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- Virginia P. O'Rourke Immerman talks about her service in the Women's Army Air Corps in 1944, during World War Two. Immerman talks about growing up in Boston and enlisting in the WAACs when wartime life became boring, training at Fort Oglethorpe, being assigned to the Air Transport Command (ATC) at Love Field in Dallas, and finally being sent to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic which served as a stopover for aircraft flying between the U.S. and the Pacific Theater of Operations. She describes life on the island, the climate, the natives and their culture, and her duties in the Quartermaster Office. Immerman says that she was later sent to England and France with the ATC after VE-Day and describes being in Paris on VJ-Day, traveling the continent, skiing in Switzerland and finally shipping back to the States, being discharged in June 1946, using the G.I. Bill to get an undergraduate degree in 1950 and later working as a civilian in Europe. Immerman is interviewed by Virginia Emrich.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Cathy Baker, paper conservator, historian, and owner of the Legacy Press delivers a talk entitled, "Dard Hunter : arts-and-crafts designer, paper historian, and private-press printer extraordinaire". Baker talks about Hunter's life, his paper making, how he traveled the world to gather information and materials, and how he later published hand-printed books to disseminate the knowledge he had gained. She recounts Hunter's foray into furniture design before deciding that he could make an original and valuable contribution to the field of paper making. Baker answers questions from the audience. She is introduced by MSU Librarian Pat Ols0n.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-04-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Unites States President Barack Obama and Dr. Jill Biden deliver remarks at Macomb Community College. Obama pushes his plan for free community college education and invokes the memory of former President Ronald Reagan who visited the campus three decades ago to promote education. Dr. Biden opens the event by talking about her own experiences teaching and introduces President Obama.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-09-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Dunbar's commentary," Dr. Willis Dunbar discusses the Marshall Mission in China. Dunbar says reports from the mission indicate a renewed civil war in China and discusses the implications the Chinese civil war will have on US relations with Russia.
- Date Issued:
- 1946-08-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton, in his weekly radio address, talks about the results of Tuesday's Presidential Election and the pending court decisions over ballot recounts in Florida. He also announces he will be visiting Vietnam, the first U.S. President to do so since the end of the war.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-11-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University English Professor Jyotsna Singh delivers opening remarks at the Muslim Journeys Book Club event which features a discussion of Orhan Pamuk's book, "Istanbul : memories and the city." Professor Singh shares her own experiences of traveling in Istanbul and discusses Pamuk's career, focusing in particular, on his books "The white castle" and "My name is Red" as keys for understanding "Istanbul : memories and the city." She also poses questions about the book to spur discussion. MSU Librarian Deborah Margolis introduces Professor Singh. Sponsored by MSU Muslim Studies Program, MSU Libraries, and the East Lansing Public Library. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-11-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Patricia Clark, poet and Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University, explains how landscape, travel, and teaching relate to her writing. She also talks about the Grand Valley State University National Poetry Festival held on the GVSU campus. Clark is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-03-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Professor David Wiley, former Director of the Michigan State University African Studies Center, is interviewed by MSU Librarian Peter Limb and John Metzler, MSU Professor of Education. Wiley reflects on his youth in Harrisburg, Illinois and an upbringing of manual labor and familiarity with rural life which he says prepared him for his career studying Africa. Wiley describes attending Yale Divinity school and going to Africa on an internship to work on race issues. He talks about life in Rhodesia and Southern Africa, Apartheid, poverty, education, religion, and class. Wiley also explains why he came to MSU after teaching at the University of Wisconsin, appreciating the activism at MSU, and his relations with other faculty associated with the African Studies Center. Wiley describes a number of MSU initiatives in Africa, his activity in the anti-Apartheid movement and finally visiting a free South Africa. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clintons first press conference in five months deals with balancing the budget. He fields reporters' questions about Whitewater development, Gingrich's pessimism, his imminent trip to visit the US troops in Bosnia, and the "Travelgate".
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This is a collection of several reels of 16mm and 8mm films, as well as 2019 DVD conversions of many of them, featuring Martha Dixon, the host of a long-time cooking program on Lansing's WJIM-TV (channel 6). All of these films with the exception of one are unedited footage taken for the production of special episodes, mainly international tours. Travels include Europe (France, Monaco, Spain); Prague and Russia; and China. There is also some assorted footage of Martha in the studio preparing to tape a program. Most footage is in color with no sound. The only film not converted to digital appears to be a full program entitled "Shurfine Kitchen Karnival" from 1967, starring Martha Dixon. The 16mm film is approximately 58 1/2 minutes long according to notes on the canister. Each item in this collection will have a digital video embedded in its record where available.
- Date Created:
- [1967 TO 1975]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Martha Dixon Films