Michigan State University Libraries
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- Pauline Adams, retired professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University and wife of former MSU President Walter Adams, joins John Revitte, retired professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, to talk about her life and the practice of oral history. Adams talks about living in the Cherry Lane faculty housing on campus, being part of the forty founding families of the Lantern Hill neighborhood in East Lansing and teaching at MSU. She also talks about her efforts, with the help of the Vincent Voice Library, to conduct oral history interviews with retired MSU faculty and describes how she structures the interviews and asks questions which encourage interviewee participation. Revitte also talks about how he approaches collecting oral history interviews, the recording equipment he uses, his question structure, and saving the interviews for posterity. Revitte and Adams answer questions from the audience and Adams relates a story about her husband and Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight. Held at the monthly meeting of the MSU Retiree Association and convened by Etta Abraham.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Michigan State University alumni and award-winning authors Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane answer questions from an overflow audience at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts during an event titled, "Michigan Author Homecoming." The three authors talk about their love for dogs and the shared theme of "love and nothingness" in their stories. They also discuss how they became interested in words and writing when very young, how they relate to their characters, and their experiences while students at MSU. Sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council and the Michigan State University Libraries.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-07-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Robert Peary speaks of the incentives of the explorer to reach new frontiers.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-07-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in a speech entitled, "Achievements of the Democratic Party," pays tribute to President Wilson and his administration saying, "The hopes of mankind look to the American President."
- Date Issued:
- 1919-03-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Author Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-10-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Gerald Ford gives a State of the World address to both houses of Congress with commentary by newsmen and political figures. Commentary by Carl Albert, George Ball, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Buckley, William Bundy, Frank Church, Charles Collingwood, Walter Cronkite, Marvin Kalb, George McGovern, Bruce Morton, Bob Schieffer, and Eric Sevareid.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, Michigan State University professor emeritus of economics talks about his association with Jack Stieber, director of MSU's School of Labor and Industrial Relations, about several other persons with whom he worked, some of the classes he taught, and his many students over the years. He recalls the shift on the MSU Board of Trustees from Republican to Democratic and the role played by the UAW and the state Democratic party in MSU affairs. Larrowe also recalls his involvement in various MSU administrative initiatives and criticizes what he calls an "aloof" administration and a "compliant" faculty. Larrowe candidly discusses fellow faculty, what he calls their lack of motivation, why they stay at MSU, their failure to publish, and their salaries. Ends abruptly. Larrowe is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-07-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Science fiction writer and Detroiter Kathe Koja reads the story "Bird superior" from her book "Extremities" then answers questions from audience. The event is convened by Michigan State University Librarian Leslie Behm. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Science Fiction Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-04-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection