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- Arthur Frahm recalls his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1947 and 1972. Frahm describes his job buying almost everything used in the factory, the constant turmoil as REO changed hands over the years, the decline of the company, his own discharge, and his unsuccessful class action law suit filed against REO. Frahm also talks about his education, childhood in Lansing, the Lansing Labor Holiday and the 1937 strikes, REO’s involvement in the community, the destruction of the worker's pension fund, the start of Spartan Motors, and his career after REO. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Nationally renowned folk singer John McCutcheon delivers a performance entitled, "Culture and community: organizing hearts and minds". McCutcheon weaves together music and discussion to highlight both culture and community as a way to organize He reflects on his youth, his relationship with his parents and explains how he got his start in music. Question and answer concludes the session. McCutcheon is introduced by Professor John P. Beck, Associate Director, Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and cosponsored by the MSU Libraries Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-02-17T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Arthur Frahm recalls his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1947 and 1972. Frahm describes his job buying almost everything used in the factory, the constant turmoil as REO changed hands over the years, the decline of the company, his own discharge, and his unsuccessful class action law suit filed against REO. Frahm also talks about his education, childhood in Lansing, the Lansing Labor Holiday and the 1937 strikes, REO’s involvement in the community, the destruction of the worker's pension fund, the start of Spartan Motors, and his career after REO. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-10T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Nationally renowned folk singer John McCutcheon delivers a performance entitled, "Culture and community: organizing hearts and minds". McCutcheon weaves together music and discussion to highlight both culture and community as a way to organize He reflects on his youth, his relationship with his parents and explains how he got his start in music. Question and answer concludes the session. McCutcheon is introduced by Professor John P. Beck, Associate Director, Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and cosponsored by the MSU Libraries Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-02-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection