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Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

 Organization

Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:

Kupferberg Center and Performing Arts Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0009
Scope and Contents

This collection documents performing arts related events and programs associated with Queens College from 1938 to 2004. This includes activities from the early days of the college, such as the Orchestral Society and Choral Society; the Colden Center (founded in 1960); and today's the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. The collection contains photographs, invitations, memos, brochures, programs, and other printed ephemera.

Dates: 1938 - 2023
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Kupferberg Center and Performing Arts Records

Leonard Hausman Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0029
Scope and Contents Leonard Hausman shares his experience fundraising, organizing, and participating in the Virginia Student Help Project of Queens College during the summer of 1963. The Virginia Student Help Project was a six-week long educational effort where Queens College students went to Prince Edward County, Virginia where public schools were closed for five years in massive resistance to federally mandated integration. Hausman discusses his role as a project lead and tutor in the Virginia initiative, as...
Dates: 2020-10-28
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Leonard Hausman Oral History

Leonard S. Rodberg Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0007
Scope and Contents In these two interviews, Dr. Leonard Rodberg discusses his journey as a scientist and as a member of the faculty at Queens College. He reminisces about getting interested in science as a boy growing up at the beginning of what he calls the Atomic Age, about working in Washington, D.C. on nuclear arms control and energy policy, and about the highlights of his career at Queens College, including being chair at the Department of Urban Studies. This interview was conducted as part of English...
Dates: 2012-02-27 2012-03-21
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Leonard S. Rodberg Oral History

Leslie F. (Skip) Griffin, Jr. Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0041
Scope and Contents Leslie Francis Griffin, Jr., colloquially known as “Skip,” is the son of Reverend L. Francis Griffin, who coordinated with Dr. Rachel Weddington to have Queens College students tutor children in Prince Edward County during the summer of 1963 as part of the Student Help Project. The public schools of Prince Edward County were closed for five years starting in 1959 in massive resistance to integration, denying many of the local young black students access to education, including Skip Griffin...
Dates: 2021-02-17
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Leslie F. (Skip) Griffin, Jr. Oral History

Queens College Library Department Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0117
Scope and Contents

This collection documents the history of the Library Department at Queens College, including library buildings, services, operations, and publications.

Dates: 1937 - 2024
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Queens College Library Department 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
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Lucille Kyvallos Athletics Records and Papers

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
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Mary Reuder Oral History

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
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Meghan Moore-Wilk Oral History

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
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Mike Wenger, Stan Shaw, and Mark Levy Oral History

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
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0017, Queens College Student Publications Bound Volumes
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