Kathy L. Peiss of the University of Massachusetts will deliver the 18th annual Phi Alpha Theta distinguished lecture on history. It will be held on Thursday, March 26, at the Campus Center Assembly Hall at 4 p.m. The lecture, "American Women and the Making of Modern Consumer Culture," addresses the mass market beauty industry and the cultural meaning of female cosmetics.
Peiss is currently a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, and has written and lectured on American women�s cultural history for 15 years. She has published several books, the latest of which, Making Faces, examines the history of the mass market beauty industry and the changing cultural meaning of cosmetics for American women.
Your Papers May be Our History
Do you have high school or college papers tucked away in a closet? Family photographs in a box or self-stick album? Are you keeping letters � or even E-mail � from your friends? Is old family "stuff" holding up the roof of your attic? Have you ever regretted not taking the time to get Aunt Emily�s reminiscences on tape?
It turns out these kinds of materials are often not only valuable to you, but to your family and your community. They provide essential evidence of our society, our lifestyles and our history, supplying an important element in documenting the life of all New Yorkers, and giving a voice to the real people in history.
So says Kathleen Roe, principal archivist of the Documentary Heritage Program for New York�s Archives and Records Administration. She will speak from noon to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, on "Preserving Your Personal Papers: History is Us," a presentation of the Spring 1998 Community Conversations series sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries. It will be held in the Mary Elizabeth Cobb Library Conference Room (B43), University Library.
Roe will discuss such issues as: deciding what is important to save; organizing personal and family papers; providing safe storage; and deciding whether to place such material in an historical society, library or museum for future research.
Roe has worked for the State Archives and Records Administration since 1979, and since 1990 has been responsible for managing the Documentary Heritage Program. She is a fellow of the Society of American Archivists and recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities-Mellon Fellowships for the Study of Archival Administration ( 1988, 1993, 1996.)
Association Scholarships for Alumni
The Alumni Association will once again present four graduate scholarship awards at the this year�s Honors Convocation. The Alumni Association Scholarships are designed to assist qualified students in graduate work. They are:
� the Agnes E. Futterer Memorial Fellowship ($2, 500), for graduate study in theater or a theater-related field at any accredited institution;
� the Albert N. Husted Fellowship ($2,000), to a candidate with an interest in teaching;
� the Anna Boochever DeBeer Scholarship ($500), to a student pursuing graduate study in criminal justice, public affairs, social welfare or other programs in human relations at Albany; and
� the Class of 1972 Scholarship ($800), for an senior planning full-time graduate study at Albany.
All application deadlines must be received by March 2, except for the Class of 1972 Scholarship, whose deadline is March 27. Applications are available at the Alumni Affairs Office in the Alumni House, the Office of Undergraduate Studies in AD 214, and the Office of Financial Aid in CC B52.
For information contact Tamarra Mitchell-Drexell in Alumni Affairs at 442 - 3789.
Affirmative Action Grants Sought
The University at Albany is beginning its 1998 Affirmative Action Grants competition. President Hitchcock has allocated $10,000 for a special program of competitive grants in order to promote the goals of affirmative action at the University.
"The University at Albany has made important strides in recent years in increasing opportunities for people of color, women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds as well as people with disabilities and Vietnam era veterans. This program will build on those successes", said President Hitchcock.
Deadline for applications is April 3, with proposals submitted to Gloria DeSole, senior advisor to the President for affirmative action and employment planning. For more application information, call the Affirmative Action Office at 442-5415.
CORRECTION:
An article in the "Highlights" section of the February 11 Update incorrectly noted the purpose of a vote by faculty from the programs of French studies, Hispanic and Italian studies, and Slavic languages and literatures. The vote approved the name of those programs' new consolidated department: the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.