Interview of philanthropist Selma Hollander on her firendship with retired faculty Dixie Platt, husband Stanley Hollander, and her life at Michigan State University

Description:

In an oral history interview, Selma Hollander talks with retired Michigan State University faculty Dixie Platt about their fifty-year friendship. Platt reminisces about coming to Hollander's home and tip toeing through an art project that Hollander had laid out on her living room floor. Platt also talks about living next door to the Hollanders in the Marilyn Apartments as a new faculty member and being introduced to other MSU faculty and administrators by the Hollanders when she came to visit. Hollander talks about pursuing her bachelor's and masters' degrees at MSU, exhibiting her art at various venues including, the Wharton Center, teaching classes, aging, fashion and travel. She also talks about her husband Stanley's blindness and how, with her help, he was able to continue teaching and traveling and her recent one-hundredth birthday party. The third of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.

Date Issued:

2018-06-19T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Subject Topic:

Friends and associates, Knowledge and learning, Travel, Philanthropists, and Philanthropists

Subject Name:

Hollander, Selma, Hollander, Selma, Platt, Dixie, Hollander, Selma, Hollander, Selma, Hollander, Stanley C. (Stanley Charles), 1919-2004, and Michigan State University

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Interviews, and Biography

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m54j09z7b