Admission is free.
Dr. David Reimers, professor emeritus of history at New York University and nationally known expert in immigration history, will speak. Dr. Reimers' latest book, The Other Immigrants , which focuses on the immigration of Blacks, Asians and Latinos to the United States from the 16th century to the present, is due to be published in June of this year. The Christen Program is named in honor of former faculty member, Robert J. Christen, who served for many years on the Board of Education of the City of New York. For his many contributions to education, the Riverdale Public School 81 is named in his honor. Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street, near Broadway, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.