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Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

 Organization

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Lucille Kyvallos Athletics Records and Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0096
Abstract The Lucille Kyvallos Athletics Records and Papers document Kyvallos’s career as the coach of the Queens College Women’s Basketball team from 1968-1981 and as a trailblazer in women’s college basketball. The collection contains materials related to Kyvallos’s coaching and teaching; promotional and publicity materials about Queens College’s team and women’s basketball tournaments, camps, clinics, and championships; honors and awards; administrative and planning documents; photographs; and some...
Dates: circa 1950s-2020; Majority of material found within 1968-2000

Martin Luther King Jr. at Queens College in 1965 Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0121
Scope and Contents

Transcript and audio clips of Martin Luther King Jr's speech at Queens College at the Colden Center on May 13, 1965, and press coverage of the speech. King's speech served as the inauguration of the college's John F. Kennedy Lecture Series.

Dates: May, 1965

Mary Reuder Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0005
Scope and Contents In the first of these two interviews, Dr. Mary Reuder discusses various aspects of her academic career: the importance of being active in one’s academic community as well as outside it, the difficulty of getting academic jobs especially at a time when discrimination against women was common, her view that there is no conflict between religious belief and science as well as the anti-Catholic prejudice she experienced as a young academic in the 1960s.In the second interview, she...
Dates: 1986-02-26, 1987-11-17

Meghan Moore-Wilk Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0054
Scope and Contents

The interview, which took place on May 14th, 2020, is about Meghan Moore-Wilk, who is the Queens College Chief of Staff, and her hand in managing and stratigizing next steps for the college when in-person classes were shut down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dates: 2020-05-14

Mike Wenger, Stan Shaw, and Mark Levy Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0040
Scope and Contents In this interview, alumni Mike Wenger, Stan Shaw, and Mark Levy discuss their impressions of life at Queens College in the early 1960s. The three discuss the culture of campus, the impact of the Virginia Student Help Project in 1963, and subsequent student activist movements on campus and in society at large. Wenger, Shaw, and Levy recall student-driven civil rights activities such as the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, Freedom Week, and Freedom Fast initiatives. Also in the conversation,...
Dates: 2020-10-15

Paul Klapper Library Art Center Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0146
Abstract

The Paul Klapper Library Art Center officially opened in 1961 as a dedicated space for art exhibition at Queens College and transferred activity to the new Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library in 1988. The Paul Klapper Art Center Records offer evidence of arts and cultural programming at Queens between the 1950s and 1980s through visual representation of shows organized by the Art Center and administrative records related to operations.

Dates: 1951 - 1987

Paul Klapper Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0054
Abstract

The Paul Klapper Collection contains the correspondence, administrative files, certificates and awards, photographs, public speeches, programs, newspaper clippings, a doctoral hood, and his personal book collection of the first President of Queens College. The bulk of the collection covers 1937-1948, from the founding of the school until Klapper's retirement.

Dates: 1895-1985; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1948

Phoenix 1959-1961

 Item — Volume: Phoenix, 1959-1961
Content Description From the Collection:

This collection consists of 86 bound volumes containing the student publications of Queens College. The titles represented include: Phoenix, Knightbeat, The Crown, Rampart, The Globe, HA-OR, The Beacon, The Last Word, Kastle, Our World, The Spectrum, Third World News, Update, QC Quad, Skyline, Newsbeat, Queens WOrld, and The Knight News. There are some volumes that are duplicates.

Dates: 1937-2004

Queens College Academic Senate Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0085
Content Description

Digitized copies (PDFs) of Queens College Academic Senate Minutes.

Dates: 1970 - 2024

Queens College Anniversaries Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0088
Scope and Contents

Commemorative publications; printed and 3d ephemera; and research and administrative files associated with various anniversaries of Queens College.

Dates: circa 1962-present

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Type
Collection 67
Archival Object 1
 
Subject
oral histories (literary works) 27
interviews 26
Queens (New York, N.Y.) 15
Civil rights movements 14
Education, Higher 7