Posted on Mar 13, 1998

Friday, March 13, 8 p.m., Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Zen
Master Fukushima Roshi speaks on “Free in Zen.”

Sunday, March 15, 8:15 p.m., Memorial Chapel. “A
Conversation with Serge and Beate Klarsfeld” opens Lessons for Humanity. (Story)

March 15 through April 23, Nott Memorial. French Children of
the Holocaust and Of Light Amidst the Darkness – The Danish Rescue.

Monday, March 16, 8 p.m., Memorial Chapel. Pianist Wu Han,
violinist Pamela Frank and cellist Yeesun Kim perform Haydn's Trio in A major,
Hoboken XV: 18; Schumann's Trio in d minor, Op. 63; and Beethoven's
popular “Archduke Trio” in B-flat major, Op. 97.

Tuesday, March 17, 8 p.m., Memorial Chapel. Pianist Mitsuko
Uchida, violinist Mark Steinberg and cellist Peter Stumpf perform an all-Mozart program to
include Trio in G Major, K. 564, Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502, and Trio in E
Major, K.542.

Thursday, March 19, 8 p.m., Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Film
Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941 to 1944 and discussion. Part of the Lessons
for Humanity series.

Through April 5, Arts Atrium. Then to Now: Former Photography
Students Exhibit Recent Works.

Posted on Mar 13, 1998

Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, who have devoted their lives to bringing to justice the perpetrators of Nazi terror and to remembering their victims, on Sunday will inaugurate Lessons for Humanity, the Holocaust remembrance series running through April 23 at the College.

On Sunday at 7 p.m., the Klarsfelds will open a powerful and moving
exhibition titled French Children of the Holocaust. Based on Mr. Klarsfeld's
1,800-page book of the same title, it chronicles the short lives of thousands of French
children sent to their deaths in Nazi extermination camps.

The Klarsfelds will receive honorary degrees at a convocation Sunday at
8:15 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. They will hold a conversation moderated by Prof. Stephen
Berk, an authority on the Holocaust, and President Roger Hull.

On Monday, March 16, at 9 a.m. in Union's Nott Memorial, the
Klarsfelds themselves will lead tours of the exhibit for students from Gloversville and
Cambridge high schools. Students from dozens of other area schools will tour the exhibit
in the weeks ahead, with trained docents from the area as their guides.

This exhibit, and other programs in Lessons for Humanity are
aimed at teaching the lessons of the Holocaust to students two generations removed from
it. A study guide will be available to help teachers and students continue in the
classroom their discussions about prejudice, racism and intolerance.

Serge Klarsfeld is a Jew who as a child just missed being sent to
Auschwitz. Beate Klarsfeld is the daughter of a soldier in Hitler's army. In 1972,
the Klarsfelds determined that a businessman in Lima, Peru, was Klaus Barbie, “the
butcher of Lyon.” Barbie received a life sentence.

Today the Klarsfelds are witnesses at the trial of Maurice Papon, a
cabinet minister in the French government until 1981. He is the highest Vichy official to
be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

The Klarsfelds' visit will launch six weeks of Holocaust exhibits,
films, discussions, and observances culminating in Day of Remembrance services April 23. A
complete schedule appears in this issue.

Also featured will be a photo exhibit titled Of Light Amidst the
Darkness — The Danish Rescue, which features photographs by Judith Ellis
Glickman. In 1992 the Thanks to Scandinavia Foundation commissioned her to photograph
Danish resistance leaders, rescuers, survivors, and sites relating to the Resistance.
Glickman will give a gallery talk on April 14 at 8 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

Lessons for Humanity is presented by Union College and the
Holocaust Survivors and Friends Education Center. Major support is provided by an
anonymous donor from the Union family.

Posted on Mar 10, 1998

Pianist Wu Han, violinist Pamela Frank and cellist Yeesun Kim will perform as a trio on Monday, March 16, at 8 p.m. in Union College's Memorial Chapel.

This is the trio's tenth annual appearance in the Schenectady Museum-Union College chamber music series. Since first performing at Union as a trio 10 years ago, each of these artists has found her own international career, but each year they find one day to return to Union as a trio and give a unique concert for this Series. This year the program is to include Haydn's Trio in A major, Hoboken XV: 18, Schumann's Trio in d minor, Op. 63, and Beethoven's popular “Archduke Trio: Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97.

Pianist Wu Han is one of today's most talked-about classical artists and has garnered a reputation as a performer whose impassioned music-making and thrilling style are bringing new life to the concert stage. She has performed at New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum; Washington's Kennedy Center and Library of Congress; Boston's Symphony Hall and Cleveland's Severance Hall. The Washington Post has called her a “firebrand pianist, in the spirit of a young romantic.”

American violinist Pamela Frank, an internationally-famed soloist and recording artist, has established an outstanding international reputation across an unusually varied range of performing activity. In addition to her extensive schedule of engagements with prestigious orchestras throughout the world and her recitals on the leading concert stages, she is regularly sought after as a chamber music partner by today's most distinguished soloist and ensembles. Highlights for this season include the world premiere of a new concerto by Ellen Taafe Zwilich commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, where she will perform with Hugh Wolff and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

Cellist Yeesun Kim, a native of Seoul, Korea, is a founding member of the Borromeo String Quartet, which won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1991. Since then, the group has performed at many prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center and Jordon Hall in Boston. Yeesun Kim tours with the Borromeo Quartet and also gives frequent concerts with violinist Nicholas Kitchen, her partner in the Quartet as well as in marriage.

Memorial Chapel is located near the center of the Union Campus. Parking is available on campus and on nearby sidestreets.

Tickets, at $15 each ($7 for students), are available in advance at the Schenectady Museum (518) 382-7890 and at the door at 7 p.m. For more information, call 372-3651.

Posted on Mar 6, 1998

John Sowa, professor of chemistry, attended the course,
“Laser Safety: Hazards, Inspection and Controls,” given by the Laser Institute
of America. Sowa is laser safety officer for the College.

John Boyer, associate professor of biology, has published
“Nearly Optimal Foraging in Patches Under Nutrient Constants” in the October
1997 issue of the journal Biological Bulletin.

Donald Rodbell, assistant professor of geology, presented a paper
(with Jeremy Newman '97) titled: “A continuous record of Holocene El Niño
events preserved in a laminated lacustrine sediment core from southern Ecuador” at
the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in October in Salt Lake City. The
paper also was presented at a special session on climate records from the tropics at the
annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December in San Francisco. Rodbell in
October delivered the Parents' Weekend Lecture at St. Lawrence University titled
“Global Climate Change: An Example from the Andes Mountains of Peru and
Ecuador.”

Posted on Mar 6, 1998

Zen Master Fukushima Roshi, abbot of the Tofukuji Zen Temple in Kyoto, Japan, will present a sampler of Zen Buddhist practices in seminars from March 12 through 14.

On Friday, March 13, at 8 p.m. in Reamer Campus Center Auditoriumm he will give a lecture titled “Free in Zen.”

For more information, call 347-1847.