Poll, Carol
Person
Biography
Carol Poll was a professor of sociology at FIT and interviewed members of the FIT community for the FIT 50th Anniversary oral history series.
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Ellen Goldstein interview, 1994 December 15, 1994 December 15
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.7
Scope and Contents
Ellen Goldstein, the Chair of the Accessories Design and Millinery Department, started with FIT’s Fashion Design Department as a part-time instructor. In 1981, the school received a federal grant for industries affected by imports and was able to start an accessories department. With additional support from the industry, the department has taken off. Goldstein explains her beginnings as a tapestry weaver and how she got into handbag design. She then describes the demographics of her...
Dates:
1994 December 15
Eve Pollack interview, 1995 March 6, 1995 March 6
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.21
Scope and Contents
Chair of the Marketing Department at the time of this interview, Eve Pollack explains the educational and professional trajectories that led her to a position at FIT in 1978. As her father was a textile converter, Eve found a career in buying haute couture to be a natural fit. She worked in the financial sector as well before being offered an adjunct position teaching a class called “Introduction to the Fashion Business,” at FIT. Pollack discusses the changes she has witnessed in both the...
Dates:
1995 March 6
FIT 50th Anniversary oral history series, 1994-1996, 1994-1996 bulk 1994-1995
sub-sub-sub-series
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews conducted by Carol Poll, a sociologist and sociology professor at FIT, of various FIT professors and administrators between the years of 1994-1996 on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the college.
Dates:
1994-1996 bulk 1994-1995
George Wybenga interview, 1995 March 28, 1995 March 28
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.30
Scope and Contents
Associate Professor of Fashion Packaging and Advertising Design George Wybenga started at FIT in 1979. Each year the department accepts 25 students and Wybenga says they have a placement rate of 100%. He discusses the department’s coursework, including bridge courses, and details different types of packaging design. He talks about how the German green laws inspired FIT to focus on environmentally-minded design; each year the New York Department of Sanitation puts on a competition and FIT...
Dates:
1995 March 28
Gibbs Murray interview, 1994 December 6, 1994 December 6
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.18
Scope and Contents
Gibbs Murray, Chair of the Display and Exhibit Department at the time of this interview, talks about the origins of the program as a double degree in fashion display and photography in the 1960s. He discusses how the Display and Exhibit Department’s singular, comprehensive nature has led to exponential levels of enrollment in recent years, and mentions student exhibitions in conjunction with companies such as Chanel, Patrick Kelly, and Romeo Gigli. Murray details a close relationship with...
Dates:
1994 December 6
Helen Xenakis interview, 1995 February 22, 1995 February 22
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.31
Scope and Contents
Helen Xenakis, the Internship Coordinator at FIT at the time of this interview, began as an adjunct professor in theFashion Buying and Merchandising Department (FBM) in 1988, following a 25-year career in buying. She talks about the inception of the internship program at FIT and its growth ten-fold. She sees the program as mutually beneficial for employers and students, which explains its exponential success. At the time of the interview, FIT had over 900 company sponsors including Donna...
Dates:
1995 February 22
Ingrid Johnson interview, circa 1994-1995, circa 1994-1995
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.9
Scope and Contents
Chair of the Textile Development and Marketing Department Ingrid Johnson discusses developments in textile studies since her start at FIT in 1981. Johnson notes that course work has evolved from a more science-oriented approach to one that favors reverse-engineering textiles to fit end-use applications. She then illustrates the end-use applications of various fibers. Johnson describes her work as a home furnishing fabric developer before being recruited by Arthur Price to join FIT, and goes...
Dates:
circa 1994-1995
Interview of Christine Pupillo, Leonard Trattner, and Harry Greenberg of the Patternmaking Department, 1995 February 27, 1995 February 27
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.22
Scope and Contents
This is an interview with three professors of the patternmaking department at FIT: Christine Pupillo, Leonard Trattner, and Harry Greenberg. At the time of the interview, Trattner was chair of the department. Greenberg started at FIT in 1947 and describes an incident that occurred during the Board of Education’s two-day exam, which was a prerequisite to patternmaking instruction. The three delve into FIT’s uniquely specialized program wherein students learn to make slopers. Trattner, a 9th...
Dates:
1995 February 27
Interview of Marc Rosenberg and Raoul Nacinovich of the Physical Education Department, circa 1994-1995, circa 1994-1995
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.19
Scope and Contents
This is an interview with Marc Rosenberg and Raoul Nacinovich of the Department of Physical Education and Dance. Rosenberg and Nacinovich met while teaching at DeWitt Clinton High School. Nacinovich was the basketball coach at FIT and would later become the athletic director of the school. The two discuss the familial feel of FIT in the 1960s and how much of that intimacy has been lost, perhaps due to the fact that the school is moving toward more part-time employees. They fondly remember...
Dates:
circa 1994-1995
Interview of Philip Milio, Nancy Grossman, and Lynn Glazer, of the Student Activities Office, 1994 November 17, 1994 November 17
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.11
Scope and Contents
Carol Poll interviews Nancy Grossman, Philip Milio, and Lynn Glazer about their work in the Student Life office at FIT. Glazer, the program coordinator, began at the office in 1969 in a clerical capacity. Grossman, the director of Student Life, began in 1973 when it was known as the Student Activities office. Grossman discusses their 1975 move to 242 W. 27th Street, a shared building with the counseling office. Grossman then discusses early programming such as a disco night at a student pub...
Dates:
1994 November 17
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- Students, Foreign 7
- Dress codes 5
- Fashion merchandising 5
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- Interior decoration 4
- Social sciences 4
- Advertising 2
- Architectural design 2
- Architecture 2
- Basketball 2
- Community colleges 2
- Computer-aided design 2
- Deans (Education) 2
- Immigrants 2
- Liberal arts 2
- Marketing 2
- Scholarships 2
- Student activities 2
- Women's rights 2
- Activism, Student 1
- Activists 1
- Administrative assistants 1
- Architects 1
- Baseball 1
- Career counselor 1
- China 1
- Civil rights 1
- Civil rights movements 1
- Clothing workers 1
- Coaches 1
- College sports 1
- College student government 1
- Communication 1
- Community college presidents 1
- Community college students 1
- Computer drawing 1
- Computers 1
- Cosmetics industry 1
- Costume 1
- Counseling 1
- Curriculum planning 1
- Dance 1
- Department stores 1
- Disco dancing 1
- Display of merchandise 1
- Drag balls 1
- Economics 1
- Education 1
- Education (Continuing education) 1
- Emeritus 1
- Engineering [authorized] 1
- Entrepreneurship 1
- Environmental engineering 1
- Fashion 1
- Fashion accessories 1
- Fine arts 1
- Footwear 1
- Group identity 1
- Handbags 1
- Health and Physical Education 1
- Immigrant students 1
- Immigration 1
- India 1
- International programs 1
- Internship programs 1
- Luggage 1
- Manufacturing processes 1
- Mathematics 1
- Mentoring 1
- Millinery 1
- Minorities 1
- Oral history 1
- Package design 1
- Patternmaking 1
- Perfumes industry 1
- Photography 1
- Physical education 1
- Political participation 1
- Professor 1
- Psychology 1
- Public speaking 1
- Racism 1
- Recreation 1
- Retail trade 1
- Science 1
- Sexism 1
- Shoes 1
- Small business 1
- Soviet Union 1
- Student affairs 1
- Student affairs administrators 1
- Student clubs 1
- Sweatshops 1
- Talent shows 1
- Teaching 1
- Technologists 1
- Textile design 1