Civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson is
to speak on Monday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.
Members of the Union community may pick up a ticket with college ID for this
campus-only event.
Faculty and staff may get tickets from Central Scheduling. Students may get tickets at
Reamer Campus Center Atrium.
“The Kidnapping of Free Blacks,” a panel discussion as part of the
“Twelve Years a Slave” exhibit, will take place on Friday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m.
in the Nott Memorial.
Margaret Washington and Carol Wilson, author of Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of
Free Blacks in America will speak.
Meanwhile, the opening reception for the other part of the dual exhibit on the American
slave experience – “Powre Above Powres: Passing Freedom,” an installation
by artist Terry Adkins — has been rescheduled for Feb. 4 at 4:30 p.m. Inclement
weather last week forced the postponement.
The exhibits run through March 14.
A number of events to be presented throughout the exhibit will be detailed in future
editions of the Chronicle. .
Men's basketball travels to Princeton University for a Monday game
against an Ivy League power coached by a son of Union, Bill Carmody '75.
The non-league game will be broadcast live by WRUC (89.7 FM) starting with a pre-game
show at 7 p.m.
Carmody is in his third season as the Tiger's head coach, compiling a record of
61-10. A three-year starter at Union, he scored 722 points over a 68-game career, an
average of 10.6 per game. He was on the ECAC championship team his senior year.
Union last played Princeton in basketball in 1920, a 25-22 win.
Read MorePatrick Allen, director of educational studies, has been appointed to the
28-member state Education Department's Professional Standard and Practices Board. The
board, which succeeds the former Teacher Certification and Practices Board, will provide
consultation and advisory services to the Regents and commissioner of education on issues
including teacher education, certification and practice.
Robert Fleischer, research professor of geology, is author of a paper titled
“Tracks to innovation – interplay between science and technology of nuclear
track etching” in New Astronomy Reviews (No. 42, 1998).
Paul Gremillion, assistant professor of civil engineering, presented a paper,
co-authored by Donald Rodbell, assistant professor of geology, on the results of a
sediment core from the bottom of Ballston Lake, which spans the last 2,000 years.
Donna Burton, associate professor, reference librarian, has published a review
of “Great American Web Site: Citizen's Guide to U.S. Government Resources on the
World Wide Web” (www.uncle-sam.com) in the May/June 1998 issue of Journal of
Government Information. She has reviewed, also in JGI, “The 1998 Web Site Source
Book: A Guide to Major U.S. Businesses, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions and Other
Information Sources on the World Wide Web.” This resource combines the functions of
phone directory, address book and Internet guide.
At the start of this century, before even the telephone, people sent
postcards like we send e-mail today. “I'll see you on Saturday,” was
typical postcard scrawl.
Many of those messages were scribbled on postcards that featured buildings and scenes
of the Union campus.
Lance Spallholz, instructor of computer science, has been finding these little pieces
of Union history tucked away in antique stores as far away as Crisfield, Md.
Now, he's sharing his hobby over the Internet. His homepage (http://tardis.union.edu/~spallhol/postcards)
features the Union postcards he has collected for a decade.
His site gives a glimpse of the postcards he has found: South College, the Nott
Memorial (then called Memorial Hall), the old Washburn Hall. The cards date from about
1906 to 1920. Many were printed or hand-colored in Germany.
A postcard of the Nott Memorial carries the message, “Here is one of the great
buildings where many great men have received their learning.”
On a 1908 postcard of South College the sender wrote, “X marks Harry's room
where we are having a fun time, but most too strenuous for me.”
Some of the messages are poignant, like this one on the back of a postcard of South
College: “If your father had a good memory, he could tell you what a good time he had
here.”