The 2013 Alumni & Friends Symposium (click here to download agenda)
April 26-28, 2013
Union College Campus, Schenectady, NY
Surveying the Campus Landscape:
A Bicentennial Celebration and Examination of Joseph Ramée’s & Eliphalet Nott’s Grand Plan
Friday, April 26
3 – 5 p.m.
Registration (Reamer 1st floor)
5 – 6:30 p.m.
President's Opening Reception, Hosted by President Stephen C. Ainlay & Judith Gardner Ainlay (President's House)
6:45
Opening dinner and welcoming remarks (Nott Memorial)
8 p.m.
"Joseph Ramée and His Design of the Union College Campus" Paul Turner `62, Wattis Professor of Art Emeritus, Stanford (Nott Memorial)
9 p.m.
Working groups: First session (Lippman Hall 014, 100, 200)
10:15 pm
Socializing (Hotels)
Saturday, April 27
8 a.m.
Breakfast (Hale House)
9 a.m.
Historic Campus Tour, Jim Underwood, Chauncey Winters Professor of Political Science, Emeritus (Hale House)
9:30 a.m.
Walking tours of the Campus (leave from Hale House)
11:00 a.m.
"Campus Planning Trends within Colleges & Universities", Arthur J. Lidsky, AICP, President, Dober Lidsky Mathey (Olin Auditorium)
12:30 p.m.
"The Grand Design: Joseph Ramée's Drawings for the Union College Campus", Ellen H. Fladger, Head of Special Collections (Nott Memorial) (Lunch)
2 p.m.
Panel 1: “The intersecting landscapes of physical space and academic and intellectual life” (Nott)
4 p.m.
Working groups: Second Session (Lippman Hall 014, 100, 200)
6:30 p.m.
Dinner (Nott Memorial)
8 p.m.
“The Unbuilt Union”, President Stephen C. Ainlay, Ph.D. (Nott Memorial)
Sunday, April 28
8 a.m.
Breakfast (Nott Memorial)
8:30 a.m.
Panel 2: "The intersecting landscapes of physical space and the personal and social growth of human beings" (Nott Memorial)
10 a.m.
Plenary session: “Sustainability in the 21st century: recommendations for 21 century college landscape to endure with lessons from Ramée” (Nott Memorial)
12 p.m. Noon
Farewell luncheon (bagged lunch to go) (Nott Memorial)
