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- 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
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- Sam describes being hired in September 1968, commuting from Lakeview, MI, and spending ten years on the assembly line. He talks about friction between production workers and trades, performing "government jobs," women in trades, minorities, friendships, conveyor breaks and a car pile-up, labor management relations, and the closing of the plant.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-02-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Nina Silbergleit reminisces about her more than thirty year career in The Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan State University. She describes her family, childhood, and how her interest in the arts developed. Silbergleit also discusses what brought her to MSU, becoming House Manager at Wharton, her duties, the issues she has dealt with over the years, and the excitement and challenge of hosting the Presidential debate at Wharton in 1992. She says that she has had difficulties dealing with patrons as well as performers through the years, but that the good experiences far outnumber the bad. Silbergleit is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project. Recorded in the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library studio in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-12-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Sue Ellen Houghtalling Brown talks about her life in a REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. family and her father's career with the company. Brown describes a worker family Christmas party at the elaborate, company owned, REO Clubhouse in Lansing, MI and discusses her father's job as a sales and distribution manager for REO, and his jobs after the REO bankruptcy in 1975. She also gives a detailed, first-hand account of the massive January 1980 fire at the plant and of taking photos of the blaze before police or firefighters had even arrived. She says that she later hid her uncensored photos and negatives because she was afraid they would be confiscated by the authorities. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-03-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Novelist Peter Levine talks about his novel "The Rabbi of Swat", his writing style for historical fiction, and his in-progress works.Recorded as part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In 1969, Dr. Mary Kitchel was named "Tri-Cities Career Woman of the Year" and in 1987 the Rotary Club honored her as a "Paul Harris Fellow." In 1990, she was the first recipient of the Tri-Cities Historical Museum "Historian of the Year." She also served as the first woman president of the Tri-Cities Historical Soceity and became an avid collector for the Tri-Cities Historical Museum. In this interview, Dr. Kitchel recalls the early days of the Museum and various artifacts she was able to acquire.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In his monthly radio program Memories of the Past, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. During this program, John remembers his Grandfather's livery, which he later sold to Bill Bronsema, who created the first taxi service in town. John talks about company picnics often held on boats. He tells the history of the Naomi, along with other boats that made trips between Grand Haven and Fruitport, and recalls early automobile traffic.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Know your city," Dr. Willis Dunbar previews the upcoming state and municipal elections and interviews Anthony Stamm, county clerk and chairman of the county election board. Stamm describes the process behind staffing voting sites, including details on how many election officials work at each site, how those election officials are selected, and what those election officials are paid. Stamm also discusses the order of names on the ballot, explaining that the order is rotated on different ballots to nullify any advantage of being the first name on the ballot. Dunbar gives an overview of important races across the state, with particular focus on Kalamazoo's local elections.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-03-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In this interview, life-long resident Anne Fisher talks about her family and their involvement in the local fishing industry. She details her family genealogy, including the Fisher, Glerum, and Scott families. She also talks about her career at Reichardt's.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. William Strampel D.O., Dean of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, talks about his youth, education and career in the military, medicine and academia. Strampel says that he was drafted into the U.S. Army, served in Vietnam and later re-enlisted and pursued a career in military medicine which included serving in the Army's Special Forces Group One and commanding the Fort Riley Hospital. He came to MSU in 1999 and says that he quickly impressed the university administration with his budget and financial expertise and was made Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2002. Strampel also talks about the growth in the College during his tenure and the lessons he has learned over his long career. Strampel is interviewed by MSU History Professor Emeritus Charles Gliozzo for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection