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Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

 Organization

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Queens College Newsletters and Magazines

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0021
Abstract

Serial publications produced by the Queens College Communications Office, Foundation, Administration, and/or the Alumni Association, aimed at alumni and/or the wider college community.

Dates: 1948 to 2009
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Queens College Newsletters and Magazines

Queens College Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0055
Abstract The Queens College Photo Archive includes photographs, architectural drawings and posters documenting Queens College history. Prominent administrators such as QC’s first president Paul Klapper are highlights of the administrator portraits series. There are photographs of the college campus, faculty (primarily those who taught before 1970), library staff, and school events. The series of student life photos document a wide range of activities from political demonstrations, to parties, to...
Dates: 1938 - present
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Queens College Photographs Collection

Queens College Presidential Portraits (Photographic Prints)

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0093
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographic prints of Queens College presidents: Paul Klapper, 1937-1947; Margaret Kiely, Academic Dean from 1937-1947 and Interim President from 1947-1949; John J. Theobald, 1949-1958 (and Deputy Mayor of New York from 1956-1958); Harold W. Stoke, 1958-1964; Joseph P. McMurray, 1965-1970; Joseph S. Murphy, 1971-1977; Nathaniel H. Siegel, Interim 1977-1978.

Dates: 1937 - 1978
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Queens College Presidential Portraits (Photographic Prints)

Queens College Retirees Association newsletters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0084
Abstract

The Queens College Retirees Association was founded in 1972 and through its newsletter strives to discuss the issues and rights of Queens College retirees.

Dates: 1978 - 2021
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Queens College Retirees Association newsletters

Queens College Seal Designs and Logos

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0032
Scope and Contents Note

The collection contains proposed seal designs from the founding of Queens College, an engraved stone of the official seal, and digital designs of subsequent logos and medals used at Queens College over the decades.

Dates: 1937
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Queens College Seal Designs and Logos

Queens College SEEK Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0010
Abstract

This collection document the history of The Percy Ellis Sutton Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) program at Queens College from 1966 to the present. It contains administrative records, publications, photographs, ephemera, and audiovisual materials. SEEK is a higher education opportunity program that played a historic role in opening the City University of New York (CUNY) system to more diverse students populations.

Dates: 1965 - 2023
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Queens College SEEK 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
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Oral History

Ruth Frisz Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0056
Scope and Contents These interviews took place in April of 2013, between Ruth Frisz and Eric Jablon. In the first interview Dr. Ruth Frisz discussed her career at Queens College, which started in 1966. She began her career as an advisor to the fraternities, sororities and house plans, eventually becoming the coordinator of student activities. She lost her job in the New York Finanial Crisis and rejoined the college in 1978 as a professor and coordinator of the counseling program and then retired in January of...
Dates: 2013-04 - 2013-04-30
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Ruth Frisz Oral History

Samuel Heilman Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0011
Abstract

This oral history was an interview of Samuel Heilman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College, by Obden Mondesir in April, 2020. In it, Professor Heilman talks about the effects of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in his personal life and his primarily Jewish Orthodox community of New Rochelle, New York, the site of the first major American outbreak of the disease.

Dates: 2020-04-13
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Samuel Heilman Oral History

Saul Cohen Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0053
Scope and Contents This interview, which took place on 04-17-2013 in one session as a part of Queens College's 75th anniversary celebration, and covered Dr. Saul B. Cohen's time as president of Queens College, during which the college delt with several challanges,particularly the fallout from the New York City fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s. Dr. Cohen's contributions to the revitilization of Queens College included: the creation of the Schools of Music and Education, and the construction of Rosenthal Library,...
Dates: 2013-04-17
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Saul Cohen Oral History
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