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Account of the prehistory, geology, early Dutch settlement, creation of the original New York Parental School in 1909, and the founding of Queens College in 1937. Special attention is paid to the old Spanish-style buildings of the Parental School,...
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Discussion of the three major figures involved in the creation of the college and its early years: Judge Charles M. Colden, of distinguished New York lineage; Fiorello LaGuardia, activist and popular mayor of New York City from 1933-1945; and Paul...
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Highlights the career and substantial contributions of the first president of Queens College, Paul M. Klapper. His development of a varied curriculum requiring art, music, languages, science, mathematics, and social studies aimed at nothing less...
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After noting the "unusual" faculty, students, and curriculum, the writer gives an appreciation of President Klapper, who "understood" the "hopes" and "difficulties" of both students and faculty.
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Describes the opening of the college during the Great Depression, its proximity to the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, the approaching war clouds in Europe, and the divided feelings of the students and faculty about possible United States...
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Through a newsletter entitled Postscript, the writer assisted in the placement of women, minorities, and the handicapped in wartime jobs, including the famed "Rosie the Riveter." The college received national recognition for its "unique preparatory...
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Description of the special challenges and benefits of housing and feeding 360 "soldier students" at the college from 1943-1944 under the Army Special Training Program. The writer provides descriptions of how to toast 900 slices of bread in two and...
A steamboat with an American flag near West Point on the Hudson River, with two lighthouses at the left side. There is a large mountain in the background and a rocky shoreline to the left of the steamboat and some shrubs off to the right.
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Editor's note about the challenges facing the college after the war, including absorbing returning veterans, as well as expanding the physical plant and the teaching staff.
