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- In an oral history interview, Selma Hollander talks with retired Michigan State University faculty Dixie Platt about their fifty-year friendship. Platt reminisces about coming to Hollander's home and tip toeing through an art project that Hollander had laid out on her living room floor. Platt also talks about living next door to the Hollanders in the Marilyn Apartments as a new faculty member and being introduced to other MSU faculty and administrators by the Hollanders when she came to visit. Hollander talks about pursuing her bachelor's and masters' degrees at MSU, exhibiting her art at various venues including, the Wharton Center, teaching classes, aging, fashion and travel. She also talks about her husband Stanley's blindness and how, with her help, he was able to continue teaching and traveling and her recent one-hundredth birthday party. The third of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and that from their earliest days in East Lannsing, they were financial supporters of MSU in many different areas including art, music, Jewish studies, and museums. She says that she and her husband funded more than a dozen endowments at MSU and she speaks with particular pride about their work in the creation and support of Michigan State University' Wharton Performing Arts Center. Hollander says that her life has been intimately intertwined with MSU and that the University gave her and her husband a place to enjoy a meaningful and exciting life. The second of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
- Notes:
- View of a group of children and two women visiting the library and viewing the bas-relief plaque of Martin Ryerson.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Portrait of Martin A. Ryerson. Ryerson was a prominent businessman from Chicago who was born in Grand Rapids to Martin and Mary Ryerson (Mary was the daughter of Antoine Campau). Ryerson wanted to give back to the city in which he was born and so donated the money to build the Ryerson Library building (the Main branch building of the Grand Rapids Public Library).
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Bas-relief plaque of Martin Ryerson who paid for the construction of the Ryerson library building. The plaque was made by Baltimore artist J. Maxwell Miller and was unveiled in 1930.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Ronald Reagan speaks at event, Charles Stewart Mott sits at table to his right.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1969-10-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- Bas-relief plaque of Martin Ryerson who paid for the construction of the Ryerson library building. The plaque was made by Baltimore artist J. Maxwell Miller and was unveiled in 1930.
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Portrait of Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of J.E. Scripps founder of the Detroit News, written on front of photo, "Powelson, Detroit." "When her brother, James E., founded the Detroit Evening News in August, 1873, she joined him, investing her savings in the project, at that time the country was suffering a severe depression and the public at large was in a panicky state of mind, drawing money out of banks and refusing to invest in projects of any kind, in the face of all this, Miss Scripps put her savings into the new venture, having faith in its outcome ... she retired and settled in La Jolla [California] in 1896, in her philanthropies no one knows just how much money Ellen Browning Scripps gave away during the last thirty years of her life, but it was in the millions, schools, colleges, hospitals, research institutions, children's playgrounds, zoological gardens, the Young Women's and Young Men's Christian associations, churches of many denominations, natural history societies and private individuals were the recipients of this generous woman's gifts and bequests," from the San Diego Historical Society's website.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1891-06-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Ronald Reagan speaks at event, Charles Stewart Mott sits at table to his right.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1969-10-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City