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- Description:
- Survivor Mieko Fujiyama says she doesn't remember much about the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and talks mainly about living in Brazil and her activity in the local Japanese Association.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Sherwood family came to Grand Haven in 1904, and together with the Jacobson and Johnson families, became leading entrepreneurs of the area. In this interview, Marion and his daughter Lynne discuss the businesses that were developed by the Sherwood, Jacobson and Johnson families. These included the Grand Haven Brass Foundry, Grand Haven Stamped Products, and Michigan Plastic Products, Inc. The families later collaborated to form the JSJ Corporation in 1970. Marion was its first director and served as the company's first president until 1977. He also served as trustee for the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. Also in this interview, Marion gives a history of the Grand Haven State Bank.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a spirited oral history interview, Michigan State University Professor Emerita Pauline Adams, widow of MSU economics professor and university president Walter Adams, reminisces about her husband, coming to Michigan State College in 1947, living in faculty housing, and building a home in the faculty developed Lantern Hill neighborhood in East Lansing. Adams also talks about conducting interviews for the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project, teaching in the Department of American Thought and Language as tenure track professor and having James P. Hoffa, son of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, as a student at about the time his father disappeared. Adams says that the ATL curriculum did more for the faculty than the students because it forced faculty to broaden themselves beyond their field of expertise. Interview conducted by MSU Professor John Revitte. Ends abruptly.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Survivor Mieko Fujiyama says she doesn't remember much about the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and talks mainly about living in Brazil and her activity in the local Japanese Association.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a spirited oral history interview, Michigan State University Professor Emerita Pauline Adams, widow of MSU economics professor and university president Walter Adams, reminisces about her husband, coming to Michigan State College in 1947, living in faculty housing, and building a home in the faculty developed Lantern Hill neighborhood in East Lansing. Adams also talks about conducting interviews for the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project, teaching in the Department of American Thought and Language as tenure track professor and having James P. Hoffa, son of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, as a student at about the time his father disappeared. Adams says that the ATL curriculum did more for the faculty than the students because it forced faculty to broaden themselves beyond their field of expertise. Interview conducted by MSU Professor John Revitte. Ends abruptly.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Sherwood family came to Grand Haven in 1904, and together with the Jacobson and Johnson families, became leading entrepreneurs of the area. In this interview, Marion and his daughter Lynne discuss the businesses that were developed by the Sherwood, Jacobson and Johnson families. These included the Grand Haven Brass Foundry, Grand Haven Stamped Products, and Michigan Plastic Products, Inc. The families later collaborated to form the JSJ Corporation in 1970. Marion was its first director and served as the company's first president until 1977. He also served as trustee for the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. Also in this interview, Marion gives a history of the Grand Haven State Bank.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection