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Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Seamen's Files

 Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-007
Scope and Content Includes various materials related to seafarers and their activities involving SCI. Included are registers, correspondence, logbooks, clippings, surveys and shipping articles. Among the various groups represented in this series are ANGYRA (International Society for the Aid of Greek Seamen); the Janet Roper Club (3 E. 67th Street), a leisure center exclusively for seafarers established by SCI in 1943; the International Club (25 South Street and 15 State Street), which catered to foreign...
Dates: 189- - 1977

Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Seamen's Service Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-005
Scope and Content Includes ledgers, correspondence and reports related to various departments within the Institute that provided services to seamen, including the Department of Special Services, the Alcoholics Assistance Bureau, the Credit Bureau, the Employment Bureau, the Post Office Station for Seamen and the Seamen’s Bank for Saving. Also included are materials related to ship visiting. Of particular interest is correspondence related to the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928, including direct...
Dates: 1900-1978

Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Staff and Administration Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-004
Scope and Content Staff and Administration records consist of correspondence, minutes and reports related to various departments and individual staff members. Included are departmental reports from 1941-1978 and operations surveys from 1932-1960. Of particular interest is correspondence related to Janet L. Roper, who served as SCI’s House Mother from 1915-1943, founding the Missing Seamen Bureau in 1919. Also included is a manuscript copy of an unpublished biography of Roper written by Jonathan Finn, as well...
Dates: 1902-1978

Sheila Delany Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0015
Abstract

From 1967-1969, Dr. Sheila Delany taught English Literature at Queens College. In November 1968, the English Department's decision not to rehire Delany contributed to campus upheveal that occurred in the spring of 1969. This collection documents the department's decision and protests associated with her plight, as well as a subsequent job offer in the SEEK program that was later retracted. Materials include correspondence, fliers, and clippings.

Dates: 1968 - 1974

Sid Simon Photographs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0063
Abstract Sid Simon was the Queens College professor and faculty advisor for the student groups who wanted to volunteer in civil rights initiatives in the South. In 1965, Simon traveled twice to Mississippi to help rebuild churches that were burned down by the Ku Klux Klan. The first group traveled in February; the second during Easter recess. The photos in this collection depict students participating in the February construction projects, as well as scenes of the region in which the volunteers...
Dates: 1965

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

 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 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1989

Susan Glaser Oral History

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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

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