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York, will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters during Albany's 143rd
Commencement ceremonies, on May 17. Other honorary degrees will be
awarded to Alfred Kazin (Doctor of Letters), author, literary critic, and
professor at the City University of New York; Rose Marie Karpinsky
(Doctor of Humane Letters), university administrator, scholar, and
president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Costa Rica; and Xie
Xide (Doctor of Science), president of Fudan University, Shanghai, China,
where she is also a physics professor.
Shalala will also be the Commencement speaker. A noted civil rights
activist, she is a prominent advocate for the improvement of New York
City's public schools. In addition, she has testified before Congress on
financial and urban affairs, and has made substantial contributions to
political science.
Kazin, a professor of English, Emeritus, is one of the most venerated
literary critics in America. His works include On Native Ground, An
American Procession, and his autobiography, A Walker in the City. He has
taught at the University of Massachussetts at Amherst, SUNY at Stony
Brook, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Notre Dame, the
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American Academy in Rome, and other colleges and universities. He is a member
of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.
Karpinsky is the author of three books, and her treatise on general
education has become a guiding document to postsecondary learning in Costa
Rica.
Madame Xie, world-renowned for her research in semi-conductors, is one of
the first scientists to undertake the training of Ph.D. students in China.
Some 2,800 students are eligible for degrees this spring. There are
roughly 2,000 bachelor's degree candidates, 700 for the master's, and 100 for
the doctoral.
The ceremonies will begin at 1:00 p.m., rain or shine, at University Field.
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Albany, New York
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To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's inaugural
Phi Beta Kappa oration, "The American Scholar," renowned author and literary
historian, Alfred Kazin, will deliver a special Commencement lecture entitled
"Where Would Emerson Find His Scholar Now?" The event will take place
Saturday, May 16, 8:00 p.m., at the University's Campus Center Assembly Hall.
Mr. Kazin--Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the City
University of New York--is perhaps the greatest literary historian of our
time. His works include On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern
American Prose Literature (1942); Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and
Storytellers form Hemingway to Mailer (1973); An American Procession (1984) ;
and A Writer's America (1986). His editorial projects include F. Scott
Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work (with Charles Shapiro), Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A Modern Anthology (with Daniel Aaron), and Writers at Work: The Paris Review
Interviews, Third Series. Mr. Kazin is a frequent contributor to The New
Republic, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, and other
periodicals. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Emerson--poet, essayist, and former minister--gave his famous oration on
August 31, 1837, at Harvard. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first to call the
lecture our "intellectual Declaration of Independence," and James Russell
Lowell considered the speech "an event without any former parallel in our
literary annals,--a scene always to be treasured in the memory for its
picturesqueness and its inspiration."
On Sunday, May 17, Mr. Kazin will be among four recipients of honorary
degrees, to be awarded during the University at Albany's 143rd Commencement
ceremonies. Mr. Kazin will receive a Doctor of Letters. The other honorees are
Donna E. Shalala, president of Hunter College; Rose Marie Karpinsky, president
of the National Assembly of the Republic of Costa Rica; and Madame Xie Xide,
president of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Three distinguished women leaders, two of them recipients of honorary
degrees at the University at Albany Commencement, will consider these
questions in a special Commencement Symposium Saturday, May 16, 1987, at
3:30 p.m. The symposium will be held in the Campus Center Assembly Hall
at the University's uptown campus.
Participating in the symposium are Rosemarie Karpinsky, president of
the Costa Rica Legislative Assembly; Xie Xide, president of Fudan
University of the People's Republic of China; and Judith Ramaley,
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University at Albany.
Dr. Karpinsky has achieved recognition in both the academic and
political realms in Costa Rica. Elected last March as president of that
country's National Legislative Assembly, she is the first woman in all of
Latin America to assume such a post. She has also achieved distinction in
her academic fields of intellectual history, philosophy and education, and
has for many years been Dean of General Education at Costa Rica's major
national university, the Universidad de Costa Rica.
Madame Xie is a world renowned physicist, educator and leader in the
progress of her country. One of the first scientists to assume the
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training of Ph.D. students in China, she has also made Fudan University
into one of the world's premier centers for the study of semiconductor
surfaces through her research. Rising through the acadmic ranks to the
position of President of Fudan and to the highest circles of government,
Madame Xie is a role model for women from her country and abroad.
Dr. Ramaley, academic vice president at the University since 1982,
directs the academic policy development as well as planning and budgeting
for the 10 schools and colleges that comprise the University at Albany.
She also served as acting president of Albany during the study leave of
President Vincent O'Leary in the fall semester, 1984. Active in the
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the
Commission on Women in Higher Education of the American Council on
Education, she has authored among other works Covert Discrimination, Women
in the Sciences. Dr. Ramaley earned a Ph.D. in anatomy and is an expert
in reproductive biology.
Dr. Karpinksy and Madame Xie are among four who will receive honorary
degrees at the University's Commencement Sunday, May 17. Author Alfred
Kazin and Hunter College President Donnna E. Shalala will also receive
degrees.
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To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's inaugural
Phi Beta Kappa oration, "The American Scholar," renowned author and literary
historian, Alfred Kazin, will deliver a special Commencement lecture entitled
"Where Would Emerson Find His Scholar Now?" The event will take place
Saturday, May 16, 8:00 p.m., at the University's Campus Center Assembly Hall.
Mr. Kazin--Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the City
University of New York--is perhaps the greatest literary historian of our
time. His works include On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern
American Prose Literature (1942); Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and
Storytellers form Hemingway to Mailer (1973); An American Procession (1984);
and A Writer's America (1986). His editorial projects include F. Scott
Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work (with Charles Shapiro), Ralph Waldo Emersori:
A Modern Anthology (with Daniel Aaron), and Writers at Work: The Paris Review
Interviews, Third Series. Mr. Kazin is a frequent contributor to The New
Republic, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, and other
periodicals. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Emerson--poet, essayist, and former minister--gave his famous oration on
August 31, 1837, at Harvard. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first to call the
lecture our “intellectual Declaration of Independence," and James Russell
Lowell considered the speech "an event without any former parallel in our
literary annals,~-a scene always to be treasured in the memory for its
picturesqueness and its inspiration."
On Sunday, May 17, Mr. Kazin will be among four recipients of honorary
degrees, to be awarded during the University at Albany's 143rd Commencement
ceremonies. Mr. Kazin will receive a Doctor of Letters. The other honorees are
Donna E. Shalala, president of Hunter College; Rose Marie Karpinsky, president
of the National Assembly of the Republic of Costa Rica; and Madame Xie Xide,
president of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY ART PROFESSOR WINS FULBRIGHT AWARD
Art History Professor Mojmir S. Frinta of the University at Albany, State
University of New York, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for
1987-88. Professor Frinta's grant is for research at the University of
Belgrade in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, from May to September, 1987.
Dr. Frinta, who joined the University at Albany in 1963, specializes in the
painting and sculpture of the medieval, Byzantine and early Rennaissance
period. His research in Yugoslavia will involve a technical evaluation of
Byzantine icon paintings from the Balkan region.
Frinta is one of approximately 1,000 Americans who will go abroad as Fulbright
Scholars to lecture or conduct research during the 1987-88 academic year.
Established in 1946 under Congressional legislation introduced by former
Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed "to increase
mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of
other countries."
Grants are awarded to Americans to lecture and to conduct research abroad and
to foreign nationals to engage in similar activities in the U.S. Individuals
are selected on the basis of academic and professional qualifications. More
than 22,000 American scholars have participated in the Fulbright Program since
it began over 40 years ago.
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Donna E. Shalala, president of Hunter College and a well-known advocate of
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Albany’s 143rd Commencement Sunday, May 17 beginning at | p.m.
Dr. Shalala was the youngest woman ever to hold the rank of assistant secretary
at the federal level -- in the Department of Housing and Urban Development from
1977-1980. Since assuming the presidency of Hunter College in 1980, Dr. Shalala
has overseen improvements in the curriculum, scholarly standards and enrollment
that have made Hunter College a model for urban education. In recent years, she
has also served as a most persistant and vocal force in the improvement of
elementary and secondary public schools in New York City. A scholar of political
science, she is an authority on school finance and urban affairs.
The Commencement ceremony will take place on University Field, rain or shine.
with the Processional beginning at 1 p.m. The ceremony will begin at about 1:20
p.m. and the Commencement Address about 1:40 p.m. Additional details about
Commencement are included in the attached fact sheet. Members of the media should
allow time for traffic congestion on University roadways when planning for coverage
of Commencement.
Press packets will be available in Room 135 of the Physical Education Building,
and in the special section reserved for the press in that area to the left of the
stage. Members of the media are asked to show identification and to wear special
University press tags if they must move around in front of the stage. These will
be available with press packets.
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COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
HONORARY DEGREES
MEDALLION OF THE
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Donna Shalala, president of Hunter College, City
University of New York; a civil rights activist,
and vocal and influential advocate for improvement of
New York City’s public schools.
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees will be
awarded to Donna E. Shalala; Rose Marie Karpinsk
university administrator, scholar, and president of the
National Assembly of the Republic of Costa Rica; and
Alfred Kazin, author, literary critic, and English
professor at the City University of New York. Honorary
Doctor of Science degree will be awarded to Xie Xide,
physics professor and president of Fudan University,
Shanghai, China.
The highest award given by the University in
recognition of distinguished service. Recipient will
be announced at Commencement.
There are some 3,700 degree candidates: 2,500
bachelor’s, 1,000 master’s, and 162 doctoral
candidates, including those who finished in August and
December.
Shirley C. Brown, associate professor of physchology
and member of the New York State Board of Regents; and
R. Findley Cockrell, assistant professor of music, will
receive Collins Fellow medals, honoring longtime
service and "extraordinary devotion" to the
University. The award is named for former University
President Evan R. Collins, who served from 1949 to 1969
SUNY Trustee Edgar A. Sandman will confer honorary
degrees. University at Albany President
Vincent O’Leary will preside. Sister Nancy Langhart,
co-chaplain, Chapel House, will give the invocation and
benediction. Music will be provided by the Albany High
School Concert Band. The student welcome will be
provided by Deborah Kestin, a senior from New York,
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Note to Editors: The public ceremony described below will be preceded by a
private luncheon which is, however, open to the media and will begin at noon
in the Rockefeller Institute of Government of the State University of New
York, 411 State Street in Albany. Kenneth Buhrmaster, Chainman of the Board
of First National Bank of Scotia and leader of the Levitt memorial
fund-raising efforts, will speak. Walter J. Holmes, 80, long-time press
secretary to Comptroller Levitt will offer tribute to his former boss in
rhyme. And a message from Comptroller Edward V. Regan will be read.
COMPTROLLER ARTHUR LEVITT TO BE HONORED AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY ON MAY 15
The late Arthur Levitt, for 24 years "guardian of the public purse" as
New York State's 50th Comptroller, used to fondly quote Frank C. Moore, then
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York, for
sound political advice given early in the comptroller's first term: "Arthur,
two plus two is equal to four whether you are a Republican or a Democrat."
Levitt always held to that. He always felt that the office of
Comptroller of the State of New York held a "fiduciary responsibility" which
trancended politics. Now the University at Albany of the State University of
New York is creating a permanent memorial to Arthur Levitt with the
inauguration of Arthur Levitt Fellowships and the dedication of the Arthur
Levitt Executive Seminar Room on Friday, May 15.
At ceremonies featuring participation by his son, Arthur Levitt, Jr.,
President of the American Stock Exchange; John J. Feeney, Director of the
Governor's Office of Management and Productivity and former Levitt aide; and
Vincent O'Leary, President of the University at Albany, the University's
Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affiars and Policy will honor one of
the state's greatest public servants. The ceremonies will begin at 1:15 p.m.
in the Levitt Seminar Room located in Draper Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on
the downtown campus of the University at Albany.
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"What better example of public service can we bring before our students
than the career of Arthur Levitt?" Warren Ilchman, Provost of Rockefeller
College, said. "The legacy of Comptroller Levitt has set the national
standard for rigorous and responsive state fiscal management."
The Arthur Levitt Fellowships (Graduate students Barbara Gillett in the
School of Social Welfare and Jose Gomez in the Department of Public
Administration are the first Levitt Fellows) are intended to provide support
to current and former state employees for graduate education in government
at Rockefeller College; and the Levitt Executive Seminar Room there is
designed for continuing education conferences and seminars for state
managers. Rockefeller College includes schools of criminal justice, social
welfare, information science and policy and a graduate school of public
affairs with departments of public administration, public policy and
political science.
Arthur Levitt died at 79 years of age in 1980. A graduate of Columbia
College and Columbia Law School, he served in both world wars and began his
career in public service in 1952 as a member of the New York City School
Board. He was president of the board in 1954 when future Governor Averill
Harriman asked him to run for comptroller. Levitt won six statewide
elections including his record-setting plurality of more than 2 million
votes in 1974. He did not run in the 1978 election and stepped down as
comptroller in early 1979.
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SIDMAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED TO STUDENT VOLUNTEER
University at Albany junior Dawn Traver has been awarded the Ralph
Sidman Memorial Scholarship in recognition of her year of service to
teenagers and young adults in Albany and Rensselaer.
The annual competitive scholarship is given to an Albany student whose
volunteer work in the community through the University's Community and
Public Services courses has been deemed outstanding by the University and
the sponsoring commmity organizations. In cooperation with the the New York
State Department of Corrections and the Rensselaer County Probation
Department, Dawn Traver worked this past academic year with probation
officers, teenagers and young adults in the two-county area.
The Sidman family of Schenectady established the scholarship in memory
of the late Ralph Sidman, past leasing manager for the State University of
New York. Mr. Sidman was dedicated to community service and expanding
educational opportunites. Among his accomplishments was site selection and
leasing arrangements for SUNY's nine Educational Opportunity Centers which
provide a path to higher education for disadvantaged youth in the major
population centers of the state.
A native of Ravena, Dawn Travers has been involved in ongoing volunteer
activities in her hometown since her graduation from Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk
High School in 1984. She is a criminal justice major at Albany and plans to
pursue graduate studies at the University's School of Criminal Justice.
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The University's Community and Public Service courses provide an
opportunity for up to 500 students each semester to gain academic credit and
real-world experience through volunteer service with Capital District
governmental and community organizations.
This is the third Sidman Scholarship awarded. Last year, Jeffrey
MacEachron won and the first scholarship was won by Adam Chaiken.
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HARNETT TO SPEAK, AWARDS GIVEN, MAY 15, AT ROCKEFELLER COLLEGE
Thomas F. Harnett, Director of the Governor's Office of Employee
Relations, will deliver the third annual John E. Burton Lecture at 4 p.m.
and five state leaders will be honored at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 15, at the
Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, the University
at Albany, State University of New York. The ceremonies will be held in the
Arthur Levitt Executive Seminar Room, Draper Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on
the University's downtown campus.
Mr. Harnett's Burton Lecture at 4 p.m. is entitled, "The Knowledge Needs
of a Maturing Public Work Force." The John E. Burton Lecture was established
in 1985 to honor the past head of the state's division of the budget. He
initiated an internship program there which evolved over many years into
what today is the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy.
Recipients of the Distinguished Public Service Awards at 5 p.m. will be
Eugene S. Callender, Director of the Office for the Aging; Fred A. Newdom,
Executive Director of the New York State Chapter of the National Association
of Social Workers; John J. McNulty, Jr., a Commissioner on the New York
State Commission of Correction; Joseph F. Shubert, State Librarian; and
Arthur Y. Webb, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental
Retardation.
