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Box 2

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Lieutenant Alan Rea, 1957-1958

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series V:
Scope and Contents

This series documents the death of Lieutenant Alan Rea, who was a graduate of the Queens College AFROTC program. He died in a plane crash on May 28, 1957 while serving as a first lieutenant at the Soesterberg Royal Netherlands Air Force Base. The series also covers the efforts to get donations for a plaque in his honor, as well as the ultimately-successful attempt to get the ROTC building on the campus renamed for him. This series is arranged by date and media type.

Dates: 1957-1958

Alan Rea's Death, 1957

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series V:
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series documents the death of Lieutenant Alan Rea, who was a graduate of the Queens College AFROTC program. He died in a plane crash on May 28, 1957 while serving as a first lieutenant at the Soesterberg Royal Netherlands Air Force Base. The series also covers the efforts to get donations for a plaque in his honor, as well as the ultimately-successful attempt to get the ROTC building on the campus renamed for him. This series is arranged by date and media type.

Dates: 1957

Donations to the Alan Rea Fund, 1957-1958

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series V:
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series documents the death of Lieutenant Alan Rea, who was a graduate of the Queens College AFROTC program. He died in a plane crash on May 28, 1957 while serving as a first lieutenant at the Soesterberg Royal Netherlands Air Force Base. The series also covers the efforts to get donations for a plaque in his honor, as well as the ultimately-successful attempt to get the ROTC building on the campus renamed for him. This series is arranged by date and media type.

Dates: 1957-1958

Renaming the ROTC Building, 1957-1958

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: Series V:
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series documents the death of Lieutenant Alan Rea, who was a graduate of the Queens College AFROTC program. He died in a plane crash on May 28, 1957 while serving as a first lieutenant at the Soesterberg Royal Netherlands Air Force Base. The series also covers the efforts to get donations for a plaque in his honor, as well as the ultimately-successful attempt to get the ROTC building on the campus renamed for him. This series is arranged by date and media type.

Dates: 1957-1958

Queens College Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0019
Abstract

This collection covers the division of the Air Force ROTC program which was at Queens College during the 1950s. It includes a variety of materials related to the program, including correspondence, publications, photographs, and extensive documentation of the death of Lieutenant Alan Rea, a graduate of the program, and subsequent renaming of the ROTC building in his honor.

Dates: 1945-1960