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Dr. George J. Klima has joined the faculty of State University
of New York at Albany as associate professor of anthropology in the department
of sociology and anthropology of which Dr. Paul Meadows is chairman,
Professor Klima comes to the Albany campus from California State
College, Los Angeles, where he was assistant professor of anthropology. He
holds degrees from Syracuse University and from the University of California
at Los Angeles where he received his doctorate.
The new SUNYA faculty member, a specialist in the study of African
native cultures, has spent two years engaged in field work among the Barabaig
tribe of Tanganyika in East Africa. He is the author of two books on the
Barabaig.
At the Albany university Professor Klima will be responsible for
the development of an African specialization program in the department of
sociology and anthropology. He also will have general responsibility for
the preparation of graduate students in anthropology and the development of
the program in anthropology.
Sociologists joining the department this fall include Robert F.
Guerrin, and Louis Lieberman, assistant professors, and Philip L. Lord,
part-time lecturer.
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Mr. Guerrin resides at 7 Alvina Blvd., Albany and Mr. Lieberman
lives at 42 Tull Dr., Colonie.
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The College of General Studies of State University of New York at
Albany will offer its first radio course, ''Keyboard Masters, '' for academic
credit this month. Presented through the cooperation of Station WAMC-FM
(90. 3) of the Albany Medical Center, the survey of music for the stringed
keyboard instruments from the English virginalists to the 1940's begins
Wednesday, September 18.
The three-credit, 28-program radio course for home study is intended
to be an elementary course at the level of persons having limited musical back-
ground, Additionally, there will be included material enlightening to pianists
and music teachers, Hapectally prepared records, study guides and texts
will supplement the bi-weekly boradcasts.
Pianist-lecturer for the course is Findlay Cockrell, assistant professor
of music at the university. Mr. Cockrell was educated at Harvard College and
at the Juilliard School of Music where he received a master's degree, As a
recitalist, he has appeared on the West Coast and in the greater New York City
area numerous times, as well as in other metropolitan areas. His concert
performances in the Albany area consistently have received enthusiastic reviews
by music critics. Mr. Cockrell heads piano studies in the university's music
department,
Dr. Daniel M, Nimetz, assistant professor of music at SUNYA, wrote the
syllabus for the course. He is a graduate of Alfred University and of the Eastman
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School of Music where he received his doctorate in musicology. Additionally,
he has studied at the University of Vienna.
The course will be aired each Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m.
with a repeat in the evenings from 7:30-8:30. The course schedule will adhere
closely to the university's academic calendar, Students taking the course for
academic credit will be required to complete both mid-semester and final
examinations on the Albany campus, probably on Saturdays to be designated by
Professor Cockrell. The instructor also may require several seminar sessions
on campus as well as written assignments based upon the written texts, study
guides, and records.
Those interested may register now with the College of General Studies
located in the Administration Building on the university's uptown campus or
on Saturday morning, September 14, or at anytime during the day on Monday,
September 16, in the gymnasium at the physical education building. The fee,
at $14.35 a credit hour, is $43.05.
Preparations for the course have been underway for over a year.
Dr. Irving A. Verschoor, dean of the College of General Studies, describes the
new offering as an extension of what the college has been undertaking for some
time in making courses available to a large number of persons located away
from the campus. He remarked, ''We have been working with television as one
medium, with independent study courses, and now radio which has so many
advantages for teaching. Among them are the ease of student participation and
the large area throughout which the course can be received."
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Professor James W. Corbett, who has joined the physics department
of State University of New York at Albany, will present an invited paper at the
International Conference on Vacancies and Interstitials in Metals to be held
September 23-28 at the Nuclear Research Center, Julich, West Germany.
On the trip Professor Corbett also will visit several laboratories in England
and Switzerland to discuss current work on defects in metals and semiconductors,
a subject an which he is a noted authority.
Professor Corbett also is active in the study and documentation of the
role of technology in industrial development, of the true essence of the
challenge of American technology and industry to European industry, and of
the problems of the academic - industrial interface. For that reason he will confer on
the trip with Dr. Alan H. Cottrell, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to Her
Majesty's Government, in London, with Cathal Loughney, director of the Irish
Industrial Development Authority, in Dublin, and with the managers of the
new Research Center of the Brown-Boveri Co., in Baden, Switzerland.
Professor Corbett's undergraduate preparation consisted Of one year at
the Kansas City Juntor College and two years at the University of Missouri
where he graduated with distinction in physics. The next year he received his
Master of Arts from Missouri and three years, later, his doctoral degree from
Yale University, Aside from a summer spent in the chemistry department at
Yale, his professional career has been spent at the General Electric Research
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and Development Center in Schenectady. He also has served for the past
four years as an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The SUNYA physicist is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi,
and Pi Mu Epsilon, honorary fraternities. He received the O, M. Stewart
Prize, the O. M. Stewart Scholarship, the O. M, Stewart Fellowship and the
General Electric Coffin Fellowship. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the
American Physical Society and a member of the American Association of
Physics Teachers. He served on the organizing committee of the IEEE
Experiment in Continuing Education and on the organizing committee of the
1967 International Conference on Radiation Damage in Semiconductors.
Professor Corbett and his wife, Joyce, will eaunue to live in
Niskayuna with their two sons, Lee and Ross.
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Soon to return for the fall semester at State University of New York
at Albany is Dr. Ernest R. Ranucci, professor of mathematics education at
the university. Dr. Ranucci spent the summer months in Colombiaand
Ecuador conducting short courses with secondary school teachers, professors
of mathematics education and mathematics professors in general.
The mathematician-educator's lecture tour was under the auspices of
the Fulbright-Hayes Act. His major topic of concentration was ‘Imagination and
Intuition in the Teaching of Geometry on the Medium Level."' Dr. Ranucci
visited 10 universities in Colombiaand one in Ecuador during his tour.
Prior to joining the Albany faculty in 1965, Dr. Ranucci was chairman of
the Mathematics department at Newark State Teachers College, Union, N.J.
He has traveled in Scotland, and Brazil on Fulbright program grants and also
has visited Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay. He has authore
more than 30 articles on mathematics in various journals and periodicals.
Dr, Ranucci received his bachelor of arts and master of arts from
Montclair State College and his doctorate in mathematics from Colombia
University.
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Dr. Ranucci resides at 26 Vagele Ln., Glenmont.
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John R, Fonseca, formerly asstciate professor of business
law at Utica College of Syracuse University, has joined the faculty in the
department of finance and law of the School of Business, State University of
New York at Albany.
Mr. Fonseca, who has the rank of full professor, has been
admitted to the New York and Massachusetts bar, He is editor-in-chief of
The Uniform Commercial Code Law Journaland legal editor of The Banking
Law Journal published in Boston, Additionally, he is a licensed insurance
broker in New York State and an examiner for the New York Stock Exchange,
American Stock Exchange, and National Association of Securities Dealers
examinations,
The new SUNYA faculty member is the author of numerous
published works and additional writings are being readied for publication. He
has degrees from Harvard College and from Harvard Law School,
Also joining the department this year as lecturer in law is
Charles O, Milham of Milham Realty, Inc. Albany. An attorney and real estate
broker, Mr. Milham specializes in the areas of real estate and contracts.
The Albany lawyer previously taught law courses at Russell Sage
College. He has served as a consultant for revision and editing of various
textbooks. Mr. Milham completed graduate and undergraduate studies at SUNYA
and holds bachelor of laws and doctor of jurisprudence degrees from Albany
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Law School, Union University. His professional membership include American
Bar Association (Judicial Administration Section), New York State Bar Association,
New York State Association of Trial Lawyers, and Practising Law Institute.
Dr. Albert G. Sweetser, professor of finance and chairman of
the department of finance and law, joined the Albany university faculty last
year. He has degrees from Harvard College and from New York University
where he received his doctorate,
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Mr. Fonseca resides at 26 Tamarack Ln,, Elnora; Mr. Milham resides
at 290 Morton Ave., Albany; and Dr, Sweetser lives at 17 Broadleaf Dr., Elnora.
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September 11, 1968
Members of the administrative and nursing staffs of hospitals and
health agencies in the Capital District were guests of honor at a luncheon given
at Campus Center of State University of New York at Albany today (Sept. 11)
by President Evan R. Collins and the faculty of the School of Nursing.
Invited guests included representatives of other organizations which
have been instrumental in the establishment of the new baccalaureate nursing
program at the university. President Collins expressed appreciation for the
generous cooperation and assistance which the university has received from
members of the group and the staffs of their agencies,
The purpose of the meeting was to provide an opportunity for members
of the university staff to become acquainted with personnel in the various
agencies in which nursing students will receive clinical experience. Dean
Dorothy M. Major gave a brief overview of the curriculum of the School of
Nursing which admitted its first class last year. Students in the class will
begin assignments in community agencies during the current semester. The
second class, of approximately 40 students, will begin freshman work this
fall.
Invited guests included Robert E, Ward, executive director, Dr. Stewart
C, Wagoner, chief of pediatrics, Mrs. Elinor M. Vitelli, director of nursing,
and Mrs. Norma J, Hudson, director, rehabilitation nursing, Sunnyview
Hospital and Rehabilitation Center; Mrs, Edna Murphy, regional consultant
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Public Health Nursing, New York State Health Department; Miss Jean Hess,
director of nurse manpower, New York State Department of Health; Dr.
Franklyn B, Amos, assistant commissioner for health manpower, New York
State Health Department; Dr. Mildred Schmidt, secretary, State Board of
Examiners of Nurses; and Miss Shirley Kane, director, School of Nursing,
Memorial Hospital.
Also, Dr. Rudolph R. Del Giacco, medical director, Dr. H. John
Mellen, president, medical staff, Dr. WilliamH. O'Brien, director of
medical education, Sister Mary Janet, administrator, Sister Mary John
Baptist, director, School of Nursing, Sister Kathleen Marie, director of
nursing service, Mrs. Ann Dembroski, director, in-service education,
Mrs. Margaret Friss, discharge planning nurse, and Miss Anna Mae Quirk,
R.N., St. Peter's Hospital; Chauncy Welch, administrative assistant to
George Mayers, executive director and administrator, and Mrs. Margaret
Horn, director of nursing, Child's Hospital.
Also, Thomas L, Hawkins, director of the hospital, Mrs. Helen F,
Middleworth, director, School of Nursing, and Dr. Harold C. Wiggers, Dean,
Albany Medical College, Albany Medical Center; Dr, J.E. Gainor, deputy
commissioner of health, and Mrs. Mary Wheldon, director of nursing, Albany
County Department of Health.
Members of the university staff attending were Dr. Allan A. Kuusisto,
vice president for academic affairs, Dr. O.W. Perlmutter, dean, College of
Arts and Sciences, Dr, Paul F. Wheeler, associate dean, College of Arts and
Sciences; Dr. Eugene McLaren, chairman, Division of Science and Mathematics;
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Dr, Jack Deeringer, Academic Dean; Robert Stierer, assistant vice president
for management and planning; Dr. Janet Hood, director, Student Health Service;
Dr. Rudolph Schmidt, assistant director, Student Health Service; and the
faculty of the School of Nursing.
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The Art Gallery at State University of New York at Albany will begin
the 1968-69 season with four concurrent exhibitions. One-man exhibitions by
the painters Rafael Villamil and Donald Ogier will open on September 19 along
with a selection of photographs entitled "Guggenheim Fellows in Photography."
The fourth exhibition, prints from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art,
is called The Artist As His Subject."
The work of Rafael Villamil has been exhibited in his native Puerto Rico
and in one-man shows at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the
Pan-American Union. While contemporary in its use of irregularly shaped
canvas, found objects, and electric light bulbs, it is spiritually related to
indigenous Latin religious folk art. Mr. Villamil now lives and works in Philadelphia
Donald Ogier, who is presently a teaching assistant at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, has exhibited widely in the United States and in .
Europe where he worked as a Fulbright Fellow in 1962, Mr. Ogier calls his
current work ''three dimensional painting."
It combines found objects, collage,
and acrylic paints on canvas and wood,
"Guggenheim Fellows in Photography" represents the work of 29 recipients
of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowships in photography. The foundation's
first award was given in 1937 to Edward Weston. The exhibition includes such other
well known names as Ansel Adams, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Dorothea
Lange, and G.E, Kidder Smith.
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Artists' self portraits and their interpretations of fellow artists are
the materials for ''The Artist As His Subject.'' The prints are the work of
fifty artists from eleven countries. The early works include a sensitive portrayal
of Odilon Redon by Edouard Vuillard (1900) and Charles Maurius' ''Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec'’ (1890), The most recent prints are those of Jim Dine, Jasper
Johns, R.B. Kitjac and Robert Rauschenberg,
William S, Lieberman of the Museum of Modern Art, who selected the
prints, says of the exhibition, 'None of the works were commissioned, and
some are more like the artist than he actually appeared."' The prints are
accompanied by photographs of the subjects which are related in pose and period
to the work of art insofar as possible. The photographs afford comparison with
graphic interpretations.
An opening reception for all four exhibitions will be held in the gallery
Thursday evening, September 19, from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. The general
public is invited,
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The first general faculty meeting of the new academic year at
State University of New York at Albany will be held Thursday morning,
September 12, in the ballroom of the Campus Center with the faculty now
See expected to be in attendance, an increase of nearly 80 over the
total a year ago.
President Evan R. Collins will speak at the session, set for
10 o'clock, Preceding the event, an informal coffee hour will be held in the
main lounge beginning at 9.
Following the general meeting, meetings of faculties of the College of
Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Education, and the School
of Library Science will be held at ll. In the afternoon, beginning at 2, the
Graduate School of Public Affairs faculty meeting will take place.
On Friday morning an orientation program for new faculty and pro-
fessional staff has been scheduled. There will be an informal coffee hour beginning
at 9:30 in the main lounge of the library. The formal orientation program
will follow at 10 and a conducted tour of the campus will begin at ll.
Well over 10, 000 students will enroll this month, including more than
530 new transfer students and 1670 freshmen, The 125th opening convocation
will take place at 8:15 on Monday, September 16 on the Campus Center Mall
where Professor Robert Rienow, of the Graduate School of Public Affairs, will
give the principal address,
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Muhammed Khan, a graduate student in educational administration
at State University of New York at Albany, has been awarded a renewal
grant for an academic year fellowship under the Training Opportunities for Youth
Leadership Program. Mr. Khan, formerly an educator of Pakistan,
is continuing graduate studies leading to the Doctor of Education degree.
Administered under the auspices of the Institute of International
Education and the Agency for International Development, the Training
Opportunities for Youth Leadership Program assists self-sponsored
foreign students from developing countries in completing their collegiate
study in the United States.” Awards are made in favor of those students
who possess leadership potential and are majoring in fields of study that
can be utilized in the development of their home countries.
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Twelve paintings by Donald Ogier will comprise one of the exhibitions
that will open the 1968-69 season at the Art Gallery of State University of New
York at Albany. Ogier's work will be on display from Monday, September 16
through October 13, Ogier who was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1933, is
a teaching assistant at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He received
his B.F, A. at Washington University, St. Louis, and studied in West Germany.
In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in painting. He has lived and
traveled extensively in Europe.
The artist has participated in numerous group shows in the Midwest, New
York, Massachusetts, and West Germany, including the 12th annual National
Drawing and Sculpture Show, Muncie, Ind., where he received the Purchase
Award in 1966. In addition, Ogier has held four one-man shows including one in
Caracas, Venezuela, and one at the University of Massachusetts, where he will
complete requirements for an M.F.A, in June, 1969. His portraits, paintings,
drawings, and prints are part of various private collections in both America and
Europe.
The current show consists of recent examples of Ogier's ''three-dimensional
paintings''--a combination of found objects, collage, and acrylics on canvas and
wood. Areception, to which the general public is invited, will be held Thursday
evening, September 19, from 7;30 to 10 p.m.
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Frank G. Krivo, director of admissions, State University of New
York at Albany, represented State University of New York in his capacity as
director of the university's Admissions Assistance Center at a Pentagon
conference on ''Developing College Opportunities For Men Leaving Military
Service" just concluded in Washington.
The center, a function of central State University administration, operates
from the university at Albany. It has expanded recently its responsibilities
in order to aid returning veterans in finding a place in the State University
system,
The center began in the spring of 1967 with a program to aid unsuccessful
junior college applicants in finding a college place. In its two years of
operation it referred 97% of those asking for assistance to an opening in the
State University or in a limited number of participating private colleges.
This year the center hopes to expand its services to aid veterans and
special groups of students who may need assistance.
The SUNYA campus was represented by Dr. Paul M. Miwa, assistant
vice president for academic affairs.
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Anew center, the Two-Year College Student Development Center, has been
established at State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Arthur A. Hitchcock,
professor of education at the university, will serve as director.
Formed to help meet a critical need for the improvement of counseling and
related student personnel services in the two-year colleges of the state, the center
will emphasize programs of research, development and distribution of materials,
and preparation of personnel. Particular stress will be placed on in-service programs
such as workshops, seminars, institutes, and consulting clinics.
The center comes into being as the result of an intensive study of counseling
services in the two-year colleges and the best means to meet immediate and long-term
needs made during the past year by a joint planning group, formally called the Joint
Planning Group for Two-Year College Counseling Programs and representing wide and
varied interests. In the group were private and public university counselor-educators,
two-year college student personnel deans, and two-year college counselors, as well
as representatives of the State University of New York and the State Education
Department. The project was sponsored by the Bureau of Two-Year College Programs
in the Division of Higher Education of the State Education Department with the aid of a
federal grant as arranged by the department. Dr. Hitchcock served as project director,
and Dr. S. V. Martorana, vice-chancellor for two -year colleges, State University of New
York, as project supervisor,
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Coupled with the activities of the joint planning group was a simultaneous
commissioned study conducted by Cornell University jointly with the Bureau of
Two-Year Programs. In a final report the joint planning group proposed the creation
of a center with the recommendation that State University of New York at Albany
be invited to undertake its establishment. In addition to Dr. Hitchcock, William A,
Robbins, as associate director, and P. Alistair MacKinnon, as administrator, have
been named to the center's staff,
A goal of the center is to develop regional programs throughout the state,
using the resources of the various universities, both private and public, to provide
help to students in dealing with educational, vocational, and personal concerns. In
addition, long-range plans include the center's working closely with degree-granting
institutions throughout the state sharing an equal concern about the quality of
professional counseling in the two-year colleges, %
Prior to joining the SUNYA faculty two years ago, Dr. Hitchcock served as
executive director of the American Personnel and Guidance Association for ll years,
He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and obtained his doctorate from Yale
University. Dr. Hitchcock has been involved in a wide range of national professional
and governmental activities, including Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's Task
Force on the Dropout, the Commission on the College Student of the American Council
on Education, anda U.S. Office of Education project in Puerto Rico where he served
as educational consultant.
Mr. Robbins had been dean of students at Mohawk Valley Community College
since 1961, after having taught in the social science program at the College. He is
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a graduate of Drew University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in history,
magna cum laude. He also has a Master of Arts from Teachers College, Columbia
University, and a Bachelor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. During
the past year Mr. Robbins served as consultant for two-year colleges under a
program of the U.S. Office of Education and the American Association of Junior
Colleges.
Mr. MacKinnon comes to the newly-established center after serving for more
than five years as consultant to the Secretary of Education of the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico under an exchange program with the U.S. Office of Education and as
educational specialist in the U.S. Office of Education, From 1960-63 he was chief
of the Bureau of Research and Statistics in Maine's Department of Education.
Mr. MacKinnon completed his undergraduate and graduate study at the
University of Arizona where he received his Bachelor of Science and Master of
Business Administration, He is a specialist in educational financing and management
of resources,
Dr, Evan R. Collins, president of State University of New York at Albany, has
indicated the university's belief in the "importance of the unique role of the community
college in public higher education" and agreement with the Joint Planning Group's
conclusions about the central place of the guidance and counseling function. ''We
are,'’ he added, "happy to accept the invitation to establish here the Center, and to
begin promptly to implement the report of the Joint Planning Group."
In order to help establish the center and its program during the first year,
the State Education Department approved a grant fund of $100, 000 under the
Vocational Education Act and the National Defense Education Act. In speaking of the
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grant, Lawrence E. Gray, chief of the Bureau of Two-Year College Programs, said
that the center should be able to provide immediate and specific steps to improve
"what many consider to be the hub, so to speak, of the two-year college movement;
namely, the guidance and counseling function."
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When the 125th opening convocation takes place Monday evening (Sept. 15)
at State University of New York at Albany, flags of various nations throughout the
world will be displayed from the roof of the Physical Education Building located to
the south of the campus center mall, site of the ceremony. Principal speaker at
the convocation will be Dr. Robert Rienow, professor of political science and
chairman of the faculty of the Graduate School of Public Affairs.
The 15 flags to be displayed represent but a portion of the 36 home nations of
the 136 international students enrolled for the new academic year. Included among
those countries whose flags will be shown -'are Argentina, Botswana, Brazil,
Republic of China, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, Jordan, Republic of Korea, Lebanon,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Rhodesia, Singapore, and Turkey.
The convocation program will be gin at 8:15 with the traditional candle-lighting
ceremony. The academic procession will follow, prior to the call to order by Dr. Webb §
Fiser, grand marshal. President Evan R. Collins then will address the assemblage.
Following the invocation by the Rev. Frank P. Snow, Frank G. Krivo, director of
admissions, will present the Class of 1972 to President Collins.
A welcoming address by Duncan A. Nixon, president of the Class of 1969, will
precede the principal address by Dr. Rienow. The program will close with the singing
of the alma mater, a benediction by the Rev. Paul R. Smith, and the recessional.
More than 10, 000 students will enroll in the university this semester, including
in excess of 530 new transfer students and 1670 freshmen.
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Dr. H. Peter Krosby has been appointed professor of history and chairman of
the department of history at State University of New York at Albany. He comes to
Albany from the University of Wisconsin, where earlier he was named chairman of
the department of Scandinavian studies, a post he resigned to accept his new position.
Born in Norway, Dr. Krosby attended elementary and secondary schools in
his homeland and served in the Norwegian Army in 1948-49. He emigrated to Canada in
1952, worked as a logger for a year, and entered the University of British Columbia in
1953, There, he earned degrees in international studies and Slavonic studies. He
became a Canadian citizen in 1958. Winner of a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training
Fellowship, he attended Columbia University in 1958-59 and received a doctorate in
modern European history.
Following three years on the faculty of Fairleigh-Dickinson University, Rutherford,
N.J., he moved to the University of Wisconsin in 1962, Dr. Krosby's main professional
interests are 20th Century European diplomatic history, the history of World War II,
and Scandinavian foreign relations. He has written numerous articles and reviews in
scholarly jounete in the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden, and Finland and has
published three books, with four more in process, two of which will appear next year.
His most recently published work is ''Finland, Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1940-1941:
The Petsamo Dispute!’ published by the University of Wisconsin Press,
Dr. Krosby is an elected member of the executive committee of the Society for
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the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, 1968-72. He has lectured throughout the
country on Scandinavian foreign policy topics. Additionally, he has been invited to read
papers at such gatherings as the annual meeting of SASS in 1966; the triennial Nordic
Historical Congress, held at Helsinki, Finland, in 1967; the 1968 annual meeting of the
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Santa Clara, Cal.;
and the 1968 annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, La,
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State University of New York at Albany has received a $25, 000 grant
from the New York State Science and Technology Foundation for the purpose
of strengthening the graduate work of the university's Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center.
The grant, approved by Governor Rockefeller, is one of eight such grants
totaling $222,700. The foundation, which was organized to promote excellence
of science and engineering in the state, has awarded more than $3.5 million
since 1965,
The research center plans to use the grant to help finance a program
which will bring distinguished visiting scientists in the field to the university.
Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer, director of ASRC, has indicated that leading
scientists will be invited to the university as Distinguished Research Fellows
for periods up to a year. They will be available for seminars, conferences,
discussion sessions, lectures, and related activities for both faculty and
students.
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The College of General Studies, State University of New York at
Albany, is offering six non-credit courses this fall in its continuing education
program, The program provides educational services for adults in addition
to those offered in degree programs.
The courses being offered include reading improvement, technical
writing, American folklore and American music, French for reading competency,
practical politics, and Law for Laymen. In addition, tours of the university
art gallery, at no charge, are scheduled September 25, November 6, and
December ll.
Registration in each course is limited. Persons interested in enrolling
are advised to register by September 18 at the Office of General Studies,
room 239 of the administration building on the university campus, 1400 Washington
avenue.
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Dr. Jai Soo Kim, professor of atmospheric science, State
University of New York at Albany, has been awarded a $71, 000 National
Science Foundation research grant for his work entitled ''A Study of Aurora
and Related Phenomena.”
The award is for a two year period.
The experimental program of the project consists primarily in
observing the mid-latitude monochromatic auroral arc at 6300 A at
Whiteface Mountain, New York, and Green Bank, West Virginia. The
theoretical effort seeks further refinements and extension to the theory of
dissociative recombination by using one-center wave functions in the
scattering calculations.
Dr, Kim, who joined the Albany faculty last fall, formerly was
professor of physics at the University of Idaho, Born in Korea, he received his
Bachelor of Science from Seoul National University. He later earned
master and doctoral degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dr. Kim also taught at Clarkson College, Potsdam before his position in
Towa.
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Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA), State University of
New York at Albany, will sponsor three meetings of area organizations in the next
three weeks. All will be held in Brubacher Hall on the downtown campus.
On Thursday (September 19), the first 1968-69 meeting of the Capital Area
School Business Management Officials Study Group is scheduled. The program,
which will run from 10 a.m. to noon, will relate to the formation and operation of
a new data processing system known as the New York State Educational Information
System (NYSEIS). The statewide coordinator of NYSEIS, Richard Lesser, will
present the program, together with two members of the New York State Education
Department, Dr. Herbert Johnson, associate commissioner for educational finance and
management services; and Dr. Morris L. Shapiro, division of educational management
services,
The first meeting of the Capital Area Superintendents of Buildings and Grounds
Study Group for the new school year is scheduled October 3. The 90-minute program,
"The Use of Data Processing in a Maintainence Program," will begin at 10 a. -
Richard Shands, Guilderland Central Schools, will make the presentation.
The Capital Area Supervisors of Transportation Study Group will hold its
first meeting October 10. Watson I. Goodrich, assistant superintendent, Onteora
Central Schools, will speak on Evaluation of Transportation Program-Onteora. "
The program will be presented from 10 a.m. to noon.
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Professor of political science Fred J. Tickner, dean, Graduate
School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany, has
returned to the campus from a United Nations inter-regional seminar on
the Development of Senior Administrators in the Public Services of
Developing Countries held in Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Tickner,
whose appointment as dean of GSPA which was announced recently, had
been serving as acting dean for the past year.
The seminar, which included representatives from 37 countries,
was the first coordinated international meeting on the particular subject. A
report on the discussions will be issued as a United Nations document.
Professor Tickner holds a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and
Bachelor of Literature from Balliol College, Oxford University. He was
director of training for the British Civil Service three years and deputy
director of the Division for Public Administration at the United Nations from
1952 to 1962, prior to joining the Albany faculty. His work at the U.N.
involved travel to Turkey, Burma, Uruguay, as well as to South African
nations.
The educator is the author of two books, ''Technical Cooperation’ and
" Administration in the New Nation." A year ago, Professor Tickner was invited
by the U.N. Institute for Training and Research to take part in the First
Asian Foreign Service Course, held in the Philippines.
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Dr. Irving M. Bonawitz, recently has been named chairman of the
department of accounting in the School of Business at State University of
New York at Albany, The announcement was made at the first faculty
meeting of the new academic year.
Dr. Bonawitz, a certified public accountant, came to Albany
from Temple University, Philadelphia last February. He holds undergraduate
degrees from Bowling Green State University, a Master of Business
Administration from Northwestern University, and a doctoral degree in
business administration from Michigan State University. While at Temple,
Dr. Bonawitz introduced a new master's degree in accounting.
The educator currently is pursuing research in accounting information
systems with emphasis on quantitative techniques and behavioral science
applications. He is a member of the American Accounting Association; the
American Institute of C.P.A.'s, Financial Executive Institute; and the
Institute of Management Science.
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Dr. Bonawitz resides at 105 Ten Eyck Place, Guilderland.
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Sara Ormond, Company Manager (457-8327)
" America Hurrah, '' Jean-Claude van Itallie's much acclaimed evening of three
one-act plays, comes to Albany for one performance only on Saturday evening,
October 12, at Page Hall. The performance by a national touring company is being
sponsored by the Dramatics Council, State University of New York at Albany.
Throughout the three plays entitled, "Interview," 'Motel,'' and '"T.V," which
make up "America Hurrah, " author van Itallie satirizes contemporary American society
with remarkable perception, imagination and humor.
The offering is one of the longest running off-Broadway productions for a non-
musical play in theatrical history. It played New York's Pocket Theatre for
eighteen months and in London for eight weeks. The often controversial satirical
plays have met with unanimous plaudits from professional critics on both sides of the
Atlantic. Irving Wardle of the London Times called ''America Hurrah," ''The finest
product of American theatre since 'West Side Story'."' Boston critic, Kevin Kelly
describes the production as ''a Hurricane of Horrors. It satirizes contemporary society,
American style, with the force of a whirlwind vision."
Mr. van Itallie, a Harvard graduate, perhaps best describes his own attitude of
the theatre in general by saying, "the whole structure that man in the twentieth century
world has devised for himself to live in seems to me, and to others, to be sitting ona
foundation which is out of whack, tilted, inadequate for human beings, alienated from a
sane idea of being alive. Most of the theatre, that major portion of which is rightly
called 'the industry’ serves the system as ahandmaiden. It feeds back to those who
can afford it the facile illusions that they need to perpetuate their idea of the world."
Ticket sales begin October 2 at the State University Theater box office at the
Campus Center. All seats are $1.50.
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Dr. Frederick J. Beharriell, formerly of Indiana University, has
been appointed visiting professor in the department of German and Slavic
languages and literature, State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Beharriell's
particular field is 19th and 20th century German literature. His appointment
is for the 1968-69 academic year.
Recipient of B.A. and M, A. degrees from the University of Toronto,
Dr. Beharriell achieved his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. In
1965-66, he was both a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and a Senior
Fulbright Research Fellow in Austria. The linguist served as first vice
president of the Association of American Teachers of German (AATG), 1964-65,
and was president of the Indiana Chapter of AATG in 1958-59,
Dr. Beharriell has published a number of articles, bibliographies, and
reviews, nearly all of which deal with German language and literature. Among
the publications to which he has contributed are The Germanic Review, The
German Quarterly, Books Abroad, and Literatur and Kritik.
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Donald F, Favreau, assistant professor of education and associate
director, Center for Executive Development, State University of New York at
Albany, will be a guest speaker at two upcoming meetings. He will address
the Chief Officers' Seminar of the Fire Service Training Program, Department
of Education, State of Maine, on September 25 at Augusta, Me., and on
October 4, in Rochester, he will speak at the Fire Service Recognition
Luncheon of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce Safety Council.
Mr. Favreau is the executive director of the International Fire
Administration Institute. He has been in the field of industrial relations, manpowe)
utilization, personnel development and training for more than 20 years.
The work of the International Fire Administration Institute, which is part
of SUNYA's Center for Executive Development, is to engage in research
and otherwise obtain material for the preparation of courses in fire admin-
istration in related services and to make the material available to educational
institutions, particularly at the college level in the United States and in
foreign countries. The institute also assists educational institutions in the
development of material.
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Dr. Robert T. Duquet recently was named associate professor of
computer science at State University of New York at Albany. The educator
formerly was an associate professor of computer science and meteorology
at Pennsylvania State University.
The Albany university is instituting a master of science degree
program in computer science this fall and Dr, Duquet is expected to bolster
that program. Students in the master's program may register, with their
adviser's approval, for appropriate courses in computer science and
related fields at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy.
Dr. Duquet received his Bachelor of Arts in physics from Loyola
College. He later earned a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto
and a doctoral degree from New York University, both in meteorology.
Dr. Duquet has published a number of papers and articles on meteorology.
He is particularly interested in applytng electronic data processing techniques
to meteorology. In addition to teaching, research, and student counseling
at Penn State, he participated in a daily televised weather forecast program,
Dr. Duquet is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery,
the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society,
the American Geophysical Union, and Sigma Xi. At Penn State he was a
member of the Computer Advisory Committee,
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Original graphics by Picasso, Chagall, Renoir, Cézanne, Dali, Miro; and
Vasarely are among 400 works of art that wil be on exhibition Tuesday and Wednesday,
September Se and 34, in the Art Gallery lounge, State University of New York at
Albany. Viewing hours will be 10 a.m. to 7 p,m. for the collection, which is ona
tour of college and university campuses. London Grafica Arts, which is affiliated
with major galleries in London, New York, and Detroit, is presenting the exhibition,
Eugene Ivan Schuster, director of London Grafica arts and art historian. and
visiting lecturer at Wayne State University, Detroit, has assembled the collection,
All works are on sale at prices ranging from $10 to $3,000. The collection includes
lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, drypoints, aquatints, silkscreens, and posters
by more than 75 modern masters and younger contemporaries,
Mr. Schuster believes "it is necessary to understand what is meant by the
rather unsatisfactory term of 'an original print.' The normal practice is to make...
between 25 and 125 numbered and signed copies of any one work before destroying
the plate from which it has been printed. Thus, although a print is not as unique
an item as a painting, it nevertheless has a degree of exclusiveness,"
The graphics of great artists may be purchased at a more reasonable sum than
may their oils because they are multiple originals; however, the graphics possess
the aesthetic qualities of a fine oil.
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The College of General Studies, State University of New York at
Albany, is offering a non-credit course in practical politics on Tuesday
evenings from 7:30 to 9:30. The course begins on October 8 and concludes
November 15.
The purpose of the course is to provide a better understanding of the
American political scene and give insights into the political processes of
national, state, and local government. Instructor for the course will be
Robert 8. Herman, visiting lecturer in the university's department of
economics, and director of Higher Education of the Joint Legislative
Committee tio Revise and Simplify the Education Law of the State of New
York.
Mr, Herman previously taught at Hunter College and Syracuse
University and was executive director of the Constitutional Commission and
an executive assistant to the New York State Senate. He has served as an
International Consultant to 10 foreign nations and has authored humerous
articles and reports,
Tuition for the course is $20. Further information may He obtained from
the College of General Studies, SUNYA, 1400 Washington Ave. (457-4937),
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Nine School of Education faculty at State University of New York at
Albany will participate in the annual meetings of the Eastern Zone, New
York State Teachers Association, to be held in Albany and Schenectady on
September 27, September 28, ahd October 4.
They include Vito M. Gioia, assistant professor, department of
educational psychology, who will be a panelist in a discussion of sex education;
Alfred J. Cali, professor, educational administration, who will react to
a presentation on research and multi-disciplinary approach to teaching;
John A. Ether, director of projects on education of the disadvantaged, who
will serve as a consultant on inherent problems of the disadvantaged; and
Francis Femminella, professor, department of education, who will serve as a
consultant on sociologists in education,
Also, John Rosenbach, department of educational psychology,
consultant for the subject of psychologists in education; Wilma W. Bidwell,
assistant professor, curriculum and instruction, consultant on research in
education; James L. Keuthe, and Richard Clark, professors, educational
psychology, who will speak on the theme of conceptual learning; and Donald J.
Pruden, assistant professor, who will chair a panel discussion of alcoholism,
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Professor Wolfgang Monath of the University of Wurzburg, Germany,
has been appointed visiting professor of German at State University of New
York at Albany for the 1968-69 academic year. He will take the place of
Dr. Erna M. Moore, associate professor of German at SUNYA, who will
fill a similar position at Wurzburg this year.
Professor Monath held a lectureship at the University of Natal,
Union of South Africa from 1957 to 1959. He is the author of several articles
on German literature and served as editor of the Neue Deutsche Biographie,
published by the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, for five years.
The professor's appointment is part of a regular exchange of students
and faculty between Albany and Wurzburg where the Albany institution conducts
a study abroad program,
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Dr. Winifred Bell has joined the faculty of the School of Social
Welfare, State University of New York at Albany. Herprevious position was
at the University of Maryland where she was a professor in the School of
Social Work.
Dr. Bell, whose field is social policy and social services, is a
graduate of the University of Michigan where she received her Bachelor of Arts
and Master of Social Work. She subsequently earned her Doctor of Social
Work degree at Columbia University. The educator just completed a con-
suliantship to Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana, in which she was
responsible for planning a family allowance experiment in conjunction with
the Model City Program in Gary. Dr. Bellis also a member of the United
States Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Task Force on the Reorganization
of the Social Services and is a consultant to HEW.
The School of Social Welfare at SUNYA has increased its student and
faculty body from 40 and 10 last year to 65 and 14 this fall. Courses combine
classroom studies with field experience in clinics, social agencies, courts,
and other outside institutions.
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Dwight T. Wallace, associate professor of anthropology, is one
e University of New York at Albany this
ows, newly appointed chairman of the depart-
Mr, Wallace's particular field of
ty of California at Berkeley, where he
. Wallace comes to Albany from the University
of
aight at the University of North Carolina and
at
s editor of ' Abstracts of New World Archaeology, "
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American Archaeology. He has traveled in Peru,
Mexico, and the western United States conducting archaeological research.
Mr. Wallace has b:
2 Research Fellow of the Fulbright Commission in Peru
in Chile.
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An executive development seminar for the Young Men's Christian KssoeiStion
took place this week at State University of New York at Albany with twenty-eight
YM secretaries from throughout the state in attendance. The program was conducted
by the university's Center for Executive Development under the sponsorship of the ad-
ministration section of the New York State ‘Abuodiatiod of Secretaries.
At the opening session the principal speaker was Professor Malcolm S. Knowles,
of the School of Edusstion: Boston University, whose keynote address was on
“Social Concerns and the YMCA Director", ‘The first full-day session featured talks
by Professor Donald Favreau, associate director of CED, who spoke about
"Mariagement Vitality"; President Marvin A. Rapp, Onondaga Community College,
"Recruiting, Training, and Development of YMCA Lay Leadership; Professor Knowles,
"Social Concerns and the YMCA Director"; Professor Joseph Leese, director of CED,
"Organization Practice, Climate and Planning"; and Dr, Thomas Paolucci, director
of training, New York State Department of Labor, "Developing Broad Gauged
Manegerial Personnel."
Tuesday afternoon the seminar. participants heard talks on "Decision Making~-
and Procedures", Professor Robert Kelley, CED; "Sources and Techniques
How? Why?", Francois L. Steats, director of public relations, YMCA of Greater
New York.
At the concluding séssion on Wednesday morning, Professor John Ether,
ducation of the Disadvantaged, spoke to the group about
ector, Proje
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Seminar sessions were held in the Assembly Hall of the university's Campus
Center.
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EDITORS: See attached list of participants from your readership area,
The Center for Executive Development
State University of New York at Albany
EXECULIVE DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR 1968
- Spire G. Bello
Forbes Brown
Ramon Gonzalez
Arthur J. Griffa
George H. Kanhouse
Harold Kuebler
J, Robert Morse
Gilbert Jd . Mosher
A. Joseph Murphy
Harry Oathout
Bernard N, Olsson
John Pizzoli
E. Lloyd Rees
Abraham Reyes
Carl Ritz
Elly Rwakona
Robert W. Schmidt
Francois L.: Sheats
Howard M, Shinn, Jr.
Elmer £. Stasse
Ton G. Tanner
Dean E. Temple, Jr.
William A. Thomas
Gordon Tuttle
Clarence Vanderzell
William C. Wescott
John C. Wheeler
Wilson J, Worman
YMCA Jamestown
YMCA Albany
William Sloane House YMCA
YMCA Humboldt Branch
YMCA Greater New York
YMCA New York
YMCA East Queens
YMCA Lockport
"YMCA Batavia
YMCA Little Falis
" Mount Vernon YMCA
YMCA West Side
YMCA Holiday Hilis
YMCA of Greater New York
YMCA Canandaigua
YMCA Jamestown
Nassau-Suffolk County YMCA
YMCA Greater New York
State YMCA
YMCA Utica
YMCA Saratoga
Chautaugua County YMCA
YMCA Olean
YMCA Gloversville
YMCA Utica
YMCA Troy
YMCA Jamestown
YMCA Syracuse
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Three new members of the State University of New York at Albany music
department faculty will perform in the first faculty concert of the current academic
year. The program of vocal and instrumental music will take place at 8:30 in
Page Hall on Tuesday evening, October 8.
The new members are Irvin Gilman, flute; Stephen Adelstein, oboe; and
Dennis Helmrich, piano. Also featured will be Marjory Fuller, voice, of the music
faculty. On the program will be compositions by Telemann, Quantz, Bloch, and
J.S. Bach.
Mr. Gilman was a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for 12 years,
performing many times as flute soloist. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. The flutist has taught on the faculty
of Wayne State University, the University of Michigan, and the Manhattan School
of Music.
Mr. Adeistein holds degrees from Oberlin College and the Yale University
School of Music. He has taught at Ithaca College, Dartmouth Congregation of the
Arts, and the North Carolina School of Performing Arts. Mr. Adelstein has performed
as oboist with many groups, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the
Esterhazy Orchestra, and the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, He has toured throughout
Europe and the United States and has recorded for several companies.
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Mr, Helmrich has appeared frequently in the East and Southwest with
orchestras, in solo recitals, in chamber music, and as an accompanist. He is
a graduate of Yale College, the Yale University School of Music, and the Boston
University School of Fine and Applied Arts. Before joining the Albany faculty,
Mr. Helmrich taught at Antioch College.
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When the new physics Siivaine at State University
of New York is dedicated Friday afternoon, October 4,
it will mark the first time an academic building on
the university's new campus will be named for a person.
The Joseph Henry Physics Building honors the noted 19th
Century physicist, an Albany native and early experimenter
in electromagnetism.
Henry, born in Albany in 1797, taught at the Albany
Academy for Boys before going to Princeton University in
1832 to continue his experiments. In 1847 he moved to
Washington, D. C., where he served as the first secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution during the Lincoln Adminis-
tration. He died in 1878 at the age of 81.
The public dedication of the Joseph Henry Physics
Building, with its 14 research rooms and 12 laboratories
and classrooms for instruction purposes, will begin at 4:30
at the western end of the building at the podium level.
The building is located to the east of Campus Center on
the southern side of the academic podium.
Participating in the ceremonies will be Truman Cameron,
chairman of the University Dedication Committee and formerly
a member of the University Council, who will make the
presentation; President Evan R. Collins, who will acknowledge
the presentation; C. Luther Andrews, chairman of the
1400 WASHINGTON AVE., ALBANY, NEW YORK 12203
department of physics, who will describe the use of the
building; and John A. Wheeler, Joseph Henry Professor of
Physics, Princeton University, who will make a brief address
and unveil the building plaque. A tour of the building will
follow the dedication and refreshments will be served in
the Student Commons, room 129.
Professor Wheeler is internationally known for his
contribution to the atomic and nuclear theory, scattering
theory, fission, chain reactors, relativity, and geometrodynamics.
He served as staff member or consultant on several phases of
the Manhattan Project and later for the Atomic Energy Commission.
He is a past president and Fellow of the American Physical
Society.
The dedication will be held during the two-day fall
meeting of the New York State section of the American Physical
Society Friday and Saturday. A number of noted physicists
will be on hand for the sessions to be held in Campus Center.
The department of physics at State University of New
York at Albany offers a wide range of opportunities for
experimentation and theoretical research leading to the
doctor of philosophy with research programs now being
carried on in nine areas of theoretical and experimental
physics. The graduate program is designed primarily for
those interested in a doctoral degree but it is possible
for students to become candidates for a master's degree.
Currently there are 60 undergraduates with majors in
physics and 44 graduate students in the physics program.
In the latter group are 18 doctoral students. Two of them
are expected to receive their degrees in June 1959.
Research programs in the department are being conducted
in nuclear structure, nuclear magnetic resonance, x-ray
crystallography, and x-ray spectometry. Additionally,
there are now two new fields of concentration. One is in
solid state physics and one dealing with high energy particles.
The solid state defect research makes use of accelerators
at the university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at
General Electric Company. The high energy particle studies
employ high voltage accelerators at Brookhaven National
Laboratory, Upton, (N.Y.), and at Princeton University.
Additional research facilities in mass spectrometry and
microwave optics used by the department are located on the
downtown campus. The Dynamitron accelerator is in storage
awaiting completion of an underground building near the
northeast corner of the academic podium.
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Note to the editor: Enclosed in this mailing about
the dedication of the Joseph Henry Physics Building is
background information about Joseph Henry, a detailed
description of the building and its facilities, and a
listing of the physics department faculty.
September 30, 1968
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
The following faculty and. staff occupied the Joseph Henry
Physics Building at the time of its dedication.
Faculty, institutions from which they earned their highest
degrees and their research interests:
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14.
15.
Andrews, C. Luther; Cornell University; Microwave Optics
BenDaniel, David J.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Plasma Physics
Benenson, Raymond E.; University of Wisconsin; Low Energy
Nuclear Physics
Brown, Richard I.; University of Wisconsin; Low Energy
Nuclear Physics
Chessin, Henry; Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; X-ray
Crystallography
Chi, Benjamin E.; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Theoretical and Experimental Nuclear Physics.
Corbett, James W.; Yale University; Solid State Physics
Dickinson, Martha; University of Colorado; High Energy
Particle Physics
Feinblum, David A.; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Relativity
Garg, Jagadish; University of Paris; Low Energy Nuclear
Physics
Halder, Narayan C.; Indian Institute of Technology; X-ray
Crystallography
Hemenway, Curtis L.; Rutgers University; Astrophysics and
Space Physics
Inomata, Akira; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; General
Relativity
Kashiwase, Yasuji; Nagoya University; X-ray Crystallography
Kim, Jai Soo; University of Saskatchewan; MMB Professor;
Atmospheric Physics.
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17.
18.
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20.
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22.
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24.
25.
26.
27.
28,
Kim, Yong Moo; Brown University; Electron-Spin Paramagnetic
Resonance
Kline, David; Brown University; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Lanni, Robert P.; State University of New York at Albany;
X-ray Crystallography
Levitas, Alfred D.; Syracuse University; Theoretical Physics,
Solid State
Marsh, Bruce B.; University of Rochester; Low Energy Nuclear
Physics
Norton, Francis J.; Yale University; Mass Spectrometry
Oliver, Anne Rebecca; Cornell University; Nuclear Physics,
Subatomic Particles
Pryor, Marvin J.; Amherst College; Astronomy
Renzema, Theodore S.; Purdue University; X-ray Spectroscopy
and Diffraction
Shapiro, Charles S.; State University of New York at Stony
Brook; Theoretical Nuclear
Smith, Jack H.; Cornell University; Theoretical Physics
Story, Harold S.; Case Institute of Technology; Solid State
Physics
Sun, Chihe-Ree; University of California at Los Angeles;
High Energy Particle Physics
Staff:
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30.
31.
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Brown, Ellen L.; Secretary
Houghton, Charles; Machinist
Kowalehyk, John J.; Machinist
Kruckow, Jean M.; Secretary
Lawrence, Linda L.; Secretary
Prividera, Mario; Technician
Stasiak, John; Curator
Stein, Arnold; Machinist
Wrzenski, S. Chris; Technician
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
The following information about Joseph Henry
has been taken from an article written by
Professor C. Luther Andrews, chairman of the
physics department, State University of New
York at Albany, which appeared in the January
1965 issue of The Physics.Teacher, published
by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
The first American to receive world recognition for a connected series
of original experiments in physics was a teacher of mathematics and science to
boys of ages 12 to 18. Joseph Henry won such reputation as a lecturer and in-
vestigator in six years 1826-1832 at the Albany Academy. Silliman, the
editor of the American Journal of Science, in a recommendation to Princeton
University wrote, "Henry has no superior among the scientific men of America."
Professor Renwick of Columbia University added, "He has no equal."
Henry was born in Albany, New York, in 1797. At the age of seven, he
went to live with his grandmother at Galway, Saratoga County. When ten years old
he went to the village to work in a store and attend common school in the after-
noon. Henry's employer permitted him to make a community center of the store for
the other boys of the town.
At the age of sixteen he worked for a watchmaker in Albany, but his
money and interests were spent on the theater. To this country lad, who pre-
viously had seen but one play, the stage was his calling. First begging per-
mission to help work the levers and produce the stage illusions, he was soon
invited to join the Theatrical association, The Rostrum. Distinguishing him-
self as a dramatist, he was made president of the society.
Fortunately for the world of science, his interests suddenly turned
from the amusing of men to the studying of nature. While at home recovering
from an accident, he read a book, Lectures On Experimental Philosophy, which
one of his mother's boarders had left on the table. S¢eing Henry's interest
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in the book the owner presented it to him. Henry wrote on the flyleaf of the
pook, "---It fixed my attention on the study of nature and caused me to resolve
at the time of reading it that I would immediately commence to devote my life
to the acquisition of knowledge."
Acting immediately, Henry joined a night school and prepared for the
Albany Academy. While attending the Academy he taught in a district school to
earn his way until he was promoted to an assistant in the Academy. Upon graduat-
ing he accepted a position as private tutor in the family of General. Stephen Van-
Rensselaer,
In 1825 the New York State government hired Henry to conduct a survey
for a road to be built from Kingston on the Hudson to Leake Erie, later known as
the Catskill Turnpike. So well had Henry done his work and written his report
that a bill was introduced in the State legislature to provide a permanent state
engineering corps with Henry as its captain, but the bill fell through and Henry
accepted a vacant chair in the Albany Academy.
General Stephen Van Rensselaer, "The Last of the Patroons,"gave support
to two institutes, The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on the east side of the
Hudson River in Troy, and the Albany Institute on the west side. The Albany
Institute existed solely to subscribe to the journals in the sciences, to con-
duct regular meetings for discussion of the journals, and to publish its own
journals The Transactions of the Albany Institute. So complete was the set
of journals that men from Harvard, Yale and Columbia University belonged to the
Institute that they might have access to the journals. Institute meetings were
held forthnightly, alternately in the Albany Academy and in the State Capitol.
Joseph Henry was librarian of the Institute and divided his time be-
tween care of the journals upstairs and teaching the boys downstairs in the
Academy. He read the journals and gave his own reports before the institute in
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the form of carefully developed demonstrations. Later he was attracted to the
study of electricity.
Henry read of the classroom discovery by Hans Christian Oersted of
the magnetic field around a currentbearing wire and demonstrated it before his own
class. In his first journal article he deplored the failure of our higher
institutions of learning to teach and demonstrate the new subject of electro-
magnetism.
Henry with the help of a friend Dr. Philip Ten Eyck, had set up the
first telegraph system operating over a mile of wire extended back and forth across
the siioninccnmsitiieenles Cnsiils window of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany,*
depicting that classroom event of September 1830 when Henry was preparing the
class for the closing of the switch that would cause an armature to hit a bell
at the other end of the mile of wire.
Henry had solved by a series of cut-and-try experiments the communica-
tions problem of matching the load to the source. He had not heard of Ohm's
law or the concepts of electromotive force, resistance of wires, internal re-
sistance of batteries or electrical power. In 1831 Henry published an article
describing the first electric motor.
Henry discovered self induction or inertia in electrical circuits.
For this discovery and the years of study of electrical induction that followed,
the International Congress of Electricians in 1893 desSgnated the henry as the
unit of inductance.
With promises of more time and space for research The College of New
Jersey, now Princeton University, lured Henry from Albany. In the first year
his teaching load was heavier than it had been in Albany. Besides filling his
own chair, he filled the chair of chemistry, and took over the courses in mineral-
ogy and geology for a professor who was traveling in Europe. However, he did find
* (located at the corner of Willett and State Streets )
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time to build a telegraph line between his office and his home with the
ground as half of the transmission line. More important, he built a sats.
larger electromagnet with which to continue his studies of electrical induction.
In 1837 the trustees of the college gave Professor Henry leave to visit
Europe for a year. It was ra 1837 that Wheatstone and Cooke, after thirteen years
of trial, concluded the impossibility of the electromagnetic telegraph. That
same year their attentions were called to Henry's intensity magnet and téle-
graph. When Henry arrived in England, Wheatstone and Cooke obtained from Henry
@ complete description of his instrument, and two months later secured a patent
on the telegraph. That same year they built a commercial line between Padington
and West Dayton but in America the telegraph had to await the development of railroads
before it would be commercially profitable.
James Smithson,@n Englishman, had given the United States $540,000
for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. Through the advice of scientific
friends of Smithson in Europe, the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian
Institution asked Henry in 1846 to become the secretary of the institution,
although he predicted to a friend, that in going he would exchange permanent
fame for transient reputation.
Having studied meteorology in Albany, Henry foresaw a fruitful
field for research. In two years he established six hundred observation
stations throughout the country, and by means of the telegraph, daily plotted the
atmospheric conditions on a map of the United States, and again by telegraph
forecast the weather to the nation.
Henry continued direction of the Smithsonian Institution and of
the committee of experiments of the Lighthouse Board almost until the day
of his death inl878. In the year before his death he held mine offices of honor
including the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
Facilities and Use of the Joseph Henry Physics Building
Offices for 26 faculty. members and 44 graduate students, 14 research
rooms, 12 class and laboratory rooms for teaching, machine shops for six
instrument makers.
Basement
(a) Machine shops for six instrument makers
(>) X-ray diffraction laboratory for study of vibrations of crystall
alloys under wide ranges of temperature and pressure. From these
studies physical properties of alloys are deduced.
