A celebration of 75 years of Roosevelt University
Director of Counseling and Testing Services | 1945¬–75
An alumna of Central YMCA College, Alyce Pasca was one of 62 faculty members that voted to leave the Y College and found Roosevelt University. She taught psychology and statistics before becoming the counseling director in 1954. She helped hundreds of students and was highly respected in the medical field.
History Professor and Social Activist
MA History, ’63, Professor 1966–2006
Betty Balanoff taught history to Roosevelt students for 25 years, leading the way in teaching African American history, Native American history and women’s history.
Her lasting legacy is the Labor Oral History Project, a collection of over 60 interviews with union members in the Roosevelt archives. Balanoff conducted the interviews from 1970 to 1985.