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It is Sunday, October 14th, 2018. It's about 1 p.m. I'm with Richard Branciforte -- am I pronouncing it --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=0.84,13.927"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Branciforte.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=14.53,15.53"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Branciforte. In Queens, the Queens College Library. And we're going to do an interview for Queens Memory Project focusing on the Queens College house plans. But I guess before we get to the house plans, I guess...where did you grow up? Where did you go to high school? And first, what made you come to Queens College? So we'll get everything before Queens College.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=16.04,39.23"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Uh, grew up right here in Jamaica. Union Turnpike, 168th Street, went to Jamaica High School and with junior high school and uh came to Queens College because it was inexpensive. 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And I didn't want to go to an all Catholic university. So I had a lot of friends from high school that were going to Queens and uh parents couldn't afford to send me any place that would have been a lot more expensive, and Queens was a very good school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=54.38,74.03"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=74.36,74.927"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Wound up here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=74.928,75.705"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e You were right next door to St. Johns, basically.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=75.706,77.176"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e I could walk to it. 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Do you have a vague recollection --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=84.68,86.33"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e '50s. Because I know St. John's moved in there about '60.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=86.966,90.84"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Mm hmm. 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So did you and many of your friends come to Queens College together?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=103.33,107.37"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e We all, I guess, applied separately. We all wound up here, so when we came to freshman orientation, you ran into all your friends from Jamaica High School that you, and junior high school, that you hadn't realized were even applying. 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I guess I'm wondering what made you join a house plan or at that time house plans were such a big thing that everyone --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=132.91,155.261"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well actually when we came here house plans weren't very big. Fraternities and sororities were very big and the house plans, their appeal was that you could join as a lower freshman and, um, myself and two of my friends went to a rush party at one of the house plans and when we went in there, the guys were just talking about, \"well, I guess it's going to be another year. We're not going to get very many parties with the good house plans and we're gonna lose again in intramurals.\" And so the three of us walk down. I just turned to the two guys and I said, \"look, we ought to start our own house plan because anything we start has to be bigger than that.\" And we started Kingston House in 19, September 1960. 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Um, fraternities had fraternity houses, which was the big appeal.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=196.827,202.313"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e And do you remember where the fraternity houses were?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=203.36,204.914"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure. They were right, um, AEPi's house was right off Union Turnpike, off of Parsons Boulevard, which is real close to here. Phi Ep's House was around the corner from there. And they were the two top fraternities at the college so they were the place that was like a triangle that all the sororities and everybody else. And back in those days, sororities would never have parties with house plans. They only would have parties with fraternities and each -- there was a hierarchy within the fraternities and sororities so certain sororities would only party with certain male fraternities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=204.915,236.539"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e It's funny because I think that, you know, Queens College is a commuter school. One doesn't think of it in terms of fraternities and sororities, and...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=236.66,243.594"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well. The CMC, the College Memorial Center, was the center of our universe. That's where everybody hung out from house plans. 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It's the science building now. The computer center. Computer center is the college room. And in there was the Students for Democratic Society, Student Help Project, all the civil rights organizations were in there, the school newspaper, the Phoenix, was in there. Central house plan, inter-fraternity council and pan-Hellenic council.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=262.367,282.612"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e So. Used to hang out in the CMC and we would stay as late as we could.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=285.61,290.167"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Which was what time did they kick you out?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=290.477,293.16"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, they didn't kick you out because there was night school here, so you could stay literally until 10:00 at night. But in my lower sophomore year, I found a house for us, on 169th Street and Union Turnpike, which ironically, or, luckily it was one block from where I lived.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=293.43,314.43"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So none of them were on Reeves Avenue --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=315.44,317.143"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=317.559,318.105"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Or near the college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=318.106,318.967"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e No. Nobody had anything. There was one, one house plan had a house in Flushing off of Northern Boulevard. We were the second or third house plan to actually get a house. And that made us, because we were suddenly a place that not only could have parties, but you could hang out there. Sororities would come over, or house plans would come over. But the guys would, they would hang out day and night. They would hang out day and night. 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I mean I grew up across the street from the college, so when I didn't have classes I just went home, but I remember there were people who would have --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=356.174,367.914"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, the guys were in Kingston House, I mean, the original group was from Jamaica, but within about a month the guys were all from Jamaica High School, Francis Lewis High School and Bayside High School.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=368.41,377.79"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, so they weren't [unclear] --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=377.791,378.904"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e So we, you know, one guy said, I would know somebody and they would know somebody else that lived. So the guys tended to be from Jamaica, Bayside, Fresh Meadows, Flushing, uh, Briarwood. And it was a central location. And most of the guys didn't drive in those days. So you had the bus, right? Right. Or and like I said, I didn't have to worry about that. I was a block away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=378.905,399.674"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, OK. Can you explain to me about, and for everyone else, the difference between a house plan and let's say a fraternity or sorority, in terms of both, I guess getting accepted, expenses, values, what they did?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=402.769,422.613"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, fraternities and sororities, first of all, had national affiliation, so they had money. Um, the nationals would help them out. They would have all kinds of support. House plans started in 1937 at City College, and the original house plans were very, um, very encompassing in that the way they work, that is, anybody that want to join a house plan got assigned to a house. We, when we got here, we changed it a bit. There was no pledging, technically. We came out with a system called trying out, which was like pledging. It wasn't, there was no hazing, but we would get maybe 40 or 50 guys. They would come down that wanted to join the house and we would maybe take in 20 or 25, so for about two months these guys came to the house. They hung out. They did stuff around the house. They joined in in football or follies and frogs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=423.04,465.082"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And after a while, the house plans became much closer to the fraternities. And that was in '63, '64. '64 was the big turnover year. That was the year that a lot of house plans were started on Queens College campus, and we became more of a force within the school because when we came here, it was real simple. AEPi fraternity had the president of the school. Phi Ep fraternity had the chief justice of the student court. The majority of student senate was fraternity members, there was almost nobody from house plans in there. And they had an event called Follies, which was a big skit thing every year that DPhiE sorority ran but AEPi had won it five years in a row. And part of the reason was that Paul Simon wrote the skits for AEPi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=473.144,518.415"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And in 1964, Kingston House placed second. And we thought we should have won. And once again, AEPi won, so it was the first time in the history of school that a house plan placed. 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We used to have a carnival every year where money would be raised for charity. Um, we, Kingston House and a lot of the other house plans brought guest speakers on. Um, we formed a thing called the Mock Gubernatorial Convention, and it was like held in the off year, but when somebody when they were having the gubernatorial election and all the different organizations that were house plans represented different candidates.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=622.85,647.96"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e So if it was Joseph Carlino or, um, Howard Samuels, they were all running. You would try and get your candidate to win. 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Colden Center. We used to sell out 2,000 seats for all the events and Follies was the big thing. If you made it into Follies, you were --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=672.38,679.71"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e And the seats were sold to the general public?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=680.33,682.421"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, but it would be basically --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=682.422,683.619"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e The families, friends --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=683.62,684.605"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, there, we had, there was 60 house plans on campus and there was about 25 fraternities and sororities and you got allotted a certain number of tickets, and the tickets would all be sold out. 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The only, ironically, the only college that wouldn't join is City College. And their reasoning was, and I just found a letter from them and I still have it at home, the reasoning was that they thought all the other schools had perverted the original intention of a house plan as being just equal and by having any kind of rushing or by having it that you brought down a friend was against their original idea that was like a draft. You came down, you signed up, and they assigned you to a house plan randomly. 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You had all kinds of booths and games and things, um, but the fraternities didn't really do too much in the mid to late '60s because they, they were in decline.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=904.18,924.07"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e The house plans had taken over. We got the president and the vice president of the school, we got two-thirds of the student senate. 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And how did the administration -- was it in favor of house --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=936.64,944.698"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e No. No, as a matter of fact, that famous, famous time. We had Castle, which was a student newspaper. Have you ever seen it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=944.78,951.934"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e I believe so, yes. There were how many student newspapers back then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=952.546,956.56"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, here's the thing. 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If I could ask and we can take it off. How is, how is Gary?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1091.58,1096.376"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e He's good. 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That's why he took the name. But, um, I don't think they really got that involved in it. They, they kind of ignored house plans until we became powerful, and that was '64, '65.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1149.48,1164.965"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Now did house plans have to pay a fee to the college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1166.33,1168.892"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e No. We had meetings every week. There was a meeting in one of the science rooms or one of the, uh, social science building and you'd have your meeting. And then we had central house plan meetings every week, which was one representative from each house plan. So that would be like 40, 50, 60 people at that. But, you know, by then they had more important things to worry about cause the war was starting to really heat up. And, you know, we had gotten here and the whole thing with Goodman and --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1171.259,1199.943"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, Chaney.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1199.944,1200.679"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e That was right around the time when I first came into the college so, civil rights was really starting to take off on the campus. Marches, protests and uh --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1200.68,1209.128"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So house plans weren't seen as something old-fashioned to be --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1209.779,1212.648"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e That came later, that came in the '70s. And, you know, we've done a lot of research, I have at least, trying to find out when they actually went out. And it seems like most people who were here around '73, '74, we went from 3,000 people in 1969 and 60 house plans. That's almost like the dinosaurs got wiped out. And then four years later, there was nobody left. It was no house plans and and nobody knows exactly --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1213.23,1235.788"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e I came in in '72. No, 7... yes, '72 ,and I don't remember house plans. I remember I had a friend who had an older sister who had gone and she was like eight years older than me. She was in a house plan, and her boyfriend was in a house plan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1236.63,1252.75"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well they, our house plan, Kingston House folded, voted itself out of existence in '71. And I was just talking to two of the younger guys. They graduated in '72 and they said by that time it wasn't really cohesive anymore. The original group of guys I mean, there was like 40 guys that were together for almost four years, um, but they became irrelevant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1253.51,1273.9"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Social issues became important and it became very uncool to be in something as flighty as a house plan. 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So until you were like a junior, you couldn't really get the teachers that you wanted, but yeah. And that's why we spent so much time in the CMC. Right. By the time it's, by the time '66 rolled around and we were really very, very strong as house plans, we kind of took over the cafeteria. We took over like about a third of the cafeteria became house plan seats and the fraternities and sororities were still there, but we had --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1307.78,1345.476"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So what did poor people who didn't belong to anything do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1345.477,1347.115"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e We, we gentrified the cafeteria. Um. You were on the outskirts and you were on the outskirts you get, you, it was the edges that you could sit in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1347.392,1357.31"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e And it was just sort of known by everyone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1358.24,1359.976"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e But we still sat, we still stayed in the CMC because it was three or four house plans that that was their hangout. The chairs, the lounges we had all, we had all the offices there, like I said.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1359.977,1370.789"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e But once you had your own house, did most of the guys go there if they had long breaks?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1371.56,1376.225"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1376.226,1376.772"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e That was for the evenings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1376.773,1378.564"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Only if they had girlfriends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1378.565,1379.657"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e OK, OK we'll stop there. We don't want to go into. None of you are going to be Supreme Court justices.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1379.658,1385.619"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e No, no, I'm afraid not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1389.203,1391.769"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So besides Gary, are there any other strong personalities who were involved with great stories about house plan activities? Well, we can talk about Paul Simon and the house plans and the, the um -- not house plans, they, that was a fraternity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1393.88,1412.846"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e He was fraternity. He was AEPi fraternity. They were our hated rivals, and the Kingston House skit in 1965...'66 actually reproduced, to the most minute detail, AEPi's winning skit from the year before, which was George Washington crossing the Delaware. And this scene opened, as the curtains opened, we were onstage dressed as George Washington crossing the Delaware and, um, the last song in our, cause Stan Lyman and Vic Blum, who were very good singer songwriters, wrote the script and all. And the last line was where they pointed to the AEPi section was, \"You will win again.\" The whole idea was, \"it doesn't matter what we do, it doesn't matter how good we are. You will win again.\" It was just a refrain that kept going out, um, and they did. And, you know, their motto every year was five in 65, six in 66. 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You know, like anything else, the house plan was a microcosm of reality. There was the jocks, the sports guys. There was what we call the card players. They would, Friday nights, be playing cards. There was the politicals. Politicos. They were the guys that were running for different offices. And there was the social. We had parties every Friday and Saturday. Well, Friday night was a party night, Saturday night was date night pretty much at the house. And there was, you know, interaction. Somebody could be in the political group and the social group. But yeah, there was definitely and then we had very, very strong uh, intramural teams, football, basketball, volleyball. So Kingston. 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There was Random House. There was State House. There was Big House, um, Kingston House. We all had 70 plus members. Then there was the female house plans. With Dew Drop Inn, Doll House, Tiptoe Inn, uh, Ivy House. They were like the upper tier and they had the same thing. Sixty and some. And the reason we were able to pretty much do what we wanted in politics was we put together a coalition of house plans. 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He did nothing for the organization. He was supporting fraternity guys that would run for office. And, he, famous quote was, you know, I'd be happy if nobody bothered me in my office for my whole term. So he got impeached. And then there was a very heated competition for president and I won. I had lost running the first time against him by one vote. I lost by one vote. And then I won in the, I was president for three semesters and we just started really, little by little, we took over the school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1569.59,1604.88"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e We got the president of the college. Vice president of the college. Ben Fine stands out from Playboy's Penthouse. He was Gary's protege. And Lenny Schutzman who's a big donator to the college. He was our vice president. So the coalition was Playboy's Penthouse and, um, Kingston House. And the thing that made us so powerful was that our sister house plans were Doll House and Dew Drop. And then we got all these little house plans that had just formed. You had one vote each. So, um, on any given vote for a general election, just the three of us, Kingston, Dew Drop and Doll House could muster over 200 votes and we voted as a bloc. We actually went there, and every single person from the house plan had to line up and they had to vote. And we didn't know who they voted for, but you knew who they voted for. 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I mean, you know, it was power at its very rawest. I mean, then then it was the thing on campus, you know, Students for a Democratic Society but there was also the Young Americans for Freedom, YAF, [unclear] the ultra right wing conservative movements guy, Gary Lane, that was here and he was a real, real right winger. He once got up in one of our political science courses and said he had it on good authority the United States was training Congolese Bantu warriors in the Everglades to take over the United States government. Unbelievable stuff like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1724.171,1758.45"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e You think it's bad now; in the '60s, with Goldwater and the war and everything, it was pretty strange.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1758.48,1764.034"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So within the house plans and, your house plan, let's say. Were there political fights? 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You were all pretty much the same, you were all Democrats...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1779.15,1781.229"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e No. No. No. We we, we were, we were there if somebody from Kingston House was running for the senate, then every single person in the house plan would vote to support them in the senate. And, when we, when I graduated in '67, 25 percent of the entire student senate came from Kingston House.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1781.23,1795.368"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1795.369,1795.894"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And Harry Nass became vice president of the school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1797.51,1800.099"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Now the student senate was pretty powerful within the college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1800.1,1804.231"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Very.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1804.232,1804.82"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e And what did it do? I mean, what was it --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1804.821,1807.378"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Set down, it set down the laws. It passed things. Theoretically, it was an adviser to the administration on different issues.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1808.56,1817.65"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Did it control money for activities?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1818.99,1820.596"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Controlled money for activities. And if they withheld money, you didn't do certain activities. And if there was controversy it would go to the student court, which was Phi Ep chief justice. And then everybody was fraternities. You weren't, there weren't sororities on these things back then. Very sexist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1820.597,1848.601"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So it was a very male thing. So if I can ask about the female house plans. When they, they were equal participants in the events, in the frollies, in the whatev--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1849.24,1860.794"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it was like it was a coup to get with certain house plans. Like one of the things that made Kingston House the first year we were with a good house plan, but the second year we dumped them. That's very awkward because my girlfriend that I met second week of college was in the first house plan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1860.97,1882.029"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did you dump them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1882.12,1883.289"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e It was just strictly, the guys had an opportunity to go into Follies with Dew Drop Inn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1883.77,1889.788"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e They had more talented?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1890.7,1891.7"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e  No. Dew Drop Inn was just the upper echelon of the female house plans. So by going into Follies with them, A, it meant we would have parties with them regularly. And then B, it meant that the other top echelon female house plans would say, \"Oh, Kingston House and Dew Drop Inn,\" and they would have parties. Ironically, here's an interesting statistic, 22 guys from Kingston House married girls from Dew Drop Inn and at the 19, at the 2006 reunion, 20 out of 22 were still married to the same person. So you talk about, you talk about --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1891.94,1930.152"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So what happened to you and your girlfriend who is in the?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1930.72,1932.379"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e We were four years. We were four years together, and then I went to graduate school and she wanted to get married and I didn't want to get married. I was 19 years old. And, um, so I went to Columbia Business School. And my girlfriend, while I was in Columbia Business School, was from Tip Toe Inn, I, and from Follies, or Frolics, and I met her at a Frolics rehearse because I was still coming back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1932.67,1953.348"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1954.38,1954.947"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e All my friends were still here, so I was still able to come back. I didn't like Columbia. It was very hard, very hard. And there was a very big prejudice against City University students. Um, the people who went to Columbia Business School were from Harvard, they were from the University of North Carolina. Um, I ran for president of the school and I lost to Chester Bowles' nephew, Erskine Bowles, who became Clinton's Chief of Staff. And there was a hierarchy in the business school like I never -- I didn't understand that it was all based on your family and where you went to school. And we had this little group of City University kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=1954.948,1994.579"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So wait, so you didn't do well in school and you were from a city college, but you got in. 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I got into Baruch right away and I got a letter from NYU and NYU at the time was like the two hundredth business school in the country and Columbia was number three.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2005.47,2040.484"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2040.485,2041.052"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e So they, but they were just starting. They were really feeling their oats. So they sent me a letter that said, \"Dear Mr. Branciforte, um, unfortunately, you do not meet the high academic standards that NYU has. We are unable to accept you. Please, we hope you find some way of continuing your education.\" OK. So I get, I get, I get, an invite. Columbia was on a trimester program, so we graduated in June. Whenever it was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2041.053,2062.376"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2062.377,2062.944"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And all my friends were going to Europe. They were going cross country. And I, each semester was equal, supposedly, but really like any place else, Fall and Spring were the important ones, but the June semester was a trimester. So they said, \"we want you to come down for an in-person interview.\" So I go up to Washington Heights. I've never been up there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2068.969,2093.079"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e I get off at the wrong stop and I get off in the middle of Harlem and here I am, a white guy dressed in a three-piece suit with wingtip shoes and I'm walking up Morningside Heights. And this is after the riots in Harlem over Columbia's expansion into Morningside Heights. 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I've edited newspapers and I do a lot of writing.\" He said to me, \"I'm a very good writer,\" he says, \"But I don't know anything about newspapers.\" And I said, \"I know how to lay out newspapers, design newspapers, edit them.\" So he said, \"Great. I hope you get in because I could really use that help.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2117.86,2159.45"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e So I go to the interview and there's three people in the room. One's a Dean of Admissions. One's a guy sitting in the back, Mike. And, going over my grades and I'd only taken one economics course at Queens College with Dr. Withers. A.A. Withers, I got an A in the course. Changed my grade from A- to A because I told him, \"Withers, I need it. I need an A in this course. It's my only economics course.\" I decided I wanted to go to business school late. I was gonna go to law school my whole career, I thought I was, I was a political science major, I was going to law school, and then, I saw a copy of Esquire magazine and on the cover of Esquire magazine was a guy with a wheelbarrow and it was filled with money. And the article was basically that if you got your MBA, you too could have a whellbarrow full of money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2159.96,2201.169"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So do you have a wheelbarrow full of money?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2205.662,2207.006"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e I applied, I applied to schools. So I got in, and about a week later, I get an acceptance letter and one of the questions they ask, and I'm sitting there, and they said, \"Well, if you got into Columbia Business School, would you be interested in working on the school newspaper?\" And I said, \"Well, actually, I've already met Vince, the editor. And I told him I'd very much like to be on the paper.\" So I get, two weeks later I get my congratulations acceptance letter from Columbia Business School. I take a copy of the letter, I send it to NYU with a copy of the letter and said, \"I found a way.\" Got into the number three school over the number 200 school. And I went to Columbia and was there for two years. 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I was used to breezing through courses like history and I hadn't had math since I was in the ninth grade. I had --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2253.47,2265.863"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e How'd you get out of high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2266.25,2267.384"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well in junior high school and high school, they gave you an option of math or science. So I had algebra was the last course I ever took that, maybe it was even geometry. And I never took another math course again. I took physics, which I did horrible in. All the courses I got Ds in were like math courses, or. So, um, I go into the course and I'm taking a course in microeconomics, macroeconomics. And from the minute I walked into the class, the professor never spoke in English. He only spoke in equations and he was doing calculus. And I had never taken any math. So they sent me into a remedial noncredit calculus course to take simultaneously with the um, the uh course. Um, got a D in macroeconomics. I seriously. Meanwhile, now this is like August and I'm seriously thinking to myself, \"Hey, I'm not cut out to be in this school. Everybody's so great.\" And the guys were so old, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2267.385,2326.619"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e They all worked.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2326.76,2327.537"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e The guys from, the guys from CUNY were kids like me. But these guys were Green Berets. They had been in Vietnam for a couple of years or they worked for Procter and Gamble for seven years and now they were going back. One woman in the entire school and she was gorgeous. And every single guy in the school fell in love with this one girl.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2327.538,2345.959"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Remember who she was or what became of her? Did she go on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2346.48,2348.903"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Actually somebody? Oh, yeah. She. Name is Sue. And somebody recently told me. Oh, yeah. We were talking about old girlfriends and stuff like that. \"Oh yeah. She's --\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2348.99,2357.346"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Head of something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2357.384,2359.279"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Hedge fund. President of a hedge fund stuff. But, so I wasn't prepared really for graduate school and, uh, I was going to drop out and go to Baruch instead. And then at the last minute, I decided to stay in. And I graduated by the skin of my teeth, because I failed, the last course I had a fail was, was computers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2359.28,2383.099"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Computers were just starting, but they were the huge, the huge computers the size of a room. So. I was failing the course, and a friend of mine who was the photographer of the paper with me had been a submarine commander. So he knew all this stuff, he was trying to tutor me. And I I got a 20 on my, on my computer course. And, the professor, said, um, \"I'm going to let you take a make good, makeup, makeup test,\" and I needed that course to graduate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2383.34,2418.52"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e I wasn't gonna be able to graduate if I failed that course. And I studied like I've never studied before and finally understood nothing. I walked into the class and I said, \"OK. This is it.\" I walk into the class. And he hands me the paper, and instead of it being all equations and problems, it's an essay. \"How can this course be made easier for non-mathematically inclined students?\" And I got an A on it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2418.55,2445.727"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e So you passed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2447.39,2448.125"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And I passed. And I also lucked out because -- spring '69, Students for a Democratic Society, Mark Rudd, took over Columbia University and shut it down. So you had the radicals, which was everybody on the campus. And in the middle of this thing, you had this little business school that was Green Berets and their idea was that they were hatching up plans and the like, the lobby of taking back to school by getting all the Green Beret guys together to break through and beat the heck out of the demonstrators and take back the business school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2448.126,2482.809"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e I lucked out because Columbia went pass/fail my last semester and I had a course, called, um, Business Organization, my last course. I invented the Dole banana.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2483.47,2493.292"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2493.319,2494.319"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Invented the Dole banana and I never got credit for it. But the last course we took, and we were talking about it last night at the president's get-together, because somebody else said, \"It's the Dole banana guy!\" But, Castle and Cook was the name of the company, they owned Dole Pineapple, and they owned a non-named banana company and they owned Bumblebee Tuna and they owned a shipping company and they owned all this land, pineapples and stuff in Hawaii. And my dad had owned a supermarket and he had all the grocers' magazines going back to the 1940s. So I came up with this whole paper and we, we worked in a team of three, a marketing guy, an accounting guy, and I forget what the third guy was. And we came, I came up with this idea that we're going to take the Bumblebee tuna and we're going to bring it through the Panama Canal, and we're going to process it and then we'll pick up the bananas and gonna bring them. And I came up with the idea that all surveys show that of Dole, Del Monte and Libby's, Dole was considered to be, pineapple, was considered to be the best quality. And in those days, there wasn't anything called market extension. You had a brand and that was the brand. There wasn't five different versions of Kellogg's K. And I came up with the idea of, they were going to spend something like 5 million dollars to introduce a new brand name for their bananas, which didn't have, cause Chiquita ruled the market.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2495.85,2567.488"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2577.057,2578.057"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And I came up with the idea. I said, \"Why don't we just call them Dole bananas?\" Everybody knows the name Dole and it's synonymous with good quality. So two things happened. I handed in the paper. I got an A in the course. And I always kidded around cause part of the thing was that you had to, all the papers became the property of Castle and Cook. And I always kidded around. I said, \"I'd be willing to bet you anything that my professor.\" In 1972, I graduated in '69, 1972, my father was just on the way out for his supermarket. He was getting out of the grocery business, he had gotten robbed so many times.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2578.38,2609.446"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e He was in Jackson Heights. He comes home. He flips a banana onto our table and right in the middle is the Dole logo. And he says, \"Remember that idea you had four years ago? Where you were using all my different magazines?\" He says, \"Well, here's the Dole banana.\" I never even thought about what happened to doing the whole thing. But it was an experience, because Queens College to me was like, you could cruise through it in your sleep because everybody there was, he was pretty bright. They were pretty bright. It was a great school. We loved it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2615.476,2651.919"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And to this day, the guys get together and they still talk about, there's a bunch of old guys sitting around and saying, \"Oh, all of the happiest days of our life were back on the Queens College campus.\" And, uh, it was, it was a great time. The World's Fair '64, '65 was there. It was an unusual time that. Just if we would have been off by three years. Yeah, if we would've been off by just three years, like the guys from '72, that two guys that are here today from Kingston House, they didn't have that same thing. They didn't have the camaraderie. \"Yeah, we had their house, but it was like hard to get guys to go to parties and stuff.\" And we always, they always say, this guy just told me today, \"We were all jealous of you guys. You had it all. You were kings of the school. You had all these great activities, you had all this great fun.\" And look at, you know, 50 years later, the same group of guys is still hanging out together, and friends. And it's all because of Queens College.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2652.76,2713.21"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Since you're on Queens College, are there any professors, administrators, whatever, who you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2714.82,2721.389"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2721.39,2722.062"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e We can speak for a little while.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2722.063,2723.686"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e How much time do we have?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2723.687,2724.695"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e We have about 12 minutes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2724.696,2725.825"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e OK. Last night at the president's meeting, it was, you know, he was taking questions. Nobody was asking questions. So I just kind of shouted out, uh, I said, \"This isn't really a question, but anybody that had Willy Withers for Economics or Mary Earhart Dillon for Poli Sci, meet me afterwards. I'd love to exchange some stories.\" Well, six, seven people came over. There's more activity on that. When he asked about house plans, everybody kind of looked at each other cause it wasn't a house plan group last night. And Mary Dillon, everybody rumored was Amelia Earhart's sister, or stepsister, because her name was Mary Earhart Dillon, and I just, one of the guys who is a judge that I met last night, just this gave me handed me this paper today on Mary Earhart Dillon, that he did a presentation he did here at the college about her. And apparently she was very tight with Wendell Willkie.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2725.826,2770.661"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2780.848,2781.657"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And she was very into, and she was a little bit too liberal for the women at the time, but she was one who stood out. I will always remember, uh, Willy Withers cuz he gave me the A, uh, and then two professors that really stand out more than anybody. Um. Saul Lutnick, Saul Lutnick was history department and he was phenomenal. He would make the lesson something. He would talk about, um, the viceroy of New York. And when he came out in his dress, the crowd would applaud. And he had these great stories about you know, just, \"Oh, and it was very cold in the winter time here. So bundling was very, very popular amongst the sexes.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2781.658,2813.753"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And 1964. I will always remember this. He wrote a book called \"The Politics of Oil.\" And nobody thought anything about it cause was 1964, but his whole premise was that the entire Middle East has nothing to do with religion. It has nothing to do with sex. Now, this is before Israel '67 war. But his whole premise was that everybody had been fighting forever, the British and the French, particularly in Iraq and on for the oilfields. Whoever controlled the oilfields controls the world. And I always thought, I said that to somebody yesterday. I said, \"His insight was incredible because that was 36, 54 years ago and still true.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2823.191,2855.237"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And then the other professor that I really remember very well was Dr. Hershkowitz in the history department. And he wrote a book, which was a fantastic book called \"Boss Tweed.\" The history of Boss Tweed in politics and how he corrupted the political system forever. And I remember not only because I loved American history, but I worked for him. And my job was to go into the stacks of the library, the old library. Klapper Library, I think it was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2862.125,2890.692"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2890.693,2891.239"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e And we used to be in the basement and it was dirty and dark and musty, and we were going through these papers that were from like, you know, excuse me, the 1800s. And he was just a fantastic, fantastic teacher.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2891.24,2903.51"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Do, did you ever have Dr. Schwarz in the, Ernst Schwartz in the, um, history department?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2904.2,2907.529"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, I'm not sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2911.31,2912.422"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e The reason I ask, my father. After high school, he went to Brooklyn College for a year, didn't do well, he wasn't serious, went to work, whatever, he came back when they moved to Queens across from Queens College, he went back to Queens College and he majored in history, and I remember being like a seven year old girl. It was six year old. There was this assumption, I think if you lived in Queens, you were going to go to Queens College, and we're taking a walk with my parents on the college grounds some Saturday afternoon and Dr. Schwartz was walking with his wife and he says, oh my father says, \"Oh this is my daughter,\" and he said, \"Oh, what year will she be?\" And it was like, \"Oh, she's going to be class of '76. And this is like 1960 or something. And you're thinking there was just this assumption.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2912.423,2958.19"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e See that's one of the problems that Queens College has, unfortunately. Our group was the first group to go to college in most cases, almost everybody that I knew. We were the first ones in our families to go to college. But that was the first step up. But I really don't know anybody who went to Queens College whose children went to Queens College. It wasn't like a you know, you have like if you go to Cornell, you have a heritage there and all the guys that came later on. My son is much younger. He's only 25. But they all went to Brown and they went to Yale and they went to University of Pennsylvania. That was the next --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2958.73,2997.401"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2997.52,2998.52"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Logical step.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2998.739,2999.495"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e I was the last year to get through totally free tuition. Then, year after I graduated, they instituted tuition above the fee. And I think that made a difference.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=2999.496,3007.918"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3012.023,3013.023"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Free versus lots of money versus you're paying anyway.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3013.11,3016.785"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. No, but it was it was definitely a factor. Um. You know, when we get together and we talk about it and we were talking about this, one of the guys, he was the one who brought it up, he said, \"Yeah.\" He says, \"You know, you, we went to Queens College, but we wanted our kids to have the next step up the ladder.\" And you're right. When you went to high school. I mean, I don't know anybody that I know really thought of going to a major school. You didn't think you could get into a major school, you don't even think of it, you thought of St. John's, you thought of NYU, you thought of Hofstra and Adelphi weren't very nice schools back in those days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3017.641,3050.961"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e As a mater of fact, there was a famous line in the Kingston House Frolics skit where we were kind of putting down the other schools and we said, the line was something like, \"You can always go to, if you don't make it into Queens College, you can always go to Post at night,\" and then there was a pause, \"or Hofstra in the day.\" And that was like the put down for the, because they, they weren't, you know, in the same league as Queens College, right, same thing with Brooklyn College, and, you know, City College. They will like, the beacons, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3058.771,3086.799"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e The Harvard of the city.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3090.117,3093.332"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e They were. They were. The only thing that was so bad is there was no campus here. I mean, one of the guys that sitting at the tent just now. He brought pictures of the campus in 1948.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3093.74,3103.834"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e It's a few buildings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3105.421,3106.953"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e That was it! That was it. I mean our new buildings were Klapper Library and the Social Sciences, SS 1 they used to call it, and the Dome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3106.954,3115.67"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Well those trailers had been here, were here forever. Temp1, Temp 2, Temp 3.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3116.821,3123.414"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. And there was no parking, which was always, you know, the issue. But, it was just, you know. And it was, you know, you could come here by bus, we could walk. I used to walk here to school from my house and it was maybe three miles and it was, you didn't even think twice of it. My girlfriend lived on 65th Avenue, so we would go down 65th Avenue to 174th Street and stuff. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3123.606,3143.549"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e It seems like, I'm curious, did you stay in touch with the people from graduate school or your real friends came from here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3150.981,3157.51"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't have one friend from graduate school that I've kept in touch with and the irony is this upcoming April is the 50th anniversary. And they asked me to be on the Alumni Reunion Committee.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3158.14,3170.491"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh they're telling us to go?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3170.6,3172.764"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I think so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3173.31,3174.15"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e OK we gotta. OK, thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3174.151,3178.5"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, well, I mean. The guys that graduated with me were people like Mario Gabelli, known as the Great Gabelli, OK? And all these guys, are huge hedge funds and presidents of Pepsi-Cola. And again, I, I took such a different path. I, I don't know if was the right one. Looking back, I mean, next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of Good Times magazine and I started. And I took a job with AT\u0026T, lasted there three months and quit it to start it. I turned down a job offer to work for Jimi Hendrix. I had two job opportunities: work for Jimi Hendrix or go to work for AT\u0026T. Hendrix was paying 95 dollars a week and a three month plan. And AT\u0026T was paying the amazing amount of 210 dollars a week at the time. And I thought about it and I went with AT\u0026T. Never figuring that I would quit after three months. But yeah, I mean --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3180.09,3234.892"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e This has been such fun for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3235.644,3236.823"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Branciforte:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it's, it, it is fun. It is fun because, you know, particularly for us as you get older, there aren't a lot of people that you can exchange stories with. So when we're with ourselves, it's almost like, you know, you're reliving it. And at the same time, there's unfortunately less and less guys, guys are dying. And you don't realize it until.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3236.824,3255.003"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397/transcript/16548/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003e Rebecca Rushfield:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/25383/file/91397#t=3260.05,3260.617"}]}]}]}