Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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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,

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During .trt cl.1sses the young .irtist works alone, choosing his own medium. he it cr.1yon. charcoal, or p.iint. A Queens Youth Qrchestra has been formed with De.in Dixon. the well-known musician. as Director. .ind it is hoped th.1t the OI'e'l'lCSff.1 will fozne Lltly include titty members. 'lhe Assoti.ition is .ilso interested in forming ti the-.iter t-or .ill Queens' children. .ind .ln Art and Science Museum modeled .iliter the Children's Museum in Brooklyn. The need for such .1 project h.is heen recognized .ind .1 committee he.1ded hy Di. Csimphell w.is set up hy Borough President llurke in connection with the Golden 'luhilee Cele- bration l.ist ye.1r. The Associ.1tion's many other pl.ins include ti theater rind .irt workshop for everyone from six to thirty. But to hring till these pltins to fruition. the .tssisttince ol' the entire community. particularly stu- dents iind alumni. must liberally he given.