Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE Queens College if more than a great educational cerrterg it bar be- come a cultural center of the community -Actmg Prefzderzt Margaret V. Kiely. HIS has been achieved mainly through our Division of Adult Education and Extension, active since October, 1938. Under the direction of Dr. W, Virgil Nestrick, classes were instituted for those who wished to continue with their high school educations or take college courses without working towards a Bachelor's Degree. One of the first courses presented was Prob- lems of Child Behavior, which had an enroll- ment of six students. Since this small beginning, many other courses have been instituted, and ex- tension credits now count towards a degree if the student is, or becomes, fully matriculated at Queens College, or another college with equiva- lent courses. Whenever possible, the expressed desires of the community have been fulfilled. Recrational activi- ties as well as educational courses are offered in- cluding social dancing, square dancing, and con- tract bridge. Classes are held, to meet the needs of business people, in the late afternoons, evenings, and on Saturdays. The only prerequisite for all courses is a desire on the part of each student to seriously pursue the course of his choice. Classes usually begin the second or third weeks of Sep- tember and February, and run from eight to fifteen or sixteen weeks. The fees charged for these courses are the Divisionis chief source of financial support. ' O To bring its educational program to the people's very doorstep, the college has arranged to use various facilities of the Borough of Queens. Courses have been scheduled in such places as the Y.M.C.A., Gertz Department Store, the Queens- borough Public Libraries in jamaica and Flushing, in the public schools of Laurelton, St. Albans, and Long Island City, and in the Regency Park Apart- ments in Kew Gardens Hills. In 1945-46, two courses in Spanish were organized especially for the Spanish Chapter of the Forest Hills Women's Club, and held in their Community House. The English Language Institute is yet another branch of the Division of Adult Education and Extension. It provides instruction in the English language for students from other countries who wish to continue their education here, to visitors from other countries, to United Nations person- x nel, and to new citizens and repatriates. Only stu- dents over eighteen and those who have completed work equivalent to at least two years at an Amer- ican college are admitted to the program. The Queens College Speech Center, founded in 1959, is one of the best known extra-curricular activities of the Division. A program of individual half-hour lessons for both children and adults offers aid to those with both functional and organic speech handicaps. An organization which has become an integral part of the community is the Queens College Choral Society. With an active membership of approximately one hundred eighty singers, the Society has been directed by its founder, John Castellini, since 1941. Just before the Christmas holidays each year, Handel's The Messiah is performed, and a program of sacred music is offered each spring. Assisted by the Queens Col- lege Orchestra, which is directed by Boris Schwarz, the Society has become a permanent community fixture. The Queens College Orchestra Society, a sym- phonic organization, is another college-community activity. There is no membership fee, but applica- tion is subject to approval by the Director. Works studied and performed include the sym- phony, the opera, and the oratorio. Several con- certs given by the group were arranged by Di- rector Boris Schwarz. In February, 1947, the Queens College Orchestral Society Award of twenty-five dollars was instituted. The prize was to go to a Queens College student considered out- standing for his vocal or instrumental perform- ance by a joint committee of the Orchestral So- ciety and the Music Department of Queens Col- lege. The Queens College Forum, a regular feature on WNYC, offers valuable service programs. Transcripts of each program are available for study in New York City schools, and for Uni- versity libraries in the United States and Canada. Dr. Herbert Schueler, assisted by a committee of the faculty, produces and directs these Queens Col- lege radio programs. The Queens College Broadcasters, easily the CC0ntinaea? on page 150j

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most active college radio workshop in New York became the hrst QC student group ever to bg heard over a commercial New York station when it successfully presented an Air Theateri' serif-35 over WWRL throughout the spring of 1949, Pro duced by The Broadcasters president, Ed Cooper- stein, the ten programs featured five original stu- dent scripts as well as five previously aired pro- fessional dramas. A specially written documentary on the work of the Queens Speech Center, To Speak With Ease, was one of the highlights of this completely student-acted and directed series which featured over forty different students as actors, announcers, directors, soundmen, and tech- nicians. In addition to the Air Theatre series, The Broadcasters presented their regular weekly broad- casts in the Speech Building, with well-known speak- ers as guests. Included were such personalities as Mel Allen, Margaret Arlen, George Bryan, Marty Glickman, Robert Lewis, and Dr. Charles Siep- mann, from radio and television. Meanwhile The Golden Mike, honor society of The Broadcasters, carried on its third year of college-community service work with regular shows at the Triboro Tuberculosis Hospital. The Queens College Broad- casters have indeed lived up to their motto, Radio Service to the College and the Community. The services of the Division of Adult Educa- tion and Extension, the music and radio groups, the Speech Clinic , have all been directly or in- directly benelicial to our community in the past. But progress still continues. For our goal is that Queens become, indeed, a truly People's Col- lege. u THE QUEENS YOUTH ASSOCIATION TARTED when we were still freshmen, by Faculty members of Queens College, the Queens Youth Association now has 170 children attending classes on Saturday mornings. The edu- cators who formed the Association were interested in providing a center where children of Elemen- tary school age could develop any artistic, musical, dramatic, or scientific inclinations they might pos- sess. At Queens, classes are held in art, music, dancing, dramatics, science, and handicrafts. The center has grown considerably since its inception and at present, has insufficient facilities to take care of all children seeking instruction. Therefore,