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QC1. Alumni Papers

 Collecting Area
Identifier: QC1
Special Collections and Archives (SCA) collects personal papers of alumni whose lives and careers intersect with our priority collecting areas - politics, social justice, music, and the arts. SCA also collects documentation of alumni experience at Queens College, such as photographs, audio-visual materials, scrapbooks, and diaries.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

K. Robert Schwarz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0080
Abstract K. Robert Schwarz was a classical music critic and scholar who graduated from Queens College in 1979. He wrote for the New York Times, Out, Pulse!, and Stereo Review Magazine. His papers contain academic research files, music criticism research, subject files on various artists, printed materials, program notes, and publications written by Schwarz. Also included is in-depth research on Steve Reich and Paul Bowles, the subjects of...
Dates: 1984-1999

Mark Levy Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0046
Abstract The Mark Levy Collection documents the volunteer experiences of Mark Levy and his wife, Betty Bollinger Levy, in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Most items date from June to August 1964, including correspondence, photographs, curriculum, lesson plans, student essays and newsletters, printed materials, clippings, and ephemera. There are binders of preparatory training materials and memorandums for accepted applicants. Photographs document orientation at Western College for...
Dates: 1959-2008

Michael Wenger Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0048
Abstract The Michael Wenger Collection documents the Student Help Project and other activism on the Queens College campus during the 1960s. The Student Help Project was initiated by Queens College students, including Michael Wenger, and Queens College Education Department professors Dr. Rachel Weddington and Dr. Sidney Simon. This project brought tutoring services to under-served children in South Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia. Wenger chaired the organization in 1964, but the...
Dates: 1963-2009, bulk 1963-1965; Majority of material found within 1963 - 1965

Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0056
Abstract Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum graduated with honors from Queens College in 1965 with a major in sociology. At Queens College, she worked with the Student Help Project to provide free tutoring services to under-served schoolchildren in South Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia. During the summer of 1963, Padow-Sederbaum was one of sixteen Queens College students who lived with black families in Farmville, Virginia and tutored African American children who had been denied formal...
Dates: 1961-2000

Robert Masters Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0058
Abstract

Robert Masters graduated from Queens College in 1966; at age 20 he spent seven weeks in Greenwood, Mississippi as a volunteer in the Freedom Summer of 1964. The collection includes newspaper and magazine articles, color snapshots, letters in which Masters describes his work in Greenwood, and artifacts.

Dates: 1963-1967; Majority of material found in 1964 - 1964

Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0060
Abstract Rosalind Andrews (then Rosalind Silverman) was a Queens College student who volunteered with the Student Help Project, tutoring under-served children in both Queens and Virginia. In the summer of 1963, she and the other members of the project traveled to Farmville, Virginia, to spend six weeks teaching the African American children of Prince Edward County. These children had been denied formal education since 1959, when the county defunded and closed its public schools rather than comply...
Dates: 1963-1964

Stan Shaw Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0064
Abstract Stan Shaw was Chairman of the Student Help Project at Queens College from January 1963 through January 1964. The Student Help Project provided free tutoring services to schoolchildren in South Jamaica, Queens (circa 1962-1968) and Prince Edward County, Virginia (summer of 1963). In South Jamaica, Queens College volunteers assisted children functioning below grade level. In Prince Edward County, they tutored African American children who had been denied formal schooling since 1959, when...
Dates: 1963-1976

Steven Errera energy futures papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0008
Abstract

Materials collected by Queens College alumnus Steven Errera related to his career in the early years of the energy futures market.

Dates: 1969 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1989

Warren Phillips Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0066
Abstract: Warren Phillips worked for The Wall Street Journal for the majority of his professional life, rising from a reporter and editor to the role of Publisher, and finally Chief Executive Officer of its parent organization, Dow Jones & Company. (1975-1991). Over the term of his career, he played a significant role in the Journal's development from a small financial publication into one of the country’s premier daily papers,...
Dates: 1914-2013, bulk 1950-1991