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Williams Club offers Union membership

Posted on May 1, 1994


Union alumni interested in affiliate membership in the the Williams Club of New York have until June 30 to enroll at reduced entrance rates.



The club is located three blocks south of Grand Central Station between Park and Madison Avenues. Alumni may call the club's membership secretary, at 212-697-5300, or write or visit the club at 24 East 39th St., New York 10016.

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Letters

Posted on May 1, 1994

Remembering Blue Moore

Remembering Blue Moore


What a surprise when I turned the last page of the January Union College and saw the story about Harold Moore, the Garnet footballer killed while playing college football in the early 1900s. It brought back memories.



I arrived on the Union campus in 1946 after three year in the United States Navy. I had hoped to try out for the football team under coach Mel Hein, the former great of the pro New York Giants. He was a center and so was I. It never happened. I was required to attend Freshmen Camp. While there I broke my leg playing “touch” football.



Back on campus navigating on crutches and the football season approaching, I was getting edgy.



About then the campus radio station posted a notice that they would hold auditions for play-by-play announcers. With my association with the game through junior and senior high schools and the Navy, I decided to give it a try. I was picked to be the play-by-play announcer. It was an experience. With color man Bill Porter we traveled to many sites off campus to broadcast the action. This then extended to basket­ball, and I was also asked to do a sports show every Friday.



I wanted to add something extra to the show rather than constantly reviewing college football games at all levels being played the following Saturday. I decided on a history of the sport at Union. I spent a lot of time in Nott Memorial reading yearbooks, college publications, and old local papers. It was then I came across Harold “Blue” Moore. After I wrote my script and aired it, reaction was interesting. There were many on campus not aware of this facet of the game and its effect on foot­ball overall. Even some off-campus homes picking up our signal commented. As for play-by-play and the Harold Moore story, I was hooked.



It was the beginning of more than forty-one years in radio sports and broadcasting from minor league for the St. Louis Cardinals to the Miss America
Pageant in Atlantic City.



I didn't become wealthy, but I did meet and rub elbows with the power makers in this country. I retired in 1990 to spend more time with my patient and enduring wife. I never forgot how and why it began-campus station WRUC and the Harold Moore story. 


Alan Raber '50 Bethlehem, Pa.

Remembering the alcove


The most recent issue of your fine magazine held great interest for me regarding the Nott Memorial Building. I have “libraried” there, acted there, generally “goofed off' there, and, all in all, loved the ambience of the old place.



In the interest of accuracy, however, I must call to your attention the caption under the picture on page 14, “The reading room in 1936….” The Chi Psi alcove was not installed until the fraternity's 100th birthday, which was 1941. Therefore, the reading room picture has to be at least five years older than acknowledged.



It's a small point, but I thought you might like to know the whole truth.



John C. Alberts '44 Barrington, Ill.

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The growth of UCALL

Posted on May 1, 1994

UCALL leaders: President Roger Hall, retired New York Supreme Court Justice D. Vincent Cerrito '39, and Michael Suprunowitz, a lawyer who has taught UCALL courses on wills and estates.


Since its start in 1988, the Union College Academy for Lifelong Learning (UCALL) has grown to a vital program that attracts more than 100 members each term.



From its beginnings, the academy has had one focus-to bring academic subjects to older learners. Today, cultural excursions, special programs (such as a cooperative venture with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra), and seminars in such areas as literature and history are all part of UCALL.



Each UCALL term has several semi­nars, generally ten hours each. At some seminars, UCALL members lecture and lead the discussions; at others, members coordinate speakers, who have included lawyers, religious leaders, artists, journalists, and conservators of historic artifacts.



The strong involvement of members as leaders is a major difference between the UCALL of 1988 and the present version. Early seminars were taught by members of the UCALL advisory board and retired Union professors. The move to peer instructors began in 1990, after several UCALL representa­tives attended a “Learning in Retirement” conference and saw how to use the expertise available in the membership. That fall, four of the six UCALL seminars were taught or coordinated by members



Today, UCALL is affiliated with the Elderhostel Institute Network. Anyone wanting more information is invited to call the UCALL office at 518-388-6638.

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College helps volunteers

Posted on May 1, 1994


College employees who serve their communities as volunteer firefighters or emergency medical personnel may leave work with pay to assist in an emergency under a new policy approved by President Hull.



The policy, proposed by an employee committee, requires approval of a supervisor to ensure that the employee's absence will not create a hardship. About a dozen employees are affected.

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Trustees approve increases

Posted on May 1, 1994


The Board of Trustees has approved increases in tuition, room, board, and fees that will bring total charges in 1994-95 to $25,126.



Tuition will be $18,732; room will be $3,297; and board, considering the freshman food contract price, will be $2,907. The student activity fee will be $190.

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