Alumni Gallery

Photos from SUNY Adirondack's first-ever Homecoming - September 17, 2011.

Former SUNY Adirondack Athletic Director Bob Addison with his first athletic jacket. Hey, we were "SUNY Adirondack" in 1961!

Participants register for the Tour D'Education Bike Rally. Over a hundred riders participated in the first-ever event.

Business professor John Arpey, the man who got the Tour D'Education off the ground.

Bike rally riders get ready for the 50-mile circuit. (Photo by Cheri Bordelon.)

The robe worn by Dr. Charles R. Eisenhart, the college's first president, at our first convocation: September 17, 1961. The robe and other papers and memorabilia were donated to the college by Dr. Eisenhart's family and were on display as part of the "Alumni Experience" in the Student Center.

SUNY Adirondack president Dr. Ronald C. Heacock; Bonnie Yanklowitz, Class of 1967; and college Board of Trustees chair Mark Bulmer cut the birthday cake! (Photo by Cheri Bordelon.)

Alum and volunteer Michele Ross checks out an old SUNY Adirondack yearbook.

Lots of memories.

Don Tenne, chair of the SUNY Adirondack Alumni Relations Committee, enjoys the fine weather.

Dr. Heacock addresses the crowd at the ceremony commemorating SUNY Adirondack's 50th anniversary.

A crowd gathers for a ceremony to celebrate SUNY Adirondack's 50 years in existence.

Dr. Heacock presents guest speaker Joe Donahue, Class of 1987 and host of "Roundtable" on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, with a certificate honoring Joe as a Charter Member of the SUNY Adirondack Alumni Association. (Photo by Cheri Bordelon.)

Don Tenne greets Joe Donahue following the ceremony.

English professor Kathie McCoy chats with Joe Donahue following the ceremony. (Ask him sometime about his student interview with Beat Generation poet and icon Allen Ginsberg.)

Rich Ortiz, a favorite of SUNY Adirondack audiences, plays at Homecoming.

E'Town Express, with front man and SUNY Adirondack alum Rob Pulsifer, rocks the quad.

Intrepid Homecoming volunteers Betsy Rabida, Nancy Palangi and Sue Trumpick.

And what would a SUNY Adirondack Homecoming be without hot air balloons? Pilot Tom Ford was offering tethered hot air balloon rides to the crowd.

Director of Educational Technology Roseann Anzalone, pilot Tom Ford, and political science instructor Wendy Johnston prepare for (a brief) takeoff.