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Professor Brenda Wineapple: About Those Steins

Posted on Mar 15, 1996

With publication of her new book — a dual biography of Gertrude and Leo Stein — due next month, Brenda Wineapple will give her colleagues a glimpse of what it was like
to research and write about the brother-sister team that collaborated on many of the great art and literary adventures of the early 20th century.

Wineapple, the Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies will discuss her upcoming Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein in a faculty colloquium on Tuesday, April 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center auditorium.
Coffee and tea will begin at 4 p.m.

During her more than six years of research, Wineapple discovered a wealth of new and rare material — an early Gertrude Stein manuscript, reports of her medical career, and never-before-examined papers of Leo's. Also along the way, Wineapple discovered a few of
the eccentric Leo's paintings with an art dealer who “didn't know what he had,” and she urged a reprinting of his 1947 Appreciation, for which she wrote an introduction.

Wineapple's book is the first completely researched biography of Gertrude Stein in two decades, and the first book ever written about Leo. In 1989, Wineapple wrote an acclaimed
biography, GenĂȘt: A Biography of Janet Flanner about the Paris correspondent to the New Yorker. It has been reprinted twice.

A member of the College's faculty since 1976, she earned her B.A. from Brandeis University, and her master's and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

She has authored a number of articles on 19th and 20th century American and British literature and authors.

Among her fellowships and awards, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and was named a Donald C. Gallup Senior Fellow in American Literature at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which holds many of the
Stein manuscripts.

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Scoreboard

Posted on Mar 1, 1996

Women's Basketball (5-19)

Skidmore 59, Union 47

Union 61, Rensselaer 50

Men's Basketball (6-19)

Skidmore 78, Union 49

Rensselaer 70, Union 61

Middlebury 82, Union 65

Nazareth 85, Union 68

Hockey (6-18-4/3-14-3)

Vermont 4, Union 1

Union 3, Dartmouth 2

Cornell 5, Union 1

Colgate 3, Union 2

Women's Swimming (4-4)

State Meet: 4th of 16 teams

Men's Swimming (7-1)

State Meet: 1st of 17 teams

Women's Track (0-1)

UCAA Meet: 4th of 4, 12 pts.

State Meet: 12th of 13, 4 pts.

Men's Track (0-1)

UCAA Meet: 3rd of 4, 33 pts.

State Meet: 6th of 15, 43 points

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Men’s Swimming Takes State Title, Again

Posted on Mar 1, 1996

The men's swim team captured its second consecutive state title last weekend, and in the process qualified eight swimmers for NCAA nationals.

The team won 13 of 20 races, including ten relay races, to win with 1,453 points. Hamilton was second with 1,283, Hartwick third with 1,128. Sixteen colleges participated.

What Coach Judy Wolff described as a “total team effort” resulted in 18 of 19 swimmers setting career bests and all 17 designated scorers earning points.

Junior Mike Humphreys was named “Swimmer of the Meet” by winning the 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke. Junior Kevin Makarowski won the 200 IM, the
100 butterfly, and the 200 butterfly.

Meanwhile, on dry land, the men's indoor track team had its 4 x 800 relay team capture a state title. Mike Leding '96, Nick Conway '97, Peter Flynn '99 and Seth Rudin '96 won
the relay in 8:04.41. The same relay team took second place in the distance medley relay. For women's indoor, freshman Jessica Goveia took fourth place in the 1000 meter run with a
time of 3:14.8.

And on the ice, two exciting overtime wins have brought women's hockey to a 5-6 record and a shot at a .500 season.

Sarah Moss '98 scored both Union goals, including the overtime winner, in Friday's win over Holy Cross. But the next day against Skidmore, junior captain Kristen Hoffman, matched Moss' feat, scoring both Union goals, the last to break a double overtime tie.

Coach Tim Benson '99 also credits the wins to goalie Lauren Locke '99, who was “huge in goal.”

The season concludes with a game at Troy Academy on Sunday, March 3, at 3 p.m.

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Zen Master On Campus March 8, 9

Posted on Mar 1, 1996

The Rev. Keido Fukushima, head abbot of Kyoto Rinzai Sect and Zen Master of Tofukuji Monastery in Japan will be on campus for three events on March 8 and 9.

Fukushima, author of Zen is a Religion of “mu” and Free Mind: the Advancement of “mushin,” will conduct a calligraphy demonstration on Friday, March 8, at 3:30 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center auditorium. That evening, at 8 p.m., he will give a lecture titled “Empty Mind in Zen,” also in the Reamer Campus Center auditorium. On Saturday, March 9, at 11 a.m., in Old Chapel, Fukushima will lead a Zen meditation.

Fukushima's appearance is sponsored by the Asian Student's Union, Modern Languages and Literature, the Philosophy Department, East Asian Studies and Internal Education Fund.

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Memorial Held For Trustee Louis Miltimore ’29

Posted on Mar 1, 1996

A memorial service was held Feb. 10 for Louis D. Miltimore '29, a retired investment banker and longtime trustee and treasurer who died Feb. 2 at his home in Hanover, N.H.

Miltimore, a partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. in New York City, retired in 1979.

Survivors include his wife, Frances of Carmel, Calif. Union relatives include his brother, the late Dean W. Miltimore, Class of 1950; and his son, L. Dean Miltimore, Class of 1974. His wife of 38 years, the former Constance Lurich, died in 1987.

He earned his bachelor's degree in economics at Union. While a student, he served as editor of Concordiensis. He was a member of the German Club, Lambda Chi Alpha honor society, and Phi Delta Theta fraternity. As an alumnus, he served as alumni trustee from 1953 to 1957, a life trustee until 1979, and then trustee emeritus. He served as treasurer of the College from 1959 until 1970, and was elected to chair the finance committee in 1965.

He received a distinguished service award from Union in 1970, and the Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding service in 1974.

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