A Presbyterian minister, Eugene Callender was selected to head the
Office for the Aging by Governor Cuomo in May, 1983. At that time he had
been senior minister and chief executive officer of the Church of the Master
in New York City since 1975.
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HARNETT TO SPEAK, AWARDS GIVEN, MAY 15, AT ROCKEFELLER COLLEGE
Thomas F. Harnett, Director of the Governor's Office of Employee
Relations, will deliver the third annual John E. Burton Lecture at 4 p.m.
and five state leaders will be honored at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 15, at the
Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, the University
at Albany, State University of New York. The ceremonies will be held in the
Arthur Levitt Executive Seminar Room, Draper Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on
the University's downtown campus.
Mr. Harnett's Burton Lecture at 4 p.m. is entitled, "The Knowledge Needs
of a Maturing Public Work Force." The John E. Burton Lecture was established
in 1985 to honor the past head of the state's division of the budget. He
initiated an internship program there which evolved over many years into
what today is the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy.
Recipients of the Distinguished Public Service Awards at 5 p.m. will be
Eugene S. Callender, Director of the Office for the Aging; Fred A. Newdom,
Executive Director of the New York State Chapter of the National Association
of Social Workers; Jchn J. McNulty, Jr., a Commissioner on the New York
State Commission of Correction; Joseph F. Shubert, State Librarian; and
Arthur Y. Webb, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental
Retardation.
A Presbyterian minister, Eugene Callender was selected to head the
Office for the Aging by Governor Cuomo in May, 1983. At that time he had
been senior minister and chief executive officer of the Church of the Master
in New York City since 1975.
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Callender headed the "Cities in Schools" experimental program in the
early 80's which coordinated the delivery of social services to "disruptive"
and "emotionally disturbed" students to determine whether such counseling
would help them in school. He is past President and Chief Executive Officer
of the New York Urban Coalition and past Executive Director of the New York
Urban League.
Fred A. Newdom has directed legislative and member services for the
7,000-member state chapter of NASW since 1977. He is co-founder of the
Statewide Emergency Network for Social and Economic Security (SENSES), a
coalition of 60 organizations working for a more progressive governmental
program in social welfare.
Newdom taught at the School of Social Work at SUNY-Buffalo for five
years and Daemen College for a year. He was interim Executive Director of
the HOPE Organization of Northwest Buffalo, Branch Director of the
Wel-Met/Child Study Association of New York City; and Director of Community
Services for the Hamilton-Madison House of New York City.
A member of the New York State Commission of Correction since 1985, John_
cd. McNulty, Jr., is past Mayor of the Village of Green Island and Sheriff of
Albany County. He was supervisor of the Town of Green Island for eight years
and is currently chairman of the Village of Green Island Industrial
Development Agency. He served as an aide to State Senator Howard C. Nolan
for a year.
Commissioner McNulty is a Trustee of the Pioneer Savings Bank and a real
estate broker. He served in the Navy during World War II. He is a Director
and past President of the Albany County Unit of the American Cancer Society
and past Grand Knight of the Green Island Council of the Knights of Columbus.
Joseph F. Shubert, State Librarian, is also Assistant Commissioner for
Libraries in New York State. He is responsible for the research division of
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the New York State Library with some 4.5 million volumes and a library
development program for 7,700 libraries across the state. Shubert came to
New York in 1977. For 11 years earlier he was State Librarian of Ohio.
Shubert has been a libarian for 36 years serving as State Librarian for
Nevada and Assistant Director of the International Relations Office of the
American Library Association. He is a graduate of SUNY College at Geneseo
and the University of Denver's Graduate School of Librarianship with a
master's degree.
Arthur Y. Webb has served as Commissioner of the New York State Office
of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities since 1983. For six
months, he was acting Commissioner at the New York State Department of
Social Services. In the Cuomo administration, he has also served as a member
of the executive staff of the New York State Department of Correctional
Services, first as Assistant Commissioner for Health and Mental Health
Services, and then as Deputy Commissioner for Programs.
Webb was Executive Director of the New York State Health Planning
Commission from 1977-79. He served as a senior budget examiner in the
Division of the Budget from 1974 to 1976. He graduated from New York
University's Department of Politics and has completed his course work and
examinations for a Ph.D. there.
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COLLEGE GRADUATE FROM NEW HYDE PARK SEEKS HIGH-TECH FUTURE
New Hyde Park's Julie McNamara has a lot to be proud of. For one
thing, she graduated from the University at Albany, State University of
New York, this past May 17. For another, she took her college education
into her own hands, molded it to suit her needs, and is now ready to
launch her career.
McNamara, 21, daughter of Eileen McNamara of 1410 Belmont Avenue,
majored in communications. Eager for hands-on training in her
specialty--telecommunications--she arranged two internships on her own
initiative.
"I listened to a telecom lecture and I spoke to the professor
afterwards," said McNamara. "He gave me some sources to look
at--different trade journals--and I went through them and just wrote away
to telecomminications companies, asking if they took interns for the
summer. And they did."
McNamara interned first at a telecommunications agency in Manhattan,
and then at the University at Albany's Telephone Systems Office. During
both internships she worked with microwave relays and fiber optics--two
of high-tech's most sophisticated methods of transmitting communications.
She intends to become a sales representative of either fiber optics or
microwave technology.
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"I'll most likely be selling service, not equipment," said McNamara.
But first there is marketing school--in Spain. McNamara minored in
Spanish and speaks the language fluently. And so this summer she will
spend three months on the Costa del Sol ("Coast of the Sun") learning how
to sell in the world of high-tech and enjoying the sunshine, the
Mediterranean, and Spanish culture.
McNamara could end up working in any one of America's major cities,
but her sights are set elsewhere.
"I really want an international job," she said. "I'd love to work in
Spain."
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TIMELY NEW GRADUATE PROGRAM IN TAXATION
OFFERED AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
A state-of-the-art program for graduate study in accounting at the University at
Albany, State University of New York, will be supplemented this fall by a new Master of
Science program in Taxation. Establishment of this 30-credit-hour, specialized course of
study was appropriately timed with the implementation of major changes in federal and
state tax laws.
Individuals can enroll in the MS. in Taxation program on a full-time or part-time
basis. Although students can earn the degree in one year attending classes full-time, the
curriculum has been designed to allow working people an opportunity to take courses
part-time in late afternoon and evening classes.
Geared primarily toward accountants and tax attorneys, graduates of the MS. in
Taxation program get credit for one year of the required two-year internship in a public
accounting capacity needed to become a Certified Public Accountant. In addition, an
application has been submitted by the University to the State Education Department to
qualify individual courses in the program for continuing education credits.
The MS. in Taxation program will include classes on state and interstate taxation,
corporate taxation, taxation of estates and trusts, deferred compensation and
profit-sharing, and tax research. Considered a specialized track within the University’s
Master of Science in Accounting program, the MS. in Taxation will require at least 15
credit hours of business and other accounting classes as well. A well-respected and
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Department were ranked fifth in the country last year based on their performance on the
Uniform CPA Examination.
The Director of the new MS. in Taxation program will be Elaine Gelber. A
specialist on pensions and employee benefits, Gelber is currently involved in the
preparation of a three-volume reference on the subject with attorney Harvey L. Frutkin,
J.D., of Cleveland, Ohio. Gelber is a practicing attorney in Albany; she holds a J.D.
degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a B.A. in Political Science from
Syracuse University.
For more details on the M.S. in Taxation Program call the Accounting Department at
the University at Albany at (518)442-4979,
To be accepted in the taxation program, applicants must have an undergraduate
degree in accounting, or a degree in business with an accounting minor. Candidates
holding a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting, or those
who demonstrate an interest in remediating deficiencies in required accounting courses,
will also be considered for acceptance.
