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- Description:
- In this installment of "Memo from Movieland," the hosts talk about movies playing at theaters around Kalamazoo and report on news stories from Hollywood. The hosts discuss "Law of the Barbary Coast", "Arson Incorporated", "Brimstone", "Lonewolf and his lady", "Edward my son", and "Ma and Pa Kettle". News stories on "Tokyo Joe", "The glass menagerie", and "Under Capricorn" are also featured.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michael Harrison, Michigan State University's first Faculty Grievance Official (FGO), reflects on the development of the Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP) at the university and his role in the grievance process. Harrison says that he trained many faculty members and academic departments on the use of the grievance process, that he had to wade through a huge backlog of grievances when he started in the job, and that maybe two grievances per semester actually went to formal hearings. Former MSU FGO and interviewer John Revitte compares his experience as FGO with Harrison's and two also discuss the pros and cons of the current system.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-02-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet and essayist Alison Swan talks about difficulties in writing in more than one genre, how she came to work with Jean Buescher in making the "Porch Swing," a handmade book, her vision on sustainable development, her daughter, her emotional links to Michigan, and projects in progress. Swan is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-09-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Art discusses being hired in May 1981 into the lead solder booth in the Body Shop. A third generation Fisher worker, Art comments on his community service, union activism, his rise to local union office, and describes the duties of a UAW President.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-08-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Bill Faunce, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University Department of Sociology, talks about his youth, education, and what brought him to MSU in 1957 to teach industrial sociology and work in the Center for Labor and Industrial Relations which later became known as the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR). Faunce also talks about his research, the structure of SLIR, the mission of the school, working in an auto plant in his younger days, and coordinating the school's move from the basement of Marshall Hall to South Kedzie Hall. Faunce is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-09-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Novelist Pamela Ditchoff talks about the characters and inspiration for her novel "The mirror of monsters and prodigies", her research for her novels, her daily writing routine, her second novel "Mrs. Beast", her views on fairy tales, and her work in progress. Ditchoff is interviewed by Michigan State University Professor of American Thought and Language Maria Bruno for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-10-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Theresa talks about being born in Lansing and raised in Missouri. She describes being hired in August 1977 after standing in line to submit an application. Theresa discusses working in the Trim Shop, seniority rights, the impact of night shift on family life, friendships in the factory, and a fatal accident.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Rudy talks about being hired, quitting, and being hired again in April 1969 and his father's resistance to Rudy working at Fisher. He describes a variety of jobs, work on the second shift, his union activity, union community service and his passion for helping people, achieving elected office in Local 602, and the strike in 1970.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-08-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. John Wilbrink, retired Curator of the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, describes his career at Michigan State University caring for the campus gardens. Wilbrink explains how he arrived in the U.S., came to MSU in early 1957 and went directly to work for the MSU Grounds Department. He recalls his wartime experiences performing forced labor for the NAZIs, surviving allied bombings, returning home to Denmark after the war, and emigrating with his family to the U.S. Wilbrink describes his duties and explains that he planted and cared for significant portions of the beds and gardens on campus. He also discusses the challenges of maintaining the gardens in the face of people stealing plants, rodents, deer, floods, and Michigan weather. Wilbrink is interviewed via telephone by Peter Carrington, Assistant Curator and Frank Telewski, Curator of the W. J. Beal Botanical Gardens. Recorded in the Voice Library Studio in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-04-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet and novelist Walter Richard Knupfer talks about his writing technique and style, the role of Michigan in his writings, and works in progress. Knupfer is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Jane Arnold. Recorded as part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-11-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection