NEW PALTZ — After seven years as Director of Athletics at SUNY New Paltz, Jim Zalacca has decided to accept an offer to head the athletic department at SUNY rival Potsdam. Zalacca, who currently resides in Clifton Park, came to New Paltz in the summer of 1993 after spending…
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Zalacca Leaving To Become Potsdam AD
NEW PALTZ — After seven years as Director of Athletics at SUNY New Paltz, Jim Zalacca has decided to accept an offer to head the athletic department at SUNY rival Potsdam. Zalacca, who currently resides in Clifton Park, came to New Paltz in the summer of 1993 after spending…
Read moreBindman To Celebrate Birthday With Swim
NEW PALTZ — Aaron Bindman, a retired sociology professor at SUNY New Paltz, will celebrate his 84th birthday next week with a special swim at the Elting Gymnasium Natatorium. Bindman, who retired in 1986, and remains a New Paltz resident, will swim a symbolic 84 lengths of the university…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz Welcomes Class of 2004
NEW PALTZ — On Wednesday, August 23, SUNY New Paltz will welcome its newest campus community members — the Class of 2004! What does the Class of 2004 look like?
- This year’s freshman class includes 1,031 students. Below is a “class portrait”:
- Mean high school grade point average approaching 90 percent
- Mean composite SAT… Read more
Music Teacher of Buffalo Bob Seeks Music Degree at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — Like many of the students who attend SUNY New Paltz, Clara Pankow Miller was one of the top 10 students in her high school graduating class. What is unique about this music major looking forward to graduating from the university with the Class of 2002 is that…
Read moreUniversity Appoints New Residence Life Director
NEW PALTZ — Corinna Anne Caracci, formerly associate director of residence life at SUNY New Paltz, has been appointed director of residence life following a national search. She accepted the position August 3. “I’m very excited,” she said. “I think we have wonderful students on our campus and the opportunity…
Read moreEngelmann New Assistant Trainer
NEW PALTZ — Jeanine Engelmann, a 1998 Boston University graduate who spent the last two years as a graduate assistant at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania while also completing her master’s degree, has been hired as the new assistant athletic trainer at SUNY New Paltz. “I’m really happy to be…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz Student is Future of Radio
NEW PALTZ — Joshua Reed, a SUNY New Paltz senior and Broadalbin, New York, native has been selected by the John Bayliss Broadcast Foundation to receive a 2000 Bayliss Radio Scholarship. He is one of only 20 college and graduate-level students selected nationwide for this $5,000 award to help defray…
Read moreBaseball Field Improvements Continue
NEW PALTZ — The latest round of improvements to Campbell Field, home of the SUNY New Paltz baseball team, has begun. This past Wednesday, university baseball coach Mike Juhl started the process himself by digging a trench in the outfield, which will help improve drainage in the left and…
Read moreUNIVERSITY TO BREAK GROUND FOR NEW RESIDENCE HALL
NEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz will break ground on Tuesday, August 8 for the first of two new residence halls to be built on the southern portion of the 206-acre campus. A ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. at the building site – just south of the new Child…
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