National Institute of Dental Research of the National Institute of Health. This
modern automated laboratory has attracted physicists to work from 6 to 18
months, two from Czechoslovakia, one from Germany, one from Australia and one
from Japan.
Podium Level (First Floor)
Measurements of magnetic resonances of billions of cycles per second
are used to study the environments of nucleii in crystaline and
glassy materials. A time-averaging computer records data 24 hours
per day and by an averaging process separates smooth graphs of resonances
from the background noise of atoms and amplifying instruments so that
new resonances are being discovered that could not be recognized.
Automatic data taking frees the scientist from "data poisoning" and
gives him time for design and interpretation of experiments.
Third Floor
An electron microprobe scans micrometeorites collected from balloons,
rockets and satellites by Dudley Observatory and projects pictures
of this submicroscopic dust on a television screen. Just as objects
look different under different colored lights, they also appear dif-
ferent by radiation of different wavelengths of X-rays. By know-
ledge of X-ray spectrometry, the observed may recognize the elements
that make up the particles of space dust (micrometeorites).
High Energy Particle Physics
Projected pictures which have been taken at the accelerator at the
Brookhaven National Laboratories and Princeton-Penn laboratories and scanned and
measured for unusual events produced when subatomic, fundamental particles collide.
One in one million pictures may reveal a deviation from some of the fundamental
conservation laws. Princeton University has loaned State University of New York
at Albany scanning equipment until its own arrives. Princeton University has a
cooperative program of research with the university.
‘t STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
H. David Van Dyck, Assistant to the President
Nathalie Lampman, Information Director
OFFICE OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS Area Code 518 457-4901 © 02 = 03
IMMEDIATE
A twenty-year administration will come to an end next June when
Dr. Evan R. Collins, president of State University of New York at Albany, leaves
that position at the end of the current academic year. President Collins
announced his decision to leave this afternoon at regularly scheduled meetings
with students and faculty. The University Council had been told over the
weekend,
In his letter to the State University chancellor President Collins stated
he felt that twenty years was long enough to hold the kind of responsibility which
is his, adding that he would prefer to leave while he was happy with the work
he was doing and with the progress made. While he has no immediate plans,
President Collins said he expects to continue serving in the field of education,
President Collins' career at Albany has spanned the life of the State
University of New York established in 1948. He was appointed by the Board
of Regents and took office under the newly-formed State University of New York,
He has served under all of the State University's presidents and the present
chancellor, a service longer than that of any of the current presidents of the
State University institutions.
When President Collins began his presidency in 1949 at the age of 37
he was among the youngest college presidents of the day. The earlier State
College for Teachers was located in the buildings on what is now called the
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downtown campus in Albany. Total enrollment, faculty, and staff, did not ’
equal the size of the freshman class entering the university this venti Enrollment
this semester. totals about 10,350, a figure. roughly ten times that of 20 years
ago when faculty and students combined totaled 1100, with a projected figure
of 21,300 by 1975, Full and part-time faculty now number 995.
During the intervening years the institution has grown also in the breadth i
and depth of academic programs. In successive steps the name of the
institution, has been changed, beginning in 1959 when it became State University
College of Education at Albany and then State University College, an institution
of arts and sciences. It was named one of the four university centers of State
University of New York in 1962 and empowered to grant doctoral degrees. In
that year the first doctoral degree, in education, was conferred. The
university now offers doctoral programs in ten fields for the degree in philosophy,
five, for the education degree; and one in the field of public administration.
Now, as the first phase of the university's large building program is
nearing completion, disaniuas tute are underway to take the next steps to develop
further the university, reflecting the leadership needs necessary in higher
education today. Housing new academic and research programs being developed
continually will fill the additional buildings now in the planning stage.
President-Collins has had a distinguished career in education. He isa
Association of
former president of the American/Colleges for Teacher Education and a member
of its executive committee, He served on the board of directors of the American
Council and on its commission on international education, The prominent
educator is chairman of the coordinating board of the National Council for the
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Accreditation of Teacher Education and a member of the executive council of
the Harvard Graduate School of Education Association and of the school and college
relations committee of the Educational Records Bureau. He has served on num-
erous advisory groups named by the Board of Regents and the State Education
Department.
In 1967 President Collins was honored by the French Government when he
was awarded the insignia of Officer of the Academic Palms in recognition of his
contribution, as an academician, to the development of further understanding
between the United States and France. In that same year he received an
honorary doctorate from the Albany Medical College of Union University.
President Collins was cited by the Albany Chamber of Commerce when he received i
Distinguished Service Award. He also received the Page One Award given by
The Newspaper Guild of Albany.
President Collins holds degrees from Dartmouth College and from Harvard
University. Prior to coming to Albany he was dean of the College of Education,
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. During World War II he served in a civilian
capacity as chief, operations analysis, Second Air Force. He is, or has been,
a director of the New York State Council on Economic Education, Northeastern
New York Speech, and Association for Crippled Children and Adults of New York
State, and a trustee of Dudley Observatory and Rensselaerville Institute on
Man and Science. His past presidencies include those of Albany Rotary Club,
Albany Young Men's Christian Association, and Family and Children's Service
of Albany. President Collins is a director of State Bank of Albany and a
vestryman of St. Peter's Church, Episcopal, of Albany.
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Many innovations at the Albany institution have come about during
President Collins' administration. In 1966 he began weekly informal infor-
mation hours with students which continue. Regulations concerning student matter:
were liberalized, particularly in the areas of hours and housing, after long
study by administration, faculty, and student representatives. Additionally,
this month the faculty voted to have students represented on all
Faculty Senate councils.
Last year President Collins established a faculty review committee on
investigations involving human objects with recommendations to be reported
to the office of the vice president for research. In that same year he named
a University Athletics Council to coordinate participation of all groups within
the university in the development of collegiate athletic policy.
The institution, under President Collins, gained increased national
prominence in 1962 when a cover article in the Saturday Review, written by
David Boroff, noted author-critic, stated that, 'As liberal arts colleges
go, it (SUCA) is a good one. As teachers colleges go, it is superb." In his
report, Dr. Boroff pointed out that ' Among state-supported teachers colleges
in the United States, Albany ranks first in the number of graduates who later
earned doctorates in English, foreign languages, philosophy, chemistry,
political science, and psychology. Among colleges of its size in New York,
only Vassar surpasses it in the number of graduates who achieved doctorates, y
In a subsequent interview,‘ Président Collins stressed that the institution had
never been a teachers college, but rather a college for the preparation of
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high school teachers which has awarded bachelor of arts degrees since 1905.
During the past year 208 new courses were approved by the Graduate
Academic Council. In the master of arts program there are 24 fields of
specialization and 20 in the master of science program, including 10 within
the education program. Other master's degrees are in business administration,
library science, public administration, and social welfare.
At the undergraduate level there are 57 major fields in the general
program and in the education program leading to bachelor degrees in arts
and sciences.
The university now has a College of Arts and Sciences, School of
Business, School of Criminal Justice, School of Education, School of Library
Science, School of Nursing, School of Social Welfare, and the Graduate School
of Public Affairs. Research and service centers, supporting the academic
effort, are the nationally known Atmospheric Science Research Center and
Dudley Observatory, and the Centers for Field Research and Services, Inter-
American Studies, Executive Development, Economic Education, Educational
Communication, Theatre Services, Learning Disabilities, Speech Therapy,
and Computing Services.
The composition of the student body has changed noticeably during the
past five years. An increasing number of students come from every county
throughout New York State, from communities out of the state, and, at the
present time, there are on the Albany campus 134 international students
from 36 countries and from Puerto Rico. As part of the regular curriculum,
there is a Study Albroad Program for American students which is conducted
by arrangement with the University of Guadalajara, the University of
Wurzburg, and the University of Nice.
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