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ALBANY PROFESSOR OFFERS TREATMENT FOR SOCIAL PHOBICS
For people who are afraid to perform even the most mundane social activites--eating in
H public, speaking in classrooms or at staff meetings, making conversations, making contact with
persons of the opposite sex, etc.--there’s hope.
Dr. Richard Heimberg, psychologist at the University’s Center for Stress and Anxiety
Disorders, has a program which treats a variety of social phobias.
"Social phobia," said Heimberg, "is an intensely-heightened self-consciousness in which
you worry that people will perceive you negatively."
For instance, some social phobics dread signing forms in front of other people; they fear
that their minor physical quirks--the slight shaking of their writing hand, the way they hold
a pen--will engender dislike in onlookers. And there are social phobics who avoid restaurants
because they are terrified they will spill food on themselves in front of other people. Others
may avoid the range of social or sexual situations we encounter in our lives. Social phobics
i magnify the conspicuousness of their idiosyncrasies to the point where they are convinced
personal disaster will occur should they participate in social affairs. Thus the lives of
social phobics may be dominated by seclusion and severe anxiety. Depression and alcohol abuse
are common consequences,
At the Center, phobics are taught to face and overcome their fears. Since 1982, nearly 150
social phobics have been treated under Heimberg’s group therapy program.
i People suffering from social phobia.are encouraged to call the Center at 459-6993,
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CHRISTIAN G. KERSTEN ASSUMES DUTIES AS
VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS
AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
Christian G. Kersten, who established the most ambitious, expanded public
university development effort of the decade at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, has assumed the newly-created post of Vice President for
' Development and Alumni Affairs, at the University at Albany.
Kersten was Assistant Chancellor for University Development and Executive
Director and Trustee of the CAL Santa Barbara Foundation, from 1983 to 1987
when annual gift totals increased fourfold----from $3.2 million to $12.6
million including funding for the university's first nine endowed chairs. The
base of support broadened from 2,100 to 14,300 individual gifts per year
during that period.
"As the University at Albany moves into the first rank of major research
institutions nationally, it is necessary to give greater focus to its
advancement efforts," Kersten said. "There is a quality and a range of work
that will only attain its full potential through private support."
Kersten joined Albany on June 1 from the Norman Rockwell Museum at
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he served as Director of Development for the
past year.
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He has been a development officer since 1972 serving at Manhattan College
and New York, Clark, and Tufts universities in progressively more responsible
positions.
He received his bachelor's degree at Long Island University and has
completed additional studies at the Graduate School of Public Administration
of New York University and at the University of California Management
Institute.
A native of Yonkers, New York, Kersten and his wife Mary Louise live in
Hillsdale, Columbia County.
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Adirondack Images Presented As Part of Summer Lecture Series
One of the Adirondack region’s most accomplished pictorialists, Garry Randorf, will
present a slide show of his work on Tuesday, July 19 at 8:00 p.m. in the Whiteface
Mountain Field Station of the University at Albany.
Randorf’s presentation, entitled Interpreting the Adirondacks Through a
Photographer’s Eye, will depict the color, highlights and natural images in the
magnificent region. Participants will see how Randorf transforms his vision into striking
photos.
This will be the second presentation in the annual Summer Lecture Series, sponsored
by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, The talks are held on
consecutive Tuesdays in the field station‘on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, New York.
Beginning at 8:00 p.m., the lectures are free and open to the public.
A report on the latest weather, using colored projections, will be given before each
lecture, The series is organized each year by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer.
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Natural History Lecture Features Caribbean islands, Venezuelan Rain Forest
The natural wonders of the Caribbean Islands and Venezuelan rain forest will be featured
in a presentation by Dr. Margery Milne on Tuesday, July 26 at 8:00 p.m. in the Whiteface
Mountain Field Station of the University at Albany.
Milne, of the University of New Hampshire, will share her experiences as she cruised
the Caribbean Islands, encountering native plants and animals, Milne’s presentation will
\ include her adventures of cruising up the Orinoco River in Venezuela and flying above the
jungle and Angel Falls, the highest in the world.
The presentation is the third of seven natural history lectures sponsored by the
University’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center. The series is organized each year by
well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer.
The talks are held on consecutive Tuesdays during the summer in the field station on
Memorial Highway in Wilmington, New York. Beginning at 8:00 p.m., the lectures are free
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Environmental Issues In 1990’s Lecture At Whiteface Mountain
i Environmental Issues in the 1990’s will be the focus of a lecture by Volker Mohnen on
| * Tuesday, August 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the Whiteface Mountain Field Station of the University
at Albany.
Mohnen, a professor of atmospheric science at the, University, will detail society’s
i contemporary concerns of acid rain, the ozone hole, air toxics and similar subjects.
This will be the fourth presentation in the annual Summer Lecture Series, sponsored
by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and organized each year by
well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. The talks are held on consecutive Tuesdays in
the field station on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, New York.
A report on the latest weather, using colored projections, will be given before each
lecture. Beginning at 8:00 p.m., the talks are free and open to the public.
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