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After the New York City fiscal crisis of 1976, the day and evening programs were merged, but Bette continued teaching at least one evening class a semester to make sure the evening students had the opportunity to major in English.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2: \u003c/strong\u003eAlthough she is a pioneer of oral history at Queens College, Dr. Bette Weidman did not have any experience in that field when she first came to the school. She credits her faculty mentor, Dr. Helene Brewer, with sparking her interest. Brewer had worked with both the University of California Berkeley’s Regional Oral History Project and Columbia University’s Oral History Project -- both seminal in the development of this field -- and encouraged Bette to get involved.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3: \u003c/strong\u003eDr. Bette Weidman struck up a friendship with Syd Lefkoe, of Queens College’s Financial Aid department, over their shared interest in oral history. In 2003, the two conducted videotaped interviews of 50th anniversary alumni at the college’s Commencement ceremony, an effort they have repeated several times over the years.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 4: \u003c/strong\u003eDr. Bette Weidman recalls how challenging it was to get funding for new evening courses over the years. One semester, she was able to introduce the first class on women writers in the department by asking her colleagues from different departments to volunteer as guest lecturers. The faculty were happy to speak in their areas of research and expertise, and the students benefited by being exposed to a wide variety of scholars.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDr. Bette Weidman discusses her career at Queens College. She explains how the focus of her career shifted over the years, from teaching evening classes part-time to developing her own curriculum, including Native American literature, to her role as Director of the American Studies program.\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c/span\u003eShe also talks about her chidlhood and her education at Syracuse and Columbia Universities.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDr. Weidman added a \u003ca href=\"http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/manager/repository/aql:36053\"\u003eshort addendum\u003c/a\u003e to her interview to expand on two topics: the Native American commitment of research, writing and teaching; and oral history activities, including teaching, participating in the national oral history association, writing reviews and editing a collection of oral history syllabi for the OHA.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn this related \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whL-YA8A0zM\u0026amp;t=14s\"\u003eYouTube video\u003c/a\u003e, Dr. Bette Weidman elaborates on her interest in India and her experiences teaching there on a Fulbright Award in 1997. The interviewer is one of her former students at Queens College, Salimah Khoja.\u003c/p\u003e (supplement)","\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDr. Weidman has donated many of the recorded interviews and related paperwork from her oral history classes to the Queens College Library's Department of Special Collections and Archives. Researchers can access the \u003ca href=\"https://qcarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/46\"\u003efinding aid\u003c/a\u003e to the Bette Weidman Oral History Papers online, and can visit the items in person at the college's Rosenthal Library.\u003c/p\u003e (supplement)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Interview conducted as part of the Queens College Faculty and Staff Oral History Project."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1941-2019 (temporal)","Queens College, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2019-10-10 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Bette Weidman (Interviewee)","Dean Savage (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/36058"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eClip 1: \u003c/strong\u003eDr. Bette Weidman recounts how she was initially hired by Queens College\u0026rsquo;s English department as a part-timer in the evening program, to take over the courses of a professor who had taken a sudden leave of absence. At that time, the evening sessions were part of the School of General Studies. From there she worked her way up to a tenured, full-time professor, despite some departmental bias against evening faculty. After the New York City fiscal crisis of 1976, the day and evening programs were merged, but Bette continued teaching at least one evening class a semester to make sure the evening students had the opportunity to major in English.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eClip 2: \u003c/strong\u003eAlthough she is a pioneer of oral history at Queens College, Dr. Bette Weidman did not have any experience in that field when she first came to the school. She credits her faculty mentor, Dr. Helene Brewer, with sparking her interest. Brewer had worked with both the University of California Berkeley\u0026rsquo;s Regional Oral History Project and Columbia University\u0026rsquo;s Oral History Project -- both seminal in the development of this field -- and encouraged Bette to get involved.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eClip 3: \u003c/strong\u003eDr. Bette Weidman struck up a friendship with Syd Lefkoe, of Queens College\u0026rsquo;s Financial Aid department, over their shared interest in oral history. In 2003, the two conducted videotaped interviews of 50th anniversary alumni at the college\u0026rsquo;s Commencement ceremony, an effort they have repeated several times over the years.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eClip 4: \u003c/strong\u003eDr. Bette Weidman recalls how challenging it was to get funding for new evening courses over the years. One semester, she was able to introduce the first class on women writers in the department by asking her colleagues from different departments to volunteer as guest lecturers. 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She explains how the focus of her career shifted over the years, from teaching evening classes part-time to developing her own curriculum, including Native American literature, to her role as Director of the American Studies program.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003eShe also talks about her chidlhood and her education at Syracuse and Columbia Universities.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDr. Weidman added a \u003ca href=\"http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/manager/repository/aql:36053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eshort addendum\u003c/a\u003e to her interview to expand on two topics: the Native American commitment of research, writing and teaching; and oral history activities, including teaching, participating in the national oral history association, writing reviews and editing a collection of oral history syllabi for the OHA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn this related \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whL-YA8A0zM\u0026amp;t=14s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eYouTube video\u003c/a\u003e, Dr. Bette Weidman elaborates on her interest in India and her experiences teaching there on a Fulbright Award in 1997. 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