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Hartwick College English Department chair Tom Travisano has added a Guggenheim to his list of honors.
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For 125th, SUNY Starts $12.5 Million Campaign
drive’s co-chairs, Yvonne Cummings, ‘72, senior director, revenue manageTom Travisano ment, at the New $12.5 million York City Healthy Wins Coveted fund drive – the & Hospital Corp., Guggenheim largest in SUNY and Jeff Strauss, Oneonta’s history – has ‘71, a Goldman r. Thomas J. Travisabeen launched and aimed Sachs retiree who no, Hartwick College completion in time for is president of both professor of English, the college’s 125th birthButterfield Fulhas received a prestigious day celebration in the fall crum, a hedge fund, Guggenheim Fellowship in of 2014. and the College at the category, “Creative Arts The “Possibilities Full Oneonta Founda– Biography.” of Promise” drive – the President Kletion. It is the first Guggenheim niewski reviews title is a quote from a The $16.5 milever to a Hartwick faculty the “Possispeech by the college’s lion will be devoted member. first president, James N. bilities Full of to firming up “six Travisano, whose “Words Promise” proMilne, at the 1889 dedipillars” of the uniIn Air” (2008) was reviewed spectus. cation – was announced versity identified in on the front cover of the Monday, April 15, at a Hunt the broad-based strategic-planNew York Times Book ReUnion reception, by Nancy Kle- ning process Kleniewski identiview, plans to take a leave in fied in taking office in 2008. the spring of 2014 to comJim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA niewski, the college’s seventh president. That would include plete a biography of the poet SUNY Oneonta juniors Zack Trill, Binghamton, and Heather Lewis, Marathon, listen to President Kleniewski’s announcement. And she introduced the Please See CAMPAIGN, A7 Elizabeth Bishop. By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE
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TOP ALUM: Sal Paolantonio, SUNY Oneonta grad and ESPN national correspondent, will deliver the commencement address at the college’s May 18 graduation Paolantonio ceremony and receive an honorary doctorate in humane letters. 2 TRAILBLAZERS: A City Hall reception Tuesday, April 16, honored Sarah Patterson and Charlotte McKane, recipients of the city Human Rights Commission’s 2013 Trailblazer Awards/PHOTO, A2 CANCER FIGHTIN’:
SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students teamed up to raise $50,000 for the American Cancer Society during a Relay for Life Friday-Saturday, April 12-13, and donations are still coming in.
Fledgling College Overcame Old Main Fire, Firing By JIM KEVLIN
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UNY Oneonta began in the community’s heyday decade – the 1880s – when the D&H arrived, the population doubled from 3,000 to more than 6,000 citizens, downtown business blocks began to rise and today’s Victorianera neighborhoods began to spread. It grew out of the determination of an ambitious and canny young merchant class, combined with a growing national consensus on the need for trained teachers, and burgeoning community pride focused
on punctuating the then-Village of Oneonta’s new prominence with a major state institution. Established, the college’s first decade brought a major setback – Old (then brand-new) Main, the Richardsonian Romanesque college campus at the top of Maple Street, completed in 1889, burned to the ground in 1894. And by a leadership crisis: The first president, the charismatic and nationally prominent James Milne, HOMETOWN ONEONTA was forced out of office in 1898, Barely launched five years earlier, Oneonta Normal School sufapparently over a political dispute fered a body blow in February 1894 when Old Main burned. with community kingpin David I. With the help of student and faculty labor, it was rebuilt. Please See HISTORY, A3
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Common Council Appears To Be Behind Miller On Hilltop Commons Project
ud Fowler, the first black to play professional baseball before the curtain of segregation fell in 1887, will be celebrated this weekend in Cooperstown, where he was raised: A street will be named “Fowler Way.” Schedule of Weekend Activities, A3 See links on WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Mayor, Deputy Tilt On Newman Tax Breaks By JIM KEVLIN & IAN AUSTIN
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hould 325-student Hilltop Commons get a tax break? That question is splitting Mayor Miller and his deputy
mayor, Mike Lynch, who issued warring memos in the days leading up to the Tuesday, April 16, Common Council session. Before 70 people in the Oneonta Middle School cafeteria, Lynch said the project seemed to be “coming together”
and environmental concerns met. “My position against it is solely based on the corporation not getting tax cuts. I think the project is fine.” Miller restated his support for the project, and council memPlease See MEMOS, A7
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Sarah Patterson and Charlotte McKane were honored as the 2013 Oneonta Trailblazers at a reception before Common Council met on Tuesday, April 16. Patterson, an NBT bank mortgage loan officer, won in the Career & Community Achievement category, while McKane was honored with the a Youth Leader & Community Service category. The awards are presented annually by the Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights.
im Raymond is bringing something new to the Oneonta Holiday Inn table. “We’re going to start introducing some new specials,” said Raymond, the new Executive Chef at the hotel. “I want people to have country-club food at a good price. We can do that.” Self-taught, Raymond cooked for several five-star country clubs and was named the Gourmet Food & Wine Magazine’s “Chef of the Year” in 1999. In 1996, he catered for almost 40,000 at the first Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour at the Twelve Bridges County Club in Lincoln, Calif. He and his wife, Oneonta native Deborah Henderson, moved back to the Henderson farm on Southside seven years ago for a change in the “quality of life” from fast-paced Sacramento. Before coming to the HoliIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA day Inn, Raymond worked at the Tim Raymond, the new executive chef at the Cooperstown Country Club and Holiday Inn, fires up the grill for the Railroad private functions. Workers Banquet on Monday, April 15.
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Brenner, Brush Histories Trace SUNY Oneonta Evolution From Normal School HISTORY/From A1 Wilber, founder of the dominant bank and originator of the idea to bring the college here. The birthing pains behind it, more than a century of exceptional stability followed. In its 125-year history – it is being celebrated this year – as it grew from State Normal School (1887) to the State University College of Education (1952) to the State University College at Oneonta (1962), only seven presidents have led the institution. Percy I. Bugbee, Milne’s successor, served for 35 years. His early years were called “the dark ages,” but attendance tripled from 1922 to 1933, and Bugbee retired on a high note. The outlines of this story emerged from a two-hour interview with David W. Brenner, who has been associated with the college for 60 years, almost half its history. Fresh from military service, he entered as a undergraduate in 1952, earned a bachelor’s in 1957 and a master’s in 1959, joined the education faculty in 1960, retired in 1993 as associate vice president for academic affairs, and still serves on the College Council, having been reappointed for a seven-year term by Governor Paterson.
“I really love this place,” he said. “It’s evolved into a very, very fine institution.” Brenner’s institutional memory is part of the public record. In 1989, James Milne he led the effort was a charto put together a ismatic first comprehensive leader of “Centennial the Normal School. Calendar.” (Old Main opened in 1889, but the charter had been granted in 1887; SUNY Oneonta will formally celebrate its quasquicentennial in 2014.) In retirement, he assembled “State University of New York College at Oneonta” in Arcadia Publishing’s photo-heavy College History Series, but the 128-page volume and the extensive captions make it one of the most comprehensive and authoritative of its kind. He also recommends the 1965 “Oneontan” yearbook, which includes a photo-heavy synopsis of the college’s first 75 years. And also, “In Honor and Good Faith,” (1965) by Carey W. Brush, who over four decades rose to dean of
liberal studies. (The phrase comes from state Sen. Frank Arnold’s speech at Old Main’s dedication.) Brush’s history is essential to the understanding of the college’s founding and its dramatic first decade. Wilber formed a syndicate – with son David F., George Fairchild (later congressman), and Willard Yager, co-publisher (with Fairchild) of the dominant Oneonta Herald – and purchased the Delos Yager farm at the top of Maple Street. The partners donated the necessary acreage for Old Main to the state – then profited by selling off building lots at rising prices in the increasingly desirable neighborhood. The “Local Board” – yesteryear’s equivalent of the College Council, only with much more authority to act locally – recruited James M. Milne, a classics professor from Cortland Normal School, who brought a cadre of Cortland upperclassmen with him that helped Oneonta Normal’s fledgling first-year students work into a regimen. Three years in, a Herald editorial praised Milne as “progressive in his ideas, enthusiastic in his devotion to the cause of education, possessing excellent executive ability, and well-calculated to inspire the esteem and
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, 1894, a fire broke out in Old Main’s boiler room. Whipped by high winds – charred paper was found as far away as Otego the next day – and errors – the fire department responded to the wrong scene, then was unable to get the pumper up the icy Maple Street hill – the signature college building burned to the ground. The 100 tons of soft coal in the basement were still smoldering three weeks later. Milne rose to the challenge. Asked when the normal school would reopen, he declared, “We haven’t closed.” The next Monday, classes resumed in the thennew Armory on Academy Street and the Stanton Opera House at Chestnut and Main (where the Bassett Healthcare office building is today.) Reconstruction was fast tracked, with the help of physiJim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA cal labor provided by students David W. Brenner examand faculty, and an expanded Old ines the 75th anniversary “Oneontan” yearbook. In the Main was rededicated in Decemforeground is the Centennial ber. Exhausted by the ordeal, Milne needed a six-month leave to Calendar whose preparation recover. he oversaw. As great a shock to the college good will of others.” It found him community came four years later, “eminently the right man for the on Saturday, Feb. 26, 1898, when important position.” the Local Board, 7-4, fired Milne The greatest challenges were without explanation. yet to come, however. At 5:20 Please See HISTORY, A7
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Dedication of Fowler Way Walk down Fowler Way to Historic Doubleday Field Mayor Jeff Katz Elsie Rhodes, Pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown Jim Gates, Library Director at Baseball Hall of Fame Gretchen Sorin, Director of Cooperstown Graduate Program and Distinguished Professor Congressman Chris Gibson Official MLB Historian John Thorn
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f you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do,” Henry Luke, a proponent of community visioning when the concept was popular in the 1990s EDITORIAL – he visited Otsego County in 2009 – used to enjoy saying. In a conversation during SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski’s Monday, April 15, reception launching “Possibilities Full of Promise,” the college’s $12.5 million fund drive to mark its 125th anniversary, Paul Adamo, vice president for college advancement, made a similar point. The fund drive is aimed at bolstering four priorities: • Teaching, learning and research, to expand “experiential learning” for students and underwrite the faculty’s professional development. • Scholarships, keeping a SUNY Oneonta education as a great value. • Global connectedness, to plug in students in our small Upstate county to the big pond they must swim in to succeed. • The Fund for Oneonta and Unrestricted Endowment, to give the local campus flexibility within the 64-campus SUNY system. (Adamo is also executive di-
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At the Monday, April 15, launch, a brochure was distributed detailing the goals of “Possibilities Full of Promise,” SUNY Oneonta’s $12.5 million fund drive associated with its 125th anniversary.
rector of the Oneonta Foundation, which has developed a $40 million endowment, the largest in the system.) Adamo’s point was that these priorities aren’t pulled out of a hat. They grew out of a four-year strategic planning process Kleniewski launched on arriving in Oneonta in 2008. Administrators, faculty, students and community friends of the campus helped draw the roadmap. Without such a systematically prepared plan – and this is Adamo’s key point – a fund drive “can become someone’s wish list.” “Possibilities Full of Promise” is no one’s wish
Successful SUNY Alumni Head $12.5M Fund Drive Yvonne Cummings and Jeff Strauss are cochairing the “Possibilities Full of Promise” fund drive.
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married and lives in Franklin Lakes, N.J. • Yvonne Cummings,’72, has served on the Foundation board since 2005, and is currently secretary. She was 2009 Outstanding EOP alumna. She is senior director, revenue management, New York City Health & Hospitals Corp., and previously was associate dean, New York Medical College, Valhalla. She is single and lives in Brooklyn.
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UNY Oneonta’s “Possibilities Full of Promise” aims to raise $12.5 million in gifts and pledges by the 125th anniversary celebration in 2014. To contribute, visit www.oneonta.edu/ advancement/125 or contact Division of College Advancement 308 Netzer Administration Bldg. 108 Ravine Parkway Oneonta NY 13820 or call (607) 436-2535
41st among “Regional Universities – North,” so there’s quality here, too. Which brings us to Brenner’s second observation: In 1987-88, then-new President Alan Donovan determined to buck SUNY headquarters’ quantitative enrollment targets for a couple of years, to ensure that only students who had achieved qualitative targets would be admitted. Since students in seats means revenue, it was a gutsy decision; Brenner calls it the “demarcation.” Kleniewski, a scholar/ administrator, not just a bean-counter, has continued that quality focus – kaizen, if you will, to adopt and Japanese term – and it’s continuing to pay off. U.S.
News’ 41st ranking was the third-highest among SUNY colleges, after Geneseo and New Paltz. Quality pays off in many practical ways, some surprising. For instance, a landlord who rents to undergrads remarked the other day that, as the quality of SUNY Oneonta students has risen, he’s found less damage to his apartments. SUNY Oneonta, of course, is not just a benefit to the City of the Hills. Its regional economic impact – through jobs, student spending and institutional spending – is huge. The superb Cooperstown Graduate School in Museum Studies and innovative Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake – last year, it began offering the nation’s first master’s in lake management – underscore the beneficial countywide reach. Amid all the bad economic news, SUNY Oneonta is great economic news. There are few investments these days that are guaranteed, but investing in “Possibilities Full of Promise” is one of them. All of us benefit from SUNY Oneonta’s growing success. Let’s donate to ensure its continued growth and achievement.
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wo prominent alumni are leading SUNY Oneonta’s “Possibilities Full of Promise” campaign: • Jeff Strauss,’71, is president of the College Foundation board, and active in New York City alumni events, notably Backpacks to Briefcases. He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2006 after 23 years, and is president of Butterfield Fulcrum, a hedge fund. He is
list. It seeks to make possible the campus community’s aspirations – and the campus community is a subset of the greater Otsego County community, which was tapped in creating the planning document. That’s why everyone of us – not just the hundreds of SUNY Oneonta grads and employees among us – should contribute to achieving the $1.25 million goal. • It’s likely no living person has had as long and close an association with SUNY Oneonta as David W. Brenner, who arrived on campus as an undergrad in
1952, retired as an associate vice president in 1993, and continues to serve on the College Council. (In his spare time, he was an effective city mayor and chairman of the county Board of Representatives.) In a two-hour interview the other day, reflecting on the college’s history, two observations in particular shone through. One, that Kiplinger’s Magazine this year ranked SUNY Oneonta as third on the list of “10 Public College with the Lowest Debt for Graduating Students.” Those of us who lived through the bursting of the Internet bubble in 2000 and the housing bubble in 2008 can see the higher-education bubble looming. When it bursts, affordability will become ever more important in attracting top students. Kiplinger’s ranking means SUNY Oneonta – its in-state tuition is an astonishingly low $6,896 this year – is well-positioned to benefit when the crash arrives – top students will seek us out – and the $12.5 million “Possibilities” drive will only make it more so. • Separate from the Kiplinger’s assessment, U.S. News & World report ranked the local campus
his week SUNY Oneonta launched the public phase of “Possibilities Full of Promise: The 125th Anniversary Campaign for SUNY Oneonta” with the goal of raising $12.5 million in new funds over a fouryear period. This initiative certainly is a commitment to bold aspirations. However, it also is a reflection on our history, which is as rich as the Oneonta community, itself. The name of our campaign, “Possibilities Full of Promise,” recalls the words of James Milne, first principal of the Oneonta Normal School, the institution that, with the founding of the State University of New York in 1948, became SUNY Oneonta. Milne, at the school’s dedication in 1889, remarked: “I see possibilities full of promise. Today we dedicate. Tomorrow we change possibility into reality.” Although the college we know hardly resembles the one he founded, Milne’s vision endures. He would be proud that SUNY Oneonta has become one of the Northeast’s premier public colleges. Our first principal would find his commitment to students’ passions and potential has persisted since that autumn afternoon nearly 124 years ago when he proclaimed it. In the spirit of fulfilling Milne’s inaugural pledge,
conferences that deepen their knowledge of their discipline. Perhaps the most compelling argument I can make for supporting teaching, learning and research is our upcoming Student Research & Creative Activity Day. We host this event each spring to showcase the vitality of the research community within our campus. This year, its timing coincides with the unveiling of our campaign. I invite anyone who would like to witness the Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA impact of teaching, learning Against a backdrop of historic images, SUNY and research to attend StuOneonta President Nancy Kleniewski announces dent Research & Creativity the $12.5 million “Possibilities Full of Promise” Day next Tuesday, April 23. fund drive Monday, April 15, at a reception in the Held at the college’s Hunt Hunt Union. Union Ballroom, it will “Possibilities Full of Promthis hits home. Considerfeature over 100 displays ise” supports four critical ing that one in 10 SUNY representing the best in areas, the first of which is Oneonta students comes undergraduate research from scholarships. Since the mid- from Otsego, Delaware, the 2012-2013 academic 1980s the national average Schoharie or Chenango year. cost of attending a public, County, additional funding Next among our four four-year college has risen for scholarships will give campaign priorities is global at a pace that is twice the a boost to many families connectedness. The stronrate of inflation. Should this whose children attend local gest case for global connecttrend continue, it means that high schools. edness comes from a biolthe cost of attendance for Our second campaign fo- ogy student named James a child born today will be cus is teaching, learning and Dewey, who travelled to more than three times what research. One of the reasons the Peruvian rainforest last it is now. that SUNY Oneonta attracts year as part of a three-week Increasingly, scholarships such high caliber students field course investigating put higher education within is that we encourage underdozens of different species reach of young people who graduate research in a way of beetles, frogs and other otherwise would be faced that sets our campus apart animals. with a choice between from others. Members of Said Dewey, “From our taking on debt or delayour faculty sponsor studies studies we definitely had ing college indefinitely. In and projects across virtually an idea of the diversity, but the Catskill region, where every academic program. until you’re actually there, economic uncertainty is a Students’ work often leads you just can’t describe it. reality for many families, to invitations to professional Please See PRESIDENT, A6
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
10 Years Ago
125 Years Ago
When the whistle blew on Tuesday noon, in recognition of the signing of the school bill, Detective Bissell’s St. Bernard dog Ben thought there was a fire, as did plenty of others. Ben sprung from the stoop on Dietz Street and started on a wild run for the Lewis hose rooms, the company he travels with. He stopped on Main Street, and seeing that the boys were not running for their cart, sadly shook his head and returned to the house. Ben loves a fire as well as he does a piece of meat. Ned Cox, of Gilbertsville, who has played repeatedly in the Oneonta ball nine, is coming to the front as a ball player. On April 2, he caught for the Williams College team in a game played with the Athletics of Philadelphia. In a report of the game, the New York Herald says: “A solid three-bagger by Cox when the bases were full was about the only feature of the visitors’ playing.” Last week the college boys played against the New Yorks, Ned occupying his usual position behind the bat in the college team. April 1888
100 Years Ago
After a season of experimentation at the wisdom of maintaining a city indoor baseball league the last game but one of the series has been played off and the high school team, the youngest aggregation of players in the entire league, has clinched the pennant with an overall record of 10 and 5. They won it by good clean playing and by working together as a machine, with as little friction as possible, and with seldom a kick against the gods who preside over the games. The league’s All-Star team members are: first base – Finley, Co. G; second base, Gunther, Co. G; third base, Vickers, Co. G; Shortstop, Dibble, O.H.S; left field, Brown, D&H Shop; center field, Warburton, Liberty Club; right field, House, Liberty Club; catcher, Graves, Liberty Club; pitcher, Hoye, Liberty Club. April 1913
80 Years Ago
Gilbertsville is listed on the “Tramp Route.” The maps of the “Wandering Willies” show that the Village of Gilbertsville has become a “tramps paradise.” Ninety-four husky pilgrims applied for food and lodging overnight and were sumptuously entertained while eight others were asked to be shown the beauty spots of the village and given their dinner during the month of March. With Gilbertsville from 15 to 25 miles away from the main lines of travel, this is a
twist these words to their own purposes and thus poison our thinking at its source. We are in a “cold war” which may go on for the next ten or twenty years, or which may turn hot tomorrow – we have no way of knowing which is going to happen. April 1953
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Planned Parenthood Clinics will soon be in operation in Otsego and Delaware counties. A Planned Parenthood office now occupies office quarters on the third floor of Fox Hospital in Oneonta and is operating under a grant from the Bureau on Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning of the State of New York. Within three years Planned Parenthood expects to be self-sufficient – relying mainly on local fund drives, the first of which is scheduled to begin around the end of April. The office is staffed by Karoline Tull, executive director, Teddy Story, bookkeeper-secretary, and two outreach workers – Shirley Valk of Delaware County and Kathy Robinson of Otsego County. The clinic aims to provide educational and medical services necessary to plan when they have their families. The clinics will offer a number of services to the public including group sessions on approved methods of birth control, screening tests for those for those wishing use birth control and referral April 2003 services for genetic counseling, pre-natal care, abortions, infertility cases and sterilization. No treatments will be record for a village of this size under like conditions. performed at the clinic. Low bids totaling $117,867 were received Thursday of April 1973 last week at Albany by the state department of health for the construction of three additional buildings for the state tuberculosis hospital site on Upper West Street, Oneonta. The three structures are the superintendent’s home, a fourThe open house and grand opening celebration of the family residence for the members of the hospital staff, and Paradise Mountain Nudist Club, Ironkettle Road, Town a garage for cars of the superintendent and staff. The low of Maryland, is approximately one month away. Owners bidder was Joseph A. Lee of Brooklyn. Charles and Gloria Marryatt of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, April 1933 say plans for the first year are “still pretty much up in the air, but we’re trying a push for interest at least.” The club property is spread over 150 acres of wooded land with a Words from Upton Sinclair – Eight years ago we thought mountain stream running across the back of the property. Marryatt says the club’s primary role is “creating a wholewe had won a war. But now we have discovered that we have raised-up a new enemy more deadly than the old, a fa- some atmosphere in the practice of social nudism. April 1983 naticism implacable and firmly convinced that it is destined to take possession of the whole world. Soviet Communism, even with Stalin gone, is far more dangerous than German Nazism or Italian Fascism, for these movements were frankly nationalistic. But the Russians wear a camouflage of internationalism. They take all the words which civilized people hold sacred – democratic, liberal, progressive – they
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external causes such as state funding or the emergence of entirely new frameworks for learning such as MOOCs (massively open online courses), new challenges arise and we must rise to meet them. Unrestricted gifts help make this possible by allowing the college the flexibility of thinking and acting creatively to fulfill our goal of offering a premier education. Through philanthropy we honor our past and ensure SUNY Oneonta’s unique place in this community, now and for years to come. Like Milne before me, I meet possibilities full of promise with great enthusiasm, and I know that our campus remains dedicated to changing possibility into reality. to changing possibility into reality.
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Decent Housing For Everyone? Heavens, No! To the Editor: During the course of my apartment hunt, I was recently shown an apartment with a hole in the ceiling large enough to fit a dining room table into. The owners of the building treated the fact that the tenants of the apartment upstairs may at any moment become roommates with a blasĂŠ indifference that needs to be seen to be properly admired. They assured me that the obvious massive structural damage was no problem and could be patched up and ready for me to move into by tomorrow. The truly astonishing thing about this story is not merely that it is perfectly factual and presented without the slightest exaggeration, but that the landlords in question were actually willing to rent to non-student tenants. A person like myself, who has been searching for less than a year, might actually stand a chance of finding a place to live here. This sort of thing must be stopped! Oneonta, as you may know, is in the midst of a severe housing crisis. Of all the apartments here, a mere 97 percent of them are made
exclusively available for student rental. Clearly this is not sufficient. All local rental units must be converted to student-only housing without delay! Unfortunately the landlords of this town are forced to contend with a persistent population of non-student renters, who, with their unreasonable demands, are far from ideal tenants. These are the sort of tenant who will actually have the audacity ask for their security deposit back, request to be allowed to keep pets and – worst of all – demand to live in the kind of conditions where the SPCA will allow animals to live. Our poor landlords are virtually powerless against this outrage. The rules governing rental housing in our beloved town are so hard on landlords that they may occasionally consider obey-
ing them! Some are left no choice but to rent to socalled “Young Professionals� (which we all recognize as a euphemism for things like: “Adjunct Professor� or “New Family�). It is essential that Common Council do everything that it can to eliminate the subtle menace of these adult renters from gaining a toehold in our beloved town. If we allow such undesirable persons to find a place to live here, they may eventually buy houses, start businesses in our precious vacant storefronts and disrupt the cherished status quo with completely unwelcome prosperity. I urge you, Citizens of Oneonta, to do everything in your power to prevent this dangerous element from making their homes here. Keep our rents high and standards of living low! Make sure our younger
population stays transient and do your part to prevent terrifying change from taking root. We must do everything in our power to prevent any potential of a population increase. Only by taking definitive action against this menace today can we keep things exactly the way they are! JOHN RYAN Oneonta
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Battle Of Memos Show 2 Views Of Hilltop Commons MEMOS/From A1 bers appeared to be going along with him. He wants council to be ready to vote on a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes agreement) at its mid-May meeting. The back and forth between Miller and Lynch began April 8, when the deputy mayor distributed a memo to his colleagues declaring, “Our constituents pay their taxes and support the things that make Oneonta a desirable place to live.” “We all represent working men and women as well as people on fixed incomes,” it continued. “Asking them to subsidize a multimillion
corporation is a slap in the face. How can we possibly ask them to accept a corporate tax giveaway? “I will not,” Lynch concluded. In a response distributed at the April 16 meeting, Miller said the PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) that Common Council will consider is in line with common practice across New York State. The project, Miller continued, will make SUNY Oneonta ever more competitive with other SUNY campuses, will add $8.2 million to the city’s total valuation (second only to NYSEG), and will immediately add
$80,000 a year to city, county and school district coffers, rising to $350,000 annually by the PILOT’s end in 15 years. During construction, developer Newman Development Group will hire 80 people and pay $10 million in salaries, and has identified “at least” three local companies to work on the job. Complete, the project will employ 14 people at an annual payroll of $300,000, Miller wrote. Newman will assume maintenance of Blodgett Drive beyond Farone Drive, and will preserve 7.5 acres – half its acreage – as “forever wild.” Plus, buses will run
back and forth to downtown Thursdays through Saturday evenings, and Saturdays and Sundays during the day to help students shop downtown. All of this, Miller wrote, “leads me to recommend” a PILOT, and encourage the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency to adopt it. In a related development, the city Planning Commission, which heard Keystone Associates, Newman’s engineer, detail plans for water lines, storm and sanitary sewers, and sidewalks, concluded the Hilltop Commons application is incomplete.
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$1.25M Fund Drive Aimed At SUNY Oneonta Priorities CAMPAIGN/From A1 more scholarships for students and professional development for faculty, and beefing up the “unrestricted endowment,” no-strings-attached gifts that gives the campus flexibility in pursuing its goals. In a visit to campus the following morning, SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher reemphasized the importance of philanthropy in achieving the statewide university’s mission. “If you don’t tell people how great SUNY is, they’re not going to know,” she told students, faculty and administrators in the Morris Conference Center’s Craven Lounge. “Possibilities Full of Promise” is SUNY Oneonta’s most ambitious drive to date – it aims to raise the $1.25 million over four years, besting the previous effort, $12 million over five – and is being built on a 30year record of success. In 1995-96, $137,266 in scholarships were awarded; this year, $2.4 million in scholarships were awarded. In the past 10 years alone, the College Foundation’s endowment had risen from $15.3 million to $40 million, the largest in the SUNY system. Paul Adamo, vice president for college advancement, who is also College Foundation executive director, points out this has been accomplished efficiently:
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SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher underscores her support for the “Possibilities” drive during her Tuesday, April 16, visit to the Craven Lounge.
In 2011-12, only 6 percent of College Foundation revenues went to management, and only 3 percent to fundraising costs. In the Leadership phase that has been ongoing for the past year, $5.8 million has already been raised toward the $12.5 million goal. Next week, the College Council meets in New York City, and will be hosting a reception for SUNY Oneonta alums now in the metropolitan area. In addition to Adamo, key players are Barry Warren, associate vice president for development; Ellen Blaisdell, director of gift planning, and Tim Hayes, senior development officer.
