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by John Scordato 14 August 2003
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Albany, the capital of New York State, uses the Prinsenvlag (horizontal orange-white-blue) with the arms (dating from 1789) in the centre.
Mark Sensen, 3 June 1998
Abstracted from the Albany Times Union:
"Albany's flag was created as part of the massive 1909 Hudson Fulton
Celebration, which commemorated both the discovery of the Hudson River by Dutch
explorer Henry Hudson and the invention of steam-powered navigation by Robert
Fulton. That flag was adopted by the city sometime after the 1909 celebration,
said state Assemblyman Jack McEneny, a prominent local historian." and "...in
1916, the city's Common Council voted to adopt a new flag, with the American
colors of red, white and blue. The only thing that stopped that from happening
was a veto by then-Mayor Joseph W. Stevens, McEneny said."
Ned Smith, 30 November 2004
Today's edition of the Albany, New York,
Times Union has a photo from the
funeral of the president of the University at Albany. The university's flag is
in the foreground. The flag is a gold-fringed white field with the university's
seal in black and gray. Another photo of it can be seen at
http://www.albany.edu/news/photo_archive/albums/commencement/images/commence02.jpg,
a photo from the 2005 commencement procession. The year is significant because a
photo from the 2000 commencement procession shows an older version, so a change
must have occurred during the 5 year interval. The older version had the seal in
purple lines on white and ALBANY in large purple letters below. See
http://www.albany.edu/feature2000/5-22/Graduate/C/dsc00029.html.
It also had a slightly different version of the seal.
The current seal can be seen (in gold and white) at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UAlbany_official_seal_color_3.jpg,
with a description at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_at_Albany,_The_State_University_of_New_York.
The older seal as shown on the 2000 flag can be seen
at http://hr.albany.edu/graphics/other/minerva.jpg.
Both versions bear an image of Minerva and the
university motto "Sapientia et sua et docendi causa"
(Wisdom both for its own sake and for the sake of
teaching) plus 1844, the year of the school's
establishment.
From the Wikipedia site:
"University at Albany, SUNY, is a public university located in the capital of
New York State. The university has two campuses in the City of Albany and one
campus in the town of East Greenbush, just east of Albany. The officially
designated informal name is "UAlbany" but the university is sometimes referred
to by outsiders as: Albany State, SUNY Albany, SUNY A. In 1962 the University at
Albany was officially designated by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller as a
University Center and doctoral degree granting research university in the State
University of New York public university system. This was the same year Governor
Rockefeller broke ground for the current main campus of the University on the
former site of the Albany Country Club. From its founding in 1844 the school has
had previous official names: New York State Normal School (1844-1914), New York
State College for Teachers (1914-1959), New York State University College of
Education at Albany (1959-1962)."
Ned Smith, 15 August 2006
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