Discimus ut serviamus: We learn so that we may serve.
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From left: Chloë Bass, President Frank H. Wu, Daniel Pravit Fethke | we turn to time, the final segment of Obligation To Others Holds Me in My Place—an installation Chloë Bass (Art) assembled from new, self-documented video footage submitted by four multigenerational, mixed-race families—was screened in Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library on Tuesday, October 22. After the screening, Bass, her co-producer Daniel Pravit Fethke, and James Lowry (GSLIS) took part in a talkback about artists working in archival processes. we turn to time was created with significant support from the Kupferberg Arts Incubator. | |
Sukkot takes its name from the booths where people have meals for the duration of the Jewish holiday. The QC campus usually has two such booths, one erected by Queens Hillel and the other by Chabad on Campus. Last week, Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and President Frank H. Wu visited both, as can be seen in this video. Before leaving QC, Matos had the chance to join a volleyball game.
| Chancellor Matos and President Wu stopped at two sukkahs in one day. | Chancellor Matos—formerly QC president—enjoyed playing on familiar turf. | |
Lehman College President Fernando Delgado enjoyed a campus tour with President Frank H. Wu on Wednesday, October 23. Over brunch, they discussed several potential collaborations.
From left: Lehman College Vice President for Administration and Finance/Chief Financial Officer Rene M. Rotolo, Interim Dean of Asian American/Asian Research Institute John Chin, Dean of Social Sciences Kate Pechenkina, Assistant Vice President for Budget and Finance Joe Loughren, Lehman College President Fernando Delgado, President Frank H. Wu, Lehman College Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success Jorge Silva-Puras, and Dean of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Daniel Weinstein
| President Frank H. Wu, David Zweig | David Zweig, a social scientist who spent most of his career in Asia, stopped at the Q-Side Lounge during free hour on October 23 to discuss his latest book, The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations. President Frank H. Wu hosted the event. | Academic Advising Center staff and AAC Peer Ambassadors welcomed President Frank H. Wu to their Kiely Hall office on Wednesday, October 23. | Seniors from the Florence E. Smith Senior Services, a community-based organization in Corona, visited the Godwin-Ternbach Museum on Thursday, October 24. They had a brief tour of the exhibition, learned about the museum’s history, and had fun decorating hand-held masks. | |
Silvia Mihai, second from left, is joined at the unveiling by her friends Benny Guerra and Gretchen Van Dyk, and President Frank H. Wu.
Work by Silvia Mihai, a QC senior majoring in studio art with a concentration in ceramics, was chosen among six submissions for display in the president’s office. Stacey Romano, director of the president’s office, coordinated the consultation and selection process.
| Mihai also took time for a photo op with members of the art faculty who taught her: (from left) Sin-ying Ho, Christopher Esposito, and Nathaniel Lieb. | |
Women’s Tennis Claims ECC Championship; Men’s and Women’s Soccer Earn ECC Playoff Berths
It was an exciting week of action for Queens College Athletics. The women’s tennis team defeated St. Thomas Aquinas College to win the 2024 East Coast Conference Women’s Tennis Championship, and the men’s and women’s soccer teams are headed to the ECC Playoffs.
In women’s tennis, the Knights won by a 4-1 score to claim their 10th ECC title in school history and their first since Spring 2021. They also received a berth into the NCAA tournament in the spring.
| Meanwhile, the men’s and women’s soccer teams each clinched ECC playoff berths. The men earned a tie and win last week and secured the top seed for the playoffs. They hold a record of 9-4-2 overall and 6-0-1 in the ECC. And with a pair of victories last week, the women’s team secured the #3 seed in the ECC playoffs. The ECC playoffs begin on November 6 for the women and November 7 for the men. | |
Additionally, the Knights cross country teams competed in the ECC Championship last weekend with the men’s team placing fifth and the women’s team finishing sixth. John Ray placed 6th individually to earn All-ECC First Team honors. Rachel Mow finished 14th and was named to the All-ECC Second Team.
For the latest Knights news, schedules, statistics, and more go to queensknights.com.
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Although basketball season is just getting underway for most teams, the Queens College faculty-staff basketball games are already in midseason form.
Since mid-September, weekly staff/faculty basketball games have been held in the FitzGerald Gymnasium. The games are open to any staff or faculty member, regardless of skill level, whether you are interested in a competitive game or just to shoot around and get some exercise. Approximately 10–12 members of the QC community from different departments—such as IT, Math, and Environmental Science, to name a few—have been playing each week. It’s a great way to stay active, have fun, and bond with fellow co-workers.
While games are currently taking place each Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm, dates and times will likely shift during basketball season to accommodate the Knights basketball team’s practice schedules. If you’re interested in participating, email Karl McIntyre at karl.mcintyre@qc.cuny.edu for more information.
| Going Fourth with Access-a-Ride | |
With the addition of an Access-a-Ride stop outside Kiely Hall—reported in QView 189 —there are now four such locations on campus. Access-a-Ride passengers can also wait inside Gate 2 at Remsen Hall, outside Powdermaker and The Summit/Library, and at Queens Hall.
Visit the service’s website to learn more about Access-a-Ride in English or Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
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The Roberto Pineda Duque Music School in remote El Santuario, Antioquia, Colombia, boasts a newly restored harpsichord thanks to the efforts of Masayuki Maki (ACSM) and QC cello student Sara Arango.
A working-class agrarian community perched in the mountains, El Santuario might seem like an unlikely location for an ambitious music education program. But the town is the birthplace of celebrated Colombian composer Roberto Pineda Duque, and the institution that bears his name is a cherished public asset. Some 1200 students attend its classes, with their tuition covered by the local government.
Arango is an alumna of this program. “I have a deep connection to this institution, having spent eight formative years studying there during my teens,” she says. At QC, she has taken chamber music courses with Maki, a specialist in playing and restoring historic keyboard instruments. Grateful for her early training, Arango wanted to help her first music school get a harpsichord, a keyboard critical to Baroque repertoire. In a stroke of luck, Maki heard from a colleague that the Church of St. Luke in the Fields, a Manhattan congregation known for its music programs, might be getting rid of its harpsichord.
A prime specimen it wasn’t. Built from a kit, probably by a do-it-yourselfer, the instrument suffered from low-quality materials and assembly errors. “Such harpsichords are usually unreliable until a major rebuilding project is done,” explains Maki. “The church decided to remove the harpsichord and use the space for something else. So, I talked to the church music director about this donation project, and he agreed.”
Harping on the Matter
Together, faculty member and student came up with a plan: Maki would rebuild the instrument and Arango would bring it to El Santuario. To pay for this project, Arango set up a GoFundMe account.
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“Your support will not only provide musical enrichment but also empower these students to chase their dreams and inspire future generations of musicians in El Santuario,” she wrote. “Together, we can make a profound impact on this wonderful community and keep the spirit of music alive.”
By December 2023, with the support of donors, the harpsichord was on its way to El Santuario, where it was set up. Local artists Argiro Quinchia, Eidy Ceballos Buitrago, and German Giraldo painted the instrument’s inner lid with a scene of the town’s farmland and decorated the outer case with huge birds and flowers. Sounding as beautiful as it looks, the instrument made its debut on June 28 in a concert of classical and traditional repertoire, featuring violinist Susan Valencia, flutist Andres Zuluaga, conductor/composer Daniel Zuluaga, members of the Roberto Pineda Duque Youth Orchestra, and Arango and Maki.
“The event was a resounding success, drawing an enthusiastic audience from all over the community,” reports Arango. “Attendees were captivated by the harpsichord's rich tones and the exceptional performances.”
“After all the hard work, I felt so satisfied to see the happy faces of the musicians and audience,” adds Maki. “A small child went back to school the next day and told her teacher that she wants to be a musician. . . . I learned so much from this project, especially about what music can bring to people.”
On November 25 at free hour in the Music Building, Room 263, Arango and Maki will give a presentation about their project.
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The NYC Parks Department has updated its list of Great Trees of New York City. Sixty-one were chosen, bringing the total to 120. Eighteen of the new honorees are in Queens. Here’s a guide to what and where they are.
By the way, the Parks Department has compiled a map of the 873,635 trees it manages in the city. With 292,903, Queens has more than any other borough.
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Amy Worth ’03
Artist and teacher Amy Worth died on August 26.
Worth had spent a quarter-century as a textile artist, creating fabric and wallpaper designs for Ralph Lauren, Paloma Picasso, and Calvin Klein, when her life was upended by divorce. Returning to school, she earned a BA in education from QC and a master’s from C.W. Post. At Huntington High School, where she taught for a dozen years, she launched a fashion design and illustration class. One year, students were given the assignment of designing inauguration gowns for First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters. The results so impressed the Obamas that they invited the class to meet the first lady and join her at the Smithsonian for the donation of the gown she wore.
With her second husband Tom Payne, who predeceased her, Worth opened a Greenport gallery that exhibited local artists and held annual fundraisers for the North Fork Environmental Council. Her own works, in oil, collage, clay, and other mediums, were shown at the Heckscher Museum of Art, the Southampton Cultural Center, and the Long Island Museum. Nine of her pieces, part of a group show she curated at Fiedler Gallery in Greenport, will be displayed through April 2025.
Worth is survived by her mother; her children and stepdaughter; nine grandchildren; four siblings; and extended family and friends.
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