Dinners 2010-2011

 

 

 

 DINNER MEETING with TALK

 

Saturday, May 21, 2011

 

   Meeting the challenges of

Living Well in the Community

 

Presented by

 

 

 

  Philip McCallion, Ph.D. ACSW

 

 Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany and co-Director of the Center for Excellence in Aging and Community Wellness.

 

        With a growing population interested in continuing to be active and to live in the community settings they choose there are challenges given chronic illness and late onset disability for some, reduced support of aging-specific programs and a feeling among many older adults that available provision does not meet their needs. This presentation will review innovative program models to support successful aging and the role of university-based researchers both in investigating innovation and in ensuring its effective dissemination.

 

 

 

5:00 to 8:00pm

 Hilton Garden Inn - Albany Airport

800 Albany Shaker Road
Albany, NY  12211



 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 LUNCHEON MEETING with TALK

 

Saturday, January 29, 2011

 

  Southern Life, Northern City:

The History of Albany’s Rapp Road Community

 

Presented by

 

 Jennifer Lemak, Ph.D.

Senior Historian, New York State Museum

 

The Rapp Road Community is a little-known African American Community located in Albany’s Pine Bush. Most of its original residents migrated from Shubuta, Mississippi in the 1930s and 1940s under the direction of a preacher named Louis W. Parsons. This presentation will chronicle the history of the migrants and challenges in preserving the Rapp Road Community’s history.

 

Jennifer Lemak is a Senior Historian and Curator of African American History at the New York State Museum. She earned an M.A. in Public History and a Ph.D. in American History, both at the University at Albany. Her current research includes studying African American migration from the South to New York State’s many industrial centers between 1910 and 1970. Prior to becoming a Senior Historian, Dr. Lemak worked for seven years in the curatorial department at the Albany Institute of History & Art. She resides in Loudonville with her husband and three children.

 

 

1:30 to 4:30 pm

Dakota Steak House

579 Troy-Schenectady Road, Latham NY

 

Registration form

 

   Upper Hudson Phi Beta Kappa

DINNER MEETING with SPEAKER & MUSIC

 

Saturday, October 16, 2010

 

Music in the Works of James Joyce

Presented by

 

Frank Weaver

 

       This presentation will feature historically accurate pieces selected from two CDs, Music from the Works of James Joyce and More Music from the Works of James Joyce (Sunphone Records, 1981 and 2005). Entertaining, educational, and a delight for the ear, this program will appeal to lovers of either literature or music.

       Frank Weaver is an editor, in the Joyce category, for the Open Directory Project, the world's largest human-edited online directory, and the source for Google's own directory.  . He has written screenplays for Paramount Studios, and he has published a volume of poetry, Posy of a Ring

 

 At the

 

Best Western Sovereign Hotel

1228 Western Avenue, Albany

                                                     

 

5 pm bar / 5:30 pm dinner / 6:30 pm speaker

 

              

Reservation Form and Map

                

 

 

 

2009-2010 Speakers and Schedule of Dinner Meetings

 

Spring Meeting Luncheon

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 

1:30 pm to 4:30 pm

 Topic-

“The Saint Lawrence Seaway and Power Project”

 

Speaker:

Dr. Claire Puccia Parham,History Instructor, Siena College

 

"In her slide show and talkDr. Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the largest waterway and dam project ever build by two nations.  In an oral history drawing from first-hand accounts, she portrays the lives of laborers and their wives.”

 

Dakota Steak House       579 Troy-Schenectady Road, Latham NY

 

 

The cost for the luncheon is $23.00. This includes  includes bread, salad bar, starch, beverage, choice of five entrees, and dessert. Reservations are required.  For more information about directions to restaurant, menu choices, reservations, or the slide/talk, call UHPBK Secretary Therese Broderick at 518-482-2639.  Dr. Parham’s website is http://www.clairepucciaparham.com.

 

May Invitation and Registration

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday January 23, 2010 –5:30 PM

 

 Speaker – Michele Angrist-

Associate Professor of Political Science

at Union College   

 

Topic-
“Women and Politics in the Muslim World”
 

Best Western Sovereign Hotel

Western Avenue Albany

 

5:30 - Dinner    6:30 PM - Talk

Dinner Reservations Required.

Call 518-482-2639 before January 16

 

               January Meeting Letter           Reservation form               Map

     

 

Saturday October 24, 2009 --6:00 PM

 

 Speaker – Ron Kermani

Investigative Reporter with the Times Union

 

 

 

Topic—
 “Covering and Uncovering Mayor Corning and the State Capital:  How to Skewer Politicians and Have fun Doing It.”
 
 

Albany Hilton Garden Inn near Albany Airport

 

 

Fall Meeting Letter                    Map and Reservation Form

 

 

2006-2007 Speakers and Schedule of Dinner Meetings

 

Saturday May 5, 2007

 Dr. Robert Donovan

 Professor Emeritus English Department at SUNY Albany

Talking in Codes: How We Converse with Each Other by Indirection

College Park Ballroom, 450 Nott Street Union College, Schenectady, NY

Business Meeting, 4:45 pm. Induction, 5:30pm.  Dinner, 6:15 pm.  Speaker at 7:00 pm.

 

Saturday January 27, 2007

Ms. Karen DeWitt

NPR’s Capital News Correspondent  

Day One: Did Anything Change?
Eliot Spitzer NYS Governor

  Century House Latham NY

 

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Dr. Steven A. Leibo

Professor of Modern International History and Politics at Sage Colleges

The Rise of China and America’s Future

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Russell Sage Dining Hall

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Mr. Ryan Staude

Ph.D Candidate, University at Albany

George Washington's Idea of the Presidency

Hale House, Union College, Schenectady, NY

 

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Mr. Tom Lindsay

Nature Photographer

Feeding and Sheltering Backyard Birds

Mangia Restaurant, Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY

 

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Dr. Warren Roberts

Distinguished Service Professor of History, University at Albany

The Strange Disappearance of van Rensselaer Hall and Other Early Albany Stories

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Russell Sage Dining Hall

Saturday, May 1, 2004

Paul Grondahl

Writer, Albany Times Union

I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt

 

Bavarian Chalet Restaurant, 5060 Western Ave., Altamont, NY

Saturday, January 31, 2004

Lyn Taylor

President, Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce

Founding Member of the Tech Valley Chamber Coalition

Welcome to Tech Valley

Patroon Room, University at Albany

Thursday, November 6, 2003, 4:00 pm

Hal Abelson

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, University at Albany

 "Universities, the Internet, and the Intellectual Commons"

University at Albany

Saturday, October 25, 2003

David Bayley

Distinguished Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany

“Global Trends in Justice and Governance”

Hale Hall, Union College, Schenectady, NY