CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

On November 26, 1968, the Presidential Search Committee for Community College 7, composed of five City University of New York (CUNY) officials and five appointed representatives of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community, met to discuss candidates for the presidency of the new college. In the meeting, the committee members discussed recent interviews with three candidates, and proposed new candidates they hoped to consult, including Hugh Smythe, then Ambassador to Malta. Also of note in this document is the appended list of approximately 50 additional candidates then under consideration for the presidency, including both Smythe and Rhody McCoy, a prominent leader in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control movement, who would later become the flashpoint of a pivotal controversy over the leadership of the new college.