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Dean Savage Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0001
Scope and Contents In the interview, Dean discusses his childhood in rural western Washington state; his time at Stanford; his activism, including participation in the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project, registering black citizens to vote in 1965; his dissertation research in France; and his career at Queens College, starting in 1971. He describes changes to faculty working conditions, student population, and the curriculum over the years, based on his experience as a...
Dates: 2019-09-26

Debby Yaffe Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0042
Scope and Contents Debby Yaffe was one of the youngest members of the Student Help Project who volunteered to go to Prince Edward County, Virginia, in the summer of 1963 to tutor local Black children who were denied a public education for four years in massive resistance to the desegregation of schools. Yaffe contributes her memories of organizing and preparing for the summer initiative. In Prince Edward County, Yaffe served as the librarian of the Queens College group, rather than as a tutor, which she had to...
Dates: 2021-03-26

Dorothy (Dottie) Zellner Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0045
Scope and Contents Dorothy “Dottie” Zellner (born in 1938) discusses growing up in Manhattan as the daughter of immigrants in a Left, Jewish family in Manhattan. She recalls being a young child during the second World War, when Nazi hatred of Jews and the potential for Germany to attack the United States were experienced as imminent threats. Zellner discusses how McCarthyism affected her family in the late 1940s through the 1950s, and her experience at Music and Art High School, which she attended from...
Dates: 2019-06-10

Edward M. Cohen Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0115
Abstract

The Edward M. Cohen Papers collects the publications, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, and other ephemera of Edward M. Cohen (b. 1936 - d. 2023), a gay author, playwright, director, former Queens College student and Jewish New Yorker.

Dates: 1955 - 2023

Ellen Weingart, Linda Tucker, and Edith Balan Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0003
Scope and Contents

In the group interview, the three Queens College alumnae, Ellen Weingart, Edith Balan, and Linda Tucker, reminisce about what an achievement it was to get admitted to Queens College in the early 1960s when they were college students, about joining house plans and enjoying a vibrant social life in the campus, and about choosing and enjoying the required physical education classes like lacrosse, swimming, and folk dancing.

Dates: 2018-10-14

Fern Kruger Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0027
Scope and Contents Fern Kruger reflects on her time as a student at Queens College in the 1960s, as well as the extent of her participation in the Queens College Jamaica Student Help Project. Kruger was a volunteer in the Jamaica Student Help Project, where she was a tutor to young Black elementary school students in Jamaica, Queens. At its height, the Jamaica initiative of the Student Help Project engaged 500 Queens College students who volunteered to tutor more than one thousand educationally challenged,...
Dates: 2020-11-6

Forbes Hill Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0037
Abstract

The Forbes Hill Collection contains printed materials, news clippings, and correspondence related to the life of Forbes Hill, a political activist and academic who taught at Queens College from 1964-2008.

Dates: 1914-2008, bulk 1946-1964

Gender, Love, and Sexuality Alliance (GLASA) Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0094
Abstract

The Gender, Love, and Sexuality Alliance (GLASA) is a student association at Queens College. GLASA functions as a space for LGBTQ+ students to interact in community with one another. The collection primarily consists of the club's journals, as well as supplemental materials related to GLASA events.

Dates: 1987 - 2023

Helen Cairns Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0055
Scope and Contents

In this interview session, which took place on March 18th, 2021, Dr. Helen Cairns discussed her career at Queens College within the Linguistics and Communication Disorders Department. During that time she was elected department chair several times, served as the dean of graduate studies and research, and both conducted and supported research and publication efforts.

Dates: 2021-03-18

Helen Hendricks Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0028
Scope and Contents In this interview, Helen Hendricks is interviewed by alumni Stan Shaw and Mike Wenger about her role as a College Office Assistant in Student Activities in the Dean of Students Office during the early to mid-1960s. Wenger and Shaw considered Hendricks a mentor and important behind-the-scenes supporter of civil rights activities they initiated, especially the Virginia Student Help Project, which involved tutoring children in Prince Edward County who had been locked out of the education system...
Dates: 2020-11-16

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Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications 1
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Alumni Association of Queens College 1
American Association of University Professors 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Society of News Editors 1
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City University of New York. Search for Education and Knowledge Program 1
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Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
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Gwyn, Althea 1
Hai, Reshad 1
Hausman, Leonard J. 1
Heilman, Samuel C. 1
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Hill, Emerson 1
Hill, Forbes 1
Hill, Lyn 1
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Kyvallos, Lucille, 1932- 1
Marquis, Gail A., 1954- 1
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McMurray, Joseph P. 1
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 1
Moore-Wilk, Meghan 1
New York Botanical Garden 1
Newspaper Association of America 1
Oliva , Christopher 1
Omolade, Barbara Jones 1
Orender, Donna 1
Parness, Noam (GLASA) 1
Paul Klapper Library 1
Phillips, Warren, 1926- 1
Priskos, Stefani 1
Pulitzer Prize Board (Columbia University) 1
Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Office of Institutional Effectiveness 1
Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Academic Senate 1
Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Department of Urban Studies 1
Queens College Mexico Volunteers 1
Queens College Retirees Association (1972 -) 1
Reuder , Mary 1
Rodberg, Leonard S. 1
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Ruthizer , Scott 1
Savage, Dean 1
Savio, Mario 1
Schlesinger, Helene 1
Schlesinger, Stanley 1
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
Stanford University 1
State of New York Northeastern Queens Nature and Historical Preserve Commission 1
Summer Community Organization and Political Education (Organization) 1
Tauber Golden, June 1
The Wall Street journal 1
Townsend, Alan 1
Tucker, Linda 1
Wallach, Lori 1
Weidman, Bette 1
Weingart, Ellen 1
Williams, Sheila Dallas 1
Yaffe, Deborah 1
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