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Dowling College Celebrates Turning 40 By Running a Year-Long Blog
Documenting the 1960's
To document the 40th anniversary of Dowling College as an independent
institution, the Dowling College Library is running a year-long blog
entitled Born in the Sixties: The First Year of Dowling College,
1968-69. Week by week, using digitized text and images from the
Library's Archives, Born in the Sixties recaps what was happening on
campus and in the world forty years ago. Text and images taken from the
student newspaper, the College yearbook and other documents describe the
first twelve months of the College, set against the backdrop of the
Vietnam War, the 1968 Presidential Election and the run-up to the lunar
landing.
Hosted on the Wordpress platform, Born in the Sixties runs from
September 2008 through August 2009 at http://dowling1968.wordpress.com.
All images used on the blog will also appear on the Library's Flickr
account at http://flickr.com/photos/dclibrary/.
Throughout the year we will also be posting podcast interviews with
Dowling faculty, alumni and community members discussing the history of
the College and various aspects of life in the 1960s. Topics include
former NASA engineer Fred Zito, Ed.D, '02 discussing his work with
Grumman on the lunar landing module, and Edgar Award-winning mystery
writer Mike Jahn, '65, relating what it was like as the first Rock and
Roll critic for the New York Times, covering Woodstock and the likes of
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Doors.
All viewers are invited to comment on the blog, add suggestions and ask
questions about our history. If you have any Dowling related memorabilia
or photos from the late 1960s and would like to share them with this
project, please contact Chris Kretz at 631-244-3396 or at
kretzc@dowling.edu.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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