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June Tauber Golden Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0039

Scope and Contents

June Tauber Golden is a graduate of Queens College Class of 1963 and in this interview, she recalls her involvement in both the Jamaica and Virginia Student Help Projects as a tutor. The Student Help Project was a student-led initiative to tutor young Black elementary school students in Jamaica, Queens. The Jamaica initiative of the Student Help Project engaged approximately 500 Queens College students who volunteered to tutor more than one thousand educationally disadvantaged and under-resourced students across New York City. On the other hand, 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 due to white people's massive resistance to federally mandated integration. While Tauber Golden gives a general view of her tasks participating in both branches of the Student Help Project, she especially reflects on the power of the emotional reactions she had while participating as a tutor locally and in Virginia and how those feelings still resonate in her life today.

A two-minute long segment was redacted at 1:20:40 due to disturbances irrelevant to the interview.

Dates

  • 2020-11-18

Creator

Access

This oral history is open for research. Media files and transcript can be viewed and/or requested through the Queens Memory Project on Aviary: https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/r/qr4nk36v33. For help using the site, contact QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

Interview shared under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are free to share or adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as they meet the terms of the license.

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Biographical Note

June Tauber Golden was born in New York City to American educators Dr. Abraham Tauber and Rhea Sapodin Tauber, a Russian immigrant. Although originally born in Manhattan, she grew up in the Parkchester section of the Bronx. She attended the Bronx High School of Science, obtained a B.A. from Queens College, an M.A. from Columbia University in Communication and Communication Arts, and continued doctoral coursework in Culture and Communication. While a student at Queens College in the 1960s, Tauber Golden was involved in some campus activities, including the Student Government and the campus newspaper The Phoenix. She also served as a volunteer tutor in both the Jamaica and Virginia Student Help Project initiatives.

Tauber Golden's professional career has been in education and communication, publishing and broadcast media, incorporating nationally award-winning campaigns for literacy, family health and safety, and recognition of women’s achievements. She was the Director of Communications at The New York Times Company Magazine Group, where she oversaw editorial media tie-ins and public service projects. Additionally, she held editorial positions at the NYT Group at Us Magazine and Family Circle Magazine. Later she transitioned to the Head of Public Relations at Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, where she created publicity and marketing campaigns for the magazines. She held similar positions at Children’s Television Workshop/Sesame Street, WNYC Radio, and the National Cable Television Alliance for Education/Cable in the Classroom. Tauber Golden has also taught at the university level, including Head of the Speech and Theater Department at Stern College for Women, instructor at Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of CUNY, and lecturer at the annual World Affairs Conference, University of Colorado in Boulder.

Extent

1 Digital Files ; 01:55:35

4.2 Gigabytes

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by June Tauber Golden and Victoria Fernandez in November 2020.

Related Materials

The following Queens College collections also include records about the Student Help Project in Jamaica, New York and Farmville, Virginia: Debby Yaffe Papers, Jean L. Konzal Papers, Michael Wenger Papers, Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum Papers, Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Papers, and the Stan Shaw Papers.

Finding aids to the collections above may be found in the Civil Rights and Social Justice Collecting Area.

Other oral history interviews related to the Student Help Project can be found in the Oral Histories / Queens Memory Collecting Area.

Physical Description

Single MP4 file totaling 4.2 GB and 1 hour and 55 minutes in duration.

Processing Information

Oral history conducted as part of the Queens Memory Project (http://queensmemory.org), a collaborative program of the Queens Public Library and Queens College to collect stories, images, and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens.

This interview was specifically collected for the Student Help: Lived Experience Project.

A two-minute long segment was redacted at 1:20:40 due to disturbances irrelevant to the interview.

Creator

Title
June Tauber Golden Oral History
Status
Completed
Author
Victoria Fernandez
Date
April 2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
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Flushing 11367 USA us