| Title | Description | Oral History ID |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Ames Oral History | The first part of this interview with Joe Ames is not transcribed and begins already in progress. Ames recalls the last years of President Zander and the highlights of those years are discussed. The controversy behind Leo Kramers book Labors Paradox is discussed as well as the making of the book and reaction to it after it was published. The union conventions of the 1960s are discussed in detail along with the elections procedures and the aftermath of the elections. The last part of the interview covers the interest that Zander had in public housing and the unions interest in those projects. | WPR 0001 |
| Roy Kubista Oral History | This interview takes place in two parts. Part I discusses the Kubistas early life and education. Kubista began to work for the Wisconsin State Employees Association in 1934 conducting research on a part-time basis. Kubista discusses his research and the state of the Association during that period and the early days of the AFSCME. Kubista recalls Arnold Zander and describes his experiences with the leader. In part II Kubista discusses the role of AFSCME employee Colonel Alva E. Garey. The impact of WWII is mentioned as is the Associations involvement during and after the war. Kubista held the position of Executive-Secretary from 1936-1970, that latter part of the interview deals with his experience in that position and his role in the Association. | WPR 0002 |
| William J. McEntee Oral History | William J. McEntee began his career as a union activist in 1924 after getting a job with the city of Philadelphia as a street cleaner. The street cleaners first organized under the Teamsters. The affiliation did not last and the cleaners were briefly organized under the city. The new city run union soon ran into problems, and after striking the union joined the State, County and Municipal Employees under the AF of L and became Local 222. McEntee discusses his position at Local 222 as a Business Agent and later as President of District Council 3. He discusses the rate of growth of the Council in the 1940s. McEntee recalls his relationship and experiences working with International President Arnold Zander and the highlights of his experiences with the Council and the Union. McEntee retired in 1968, he shares his union involvement and life after retirement. | WPR 0003 |
| Dr. Joseph Mire Oral History | Dr. Joseph Mire was an economist and the first Education and Research Director of the AFSCME from 1943-1955. Dr. Mire was born and raised in Vienna, Austria and was active in the European labor movement. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1941 and taught economics at the School for Workers in Madison, WI. In 1943 Arnold Zander hired Dr. Mire as an economist/educator/researcher for the AFSCME. Dr. Mire compares the European labor movement to the American movement. He discusses the differences in labor education, research services, and political and social involvement in the labor movement. Dr. Mire left the AFSCME in 1955 to become the Director of the National Institute of Labor Education. | WPR 0004 |
| Rose Claffy Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0005 |
| Charles Cogen Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0006 |
| Patrick Daly Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0007 |
| David Elsila Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0008 |
| John Fewkes Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0009 |
| Catherine McGourty Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0010 |
| Carl Megel Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0011 |
| Robert Porter Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0012 |
| Mary Ellen Riordan Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0013 |
| Herrick Roth Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0014 |
| David Selden Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0015 |
| William Simmons Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0016 |
| Rebecca Simonson Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0017 |
| Mary and Charles Smith Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0018 |
| Marjorie Stern Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0019 |
| Raoul Teihet Oral History | AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville. | WPR 0020 |
| St. Paul Federation of Teachers Strike Oral Histories | Interview with four participants in the first organized teachers strike in the United States, conducted in 1974 as part of the History of Minnesota Labor Project. | WPR 0021 |
| Albert Shanker Oral History | Interview with the AFT president, focusing on New York City politics during the 1970s, conducted by Miriam Shore as part of the New York Jews in Politics project sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. | WPR 0022 |
| Joseph Jablonower Oral History | Interview conducted under the auspices of Columbia University, 1965. Transcript in Box 8 of the Jablonower Collection. | WPR 0023 |
| Auto-Lite Strike Oral Histories | Interviews conducted by Philip A. Korth and others at Michigan State University as part of his research on the 1934 Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio, 1973. Some interviews contain releases. | WPR 0024 |
| Adrian Falk Oral History | Interview describes the wholesale grocery business. | WPR 0025 |
| Ernesto Galaraza Oral History | Interview covers the United Farm Workers | WPR 0026 |
| Mary Gallagher Oral History | Interview covers the IWW and Tom Mooney | WPR 0027 |
| Elsie Martinez Oral History | Interview covers the San Francisco Bay Area Writers and Artists | WPR 0028 |
| Jennie Matjas Oral History | Interview covers the ILGWU | WPR 0029 |
| Frances Albrier Oral History | Mrs. Francis Albrier was the first black women welder and member of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of the AFL-CIO in Richmond, CA during WWII. In this interview Albrier recalls the problems she had finding employment at the ship yards because of her race. Albrier did obtain a position as a welder but was also not allowed to join the union due to its color bar. She shares the letters she wrote to President Roosevelt and the reaction of the union after the federal government intervened. Albriers correspondence is included in the oral history. | WPR 0030 |
| Robert Buddy Battle Oral History | Robert Battle was the President of the Trade Union Leadership Council and second vice-president of the UAW Ford Local 600. This interview describes his work with the Ford Motor Company and the employment of blacks, Ford Organizing Drive, and origins of the TULC (Trade Union Leadership Council) and of NALC (Negro American Labor Council). Battle also recalls the relationship of UAW and TULC and blacks and apprenticeship training. | WPR 0031 |
| Joseph Billups Oral History | Joseph Billups was one of the earliest black members of UAW Ford Local 600. In this interview Billups discusses pre-UAW auto unionism, black and left-wing activities, and Detroit during the Depression. Also included are discussions on the Ford Hunger March, the Ford Organizing Drive, and Nat Turner clubs. | WPR 0032 |
| Geraldine Bledsoe Oral History | Geraldine Bledsoe was the former director of Equal Employment Opportunity Michigan Employment Security Commission. In this interview Bledsoe describes the CIO and the black community, the Detroit chapter of the NAACP, Reverend Charles Hill and civil rights organization from 1935-1945. | WPR 0033 |
| Joseph Coles Oral History | Joseph Coles was a Black Democratic leader and former assistant director of the Detroit Commission on Community Relations. In this interview he describes the Sweet trials, the black political shift from Republican to Democratic Party, and the Detroit city government in relation to blacks. Also included are his recollections on housing, the Sojourner Truth Riot, the Detroit Race Riot of 1943, and Mayor Jeffries. | WPR 0034 |
| George Crockett Oral History | In this interview George Crockett describes the Detroit Recorders Court, his youth and education, and activities as attorney for FEPC. Crockett also recalls his experiences as executive director of the UAWs Fair Practice Committee and the involvement of blacks in Detroit politics. | WPR 0035 |
| Malcolm Dade Oral History | Father Dade was a priest at St. Cyprians Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Detroit. This interview discusses his involvement with the Ford Motor Co. and the black Church, the Ford organizing drive and the relationship of the UAW to black community. | WPR 0036 |
| Nick DiGaetano Oral History | Nick DiGaetano is a UAW Local 7 retiree. This interview discusses DiGaetanos recollections of the ethnic groups among Detroit workers, the IWW-Industrial Workers of the World, and blacks in the auto plants and in the UAW. | WPR 0037 |
| Edward L. Doty Oral History | Edward Doty was a plumber and black unionist in Chicago Illinois. In this interview Doty recalls the problem of discrimination in the Chicago area building trades, especially in electricians and plumbers unions. Doty also describes the organization of the all-black Consolidated Trades Council. | WPR 0038 |
| Snow Grigsby Oral History | Snow Grigsby was a Black church and labor leader and a former post office employee. In this interview Grigsby recalls the race relations in Detroit following World War I and the organization and activities of the Detroit Civic League, particularly in opening jobs for blacks. | WPR 0039 |
| Ray Hatcher Oral History | Ray Hatcher was the Deputy Director of the Detroit Regional office of Housing and Urban Development Department. In this interview he describes his role with the Detroit Urban League in the early 1940s, discrimination in housing and Sojourner Truth and the Detroit Race Riots of 1942 and 1943. Hatcher also recalls Royal Oak Townships efforts to become a self-sufficient all black community and the results of the efforts. | WPR 0040 |
| Rev. Charles Hill Oral History | The Reverend Charles Hill was the late pastor of the Hartford Ave Baptist Church in Detroit. This interview recalls his involvement with the Ford Motor Co. and the black church, the Ford Organizing Drive and the role blacks in the unions. Reverend Hill discusses the expansion of housing opportunities for blacks, the Detroit Race Riot of 1943, and black political activities in Detroit. | WPR 0041 |
| Dorothy Jones Oral History | Dorothy Jones, a faculty member at Rutgers State University, recalls her role as an educator and labor activist. This interview describes her involvement with the United Federation of Teachers, Dr. Kenneth Clark, and the Northern school desegregation. Jones also discusses the Brownsville episode, the Black Caucus of AFT, and activist Al Shanker. | WPR 0042 |
| William Lattimore Oral History | William Lattimore recalls his involvement with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the organization of Local 3 under the UAW. Lattimore also describes his role with the Dirty Nickel Strike of Dodge foundry workers, the black caucus at the UAW, the Grand Rapids Convention of 1944, and UAW factionalism and the black community. | WPR 0043 |
| Jack Lever Oral History | Jack Lever is a former labor educator and organizer. He recalls his involvement with cooperatives, union organizing in the IAM-International Association of Machinists and the relationship between the IAM and black workers. Lever also discusses the Brookwood Labor College, Ben Fletcher, the IWW, the longshoremens Association and the Steelworkers Organizing Committee. The transcript also includes an addendum. | WPR 0044 |
| David Livingston Oral History | In this interview David Livingston recalls his activities as President of District 65, Distributive Workers of America. Livingston discusses his roles with the Distributive Workers, the Textile Workers Union and the organizing of black and Puerto Rican workers. | WPR 0045 |
| Eleanor Macki Oral History | In this interview Eleanor Macki discusses her membership with the American Youth Congress Civil Rights Federation and the Civil Rights Congress. Macki recalls the Detroit riots, the Sojourner Truth housing episode, and her involvement with the American Federation of Teachers in the 1930s and 1940s. | WPR 0046 |
| Frank Marquart Oral History | Frank Marquart, a former labor educator with the UAW, recalls relocating to Detroit in 1914 with his father in search of employment with the Ford Motor Co. after hearing about the Ford $5.00 per day wage announcement. In this interview Marquart describes the conditions with black workers and Ford and recalls the role of radicalism in the pre-World War II period. Marquart discusses the Proletarian Party, blacks and communism, and UAW educational activities. | WPR 0047 |
| Hodges Mason Oral History | This interview with Hodges Mason, one of the first black presidents of a UAW local, takes place in two parts. Part I deals with the participation of blacks in sit-down strikes, the 1938 strike at Bohn Aluminum, and blacks and left-wing activities. Mason also discusses UAW conventions, especially 1937, 1942, 1943, organizing at the Ford Rouge Plant, and factionalism in UAW in the 1930s-40s. Part II of the interview deals with Masons involvement with the placing of the first black women in war production in the Detroit area. | WPR 0048 |
| Arthur McPhaul Oral History | Arthur McPhaul is the former Executive Secretary of the Civil Rights Congress of Michigan. In this interview McPhaul describes his experiences with the Ford Organizing Drive, the Civil Rights Federation, National Negro Congress, and Civil Rights Congress. McPhaul recalls the black community in the 1930s including the role of the Black Legion, police brutality, and the Sojourner Truth Riot. | WPR 0049 |
| James Neeley Oral History | James Neeley was an International representative for the UAW at time of death in 1969. In this interview Neeley recalls the upgrading of black workers in war production jobs in Detroit area in 1940s. Also included are a discussion of the hate strikes at Packard Motor Co., the 1943 Race Riot, and Neeleys views on separatism. | WPR 0050 |
| Arthur Osman Oral History | Arthur Osman is the Former president of the District 65 Distributive Workers of America. In this interview Osman recalls the conditions in the dry goods industry in New York in the early 1930s, the AFL-CIO split in later 30s, and the organizing of black workers in the industry. Osman describes his involvement with the adoption of a hiring hall system and policy on sending black job applicants, democratic practices in the union, the changing racial make-up of union, and the relationship with clothing industry unions and with the Teamsters. | WPR 0051 |
| Jack Raskin Oral History | Jack Raskin was the former executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress of Michigan. In this interview Raskin recalls his involvement with the Civil Rights Congress and its predecessor organizations in 1940s and early 1950s. Raskin describes his interest and work in racial problems including the Sojourner Truth project, the infiltration at neighborhood improvement association meetings, the National Negro Congress and the Presidential campaign of 1944. | WPR 0052 |
| Zeline Richard Oral History | Zeline Richard was a member and former Vice-President of the Detroit Board of Education and was prominent in leadership of the New Caucus of AFT-American Federation of Teachers. In this interview she recalls her involvement with the growth of Detroit Federation of Teachers, the national AFT conventions from 1964-1969, and the Racism in Education Conference of 1966. Mrs. Richards also discusses the role of Ed Simpkins in AFT, the Detroit Federation and its response to needs of black teachers, and her opinion of Al Shanker and the New York AFT situation. | WPR 0053 |
| George Robertson Oral History | Oral history interview with George Robertson, President of the UAW Local 235 Detroit. In this interview Robertson describes his experiences as production worker at Chevrolet Gear and Axle in the late 1940s and discusses the attitude of local union toward grievances of black workers, then and now. | WPR 0054 |
| Horace Sheffield Oral History | In this interview Horace Sheffield, an administrative assistant with the UAW discusses his involvement with the organizing campaign at Ford, the involvement of NAACP on unions side, and black and left wing political activities. Sheffield recalls various UAW conventions and the question of a black board member, especially in 1943, 1959, and 1962. He describes the organization of TULC- Trade Union Leadership Council, its subsequent development, and the NALC-National Association of Letter Carriers - and its relation to TULC. | WPR 0055 |
| C. LeBron Simmons Oral History | C. LeBron Simmons was a practicing Detroit attorney at the time of this interview. Simmons recalls the events of the Sojourner Truth housing project and police brutality in the 1930s. Simmons describes his presidency with the Detroit Chapter of the National Negro Congress and how he became involved in the congress. Also included in the interview is a discussion of Simmons work as an assistant prosecutor. | WPR 0056 |
| Birney Smith Oral History | Bernie Smith was a retired Juvenile Court probation officer. In this interview Smith recalls black life in Detroit in early the 1900s, the organization of Detroit Urban League, and black politics at the turn of the century. Mr. Smith discusses the reactions to the black influx of World War I, his relationships with John Dancy, Forrester Washington, and St. Matthews Church and Father Daniel. | WPR 0057 |
| Shelton Tappes Oral History | Shelton Tappes was the Assistant Director for the UAW Fair Practices Department. In this interview Tappes recalls the Automobile industry before unionization, Negro jobs in the auto industry, and the Ford Organizing Drive. Tappes describes the role of black in growth of Local 600, the black caucuses in the UAW, and the history of Fair Practices Department. | WPR 0058 |
| Beulah Whitby Oral History | Beulah Whitby was a social worker and former assistant director of the Detroit Commission on Community Relations. In this interview Whitby recalls her employment as the Assistant Executive Secretary with the then segregated YWCA and casework with the Detroit welfare department under the Office of Civilian Defense. She describes Detroit in Depression, the Sojourner Truth episode, the 1943 Race Riot, the NAACP, the Urban League, and the black community. | WPR 0059 |
| John W. Anderson Oral History | 1933 Briggs strike. Contains a release. | WPR 0060 |
| William V. Banks Oral History | 1933 Briggs strike. Contains a release. | WPR 0061 |
| Fred Valle Oral History | 1933 Briggs strike. | WPR 0062 |
| Arlene Altman Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0063 |
| Ethel Childs Baker Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0064 |
| Louise Sally Brown Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0065 |
| Esther Callard Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0066 |
| Leslie De Pietro Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0067 |
| Florence Duhn Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0068 |
| Alva Dworkin Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0069 |
| Marion Edman Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0070 |
| Sharon Elliott Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0071 |
| Arthur Enzmann Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0072 |
| Mary and Don Frew Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0073 |
| David C. Hollister Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0074 |
| Nicholas Hood Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0075 |
| Teola Hunter Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0076 |
| Kaye Koulouras Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0077 |
| Anne Linn Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0078 |
| Josephine Love Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0079 |
| Ginny McCaig Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0080 |
| Susie McCarroll Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0081 |
| Elenora Moore Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0082 |
| Keith Osborn Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0083 |
| Bert Pryor Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0084 |
| Carole Quarterman Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0085 |
| Annmarie Roeper Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0086 |
| Marjorie Sanger Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0087 |
| Dave Weikert Oral History | Child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit. | WPR 0088 |
| Roger Baldwin Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0089 |
| John Brophy Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0090 |
| William Davis Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0091 |
| Julius Emspack Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0092 |
| Albert Hayes Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0093 |
| Benjamin F. McLaurin Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0094 |
| Harry Mitchell Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0095 |
| A. Muste Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0096 |
| John OHara Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0097 |
| William Pollack Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0098 |
| Max Schachtman Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0099 |
| Norman Thomas Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0100 |
| Eva Valesh Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0101 |
| Roy Wilkins Oral History | Columbia University / New York Times Oral Histories | WPR 0102 |
| Douglas Fraser Oral History | correspondence | WPR 0103 |
| Ron Mestdagh Oral History | correspondence | WPR 0104 |
| Harriet Alpern Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0105 |
| Gerry Barrons Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0106 |
| Patricia Burnett Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0107 |
| Marcia Cron Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0108 |
| Margot Duley Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0109 |
| Marcia Federbush Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0110 |
| Algea Harrison Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0111 |
| Elizabeth Homer Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0112 |
| Joan Israel Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0113 |
| Millie Jeffrey Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0114 |
| Jean King Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0115 |
| Diane Leventer Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0116 |
| Marj Levin Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0117 |
| Allyn Ravitz Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0118 |
| Jacqueline Steingold Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0119 |
| Mary Walsh Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0120 |
| Jackie Washington Oral History | Interviews with Detroit-area second-wave feminists conducted by Sarah Arvey. | WPR 0121 |
| Bernice Adams Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0122 |
| Ralph Brubaker Oral History | Chrysler Missile Plant, Sahlin Engineering, includes correspondence. | WPR 0123 |
| Willie Eaddy Oral History | Fabricon Products, includes correspondence. | WPR 0124 |
| Diane Garner Oral History | Fords Flat Rock Foundry, includes correspondence. | WPR 0125 |
| Ruby Kendrick Oral History | Al-Craft Engineering, includes correspondence. | WPR 0126 |
| Daniel McCarthy Oral History | Fabricon Products, includes correspondence. | WPR 0127 |
| Marilyn McCormick Oral History | Northland Plastic, includes correspondence. | WPR 0128 |
| Jim & Dolores McHale Oral History | W.H. Case, includes correspondence. | WPR 0129 |
| Gabriel Solano Oral History | General Motors, includes correspondence. | WPR 0130 |
| UAW Local 900 members - Ford Oral History | UAW Local 900 members - Ford Oral History | WPR 0131 |
| Barbara Benetti Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0132 |
| Hy Fireman Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0133 |
| Leo Mogill Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0134 |
| Albert Oriucci Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0135 |
| Charles Pollack Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0136 |
| Rebecca Rathmer Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0137 |
| Kenneth Rowe Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0138 |
| Edith Segal Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0139 |
| Louis Sirotkin Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0140 |
| Ruth Whitworth Oral History | Interviews contain releases. | WPR 0141 |
| Ida Bjorkquist Oral History | Finnish Socialist History Project | WPR 0142 |
| Charles Jay Oral History | Finnish Socialist History Project | WPR 0143 |
| James Jukela Oral History | Finnish Socialist History Project | WPR 0144 |
| Elvera Kanerva Oral History | Finnish Socialist History Project | WPR 0145 |
| Ilmi Reynolds Oral History | Finnish Socialist History Project | WPR 0146 |
| Herb Edwards Oral History | Herb Edwards talks about his background and experiences as a lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest, his arrest for criminal syndicalism and subsequent prison term in San Quentin as well as memories of Elmer Smith. | WPR 0147 |
| Lucy Cloud Oral History | Lucy Anne Cloud talks about her life as an IWW organizer and her memories of Elmer Smith. | WPR 0148 |
| Julia Ruuttila Oral History | Julia Ruuttila describes her involvement with the Centralia case and in getting Ray Becker out of jail, her radical background in the labor movement, and her memories of Elmer Smith. | WPR 0149 |
| Reginald Ayala Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0150 |
| Herman Glass Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0151 |
| Joseph Harris Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0152 |
| Arthur Johnson Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0153 |
| Dorothy Mottley Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0154 |
| Marjorie Peebles-Meyers Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0155 |
| Elsie Smith Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0156 |
| Oretta Todd Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0157 |
| Charles Wright Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0158 |
| Watson Young Oral History | Part 1 [Box 1] | WPR 0159 |
| William Anderson Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0160 |
| Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0161 |
| Henry Bryant Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0162 |
| Alice Burton Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0163 |
| Waldo Cain Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0164 |
| James Collins Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0165 |
| Claude & Vivienne Cooper Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0166 |
| Gladys Dillard Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0167 |
| George Gaines Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0168 |
| Leon Gant Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0169 |
| Della Goodwin Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0170 |
| Frank Iacobell Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0171 |
| Horace Jefferson Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0172 |
| Sidney Jenkins Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0173 |
| Arthur Boddie Oral History | Part 2 [Box 2] | WPR 0174 |
| Rachel Keith Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0175 |
| William Lawson Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0176 |
| Josephine Love Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0177 |
| Hayward Maben Oral History Jr. Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0178 |
| Berna Mason Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0179 |
| Suesetta McCree Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0180 |
| David Northcross Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0181 |
| Ophelia Northcross Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0182 |
| Frank Raiford Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0183 |
| Rev. Garther Roberson Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0184 |
| Rev. Dr. S.L. Roberson Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0185 |
| Fannie Starks Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0186 |
| Lionel Swan Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0187 |
| Irma Webb Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0188 |
| Charles Whitten Oral History | Part 2 [Box 3] | WPR 0189 |
| David Burgess Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0190 |
| John F. Correll Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0191 |
| Harold Davey Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0192 |
| John T. Doherty Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0193 |
| Harry Fleischman Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0194 |
| Dale Good Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0195 |
| James Hoover Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0196 |
| Lane Kirkland Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0197 |
| George Lichtblau Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0198 |
| George Lodge Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0199 |
| Ray Marshall Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0200 |
| Parke Massey Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0201 |
| Jay Mazur Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0202 |
| Bruce Millen Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0203 |
| Dale Povenmire Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0204 |
| Herman Rebhan Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0205 |
| Roger Schrader Oral History | Interview is with both Roger Schrader and Herbert E. Weiner | WPR 0206 |
| Ben Stephansky Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0207 |
| Gus Tyler Oral History | A series of interviews covering the United States governments involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Departments Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence. | WPR 0208 |
| Low Income and Minority Women Oral Histories | Indexes by race, ethnic group, geographic area and subject available. | WPR 0209 |
| Irving Bluestone Oral History | Covers Bluestones early years in college and Europe at the outbreak of WWII. The interview includes a discussion on the book Negotiating the Future, written by Bluestone and his son. | WPR 0210 |
| Douglas Fraser Oral History | Tom Downss interviews with state labor and political figures. | WPR 0211 |
| Mildred Jeffrey Oral History | Tom Downss interviews with state labor and political figures. | WPR 0212 |
| Tom Downs Oral History | Interviews with state labor and political figures. | WPR 0213 |
| C. Peter Dougherty Oral History | Includes correspondence and a release. | WPR 0215 |
| Wilfird F. Bill Doyle Oral History | Includes a release. | WPR 0216 |
| George Edwards Oral History | Includes correspondence and a release. | WPR 0217 |
| Robert Griffin Oral History | Tom Downss interviews with state labor and political figures. | WPR 0218 |
| Adelaide Hart Oral History | Interview with Adelaide Hart and Neil Staebler | WPR 0219 |
| Miles Lord Oral History | Includes correspondence and a release. | WPR 0220 |
| G. Williams Oral History | Tom Downss interviews with state labor and political figures. | WPR 0221 |
| Zolton Ferency Oral History | Includes correspondence and a release. | WPR 0222 |
| Edward Allen Oral History | Recollections. Includes correspondence. | WPR 0223 |
| Charles Tad Irvine Oral History | Includes correspondence. | WPR 0224 |
| Don Stevens Oral History | Includes correspondence. | WPR 0225 |
| Jonathon Eddy Oral History | Jonathon Eddy interviews together with I.L. Kanen. Includes correspondence. | WPR 0226 |
| William Farson Oral History | Jonathon Eddy interviews together with I.L. Kanen. Includes correspondence. | WPR 0227 |
| R. F. Gilfillan Oral History | Includes correspondence. | WPR 0228 |
| Polish-American Autoworkers Oral Histories | Includes releases. | WPR 0230 |
| Irwin Baur Oral History | UAW Local 306 [Budd Wheel Company]. Also contains correspondence and a releases. | WPR 0231 |
| Arthur McPhaul Oral History | UAW Local 600. [Ford Rouge plant]. Also contains correspondence and a releases. | WPR 0232 |
| Philip Raymond Oral History | Auto Workers Union. Also contains correspondence and a releases. | WPR 0233 |
| John Zupan Oral History | Rank and File Movement. Also contains correspondence and a releases. | WPR 0234 |
| Marie Baker Oral History | Vol. 2, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0235 |
| Betty Boggs Oral History | Vol. 3, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0236 |
| Clella Bowman Oral History | Vol. 4, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0237 |
| Freda Campbell Oral History | Vol. 5, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0238 |
| Norma Cantrell Oral History | Vol. 6, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0239 |
| Flora Chavez Oral History | Vol. 7, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0240 |
| Beatrice Clifton Oral History | Vol. 8, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0241 |
| Alma Dotson Oral History | Vol. 9, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0242 |
| Videll Drake Oral History | Vol. 10, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0243 |
| Mildred Eusebio Oral History | Vol. 11, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0244 |
| Maria Fierro Oral History | Vol. 12, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0245 |
| Mern Freige Oral History | Vol. 13, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0246 |
| Fanny Hill Oral History | Vol. 14, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0247 |
| Marguerite Hoffman Oral History | Vol. 15, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0248 |
| Josephine Houston Oral History | Vol. 16, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0249 |
| Vera Hunter Oral History | Vol. 17, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0250 |
| J. K. Oral History | Vol. 18, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0251 |
| Eva Lowe Oral History | Vol. 19, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0252 |
| Mary Luna Oral History | Vol. 20, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0253 |
| Kathleen MacNeil Oral History | Vol. 21, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0254 |
| Lillian March Oral History | Vol. 22, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0255 |
| Belen Mason Oral History | Vol. 23, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0256 |
| Glad McLeod Oral History | Vol. 24, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0257 |
| Margarita McSweyn Oral History | Vol. 25, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0258 |
| Adele Milligan Oral History | Vol. 26, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0259 |
| Rose Mulligan Oral History | Vol. 27, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0260 |
| Bette Murphy Oral History | Vol. 28 (2), Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0261 |
| Charlcia Neuman Oral History | Vol. 29, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0262 |
| Olive Nordquist Oral History | Vol. 30, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0263 |
| Isabell Orwin Oral History | Vol. 31, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0264 |
| Mildred Owen Oral History | Vol. 32, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0265 |
| Harriet Perry Oral History | Vol. 33, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0266 |
| Mary Polliard Oral History | Vol. 34, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0267 |
| Lupe Purdy Oral History | Vol. 35, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0268 |
| Genevieve Roesch Oral History | Vol. 36, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0269 |
| Alicia Shelit Oral History | Vol. 37, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0270 |
| Etta Simmons Oral History | Vol. 38, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0271 |
| Rose Singleton Oral History | Vol. 39, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0272 |
| Addie Stangeland Oral History | Vol. 40, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0273 |
| Helen Studer Oral History | Vol. 41, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0274 |
| Marye Stumph Oral History | Vol. 42, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0275 |
| Margaret White Oral History | Vol. 43, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0276 |
| Evelyn Widdicombe Oral History | Vol. 44, Index available in Vol. 1 | WPR 0277 |
| Emilie Cooke Oral History | Vol. 45, Index available in Vol. 1. Emilie Cook and Susan Laughlin are Womens Counselors and interviewed together. | WPR 0278 |
| Bill Cooper Oral History | Interview on the 1934 Boston Store Strike. | WPR 0279 |
| Ralph Eliaser Oral History | Director, SEIU Joint Council #8. | WPR 0280 |
| Elinor Glenn Oral History | General manager Local 434 and first female International Executive Board member. | WPR 0281 |
| Elsie Hannon Oral History | Service Employees International Union oral History Interviews | WPR 0282 |
| George Hardy Oral History | George Hardy, President, SEIU, and Charles C. (Charlie) Levey, International Vice President are interviewed together. | WPR 0283 |
| Charles Levey Oral History | Service Employees International Union oral History Interviews | WPR 0284 |
| Richard Liebes Oral History | Director, SEIU Joint Council #2. | WPR 0285 |
| Arline Neal Oral History | Service Employees International Union Oral History Interviews | WPR 0286 |
| Albert Perry Oral History | President Local 32J. | WPR 0287 |
| Marchel Smiley Oral History | President Local 722. | WPR 0288 |
| John Sorbie Oral History | International Vice President, Local 50. | WPR 0289 |
| Where We Come From - SEIU Local 82 Members Oral Histories | Service Employees International Union oral History Interviews | WPR 0290 |
| Thomas Young Oral History | Local 32B. | WPR 0291 |
| Eleanor Baum Oral History | Dr. Eleanor Baum is Dean of Engineering at The Cooper Union in New York City and Executive Director of the Cooper Union Research Foundation. She is an electrical engineer who received her Ph.D. from Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1964 after undergraduate studies at City College of New York. She earned the distinction of "first woman dean" of an engineering school in the U.S. when she was named Dean of Pratt Institute's School of Engineering in 1984. Baum joined the engineering faculty at Pratt Institute in 1965 as Assistant Professor, and previously served as the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department in 1971. Baum began her career in the aerospace industry working for Sperry Rand Corporation and General Instrument Corporation. Although she soon entered academia while working on her doctorate, Baum maintained her ties to industry through consulting. Baum has played leadership roles in numerous professional associations and national engineering education initiatives. She is the first female president of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has served as president of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), has sat on the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Board, and has been involved with the Engineering Manpower Commission. Baum has also garnered many accolades for her work. She is a fellow of ABET, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers, and ASEE. In 1988 she won the Emily Warren Roebling Award, presented by the National Women's Hall of Fame; in 1990 she was awarded the SWE Upward Mobility Award; and in 1996 she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. Nationally recognized for her efforts in advancing engineering education and promoting engineering as a career for women and minorities, Baum has conducted national surveys of women in engineering and undergraduate women engineering students. She frequently writes, speaks, and is interviewed about engineering education issues. | WPR 0292 |
| Lois Bey Oral History | Lois Bey is a chemical engineer who holds the distinction of being the first woman graduate in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she graduated with honors in 1950. In 2001, Bey received an IIT Distinguished Alumni Award for this accomplishment as well as for her commitment and contributions to the chemical engineering profession. Bey's early career involved a lot of hands-on involvement in lab work as well as experience with large industrial chemical equipment. She worked for a succession of companies including Edwal Laboratories, Underwriters Laboratories and the Armour Research Institute (now IIT Research Institute) with responsibilities ranging from lab technician to assistant engineer. From 1956-1960, Bey was employed as a sales engineer for a Midwest chemical process equipment manufacturer, F.M. De Beers, Assoc. where she sold and trouble-shooted equipment. After taking a job with Baxter Laboratories in 1960, Bey earned a master's degree in Library and Information Science. Until her retirement in 1993, Bey successfully combined both her degrees toward a career as an information specialist in chemical company research & development departments, first at Baxter and later at Stepan Chemical Company. Bey joined SWE in 1953 and is a life member. She was also an active member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Society of Information Science. | WPR 0293 |
| Patricia Brown Oral History | Patricia Brown is a chemical engineer whose career took a different path than most. Graduating as the first woman chemical engineer from Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Brown went on to earn her master's in chemistry from the University of Texas. After graduation, Brown briefly taught chemistry at Smith College and then became a research associate at Albany Medical College, after which she worked for Ethyl Corporation in Detroit. While at Ethyl her career as a technical information resources specialist began. In 1955 she took a job as a technical writer at Westinghouse's Bettis Atomic Power Division. After Westinghouse, Brown joined Texas Instruments as Information Services Supervisor in 1957, where she had overall responsibility for administration of the library. She left Texas Instruments for a research career in information storage and retrieval at Battelle Memorial Institute, and later accepted a position in technical information management at Baxter Laboratories in Illinois. Brown remained in the field of information and research for the rest of her career until her retirement from Stepan Company, becoming skilled in data analysis, system design, reporting and publishing, computer operations and management. An early member of SWE, Brown has been very active in the society, serving as its president from 1961-1963. She has also been affiliated with the American Society for Information Science, the American Chemical Society, and the Society for Technical Communication. | WPR 0294 |
| Yvonne Clark & Irene Sharpe Oral History | Yvonne Young Clark first became interested in engineering when she was a member of the Civil Air Patrol in high school during the Second World War. She originally considered studying aeronautics engineering but decided instead to pursue mechanical engineering at Howard University. In 1951 she became the first woman at Howard to complete her B.S.M.E. She became a licensed professional engineer and was the first woman to receive a master's degree in engineering management from Vanderbilt University. Clark began her career working at Frankford Arsenal-Gage Laboratories in Philadelphia and RCA in New Jersey. She moved to Nashville with her husband in 1955 but found few opportunities available to her in industry. She accepted a position as a mechanical engineering instructor and became the first female faculty member in the College of Engineering and Technology at Tennessee State University. Clark has taught at TSU for over 50 years, where she served twice as department chair and eventually became an associate professor. During summer breaks at TSU Clark has worked in the field for numerous organizations including the Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, Westinghouse, and Ford Motor Company. Clark joined the Society of Women Engineers in 1952 and has served on its Executive Committee. She was elected to the College of Fellows in 1984 and received the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from SWE in 1998. Clark is also an active member of the American Society of Engineering Education and the Society of Mechanical Engineers. Irene Sharpe recognizes the irony in her career choice, given that her childhood home did not have electricity until she was in middle school. While her family wanted her to become a math teacher Sharpe chose instead to study electrical engineering at Howard University, earning her degree in 1963. Sharpe spent the first 14 years of her career designing power distribution and control systems for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service. In 1977 Sharpe changed the focus of her career, working on automotive electrical systems at Ford Motor Company and later at General Motors Corporation in metropolitan Detroit. In 1988 she joined United Technologies, where she remained until her retirement as a principle engineer in 1999. Sharpe has been a member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1962 and was elected to the College of Fellows in 1990. She has been an officer for several sections, served on the national Executive Committee, and chaired the 1982 national convention. Sharpe is also an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. | WPR 0295 |
| Stella Daniels Oral History | Stella Lawrence Daniels' career spans both industry and academia. With a master's in mathematics and physics from New York University, Daniels went on to pursue engineering. Before graduating with a master's in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1952, Daniels began her engineering career as a development engineer and mathematician during WWII. It was during her post-war tenure at Bell Telephone Laboratories that Daniels began teaching electrical circuits in the evenings at Pratt Institute and physics in the evenings at The City College of New York. Daniels made the full-time switch to academia a couple of years later, becoming an assistant professor in electrical engineering technology at Bronx Community College where she retired as full professor in 1988.Even though the bulk of her career was in teaching engineering, Daniels maintained her ties to industry with consulting jobs, such as one at NASA during her summers between 1975 - 1992. A charter member of SWE, Daniels holds distinctions in several other professional engineering societies. She is a fellow and first woman member of the Brooklyn Engineers Club; a senior member, 20-year executive committee member, and 1978 Professional Achievement award winner of IEEE; and was the first woman president of the Technical Societies Council Of New York 1970-72. | WPR 0296 |
| Margaret Eller Oral History | Margaret Eller spent her career in the field of engineering graphics and drafting. Having first attended the University of Michigan School of Architecture, Eller went on to receive a B.S. from Wayne State University and a M.S. in engineering graphics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She worked as a draftsman, engineering illustrator, and technical writer from during WWII until the mid 1950s. Working for such companies as General Motors, Eller conducted and supervised the design layout of tools, fixtures, aircraft parts, and auto bodies. In the 1950s, Eller began her teaching career at a local high school where she taught architectural and mechanical drafting before moving on to an assistant professorship at Ferris State University in engineering graphics. Eller retired from academia at Louisiana State University in 1980, where she also taught engineering graphics as the first female faculty in the College of Engineering. After retirement, she again worked in industry as an associate design draftsman in charge of patent drawings for SoGraph Design in Baton Rouge, LA. Eller was a 1952 charter member of the Detroit SWE section and was active both nationally and locally within SWE for 30 years. She was recognized in 1987 by the Society of Engineering Illustrators for outstanding contributions to the engineering illustration profession. | WPR 0297 |
| Ann Fletcher Oral History | Ann Fletcher chose engineering as a second career option, after teaching music for nearly ten years. Her career switch is a good example of the new opportunities that opened up to women as a result of WWII. She attended Wayne State University's College of Engineering from 1942-44, joining Bendix Aviation Corporation Research Labs in 1943 as a patent draftsman. In 1947 Fletcher began work as an industrial illustrator and patent draftsman at Ford Motor Company where she worked for 21 years. As the only industrial illustrator at Ford, she worked closely with inventors to produce illustrations for product, design, chemical, and metallurgical inventions, among others. Her last position before retiring in 1978 was as Technical Assistant to Chief Engineer at the Shatterproof Glass Corporation. Her assignment entailed duties from various technical analyses to reports and surveys for the Environmental Protection Agency. An early member of SWE, Fletcher experienced several "firsts" in her profession. It was during her position at Shatterproof that she became one of two women in the Society of Engineering Illustrators, serving two terms as president. She also became the first woman elected as fellow of the Engineering Society of Detroit and later to its board of directors. Fletcher received statewide recognition when in 1975 she was appointed to the Michigan State Registration Board of Professional Community Planners, the first woman to assume that responsibility. | WPR 0298 |
| Evelyn Fowler Oral History | Evelyn Fowler was part of the small group of women who were the earliest members of SWE. She was a charter member of the New York Section in 1949, a founding member of SWE national in 1950, and a founding member of the Connecticut Section in 1954. Fowler graduated from the Art School of Pratt Institute in 1942 and later returned to study chemical engineering she married an engineer. Upon gaining her bachelor's degree she went to work for her husband's company, the American Actuator Corporation of New York as a drafter and later secretary-treasurer. | WPR 0299 |
| Isabelle French & Elaine Pitts Oral History | The daughter of a contractor, Isabelle French became interested in engineering at a young age. She graduated in 1944 from Tri-State College with a degree in radio engineering, the first woman at Tri-State to do so. She received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater in 1966. French began her career in 1944 working on the engineering and development of radar tubes at Sylvania in Massachusetts. She remained there until 1952 and held held a similar position at Capehart-Farnsworth in Indiana for another two years. In 1954 she joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she remained until her retirement more than 40 years later. French has been an active member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1951 and has attended nearly every national conference. In addition to serving as SWE President from 1964-1966, she has also served as the chairman or president of several sections, national secretary and treasurer, and has sat on the national executive committee. French was elected to the SWE College of Fellows in 1981. After studying industrial engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology and studying design at the Art Institute in Chicago, in 1943 Elaine Pitts applied to be a secretary willing to be trained as a packaging engineer at Aldens, Inc. in Chicago. In 1945 Pitts joined Spiegel, Inc. in Chicago as a senior packaging engineer, where she remained until 1952. The following year she began a long career at the Sperry and Hutchinson Company, where she organized and installed its packaging department. In 1970 she was appointed the Vice President of Corporate Relations. Nine years later she and a friend moved to California to open their own packaging company, Dalton/ Pitts Associates. A member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1964, Pitts has served on its Executive Board and was elected to the College of Fellows in 1981. She is a past president of the American Women in Radio and Television and of Women Executives in Public Relations. A Fellow of the Society of Packaging and Handling Engineers, she was the first woman to serve as that organization's Chairman of the Board. | WPR 0300 |
| Cornelius Pitts | Oral history interview. | WPR 0767 |
| Lois Graham Oral History | Lois Graham was an engineering educator for 36 years during a time when women were not even allowed as engineering students in many schools. She was the first woman to graduate in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1945; the first to receive a M.S.M.E. from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); and the first to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in the country. Upon graduating from RPI Graham went to work for the Carrier Corporation as a test engineer. After 18 months she returned to academia for a graduate assistantship at IIT, where she would spend her entire teaching career. When she became an instructor in 1949 she was the first woman faculty member in the mechanical engineering department. When Graham became full professor in 1975 she was one of but a few woman in the country with that rank. In addition to instruction in such subjects as aeronautics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer, Graham served as Assistant Dept. Chair and briefly as Acting Dept. Chair. She was also appointed Assistant Director for Engineering and Science in 1974 and Program Center Director in 1977 of the Education and Experience in Engineering (E3) Program, a multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum program. Graham was also actively involved in recruiting minority students. She served as Chairman of the Women's Engineering Program; as Program Coordinator of the Early Identification Spring Program; Director of the Minorities in Engineering Program, an innovative program that received national recognition; and as Director of Motivation and Support for the Greater Chicago Area Program for increasing Minorities in Engineering by working with high school students. Graham's many professional affiliations include SWE, of which she is a fellow and past president (1955-56), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers, and the American Society for Engineering Education. She has earned several honors and has published extensively in engineering, scientific, educational, and management subjects. | WPR 0302 |
| Arminta Harness Oral History | Lt. Col. Arminta Harness blazed a trail for women engineers in the Armed Forces during her 24 year career in the U.S. Air Force. Graduating with an aeronautical engineering degree from the University of Southern California in 1955, she became the Air Force's first woman engineer, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Her assignments varied in responsibility from designing intelligence-gathering equipment for the U-2 aircraft to providing management direction for the $2 billion Space and Missile Systems Organization budget. As a lieutenant assigned to the Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory at Wright Paterson Air Force Base, she was the first woman on orders as a test engineer during flight testing of experimental equipment, which she designed. In 1963 Harness was assigned to work on the Gemini manned space program at Air Force Space Systems. As a Major, she served as Deputy Chief of Engineering, and later, as Lieutenant Colonel, as Chief of Program Control for the $80 million Gemini Target Vehicle Program the unmanned spacecraft used as a docking target by the Gemini astronauts in space. It was during this assignment that she became the first woman to receive the specialty rating of Staff Development Engineer and the first woman to receive both Senior and Master Missileman Badges. Harness' military awards include the National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Joint Services Commendation Medal, and Air force Meritorious Service Medal. During her service, she was also recognized as a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering and received their 1971 Engineering Achievement Merit Award. Harness joined Westinghouse Hanford Company in 1974 following retirement from military service. In her five years with the company, she was Technical Assistant to the company president and Manager of Laboratory Planning for their nuclear development lab. A Fellow Life Member of SWE, Harness served as its president from 1976 - 1978 and in many other leadership roles on the local and national level. Following her second retirement in 1979, Harness remained active in SWE. She is the designer of the SWE's Resnik Challenger Medal, given upon merit, to an engineer whose contributions have broadened the frontiers of space exploration. | WPR 0303 |
| Ivy F. Hooks Oral History | Ivy Hooks began her twenty-year-plus career as an aerospace engineer at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, TX. A 1965 master's graduate of the University of Houston in math and physics, she was involved in the early stages of aerodynamics of space shuttle flight. An original space shuttle design team member, Hooks went on to hold a number of management positions, including Separation System Integration Manager and Manager of Flight Software Verification. While at NASA she was the recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award for Outstanding Young Civil Servant, NASA Outstanding Speaker Award, and the NASA Medal. Leaving NASA in 1984, Hooks started her own software systems consulting firm, Compliance Automation, Inc. and now serves as its president and CEO. An internationally recognized expert in Requirement Engineering she has published many articles on the subject and co-authored "Customer-Centered Products: Creating Successful Products Through Smart Requirement Management." Hooks is a SWE Fellow, a charter member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, and holds membership in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute. | WPR 0304 |
| Suzanne Jenniches Oral History | Suzanne Jenniches has been a leader in manufacturing innovation and producibility engineering for Northrop Grumman Corp. for more than 30 years, establishing many "firsts" for women within the company. Her responsibilities have included computer test engineering, electronic assembly, advanced robotic manufacturing, radar systems, and defense programs. She received a patent in 1980 for laser soldering and in 1981 she led operations for the B-1B bomber offensive radar, overseeing production of the first electronically scanned antenna for production aircraft in the world. Jenniches has served in many managerial roles at the company, including the vice presidencies of Automation and Information Systems, Communications Systems for the Electronic Systems sector, and the Government Systems Division. Engineering was Jenniches's second career choice, having begun her professional life as a high school biology teacher after graduating from Clarion State College in 1970. She made the transition to engineering industry as she pursued a master's degree in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University, which she received in 1979. Shortly after, Jenniches conducted extensive postgraduate work in Defense Decision Making and International Affairs at Catholic University and has attended the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development for Executive Management. An active Fellow and life member of SWE, Jenniches has served on many national committees as well as the society's 1988-89 president. She was awarded both the Distinguished New Engineer Award in 1983 and the Achievement Award in 2000. She has been equally active outside of SWE promoting engineering as a career, specifically for women. She has served on the American Association of Engineering Societies Board of Governors and as an expert witness before Congress on numerous occasions, in support of engineering and technology issues for NASA, NIST, AAES, and SWE. | WPR 0305 |
| Barbara Bobbi Johnson Oral History | Barbara "Bobbie" Johnson was a women pioneer in the defining years of the U.S. missile and space program. Graduating in 1946 as the first woman graduate in general engineering from the University of Illinois, Johnson immediately began work in the field of aerospace engineering. In her 36 year career at Rockwell International Space Division, she made significant contributions to four of the nation's most prominent systems and technology ventures. Early assignments involved design and research projects that included flight dynamics studies for programs such as Dyna-Soar, the recovery of hypersonic gliders, lunar reentry vehicle research, and orbital rendezvous. In five short years Johnson moved up from Mathematician to Senior Engineer, Aerodynamics, where she participated in the design and development of the Navaho missile, one of the country's first missile efforts. Johnson then worked on another major missile project, the Hound Dog air-to-ground guided missile as project leader responsible for wind tunnel programs, performance and stability analysis, and aerodynamic loads. It was the Apollo Lunar Landing Program that began Barbara Johnson's participation in manned space flight programs and defined her expertise in atmospheric entry, which garnered her widespread recognition. When she was named as manager of Mission Requirements and Evaluation on the Apollo Program in 1968 it was the highest post ever held by a woman in her division. Responsible for more than 100 engineers, Johnson worked closely with NASA on the Lunar Landing, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz (joint USA-USSR) programs. She received a medallion in 1973 from NASA in recognition of the major role she played in the Apollo 11 mission, mankind's first successful attempt to land on the moon. In her last position before retirement in 1982, Johnson was Manager of Mission Requirements and Integration of the space shuttle program where she was responsible for Shuttle system and Orbiter Project mission-related analysis. It was during this time that she received the American Astronautical Society's "Dick Brower Award," the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering's Outstanding Engineer Merit Award for contributions to aeronautical engineering, the University of Illinois College of Engineering's Distinguished Alumni Merit Award, and the 1974 SWE Achievement Award. A Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and SWE Fellow, Barbara Johnson served both locally and nationally to promote engineering as a career, especially for women. | WPR 0306 |
| Margaret Kipilo Oral History | Margaret Kipilo is an electrical engineer who graduated from Pennsylvania State College during WWII. She went to work for Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an Assistant Engineer in System Studies followed by employment at the Pennsylvania Electric Company. An early member of SWE, Kipilo also was long active in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. | WPR 0307 |
| Anna Longobardo Oral History | In 1949 Anna Longobardo was the first woman to receive a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Columbia University. She also received her master's degree from Columbia in 1952. She quickly entered the new area of analog and digital computer applications and has since made major contributions to the aerospace engineering field. Her many specializations include the utilization of engineering resources. After 15 years as a systems engineer at American Bosch Arma Corporation, where she worked on guidance systems for space vehicles, Longobardo joined Sperry Rand Corp. In her 25-plus years at Sperry, which became Unisys Corporation in 1986, Longobardo held a number of positions in areas of technology management, at one time directing a staff of 750. Longobardo holds many distinctions as a woman engineer. In 1963 Governor Rockefeller appointed her to the New York State Women's Council; from 1966-1970 she was Director of the Technical Societies Council of New York; and she was named one of New York's "100 Women of Influence" by New York Woman magazine in 1986. She has been an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Joint Engineering Management Committee, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as SWE, of which she was one of the original charter student members. | WPR 0308 |
| Alva Matthews Oral History | During her engineering career, Dr. Alva Matthews conducted original research, development studies, and consultation services in a variety of fields. She is best known for her significant contributions to the field of engineering mechanics and applied mathematics in the areas of shock analysis, elasticity and structural design, for which she won the SWE Achievement Award in 1971. In addition to her accomplishments in industry, Dr. Matthews also taught for many years at the university level. Matthews received her education at Middlebury and Barnard Colleges, earning a B.S. and M.S. in Science, and at Columbia University, earning a PhD. in Engineering Science. While an undergraduate in the 1950s, she worked as an engineer at a conduit construction firm and later as a design and research engineer for a prestigious firm during her graduate years. As a graduate student Matthews taught civil engineering at Columbia University, becoming their first woman engineering instructor. She continued to lecture at Columbia, the University of Rochester, and Swarthmore College after she received her doctorate, and became an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences at the University of Rochester. As a research engineer and consultant for Rochester Applied Science Associates and Paul Weidlinger Consulting Engineer, Matthews carried out fundamental research on the mechanical behavior of materials and wave propagation in solids, extending to nuclear weapons effects on structures. Other areas of effort include the development and adaptation of large computer codes, structural design of thin shell concrete, application of Potential Theory to underwater acoustics, and computer programming in the development of the Telstar tracking antenna and of helicopter blade design. Her publications have won recognition as pioneering efforts in the area of wave propagation and vibrations in elastic media. Matthews has held a number of offices in SWE, was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the NY State Society of Professional Engineers, and served on the board of directors of the Engineers Joint Council from 1964-65. | WPR 0309 |
| Naomi McAfee Oral History | Naomi McAfee was a pioneer in the field of reliability and quality engineering. She received her B.S. degree in physics from Western Kentucky University in 1956. After graduation she joined Westinghouse Defense and Electronic Systems Center in Baltimore, MD. as a mathematician in the Reliability Engineering Section. McAfee went on to work on a variety of airborne missile control and radar systems as well as communication satellites. In subsequent supervisory engineering roles, she was responsible for the reliability, maintainability and safety engineering activities for all Defense and Space Center Programs. She was the first woman to hold such a supervisory engineer position at the company and headed the group responsible for developing the television camera system used on Skylab and other U.S. space programs. McAfee was also a leader in many professional organizations. She held several offices in SWE including the national presidency during 1972-74. She became the first woman elected officer of the American Society for Quality Control, was the 1978-79 president of the Federation of Organizations for Professional Women, served on the 1975-79 board of the Engineers Joint Council, and was involved in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. She has been on the advisory council of engineering schools at Princeton University, Clarkson College of Technology, and Pennsylvania State University. | WPR 0310 |
| Dorothy Morris Oral History | Dorothy Morris began her career in the engineering field as an administrative assistant in 1950 after graduating with a degree in business and accounting from Concordia Junior College. Concurrent with her early work life, Morris returned to college to study engineering and in just eight years she became Vice President and General Manager of Colvin Laboratories, Inc., an aerospace industry electronics manufacturer. At that time, she represented only a handful of women engineering management executives in the country, and she remains today an excellent example of the upward mobility of women in engineering. In addition to her tenure at Colvin Labs, Morris was General Manager, Treasurer, and Vice President of Victory Engineering Corporation and went on to establish her own consulting firm, Morris Associates, acting as its president. In the 1970s she was a member and SWE representative to the Engineering Manpower Commission, where she worked to advance engineering as a profession for women, becoming the commission's first women president. A longtime member of SWE, Morris has served in many local and national offices and is today a member of the Board of Trustees. | WPR 0311 |
| Maryly Peck Oral History | Maryly Van Leer Peck is President Emeritus of Polk Community College, where in 1982 she served as its first woman president, and consequently the first woman president of a Florida institution of higher learning. Throughout her over 45-year career, Dr. Peck established many other firsts for women in engineering. In 1951 Dr. Peck was the first woman to graduate with a degree in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University. She went on to also become the first woman to receive a M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida. Peck began her career in the aerospace industry as a research engineer, working for the Washington, D.C. Naval Research Laboratory and Rocketdyne Corporation in California. She was also very early on involved in academia, teaching courses in engineering, chemistry, and math at various southern U.S. colleges. Peck accomplished all of this while working on her Ph.D., raising four children, and at the same time serving as SWE's national vice president. Before her tenure in Florida's higher education system, Dr. Peck lived on the island of Guam for 11 years. There, she became the first woman dean of the College of Business and Applied Technology at the University of Guam and founder and dean of what is now the Community College of Guam. A long-time SWE member, Peck has been featured in Life Magazine, named Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Florida in 1991, and received recognition and awards for her work in the advancement and awareness of engineering as a profession for women. She currently serves on the Chemical Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Florida. | WPR 0312 |
| Irene Peden Oral History | Dr. Irene Peden is Professor Emerita of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. She joined the faculty in 1962 and served terms as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Associate Chairman of the EE Dept., in addition to her teaching and research. She has long been an outspoken advocate for women in engineering and science. Her efforts lead to the #1 U.S. ranking of UW in the 1990s for number of women faculty in an electrical engineering department. A graduate of electrical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1947, Peden earned both a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Following her graduate studies Peden began as Assistant Professor at UW, taking time off from the university in the early 1990s to serve two years as Director of the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests cover several fields: applied electromagnetics, radio science, antennas and subsurface remote sensing, and she has published widely on these subjects. In 1970, in pursuit of her research, Peden became the first American woman engineer or scientist to conduct field research in the Antarctic interior. In addition to being a SWE Fellow, Peden is a Fellow in the IEEE, holding a number of positions in that organization. She has served as board member and chair of several science and engineering associations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Engineering Accreditation Commission, as well as several university engineering departments. Among her many honors, she was the National Science Foundation's 1993 Engineer of the Year and one of 40 inductees to the ASEE Engineering Educators Hall of Fame, as well as the recipient of several IEEE awards and SWE's Achievement Award (1973). | WPR 0313 |
| Carolyn Phillips Oral History | Carolyn Phillips was a recognized leader in health & safety issues in the early days of environmental engineering and industrial hygiene. In 1960 she graduated from Pratt Institute with a mechanical engineering degree, where she was one of three women studying engineering. Phillips' first position was with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, working for two years as a reactor engineer on SNAP (Safety Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power). In 1962 she became the only woman engineer in the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the New York State Department of Labor. Her job included fieldwork, during which she collected samples of industrial wastes by climbing tall smokestacks and down into rock quarries. During this time Phillips also earned her Master's in civil engineering from New York University, with a concentration on sanitation. In the 1970s, Phillips was a student at NYU's Institute for Environmental Medicine and School of Engineering, working toward a Ph.D. While there, she served as Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute, conducting inhalation studies, and worked as a consultant with Environmental Analysts, Inc, participating in various health and environmental projects. From there, Phillips moved on to a long career at Shell Oil Company as an Industrial Hygienist, retiring in a management position. While at Shell, she worked on a special year-long assignment in the Netherlands where she was responsible for evaluation and development of an international occupational hygiene program. After retirement she worked as a health & safety consultant providing litigation support for both Shell and the Chemical Manufacturing Association. Throughout her career, Phillips maintained active membership and leadership in a number of professional organizations including SWE, ASME, and the American Industrial Hygiene Association. She has taught courses in industrial hygiene as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health. Phillips has also received several appointments and honors from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, ASME, and SWE. | WPR 0314 |
| Elizabeth Pete Plunkett Oral History | Elizabeth "Pete" Plunkett was a successful engineer in the aviation and astronautical fields. She attended the University of Washington and began working for the Boeing Company her sophomore year. Plunkett stayed with the company her entire 37-year career, beginning as a draftsman and working her way up to Engineering Technical Laboratory Manager, where she oversaw two laboratories that provided experimental test facilities for all commercial airplanes. For several years she worked as a research analyst and test director for aeroelastic models of hypersonic orbital and space flight systems during the very beginning of the U.S. space program. During her career, Plunkett was an officer in both the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and SWE, in which she remains a member. | WPR 0315 |
| Betty Preece Oral History | Betty Preece is a distinguished secondary and college educator in science, math, and engineering. In 1947 she was the first female electrical engineering graduate of the University of Kentucky and upon graduation worked as an engineer for General Electric and then as a project engineer/section chief of surveillance systems for the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral during the early years of the aerospace program. Preece went on to serve as editor of the Indian River Engineer for the Institute of Radio Engineers in the early 1960s and thereafter worked in academia, upon earning a M.S. in Science Education. She served simultaneously as a high school physics teacher and adjunct faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology for over 20 years. An early SWE member and a longstanding member of several professional organizations, Preece has been actively involved in career guidance for women engineers and scientists, leading workshops on the local, state, national, and international levels since 1965. She was a member of the Working Panel of Women as Engineering Technicians, Office of Emergency Planning, Office of the President of the United States from 1962-64; and selected to the Florida Advisory Council for Science Education in 1986 in recognition of her work in science education. | WPR 0316 |
| Gloria Reinish Oral History | Gloria Reinish was the first woman to receive an undergraduate degree, a masters degree (both in electrical engineering), and a doctorate (in bioengineering) from Columbia University. She began her career in industry, working for Bell Labs, primarily in research and development of radar systems and telephone repeaters, and Sperry Gyroscope, where she earned a patent on radar ranging systems. Reinish turned to academia as a career when she was completing her Ph.D. At Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1961, Reinish has taught both electrical and biomedical engineering, becoming a full professor in 1976. Her own research focuses on the electrical properties of bone and electrical stimulation of bone growth. She served as the chairperson of the electrical engineering department, the first woman appointed to that position, and chair of the bioengineering program for a number of years in the 1970s and 1980s. Reinish is a life member of IEEE and SWE where she has been very active with student members. | WPR 0317 |
| Margaret Taber Oral History | Margaret Taber is an electrical and electronics engineering educator whose career nearly parallels the development of electronic, or computer, technology. She graduated from Cleveland State University in 1958 with two bachelor degrees, one in electrical engineering, and the other in engineering science, with an emphasis on math. During college and for a few years after, Taber worked in industry at the Tocco Division of The Ohio Crankshaft Company as an engineering trainee and Development Engineer. After obtaining her Master's of Science in Engineering from the University of Akron in 1967, Taber worked briefly as a digital systems consultant for Design and Development Inc. It was during this time that Taber also began working in academia as an instructor in Electrical-Electronic Engineering at Cuyahoga Community College. She went on to become an assistant, associate, and full professor as well as Chairperson of Engineering Technologies at the college. In 1976, Taber received an Ed.D. from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and in 1979 she became both an Associate Professor at Purdue University and an Educational Consultant and Writer for the Cleveland Institute of Electronics. Taber was the only woman faculty member of the University's Department of Electrical Engineering Technology, but quickly received tenure as an associate professor, was made full professor (1983-2000), and became a Professor Emeritus in 2000. She has designed, developed, and taught many fundamental and advanced microprocessor courses. She has also written several books/manuals and articles on computer programming. Taber has been extremely supportive of women in engineering, establishing awards at Purdue given annually to the best women students in Electrical Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology. She has had computer labs named in her honor and received many distinctions, including outstanding alumni awards and SWE's 1987 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award. A licensed professional engineer and certified engineering technologist, Taber is a Fellow Life Member of SWE; a Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; and member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the American Technical Education Association. | WPR 0318 |
| Josephine Jo Webb Oral History | Josephine Webb graduated from Purdue University in 1940 and became a Buhl Research Fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Carnegie Institute of Technology for two years. In 1942 she joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation as a Design Engineer, where among other duties, she worked on the electrical grids for the Coulee, Hoover, and Boulder Dams. It was during her tenure with the company that she obtained two patents for oil circuit breaker contact design. In 1946, Webb became Director of Development for the Facsimile Development Laboratory at the Alden Products Company where she designed an eighteen-inch, full newspaper size fax machine with exceptional resolution for that time. Following a brief tenure at the Foxboro Instrument Company, Webb went into business for herself, co-founding Webb Consulting Company with her husband, also an electrical engineer. They specialized in electrical-electronic measurement instrumentation, communications applications, and photographic test devices, working for clients as diverse as Boeing and the U.S. Bureau of Mines. In addition to the consulting business, Webb also took a position in 1977 with North Idaho College where she began development of a Computer Center and worked on several government grants for enhancing the campus and its educational programs. Webb holds four patents for her innovative work and has been active in many professional organizations including IEEE, NSPE, and SWE where she holds Fellows status. | WPR 0319 |
| George Gaines Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0765 |
| Jean Ernst Mayfield Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0766 |
| Robert Brown Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0321 |
| John Crossley Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0322 |
| Rev. James Drake Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0323 |
| Bill Drew Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0324 |
| Benjamin Fraticelli Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0325 |
| Chris Hartmire Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0326 |
| Pat Hoffman Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0328 |
| Pat and Cecil Hoffman Oral History | Pat and Cecil Hoffman interview together. | WPR 0329 |
| Joseph Hough Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0330 |
| Karl Irvin Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0331 |
| Mary McFarland Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0332 |
| Dr. Richard Norberg Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0333 |
| Henry Pavian Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0334 |
| Rev. Walter Press Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0335 |
| Dr. Jon Regier Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0336 |
| Don Reynolds Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0337 |
| Sandy Sample Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0338 |
| Ted and Blanch Schmidt Oral History | Ted and Blanch Schmidt interview together. | WPR 0339 |
| Rev. William Scholes Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0340 |
| Rev. David Sholin Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0341 |
| Rev. Douglas Still Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0342 |
| Keith & Fran Taeger Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0343 |
| Dr. Forest Weir Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0344 |
| Dr. Harold Wilson Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0345 |
| Winthrop Yinger Oral History | Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection. | WPR 0346 |
| Lester Fox Oral History | Interviews conducted by Loren E. Pennington as part of his research on Studebaker. | WPR 0347 |
| T. Forrest Hanna Oral History | Interviews conducted by Loren E. Pennington as part of his research on Studebaker. | WPR 0348 |
| J.D. Red Hill Oral History | Interviews conducted by Loren E. Pennington as part of his research on Studebaker. | WPR 0349 |
| George Hupp Oral History | Interviews conducted by Loren E. Pennington as part of his research on Studebaker. | WPR 0350 |
| C.M. MacMillan Oral History | Interviews conducted by Loren E. Pennington as part of his research on Studebaker. | WPR 0351 |
| William Ogden Oral History | Interviews conducted by Loren E. Pennington as part of his research on Studebaker. | WPR 0352 |
| Archie Acciacca Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0353 |
| Ken Bannon Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0354 |
| Ann & Paul Boatin Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0355 |
| Walter Dorosh Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0356 |
| William Johnson Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0357 |
| John Mando Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0358 |
| Henry McCusker Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0359 |
| Arthur McPhaul Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0360 |
| David Moore Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0361 |
| Stanley & Margaret Nowak Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0362 |
| John Orr Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0363 |
| George Pluhar Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0364 |
| Victor Reuther Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0365 |
| Deloris & Kenneth Roche Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0366 |
| John Saari Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0367 |
| Horace Sheffield Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0368 |
| Shelton Tappes Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0369 |
| Thomas Yeager Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0370 |
| Mike Zarro Oral History | Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Fords Rouge plant. | WPR 0371 |
| Mary Baker Oral History | Augusta Building Trades Council | WPR 0372 |
| Sara Barron Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0373 |
| Mary Callahan Oral History | IUE | WPR 0374 |
| Sophie Cohen Oral History | IWW | WPR 0375 |
| Belulah Compton Oral History | Waitresses Union | WPR 0376 |
| Catherine Conroy Oral History | CWA | WPR 0377 |
| Clara Day Oral History | IBT | WPR 0378 |
| Jessie La Cruz Oral History | UFW | WPR 0379 |
| Evelyn Dubrow Oral History | ILGWU | WPR 0380 |
| Mary Elkuss Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0381 |
| Marie Fese Oral History | BRAC | WPR 0382 |
| Sara Fredgrant Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0383 |
| Caroline Gladstein Oral History | CAWIU | WPR 0384 |
| Charlotte Graham Oral History | ILGWU | WPR 0385 |
| Dorothy Haener Oral History | UAW | WPR 0386 |
| Lilian Herstein Oral History | AFT | WPR 0387 |
| Mildred Jeffrey Oral History | UAW | WPR 0388 |
| Brownie Jones Oral History | ALES | WPR 0389 |
| Maida Kemp Oral History | ILGWU | WPR 0390 |
| Ola Kennedy Oral History | USWA | WPR 0391 |
| Elizabeth Kimmel Oral History | ILGWU | WPR 0392 |
| Dorothy & Henry Kraus Oral History | UAW | WPR 0393 |
| Mollie LeVitas Oral History | OPEIU | WPR 0394 |
| Carmen Lucia Oral History | UHCMW | WPR 0395 |
| Minnie Lunsford Oral History | UMW | WPR 0396 |
| Florence Lynch Oral History | URW | WPR 0397 |
| Julia Maietta Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0398 |
| Joyce Maupin Oral History | Union WAGE | WPR 0399 |
| Ah McElrath Oral History | ILWU | WPR 0400 |
| Eula McGill Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0401 |
| Barbara Merrill Oral History | ACTWU | WPR 0402 |
| Julie Mount Oral History | UCAPAWA | WPR 0403 |
| Arline Neal Oral History | SEIU | WPR 0404 |
| Fannie Neal Oral History | AFL-CIO | WPR 0405 |
| Pauline Newman Oral History | ILGWU | WPR 0406 |
| Elizabeth Nord Oral History | TWUA | WPR 0407 |
| Rose Norwood Oral History | WTUL | WPR 0408 |
| Karen Nussbaum Oral History | 9 to 5 | WPR 0409 |
| Rose Palmquist Oral History | IBT | WPR 0410 |
| Esther Peterson Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0411 |
| Florence Peterson Oral History | UAW | WPR 0412 |
| Alice Peurala Oral History | USWA | WPR 0413 |
| Celia Pincus Oral History | AFT | WPR 0414 |
| Antoinette Podojil Oral History | TWUA | WPR 0415 |
| Geraldine Roberts Oral History | UDWA | WPR 0416 |
| Lillian Roberts Oral History | AFSCME | WPR 0417 |
| Dollie Robinson Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0418 |
| Margaret Scattergood Oral History | AFL | WPR 0419 |
| Frieda Schwenkmeyer Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0420 |
| Bonnie Segal Oral History | ILGWU | WPR 0421 |
| Anna Sullivan Oral History | TWUA | WPR 0422 |
| Gertrude Sweet Oral History | HERE | WPR 0423 |
| Pauline Taylor Oral History | Progressive Party | WPR 0424 |
| Lucille Thornburgh Oral History | TWUA | WPR 0425 |
| Doris Turner Oral History | 1199 / SEIU | WPR 0426 |
| Regina Urdaneta Oral History | ACWA | WPR 0427 |
| Angela Ward Oral History | OWU | WPR 0428 |
| Barbara Wertheimer Oral History | Educator | WPR 0429 |
| Ruth Wiencek Oral History | CWA | WPR 0430 |
| Nelle Wooding Oral History | CWA | WPR 0431 |
| Florence Luscomb Oral History | WTUL | WPR 0432 |
| George F. Addes Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases.releases. | WPR 0433 |
| Stanley Gregory Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases.releases. | WPR 0434 |
| Joseph Pagano Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases.releases. | WPR 0435 |
| Louis Adkins Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases.releases. | WPR 0436 |
| Carl Haessler Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0437 |
| F. Palmer Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0438 |
| John Anderson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0439 |
| Fred Haggard Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0440 |
| John Panzner Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0441 |
| Kenneth F. Bannon Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0442 |
| Ed Hall Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0443 |
| William Payne Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0444 |
| John Bartee Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0445 |
| Matthew Hammond Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0446 |
| Orrin Peppler Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0447 |
| Charles Beckman Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0448 |
| Richard Harris Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0449 |
| Joseph Piconke Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0450 |
| J. Beni Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0451 |
| Joseph Hattley Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0452 |
| Leon Pody Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0453 |
| Raymond Berndt Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0454 |
| Arthur Hughs Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0455 |
| Adam Poplewski Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0456 |
| Merlin Bishop Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0457 |
| William Humphreys Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0458 |
| Gene Prato Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0459 |
| Stanley Brams Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0460 |
| Jack Hurst Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0461 |
| Edward Purdy Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0462 |
| Norman Bully Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0463 |
| R. Ingram Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0464 |
| Walter Quillico Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0465 |
| George Burt Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0466 |
| Forest Innis Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0467 |
| Philip Raymond Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0468 |
| Ed Carey Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0469 |
| Martin Jensen Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0470 |
| May Reuther Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0471 |
| Arthur Case Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0472 |
| Clayton Johnson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0473 |
| Victor Reuther Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0474 |
| James Cleveland Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0475 |
| Lester Johnson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0476 |
| Herbert Richardson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0477 |
| Richard Coleman Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0478 |
| Lloyd Jones Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0479 |
| John F. Ringwald Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0480 |
| Charles Conway Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0481 |
| Robert Kanter Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0482 |
| Arthur Rohan Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0483 |
| Jack T. Conway Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0484 |
| Harvey Kitzman Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0485 |
| James Roland Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0486 |
| Alexander Cook Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0487 |
| Tom Klasey Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0488 |
| Harry Ross Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0489 |
| Leonard Klue Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0490 |
| Paul Russo Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0491 |
| Harold Cranefield Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0492 |
| Theodore Laduke Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0493 |
| Sam Sage Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0494 |
| Larry Davidow Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0495 |
| Monroe Lake Oral History | includes correspondence | WPR 0496 |
| Frank Sahorske Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0497 |
| Len DeCaux Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0498 |
| Russell Leach Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0499 |
| Walter Schilling Oral History | In a volume with Charles Conway | WPR 0500 |
| Nick DiGaetano Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0501 |
| Edgar Lee Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0502 |
| Leo Shaffer Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0503 |
| Joseph Ditzel Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0504 |
| Al Leggat Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0505 |
| Bud Simmons Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0506 |
| James F. Doherty Oral History | In a volume with Charles Conway | WPR 0507 |
| Frank Manfred Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0508 |
| Samuel Smith Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0509 |
| Tracy Doll Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0510 |
| Michael Manning Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0511 |
| Harry Southwell Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0512 |
| Genora Dollinger Oral History | Oral history interview with Genora Dollinger about her involvement with the Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937. | WPR 0513 |
| Frank Marquart Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0514 |
| Roy Speth Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0515 |
| Sol Dollinger Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0516 |
| Homer Martin Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0517 |
| William Stevenson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0518 |
| Dominic Dornetto Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0519 |
| Norman Matthews Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0520 |
| Carl Swanson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0521 |
| John Eldon Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0522 |
| Joseph Mattson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0523 |
| Shelton Tappes Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0524 |
| Frank Fagan Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0525 |
| Elizabeth McCracken Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0526 |
| I. Taylor Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0527 |
| Jess Ferrazza Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0528 |
| John McDaniel Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0529 |
| R. Thomas Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0530 |
| Joseph Ferris Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0531 |
| Hugh Thompson Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0532 |
| Bert Foster Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0533 |
| George Merrelli Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0534 |
| Frank Tuttle Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0535 |
| Everett Francis Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0536 |
| Russell Merrill Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0537 |
| Art Vega Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0538 |
| Richard Frankensteen Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0539 |
| Lewis Michener Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0540 |
| Raymond Vess Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0541 |
| Elmer Freitag Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0542 |
| Paul Miley Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0543 |
| Frank Wallemann Oral History | In a volume with Charles Conway | WPR 0544 |
| Mort Furay Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0545 |
| Andrew Montgomery Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0546 |
| Nat Weinberg Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0547 |
| Daniel Gallagher Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0548 |
| Ken Morris Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0549 |
| Jack Wilse Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0550 |
| Nat Ganley Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0551 |
| Wyndham Mortimer Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0552 |
| Leonard Woodcock Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0553 |
| Catherine Gelles Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0554 |
| Stanley Nowak Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0555 |
| Charles Yaeger Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0556 |
| William Genske Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0557 |
| James Oddle Oral History | In a volume with John K. McDaniel | WPR 0558 |
| Charles Yenney Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0559 |
| Adolph F. Germer Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0560 |
| Clayton ODonohue Oral History | In a volume with John K. McDaniel | WPR 0561 |
| Lawrence Yost Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0562 |
| Josephine Gomon Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0563 |
| Cyril OHalloran Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0564 |
| John Zaremba Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0565 |
| Murvel Grant Oral History | In a volume with John K. McDaniel | WPR 0566 |
| William Oliver Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0567 |
| Pat Greathouse Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0568 |
| Patrick OMalley Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0569 |
| James Couser Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0570 |
| John McGill Oral History | Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews contain releases. | WPR 0571 |
| Ken Bannon Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0572 |
| Raymond Berndt Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0573 |
| Owen Bieber Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0574 |
| Irving Bluestone Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0575 |
| George Burt Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0576 |
| Don Ellis Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0577 |
| Donald Ephlin Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0578 |
| Daniel Forchione Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0579 |
| Carolyn Forrest Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0580 |
| Douglas Fraser Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0581 |
| Martin Gerber Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0582 |
| Duane (Pat) Greathouse Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0583 |
| Olga Madar Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0584 |
| George Merrelli Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0585 |
| Ken Morris Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0586 |
| Marc Stepp Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0587 |
| Joe Tomasi Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0588 |
| Leonard Woodcock Oral History | A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is present | WPR 0589 |
| Nancy Allen Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0590 |
| Frank Angelo Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0591 |
| Catherine Carter Blackwell Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0764 |
| Kermit Bailer Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0592 |
| Sydney Barthwell Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0593 |
| Dave Bing Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0594 |
| Helen Nuttall Brown Oral History | Blackbotton. Box 1. | WPR 0595 |
| James Jenkins Oral History | Blackbotton. Box 1. | WPR 0596 |
| James Boggs Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0597 |
| Leon Bradley Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0598 |
| Gloria Hunter Oral History | Brewster Public Housing Project, Box 1. | WPR 0599 |
| Eleanor Manlove Oral History | Brewster Public Housing Project, Box 1. | WPR 0600 |
| Roy Brooks Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0601 |
| Beatrice Buck Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0602 |
| Waldo Cain Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0603 |
| Arthur Carter Oral History | Civil Rights, Box 1. | WPR 0604 |
| Ernest Goodman Oral History | Civil Rights, Box 1. | WPR 0605 |
| Alma Hall Oral History | Civil Rights, Box 1. | WPR 0606 |
| Richard Marks Oral History | Civil Rights, Box 1. | WPR 0607 |
| Jack White Oral History | Civil Rights, Box 1. | WPR 0608 |
| Mackie Johnson Oral History | Box 1. Crime. | WPR 0609 |
| Winston Lang Oral History | Box 1. Crime. | WPR 0610 |
| Mary McClendon Oral History | Box 1. Crime. | WPR 0611 |
| Frances Quock Oral History | Box 1. Crime. | WPR 0612 |
| Wardell Croft Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0613 |
| James Cummings Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0614 |
| Austin Curtis Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0615 |
| Ed Davis Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0616 |
| Jerrylee Johnson Oral History | Box 1, Delta Sigma Theta. | WPR 0617 |
| Cecil McFadden Oral History | Box 1, Delta Sigma Theta. | WPR 0618 |
| Roberta Pickett Oral History | Box 1, Delta Sigma Theta. | WPR 0619 |
| Carol Puryear Oral History | Box 1, Delta Sigma Theta. | WPR 0620 |
| Rose Swanson Oral History | Box 1, Delta Sigma Theta. | WPR 0621 |
| Charles Diggs Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0622 |
| Ernest Dillard Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0623 |
| Ofield Dukes Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0624 |
| William Billups Oral History | Box 1. Education. | WPR 0625 |
| Earlie Poole Oral History | Box 1. Education. | WPR 0626 |
| Walter Edwards Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0627 |
| Henry Biggs Oral History | Box 1. Employment. | WPR 0628 |
| Reginald Larrie Oral History | Box 1. Employment. | WPR 0629 |
| Lillian Duplessis Oral History | Box 1. Entertainment. | WPR 0630 |
| Ollie McFarland Oral History | Box 1. Entertainment. | WPR 0631 |
| M. Fritz Oral History | Box 1 | WPR 0632 |
| Eleanor Jones Oral History | Box 2. Green Pastures Camp. | WPR 0633 |
| Ernest Marshall Oral History | Box 2. Green Pastures Camp. | WPR 0634 |
| Cecil McFadden Oral History | Box 2. Green Pastures Camp. | WPR 0635 |
| Fred Guinyard Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0636 |
| Mary Cosey Oral History | Box 2. Hastings Street/Medical Center. | WPR 0637 |
| Fred Cureton Oral History | Box 2. Hastings Street/Medical Center. | WPR 0638 |
| Dorothy Lawson Oral History | Box 2. Hastings Street/Medical Center. | WPR 0639 |
| Earlie Poole Oral History | Box 2. Hastings Street/Medical Center. | WPR 0640 |
| Erma Henderson Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0641 |
| William Hines Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0642 |
| David Holmes Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0643 |
| William Howard Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0644 |
| William Hurt Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0645 |
| Richard King Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0646 |
| Francis Kornegay Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0647 |
| Hildred Dale Oral History | Box 2. Labor Movement. | WPR 0648 |
| Gwendolyn Edwards Oral History | Box 2. Labor Movement. | WPR 0649 |
| Hodges Mason Oral History | Box 2. Labor Movement. | WPR 0650 |
| Stanley Nowak Oral History | Box 2. Labor Movement. | WPR 0651 |
| Jack white Oral History | Box 2. Labor Movement. | WPR 0652 |
| Oscar Lee Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0653 |
| Wilfred Little Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0654 |
| Nina Mack-Lester Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0655 |
| Norman McRae Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0656 |
| Ruth Clemons Oral History | Box 2. Metropolitan Baptist Church. | WPR 0657 |
| Lillian Edwards Oral History | Box 2. Metropolitan Baptist Church. | WPR 0658 |
| Elma Peddy Oral History | Box 2. Metropolitan Baptist Church. | WPR 0659 |
| Marsha Mickens Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0660 |
| Harold Bowles Oral History | Box 2. Music I. | WPR 0661 |
| Earl Van Dyke Oral History | Box 2. Music I. | WPR 0662 |
| Wendell Harrison Oral History | Box 2. Music II. | WPR 0663 |
| Donald Walden Oral History | Box 2. Music II. | WPR 0664 |
| Alice Newman Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0665 |
| Harold Norris Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0666 |
| Mel Ravitz Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0667 |
| Lamar Richardson Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0668 |
| George Romney Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0669 |
| Harry Boglin Oral History | Box 2. Sacred Heart Church. | WPR 0670 |
| Maryann Humphries Oral History | Box 2. Sacred Heart Church. | WPR 0671 |
| Emma Johnson Oral History | Box 2. Sacred Heart Church. | WPR 0672 |
| Anthony McCauley Oral History | Box 2. Sacred Heart Church. | WPR 0673 |
| Arthur Carter Oral History | Box 2. Second Baptist Church. | WPR 0674 |
| Nathaniel Leach Oral History | Box 2. Second Baptist Church. | WPR 0675 |
| Wilhelmina Means Oral History | Box 2. Second Baptist Church. | WPR 0676 |
| Katherine Reid Oral History | Box 2. Second Baptist Church. | WPR 0677 |
| Ernestine Wright Oral History | Box 2. Second Baptist Church. | WPR 0678 |
| Mary Harris Oral History | Box 2. Shiloh Baptist Church. | WPR 0679 |
| Marguerite McIntosh Oral History | Box 2. Shiloh Baptist Church. | WPR 0680 |
| Davene McKinney Oral History | Box 2. Shiloh Baptist Church. | WPR 0681 |
| Mary Ross Oral History | Box 2. Shiloh Baptist Church. | WPR 0682 |
| Paul Shirley Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0683 |
| Gerald Smith Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0684 |
| Gerald Blakely Oral History | Box 2. Sojourner Truth Homes. | WPR 0685 |
| Ken Booker Oral History | Box 2. Sojourner Truth Homes. | WPR 0686 |
| Robert Bynum Oral History | Box 2. Sojourner Truth Homes. | WPR 0687 |
| Thornton Jackson Oral History | Box 2. Sojourner Truth Homes. | WPR 0688 |
| Adam Shakoor Oral History | Box 2. Sojourner Truth Homes. | WPR 0689 |
| Lionel Swan Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0690 |
| Shelton Tappes Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0691 |
| Marcena Taylor Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0692 |
| Bernard Odell Oral History | Box 2. Twelfth Street. | WPR 0693 |
| Odis Rencher Oral History | Box 2. Twelfth Street. | WPR 0694 |
| Ollie Foster Oral History | Box 2. Virginia Park. | WPR 0695 |
| Herschel Richey Oral History | Box 2. Virginia Park. | WPR 0696 |
| Walter Rosser Oral History | Box 2. Virginia Park. | WPR 0697 |
| Margaret Ward Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0698 |
| Rosa Wheeler Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0699 |
| Anne Williams Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0700 |
| Carl Winter Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0701 |
| Alexander Jefferson Oral History | Box 2. World War II. | WPR 0702 |
| Richard Macon Oral History | Box 2. World War II. | WPR 0703 |
| Ernestine Wright Oral History | Box 2. | WPR 0704 |
| W.M. Jack Anderson Oral History | Interview about Andersons experiences as the first president of UAW Local 645 in Dallas, TX. | WPR 0705 |
| Don Stevens Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0762 |
| Eugene Barnett Oral History | Interview about his involvement in the events at Centralia, Washington on Armistice Day, 1919. Supplementing the interview are William Friedlands note on the provenance of the recording and Archie Greens account of his 1961 interview with Barnett. Includes bibliography and chronology of Barnett's life. | WPR 0706 |
| Walter Bergman Oral History | Interview with Warner Plug chronicling his activities as a socialist and an educator in Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s, his work with UNRRA in Europe after World War II and his experiences as a Freedom Rider. Also contains correspondence and a release. | WPR 0707 |
| Irving Bluestone Oral History | Interview with Sidney Kelman relating to Bluestones association with Walter Reuther, the Reuther Caucus and issues confronting the UAW from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Also contains correspondence and a release. | WPR 0708 |
| Grace Boggs Oral History | Interview with L. Todd Duncan and Kathryne V. Lindberg about her and husband, Jamess revolutionary activism in inner city Detroit and their role in constructing a black Marxism. Published in the Summer 2001 issue of Social Text. | WPR 0709 |
| Carl Brown Oral History | Interview with Howell Harris about the Foremans Association of America. | WPR 0710 |
| Valery Burati Oral History | International labor relations specialists interview with Philip P. Mason about his early life. | WPR 0711 |
| Larry Carlstrom Oral History | Interview with John Barnard about UAW organizing and collective bargaining in automobile and farm machinery plants in Wisconsin and Illinois, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. Release included. | WPR 0712 |
| Paul Cavanaugh Oral History | Interview conducted by Ray Borycka with the brother of Detroit mayor, Jerome P. Cavanagh. Also contains correspondence and a release. | WPR 0713 |
| Frank Cedervall Oral History | Interview with Pete Reagan about his experiences with the IWW. | WPR 0714 |
| Cesar Chavez Oral History | Interview conducted as part of the oral history program of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. | WPR 0715 |
| IWW Strike 1927 - Eyewitness Interviews | Interview with six eyewitnesses to the killing of striking IWW miners by guards at the Columbine Mine in Lafayette, Colorado on November 21, 1927, conducted as part of the University of Colorados Coal Project. | WPR 0716 |
| Jack T. Conway Oral History | Jack Conway with Larry J. Hackman (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library), 1972. | WPR 0718 |
| Francis Dillon Oral History | Interview with Dennis East about William Green, AFL organizing in the auto industry and the UAW presidency. | WPR 0720 |
| Katherine Ellickson Oral History | Interview with Dennis East. Also contains a release.This interview is the second big installment of Ellickson's interviews with the Labor Archives. | WPR 0723 |
| Frank Ellis Oral History | Interview conducted by the Minnesota Historical Society recounting Elliss involvement with the IWW and Packinghouse Workers in Minnesota in the early part of the twentieth century. Also includes a release. | WPR 0724 |
| Frank Felt Oral History | Interview with Dennis East and Betty Chmaj about Finnish participation in the labor movement. | WPR 0725 |
| Richard Frankensteen Oral History | Interview with [?] Jones about the 1937 and 1945 Detroit elections. | WPR 0726 |
| Sonia Fuentes Oral History | Interview with EEOC counsel and early NOW member conducted by Dennis Deslippe for his book, Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Rights & democracy -- Feminism, 1945-80. Also includes a release. | WPR 0727 |
| Charles Gentile Oral History | Interview with Mike Smith about the Society of Design Engineers and UAW Local 412. | WPR 0728 |
| Ray Girardin Oral History | Interview with Maurice Kelman about his career as a crime reporter with The Detroit Times and as Detroit police commissioner during the 1967 riot. | WPR 0729 |
| Margaret Greenfield Oral History | Interview with Aldo Lanza about Brookwood Labor College. | WPR 0730 |
| Gloria Johnson Oral History | Interview with IUE staffer and CLUW president conducted by Dennis Deslippe for his book, Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Rights & democracy -- Feminism, 1945-80. | WPR 0731 |
| Jack Jourdan Oral History | Interview on the 1937 sit-down strike at Guide Lamp in Anderson, Indiana conducted by R. T. King as part of the Indiana University Oral History Project on the Indiana economy in the twentieth century. | WPR 0732 |
| Percy Llewellyn Oral History | This interview takes place in two parts. Part one is an interview with George Heliker, in 1954. Part two with Dennis East about unionizing Ford Motor Company and the history of UAW Local 600. during the 1940s and 1950s. | WPR 0733 |
| Olga Madar Oral History | Interview with Joe Weaver and Wendy Robbins for (Detroit) TV2 special report on womens rights. | WPR 0735 |
| Irene Young Marinovich Oral History | Individual Oral History Interviews | WPR 0737 |
| Blaine Marrin Oral History | Reminiscences with an unidentified interviewer by the former president of UAW Local 157. | WPR 0738 |
| Wade McCree Oral History | Interview with Tara Tappert about his family and education prior to the beginning of his professional career in Detroit after World War II. Also includes correspondence. | WPR 0739 |
| Stoyan Menton Oral History | Interview with Warren Pflug about his association with the Socialist Party, his experiences as a radical student activist at Wayne State University in the 1930s and his work as education director of UAW Local 400 at Fords Highland park plant in the 1940s. | WPR 0740 |
| Wyndham Mortimer Oral History | Interview conducted as part of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles. | WPR 0741 |
| Dave Miller Oral History | Interview with Daniel Brooks about his career as president of UAW Local 22 and his role as leader of UAW retired workers. | WPR 0742 |
| Karen Nussbaum Oral History | Interview with Kathleen Banks Nutter focusing especially on her role as a co-founder of 9to5 and her work on behalf of working women. | WPR 0743 |
| Carrie Overton Oral History | Interview conducted by Philip P. Mason with NAACP and Democratic Party Colored Division secretary abour her early life. | WPR 0744 |
| Rosa Parks Oral History | Interview conducted as part of the Black Women Oral History Project at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe. | WPR 0745 |
| Philip Raymond Oral History | Interview with Shelton Tappes about his work organizing for the United Automobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers of America and the UAW. | WPR 0746 |
| Roy Reuther Oral History | Interview with Sidney Fine about the 1936-1937 Flint Sit-down strike. | WPR 0747 |
| Victor Reuther Oral History | Interview with Ida Burati about Jay Lovestone, George Meany and the ICFTU. | WPR 0749 |
| Irving Richter Oral History | Conversation with unidentified interviewer about his career in the labor movement. | WPR 0750 |
| Meta Riseman Oral History | Interview with Patricia Painter about her activities with the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom. Also includes a release. | WPR 0751 |
| Carl Salo Oral History | Interview with Betty Chmaj about Finnish participation in the labor movement. | WPR 0752 |
| Paul Schrade Oral History | Interview about his career with the UAW and his involvement with the United Farm Workers, Robert Kennedys presidential campaign and the antiwar and civil rights movements. | WPR 0753 |
| Ted Silvey Oral History | Interview about his career as a speaker and writer with the Ohio CIO Council and the national CIO. | WPR 0754 |
| Hilda Smith and Frank Fernbach Oral History | Interview of chair and co-chair of the National Committee for the Extension of Labor Education touching primarily on the Committees efforts in the late 1940s to get federal legislation passed to establish a labor education service. | WPR 0755 |
| Thomas Starling Oral History | Interview with George Tselos about the organization of UAW Local 34 at the GM Fisher Body plant in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1930s. | WPR 0756 |
| Mark and Helen Norton Starr Oral History | Interview with Dennis East about their experiences at Brookwood Labor College and related events.Final portion of the interview is missing. | WPR 0757 |
| Joseph Sullivan Oral History | Interview with Raymond Borycka about the election and administration of Detroit mayor, Jerome P. Cavanagh. | WPR 0758 |
| Fred Thompson Oral History | Interview recounts Thompsons activities with the Work Peoples College. | WPR 0759 |
| Robert E. Treuhaft Oral History | Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley Oral History Collection. | WPR 0760 |
| Charleszetta Waddles Oral History | Interview conducted as part of the Black Women Oral History Project at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe. | WPR 0761 |
| Katherine Ellickson Oral History | Interview with Peter Corning about Social Security.This memoir is the result of a series of tape-recorded interviews conducted for the Oral History Research Office by Peter Corning with Ellickson in 1966 and 1967. | WPR 0721 |
| Katherine Ellickson Oral History | Interview with Katherine Pollak Ellickson. In this interview Ellickson explains the inventory of the papers that she gave to the University. | WPR 0722 |
| Olga Madar Oral History | Interview with Silke Roth about the Coalition of labor Union Women. | WPR 0734 |
| Irene Young Marinovich Oral History | Interview with Sue Hartmann about the UAW and conditions for women workers in Detroit-area auto plants during the 1930s and 1940s. | WPR 0736 |
| Victor Reuther Oral History | Interview about UAW organizing activity in Indiana in 1937 conducted by R.T. King as part of the Indiana University Oral History Project on the Indiana economy in the twentieth century. | WPR 0748 |
| William Angus Oral History | The papers of William Robertson Angus, Jr., missionary to China and the Philippines; Rutgers University Class of 1922; Hartford Seminary Class of 1925; graduate work at Yale University; licensed by the Classis of Bergen, 1925; commissioned by the RCA board of Foreign Missions, 1925; Amoy Mission service, 1925-1952; Honorary Doctorate in Divinity, Rutgers, 1947; recommissioned and sent to the Philippines as missionary, 1952-1967 | HC 0001 |
| Sylvia Banks (Brown) Oral History | The collection contains her 2003 oral history recording and transcript concerning her familys move to the area from Chicago in 1943 to farm, her grandparents Leonard Foster and Gladys Leone Stoutmire, a cross burning incident, prejudice at the Harlem School, and the Full Gospel All-Nation Pentecostal Church. (B) | HC 0002 |
| Grace Bowden Oral History | Chicago area African-American family that located to the West Olive area in 1956 to raise blueberries, black angus cattle, and eventually open a service station on Butternut Drive. | HC 0003 |
| Dorothy Busscher (Fisher) Oral History | Former employee of the Chris-Craft Corporation, Holland Furniture, Modern Partions, Uniline of Grand Rapids, and founder of Trendway in 1968 | HC 0004 |
| Robert Chambers Oral History | Commercial fishing family located in Holland, Michigan and Western shore of Wisconsin | HC 0005 |
| Hilda Curtis (Hansen) Oral History | Former resident of the North Side of Holland, Michigan | HC 0006 |
| Dave Fetters Oral History | Graduate of Holland High School and local Holland Vietnam Conflict veteran. Served with the U.S. Army Fifth Special Forces (Green Berets), Third Corps, as a 1st Lt., 1967-1969. | HC 0007 |
| Elly Hes Oral History | Oral history interview conducted by Melissa LeBarge and Irene van der Lugt with post World War Two Dutch immigrant Elly W. Hess about her experiences working in the Dutch Underground in Amsterdam and France | HC 0008 |
| Bernard Meiste Oral History | Worked with Jason Petroelje of Skipper-Craft Boats to build his own 15-foot Skipper-Craft boat in 1959. | HC 0009 |
| Margaret Murphy Oral History | Photographic slide images of the Ottawa Beach area including the Ottawa Beach Hotel, the Murphy family (caretaker of the hotel, boat builder, and livery operator), railroad, and western Black Lake scenes, and oral history transcript and tape recorded in 2003 concerning the Ottawa Beach Hotel and resort area as well as her fathers role as caretaker of the hotel and livery boat operator. | HC 0010 |
| Metta Ross Oral History | This collection contains two oral history interviews conducted by Matthew Nickel concerning Ross with Dick and Phyllis Huff on March 15, 2002, and Paul Fried April 1, 2002. Subjects areas are: Hope College class of 1926; Hope College professor of History and English (19261960); founder of Palette and Masque drama club (forerunner to the Theatre department), and the International Relations Club; awarded a bronze medal by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands for donations and letter writing efforts during World War II; correspondence, history project on Drummond Island | HC 0011 |
| Ethel Sincock Oral History | Widow of Eldred Sincock, longtime employee and foreman for the Campbell Boat Company (1937-1953), owned and operated by Kenneth Campbell (1905-1954) on South Shore Drive | HC 0012 |
| James Wetherbee Oral History | Campbell Boat Company (1937-1953), owned and operated by Kenneth Campbell (1905-1954) on South Shore Drive | HC 0013 |
| Robert Bennett Oral History | Campbell Boat Company (1937-1953), owned and operated by Kenneth Campbell (1905-1954) on South Shore Drive | HC 0014 |
| Rachel Vander Werf (Good) Oral History | Wife of former Hope College President Calvin A. Vander Werf and organizer of the Hope College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa | HC 0015 |
| Larry Wagenaar Oral History | Collection includes an oral history by Larry Wagenaar with Gerald R. Ford in April 1988. Hope College class of 1987; Director of the Joint Archives of Holland, 1988-2001 | HC 0016 |
| Leona Westerhoff Oral History | Former employee of the Chris-Craft Corporation Roamer Steel Boat Division and Chris-Craft Corporation Holland plant in the upholstery department | HC 0017 |
| Rebecca Wineserich Oral History | Former Hope College student (class of 2003) and summer employee in the Kinesiology Department as a trainer from 2001-2003 | HC 0018 |
| Fay Volkers Oral History | Fay Volkers is a former waitress of Boone's City Kitchen/Veurink's City Kitchen. Originally founded in the 1946 by Clarence C. Boone at 68 E. 8th Street in Holland and later purchased from Boone's survivors and co-owner Frank Moser by Gordon Veurink | HC 0019 |
| Gordon Veurink Oral History | Former cook and owner of Boone's City Kitchen/Veurink's City Kitchen. Originally founded in the 1946 by Clarence C. Boone at 68 E. 8th Street in Holland and later purchased from Boone's survivors and co-owner Frank Moser by Gordon Veurink. | HC 0020 |
| Yvonne Love Oral History | A former owner of the Lovecraft Boat Company, a small boat manufacturer once located at 642 West 48th Street, Holland, Michigan (Graafschap) and owned by Dave and Yvonne Love during the early 1970s, and Forest and Russell Homkes after the Love family sold the company. The Homkes family produced the boats at 961 Washington Avenue for a short time. The company made small catamaran paddle boats powered by four cycle Briggs & Stratton engines and foot powered called Puppy Love Pedal Boat and outboard motor powered Puppy Love Pontoon Boat | HC 0021 |
| Forest Homes Oral History | An owner of Lovecraft Boat Company, a small boat manufacturer once located at 642 West 48th Street, Holland, Michigan (Graafschap) and owned by Dave and Yvonne Love during the early 1970s, and Forest and Russell Homkes after the Love family sold the company. The Homkes family produced the boats at 961 Washington Avenue for a short time. The company made small catamaran paddle boats powered by four cycle Briggs & Stratton engines and foot powered called Puppy Love Pedal Boat and outboard motor powered Puppy Love Pontoon Boat | HC 0022 |
| Interviews with Retiring Professors VanZyl, Borgh, and Timmer | Collection includes: Hope College history radio broadcast with William VanderLugt interviewing retiring professors Dr. Gerrit VanZyl, Garrett Vander Borgh, and Al Timmer. Original reel-to-reel tape is located in H88-0200 Wichers, Wynand (1886-1971). | HC 0023 |
| Clarence Thomas De Graaf Oral History | Some records available. | HC 0024 |
| Clarence Kleis Oral History | Some records available. | HC 0025 |
| Irwin Lubbers Oral History | Some records available. | HC 0026 |
| Metta Ross Oral History | Some records available. | HC 0027 |
| William Hillegonds Oral History | Conrad Strauch (student) with retired faculty and administrators of Hope College Records & Correspondence concerning the project and its continuation. | HC 0028 |
| John Hollenbach Oral History | Conrad Strauch (student) with retired faculty and administrators of Hope College Records & Correspondence concerning the project and its continuation. | HC 0029 |
| Lambert Ponstein Oral History | Conrad Strauch (student) with retired faculty and administrators of Hope College Records & Correspondence concerning the project and its continuation. | HC 0030 |
| Henry Steffens Oral History | Conrad Strauch (student) with retired faculty and administrators of Hope College Records & Correspondence concerning the project and its continuation. | HC 0031 |
| Marian Stryker Oral History | Conrad Strauch (student) with retired faculty and administrators of Hope College Records & Correspondence concerning the project and its continuation. | HC 0032 |
| John Ver Beek Oral History | Conrad Strauch (student) with retired faculty and administrators of Hope College Records & Correspondence concerning the project and its continuation. | HC 0033 |
| Edward Wolters Oral History | Conrad Strauch (student) with retired faculty and administrators of Hope College Records & Correspondence concerning the project and its continuation. | HC 0034 |
| Marion de Velder Oral History | Derk M. Strauch (student) with former RCA executive. | HC 0035 |
| Bernard Mulder Oral History | Derk M. Strauch (student) with former RCA executive. | HC 0036 |
| Christian Walvoord Oral History | Derk M. Strauch (student) with former RCA executive. | HC 0037 |
| Homer Hoeksema Oral History | Derk M. Strauch (student) with Homer Hoeksema of the Protestant Reformed Churches. | HC 0038 |
| Rebecca Rivera Oral History | Carol Bechtel (student) with local women. | HC 0039 |
| Margaret Wylen Oral History | Carol Bechtel (student) with local women. | HC 0040 |
| Ruth Keppel Oral History | Carol Bechtel (student) with local women. | HC 0041 |
| Jantina Holleman Oral History | Carol Bechtel (student) with local women. | HC 0042 |
| James Cook Oral History | Carol Bechtel with theologians of Hope College and Western Seminary. | HC 0043 |
| Lester Kuyper Oral History | Carol Bechtel with theologians of Hope College and Western Seminary. | HC 0044 |
| Eugene Osterhaven Oral History | Carol Bechtel with theologians of Hope College and Western Seminary. | HC 0045 |
| Richard Oudersluys Oral History | Carol Bechtel with theologians of Hope College and Western Seminary. | HC 0046 |
| Henry Voogd Oral History | Carol Bechtel with theologians of Hope College and Western Seminary. | HC 0047 |
| D.J. Pree Oral History | Local business people of Holland, MI. | HC 0048 |
| John Donnelly Oral History | Local business people of Holland, MI. | HC 0049 |
| Cornelia Van Voorst Oral History | Local business people of Holland, MI. | HC 0050 |
| Charles Sligh Oral History | Local business person of Holland, MI. | HC 0051 |
| Elmer Scheppers Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0052 |
| John De Pree Oral History Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0053 |
| Robert Visscher Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0054 |
| Nelson Bosman Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0055 |
| Lawrence Lamb Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0056 |
| Louis Hallacy Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0057 |
| Willard Wichers Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0058 |
| Richard Smith Oral History | Former mayor of Holland, MI. | HC 0059 |
| Edgar Prince Oral History | Edgar Prince and his daughter Emilie (Prince) Wierda Evergreen Commons (senior citizens center) of Holland, MI. | HC 0060 |
| Eleanor (DePree) Van Haitsma Oral History | Eleanor (DePree) Van Haitsma, art professor at Hope College, 1950-1957, Holland, MI. | HC 0061 |
| Harvey Buter Oral History | Harvey Buter, a citizen of Holland, MI, who served on city committees and boards. | HC 0062 |
| Vern Boersma Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0063 |
| Nelson Bosman Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0064 |
| Florence Bradford Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0065 |
| Stanley "Doc" Curtis Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0066 |
| William DeLong Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0067 |
| Wayne Fitzgerald Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0068 |
| Clyde Geerlings Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0069 |
| Al Klomparens Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0070 |
| Ruth Keppel Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0071 |
| Katherine Peebles Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0072 |
| Larry Kolb Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0073 |
| Donna Topp Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0074 |
| Herb Marsilje Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0075 |
| Howard Plaggemars Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0076 |
| Jerry Roper Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0077 |
| Vern Schipper Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0078 |
| William Sikkel Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0079 |
| Jay Tinholt Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0080 |
| Bruce Leuwen Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0081 |
| Jay Wabeke Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0082 |
| Geraldine Walvoord Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0083 |
| Henry Weyenberg Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0084 |
| Willard Wichers Oral History | Holland Furnace Company. | HC 0085 |
| Irwin Brink Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, chemistry. | HC 0086 |
| Herbert Dershem Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, computer science. | HC 0087 |
| Eugene Jekel Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, chemistry. | HC 0088 |
| Frank Quiring Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, chemistry summer institute. | HC 0089 |
| Charles Steketee Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, mathematics and science. | HC 0090 |
| James Tharin Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, geology. | HC 0091 |
| Paul Van Faasen Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, biology. | HC 0092 |
| James Neckers Oral History | Science professor at Hope College, Impromptu interview. | HC 0093 |
| Doug Neckers Oral History | Remarks on chemistry department history. | HC 0094 |
