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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12222
BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. B. Hagihara
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Subject: New Methods for Enzyme Purification by "Lipid-phase” Electrophoresis
and Membrane Scintillation
Time: 3:30 p.m., Monday, June 11, 1973
Place: Chemistry Reading Room (CH-151)
(Also a short discourse on Absorption Spectroscopy for Characterization of
Enzymes at Liquid Helium Temperatures)
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. David Van Dyck, Director, Community Relations
SUNYA fomeks E. Lampman, Director, Information Services
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA FACULTY MEMBER HONORED BY NATIONAL GROUP
Reno S. Knouse, professor of distributive education, School of
Education, State University of New York at Albany, recently was
honored as Man of the Year by Epsilon Delta Epsilon, national
honorary fraternity in distributive education, The award was pre-
sented to him in recognition of outstanding leadership and service
in the field of distributive education."
More than 100 national educators attended the reception and
testimonial dinner at the Diamond Club, Temple University, Philadelphia.
In recognizing Professor Knouse as the nation's outstanding distributive
educator, a plaque and testimonial letter were presented to him.
Ewald B. Nyquist, Commissioner of Education for New York State,
in a congratulatory letter to Professor Knouse, stated, in part,
"It is with pleasure that I add my recognition to the Man of the Year
Award... Twenty-seven years of preparing teachers for New York
State's high schools and two-year colleges is certain to have a far
reaching effect on the lives of many persons,..all have benefited
from your friendly, patient, and intelligent participation and leadership.
Your influence in all your relationships has been one of concern for
improvement and progress, especially with the staff of this Department.
I acknowledge your efforts in helping to provide occupational education
for thousands preparing for marketing careers in the wholesale and
retail businesses of this state."
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA FACULTY MEMBER HONORED BY NATIONAL GROUP
Reno S. Knouse, professor of distributive education, School of
Education, State University of New York at Albany, recently was
honored as Man of the Year by Epsilon Delta Epsilon, national
honorary fraternity in distributive education. The award was pre-
sented to him in recognition of "outstanding leadership and service
in the field of distributive education,"
More than 100 national educators attended the reception and
testimonial dinner at the Diamond Club, Temple University, Philadelphia,
In recognizing Professor Knouse as the nation's outstanding distributive
educator, a plaque and testimonial letter were presented to him.
Ewald B, Nyquist, Commissioner of Education for New York State,
in a congratulatory letter to Professor Knouse, stated, in part,
"It is with pleasure that I add my recognition to the Man of the Year
Award... Twenty-seven years of preparing teachers for New York
State's high schools and two-year colleges is certain to have a far
reaching effect on the lives of many persons,..all have benefited
from your friendly, patient, and intelligent participation and leadership.
Your influence in all your relationships has been one of concern for
improvement and progress, especially with the staff of this Department.
I acknowledge your efforts in helping to provide occupational education
for thousands preparing for marketing careers in the wholesale and
retail businesses of this state."
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SUNYA FACULTY MEMBER HONORED BY NATIONAL GROUP
Professor Knouse was the first president of the national Council
for Distributive Teacher Education in 1962. The council honored him
with a life membership and elected him as the first member of its
Academy for Distributive Teacher Education in 1968, He has also
been honored by the following national organizations: Distributive
Education Clubs of America, American Vocational Association, and
Sales and Marketing Executives, International. In addition, he has
received awards from the New York State Vocational and Practical
Arts Association, the Distributive Education Clubs of New York,
and the New York State Distributive Education Association.
The educator was the recipient of a Danforth Research Grant and
a Foundation for Economic Education Fellowship. He is a member of
Pi Omega Pi, Delta Pi Epsilon, and Phi Delta Kappa, national educa-
tional fraternities, and Delta Sigma Pi, international fraternity in the
field of business administration, He is the author or editor of 66
professional articles, research studies, bulletins, and textbooks.
Professor Knouse recently was elected a Life Fellow of the Inter-
continental Biographical Association. He also is listed in several
national and international biographical volumes,
Professor Knouse and his wife, Margaret, reside at 40 Thorndale
Road, Slingerlands. They are the parents of RobertKnouse, of
Voorheesville, and Elizabeth Knouse Ralph, of Springfield, Mass.,
and the grandparents of Christopher Courtney Ralph.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA PROFESSOR TO RECEIVE NATIONAL AWARD
Willard A. Katz, professor in the School of Library
and Information Science, State University of New York at
Albany, will receive TheIsadore Gilbert Mudge Citation
in recognition of his distinguished contribution to reference
librarianship at a meeting of the American Library Associ-
ation this month in Las Vegas.
Professor Katz, who joined the school's faculty in
1966, was until 1971 editor of ''Journal of Education for
Librarianship" for several years, Presently he edits
"RQ", a library publication. His column, ''Magazines",
appears bi-monthly in Library Journal, He also is the
author of several books, the most recent of which is
"Magazines for Libraries".
The professor of library science has degrees from
the University of Washington and the University of Chicago
where he received his doctorate in library science,
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA FACULTY MEMBER HONORED
Helen N. Safford, associate professor in the School of
Education and supervisor of off-campus student teaching in
business education, State University of New York at Albany,
is the recipient of the 1973 Teacher of the Year Award of
the Eastern Business Teachers Association presented at
the 76th annual convention of the association in Boston,
Ms. Safford joined the SUNYA faculty in 1963 and since
that time has been involved in the preparation of business
education teachers for the secondary schools of New York
State. During the current academic year she has served as
supervisor of business education student teachers in off-
campus public schools and has taught an undergraduate methods
course. She also is a member of the School of Education
Teacher Education Committee and Dean Search Committee
this year and serves as a faculty sponsor of Beta Eta Chapter,
Pi Omega Pi, national honorary undergraduate business education
fraternity.
The award honors an outstanding business teacher who
has made "a significant contribution to the field of business
education by virtue of his or her teaching career with consideration
given to demonstrated leadership, professional growth, personal
qualities, and civic and cultural activity."
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The EBTA has 5, 000 members from Maryland to Maine plus
the District of Columbia, Eastern Canada, Puerto Rico, and
the Virgin Islands.
Ms, Safford often has served as consultant and writer for
the Bureau of Business Education, State Education Department.
Additionally, she has been speaker and consultant for various
professional teacher associations and local teacher organizations.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA GRADUATE WINS WALKER AWARD
Rita A. Cavanagh, who was graduated May 26 from"State
University of New York at Albany, is the recipient of the Ada
Craig Walker Award given to the graduating senior woman
"who in the judgment of the faculty best typifies the ideals of
the University."
Ms, Cavanagh, who was nominated by the departments of
political science and economics, has been accepted for admission
to the University of California at Berkeley as a graduate student
with full fellowship to study economics and political science,
During her senior year at SUNYA she was secretary to the
Student Judicial Committee.
The winner of the Walker award, who has expressed a strong
commitment to international affairs, looks forward to a career
in college teaching and research,
Ada Craig Walker was graduated from the Albany institution
in 1871 and was an active alumna. She served as a teacher in
the schools of New York State. Later her son, William Jon Walker,
established a fund in her memory, the income of which is used for
the Walker award,
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Editors, note: Ms, Cavanagh's parents are Mr, and Mrs,
George Walters of 293 Montgomery Avenue,
Oceanside, New York,
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA SENIOR WINS PRIZE FOR POEM
Susan Martin, a senior at State University of New York at Albany,
has won the Leah Lovenheim prize for creative writing. This is
the 50th anniversary year of the award which Ms, Martin received
for her poem, "after reading Ginsberg's 'Kaddish' a model from
my own heritage 'The Confiteor'."
The Leah Lovenheim prize was established in 1923 by
Jerome S, Lovenheim, attorney of Amsterdam, in memory of
his mother, Leah Newburger Lovenheim, an alumna of the Class
of 1892. It has been continued, after the deaths of Mr. and Mrs,
Lovenheim, by their son, Lee J. Lovenheim. The annual contest
for the best poem was conducted by the university's department
of English. In alternate years the prize is given for the best
short story.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
THREE PROGRAMS PLANNED BY SUNYA SUMMER THEATRE
Three programs are on the performance schedule for the
20th anniversary season of State University at Albany Summer
Theatre. All will be held in the air-conditioned Performing
Arts Center of the university.
Planned are Chekhov's ''The Cherry Orchard", July 11-14,
directed by Jarka Burian, 8:30 p.m., Main Theatre; Pirandello's
"Six Characters in Search of An Author", July 18-21, directed
by Clinton Atkinson, 8:30 p.m., Studio Theatre; and "An
Evening of Strindberg, Shakespeare, and Others", July 25-28,
directed by Messrs. Atkinson and Burian, 8:30 p.m., Arena Theatre.
All seats are $2.50 and a three-play subscription is $6, The
box office, opening July 2, will receive calls at 457-9606 between
lla.m,. and 3 p.m.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
COLLEGE PROFESSOR RECIPIENT OF SUNYA'S LEMON AWARD
Nancy G. Slack, assistant professor of biology at Russell Sage
College, Troy, is the recipient of the 1973 Paul C, Lemon Award
for the outstanding thesis on an ecological or environmental theme
at State University of New York at Albany. The $300 cash prize,
presented for the first time this year, has been awarded to Dr.
Slack for her doctoral dissertation, Species Diversity and
Community Structure in Bryophytes".
Current research underway by Dr, Slack concerns the effect
of human use of the vegetation of the islands in Lake George.
The biologist, who has two science degrees from Cornell University,
received her Doctor of Philosophy in biological sciences from
SUNYA in 1971, While studying at the Albany university she was
a graduate assistant in ecology and also a member of the faculty
for a semester during which she taught botany in the general
science course.
Mrs, Slack resides on Ridge Road, RD 4, Scotia, with her
husband, Dr, Glen Slack, and their three children.
Dr. Lemon, for whom the award is named, is professor
emeritus of biological sciences at SUNYA. The award committee
examined the theses of ecological or environmental interest submitted
for the 1971 and 1972 calendar years in reaching its determination
of the 1973 winner.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
CONFERENCE ON HUMAN SEXUALITY AT SUNYA JUNE 13
A day-long conference on human sexuality for parents will
be held at State University of New York at Albany Wednesday,
June 13, under the sponsorship of the Family and Children's
Service of Albany, Planned Parenthood Association of Albany,
SUNYA's Student Health Service, Young Women's Christian
Association of Albany, and the departments of community and
preventive medicine and obstetrics and gynecology of the
Albany Medical College. The program has been planned to
make community and parent groups aware of the need to develop
educational programs to help parents do a better job in their
role as sex educators,
Registration will take place from 8:45 a.m, to 9 a.m. in
the Assembly Hall of the university's Campus Center. Pre-
liminary registration may be made with the Family and
Children's Service, South Lake Avenue, Albany. The fee for
the day's program is $5 and for just the luncheon session, $3.
Presiding at the conference will be Shirley Gordon, president
of Planned Parenthood. From 9:15 a:m. to 10:30 a.m. a symposium
on human sexuality with its attendent implications for the individual,
the family, and the community will take place with Ruth Ann Coons,
school psychologist, Bethlehem Central School District, as
moderator, Also participating will be Dr. Howard Netter,
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obstetrician, gynecologist and counselor for marital sexual problems;
Dr. Ronald Filippi, specialist in child adolescent and family
psychiatry; Dr. Lawrence Gifford, family practice specialist;
and Dr. Roy Shaffer, deputy commissioner, Albany County Health
Department. A question-and-answer period will follow.
At the luncheon meeting, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Dr.
Sol Gordon, professor of child and family studies, Syracuse University,
will talk about ''Sex Education in the Home",
During the afternoon there will be a one-act play, ''A Mutual
Problem", with a cast including Anne Rudolph, of the faculty of
SUNYA's School of Nursing; Thomas Martin, business manager
of Albany Academy; and four teenagers from area schools, Audience
and character interaction will follow. At 2 p.m. Dr. Michael
Murphy, psychiatrist, Capital District Psychiatric Center, will
speak on the subject of "Accepting One's Own Sexuality". A
question and answer session will follow.
A concurrent program during the afternoon will be a session
on sex education for the mentally handicapped with Dr, Gordon
instructing.
At the conclusion of the formal programs there will be group
discussion and ''wrap-up" sessions. Later a sherry hour and
multi-media display are scheduled,
On the planning committee, in addition to listed participants,
are William Dotterer, instructor in the department of obstetrics
and gynecology, Albany Medical College Hospital; Dr. Melita Gesche,
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assistant director, department of maternal and child health, State
Health Department; Dr. Janet Hood, director, SUNYA Student
Health Service; Esther Lewis, public affairs chairman, New York
State Coalition for Family Planning; Robert Neeley, executive
director, Family and Children's Service; Rita Pacheco, chief,
Public Health Education Section, State Health Department; Katherine
Pinneo, school board member, North Colonie School District;
Lyndon Schendel, executive director, Planned Parenthood of Albany;
Ruth Sherman, teacher, South Colonie School District; Dr. Susan
Standfast, department of community and preventive medicine,
Albany Medical College Hospital; and Ruth West, executive director,
YWCA of Albany.
Objectives of the conference have been described as creating
awareness of the need for developing positive attitudes about human
sexuality, improving skills in communicating with young people,
utilizing available resources in the community, and creating a
climate for educational programs on human sexuality.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA JUNIOR WINS PRIZE
Arthur P, Kleiner, a junior at State University of New York
at Albany, has won the annual award for,prose creative writing
at the university. The $25 McIlwaine prize was presented for
the student's story, ''The Process Shot", which concerns a
college student who disassociates from reality until he perceives
life as a movie.
The MclIlwain award winner, established on the retirement
of Professor Shields McIlwaine by alumni and friends, is
determined after deliberations about contestants' work by the
English department which conducts the contest. Mr. Kleiner's
story was chosen from a group of 35 entries.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA LIBRARIANS CO-AUTHOR OF ARTICLE
Jacquelyn Gavryck, head of the Downtown Campus Branch
Library of State University of New York at Albany, and Sara
Knapp, who is in charge of the Information Retrieval Section
of the University Libraries, are co-authors of the article,
"State Secrets Made Public: the Albany Plan"' published in
the latest issue of 'Library Resources and Technical Services".
The work is a description of a unique classification system
for state documents which was developed at the Albany campus.
Now in use at SUNYA, the plan employs a system of double
Cutter (author) numbers to designate the documents, first by
state and then by agency. The consistent use of double Cuttering
makes possible retrieval by both a subject and. an agency approach.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
TWO TO REPRESENT SUNYA AT ALUMNI CONFERENCE
David P. Jenks, director of alumni affairs at State University
of New York at Albany, and Mrs, Elaine D. Friedman, assistant
director, will represent the association at the annual meeting of the
Confederation of Mund Associations of State University of New York
to be held June 15-16 at State University College at Fredonia. Mrs.
Maurice T, Moore, chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees, will
be the principal speaker at the banquet highlighting the two-day
meeting.
The theme of the annual conference program is "Involvement '73".
Subjects to be discussed include professionalism, regionalism,
communications, fund-raising, undergraduate and campus services,
record -keeping, reunions, and other special events.
Following Mrs. Moore's remarks at the June 15 dinner names
of campus winners of awards for special expertise in the various
categories of alumni affairs competition will be announced.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBAN
TWO DEANS NAMED AT SUNYA Y
Two major academic posts at State University of New York at Albany,
vacant for several months, have been filled. William K. Holstein, acting
dean, has been named to head the School of Business, effective June 14,
and Hilton M, Power, formerly of the University of Wyoming, will become
the new dean of the College of General Studies on July 1.
Dr. Holstein joined the faculty a year ago as professor of management
and acting dean. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
where he received a degree in chemical engineering. He later earneda
Master of Science in industrial maangement and a doctoral degree in
economics at Purdue University.
Before coming to SUNYA Dean Holstein served for eight years on the
faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard Uni-
versity. Earlier, he was on the faculty of the Krannert Graduate School
of Industrial Administration at Purdue. He is known nationally for his
research and writing on production management and production scheduling
systems,
Dr. Power formerly was professor of adult education and coordinator
of special projects, adult education, and community services at the Uni-
versity of Wyoming. He is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics.
His graduate degrees are Master of Public Administration, from the Uni-
versity of Colorado, and Doctor of Education, from the University of
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California.
From 1960 to 1970 Dr. Power was regional director of the Foreign
Policy Association. In that capacity he was responsible for a comprehensive
program of consultation in citizen education in world affairs in 10 western
states.
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Home address:
William Holstein - 10 Chestnut Hill, North Loudonville, N. Y.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALB,
IROQUOIS STUDIES AT SUNYA BROADEN ay
A variety of research projects in the field of Iroquois students
are in progress at State University of New York at Albany by graduate
students in the department of anthropology under the direction of
William N. Fenton, research professor of anthropology.
They include the persistent identity of the Oneida Indians of
New York, Wisconsin, and Ontario, their language, and culture,
by Jack Campisi, assistant professor at State University College at
New Paltz, and a doctoral candidate at SUNYA. The research is
supported, in part, by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, the National
Museum of Man in Canada, and the American Philosophical Society.
Denis Foley, also a doctoral candidate, is researching political
symbolism in the Iroquois Confederacy with support from the National
. Museum of Man,
Jeannette Collamer and Dr. Fenton are concerned with researching
the Indian paintings of Ernest Smith, Seneca artist of Tonawanda
Reservation, in the Rochester Museum and Science Center, with Mr.
Smith at the Rochester Museum. The studies are supported jointly
by the Rochester Museum and SUNYA research funds.
In cooperation with Stanley J. Smith, curator of botany, New York
State Museum, James Herrick, also a doctoral candidate, is studying
the medical ethnobotany of the Iroquois under a Graduate Student
Honoraium from the State Museum and Science Service.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA LECTURER TO GO TO ENGLAND ON FULBRIGHT
Ira Tolbert, lecturer in curriculum and instruction and deputy
director of the National Teacher Corps project at State University of
New York at Albany, is the recipient of a Fulbright Award in the
senior research category for an assignment with Educational Priority
in Liverpool, England.
Mr. Tolbert's specific responsibility will be to design and to
implement a training program for teachers and parents. In England
Educational Priority Areas are designated depressed areas where
educators, social workers, and other government workers attempt to
develop a concentration policy to affect students, teachers, and parents.
The SUNYA faculty member received a Bachelor of Arts in 1963
from Huston-Tillotson College in Austin, Tex. , and a Master of Arts
in 1965 from Colorado State University. He now is specializing in
curriculum in the Doctor of Education program at SUNYA.
Mr. Tolbert's previous experience includes affiliation with the State
University Agricultural and Technical College at Cobleskill where he
lectured in Afro-American history; with the Job Corps at Poland Spring,
Me.; with the Office of Intercultural Relations, State Education Depart-
ment; and with the Desegregation Institute, University of Hartford, where
he was director of training.
With Mrs. Tolbert and their daughter, Karen, Mr. Tolbert plans to
leave next month for travel throughout England and the Continent prior to
beginning his research with Educational Priority.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
EIGHTY-EIGHT STUDENTS TO BE GRADUATED FROM MILNE
Eighty-eight students will be graduated Thursday, June 21,
from The Milne School, campus school of State University of
New York at Albany. The program will be held in the Page Hall
auditorium beginning at 8:15 p.m.
The class will hear a graduation message from Charles W.
Bowler, assistant principal, and the presentation of diplomas
will be made by Nicholas DeLuca, principal.
Others participating in the program will be Rabbi Ephriam
Zimand, Temple Israel; Rev. Alexander Leondis, St. Sophia
Greek Orthodox Church; and Lynne Cohn, pianist.
Twenty students in the graduating class are members of the
National Honor Society and eight are freshman students in SUNYA's |
Allen Collegiate Center. Five of the class completed their high
school studies in three years.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
STATE READING GROUP TO ISSUE TEACHING AID
"Reading Beyond Print," a book which shows how reading can be
enhanced by maps, graphs, charts, signs, and symbols, is being pre-
pared by the New York State Reading Association.
A unit of the International Reading Association (IRA), the organiza-
tion is headquartered at the School of Education, State University of
New York at Albany. It is devoted to improving reading programs and
the teaching of reading in the schools.
Associate professor Eugene Guarino, headquarters manager, says
the new publication will add to those already being used by teachers
throughout the state.
He reports that the association's most popular aid to date has been
"Media As A Means," a collection of ideas and techniques which help
children read via overhead projectors, sound tapes, newspapers, slides,
photos, and flannelboard.
Methods range from the game of word baseball for developing
sight vocabulary to using a tape recorder for upgrading a pupil's ability
in taking notes at a lecture.
The State Reading Association has 38 councils throughout New York
with 10,000 members. The half-dozen councils in the Capital District
area include Montgomery-Fulton, Schoharie, Schenectady, Albany City,
and Columbia. The Iroquois Council embraces northern Saratoga plus
of Warren and Washington counties.
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"Our headquarters here in Albany is something like the hub of
a wheel," he says. ''We're a combination communications center,
a relay station between one council and another, and a repository
for all records."
Dr. Guarino adds that the association also supplies reading
teachers with a newsletter and that it sponsors an annual state-wide
conference. The most recent meeting dealt with inner city reading
instruction, certification of teachers, diagnosis of reading disabilities,
volunteer helpers, semantics, and the art of questioning,
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
SUNYA RECEIVES $480, 079 IN SPONSORED FUNDS
Vice president for research Louis R. Salkever of State University
of New York at Albany has reported receipt of $480, 079 in sponsored
funds during May. Of the total, $279, 194 was received for sponsored
research and $200, 885 for sponsored programs.
Recipients of research grants are Tara P. Das, physics, $91, 200
from the National Science Foundation for "Electronic Wave-Functions
and Associated Properties of Solid State’; William Fenton, anthropology,
on behalf of J. A. Herrick, $2,600 from Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research for ''Aiding Research on Iroquois Ethnobotanical
Knowledge, with Special Reference to Medicinal Herbs"; Joe W. Jenkins,
mathematics, $6, 800 from NSF for ''Non-Symmetric Group Algebras";
Volker A. Mohnen, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, $6, 600
from NSF for "Ion Molecule Reactions of Atmospheric Importance";
Yash P, Myer, chemistry, $4, 000 from NSF for "Conformation of
Cytochromes"; and Vincent J, Schaefer and Austin Hogan, ASRC,
$53, 300 from NSF for ''Aerosol Concentrations on a Global Scale".
Also, C. R. Sun, physics, $13,200 from Rutgers University
(NSF sub-contract) for ''Bubble Chamber Analysis of pp Interactions
from 1, 250 to 1, 365 GEV/c''; Bernard Vonnegut, atmospheric science,
and Henry Chessin, physics, $33, 500 from NSF for ''Development
of Cloud Seeding Technology Utilizing Modified AglI Structures";
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Gary A. Wright, anthropology, $500 from U. S. Department of the
Interior/National Park Service for ''An archaeological Investigation of the
Area To Be Affected by the Proposed Expansion of the Jackson Hole
Airport at Grand Teton National Park'' and $2, 000 from the same agency
for ''An Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of the Proposed J. D.
Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, Wyoming"; J. J. Zuckerman,
chemistry department and research office, $43,200 from NSF for
"Synthesis and Spectroscopic Study of Organotin Compounds" and
$22, 294 from Public Health Service for "Biomedical Sciences Support
Grant".
Recipients of funds for sponsored prog rams included Charles
Colman, international programs, $13,000 from Council on International
Educational Exchange for ''Japanese Summer Program"; Richard Ellis,
education, $2, 123 from State Education Department for ''In-Service
Motor Cycle Operators Educational Institute"; Richard Light, education,
$179, 762 from the U. S. Office of Education for ''Bilingual Education
Program"; and Paul A, Saimond, graduate studies, $6,000 from Inter-
national Telephone and Telegraph for "ITT International Fellowship
on Behalf of Oscar Martin".
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NURSES TO ATT. WORKSHOP AT SUNYA
Sixty registered nurses from hospitals, nursing homes, and community
and public health nursing agencies, will attend a three-day workshop on
"Designing An Effective Inservice Program" beginning Wednesday, June 20,
at State University of New York at Albany. The program is offered by the
continuing education unit of the university's School of Nursing and those in
attendance will represent a 24-county area.
Geraldine Skinner, director of continuing education services for nurses
and professor of nursing at the University of Michigan School of Nursing,
will be workshop leader, She has had wide professional experience in the
field.
Content of the sessions will be concerned with setting objectives and
designing a realistic program of inservice education for nusring service
personnel, identifying learning needs of staff, and developing skills in
motivating staff toward change. Serving as workshop coordinator is Mrs,
Judith Whitaker, associate professor for continuing education in the School
of Nursing. Meetings will be held in the SUNYA Lecture Center from 9
a.m. to4p.m, June 20 through June 22,
Miss Skinner will lead discussions of the changing role of the nurse;
organizational structure, its influence on inservice education and identifica-
tion of orientation and staff development learning needs; why's and wherefores
of program objectives in inservice education; utilization of educational
objectives in program evaluation; a realistic design for staff development for
the nursing service; resistance to change, a major roadblock in inservice
education; achievement motivation, and learning through stimulation.
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ASRC CO-SPONSORING LAKE GEORGE LECTURES
The Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of State University
of New York at Albany and The Lake George Historical Association
will co-sponsor the 1973 Monday Night Lecture Series at the Lake
George Institute of History, Art, and Science beginning June 25.
A weather briefing by Ray Falconer of ASRC will precede each
program,
The ten programs, beginning at 8:30 p.m. on successive Mondays,
will be as follows: June 25, ''The Mysterious Absence of Reptiles
and Amphibians In the Adirondacks", Philip Walker, professor of
biology, SU College at Plattsburgh; July 2, ''Climbing the Adirondack
46", Glenn Fish, retired president of the 46ers; July 9, ''A Brief
History of the Adirondacks, As Told Through Paintings", Mrs, James
E, Lamy, assistant to the director, Adirondack Museum; July 16,
"Discovering The Photographic Heritage Of The Lake George and
Adirondack Region", Richard Linke, assistant professor of the history
of photography, Ithaca College.
Also, July 23, ''Wilson Bentley - The Snowflake Man'', Duncan
Blanchard, senior research associate, ASRC; July 30, ''Forest Types
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SUC at Plattsburgh; Aug. 6, ''Adirondack Ghost Towns", Constance
Pope, librarian, Freinburg Library, SUC at Plattsburgh; Aug. 13,
"Natural Phenomena in the Adirondacks", Vincent Schaefer, director,
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ASRC; Aug. 20, 'The French and Iroquois In 17th Century New York",
Gilbert Hagerty, retired director of education, Old Sturbridge Village,
Mass.; and Aug. 27, "A History of Fort William Henry", Robert
Flacke, president, Fort William Henry Corporation.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
MOHAWK -HUDSON ART SHOW AT SUNYA
The 1973 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region will
open with a public reception at the University Art Gallery, State
University of New York at Albany, on Sunday, June 24, from 3 to 6 p.m,
Co-sponsoring the regional exhibition with State University Gallery are
the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Schenectady Museum.
The juried show is open to all artists living within a 100-mile
radius of Albany and Schenectady. Henry Geldzahler, curator of
Twentieth Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has selected
75 paintings, 25 drawings and prints, and 33 sculptures from a total of
“720 entires. Three hundred fifty-one men and 369 women entered.
Among the 133 chosen works, 51 are by women and 82 by men.
Mr. Geldzahler, who has juried many regional exhibitions across
the country, expresses ''doubts....about the validity of judging works
of arts.....However;: on a regional level it does make sense to attempt
to present something more coherent to the art viewing public than merely
the work of all who have heard about an exhibition."
The three sponsoring institutions will make available up to $1, 000
in purchase prizes, and an invitational exhibit drawn from the regional
will be held in the fall at the Albany Institute of History and Art.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Sunday.
The exhibition will run through August 5. Summer gallery hours are
9-4 Monday through Friday, and 1-4 Sunday. The gallery is closed Saturdays.
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SUNYA STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN BRITISH WORKSHOP
The department of curriculum and instruction in the School of Education,
State University of New York at Albany, is sponsoring its second inter-
national summer workshop in Manchester, England, from June 25-through
July 23.
The workshop titled, ''British Life and Innovations in Education", is
directed by Alexinia Baldwin of SUNYA and Allan Rudd of Manchester
University, England. The 37 workshop participants are graduate students
experienced in the teaching field. They represent several school districts
throughout the state of New York and Connecticut.
The first two weeks of the workshop will involve the teachers in
participatory observation in British primary schools. The schools
represent a cross-section of culture and interpretation of innovative practices
which have been included under the rubric of open education. The second
two weeks will involve the participants in study and planning of procedures
and techniques, for use in the open classroom in mathematics, reading,
and science.
Among the English educationists leading these sessions will be Sir
Geoffrey Matthews of the Nuffield Math Foundation and A. W. Reade, senior
advisory and remedial teacher, Manchester Local Education Authority.
Visits to the National Research Foundation in Edinburgh and London, along
with field study of cultural influences on education in Britain will provide
participants with an understanding of the philosophy which influenced British
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education,
A juxtaposition of British and American philosophies during small
group work sessions will assist participants in translating workshop
experiences into practical application in American schools.
The entire workshop group will leave Kennedy Airport for Manchester,
Sunday, June 24,
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
4, 500 EXPECTED AT SUNYA SUMMER SESSION
An estimated 4,500 students are expected to participate in the main
segment of the summer session at State University of New York at Albany,
from Monday, June 25, through Aug. 3. More than 800 persons have
been attending the pre-session, which ends this week. About 60 per-
cent of the total summer enrollment of some 5, 300 are graduate
students.
Between 60 and 70 visiting professors are on campus, having
arrived from points as distant as California, Spain, Israel, and
the Republic of Ireland. A number of special programs are being
offered, among them an air resources seminar at the ASRC field
station at Whiteface Mountain; an institute in Manchester, England,
on British life and innovation in education; a motorcycle operator
institute; an opera workshop at Lake George; a choral music program
in Cyprus; and an environmental biology program at Cranberry Lake.
Also in progress throughout the summer is a series of planning
conferences for students who will enter SUNYA in the fall. Groups
of freshmen will spend two days each on campus and transfer students,
, one day each. They will receive academic advisement, register for
classes, and generally become acclimated to the university.
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REGIONAL WORKSHOP FOR NURSES AT SUNYA
The first of a workshop series concerned with nursing administration
as a change agent will get underway at State University of New York at
Albany Monday, June 25, under the sponsorship of the School of Nursing
in collaboration with the Conference of Nursing Service Directors, North
East Hospital Association of New York, Serving as program coordinator
is Judith G. Whitaker, associate professor for continuing education in
the school,
Leader for the three-day workshop will be Mildred E, Schwier,
consultant. on nursing service and former director of nursing at the Rhode
Island Hospital in Providence, ''Planning -- A Necessity for Effective
Administration" will be the theme. On the opening day Dorothy M.
Major, dean of the School of Nursing, will give a talk on ''Issues and
Trends That Affect the Planning or Nursing Service".
The series will consist of six workshops offered at four-month
intervals. Each will be self-contained but will constitute an integral part
of the series.
Topics at the workshop beginning Monday will include the health agency,
its social structures, philosophy, and intra-organization needs; the role
of nursing service administration; the nursing department, its structure,
philosophy, and identifying needs and objectives; elements of planning;
and the nurse leader project, a case study.
Objectives of the sessions have been described as a better under-
standing the usefulness of a statement of philosophy and purpose of the
nursing service of an agency, identifying the formal and informal structures
of the agency and how they effect the goals and operation of the nursing
service, and developing skill in the planning process.
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Yngvar Isachsen, geologist with the New York State Museum and
Science Service, on July 3 will launch the 1973 Science Lecture Series
sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the center's
Whiteface Mountain Field Station Tuesday evenings beginning at 8:30.
His subject will be the physiography and geology of the Adirondacks
as seen from a satellite and U-2 aircraft.
The presentation, largely visual, will show satellite views of the
Adirondacks at all seasons in the first composite image covering the
entire area, The first Earth Resources Technology Satellite, in what
has been termed ''the greatest photographic experiment in history",
on July 23 in 1972 began returning images in the visible and near-
infrared portions of the spectrum on an 18-day repetitive cycle.
Physiographic features are clearly shown and their geological
dependence is illustrated by aerial photographs taken at a five-mile
altitude, at lower elevations, and on the ground. Both previously
known and newly-discovered geological features will be discussed and
illustrated.
During July other programs in the series will include Clyde Smith,
free lance photographer, Shelburne, Vt., ''Adirondack Living Watershed",
July 10; Milan Fiske, president, Northeastern New York Orchid Society,
"Orchids and Orchid Collecting", July 17; Vincent Schaefer, director
of ASRC, "Natural Phenomena in the Adirondacks", July 24; and John
Mockovciak, manager, Energy Systems, Grumman Aerospace Corporation,
Bethpage, ''Potential for Solar Energy in the Energy Crisis", July 31.
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SUNYA AND RUMANIA TO COOPERATE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS PROJECT
Albany University Center's Dr. Tara P. Das To Spend Summer
at Bucharest Institute In Initial Phase of Three-Year Program
Aided by National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $91, 200 grant
to State University of New York at Albany for participation in a joint
theoretical physics project between the United States and Rumania.
The undertaking is part of the East European Cooperative Science
Programs of NSF's Office of International Programs which fosters
and supports scientific and technological cooperation between the
United States and Bulgaria, Czechslovakia, Hungary, and Rumania.
Dr. Tara P. Das, professor of physics at SUNYA, and Dr.
Alexandru Glodeanu, deputy director of the Institute of Physics in
Bucharest, will be co-directors of a study of the electronic wave-
functions and associated properties of solid state. The SUNYA and
Bucharest scientists, in conducting basic research concerning
magnetism and electronic properties of solid state materials in-
cluding metals and alloys, will seek a better understanding of
properties of matter that will be useful for technical applications.
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Professor Das, who leaves July 1 for a five-week stay in
Bucharest, said that the joint research project will permit "active
interaction and exchange of ideas on areas of mutual interest in
solid state physics" being studied at the Rumanian Institute and
at the department of physics at SUNYA. University president
Louis T. Benezet commented regarding the 36-month project,
"The collaborative effort with an East European country is an
important contribution to the exchange of knowledge across what
used to be more of an iron curtain than happily it now is."
The exchange of personnel will encompass visits by three
other scientists from the SUNYA department of physics and six
from the Rumanian Institute of Physics in Bucharest to each
other's institutions over a three-year period. In September,
Dr. Georghe Ciobanu, professor of physics at the University of
Bucharest who is associated with the institute, and Dr. Athenasie
Trutia, professor of physics at the institute, will arrive at the
Albany university. The former will will remain for nine months
and the latter, for a two-month period. Dr. Glodeanu is expected
from Bucharest either in October of this year or early in 1974,
Going to Bucharest from SUNYA, in addition to Professor Das,
will be postdoctoral physicists and other associates of the SUNYA
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faculty member. They'll go at varying times for three months during
the next three years. Professor Das will be in Bucharest each summer.
A year ago Dr. Das spoke at the International Biophysics
Congress in Moscow after which he was involved in negotiations for
the joint program between NSF and the Rumanian Institute of Physics.
Enroute home he was an invited speaker at the Solid State Hyperfine
Conference in L'Aquila, Italy.
The SUNYA physicist currently is also principal investigator
for an NSF -supported project at the university which is concerned
with electronic properties of solid state systems, The two-year
grant extends through 1974. Associated with Dr. Das in the research
are Dr. Taesul Lee, instructor of physics, and Dr. James E. Rodgers,
postdoctoral. physicist. Under another grant, from the National
Institutes of Health, the physics department is studying electronic
structure of metalloproteins, Dr. Das is principal investigator and
Dr. Yong Moo Kim, assistant professor, is co-investigator. Also
associated with the research is Dr, Jane C, Chang, instructor of
physics. Additionally, six graduate students in the physics department
are associated with the two research programs. The work of the
scientists and students will be related in varying degrees to the new
NSF cooperative research program.
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Professor Das, who has published widely, has degrees from
Patna University in India and from Calcutta University where he
received his doctorate. He joined the SUNYA faculty in 1971 after
having been on the faculties of the University of California at River-
side and of the University of Utah.
Accompanying him to Bucharest will be Mrs. Das and their
three children, Puspa Manjari, 14, Shankar Prasad, 6, and Surjya
Prasad, 5. The Das family, of Guilderland, is an international one,
Professor Das is a naturalized United States citizen; Mrs. Basanta
Manjari Das, a citizen of India; Puspa, a U.S. citizen, born in
Illinois; Shankar, British, having been born in Oxford, England; and
Surjya, a U.S. citizen and native of California. On their way back
to the United States they'll stop in Paris where Professor Das will
visit the science faculty of the University of Paris at Orsay.
The SUNYA-Bucharest project is one of three physics programs
undertaken with Rumania by the East European Cooperative Science
Programs. The other ones are with the University of Texas at
Dallas and with the University of Pittsburgh.
When the Rumanian scientists come to Albany NSF will pay
their expenses. Travel expenses from Rumania to the United States
will be provided by the National Council for Science and Technology
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of Rumania. The same institute also will pay the Rumanians' salaries
while at SUNYA, For the visits of Albany scientists to Rumania there
will be similar arrangements in reverse.
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
BERTHA WAKIN HEADS BUSINESS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AT SUNYA
B. Bertha Wakin, professor of business education at State University
of New York at Albany, has been named chairman of the department.
Dis Wakin joined the faculty in 1966 when she came to Albany from
Elmira College.
The newly-appointed department chairman is one of six educators
in the nation appointed to the Institute for Certifying Secretaries for
three-year terms. In June she was the faculty advisor to the Certified
Professional Secretaries Seminar, a national meeting held at Wakefield,
Mass. She is associate editor of the ''Journal of Business Education"
and assistant editor of the ''Delta Pi Epsilon Journal", research publication
of the national business education honorary fraternity.
Dr. Wakin received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from
SUNYA and a doctoral degree in education from Pennsylvania State University.
Other professional activities of the SUNYA faculty member include
chairmanship of the Certification Committee for the Business Teachers
Association of New York State. She also has served as a consultant to
the Bureaus of Business Education and Continuing Education Curriculum
Development of the State Education Department,
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BILINGUAL EDUCATION INSTITUTE AT SUNYA
A six-week summer institute in bilingual education will begin
Monday, July 2, at State University of New York at Albany. Attending
will be more than 40 graduate students and a selected number of
undergraduates,
Directing the institute is Dr. Medardo Gutierrez, visiting associate
professor, Bilingual Education Project, School of Education. Courses
are being offered by the project in cooperation with the Bilingual
Education Unit of the,New York State Education Department, the Capital
Area School Development Association, and the Greater Amsterdam
City Schools, with the support of a grant from the Bureau of Educational
Personnel Development, U..S. Office of Education.
Six hours of graduate credit will be given to qualified participants.
During the institute, with experienced and prospective bilingual teachers
primarily from the Northeast in attendance, areas of study will include
language and linguistics, bilingual methods and materials, practicum,
and bilingual education.
At SUNYA the Bilingual Education Project, which is interdisciplinary,
involves the cooperation of the departments of anthropology and Romance
languages, the Puerto Rican Studies Program, and the School of Education.
It works particularly closely with the Master's Program in Teaching
English.As A Second Language and with the Foreign Language Education
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Program, Since a major purpose of the project is to increase the
participant's ability to work professionally in Spanish, a major portion
of the courses and other activities are conducted in Spanish.
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SUNYA PROFESSOR AND STUDENT STUDYING ECOSYSTEM NORTH OF BARROW, ALASKA
Research Supported by National Science Foundation
Expected To Have Implications for Oil Pipeline
A State University of New York at Albany professor and an under-
graduate student at the university have left for the Naval Arctic Research
Laboratory three miles north of Point Barrow, Alaska, to participate
in a full-scale ecological description project of the Alaskan tundra.
Their activties are supported by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.
Professor Raymond G, Stross, who specializes in experimental,
aquatic ecology, and Stephen Goldstone, a biology major, in company
with other investigators will seek to learn how many pounds per acre
of plant and animal life are produced in the severe climaie of the Arctic,
north of the Brooks Range. Under the overall direction of the University
of Alaska, the larger project involves 15 universities and institutions.
SUNYA's part of the project is under the supervision of Dr. Stross.
The Albany professor has spent the past two summers, under a four-
year support program which terminates next year, conducting research
at the laboratory of the Office of Naval Research located three miles
north of the largest community of its size at 71 degrees latitude in
North America. A major aim of the project, underway where the average
summer temperature is barely above freezing, is the provision of a
means of determining the first effects of the Alaskan oil pipeline project
on the environment. There have been two studies related to the latter
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project, one concerned with the effect of heated pipes on the vegetation,
and the other, with the effects of oil spillage on the aquatic life in the ponds.
Dr. Stross, pointing out that the undertaking of the study of the tundra
ecosystem is part of the International Biological Program, said that one
of IBP's goals is to understand something about the natural food-producing
potential of natural communities of organisms. ''The thing I have found
that would be of most interest is how the small crustaceans or waterflea-
like animals, have been able to stabilize their populations. The most
abundant crustacean in the shallow ponds has a mechanism for regulating
its population dependent upon the food-gathering capability of the individual.
The larger individuals of this Daphina population, an important aquatic
anthropod, are able to gather much more food than the smaller individuals
and hence they have sufficient food reserves to reproduce in a crowded
population".
Dr. Stross, whose research has the formal title of "Synchrony in
Zooplankton Activity in Arctic Tundra Ponds and Lakes", continued, "If
a pond, for some reason, has a small population, all of the individuals
reproduce. But if the population is very dense, then only the largest
individuals in the population reproduce. The necessity that a population
continue to reproduce particularly at the end of the growing season, only
about three months long, is prompted by a need to carry over the population
in a resting stage throughout the nine months when the ponds in which these
animals live are completely frozen'"'. Dr, Stross will study particularly
the control of embryonic diapause, a resting stage during development
of Daphnia.
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During their summer's work the scientists will construct a model
of all phases of Alaskan pond life, The model will enable them to estimate
what effect man may have on pond life in the tundra. Reports will go to
the National Science Foundation and later an NSF report probably will
be sent to the U. S. Congress. There is a possibility of a continuing
megascience program to be called ''Man in the Biosphere".
The investigators in Alaska are seeking to understand how the
populations stabilize their densities so that they are always in equilibrium
with their environment. Such information will serve as a basis for
predicting any deleterious action of human exploitation such as might
result from running vehicles across the Arctic tundra, or from the
operations used in oil removal.
Professor Stross, who joined the SUNYA faculty in 1967, completed
his unde#graduate work at the University of Missouri. He received his
Master of Science at the University of Idaho and his doctorate at the
University of Wisconsin. In 1958-59 he was a postdoctoral investigator
at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Before coming to Albany he
was a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland.
Independent investigators from other institutions working closely
with Dr. Stross will be Dr. Stanley I. Dodson from the University of
Wisconsin and Dr. Donald Kangas of Northeast Missouri State College.
At the research site indoor recreation for the investigators centers
around such games as chess, checkers, and pool. Outside a change
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from the daily routine is provided by playing ball, studying the many
shore birds, or perhaps by an overnight hike to the Will Rogers and
Wiley Post Memorial, 15 miles south of Barrow, or one to Point Barrow,
10 miles to the north,
One might wonder about the menu at Barrow which serves as an
urban center for many rural Eskimos from throughout the Northern
Slope. Dr. Stross, making his fourth scientific visit to Alaska,
"very good'', On the laboratory base there's a
reports that the food is
mess hall and both fresh and frozen food is flown in two or three times
weekly in a military transport plane. In August, the ice opens up
sufficiently to allow ships to come in with canned goods.
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