Outside Information: A Site-Specific Sound Installation by Stephan Moore
Moore, a composer, audio artist and sound designer in New York City, uses the complex acoustics inside the Nott Memorial to transform the building’s interior into a dense wilderness of small, shifting sounds.
“Contemplating Peace: Corpse Pose,” 2008, digital construction from pinhole paper negatives, 22” x 7” by artist Katharine Kreisher, on display at the Mandeville Gallery July 10 through Sept. 28, 2008 as part of SNAP!, a group exhibition of five contempo
Through Sept. 28
Mandeville Gallery
Nott Memorial
“SNAP! Contemporary Photography”
Features the unconventional photographic treatments and approaches of five contemporary female photographers: Sally Apfelbaum, Nora Herting, Katharine Kreisher, Melinda McDaniel and Lynn Saville.
Through Oct. 21
Wikoff Student Gallery
Nott Memorial
Optical Union
Photographs by Meghan Haley-Quigley ’08, Rui Fen Huang ’08, Tobias Leeger ’09, Steven Leung’08, Lauren Muske ’07, Jonathan Scheff ’11 and Juneui Soh ’08, taken from final portfolios from spring 2008’s Photography 3 class taught by Professor Martin Benjamin. The focus of each student’s portfolio ranges in subject and style, from documentary images to portraits to abstractions.
Knackers Yard, installation by Prof. Anthony Cafritz
Through Dec. 1
Visual Arts Building
Burns Atrium Art Gallery
Knackers Yard
Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Anthony Cafritz’s recent installation of seemingly disparate materials that “attempts to describe the current state of things.”
Union NASA NY Space Grant Summer 2008 stipend recipients are, from left, John Robens ’09, David Barker ’09 and Daniel Barringer ’11.
Three Union students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy were engaged in advanced, hands-on research recently as part of Union’s new membership in the NASA NY Space Grant Program.
“The program gives our students opportunities to participate in research in space-related fields at Union and affiliate institutions and to apply for national Space Grant Consortium internships at NASA centers,” said Rebecca Koopmann, associate professor of physics and astronomy, who is administering grant activities at the College.
NASA NY Space Grant is headquartered at Cornell University under the direction of Yervant Terzian and has 20 affiliate members across New York state.
This summer, John Robens ’09 worked with Koopmann on a project titled “Searching for Optical Counterparts of Galaxies and Tidal Streams Detected by the ALFALFA Survey.”
He analyzed images obtained at Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile, via the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System, to search for possible optical matches of galaxies detected at radio wavelengths at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
“The research I did furthered my understanding in physics and astronomy by leaps and bounds. I came in with some very basic knowledge, and I left with moderate and even some advanced knowledge in the field,” said Robens.
John Robens ’09 presents the results of his research at the Union College Summer Seminar Series.
“I learned more than I could have hoped for this summer, not only about physics and astronomy, but also about research in general,” he added. “My work helped to further the overall research goal, and my results were helpful in limiting the brightness of possible optical matches.”
David Barker ’09 and Daniel Barringer ’11 used the Union College Observatory 20-inch telescope in their research with Professor and Observatory Manager Francis Wilkin.
Barringer’s project, “Searching for Eclipses of Extrasolar Planets,” targets stars known to have planets to search for slight dimming when a planet passes between Earth and the star.
Barker’s project, “CCD Photometry of Variable Stars and Transiting Planets,” is aimed at tracking how the light output of variable sources changes in time. Barker is continuing the search for extrasolar transiting planets as his senior thesis for his major in physics and astronomy.
NASA initiated the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, known as Space Grant, in 1989 to expand opportunities for Americans to understand and participate in its aeronautics and space projects by supporting and enhancing science and engineering education, research and public outreach.
A war memorabilia collector in Paris recently sent a letter to Union College asking about Dr. Joseph C. Driscoll ’32, a U.S. Army doctor who earned a Bronze Star in World War II for heroism during a 1944 battle in Belgium.
“I have in my collection two World War II identity cards that once belonged to Capt. Joseph Driscoll,” collector Nicolas Charpentier wrote. “Could you please let me know what you know about him and the units he was a part of during the war?”
The U.S. War Department identification card for Joseph C. Driscoll ’32, a U.S.
Army Medical Corps captain who served in World War II from 1942 to 1945 and received a Bronze Star for heroism during the Battle
of the Bulge. Summer 2008, Union College maga
Union College magazine corresponded with Charpentier, uncovered details of Driscoll’s war service and obtained images of his U.S. War Department identification card. The ID card is a symbolic remnant of one Union story among many from World War II, which saw a bit more than 3,000 Union graduates serve and 76 die in military action, according to the Encyclopedia of Union College History. About 1,200 of the alumni who served World War II were part of the U.S. Navy’s V-12 officer training program, though Driscoll, who joined the U.S. Army in 1942 at age 32—nine years after his Union graduation— was not in that program.
After graduating from Union, Driscoll earned a degree from Albany Medical College. In 1938, after a residency at Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital and another surgical residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, he returned to private practice in Schenectady. In December 1942, Driscoll became one of the first physicians in the city to join the war effort after voluntarily enlisting.
After completing a training course in chemical warfare and working as an instructor at Camp McCain in Mississippi, he was drafted to lead a medical corps unit which later saw action during the Battle of the Bulge, according to Schenectady-area newspaper accounts from the mid-1940s.
In mid-December 1944 the German army sent about 200,000 troops into a swath of the Ardennes Forest covering parts of Belgium, Luxembourg and France in a last-ditch attempt to regain control of the war, which had slipped away in the months following the D-Day invasion. The counteroffensive led by U.S. Army Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. became known as the Battle of the Bulge. It lasted through mid-January 1945 and marked a costly but critical victory leading up the German surrender in May 1945, according to the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
The Bronze Star citation issued by the U.S. Army, reads in part: “Capt. Joseph C. Driscoll distinguished himself by meritorious achievement in … operations against the enemy on Dec. 29, 1944 in the area of La Roche, Belgium. During fierce battle action, Capt. Driscoll braved heavy enemy action to supervise the operations of his medical company. When overwhelming pressure on our defense made it necessary to withdraw, he led his men in the movement of 75 wounded to safety.”
The citation was issued by the 7th Armored Division but, while at Camp McCain, Driscoll was assigned to the 87th Infantry Division, 312th Medical Battalion.
Driscoll returned from the war in January 1946 and resumed his private medical practice in Schenectady. He ran that practice for 38 years from his home and office at 1109 Union St., about a half mile from campus. He remained in private practice until 1978, when he became an examining physician for the Workers Compensation Board in Albany.
A year prior to enlisting in the U.S. Army, Driscoll married Dr. Mary Blackmer, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and Albany Medical Center. In the early 1940s, Blackmer was psychiatrist at the Marshall Sanitarium in Troy, N.Y. and later worked at Albany Veterans Hospital. The couple had no children.
Blackmer died in August 2000 and Driscoll a few months later on Dec. 30, 2000. Driscoll left a $1.5 million bequest to the College. The bequest today funds the Joseph C. Driscoll Professor of Sociology and Marine Policy, now occupied by Ilene M. Kaplan, who is also the chair of College’s Sociology Department and a guest investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod.
In this comprehensive guide, Phil Metzger demystifies perspective by presenting it as a matter of mimicking the way we see — like the way a distant mountain appears blue, or a road seems to narrow in the distance. The Art of Perspective offers simple but
The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium
North Light Books
In this comprehensive guide, Phil Metzger demystifies perspective by presenting it as a matter of mimicking the way we see — like the way a distant mountain appears blue, or a road seems to narrow in the distance. The Art of Perspective offers simple but powerful techniques for achieving a convincing illusion of depth and distance, whether it’s a few inches in a still life or miles in a landscape. Metzger has written eight art-related books and teaches watercolor painting in Rockville, Md.
MICHAEL WESCOTT LODER ’67
This work examines the roles that American businesses and photojournalists played in the early marketing of the Japanese–built Nikon camera between 1946 and 1951. Particular attention is paid to the San Francisco–based Overseas Finance and Trading Company
The Nikon Camera in America, 1946–1953
McFarland & Co.
This work examines the roles that American businesses and photojournalists played in the early marketing of the Japanese–built Nikon camera between 1946 and 1951. Particular attention is paid to the San Francisco–based Overseas Finance and Trading Company, which was the major U.S. importer of Nikon products between 1949 and 1953. The work also details the roles of Overseas Finance leaders Hans Liholm and Adolph Gasser in providing marketing and technical guidance to Nikon in the company’s formative years. Michael Wescott Loder is the campus librarian at Ciletti Memorial Library, Schuylkill Campus, Pennsylvania State University. He lives in nearby Orwigsburg.
HARRY WILLIS ’67
Gil Danton, a rugged individualist and outdoorsman, has been scarred by his father’s recent and tragic death. When he goes for a day hike on the Sheltowee Trace trail, he meets Rex Applewhite, college ballplayer and reluctant conformist. Their experiences
Inner Mountain
Lulu
Gil Danton, a rugged individualist and outdoorsman, has been scarred by his father’s recent and tragic death. When he goes for a day hike on the Sheltowee Trace trail, he meets Rex Applewhite, college ballplayer and reluctant conformist. Their experiences together immerse the reader in the natural beauty and danger of the Appalachian and Rockies landscapes. There is humor, introspection, conflict, and ultimately, the moment when each man must make a decision that will determine survival.
ALAN ZIEGLER ’69
The Writing Workshop Note Book
Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press
This book is devoted to making, remaking, and remarking on writing. Animated by a concern for how we relate to our own and others' writing and by a desire to have a felicitous effect on the reader's experience, Alan Ziegler has created a book to aid writing workshops or a solitary writer. Ziegler received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University, where he is Professor of Writing. From 2001 to 2006, he served as Chair of the School of the Arts Writing Division and, from 1988-2001, he served as Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing.
RAYMOND ANGELO BELLIOTTI ’70
Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy:The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond by RAYMOND ANGELO BELLIOTTI ’70. Union College magazine, Summer 2008.
Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy:
The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond
McFarland Publishers
In a book that combines baseball and philosophy, Ray Belliotti points to the uncanny connections between nine baseball greats and the great thinkers of the West. Examples include: The intensity and single-mindedness of Ted Williams breathes life into Camus’ Sisyphus; Billy Martin’s maniacal competitiveness recalls Niccolo Machiavelli’s take on politics, which he characterized as a zero-sum game; the homespun philosophy of Satchel Paige echoes the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius; and the many facets of Joe DiMaggio’s personality cry out for the resolution that Nietzsche’s doctrine of perspectivism might have given. Belliotti is a distinguished professor and chair of philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also the author of seven other books.
MARK BURTON ’87
With ten simple rules, this book demonstrates how managers can deliver healthy profit margins and revenue growth while avoiding excessive discounts. It’s a matter of linking the prices to unique and customized offerings for various types of buyer. The wro
Pricing with Confidence
Wiley Publishers
With ten simple rules, this book demonstrates how managers can deliver healthy profit margins and revenue growth while avoiding excessive discounts. It’s a matter of linking the prices to unique and customized offerings for various types of buyer. The wrong pricing is capable of destroying a company's reputation and revenue. The right pricing immunizes a company against market downturns, cutthroat competitors, and bargain-obsessed customers. Drawing from years of real-world experience as leading pricing strategists, Mark Burton and Reed K. Holden offer the first practical roadmap that shows companies, step-by-step, how to implement smart, appropriate, value-based pricing.
KENNETH J. OROSZ ’90
Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French
Cameroon, 1885-1939
Peter Lang – New York
This comparative study examines how church-state conflicts shaped the evolution of German and French language policy in Cameroon from the dawn of the colonial era to the onset of World War II. In Cameroon these conflicts created a curious inversion in which Protestant, rather than Catholic, missions were portrayed as obstructionist and unpatriotic for using indigenous languages in educational and evangelical work. The situation suddenly reversed itself when, during the mid-1920s, Catholics rethought their commitment to spreading French in the colonies. The result was repeated clashes between colonial authorities and mission personnel up until the outbreak of war in 1939. Kenneth J. Orosz holds a doctorate in modern European history from Binghamton University.
