Governor Visits QC 2 . . . Seamen's Archives Now at QC 4 . . . A Leap for Global Ed 6 . . . TIME 2000 Reunion 9

Music Faculty Score Oscar Nominee click here College Faculty | Stafff Newys febriuary 2012 Mapping a New Approach to Immigration Studies “So many Queens College students were include political, economic, linguistic, and conduct research on key areas, including born abroad,” notes Dean of Social Sci- cultural topics on immigrant communi- immigration and public policy, globaliza- ences Elizabeth Hendrey, “and that contrib- ties including Chinese, Indian, Korean, tion and transnationalism, public health utes to the college’s rich diversity of cultures Haitian, Greek, and Italian Americans, and the environment, among several and backgrounds.” Immigration studies, she among others. “We’re looking to create a other fields. “Our plan is also to develop says, “is at the of QC’s mission.” QC-based Center for Immigration Stud- research projects and training programs The field of immigration studies has ies—an umbrella center that embraces the aimed at educating both specialized and traditionally focused on the experiences commonality among all the groups that public audiences on the diverse needs of specific communities and nation- have contributed so much to the fabric of of immigrant groups as well as on their alities—Asian, Latino, Caribbean, or life in City,” says the working outstanding contributions,” says Viladrich, African, for example. But QC’s Immigra- group’s director, Anahí Viladrich (Soc & who joined QC last fall from Hunter Col- tion Studies Working Group is taking a Anthro). Now in the formative stage, the lege, where she headed the Immigration different approach. center will sponsor programs in education, Health Initiative. Using conferences, re- The first meeting of the working group, research, outreach, and advocacy. search seminars, and public forums among held Feb. 15, attracted faculty from all The center will build on the expertise of Continued on page 2 four divisions whose research interests faculty, students, and staff who already Viladrich

Big Honor for Dennehy’s research is focused on how similarly evolves in humans doesn’t precipi- how they evolve in bacteria,” he says. “So, in viruses infect new host types and spread pan- tate a public health crisis on the scale of HIV our lab, we’re using bacteria as a much more Small Wonders demically. “Over the past 30 years, a number and AIDS. Past outbreaks of SARS and Avian practical stand-in for humans.” of viruses have influenza, Dennehy notes, “have never risen Vuong’s research focuses on how polar- Luat Vuong (Physics, hired 2010) and John emerged in one to the level of our fears.” ized light produces electrical currents when Dennehy (Biology, hired 2007) operate in species and infect- At the center of his it strikes sub-microscopic, nanoscaled nano- different fields, but both are in microscopic ed another,” says research is the ques- structures. “Nanostructures are small—small- worlds below the threshold of human vision. Dennehy. “The tion: Are there ways er than the wavelengths of visible light,” she And both recently received National Science classic example is to predict which virus- says. But her field of interest “is more than Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER HIV, which evolved es are more likely than just physics,” she adds. “The phenomena and Development Awards. The awards, which from chimpanzees others to pose a global dynamics we probe also have potential impli- carry substantial cash grants as well as cover to humans with health threat? “My cations for biology and chemistry.” In time, overhead costs for the college, recognize and catastrophic con- theory is that the way applications of Vuong’s research could lead to support outstanding research efforts by prom- sequences.” But these viruses evolve ising young scientists early in their careers. every virus that in humans is similar to Continued on page 4

Vuong, Dennehy immigration studies - from page 1 Governor Cuomo other venues, the center will reach out Visits the Campus to scholars and students, public officials, immigrant coalitions, the nonprofit sector, It was a of sorts when and industry representatives. Governor visited Queens To accomplish its ambitious agenda, College on January 16 to present his bud- Viladrich says, the center hopes to collabo- get proposal for 2012. rate with faculty, students, and academic Introduced by Queens departments. “The idea is to leverage the Helen Marshall as “the King of Queens,” the incredible resources we have at QC and governor proclaimed himself, to the delight create a partnership that is truly transdisci- of a packed LeFrak Concert Hall, “a Queens plinary and holistic.” boy, through and through. Students will figure in the center’s activi- “Grew up in Hollis, had an apartment, my ties, both as researchers and research sub- first apartment, in Sunnyside, I had a house jects. A case in point: Viladrich’s proposed in Douglaston,” he continued. “And Queens study of traditional healing practices and has it all: It’s everything in one borough.” their relationship to mainstream biomedi- Then, recalling his years traveling the cine. “Students will be trained in ethno- graphic research methods and go into country as secretary of Housing and Urban the community with video recorders to Development in the Clinton administration, interview people in their homes—including he noted that whenever people remarked Governor Andrew Cuomo is shown at their own families,” Viladrich says. on his “real New York accent,” he corrected left with President James Muyskens on the occasion of his January 16 address She also wants the center to collabo- them: “No, that’s a Queens accent.” at LeFrak Concert Hall, at which he rate with other colleges and private- and And, as if he hadn’t already won over the promoted his legislative and financial public-sector partners. Toward that end, crowd, he added, “It’s great to be at Queens agenda for the coming year. the working group is organizing and co- College which is doing great work. All the sponsoring a series of events as part of accolades you’re getting you deserve.” nomic activity that will create tens of thou- Also controversial is his proposal to Immigrant Heritage Week, April 17–24. Turning to the address he’s been giv- sands of job across the state, literally building vastly expand the state’s DNA database to Created by the Mayor’s Office of Immi- ing statewide, he followed a recitation of a new New York for the next generation.” include everyone convicted of a crime. “It is grant Affairs, this initiative brings together accomplishments since taking office with He also noted the need for “an energy the single most important tool we have for a broad array of institutions and commu- the proposal that has generated the most highway” to create the means of bringing getting to the truth,” he said. nity groups that will celebrate the legacies interest locally: building the country’s largest cheap hydroelectric power from upstate to Noting that many families eligible to and contributions of the city’s diverse convention center at Aqueduct Racetrack in areas of greater demand downstate. receive food stamps elect not to because of immigrant cultures. Co-sponsors in this Ozone Park as a replacement for the signifi- Saving his more controversial propos- the requirement that they be fingerprinted, effort, besides the Immigration Studies cantly smaller Javits Center in Manhattan. als for last, he began, “Job one for every he said, “There are many ways to detect Working Group, include the Center for “New York will go from number 12 to public official, for every citizen, is the public fraud; you don’t need fingerprinting. If finger- Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understand- number one,” he said. “And that’s where education system, and we have so much printing is stopping people from applying for ing, the Division of Social Sciences, Immi- New York should be.” more to do in that arena.” He then noted food stamps so children are going to bed gration Advocacy Matters, the Kupferberg Noting the potential for enormous rev- the state’s inability to utilize $700 million in hungry, let’s do away with fingerprinting.” Center for the Performing Arts, the Latin enue if the center includes casino gambling, federal Race to the Top education funding Closing with an appeal to everyone in the American and Latino Studies Program, the à la Atlantic City, he also proposed amending because of its failure to implement a teach- room to lobby their officials on behalf of Provost’s Office, and the Office of Institu- the state constitution to permit casino gam- er evaluation system—which is opposed by his proposals, he exhorted, “We can reform tional Development. “This will be our first bling, now only permitted on tribal lands. teachers unions. “The evaluation system is education, we can bring back jobs, we can major collaboration with other QC centers, Cuomo next described a plan to rebuild the right thing to do,” he said. “No evalua- make this community stronger than ever programs, and community organizations,” New York’s deteriorating roads, bridges, tion, no money.” before. And let’s start with Queens, because says Viladrich. “And I hope it will be the first of many.” dams, and state parks: “It’s $25 billion in eco- it all started in Queens.”

