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  • Collection: Oral Histories from 1960s Binghamton Alumni

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Joseph Patrick Hoolihan was born in 1950, in New York City, and moved with his family in 1960 to Chestertown, NY then to Granville, NY in 1964. His father was a TV repairman and his mother was a housewife. He attended Harpur College in 1968 and graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor's Degree in Appl...

 

Harpur College BA Social Sciences, '68. Rodney Alexander was executive director of the Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), CUNY. After graduating from Harpur College, he completed degrees in public administration and in business administrati...

 

John Ellis of Binghamton graduated from Harpur College in 1970 with a degree in history. While at Harpur, he participated in the Outward Bound program and later pursued graduate studies in political science. He went on to work for his family's longtime business, Ellis Furniture in Binghamton, eventu...

Interview with Dr. Edward Fisher

Dr. Edward Fisher grew up in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Harpur College in 1971 with a degree in mathematics. He earned his medical degree through SUNY Downstate and New York University, completed his residency at Duke University, received an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina ...

 

Mabel Payne is owner and president at Research, Analysis, and Development in Education (RADE) Associates, LLC. After graduating from Harpur College with a degree in history, she completed advanced degrees in education from SUNY Albany and in organizational psychology from Teachers College, Columbia ...

Interview with Dr. Steven Diner

University Professor Steven Diner is a Harpur College alumn who went on to work as a Professor of History at George Mason University and served as Chancellor from 2002 - 2011 at Rutgers University- Newark. As a History Professor at Rutgers, Dr. Diner specializes in immigration reform. In 2011 Diner ...

Interview with Jerome "Jerry" Raik and Dr. Barrie Raik

Jerome "Jerry" Raik graduated from Harpur College in 1967 with a degree in Theater. Following graduation, he joined the Peace Corps and served in South Korea. Over the course of his career, Jerry worked in a variety of fields, including teaching English as a Second Language and activity therapy in a...

Interview with Joy Yagman

Joy Yagman currently works as a coordinator for senior programs at Pace University's Active Retirement Center, one of the longest-running—and liveliest—programs for older adults in New York. Before that, she worked as a labor services representative for the New York State Department of Labo...

 

An award-winning sports journalist and writer for the Daily News (one of NY's best papers back in the day).

Interview with Dr. Eric D. Weitz

Dr. Eric Weitz is Distinguished Professor of History and the former Dean of Humanities and Arts at The City College of New York (CCNY). Trained in modern German and European history, Weitz has also worked in international and global history. He is currently completing A World Divided: A Global H...

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