New York saw a number of rallies across the city on October 15th, 1969. Getty Images
Vietnam Moratorium Day
One hundred and thirteen individual members of the University faculty resolved on Wednesday morning, October 15, “that the war in Vietnam must not continue” and urged “the rapid and complete withdrawal of the United States forces. Two faculty voted no and six abstained (a few days before, the Student Representative Committee had denounced “the continuing U.S. military aggression in Vietnam”).
Also on Wednesday morning, students manned Vietnam Moratorium “talk tables” at the Main Gate and on 1st and 2nd Avenues, and in the afternoon presented addresses and a panel discussion in Caspary Auditorium. In the evening, more than one hundred students, faculty, and staff chanting “Peace Now”, joined the candlelight procession to the ecumenical service in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. – The Rockefeller University News and Notes, October 1969
Olga Stepanek, MLS, Special Collections and Operations Librarian - As a member of the Markus Library team since 2001, Olga provides user assistance, circulation support, collection management, and user instruction on library services and recourses. She organizes library outreach events and is a primary coordinator in designing library promotional materials. Olga is responsible for acquiring, managing, and caring for additions to the special collection of rare and valuable books, photographs, historical newsletters, and other unique RU publications, digitizing materials to the University’s Digital Repository, and making them available to researchers. As library liaison to the Development Office, Communications and Public Affairs, the Rockefeller Archive Center, Olga designs and creates exhibits and displays in the library and elsewhere on campus.
A librarian with almost 30 years of experience in public and academic libraries, Olga received Bachelor of Library Science Degree from St. Petersburg State Academy of Culture (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Master’s Degree in Library Science from The Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College.
A volunteer of several charities, U.S. – and Russia –based, Olga helps to raise funds for children with cancer and special needs.
