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- Marvin Grinstern talks about his employment at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1965 and 1975. Grinstern describes growing up in Lansing, farming, visiting his father at the plant, as a boy, during the 1937 strike and finally joining his father and other relatives at REO. Grinstern also talks about a fatal accident on the shop floor, managers abusing their position, the REO bankruptcy, the plant closing, and the resulting shock, depression and suicides among workers. Grinstern laments the loss of manufacturing companies and jobs in Lansing and remarks on the great changes that came to factories in the wake of unionization and women in the workplace. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Pero Dagbovie, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, moderates the third in a series of three presentations at a symposium entitled, Dramatization and Context: a Symposium and Roundtable held at the MSU Museum in conjunction with the premiere staging of the play Music History, written by MSU College of Law Writer in Residence Sandra Seaton. Featured presenters are: Aaron Todd Douglas, a professor at Loyola University, and John Woodford, executive editor of Michigan Today. Douglas talks about personal and artistic liberty, equity, responsibility, and legacy in relation to Seaton’s play while Woodford reflects on the work in relation to his own coming of age experiences in the civil rights and peace movements. A question and answer segment concludes the session.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- First Lady Michelle Obama welcomes Smokey Robinson, John Legend, Berry Gordy, and Robert Santelli to the White House to lead a youth workshop on the legacy and history of Motown Records. Santelli opens with a history of the Motown era and Gordy reflects on first being a boxer and his start in music. Robinson describes growing up in the same neighborhood as Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin and they all discuss becoming associated with Motown, launching their careers, writing songs, and how groups were started. They take questions and John Legend sings a Stevie Wonder song.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-02-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University senior Christopher Carlisle talks about growing up in one of the last, "good neighborhoods" in Detroit, his perception of the surrounding poverty, attending a Catholic high school, being a good athlete and an under achieving student. Carlisle also reflects upon successful and famous persons in history who have blazed their own trails and says that he hopes to be an artist himself, and to be a creative individual throughout his life.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-10-27T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Leslie Mitchell remembers REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, as a great place to work, in this interview conducted by historian Shirley Bradley. Mitchell discusses growing up across from the REO plant where both of his parents worked, starting his work life at the General Motors Oldsombile plant and later moving to REO. Mitchell describes a tragic death at the plant during his tenure which led to UAW Local 650 successfully organizing REO workers. Recorded as part of the commemoration of REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-05-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vivern Haight talks about his career as a staff person at the REO Clubhouse, the company-owned events center of the REO Motor Car Company (later Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc.), in Lansing, Mi. Haight, who worked for REO from 1945 to 1975, describes the ornate Clubhouse and his duties and discusses all of the famous sports figures, politicians and other celebrities, including President Dwight Eisenhower, who came through its doors. Haight talks about seeing the R.E. Olds mansion and the REO plant as a kid in Lansing and relates stories and local color about the Olds family. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-02-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Jack Carmichael, Michigan State University alumnus and noted chemist and expert in environmental pollution studies and industrial development discusses his life and career in a wide-ranging oral history interview. Carmichael reminisces about growing up in Ravenswood, WV, becoming an Eagle Scout, being voted "best Thespian" in school and later being chosen as valedictorian of his class, all while working in the family business. Carmichael talks about leaving home to major in chemistry and physics at Ohio Wesleyan, taking a job with Dow Corning in Midland, MI after graduation and later coming to MSU in the early 1960s to earn his doctorate degree. Carmichael also talks about his post-doctoral work at the University of Oregon, teaching at the University of Massachusetts, changing direction to tackle environmental issues, joining the Peace Corp, consulting with American cities and foreign countries on clean water and sanitary systems, and starting a family while working for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Carmichael is interviewed by his daughter Christine Carmichael, doctoral candidate in the MSU Department of Forestry.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-05-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Glen Green discusses his career as a machine repairman, tooling division worker and manager at the REO Motor Car Company, between 1937 and 1974. Green talks about his youth in the depression, hiring in at REO, his various jobs with the company, REO's eventual bankruptcy and the fate of worker pensions. He says that a family atmosphere was prevalent at REO and that much of a worker's social life was connected to the plant and its many social events and institutions, such as the company sponsored REO Clubhouse. Green also says, however that there were union-management conflicts and describes the famous Lansing Labor Holiday demonstration of 1937. Interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recording ends abruptly. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University sophomore James Porter talks about growing up on a farm in Heartland, MI, his family and siblings, and his parent's careers. He talks about the transition from high school to college, says that he is living off campus now and calls dorm life "insane". Porter says that in ten years he expects to be actor, but would be happy to have any job in professional theater. Theater life, he says, does not lend itself to starting a family.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-11-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection