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BIOLOGIST TO TALK ON OTSEGO LAKE
"Cooper's Glimmerglass: A Biologist's Perspective" is the title of the
next free Natural History Lecture sponsored by the University at Albany, State
University of New York, and the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
A lecture is presented each Tuesday in April in Lecture Center 7 of the
University at Albany's uptown campus.
Dr. Willard Harman, professor and Chairman of the Biology Department at
the State University College at Oneonta, will be the featured speaker on
Tuesday, April 21. Following a brief discussion of the day's weather, beginning
precisely at 8 p.m., he will talk on "his favorite subject"---Otsego Lake.
The director of a biological field station on Otsego Lake, Harman will
characterize the lake geographically, geologically, and biologically. He will
present slides of the lake, exhibiting its beauty and recreational
opportunities. He also will talk about the effects of acid rain on the waterway
and eutrophication problems being experienced, as well as possible solutions.
Harman has written more than 70 publications on freshwater invertebrate
biology, and has received a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Donations to sustain the Series can be made to the University at Albany
Fund, attention Ray Falconer Fund.
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April 3, 1987
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WRITER/COMPOSER/DIRECTOR KASTLE PREMIERES NEWEST WORK
On Sunday, April 12 Leonard Kastle, a visiting professor of Humanities at the
University at Albany, State University of New York, will perform--for the first time--his most
recent musical composition, Easter Sonata. The virtuoso pianist will perform the Easter
Sonata with flutist Irvin Gilman, associate professor of music at University at Albany, as
part of a program sponsored by the Capitol Chamber Artists entitled, Pathos and Joy.
Pathos and Joy will begin at 7 p.m. in Page Hall of the University’s downtown
campus, 135 Western Avenue in Albany. In addition to Kastle’s premiere, the program will
feature works by Haydn, Smetana, and Beethoven.
Kastle, considered a modern romantic composer, studied at the Curtis Institute of
Music. His original works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, N.B.C. Opera
Theater, Tanglewood Chorus, Oklahoma Symphony, and more. Critics have referred to his opera
Deseret as "the great American opera."
Kastle’s Easter Sonata will be in three movements: "Ash Wednesday," "Good Friday"
and "Easter." The final movement is a pasacalia based on the theme of the "Easter Hymn," the
same theme Johann Sebastian Bach used for his Easter Chorale.
In addition to composing music, Kastle has written and directed films. His film The
Honeymoon Killers is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Ticket prices for Pathos and Joy will be $7 for general admission. Students will be
charged $5. For more information call (518)489-0507.
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April 3, 1986
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University at Albany Professor Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
3. Jorge Klor de Alva, associate professor of anthropology and Latin
American Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New
i York, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year
| beginning September 1, 1987.
The prestigious fellowship will allow Klor de Alva, who has been
| teaching at the University since 1982, to conclude his research for and
begin the writing of a book entitled The Confession of the Other: Aztec
] Sins and the Birth of Anthropology.
| Klor de Alva's work focuses on how the Christian concepts of sin and
sacramental confession were used by the Spaniards to dominate the Aztecs
during the 16th and 17th centuries. He maintains that behind sincere
spiritual motivations could be found a pragmatic desire on the part of
religious and lay officials to develop an ethos of Hispanic order,
loyalty, obedience and responsibility that would make expensive military
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and administrative controls unnecessary.
"The study will be interdisciplinary in the broadest sense, aiming to
present readers in both the humanities and the social sciences with a
jeweler's eye view of, haps, the most dramatic episode of culture
contact humanity has experienced," Klor de Alva said.
“All my life I have been personally and intellectually concerned with
the stresses arising from the confrontation of cultures. This interest
springs in part from my own mixed ethnic and religious background."
Klor de Alva has served as the director of the Institute for
Mesoamerican Studies since May 1984 at the University at Albany. He has
presented more than 60 papers at scholarly meetings; delivered over a
hundred lectures throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe;
and served as a consultant to the academic, private, and public sectors
on numerous occasions. ‘.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers Fellowships to
further the development of scholars and artists by allowing them to
engage in research under the freest possible conditions.
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Margaret Rossiter, Historian of Women in Science
Margaret Rossiter, author of the groundbreaking work, Women
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Scientists in American Struggles and Strategies to 1940, will speak at
the Rockefeller Institute, 411 State Street, Saturday, April 25, at 3
p.m.
Rossiter's lecture, "Women in American Science: 1940 to the Present,"
is part of a day-long meeting designed to found a Capital District
Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) .
A graduate of Harvard University, with a Ph.D. from Yale in the
history of science, Rossiter is currently a National Science Foundation
Visiting Women Scientist in the History Department at Cornell
University. Her first book on the history of science was The Emergence
of Agricultural Science.
Among the awards she has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship,
unusual for a junior faculty member, and Yale's Wilbur Cross Medal for
her book. She has been supported in her research by NSF and has chaired
the International Commission on the History of Women in Science,
Technology, and Medicine.
Those interested in participating in a local chapter of AWIS should
contact Kathleen Moore in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the
University. Rossiter's lecture is free and open to the public.
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ALBANY ACCOUNTING STUDENTS RECEIVE HIGH RANKING aE
University at Albany Accounting majors finished fifth in the nation Administration 233
in the November, 1986 ranking of Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Albany, wove
candidates. The ranking is based upon performance on the Uniform CPA
Examination.
It marked the third consecutive test period in which University
students scored no lower than sixth, having placed sixth in the May, 1985
test and fourth the following November.
"It is purely a testament to the fact that we have top-notch
students," said Enrico Petri, chair of the Accounting Department. "And we
have a really outstanding junior faculty."
Albany was the highest ranking New York State college or university
in the rankings. The State University at Binghamton was seventh in the
May, 1985 results. Albany's School of Business received congratulations
from Douglas R. Martin, executive secretary of the New York State Board
of Public Accountancy.
“Our Accounting graduates have consistently done well on the exam for
CPA licensure," said Dr. William Holstein, the School's dean. "It is a
distinct pleasure to note that our recent crops have continued to
flourish."
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TOP ECONOMISTS TO DISCUSS LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS, MAY 1
A discussion by the nation's top economic forecasting specialists on
how accurately the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic
Indicators predicts the country's economic future will be held at the
University at Albany, State University of New York, on Friday, May 1.
Dr. Geoffrey H. Moore, who pioneered the Index, directed three
revisions of it in 1950, 1960 and 1966, and is currently leading a team
investigating further improvements, will participate. In addition, Dr.
Victor Zarnowitz, who directed the most recent revision of the Index in
fo) 1975, will join the discussion.
1 : Economists from the Federal Reserve System, the National Bureau of
Economic Research, the President's Council of Economic Advisers, the
Department of Commerce and leading research universities will round out the
participants in the day-long program entitled "Leading Economic Indicators
and the New Economic Outlook." Sponsored by the University's Department of
Economics, the program has been organized by Economics Professor Kajal
Lahiri, Director of Albany's Econometrics Research Institute.
The Index of Leading Economic Indicators, which is brought to the
public's attention each month in newspapers and on television, is designed
to predict major changes in the business cycle. Businessmen, financial
investors, governmental budget analysts, and state and federal legislators
depend heavily upon it to determine future plans. The Index is composed of
12 sensitive economic averages such as orders for factory equipment and
numbers of building permits which historically move up or down in advance of
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a recovery or recession. Three consecutive monthly declines in the Index ( :
sometimes signal an impending recession six to nine months ahead.
The appropriateness and effectiveness of current and alternative
indicators will be discussed by a range of well~known economists who
enconpass both the field's shift to more advanced econometrics as well as
the traditional approach to economic analysis.
The conference's first morning session, "Leading Indicator Approach and
Its Evolution," will begin at 9 a.m. After opening remarks, Dr. Geoffrey
Moore will speak on "The Leading Indicator Approach---Value, Limitations and
Future." Dr. Moore is Director of the Center for International Business
Cycle Research at Columbia University where he is leading studies in
anticipation of the next revision of the Index. He as been Director of
Business Cycle Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research and
Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (,
Francis Diebold and Glenn Rudebusch of the Federal Reserve System will °
then talk on "Scoring the Leading Indicators." An economist with the Special
Studies Section of the Federal Reserve, Dr. Diebold in a leading econometric
researcher in the field.
Commenting upon and leading floor discussions of these two
presentations will be Dr. Mark Watson of Northwestern University and Dr.
Victor Zarnowitz of the University of Chicago.
At 11 a.m., the second morning session, "Recent Approaches to Business
Cycle Research," will begin with "Determining Business Cycle Chronologies
via Finite State Markov Processes," a talk by Professor Salin N. Neftci of
the City University of New York Graduate Center. In recent years, Dr. Neftci
has applied signal extraction techniques to study business cycle
chronologies. { ‘
The next speaker, Michael P. Niemira of Paine Webber, will speak on "An
International Application of Neftci's Probability Approach for Spotting
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Recessions." Dr. Niemira has developed Paine Webber's leading indicators on
inflation and auto sales.
Drs. Mark Watson and Francis Diebold will comment and lead floor
discussion after these talks.
At the afternoon session, "Economic Outlook and the L.E.I.," Dr. Victor
Zarnowitz will talk on "Consensus and Uncertainty in Economic Prediction,"
beginning at 2 p.m. Professor Zarnowitz of the Graduate School of Business,
University of Chicago, directs the National Bureau of Economic Research
program on economic forecasting and conducts a quarterly survey on
forecasting for the Bureau and the American Statistical Association. Dr.
Zarmowitz edits Economic Forecasts and is on the editorial board of the
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and the International Journal of
Forecasting.
The U.S. Commerce Department's foremost scholar in this area, Dr.
Feliks Tamm, will next speak on "Inventories---A Measure of Business Cycle
Developments." Dr. Tamm is Chief of the Statistical Indicators Section of
the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He constructs and releases the Index each
month, and is the editor of the Business Conditions Digest.
The next speaker, Dr. Peter Taylor, is a Chief Staff Economist for the
President's Council of Economic Advisors. Dr. Taylor directs short-run
forecasting for the Council and oversees the impact of these forecasts on
the budgetary process.
From 3:45 - 5 p.m., the conference will wind up with a panel discussion
featuring Drs. Lahiri, Watson, Zarnowitz, Moore and Neftci.
All sessions of the conference are open to the public and will be held
at the Thruway House Hotel, 1375 Washington Ave., across from the
University. Registration, $25.00 including lunch, may be made through the
University's Center for Business Development (518) 442-3005.
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Albany Students Excel in Nation's Capital
Representing the United Republic of Tanzania, students from the
University at Albany were given an award of merit recently at the eighth Ss
annual National Model Organization of African Unity (OAU), held at Howard — pdministration 233
University in Washington D.C. Albany, New York
The National Model 0.A.U., which was represented by 31 U.S. 12222
colleges and universities, is designed to simulate the deliberations of
the true Organization of African Unity and to have students more
intimately understand the issues that effect African nations.
Henry Akwo Elonge, a doctoral student in Public Administration at
Albany and faculty advisor for the University's delegation, said the
citation from the Model's organizers marked the third straight year in
which Albany students were recognized for outstanding performance in
introducing, debating and approving resolutions regarding economic,
defense and social issues of Africa.
"Nearly all of our resolutions were passed this year, which means
that copies will go to all 52 embassies of the member nations of OAU,"
Elonge said.
Student participation in the Model was open to all students, and
sponsored by President Vincent O'Leary's office, the International
Students Office, the Student Association, African Student Association and
individual contributions.
Richard Nderindze, a member of the Albany delegation, called the
Model worthwhile "in order to educate Africans who are in the U.S., and to
make known to Americans the realities of African sta’
On the other hand, he said he observed many misunderstandings of
Africa by Americans. Many, he said, need to better learn "the principles
of the countries they represent instead of reflecting the opinion of the
society they now live in."
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April 13, 1987
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NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED EXPERTS DEBATE STAR WARS
Experts from the Department of Defense, the Institute for Space and Security Studics.
the Science and Engincering Committee for a Secure World, as well as from the University
at Albany, State University of New York, will participate in a Symposium on the
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on April 30 in the Campus Center Ballroom on the
uptown campus of the University at Albany.
Between 2-4 p.m., Dr. Richard Joseph, special assistant to Lt. General Abrahamson,
the director of the SDI Organization at the Department of Defense, and Dr. Robert Bowman,
president and director of research at the Institute for Space and Security Studies, will
each present slides and talk about the "Star Wars" program and what it could mean for
America. Joseph will speak in favor of SDI; Bowman will be in opposition.
The main event: a Debate on the Pros and Cons of the Strategic Defense Initiative
will follow a dinner break. Dr. Keith Ratcliff, associate professor of physics at the
University at Albany, will moderate the debate, which will be held in the Campus Center
Ballroom between 7:30 and 10 p.m. Dr. Joseph, together with Dr. Nicholas Zumbulyadis of
the Science and Engineering Committee for a Sccure World, will argue in favor of "Star
Wars." On the other side, Dr. Bowman will join Dr. James Corbett, a Distinguished
Service Professor with the Physics Department at the University at Albany, in speaking
out against "Star Wars."
The information presented at the afternoon discussion session will lead into a debate
on the feasibility of "Star Wars," as well as its political ramifications. There will be
an opportunity for questions from the audience following cach session, as well as an
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TALK ON TREES IN NEW YORK CULMINATES
SPRING NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES
Much history is locked inside the trees of New York statc, and Department of
Environmental Conservation associate forester Carl Wiedemann is working to uncover it.
On Tuesday, April 28, Wiedemann will share some of the secrets he has discovered with
attendees at the final springtime natural history lecture sponsored by the University at
Albany, State University of New York.
Wiedemann, who works in the Bureau of Forest Resource Management in the Division of
Lands and Forests at DEC, will present a slide show on Famous and Historic Trees of New
York State following a brief discussion of the day’s weather beginning at 8:00 p.m. in
Lecture Center 7 on the uptown campus of the University at Albany, 1400 Washington
Avenue. Wiedemann is currently compiling a registry of trecs in the state which figured
in important historical events.
The Natural History Lecture Scries is free and the public is encouraged to
participate. Donations to sustain the scrics may be made to the University at Albany
Fund, Attention: Ray Falconer Fund. Well-known area metcorologist Ray Falconer has
organized the University’s spring and fall natural history lecture series, as well as the
summertime series at Whiteface Mountain, for the past 25 years.
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CALL FOR LAUREATE AWARD NOMINATIONS
Robert J. Krackeler, President of Krackeler Scientific of Albany, has
announced nomination procedures for this year's University Foundation at
Albany Laureate Awards.
General Electric's Nobel Prize-winning research scientist Ivar Giaever;
Peter D. Kiernan, chairman and president of Norstar Bancorp; Joseph C.
Palamountain, president of Skidmore College; and Bishop Howard Hubbard are
among the 20 recipients of the Citizen Laureate awards, which are presented
each year by the Foundation to recognize outstanding contributions to the
Capital District.
The Foundation's awards committee, headed by Krackeler, will accept
nominations through May 8. "The Laureate Awards are unique in that they
honor each year both a community and an academic leader for their service to
the Capital District," Krackeler said. "The awards symbolize the increasing
need for an ever closer partnership among area colleges and universities and
the business and civic communities for the benefit and prosperity of the
entire region."
The Citizen Laureate awards consist of two categories each year. The
Community Laureate Award recognizes a record of achievement which has
long-range significance in enhancing the life of the community, and the
Academic Laureate Award recognizes a sustained record of teaching, research,
leadership and service in the academic community.
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Nominations may be made through the Foundation, (518) 442-3005. Based
upon the recommendations of Krackeler's committee, the Foundation Board will
select and announce this year's recipients at their June 25 meeting.
Presentation of the awards will be made at the Annual Laureate Awards dinner
in September.
Robert Krackeler is one of more than 20 area business and civic leaders
who volunteer their time as members of the Board of Directors of University
Foundation at Albany in order to bring the resources of the University at
Albany to the Capital District business and professional communities. His
company, Krackeler Scientific, is a supplier of laboratory equipment.
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LEADING INTERNATIONAL EDUCATOR TO SPEAK, APRIL 28
Professor Torsten Husen, an internationally-known educator, will speak
on "Schooling in a Meritocratic Society" at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 28, in
Room 335 of the Education Building at the University at Albany, State
University of New York. Professor Husen's visit to Albany is sponsored by
the School of Education at Albany.
Professor Emeritus at the University of Stockhom, Dr. Husen is former
Chairman of the International Assessment of Educational Achievement, and is
one of the founders of UNESCO's International Institute of Educational
Planning in Paris. He is also Chairperson of the International Academy of
Education and is co-editor of the International Encyclopedia of Education.
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Golub Corporation or University at Albany officials or Dr. Botstein can most
readily be arranged during the reception from 6-7 p.m.
Contact: Vince Sweeney (518) 442-3075 87-25
CAPITAL DISTRICT'S ALL-STAR SCHOLARS TO BE HONORED, APRIL 29
The Capital District's first area-wide awards banquet honoring student
scholars with some of the same fanfare given to student athletes will be
held at the Turf Inn in Colonie on Wednesday, April 29.
The University at Albany and the Golub Corporation are sponsoring the
Price Chopper Scholars Recognition Dinner which will honor 119 seniors from
public, private, and parochial secondary schools in the region. The event
will include a reception (6 p.m.) and banquet (7 p.m.) for the students and
their parents, recognition of their achievement, and an address by Dr. Leon
Botstein, President of Bard College.
Student pictures and biographies will be included in a souvenir booklet
containing the 1987 Roster of Capital District Scholars, and they will
receive an engraved memento of the event. The Scholars Recognition Dinner is
an initiative of the business-education partnership between the Golub
Corporation and the School of Education at the University at Albany, State
University of New York. The partnership is a program supported by the Golub
Corporation which also sponsors the Golub Seminars on Excellence in
Education.
"The entire Capital Region will benefit from this combination of the
Golub Corporation's commitment to improving the quality of life in the
community and the School of Education's dedication to enhancing educational
excellence," President Vincent O'Leary of the University at Albany said.
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This innovative business partnership was launched by the School of
Education and has become a significant component of the Golub Corporation's
community service programs. "This initiative fosters the single factor that
will clearly have the greatest impact on the future---the education of our
young people," Lewis Golub, Chairman of the Golub Corporation, said.
Selection of the honorees was accomplished by educators at their
respective schools based upon scholarship, leadership, and service to their
school and community. The seniors were asked to nominate a teacher, who had
a profound effect on their learning experience, for recognition. These
faculty members will be among those invited to a series of Golub Seminars on
Excellence in Education next year for an intensive look at significant
issues in the teaching profession. "The program celebrates and recognizes
outstanding teachers and provides them a unique opportunity to think more
deeply about how tomorrow's schools should be organized and managed in the
interest of providing students with the best quality education," Albany
Education Dean Robert Koff said.
The Price Chopper Scholar's Recognition Dinner was organized by a
committee chaired by Patrick R. DiCaprio, Superintendent, Scotia-Glenville
Central School District and includes as members Richard E. Bamberger,
Executive Director of the Capital Area School Development Association; Susan
Gabriel, Corporate Secretary of the Golub Corporation; Robert H. Koff, Dean
of the School of Education at the University of Albany; Custer R. Quick,
District Superintendent, Albany-Schoharie-Schenectady BOCES; Lotte H.
Swartz, Training and Communication Specialist, Golub Corporation; Charles A.
Szuberla, Superintendent, North Colonie Central School District; Stephen
Urgenson, Superintendent, Rensselaer City Schools, Gail B. West,
Superintendent of Schools, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany; and Lawrence A.
Zinn, Superintendent, Saratoga Springs City Schools.
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ROSTER OF 1987 CAPITAL DISTRICT SCHOLARS
April Adams, Saratoga-Warren Vo-Tec Center, Saratoga-Warren BOCES
Nancy Lynn Apple, Schalmont Senior High School, Schalmont Central Schools
Heather Bigelow, Hoosick Falls Jr.-Sr. High School, Hoosick Falls Central
Andrew Bosco, Guilderland High School, Guilderland Central
Tracey Brown, Albany High School, Albany City Schools
Nicole Browne, Academy of the Holy Names, Albany
Rebecca Bull, Ravena Senior High School, Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central
Patrick Burns, Albany High School, Albany City Schools
Stephanie Carney, Saratoga-Warren Vo-Tec Center, Saratoga-Warren BOCES
Gary Catlin, Averill Park High School, Averill Park Central Schools
Megan Cavanaugh, Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna Central Schools
Teresa Chen, Shaker High School, North Colonie Central
Catherine Chiu, Scotia-Glenville High School, Scotia-Glenville Central
Schools
Stephen Coelho, Colonie High School, South Colonie Central Schools
Lisa Cole, Columbia High School, East Greenbush Central Schools
David Comi, Bethlehem High School, Bethlehem Central Schools
Colleen Conley, Lansingburgh Senior High School, Lansingburgh Central
David Cunningham, Bethlehem High School, Bethlehem Central Schools
Paul Curley, Ravena Senior High School, Ravena-—Coeymans-Selkirk Central
Gigi Daniels, Troy High School, Troy City Schools
Eric DeGiule, Rensselaer Middle High School, Rensselaer City Schools
Gregory DellaRocca, Maple Hill High School, Schodack Central School
Jennifer Dickerson, Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons High School, Schenectady
Robert Dunlap III, Schalmont Senior High School, Schalmont Central Schools
Petra Enzien, Mechanicville High School, Mechanicville City Schools
Courtney Erickson, Linton High School, Schenectady City Schools
Christine Fecko, Tamarac Senior High School, Brunswick Central Schools
Craig Fisher, Shenendehowa High School, Shenendehowa Central Schools
Kristen Flansburg, Hoosick Falls Jr.-Sr. High School, Hoosick Falls Central
Philip Forbes IV, Colonie High School, South Colonie Central Schools
Andrew Gallo, Mohonasen Senior High School, Rotterdam-Mohonasen Central
Scott Gardiner, Berne-Knox Jr.-Sr. High School, Berne-Knox-Westerlo
Ann Marie Gartelman, Saratoga Springs High School, Saratoga Springs
Anna Georgiopoulos, Bethlehem High School, Bethlehem Central Schools
Jeffrey Gerrish, Troy High School, Troy City Schools
Marin Gjaja, Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna Central Schools
Heidi Gleason, Cohoes High School, Cohoes City Schools
Michelle Graber, Averill Park High School, Averill Park Central Schools
Jeannette Green, Saratoga Springs High School, Saratoga Springs City Schools
James Greene, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Senior High, Burnt Hills-Ballston
Lake
Stephanie Griffin, Albany Academy for Girls, Albany
Kaaren Haldeman, Catholic Central High School, Troy
Stephen Harbula III, Colonie High School, South Colonie Central Schools
Charles Havasy, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Senior High, Burnt Hills-Ballston
Lake Central,
Deborah Hennel, Scotia-Glenville High School, Scotia-Glenville Central
Schools
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Jody Beth Herschenhorn, Shaker High School, North Colonie Central Schools
Miranda Hickman, Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna Central Schools
Lenore Homic, Galway Jr.-Sr. High School, Galway Central Schools
Michael Hurley, Rensselaer County Vo~Tec Center, Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene
BOCES
Vicki Indilicato, Guilderland High School, Guilderland Central
Denise Iuliano, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Senior High, Burnt Hills-Ballston
lake Central
Nadja Jarosh, Saratoga Central Catholic High School, Saratoga Springs
Tammy Johnson, Mchonasen Senior High School, Rotterdam-Mohonasen Central
Kim Jones, Albany High School, Albany City Schools
Glenn Josefiak, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Senior High, Burnt Hills-Ballston
lake Central,
Jordan Katine, Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna Central Schools
Linda Keenan, Albany High School, Albany City Schools
Matthew Kelly, Catholic Central High School, Troy
Christopher Kelly, South Glens Falls Senior High School, South Glens Falls
Central Schools
Peter Kim, The Albany Academy, Albany
Liesha LaDuke, Mont Pleasant High School, Schenectady City Schools
Cheryl Leanza, Ballston Spa High School, Ballston Spa Central Schools
Stanley Lee, Bethlehem High School, Bethlehem Central Schools
Kay Lillibridge, Saratoga Springs High School, Saratoga Springs City Schools
David Little, Troy High School, Troy City Schools
Rachel Longo, Tamarac Senior High School, Brunswick Central Schools
Jeannine Loos, Waterford Jr.-Sr. High School, Waterford-Halfmoon Union Free
Schools
Jillian Lund, Troy High School, Troy City Schools
Laura Martin, Clayton A. Bouton Jr.-Sr. High School, Voorheesville Central
Schools
Emiliano Mazlen, Guilderland High School, Guilderland Central
Christina McAllister, Colonie High School, South Colonie Central Schools
Karen Mehan, Stillwater Jr.-Sr. High School, Stillwater Central Schools
Donna Mensching, Clayton A. Bouton Jr.-Sr. High School, Voorheesville
Central Schools
Bradley Minch, Shenendehowa High School, Shenendehowa Central Schools
Christopher Moore, South Glens Falls Senior High School, South Glens Falls
Central Schools
Keith Moran, New Life Academy, Schenectady
Courtney Moriarta, Schuylerville Jr.-Sr. High School, Schuylerville Central
Schools
Michael Munro, Bishop Maginn High School, Albany
Athena Nagi, Emma Willard School, Troy
David Nicholas, Linton High School, Schenectady City Schools
Diane O'Brien, Columbia High School, East Greenbush Central Schools
Patrick O'Malley, Shaker High School, North Colonie Central Schools
Andrew Orndorff, Shenendehowa High School, Shenendehowa Central Schools
Patricia Pacelli, Ballston Spa High School, Ballston Spa Central Schools
John Paziena, Columbia High School, East Greenbush Central Schools
Anthony Peck, Cohoes High School, Cohoes City Schools
Michelle Peters, Linton High School, Schenectady City Schools
Incia Picirillo, Mont Pleasant High School, Schenectady City Schools
Dawn Pierce, Saratoga-Warren Vo-Tec Center, Saratoga-Warren BOCES
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Lisa Plotnik, Mohonasen Senior High School, Rotterdam-Mohonasen Central
Steven Prock, Colonie High School, South Colonie Central Schools
Mark Renauld, Schuylerville Jr.-Sr. High School, Schuylerville Central
Schools
Polly Richards, Albany High School, Albany City Schools
Keely Robelotto, Bishop Maginn High School, Albany
David Rodger, Shenendehowa High School, Shenendehowa Central Schools
Jacky Rosati, South Glens Falls Senior High School, South Glens Falls
Central Schools
Amy Marie Rutkowski, Shaker High School, North Colonie Central Schools
Patrick Ryan, Saratoga Springs High School, Saratoga Springs City Schools
Troy Rysedorph, Columbia High School, East Greenbush Central Schools
Jocelyn Sharlet, Scotia-Glenville High School, Scotia-Glenville Central
Schools
Phillip Sherry, The Doane Stuart School, Albany
Alyssa Smith, Shenendehowa High School, Shenendehowa Central Schools
Michael Swire, Shaker High School, North Colonie Central Schools
Michael Tallman, LaSalle Institute, Troy
Wendy Thomas, Duanesburg Jr.-Sr. High School, Duanesburg Central School
Scott Thompson, Watervliet Jr.-Sr. High School, Watervliet City Schools
Melissa Tidball, Month Pleasant High School, Schenectady City Schools
John Turner, Lansingburgh Senior High School, Lansingburgh Central
Teri VanLeuvan, Watervliet Jr.-Sr. High School, Watervliet City Schools
William Waddell, Saratoga Springs High School, Saratoga Springs City Schools
Sarah Ward, Corinth Jr.-Sr. High School, Corinth Central
Arwen Warlock, Linton High School, Schenectady City Schools
Maura Westerdahl, Troy High School, Troy City Schools
Jeannine White, Mercy High School, Albany
Christopher Willey, Ballston Spa High School, Ballston Spa Central Schools
Deborah Wolosen, Hoosic Valley Jr.-Sr. High School, Hoosic Valley Central
Katherine Woo, Guilderland High School, Guilderland Central
Cindy Wood, Saratoga-Warren Vo-Tec Center, Saratoga-Warren BOCES
Jessica Zweig, Averill Park High School, Averill Park Central Schools
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A PRESS CONFERENCE ON STAR WARS
WILL BE HELD AT 1 P.M., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1987
IN THE CAMPUS CENTER BALLROOM
AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Experts from the Department of Defense, the Institute for Space and
Security Studies, as well as from the University at Albany, State
University of New York, will participate in a press conference
preceding the Symposium on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
on April 30 in the Campus Center Ballroom of the uptown campus of the
University at Albany.
Just as Congress and the President continue to debate over the advantages and
feasibility of the "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), so too will students
and faculty from the University at Albany, and participants from the community, at a
one-day Symposium on SDI at the University on April 30. The event is free and the
public is being encouraged to attend.
SDI, the formal name for President Reagan’s proposed "Star Wars" defense program, was
put forth early in 1983 as an alternative to the deployment of ground-based weapons as
this country’s primary method of defense. Instead, SDI would employ a satellite network
that uses lasers and other means to destroy oncoming missiles and protect the United
States from enemy attack.
Just after the press conference, Dr. Richard Joseph, special assistant to Lt. General
Abrahamson, the director of the SDI Organization at the Department of Defense, and Dr.
Robert Bowman, president and director of research at the Institute for Space and Security
Studies, will each present slides and talk about the "Star Wars" program and what it
could mean for America. Joseph will speak in favor of SDI; Bowman will be in opposition.
The afternoon presentation will lead into a Dehate on the Pros and Cons of SDI,
which will include a discussion of its political ramifications. Dr. Keith Ratcliff,
associate professor of physics at the University at Albany, will moderate the debate,
which will feature Dr. Joseph, together with Dr. Nicholas Zumbulyadis of the Science and
Engineering Committee for a Secure World, arguing in favor of "Star Wars." On the other
side, Dr. Bowman will join Dr. James Corbett, a Distinguished Service Professor with the
Physics Department at the University at Albany, in speaking out against "Star Wars."
Biographical and oth> ‘nformation about the featured speakers are attached.
Pororor oro o ny
CURRICULUM VITA
Dr. Richard J. Joseph
Born in 1947 in Clinton, New York, he attended schools in that area
before leaving to attend Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He
graduated from Georgetown in 1970 with a B.S. in Physics. From 1969 to
1973 he taught at a private school in Washington.
After completing an M.S. in Physics, he entered the Air Force in 1973.
Assigned to the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda,
Maryland, he performed research in reactor physics and biophysics. In
1977 he attended the University of Texas at Austin and graduated in 1979
with a Ph.D. in Physics. His research in the area of medium energy
nuclear physics was performed at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
(LAMPF) and concentrated on nucleon-nucleon scattering and pion-nucleus
interactions. After completing his degree, Dr. Joseph was assigned to
the U.S. Air Force Academy where he taught basic Physics courses and
upper division courses in Quantum Mechanics and Elementary Particle
Physics. His last assignment in the Air Force was as a Liaison Officer
for the Defense Nuclear Agency at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While
in this position, Dr. Joseph performed a mumber of experiments which
underscored the usefulness of the Neutral Particle Beam. In 1983 he
served on the Directed Energy Panel of the Defensive Technologies Study
Team (DIST) or "Fletcher Study".
He left the Air Force in late 1983 to join Los Alamos as a staff member
in the Accelerator Technology group. In March 1986, he joined the SDI
Organization's Directed Energy Office to initiate development of a space
experiment for the Neutral Particle Beam. Dr. Joseph is currently the
Special Assistant to the Director of SDIO, Office of the Secretary of
Defense.
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Ms. Dorah Suarato
Rockefeller College
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135 Western Ave.
Albany, NY 32222
Dear Ms. Suarato,
I am enclosing a brief CV as you requested in conjunction with the
panel discussion on SDI on April 3@th.
I received my Ph. D. from Columbia University in physical chemistry in
1974. My area of research is solid state nuclear magnetic resonance,
the investigation of the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. I havey |,
published over thirty experimental ané theoretical papers in this (
field. I am currently employed at the Corporate Research Laboratory of
the Eastman Kodak Company, where I am a senior staff member. The views
expressed are my own, and do not represent in any way positions taken
by my employer.
Iam also a member of the Science and Engineering Committee for a
Secure World, a nationwide organization of scientists who support SDI.
It is on their behalf that I will be speaking. The organization is
headed by Prof. Frederick Seitz, past chairman of the American
Physical Socioty, past President of the National Academy of Sciences,
and member of the OTA scientific advisory panel, and Prof. Eugene
Wigner, Nobel laureate in Physics.
Below is a partial list of references to our organization that have
appeared in the national and international press.
. The New York Times, June 20,1986.
« The Washington Post, June 2@, 1986.
The New Yoxk Tines Magazine, August 24,
xe, Vol 221, p. 552, June 5, 1986.
s Today, p- 83, June 1986.
» The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 19, 1986.
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INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AND SECURITY STUDIES
t VTORS;
Dr, R.M. Bowman, Chmn,
Mrs. Patricia Burton
Rev. John Weaver
Hon. Thomas W. Wilson, Jr.
ADVISORS:
Major General Jack Kidd
U.S, Air Forve, retired
Vice Admiral Noe! Gayler
U.S. Navy, retired
14. Col. Lavere A, Dodson
U.S. Army, ret, (Chaplain)
Lt, Col, Josh Reese
U.S, Marine Corps, retired
Brigadier General Homer A. Boushey
U.S" Air Force, retired
Ambassador Harlan Cleveland
H.H. Humphrey Inst.
Rear Admiral Ralph Weymouth
U.S. Navy, retired
Colonel Kent K, Parrot, Ph.D.
U.S. Air Force, retired
Dr. Harold Sandler
Chief, Bio-Medical Research, NASA
Colone! David T. LuFollette
U.S, Air Force, retired
Prof. Robert von Pagenhardt
Naval Postgraduate Schoo!
Dr. Hugh DeWitt
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Prof. Lawrence O. Jones
Dunedin, New Zealand,
Newell Mack
Natiorial Security Inst,
Prof. Kosta Tsipis
MAT.
Lin” Mattison
Cy far Development Policy
Prov wl, Narain
U. of Lancaster, U.K.
George McCoy
Business Executives Move
Dr. H, Kimball Jones
New York City
Gerald Barney
Global 2000 Report
Prof, Beatrice Willard
Colorada School of Mines
William Kincade
Arms Control Association
Colonel Peter E. Boyes
(LS, Air Pore. retired
FELLOWS:
ntiago Astrain
Director General, INTELSTAT
Ambassador Robert Buchheim
former Commissioner, SCC
Jet Propalsie
Prof. T.M, Donahue
University of M
Prof. Peter Fis
University of Vienna
Dr. Bhupendra Jasani
SIPRI, Stockhotat
Prof, Eugene H,
Gnuversity of Ariz
Dr. Rashmi Mayur
Bombay. India
Prof, Phillip Morrison
MIT
Dr, Robert M, Bawman
President & Dir uf Research
Vrcmmlependent nan pioht tay esentpt publicly suppatied or earay giant des teil 1 teseatal at
7833 C Street, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland 20732, Tel. (301) 855-4600/4608. Telex 3791342ISSS.
Dr. Robert M. Bowman
Dr. Robert M. Bowman is President of the Institute
for Space and Security Studies and the author of Stay
Warss.Defense..or Death Stan? Until July, 1982, he was
Vice President of Space Communications Company, which
ewns and operates the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
System (TDRSS). Before that, Dr. Bowman was Manager,
Advanced Space Programs, at General Dynamics.
Culminating a 22-year Air Force career in 1978, Dr.
Bowman was Director of Advanced Space Programs
Development for what is now the Air Force Space
Division. In that capacity, he controlled about half a
billion dollars worth of space programs for the Air
Force and DARPA, including what are now the "Star Wars"
programs. Included in his responsibility were all the
High Energy Laser developments for space, the
development of advanced surveillance spacecraft,
including radar and infrared satellite systems, and the
development of advanced space vehicle subsystems
(computers, solar panels, gyros, thrusters, batteries,
attitude control and navigation systems, etc.). During
this period, Dr. Bowman also worked on space doctrine
and strategy and established several cooperative
programs with other government agencies.
Some of Dr. Bowman's previous positions were Deputy
Director of Ballistic Systems (where he designed
advanced ballistic missiles and warheads for all the
military services) and Head of the Aeronautical
Engineering Department and Assistant Dean at the Air
Force Institute of Technology, where he initiated the
Space Systems Design curriculum. From 1971 to 1974, Dr.
Bowman was in charge of aeronautics for the European
Office of Aerospace Research and Development in London,
where he was responsible for Air Force and NASA
contracts in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and
Southern Asia. He is a graduate of the Armed Forces
Staff College and the Air War College. The military
career which took him to 34 countries around the world
resulted in some two dozen decorations, most of which
were earned in combat.
Dr. Bowman is the author of dozens of publications
in a wide variety of fields and the recipient of
numerous awards and honors. He is active in national
and international professional societies and has chaired
eight major conferences. His Ph.D. is from Cal Tech.
‘Thomond B. O'Brien
Pubhe Relations Director
Steve Chartrand
Duector al Admistiation
Monica VanSant
Exvounse Seeretty
INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AND SECURITY STUDIES 4
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DIRECTORS:
Dr. RM, Bowman, Chmn,
Mrs, Patricia Burton
Rev, John Weaver
Hon, Thomas W. Wilson, Je.
ADVISORS:
Major General Jack Kidd
U.S. Air Force, retired
Vice Admiral Noel Gayler
U.S. Navy, retired
Lt. Col. Lavere A. Dodson
‘U.S. Army, ret. (Chaplain)
Lt. Col. Josh Reese
U.S. Marine Corps, retired
Brigadier General Homer A. Boushey
USS. Air Force, retired
Ambassador Harlan Cleveland
H.H, Humphrey Inst,
Rear Admiral Ralph Weymouth
U.S, Navy, retired
Colonel Kent K, Parrot, Ph.D.
U.S. Air Force, retired
Dr. Harold Sandler
Chief, Bio-Medical Research, NASA
Colonel David T. LaFollette
U.S. Air Force, retired
Prof, Robert von Pagenhardt
Naval Postgraduate School *
Dr. Hugh DeWitt
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Prof. Lawrence O, Jones
Dunedin, New Zealand
Newell Mack
National Security inst.
Prof. Kosta Tsipis.
MALT.
Lindsay Mattison
Center for Development Policy
Prof, M. Naraine
U. of Lancaster, U.K.
George MeCoy
Business Executives Move
Dr. H. Kimball Jones
New York City
Gerald Barney
Global 2000 Report
Prof. Beatrice Willard
Colorado School of Mines
William Kincade
‘Arms Control Association
FELLOWS:
Santiago Astrain
Director General, INTELSTAT
Ambassador Robert Buchheim
former Commissioner, SCC
A, Caruso
Secretary General, EUTELSAT.
De. John Casani_
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Prof. T.M. Donahue
University of Michigan
Prof, Peter Fischer
University of Vienna
Dr. Bhupendra Jasani
SIPRI. Stockholm. Sweden.
Prof. Eugene H, Levy
University of Arizona
De. Rashmi Mayur
Bombay, India
Prof. Phillip Morrison
MALT,
Prof. Hiroaki Ochiai
Toba College, Japa
Dr. Aly Sad
Acad. of Tech.. Egypt
Prof. Y, M. Timnat
Technion, {sracl
Dr, Robert M, Bowman, President & Dir, of Research
7720 Mary Cassatt Drive, Potomac , MD 20854, Tel. (301) 983-1483.
The Institute for Space and Security Studies is an
independent, nonprofit, .tax-exempt -organization devoted to
research and educational activities.in science and strategy
relating to space and other high-technology areas important
to national security and the maintenance of peace.
The overall goal of the Institute is to prevent nuclear war.
It is our judgment that an arms race in space greatly
increases the danger that such a war will occur. The "Star
Wars" ABM system proposed by the President on March 23rd,
1983 can offer no. real protection to the people of this
country. Its development will violate several treaties,
including the only one the U.S. Senate has ratified in over
a decade the ABM Treaty. If such systems were to be
deployed by both sides, each side's "defensive" systems
could destroy those of the other side at the speed of light.
Warning time would -be nonexistent. The incentive to go
first would be so strong that the onset of war would be
inevitable and immediate.
We believe we can prevent an arms race in space. Dr. Bowman
directed the Air Force "Star Wars" programs before his
retirement. He is intimately familiar with the schemes,
their technology, their defects, and their dangers. He
speaks with authority and thus is effective in chang 3
minds, changing policies, and changing the course of events.
He has gathered advisors and allies from among the
scientific, arms control, legislative, and military
communities. Dr. Bowman has debated General Abrahamson,
Congressman Kramer, General Graham, and other proponents of
space weapons who might otherwise go unchallenged. Recent
polls show public support for Star Wars eroding. woe
The Institute's efforts have resulted in several major
achievements getting Congressional restrictions on the
testing of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons against space
targets, getting the Pentagon to delay the scheduled first
test of the advanced ASAT system, working out with Soviet
Space experts the details of a treaty in the interest of
both sides, making space weapons an election year issue, and
getting the Administration to discuss space weapons in
"umbrella" arms talks with the’ Soviet Union. Our latest
achievement is probably the most significant of all. After
years of effort by the Institute, the U.S. and the Soviet
Union are now both observing a moratorium on ASAT tests
against targets in space. In 1986 we hope to broaden this
moratorium and encourage agreements in Geneva and at the
Summit which will completely halt the arms race in space.
In addition to these major achievements, we have bg 1
bringing the truth about the "Star Wars" scheme to peok.e
around the country. Speeches have been made to hundreds of
groups ranging from a handful of people in a church basement
Steve Chartrand, Director of Administration
Monica VanSant, Executive Secretary
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to a crowd of a thousand celebrities at the Beverly Hilton. The message
has been taken to conservative businessmen at Rotary Clubs and industry
gatherings, to superhawks at science fiction conventions, to housewives
and businesswomen at various clubs and luncheons; to diplomats at the
State Department and the United Nations, to students and faculty at many
aniversities, to audiences of high-ranking military officers, and to the
"choir" at gatherings sponsored by the: Freezé Campaign, the World
Federalists, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,’ CALC,
Beyond War, WAND, the Physicians for Social Responsibility,: Global
Education Associates, the American Freedom Association, the United Nations
Association, and many other sympathetic organizations. Press conferences
have been held in the many cities Dr. Bowman has visited, and coverage by
local radio and TV stations has been extensive.
National media interest in Institute activities has steadily increased
during the past three years. Dr. Bowman has appeared on ABC World News
Tonight (three times), CBS Nightwatch, CBS Evening News, the Larry’ King
Show, American Interests, the Michael Jackson Show, and a host of talk
shows on all the. major commercial, cable, and public networks. Newsprint
coverage has also been extensive, with articles in the Zhe Christian
Scisnce Monier, The. WallstreatJournal, TheNewNorkwlimes, Thewlos
Angelesttines, The Ricnainghamtiews, The..sanitranciace.Chronicle,r the
Albany.Times.Union, the OrlandoiSentinel, The. Philadelphia,tnquixer, Lhe
Hartford.Courant, The.Des.Moines.Begister, Defense Daily, Aerospace Daily,
Sojournens magazine, At.Rensselaer magazine, Air. WniversitywBeyiaw
magazine, and many others. Dr. Bowman has been quoted extensively in the
foreign press on at least four continents.
In addition to the treaty activities mentioned previously, the Institute
has engaged in many other international activities. Dr. Bowman
Jarticipates regularly in the International Astronautical Federation's
annual congress. During his travels, Dr. Bowman meets with prominent
scientists from many countries, including the Socialist nations of
Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and the Soviet
Union. The Board of Fellows of the Institute includes prominent
individuals from nine different countries, and still others are
represented on the Advisory Board.
The Institute has participated in Congressional briefings called by
members of Congress to educate their colleagues on the issues of space and
security policy. Dr. Bowman has also given briefings to individual
Congressmen. In addition, the Institute has assisted Congressmen and
Senators by drafting legislation, preparing questions for hearings,
drafting letters:to the President, and providing statements for the floor.
Individual discussions have also been held with policymakers in the
Executive Branch, including top officials in the Department of Defense,
NASA, the National Security Council, and the State Department. We believe
that these activities have had a profound effect on national policies.
The President of the Institute is Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Former Vice
President of Space Communications Company and Manager of Advanced Space
Programs for General Dynamics. Culminating a 22-year Air Force career in
1978, Dr. Bowman was Director of Advanced Space Programs Development,
directing half a billion dollars worth of space programs, including what
are now the "Star Wars" programs. The author of dozens of publications
id the recipient of numerous awards, he is active in national and
international affairs and has chaired seven major conferences. His Ph.D.
is from Cal Tech. and B.Aero.E. is from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The Institute publishes research papers, issue papers, and newsletters,
Individuals and organizations interested in receiving such literature
should contact the Institute.
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Professor James W. Corbett u we
He received his B.S. in Physics with Distinction from
the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1951, and his M.S.
from there in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from (
Yale in 1955. After a brief stint in the Chemistry Department
at Yale, he joined the G.E. Research Laboratory, where he
remained until 1968, when he joined the Physics Department of
the State University of New York at Albany where he was
Chair from 1969 to 1970. In 1981 he was appointed
Distinguished Service Professor of the State University of
New York, but he remains based at Albany. He is Adjunct
Professor at the Center for Integrated Electronics at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he also lectures and
does research. He has been a National Academy of Sciences
Exchange Lecturer to the USSR, Distinguished Visiting _
Professor at the American University of Cairo, at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure and University of Paris (VII), Linképing
University, Fudan University, Sichuan University, and Beijing
University, and a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University
of Tbilisi, USSR. He is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the
Materials Research Society, the Electrochemical Society and
the American Association of Physics Teachers. He was an
invited delegate at the Forum for Peace, Moscow, 1987.
He has written or edited seven books or proceedings, and
written thirty survey articles and over 170 journal articles,
all primarily on defects in semiconductors and metals. He is
an Associate Editor of Materials Letters , and serves on the
Editorial Advisory Boards Of Radiation Effects and Crystal ;
Lattice Defects. (
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ALBANY INVITED BEHIND THE SCENES OF TRONWEED ON MAY 3
A panel discussion entitled, "Ironweed: The Making of the Movie,"
featuring members of the production company speaking on the transformation
i of William Kemedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a motion picture,
will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue on
the downtown campus of the University at Albany, State University of New
York. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the
' New York State Writers Institute of the State University of New York.
William Kennedy, Ironweed's author, Director of the Writers Institute
and the film's screenwriter, will moderate. The panelists-~-executive
producer, first assistant director, editor, costume designer, director of
photography, unit publicist, script supervisor, and production
designer---together possess more than 100 years of movie-making experience.
Cc.0. "Doc" Erickson, "Ironweed's" executive producer, has worked more
than 30 years in the business. He served as production manager for five
Alfred Hitchcock films: "Rear Window," "To Catch A Thief," "The Trouble with
Harry," "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "Vertigo." He worked with John
Huston on "The Misfits," "Freud" and "Reflections in a Golden Eye." He was
production manager for "Cleopatra" and executive producer on "There Was a
Crooked Man."
1st Assistant Director Albert Shapiro's film credits include "Tin Men,"
"Project X," "Terms of Endearment," and "Flashdance," among others.
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Joe Aulusi, costume designer, worked on the current movie hit, "The
Secret of My Success," starring Michael J. Fox. His eight other movie
credits include "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Three Days of the Condor." On
Broadway, his costumes were used in Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" and "A
Month of Sundays" with Jason Robards.
Jeamine C. Oppewall, production designer, served in a similar capacity
with "Maria's Lovers," "Light of Day," and "Tender Mercies." She has worked
with Hollywood's finest directors including Paul Schrader, Tony Bill and
Brian DePalma.
Born in the United States and raised in Brazil, Director of Photography
Lauro Escorel filmed 14 movies including "Quilombo," "All Nudity Shall be
Punished," and "Bye Bye Brasil." His films, "St. Bernard" and "Lucio Flavio,
Passageiro da Agonia," also directed by Ironweed's Hector Babenco, won Best
Photography of the Year awards in 1974 and 1977, respectively, at the
Gramado Film Festival. He directed "Endless Dream," which took five awards
at Gramado last year.
Nini Rogan, script supervisor, has been involved in the entertainment
industry for 12 years, much of that time spent in television and in the
production of commercials, Her credits include "Brenda Starr" and "84
Charing Cross Road."
Editor Anne Goursaud is French with a masters' degree from Columbia
University and a license in art history from the Sorbonne. She worked with
Francis Ford Coppola on "One From the Heart" and "The Outsiders." Her other
credits are "American Dream," "Just Between Friends," and "Crimes of the
Heart."
Unit Publicist Michael Klastorin has worked on publicity for 15 films
such as "Made in Heaven," "Raw Deal," and "Swamp Thing."
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"I got off welfare. So can you."
PRESS CONFERENCE ADVISORY
10:30 A.M., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1987
ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT
411 STATE STREET, ALBANY
Carol Bollinger-Sasaki, a school dropout, teenage runaway and unwed
mother who learned and earned her way off welfare and has become a national
leader in welfare reform, will present her ideas at a press conference at
10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 7, at the Rockefeller Institute of Government,
411 State Street in Albany.
Ms. Sasaki's two-day visit to Albany is sponsored by the Social Work
Continuing Education Program of the Professional Development Program at the
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany. She
will meet with faculty and students at Albany's School of Social Welfare,
area school counselors, welfare recipients, and representatives of the New
York State Department of Social Services.
Ms. Sasaki and the national organization which she founded, HOME
(Helping Ourselves Means Education), "a sorority of poor people," have been
featured in People Magazine and in television and radio interviews with Phil
Donahue, Tom Snyder and Sally Jessie Raphael. She is a principal adviser to
the congressional committee on welfare reform headed by Senators Kennedy and
Moynihan and was awarded the President's "hero's of the heart" Volunteer
Action Award by President Reagan last year.
Sexually abused by a relative, Carol Bollinger ran away from her
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Seattle, Washington, home when she was 13. She spent the next 13 years
living with friends or lovers, working odd jobs or supported by welfare. It
took her three tries to pass the high school G.E.D. examination, and she was
convinced that she was not smart enough to go on to college.
After the birth of her son, David, in 1980 and back on welfare, Carol
was persuaded by a friend to seek vocational training. Instead, she enrolled
in college, earning her bachelor and master's degree in four years.
In 1983, she founded HOME, which she describes as "a self-help group of,
by and for low-income people that provides a communication network whereby
people can help each other escape the poverty trap."
"HOME is not an agency," she says. "We just try to help people profit
from the experience of others; making it through college and getting off
welfare is still, horribly difficult."
enclosure: People Magazine article, September 22, 1986
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Sasaki has been hospitalized twice for exhaustion but vows to fight on until her self-help group gets national support.
On the Job
OFF THE DOLE, HER CAREER ON A ROLL.
CAROL SASAKI LEADS WASHINGTON’S
WELFARE MOMS BACK TO SCHOOL
Tasers a mood of dispirited weari-
ness among the welfare mothers
crowded with their toddlers into the liv-
ing room of Carol Sasaki’s Pullman,
Wash. home. Buffeted between indif-
ferent bureaucracies and minimum-
wage job prospects, the women have
grown accustomed to frustration and
rejection. Yet they look up expectantly
as their host, a reed-slim blonde ina
brass-buttoned blazer and pleated
cream skirt, makes a self-assured en-
trance, slides onto a folding chair and
kicks off her shoes. “I was a seventh-
grade dropout and an unwed mother
on welfare,” says Carol, 31. ‘People
told me | was either stupid or crazy.
But! made it through college and got
my master’s degree.” Then she deliv-
ers a striking message: “I got off wel-
fare. So can you.”
For many welfare mothers in Wash-
ington State, Carol Sasaki is more than
just a role model; she is their last best
Photographs by Dale
hope. Over the past three years she
has inspired 850 welfare recipients to
follow her lead by bootstrapping their
way into college and staying there wi
solid academic grades. Operating ona
shoestring budget, she runs HOME—
Helping Ourselves Means Education—
a “sorority for poor people,” out of her
modest home. Carol was one of 19
Americans recently honored by Presi-
dent Reagan as “heroes of the heart”
for voluntary community work.
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“ft may mean living without a phone or a car, but we're going to make it,” says Sasaki (second from right, meeting at a friend’s home).
Carol offers college-bound welfare
mothers vital tips on overcoming such
obstacles as finding financial aid and
affordable day care. But the heart of
HOME is a buddy system among the
3,000 participants, who call one anoth-
er regularly for practical and moral
support. “People think welfare moth-
ers don't go to college because they
are stupid, lazy and don’t want to get
off the dole,” Carol says. “That's non-
sense. The problem is that everybody
tells them they can't do it. Somebody
has to tell them they can.”
Carol knows what itis like to live with
despair. Sexually abused by a relative
while growing up in a Seattle suburb,
Carol Bolliger was 13 when she ran
away from home and school. In San
Francisco she found dubious refuge
for five months with a stripper whose
boyfriend was a Hell's Angels biker.
From there she drifted to a California
commune and then to a New York yoga
institute. At 22, she tried to drown her-
self after being discarded by a lover.
Surviving on welfare and mental-dis-
ability payments, Carol crammed for
high school equivalency exams and
enrolled at Seattle University in 1978,
only to drop out after a single quarter.
Neither her work as a housekeeper nor
aseries of brief affairs did anything to
bolster her self-esteem. Pregnant at 24
by aman who refused to acknowledge
paternity, she backed out of an abor-
tion at the last minute, deciding, “I
need this baby to love me.”
After the birth of son David in June
1980, Carol went back on welfare—
sometimes spending the night in bus
stations when money ran out. Then a
friend, Kay Hickox, told her she ap-
peared to have only two choices in
life: She could acquire some vocation-
al skills or become a prostitute. That
stark assessment spurred Carol to in-
vestigate public assistance programs
that might support her through col-
lege. She was 26 in 1981 when she en-
tered Washington State University
with the help of government loans.
Rearing David in a federally subsidized
apartment, she carried a double
course load and refused to give up.
In just three years Carol collected a
bachelor’s degree in liberal arts anda
master’s in adult education. She also
became a self-taught expert in making
Byzantine public assistance regula-
tions work for her. “I learned the hard
way, after the fact, that it could have
been a lot less difficult for me,” Carol
says. “| was determined to share what!
knew with other women on welfare.”
Married since April 1985 to Glenn
Sasaki, a Washington State University
postdoctoral research assistant in mo-
lecular biochemistry, Carol is seeking
corporate sponsorship to make HOME
anationwide program. But the last
thing she wants is to find her self-help
group turning into another rigid bu-
reaucracy. ‘HOME is not an agency,”
she says. ‘We just try to help people
profit from the experience of others.
For anyone looking for easy answers,”
she adds, ‘we don’t have any. Making
it through college and getting off wel-
fare is still horribly, horribly difficult.”
—Written by David Grogan, reported by
Jack Kelley
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ROTC CADETS RECOGNIZED
Twelve students, members of the University at Albany, State University of New York,
Reserve Officer’s Training Corps Company, were recognized for excellence in academic and
military subjects in ceremonies held on campus on April 30.
Freshmen Jason Saturno and Craig Hoffmann; sophomores Jenda Wu, David Sullivan,
Dean Knight, Patricia Sylvain, Melvyn Rose Jr., and Edward Dooley; juniors Ken Runyon and
Suzanne Murphy; and seniors John Hornberger and Thomas Thompson received awards for their
outstanding performance this year.
| Special honors went to Melvyn Rose Jr., who was awarded a two-year ROTC scholarship
based on his achievements in academics, ROTC and other extra-curricular activities. Rose,
a physics major at the University at Albany, competed against students from across the
nation to earn the scholarship. He was a 1985 graduate of Hoosic Valley High School.
In addition to scholarship opportunities, students in the ROTC can obtain
leadership skills, gain management experience, learn advanced training techniques, and
enhance their job marketability for when they complete their education. Currently, there
are about 35 University at Albany students participating in the ROTC program on campus.
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