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- Art discusses his life and career as a Greek immigrant moving to Lansing and the history of the bar including its use as a UAW strike headquarters and soup kitchen. Art talks about the services the bar provided workers such as paycheck cashing, parking, fast lunches, and a friendly environment. He talks about being part of the Westside neighborhood and the Sexton High School students stopping by for lunch.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Craig tells of being hired in March 1981 into Fisher where his father was a supervisor. He lists family members that work for GM, describes what it was like to work for his father, jobs he had, and some pranks pulled on him. Craig also talks about his union activity and being elected to the Recreation Committee.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-04-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- A PBS special report: U.S. President George H.W. Bush talks about difficult decisions he has made during his first seven months in office. First Lady Barbara Bush discusses her memorable moments since her husband became president and her worries about greed, racism and AIDS. Together the Bushes talk about how their family is adjusting to the White House. With interviewer David Frost.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-09-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton talks about Whitewater controversy. Clinton asserts that he is cooperating fully with the investigation and argues that the investigation is a waste of time and money. Clinton says he is not focused on the investigation but is instead focused on being President. On "Face the nation."
- Date Issued:
- 1997-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Junko Watanabe says she doesn't remember anything about the Hiroshima bombing, but was later told that she was exposed to black rain and worries that her health symptoms are related to her exposure to radiation. She describes her activity in the Atomic Bomb Survivor Association in Brazil.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Ronald Reagan, on the 43rd day of his administration, talks about foreign policy, the Soviet Union, food stamps and illegal immigrants.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-03-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poets Joseph Featherstone, Michigan State University professor of teacher education, and Dennis Hinrichsen, Lansing Community College instructor of creative writing, talk about their writing, the readability of their poems, Michigan as inspiration, their favorite poets, and works in progress. Featherstone and Hinrichsen are interviewed by MSU Librarian Jane Arnold for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-02-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vic recalls being hired in March 1964, working day shift, the size of plant, and the amount of supervisor control. He comments on the 1964 and 1970 strikes, lay offs, working in the Material Department, just in time stock, and his community activities.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ninety-six-year-old Hilda Smith recalls her career at the REO Motor Car Company, in Lansing, MI, between 1923 and 1964. Smith talks fondly about her family, her job in REO's Human Resources Department, and her retirement after a forty-two year career. She looks through a scrapbook with the interviewers, identifying managers and coworkers and talks about the REO Clubhouse, movies, and caring for her thirteen siblings. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Michigan writer, poet and playwright Anne-Marie Oomen talks about what brought her to writing and how living in Michigan has influenced her work. She describes the state as being both truly and metaphorically her bedrock and discusses her play "Wives of an American king" about the Mormon kingdom on Beaver Island and teaching at Michigan's famous Interlochen Academy. Oomen is interviewed by Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection