Milestones John J. Litynski, director of campus planning at the College from 1977 to 1989, died July 21 at his home in Scotia, N.Y. He was sixty-four.
A graduate of the State University College of Forestry at Syracuse University, he was a founding principal of The Saratoga Associates, where he directed master planning and building and site projects at more than seventy-five colleges in the Northeast. At Union, he assisted in the management of the College's physical programming, budgeting, and planning.
For his work during his career he received the National American Society of Landscape Architects award and the American School and University award and citation. His professional affiliations included the Society for College and University Planners and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Survivors include his wife, Anne; a son, James; three daughters, Judith Rightmyer, Diane Litynski,
and Carolyn Litynski-Holzman; and four grandchildren.
Women and Union In a project for the College Archives, Gail George is doing research on women connected to Union in anyway from 1795 through 1970-wives, daughters, sisters, custodial and administrative staff, community members, donors, honorary degree recipients-anyone at all.
From this information will come “Minerva's Daughters,” described as a docudancedrama performance, which will be held in the fall of 1997, and a book containing the script and many of the women's stories. Gail is looking for personal accounts, diaries, poems, letters, photographs, and memorabilia of women connected to the College before it became coeducational.
Her address is 603 Wagner Rd., Schenectady, N.Y. 12302; her telephone and fax number is (518) 393-0629.