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101. Interview of philanthropist Selma Hollander on joining the Michigan State University community in 1958 and how her life has been intertwined with the university

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In a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and that from their earliest days in East Lannsing, they were financial supporters of MSU in many different areas including art, music, Jewish studies, and museums. She says that she and her husband funded more than a dozen endowments at MSU and she speaks with particular pride about their work in the creation and support of Michigan State University' Wharton Performing Arts Center. Hollander says that her life has been intimately intertwined with MSU and that the University gave her and her husband a place to enjoy a meaningful and exciting life. The second of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
Date Issued:
2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

102. U.S. President Barack Obama awards posthumously the Medal of Honor to Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger and speaks on his courageous actions on March 11, 1968 in Laos

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President Barack Obama recounts the actions of Medal of Honor recipient Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, during a ceremony at the White House. Obama explains why Etchberger’s actions on March 11, 1968 in Laos have been classified and unrecognized for over forty years. Chief Etchberger receives the award posthumously. An unidentified speaker reads the official Congressional citation as the President presents the medal to Chief Etchberger’s family. Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains, Brigadier General David H. Cyr, delivers the invocation and the benediction.
Date Issued:
2010-09-21T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection