Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

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Queens College news releases issued by the Office of Communications and Marketing from 2003 through 2021. News releases are compiled into a single document for each year.

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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.

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...

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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...

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...

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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.