Posted on Jan 1, 1995

The winter's main event for the College's Bicentennial celebration is Founders Day Weekend on February 25-26.

February 25 is the College's exact 200th birthday. Major events include the Bicentennial Convocation at 10 a.m., complete with an academic procession with representatives from other colleges and universities and a commissioned musical presentation; the rededication of the restored Nott Memorial at 2 p.m. (by invitation); a varsity hockey game against Harvard at 4 p.m.; and an evening Bicentennial Gala in Memorial Field House.

Parties and dinners will be held at more than twenty Alumni Club locations around the country to coincide with the events on campus. Alumni within a
fifty mile radius of Schenectady will be invited to the campus for dinner and the gala. All other alumni are encouraged to attend the party or dinner nearest them, where there will be a one-hour satellite broadcast from the campus
at 8 p.m. EST, including tape from the convocation and the Nott Memorial rededication.

On Sunday afternoon, February 26, there will be a celebration of Union's founding in Schenectady and the historic relationship to the city and the Capital District. The event will begin at the First Presbyterian Church in the
Stockade, move to Memorial Chapel, and end with the first public reception in the restored Nott Memorial.

Coming up in April will be the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, when some 1,500 students and faculty from universities and colleges across the country will come to campus. Classes will be canceled for two days, and there will be almost continuous presentations and poster sessions by students of their research and artistic accomplishments. Speakers will include Dr. Baruch Blumberg '46, former master of Balliol College at Oxford University and winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.

For those planning way ahead, Commencement Weekend will be June 9-11 and Reunion will be June 23-25. All alumni are invited back for the Bicentennial Reunion. Details will be mailed out in the coming months.

For further information about the Bicentennial celebration, contact the Bicentennial Office at (518) 388-6615 or write to the Bicentennial Committee, Administration Building, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. 12308.

If you would like to attend any of the Bicentennial events, you should call a few weeks ahead of time to confirm specific times and locations as well as the availability of seating.