Courses will be open to non-matriculated students on an individual basis.
For more information about requirements for acceptance to the program, or for an
application form, contact Michael DeRensis, Office of Graduate Admissions, ADM Room 112,
1400 Washington Avenue, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, N.Y.
12222 (518)442-3955.
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY PROFESSOR AWARDED
FULBRIGHT GRANT TO LECTURE IN ZIMBABWE
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An assistant professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York,
has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture in Zimbabwe between September 1987 and June
1988. Julius E. Thompson, an expert in Afro-American history from 1860 on, has published
three books on the topic with a fourth, A Directory of the Black Press in Mississippi,
1865-1985, to be released this fall.
Author of the books, Hiram R. Revels, 1827-1901: A Biography; Blues Said: Walk
On; and Hopes Tied Up in Promises; Thompson has also published several articles and
poems on blacks, and the social and political climate in the south before, during and
after the Civil War. In addition, he has reviewed numerous works by prominent scholars in
black history.
A member of the University at Albany faculty since 1983, Thompson teaches in the
Department of African and Afro-American Studies. Prior to his arrival at Albany, he
worked at Jackson State University in Mississippi for nine years, and served as the chair
of the History Department at Florida Memorial College in Miami for two years. He is
affiliated with many professional organizations in his field and has been involved ina
number of public service projects, including the production of films on black history and
culture in the United States. He currently serves on the Board of both the Crenshaw
Memorial Development Corporation and the American-South African Peoples’ Friendship
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Thompson holds a B.S. degree in history from Alcorn State University in
Mississippi. He has both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American History from Princeton
University. He will be one of approximately 2,500 U.S. grantees sent abroad for the
1987-88 academic year under the Fulbright exchange program. About 7,000 such grants are
awarded each year to students, teachers and scholars to study, teach and conduct research
abroad, and to foreign nationals to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
Designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States
and the people of other countries, the Fulbright exchange program was established by
Congress in 1946.
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ACTOR GOULD COMES HOME
Actor Harold Gould, famed as Rhoda Morgenstern’s father in the hit series Rhoda,
and as Katherine Hepburn’s suitor in the TV movie Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry, will
return to his alma mater June 5-7 for the University at Albany’s Alumni Weekend ’87.
In addition to enjoying the festivities -- which include a reunion of his old
fraternity, Kappa Beta -- Gould will pay tribute to his college acting teacher, Agnes
Futterer, with a reading from one of her favorites, George Bernard Shaw.
Gould will read from Man and Superman at 10:45 a.m. in the Recital Hall of the
Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 6. Alumni, friends and the press are invited.
The Albany native, who entered the State Teachers College in 1942 and, after two
years in the army, graduated in the Class of ’47, gained fame in his school days for
portraying the Sheridan Whiteside role in The Man Who Came to Dinner.
He is career has blossomed in films (The Sting, Love and Death and Harper) and
on stage, where he introduced the roles of Artie Shaughnessy in John Guare’s House of
Blue Leaves and the lead of I’m Not Rappaport. He has also performed several roles
in his now home state of California, including Edmond in King Lear, Goldberg in Harold
Pinter’s The Birthday Party, and leads in Skin of Our Teeth and Prometheus Bound.
In July, he will take on another lead locally: the father in J Never Sang for My
Father at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Mass.
Gould remembers his acting here as including presentations of his class’s weekly
agenda through skits and jingles. "I’ve since recognized those skits at old Page Hall
as the first satisfaction of a need I had to be recognized in a crowd," he says.
He also recalls fondly the Jewish fraternity, Kappa Beta. "Some great guys --
good on scholarship, great in tennis."
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ALBANY GRAD STUDENT WINS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
The University at Albany's David G. Scotchmer is among 44 outstanding
graduate students who.won Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Year
Fellowships for 1987.
The Newcombe Fellowships are the major national source of financial
support for dissertations in the humanities and social sciences.
Administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in
Princeton, N.J., they provide financial support for a full year of
uninterrupted research and writing for students whose doctoral
dissertations concern ethical and religious values as they relate to
important social, historical, or literary events. This year's winners
were chosen from 436 applicants from 90 graduate schools.
Scotchmer's dissertation, "Peasants, Protestants, and Progress:
Religious Change Among the Mam-Maya," is in anthropology. Ordained to the
Presbyterian-Church in 1969, Scotchmer spent 13 years doing missionary
work among the Mam-Maya Indians in Guatemala.
Scotchmer completed his undergraduate studies at Maryville College,
in his home town of St. Louis, Mo., in 1965. His awards and honors
include Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1965; a Higgins
Scholarship from the Presbytery of Chicago, 1983-87; and a Christopher
Decormier Scholarship from the University at Albany, 1986.
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BULLFROGS CAN RECOGNIZE THEIR NEIGHBORS
For further information, call 87-44
Claudia Ricci, 442-3091 or
_ Dr. Margaret Stewart, 765-4860
Those bullfrogs bellowing in your backyard aren’t just hoarsing around.
New research reveals that male bullfrogs can distinguish calls made by their
\ "neighbors" from those made by unfamiliar frogs. The calls, therefore, serve an important
f biological purpose, enabling the bullfrog to establish a territory, to invite females
into that territory, and to warn other males to stay away or risk a wrestling match.
These findings, which offer the first evidence that amphibians recognize other
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individual bullfrogs via sound, are among the fascinating scientific results to be
presented in Albany June 21-26 at the 67th annual mecting of the American Society of
Icthyologists and Herpetologists. One of the oldest scientific societies in the nation,
the ASIH is the only one devoted to all of the cold-blooded vertebrates, This is the
first time the society’s meeting will be held in Albany,
More than 350 papers, from fish, reptile and amphibian experts specializing in
ecology, animal behavior, physiology, morphology, molecular biology and taxonomy, will be
presented at the international conference, sponsored by the University at Albany, State
University of New York; Siena College; and the New York State Muscum and Science Service.
The conferees represent 18 foreign countries and are reporting on research performed in
at least 25 different nations.
Besides the research on bullfrogs, other papers will deal with the subject of
endangered species, particularly fish, and the effect of introduced species on species
native to an ecosystem,
The latter topic is particularly relevant to Lake George, where a controversy has
erupted over whether to introduce a new fish, called the grass carp, into the lake to
control the weed population. The problem with introducting a new species like the carp is
that it is typically vigorous, aggressive and lacking in natural predators. Thus, the new
species acts like a weed in a garden, taking over and destroying the natural habitat.
Another series of papers at the conference will deal with shark biology, including
behavior, and unusual reproductive behavior of some of New York state’s fresh water fish,
such as the brook silversides,
Scientists have found that these local fish display the same brilliant colors and
fascinating behaviors as more exotic fish that inhabit tropical coral reefs. Among the
papers dealing with the local fish are reports on internal fertilization, sex changes,
and unisexuality that occur in species in the Northeast. One paper, for instance, will
deal with internal fertilization in the brook silversides, a small fish which resembles a
minnow.
Conference attendees will include distinguished ichthyologists and herpetologists
from universities, major museums and other institutions all over the world. Eugenie
Clark, a shark biologist whose work has appeared in many popular magazines, including
National Geographic, is among those scheduled to attend.
All sessions, symposia and workshops will be presented at the New York State Museum,
located in Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany. There will also be special exhibits and
displays set up for the duration of the meetings.
The work on bullfrogs, to be presented by Mark S. Davis, a behavioral biologist from
the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, was done using speakers to broadcast
the frogs’ calls. The researcher recorded the sounds made by one male bullfrog and
replaced that frog with a speaker, From the speaker was broadcast the original frog’s
voice or the voice of an unfamiliar frog.
The researcher then measured the frogs’ responses to the original neighbor’s call and
