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 Our noontime dancing was done to recorded music. I remember the slotted mailboxes in the basement hall of Draper. What a thrill I had as a sophomore to receive a letter with the Myskania key insignia on it asking me to be an attendant to the Campus Queen. I spent many hours in the student activities room in Draper basement as a reporter for the State College News. As president of the YWCA, I was given a rickety old desk there when I was a senior. I, too, was a member of Myskania. In 1933, in the depths of the Depression, only 30 of our class of 300 were fortunate to get teaching positions. I worked in the placement office under Dr. John Sayles and was the first to get a contract that year. What a wonderful education for life we received at State! J. Louise Styn Borland, B.A.'33 Thornton, Colorado THE REAL BEGINNINGS: Albany-Siena Basketball The basketball rivalry between Albany and Siena actually started much sooner than you indicated (UAlbany, Fall 2001). I was a member of the Albany basketball varsity team from 1939 through 1942. Around 1939 a small Catholic college opened in Albany and was called Siena. As I recall, we played them in 1939 in what I believe was a practice game and had no trouble beating them. The next year, my junior year, we played them in a regular game and they beat us quite badly. I'm not sure whether we played them again my senior year or whether the rivalry continued after I graduated and went into the Air Corps. Henry "Hank" Brauner, B.A.'42 Los Altos, California Editor's note: Hank Brauner
was a co-captain with Bill Dickson on the 1941-42 team and played for
Coach Elliott Hatfield.
Gregg Zachary is a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal based in San Francisco and has reported from 25 countries in the past five years. He is the author of a book about managing multiculturalism, The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge. |
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ast week (Sept. 18, 2001), while
experiencing the shock and grief of national tragedy, I received my
fall copy of the UAlbany magazine. How exciting it was to read the article
and to see the pictures of the soon-to-be-renovated downtown campus.
I have always loved those beautiful Georgian buildings. I was at college
from 1931 to 1936, the fifth year getting my master's degree in English
while serving as counselor at the "new" dormitory on Ontario Street.
Yes, we did know personally nearly every student and faculty member,
and my college friends and I have agreed through the years that we received
excellent liberal arts educations, as well as teacher training.
sually when I receive a magazine,
I read it and then discard it. After I read the fall issue of UAlbany,
I read it and reread it and then decided to keep it as a souvenir! As
an old-timer with a lot of good memories of the downtown campus, I especially
appreciate the photos. 
ongratulations on the 10th anniversary
of the University at Albany magazine. I am sure that hundreds of thousands
of alumni have enjoyed it as much as I have. I enjoyed so much your
outstanding article, "The Downtown Campus: Glorious Legacy, Proud New
Role," and was very proud to be included as one of those you interviewed.
The Randall Perry/Sean Farley picture of "my" campus made a beautiful
cover.
y dear wife, Wilma Nuber Cutler,
B.A.'53, warmed to your article about the downtown campus. She wished
she could completely remember the campus layout. Do you have an old
map? Wilma is lucky. The college I attended tore down old buildings
and mowed down block after block of the City of Newark. Together with
another university, there is now a completely new university complex,
but with no memories.
hen I was with the School of
Criminal Justice, we were one of the first groups to "re-use" the downtown
campus. It was and, I am sure, still is a great place to work and study.
The photos in your article are just beautiful. I recall a time when
President O'Leary called me and said we would be moving to Draper Hall.
I said, "Do we really have to go downtown?" But after having a say in
the designing of our school area and having settled in, I called him
back and said "thank you."
read with great interest your
story on the downtown campus (Fall, 2001), and have fond memories similar
to those expressed by Shirley Passow, Class of '46. I graduated in 1933,
the year the library was reopened in Hawley Hall. We were the first
class to use Page Hall, as I recall.