Posted on Sep 17, 1999

Friday, Sept. 17, through Monday Sept. 20, 8 and 10 p.m.

Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.

Film committee presents The Mummy.

Social Sciences Lounge.

Opening reception for German artist Gerlinde Grossmann, showing 17

abstract paintings through Oct. 10.

Reamer 203.

Workshops on “Portfolio Tuning and Maintenance During Your Working

Years” with Robert Berenis of Kurchner Capital Management. Seating

limited. To reserve, call Human Resources at ext. 6108.

Memorial Chapel.

Pianist Boris Berezovsky opens the Schenectady Museum-Union College

chamber music series with program to include works by Rachmaninov, Chopin,

Scriabin and Prokofiev.

Nott Memorial.

Joseph Ellis, the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke

College, on “Why Jefferson Lives: A Meditation on the Man and the

Myth.” His talk is the first of four this fall in the Perspectives at

the Nott lecture series. (story this issue)

Memorial Chapel.

Pianist Boris Berezovsky returns with cellist Dmitry Yablonsky for pieces

by Bach, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov.

Arts Atrium.

“The Time Between Dogs and Wolves: Paintings and Field Studies by

Keith Jacobshagen and Harry Orlyk.” Opening reception Sept. 30 from

4:30 to 6 p.m.

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial.

“An Exact Spectacular,” drawings by Ed

Rogers and sculpture by Henry Turner. Curated by

David Greenberger, writer, publisher, performer, NPR commentator.

Posted on Sep 17, 1999

Joseph Ellis, the Ford Foundation Professor of History

at Mount Holyoke College, speaks on “Why Jefferson Lives: A

Meditation on the Man and the Myth” on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 7:30

p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

His talk is the first of four this fall in the

Perspectives at the Nott lecture series.

A nationally-recognized scholar of American history from

colonial times through the early decades of the republic, he is the author

of six books including American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas

Jefferson, winner of the 1997 National Book Award in Nonfiction. The

book has been the subject of great critical and public interest as it

explores the complexities of Jefferson's character and the central role

of his political philosophy in the unfolding of the American experience.

Other lectures in the Perspectives at the Nott series

are Victor Fazio '65, former Congressman, on “Rekindling Faith in

Public Service in the Quest for the Common Welfare of the Next

Millennium” on Oct. 7; actor Fred Morsell in a character portrayal,

“Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass” on Oct. 27; and Houston

Baker, a specialist in American and African-American literature on

“Turning South Again – Rethinking Black Modernism” on Nov. 4.

All lectures start at 7:30 p.m. For more information,

call ext. 6131.

Posted on Sep 10, 1999

Katha Pollitt, feminist author, poet, and columnist for The Nation will give a talk titled “Why I Hate Family Values” on Monday, October 27 in Union College's Nott Memorial at 7:30 p.m.

Pollitt's “Subject to Debate” column appears every other week in The Nation and has been called by the Washington Post “the best place to go for original thinking on the left.” The column is also frequently reprinted in newspapers across the country.

Critics have raved about Pollitt's book, Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, published in 1994. The New York Times Book Review said: “Funny and furious … Pollitt takes on the most compelling issues of our day concerning the sexes and turns them upside down. Along with her razor-sharp wit and her impatience with sound-bite solutions, what sets Ms. Pollitt apart from other feminist writers is her concern for social justice …. Cunning and complex.”

Pollitt is the winner of several writing awards, and her essays and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Harper's, and The New York Times, among others.

The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception, sponsored by the Women's Commission of Union College, will be held in Old Chapel immediately following the talk. The sixteen-sided Nott Memorial is located at the center of campus and parking is available on campus and on nearby sidestreets.

For more information, call 388-6131.

Posted on Sep 10, 1999

Augusta A. Schwab, a longtime trustee of the College, died Aug. 12 at her

home in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

A graduate of Smith College, she was involved in many community

activities in the Schenectady area before moving to Bryn Mawr in 1993,

including the local chapter of the American Red Cross, the Girls Club, the

Child Guidance Center, the Carver Community Center, the Junior League, and

the Fort Orange Garden Club.

She was elected to Union's board in 1978 and became a trustee emerita

in 1986. She was a devoted supporter of crew at Union, and one of the

College's racing shells is named the “Augusta A. Schwab” in her

honor.

Her family has extensive connections to the College. Her father, the Rev.

H. Laurence Achilles, former director of religious education at Union, was

the major benefactor of Achilles Rink. A brother, the late H. Laurence

Achilles, Jr., graduated from Union in 1938, and a grandson, Peter,

graduated in 1993.

Posted on Sep 10, 1999

Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial presents the exhibition An

Exact Spectacular – drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture by Henry Turner

through Oct. 17.

The show is curated by writer, publisher and collector David Greenberger

of Greenwich, N.Y.

Included are about 120 drawings by Rogers and 49 small-scale wood

sculptures by Turner. Both are “self-taught” or

“outsider” artists with no formal artistic training; their

motivation and frame of reference differ considerably from that of

mainstream, schooled artists. Both men are in their 70s; Rogers lives in a

nursing home near Boston, and Turner was last known to be living in

Schenectady.

Greenberger, called a “stand-up sociologist” by Rolling

Stone magazine, has spent two decades recording observations and

comments by nursing home residents and publishing them in his magazine The

Duplex Planet. He also has been a commentator on National Public Radio's

All Things Considered.