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Mario DellaPina Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0022

Scope and Contents

In this interview, DellaPina reflects on his career in development, including his time with the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and what led him to Queens College. He offers a look into the process of cultivating large gifts for a public university, and shares many anecdotes of donors and alumni he has worked with, including the Kupferberg family and Ruth Madoff.

Dates

  • 1980-2019

Creator

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/29927?u=t&keywords[]=mario. 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

Mario DellaPina was director of development at Queens College for nearly 20 years before becoming vice president at Lehman College in 2008. He was instrumental in assembling the Queens College Foundation Board and leading major fund-raising efforts for the college under four different presidents.

Extent

1 Digital Files ; Duration: 01:31:33

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by Mario DellaPina and Rebecca Rushfield in November, 2019.

Processing Information

Collected as part of the Queens College Faculty and Staff Oral History Project.

Creator

Title
Mario DellaPina Oral History
Status
Completed
Author
Kuba Pieczarski
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English

Repository Details

Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us