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HISTORY/From A3 Rumors swirled. Brush reports word was that Milne, whose sickly wife had remained in Cortland, may have had a questionable relationship with a Miss Anna Gertrude Childs, teacher of music and physical culture. But the Binghamton Herald sent in a top reporter, and he laid Milne’s ouster to a disagreement with “Boss” Wilber. That conclusion was confirmed in 1957, when E. Reed Pierce, a senior in 1898, passed away and a notarized statement he filed in a SUNY Oneonta vault was made public. It reported in convincing detail that Republican stalwart Wilber had broken with Milne over politics: The latter was Democratic chairman in Cortland. By comparison to that first decade, the 11+ decades that followed reflected steady growth, with some setbacks. During wars, the census of male students dropped precipitously; one year, the graduating class contained just one man. But thousands of Oneonta Normal grads – many, then as now, from Long Island – directed classrooms in the New York metropolitan area. Others taught in schools across the country, some on Indian reservations. Many rose to prominence. As the state’s commitment to higher education
rose, Oneonta Normal benefited. In 1933, the Bugbee School, whose innovative programs shaped generations of young minds, was built behind Old Main. In 1951, the Morris Conference Center – its wings, Bacon and Denison, were dorms – was the first building opened on the new campus on the hill. In 1952, the Faculty-Student Association – its revenues came from operating the bookstore, the cafeteria and other services – bought a 65-acre farm, making the subsequent expansion possible. In 1954, the home-ec building opened. Dorms followed, 14 in all as enrollment rose to 6,000 from the original 300. In 1961, Governor Rockefeller dedicated the Milne Library, since expanded twice. In 1966, Schumacher Hall – named after longtime literature prof Charles R. Schumacher – became the first instructional building on the hill. “All my professors have become buildings,” Brenner’s book quotes Catherine Muirhead Gallagher, ’40, as saying in the 1960s. The Hunt Union opened in 1972. The transition was completed in 1977, with Old Main’s demolition. (The pillars were placed on the new campus, and it’s tradition that seniors parade through the portal the evening before commencement.)
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ONEONTA – Thomas F. Norris Jr., 77, a former adjunct professor at SUNY Cobleskill, passed away on Saturday, April 13, 2013. He was born Jan. 24, 1936, in Troy, the son of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (O’Donaghue) Norris Sr. He married Gail Faulkner on Aug. 6, 1960, in Watervliet. Tom served his country in the Army from 1954 to 1956. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Gail Norris of Oneonta; his children,
Timothy Norris of Peekskill, Sandra (Roger) Schwoerer of Stamford, Conn., Susan (Francis) Norris-Olivia, of Norwalk, Conn., Kevin (Amy) Norris of Ballston Lake, Matthew (Dawn) Norris of Peekskill and Amy Norris of Mahopac; his grandchildren, Jack, Lily, Henry, Francis, Tomas, Emma, Abigail, Renee and Sara. He is also survived by a niece, Sally Rushford of Watervliet, as well as several other nieces, nephews
and cousins. He was predeceased by a sister, Joan Chaloux. Calling hours are from 6 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 17 at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand St., Oneonta. A funeral will be held Thursday April 18 at 10:15 a.m. in St. Mary’s Church with the Rev. David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating. Arrangements are entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.
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MLS#87472 - Totally rebuilt year-round home on Canadarago Lake. Spectacular views from every room. Modern kitchen w/upgrades, direct access to 40’ dock from family room deck. Rentable at $2,500 per week during the summer. $429,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512
MLS#87366 - 19th century farmhouse w/some renovations. 18 acres w/meadows, orchard, Otego Creek and pond. Large rooms, woodshed, detached garage. May be subdivided. Newer well, septic and updated electrical. $149,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633
New listing! MLS#88039 - Quaint 3BR ranch w/land, large garage and shed. Close proximity to great employment opportunities: New York Central Mutual and Chobani! $119,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633
MLS#86051 - Panoramic views and privacy with this custom 3 BR, 3 bath, energy-efficient new home. Offered w/10 acres but more acreage available. $295,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603 MLS#86645 - Contemporary Cape Cod w/5 BRs and 3 full baths. Heated in-ground swimming pool. Set back off the road on over 5 acres. Cooperstown schools. $399,000 Call Donna Anderson @ 607-267-3232
MLS#87096 - 4 BR, 2 bath Cape is move-in ready. Over 8 acres in Cooperstown School District. Open floorplan w/kitchen, full bath and 2 BRs on first floor. Spacious master BR has skylight and cathedral ceiling. Second floor has full bath, 1 or 2 BRs, family room, office, and laundry room. $249,900 Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026
MLS#87179 - Outstanding year-round lakefront home on the east shore of Canadarago Lake with 65’ of lake frontage. This home will exceed your expectations. $399,999 Call Donna Anderson @ 607-267-3232
MLS#88491 - 4 BR, 3 bath Victorian w/lots of charm. Original detail, studio apt, access to I-88. B&B potential! $199,000 Call/Text Eric Lein @ 707-483-1236
MLS#MLS#87961 - 3 BR, 2½ bath home features oak floors, kitchen w/island, LR w/woodstove, den. Upstairs has master BR w/private bath. Wrap-around porch, 2-car garage w/woodstove. Cooperstown School District. $339,000 Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026
MLS#87457 - 3 BR, 2 bath home on 4.25 acres with large 2½-car garage and partially finished basement. Peaceful setting, large deck, perennial gardens, and beautiful pond. $224,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061
MLS#86317 - Perfect country retreat for vacation or year-round living. 3 BR, 2 bath charmer on 34 acres with swimming pond. $269,000 Call Michelle @ 518-469-5603 MLS#84136 - This 3 BR, 2 bath ranch features lots of new: windows, appliances, furnace, wtr htr, wtr filtration system. Hardwood flooring, spacious kitchen, sun/family room, full basement and oversized 2-car garage. Master BR suite is an efficiency apartment, paying the mortgage! $129,900 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068 MLS#87476 - Well maintained 3 BR, 2 bath ranch on 1½ acres is just 15 min. to downtown Oneonta. Features hardwood floors, modern kitchen w/family-style DR, large master suite, full basement ready to finish. $128,500 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068
MLS#88204 - Quiet yet neighbors nearby on 7.9 acres w/view of Canadarago Lake! Interior is totally repainted, new carpet and flooring. 2-stall garage, 24x24 outbuilding. Finished basement w/family room and workshop. $174,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512
MLS#87250 - 1880 Farmhouse on 2.8 acres. Close to Cooperstown, Springfield, Richfield and Mohawk Valley. 2BRs, 1.5 baths, LR w/fireplace, formal DR, eat-in kitchen and enclosed front porch. 2-car attached garage w/workshop, storage building and woodshed. $159,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512
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A TASTE OF NATURE - 2 BR, 1 bath bungalow in the woods. Private setting w/15 acres, pond and wildlife. Home has wood floors, thermopane windows, new roof, and newer septic. Additional building lot w/well and electric away from the main house. Great getaway or year-round home.
$89,500 MLS #88506
office 607.441.7312 fax 607.432.7580 www.oneontarealty.com Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner Cricket Keto, Lic. Assoc. Broker John Mitchell, Lic. Assoc. Broker Stephen Baker, Lic. Assoc. Broker
MLS#88465 - Impeccably maintained 3 BR, 2 bath home just moments from SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College, and downtown. Lots of updates and a fenced yard. $139,900 Call or text David at 607-435-4800
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MLS#87451 - Country home w/open floorplan. Many improvements: new windows, siding, heating system, coal stove, and insulation. Cooperstown school district. $120,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506
MLS#87687 - 4-5 BR, 2 bath farmhouse w/attached 1-car garage is set on 3.45 open acres. Upgrades include roof, exterior and interior paint, some windows and appliances. Pole barn, detached garage/workshop, chicken house, and stream. Close to Cooperstown and Oneonta. $178,000 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068
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Cooperstown $379,000 MLS#88456
Beautiful colonial home offers completely renovated kitchen w/pantry, large formal DR, music room with built-in bookshelves, master suite with full bath and jacuzzi tub, original pine floors and high ceilings. This home is ready for a new family. Restaurants, library, and shopping are all within walking distance. This house has been meticulously kept.
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216 Main Street, Cooperstown • 607-547-8551 • 607-547-1029 (fax) www.johnmitchellrealestate.com • info@johnmitchellrealestate.com Dave LaDuke, broker 607-435-2405 Mike Winslow, broker 607-435-0183 Mike Swatling 607-547-8551
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(7696) Endearing 4 BR Colonial on 4.7 acres. Amenities include formal DR, den w/fireplace, newer windows, oak flooring. Newer kitchen w/oak cabinets, 2-car garage w/breezeway, front porch. This special home is just 2 miles from Cooperstown. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$319,000
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Canadarago Lake setting
(7525) Exhilarating 3 BR/2 bath lakefront ranch w/ widespan views and 238' of private lake frontage. This gracious residence boasts cathedral beamed ceilings, large deck, large family room, 2 fireplaces, bright and airy floorplan, new carpeting, kitchen w/eating bar, sauna, 2-car garage. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$650,000
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(7700) This superbly kept 4 BR, 2+ bath ranch has 65' of private lake frontage. Residence offers an open floorplan, family room, office, newer kitchen w/maple cabinets, formal DR, skylights, stained glass, 2-car garage, lake-view roof deck. Will capture your fancy! Richfield Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$399,000
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31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)
Mint-condition Victorian
Refinished hardwood floors, pocket doors, bull’s eye molding, built-ins, newer roof and furnace, replacement windows, laundry room, mud room, screened porch, barn garage. Bright kitchen opens to new Trex deck. Both baths have been tastefully updated. $200,000 MLS# 88123 607-431-2540 • www.prufoxproperties.com
Built in 2005, this charming home is 2.6 miles from Cooperstown, in Cherry Valley/Springfield school district. It has 3 BRs, 2 baths, large DR, LR w/fireplace, fully equipped kitchen, and a finished basement w/sleeping accommodations. The wrap-around deck is perfect for outdoor enjoyment and entertaining. Propane heat. A circular drive and lovely perennial landscaping complete the picture. Beautiful views from this country home. Call for an appointment to visit and see more. You’ll be glad you did! Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $299,000
City living with wooded trails into Wilber Park basically at your doorstep. The pride in ownership certainly shows with the many renovations and upgrades inside and out of this immaculate 4 bedroom, 3½ bath home. The details include hardwood floors, pretty Arts and Crafts style oak trim, 2 sets of French doors, stainless kitchen appliances, skylights, a front entry with cherry wainscot and tile floor. You will spend many relaxing hours on the covered 12x25 back porch with cathedral ceiling, skylights and outdoor curtains. There is also a bluestone patio tucked privately off the deck. The backyard is fenced. The mechanics of the house have all been updated. $269,900 MLS#88222
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