Staff Profiles<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/06\/1946_alumni_Shapiro_president.jpg” alt=”Members of the Class of 1946 who attended the June 2 Commencement (clockwise from top left): Leonard Yohay, Estelle Gershman Fruchtman, President F\u00e9lix Matos Rodr\u00edguez, Charlotte Meyrowitz Shapiro, Betty Senatore Cuccurullo, and Rosemarie Cantor Guercia.” title_text=”Charlotte Meyrowitz Shapiro” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_all=”1px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
Members of the Class of 1946 who attended the June 2 Commencement (clockwise from top left):<\/em> Leonard Yohay, Estelle Gershman Fruchtman, President F\u00e9lix Matos Rodr\u00edguez, Charlotte Meyrowitz Shapiro, Betty Senatore Cuccurullo, and Rosemarie Cantor Guercia.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Charlotte Meyrowitz Shapiro \u201946 returned to campus on June 2 to help the college celebrate its 92nd Commencement and the platinum anniversary of her graduating class. The grateful alumna reflected on her college experience in a letter in which she credits QC with enabling her to become a teacher, a women\u2019s rights activist, and an author.<\/p>\n
A QUEENS COLLEGE MEMOIR . . . CLASS OF 1946<\/strong><\/p>\nI am forever grateful for the superior and unique education I received at Queens College. Enrolled at the age of 16, academically qualified by an entrance exam, a protected only child of Eastern European immigrants, a commuter, a young adolescent.<\/p>\n
My education was transformative, nurtured and challenged by an exceptional and brilliant faculty. President Paul Klapper, an esteemed educator, had hand-picked his faculty from a national roster, tempting each one with the offer of a ground-breaking, academically influential opportunity to mold CUNY\u2019s new addition. The campus, in the \u201cwilds\u201d of suburbia, took root on the grounds of what had been a boys\u2019 reformatory\u2026a designation no longer recognizable. The original Spanish-style buildings testify to the College\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
The faculty who are most memorable and who had enormous influence on this impressionable and malleable student included John Goheen, philosopher and mentor; Kenneth Clark, psychologist, whose work became the foundation for the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Brown v. Board of Education; Joe Machlis, musician and magician who made music penetrate body and soul; Hortense Powdermaker, pioneering anthropologist; William Ebenstein, whose book on political philosophers is still in publication; and Sidney Morgenbesser, Hillel Advisor and Rabbinical student, later renowned philosopher at Columbia University, who assisted many a student\u2019s transition to adulthood. And there were so many others among Queens College\u2019s faculty who transformed their students into knowledgeable and thoughtful adults.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Queens College became the jewel in the crown of the City University of New York, proclaimed by so many of its prominent and famous alumni. This alumna became a Social Studies teacher, cofounder of Women on the Job in 1980, which worked for equality in women\u2019s employment, activist in the League of Women Voters, author of Searching for Matilda: Portrait of a Forgotten Feminist (2003)<\/em>.<\/p>\nMy friends and alumnae, who can no longer pay tribute to our College\u2019s greatness, are remembered on this 70th anniversary of the Class of 1946 with admiration and affection.<\/p>\n
They were esteemed in their respective fields: Lore Prausnitz Jarmul, Norma Oboler Shaeffer, Florence Jarmul Ross, Estelle Cooper Schneider, Estelle Rapport Friedman.<\/p>\n
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