Harold Hanson Receives Educational Achievement Award

Harold C. Hanson ’63, who has twice served as president of SUNY’s Confederation of Alumni Associations, has been given the 1998 Educational Achievement Award by the system’s Council for University Affairs and Development (SUNY/CUAD), the professional development organization for more than 600 professionals on SUNY’s 64 campuses.

Its board of directors praised Hanson as one of SUNY’s most active volunteers in presenting the award at SUNY/CUAD’s annual meeting in Alexandria Bay in June.

Past recipients include the late Governor Nelson Rockefeller; past chancellors Ernest Boyer and Clifton R. Wharton; and former chairs of the SUNY Board of Trustees Donald M. Blinken and Elisabeth L. Moore.

Hanson, who earned his B.A. from the University in 1963 and a J.D. from Albany Law School in 1966, has served almost continuously on the University’s Alumni Association Board of Directors since joining it in 1977. A life member of the Association, he served as vice president from 1985-87 and president from 1987-89. Since 1991 he has been counsel to the board.

In addition, Hanson has been a member of the University at Albany Foundation board of directors since 1984 and provided leadership for Albany’s recently completed Campaign for Albany. The Alumni Association awarded him its Excellence in Alumni Service Award in 1991 for his "sustained leadership and service."

An expert in real-estate law who has been cited in The Best Lawyers in America, he is a partner in the Albany law firm of Hinman, Straub, Pigors and Manning.