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- 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
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- Dean Poggiali, president of UAW Local 724 in Lansing, Michigan, talks about his career, his immigrant parents, and taking courses at Michigan State University as he rose in the union ranks. Poggiali also talks about how his union works with multiple employers and multiple bargaining units, the history of manufacturing suppliers in the Lansing area, how union membership fluctuates with market swings, his involvement with the United Way in mid-Michigan, and various union leaders he has worked with. The interview is conducted by MSU Professor John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Jerry talks about being hired in April 1968, his first day in the Paint Shop, hazards in the paint booths and life in the factory. Jerry comments on public perceptions of factory workers, his union activity and his responsibilities as Workers Compensation Chair.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-01-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Takeo Yamashiro says he does not remember anything about the Hiroshima bombing, but does remember his classmates later dying from Leukemia. Yamashiro also talks about immigrating to Canada and his views on the current proliferation of nuclear arms.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Musicians Bob Warnaar and Doug Baker reminisce about the big bands that performed in and around Grand Haven during the war years. Their discussion includes Bob Warnaar's Big Band, Grand Haven's Jackie Band, Frank Lockage's band, the Eagle Ottawa tannery band, the Charlie Bird Band, the local Elks concert band and many others. Their performances took them to Central Park, the Hyland Gardens, the Armory, the waterfront, and most memorably, the Fruitport Pavilion, the area's premiere entertainment spot. Warnaar and Baker detail the history of the Pavilion and Warnaar discusses his involvement in the development of waterfront entertainment. Warnaar also recalls the first night he played at the waterfront when 3200 people came to enjoy the concert.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In this installment of "Welcome to Kalamazoo" Dr. Willis Dunbar speaks with Dr. John Everton, the new President of Kalamazoo College. Everton gives an overview of his work experience, highlighting his time at Grinnell College as a professor and dean. He also talks about his two years in India directing the Relief and Rehabilitation program and the role of the small liberal arts college in the future of education.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Lansing autoworker Gary Watson, president of UAW Local 652, discusses his career at the General Motors Oldsmobile Main Plant in Lansing, MI. He talks about being born near Lansing, starting at the GM Fisher Body plant in 1957, moving to Oldsmobile after a series of layoffs and recalls, becoming a journeyman tinsmith and active in the union, efforts to desegregate the skilled trades, and bringing women into the trades. Watson also talks about being a local president, training new committee people, teaching existing members about unionism and the UAW, how his local and the international UAW function, how decisions are made, and why the union conducts political action efforts, and community projects. Watson is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-04-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- The speakers are all UAW members and workers at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI. Each offers memories, humorous stories, and descriptions of factory life during his or her time in Fisher. The speakers' experiences span from the 1950s to the 1990s. These interviews were conducted at the annual UAW Local 602 Family Picnic at Eagle Park in Eagle, MI.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-08-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Shirley talks about being hired in July 1949 as a material control clerk and being treated badly. She comments on how few women were in the plant mostly working in payroll. Shirley describes her work, the challenges, disparate pay, the Women's Club store and charities, the corporate reorganization to BOC and the animosity between Oldsmobile and Fisher managers. She also comments on the positive effect a UAW contract would have on salaried compensation.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-11-07T00:00:00Z
- 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