Former Michigan State University Trustee Delores M. Cook talks about her life changing relationship with MSU

Description:: Former Michigan State University Trustee Delores M. (Dee) Cook talks about her life changing relationship with the Michigan State. She recalls her youth in Detroit, her budding singing career in local radio, coming to MSU to major in Communication Arts, campus life in the early nineteen-fifties and the atmosphere of excitement and challenge on campus. An emotional Cook reflects on her love of the University, her early married life and what brought her to run for the position of Trustee. She also discuses being recruited by John Engler to run for the board, the creation of the Wharton Center and the Broad School of Business, the duties of the trustees, hiring a university president, dealing with controversy, and the great value of university faculty. Cook is interviewed by Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
Date Issued:: 2011-11-17T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Place:: Michigan, East Lansing, Michigan, and East Lansing
Subject Topic:: College trustees and College trustees
Subject Name:: Cook, Delores M. and Michigan State University
Subject Genre:: Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Biography
Language:: English
Rights:: In Copyright
URL:: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5hm52m4h