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- Michigan State University pre-medical junior Andy Kim talks about his childhood in Korea, immigrating to the U.S. at age 16, and settling in Battle Creek, Michigan. Kim says that his father brought the family to the U.S. for greater opportunities and hoped that his sons would become doctors. He discuses the challenges of adapting to a different culture and to life at MSU and says that he feels caught between Korea and the United States. Kim also says it is important to have a respected profession because he is not white and aspires to a life in the suburbs with cars and kids. Kim also says that he thinks about other careers and may try dental school if he fails to qualify for medical school, even though his father is very insistent that he become a doctor.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-05-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Twenty-four-year-old Michigan State University graduate Shantae Cannon talks about her childhood in Hayti, MO and moving to Lansing, MI at the age of eleven. Cannon also talks about her education, her desire to learn, participating in an MSU "Upward Bound" program, being the first person in her family to graduate from college, and her job with the State of Michigan. She says that she has a difficult time projecting where she will be in ten years and that a career is not as important to her as continuing to learn.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Alex talks about growing up in the neighborhood, playing around the plant and his father's experience as a Fisher worker. Alex talks about being hired in March 1981 before he turned 18, making money, life in the factory, and his union involvement. He relates a story about men being allowed to work shirtless until a woman removed her shirt.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her life, her interest in design, and her family opening Liebermann's luggage and gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan. Price reflects on her youth in Saginaw, Michigan, experiences working in her great uncle's store, also called Liebermann's, coming to Lansing with her father in 1931 to open the store and to attend Michigan State College and finally leaving MSC to devote all of her time to retailing. Price says that her father told her that she could buy anything that she could sell and with that in mind, she set about creating a store inventory of items created by artists whose work appealed to her. She says that she went out of her way to get to know the artists personally and often entertained them in her East Lansing home which was designed by modernist Lansing architect Kenneth Black in 1946. She says that later moving Liebermann's to 113 N. Washington Ave in Lansing was a major business decision and that having modernist George Nelson design the new facility brought admirers to Lansing from around the world.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Michigan writer, poet and playwright Anne-Marie Oomen reads from her works including, "Pulling down the barn" and "Uncoded woman: poems". She also recounts her childhood on a farm in Michigan's Oceana County and discusses the art of writing memoir and the joy she finds in teaching at Michigan's famed Interlochen Academy. A question and answer session follows. Oomen is introduced by MSU Librarian Peter Berg for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Marvin Grinstern talks about his employment at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1965 and 1975. Grinstern describes growing up in Lansing, farming, visiting his father at the plant, as a boy, during the 1937 strike and finally joining his father and other relatives at REO. Grinstern also talks about a fatal accident on the shop floor, managers abusing their position, the REO bankruptcy, the plant closing, and the resulting shock, depression and suicides among workers. Grinstern laments the loss of manufacturing companies and jobs in Lansing and remarks on the great changes that came to factories in the wake of unionization and women in the workplace. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-12-03T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- 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:
- Pero Dagbovie, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, moderates the third in a series of three presentations at a symposium entitled, Dramatization and Context: a Symposium and Roundtable held at the MSU Museum in conjunction with the premiere staging of the play Music History, written by MSU College of Law Writer in Residence Sandra Seaton. Featured presenters are: Aaron Todd Douglas, a professor at Loyola University, and John Woodford, executive editor of Michigan Today. Douglas talks about personal and artistic liberty, equity, responsibility, and legacy in relation to Seaton’s play while Woodford reflects on the work in relation to his own coming of age experiences in the civil rights and peace movements. A question and answer segment concludes the session.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Derrick tells of moving to Lansing in 1957 so his father could get a job at Fisher, growing up near the plant and being hired in August 1978. He tells about his experiences in the Body and Paint Shops, dealing with racial diversity and animosity, hazards in the plant, his union activity, and appointment to the Michigan AFL-CIO Safety Department in Lansing.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection