February 1969
Dr. Seth W. Spellman, professor in the School of Social Welfare, has
been appointed interim chairman of the newly formed Afro-American Studies
department in the College of Arts and Sciences, The new Cnairman came to
the University in 1967 following a distinguished career in the U.S. Army. He
has been teaching and doing research in the graduate school.
A native of No. Carolina, Dr. Spellman was graduated from North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical College and received his graduate degrees
from Columbia University. Since arriving in Albany, the new chairman has
become active with community groups concerned with poverty, equal opportunity and
economic development of the underprivileged. Both his university position and
membership on the Speakers Bureau of the Urban League have brought him to
many student and community groups. Dr, Spellman has served as chairman
of the Education Committee of the Albany Chapter of the NAACP, He is a member
of several national professional organizations and has written widely in his special
field, the disfunction of the multi-family.
The Spellman family shares his zeal and drive. Mrs. Spellman is deputy
director of the Urban League. and his son, Seth If is president of the Human Relations
Council in Colonie Central High School where he is a student.
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Announcement of the appointment of the interim chairman of the newly-established
department of Afro-American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences was made
at the opening faculty meeting at State University of New York at Albany this morning
(February 3) in the Campus Center ballroom, Several hundred faculty in attendance
heard President Evan R. Collins name Professor Seth W. Spellman, of the School
of Social Welfare, to that post. (See biographical information enclosed). Dr.
Collins said the activation of the department and appointment at this time, in accord
with recent Faculty Senate action, would expedite the development of courses and
the search for students, faculty, and a permanent chairman,
In accepting the appointment, Dr. Spellman said he viewed the assignment as a
challenge in an extremely important area, ''It will help the black student place
his roots and contribution in proper perspective - something current academic pro-
gramming does not do,'' he observed,
After considerable discussion of matters related to the establishment of the
Afro-American studies department, the faculty voted to continue discussion at
a special meeting to be held within the next two weeks. The session will be devoted
to the question of student involvement in academic decisions.
Dr. Allan A. Kuusisto, vice president for academic affairs, announced the
receipt of the Alberdi prize, Argentina's most coveted literary award, by Professor
Ravl Castagnino for his work, Milicia literaria de Mayo (see text attached.)
The highly coveted award, granted only once in every 10-year period, covers the
period 1955-1965. Professor Castagnino will be honored later in the month by
his colleagues.
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In other business handled, Professor J. Ralph Tibbetts presented an amend-
ment to the Faculty Senate By-Laws that would permit the faculty of the University
Library to be recognized as a unit of representation and entitled to elect a
senator. The step was approved to allow the more than 200 librarians a more
direct voice in Faculty Senate affairs.
Dr. Clifton C. Thorne, vice president for student affairs, asked for review of
the policy regarding the place of career recruitment on campus. At present the
Albany campus is open to all regularly established and legally recognized organiza-
tions as a means of providing a student service. The policy is described as com-
patible with a statement made by the American Civil Liberties Union which sees the
service aspect as separate from the central educational purpose of the institution.
ACLU says that if recrviting is permitted it must be without discrimination. The
matter was referred to the Faculty Senate for review and action on behalf of the
faculty.
Among reports heard was a statement regarding the status of the Educational
Opportunities Program by its director, Dr. Harry L. Hamilton, Jr. The condition
of the university budget as it appears in the recommended Executive Budget was
reported by Dr. Milton 0. Olson, vice president for business affairs.
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The first conference of the Capital Area Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development will be held Monday, February 10, in the Campus Center
assembly room, State University of New York at Albany, The theme of the con-
ference will be 'Individualization of Instruction,"
The main speaker will be Jack R. Frymier, chairman, department of
curriculum and instruction, Ohio State University. His topic will be the same as
that of the conference. Dr, Frymier is editor of Theory Into Practice, a
curriculum journal published by Ohio State. His most recent book is ''The Nature
of Educational Method."
Robert G. Scanlon, director of instructional systems for Research for
Better Schools, a supplementary education center in Philadelphia, will speak in
the afternoon on "Individually Prescribed Instruction."
Dr. Scanlon has served as
principal of the Oakland Elementary School in Pittsburgh, where individualized
instruction was developed.
Coordinator of the conference is Thomas E. Curtis of the department of
curriculum and instruction, SUNYA. Registration is scheduled for 9 a.m.,
Dr. Frymier will speak at 9:30, Dr. Scanlon at 1 p.m., and the conference concludes
at 3 o'clock.
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Two public lectures are in the offing in the next 10 days at State University
of New York at Albany. On Thursday, February 13, at 8p.m., John C. Overbeck,
associate professor of classics at SUNYA, will speak in the Campus Center
assembly hall on ''Excavations at Tel Anafa, Israel, 1968.'' His talk is sponsored
by the Archaeological Institute of America.
Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry at Syracuse University, will
speak in room 256 of the social science building at 3:30 p.m. on Monday,
‘is the first
February 17. Dr. Szasz, whose topic will be "Crime and Insanity, '
lecturer in a series of colloquia on ''Trends in Criminal Justice, '' sponsored
by the university's School of Criminal Justice.
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The Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, has announced
a revised schedule of exhibitions for the spring semester. The current show
will continue through February 16, featuring a one-man exhibition of paintings
by Hyde Park artist Degen Evans and the Alcoa Collection of Contemporary
Art being circulated by the American Federation of Arts.
Critic's Choice will open March 3 and continue on exhibition until March 23.
Showing concurrently with it March 9-30 will be a collection of contemporary
Israeli art.
The State University of New York Convocation of the Arts Exhibition will
run in the Art Gallery April 16-May 19. The final show of the school year will
be a Faculty-Student Exhibition, which will be on display May 26-June 8.
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The Dramatics Council, State University of New York at Albany, will
sponsor a one-night appearance of Barrie Stavis' ''Lamp at Midnight" at 8:30
Monday evening, February 17, in Page Hall. The play currently is on a pre-
Broadway coast-to-coast tour, Tickets for the exclusive area engagement may be
purchased at the Campus Center on the State University campus (phone 457-6926)
or at the door. All seats are reserved at $1.50.
"Lamp at Midnight" is a drama about the 17th century Italian astronomer
Galileo Galilei. The production is staged by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, one of the
foremost directors in modern English-speaking theater, and stars Morris Carnovsky,
a leading American actor. It has been hailed by critics as ''a landmark of modern
theatre,"
and ''the season's most dazzling theatre event."
Last season, Lamp at Midnight'' was offered in an exclusive television
showing on the Hallmark Hall of Fame and was hailed as a dramatic hit by critics.
Its video success led to public demand for a live performance.
The theme of the drama centers on Galileo's fear of torture for having
what the Catholic Church considered heretical views. A dramatic Inquisition into
the astronomer's findings and statements follows, Several Cardinals decline to con-
demn him and the Pope explains his position regarding Papal infallibility.
Joining Mr. Carnovsky in the cast are Durward McDonald, Gerald Pitman,
David Scott Milton, Barbara Tarbuck (who appeared in Albany with '' America
Hurrah" this fall), Phoebe Brand, John Peter Barrett, and Robert Jundelin.
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"Tambourines to Glory,"
a musical featuring students in the Educational
Opportunities Program (EOP) at State University of New York at Albany, will be
presented in the Campus Center ballroom 8:30 Wednesday evening, February 12.
Daniel C, A, Barton is directing the production and Carmella J. Breland is assistant
director, Both are EOP students.
The play is set in Harlem and concerns the experiences of the members of a
community church. The cast consists of some 40 EOP students. The original
play was written by the late Langston Hughes, sometimes referred to as the
Black Poet Laureate, and recognized as one of the major American writers of
the 20th century.
Mr. Hughes won the Witter Bynner Prize for undergraduate poetry while
attending Lincoln University and later was awarded the Harman Award for amateur
writers and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He spent much of his life writing about
the people of Harlem. Mr. Hughes died in 1967.
Tickets for ''Tambourines to Glory'' may be purchased for $1 in the EOP
offices, located in room B-94 of the University Library, phone 457-4835,
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Miss Mary Anne Poston, of 443 Livingston Avenue, ‘Albany’ N.Y., has
been awarded a National Defense Education Act fellowship at State University
of New York at Albany, She will begin work toward her doctoral degree this
month with the department of curriculum and instruction,
Formerly, Miss Poston was an assistant professor at the State University
College at Plattsburgh.
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The music department, State University of New York at Albany, will
sponsor two concerts next week. Both will be held in Page Hall on the downtown
campus at 8:30 p.m.
On Wednesday evening, February 19, as part of the music department's
faculty series, Marvin Morgenstern, William Hudson, and Findlay Cockrell,
will be heard in a program of music from the twentieth century for violin, clarinet,
and piano. They will perform Khachaturian's "Trio, '' Bartok's ''Contrasts,"'
and Stravinsky's ''L'Histoire du Soldat."
A concert by the Guarneri String Quartet will be heard on Friday,
February 21,
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"Tower Topics, "'
a 15-minute radio program produced by the
Community Relations Office, State University of New York at Albany, is being
broadcast weekly on WOKO (1460) Albany.
The series, which began February 9 and will run through June 8, is
broadcast Sundays from 12:15 to 12:30 p.m. Among topics covered in the
program will be university news of the week, coming events of special interest,
interviews with campus personnel, and a sports summary.
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A.G. Davis Philip, associate professor of astronomy and space sciences
at State University of New York at Albany, is the director of the research
project, ''Galactic Structure at High Galactic Latitudes, '' being supported by
a $35,100 grant to the Dudley Observatory of the City of Albany by the National
Science Foundation, Effective February 15, the new grant will support the
research for a period of approximately two years.
Professor Philip, who joined the Albany faculty in 1966, said the main
project will be a continuation of the study of galactic structure perpendicular
to the galactic plane to obtain information about changes in stellar density
distribution, luminosity function, and interstellar absorption as functions of
galactic latitude. Special attention will be given to comparison of areas at the
galactic poles.
Two years ago Professor Philip, who is on the staff of the Dudley
Observatory, received a grant of $43, 000 from NSF to continue his work in
galactic structure. He also received, in 1967, a grant of $4,908 from the Office
of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, for his project, ''Low Dispersion
Spectroscopy of Galaxies,"
The astronomer holds a master of science degree in
physics from the State University of New Mexico and a doctoral degree from
Case Institute of Technology.
As part of his continuing work, under the new grant. Professor Philip
will investigate the nature of distant A stars. Observations will be obtained at
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Cerro Tololo in Chile, Kitt Peak in Arizona, Tonantzintla in Mexico, and the
Bosscha Observation in Indonesia, Finding lists of early type stars in high
galactic latitude fields will be published. Selected globular clusters will
be searched for blue horizontal-branch stars. The stars will be photometered
by means of four-color photo-electric photometry to establish the relationship
of field horizontal-branch stars to those in globular clusters,
Following analysis of the accumulated data, two series of papers will
be published. They will be concerned with stellar density and luminosity functions
in selected regions and with the nature of the faint A stars in each region.
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The International Fire Administration Institute, State University of
New York at Albany, has joined with the American Association of Junior Colleges
in a cooperative effort to develop a Guideline for Fire Science Education Programs
in Junior and Community Colleges, The work will be published under a W. K.
Kellogg Foundation grant and the tentative publication date is set for October 1969, to
coincide with the annual conference of the International Association of Fire Chiefs.
Donald F. Favreau, associate director, Center for Executive Development,
and executive director of the institute, said the project has grown out of increasing
requests for assistance by both fire service personnel and junior colleges in
establishing fire science programs, Professor Favreau has worked closely with
junior colleges and believes there is a need for guidelines in organizing fire science
education programs at that level.
Development of the publication will begin with a conference at Chabot Junior
College, Hayward, California, on March 20. The meeting will be the first in a
series of regional advisory sub-committee meetings to be held at selected junior and
community colleges throughout the United States. Attending the conferences will
be college executives, fire service officials, and curriculum development specialists.
The project will be coordinated through the offices of the International Fire
Administration Institute in cooperation with Mr. James D, Stinchcomb, specialist
in public service of the American Association of Junior Colleges, Professor
Favreau will be the principal author of the publication.
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Irving A. Verschoor, dean of the College of General Studies, State
University of New York at Albany, has been elected president of the Capital
District Library Council for Reference and Research Resources,
The Library Council, which consists of 30 libraries in 10 counties of
the Capital District, has its office on the Union College campus.
Miss Alice T. Hastings, director of libraries at SUNYA, was re-elected
vice president. Dr. Allan A. Kuusisto, vice president for academic affairs
at SUNYA, was elected to the board of trustees,
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Jerome Eckstein, professor of education at State University of New
York at Albany, is the author of ''The Platonic Method: An Interpretation of
the Dramatic-Philosophic Aspects of the Meno," published in January by
Greenwood Press, New York,
Dr. Eckstein, who joined the Albany faculty three years ago, is
in the department of foundations of education. His article, 'Is It Possible
for the Schools to be Neutral?", will appear later this year in the publication,
. "Educational Theory."’ Dr. Eckstein holds degrees from Brooklyn College
and from Columbia University.
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"Critics Choice!’ is the title of a new exhibition to open Monday, March 3,
in the Art Gallery at State University of New York at Albany, The exhibition
consists of 35 works by outstanding artists working in New York.
"Critics Choice'' was selected by author and critic, Sam Hunter, who
until recently was director of the Jewish Museum. The exhibition is part of a
university-wide program which enables students from the schools where ''Critics
Choice'' is being shown to visit the participating artists' studios during a three
day program to be held in New York City.
A second March exhibition, a selection of Contemporary Israeli Art, has
been cancelled by the gallery as a result of the New York dock strike. In its place
will be an exhibit entitled '' Architecture without Architects, '' also opening on
March 3, Examples of communal architecture from 60 countries are shown in
photographs and on text panels written by architectural historian, Bernard Rudofsky.
Mr. Rudofsky writes ''what we take to be archaic buildings are often models of
true functionalism and timeless modernity..."
The exhibition shows among other
places that man has lived, troglodyte caves, freestanding buildings cut from rocks,
underground towns, and nomad tents. The exhibit is a smaller version of one
shown several years ago at the Museum of Modern Art.
Both "Critics Choice" and "Architecture without Architects'' will be on view
through March 23, The gallery is open from 9 to 5 Monday through Saturday; from
2 to 5 on Sunday; and from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening.
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Duncan Chappell, a member of the law faculty and the Institute of
Criminology at the University of Sidney, Australia, has arrived at State University
of New York at Albany on a Harkness Fund post-doctoral fellowship,
Professor Chappell plans to study contemporary organization and
structure of major police forces in the United States with particular reference
to the contribution American universities have made to police executive
development programs. He is the first post-doctoral fellow to study at the
university's School of Criminal Justice.
The Australian, who was born in England, is a graduate of the University
of Tasmania where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
with first class honors. In 1966, he received his doctoral degree from the
University of Cambridge.
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Applications for the Semester-Abroad program at State University of
Guadalajara now are being received by the Center for Inter-American Studies,
145 Draper Hall, All applications must be filed before March 14 to be eligible
for the fall term of 1969.
The Semester-Abroad program is open to any student of the university
who has the capacity to pursue an academic program conducted entirely in
Spanish, who can accept the responsibility for individual study, and is willing
to adjust to a social and cultural environment different from his own. An
academic average of 3.0 in Spanish and 2.5 overall are considered the general
academic standards for acceptance into the program.
The Guadalajara program, now entering its third year, is for the fall
semester and students register at both the home campus and the University
of Guadalajara. By registering at the home campus, full advantage can be taken
of Regents' scholarships, NDEA fellowships, Scholar Incentives and other awards
made to students,
More than 30 Albany students now on campus have participated in the
program,
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Edward Berg, professor of biological sciences at State University
of New York at Albany, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant
of $10, 800 for his research project, ''Ontogeny of Functional Antigens.'' The
award will support Dr. Berg's research for a two-year period.
Currently the scientist is at State University at Buffalo as a participant
in the American Council on Education's Academic Administration Internship
Program. At the university he is working primarily with Peter F. Regan, III,
executive vice president, and J. Warren Perry, dean of the School of Health
Related Professions. He is co-author with Robert D. Beck of an article,
"Possible Role of a Sex Factor in Rabbit Hosts Naturally Infected with Taenia
Pisiformis Cysticerci", appearing in the December 1968 issue of the Journal
of Parasitology.
Dr. Berg received his bachelor degree from Brooklyn College and a
doctorate from Cornell University, He joined the Albany faculty in 1956 after
having taught previously at Cornell University Medical College and at
Manhattan Medical Assistant's School.
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Patrick B. Moscaritolo of 62 Orient Avenue, East Boston, Mass,, has
been elected vice-president of the Graduate Student Association at the Graduate
School of Public Affairs of State University of New York at Albany.
Mr. Moscaritolo, a doctoral candidate in political science, is a 1966
graduate of Boston College, magna cum laude, and has received his master's
degree from the London School of Economics.
While at GSPA, he has represented the graduate school at a Washington
conference on international order and world peace, Last summer he was one of
six students chosen from throughout the United States to participate in the
United Nations Student Interne Program. The United Nations program had
student representatives from 33 countries.
__Mr. Moscaritolo has been designated a National Defense Fellow, He
also is a teaching assistant in American government, He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Nicholas J. Moscaritolo and attended the Boston Latin School,
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The Faculty Senate of the State University of
New York at Albany, in an expression of opposition to
the State Senate bill (S524) affecting eligibility of stu-
dents for financial assistance, te urging members of the
Assembly of New York State Legislature to defeat the bill.
In action taken at a special meeting late Tuesday” :
(February 18) afternoon, the faculty body adopted a motion
pointing to what it described as a basic defect in the
measure; namely, "that it represents a punitive rather
than a constructive approach to the problems occasioned
by the expression of dissent in a free society."
Indicating that it shares the concern for re-
solving problems which sometimes arise from expressed
dissent, the Faculty Senate gave five reasons for its
opposition to the bill. The measure would regind, on
grounds of legal offense, financial aid originally awarded
for academic promise; would infringe upon the right of
universities to govern themselves in academic affairs
since it would mandate that university officials implement
its provisions and prescribe a criterion for administration
of scholarships; would discriminate against economically
disadvantaged students since it would threaten only those
students whose need requires them to use scholarship aid;
and would subject students to more extreme penalities than
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others who come into conflict with the law. The motion
stated that the measure is ambiguous and its enforcement
could involve universities in endless conflicts with students,
since the offenses requiring action are so broadly defined
in the measure.
A copy of the motion approved by the 66-member
body was delivered today by J. Ralph Tibbetts, vice president
of the Faculty Senate, to the office of the Speaker of the
Assembly, Perry B. Duryea, and to the Clerk of the Assembly.
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State University of New York at Albany
Motion adopted by Faculty Senate
at special meeting February 18, 1969
On Wednesday, February 12, 1969, the New York State Senate by
vote of 38 to 15 passed the following bill:
"To amend the education law, in relation to eligibility for scholarships,
scholar incentive programs and state and federal aid. The People of the State
of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law ig hereby amended by adding
thereto a new section, to be section six hundred thirty-four,
to read as follows:
634. ‘Ineligibility. No person shall be eligible to receive
any benefits under this article who has been convicted,
without subsequent pardon, by a court of the United States
or any state or territory thereof, of any felony or of the
misdemeanor of criminal trespass in the first or second
degree, unlawful assembly, aggravated harassment,
criminal nuisance, falsely reporting an incident or un-
lawfully possessing noxious material, and the accusatory
instrument alleges that the crime was committed on the
premises of any college. The commissioner of education,
in his discretion, may remove the ineligibility imposed by
this section upon receipt of satisfactory evidence of good
conduct by such person for a period of not less than two
years after the date of the payment of any fine imposed upon
such person, or, the suspension of sentence, or, from the
date of his unrevoked release from custody by parole, cummutation
or termination of his sentence, whichever last occurs.
2, This act shall take effect on the first day of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law."
In response to the State Senate bill and in anticipation of the con-
sideration of the bill by the Assembly the following statement is offered as
a motion for action by the Faculty Senate.
“The Faculty Senate of the State University of New York at Albany
shares the general concern to find ways to resolve the problems that
sometimes arise when dissent is expreased in a free society. However,
after careful consideration of the Senate Bill (S524) that would require
cancellation of state financial aid to university students convicted of
felonies and misdemeanors as a result of demonstrations or disturbances
on campus, the Faculty Senate of the State University of New York at
Albany states its opposition to the bill for these reasons: (1) it
would rescind, on grounds of legal-offense, financial aid originally
awarded for academic promise; (2) because it mandates that university
officials implement its provisions and prescribes a criterion for
administration of scholarships, the bill would infringe upon the right
of universities to govern themselves in academic affairs; (3) because
it would threaten only those students whose need requires them to
use scholarship aid, the bill would discriminate against economically
disadvantaged students; (4) the bill would subject students to more
extreme penalties than others who come into conflict with the law;
(5) because the offenses requiring action are so broadly defined in
it, the bill is ambiguous and its enforcement could involve universities
in endless conflicts with students.
The basic defect of this bill, however, lies in the fact that it
represents a punitive rather than a constructive approach to the
preblems occasioned by the expression of dissent in a free society.
Therefore, the Faculty Senate of the State University of New York at
Albany strongly urges the members of the Assembly of the New York
State Legislature to defeat this bill.
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Mojmir Frinta, associate professor of the history of art at State
University of New York at Albany, will give an illustrated public lecture,
"The 'Beautiful Style' in Sculpture and Painting in Central-Eastern Europe
Circa 1400."' His talk, sponsored by the university's Eastern European Area
Studies Committee and the department of history, will take place at 3:30 p.m.
in room 145 of the Social Sciences Building.
Professor Frinta began his university training at Charles University,
Prague, then studied for four years in Paris. He received his doctoral degree
in the history of art from the University of Michigan in1960. A native Czech,
he also has traveled widely in Central and Western Europe. His special
research interest is the art of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Melvin Belli, noted trial lawyer, will speak at State University of
New York at Albany Wednesday evening, February 26, under the sponsorship
of the student organization, Forum of Politics, His topic will be ''The
Law Revolt."
Mr. Belli, who served at one time as the attorney for the late Jack
Ruby in Dallas, will begin his talk at 8 o'clock in the Campus Center ballroom.
General admission is 50 cents for the public. Tax cards will admit students.
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Dennis Helmrich, pianist, will give his first solo recital in Albany
Friday evening, February 28, at 8:30 in Page Hall. The concert is in the
current series being offered by the music department faculty of State
University of New York at Albany.
The program will include works by Schumann, Debussy, and J.S.
Bach, Featured will be the first performance of ''Clausulae'', a new work by
Alejandro Planchart.
Mr. Helmrich, pianist and theory teacher, did undergraduate work
at Yale College and graduate work at Yale University School of Music and
at the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He has appeared
frequently in the East and Southwest with orchestras, in solos, as an
accompanist, and in chamber music. Prior to coming to Albany, Mr. Helmrich
taught at Antioch College.
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Arthur Danto, professor of philosophy at Columbia University,
will give a public lecture Wednesday evening, February 26, at State University
of New York at Albany. His subject will be "What Philosophy Is."
The program is sponsored by The Zetetiks, philosophy club at the
university. It will take place in the Campus Center assembly hall beginning
at 8 o'clock.
Professor Danto, author of '' Analytical Philosophy of History, '' will
show how philosophy differs from other human activities, and, particularly
how it differs from science, investigating the relationship between thought
and reality rather than the nature of the world.
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Future lecturers for ''The Scientific Revolution and Man's Situation, "
a non-credit course for clergy at the College of General Studies, State University
of New York at Albany, are scheduled through March,
The speaker Tuesday afternoon, February 25, will be Harold H. Blum,
professor of biological sciences, whose topic will be "Evolution of Man and of
Humanity.'' Other lectures will include '' Atmospheric Pollution, '' Vincent J.
Schaefer, director of Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, March 4;
"Revolution in Productivity, " Louis R, Salkever, chairman of the economics
department, March 11; ''Reconceptualizing Human Intelligence and Its Social
Implications, '' Morris E. Eson, professor of psychology, March 18; and
"Science and the New Human Image," Paul Meadows, chairman of the department
of sociology and anthropology, March 25,
Eugene R. Rabinowitch is coordinator for the course which is conducted
in two-hour sessions starting at 3:30 p.m. in room 121 of business administration
building,
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John M, Bird, associate professor of geology, department of geological
sciences at State University of New York at Albany, has received a two-year grant
of $33, 500 from the National Science Foundation. The award is for continuation
of studies in the Appalachian and Caledonian Mountains initiated several
years ago under a $27,500 NSF grant.
The main object of the research is to reconstruct events of crustal
deformation through detailed analysis of related sediments. Ultimately, it
is expected that the origin of the mountain belts can be determined and fitted
to events of sea-floor spreading and continental drift that occured in Paleozoic
time. More recent crustal deformation, as expressed by the Apennine, Alpine,
and Carpathian Mountain belts, is being compared with that of the Appalachian-
Caledonian System. Part of the study, involving interpretation of orogenic belts in
terms of mantle-plate tectonic theory, is being done in collaboration with
J. F, Dewey of Cambridge University.
Results of Dr. Bird's research currently are being published by the
Geological Society of America, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists
and The Geological Society of London. He recently presented results of his
Appalachian studies at invited talks to the Faculty Research Discussion Group
of Cambridge University and the Lamont Geological Observatory at Columbia
University.
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State University Theatre will present "Fairy Tales of New York'' by
J.P. Donleayvy as its second major offering of the season. Opening on Wednesday,
March 12, the play will be performed a total of eight evenings - 4 evenings each
week for two consecutive weeks in Richardson 291 at 8:30 p.m.
Paul Bruce Pettit, chairman of the department of speech and dramatic art
at SUNYA, is director of the current production. Dr. Pettit also directed the
American premiere of the play when it was produced by the Arena Summer
Theatre in 1962.
"Fairy Tales of New York'' is a series of sketches concerned with
death, big business, he-man syndrome and social acceptance, The bite and
hilarity of the scenes merge with heart and truth to successfully capture the
essence of the American ethic,
The play was produced first at the Pembroke Theatre in England. It
was an immediate success and Donleavy received the Evening Standard Most
Promising Playwright Award. Milton Shulman wrote of it ''The writing is
witty and sharp, the characters are brilliantly observed and the situations ping
with authenticity."
Mr. Donleavy's first novel, ''The Ginger Man," was published in Paris
and later in England. Last fall his newest book, ''The Beastly Beatitudes of
Balthazar B.'' was published in this country, Today the author lives in
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England with his wife and two children.
The designers of the State University Theatres' production of ''Fairy Tales «
New York" include Robert Donnelly, Arlene DuMond, and Jerome Hanley, all
members of the faculty at the university.
The cast of four includes students from the Capital District. They
are Robert Clayton, William Snyder, John Koethen and Mary Eileen O'Donnell.
Edward Kramer is stage manager.
Tickets for the show will be on sale in the Campus Center beginning
March 6 for $1.50. The box office is open weekdays from 10 to 4 p.m.
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Sara Ormond
Company Manager 457-8327
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
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Walter E. Knotts has been appointed chairman of the department of
English at State University of New York at Albany for a three-year term
beginning September 1. He will succeed Townsend Rich who became depart-
ment chairman in April 1958.
Professor Knotts has been director of the graduate program in the
English department since its inception in 1962. He joined the faculty
at the university in 1953. The recommendation for his being named de-
partment chairman originated in the department, in consultation with the
student advisory committee.
The chairman-designate holds degrees from the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, and from Harvard University where he received his
doctorate in 1951. His field of concentration is 18th Century English
literature. Most recently he has been teaching the Age of Pope, the Age
of Johnson, and a seminar on Victorian literature, all graduate courses.
Prior to coming to Albany, Professor Knotts was an instructor at the
University of British Columbia, a teaching fellow at Harvard, and an instructor
in English literature and composition at Ohio State University.
Dr. Rich, who came to the Albany campus in 1948, plans to continue
teaching for a few years. Most recently he has taught courses in Shakes-
peare, modern British novels, and Old Testament narratives. Last May a
collection of his rubbings of English monumental brass was exhibited at
the university's Art Gallery. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees
from Yale University.
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Paul C. Lemon, professor of biological sciences at State University of
New York at Albany, has received a Fulbright grant to lecture in science educa-
tion in the Philippines. He will divide his time between Ateneo de Davao, Davao
City, and Notre Dame Colleges, Cotabato City, from July until May of next year.
Dr. Lemon, who joined the Albany faculty in 1946, is one of 500 faculty
members from throughout the country selected for lecturing assignments abroad
by The Board of Foreign Scholarships of the Department of State. The award is
made under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, known as
the Fulbright-Hays Act. In 1963-64, Dr. Lemon was a Fulbright Senior Research
Scholar in Malawi in that African nation's Ministry of Natural Resources.
While in Africa the SUNYA professor continued his active ecological
investigations. A number of his studies have been reported in various learned
journals published in Africa as well as in the United States. Dr. Lemon
also has carried on ecological and climatological research on Whiteface Moun-
tain in cooperation with the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center.
The scientist is an alumnus of the University of Newbraska and received
his graduate degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of
Minnesota.
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P. Alistair MacKinnon, of State University of New York at Albany,
has received a grant of $17,185 through The Research Foundation of State
University of New York from the Department of Education in the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico for a program designed to provide educational con-
sultative assistance and cooperation with the Guide Districts Program's
Demonstration and Distribution Center of Puerto Rico.
The project, which Mr. MacKinnon heads, is an outgrowth of the ed-
ucator's work for the United States Office of Education with Puerto Rico's
education department. Mr. MacKinnon is providing guidance to the depart-
ment in its relation with the USOE and in the development of funding for
various projects. The innovative program seeks to present a modern ed-
ucational experience from kindergarten through grade 12 and to bring in as
interns students in the colleges and universities of Puerto Rico, beginning
as early as the sophomore year, with the aim of providing such interesting
experiences that more young people will enter teaching, particularly in the
highlands and other rural areas.
Mr. MacKinnon, administrator of the Two-Year College Student Develop-
ment Center and a specialist in educational financing and management of re-
sources at SUNYA, visits Puerto Rico each month. He came to the Albany
campus after having served for more than five years as consultant to Puerto
Rico's Secretary of Education under an exchange program with USOE. From
1960-63 he was chief of the Bureau of Research and Statistics in Maine's
Department of Education.
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Daniel Nimetz, of the music department faculty at State University
of New York at Albany, will be heard in a French horn recital Tuesday
evening, March 11, at Page Hall. The concert, to begin at 6:30, is the
third in the current music faculty series.
Original works for horn, including sonatas by Beethoven, Rheinberger,
and Szentkiralyi, will be featured. In addition, there will be chamber
music involving the horn, Assisting performers will be Janice Nimetz,
pianist, and members of the music department faculty.
Dr. Nimetz is a graduate of Alfred University and of the Eastman
School of Music where he earned his doctorate in musicology. He alse
has studied at the University of Vienna. As a French horn player, his
experience includes solo, chamber, and symphony activity.
The public is invited to attend the program for which there is no
admission fee.
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