Schwartz, David

Scope and Contents This folder contains eighteen commencement programs, one for each year, from June 9, 1960 through June 9, 1969, plus eight duplicates.David Zelinka, Chairman, Educational Foundation for the Apparel Industry, gave the commencement address for June 9, 1960 and for June 15, 1961.David Schwartz, President, Educational Foundation for the Apparel Industry, gave the commencement address for June 14, 1962.Lawrence L. Bethel, President, FIT, gave the commencement...

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The Oral History Project of the Fashion Industries began informally in the late 1970s, and was officially funded by a grant from the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries beginning in 1981. The project was guided by an industry advisory committee chaired by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., and was largely guided by then director of the Gladys Marcus Library at FIT, John Touhey.

Scope and Contents Judith Parkas, the Executive Vice President of FIT’s union, discusses her many roles at FIT. In addition to her union work, Parkas was a professor of Biology and Physical Anthropology as well as the project director of the Tech Prep Grant. Over the years, she helped develop and evolve FIT’s curriculum. She discusses the inception of the union and their early contentions with the Board of Trustees. There were also initial difficulties in unifying adjunct and full-time faculty, but Parkas...