A special concert to honor Professor Emeritus of Music Hugh Allen Wilson in his 80th birthday year as conductor emeritus of the Glens Falls Symphony will be held on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 400 Glen St., Glens Falls. Allen is also the church's organist/director emeritus.
Charles Peltz will conduct the “King of Instruments” concert, which will feature Poulenc's “Organ Concerto” with Paul Jacobs, soloist, and Saint- Saëns' “Organ Symphony” with K. Bryan Kirk, organist. Wilson retired after the 1995-96 academic year, his 34th at the College. For tickets, contact http://www.glensfallssymphony.org/.
Judith Lewin, assistant professor of English and member of the programs in Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies, gave a paper at the 31st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in Austin, Texas.
“Sublimity, Virginity, Infinity: Balzac's Belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene Aux Camélias” describes Honoré de Balzac's Jewish courtesan, whom he marks with symbols of a paradoxical “sexual virginity.”
Alan Taylor, the Marie Louise Bailey Professor of Mathematics, has published a book titled “”Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation” (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Also appearing this fall is the seventh edition of “For All Practical Purposes” (Freeman), of which Taylor is one of seven authors, and two journal articles: “A Paradoxical Pareto Frontier in the Cake-Cutting context” (Mathematical Social Sciences) and, with Nikhil Srivastava '05), “Tight Bounds on Plurality” (Information Processing Letters). Srivastava is doing Ph.D. work at Yale University.
A third paper by Taylor, “Borel Separability of the Coanalytic Ramsey Sets,” is forthcoming in a special volume of the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic.
Stephen C. Ainlay, Union's president-elect, will come to campus for a daylong visit on Wednesday, Nov. 16.
All faculty, staff and students are invited to a welcoming address at 10:30 a.m. in Memorial Chapel.
“This is a terrific opportunity for all of us to meet the College's next president, and Stephen's first real opportunity to share his thoughts about his upcoming tenure,” said Jim Underwood, interim College president.
“We look forward to the first day of what promises to be an exciting new era for the College.”
Ainlay, vice president for academic affairs and professor of sociology and anthropology at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., was named the 18th president of Union College on Oct. 25 after an extensive national search.
He will assume the presidency in June 2006.
A campus-wide email, with more details about the visit, will be issued shortly.
Carol S. Weisse, professor of psychology, and Robert V. Wells, professor of history, will conduct a new mini-term aboard the Half Moon, a full-scale replica ship from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage, in June. The program (TAB 169) is suitable for all majors, particularly those students with an interest in history, environmental science, or sailing and navigation, and it can count toward Gen Ed science, as well.
Twelve students will be selected to participate. They will learn first hand about the challenges faced by 17th century explorers while living on the square-rigged tall ship; they'll carry out the same duties performed 400 years ago by Hudson's crew.
“This interdisciplinary program offers a unique chance to master sail handling, study crew behavior, engage in navigational exercises, chart weather patterns and study the Hudson River watershed,” says Weisse. “Our goal is to sail out on the ocean to the Delaware River, Connecticut River and along the Hudson.”
She noted that the ship is the one that will appear in the forthcoming New Line Cinema movie, “New World,” featuring Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Wes Studi and David Thewlis. (see http://www.learnstuff.com/learn-about-the-new-world/ ).
ON DECK: Prof. Carol Weisse is pictured aboard the Half Moon.
Last year, without any formal training in cooking, Weisse spent 16 days as a cook on the Half Moonwhile the ship and crew sailed to Virginia to be filmed in the epic Hollywood adventure about the settlement of the Jamestown colony.
“I came back with an interest in history, Henry Hudson and the early Dutch settlements in the Albany area. This mini-term program was something I felt compelled to organize given the incredible experience I had,” said Weisse, who is also director of the College's Health Profession Program.
“I'm also excited that Prof. Bob Wells agreed to serve as co-instructor, as it will give me a chance to work with someone from another division, with whom I would normally not work.”
The Half Moon, also known as the New Netherlands Museum, hosts educational programs along historical and environmental themes.
The Union mini-term will run from June 8-24, 2006, beginning and ending in Verplank, N.Y. Applications are due by 5 p.m., Jan. 20, in the Terms Abroad Office, HU 211. For more information, contact Weisse at weissec@union.edu.
