Posted on Jul 1, 1997

The baseball team set a Union record with its eighteen victories and qualified for the ECAC Upstate New York Tournament for the first time since 1987.

Union hit.338 as a team while scoring 253 runs. Three players batted over.400-junior outfielder Jeremy Lamb (.440), sophomore third baseman Todd Ellis (.422 and a team-leading 30 runs batted in), and senior second baseman Eric Kujawski (.417). Kujawski, a three-year starter, ended his career with a .337 batting average in 103 games.

In their tournament appearance, the Dutchmen dropped an 8-6 decision to number one ranked Binghamton to finish the year at 18-16.

Both the men's and women's lacrosse teams finished third in the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association (UCAA).

The men's team was 3-2 in the league and 4-9 overall, narrowly losing three games. Attackman Dave Parrott had his third straight 30-point season and finished his career with 84 goals and 123 points. Junior attackwoman Lauren Pastor scored 47 goals to tie the College's single-season record; her three-year total now is 109. The team finished 3-3 in the league and 5-7 overall.

The softball team lost ten games by two runs or less to finish the year 9-23-1. Sophomore Shannon Lawlor led the team in hitting with an average of.356.

The men's tennis team finished 5-6 and will lose only one senior. Sophomore Jordan Pinsker was 8-5 and freshman Josh Winograd was 7-6. The team was fifth of seven in the UCAA tournament.

In men's track, freshman Brian Roy finished fourth of fourteen in the decathlon at the New York State meet with a total of 5,450 points. Senior Dave Riggi placed in the top three in both the 100meters (with a time of 11.13) and 200-meters (22.5) and ran on the 400-meter relay team, which placed fourth with a time of 43.57. The women's track team saw two firsts this
spring its first pole vaulter (Jordanna Mallach, a freshman who vaulted six feet in competition), and its first steeplechaser (Charity McManaman, a sophomore who had a time of 9:55.39).

Posted on Jul 1, 1997

In mid-May the College announced that it would build a $400,000 rowing team boathouse on the Mohawk River in the Stockade area of the city of Schenectady.

It is hoped that the boathouse will be ready for the fall rowing season, when the men's and women's crews become varsity sports. The sixty-foot by
eighty-foot structure will be capable of storing twenty-four racing shells. For several years the crew club has been sharing space in the adjacent town of Niskayuna with several other rowing organizations.

President Roger Hull had been discussing a site for a boathouse with the city and several neighboring communities. He says he decided on the Stockade location because it will be an anchor for future riverfront development.

The site is behind a public swimming pool. The city agreed to maintain the area in a
park-like manner, to enhance security throughout the neighborhood, and to sell the pool to the College should the time come when the pool is no longer used.

Posted on Jul 1, 1997

The H. Gilbert Harlow Civil Engineering Equipment Fund has been named in honor of Gil Harlow, professor of civil engineering from 1940 to 1993 and still active as an emeritus professor and informal campus gardener.

The endowed fund was created through gifts from Elizabeth McMath, widow of Francis C. McMath '46; Harlow himself; and alumni, faculty, and friends of Harlow and the civil engineering program. Fund earnings
will be used to purchase and upgrade scientific equipment and instruments.

For more information on making gifts to honor Prof. Harlow, contact Debra Balliet, director of development, at (518) 388-6166 or via e-mail at ballietd@alice.union.edu.

Posted on Jul 1, 1997

The College has received
several bequest distributions as well as other planned gifts totaling $843,852 during the past few months.

The gifts include:

A second partial distribution from the estate of Laura Auer in the amount of $530,000. Mrs. Auer, a friend of the College, designated that the proceeds of her estate be used for mechanical engineering scholarships in memory of her father, Christian Steenstrup.

A charitable gift annuity from Paul E. Newcomer '47. n Participation in the Union Pooled Life Income Fund by Henry Horstman '28. Ultimate purpose of the gift will be the Henry J. Horstman '28 Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Final distribution from the estate of Neil Reynolds '24.

A distribution from a pooled life income arrangement made with J. Dawson Van Eps '28.
Part of the distribution is unrestricted, with the rest to be used for the Yulman Theater.

Other recent gifts to the College include:

A pledge and a subsequent gift towards that pledge by John Wold '38 for the Schaffer NEH.

A gift from Stanley G. Peschel '52 for the benefit of the Schaffer Library renovation.

Real estate from Richard Hurst '48.

Luriston Bronze Age artifacts from Professor of Biology Carl J. George.

Posted on Jul 1, 1997

As the magazine went to press, the 85th Annual Fund had reached $3,163,250 from 11,056 donors. The figures represent 91.8 percent of the dollar goal of $3,444,000 and 94 percent of the alumni donor goal of 9,249.

Year-end figures will be reported in the next issue of Union College.

Posted on Jul 1, 1997

The Walsh Classroom, a new electronic teaching classroom for first-year engineering students, has been named to honor Bruce '60 and Margo Walsh. The classroom is designed to allow groups of students to work as teams in approaching project and design problems. The Walshes previously established the Maurice C. Walsh
Memorial Scholarship and the Ruth E. Walsh Memorial Scholarship in memory of Bruce's parents.