Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 161 - 170 of 174

Soribel Genao Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0051
Scope and Contents Soribel Genao talks about her family, education, interests, and general upbringing in Manhattan, then Brooklyn, then Manhattan again; the challenges of the higher education system and maneuvering it as an undergraduate and graduate student; the importance of mentors in her career and how she started at Queens College as a teaching professor rather than a research associate, as was her initial plan; how COVID impacted her as a teacher and how she has adapted for the current moment with...
Dates: 2020-09-15

Stan Shaw and Michael Wenger Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0023
Scope and Contents Stan Shaw and Michael Wenger discuss their experience initiating, coordinating, and participating in the Virginia Student Help Project and the Jamaica Student Help Project of Queens College in the early to mid-1960s. The Virginia Student Help Project was an intensive education effort during the summer of 1963 in Prince Edward County, Virginia where public schools were closed for five years in massive resistance to integration. The Jamaica Student Help Project took place closer to home....
Dates: 2020-07-15

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, 1969-2011 (bulk, 1980-1989)

 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: 1969-2011; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1989

Susan Glaser Oral History

 File
Identifier: QMP-0031
Scope and Contents Susan Glaser, daughter of immigrants, grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and attended Queens College in the second half of the 1960s. In this interview, she reminisces fondly about her time in the campus and how much she enjoyed an active social life as a member and later president of the Doll House house plan. She also reflects on how political events like Nixon’s campaign for the presidency and the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr. occurred during her student years, and how everything seemed to...
Dates: 2020-12-17

Susan Nichols Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0065
Abstract Susan Nichols was a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964-1965. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, (B.A. in Psychology, 1983) and Boston University (Masters in Social Work, 1984). She worked for civil rights and social justice organizations, such as the Freedom Democratic Party, Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, Let Cuba Live, Cuba Solidarity and Pastors for Peace. The collection contains incident reports and affidavits on violence, memos, institutional...
Dates: 1960-1989

Vincent Giordano Before The Flame Goes Out Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-HAP-0001
Abstract

Multi-media collection created by Vincent Giordano documenting the Romaniote Jewish community in New York's lower east side, and its mother synagogue in Ioannina, Greece.

Dates: circa 1999-2010

Waldo Jeff Oral History

 File
Identifier: QMP-0038
Abstract

This oral history was conducted by Obden Modesir (interviewer) and Waldo Jeff (interviewee) in July and August 2019. In this interview, Waldo Jeff talks about his time as one of the first counselors of Queens College's SEEK program, his path to New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and his involvelment in civil rights movements in both the Deep South and the North.

Dates: 2019-07-25 - 2019-08-20

Wally Rosenthal Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0002
Scope and Contents

This interview covers topics such as growing up in Flushing in the 1950s; being brought up in a leftist/progressive home; civil rights movement activities he and his older brothers participated in at Queens College and in Flushing in the early to mid-1960s; and later activism in which Rosenthal was a participant.

Dates: 2011-03-11

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

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
oral histories (literary works) 59
interviews 58
Civil rights movement 36
Queens (New York, N.Y.) 27
Mississippi Freedom Project 12
∨ more
Student movements 12
Flushing (New York, N.Y.) 9
Music 9
Prince Edward County (Va.) 8
New York (N.Y.) 6
Mississippi 5
South Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) 5
Gay rights 4
History of the book 4
Jewish musicians 4
Rare library materials 4
Women in higher education 4
audiocassettes 4
rare books 4
Atlanta (Ga.) 3
Composers 3
AIDS (Disease) 2
Communism in education 2
Elections 2
Episcopal Church 2
Feminism 2
History 2
Newark (N.J.) 2
Newsletters 2
Nineteen sixties 2
Orangeburg County (S.C.) 2
Photographs 2
Physics 2
Race relations -- United States 2
journals (periodicals) 2
scrapbooks 2
Academic Libraries 1
Accounting 1
Anthropology 1
Anti-war demonstrations 1
Art 1
Associations 1
Basketball for women 1
Basketball for women--Coaching 1
Bell towers 1
Book design 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
College sports for women 1
College teachers 1
Composition (Language arts) 1
Environmentalism 1
Ethnic relations 1
Food 1
Gay composers 1
Graphic design (Typography) 1
Greece 1
Greek American newspapers 1
Greek Americans 1
Ioannina (inhabited place) 1
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum 1
Labor unions 1
Long Island (N.Y.) 1
Manhattan (borough) 1
Menus 1
New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) 1
Opera 1
Organized crime investigation -- United States 1
Printing 1
Psychology 1
Public art 1
Queens College Mexico Volunteers 1
Reformatories 1
Romaniots 1
Sexual minorities 1
Social Change 1
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 1
Women coaches (Athletics) 1
World War II 1
artists’ books (books) 1
battlefield maps 1
bulletins 1
color slides 1
house organs 1
photograph albums 1
sheet music 1
∧ less
 
Language
English 171
Greek, Modern (1453-) 2
German 1
Multiple languages 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Queens College (New York, N.Y.) 52
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey 17
Mondesir, Obden 11
Rushfield, Rebecca 9
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) 6
∨ more
Annie Tummino 5
Levy, Mark 4
Savage, Dean 4
Shaw, Stanley 4
Wenger, Michael 4
Queens Memory Project 3
Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey 3
Summer Community Organization and Political Education (Organization) 3
Weidman, Bette 3
Albertz, George 2
Andrews, Rosalind 2
City University of New York 2
Gatti, Arthur 2
Goodman, Andrew 2
Hartman, Tess 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 2
Konzal, Jean 2
Lee, Robert I. 2
Lori Wallach 2
Nestle, Joan 2
Paul Klapper Library 2
Powdermaker, Hortense 2
Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Department of Music 2
Rathaus, Karol, 1895-1954 2
Rustin, Bayard 2
Savio, Mario 2
Shur, Moshe 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 2
Waters, Constance 2
Yaffe, Deborah 2
Young, Andrew 2
ACT UP New York (Organization) 1
Aaron Copland School of Music 1
Abodunrin, Hikmah 1
Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications 1
Aguayo , Gary 1
Albertz, Hubert 1
Alley Pond Environmental Center 1
Alumni Association of Queens College 1
American Association of University Professors 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Society of News Editors 1
Amin, Mohamed Q. 1
Anderson, Khaleel 1
Aptheker, Herbert 1
Asadorian, William 1
Asher, Rikki , Dr. 1
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Balan, Edith 1
Barnes, Christian 1
Bartelt, Jean 1
Bartolini, Bridget 1
Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011 1
Bellow, Saul 1
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library (1988 -) 1
Berman, Andrew 1
Berube, Maurice R. 1
Birstein, Ann 1
Bourne, Randolph Silliman, 1886-1918 1
Branciforte, Richard 1
Brock, Carol 1
Brostek, Joseph 1
Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008 1
Cairns, Helen Smith, 1938-12-5 1
Carey, Tom 1
Carra, Regina 1
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964 1
Civil Rights Coordinating Council 1
Clark, Edward G., Jr. 1
Cohen, Saul B. (Saul Bernard), 1925-2021 1
Colden, Charles S. 1
Colson, Jacqueline 1
Commoner, Barry 1
Covington, Sarah 1
Delany, Sheila 1
DellaPina, Mario 1
Dolcimascolo, Gelia 1
Donno, Daniel 1
Dow Chemical Company 1
Dow Jones & Co 1
Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Errera, Steven 1
Etienne, Jacques (GLASA) 1
Forman, James 1
Frisz, Ruth 1
Genao, Soribel 1
General Electric Company 1
Glaser, Susan 1
Goldwater, Robert, John 1
Greller, Andrew 1
Gwyn, Althea 1
Hai, Reshad 1
Harris, Jessica 1
Hausman, Leonard J. 1
∧ less