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Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1976 April 19
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It succeeded The Bridge.
Subjects: Middle College High School, Continuing Education, Student Clubs, Bicentennnial Festival, Photo contest, T.A.R., Cooperative Education, Afro-American Culture Club, CUNY Caws Contest Winners, Recreation Center, Intercambio Cultural Club, Daycare Center, CUNY Budget Cuts, Kwanguvu, Umoja, Shenker, Joseph, Minter, Jerolyn, Farrell, Catherine
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: The Progress Note 1981 Summer
Description: The Progressive Note
Subjects: Faculty News, Alumni, Student Clubs, COTAS Workshop, Cooperative Edcuation, Epstein, Ira

Title: Perspective, 1975 January
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: Higher Education Task Force, Music Department, Army Pictorial Center, OSHA, Speech Clinic, Student Services, The English Language Center, College Senate elections, Cooperative Education, Leff, Elaine, Davidson, Donald, Gallingane, Gloria

Title: In Transit, v.3, Fall 2008
Description: In Transit The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning, Fall 2008, v.3
Subjects: Education--Immigrants, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, ePortfolio, College Now, Education, Cooperative, Education (Continuing education), Nursing--Study and teaching (Associate degree), Cultural pluralism, Bukowski, Charles, Creative writing (Higher education), Young, Susan
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1975 October 14
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1990. It superseded The Bridge.
Subjects: Cooperative Education, CUNY budget cuts, S-Building, Continuing Education, Recreation Center, Extended day, Center for Afro-American Studies, Open Enrollment, Minter, Jerolyn, Newball, Leo, Hamilton, William, Farrell, Catherine, Berman, Alan, Kwanguvu, Umoja, Shenker, Joseph--Hamilton, William--Newball, Leo, Shenker, Joseph, Hamiltion, William
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: The Bridge, 1983 June
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today
Subjects: , College Senate, Scholarships, Scholastic Press Association, Solomon Amendment, Wurtz, Adam, Roberts, Lillian, Day Care Center, El Salvador, Knight, Robert, Nicaragua, Nuclear disarmament, Cooperative Education, Traffic, Williams, John, Galaxy, Drug use, College for Children, Disability Services, International Dance Festival, Theatre, Hamiliton, William, Student Clubs, 10K Race, Mr. and Mrs. LaGuardia contest, Stern, Catherine, Macheski, Cecilia
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: The Bridge, 1983 March
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today
Subjects: , Budget Cuts, Aviation High School, Subway, TAR, Bookstore, IRS, Student Government, Campus Safety, Cooperative Education, Bilingual Education, Baker, Ella, Black History Month, Vietnam, Theatre, The Rolling Stones, Poetry, Williams, John, The Adult Basic Education Program/new program for deaf and non-deaf students consists of workshops and courses, Writing Center, Rodriguez, Migdalia, Human Services Department, Student Government, Cafeteria, Student Activites, Recreation Department, Chess, 10K Race
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: The Bridge, 1984 June
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today
Subjects: , Mondale, Walter, Traffic, Cooperative Education, Disabilities services, Taxi Institute, Student Clubs, Middle College High School, Faculty Council, Student Government, Persian Gulf, Greenbaum, Joan, Health Fair, Green, Bill, Shenker, Joseph, Deans List, Dance Festival, 10k race, Student Clubs, Soccer
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: Perspective, 1981 Fall
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about surrent activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: 10th Anniversary, Macchiarola, Frank, Williams, John, Construction, Speakers Bureau, Animal Health Technician, Commencement, Pan, William, Executone building, Library mezzanine, Mathematic department, Grant program, Cooperative Education, Kibbee, Robert J.

Title: Perspective, 1982 Winter
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: Schneider, Estelle, Students with Disabilities, LaGuardia, Marie, Cooperative Education, 10K Race, 10th Anniversary, M-Building, English as a Second Language program, Koch, Edward, Irwin, Feifer, Boris, Edna, Berman, Alan, Feifer, Irwin, Sterling, Carolyn, Siegel, Annette

Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1979 January
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It superseded The Bridge.
Subjects: Science Department--Shenker, Joseph, Student Council, Student Services, Womens Week, Student Clubs, Placement office, Career Resource Center, Student Activities, Shenker, Joseph, Talent show, Pat, Mary, NYPIRG, Nader, Ralph, Cooperative Education
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1974 February
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It superseded The Bridge.
Subjects: Hamilton, William, Veterans Affairs, Textbook Prices, Poetry, Cooperative Education, Recreation Department, Human Rights Day, Commencement Committee, Human Rights Day, Student Services, Kwanguvu, Umoja--Shenker, Joseph, Minter, Jerolyn, Internships, Shenker, Joseph, Minter, Jerolyn
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: The Bridge, 1982 November
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today
Subjects: , Tuition, Campus Safety, Cooperative Education, Accounting Resources Center, Vassar College program, Mathematics Department, Health Center
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: The Bridge, 1988 Fall
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today.
Subjects: Tuition, Campus Safety, Cooperative Education, Accounting Resources Center, Vassar College program, Mathematics Department, Health Center, Williams, John
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: The Bridge, 1988 Winter
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today.
Subjects: Middle College High School, Classroom Evaluation, Student Government, Jobward Bound, Continuing Education, Berman, Alan, Computer Science Department, Cooperative Education, Travel and Tourism program, Showcase Gallery, Black History Month, Student Activities, Basketball Team, The Student Government, Recreation Department, Choir, Gallery Showcases, Construction, Psychology, Poetry, Radio Station, Theatre, Walk on Crack, Williams, John
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Perspective,1972 December 8
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: Williams, John A., Extended day, Moed, Martin, Cooperative Education, Continuing Education courses, Shenker, Joseph, Groman, George

Title: Campus Activities Office Schedule April 24, 1972
Description: The Campus Activities Office Schedule of events and newsletter.
Subjects: Cooperative Education, Policies, Academic Standing Committee, Career Advisory Center, Lieberman, Janet, Student Activities, Hamilton, William

Title: Perspective, 1984 Winter
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: E-Building, LaGuardia, Marie, Cooperative Education, Continuing Education, Program for Deaf Adults, Literary Magazine, Gym, LaGuardia, Fiorello, International student exchange program, Middle College High School, Williams, Dorrie, Shenker, Joseph, Groman, George, Fassier, Doris

Title: Perspective, 1989 March
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: Ford Foundation, Vassar College Program, Grants, Construction, Whos Who, Cooperative Education, International High School, Budget, Alan J. Berman Scholarship, Road race, Theater, Vassar College, Taxi commissioner

Title: George Hamada
Description: Dr. George Hamada was Provost, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Chair of the Natural and Applied Sciences Department and one of the original faculty of the College. He talks about the establishment of the college, the Long Island City area, Cooperative Education and helping develop the Health Sciences program. Timestamp summary of interview: (00:57) Dr. George Hamada discusses the start of LaGCC and the effect of the culture shifts in the 1960’s greatly impacted the mission of the college and how it would be organized. (3:00) Speaks about the faculty at LaGCC during the beginning of the college – “We were a college born in Open Admissions.” Goes onto the talk about the philosophy of the college. (4:10) Talks about coming over to the college from Queens Borough Community College and the differences between the two colleges (5:32) Describes the college as an environment of innovation and allowing for experimentation. (6:33) Goes onto the excitement he felt during that time “Intellectually the most exciting time of my life” and the overall commitment of faculty and staff (7:08) “If we were an alternative college – they were alternative students” Talks about the student body and how it evolved over the years (8:14) Discussed teaching science and his Ecology Intensives course, which involved off campus trips to the beach. (10:24) Describes the first day he walked in and had a room in the M building on the 4th floor and the conditions the building was in (12:56) Talks about the orientation sessions for employees before the college started, including a helicopter ride. (15:23) Describes the area the College was in, such as train tracks on 31st St for the Macys and Gimbels warehouses. (16:00) Hamada discussed the Science and Math area combined with the Math department. Explains how the different divisions were organized compared to the present [1996] (17:01) The college saw itself as a business college because of Coop and Human Services – never saw themselves in health. Talks about the state of the science courses and professors (18:40) Goes on a walk around the college with President Shenker to find a room suitable for the first science lab (20:15) They ran their first class of 13 students, some who eventually worked at the college themselves. (20:55) Curriculum was developing slowly – developed general science – he was coordinating Science – Michael Hoban was Chair of the Department. (21:10) Talks about the inclusion of Occupational Therapy into the college and department (22:48) Makes efforts to modify the college’s Master Plan to include Allied Health as an employment connection for the Health Sciences and to develop the that program. Naomi Greenberg became director of the Occupational Therapy program. Later the Dietetic Technician, Mortuary Science, Animal Health, and Nursing programs were developed. (24:58) Receives a grant in 1975 from the Veterans Administration to collaborate with the VA hospital in Brooklyn (25:42) Discusses the different science programs. (27:17) Returns to talking about the Nursing Program. (29:18) Covers 1980’s nursing shortage and need to increase enrollment. (30:41) Discussed sorting out the Nursing Program to fit the Quarter System and Semester credits, (32:48) Talks about the Mortuary Science program (38:46) Talks about the closeness of the faculty/staff community (1975-1976) and the fiscal crisis and uncertainty of the college’s future in that time (39:42) “We were very unusual – we were making an impact – mission to generate success. Physically we never had enough room – never kept up.” (41:15) Speaks about renovations and moving offices many times (48:12) Hamada talks about changes in the college, and speaks about the 1980s and his position, the different programs and about technology. (52:41) End
Subjects: , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Hamada, George, Health Sciences, Cooperative Education
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)

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