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Constructed in 1967, the Brodie Fine Arts building is named in honor of William A. Brodie, a Geneseo attorney whose clients included various members of the Wadsworth family. Brodie was one of several local leaders whose efforts were instrumental in…

Winfield Holcomb Hall was built in 1969 and took its name from an earlier demonstration school at Geneseo. Its purpose was to provide hands-on experience for School of Education students in the classroom and in their research. It hosted the offices…

Dr. Mattera was a member of the SUNY Geneseo School of Education who created a summer program for "teachers of the children of migrant workers." In 1968 she founded the Geneseo Migrant Center, which evolved into not only a school for children but for…

Gloria Mattera, founder of the Geneseo Migrant Center, is pictured during a teachers workshop at SUNY-Geneseo titled "Summer Workshop Teachers of Migrant Children"

A conversation between Rep. Mary Anne Krupsak and Gloria Mattera, the founder of the Geneseo Migrant Center, during a staff development event at The State University College at Geneseo. Dr. Mattera developed a summer program for teachers of the…

Founder of the Geneseo Migrant Center, Dr. Gloria Mattera, and President of SUNY Geneseo at the time, Robert W. MacVittie, are pictured in conversation at a 1973 summer workshop for teachers of migrant children. Dr. Mattera mentions that such…

A photo of Dr. Gloria Mattera and four unidentified colleagues, perhaps graduate students, sitting around a table looking through papers. The Geneseo Migrant Center was started in 1965 by Dr. Mattera, then a professor in SUNY Geneseo's School of…

Pictured here is Dr. Gloria Mattera, speaking to an unknown person during a snack break, presumably during a 1969 workshop for the Geneseo Migrant Center. Dr Mattera was well known in both her dealings with the public and in establishing personal…

Professor in SUNY Geneseo's School of Education was the first director of the Geneseo Migrant Center, an innovative and multifaceted project to "start where the child is," as she later recalled. Eventually this entailed curricular, child care, and…

Dr. Gloria Mattera speaking at a staff development event for the Migrant Center at The State University College at Geneseo. Dr. Mattera is credited for being the first director of this establishment, which was dedicated to educating, providing…