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Title: Andy Saluga
Description: Andy Saluga was the College's first Recreation Coordinator Timestamp summary of video: (0:00)Andy was very active when he attended college at Western New York State in 1968 to early 1970s. He was involved in the Student Government and in civil rights. He had decided to leave the college because of issues at the university and may have been shutting down. (2:57)He had worked in construction in the 1970s and was then offered a teaching assistant position at an elementary school. He had liked to help people. (3:38)Andy had attended a special program at Hunter College in 1974 and then came to LaGuardia to attend a program here at the college. Andy didn’t realize there was a college here. He met Fern Khan and Rich Homes a counselor here at LaGCC. The college had been convenient for him to attend from where he was living. (5:36) Andy began to take courses here at LaGCC in education. He had liked the diversity here at the college. In 1976, the Main building was under construction “The Great Hall” was also under construction. It had been used for recreation. (6:36) Andy had graduated with an Associate degree in Education and received encouragement from professors. (7:46)The college had been much smaller and faculty, counselors and Cooperative Education staff all worked together as a team. Andy had worked at the elementary school with 1st and 2nd graders, and had attended college in the evening. The Board of Education was in fiscal crisis and cuts were being made which would not allow Andy to keep his position at the elementary school. Andy was offered an hourly position at LaGCC and had worked with Professor Irwin Feifer. (13:49) The college was awarded a grant and Andy was able to keep his position. He had worked at the Career Resource Center and was hired as a staff member. He had worked with students to provide them with information. In 1977, Andy was appointed to the professional staff and continued his work at the Career Resource Center. (16:08) The college had celebrated its 10th Anniversary and he had worked with the Recreation department on the 10K Race. Andy had been recommended to work at the Recreation department in the 1980s and had joined the department. In the early years of the college, there had not been a recreation facility. They had used “The Great Hall” as the site for recreation. In 1977, there was a new recreation facility. (18:02) Recreation was a voluntary program. The college didn’t offer physical education courses. The LaGCC Recreation department opened 6 days, morning until night and the opportunity to visit is all day long and the pool is also open. (19:48) LaGCC stressed for space so the Recreation area was used as a social space. (21:06) “With increases in enrollment members of the college were asked to talk about any dreams they had for the college. The Recreation department gave the idea of the swimming pool, to the college space committee. Because of 31st Street being closed, we were able to have the swimming pool. We could not have a fitness center in the E building, but the swimming pool was very popular a good decision.” (24:06)Various activities would go through cycles, roller skating during the disco era. Basketball, handball, indoor soccer the Recreation department tried to respond to needs. (25:35)The weight room had intimidated people who didn’t know about weight training, especially female users were not comfortable. Plans were made for a fitness center to have more women using the facilities, they wanted to draw women to the facility. (27:41) “[LaGCC] is always the place to be – the attitude is all things are possible. People of LaGCC are very special and remarkably diverse.” (31:20) “People work hard here at [LaGCC]. [LaGCC] has a sense of community as we get bigger and older I hope we can maintain that.” (32:05) Total time
Subjects: , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Saluga, Andy, Recreation Department
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)

Title: Statlin Coronel 3
Description: Train tracks in Long Island City, New York.
Subjects: Black-and-white photography

Title: Marchi Versano 02
Description: Looking up at a building in Long Island City, New York.
Subjects: Architectual photography, Black-and-white photography

Title: Elisa No Kim 2
Description: A view of Long Island City through a window covered in rain drops.
Subjects: Black-and-white photography

Title: Judyta Grudzien
Description: A black and white negative landscape photograph from Queensbridge Park (?) Long Island City, New York.
Subjects: Black-and-white photography

Title: Gianni Sanchez 1
Description: A view of the Citi Bank building and the Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge in Long Island City, New York.
Subjects: Black-and-white photography

Title: Elisa No Kim 4
Subjects: Black-and-white photography

Title: Marchi Versano 06
Description: A child outdoors near park sprinklers.
Subjects: Black-and-white photography, Street photography

Title: Elisa No Kim 11
Description: A man working with a printing press
Subjects: , Printing presses, Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Elisa No Kim 18
Description: A man who works in an auto repair shop
Subjects: , Automobile repair shop, Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Elisa No Kim 19
Description: A man at work in a metal shop
Subjects: , Metal-work, Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Elisa No Kim 23
Description: A man at work in a metal shop
Subjects: , Metal-work, Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Elisa No Kim 5
Description: A man holding and looking at a framed photograph
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Yosuke Terada 1
Description: A man decorating a construction hat with beaded antenna.
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Young Kyu Park 10
Description: A man sitting on rolls of carpeting in a warehouse
Subjects: , Rug and carpet industry, Portrait photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Marcia Garcia 4
Description: A young girl sitting in her livingroom on the sofa holding her notebook
Subjects: , Portrait photography, Black-and-white photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Sandra Watson
Description: Sandra Watson Director of Family Staff (at time of interview) talks about her experience in the Division of Adult and Continuing Education and as a counselor in the Veterans Program (00:46) Sandra Watson spoke about the founding of LaGCC in the early 1970s -- a period when people struggled during the Civil Rights movement and CUNY was in position to respond – at a time for women and people of color wanted to come into the institution -- it was a time after the Vietnam War. (2:23) Goes on to describe the student body (2:47) Talks about her coming to LaGuardia Community college as a vocational counselor for the Veterans Programs. (4:05) Came to LaGCC in 1974 and said it was a very exciting place. Talks about the Great Hall, Leonard Saremsky who would drive up in his motorcycle right up to the door; tennis courts in the back; partitions separating the space, no offices – a feeling of oneness. (4:47) Talks about Joseph Shenker’s age and the overall young staff. (5:43) The Division of Adult and Continuing Education was written in the Governance Plan – the arm to reach out to the community – a community that was very diverse. (6:53) Speaks about Adult and Continuing Education creating programs which would later be turned into degree programs – The Dean of Adult and Continuing Education was Ann Marcus, Sandra spoke about different faculty lines in Adult and Continuing Education and support for President Shenker. (8:18) Sandra said, most of the people in the division ran program areas and knew how to write grants. (8:47) Mentions the Single College Concept (9:38) “We were told we could fail, we could try, we could experiment” (11:22) Discusses the Veteran’s Program and says it was one of the most challenging programs she ever worked in. Talks about how the counseling and workshops were organized (14:14) Mentions that the Veteran’s program was not funded for the first time in 24 years (1996), in her opinion due to the sharp conservative political turn in government (15:11) Talks about how ACE programs were funded, developed and community involvement in the process. Discusses the Deaf Program (17:55) Speaks about Fern Kahn (18:19) Speaks about collaborating with funding agencies and city agencies (19:19) Goes in depth about the Deaf Program and its diversity (22:31) Discusses the continual need for space in the college, the Great Hall, moving offices (25:44) Speaks about changes in the college now and before, and innovation and LaGCC. (30:11) She also discussed changes and development of programs for changes and the community. Sandra spoke about Queens and the development of programs and going to the community – Children’s College was built. (30:11) Mentions the change of the ESL program – credit and non-credit programs. (36:11) She discussed the college and its growing older. (37:04) Sandra says she comes to a place where she works with social problems and social change – happy to be here. The institution is for the students.
Subjects: , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Watson, Sandra, Veterans Affairs, Adult and Continuing Education, Program for Deaf Adults
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)