Tag: Profile
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Student Composer and Teacher Finds Inspiration, Escape in Music
MM Yudin GlocProfile from The Little Rebellion on Vimeo. Adam Gloc, 21, is an accomplished pianist and piano teacher. A contemporary music studies major set to graduate from SUNY New Paltz in May 2015, he has been playing and teaching the instrument since ages 9 and 15, respectively. Gloc named Billy Joel, Elton John and…
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Professor Keeps History Alive
Summer beckoned. Twenty-seven students could hear it out the window, kicking at spring’s heels to move on. It was the last day of classes. The students’ final projects, printed out and punctured with a Swingline, were now in their professor’s black leather briefcase. For some, it was the last day of college. Ahead was vacation,…
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Hawks’ Head Softball Coach Gives Back
It was the bottom of the seventh inning on Thursday, May 6 and the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz Hawks softball team was beating the hosted SUNY Cortland Red Dragons, the dominating school of the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC). After a defensive error by the Hawks, they…
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People You Should Know: Dennis Doherty
Many professors may seem to live quiet lives. But Dennis Doherty, the creative writing program coordinator at SUNY New Paltz, has taken his experiences in the Navy in the late 1970s and applied them to his teaching and poetry since he began working for the school in 1987. Doherty, 52, joined the Navy when he…