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- Description:
- In this installment of "Know your city," Dr. Willis Dunbar examines two institutions doing charitable work in Kalamazoo County, the Lions Club and the Kalamazoo County Cancer Society. R.K. Hills, a member of the local Lions Club, discusses the history of the white cane as a symbol of blindness and the importance of educating the public about the meaning of the white cane. Dunbar also speaks to various people about their work with the Kalamazoo Cancer Society, including Mrs. R.C. Stevens, who heads the Society's Transportation Committee and Florence Thompson, the Society's secretary, and Carl Draeger, planning chairman of its fundraising campaign.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice-President Joseph Biden, hosts the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges. The focus of the event is the role community colleges play in developing America's workforce and furthering education. Biden explains how the uniquely American institution of the community college is positioned to provide education and training for the jobs of the 21st century and introduces President Barack Obama who talks about the necessity of education and his administration's education initiatives. Biden also introduces Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who describes the efforts of the Gates Foundation to support the non-traditional student, the primary client of the community college. Other speakers include Skills for America representative Penny Pritzker, and Arizona community college student Albert Ojeda.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-10-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Doris Dow recalls her career as a secretary at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1950 and 1975. Dow talks about joining her mother and other relatives at the plant and describes her first job running a blueprint copier, becoming a secretary and later working for Oldsmobile. She says that at REO, the company was more a part of the social fabric of a worker's life than at Oldsmobile and goes on to describe the "fun" she had at the REO Girls Club, and performing charity work with other employees. Dow also discusses the decline of REO, the day that the doors were locked, the aftermath of the closing, the demolition of the REO Clubhouse and the loss of the REO pension fund. She explains the complexity of selling the company as a unit because of the way owner Francis Cappaert had divided the operations from the property. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Carnegie gives his thoughts on the duties of a man of wealth. Carnegie argues that the wealthy entrepreneur must assume the responsibility for distributing his fortune in such a way that it will be put to good use and not wasted on frivolous expenditures.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Carnegie argues for the accumulation of wealth and its subsequent distribution to benevolent causes.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Notes:
- Field notes from a trip to Colombia on June 27 - July 2, 1968.
- Date Created:
- 1968-06-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given July 29, 1977 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the 1977 Summer Work Conference on creativity and faculty development.
- Date Created:
- 1977-07-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Council of Michigan Foundations 1983 annual conference speakers. Records are compiled in the Our State of Generosity collection by the Johnson Center, along with the files of the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA), the Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC) and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy. Originals are at the Council of Michigan Foundations.
- Date Created:
- 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Council of Michigan Foundations 1983-05-10 board book personnel job descriptions. Records are compiled in the Our State of Generosity collection by the Johnson Center, along with the files of the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA), the Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC) and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy. Originals are at the Council of Michigan Foundations.
- Date Created:
- 1983-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Council of Michigan Foundations 1987-02-26 board book conference revenue. Records are compiled in the Our State of Generosity collection by the Johnson Center, along with the files of the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA), the Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC) and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy. Originals are at the Council of Michigan Foundations.
- Date Created:
- 1987-02-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
