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11. Mark Warner discusses his career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing MI

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Mark recalls being hired in August 1978 at the Service Parts Operation (SPO) in Lansing and coming to Fisher in 1981. He discusses receiving a BA from MSU in 2002, the physical nature of factory work, and never expecting to stay. Mark talks about the Tuition Assistance Program, differences between SPO and Fisher, making friends, and pride in his work.
Date Issued:
2005-12-21T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

12. Dr. Joyce M. Grant discusses her career as a teacher, civil rights activist, community organizer, school administrator, and professor in the College of Education at Michigan State University

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Grant grew up in Boston and graduated from Boston State College. Grant says she was denied a teaching position in the Boston Public schools due to her race, but was later made Deputy Superintendent for Boston schools after earning her doctorate from Harvard. Grant talks about her work with Episcopal priest James P. Breeden on civil rights issues and with Jonathan Kozol in the Community Schools movement. She came to the Michigan Partnership for New Education in 1991.
Date Issued:
2006-03-19T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

13. Dr. Frederic R. Wickert discusses his international career as a Professor of Psychology and administrator in the Graduate School of Business Administration at Michigan State University

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Wickert talks about his childhood in Chicago, obtaining a Psychology degree from UCLA in 1933 and a graduate degree form the University of Chicago. He shares work experiences and comments on the Hawthorne experiments at Western Electric. Wickert served as a replacement-training officer during World War II and joined the Psychology Department at MSU in 1947. He joined the Management School in 1960 developing organizational psychology programs around the world in cooperation with the State Department, Peace Corp and MSU international outreach efforts.
Date Issued:
2009-05-07T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

14. Milton Vann, an African American, discusses his career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI

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Milton recalls being hired in October 1967, serving in the Air Force, and receiving a BS in Social Science from MSU in 1971. He comments on diversity of race and backgrounds in Fisher, the nature of the work, heat, the snack wagon, strikes, strike pay, quality control, worker dedication, and his union activity.
Date Issued:
2006-02-06T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

15. Dr. Carol L. Fisher discusses her career as a Professor of Art History and Education Coordinator at the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University

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Fisher talks about earning a doctorate in Islamic and Byzantine Art History while teaching and raising a family and reflects on sharing her love of art and culture with generations of students and art patrons. She discusses her role in developing the docent-training program at Kresge, the value of arts and culture to international understanding and the career opportunities now available to women.
Date Issued:
2009-03-27T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

16. Linda Johnson discusses her career as a production worker, newsletter editor and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing MI

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Linda talks about obtaining two degrees before being hired at Fisher in August 1978. She recalls her first impressions of the plant and talks about her many duties as newsletter editor and photographer. Linda describes an incident when the flash from her camera triggered the fire suppression system in the paint booth.
Date Issued:
2005-11-23T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection