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- Description:
- The 25th annual Jack Pine 507-mile motorcycle race was sponsored by the State Journal over Labor Day weekend in 1951. The course went from Lansing to West Branch and back over Northern Michigan's rough jack pine plains and hills. No. 278 Joe Gee of Columbus, Ohio, won the trophy and symbolic cowbell with his Triumph motorcycle.
- Date Created:
- 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Ed McRee (L), president of Ingham Medical Center and of the Lansing Symphony Association, receives a service award from Ken Patenge on behalf of the Greater Lansing Chamber of Commerce. McRee was the 41st person to be inducted into the Chamber of Commerce's Hall of Fame.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Possibly occured in 1959.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This series includes award nominations, biographical information, publicity, and event information.
- Date Created:
- [1977 TO 2003]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing YWCA
- Description:
- Text on back of photo reads: "Joe Gee, Columbus, Ohio, winner of the 1951 National Jack Pine Endurance Run with the Jack Pine Trophy and the Jack Pine Cow Bell." The 25th annual Jack Pine 507-mile motorcycle race was sponsored by the State Journal over Labor Day weekend in 1951. The course went from Lansing to West Branch and back over Northern Michigan's rough jack pine plains and hills. No. 278 Joe Gee of Columbus, Ohio, won the trophy and symbolic cowbell with his Triumph motorcycle.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- The 25th annual Jack Pine 507-mile motorcycle race was sponsored by the State Journal over Labor Day weekend in 1951. The course went from Lansing to West Branch and back over Northern Michigan's rough jack pine plains and hills. No. 278 Joe Gee of Columbus, Ohio, won the trophy and symbolic cowbell with his Triumph motorcycle.
- Date Created:
- 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Lansing Jaycees. This collection includes a wide range of administrative and program material, as well as scrapbooks, awards, and other documentation of Jaycees activities since the founding in 1929. The majority of the material dates from the 1970s to the 1990s. The collection has not been fully processed. The Container List here is taken from a rough inventory of the material done in 2015-2016. Please click on Container List items to read descriptions of the contents in each folder. Contact the library with any questions about this collection. Jaycees history: The Lansing Jaycees were founded in November 1929. The father of the Michigan Jaycees, Bill Otto, helped organize the Lansing chapter and guided it throughout the earliest years of its history. The chapter began existence with 74 members, and has provided many different types of service and support to the greater Lansing area, from planting thousands of flower beds to improvement of land and facilities at the Capital City Airport.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Jaycees
- Description:
- 1995 recipient of the Miliken Family Foundation National Educator Award. In 2012 she became the Superintendent of the Lansing School District.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An oral history from Marjorie "Marge" Shelden, who served as village treasurer in Mulliken, Michigan, in the 1950s and 1960s, served as office manager at the Lansing Chamber of Commerce, and was involved in the creation of the women's Athena Awards program. She was interviewed by Joyce Moffett at the Lansing Civic Center on Washtenaw Street, on May 8, 1990. A transcript for this recording has not been completed.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
