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Title: Perspective, 1989 May
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: Pew Charitable Trusts, Art Selection Committee, M-Building, Middle College High School, Sign Language Program, Moed, Martin, Computers for new lab, Dropout prevention, College for Children, Lieberman, Janet, Horn, Dan

Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1978 February
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It succeeded The Bridge.
Subjects: Sony Cafeteria--Williams, John, Financial Aid, Day Care Center, Student Activities, Traffic, Cafeteria Prices, Blood Drive, Transfer Services, CUNY Audit, NYPIRG, Art Gallery, Michael Sullivan Dance Company, LaGuardia, Fiorello
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: Main Entrance of the Original M Building
Description: Main Entrance of the Original M Building
Subjects: , Original Main Building
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Construction of the E Building
Description: Construction of the E Building
Subjects: , Equitable Bag Building, E Building
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: The front entrance of the E Building of LaGuardia Community College - Loren Mason's Sculpture located above the entrance
Description: The front entrance of the E Building of LaGuardia Community College - Loren Madsen's Sculpture located above the entrance
Subjects: , Sculpture, E Building
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: The hallway of the Main Building located on the first floor
Description: A hallway of the Main Building located on the first floor
Subjects: , hallway, Main Building
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Main Building - Joseph Shenker Hall Dedication
Description: Main Building - Joseph Shenker Hall Dedication - Group photograph with (left to right) Senator Maltese, President Gail Mellow, Susan Shenker and Joseph Shenker
Subjects: , Shenker, Joseph, Building Dedication
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Inside the Main Building - first floor
Description: A hallway of the Main Building located on the first floor
Subjects: , Main Building
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Raymond Schoenberg
Description: At the time of the interview, Raymond Schoenberg was Director of the Registrar Office. He talks in depth about the college’s early years and how the campus developed over the years. Timestamp summary of interview (follows John Hyland’s interview on tape): (45:23) Raymond Schoenberg started at LaGCC in its first semester in Fall 1971. Talks about his career at Hunter College and seeing the sign for Community College Number 9 and his first meeting with Mary Ryan, Assistant to the Dean of Faculty, Freeman Sleeper, Dean of Faculty, Raymond Bowen, Associate Dean of Faculty, and Janet Lieberman, Assistant Dean of Faculty. (47:54) Sees starting at a new college as an opportunity. (48:40) Talks about the Great Hall which had an area to the side for the Registrar Office, it was also used for classes, for tennis and registration, anything that required a large area and it was were all the action was at the college. (50:35) Mentions how faculty would drive their motorcycles into the back of the building and park their bikes in the Great Hall until they left. (51:11) Talks about working during the summer of 1971 and how the Registrar had needed paper. They received paper from the College of Staten Island with the Staten Island logo and had to remind students for several years that LaGCC was not in Staten Island and it was in Queens. (52:38) Says what was unique about LaGCC all the offices would put their feelings and input into the college. Talks about luncheons at a restaurant on Queens Blvd to discuss the policy of the college. (56:00) Mentions that the College Senate was called the Academic Programming Committee. (56:29) Speaks about technology in the workplace and in the Registrar Office at the time and compares his experience to that at Hunter College. (01:00:39) Schoenberg discussed the changes over the years at the Registrar Office. He had left the Registrar in 1983 – he spoke about the functions of the Registrar office. (01:05:06) He also spoke about the college and service with students and the procedures with computers and technology. (01:11:55) Discusses grades and students and the mail and calling systems. (01:12:29) Talks about the college’s need to grow and the different buildings such as the Satellite Building (Sony Building), Center 3 Building, and the L and P Building (01:12:58) He discussed wider CUNY growth in headcount which continuously grows and says there is a tremendous demand on space. (01:20:43) He discusses the importance of Cooperative Education and students. And the word on the street was LaGuardia cared. (01:24:20) Ends on graduation and changes in credits needed to graduate. Schoenberg mentioned technology and student mobility. He also discusses change in later years.
Subjects: , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Schoenberg, Raymond, Registrar, Great Hall, M-Building
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)