2002-05-11: Trip to Union College:
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- Spatial and Temporal Variability of Spring Sediment Plumes Offshore of the Yukon Delta, Alaska from 1998-2001 By Margaret Kostro’02 Geology/Biology ID (Joan Ramage, Advisor)
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- PGK Art: The Union College campus centerpiece, the 16-sided Nott Memorial (1875), is a center for lectures, conferences, exhibits and study. It is named after Eliphalet Nott, who was president of the College from 1804 to 1866, the longest tenure of any American college president.
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- PGK Art: Mother & Daughter … Student & Teacher
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- PGK Art: St. John’s the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church; built across the street from the front gate to Union College in 1899-1904. Designed by architect Edward W. Loth, its high, sharp-pointed arches and gables and clustered columns stamp its architecture as unmistakably gothic. The altitude from the ground to the ball surmounting the spire and supporting the cross is a trifle over 220 feet. The principal tower rises from the center of the structure. It is 12-sided and rests upon a 12-sided lantern or clear story. There are also 12-sided smaller towers, one at each corner of the building, spanning a height of 120 feet.
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- PGK Art: Memorial Chapel at Union College was constructed in 1926 to honor Union graduates who lost their lives in World War I.
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- PGK Art: West College at Union College — named for its geographic location, West was built to house the post-World War II expansion of student enrollment.
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- PGK Art: Schaffer Library at Union College. Schaffer Library houses some 550,000 volumes, including nearly all of the materials purchased to create the first College library in 1795. “First Purchase” books are housed in the library’s Special Collections, which also contains many other treasures added to the library’s collections over the years. Among the College’s most prized possessions kept in Special Collections are an elephant folio edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, which the College purchased directly from the artist; the original Ramée drawings for the campus; the Trianon editions of William Blake’s works; the original College charter.
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- PGK Art: Reamer Campus Center — built in the early 1900s as a home for the Engineering Departments.
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- PGK Art: On the right is the Nott Memorial; on the left is the Old Chapel — built in the 1800s, Old Chapel once served as the chapel and meeting hall for students. Today it serves as student social space. The Rathskellar, a campus restaurant, is located there.
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- PGK Art: Schaffer Library at Union College
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- PGK Art: Nott Memorial at Union College. Union College, founded in 1795, is an independent, coeducational, undergraduate liberal arts college. One of the oldest nondenominational colleges in the country, it was the first college chartered by the Regents of the State of New York and the first liberal arts college to offer engineering (1845).
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- Krysia & Malgosia
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- PGK Art: Tennis courts at Union College. Union offers an extensive program of intercollegiate, intramural, club, and recreational sports. Intercollegiate competition for men is offered in baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, and indoor and outdoor track; and for women in basketball, crew, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, and volleyball. Union is a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the New York State Women’s Collegiate Athletic Association (NYSWCAA), and the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association (UCAA).
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- Krysia & Malgosia
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- PGK Art: 20U — 20 Union Avenue, across the street from Union College — off-campus student housing. Approximately 80 percent of the students live on campus. The majority of those who reside off campus live in apartments within walking distance. Housing options include residence halls, co-ops, theme housing, and fraternities or sororities.
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- PGK Art: McKean House was built in 1927 as private housing for Professor Horace McKean and his wife. Since 1981, the house had been occupied by several fraternity organizations. Union College is referred to as ‘the mother of fraternities’ because many fraternities, including the first three in America, as well as three other national fraternities, were founded there. More fraternities have been founded at Union than at any other college or university. The Union Triad is a name given to the first three Greek letter social fraternities with a continuing record founded in America. They were the Kappa Alpha Society (1825) (the oldest fraternity in the nation), Sigma Phi (1827) and Delta Phi (1827).
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- PGK Art: Union College participated in the Women’s Soccer NCAA tournament from 1999 through 2003 before winning its first-ever Eastern College Athletic Conference Upstate New York Championship in 2004, then returned to the NCAA’s and hosted first and second-round games. Union hosted the first and second rounds again in 2006. During the 2002 season, many of the women soccer players resided at 20U.
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- PGK Art: Decent college student housing requires a place to party.
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- PGK Art: The common room at 20U
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- Somebody’s art.
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- PGK Art: The hallway in the Geology Department at Union College
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- Malgosia
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- Malgosia & Krysia
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- Krysia & Malgosia
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- Malgosia
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- Malgosia & Krysia
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- Malgosia
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