
by Jerome Lovenheim in memory of his mother, an alumna
[ of the Class of 1892. It has been continued, after the
deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Lovenheim, by their son, L. J.
Lovenheim.
! The McIlwaine award was created by contributions
from the alumni of Albany University as a tribute to
Shields McIlwaine who was a faculty member at the uni-
| versity for many years before his death.
RERKK KEE E
May 11, 1977
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NATHALIE E. LAMPMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR ® ROBERT H. RICE, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
MAJOR CAREER COUNSELING PROGRAM SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
AT GIDEON PUTNAM, SARATOGA, JUNE 9-12
An estimated 120 professionals in counseling fields are
expected to attend a series of short courses in "Career Counsel-
ing: Theory and Practice," June 9-12 at the Gideon Putnam, Sara-
toga Springs. The program is the last of four such sessions pre-
sented by Career Planning Consultants, Inc., Charlottesville,
Va., and is co-sponsored locally by The University at Albany
Counseling Center, Division of Student Affairs. The courses are
approved for continuing education units by the Department of
Counseling and Personnel Services. The units are awarded by the
Cotlege,of General Studies.
The career counseling courseg are offered for the first
time in the Capital District. The previous three programs in the
current series were presented in Santa Barbara, Cal., last Sep-
tember; Dallas, in January; and Chicago, in April. The local
site director for the program in Saratoga is Martin Coffey, coun-
seling psychologist at The University at Albany.
A majority of the professional counselors, psychiatrists,
psychologists, social workers, and others in the counseling fields
who. will attend the June courses are from the Northeast. Some
from other parts of the country, however, were unable to attend
the previous sessions and will travel to Saratoga for the final
program.
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The program will place emphasis on exploring new develop-
ments in career counseling and on the attainment of knowledge
and skills which the participants can take back to their parti-
cular settings. The course is structured so that participants
will be divided into small groups, each of which will meet as a
class with each of the six faculty members for a three and a
half hour period. A total of 21 hours of classroom instruction
will be provided. A banquet on the first day will inaugurate the
program.
The faculty for the courses consists of nationally-
known professionals in their fields. Lenore Harmon, editor of
the Journal of Vocational Behavior will discuss "Contemporary
Issues in Career Counseling" as the keynote speaker at the open-
ing banquet. The six three-and-a-half-hour courses and their
respective instructors are as follows: °
"Theories of Career Development," John Holland, pro-
fessor os social relations at Johns Hopkins University and a
consulting editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
"Vocational Assessment," John Crites, professor of
psychology, University of Maryland, and consulting editor for
several professional journals.
"Programmed Approaches to Career Counseling," Lorraine
(Sunny) Hansen, professor and program coordinator for counseling
and student personnel psychology in the department of psychoeduca~-
tional studies, University of MInnesota.
"Outreach Programs and Strategies," Howard Figler, director
of counseling and placement, Dickinson College.
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"Individual Counseling Skills," Norman Gysbers, pro-
fessor of education, College of Education, University of Missouri,
and president of American Personnel and Guidance Association.
"Placement and Resources Development," Richard Harwood,
associate director, Office of Career Planning and Placement, Uni-
versity of Virginia.
NOTE TO MEDIA: The Office of Media Relations has background in-
formation on the participating faculty and detailed scheduled for
the courses. If you are interested in covering part(s) of the
program and/or in interviewing faculty members, please contact
this office.
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May 11, 1977
THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY ® OFFICE OF MEDIA RELATIONS
NATHALIE E. LAMPMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR ® ROBERT H. RICE, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
ALUMNI WEEKEND COMING UP_AT UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
Alumni Weekend 1977 will begin on Friday, May 13, at
The University at Albany and continue throughout the weekend
under the leadership of Steven Thomson, Class of 1970, and
Gwendolyn Simmons, Class of 1974. All classes with years ending
in "7" and "2" will have reunions.
General activities will include an open house at the
Alumni House on Friday evening; a first-ever combination of the
all-alumni luncheon with a streamlined annual meeting on Saturday
when alumni awards will be presented; a Saturday night banquet
featuring special entertainment; and a Sunday brunch and tour.
At the luncheon speakers will include Eunice B. Whittlesy, presi-
dent of the Alumni Association; and Dr. Emmett B. Fields, univer-
sity president.
Plans are being made by reunion classes, headed by the
Class of '27, which will sponsor a 50th reunion banquet Friday
night in the Campus Center ballroom. The Class of '37 will have
a 40th reunion banquet Friday night in the Patroon Room. An off-
campus buffet is being planned for the same evening by the Class
of '52 and the Class of '67 has planned a revue for its reunion.
The Class of '47 will have a wine and cheese party and an alumna
has sent a personal check to be used for the 60th reunion of the
Class of '17.
KARR RK KK
May 11, 1977
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ALBANY. UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AWARDED PRIZE BY FRENCH ACADEMY
ORIENTATION PROGRAMS FOR ay STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
EDUCATIONAL SECRETARIES TO ATTEND CONFERENCE AT ALBANY UNIVERSITY
JOB PLANNING SESSIONS SLATED AT UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
SPECIAL PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM AT ALBANY UNIVERSITY
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