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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: Mindprints, 1983 Summer
Subjects: Literary publication, poetry and writings
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Yosuke Terada 4
Description: A man sitting outdoors at a table and working on artwork
Subjects: , Portrait photography, Black-and-white photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Jason Owen 1
Description: A portrait of Mr. John Vogt, Regional Director of Operations for White Castle with a work member from White Castle are standing in front of the White Castle on Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, New York
Subjects: , Fast food restaurants--United States, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.), Black-and-white photography, Portrait, Vogt, John, Alumni
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Enrique Rosas 01
Description: A triptych photograph showing a man skinning an animal (caribou?) outdoors.
Subjects: Hides and skins, Gwich'in Indians, Artic Village (Alaska)

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: Astrid 1
Description: Fresh onions on the ground near a basket of squash and fresh corn on the cobb at a market stall
Subjects: , Market stalls--Chile, Black-and-white photography, Still-life photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Astrid 2
Description: Fresh avacados for sale at a fruit stand
Subjects: , Market stalls--Chile, Black-and-white photography, Still-life photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Cameron Burrow 1
Description: Nude photograph of a woman laying down with mussels covering her
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Marta Monko 13
Description: A profile of a horse's face with mountains and trees in the backgroud
Subjects: , Horses, Chile, Black-and-white photography
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: MartaMonko and MDBasunia 1
Description: A man and a woman standing in a lake in the forest with their arms extended upward
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography
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: Vicky Matthews 6
Description: A member of the Carne Amarga Chile MC, the Chilean chapter of the Carne Amarga Motorclub
Subjects: , Biker, Black-and-white photography, Triptych, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

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: Yosuke Terada 2
Description: A women walking down the street and passing by a cement staircase
Subjects: Chile, Street photography, Black-and-white photography
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Yosuke Terada 5
Description: A fisherman stands on the deck and looks at the ocean
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography, , Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Yosuke Terada 6
Description: A fisherman holding a shell fish and fresh fish
Subjects: , Fish trade, Black-and-white photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Yosuke Terada 8
Description: A man walking outdoors near a building
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography, Chile, Street photography
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Yosuke Terada 7
Description: A dog walking on a pier
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Roy McLeod
Description: Dr. Roy McLeod is a “founding” faculty member of the college and Professor of Mathematics. He currently [2019] still teaches in the Mathematics, Engineering & Computer Sciences (MEC) department. (00:55) Talks about the need for a community college for the Long Island City area to help develop economic growth, similar to why Hostos Community College, York College and Medgar Evers College were created. (3:00) Speaks about his earlier career at Hunter College and Nassau Community College and how he came to LaGCC and his excitement about coming to a brand new college and the challenge it would be. (8:20) Faculty did not have an office they just had a desk and a chair and were just excited about starting the college (9:26) The first floor was The Great Hall. Registration and everything was done there in The Great Hall. (10:21) Dr. McLeod said in July, the college had an orientation to get the college ready - that was handled by Dr. Janet Lieberman. (10:53) Dr. McLeod also said they were able to be as innovative as they could. The structure was not rigid, there was creativity. (11:25) The name of the first mathematics course was Symbolic Communication, Dr. McLeod said. He said, we were doing things differently. Dr. McLeod spoke about the grading system he said they call non-cumulative grades and he said they had – E (Excellent) G (Good) P (Pass) and NC (No Credit). (13:05) Shows his first gradebook. (Archivist Note: Dr. McLeod’s gave his first grading book to the Institutional Archives and it is kept with his collection in Division Institutional Advancement) (14:19) The students that attended LaGCC were from around the area, Dr. McLeod said, Astoria, Long Island City. There were about 540 students in the first class. They were excited about coming here. Student were very much on our minds – trying to encourage them. (15:42) During that time there were teams of faculty for advisement, students would talk to them about their classes, Coop, or whatever they needed to address. (16:17) Students felt they could talk to us, Dr. McLeod said, he said it was small so it worked very well. Class size during that time was small from 16-20 students and there was individual attention you couldn’t dream about today – that made a difference, Dr. McLeod said. (21:11) Discusses the split of the Division of Natural Environment into the Mathematics Department and the Division of Natural and Applied Science Department. He had been elected the first Chairperson of the Mathematics Department. Served as Chairperson from 1976 – 1988. (25:48) Talks about the Math Lab and its functions. (26:25) Talks about the Mathematics Department moving around to different locations on campus, Main Building, Sony Building and later the C building. In 1988 became Acting Dean of Faculty (27:37) Dr. McLeod discussed Basic Skills development and assessment tests in reference to remedial courses and the Math Lab. (29:02) Describes the computer courses and the Math Express course (an intensive one week course) and its relation to remedial courses. (31:29) Talks about English Express course that was developed by Professor Daniel Aulicino. (32:29) Discusses the physical growth of the college and challenges the limited space provided such as crowded offices and classrooms. (36:18) “[The college] grew so large so quickly” talks about the attractiveness of the Coop Program and the opportunity to earn income while earning college credit. (38:17) Dr. McLeod also spoke about students coming to LaGCC from many countries and “many come in with extraordinary skills, especially in Math and Science.” (38:57) Dr. McLeod discussed his teaching experiences with students in his classes. (42:12) “What makes LaGuardia special? the way the college started makes the college special – we emphasized on students and focused to be innovative and to have freedom.” He also discussed being a department Chairperson.
Subjects: , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, McLeod, Roy, Math, Engineering and Computer Science
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)

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