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Andrews, Rosalind

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Biographical Note

Rosalind Andrews (then Rosalind Silverman) was born in 1943 and grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. She graduated from Bryant High School and in 1960 started attending Queens College night classes while working during the day. After a year she matriculated fully into the College. As a Queens College student, Andrews became involved in the Student Help Project, tutoring school children in Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia. She was also involved in the anti-war movement and attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. In 1965 she graduated with a major in History and a minor in Education. At 22 years of age Andrews lived in India for 9 months with her husband who had received a Fulbright. Upon returning to the U.S. she taught history for three years at Long Island City High School in Queens. Andrews then moved to Washington D.C. and obtained her Master’s degree in Psychology from Catholic University in 1972. She went on to become a United States probation officer, supervising people convicted of federal crimes, writing pre-sentencing reports, and making recommendations for sentencing. She was only the fifth woman in the country to be promoted to Supervising U.S. Probation Officer. After spending two years at the Administrative Office of the Federal Courts as a Programs Specialist, she became the Chief U.S. Probation Officer for the Eastern District of Tennessee. At the time she was only the second woman to be appointed as a Chief. During her tenure she received the Director's Award for Outstanding Leadership. Andrews retired from her career as a probation officer in 2000; since then she has been working as a mitigation specialist on death penalty cases.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0030
Scope and Contents Rosalind Andrews (then Rosalind Silverman) grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens and was a student at Queens College between 1960 and 1965. While at Queens College, Andrews spent the summer of 1963 in Prince Edward County, Virginia among a cohort of selected students who helped tutor and prepare local students for the reopening of public schools that fall, which were closed since 1959 in massive resistance to integration. Andrews describes a typical day in Farmville as a tutor, the failed media...
Dates: 2020-10-23

Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0060
Abstract Rosalind Andrews (then Rosalind Silverman) was a Queens College student who volunteered with the Student Help Project, tutoring under-served children in both Queens and Virginia. In the summer of 1963, she and the other members of the project traveled to Farmville, Virginia, to spend six weeks teaching the African American children of Prince Edward County. These children had been denied formal education since 1959, when the county defunded and closed its public schools rather than comply...
Dates: 1963-1964

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