Alex Turchick '41 and Head Agent, Paul Mara '41 received the 1995 Bicentennial Cup on behalf of their class.
Each year, we recognize individual classes with the following awards for extraordinary levels of Annual Fund support. The real winners, though, are the students and faculty who benefit from your generous support. Special recognition for the 1995-96 Annual Fund goes to:
Bicentennial Cup
For the highest combined annual, capital and planned gift dollar total Class of 1933 with $1,393,073
John Lyons, Head Agent
Class of 1930 Bowl
For the highest percentage participation in the ten most recent classes Class of 1986 with 36.16% participation
Janice Thompson, Head Agent
Class of 1944 Award
For the most Terrace Council members
Class of 1969 with 23 Terrace Council members Daniel Aronzon and Harold Krupa, Co-Head Agents
Clowe Stevenson Wyatt Prize
For the highest percentage participation in the four most recent classes and Senior Fund
Class of 1995 with 30.96'% Michelle Spaziani, Head Agent
Dixon Ryan Fox Cup
For highest percentage participation (for a class that has not yet celebrated its 50th Reunion)
Class of 1953 with 83.97% John Moses, Head Agent
William Jaffe Cup
For the largest Annual Fund dollar total Class of 1967 with $116,530
Peter Levine and Robert Sussman, Co-Head Agents
Richard Steinwurtzel `72 on his pledge to support the restoration of the Schaffer Library: “As a Union student, and now as an attorney, I value the resources of an excellent library. Union is taking the right steps to renew its academic centerpiece. The library renovation and expansion plans are the right combination of technology, design, and study space. The facility will be vastly improved for use by Union students and faculty. I hope others will join me
in pledging to this important project.” Mr. Steinwurtzel is a partner with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, D.C. and New York City and has recently been appointed to the College's Trustee Board of Advisors.
Larry Hollander and Jean Victor '97 the 1995-96 Hollander Bicentennial Scholarship recipient
The Lawrence J. Hollander Bicentennial Scholarship represents a special gift to Union from one of our own, Dean Emeritus Larry Hollander. Reflecting his life-time devotion to engineering education, Hollander created the scholarship in recognition of Union's Bicentennial and has continued his gifting to create an endowment of over $130,000 thus far.
After serving in World War II, Hollander graduated from New York University College of Engineering in 1961 benefitting from the G.I. Bill. He went on to a distinguished academic career including teaching positions at New York University, an appointment to the position of Secretary to the State Board of Examiners of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (his signature can be found on thousands of New York EE. licences), Associate Dean at Cooper Union, followed by his 19861993 career at Union College.
During the last eighteen years Hollander has served as Director of Fellowships for the Tau Beta Pi Association (national engineering honor society), reviewing tens of thousands of applications for engineering fellowships. “It was during my years counseling students, that I developed a keen sense of the struggle these students had for the finances to complete their education,” Hollander said. He added, “I believe that through my scholarship, I will continue to assist engineering students well into the next century and beyond.”
The College extends special thanks to Larry Hollander for his contribution as a professor and his lasting gift to aid future Union students through his scholarship.
Long time Schenectady residents, Dr. Jonas Fleminberg `31 and his wife, Edith, have enjoyed many a stroll on the Union College Campus and are happy to be contributors to the Schaffer Library. They remember that in the days Jonas was a Union student and Edith attended State Teacher's College of NY (now SUNYA) the library was located in the Nott. Except for dental schooling in the early 30's and military service from 1940-1945, the Fleminbergs have lived in Schenectady and operated a dental practice here until the late 1970's.
In appreciation of their generous gift towards the remodeling of the Schaffer Library, a special plaque with the names of Dr. Jonas and Edith Fleminberg will be placed in the Phi Beta Kappa room in the renovated library.
