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.