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Oscar Shaftel Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0052
Abstract The Oscar Shaftel papers contains correspondence, flyers, press clippings, transcripts of testimony, printed materials and miscellanea documenting student activism at Queens College in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the effect of McCarthyism on academic freedom in New York State. Oscar Shaftel, one of the original faculty members at Queens College, was fired in 1953 under Section 903 of the New York City Charter for refusing to testify in front of the Senate Internal Security...
Dates: 1937-2000

Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0053
Abstract

This collection contains 150 objects from a portfolio set of “Pages From the Past”, collected and distributed by the now-defunct Society of Foliophiles in New York. They are individual leaves from original printed books and manuscripts in several languages, providing a compact yet extensive history of Western bookmaking from ancient Sumeria to the twentieth-century United States.

Dates: circa 2300 BCE – 1937 CE, bulk 1400 – 1850 ; Majority of material found within 1400 - 1850

Paul Klapper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0054
Abstract

The Paul Klapper Collection contains the correspondence, administrative files, certificates and awards, photographs, public speeches, programs, newspaper clippings, a doctoral hood, and his personal book collection of the first President of Queens College. The bulk of the collection covers 1937-1948, from the founding of the school until Klapper's retirement.

Dates: 1895-1985; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1948

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

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

Queens College Anniversaries Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0088
Scope and Contents

Commemorative publications; printed and 3d ephemera; and research and administrative files associated with various anniversaries of Queens College.

Dates: circa 1962-present

Queens College Bulletins

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0013
Scope and Contents

Bulletins published yearly by Queens College that provide information on courses, curriculum, administration, faculty, and admissions requirements.

Dates: 1937 - 2005

Queens College Campus Unrest Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0030
Abstract: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection contains papers, correspondence, and flyers regarding the Spring 1969 sit-in protest of the social science building by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression. The protest was in defense of the three members of the Students for a Democratic Society who were arrested and charged for leading a protest for the removal of General Electric recruiters from QC campus. The sit-in lasted four days resulting in the arrests of thirty-eight students...
Dates: 1968-1970

Queens College Clock Tower Bells Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0062
Abstract

This collection contains photos and related papers documenting the creation and installation of the five bells in the Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Clock Tower of Queens College’s Rosenthal Library.

Dates: 1989-2012

Queens College Commencement Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0001
Abstract

The collection is comprised of commencement programs and baccalaureate programs maintained by the Office of Special Events and Alumni Affairs. Awards, medals, and honorary degrees given at commencements are also documented.

Dates: 1941-Present

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