Posted on Oct 29, 2004

In case you weren't keeping up
with the World Series this week, you could follow the games on the front window
of the Office of Human Resources at 17 South Lane,
itself a microcosm of the heated Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.

During the American league
playoffs, Yankee fans Shirley Agosta and Eric Noll were in good spirits, and
Yankee paraphernalia covered the walls. But when Boston
overcame the three-game deficit to take the league title, it was Sox fan George
Schiller's turn. (Jennifer Blessing, according to Noll, is “Switzerland.”)

On Thursday, a scoreboard created
by Schiller proudly proclaimed Red Sox 4, Cardinals O beneath a banner that
read “We Did It!”

Schiller, whose work area practically
screams his allegiance to the New England franchise, was
working the phones early Thursday to spread the news. At the Office of Communications,
Schiller's call was quickly followed by one from Noll who dismissed Boston's
first World Series title in 86 years as not worthy of coverage.

In HR, as in Yankee fandom, it's “wait
until next year.”

Posted on Oct 29, 2004

Through Dec. 19
Mandeville Gallery in Nott Memorial
“A Soldier's Eye: Europe 1944 — Photographs by
Irving Shapiro”
Opening reception Thursday, Oct. 21, 5 p.m.
Screening and discussion of Casablanca at 7 p.m. in Old Chapel.
For more information, visit http://www.union.edu/Gallery/ or call (518)
388-6004.

Ongoing:
Grant Hall (Admissions)
“Spain Through Other's Eyes” (España a través de otros ojos) by Mary Annese '05. Photographs
taken during term abroad with Prof. Pilar Moyano, this 17-photo exhibit
explores Spain,
the food and the light.

Posted on Oct 29, 2004

Thursday, Oct. 28, 6 p.m.
Old Chapel
Screening and discussion of film, General Della Rovere (1959), with Prof. David Baum. Part of film
series accompanying “A Soldier's Eye” exhibit in Mandeville Gallery.

Friday, Oct. 29,
1:30 p.m.
Arts 313
Jazz workshop with trombonist
Frank Darmiento '67. Also performing with Prof. Tim Olsen
and others at 4
p.m. at Blue House and local club
date on Saturday. (See story this issue)

Friday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m.
Nott Memorial
Union Pumpkin Fest with display of 150 student-carved
pumpkins, refreshments and a costume contest for kids.

Friday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Men's hockey vs. Mercyhurst

Friday, Oct. 29, through Monday, Nov. 1, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus
Center Auditorium
Movie: Anchorman

Saturday, Oct. 30, noon
Garis Field
Women's soccer vs. Nazareth

Saturday, Oct. 30, 1 p.m.
Frank Bailey Field
Football vs. St. Lawrence

Saturday, Oct. 30, 2 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. Rensselaer

Saturday, Oct. 30, 2:30 p.m.
Garis Field
Men's soccer vs. Skidmore

Saturday, Oct. 30, 5:30 p.m.
Frank Bailey Field
Field hockey vs. Brockport

Saturday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Men's hockey vs. Lowell

Sunday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m.
Garis Field
Women's soccer vs. St. John Fisher

Sunday, Oct. 31, 3 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Union College Choir, Victor Klimash, con., presents “Music
for an Autumn Afternoon.”

Friday, Nov. 5, through Monday, Nov. 8, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus
Center Auditorium
Movie: The Village

Tuesday, Nov. 2, noon
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Faculty colloquium presents Prof. George
Gmelch on “The Changing World of Professional Baseball.”

Thursday, Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m.
Everest Lounge
Philosophy Department Speaker Series presents Thomas Scanlon of Harvard University on “Blame.”

Tuesday, Nov. 2, noon
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Faculty colloquium presents Prof. George
Gmelch on “The Changing World of Professional Baseball.”

Thursday, Nov. 4, 6 p.m.
Old Chapel
Screening and discussion of film Stalingrad [Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?]
(1958), with Prof. Wilfried Wilms. Part of film series accompanying “A
Soldier's Eye” exhibit in Mandeville Gallery.

Posted on Oct 29, 2004

“A Soldier's Eye: Europe
1944 — Photographs by Irving Shapiro” runs through Dec. 19 in the Mandeville
Gallery.

In 1944 Irving Shapiro of Glens
Falls was a soldier in the midst of the Second World
War. But he was also a man with a camera, and the photographs he took during
the first months after the Normandy invasion are a remarkable record of the
people and places he encountered in that period of turmoil and upheaval.

Also on exhibit are artifacts and
images of Union College's
experience with on-campus Navy officer training during the later years of WWII,
known as the V-12 Program, featuring research by Jeff Roffman '05.

During the exhibition, an evening
film series on World War II in Europe, organized in
conjunction with the History Department, will be held on alternate
Thursdays in Old Chapel.

Remaining films are:

— Oct. 28, 6 p.m. – General
Della Rovere (1959), post-screening discussion with Prof. David Baum;

— Nov. 4, 6 p.m. – Stalingrad [Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?]
(1958), with Prof. Wilfried Wilms; and

— Nov. 11, 6 p.m. – Sahara
(1943), with Prof. John Cramsie.

Posted on Oct 29, 2004

Trombonist
Frank Darmiento '67 will conduct a jazz workshop on Friday, Oct. 29, at 1:30 p.m. in Arts 313 and do two performances with area musicians.

He will
perform with a trio of Capital District musicians, including Union professor
and pianist Tim Olsen, bassist Pete Toigo, and drummer Pete Sweeney at a Jazz
Happy Hour on Friday, Oct. 29, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Blue House. Darmiento will appear with Olsen, Sweeney,
and bassist Ray Jung on Saturday, Oct. 30, from 8
to 11 p.m. at Yours Jazz Club on Barrett Street in Schenectady.

Darmiento,
a composer, arranger and performer in both jazz and classical worlds, is a
winner of the 2003 Dallas Wind Symphony brass fanfare competition, principal
trombonist with the San
Marcos (Ariz.) Symphony and lead trombone for the Glendale (Ariz.) College Big Band. The CD Sudden Impact, released
by Summit Records in 2004, features Darmiento's quartet in six of his original
jazz compositions and treatments of jazz standards by Mancini, Mercer, and Van
Heusen.

A
graduate of Union's mechanical engineering program, Darmiento went on to
earn an M.S. in Environmental Engineering. He serves as the manager of the Transportation Research Center at the Arizona Department of Transportation.