Helen Cairns Oral History
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
Creator
- Cairns, Helen Smith, 1938-12-5 (Interviewee, Person)
Access
This oral history is open for research. Media files and transcript can be viewed and/or requested through the Queens Memory Project on Aviary: https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/71884. For help using the site, contact QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu.
Conditions Governing Use
Interview shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are free to share or adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as they meet the terms of the license. See license details at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Helen Cairns and her husband Dr. Charles Cairns begain teaching at Queens College in 1971.They both worked there for 33 years before retiring in 2004.
Extent
1 Digital Files ; Duration: 00:59:08
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by Helen Cairns and Rebecca Rushfield in March 2021.
Processing Information
Oral history conducted as part of the Queens Memory Project (http://queensmemory.org), a collaborative program of the Queens Public Library and Queens College to collect stories, images, and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens. This interview was conducted for the Queens College Faculty and Staff Oral History Project.
Creator
- Cairns, Helen Smith, 1938-12-5 (Interviewee, Person)
- Rushfield, Rebecca (Interviewer, Person)
- Title
- Helen Cairns Oral History
- Author
- Reign McConnell
- Date
- 2022, October
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us
QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu