Posted on Sep 24, 1999

Joseph Ellis, the Ford Foundation Professor of History

at Mount Holyoke College, speaks on “Why Jefferson Lives: A

Meditation on the Man and the Myth” on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 7:30

p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

His talk is the first of four this fall in the

Perspectives at the Nott lecture series.

A nationally-recognized scholar of American history from

colonial times through the early decades of the republic, he is the author

of six books including American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas

Jefferson, winner of the 1997 National Book Award in Nonfiction.

The book has been the subject of great critical and

public interest as it explores the complexities of Jefferson's character

and the central role of his political philosophy in the American

experience.

Posted on Sep 24, 1999

Thursday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m.

Nott Memorial.

Joseph Ellis, the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke

College, on “Why Jefferson Lives: A Meditation on the Man and the

Myth.” His talk is the first of four this fall in the Perspectives at

the Nott lecture series.

Reamer Auditorium.

Film committee presents The General's Daughter.

Memorial Chapel.

Pianist Boris Berezovsky returns with cellist Dmitry Yablonsky for pieces

by Bach, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov in the Schenectady Musuem-College

chamber series.

Reamer Auditorium.

Poet Sandra Maria Esteves, a founder of the Nuyorican poetry movement,

speaks on “Empowering Latin American Women.” Sponsored by

Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc.

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial.

Opening for An Exact Spectacular, drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture

by Henry Turner with curator David Greenberger, writer, publisher,

performer, NPR commentator. Runs through Oct. 17.

Memorial Fieldhouse.

21st annual Career Festival.

Reamer Auditorium.

General faculty meeting.

Arts 215.

Opening for “The Time Between Dogs and Wolves: Paintings and Field

Studies by Keith Jacobshagen and Harry Orlyk.” Through Oct. 15.

Social Sciences Lounge.

Exhibit of 17 abstract paintings by German artist Gerlinde Grossmann.

Posted on Sep 24, 1999

Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial presents the

exhibition An Exact Spectacular – drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture

by Henry Turner.

The opening reception is Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m.

with curator David Greenberger, a writer, publisher and collector from

Greenwich, N.Y.

Included are about 120 drawings by Rogers and 49

small-scale wood sculptures by Turner. Both are “self-taught” or

“outsider” artists with no formal artistic training; their

motivation and frame of reference differ considerably from that of

mainstream, schooled artists. Both men are in their 70s; Rogers lives in a

nursing home near Boston, and Turner was last known to be living in

Schenectady.

Greenberger, called a “stand-up sociologist”

by Rolling Stone magazine, has spent two decades recording

observations and comments by nursing home residents and publishing them in

his magazine The Duplex Planet. He also has been a commentator on

National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Posted on Sep 24, 1999

A cameraman captures the “sun's” reflection of

Ralph Alpher, distinguished research professor of physics, as he watches the

Orrery (a working model of the solar system) in the Nott Memorial on Friday.

Alpher, who developed the first mathematical model of the Big Bang theory,

was filmed last week by a crew from VPRO, a public television station in the

Netherlands that is preparing a show about him to be broadcast next month.

The cosmologist also was featured in the July issue of Discover

magazine.

Posted on Sep 24, 1999

A cameraman captures the “sun's” reflection of

Ralph Alpher, distinguished research professor of physics, as he watches the

Orrery (a working model of the solar system) in the Nott Memorial on Friday.

Alpher, who developed the first mathematical model of the Big Bang theory,

was filmed last week by a crew from VPRO, a public television station in the

Netherlands that is preparing a show about him to be broadcast next month.

The cosmologist also was featured in the July issue of Discover

magazine.