FYI february 2012 | 2 Arias of Excellence

The National Opera Association (NOA), of Ohio, which also have highly regarded an organization that supports university opera programs. opera programs and promotes opera ap- “Winning a first place award in the preciation and education, is singing the 2009 National Opera Association Opera praises of the Aaron Copland School of Production Competition put the ACSM Music: its production of Postcard from opera program on the map,” says QC Morocco received third-place honors in its Opera Studio Co-director David Ronis, division of NOA’s annual opera produc- who directed Postcard. “Winning two tion competition. In 2009 QC took a first- awards within three years has confirmed place tie with Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. QC’s position among the nation’s finest More than 50 schools and small compa- opera-producing institutions.” Praising nies entered this year’s contest, submitting the production, ACSM Director Edward DVDs or videotapes of a live performance Smaldone cites the collaborative effort of (or a dress rehearsal before an audience). the entire opera studio faculty, including Participants were assigned to one of six James John, who conducted Postcard, categories based on a variety of factors, Bruce Norris, who co-directs the Opera such as budget and, if the opera was pre- Studio, and Sherry Overholt, who teaches sented by a college or university, whether voice and recruited many of the singers. the performers were undergraduate or “The School of Music's opera department Music Faculty graduate students. In Division 4, ACSM’s prepared a musical meal that left nothing Major Part of production of Postcard—a chamber work lacking,” Smaldone concludes. in which graduate students or postgradu- Oscar-Nominated ate artist diploma candidates held most of the seven roles—was ranked behind entries Film from the University of Houston and The abundant talent of QC’s jazz Miami University music faculty is on display in one of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Animated Feature. The film Chico and Rita recounts the love story between a musician and a singer set A nightclub scene from Chico and Rita, the animated film for which against the backdrops of Havana, New York Mossman, playing trumpet City, and Paris in the late 1940s and early above, and other QC music faculty 1950s, a time when the air literally pulsed provided the musical soundtrack. with the Afro-Cuban melodies popularized by such luminaries as jazz trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie. orchestra include Antonio Hart on alto sax- For the film’s extensive musical ophone and Jeb Patton on piano. Professor Scenes from the Aaron soundtrack, music faculty members Emeritus Jimmy Heath also appears, per- Copland School of Music's forming as tenor saxophone great Ben production of Dominick Michael Philip Mossman—who conducted Argento's opera Postcard the Chico and Rita New York Band and Webster. Mossman additionally composed from Morocco, which garnered Orchestra for the film—performs as the song “Persecución” and arranged addi- third place honors in the Gillespie and Pedrito Martinez performs as tional music. National Opera Association's the great Cuban musician Miguelito Valdés. The film has received rave reviews from annual competition. Other jazz faculty featured in the band and both critics and audiences.

FYI february 2012 | 3 SMALL WONDERS - from page 1 Archives of a new generation of optoelectronic devices, advances in energy harvesting, Seamen’s Church and the development of medical sensors. In the classroom, as in the lab, Vuong Institute Relocate emphasizes the intersection of phys- ics and other disciplines. That philoso- phy underlies her Modern Physics for to QC Computer Scientists course. “There is more overlap between physics and com- Professional matchmakers couldn’t have puter science than is currently taught in done better. The Seamen’s Church Insti- the traditional curriculum,” she says. tute (SCI), a long-standing advocate for Dennehy teaches a course in genomic merchant mariners’ rights, was seeking a research for non-biology majors. Students more accessible for its 178-year-old collect soil samples and isolate novel collection of archival materials because viruses of Mycobacterium smegmatis, a most of its operations were relocating to close relative of M. tuberculosis. They Port Newark in New Jersey. When SCI extract viral DNA for whole genome approached Queens College, the attraction sequencing and then analyze the genomes was mutual. computationally to discover new genes Twelve thousand items, representing Archival students will be working with and, possibly, new ways to treat tubercu- about 5 percent of the entire collection, SCI archives from day one.” Alexander losis. In so doing, “the students—mostly have been digitized so far. All 300 linear also anticipates that students from dif- freshmen, including many who haven’t yet feet of materials are now at Queens, and ferent departments and disciplines will declared a major—have an opportunity they include documents from SCI’s history take advantage of the rich content of to do real, meaningful research in a lab.” of promoting sailors’ legal rights and pro- the SCI materials. Their findings are then shared with a fessional and spiritual assistance. There are Serendipity played a role in bringing consortium of colleges in the Science also journals, photographs, letters, scrap- the archives to QC, too. It turns out Education Alliance, funded by the Howard books, reports, and flyers recording not that SCI’s associate archivist, Jonathan Hughes Medical Institute. “Our hope is only mariners’ sometimes violent and tense Thayer, who is responsible for main- Top: Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) this work will yield findings that could labor struggles, but also such events as taining and supervising the archives chaplains have always delivered reading someday help develop new treatments for material and care packages to sailors the sinking of the Titanic, Admiral Byrd’s here, is a graduate of QC’s library and in port who don’t have shore leave. The tuberculosis,” Dennehy says. expedition to the Arctic, and letters from information studies program, where he first Floating Chapel of Our Saviour for Both Vuong and Dennehy are quick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served as a fellow. Seamen (inset) was built by SCI in 1843 to acknowledge the contributions of was a board member of the SCI. “I’m excited about being in the li- and docked at the foot of Pike Street in the graduate and postgraduate students The fit with QC’s archives is “wonderful” brary,” says Thayer. “We wanted to get Lower Manhattan. working with them in the lab. “They’re from both an intellectual and historical out of the isolated model, so being on incredibly hardworking and have totally point of view, says Benjamin Alexander, campus is great. We want to integrate relief work for survivors of the Andrea exceeded my expectations,” Vuong says. head of Special Collections and Archives into the curriculum.” Apart from the professional recogni- Doria shipwreck, as well as for survivors and director of archival studies in the For Thayer, one of the significant of WWII torpedo sinkings, which Thayer tion they confer, CAREER Development Graduate School of Library and Informa- aspects of the collection is the glimpses Awards provide funding support that says is “an untold story of WWII.” Even tion Studies. of human connections. SCI was affiliated the women’s auxiliary stepped up during can figure crucially in research efforts. “We’re internationally known for our with the Episcopalian Church, so besides “A grant like this enables me to give wartime to knit caps that could be worn civil rights material. Given that the SCI offering religious services on its floating under helmets. the students working with me the time archives include substantial material chapels, the SCI also took care of sailors and space they need to learn,” says “I know how rich the collection is,” about part of ’s labor his- in need. When surviving sailors from the says Alexander. “I’m very excited that Vuong. “That’s good for them—and tory, this donation expands the American Titanic landed in New York, the SCI pro- good for science.” this will be a point of discovery for fac- narrative that we are preserving here. vided clothing. It also performed similar ulty and students.”

FYI february 2012 | 4 Update: Capital Projects Visible and Invisible

Ranging from the nearly invisible repair of the underground network of steam tunnels to the quite visible renovations to Kupfer- berg Center, a number of campus capital projects are currently nearing completion, in progress, or in development. And one very major project will not so much be seen as felt, especially on hot summer days: a new, more efficient chiller system. “We’ll achieve energy savings and also see a great reduction in operating costs,” an Information Commons area and a new says Katharine Cobb (VP Finance & Copy Center centralizing all copy, scan, Administration) of the plan that calls for and printing services. The upgrades will building new chillers at Razran Hall and facilitate 24-hour student access. the Music Building. Both will also serve a The TV studio is also undergoing exten- number of adjacent buildings. This proj- sive renovation to replace equipment and ect will be phased in over time, replacing modernize the studio space. the current system of individual chillers “Other projects that are exciting and for every building. for which we still have to get funding are “As more funding comes in, we can the designs for Remsen and the gym,” add more buildings to each chiller,” Cobb Cobb says. “The strategy is if we have a says. “This will be an easier strategy to The striking new entrance and lobby at Colden Auditorium are among many ele- design in hand and show the feasibility of implement in terms of getting capital ments in the nearly complete renovation of QC's Kupferberg Center. Restoration the project, it makes it easier to lobby for funds as we don’t have to get funding for of the tornado-ravaged roof of the tennis bubble will be complete this spring. capital funding. one large project; we can have a series of “At Remsen we’re really just at the be- smaller projects.” ginning of the planning stages,” she says. The Razran installation would also in- One Stop for Mankind “The object is an upgrade of the facili- clude an upgrade to the ventilation system ties to make more modern research space in the Science Building. Taking a cue from one-stop shopping areas from office processing procedures,” says for scientists. This is important to help “A project that’s less visible but ex- and similar conveniences, QC has just Wanda Lalond, the center’s director. “This us attract more faculty and, of course, tremely important is the electrical upgrade launched a singular destination of its own: will enable us to focus and enhance our students. on the north side of the campus,” Cobb the One Stop Service Center (OSSC) student service efforts.” For faculty and “At the gym, architects are meeting with continues. “That’s fairly far along. It en- staffed by representatives from the Bursar’s staff, OSSC can interpret and clarify aca- all the users of the facilities to get their compasses OCT’s facilities, the gym, and Office, the Registrar, and Financial Aid. demic policies and procedures and assist input on what can be upgraded and mod- the TV studio in King Hall.” Opening in the Dining Hall this semester, with CUNYfirst functions, such as collec- ernized. They also bring great ideas about She also notes an upgrade that will en- the OSSC is designed to help enrolled stu- tion of the attendance roster. The center how we can improve things.” hance safety: “We will replace the central dents address multiple issues at once, from is also responsible for the distribution of Cobb is particularly pleased to note the system that all the fire alarms from the filing a change of address to completing payroll checks. approaching completion of one project. “In buildings connect with and will add new financial aid forms. If center personnel can’t OSSC will be open Monday, Thursday, the late spring, we will finally see the ten- fire alarm systems in the Science Building, resolve a problem on the spot, they’ll make and Friday from 9 am to 5 pm, and until nis bubble restored,” she says of the green Klapper, and the Music Building.” appropriate referrals. 7 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. balloon-like structure that was abruptly At Rosenthal Library, a multifaceted “The One Stop will create a clear sepa- Additional information is available at deflated by the September 2010 tornado program of renovations and improvements ration of customer service responsibilities www.qc.cuny.edu/onestop. that tore through and Queens. is underway, highlighted by the creation of

FYI february 2012 | 5 Visiting Professor Carlos Alzugaray Treto Office of Global from the University of Havana. “We also had a group of students study- Education ing abroad in Cuba during the Winter Session,” she notes. OGEI will work closely with QC’s ongo- Initiatives Opens ing Year Of programs, says Gaudette, who is helping coordinate this spring’s faculty/ The internationally focused programs and staff study tour to Turkey. Part of this activities that increasingly characterize tour gets QC faculty together with their the Queens College experience will have counterparts at Bahcesehir University, our an expanded presence on campus with the partner in Istanbul, to brainstorm future recent opening of the Office of Global projects for working together. And with Education Initiatives (OGEI). the Year of India beginning in the fall, “The new office will serve to centralize Gaudette is searching for academic part- our efforts in globalizing education here ners in Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. at Queens,” says program Director Helen Gaudette. Located in Kiely 179, conve- Continued on page 7 niently close to the Study Abroad Office, OGEI will oversee Study Abroad, expand- ing and supporting many of its programs, such as freshman seminars, QC faculty-led study abroad courses, and semester- and year-long courses with university partners. And whereas Study Abroad’s focus is primarily on sending students overseas, Celebrating African-American artists were not welcome notes Gaudette, “At OGEI our job is in Hollywood. broader in that we’re also helping to bring African-American Other events included a performance of students in on exchanges and create new Heritage milestone Negro spirituals by jazz musi- opportunities in collaborative research cian Hilliard Greene. Additionally, QC SEEK Program Director Frank Franklin or service projects with new international An appearance by ESPN basketball analyst moderated a discussion of the documen- academic partners. We’re also working Carolyn Peck (above, left), the trailblazing tary film Second Chances: The CUNY SEEK to encourage students and former player and coach, a lecture by the and CD Story. faculty to develop a more Political Science Department’s François Another documentary film, The Murder global focus in their research Pierre-Louis (above) on the aftermath of of Fred Hampton, explored the short life and coursework. Hopefully, the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, and a of the founder of the Illinois chapter of this will lead to more faculty screening of the celebrated television mini- the Black Panther Party, and a seminar, exchanges, as well,” she says, series “Roots” were among this year’s Black “Oppression of Blacks in America, ” citing the most recent one: History Month events. brought former Black Panther Party mem- The month began with “The Education ber “Shep” to campus along with Carlitos of Malcolm X: With Reflections from John Rovira, formerly with the Young Lords. Dewey,” a lecture by Rikki Asher and The celebration concluded with “Africa's Top: Helen Gaudette in India. Magnus Bassey (SEYS). The QC community Contributions to Latin America,” an Right: Study Abroad students was treated to an exhibition devoted to examination of the cross-pollination of taking a break from Arabic the work of Oscar Micheaux, one of the studies in Oman are (l – r) African and Latino culture that featured first African-American filmmakers, who Melissa Pena, Umussahar Khatri, performances by Afro-Caribbean and Afro- produced and/or directed over 40 films Abass Bayo-Awoyemi (Baruch Panamanian music and dance groups. College), and Daniel Kong. during the early 20th century, a time when

FYI february 2012 | 6 IN MEMORIAM Jerald R. Green Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Languages Spanish-speaking country. Green and Literatures Jerald R. Green died in his published widely in the field and had Florida home on January 22 at the age of strong relations with New York galleries and 78. Green, who began teaching at the col- experts and dealers in Latin American art; his lege in 1986, was also a collector of prints, opinion was sought internationally. drawings, and photographs, and an authority Green’s experience in the Art Center led on Latin American and Spanish art. For 17 to his appointment as acting director of the years he coordinated the Queens College Godwin-Ternbach Museum (1995-2000). His Art Center’s Spanish and Latin American Art exhibits there often earned excellent reviews program, presenting 47 exhibitions. This pro- (several in ) as well as gram enjoyed an international reputation and donations of artwork to the QC Art Center/ was arguably the most important and most Art Library and the Godwin-Ternbach. professional non-commercial art exhibition Condolences may be sent to his widow, Jerald Green chats with Hilda Castellón at the Oct. 13, 1988 QC Art Center venue for visual artists from the Spanish- Jeanette Bernstein, at 13728 Darchance Rd., opening of an exhibition of works by her husband Federico Castellón, the speaking world to be found outside of a Windermere, FL 34786. Spanish-American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and children's book illustrator.

GLOBAL EDUCATIOn - from page 6 ciergerie, where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned prior to her execution. Women’s Studies Conference to Explore (Due to her efforts, Queens College is a Since that first experience in France, she member of this year’s cohorts for the Insti- has taken student groups to Greece, Italy, Controversial Subject tute of International Education’s Interna- India, Spain, and Israel. (“We were the In a season that has seen presidential aspi- author of Beggars and Choosers: How the tional Academic Partnerships Program for first,” she notes, “to do Reacting abroad rants promise to overturn Roe v. Wade— Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, India and Brazil.) so successfully.”) and legislators in some states attempts to and Welfare in the . Completing For Gaudette, her new role is an “Those five years of working with outlaw common forms of birth control— the panel are Loretta Ross, co-founder and unexpected by-product of the “Reacting Gary and Study Abroad,” Gaudette says, this year’s Virginia Frese Palmer Women’s national coordinator of SisterSong Women to the Past” role-playing pedagogy she “introduced me to the world of interna- Studies Conference couldn’t be more rel- of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, a helped pioneer in QC’s history depart- tional education—teaching abroad, going evant: it addresses Reproductive Justice. grassroots educational organization; attor- ment. “I had this idea: Here we are in to conferences, meeting QC’s international The conference, taking place in the ney Lynn Paltrow, executive director of Queens studying the French Revolution, partners, and learning more about its enor- Student Union on Monday, March 19, at 9 National Advocates for Pregnant Women, pretending to be the National Assembly mous benefits for students.” am, will feature seven women from a range who has defended pregnant addicts accused in Paris in 1791 creating a constitution More research and several discussions of backgrounds and viewpoints. Speakers of murder; and Karen Weingarten (English), for a new France; wouldn’t it be so fun on campus later, the concept for OGEI include Faith Pennick, director of Silent who is working on a book, Beyond Life and to do this in Paris instead, in the place began to evolve. As Gaudette notes, Choices, a documentary about the impact Choice: Abortion and the Liberal Individual in where it was all happening?” “Because international programs can be of abortion on African-American women; Modern America. Sue Henderson (COO) liked that idea so complicated, there’s a need for an office two sociologists, Catholics for Choice board This event is the 11th annual Virginia and put her in touch with then Study like ours which will serve as a hub for all member Eileen Moran, formerly a research Frese Palmer Conference held at QC in Abroad Director Gary Braglia. QC’s new global education initiatives, be a associate at QC’s Michael Harrington honor of Women’s History Month. Previous “Before I knew it, I was teaching abroad, place where faculty and students can come Center, and City College Professor Iris symposia have explored women in sports, and bringing students to the places we for information, and do the work of assess- Lopez, author of Matters of Choice: Puerto women in music, and pay equity, among were studying,” she says mentioning such ing the strengths of existing study abroad Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive other topics. revolutionary sites in Paris as Versailles, and exchange programs, promoting them, Freedom; and historian Rickie Solinger, Place de la Concorde, and the Con- and creating new ones.”

FYI february 2012 | 7 On the Road Again: Choir Returns Better Laughing Through Chemistry Presented annually for local high school students by the Chemistry from Prestigious Tour and Biochemistry Department, the Thomas J. Hayden III Lecture Demonstration Show is intended to be both entertaining and informative—ike the lecture demonstrations presented to generations of undergraduates by the former Director of Laboratories whose spirit the show commemorates. This year’s show, presented Jan. 12, saw student Freida Zavurov more than pleased with the milky concoction she whipped up, while Tom Sangiorgi was a bit more apprehensive about his work. Their chemistry collaboration ablaze, Harry Gafney and Sangiorgi offer the universal gesture for: “Hey, don’t look at me!”

One of the region’s finest collegiate choirs, the Queens College Choir, direct- ed by James John, is seen at a perfor- mance in LeFrak Concert Hall.

Exhausted but elated, the Queens College Choir has just returned from an East Coast tour performing a program of works by Victoria, Brahms, Rautavaara, and Penderecki. A major honor and highlight of the tour was their performance in Veterans tion’s most prominent professional Memorial Hall in Providence on Feb. 16 as choral organizations. part of the American Choral Directors As- The choir also performed at Old South sociation (ACDA) Eastern Division con- Church in Boston and the Rhode Island ference. The QC Choir, directed by James School of Design Museum of Art in John, was one of only 17 collegiate choirs, Providence. Recognized as one of the choruses, and clubs selected by ACDA finest collegiate choirs in the region, QC’s in a competition to perform at the associa- principal undergraduate choral ensemble is tions’s biennial regional conference. With a comprised of 35-40 music majors who have membership of choral directors represent- performed at a wide variety of venues on ing over one million singers throughout the the East Coast, including Carnegie Hall U.S., ACDA is considered one of the na- and St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

FYI february 2012 | 8 Red-Letter Day Celebrates QC Pride When QDay was inaugurated on Club Day, Stop, One Sushi, and QVenience. Red-shirted February 22, QC was ready to celebrate individuals who visited the Student Union college pride and solidarity. Participating stu- Ballroom during free hour were able to enter dents showed their true colors by wearing a a raffle and get giveaways from the New York red T-shirt with the QC logo. In return, they Times. “School spirit is contagious,” observes were entitled to a 10 percent discount on all President James Muyskens. “On QDay, I can clothing at the Queens College Bookstore. honestly say that I enjoyed seeing red on (Those who didn’t have a red logo T-shirt campus.” Additional QDays will be held on qualified for the same discount by buying the first Wednesday of each month for the one on QDay.) They also received 5 percent rest of the semester. off on all purchases in the QCafé, Dairy TIME for a Reunion Time 2000 math students and graduates mark 10 years

It’s been a decade since the first student That early commitment has certainly graduated from the now venerable TIME paid dividends. 2000 mathematics teaching program at The TIME 2000 program (Teaching Queens College, and more than a hundred Improvements through Math Education) of that math education program’s students is now nationally recognized and fea- and alumni gathered at the Student Union tures monthly seminars, peer and faculty on January 17 for a special dinner to visit advisement, presentations by working with one another and the many professors mathematicians, tutoring opportunities, who worked with them in the program. and professional conferences. As a part of The origin of the reunion dinner traces QC’s math education program, TIME is a its roots all the way back to 1988, even four-year secondary mathematics teacher before the start of TIME, when program prep program offering partial scholarships Some of the more than 100 students and alumni director and founder Alice Artzt (SEYS) toward tuition. of the TIME 2000 program founded by Alice Artzt initiated small get-togethers as a way to “I’m hell-bent on populating the (left) who gathered January 17 at the Student Union for a special reunion dinner. stay in touch with math education students schools with the best teachers I can who had graduated. “The dinner began to produce,” said Artzt, speaking about the grow year after year. At first it was just for TIME 2000 program and what it’s meant dents to succeed and reach their potential Asked about the city’s dearth of good students who graduated, but now I invite to both her and her students. as future educators.” math and science teachers, Artzt pointed to even the undergrads because it’s become a Eric Glatz, a member of the program’s Sabrina Joseph, a math teacher at Co- her students’ successes. “My grads can do community of math educators,” Artzt says. inaugural class, or one of 1998’s “origi- lumbia Secondary School in NYC, agreed amazing things. The program is turning out Commencing in 1998, TIME 2000 was nals,” had nothing but praise for both that the program was wonderful prepara- people who can really make a difference.” the result of a Simple Grant. “It was sup- Artzt and the program. “TIME is the gold tion for a career in teaching. “The TIME That might be why Artzt plans on posed to be only a one-year deal,” recalls standard of mathematics teaching pro- program was very intense. By the time continuing the reunion dinner despite its Artzt. “At the time, there were very few stu- grams,” says Glatz, who is now an assistant you’re ready to get into the classroom, you yearly growth. dents entering math education programs. principal at the Queens School of Inquiry. have a very good idea of how to teach,” she “It’s become quite expansive, but I won’t The idea was to give TIME students the “The best thing about the program is the says. “I’ve been to this reunion dinner every stop because my students leave the dinner best training possible.” constant support you have throughout your year and it’s great to see the teachers, and re-energized. You never hear about miracles undergraduate years. This enables stu- especially Professor Artzt.” that teachers perform on a daily basis, and the dinner is a way to thank my students.”

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Turkish and English: City of Cities: Byzantium, Armenia and Turkey Salient Differences in Constantinople, Istanbul Wednesday, April 25, 12:15 pm, Sound, Word, and Wednesday, March 21, Powdermaker Hall, Room 156 Sentence Structure 12:15 pm, Campbell Dome Discussion led by QC History Professor Wednesday, March 7, Lecture by Talât S. Halman, professor and Mark Rosenblum 12:15 pm chairman of the Department of Turkish Powdermaker Hall, Literature at Bilkent University and president Amulets, Nazars & Evil Eyes: Room 156 of the UNICEF Turkish National Committee. Artists Looking Forward Discussion of Jaklin Kornfilt’s May 2–June 29 forthcoming talk led by QC For Rent Queens College Art Center Linguistics Professor Presented by Kupferberg Center and the Rosenthal Library Robert Vago. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center at For more information call 718-997-3770. LaGuardia Community College Contemporary artists, writers, and musicians Interwoven Worlds: Domestic April 11–14 and 18–20 explore the Turkish evil and Nomadic Life in Turkey LaGuardia Performing Arts Center eye and find commonality Organized by the City, NY within their own culture. Godwin-Ternbach Museum Tickets: $10 Curated by Tara Mathison. March 9–April 29 To order, call 718-482-5151. Flushing Town Hall Written by acclaimed Turkish playwright Steps to Heaven Queens, NY Ozen Yula and directed by Handan Ozbilgin, For more information Interlacing the rich aesthetics this play explores the criminal underworld of on upcoming Year of Turkey events, visit Joseph Mills (Drama, Theatre and significance of Turkic peoples modern-day Istanbul through the desperate www.qc.cuny.edu/YearOfTurkey & Dance) performs on a across space and time, Interwoven Worlds high- lives of the young people who flock there. Circle Walker sculpture in the lights the carpets and textiles for which the "Icarus Aspires" section (top) Supporters Official Airline Turks are celebrated. Zeynep Ucbasaran, Piano of Year of Turkey: of his dance work Questions Exploring Past, Sunday, April 15, 2 pm, Present, Future About Angels, inspired by the Turkish: How a Language LeFrak Concert Hall Billy Collins poem of the Migrated from Central Tickets: $36/$34 alumni. Queens College same name. A dancer from Asia to the Mediterranean To order, call 718-793-8080. Foundation, Inc. his Mills/work Dance troupe Wednesday, March 14, Turkish-born Zeynep appears in another section of Additional funding provided by: Baklavavaci Güllüoglu LLC, Canada Council 12:15 pm, Campbell Dome Ucbasaran has given many for the Arts, Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Friends of the the four-part work, which was Lecture by Jaklin Kornfilt, pro- recitals and concerts Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Kiska Construction, Kuru Kahveci Mehmet presented January 13-22 at Efendi, New York City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, New York City fessor of linguistics at Syracuse throughout the world. “An agreeable ele- Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Theater for the New City. Office of the President of Queens College, Smart Juice LLC, Tadim, University and author of gance pervades pianist Zeynep Ucbasaran’s The Coby Foundation, Ltd., The Kupferberg Foundation, The Marmara Turkish Grammar. playing,” proclaims The Gramophone. Manhattan, The Natalie Bailey & Herbert J. Kirshner Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Vintage Food Corp.

FYI february 2012 | 10 QC People JEFFREY BIRD (SEES) Night Live," Blues Brothers, W6rnWvDCE&feature has received a $1.5 and David Letterman Band =related . . . EUGENIA million five-year research trombonist), Roy Orbison, PAULICELLI (ELL) award from the National and Pat Boone spoke on “The Fabric Science Foundation’s . . . JEFFREY HALPERIN of Film in Michelangelo Ecosystem Science (Psychology) was honored Antonioni” at the and Low Temperature by the Queens Courier as one symposium on Secrets Paulicelli Geobiology and of the 2011 Kings of Queens of the Orient: Duration, Geochemistry Programs. “for outstanding leadership Movement, and Costume Bird He is the lead principal and contributions to the in the Cinematic Experience of the East and investigator on Linking community” at a Nov. 3 screening at Yale University on Nov. 12 . the Chemical Structure of Black Carbon to Its Munk and Brumberg awards breakfast at Terrace . . KENNETH RYESKY (Accounting) Biological Degradation and Transport Dynamics on the Park . . . Because presented a paper, “Never a Stranger to in a Northern Temperate Forest Soil. He will Olivia Munk, a Bronx High School of Science of Algiers, photography by CHARLES the Popular Culture: A Survey of Arts, be collaborating with student who spent the last two summers MARTIN (Comparative Literature), is a Entertainment and Popular Culture researchers from (and many nights and weekends) working catalog and exhibition that will debut at the References in the Judicial Opinions of Judge University of Michigan, in the lab of JOSHUA BRUMBERG Musée d’art Moderne d’Alger (Le MAMA) Philip Straniere,” at the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Purdue University, (Psychology), was selected as an Intel in July. The project, Popular/American Culture Association University of Zurich, Science Talent Search semi-finalist. Her supported by the U.S. Conference in Philadelphia . . . Fifteen Islands and City College . . . project, “Environment Dependent Dendritic Embassy in Algiers and for Robert Moses, an art installation conceived ROBERT BITTMAN Alterations,” demonstrated how an the Ministry of Culture of by GREG SHOLETTE (Art), is on view (Chemistry & animal’s sensory experience can impact the Algeria, is the outgrowth through May 20 at the Queens Museum of Biochemistry) is part structure of the cerebral cortex, and that of visits by Martin to Art. Sholette asked several fellow artists: “If of a research team, Bittman environmental enrichment can ameliorate Algiers beginning with you could add an island to New York City, including several some of the effects of early sensory the 2nd Pan African what would that new land mass be like?” scientists from Australia and the UK, whose deprivation. (Olivia is the daughter of Festival (2009) . . . In Taking their study “Identification of Bcl-6-Dependent Chemistry and Biochemistry Chair WILMA Martin December MICHAEL responses, Follicular Helper NKT Cells that Provide SAFFRAN) . . . KRISTIN CELELLO’s MOSSMAN (ACSM) he created Cognate Help for B Cell Responses” (History) book, Making Marriage Work: brought a jazz quintet to Spain as guests models that was published in November in Nature A History of Marriage and Divorce in the of the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa. They have been Immunology . . . The John D. Calandra Italian Twentieth-Century United States, has just been performed music from his ballet Beneath the added to the American Institute published in paperback Mask. (His wife, MAYTE VICENS, a QC museum’s recently published media studies major, choreographed the work famous Ji . . . Michael Cogswell the exhibition (LAHM) was named an for the Deeply Rooted Dance Company; it Panorama of catalogue Graces "Honored Alumnus" of his alma was performed at Harris Theater in Chicago New York Sholette, Connor Received: Painted mater, the College of Music of in 2006.) The quintet, which included QC City, originally and Metal Ex-votos the University of North Texas, faculty members ANTONIO HART created as from Italy, edited where he received a master's (saxophone), JEB PATTON (piano), and part of the 1964 World’s Fair. Additionally, by the institute’s of musicology in 1989. The LONNIE PLAXICO (bass), also performed MFA students of Sholette and MAUREEN ROSANGELA second largest music school in a medley of music from the Oscar-nominated CONNOR (Art) went to Romania in 2008, BRISCESE and the nation, UNT’s music alumni animated film Chico and Rita, for which creating an art project called The Institute JOSEPH SCIORRA. include Norah Jones, Lou Marini Mossman, Hart, and Patton helped provide for Wishful Thinking. Now the students and The institute’s ("Saturday Night Live" and much of the musical score (see p. 3). A Connor have artwork on display at the exhibition will run Blues Brothers saxophonist), selection from the Bilbao performance can Austrian Cultural Forum in Manhattan, in an through May 25 . . . Tom "Bones" Malone ("Saturday be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw Briscese and Sciorra Continued on page 12

