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Lehman College is a public college in New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College , it became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman , a former New York governor, United States senator, philanthropist, and the son of Lehman Brothers co-founder Mayer Lehman .
Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was an American financier and Democratic politician who served as the 45th governor of New York from 1933 to 1942 and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1949 until 1957.
Leonard Lief (June 14, 1924 – July 30, 2007) was the founding president of Herbert H. Lehman College [1] a Bronx institution that is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. Lief was the college's president for more than two decades, from 1968 to 1990, solidifying it as a college with a liberal arts focus on a tree-lined ...
Columbia University Libraries is the library system of Columbia University and one of the largest academic library systems in North America. With 15.0 million volumes and over 160,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials, it is the fifth-largest academic library in the United States ...
The High School of American Studies at Lehman College (commonly called American Studies, HSAS, or Lehman) is a specialized high school in New York City. The school is administered by the New York City Department of Education. It receives supplementary funding from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History .
On August 21, 2003, the mayor held a news conference in Lehman College, renaming the Bronx High School of Music to the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music. Exploring the Arts [ edit ] The Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music is a partner school with Exploring the Arts , an organization created by Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Benedetto to ...
Historian. biographer. playwright. gay rights activist. Years active. 1957–present. Martin Bauml Duberman (born August 6, 1930) is an American historian, biographer, playwright, and gay rights activist. Duberman is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College in the Bronx, New York City. [1]
Patricia Battin was born to Emanuel Albert and Josephine (Lehman) Meyer on June 2, 1929, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. She attended Swarthmore College from 1947 to 1951 and received a B.A. in English. The following year, she attended the University of Minnesota to pursue American studies. Career