Posted on May 26, 2000

Friday, May 26, through Monday, May 29, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
Film committee presents Cider House Rules.

Friday, June 2, and Saturday, June 3, 8:02 p.m.
Yulman Theater.
Proctor's Too presents Mump & Smoot in “Something Else.”
Tickets are $15 ($10 for students). For tickets and information, call ext.
6545.

Through May 28.
Yulman Theater.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin, directed by Jon Galt. Admission is $7
(students/seniors $5). For tickets and information, call ext. 6545.

Through June 11.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial.
Exhibition featuring art works by Union College seniors.

Posted on May 26, 2000

Kevin
Klose, president and CEO of National Public Radio, will be honorary
chancellor and deliver the main address at Commencement on Sunday, June
11, at 10 a.m. in Library Plaza.

Klose is to receive an honorary doctor of humane
letters.

A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent
with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and
international broadcasting executive. Prior to joining NPR in 1998, Klose
served successively as director of U.S. International Broadcasting,
overseeing the U.S. Government's global radio and television news
services (1997-98); and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),
broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1994-97).
Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio Liberty,
broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages.

Prior to RFE/RL, Klose was an editor and reporter at The
Washington Post for 25 years. His various positions at the newspaper
included city editor; Moscow bureau chief; Midwest correspondent; and
deputy national editor.

Klose received a bachelor of arts degree, cum laude,
from Harvard University. A former Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, he
serves on the Board of the Eurasia Foundation in Washington. He is author
of Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society, winner of
the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award; and co-author of four
other books.

Other events during Commencement weekend include a
reception for seniors and their families with President Roger Hull on
Saturday, June 10, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

The Baccalaureate Commemoration will be Saturday, June
10, at 5 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

Posted on May 26, 2000

If you missed Kim Rohback '00 in any of her previous
eight stage appearances – or somehow missed her many appearances at
Prize Day — there's still time to see her in her last role as Germain
in Picasso at the Lapine Agile at the Yulman Theater.

Rohback, winner of the Josephine Daggett Prize to the
senior of the best character and conduct, has been nothing if not busy
during her four years at Union.

A political science major and Japanese minor from
Pittsburgh, her Union resume is one long list of student activities:
Mountebanks; president of Amnesty International chapter; president,
treasurer and head delegate of the International Relations Club; president
and member of Coffeehouse; co-editor of Ethos; a regular at a
number of Thurston House activities; term abroad in Japan.

“I wanted to get everything I could out of my four
years here,” she says. “Wherever there were opportunities, I
took them. I like school. I like to learn.”

Among her other prizes were the Oswald D. Heck—Irwin
Steingut Prize to the student who has consistently done the best work in
political science; the meritorious service award, President's Commission
on the Status of Women Senior Scholarly Activity Award; and the Horatio G.
Warner Prize, to the senior of high personal character with the highest
standing in the bachelor of arts program.

Rohback plans to attend law school this fall, and hopes
to earn a Ph.D. in political science to teach at a college like Union.

Posted on May 26, 2000

Carmine's Table, a cooking
show with chef Carmine Spiro, had an unusual guest for a show taped last
week: the president of Union College.

Roger Hull joined Spiro in the preparation – and
eating – of dishes that included a chicken pasta dish and swordfish, two
entrées the president admitted he wouldn't have made himself.

As usual, the show was as much focused on discussion as
on food, the topic for this show being community revitalization. So, in
between adding the blood oranges and browning the chicken, Hull explained
things like the Union-Schenectady Initiative and a revitalized downtown.

The show is to air Wednesday, June 14, at 11 a.m. on
Channel 13, WNYT.

Posted on May 26, 2000

William Finlay, associate
professor of theater, has been named artistic director of the Saratoga
Shakespeare Company, premiering in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs this
summer. The fully-professional company, funded in large part by the State
of New York, will open with Twelfth Night on August 9 and play for
two weeks. The cast will include veterans of Broadway and several students
from Union College who will be serving as interns during the summer.

Walter Hatke, May I. Baker
Professor of Fine Arts, is exhibiting “interior” works through
June 17 at the MB Modern Gallery, 41 East 57th St., New York City.
A reception with Hatke is set for Saturday, June 10, from 1 to 5 p.m.
Also, two of his oils – one of paper, one on canvas – will be in
“Landscape Show” during the month of June at the John Pence
Gallery, 750 Post St., San Francisco. Hatke has just completed a
commissioned 3- by 4-foot oil on linen of a three-person historical
subject for Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a work that was
donated by the former president and CEO of American Express. Also, Hatke
served recently as visiting critic and reviewer at Yale University's
School of Art and Architecture.

Maritza Osuna, visiting
instructor of Spanish, has published an article in the Journal of
Educational Computing Research (Vol. 22 No. 3) titled “Promoting
Foreign Culture Acquisition Via the Internet in a Sociocultural
Context.”

Fuat Sener, assistant
professor of economics, presented a paper, “Minimum Wage Effects on
Unemployment and Growth in the Global Economy” this month at the
Midwest International Economics Meetings. He also is author of a
forthcoming article, “Schumpeterian Unemployment, Trade and
Wages,” in the Journal of International Economics.

Charlotte Eyerman, assistant
professor of visual arts, gave a lecture “Images of the Piano in
Impressionist Painting and 19th-century French Popular Art” at the
Smithsonian Institution this month in conjunction with “Piano 300:
Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos.”

Posted on May 26, 2000

John I. Garver, associate professor of geology, has
been awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's
Office of Polar Programs to continue work in the tectonic evolution of the
Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.

This project, directed by Garver, is in association with
long-time collaborator and geologist Mark T. Brandon (Yale University).
The title is: “Collaborative Research: Cenozoic Evolution of the
Aleutian-Kamchatka Junction.”

The research builds on work that Garver and Brandon have
done in Kamchatka since 1993. The focus of the new project is the tectonic
evolution of Kamchatka for the last 45 million years.

Their previous work documented the timing of a terrane
collision where a far-traveled chunk of continental crust started at about
the equator and rode oceanic plates thousands of kilometers north to the
collision zone in Kamchatka. The discovery that this collision occurred in
the Eocene (about 45 million years ago) opened up theories that the
collision changed the plate tectonic configuration in the Pacific Ocean,
resulting in the formation of the Aleutian Islands. This finding is being
published in the Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.

The new project builds on that idea and investigates the
post collision events that led up to the modern-day setting of the
Aleutian-Kamchatka Junction.

This summer the Union-Yale research team plans a
five-week field program on remote Karaginski Island off the east coast of
Kamchatka. The Union team will include Garver and geology major Jason
Lederer '01. They will be accompanied by Russian colleagues A. Soloviev
and G. Ledneva (Institute of the Lithosphere, Moscow) as well as a Russian
geologist from the Institute of Volcanology and Petrology (Petropavolvsk-Kamchatski,
Kamchataka).