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- The Kalamazoo Paper Box Company is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar gives an overview of the company's product line, detailing the variety of boxes they produce, before describing their manufacturing process. Dunbar also interviews supervisor Velma Brown about her duties at the company and machinist Ulysses "Duke" Williamson about leaving Tennesse to work in Kalamazoo.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-02-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Science fiction writer Sarah Zettel explains her views on the social implications of science fiction, her sources of inspiration, her interest in tea and folk music, and her works in progress. Zettel is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Leslie Behm for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Science Fiction Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-02-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Alfred Connable, a candidate for re-election to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, discusses his education, experience and work history in an interview with Harry Smith, secretary of the Republican State Central Comittee. Connable says that he does not know of any communists at UM and does not believe a registered communist should be allowed to teach. He also, however, warns against making unfounded allegations against persons with different ideologies and says that a person should not be called a communist just because they are different.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Denny Cox discusses his career as a production worker and UAW committeeman at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI. Maggie Cox discusses her career as a UAW Local 602 secretary and member of OPIEU Local 42. Denny talks about getting hired in October 1963, his varied jobs, his union activity and positions as elected committeeman and UAW Job Placement Coordinator. He describes placing restricted workers on jobs, racism and sexism, and relations with managers in and out of the factory.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-01-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Arthur Frahm recalls his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1947 and 1972. Frahm describes his job buying almost everything used in the factory, the constant turmoil as REO changed hands over the years, the decline of the company, his own discharge, and his unsuccessful class action law suit filed against REO. Frahm also talks about his education, childhood in Lansing, the Lansing Labor Holiday and the 1937 strikes, REO’s involvement in the community, the destruction of the worker's pension fund, the start of Spartan Motors, and his career after REO. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Helen DeYoung was one of the first librarians employed at the new Carnegie library in Grand Haven, which opened in 1913, and retired from her position in 1959. Her father, Captain John DeYoung, was the keeper of the Grand Haven Life Saving Station from 1880 to 1885. In this interview, Helen talks about hers and her father's careers, the fire of 1891, the Cutler and Boyden Houses, early films at local theaters, the arrival of electric lights in the 1910s, the Grand Haven Genealogy Society, and various area schools, including the Akeley Institute finishing school for girls.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In part 3 of a 3 part interview, Laura Pogson, owner and operator of the famous guest house NewHaven on the River, located in Stratford, Ontario, concludes her oral history of the house, Stratford and the celebrated Stratford Festival. Pogson talks about the current operation of the NewHaven house and discusses her hopes for its future.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- On the eve of his retirement, Michigan State University Anthropology Professor Moreau Maxwell discusses his career in anthropology and philosophy of research using examples from his own experiences. Maxwell is interviewed by his colleague, MSU Anthropology Professor Joseph Spielberg Benitez. The interview is conducted in Baker Hall.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-05-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan during a question and answer session at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI. Price discusses her merchandising and customer philosophy, her eye for art and talent, her long friendship and professional relationship with modernist designer George Nelson and their collaborative effort to create a classy, unique environment in her store. She also describes learning the business from her father and then making it her own, selecting merchandise for quality, cost and design and training her sales staff to help select exactly the right piece for a customer. Price is interviewed by Sandra Seaton, recent author of an article on Price in "Modernism" mnagazine and the MSU College of Law Writer in Residence.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-10-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- May Yamaoka, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, says that she was born in Lodi, California, went to Japan to attend school and was called an 'enemy' by her classmates after the war began. She also talks of finding her sister in a pile of corpses after the bombing and about returning to the U.S. after the war and being interviewed by American newspapers soon after her arrival. She vividly recalls the day of the bombing and says that she now prefers to live alone.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection