A record 1,000-plus people will converge on campus today through Sunday for the annual celebration of Union’s graduates. There’ll be festivities and activities galore.
President Stephen C. Ainlay and the Board of Trustees will dedicate Breazzano House, honoring David J. Breazzano ’78. The ceremony and reception will take place at the former Orange House Thursday, May 31, 5-6:30 p.m.
A 35th anniversary luncheon will unite the pioneering women graduates of the Class of 1972 Friday, June 1, 11:30 a.m. in Upper Class Dining Room at Reamer Campus Center. Those attending include Susan (Mullaney) Maycock, Margaret “Meg” (Patterson) Green, Camile (Avakian) Price, Mary John Boylan and “Kin” Andrea (Flagg) Bolz.
An Engineering awards reception will honor six outstanding individuals on Friday, June 1, 3:30 p.m. at Beuth House. They are: Jonathan Comeau ’97, Electrical Engineering, principal electrical engineer for Tyco Electronics; Richard Fateman ’66, Computer Science, professor of computer science at University of California at Berkeley; Lisa Freed ’86, Civil Engineering, a civil engineer and landscape architect for Brown & Brown; Lawrence Hollander, dean of Engineering emeritus; Ivan Kaminow ’52, Electrical Engineering, retired scientist with Bell Labs; and Samuel Tolkoff ’96, Civil Engineering, director of business development for Foster-Miller, an advanced robotics and health sciences firm.
A lecture and conversation with mystery crime writer Kerrie Ticknor Droban ’87 will be held Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m. at Emerson Auditorium in the Taylor Music Center as the culmination of the Alumni Writers Series. On Saturday, June 2, at 1:30 p.m., Droban will lead an informal discussion about her work in Wold House.
The College will honor four alumni and one faculty member Saturday, June 2, 11 a.m. at the Alumni Convocation at Memorial Chapel. The Alumni Council will present the Alumni Gold Medal to Lee Davenport ’37, Joseph Hinchey ’47 and John Temple ’67, all former Trustees of the College.
New York City Attorney Mark Zauderer ’67 will receive the Eliphalet Nott Medal, which recognizes the perseverance of alumni who have attained distinction in their field. Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music and internationally recognized composer, is to receive the Faculty Meritorious Service Award.
Also on Saturday, Aaron Feingold ’72, a cardiologist in Edison, N.J. and collector of historical artifacts, will present two treasures to the College at the Terrace Council and Ramée Circle Society Reception, 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the Nott Memorial.
Feingold will give President Ainlay a first edition of Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity” and an original manuscript that was part of a four-part lecture that Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Union professor of engineering and renowned scientist, gave on Einstein’s theory. The Steinmetz manuscript is dated November 1921. Einstein visited Steinmetz in Schenectady that year, the same year he won the Nobel Prize in physics.
Also on tap for ReUnion are a get-together with an award-winning brewer, a chemistry symposium, a production of Aristophanes’ great comedy, “The Birds,” a Minerva footrace, alumni parade, Saturday night fireworks and more.
Throughout the weekend, four of the College’s most prized possessions, plates from the “Birds of America” collection of engravings by John James Audubon, will be on display on the first floor of Schaffer Library.
Want to learn more? For complete details, visit www.union.edu/reunion.