Ruth Frisz Oral History

Collection

Identifier: QMP-0056

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These interviews took place in April of 2013, between Ruth Frisz and Eric Jablon. In the first interview Dr. Ruth Frisz discussed her career at Queens College, which started in 1966. She began her career as an advisor to the fraternities, sororities and house plans, eventually becoming the coordinator of student activities. She lost her job in the New York Finanial Crisis and rejoined the college in 1978 as a professor and coordinator of the counseling program and then retired in January of 2011. In the second session of the interview, which took place on April 30th of 2013 Dr. Frisz discussed historical moments she witnessed at Queens College, such as the budget crisis and the resulting "retrenchment" of 1976, anti-war activism in the '60s and 70s, and more. She also discussed her delight in the changing demographics of Queens College students.

Dates

2013-04 - 2013-04-30

Creator

Frisz, Ruth (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/69823/file/154441. 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/.

Extent

2 Digital Files ; Duration: 01:57:35

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by Ruth Frisz and Eric Jablon in April, 2013.

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 collected as part of the Queens College 75th Anniversary Oral History Project.