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- Michigan State University sophomore Lorraine Axeman talks about growing up in a middle class, suburban neighborhood in East Lansing and her family's emphasis on education. She describes the social challenges of high school and the difficulty of adjusting to college while living at home and being free to explore and discover her creative side. Axeman, who is a pre- law major, says a legal career will give her the flexibility to work from home and have children and suggests that she might sacrifice a career for a family.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-10-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an wide-ranging interview, Robert Repas, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations, remembers his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and how he became interested in labor issues and socialist causes. Repas recalls his first union jobs, studying economics in college and earning a degree from the University of Wisconsin. Repas says that he only later become interested in workers' education and goes on to recount his work in a variety of union related positions before coming to MSU in 1957. Repas is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University sophomore Christopher Day says he wants a career in law and sees himself someday living in New England with a wife and children. Day compares his contemporaries to the generation of the 1960s, the tension between getting a good paying career and establishing an enjoyable life, his family, the transition from high school to college, life in his fraternity, and his experience with what he calls "reverse discrimination."
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University sophomore Wendy Pearson talks about her childhood in Detroit, her "barely integrated" grade school, her parents, attending Cass Tech High School, majoring in journalism, acclimating to college and roommates, and the importance of education in her family. Pearson also talks about aspiring to own a magazine, her reluctance to marry and have children, and the possibility of someday writing novels.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-11-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet Carolyn Forché reads at the third Poetry Center Reading sponsored by the Michigan State University Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and held at the MSU Main Library. Forché reflects on her time as a student in Michigan State University's Justin Morrill College, reads political poetry about her experiences in Latin America, and comments on her human rights activism. Question and answer session follows. Forché is introduced by the Poetry Reading Center Director Anita Skeen.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-11-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Eighteen year old Michigan State University Mathematics sophomore Katie Overweg discusses growing up in her hometown of Portland, MI, her parents and their careers, her siblings, the closeness of her family, and the emphasis which they place on education. She says that she hopes to become a teacher and start a family and that many of her peers seem only to be interested in how much money they hope to make. She also describes life in the dorm, rates her professors, and says that the process of socialization and maturing while at college is at least as important as the course work.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-11-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University senior Christopher Carlisle talks about growing up in one of the last, "good neighborhoods" in Detroit, his perception of the surrounding poverty, attending a Catholic high school, being a good athlete and an under achieving student. Carlisle also reflects upon successful and famous persons in history who have blazed their own trails and says that he hopes to be an artist himself, and to be a creative individual throughout his life.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-10-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- On front of photograph: "'Don't drop it, boys!' - Cafeteria Helpers." Several unidentified students in the kitchen at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- On front of photograph: "'Good, I read you now.' - An assembly production." Several students, some in costume, on the stage at Walter French Junior High School. A sign hangs on the stage "Doughnut Center (What a Hole)." The boy at the far left is Phil Carr. All others are unidentified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
