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- Louis Garcia discusses his career as an assembly worker, press operator, and manager at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1946 and 1975. Garcia talks about his Hispanic heritage and his childhood spent as a migrant farm worker. He says that in his early years at REO he was singled out and "tested" by other workers and management because of his ethnicity, but still excelled in the workplace, becoming a journeyman and later a supervisor. Garcia also talks about Francis Cappaert’s ownership of REO, the company bankruptcy, loss of the worker pension fund, the final days of plant operations, and employee depression and suicide. Interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Hugh B. Fox, retired Michigan State University Professor of American Thought and Language, talks about his life, his youth as an only child, his affliction with polio, and his strict Catholic education. He describes his eclectic interests in literature and Peruvian archeology, his conversion to Judaism, and his prolific writings. Fox reads short passages from a number of his works, both in English and Spanish. He weaves in stories of his mother and father, academic life, wives and lovers, and literary associates. Fox is introduced by MSU Librarian Peter Berg for the 10th anniversary session of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-02-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Professor Ilana Blumberg talks about becoming interested in reading and writing, her Jewish upbringing, and being a typical "American girl". She mentions the tensions of navigating between tradition and modernity and the special challenge for women that it poses. Blumberg also talks about how living in Michigan has influenced her writing and how she likes to write about families and the tensions of belonging while trying to find independence. Blumberg is interviewed by Kara Gust for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-02-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Takashi Tanemori talks about losing his sister, mother, and father in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and describes the hardship of being an orphan. He also talks about coming to the U.S. as a agricultural immigrant and being discriminated against because of his radiation sickness and for being Japanese. He says that he has moved on from being angry to forgiving his tormentors.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-06-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Andy talks about being raised in Brooklyn, NY, attending Penn State, having his own business, and being hired in 1976 at a GM bearing plant in New Jersey. Andy talks about coming to Lansing Oldsmobile in 1982 and moving to Fisher in 1991. He describes his experiences as a maintenance supervisor and planner, relations with the UAW, and his thoughts about General Motors.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, talks about his childhood in northern New Jersey, his education, becoming interested in labor studies, working with union training programs while in school in England, and earning a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Banks talks about labor issues of the day, the abilities of the union members with whom he worked, and the political climate in Britain. He describes how he came to meet his wife then talks extensively about labor issues and the role he played in Britain and the U.S., discusses the general labor movement, then covers a number of researchers and authors. John Revitte explains the information he would like to obtain from Banks at future interviews including the history of the Faculty Grievance Office at MSU, Banks' association with the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at MSU, and issues around unionization at the University, and the office of Ombudsman for faculty and students. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. First of six interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-12-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Gretchen Millich talks about her twenty-three-year career at Michigan State University's public radio station WKAR, her childhood and education in Detroit, attending the University of Michigan, majoring in radio and television production and after graduation, taking a job at a Cadillac, MI station as a "weather girl." She also describes later working for the NPR show "All Things Considered" in Washington D.C. during the day while attending law school at night, working on political campaigns, clerking at a law firm and finally passing the Michigan Bar exam, but going back to NPR for a continued career in radio. She says that she came to WKAR in 1990 as a reporter covering state government stories for a show called "State Edition" and discusses some of the stories she covered, and finally her retirement activities since leaving MSU. Millich is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-06-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Jane Arnold, humanities collection coordinator at the Michigan State University Libraries, interviews poet Katherine Fishburn on why she chooses to be a poet, her book "The dead are so disappointing", the healing power of writing poems, how she brings in her relationship with her parents, especially her father, into her poems, nature as a theme in her poems, her in-progress works.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-03-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Eileen Nortman talks about her brief tenure at the REO Motor Car Company in Lansing, MI. Nortman describes growing up in Williamston, Mi, starting at REO in 1943, at the age of 17 and leaving in 1945 to join the Navy. She talks about shop conditions, her jobs at REO, car-pooling, gas rationing, and women working in the plant, and how she and other women got along with male employees. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Twenty-three year-old Michigan State University graduate Ronald Gillum talks about growing up in East Lansing and Lansing, MI after moving from Detroit. Gillum says that his parents are both college educated professionals and that he always felt that he was expected to go to college and he explains why he chose a career in business and public administration over professional sports. Gillum believes that in ten years he will be married with a family, will be working in Michigan state government and perhaps will hold elective office. Gillum also describes the differences in the workload between high school and college, relates a humorous incident which happened while he lived in a coed dorm and comments on his professors and courses.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection