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- 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
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- 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. Albert Sparrow, MD, talks about being the first fully trained pediatric cardiologist in the state, when he came to the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. Sparrow discusses his pioneering research during a period of tremendous progress in heart surgery, treating infants and children and developing procedures to manage small patients. Sparrow says that many ground breaking open heart surgical techniques for infants came from overseas where ethical and legal considerations allowed for more human subject experimentation. He also talks about his mentors at MSU, the great freedom he was given by the college to develop his skills and comments on the move of the MSU College of Medicine to Grand Rapids, MI. Part of the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- 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
- Description:
- The Bard Steel Company is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar describes the inner workings of the steel warehouse and mill supply company and details the economic advantages served by buying these products from a distributor rather than buying them directly from the source. Dunbar interviews long-time employee Charles Herrington about how the company has grown during his time there.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-03-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias discusses his experiences during World War II and his opinions on current world politics in an interview. Zacharias says that there is no imminent or inevitable war coming, in his opinion, and argues that if the communist revolution in China succeeds they will not be influenced by Russia. Zacharias also describes his role in softening Japanese attitudes towards surrender through psychological warfare by focusing on the Japanese Navy.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-03-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Prudence Burns Burrell talks about enlisting in the the United States Army Nurse Corps as a registered nurse in 1942 and her service during World War Two in medical units in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. She also talks about the racism she experienced while in the Army, and marrying a medical administrator with whom she worked in the Philippines in a wedding dress made from a parachute.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the second of a two part oral history interview, liberal political activist Bob Alexander talks further about his time in the National Teacher Corp, his youth in Detroit, Michigan, and the influences in his life which served to make him a liberal activist. He talks about leafleting while still elementary school, associating with French radicals in Detroit, protests he was involved in, being shot at, and being confronted by an armed bar owner while hanging posters. He also talks about his political activity in southeast Michigan, including working for increased voter registration, joining the Human Rights Party, and running successful campaigns for HRP candidates for the Ann Arbor City Council. Alexander is interviewed by retired Michigan State University Labor Studies Professor John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-02-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection