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"New York State Programs in Classics", a 63-page survey of classics programs offered
at the undergraduate level by colleges and universities in New York State, has been pub-
lished by State University of New York at Albany. The booklet was prepared by the
research committee of The Classical Association of the Empire State with the support of
the university.
Mrs, Harriet S. Norton, associate professor of education and chairman of Latin
education in the university's School of Education, is chairman of the committee. Other
committee members are; James B. Colton, chairman of the language department at Albany
Academy for Boys, and Dr. Hans 4. Pohlsander, and Richard Gascoyne, both of the faculty
at SUNYA. Dr. Pohisanaer is assuciate prosesscr of classical and comparative literature,
and Mr. Gascoyne is assistant professof of classics,
The booklet, reportedly the first of its kind to have been published, lists nearly
70 institutions of higher learning in the state which offer undergraduate programs in
the classics. Copies are being sent by the Guidance Bureau of the New York State ad-
ucation Department to guidance offices of every school in the state. Additionally, the
research committee of CARES A:
sociation is mailing a copy to each member of the asscciation,
At the Airlie House Conference of April 1965, formally known as The Planning Con-
ference To Examine the Role of Classical Studies in American Education and To Make
Recommendations for Weeded Research and Development and sponsored by the Arts and
Humanities Branch cf the U.S. Devartment
’ Health, Education and Welfare, it was
Suggested that such materiel as noW ccntained in the new publication be made available
guidance counselors in each state, The bocklet is divided into three sections:
institutions offering major programs, institutions
ited programs, and insti-
dons offering cognate curses.
Formation of CAZS began in March 1964 in Albany at a workshop for teachers of Latin
co-sponsored by SUNYA and the State Zducation Department. Since then the organization
has experienced the continued support and encouragement of both the university and the
department.
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Dr. A. G. Davis Philip, assistant professor of astronomy at State University
of New York at Albany, has received a two-year grant of $43, 000 from the National
Science Foundation to continue his work in galactic structure.
A member of the staff of Dudley Observatory in Albany in addition to being
a faculty member at SUNYA, Professor Philip is making a concentrated study
of 12 selected areas in our galaxy to analyze galactic structure perpendicular
to the plane to determine the distribution of stars and luminosity function. He
began his project nearly three years ago in New Mexico, The new grant,
administered through Dudley Observatory and for which Professor Philip wrote
the proposal, will support Professor Philip's work and that of three research
assistants, Previously the astronomer was the recipient of a grant from The
Research Foundation which provided for the purchase of an astrophotemeter
at State University of New Mexico at Las Cruces,
Professor Philip, who does work in photometry and spectroscopy, has been
conducting observations at Kitt Peak National Observatory at Tucson, Ariz.,
and at the National Observatory of Mexico atqonantzintla, If telescopes are
ready by summer he plans to make observations from the new southern hemi-
spheric observatory at Cerro Tololo, about 300 miles north of Santiago, Chile.
He is enroute now for the Mexican observatory after which he will continue his
observations at Kitt Peak for several days,
Professor Philip, who joined the SUNYA faculty last year, received his
bachelor of science degree in physics. He holds a master of science degree
in physics from State University of New Mexico and a doctoral degree in
astronomy from Case Institute of Technology, Professor Philip and his wife,
the former Kristina Drobavicius, live at 1084 Wendell avenue, Schenectady,
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Dr. David Tuggle, instructor in anthropology at State University of New York
at Albany, will give the second in the current University Colloquium lecture series
at the university Wednesday evening, March 8. His subject will be "Cultural
Interpretation of Prehispanic Mexican Art: El Tajin and the Ball Game".
Professor Tuggle, a graduate of Transylvania College, also studied at the Univ-
ersity of Arizona where he received his master of arts and doctoral degrees. He has
done field work at Tepoztlan and El Tajin in Mexico, at Grasshopper, Ariz., and at
various archaeological sites in New York State. The latter project was done in
association with the New York State Museum.
Currently Professor Tuggle has publications on El Tajin in process. He also is
continuing his work on El Tajin, New York achaeology, and the anthropological analysis
of bullfighting.
The lecture, to be held in lecture room 2 on Library Court, will begin at 8
o'clock.
The three remaining lectures in the series follow: March 29, Professor Mojmir S.
Finta, "Decorations on Medieval Panel Painting"; April 19, Professor Henry L. Minton,
"Concept of Power as a Psychological Concept", and May 17, Professor David Dow Harvey,
"Distinction Between Modern and Contemporary Poetry".
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Dr. Joseph Kaplan, president of the International Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics, will lecture next Tuesday evening, March 7, at State University
of New York at Albany in the symposium on ''Science and the Future of Man",
His subject will be ''International Cooperation in Science: Its Impact on
Education and the Economy,"
A professor of physics at The University of California at Los Angeles,
Dr, Kaplan is the only American to have been elected to the office of president
of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences and from 1953-1963 he was chairman of the U. S,
National Committee for the International Geophysical Year, The program
culminated in a major international symposium, which was held at UCLA
in August 1963,
Recently Dr, Kaplan was invited by the Swedish Royal Academy of Science
to nominate a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1967. The dis-
tinguished scientist has been a member of the U. S. Air Force Scientific
Advisory Board since 1964, He was organizer and chairman of the Scientific
Advisory Group, Office of Aerospace Research, in 1964, He serves as
consultant to the National Science Foundation and to the Office of Science and
Technojogy. Additionally Dr. Kaplan is a frequent menber of special White
House panels,
The lecture, to be held in the dining room of Dutch Quadrangle, will begin
at 8:30, Parking facilities are available on the quadrangle's parking lot
in the northwest corner of the campus,
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A workshop in consumer economics will be held Aug. 20 through Sept. 1 at State
University of New York at Albany. Designed to aid participants in gaining fuller
understanding of the processes of consumer education, the sessions will provide an
opportunity for secondary school teachers to broaden their knowledge and to improve
their teaching abilities.
The workshop will be administered by Professor J, Woodrow Sayre, director of the
university's Center for Economie Education and executive director of the New York
State Council on Economic Education. Instruction will be given by Dr. Louis R.
Salkever, chairman of the university's economics department. Guest lecturers will
include representatives from the Consumers Union, business, labor, and government. The
course, consumer economics, will carry two semester hours of graduate credit. Thirty
scholarships from the State Education Department will be provided, contingent upon
availability of funds.
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The Capital Area School Development Association at State University
of New York at Albany is continuing to cosponsor with the Troy City School
District a training program for supervisors of buildings and grounds, The
adult education program is planned for 20 to 30 people and each CASDA
school is alloted one representative,
Ten three-hour meetings will be held Tuesdays, beginning March 14,
at 7 p.m, in the Vocational Annex of Troy High School,
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Dr. Christopher Kendris, assistant librarian in the cataloging department
at State University of New York at Albany, is the author of two new books,
"Beginning to Write in French" and ''Beginning to Write in Spanish'', published
by Barron's Educational Services, Inc. Prior to his present position, he was
assistant professor of French at SUNYA,
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Dr. Kendris, who has degrees from eee Northwestern
University, and the University of Paris, recently was awarded a master of
science degree fro: Re ar eentty he is doing research on a book of
interest to library service,
Among the professor's other publications are ''201 French Verbs and
201 Spanish Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses," He is listed in
Directory of American Scholars and in Who's Who in American Education,
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Four graduate students from the Ontario College of Education, University
of Toronto, are on a five-day visit to State University of New York at Albany as
visiting student-teachers, Their program of observations of classes at The Milne
School and at area schools, as well as of methods classes at the university's School
of Education, has been planned by Dr. James A, Crowley, associate professor of
education in social studies at the university and a graduate of the University of
Toronto, and by Dr. Gerald W. Snyder, professor of education in social studies
at SUNYA,
The students, who will be honored at a reception Wednesday afternoon
(March 8) at The Milne School, are Caroline Werry, Gail Gray, Ronald Belcher,
and Bryan Proctor.
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Milton Babbitt, of the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies at Princeton University,
will give a demonstration lecture on electronically produced music Monday evening,
March 20, at State University of New York at Albany under the sponsorship of the univ-
ersity's music department, The lecture, open to the public and for which there is no
admission charge, is scheduled to begin in the Campus Center ballroom at 8:15.
Professor Babbitt has announced his intention to devote his lecture primarily to
the musical motivations for e!ectronically produced music and the modes of production
and preception of such music, He plans numerous examples, including a number produced
on the synthesizer, excerts from tape studio-produced works, and part of a computer-
produced work.
During World War II, Babbitt's work was mainly in mathematics, in Washington and at
Princeton. Immediately after the war, however, he propounded his major theoretical dis-
coveries regarding formal properties of the twelve-tone system, published and analytical
study of the Bartok quartets, and composed his first works to employ methods that leter
became known as "total serialization." In 1948 he returned to the Princeton music
department where he is now a professor.
Babbitt also has been on the faculty of the Berkshire Music Center, the Salzburg
Seminar in American Studies, the Princeton Seminars in Advanced Music Studies and the
1964 Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse for Neue Musik. In 1965 he was elected to
membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His previous honors include
a Joseph Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Institute Recording Award,
the New York Music Critics' Citation, and commissions from the St. Louis Symphony and
the Koussevitzky Foundation,
The availability of the RCA synthesizer has permitted Babbitt to explore complex
new rhythmic situations that lie within the bounds of perceptual possibility but beyond
even the ultimate mechanical capacities of human performers. Perhaps even more important
was the achievement of performance conditions under which the distinctive sonic and success-
ful qualities that his ideas had always pre-supposed, could be realized.
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Professor Marianna A, Poltoratzky of the department of Germanic and Slavic
languages and literatures at State University of New York at Albany is the author of an
Introduction to the Study of Russian Lexicology and Lexicography published by Trident
Press, The volume, the first textbook on the subject to appear in the United States,
is intended primarily for English-speaking graduate students.
Professor Poltoratzky obtained doctorates in linguistics at the University of
Leningrad and the University of Graz, Austria. Before escaping from the Soviet Union,
she held the chair of Comparative Slavic Linguistics at the University of Rostov. In
this country she has served as chairman of the Department of Russian at Georgetown
University and at Vassar College. For several years she was a professor at the Middle-
ury College Russian Summer School. She also has given courses at Columbia University and
New York University. Professor Poltoratzky is the founder and the academic director of
the Summer Institute of Critical Languages, Putney, Vt.
Author of numerous scholarly publications which appeared in the Soviet Union, the
SUNYA faculty member also took part in the compilation of the Dictionary of Old Russian
and the Dictionary of Contemporary Russian published by the Academy of Sciences under the
editorship of the prominent scholar Ushakov. Her publications in this country include a
Comparative Syntax of the English and Russian Lenguages and Russian Folklore. She is
e@lso the co-author, with Professor Catherine Wolkonsky of the same department at SUNYA
of a Handbook of Russian Roots, published by Columbia University Press in 1961.
At present Professor Poltoratzky is working on a History of the Russian Literary and
Colloguial Language, with extensive commentaries in English. Her most recent articles
concern the linguistic peculiarities of the "Nekrassovtzy," a group of Cossacks who
reyolted against Peter the Great in 1708 and emigrated to Turkey, where until recent times
they formed an isolated colony, preserving the language of the seventeenth century. Two
years ago they were brought to this country under the auspices of the Tolstoy Foundation
and settled on the Tolstoy Farm near Nyack, N. Y., as well as in Oregon and Alsaka.
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A conference on "The Organization and Programming of International Clubs on
State University Campuses" will be held at Brubacher Hall on the downtown campus,
State University of New York at Albany, the week end of Marchi17, 19. Arrangements
for the conference were announced by Alfred Rapetti, of State University of New York
Maritime College at Fort Schuyler and president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the
Association of International Relations Clubs, and by Ivan Putnam, director of Inter-
national Faculty and Student Exchange for State University.
Featured speakers will include Dr. Glenn Olds, University Dean for International
Studies and World Affairs; Allan Williams, national president of the Association of
International Relations Clubs; Ed Elkins of the national Collegiate Council for the
United Nations; and Professor William Dunn, faculty advisor of the IRC at State
University of New York College et New Paltz.
Registration for the conference is set for Friday evening, March 17, beginning
at 6. Dinner will follow at 7:15 and the opening session starts at 8:15, Adjourn-
ment will be at 2 Sunday afternoon.
Among those invited to attend are student leaders and faculty advisors of active
international clubs on SUNY campuses and anyone interested in organizing such clubs.
The conference has been planned under the sponsorship of the Mid-Atlantic Region of
the Association of International Relations Clubs, assisted by the International Studies
and World Affairs Center of the State University and by the State University at Albany.
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Twelve paintings depicting ''Great Moments in American History" will go
on public exhibit at Campus Center at State University of New York at Albany
be ginning next Monday, March 13, and continuing through March 20,
The paintings will be displayed from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays
and from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday. There will be no admission charge.
Titles of the paintings are ''The Fate of a Nation Was Riding That Night,"
"Louisiana Passes to the United States,'' ''San Francisco Welcomes the First
Overland Mail," "Coronado's Men Find the Grand Canyon," ''Capt, Gray Anchors
in the Columbia, " ''The Lancaster Turnpike Opens to Traffic," "First Emigrant
Train Arrives at Fort Laramie, "' ''We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours,"
"The Cherokee Outlet Is Opened to Settlement, '' ''Talking Wires Take Over from
the Pony Express," ''The Iron Horse Opens a New Era", and ''The Flying
Machine Conquers the Air."
The five artists who created the paintings for Humble Oil & Refining Company,
sponsors of the traveling exhibit, are Robert McCall, Jerry Allison, Kenneth P,
Riley, Sam S. Bates, and Harry Anderson,
The series of paintings received a Freedoms Foundation Award in 1966.
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Harrison Salisbury, assistant managing editor of the NEW YORK TIMES, will speak at
State University of New York at Albany Sunday evening (March 12) at 7:30 in the Campus
Center ballroom, His talk is sponsored by the Forum of Politics, a student group at
the university.
Mr, Salisbury is considered one of the most informed American newsmen on the world
situation. In the summer of 1966, he traveled through Southeast Asia, visiting Laos,
Burma and the Himalayan-Indian border, up to Mongolia end Siberia. A series of five
front-page articles in the TIMES summed up his tour findings.
The widely-quoted journalist spent part of December 1966 and January 1967 in North
Vietnam with the approval of the U. S. State Department, again reporting in front-page
stories for the TIMES, His latest trip to Moscow, took place last month.
Author of five non-fiction books about Russia, based on his extensive tours of that
country since 1944, and a novel, “The Northern Palmyra Affairs" about the city of Leningrad
and its citizens, Salisbury also is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for excellence in
foreign reporting. He gained the honor in 1954 with a series of articles called "Russia
Re-Viewed", based on five years as Moscow correspondent for the TIMES and extensive travel
in Soviet Central Asia.
Mr. Salisbury who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1930, accepted a
position with United Press immediately. He served in various offices of UP in the 30's,
including Chicago, where he covered the tail-end of the Prohibition gang wars and the
trial of Al Capone.
His first assignment in Russia was as head o* UP's Moscow staff in 1944, which
began his travels in and knowledge of that country. Mr. Salisbury joined the New York
Times staff in 1949.
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A one-man eanipivion of recent work by Thom O'Connor of the
art department of State University of New York at Albany will be held
March 16 through April 14,
Mr. O'Connor, whose work is represented in the collections of
the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum,
and the Boston Public Library, recently participated in the Whitney Museum! s
semi-annual print and sculpture exhibition, In 1964 he worked at Tamarind
Workshop and John Herron Institute on a printer fellowship.
Mr. O'Connor's local exhibition will open with a reception in Campus
Center from 8 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 16, Thereafter the work may
be seen daily from 10 a.m, to 10 p.m. in the Campus Center gallery.
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The elevation of Benjamin J. Comi from director of business affairs at State
University of New York at Albany to assistant vice president for business affairs
was approved today (March 9) by the Board of Trustees of State University of New York.
Mr. Comi, who has been on the administrative staff at the university since 1956,
is currently on sick leave. In its resolution of approval, the Board of Trustees
stated: "Mr. Comi has served State University well and faithfully for many years."
The change in Mr. Comi's status to the assistant vice president level at Albany was
proposed at the time that Albany bacame a university center but had been deferred
pending budget approval of organizational plans involving establishment of other
positions.
A resident of Watervliet (1850 - 8th Avenue), Mr. Comi holds bachelor of science
and master of science degrees from SUNYA. Presently he is a patient at the National
Institutes of Health Hospital at Bethesda, Md.
In another resolution, the Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Robert
A. Stierer as acting assistant vice president for management and planning. The
appointment is a temporary one during Mr. Comi's sick leave.
Mr. Stierer, formerly city manager of Troy, on March 2 began a temporary
appointment as a consultant at the university where he serves in the office of Dr.
Milton C. Olson, vice president for hanegonent and planning.
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The fourth in a series of lectures during the "Science and the Future of Man”
Symposium sponsored by the division of science and mathematics, State University of
New York at Albany, will be given by Barry Commoner Wednesday, March 15, at 8:30 p.m,
in the Dutch Quadrangle dining room on the uptown campus.
Dr. Commoner, who will discuss "The Duty of Science," is chairman of the department
of botany and director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Washington
University in St. Louis. An active investigator of fundamental problems on the
physio-chemical basis of biological processes, he has proposed a radical new view on
the chemical basis of inheritance.
For six years (1960-66) Dr. Commoner was chairman of the Committee on Science in the
Promotion of Human Welfare of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
also is a founder of the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information, serving as president
in 1965-66.
His book, "Science and Survival," was published by Viking Press in October, 1966,
and deals with the serious threats to human survival that results from modern technolo-
gical changes, and the resultant responsibilities of scientists and citizens.
The lecture, open to the public, is the next to the last in the series. Dr,
Morris Kline, chairman of undergraduate mathematics at the Washington Square Center of
New York University, will speak on "The Impact of Mathematics on Civilization" Monday,
April 10,
Chairman of the faculty committee for the Symposium is Dr. Donald s, Allen,
Others on the committee are Dr. Kay Heinig, Dr. Violet Larney, Dr. Alfred Levitas,
Dr. Jon Scott and Dr, Stephan Temesvary.
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William A, Frankonis
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The State University Theatre, State University of New York at Albany, will pre-
sent George S. Kaufman and Mare Connelly's play, “Merton at the Movies," under the
direction of James M. Leonard, March 15-18 at Page Hall at 8:30 p.m.
A topical play of 1922, "Merton" poked sharp, satirical fun at the silent movies
and "movie types" of the era. The revived version retains a topical flavor and again
will take aim at an industry which has acquired a voice, but hasn't changed its face
much,
Mr. Leonard's production coincides with the national upsurge of interest in the
Twenties, as evidenced, in part, by the recent popularity of such songs as "Winchester
Cathedral." Leonard, whose production "Of Mice and Men" was the University's entry in
last year's Yale Drama Festival, sees "Merton" as a satire on an idealism which pursues
"eLimsy, hollow goals."
The title character is a star-struck midwestern boy who naively seeks movie stardom
and accidentally succeeds, He has a love affair with illusion and no amount of dis-
illusion turns him from his goals. The satire doesn't limit itself to Hollywood, but
extends to false idealism wherever it may be found.
The play, despite its age, remains modern because of the timeless techniques de-
veloped by silent film director Max Sennott. Recent comedies such as "The Great Race”
and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" also are indebted to his methods.
Mr. Leonard is hoping his cast, now in rehersal for next week's opening, will
develop characters possessing a quality of stereotype indicative of the excesses of
Hollywood phoniness.
Tickets for "Merton at the Movies" are on sale now and may be purchased by calling
’ the University Theatre box office weekdays between 11:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
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Edouard Morot-Sir, Cultural Ambassador to the French Embassy, will give two
public lectures at State University of New York at Albany on Tuesday, March 21. The
announcement was made by Dr. Jean-Louis Auclair, counsellor for French programs at
the university.
Under the sponsorship of the department of Romance languages, Mr. Morot-Sir will
lecture in French at 3:30 in the afternoon at the Campus Center's assembly hall on
"The Literary Life in France in 1967", In the evening, in the center's ballroom at 8:30,
he will lecture in English on “Prench Philosophy Today: Jean-PaulSartre and Father
Teilhard de Chardin". The latter address will be sponsored by the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Question and answer periods will follow both lectures, Mr. Morot-Sir also will
respond to questions of general interest concerning France today.
‘The distinguished Sai or who will be the guest of President Evan R. Collins
during his stay, will confer during the day with administrative and academic staffs of
the university. The visit takes place within the program of high-level intellectual
interchange between France and SUNYA. Under the program, Jean Babin, rector of the
University of Bordeaux, amd Jerome Seite, Inspector General of Higher Education in
France, visited Albany in 1965; the world-famous philosopher Gabriel Marcel, and the
world-famous geographer, Jean Tricart, lectured on the Albany campus in 1963 and 1964,
Two Sorbonne professors, Roger Asselineau, a world authority on Walt Whitman, and
Paul Bacquet, a specialist of pre-Renaissance English, will be teaching for one semester
each in the unversity's department of English next year.
Through arrangements made by the Franco-American Commission for Educational and
Cultural Exchange (Fulbright Commission), six graduate students from France come each
() year to Albany for a unique program of full academic integration within the student
community. In January of this year Marie-Anita Beysang, from Strasbourg, was the first
foreign student to obtain a master of arts degree in English from SUNYA.
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By way of reciprocity, SUNYA students receive French scholarships to do advanced work
at the Graduate School of the University of Strasbourg. Those planning to teach French
in high schools are also given the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of France
by teaching English in State secondary schools for one year. Dr, Auclair reported
that, to date, results obtained by Albany grantees has been outstanding.
Mr. Morot-Sir, who holds nine honorary degrees from United States academic institu-
tions, has been in his present post for the past ten years, He also serves as reps
resentative of French universities in the United States. The ambassador is executive
chairman of the Society for French American Cultural Services and Educational Aid,
honorary vice president of the International Association of Characterology, and
an honorary member of the American Association of Teachers of French, He has degrees
in philosophy and in letters, is an officer of the French Legion of Honor, and a
commander in the Order of Academic Palms,
A noted writer, Mr. Morot-Sir is the author of a number of philosophical works
including seven books and many articles.
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Dr. Morris Schaefer, professor of public administration in the Graduate School of
Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany, will leave April 8 on a four-
week United Nations health mission to the government of Argentina.
The purpose of the trip is to provide advice to the Argentinian Ministry of Health,
which already has installed organizational changes recommended by Dr. Schaefer on
earlier visits. The government of Argentina has requested his return to advise on
further revisions in the national public health system.
Dr. Schaefer, who was appointed to his post at the university in 1963, was the
representative of the Pan American Health Organization in Argentina for several months
in 1964 and 1965.
Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Schaefer served in a variety of posts in
the State Health Department, most recently as Director of the Office of Planning and
Procedures,
He has also been a consultant on health organization and planning to the State of
Illinois, the governments of Brazil, Chile and Ecuador, and the U.S. National Commission
on Community Health Services. In his overseas work, he has served under the auspices
of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Agency for Inter-
national Development.
Dr. Schaefer, who holds bachelor: and master's degrees from New Jersey State
College at Trenton, resides with his wife, the former Vera K. Walshe, in Loudonville.
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State University of New York at Albany
SUNVA NEWS 9 cteescr
Natholie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE « Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
The first orientation session for students applying for the Study Abroad Program
at the University of Guadalajara will be held Monday, March 27, at State University of
New York at Albany. The all-day session, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., will be held in room
147 of Draper Hall.
Final selection of candidates to participate in the program will depend largely
upon performance during the day. To be conducted in Spanish, the program will include
"An Overview of the Program and the Role of the Student", Dr. Frank G. Carrino, director
of the university's Center for Inter-American Studies; "A Tourist's View of Mexico",
Helen Triantafillou, instructor in Spanish; "Mexican Politics", Carlos A. Astiz,
assistant professor of Latin American Politics; "Mexican Social Structure", Carlos A.
Echanove, visiting professor of sociology and anthropology; and a written test in Spanish
related to Professor Echanove's lecture.
. Purpose of the program is to provide an opportunity for quality students to pursue
courses in their field of interest, as well as to broaden their contacts with a cultural
region of Latin America, It will be off one semester duration from September to February
1968. Participants will register at their own institution as well as at the University
of Guadalajara. All applicants must have an honor average in Spanish, Students will
take a maximum of twelve semester hours at the host institution in accordance with
their degree program and recommendation of their major adviser.
Students will be housed with selected families in Guadalajara. Estimated costs
for the semester, including transportation and tuition, will total about $1,000.
The University of Guadalajara at present has no foreign study commitmentis with
institutions outside of Mexico. SUNYA would be the first institution to enter into
such a commitment with Guadalajara. However, for the last eighteen years the uni-
versity has had a summer study program designed especially for Stateside students.
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State University of New York at Albany
Hi. Dovid Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lompman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
For Release; AM WEDNESDAY
MARCH 15, 1967
At the invitation of the Colonial Quadrangle Residence Board at State Univ-
ersity of New York at Albany, Senator Robert F. Kennedy will visit students on
campus Saturday afternoon, March 18, shortly after 3 o'clock. Announcement of the
pending visit for a question and answer period, expected to last over an hour, was
made by David Cummings, president of the Colonial Quadrangle board.
Aileen Schlef, who was a legislative intern in Senator Kennedy's Washington
office last summer on grant from the university, is handling detailed arrangements
for the Senator's visit. He is expected to arrive by private plane at the Albany
Airport at 2:30 when he will be met by a student delegation.
Following a brief tour of the Colonial Quadrangle area of the university's up-
town campus, Senator Kennedy will speak in the quadrangle's dining room. Mr. Cummings,
recently elected to Central Council at the university, will preside, President Evan
R. Collins will welcome Senator Kennedy who will be introduced to the students by
Miss Schlef, Also on the platform will be Henry Madej, president of the Senior
Class which is cooperating in arrangements for the Senator's visit.
Accompanying Senator Kennedy will be Jerry Bruno who heads the Senator's office
in Syracuse, The stop at the Albany campus will be after a morning of skiing. In
the evening Senator Kennedy will attend the annual Legislative Correspondents Associa-
tion dinner in Albany.
Tickets for SUNYA student admission will be issued at Colonial Quadrangle's
Flag Room and at Campus Center. Aiding the students with plans for Senator Kennedy's
visit is Neil Brown, director of student activities at the university.
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SU NWA N Hi. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
President Evan R. Collins of State University of New York at Albany has
announced that he is appointing a University Athletics Council to coordinate the
participation of all groups within the university in the development of inter-
collegiate athletic policy. The announcement was made at President Collins’ reg-
ular weekly meeting with students at Campus Center.
The new council will be responsible for developing a rationale for inter-
collegiate athletics; recommending to the president broad institutional policy
with respect to inter-collegiate athletics, and a framework for administering athletic
policy, including a consideration of the duties and responsibilities of the Athletics
Advisory Board and the Director of Athletics; and conducting a continuing evalua-
tion of athletic policy.
Serving on the nine-member council will be five members of the faculty. They
are the vice president for student affairs, Dr. Clifton C. Thorne, who will serve as
‘chairman; the chairman of the undergraduate admissions committee of Faculty Senate,
Dr. Edward Berg, and three members of the faculty to be nominated by the executive
committee of Faculty Senate. The committee is being requested to make the nomina-
tions at its meeting next Monday. Also on the committee will be two students to
be nominated by student government; one member of the Alumni Association to be named
by the association, and one member of the University Council to be nominated by the
Council, Additionally, Dr. Collins has asked Dr. Alfred Werner, as director of
athletics, to serve as an ex-officio, non-voting member of the newly formed council.
Dr. Collins stated that the development of new facilities for physical education
makes possible a corresponding development Of the university's inter-collegiate
athletic program which previously had been limited severely py former facilities. At
the request of President Collins, Dr. Thorne developed for the University Council a
proposal for a standing committee "to represent the broad concerns of the university
community for the development and the governance of inter-collegiate athletics.”
Faculty concern is expressed through the Faculty Senate, and its Council on
Student Affairs. Interest of the student body is communicated through student govern-
ment, its Central Council and the Athletic Advisory Board. The latter group is con-
cerned particularly with programming and financing of events.
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._}. David Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
Coming from a dozen area counties, some 145 secretaries will attend an
"Rducational Secretaries Conference" Saturday, March 18, at Westmere Elementary
School under the sponsorship of the Capital Area School Development Association
of State University of New York at Albany and the Albany Area Chapter of Educational
Secretaries, Theme of the conference is "Let's Get Organized."
Three small group sessions will be concerned with new ideas in filing systems,
education law as it affects the secretary, office management - new approaches; how
to eee with data processing; problems related to guidance, volume processing in
the library, instructional materials center, student supervision in the library,
special problems of the chief school officer's secretary, and speaking to and with
the public.
Welcoming remarks will be made by Alton U. Farnsworth, superintendent of
Guilderland Central Schools, and James P. Cleary, principal of the host school,
oe Donald Favreau, of the university's Center for Executive Development, will give
the keynote address. The conference, which will open at 9 for registration and a
social hour, will be concluded at 2:15.
On the conference planning committee, working with David J. Fotheringham,
program coordinator of CASDA and with Professor Favreau, are Mrs, Cyril F. Howe
and Mrs. Harold Bergeron of the Colonie Central Schools; Mrs. Marlin Fuller and
Mrs. Richard Larkin, Bethlehem Central Schools; Mrs. Alfred Lombardo and Mrs.
Joseph DeBarthe, Albany City Schools; Mrs. Ferdinand Smith and Mrs. Richard Martin,
Coxsackie-Athens Central Schools; and Mrs. Kellogg Mitchell and Mrs. Chester Anthony,
Guilderland Central Schools.
Conference consultants include Arnold Amell, guidance coordinator, Linton
High School, Schenectady; Joseph V. Carosella, superintendent, Draper Schools; J.
Robert Daggett, research associate, CASDA; Mrs. Muriel DeSorbo, school secretary,
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Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School; William Endicott, assistant superintendent,
East Irondequoit Central School; Mrs. Kathleen Hollister, director of libraries,
East Greenbush School; Mrs, Teresa Maslanka, school secretary, East. Irondequoit
Central Schools; Dr, Margaret McKenna, School of Business, SUNYA; Mrs. Frances
Miller, educational librarian, SUNYA; Mrs. Ethel Severinghaus, associate, Bureau of
School Libraries, Education Department; Richard Shands, business manager, Guilderland
Central School; and Louis H. Welsch, associate attorney, Office of The Counsel,
State Education Department.
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State University of New York at Albany
H. Dovid Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE ° Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
The Capital Area Chapter of the New York Association of School Board Officers
will hold its fourth program on school architectural planning Thursday, March 16,
at State University of New York at Albany. The meeting, planned with the
cooperation of the Capital Area School Development Association at the university,
will be held at Brubacher Hall, beginning at 9:30 a.m. In the afternoon there
will be an informational meeting on the New York State Textbook Law.
“Alan C, Green, director of the Center for Architectural Research at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, and his associates have planned a program concerned with
new ways of putting the school plan together and the impact of industrialization
of building.
Following lunch, to be served in Brubacher dining room, the second session
will have as guests representatives of the State Education Department. Samuel
Frone, superintendent in the Division of Educational Management Services, and
Peter Martin, an associate in curriculum development, will speak on the administra-
tion of the textbook lew.
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Natholie Lampman, News Director
() PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
Over $5,500 was raised by students at State University of New York at
Albany at their "Cavalcade of Talent" 22-hour telethon held over the weekend
on their campus for the benefit of The New York State Mental Health Association,
Inc. An estimated 1500-2000 persons attended the program, reported to be the
first venture of its kind at a college campus.
Claude D, Price, executive director of the mental health association,
commented, "A magnificent accomplishment! The students have shown real leader-
ship and concern which will set a standard for any other campus in the country.
Personally, I was pround to be a witness with them and am confident their efforts
can only be matched by their mental health telethon proposed for next year."
The program, conducted in the ballroom of Campus Center, was shown on closed
circuit television set up in several lounges in the building.
The public is invited to attend and there will be no fee for admission to
the seminar,
March 14, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE « Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
Dr. Erna M. Moore, associate professor of German at State University of New
York at Albany, is the author of Die Tagebicher Wilhelm Heinses, to be published
this month by the Wilhelm Fink Verlag in Munich,
Heinse, a contemporary of Goethe, is usually associated with the Storm and
Stress movement in German literature. Under the impact of Nietzsche's writings
Heinse was rediscovered at the turn of the century as the first German writer who
peconaized the spirit of the Italian Renaissanceas it is viewed today. The startl-
ing kinship of Heinse's thought with the philosophy of Nietzsche brought about the
first critical edition of Heinse's collected works. But not until the late publication
of Heinse's private and unknown studies in 1925, now considered his major works,
was it possible to judge the scope and the significance of Heinse's thought in the
development of German literature. Now he is recognized as the direct forerunner of
. Nietzsche: 8n18th century writer whose philosophy and style represent the Dionysian
world-view as Nietzsche defined it a hundred years later.
Dr. Moore's book traces the historical eat thier oaiticrs) factors that brought
about the revival of Heinse in the early 1900s > gives a critical evaluation
especially of the edition of Heinse's diaries, and investigates the research that
had been stimulated by the publication of those diaries.
The main theme of the book is the changed image of Heinse as a German
thinker and writer.
Presently Dr. Moore is engaged in writing an article which is to suggest a
proper title for Heinse's literary remains within an impending new critical
edition of his collected works, They are generally referred to as "diaries "+
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State University of New York at Albany
H. David Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Natholie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
Anne Sexton will read her poetry at a program Wednesday evening, March 29,
at State University of New York at Albany. Open to the public at no charge,
the event is being sponsored by the university's department of English, the New
York State Council for the Arts, and the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWCA
in New York. Beginning at 8 o'clock, it will be held in the assembly lounge of
Campus Center,
Mrs, Sexton, a native of Newton, Mass., held the Robert Frost Fellowship at
Breadloaf and she was a Scholar with Radcliffe's New Institute for Independent
Study from 1961-63. She was awarded the first traveling fellowship of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, a grant from the Ford foundation for residence with
the Charles Playhouse in Boston, and the first literary magazine travel grant under
the auspices of The Congress for Cultural Freedom. In 1965 she was elected a
Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature in London.
Her books include To Bedlam and Part Way Back, and All My Pretty Ones, pub-
lished by Houghton Mifflin Company, both of which were acclaimed by the critics,
and established Mrs. Sexton as an outstanding American poet. Her Selected Poems ,
a Poetry Book Society recommendation, was published in 1964 by the Oxford University
Press in London. Mrs. Sexton's most recent volume is Live Or Die published by
Houghton Mifflin.
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State University of New York at Albany
HW. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
The Inter-Sorority Council at State University of New York at Albany
will hold a fashion show Saturday afternoon, March 18, for sorority members
in the music and card lounges of Campus Center. Theme of the affair,
scheduled for from 2-5, will be "When a Young Girl's Fancy Turns to Spring."
Coeds from each of the eight sororities will model spring clothes
from The Clothes Horse in Slingerlands. Chairman of the show is Miss Deborah
Walton and Miss Michele Hughes will be commentator,
At the conclusion of the style display, planned to suggest fashions
appropriate for a college weekend, refreshments will be served in the music
lounge.
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State University of New York at Albany
SU NWA * Hi. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
- Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
At his weekly meeting Monday afternoon with students at State University of
New York at Albany, President Evan R. Collins announced that he had directed the
office of student affairs to place into effect the revised policy regarding alcoholic
beverages on campus. Last October the University Council modified the policy to
permit the possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages on university-
regulated property in accordance with regulations approved by President Collins,
The new policy provides for the full observance of applicable civil law, with
special attention to proof of age provisions. In summary, the policy provides for
a "rathskeller" type operation in Campus Center, and for the serving of appropriate
alcoholic beverages at certain scheduled social events. Alcoholic beverages will
be prohibited in residence halls, including individual rooms, lounges, and court-
yards, except as provided for special scheduled social events in the lounges or
‘courtyards,
Details of policy and a framework of regulations were developed by a special
faculty-student committee, approved by the Central Council of the Student Associa-
tion, and by the Student Affairs Council of the Faculty Senate. In his announcement,
President Collins said: "I have reviewed the committee report, find it a thorough
and thoughtful analysis of the question, and consider that it represents accurately
the viewpoint expressed by the University Council."
The special committee has been asked by President Collins to continue as a
group directing the orientation and education activities necessary to the operation
of the new policy. Said President Collins, "All the members of the University
community will, of course, determine by their actions whether the revised policy is
practicable and feasible.”
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State University of New York at Albany
H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE : Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
CORRECTION:
In our news release dated March 10 announcing
the coming visit here on March 21 of Edouard
Morot-Sir, his title was given incorrectly.
The correct title: cultural counsellor to the
French Embassy. Please make the indicated change.
Thank you.
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Nathalie Lampman, News Director
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IMMEDIATE
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Professor Donald R. Thurson, of the history department at Union College,
Schenectady, will be the first speaker at the seminar, "A Citizen Looks at
China", sponsored by the Albany County League of Women Voters with the
cooperation of State University of New York at Albany.
The opening session is set for Wednesday, March 29, from 8 to 10 p.m.
in Draper Hall Auditorium on the university's downtown campus. Four other
sessions will be held on successive Wednesday evenings.
Dr. Lewis P, Welch, acting dean of the university's School of Public
Affairs, will open the program. Mrs. Robert Herman, president of the sponsor-
ing association, will introduce Professor Thurson who is instructor in Chinese
and Japanese history and in political science at Union College.
Professor Thurson's topic will be "China Yesterday." His lecture will
provide a review of China's history. Following the presentation there will be
a discussion period on the hae,
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Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
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March 15, 1967
Two students at State University of New York at Albany have been
named to the honorable mention list for 1967-68 by the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation, They are Thomas Callahan, of Chatham, and
Allen D, Jones, of Albany.
Sir Hugh Taylor, president of the foundation, who announced 1259
winners, said, ''Never in the history of our program have we had to turn
down so many outstandingly good people. As we circulate the names of the
1,806 honorable mention winners to graduate schools and other fellowship
agencies, we hope they will receive alternate awards, They are very
deserving, "'
Callahan, whose home is at 70 Center street, Chatham, is majoring
in history and his minor field is economics, Jones, whose home address
is 2 Grounds Road, is a physics major with a minor in mathematics.
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State University of New York at Albany
Ht. Dovid Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nothalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE « Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
Discoveries and studies of about fifty new fossil localities on the rocks of the
Columbia County region have been made during the past four years by a geologist of
the earth and atmospheric sciences department of State University of New York at Albany
and a paleontologist from Johns Hopkins University.
The fossils, belonging to the Cambrian Period of geologic time, range from ap-
proximately 600 to 500 million years in age. Most of the fossils found are remains
of trilobites,marine animals that became extinct about 225 million years ago. Some
of the trilobites are the first of their kind to be found anywhere in the world,
Some of the particularly rare and previously unknown fossils were found in pas-
tures owned by Grafton Griswold near North Chatham. Other localities where new
fossils were found are near Elizaville, Germantown, Columbiaville, Newton Hook,
Schodack Landing, Malden Bridge, Riders and Brainard. Although a few of the newly
discovered fossil localities contain trilobites long known to be present on the
rocks east of the Hudson Valley, from the Vermont border to around Rensselaer and
Columbia counties, most of the fossils found had not been known previously to occur
anywhere in New York State or New England.
Much of the earlier knowledge about trilobites found in Columbia and Rensselaer
counties is the result of the work of Silas W. Ford, done during the 1800's. Ford
was a well-known Troy jeweler and an outstanding amateur paleontologist who published
his work in leading scientific journals at that time.
The newly discovered fossils have proved to be extremely valuable to geologists
in that they reveal the age of various kinds of rocks of the region. Also, the
fossils enable geologists to correlate geologic events of the region with geologic
events in other parts of New England, and of the world, which took place more than
one-half billion years ago. The fossils also provide valuable data concerning the
characteristics of animals which lived at that time and of which little is known.
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The discovery and study of the fossils was done by Dr. John H. Bird, associate
professor of geology at State University of New York at Albany, and by Dr. Franco
Rasetti, professor of nuclear physics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
The work, currently being published in several scientific journals, was supported
by the Geological Society of America and the American Philosophical Society. All
of the fossil collections are now in the National Museum, Washington, D. C.
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State University of New York at Albany
SU NAAN » H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
BULLETIN
An aide of Senator Robert F. Kennedy has advised Aileen Schlef, who was
handling detailed arrangements for the Senator's planned visit to State
University of New York at Albany at the invitation of the Colonial Quadrangle
Residence Board, that plans for the visit have been cancelled. A conflict
in Senator Kennedy's schedule for Saturday, March 18, was given as the
reason, Miss Schlef was a legislative intern in Senator Kennedy's Washington
office last summer.
A press release about Senator Kennedy's visit was mailed to you March 14,
‘ March 16, 1967
SU NAA x EWS State University of New York at Albany
WH. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President:
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
SEMINAR ON OFFICE METHODS ANALYSIS AT STATE UNIVERSITY
A five-week seminar on administrative services and office methods analysis will
beginning
be presented by the School of Business, State University of New York at Albany,/ Monday,-
April 3, Purpose of the comprehensive training program is to assist administrative
analysts, managers of office operations, and others to increase company profits
through improved office production.
The following subjects will be featured at the various sessions: Work Simplifi-
cation, including techniques for eliminating, simplifying, and reducing time and effort
of office personnel; Controlling Office Costs, covering data processing concepts,
feasibility study, cost allocation, defining requirements, GIGO, administration, work
measurement, forms, control, systems, and equipment; Information Retrieval, involving
data classification, equipment, microfilming, and sophisticated index systems; and
Effective Communications, including objectives, organizational framework, technical
considerations, and techniques of written, oral, and face-to-face communications.
Participating consultants from Albany are Arthur Cramer, director of administrative
and computer planning, New York State Department of State; Ralph Gill, director of
planning, New York State Department of Civil Service; Frank Goodway, data processing
manager, and G, Allan Wellbrock, office manager, Farm Family Insurance Companies} Arnold
Spaner, director of office of administrative management, Central Administration, State
University of New York; and Roberick P, O'Connor, directory compilation manager, New
York Telephone Company.
Sessions will be held in Campus Center on the university's uptown campus on con-
secutive Monday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30. Certificates will be awarded at the final
dinner meeting on May 1. Course registration is under the direction of Reno S. Knouse,
professor of business, SUNYA. 7
The seminar is one of a series of non-credit programs for area business executives.
Registration fee of $15 includes the cost of the final dinner, Since enrollment is’
limited, registrations are requested by March 29,
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Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
Nine honor students in the senior class of the campus laboratory school were
named this (Thursday) afternoon by State University of New York at Albany at the annual
Senior Honors Assembly of The Milme School held in Page Hall. Seventeen Regents
Scholarship winners, a National Merit Scholarship finalist, md other scholastic award
winners also were honored.
Records with at least as many A's as B's in the three and a half year high school
program are required for Milme students to qualify as honor students. Announcement of
the valedictorian and salutatorian of the class, based upon the complete four-year record,
will be made at the commencement exercises on June 23. Honor students named are
Marlene Abrams, Barbara Berne, Carol Graham, Naomi Jochnowitz, Amy Linter, John Margolis,
Anne Miller, Steven Patent, and William Wachsman.
Based upon outstanding academic achievement, good character and superior intellectual
promise in the field of science, Steven Patent and Naomi Jochnowitz were named co-winners
of the Bausch and Lomb Science Award, Carol Graham was recognized for her winning of
the Betty Crocker Homemaker's Award. Steven Patent was identified as a finalist in the
National Merit Scholarship Program.
Thirty-seven per cent of the 1967 Milne senior class have qualified either as
initial or alternate winners of Regents Scholarships in the 1967 competition, Included
among the winners are Abraham Anolik, Naomi Aronson, Susan Bloomfield, Paula Boomsliter,
Sarah Button, Bernard Dubb, Carol Graham, Donald Herres, Suzanne Hohenstein, Albert
Holzinger, Naomi Jochnowitz, John Margolis, Carol Michaelson, Anne Miller, Steven Patent,
Phyllis Rickman, and William Wachsman,.
Alternates include Susan Barr, Barbara Berne, Dean Elsworth, Steven Freedman,
Timothy McNally, Barry Press, Louis Rovelli and Thomas Wahl.
The Senior Honors Assembly was under the direction of ‘Harold Bell, building prin-
cipal of the campus laboratory school. Presentation of awards was made by Dr. Theodore
H. Fossieck, supervising principal.
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H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE - Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
The Lovin' Spoonful, popular folk-rock quartet, will be presented in a
concert at the Washington Avenue Armory, Albany, Friday evening, April 14,
under the sponsorship of the Council for Contemporary Music at State University
of New York at Albany.
Leader of the instrumental and vocal group is John Sebastian. Among
the performers' hit records is "Summer in the City."
Tickets will be on sale at the university's Campus Center starting
Monday, Mar. 20, and at Van Curler music stores in Albany and Schenectady
and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Student Union beginning Tuesday, Mar. 21.
Reservations can be made by calling 457-6926 at the Albany university campus
between 9 a.m, and 3:30 p.m. Admission will range from $5 to $3.
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FOR RELEASE:
NOON, March 21. 1967
The Detection and Measurement of Submicroscopic Particles of Lead Oxide
and of Iodine Molecules in the Free Atmosphere
Reporting on a general study of the submicroscopic lead particles present
in most polluted air over the United States, Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer, director
of the Atmospheric Sciences nenesroy Canker at State University of New York at
Albany, today (March 21) at Ann rae, told an audience of scientists attending
the Conference of the American Meteorological Society on Physical Processes in
the Lower Atmosphere that “the submicroscopic lead particle concentrations in :
the air over much of the United States are so high and widespread that their
presence poses a number of perplexing problems to all scientists, lawyers and
government representatives interested or concerned with cloud modification.
Dr. Schaefer, who recently published findings that anti-knock compounds in
‘automobile gas produces invisible lead particles that can unintentionally seed
clouds and alter weather, described a 6300 mile in-flight survey of the con-
tinental United States which was made between Nov. 18 and Dec. 3 of last fall.
He disclosed that the survey showed that lead particles were found in such
high concentrations over much of the country that if it is found to be feasible
to convert the lead particles to lead iodide by introducing iodine vapor into
the atmosphere where the low level air is converging and flowing into the base
of potential hail storms it may be possible to conduct massive seeding of large
cumulus clouds of the sort which produce damaging hail. A proposed seeding
technique would be done by scattering confetti-sized particles of water soluble
paper soaked in iodine from aircraft flying ahead of the developing storm.
The coast-to-coast survey was conducted in the fall to establish the actual
concentrations of submicroscopic lead particles from automobile exhausts which
can produce ice nuclei over extensive areas when the particles are activated with
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iodine. Participants and sponsors were the Division of Air Pollution » New York
State Department of Health; Atmospherics, Inc., Fresno, Calif.; and the ASRC.
Of particular interest among the findings was the extent of air pollution
at the time of the "big smog" last Thanksgiving. Flights over New York were
sponsored by the Air Resources Division of the State Health Department. Dr.
Schaefer reported that on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1966, the instrumented aircraft
was flown to the New York City-Long Island area where measurements were made
over the lower Hudson Valley and at the edge of the massive smog zone hanging
over New York City and extending eastward along the southern shore of Long Island.
Cross sections were flown between Long Island Sound and the northern edge of the
dense smog belt, east of New Yark City. Concentrations of polluted particles as
high as 500,000 per cubic centimeter were found at the edge of the smog area.
The measurements were in progress at the time the health officials were issuing
@ smog alert as the area suffered its worst pollution levels of the year.
After leaving the Metropolitan area, the return flight was made by following
the Connecticut Valley to Springfield, Mass., and thence westward to Albany. As
the flight was underway, ground level measurements were made by Dr. Schaefer be-
tween Albany and Hartford, Conn.
On the third day, Nov. 24, another short flight was made from Albany across
the southern Adirondacks. On the fourth day, Nov. 25, a flight was made from
Albany to Oneonta, Binghamton and Elmira, where stormy weather grounded the plane.
The next day the flight continued to Jamestown, Springville and Buffalo, thus
completing the New York State survey as planned.
In commenting on the entire survey, Dr. Schaefer said, "The reason we go out
of state to make such measurements is that air over the Mississipi Valley in the
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evening is often over New York State the next dey. The flight showed a con-
centrated mass of polluted air extending from the Los Angeles region to the east
coast, It is true that this occurred during a high pressure system which favored
stable air but it is no longer possible to find extensive areas of unpolluted
air over the United States. It is becoming increasingly important for our own
welfare in the State of New York to know something about pollution levels all
over parts of the U.S., most of which is upwind of New York."
The flight totaled 6,300 miles and lasted from November 18 through December 3.
Over New York State there were 74 soundings and along the transcontinental flight
route there were 266 sampling spots.
The sampling flight through more than 6,000 miles of polluted air over the
country was made in a small twin-engined airplane. Equipped to measure atmospheric
particles emitted by automobile exhausts, which were recently found to produce
large number of potential ice nuclei when exposed to iodine vapor, the flight was
.described as "highly successful" by Dr. Schaefer in establishing the widespread
occurrence of such particles in the lower mile of air from coast to coast.
In addition to measuring the submicroscopic lead particles which are emitted
in the exhaust of internal combustion engines using leaded gasoline (the nearly
universal fuel now in use by all autos), measurements were also made of the con-
centrations of cloud nuclei of the total number of all atmospheric particles of
iodine vapor and of natural ice nuclei. A total of 256 in-flight measurements
were made during the research trip which began at Fresno; swung down to Los Angeles,
took an easterly course passing over Prescott, Ariz.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Oklahoma
City; Little Rock, Ark.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Charlottesville, Va.; to Albany.
A total of oh observations were made enroute, both within and above the smog-laden
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air which was trapped under a temperature inverson whose top ranged from 2500
to 5000 feet above the ground. Smog-filled air in varying intensities was en-
countered as a continuous blanket all the way to the east coast from the Pacific.
The latter part of the flight path crossed the New Jersey-New York metropolitan
complex on Monday, Nov. 22. The intense smog which choked the New York City area
on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 23 and 24, already had started to accumulate.
Thomas Henderson, president of Atmospherics, described it when he landed at the
Albany airport Monday, Nov. 21, as "approaching a bad smog condition in the Los
Angeles Basin,"
After arriving in Albany, plans were formulated to conduct an intensive aerial
survey over New York State. The first of four flights was made on Tuesday, Nov, 22,
and covered the area from Albany to Boonville to Rochester to OswegO and then over
the eastern end of Lake Ontario to Watertown. From Watertown, the flight route
erossed the middle of the Adirondack Mountains to Ticonderoga and thence southerly
over Lake George and Glens Falls to Albany. The cleanest air encountered during
‘the entire flight from California to the eastern seaboard was encountered and
measured over the middle of the Adirondacks, While the aerial flight was underway,
Dr. Schaefer and Austin Hogan, ground observers of the ASRC, obtained Aitken and
cloud nuclei measurements. Dr. Schaefer made a transect from the center of the
City of Albany to the top of the Helderberg Mountains, while Mr. Hogan obtained
measurements in the Utica-Boonville and Cobleskill-Schenectady areas.
After the New York State survey the flight continued to Detroit and Midland
Michigan; thence down Lake Michigan to Chicago; westward to Dubuque, Iowa; Rapid
City, S. D.; West Yellowstone, Mont.; Boise, Idaho, to Newport, Ore.; where the
ASRC mobile unit had just completed a month's survey of maritime air coming in
from the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean. The flight then veered southward
along the Pacific to San Francisco and thence to Fresno, the home base of Atmo-
spherics, Inc.
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Measurements above the top of the inversion, which in meteorology is termed
the "exchange layer," showed in general that serious levels of pollution are
very widespread over the United States and not limited only to centers of high
population. It is this extensive zone of pollution which causes the rapid build-
up of hazardous levels of pollution when weather systems slow down or "stagnate,"
@ common occurrence in the fall months particularly.
Dr. Schaefer pointed out that when there is no fresh country air to flush
out the build-up of pollution in the urban area, it takes a massive weather
change from the northern part of the continent to afford relief. This extensive
country-wide mass of pollution is of worrisome magnitude and should emphasize the
dangers ahead and the urgency of massive efforts to reduce pollution levels at their
sources. During the flight 68 observations showed concentrations of pollution of
10,000 per cubic centimeter or higher. Counts greater than 5,000 were found in
air that in most cases was visibly dirty. Most of the soundings which showed
pollution counts higher than 5,000 also showed that potential ice nuclei concentra-
“tions due to lead, that is particles activated by exposure to iodine vapor to form
lead iodine, had values of 10,000 per liter or higher.
In his paper Dr. Schaefer revealed that although an attempt was made in
every sounding to establish the level of natural ice nuclei at minus 20 degrees
Centigrade, no nuclei were found during the flight. However, he added that the
finding was not surprising since the commonly observed concentration of naturally
occurring ice nuclei at this temperature is found to be not more than 1 per liter,
which is the lower limit of sensitivity of the portable chamber used in making the
measurements. In contrast, the levels of activated lead iodide measured with an
identical instrument ranged from 1,000 to 100,000 per liter and often exceeded the
maximum concentration which could be measured with the sampling chamber used during
the flight.
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Attempts were also made during the flight to detect free iodine in the sampled
air, This was done by producing high concentrations of lead particles in a second
cold chamber by sparking lead electrodes. It is quite likely, concluded Dr. Schaefer,
that the lifetime of free iodine molecules is of very short duration wherever high
concentrations of atmospheric particulates are present, as was the case throughout
the particular flight. He added that not ruled out was the strong possibility that
lead particles from auto exhaust might eventually be activated by such absorbed
iodine, especially if it is not in chemical combination with the particles on which it
is deposited,
In concluding his paper Dr. Schaefer described a series of recent experiments
at Yellowstone Park where for the eighth consecutive winter he led an expedition of
atmospheric scientists conducting experiments with supercooled clouds. He found
that the presence of snowmobiles at least a mile away could be detected by a new type
of ice nucleus detector, if iodine vapor was generated near the intake of the ins-
trument. These vehicles are powered by a standard automobile engine. The smaller
skimobiles which use a mixture of oil and gasoline as fuel seemed to produce a much
lower concentration of particles per unit volume of exhaust which would react with
iodine to form ice nuclei. This may be due to the contamination of the lead particles
by oily residues in the exhaust effluent,
Much more research is needed to establish such relationships and the role these
submicroscopic lead particles playin air pollution, public health and weather control.
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Pleture of Edouard Morot-Sir
Edouard Morot-Sir, cultural counsellor for the French Embassy, will give
~<two public lectures at. State University of New York at Albany on Tuesday,
March 21. At the Campus Center's assembly hall at 3:30 he will lecture in
French on "The Literary Life in France in 1967." ‘That evening, in the
Center ballroom at 8:30, he will lecture in English on "French Philosophy
‘ a Today: Jean-Paul Sartre and Father Teilhara de Chardin." Question and
( answer periods will follow both lectures.
"-Mareh 21, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
The department of mathematics education, State University of New
York at Albany, and the Capital Area School Development Association will
present a series of conferences entitled ''Mathematics Issues 1967, Grades
7-12,"' on three Saturdays in Humanities Building room 137, the uptown campus,
The first conference is scheduled April 15 with a 9 a.m, coffee hour
preceeding the 9:30 greeting from Randolph S, Gardner, Dean of the School
of Education of the University. Speakers will be Ernest R. Ranucci, professor
of education, on course content, grades 7-8; Harry Clawson, associate
professor, course content, grade 9, and Glen R, DeLong, associate professor,
course content, grade 10,
On April 29, Richard J, Buck, assistant professor in education, will
speak on computer programs and Dolores Granito, also assistant professor,
on programmed materials,
The May 13 program will feature Herbert I, Oakes, professor in educa-
tion, discussing course content, grade ll, and George Forgette, instructor in
education, speaking on course content, grade 12 and advanced placement,
The conferences are planned to be of particular assistance to teachers
especially and to administrators in the case of some of the courses,
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March 21, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
1. Dovid Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
Dr. Clifton C. Thorne, vice president for student affairs at State University
of New York at Albany, is attending meetings this week of the American College Per-
sonnel Association and of the American Personnel and Guidance Association in Dallas,
Texas.
Dr. Thorne recently was appointed to the Commission on Academic Affairs of
the American College Personnel Association for a two-year term, Chairman of the
commission is Dr. Arvo E. Juola, professor of evaluation services at Michigan
State University, East Lansing, Mich.
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State University of New York at Albany
H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lompman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
"China Yesterday" will be the subject of the address by Professor Donald
R, Thurston, of Union College, at the opening session of the seminar, "A Citizen
Looks at China", co-sponsored by the Albany County League of Women Voters and
State University of New York at Albany. The lecture series, beginning Wednesday,
March 29, will be held on successive Wednesdays from 8 to 10 p.m. in Draper Hall
auditorium on the university's downtown campus.
Professor Thurston, currently instructor in Chinese and Japanese history
and political science at, Union College, has a graduate degree in political science
from Columbia University.) He formerly taught in Tohoku University in Sendai,
Japan, Additionally, he has pursued advanced studies in Oriental politics
at Oxford University. Two years ago he travelled back to Japan by way of the
trans-Siberian Railroad across Russia. In Japan he conducted research on a Ford
. Foundation Area Fellowship.
The Union College faculty member's association memberships include those
in the Association of Asian Studies, Japan Society, Asia Society, Academy of
Political Science and the American Political Science Association,
Mrs. Michael Dworkin, chairman of the seminar and of the league's foreign
relations committee, described the seminar's purpose as that of "casting away
the aura of mystery by presenting the subject for thoughtful study and discussion."
She commented, "Few Americans have had the opportunity for even an armchair explora-
tion of the earth's most populous country -- the great 'terra incognita’ in our
modern world, While we may have fragments of information, Mainland China remains,
for the most part, a mysterious land."
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U NWA i EWS HW. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
Dr. Mojmir S. Frinta, professor of art at State University of New York at
Albany, will give the third in the current University Colloquium lecture series
in room 123 of the Humanities Building on the uptown campus, Wednesday evening,
March 29, at 8 o'clock, His subject will be "Decorations on Medieval Panel
Painting."
A graduate of Karlova Universita, Prague, in 1947, Dr. Frinta received his
M.A. in the history of art from the University of Michigan in 1953 and his Ph.D.
in the same field from that institution in 1960.
Dr. Bahn field of special interest is 14th and early 15th century painting
and sculpture, specifically Medieval art technology and the conservation and res-
toration of works of art. He has traveled extensively and is familiar with most
European and American art museums and monuments.
His book, The Genius of Robert Campin, was published last year by Mouton and
Geintele
Co., The Hague. Dr. Medmit also has contributed articles to The Art Bulletin,
The Art Quarterly, Gesta and Spectrum,
Two lectures remain in the series, April 19 and May 17. On the former date,
Prefessor Henry L. Minton will speak on "Concept of Power as a Psychological
Concept," and the final talk will feature Professor David Dow Harvey's address
on the "Distinction Between Modern and Contemporary Poetry."
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March 21, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
[. David Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
State University of New York at Albany has received a $49,707 grant under
the federal Equal Educational Opportunities Program in support of the project
for education of the disadvantaged as part of the curriculum and instruction
division of the university's School of Education.
The institute, under the direction of Dr. John A. Ether and Daniel
Ganeles, as associate director, provides a program for 25 teachers in service
and 30 college seniors who are in teacher-preparation courses. Receipt of the
grant marks the third year of support of the SUNYA program under Title IV of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. While there are approximately 30 other similar insti-
tutes throughout the United States, the Albany university's program is unique
because pre-service preparation is provided. The in-service training participants
: are being drawn from the same school district es a pre-condition of their employment,
A two-week summer live-in seminar, in a controlled environmental setting, will
be held for all participants, and a student-teaching program will be offered to
pre-service participants during the senior year which requires teaching experience
in a mixed racial school in the process of integrating students and curriculum.
Student teaching is followed up one day a month for the remainder of the academic
year for continuing experience and support.
The seminar is designed to improve the ability of teachers to deal effectively
with special educational problems occasioned by school desegregation. Instructional
costs are paid by the Equal Opportunities Program, which is designed to provide various
kinds of specialized assistance to help public school systems and school personnel to
help provide quality education for all young people.
Announcement of the awarding of the grant was made by U. S. Representative
Daniel E. Button of the 29th Congressional District.
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State University of New York at Albany
H. Dovid Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMWEDIATE
Three lectures in liberal arts fields are scheduled in the near future at
State University of New York at Albany. On Tuesday, Mar. 28, Professor Lisa
Redfield Peattie will speak on "Social Aspects of Economic Development with Special
Reference to Venezuela;" on Thursday, Mar. 30 , Professor George Zollschan will
discuss "Further Explorations in Social Change," and on Monday, April 3, Professor
Nacejda D. Gorodetzky's topic will be "Soviet Literature Today."
Professor Peattie is an anthropologist currently with the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology Department of City and Regional Planning and with Brandeis
University. Her talk is sponsored by the Center for Inter-American Studies, State
University at Albany, and by the department of sociology and anthropology. Mrs.
Peattie is the daughter o* the late Robert Redfield, one of America's most eminent
anthropologists, and is the co-author of several books, She has written several
theoretical articles on various methodological and ethical problems of action research.
Her address is slated for 3:30 in lecture room 1 off Library Court on the uptown
campus.
Professor Zollschan, who studied under world-famous philosopher Karl Popper
at the London School of Economics, currently is a member of the faculty at Welles-
ley College. His talk will relate to an extension of the theory proposed in his
recent book, Explorations in Social Change. Zollschan, who has taught at Michigan
State and Purdue universities, is planning to return to England next year. His
talk, in lecture room 3 at 8 p.m., is one of a series sponsored by the department
of sociology and anthropology at the Albany university.
Dr. Gorodetzky, presently chairman of the department of Slavic languages and
literature at the University of Liverpool, will deliver her lecture in the Campus
Center ballroom at 8:30. She received her education at Oxford and served as
University Lecturer in Russian Literature at St, Hugh's College, Oxford, prior to
her present post.
Dr. Gorodetzky's publications include The Humiliated Christ in Modern Russian
Thought and St. Tikhon Zadonsky: Inspirer of Dostoyevsky. She has served several
terms as president of the British Universities Association of Slavists and is
honorary president of the Association of Teachers of Slavic Languages in England.
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State University of New York at Albany
Hi. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
A series of three lectures is planned by the chemistry department,
State University of New York at Albany. The talks, all of which will
be held in room 151 of the Chemistry Building, will be presented March 30,
April 4 and 5.
The March 30 session features Professor Richard A. Jackson of the
department of chemistry, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. His
topic will be "Organic Silicon Free Radicals."
Herbert C. Brown, the R.B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry at Purdue
University, will speak on "Recent Developments in Hydroboration," April 4,
On April 5, Professor Raymond Disch of the Columbia University depart-
ment of chemistry will discuss "Direct Measurement of Molecular Quadrupole
Moments: Liquid Phase Studies,"
All three lectures begin at 4:30.
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March 21, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
t. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
Dr. Rudolf Maron, distinguished alumnus of the University of Wurzburg, will
pay a two-day visit to State University of New York at Albany next week (Tuesday,
March 28, and Wednesday, March 29) to continue discussions concerning the broadening
of the relationship between SUNYA and his alma mater. He is the official representa-
tive in the United States of Professor-Doctor Julius Buedel, rector of the University
of Wurzburg, where the Albany university and State University College at Oneonta
conduct their Central European Area Studies Program.
Dr. Maron, an American citizen, came to the United States in 1936 after the
passing of the Nuremberg Laws. After World War II he recovered his property in
Germany and now he commites between his home in Atherton, Calif., and his apartment
in Munich. A SUNYA spokesman said the future guest's pending visit also would be
in his capacity as "a friend and patron of his alma mater."
During his stay in Albany, Dr. Maron will confer with Dr. Evan R. Collins,
president of the university; Dr. Webb S. Fiser, vice president for academic affairs;
Dr. 0. William Perlmutter, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Dr. John H.
Slocum, SUNYA representative for international programs; and Dr. Thomas M. Barker,
faculty coordinator for the Central European Area Studies Program known as CEASP.
He also will make a brief visit to Oneonta, partner with SUNYA in the Wurzburg program.
In April recruiting will begin for the 1968-69 CEASP for which students prepare
@ year before going abroad. There are 31 students in the current program; 21 are from
Albany, and 10, from Oneonta. Major study fields represented are German, history,
Social science, English, and elementary education. In support of the program the
Bavarian government has established four scholarships.
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Presently at the University of Wurzburg are three Albany students who have
stayed on as student assistants to teach English. Jean K. Jones, a graduate
student and a resident of Newington,Conn., is an alumna of Linton High School,
Schenectady, and of SUNYA. Undergraduate twin sisters, Judy Sheeran and Joann
Sheeran, make their home at 12 Parkview Drive, Woodland Park, Rensselaer.
CEASP began in 1965 as a six-week summer session. With the official assistance
and participation of the University of Wurzburg and co-sponsored by the State
University College at Oneonta, the program was extended for 1967-68 to a thirteen
and a half month basis. Designed for upper classmen and graduate students in the
teaching and liberal arts fields, the project is also intended to fit into the general
scheme of overseas study currently being developed under the auspices of the State
University's Center for International Education and World Affairs at Planting Fields,
/Oyster Bay.
While qualified students have come principally from Albany and Oneonta, appli-
cations from other branches of the State University are welcomed. Individuals from
other institutions also may be considered. Participants are assisted by two resident
faculty directors throughout the year, with the supplementary services of a third
American professor during the orientation period in Wurzburg in June and July. Housing
and meals are with German families or in dormitories with German students.
Initial application forms may be obtained from CEASP, College of Arts and
Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, or from Foreign Study Coordinator,
State University College, Oneonta. Students from other than State University units
should apply to Albany.
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March 23, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
U) H. David Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
Dr. Richard L. Desmond of State University of New York at Albany is
the author of the new book, "Higher Education and Tax-Motivated Giving",
published by The American College Public Relations Association, Washington,
D.C.
In the preface, Dr. Desmond states that the book seeks "to contribute
something to an understanding of the history, present status and lessons
learned from the use of life income gifts by higher education." Included
are sections on the initial tax upsurge (1913-1929), an economic and tax
downswing (1930-1945), the dramatic rise in tax benefits (1946-1959), the
tax reversal and its retarding influence (1960 to date), and lessons learned.
Dr. Desmond, who joined the SUNYA faculty in 1965, is assistant professor
of education in administration. He holds degrees from the University of
Minnesota and from the University of Michigan where he received his doctorate.
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March 23, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
H. David Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
Dr. Robert Rikmenspoel, a biophysicist, formerly of the Population
Council, Rockefeller University in New York, has been appointed to a post
as associate professor of biological sciences in the department of biological
sciences at State University of New York at Albany.
Dr. Rikmenspoel was educated in Holland where he received his Ph. D.
in experimental physics and medical physics from the University of Utrecht
in 1957. While writing his thesis he began work as research associate at
the Research Institute for Animal Husbandry in Utrecht. There he participated
in the training of graduate students. He also co-authored several papers
dealing particularly with quantitative studies of sperm flagellar movement.
In 1959-60 Dr. Rikmenspoel was a post-doctoral fellow at Bartol Research
Foundation, Swarthmore, Penna., and in 1960-61 he was research associate at
the Johnson Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania where he continued
his study of sperm motility under the direction of Dr. Britton Chance. Dr.
Rikmenspoel's work dealt with spectrophotometry and the application of lasers
to biological problems. After spending 1961-62 at the Biophysics Laboratory
of Stanford University, Dr. Rikmenspoel moved to Rockefeller University where
he was senior scientist with the Population Council.
The new SUNYA faculty member is the author of over 35 publications,
several of which are regarded as classical studies in the field of flagellar
motion in spermatozoa. His work has been supported by a grant from the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development and by the Population Council.
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March 23, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
SU NWA | a | H. David Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE AreaCode 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
Dr. J. Roy Newton of State University of New York at Albany has been
chosen president-elect of the College Reading Association. Announcement
of his election, effective September 1, was made at the association's
recent annual conference held in Bowling Green, Ohio.
The College Reading Association is a national organization of college
professors specializing in the improvement of reading instruction. Founded
in 1958, it now includes college instructors throughout the country. The
quarterly magazine, The Journal of the Reading Specialist, is published
by the association.
Dr. Newton will be responsible for preparing the program for the
1968 conference to be held next spring in Knoxville, Tenn. At that time
he will succeed to the presidency for 1968-69.
Dr. Newton, who joined the faculty at SUNYA in 1948, is chairman of
the reading department in the School of Education.
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State University of New York at Albany
H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Notholie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
Immediate
Students from State University at Albany will perform Aristophanes'
lysistrata as part of State University of New York's Arts Convocation
April 4-6 in Buffalo.
The humorous anti-war drama will be presented by Albany's State
University Theatre on the afternoon of April 6 in Upton Theater at State
University College at Buffalo.
When produced at SUNYA last November, the well-attended four-night
presentation was received enthusiastically by newspaper theater critics
in the Capital District area.
Dr. Paul B. Pettit,chairman of the department of speech and
dramatic art, once again will be producer and director of the play
which has a cast of 30 Albany students.
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HW. David Von Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lompman, News Director
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Inmediate
The current issue (March 24) of Science, weekly publication of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, features a lengthy
article about State University of New York at Albany,
Written by Bryce Nelson, of the magazine's reportorial staff,
the article is entitled, "Albany: New York State University Center on the
Way Up." Accompanying pictures show three scenes on the uptown campus
and the architect's model of the new university center designed by
Edward Durell Stone.
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March 27, 1967
State University of New York at Albany
Ht. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, News Director
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Area Code 518 472-7402 - 472-7877
IMMEDIATE
The Marlboro Trio will be heard in concert Monday evening, April 3, at Page
Hall under the sponsorship of the Music Council of State University of New York
at Albany. Members of the trio are Michael Tree, violinist, David Soyer, cellist
and Mitchell Andrews, pianist.
In the summer of 1961 the three young artists pooled their talents to form the
Marlboro Trio, an outgrowth of the famous Marlboro Festival in Vermont. The musicians
were immediately engaged to perform in major chamber music series, including those
of the Library of Congress, New York's Rockefeller Institute, and New York University--
all in their first season as a trio.
Andrews is an artist familiar to audiences of solo literature and chamber music
alike, for he has combined his talents as a recitalist and chamber music player in a
varied career, As piano soloist he has recorded with Leopold Stokowski and has
appeared with numerous orchestras throughout the United States. As chamber music
player he has performed extensively on the radio and in many chamber groups.
Tree made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of twenty. Since then he has per-
formed widely throughout the United States and Canada, appearing as soloist with many
major orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
He also has been guest artist at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy.
Soyer made his debut at the age of seventeen as soloist with the Philadelphia
Orchestra under Engene Ormandy. He has since concertizead extensively in the dual
capacity of soloist and chamber music player. He has made frequent solo appearances in
Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
At the Albany concert, which will begin at 8:15, the trio will play works of Haydn,
Leon Kirchner, and Schubert. Tickets are available from the university's music
department in its new location at 329 Campus Center. They also may be obtained at the
door the evening of the concert or reserved by notifying the music department,
Music critics have been unantmous in their praise of the trio's artistry. Wrote
the New York Times, "The Marlboro Trio has made an auspicious beginning, for there
are no limits on what it can do." Washington papers commented, "An ensemble worthy
of the highest implication of its name" and "compellingly passionate conviction."
United Press International said, "The Marlboro Trio is already one of the most important
ensembles in the United States."
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"Vistas on the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1967",
written by Dr, Robert Rienow of the Graduate School of Public Affairs
at State University of New York at Albany, has been published by the
State Education Department which also has begun distribution of the
30-page pamphlet.
The publication is designed to provide background for teachers
directing the study of the convention in the public schools} however,
@ much wider demand already is developing for it.
Dr. Rienow recently was the featured speaker at the annual
dinner of the New York State Council for the Social Studies gathered
in convention at Rochester. There he addressed some 600 teachers and
administrators on "New Outlooks on the Constitutional Convention."
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The Statesmen, popular men's choral group from State University of New
York at Albany, has been invited to perform at the Canadian World Exhibition at
Montreal, Tentative plans call for a September engagement,
Now celebrating their 15th anniversary, the thirty students, each carefully
selected by competitive tryouts, are under the directorship of Karl A. B, Peterson,
professor of music at the university. The group, featured at many colleges in the East
with enthusiastic acclaim, offers a large and varied repertoire including classical,
sacred, semi-popular and traditional works,
Appearances this season have included those at the University Club in Albany,
at the Fenimore House in Cooperstown at the invitation of the New York State Historical
Association, and at the West Point officers! dance at the Watervliet Arsenal,
Spring engagements include the Aurania Club family night dinner, the National
Secretarial Week dinner at Schenectady, and the two-day Inter-Collegiate Choral
Festival at Burlington, Vt.
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Fifteen students at State University of New York at Albany have
participated in the personal library contest being sponsored by the University
Library, the University Bookstore, and the School of Library Science.
Prizes for the three winning collections total $210 worth of books.
Miss Monica Caulfield, chairman of the contest committee and assistant
librarian in the University College section, said that a reception for participants
would be held Thursday evening (March 30) from 6 to 9 in room B47 of the library.
Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at the reception.
Collections entered consist of at least 35 books. ‘Some are general and
others are
/ centered on a subject. Popular categories in this year's contest are
French literature, general collections, and history.
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Mrs. Doloris Bridges, widow of Senator Styles Bridges, has announced the appointment
of James J. Kiepper, of State University of New York at Albany, as editor of the Bridges
papers which have been donated to New England College, Henniker, N. H. Dr. H. Raymond
Danforth, president of the college, has supported the appointment of Mr. Kiepper as editor
of the papers, which eventually will be deposited in the new college library, now in the
process of construction.
A preliminary assessment of the public papers of the late Senator reveals over a hundred
boxes of correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, books, and innumerable newspaper clippings
that refer to nearly every aspect of national and international affairs. Included in the
vast collection is correspondence from three Presidents and other notables throughout the
world acquired during 25 years of Bridges’ senatorial career, The papers also cover the
period when Bridges was governor of New Hampshire from 1935-37.
Mr. Kiepper, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kiepper of Concord, N. H., is assistant pro-
currently on leave.
fessor in the School of Education at SUNYA, / He is a graduate of Hopkinton High School, and
a high honors graduate of New England College in the Class of 1958. During the summer of
1959 he was a college intern in modern European history in the Advanced Studies Program at
St. Paul's School.
The SUNYA faculty member did graduate work at the University of New Hampshire and holds
an M. A. degree in social science from SUNYA. Presently he is a faculty fellow at the
Graduate School of Public Affairs, working toward the Ph. D. in political science. He will
prepare a doctoral dissertation on the late Senator Bridges based on the research of the
collection of his public papers.
Mr. Kiepper, a resident of Delmar, is married to the former Shirley D. Morgan of
Concord. They have two children.
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Professor Joseph F, Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Public Affairs
at State University of New York at Albany is the author of "The Massachusetts
Town Meeting - A Tenacious Institution" published recently in the school's
Public Affairs Monograph Series.
In his preface, Professor Zimmerman writes, "The Massachusetts open town
meeting originated in the late 1620s and currently is found in 270 of the 312
towns; 42 towns have abandoned the open town meeting in favor of the representa-
tive town meeting. Criticism of town meeting government has been prevalent
in the twentieth century, yet no town has become a city since 1922. The purposes
of this monograph are to trace the origin of town meeting government, analyze the
_ reasons for its tenacity, and evaluate how well it is meeting the challenges
of the second half of the twentieth century."
Copies of Professor Zimmerman's book are available from the Graduate
School of Public Affairs. :
Recently the author spoke on "Political Problems" at an all-day conference
on "Megalopolis in New England", sponsored by the Bureau of Public Affairs of
Boston College and the Cultural Foundation of Boston. It was held in conjunction
with WINTERFEST sponsored by the Boston foundation,
Professor Zimmerman is director of the Local Government Studies Center at
the Graduate School of Public Affairs and editor of Metropolitan Area Digest,
Metropolitan Area Annual, Metropolitan Surveys, and Metropolitan Viewpoints,
all published by the school.
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The 1967 summer program in environmental biology at the Cranberry Lake Biological
Station near Cranberry Lake about 60 miles southeast of Watertown, will be held July 5
to eae 18, Co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Albany and the State
University College of Forestry at Syracuse University, the new program is a cooperative
effort of instruction and research by combined selected faculty from both institu-
tions. A broad-based program is available, enabling field studies to be carried out
within the varied environments of the Adirondack Forest.
A part of the College of Forestry's Charles Lathrop Pack Demonstration Forest,
the biological station is located on Barber Point of Cranberry Lake, about five miles
across the lake from the village of Cranberry Lake of Route 3 between Tupper Lake and
Watertown. Cranberry Lake, the largest body of water in the Adirondacks, and its
environs offer a rich and varied range of aquatic and terrestrial habitats for bio-
logical investigation.
Pack Forest is 964 acres in size, and is surrounded by state land which increases
greatly the available study area. The forest has been used by the College of Forestry
since 1923, for instruction in field forestry and biology, and for research,
The biology station, accessible only by boat, is equipped with telephone service,
electricity and running water. Facilities include dining and recreation areas, class-
rooms and laboratories, and sleeping cabins. There are no provisions for housing the
families of married students. Large boats, for field trips and scheduled travel to the
village and canoes, for recreation, are available to the students. Automobiles may
be parked in the village by special arrangement.
Undergraduate students may carry a maximum of six semester-hours and graduate
students seven credit hours. All courses assume a suitable background in biology.
Those being offered include introductory parasitology, advanced field biology, natural
communities, plant anatomy, seminar in biology, research problems in biology, and
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master's thesis,
Application forms for admission to the program may be obtained by writing to
the summer program director, Dr. Richard S. Hauser, Department of Biological Sciences,
State University of New York at Albany, 1223 Western Avenue, 12203. Applications will
be reviewed on April 15 and notification of acceptance made soon thereafter. Registra-
tion will be limited to the available accommodations and late applications will be con-
sidered as received if courses are not filled.
Registration is scheduled on the Albany campus, July 5, with classes beginning the
following day at Cranberry Lake. A bus will be provided from Albany for those who
don't wish to drive.
Tuition costs per semester hour are as follows: New York State residents, $13.50
for undergraduates and $20 for graduates; non-New York State residents, $20 for both
undergraduate and graduates. An additional fee of $157.50 will cover room and board
costs, one rcund-trip between Albany and Cranberry Lake, boat travel between village
and camp, field trips and classroom expenses except for text books.
On instructional staff will be Dr. Hauser, Dr. Paul C. Lemon, Dr. Richard MacMahon,
Dr. Margaret M. Stewart and Dr. Hudson S. Winn, all of State University, Albany; and
Dr. Jack L. Krall, Dr. John L. Morrison, Dr. Edward 0. Price, Dr. Herbert B. Tepper
and Dr. Hugh E. Wilcox of the State University College of Forestry at Syracuse Uni-
versity.
Other members of both faculties will be available for ccnsultation. They also
will participate in seminars and discussions,
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Jom M, Bird, associate professor of geology in the earth and atmospheric
sciences department at State University of New York at Albany, is one of two
American Beientists invited by the National Academy of Sciences to participate
in an exchange program with the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Dr, Bird will spend the month of May at the Polish Academy and the Jagellonian
University in Krakow, where he will lecture on his research concerning the geology
of The Taconic Mountains and western Newfoundland. In addition he will study
aspects of the geology of the Carpathian Mountains, He will visit Czechoslovakia,
Austria, Switzerland, and Germany in conjunction with his work under ‘ the program.
March 30, 1967
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Professor William T. C. Woo, of State University of New York at Albany
College
and director of the Area Chinese Language Program at Union, will be the second
speaker in the current seminar, "A Citizen Looks at China", co-sponsored by
the Albany County League of Women Voters and the university. His talk next
Wednesday evening, April 5, at Draper Hall auditorium will be on "Mainland China,
an Economic and Military Power."
Professor Woo, who holds degrees from the University of Nanking and
Customs College, Shanghai, is a native of Peping. He has taught at the University
of Michigan, State University of Iowa, and Indiana University. Professor Woo
also has done research work on mainland China newspapers for the U. S, Department
of State in the American Consulate General, Hong Kong.
The seminar is being held on successive Wednesdays from 8 to 10 o'clock.
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Christos N. Apostle, assistant professor in the department of sociology and
anthropology at State University of New York at Albany, has been named assistant
editor of the international scholarly journal, "Indian Sociological Bulletin,"
published at Ghaziabad, India.
The SUNYA faculty member is the author of the paper, "Clyde Kluckhohn's
Pragmatic Societal Analysis", which was published in the October 1966 issue
of the bulletin,
In commenting on his new editorial responsibility, Professor Apostle
said, "With the continuance of the traditionally large number of Ford Foundation
grants, among others, for social science research in India, scholarly publications
emanating from that country should have a significant impact upon the international
community of scholars, a number of whom already have contributed papers to the
bulletin."
March 30, 1967
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The annual Eastern New York State Regional Science Congress will be held
Saturday, April 15 in the Chemistry Building, State University of New York at
Albany, The 86 exhibits and demonstrations will be open to the public from 9 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m.
The congress is co-sponsored by the Eastern New York Section of the State Science
Teachers Association, the American Chemical Society and State University at Albany.
Donald Lupone, science teacher at Mohénasen Central Schools, is chairman of the
Science Congress Committee of the STA and Robert G, Nurnberger, associate professor
of science at the university, is the facilities co-ordinator.
A panel of 20 judges from area industries and colleges will select winners in
each of three divisions: the junior division, grades seven and eight; the intermediate
division, grades nine and 10; and the senior division, grades 11 and 12,
The regional winners will compete in the state-wide congress at the Griffith
Air Depot, Rome, at a later date.
A wide range of topics, indicative of the breadth of interest of the young
scientists, will be on display. Exhibits include a comparison of the water content
of snow flakes and rain drops, a study of bioluminesence, sound hollograms, and
landscape of poetic vision.
A tour of the new uptown campus of the Albany university will be conducted for
parents beginning at 11 a.m.
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The third residence unit on the uptown campus of State University of New York
at Albany is under construction and six low-rise halls will be ready for occupancy
in September, The remainder of the complex, including the tower, is slated for a
January, 1968 opening. 5
Officially named the State Quadrangple, the newest of the dormitories will
join the completed Colonial and Dutch Quads. A fourth quadran; pute will be errected
on the remaining corner of the campus.
The new resident halls will bear the names of ten famous residents in New York
State history. They are Robert Fulton, early developer of the steamboat; Herman
Melville, 19th century author; Washington Irving, who wrote fiction based on the
early Dutch settlers; James Fenimore Cooper, whose "Leather Stocking Tales” im-
mortalized the Mohawk Valley in colonial days; George Eastman, pioneer in develop-
ment of film and founder of Eastman Kodak.
Also Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan, New York merchants who were agitators in
the abolition of slavery movement; Walt Whitman, famous poet and author of "Leaves of
Grass;" Susan B. Anthony, leading suffragette, and Charles Steinmetz, long-time con-
sultant and inventor at General Electric Co., Schenectady.
The flag room will feature the theme of the evolution of the United States flag
from the original 13 colonies to the current 50 states. Thus, it focuses on the post-
Revolutionary period, as opposed to the pre-Revolutionary era of the Colonial Quad.
An important feature of the low-rise dorms in State Quad will be provisions for
handicapped students, especially those using crutches or wheelchairs, Elevator service
from the dorm level to the dining room below will be available for ambulatory patients,
as will wider doorways to enable the passage of wheelchairs.
Special toilet facilities, including wider doors and tow bars, will be installed;
and ramps, both in the dorm and at the north side of the academic podium, will facilitate
moving from residence area to class rooms.
State Quad, located in the northeastern corner gf the campus, will have an adjacent
parking lot for 1,300 cars, Its outward appearance is similar to that of the two finished
quads, but a significant difference inside is the return to the concept of a private bath
for each suite, Like the others, it will have a 600-seat dining hall and kitchen.
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Dr, Paul B. Pettit, chairman of the speech and drama department
at State University of New York at Albany, is in Athens where he will present
a paper at the Second Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music as a guest of the
Greek Government,
Dr. Pettit's subject will be concerned with the role of contemporary
music in modern drama,
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Milne High School, the campus laboratory school of State University of New York
at Albany, will join 120 selected secondary schools across the United States this
spring in national tryouts of experimental curricular material developed by a pro-
ject of the American Sociological Association, it has been announced today by Dr.
Evan R, Collins, president of the wniversity.
The materials will be included as two-week units in regular social studies
courses to test such things as interest to students, teachability, appropriateness
to regular course content, and effectiveness in presenting the sociological perspec-
tive.
Supported by the National Science Foundation, Sociological Resources for Secon-
dary Schools is the only sociology project in a field of about 40 groups now working
on new curricular materials in history and the social sciences at the secondary school
level. Last fall the project was singled out by the "Saturday Review" as one of the
six more significant such projects currently underway.
The SRSS program is distinguished by its emphasis on involving the secendary
school teacher throughout the development and evaluation of its units. One of the
major guidelines of SRSS policy is that its materials be appropriate to the content
of existing social studies courses and easily integrated into these courses,
SRSS executive director Robert C. Angell of the University of Michigan has des-
ceribed the secondary school's participation in such projects as essential to the
success of any attempt to modernize and improve existing curricula,
The experiment will be conducted in one section of Social Studies 12 under
Robert Neiderberger, supervisor of student teaching and demonstration-teacher in
social studies in the campus school.
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The final lecture in the symposium, "Science and the Future of Man," sponsored
by the division of science and mathematics, State University of New York at Albany,
is scheduled for the evening of Monday, April 10, at 8:30 in the Campus Center ball-
room,
The speaker will be Morris Kline, chairman of undergraduate mathematics at the
Washington Square Center of New York University. His topic is "The Impact of Math-
ematics on Civilization."
Dr. Kline has been critical of the present nation-wide reform movement of
elementary and high school mathematics, describing it as "almost wholly misguided.’
In a published article he declared that it would result in "injury to the mathematical
and scientific development of our country" and he labeled the demand of leading
mathematicians for "modern mathematics" as "sheer nonsense."
Dr. Kline, whoalso is director of the division of electromagnetic research,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, at NYU, holds five patents, has written
more than 40 articles and authored six books. In addition, he served as mathematics
editor for Harper Encyclopedia of Science, 1963.
The noted mathematician has been visiting lecturer and professor at such institu-
tions as Stanford University, Hunter College, New School for Social Research and
Technisse Hochschule of Aachen, Germany, He received his Ph.D. from NYU in 1936.
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