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- In a series of excerpted interviews intended for use in an episode of "Know Your City," Dr. Willis Dunbar interviews faculty and students associated with the Michigan Veteran's Vocational School at Western Michigan College. The school's director discusses the origins of the school, its educational programs and what veteran's pay to attend. Former student Edgar West discusses his training in the school's appliance repair program and how it prepared him for his his current job at the Sears Roebuck store in Lansing, MI. Dunbar also briefly interviews a number of current students who talk about their programs and where they are from.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-10-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama addresses the National Urban League at their convention in New Orleans, LA. He recounts the struggle for equal rights and the reasons the Urban League was formed. Obama talks about equal opportunity, hard work, and achieving the American dream. He declares education is an economic issue and speaks about the need to change firearm laws to step-up background checks adding restrictions to keep mentally unbalanced individuals from buying weapons, all as part of an initiative to reduce all kinds of violence. His comments are made in the wake of a mass shooting in Aurora, CO.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z
- 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 Michigan State University Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. Germanson and Revitte talk about the transfer of AIW documents from the United Steelworkers Union headquarters to Penn State University and about the collection's holdings, and AIW efforts to educate union stewards and train bargaining committees. Part 6 of 7.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-03-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Located at 2130 Holmes Road West. The second half of the building was constructed in 1929. An addition was made in 1950. All construction was conducted by the Pleasant Grove School District prior to annexation in 1958. Contents include: Awards, invetory, meeting minutes, closing pageant, correspondence, records, bylaws, history books, secretary reports.
- Date Created:
- [1930 TO 1980]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- Contents include: Budgets, Curriculums, Reports, Publications, PTA Materials, Millage Proposals, Training Materials, Annual Reports, School Folders for Otto, West, and Walter French.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1030 Holmes Street South. The site for Holmes Street School was purchased in July 1916. It was located at the corner of Holmes Street South and Hazel Street. The building was constructed in 1923 with an addition made in 1929. Contents include: History books, pictures, bylaws, meeting minutes, budget and finance materials, correspondence, awards.
- Date Created:
- [1924 TO 1985]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1012 Willow Street West. It was originally the Warner School which was built in 1915. The name was changed in 1921 with the change from Warner Street to Willow Street. Additions were made in 1919. A new building was constructed in 1952. Contents include: Awards, History books, meeting minutes, correspondence, records.
- Date Created:
- [1930 TO 1988]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1715 Main Street West. The land was purchased in 1924 and construction completed in 1929. An addition was made in 1953. Contents include: PTA Correspodence.
- Date Created:
- [1950 TO 1958]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- Located at 2924 Newark Avenue. It was annexed in 1964. It was built in the 1960s and closed in 2001. Contents include: flag, awards, Harley Franks/Maple Grove PTA programs, Yearbooks, History books.
- Date Created:
- [1963 TO 1999]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- Located on Clark Road East. Contents include: memorabilia, author visits, grant materials, writing books, meeting minutes, budget materials, fundraising, bylaws, membership rosters, correspondence, staff notes. This box also includes a folder on the Old Gunnisonville School House which was located on Wood Road.
- Date Created:
- [1960 TO 2007]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection