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- Charles G. Wilson reflects on his career in turfgrass management and research, and golf course care. Wilson describes how his interest developed and how his studies in agronomy led him to his expertise. He explains how he came to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) to manage sales for their fertilizer business and began organizing turfgrass symposiums for golf course superintendents in the region and across the country. Wilson also describes spearheading the O.J. Noer Research Foundation. Wilson is interviewed by Monroe S. Miller, retired superintendent of the Blackhawk Country Club and currently with the Wisconsin Turfgrass Association and Peter Cookingham, head of the Turfgrass Information Center at the Michigan State University Libraries. Tisa Overman, current head of sales for MMSD also participates.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-08-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In his radio program Talk with Old-Timers, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. During this program, John remembers the Loutit family, one of Grand Haven's early lumber and banking families. In 1957, the family established the Loutit Foundation and later donated funds for the construction of the city's new public library. The Loutit Science Hall at Grand Valley State University also bears their name. John goes on to discuss area transportation and the automobiles that were manufactured in Grand Haven in the early 1900s. He also talks about the lumber industry, the waterfront, and tells the story of the Culter House fire of 1889.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Taft gives a campaign speech during presidential election of 1912, stressing Republican prosperity.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ken Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. Germanson talks about the founding of the United Auto Workers labor union and the life of labor activist Gabe Jewell and his participation in organizing the UAW. Germanson also talks about the rise of Homer Martin to the UAW presidency, General Motors recognition of the UAW, AFL leader John L. Lewis, and the UAW splitting into two competing caucuses. Germanson says that Jewell called the Reuther faction "Detroit radicals", quotes Jewell as saying Martin had become too impressed with himself and power mad, that there were Communist units in several UAW locals, and that Lansing, MI labor leader Lester Washburn was "a nice guy but weak". Part 4 of 7.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-11-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Campbell's father, Archibald I, was Mayor of Grand Haven from 1909 to 1911. He later became President of Dake Engine Company from 1924 to 1936. In this interview with Dave Seibold, Archie talks about his father and his early business, Seventh Street Foundry, which fabricated parts for Dake Engine Company. Archie also gives a detailed description of the 200 block of Franklin Avenue and the people who lived there, along with a history of the family home. He recalls when streets in town were first paved and the first flush toilets.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Dr. Warren Rosenberg, Professor of English at Wabash College, delivers a talk entitled, "Spielberg, Levinson, Mamet: Violence and the Jewish (Male) Director," for the Third Annual Esther and George Kessler Lecture on Jewish Film and Media. Rosenberg examines the historic ambivalence towards the ideas of manhood. He suggests that these notions stem from centuries of oppression and the clash of Western ideals of masculinity with Eastern European rabbinical injunctions against violence. Rosenberg talks about writers and filmmakers and uses excerpts from films to demonstrate his thesis that the suppressed rage is evident. Rosenberg answers questions from the audience. Professor Keely Stauter-Halsteadl, acting director of the Michigan State University Jewish Studies Program, convenes the program. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-10-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for Academic Human Resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College of Michigan State University, discusses with interviewer John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus from the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, talk about the evolving MSU Faculty Grievance Office and the grievance process. They also discuss Revitte's attempts to document the history of MSU's Faculty Grievance Office and the value a history may have for other institutions attempting to create their own grievance process.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- William Frederick (Buffalo Bill) Cody shares his "Sentiments on the Cuban question," in this Emile Berliner Gramophone recording. Cody believes that war with Spain is justified because of the barbaric conditions in which the citizens of Cuba live. He challenges the manhood of those who will not fight.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Bernice Maciejewski recalls moving with her parents from Chicago at the age of sixteen to Grand Haven Township where they lived on the family farm in a shell of a house. Her father worked for the WPA and helped to build The Oval, which later became the Grand Haven State Park, and her mother worked at Felix's marina and bar. Bernice dropped out of high school when it became difficult to find transportation to school and she was needed at home to help with the other children. In 1941, she married Vincent Maciejewski, and after the war they built a house in Robinson Township on her parents' land. She gives a brief history of lumbering in Robinson Township, Stern's Bayou Bridge, Jack's Jungle, and the community of Bass River. Bernice discusses the book she began writing on the history of Robinson Township, which was carried on by historian and fellow resident Olive Cleave and published in 1999 after her death.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- James Sims worked for Grand Haven's Board of Light & Power from 1937 to 1963 and in time became the CEO of the company. He received his engineering degree from Texas A&M University and was trained in the Army Air Corps. In this interview, he talks about his love for flying along with the financing and development of the Grand Haven Municipal Air Park. He also discusses his experience with private and public owned electrical companies in Texas and Michigan, his electrical work on local area fountains, and his consultation for other communities in the development of power plants. Upon his retirement from the Board of Light & Power, the company undertook the development of a new facility, located on Harbor Island, and named it after Sims.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection