Thomas "Lefty" McIntyre and Clark Whited

Bud Meade had a question about their dates here, and whether they might have known each other as far back as WWII. Lefty was here 1962-95, Whited 1946-83, Whited was much older, from the Rochester area, and Lefty was from the Midwest as far as I know.

Greek organizations

   Student who is interning this fall with Greek life emailed asking about history etc. of Greek life on campus. Replied that it is a complicated topic, there was an active Greek life here c1856-1936, then nothing for many years. Found a Stylus article from October 1977 re Greek organizations being accepted back on campus. (All this is in reference to "social" Greek letter groups, not honor societies and similar groups. Those have a different history.)




   Hartwell essentially banned social Greek groups in the late 1930s. There were a few sporadic attempts to bring them back, but they never got far. At some point SUNY apparently had a ban on such groups, although it isn't clear to me how that worked, since I believe some SUNY campuses had Greek groups, like Arethusa, which had actually started here, going all along. Anyway, there certainly was a revival of Greek life in the '70s. The student is coming to see me in a couple weeks.


Update: meet with student this afternoon, 10/27. Talked with him for about an hour, showed him some Greek life items from the collections...

Reunions: '66 & '56

Bookscanner was down for a month or more, so had to set up a jury rigged scanner, camera on a stand, used that to scan a lot of material that folks of '66 had picked out. Now working on the slide show for them, and the talk for the Hartwell luncheon.


That same day am going to speak to Class of '56 who are gathering and would like to hear about the history of the school since their time here, so am prepping for that as well.

Mary Kay Maslanka '02

Goal keeper, women's soccer. Now assistant coach, Joan Schokow asked for images of her playing. Managed to find two nice shots, emailed to Joan.

BSG archives

Met with a student from BSG, and Becky Bird, at the BSG offices. Went and looked at their back files. This came up before but the student I had spoken with had misunderstood what they actually have. It is more manageable than I had thought, there are 4-5 shelves of binders, BSG board minutes etc. going back to the '70s. I said I would be glad to house them here, made suggestions re digitizing them, something they asked about...

Tunnels under campus, civil defense

Student reporter from Stylus looking into stories about tunnels under campus and civil defense shelters. Said didn't know much about tunnels, nothing actually, contact Rick Lair et al in Facilities. For civil defense searched and found a bunch of articles in old Stylus, sent one, gave link to nyshistoricnewspapers.org...

David Catlin '67

Friend of his was here looking for articles from the Stylus from Catlin's baseball days at the college. Showed how to use nyshistoricnewspapers.org, found some articles, he was quite a ball player! Explained how he can bring up the .pdf, download etc. He was happy to learn all that, he's going to download, print out, frame, for Catlin to share with his son...