As part of UMass Boston’s 50th anniversary celebrations, students working with University Archives & Special Collections have been digitizing, describing, and making available photos from the school’s past. View our collection of University Archives Historic Photographs.
While every effort is made to identify individuals and events pictured, we can always use your help filling in some of the gaps! Every week we will post a new photo with missing information, and if you recognize the people or event simply make a comment below or email library.archives@umb.edu telling us what you know. With your help we can create an even better record of UMass Boston’s history!
This photograph from February 22, 1978, was taken at an alumni reception for the Alumni Board of Directors and the Alumni Board of Officers. Pictured, from left to right: unidentified man, unidentified woman, Franklin Patterson, Chancellor Claire Van Ummersen, Alumni President Albert H. Russell, and an unidentified man.
If you can help identify individuals in the photograph, please comment below or email library.archives@umb.edu.
An alumni reception given for the Alumni Board of Directors and the Alumni Board of Officers. Left to right: unidentified man, unidentified woman, Franklin Patterson, Chancellor Claire Van Ummersen, Alumni President Albert H. Russell, and an unidentified man.
The man at the far left is Frank Broderick. The timing might be awkward since Broderick was brought in as chancellor.
Jonathan