FYI february 2012 | 11 QC Authors in the media in the media in the media in the media CUNY scholars began studying Students in New York the Italian American community City, 1975-2000: A before the 1979 launch of the Italian Research Anthology American Institute to Foster Higher (Calandra Institute) help Education (subsequently renamed close the information gap, the John D. Calandra Italian American showing how a distinct population faced challenges Institute). But most of their work blogs.nytimes.com about the significant and stresses that weren’t remained unpublished, depriving the People in the Media portion of high-income earners in the U.S. understood. Contributors academic world, and the general who live in the New York metropolitan include current Calandra Ben Alexander (GSLIS) and alum public, of insight into a sizable cohort: area, and in a New York Times article about demographers Vincenzo Phyllis Padov-Sederbaum were Italian American students comprised how children of Mexican immigrants lag far Milione and Itala Pelizzoli and Murphy interviewed on WNBC TV’s “Positively the largest white ethnic group at CUNY behind children of other immigrant groups Institute counselor Pierre Tribaudi; Anthony Black” program concerning QC’s grow- in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Chosen in education. Beveridge also provided Tamburri, dean of the Calandra Institute, ing Civil Rights Archive. A story about the by editor Nancy Ziehler, the ten an analysis of census data for a New York papers collected in Italian-American wrote the foreword. archive also appeared in AFT on Campus, the publication of the American Federation Times article concerning significant income of Teachers. Alexander was also quoted in gains in a county in North Dakota . . . The a feature in the Queens Tribune about the TimesLedger quoted John Devereux QC PEOPLE - from page 11 “‘The Seekers of the Light’: Christian college’s ties to the civil rights movement, (Economics) in a story about occupa- Scientists in the United States, 1890-1910,” including Martin Luther King Jr.’s May tions that are faring well despite the bad exhibit co-curated by Sholette on display in the International Journal of Religion & 1965 visit to the campus . . . Nicholas economy . . . A story in the Dallas Morning through April 22 (www.acfny.org/press- Spirituality in Society, vol. 1, issue 3 (2011). Alexiou (Sociology) was quoted in a News about difficulties veterans are room/press-images-texts/its-the-political- Through analyzing the occupations of encountering in being treated and com- economy-stupid/) . . . Michele Reinlieb, story in the Wall Street Journal on Greek- 4,400 early members, Swensen shows that, Americans who moved to Greece now pensated for exposure to Agent Orange a clinical neuropsychology PhD student contrary to all previous conjecture, this returning to the U.S. because of Greece’s quoted Ryan Edwards (Economics). working under the mentorship of JOEL American religious movement was 45% economic difficulties . . . Visiting Professor He was also quoted in an SNEED (Psychology), was awarded the lower middle and working class. Swensen is Carlos Alzugaray (U. of Havana) item at thefiscaltimes.com student travel award to present her study, also associate editor of was quoted in a piece at huffingtonpost. concerning the relationship the journal . . . JOHN com about divisions among Florida’s between the hours workers TYTELL (English), who Cuban exiles over whether the U.S. put in and their health . . . has extensively written should improve ties Sujatha Fernandes and taught about the with Cuba . . . Joe (Sociology) wrote an op-ed Beat writers, read a Bertolino (VP for the New York Times about piece entitled “Hemlock the role of rap music in for Ambrosia: Writing Student Affairs) was Fernandes quoted in a Queens recent revolutionary move- and the Editorial ments in the Arab world. Process” on Dec. 1 Gazette story about Tytell bullying in schools Her use of hip-hop to teach Marxist eco- during the University of nomic theory was cited in an article in the Houston-Victoria/American Book Review . . . Andrew Sneed, Reinlieb Chronicle of Higher Education . . . The “Bach Fall Reading Series. It covered what he Beveridge (Sociology) was Bertolino to School” program created by Maxine has learned in more than a half century Fisher (English), which exposes young “The Neuropsychological Profile of MRI- quoted in articles in of writing and working with editors . . . school children to classical music, was the Defined Vascular Depression,” at the annual RICHARD VETERE (Media Studies) was the New York Times and Newsday concern- subject of a story in the Queens Chronicle International Neuropsychological Society feted with readings from his plays on the ing Newt Gingrich’s thoughts about child and a photo in the Queens Ledger . . . meeting held Feb. 15–18 in Montreal . . . occasion of his 60th birthday on Jan. 15 at labor laws. He was also quoted in articles ROLF SWENSEN (Library) published in the New York Times and at cityroom. Manhattan’s Cherry Lane Theatre. Continued on page 13

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people in the media - from page 12 tions of gerrymander- of Joseph Mills Mark Rosenblum’s (Jewish Studies) ing in configuring new (Drama). Dance major talk at the Forest Hills Jewish Center with Stories in the New York Times and Crain’s New political districts quoted Nicole Bilbao Nobel Prize-nominee Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish York Business about the contract dispute Michael Krasner was quoted in the piece was the subject of stories in the Queens between the Transport (Political Science). He . . . NY1 interviewed Examiner and TimesLedger . . . A New York Workers Union and the was also quoted in a Pyong Gap Min Times story concerning how the effects MTA quoted Joshua story at queenscam- (Sociology) for a seg- of Italy’s economic turmoil are rippling Freeman (History); paigner.com concerning ment about local Korean through Italian institutions in New York City he was also quoted in local politicians’ efforts reaction to the death of quoted Anthony a New York Times story Krasner Min on behalf of gay mar- Kim Jong Il . . . A story Tamburri (Calandra about contract negotia- riage legislation . . . Harry Levine’s at wtma.com, the website of radio station Institute). New York tions between the city (Sociology) research on the dramatic WTMA in Charleston, SC, concerning the magazine mentioned and school bus drivers increase in marijuana arrests by New York controversy surrounding a proposal to vacci- the story on its web- Freeman in the Amalgamated City police—especially among members of nate young males with HPV vaccine, quoted site, nymag.com . . . The Transit Union . . . A minority groups—was cited in a number William Muraskin (Urban Studies) Daily News reported study led by Jeffrey Halperin and of stories reporting arrest figures for 2011. . . . Jeff Nichols (ACSM) coauthored Peishi Wang’s Yoko Nomura (both Psychology) They appeared in the Daily News, New York a piece with his wife, Anne Stone (ECP) receipt of a $1.25 that examined the link between gesta- Times, Village Voice, AM New York, at gothamist. (CUNY Graduate Center), decrying the Wang million U.S. Education tional diabetes and ADHD in offspring of com, and on WNYC radio. The study was detrimental effects teaching-to-the-test prac- Dept. grant to recruit low-income women was reported in USA also cited in a Daily News story about how tices have on children’s developing a love and train teachers at the Today and at figo.org (the website of the Google omitted viewer-submitted questions of reading. It appeared on the School Book graduate level to teach autistic preschoolers International Federation of Gynecology concerning marijuana legalization when it website, a project of the New York Times, and . . . Evan Zimroth (English) was quoted & Obstetrics), redorbit.com, and medical- hosted an online Town Hall with President WNYC radio . . . The Wall Street Journal car- in a story in the Jerusalem Post about the newstoday.com . . . A story in Jewish Week Obama . . . Steven Markowitz ried a story about Arbie Orenstein’s controversy surrounding Holocaust remem- about the city government intervening to (CBNS) was quoted in a (ACSM) discovery of “four lost measures” to brance in Lithuania. prevent an Orthodox Jewish-owned bus Radio Free Europe/Radio the bassoon part of Maurice Ravel’s Mother line in Brooklyn from practicing gender dis- Free Liberty report Goose ballet . . . A letter by Francine crimination quoted Samuel Heilman Students in the News about how the U.S. mili- Peterman (Dean of Education) was (Sociology). He was also quoted in a Jewish tary’s burning of trash at published in the New York Times in response Freshman Jessica Alonso’s coura- Week story about the use of social net- the Bagram Air Base in to an article about the controversial Relay geous battle with a brain tumor was the works among modern Orthodox singles Afghanistan is affecting Graduate School subject of a story in the Daily News ...... The Queens Tribune reported on the the health of Afghanis of Education . . . The Queens Courier and NY1 carried sto- exhibit at Flushing Town Hall, Ceramic . . . Carmella Ricky Riccardi ries about Indira Avila competing in Material and Material Culture, organized by Marrone Marrone (Women (Armstrong House the NCAA Division II East Sin-ying Ho (Art) as part of QC’s & Work) was featured Museum) was quot- Regional Women’s Cross- Year of Turkey . . . Tarry Hum (Urban in a NY1 story about domestic violence . . . ed in a Daily News Country Championships, Studies) was quoted in a Daily News story The Queens Tribune carried a feature about feature about Louis where she placed fifth out concerning the controversy surround- the Queens Memory Project under the Armstrong and the of 183 runners in the 6,000- ing plans to turn a vacant Flushing movie direction of Special Collections Archive civil rights move- meter event . . . The Queens theatre into a high-rise building, which the Fellow Natalie Milbrodt (GSLIS) ment tied to Black Rogers Courier featured a profile of FAA maintains will pose a hazard to air traf- . . . The Queens Chronicle featured a story History Month . . . student Alex Garret, fic at nearby LaGuardia Airport. She was on Questions About Angels, the dance work Robin Rogers (Sociology) authored who hosts the “Alex Garrett also quoted in a segment on WNYC radio being choreographed, costumed, and per- a piece for the Washington Post about phi- Sports Hour” on the cam- Garret about misconceptions about immigration formed by QC students under the direction lanthropy as practiced by the super rich . . . groups. . . A Queens Tribune story on accusa- Continued on page 14

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students in the news - from page 13 adults who are still learning English Events in the Media was reported in the Queens Tribune . . . pus’s WQMC radio station . . . The New Broadwayworld.com carried features on York Times reported on the failure to The Queens Chronicle offered a review of two Kupferberg Center programs: the include Salman the QC Art Center’s exhibit Utopia: In performance of The Nutcracker by the Hamdani’s name Perpetuum/Forever . . . Borough President Brighton Ballet Theater and the appear- among the list of Helen Marshall’s November visit to QC to ance of the Ahn . . . The Calandra fallen first-responders kick off CUNY Month was reported in the Institute’s symposium about the MTV on the 9/11 memo- TimesLedger . . . The Queens Chronicle and program “Jersey Shore” was mentioned rial unveiled on the Queens Tribune reported on QC’s enactment in a New York Times story about the event’s tenth anniver- of its smoke-free-campus policy . . . Gov. program . . . The Queens Courier and sary . . . Student ath- Andrew Cuomo’s visit to QC was reported by NY1 and in the Queens Chronicle . . . TimesLedger offered stories about letes Christina planned Black History Month events Hickey, Carla Steven Sondheim’s appearance as part of QC’s Evening Reading Series was reported at QC . . . The $1.6 million bequest to Pennolino, the Aaron Copland School of Music by Sara Schendel, by the TimesLedger. It was also listed in the New Yorker and New York Times . . . The Beatrice Schacher-Myers was reported and Stephanie The Nutcracker Godwin-Ternbach Museum’s receipt of a by the TimesLedger, Queens Tribune, and Schroeder foresthills.patch.com. appeared in a pho- grant to employ visual strategies to assist tograph with soft- ball coach Brian Taylor DeMasters and volleyball coach The Louis Armstrong House’s Leanna Taylor in the Daily News, Inaugural Gala on Dec. 6 showing them working as volunteers at —which honored legendary jazz record producer the Christmas party at the Infant and Child George Avakian, trumpeter Jon Faddis, and QC President Learning Center at SUNY Downstate James Muyskens with the first ever “Louie Awards”— Medical Center . . . generated stories in the TimesLedger, Queens Chronicle, QC’s women’s and Daily News. The Queens Tribune offered photos of the basketball award recipients and the Queens Examiner did a Q&A team and coach Bet with Avakian. The Daily News and broadwayworld.com Naumovski were carried stories about Elvis Costello urging fans to bypass the subjects of a Queens his expensive box set of re-issued music in favor of the Courier story about newly released Satchmo: Ambassador of Jazz box set of their volunteering to 10 re-mastered albums by Armstrong which, at the time, teach basketball skills could only be purchased at LAHM. NY1 featured LAHM Naumovski to autistic children at tours as part of a holiday events roundup story, and the the Samuel Field Y in New York Times and Daily News included LAHM tours in Little Neck . . . A TimesLedger story report- features listing things to do. The Queens Chronicle carried ed participation by QC’s women’s a story concerning LAHM’s planned $17.5 million visi- lacrosse team and coach Tricia tor’s center, expected to be finished in 2014. The death of Gathered at the LAHM gala are (l to r) Director Michael Moran-Bonagura in the national longtime LAHM neighbor Selma Heraldo was reported in Cogswell; Rita DiMartino, member, CUNY Board of Trustees; “Stomp Out Bullying” campaign observance the New York Times and Queens Chronicle. President James Muyskens; Queens Borough President Helen in December at St. Gregory’s Grammar Marshall; and Renee Zarin,QC alumna and supporter. School in Manhattan.

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