Dean Savage and Jon Peterson, 2013

File

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This file consists of a digital audio recording. The recording captures a roundtable discussion, wherein Dr. Jon Peterson and Dr. Dean Savage speak to the students in Dr. Bobby Wintermute’s History 392W Oral History Seminar. Among the many topics they address are the history of Queens College’s founding, admissions policies and curricular changes; loyalty oaths and other manifestations of the Cold War era; campus protests and activism during the 1960s; the New York City fiscal crisis of the 1970s; the diversification of the student body and faculty hiring; and the effects of technology’s increasing role in education.

Dates

2013

Creator

Savage, Dean (Interviewee, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Oral history audio files, transcripts and supplemental items can be accessed through the Queens Memory Project on Aviary: https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/44085.

Biographical Note

Dr. Jon A. Peterson (1935-2023) was a professor of History at Queens College from 1966 until retiring in 2005. He served as chair of the department from 1990 to 1994.

Dr. Dean Savage was a professor in Queens College’s Sociology Department from 1971 until his retirement in 2019. As a graduate student in the 1960s, Savage was very active in civil rights causes, notably volunteering with the SCOPE Project during the summer of 1965 in Atlanta and in Orangeburg County, S.C.