Janet E. Lieberman, an educational innovator who made college education more accessible to struggling high school students and recent immigrants as the guiding spirit of LaGuardia Community College in Queens from its inception, died on March 19 in San Francisco. She was 97.
Her son, Dr. Randolph Hugh Chase, said the cause was pneumonia. She moved to California in 2014 to be close to her family. Dr. Lieberman was present at the creation when Community College No. 9, as it was originally known, was named for Fiorello H. La Guardia, the transformative New York mayor from 1934 to 1945.
The college, part of the City University of New York, opened in 1971 in Long Island City in a refurbished plant where White Motor Company once made auto parts and Ford Instrument once manufactured range finders for naval weapons during World War II. The building was within wafting range of a Chiclets gum factory next door.
Dr. Lieberman not only helped shape the mission of LaGuardia, a two-year college that now enrolls some 45,000 students from 150 countries; she also established collaborations with other educational institutions to attract high school students who had struggled academically, or who had to hold down jobs while taking classes, or who could not afford a four-year college.
“Janet had a strong feeling that we in education were snobs and our bar was too low, and that race and class were factors in that,” said Richard K. Lieberman (no relation), a LaGuardia history professor and director of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, a repository of mayoraland other municipal records that Janet Lieberman helped organize.
3月19日，Jenet E. Lieberman与旧金山逝世，享年97岁。她是教育创新者、皇后区拉瓜迪亚社区学院成立之初的精神向导，曾致力于使困难的高中生和新移民更易接受大学教育。
他的儿子Randolph医生说，病因是肺炎。2014年，她搬到加州和家人住在一起。在拉瓜迪亚社区学院（原名第9号社区学院）更名仪式现场，Lieberman博士出席。学院为纪念1934年至1945年间纽约市长Fiorello H. La Guardia为变革做出的贡献，以他的名字命名。
该学院是纽约城市大学的一部分，于1971年在长岛市一个翻新工厂选址开办。在那个工厂，怀特汽车公司曾生产汽车零件，福特仪器公司在二战期间为海军武器制造测距仪。这座建筑隔壁是一家Chiclets口香糖厂。
Lieberman博士不仅仅帮助拉瓜迪亚社区学院确定了办学任务——学院是一所学制两年的学院，现有来自150个国家的约45000名学生；她还与其他教育机构合作，以吸引学业成绩不佳、迫于生计半工半读或负担不起大学四年学费的高中生。
拉瓜迪亚历史教授、拉瓜迪亚和瓦格纳档案馆馆长Richard K. Lieberman（和Lieberman博士同姓，但无血缘）说：“Janet强烈觉察到我们在教育领域的势利之处，我们设置的障碍太多，种族和阶级就是障碍之一。”拉瓜迪亚和瓦格纳档案馆中的市长档案馆和市政档案馆曾由Lieberman教授帮助组织。
immigrant 移民
inception 开始，开端
pneumonia 肺炎
transformative 有改革能力的
refurbish 刷新，使重新干净
manufacture 制造，生产
naval 海军
waft 吹送，飘送
collaboration 合作，协作
hold down 压制，抑制（文中引申为留住）
bar 阻拦，阻挡
repository 博物馆，贮藏室
mayoral 市长的
municipal市政的
Janet E. Lieberman, an educational innovator who made college education more accessible to struggling high school students and recent immigrants as the guiding spirit of LaGuardia Community College in Queens from its inception, died on March 19 in San Francisco. 1.全句主干：“Janet E. Lieberman died on March 19 in San Francisco”；2.句子中间部分都是插入语，修饰Janet E. Lieberman的；3.分析插入语：插入语的主干部分“an educational innovator as the guiding spirit of LaGuardia Community College”，插入语包含了一个who引导的定语从句，修饰innovator。
The college, part of the City University of New York, opened in 1971 in Long Island City in a refurbished plant where White Motor Company once made auto parts and Ford Instrument once manufactured range finders for naval weapons during World War II. 1.主句“The college opened in 1971 in Long Island City in a refurbished plant”；2.插入语“part of the City University of New York”补充说明college；3.包含并列成分的where引导的定语从句，并列连接词and。
LaGuardia Community College纽约城市大学拉瓜迪亚社区学院(长岛)是美国纽约城市大学下属的一所公立社区学院，始建于1968年。自建立以来，一直致力于为朗恩岛地区居民提供最优质高效的学习课程，曾被评为国际杰出机构，也是全美三大社区学院之一。
Chiclets是Mondel_z International生产的一种糖衣口香糖品牌。Chiclets的名字来源于西班牙语单词Chicle（口香糖的名字）。1900年由托马斯·亚当斯创立的美国芝加哥公司引进。
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