Posted on Sep 18, 1998

Poet and journalist Karen Swenson will read from her work on Monday, Sept. 21, at 8
p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.

Swenson is the author of The Landlady in Bangkok, which was selected by Maxine
Kumin as a winner of the 1993 National Poetry Series competition. Her poems are lucid,
striking, sometimes disturbing accounts of her travels through Southeast Asia. Her
articles about this part of the world have appeared in The New York Times and The
Wall Street Journal.

Swenson will be in residence on the Union College campus during the week of Sept. 21 as
a participant in the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Program. She will be
visiting classes, and she will meet with students and faculty for a variety of exchanges.
For information on her schedule, call Jordan Smith at ext. 6231.

Posted on Sep 18, 1998

Friday, Sept. 18, through Monday, Sept. 21, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Godzilla presented by Film Committee.

Monday, Sept. 21, 12:15 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Campus discussion on “sophomore rush.”

Monday, Sept. 21, 8 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Poet and journalist Karen Swenson reads from her work.
She is on campus the week of Sept. 21 as Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. (Story this
issue.)

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial. Perspectives at the Nott presents novelist Thomas Mallon, author of Henry
and Clara, which makes frequent references to Union, speaking on “Photography and
Historical Fiction.” (Story this issue.)

Thursday, Sept. 24, noon to 4 p.m.
Memorial Field House. 20th annual Career Festival with over 70 representatives from
employers, graduate and professional schools. For information, call ext. 6176.

Friday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m.
Frank Bailey Field and Nott/Seward Parking Lot.
Homecoming pep rally/bonfire.

Posted on Sep 18, 1998

The College raised a record $26.8 million in gifts for the fiscal year ending in June,
$8 million more than the previous year, said Dan West, vice president for College
Relations.

Meanwhile, the 86th Annual Fund reached a total of nearly $4.2 million, another new
record.

The administrative cost of raising money fell to 6.7 cents per dollar raised, compared
to about 11 cents per dollar the previous year, West noted.

The total for last fiscal year included $388,000 in federal grants, $560,000 in
foundation grants, $7.1 million in realized bequests, and $4.4 million in new or increases
in planned gift instruments.

Within the Annual Fund there were increases in the number of current parents, surviving
spouses and friends who contributed, and in the number of businesses that gave to the
Annual Business Campaign. There were increases in the total amount contributed by current
parents, former parents, non-alumni friends, graduate alumni, surviving spouses, corporate
matches, and by the Annual Business Campaign.

The Annual Fund exceeded its unrestricted goal by about $83,000, its restricted goal by
$119,000 and its overall goal by $622,000 (which includes an in-kind gift of equipment
worth $225,000).

College Relations hosted 99 alumni events in 40 cities around the country. Some 3,000
alumni attended.

The College has raised nearly $8.9 million in additional pledges and gifts since the
conclusion last fall of the Bicentennial Campaign, which raised $151 million.

College solicitors made 1,284 calls last year, an increase of 30 over the previous
year.