Posted on Feb 18, 2000

Jonathan
Spence, one of the foremost authorities on the history and politics of
modern China, will deliver the main address at the Founders Day convocation
on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 11:30 a.m. in Memorial Chapel.

Spence's talk, “Researching China: The Past and the Present,”
is free and open to the public.

He is to receive an honorary doctor of letters degree.

Spence, the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, is the
author of more than a dozen books on modern China including The Gate of
Heavenly Peace, China in Western Minds and a new biography of Mao
Zedong.

A frequent contributor on Chinese issues for a number of national news
outlets, he is a frequent source for Time, the New Yorker, CBS
News and PBS. When Deng died, Spence wrote a historically-framed one-page
obituary for Time. He also wrote a review of entrepreneurship in
China for The New Yorker, and conducted a two-week seminar on China
for executives of CBS.

His books also include The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western
Minds, A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of
Twentieth-Century China, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly
Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan and The Death of Woman Wang.

Union's Founders Day convocation, celebrating the 205th anniversary of
the College's founding, will include an academic procession and the
presentation of the Gideon Hawley Teacher Recognition Award by four students
to their former high school teachers.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

Vision & Discovery, an exhibition of works by photographers Michael Hochanadel, Gail Nadeau, Lou Snitkoff, Marie Triller and Mark Van Wormer, opens Friday, Feb. 11, at Union College's Arts Atrium.

The show, free and open to the public, will have an opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 17, from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

The exhibition contains 50 photographs. It was curated by Martin Benjamin, professor of photography at Union College.

Gallery hours are daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 388-6714.

Hochanadel lives in Schenectady and works as a senior consultant with Sawchuk, Brown Associates in Albany and as a contributing writer for The Daily Gazette, where his column about popular music has appeared weekly for many years. His pictures are made with a 4×5-inch view camera and black and white film and are about his family and friends. He has received numerous awards for his photography and work on public relations and development projects.

Nadeau is an Albany photographer and will be exhibiting 18×20-inch color prints, mostly comprised of recent work about girls from the ages 6 to 10 years. She has exhibited her photographs in 13 one-person shows and has received many awards for her work. In 1991 she was the recipient of a Photographers' Fund Fellowship from the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York. Her previous one-person exhibitions have included the Center Galleries, Siena College and Russell Sage College.

Snitkoff lives in Schenectady where his serious pursuit of photography began while he was a student at Union College. His work has previously been exhibited at Union, the Schenectady Museum and other venues including last year's one-person show at Nisk-Art Gallery at Niskayuna High School. He has been a very active member of the Schenectady Photographic Society. His primary interests in photography include color landscape, architecture and studio still life. Although he excludes people from these images, “visual clues within the scenes speak clearly of a human presence,” he says.

Triller exhibits her work both regionally and in national group shows. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York City including one-person exhibits at both Synchronicity Space and Gallery 402 and group exhibitions at the National Arts Club, Soho 20 Gallery, and the Westbeth Gallery. Triller has a master of fine arts degree from SUNY New Paltz and has work included in the collection of the Women in Photography Archive in California. She has taught photography at Voorheesville High School, Union College, Albany College of Pharmacy and other places. She will be showing recent color work in this exhibition.

Van Wormer teaches art and photography at the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. He has received awards for his photography including the 1998 Photography Regional at the Center Galleries, which was judged by photographer Thomas Roma. He often utilizes an inexpensive “toy camera” and makes his pictures in black and white.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

The faculty meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 15, has
been cancelled, it was announced by Therese McCarty, chair of the Faculty
Executive Committee.

The next meeting is set for Thursday, March 2, at 12:30
p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.

Meanwhile, faculty are to vote shortly on a revised
proposal for procedures for promotion to full professor. Ballots are to be
counted in about two weeks, McCarty said.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

Jan. 31, 2000

1. The minutes of Jan. 17, 2000 meeting were corrected
and approved.

2. Professor Kimmo Rosenthal, acting director of the
Academic Opportunity Program, came to discuss the AOP summer program and
course credit. Specifically, credit for courses in mathematics and
cultural reading and writing were discussed.

3. Professor Therese McCarty, chair of the Faculty
Executive Committee, joined us to discuss AAC committee size.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

Among recent gifts received by the College, Elizabeth
Burch of Fairfax, Va., has made a gift toward the Gary Burch '62 MD
Endowed Scholarship.

Other gifts include:

— A pledge of $100,000 from Gustave Davis M.D. '59 of
Orange, Conn., toward the Milton Blatt Endowed Scholarship Fund;

— A bequest from the estate of Helen R. Henshaw for the
Elmer Tidmarsh Scholarship Fund;

— A gift from Ruth Ann Meyer of Stamford, Conn., toward
the John Wells Meyer and Kevin M. Meyer Endowed Scholarship;

— A gift of $30,000 from the Jerome A. Schiff
Charitable Trust of Wellesley, Mass., in support of programs in
undergraduate research;

— A gift of $25,000 from the Dr. Scholl Foundation of
Chicago toward the CAUSE Loan Fund; and

— A gift of $30,400 from Eugene P. Vehslage '49 of
San Diego to an endowed scholarship in his name.