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- Survivor Sachiko Matsumoto talks about going into Hiroshima after the atomic bombing to look for her brother and returning with only his ashes. She also talks about marrying a Japanese-American after the war, and moving to San Francisco. She also says that she is now very active in working with her local Survivors Association and an elder's home.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet and novelist F. Richard Thomas, Michigan State Univesity professor of American Thought and Language, talks about the literary forms he uses, how teaching affects his writing, his books "Frog praises night : poems with commentary" and "Prism : the journal of John Fish", and how living in Michigan has influenced his writing. Thomas is interviewed by MSU librarian Jane Arnold for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-02-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Marian Cyberski talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corp during World War Two and says that she was inspired to enlist after seeing the movie "The shores of Tripoli." Cyberski talks about being stationed at field hospitals in Rockhampton, Indooroopilly, and Brisbane, Australia, treating mostly malaria and battle fatigue patients, and originally shipping out to Australia on the luxury liner SS Lurline. She also talks about her daily life in Australia, vacationing in Sydney, leaving Australia on a ship which contained many Australian war brides and crying babies, arriving home in September 1945, and getting married in November to a man whom she had met as a patient.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Bob talks about being hired in December 1970 into the Body Shop and placed on "one of the worst" jobs. He describes an attempt to fire him, transferring to material handling and his duties there. Bob talks about being an alternate committeeman, the UAW Black Lake Family Education Center, various pranks, the contract, plant rules, lunch at Harry's, his hobbies, and his passion for Harleys.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-10-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Dick Trierweiler talks about his career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1960 to 1975. Trierweiler describes his youth, early jobs, hiring into REO, and the jobs he held with the company, including test driving trucks. Trierweiler tells of his struggles to earn an engineering degree while working full-time and later becoming a Technical Service manager and engineering trouble-shooter. The interviewer is Shirley Bradley. Recorded as part of the commemoration of REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-05-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Shouji Mukai, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, says that his memories of the bombing are vague and he is assisted by his wife throughout the interview. He also talks about being an active member of Atomic Bomb Survivor Association in Brazil and fighting for Survivor rights.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-06-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ronald Surgeson, personal assistant and protegee of G. Robert Vincent, a pioneer in the field of recorded sound and Head of the National Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries, talks about his relationship with Vincent as student and friend. John D. Shaw talks about his forty year career at the Voice Library and working for Dr. Maurice A. Crane, who became Head of the new G. Robert Vincent Voice Library in 1974 after Vincent's retirement. Vincent's famous recording of President Theodore Roosevelt, made in 1912, is played along with Vincent's description of the event, which marked the beginning of his life long passion for recording the human voice. Surgeson reflects on Vincent's long career and his roles in World War One, Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War Two, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and the birth of the United Nations. Surgeson also marvels at Vincent's ability to adapt to the great changes in recording technology throughout the Twentieth Century. Shaw explains how Vincent and his collection were brought to MSU in the early 1960s by Dr. Richard E. Chapin, then Director of the MSU Libraries and outlines the Voice Library's ongoing efforts to record, preserve and catalog the spoken word.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Western Michigan College is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar focuses on the students of Western Michigan College, interviewing Laurence Spitters, a pre-law student; Jack Townsend, a pre-medical student; Wilbur Noll, a pulp and paper technology student; and Keith Neely, a student in the speech clinic. Each student discusses their curriculum at Western and their plans for the future.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-03-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Dr. Loy Norrix, superintendent of Kalamazoo Schools, discusses school building projects around Kalamazoo in an interview with Dr. Willis Dunbar. Norrix presents the factors which influence the School Board's decisions on what and where to build, and explains the priority system which the School Board uses to accomplish its construction goals. Norrix then discusses the building projects which the School Board has highlighted in their most recent evaluation, and discusses each project in detail. From an episode of "Know Your City."
- Date Issued:
- 1948-09-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Rusty tells of being hired in August of 1976 into the Trim Shop. He describes the work, his coworkers, and how he became interested in serving on the committee. Rusty talks about situations where he had to represent workers facing discharge and other discipline. He comments on the transition to the new factory and the closing of the old Fisher Body facility in May 2005.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-05-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection