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- Gretchen Millich talks about her twenty-three-year career at Michigan State University's public radio station WKAR, her childhood and education in Detroit, attending the University of Michigan, majoring in radio and television production and after graduation, taking a job at a Cadillac, MI station as a "weather girl." She also describes later working for the NPR show "All Things Considered" in Washington D.C. during the day while attending law school at night, working on political campaigns, clerking at a law firm and finally passing the Michigan Bar exam, but going back to NPR for a continued career in radio. She says that she came to WKAR in 1990 as a reporter covering state government stories for a show called "State Edition" and discusses some of the stories she covered, and finally her retirement activities since leaving MSU. Millich is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-06-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and that from their earliest days in East Lannsing, they were financial supporters of MSU in many different areas including art, music, Jewish studies, and museums. She says that she and her husband funded more than a dozen endowments at MSU and she speaks with particular pride about their work in the creation and support of Michigan State University' Wharton Performing Arts Center. Hollander says that her life has been intimately intertwined with MSU and that the University gave her and her husband a place to enjoy a meaningful and exciting life. The second of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Deborah Wagenaar DO, MS, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry, talks about her career at MSU, specializing in geriatric psychiatry, and working with older adults and their multiple medical problems. Wagenaar says she was born and raised in Southeast Michigan and did her undergrad at Wayne State University. She describes the work environment in the College as "feeling like home." Wagenaar says she was initially reluctant to pursue psychiatry but it grew on her over time. She says she has a goal of inspiring students to pursue geriatric psychiatry as a specialty and recommends exposing students to older patients early in their education. Wagenaar talks about the current state of psychiatric education and how the neurosciences are likely to change the field. She talks about some of the advances in the field for treating depression, dementia, and other maladies.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Turfgrass expert Dr. James Beard explains how and why he decided to specialize in turfgrass mangement. Beard describes numerous aspects of managing turfgrass and grasslands for parks, sports, and conservation, suitable types of turfgrass for various climates, and how climate change affects turgrass management. He talks about teaching and researching at Michigan State University and how the program has grown. Beard recounts the contributions of Michigan Agricultural College botanist W.J. Beal to the field of turfgrass research. Beard is interviewed by Michigan historian and author Keith Widder solidifying MSU as the strongest public repository of turfgrass literature in the world.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-02-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an wide-ranging interview, Robert Repas, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations, remembers his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and how he became interested in labor issues and socialist causes. Repas recalls his first union jobs, studying economics in college and earning a degree from the University of Wisconsin. Repas says that he only later become interested in workers' education and goes on to recount his work in a variety of union related positions before coming to MSU in 1957. Repas is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Corcos describes his childhood in France before WWII, joining the U.S. Air Force and returning to France to tend the family's flower farm. He explains how he came to California to study horticulture, received his degree, and eventually came to MSU to teach in the early 1960s. Corcos also discusses his long career, including teaching at MSU, his research and the books he has written on race, heredity and the research of Gregor Mendel. He laments the fact that so many students came to his class completely unprepared to excel in biology, but describes his great satisfaction in being able to steer so many to appropriate careers. Corcos is interviewed by Dr. Evelyn Rivera, Professor Emerita from the MSU Department of Zoology. Part of the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-10-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Lillian Kivela talks about her service in the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War Two including, why she enlisted in June 1943, nurse's training, basic Army training, housing, uniforms, and her duties at the Schick General Hospital in Clinton, Iowa. She says that she was sent to New Jersey in preparation for being shipped to Europe and describes shipboard conditions and being seasick throughout the entire ten-day voyage. She talks about being housed in an unheated Welsh resort hotel, marching, walking a mile to the mess hall for meals, serving in the orthopedic ward at a hospital in Headington, a suburd of Oxford and experiencing an influx of patients following D-Day and the subsequent fighting, and the early use of penicillin to control infection. In her off-time, Kivela says that she often visited London for the theater, rode her bicycle around Oxford, became acquainted with British families and even met the Queen Mother and boxer Joe Louis when they visited the hospital. Back in the States, after the war, she says that she had a difficult time adjusting to civilian life and finally came to Michigan State College to finish her degree in microbiology. Kivela is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Lucile Pauline Matignon Crane talks about her service as a surgical nurse in the U.S. Navy during World War One, between April 1917 and February 1919. Crane says that she graduated from nursing school in 1914 and first worked at Stanford Hospital in San Francisco and that she enlisted in the Navy for good pay, and a chance for more education and equal opportunity. She talks about shipping out to Scotland, working in a surgical unit in a hospital which was a former resort hotel, the types of injuries she treated and socializing with enlisted men because the doctors were off limits. She also says that she was one of the first nurses to be sent home as the war wound down, spent her leave in Paris and was shipped home from Brest with ten women and thousands of men. Crane talks about her career after leaving the Navy, marrying and settling in Modesto, CA and notes that she received no special recognition for her service until the state of California paid a veterans bonus. The interviewer is unidentified.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-12-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- In a speech to the Women's Overseas Service League's Orange County California unit, Mary E. Price talks about her more than thirty-years as a U.S. Navy nurse and her service in three wars. Price says that she started nursing school at the Georgetown University Hospital in 1933, joined the Naval Reserves in 1938 and was first sent to the Panama Canal Zone in early 1940. She talks about her pay and her hospital duties in the Canal Zone and the great anxiety everyone felt after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Price says that she was next assigned to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for thirteen months and later to a hospital ship for the rest of the war. After the war, Price says, she returned to school on the G.I. Bill, but was reactivated for duty in Japan and the Philippines for almost two years during the Korean War. She says that she went back to school after Korea, earned her graduate degree in hospital administration and taught Navy corpsman during the Vietnam War. Price says that her last assignment was at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California. Recorded by Mary Braumer. Vivian Peterson introduces and concludes the recording.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Laura Jacquelin "Jackie" Coggin talks about her youth in Georgia and Florida, her education and her 20 years in the Army Nurse Corps. Coggin says that she first graduated from the Macon Hospital School of Nursing in 1953, later earned a a bachelor's degree in nursing education administration and then a master's degree from the University of Alabama in 1963. She says that in 1965, while teaching at University of Southwestern Louisiana, an Army recruiter talked her into joining the Army Nurse Corps as a way of financing a trip to Europe. She talks about her first duty stations and says that she decided to extend her enlistment because she liked the way the Army moved her around. She also talks about living and working in Hawaii and Germany and traveling throughout Europe and says that the military changed the way she thought about peoples' motives and points of view and that she learned to look at problems much differently. Coggin is interviewed by Ruth Stewart and Patricia Martin.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-03-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project