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- John H. Adams, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970, recalls how he became an advocate for the environment. He recounts a number of accomplishments and says "the fight is ongoing". Adams reflects on following his passion and protecting nature and makes comments on the occasion of receiving the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- MSU graduate and Jackson, Michigan resident Maria Orlowski describes her experiences as one of the "hidden children" or children who survived the Holocaust in Poland in hiding, while their parents and grandparents were killed. She recounts recent efforts to hold reunions of the hidden children in European cities and describes finally accepting her long denied and suppressed Jewish identity. Orlowski also reads a passage from her book, "Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War II", which she published under the pseudonym Miriam Winter. Orlowski answers questions from the audience. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1998-09-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Philanthropist Selma Jacobs Hollander says she has had three lives in her 100 years, one as a Jewish princess, another as a Michigan State University faculty wife, and a third as the widow of MSU Professor Stanley Hollander. Hollander reminisces about her youth and her parent's influence on her life, her education, learning to sew from her mother, graduating from high school at 16, studying business at New York University and leaving to take a job at the United States post office. Hollander says that the post office job gave her the financial stability to buy a car and to take up golf. In fact, Hollander says that she met her husband Stanley on a golf course in the Poconos and that they were married in 1956 when she was 39 and that they took their honeymoon in Bermuda. The first of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Barack H. Obama expresses the condolences of the nation during his remarks at the memorial service for the victims of the tragic shooting in Tucson, AZ. Obama eulogizes the deceased, and highlights the life of nine-year-old victim Christina Taylor Green. Obama thanks the heroes who helped save others and challenges Americans to do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations. The service is held at the University of Arizona's McKale Memorial Center in Tucson.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-01-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- During a ceremony at the White House, President Barack Obama describes the actions of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Captain William Swenson in Afghanistan on September 8, 2009 while serving as an Embedded Trainer and Mentor of the Afghan National Security Forces. An unidentified speaker reads the official Congressional citation as the President presents the medal to Captain Swenson. U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains Major General Donald Rutherford delivers the invocation and the benediction.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-10-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Carolyn Stieber, professor emerita of political science and ombudsman emerita at Michigan State University, talks about her life, education and career in political science and becoming the first ombudsman at a major university. Stieber recalls finishing her degree at the University of Chicago, finding a a job with the Navy during World War Two, and marrying her husband Jack Stieber after the war. She also discusses following her husband to MSU in 1957 when he became a professor in MSU's new School of Labor and Industrial Relations and later being asked to teach a political science class which led to her own thirty-seven year career at the university. Stieber recalls the highs and lows of her career including, facing sexism in her department, teaching future Michigan Governor John Engler as an undergraduate and becoming ombudsman. Stieber is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-05-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- During a ceremony at the White House, President Obama describes the actions of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea and his death as a prisoner of war in November 1950. An unidentified speaker reads the official Congressional citation as the President presents the medal to Captain Kapaun's son who accepts it on behalf of his family. U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains Major General Donald Rutherford delivers the invocation and the benediction.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-04-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet and prose writer Richard McCann describes early influences on his writing then reads from "Mother of sorrows" and his memoir "The resurrectionist". McCann interjects anecdotes about his parents and describes his childhood, youth, and reads passages that illuminate his battle with liver disease. Introduced by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama, speaking on the death of Nelson Mandela, says Mandela "no longer belongs to us; he belongs to the ages." Obama reflects on Mandela's legacy, his journey from prisoner to President of South Africa, describes Mandela's influence on his own life, and says Mandela bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-12-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection