The SUNY Biomedical Communication Network (BCN) was the first online bibliographic network in the world for accessing medical literature. Operating from 1968-1977, the network also experimented with access to the shared cataloging of monographs as well as serials records. The BCN was hosted in the Health Sciences Library at what was then called Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. Irwin Pizer (1934-1991), as Director of the Health Sciences Library, was also the Director of the BCN. There were nine original medical libraries in the network. Over the years membership grew to 32 institutions. For a number of reasons, the project began to suffer difficulties. In response, some of the leadership staff of BCN founded Bibliographic Retrieval Services, Inc. (BRS), a commercial vendor in Latham, NY. BRS was eventually purchased by OVID Technologies, a Walters-Kluwer Company.

Daemen College was originally founded as Rosary Hill College in 1947 by the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity in Amherst, New York. By 1976, the College had gradually evolved from a liberal arts college for women to an independent, non-sectarian, co-educational institution. To reflect this new identity, the name was changed from Rosary Hill to Daemen, with the new name honoring Mother Magdalen Daemen, founder of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Penance and Christian Charity. An annual yearbook, named the Summit, was published yearly beginning in 1952 (the first graduating class) and running until 2012. Daemen College Library's collection of Summit yearbooks was digitized in the summer of 2018.

The New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs was established in 1894. As outlined in the certificate of incorporation, the objective of the organization was to, “bring into relationship of mutual helpfulness the various clubs of women throughout the state and to make combined action possible when deemed expedient. (Subgroup III: 1:1:2).” The favorable response to the mission of the Club spurned a rapid growth in membership, by the second annual convention in 1896, 186 clubs within the state were represented.

Education, industrial conditions, forestry, welfare work, prison reform, philanthropy, household economics and club ethics were major initiatives of the Club in the first decades of the 20th Century. By the start of World War I the Club had expanded to 461 clubs and 300,000 federated women.

A growing response to the suffrage question was evidenced in the committee structure of the Federation during the presidency of Miss Mary Garrett Hay, 1910-1912. The establishment of the Suffrage and the Anti-Suffrage Committees exemplify the differing views of the role of women by women during the culturally shifting era of World War I (Subgroup I: 8:1:1-2). A report of the Bureau of Reciprocity and Information states, “The communications regarding this subject of Suffrage have been most explicit and the expressed desires for material on both sides of this questions have been so broad, it proves that club life creates a well-balanced, self-reliant woman (Subgroup I:9:1:1).”

After the suffrage amendment passed on November 6, 1917, Anna Brown, in her Presidential report made the following unifying message:

“For the first time in our history, we come together as citizens of this great Republic with all the privileges and responsibilities which that citizenship implies. Prior to November 6, there were suffragists and anti-suffragists among our members. The people of this state, by the action of a vast majority of its voters have declared that it is their will that the women of New York shall participate in the choice of public officials determined at the polls. It is not now a question as to whether we believe or do not believe in equal suffrage. It is no longer a matter for discussion, and it is for us to see that the trust imposed on us by the Constitution of the State shall be intelligently, unselfishly and loyally discharged (Subgroup VII:1:1:5)”

The Syracuse University College of Law was founded in 1895 as part of Syracuse University in Upstate New York. The College is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools, having received accreditation in 1900. It has also been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1923. The College grants Juris Doctor degrees with a variety of specializations. Dineen Hall is Syracuse University College of Law’s new, state-of-the-art building. Previously the College was located in MacNaughton Hall.

Stony Brook University, widely regarded as a State University of New York (SUNY) flagship, opened in 1957 as a college for the preparation of secondary school teachers of mathematics and science. The first, temporary campus was located in Oyster Bay on the grounds of Planting Fields, a Gold Coast estate. The State University College of Long Island at Oyster Bay opened on September 16, 1957 with 144 first-year students and 14 faculty members.
The preparation of the Stony Brook campus began in 1959, when the SUNY embarked on a $150 million building program on acreage of woodlands in Stony Brook donated by Ward Melville. The construction coincided with issuance of the 1960 Heald Report, a study of New York State's higher education programs commissioned by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. This report recommended that a major new university center be established on Long Island. On April 8, 1960, Governor Rockefeller, Ward Melville, and Frank C. Moore, Chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees, participated in the formal groundbreaking ceremony in Stony Brook. The new campus was designated a university center on June 6, 1960 and subsequently renamed the State University of New York, Long Island Center. Just a few years later, the mission of the university expanded, and the Stony Brook campus opened on September 16, 1962 with 780 students enrolled in its programs.
In the past six decades, the university has grown tremendously and is now recognized as one of the nation’s important centers of learning and scholarship. The combined efforts of its dedicated students, faculty, and staff have led to the fulfillment of the mandate given by the State Board of Regents in 1960 to become a university that would “stand with the finest in the country.”

Stephen Bastable (c. 1916-2000) received a BA from Syracuse University in 1937 and a MD from the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1941. During World War II, he served in the US Army, and in 1944, he married Geraldine Gerry H. Bastable with whom he had two children. His medical specialty was orthopedics, and he co-founded the Orthopedic Residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University before his death in 2000.