| Jay Folkert Oral History | Mathematics. | HC 0095 |
| Harry Frissel Oral History | Chemistry. | HC 0096 |
| Elton Achterhof Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0097 |
| Grace Antoon Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0098 |
| Carl Apple Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0099 |
| Sue Baker Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0100 |
| John Benson Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0101 |
| Myra Berry Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0102 |
| Nathan Bocks Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0103 |
| William Boer Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0104 |
| Vern Boersma Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0105 |
| Al Bonzelaar Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0106 |
| Clyde and Kathleen Borgman Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0107 |
| Deb Bos Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0108 |
| Bryan Bouws Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0109 |
| Catherine Bradford Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0110 |
| Janie Briones Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0111 |
| Phyllis and Harley Brown Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0112 |
| Donald Bruggink Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0113 |
| Lieng Van Bui Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0114 |
| Harvey Buter Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0115 |
| Ekdal and Hermina Buys Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0116 |
| Ernesto Cantu Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0117 |
| Thongwan Champassak Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0118 |
| Savas Chavez Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0119 |
| Charles Cooper Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0120 |
| Gladys Cortes Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0121 |
| Jerry Counihan Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0122 |
| Jessie Dalman Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0123 |
| Laverne Dalman Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0124 |
| Lillian Dalman Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0125 |
| Ed Damson Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0126 |
| Annie Dandavati Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0127 |
| Peg De Haan Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0128 |
| Bill De Long Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0129 |
| Max De Pree Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0130 |
| Marion de Velder Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0131 |
| Michael De Vries Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0132 |
| Herm De Weerd Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0133 |
| Ruth Dirkse Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0134 |
| Patricia Doolittle Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0135 |
| Kay and Larry Dykstra Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0136 |
| Ed Easter Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0137 |
| James Essenburg Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0138 |
| Paul Fabiano Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0139 |
| Deb Feenstra Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0140 |
| Monica Giddy Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0141 |
| Barb Goodman Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0142 |
| Linda Graham Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0143 |
| Eric Gray Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0144 |
| Ray Gutierrez Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0145 |
| Ward and Celia Hamlin Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0146 |
| Carmen Hannah Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0147 |
| Swenna Harger Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0148 |
| Maureen Theresa Harun Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0149 |
| Carol Haverdink Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0150 |
| James Heerspink Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0151 |
| Evelyn Heffron Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0152 |
| Terry Hofmeyer Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0153 |
| Russell Hopkins Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0154 |
| Winifern Hornstra Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0155 |
| Charles Huttar Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0156 |
| Jim Jellison Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0157 |
| Rev. Charles Johnson Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0158 |
| Lois Kayes Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0159 |
| Harriet Kempkers Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0160 |
| Don Kiekintveld Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0161 |
| Marge Klaasen Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0162 |
| Victor Kleinheksel Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0163 |
| Barbara Lampen Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0164 |
| Edith Lappenga Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0165 |
| Ruth Large Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0166 |
| Chuck Lindstrom Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0167 |
| John Maassen Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0168 |
| Toni Mackay Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0169 |
| Beth Marcus Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0170 |
| Imelda Martinez Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0171 |
| Rene and Clara Mascorro Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0172 |
| Al McGeehan Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0173 |
| Charles McLean Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0174 |
| Harriet Meyer Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0175 |
| Diana Mireles Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0176 |
| Cobie Moore Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0177 |
| Emily Mouw Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0178 |
| Henry Mouw Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0179 |
| Socheth Na Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0180 |
| Harry and Sandy Nelis Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0181 |
| Carolyn Nienhuis Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0182 |
| Rosa Nino Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0183 |
| Russ Norden Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0184 |
| Victor Orozco Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0185 |
| M. Osterhaven Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0186 |
| Richard Oudersluys Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0187 |
| Seymour Padnos Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0188 |
| Stuart Padnos Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0189 |
| Ernest Penna Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0190 |
| Herminio Perez Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0191 |
| Howard Poll Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0192 |
| Lambert Ponstein Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0193 |
| Don Postma Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0194 |
| Jean Postma Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0195 |
| Leona Postma Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0196 |
| Clare Pott Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0197 |
| Khamphan Pradith Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0198 |
| Aden Ramirez Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0199 |
| Joyce Rapier Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0200 |
| Lucille Rauch Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0201 |
| Luis Rebolledo Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0202 |
| Meridith Ridl Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0203 |
| Al Rios Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0204 |
| Julio Rios Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0205 |
| Fred Rodriguez Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0206 |
| Anital Rudel Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0207 |
| Elizabeth Schaap Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0208 |
| Howard and Marybelle Schipper Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0209 |
| Vern Schipper Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0210 |
| Eugene Scholten Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0211 |
| Juliet Schutmaat Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0212 |
| John Schutten Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0213 |
| Al Serrano Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0214 |
| Marion Shackson Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0215 |
| Charles and Millie Shidler Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0216 |
| William Sikkel Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0218 |
| Antonio Soto Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0219 |
| Margaret Steffens Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0220 |
| Clifford Steketee Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0221 |
| Cornelius Steketee Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0222 |
| Bill Stronks Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0223 |
| Mary Stygstra Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0224 |
| Elaine Tanis Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0225 |
| Maria Tapia Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0226 |
| Art and Janet Tazelaar Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0227 |
| Henry ten Hoor Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0228 |
| Clayton Ter Haar Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0229 |
| Eugene Teusink Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0230 |
| Howard Topp Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0231 |
| Drew Torres Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0232 |
| James Townsend Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0233 |
| Maria Trevino Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0234 |
| Mike Van Ark Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0235 |
| Ralph Van Asperen Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0236 |
| Jan Bosch Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0237 |
| Trudy Hill Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0238 |
| Henry VanderLinde Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0239 |
| Henry Plow Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0240 |
| Gerald Vusse Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0241 |
| Randy Water Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0242 |
| Mary Wege Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0243 |
| Evelyn Van Dorp Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0244 |
| Lillian Van Dyke Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0245 |
| Isla Van Eenanam Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0246 |
| Paul Van Faasen Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0247 |
| Dr. Titus Van Haitsma Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0248 |
| Juke Van Oss Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0249 |
| Edwin Van Spyker Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0250 |
| Julia Van Tatenhove Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0251 |
| Gordon Van Wylen Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0252 |
| Kathleen Verduin Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0253 |
| Jan Ver Helst Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0254 |
| Lydia Villagran Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0255 |
| Cora Visscher Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0256 |
| Bill Vogelzang Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0257 |
| Larry Wagenaar Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0258 |
| Earl Weener Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0259 |
| Theresa Weerstra Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0260 |
| Virgil White Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0261 |
| John Wiechertjes Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0262 |
| Alta Wilburn Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0263 |
| Dale Wyngarden Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0264 |
| Bruce Yam Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0265 |
| John Yelding Oral History | Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and Ann Paeth (1997) were the Summer Semester Student Coordinators. Interviews were transcribed through summer 1998. Also includes a paper written on the history of Holland for the past fifty years by Tracy Bednarick. | HC 0266 |
| Hope Religion Department Interviews | Brian Williams on the history of the Hope Religion department. Excerpts from college catalogs, interviews with religion department faculty, departmental requirements, chapel attendance controversy and information on key department members | HC 0267 |
| Hope English Department Interviews | Christine Modey on the history of the Hope College English department. Excerpts from college catalog, interviews with English department faculty and information from other sources | HC 0268 |
| Andres Fierro Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0269 |
| Frances Gamez Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0270 |
| Alfredo Gonzales Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0271 |
| Luciano Hernandez Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0272 |
| Rebecca Loera Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0273 |
| Rick Muniz Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0274 |
| Randy Pacheco Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0275 |
| Celestino Reyes Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0276 |
| Lupita Reyes Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0277 |
| Alberto Serrano Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0278 |
| Teodoro Silva Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0279 |
| Juan Sosa Oral History | Member of the Holland Hispanic community. | HC 0280 |
| Burton McRoy Oral History | Longtime resident of Macatawa Park. | HC 0281 |
| William Jesiek Oral History | Longtime resident of Macatawa Park. | HC 0282 |
| Lois Kayes Oral History | Longtime resident of Macatawa Park. | HC 0283 |
| Robert Evans Oral History | Longtime resident of Macatawa Park. | HC 0284 |
| Richard De Uyl Oral History | Longtime resident of Macatawa Park. | HC 0285 |
| J.M. Boshka Oral History | Longtime resident of Macatawa Park. | HC 0286 |
| Arthur Tazelaar Oral History | Longtime resident of Macatawa Park. | HC 0287 |
| Neal and Ann Berghoef Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0288 |
| Tine Buursma Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0289 |
| Jaap de Blecour Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0290 |
| Case and Elsa Deventer Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0291 |
| Fred and Helen Hoekstra Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0292 |
| Harry and Corry Hoekstra Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0293 |
| Margaret Kleis Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0294 |
| John and Tina Muller Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0295 |
| Neal and Mary Wagenaar Oral History | Dutch Immigrant who emigrated to the United States after World War II. | HC 0296 |
| Hero Bratt Oral History | Elderly Holland resident (non-immigrant). | HC 0297 |
| Marguerite Prins Oral History | Elderly Holland resident (non-immigrant). | HC 0298 |
| Ray and Enriquetta Gutierrez Oral History | Andrea Peschiera with Hispanic residents of Holland. Includes questions asked and photographs. | HC 0299 |
| Jacobo Trevino Oral History | Interview is also with Crecenciana Robles de Trevino. | HC 0300 |
| Joseph and Lela Puente Oral History | Andrea Peschiera with Hispanic residents of Holland. Includes questions asked and photographs. | HC 0301 |
| Albino Rios Oral History | Andrea Peschiera with Hispanic residents of Holland. Includes questions asked and photographs. | HC 0302 |
| Lupita Reyes Oral History | Andrea Peschiera with Hispanic residents of Holland. Includes questions asked and photographs. | HC 0303 |
| Nereida Garcia Oral History | Andrea Peschiera with Hispanic residents of Holland. Includes questions asked and photographs. | HC 0304 |
| Jospephina Sosa Oral History | Andrea Peschiera with Hispanic residents of Holland. Includes questions asked and photographs. | HC 0305 |
| Enrique Sanchez Oral History | Andrea Peschiera with Hispanic residents of Holland. Includes questions asked and photographs. | HC 0306 |
| Kiyoko Dekker Oral History | Japanese resident of Holland. | HC 0307 |
| Leang Eap Oral History | Cambodian resident of Holland. | HC 0308 |
| Wallace Fu Oral History | Chinese resident of Holland. | HC 0309 |
| Eric Gray Oral History | African-American resident of Holland. | HC 0310 |
| Young K. Oral History | Korean resident of Holland. Interviewed with Ben S. Hur. | HC 0311 |
| Pilkyu Kim Oral History | Korean resident of Holland. | HC 0312 |
| Thongwan LeaumChampassak Oral History | Laotian resident of Holland. | HC 0313 |
| Mary McIntosh Oral History | American involved with the Vietnamese Community. | HC 0314 |
| Tung Nguyen Oral History | Vietnamese resident of Holland. | HC 0315 |
| Ranong Silakhom Oral History | Laotian/Thai resident of Holland. | HC 0316 |
| Vongdeuane Singhanath Oral History | Laotian resident of Holland. | HC 0317 |
| Germaine Smith Oral History | African-American resident of Holland. | HC 0318 |
| Kouy Tang Oral History | Cambodian resident of Holland. | HC 0319 |
| Khon Tep Oral History | Cambodian resident of Holland. | HC 0320 |
| Bich Thuy Tran Oral History | Vietnamese resident of Holland. | HC 0321 |
| Binh Tran Oral History | Vietnamese resident of Holland. | HC 0322 |
| Xuong Tran Oral History | Vietnamese resident of Holland. | HC 0323 |
| Hollis Wells Oral History | African-American resident of Holland. | HC 0324 |
| Ella Weymon Oral History | African-American resident of Holland. | HC 0325 |
| Nell Wichers Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. Collection also contains a research paper written by Jason Upchurch entitled "A Brief History of Tulip Time." | HC 0326 |
| Hattie Grigsby Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0327 |
| Jaap deBlecourt Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0328 |
| Kristi Van Howe Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0329 |
| John Karsten Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0330 |
| Dawn Bredeweg Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0331 |
| Margaret Van Vyven Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0332 |
| Larry Overbeek Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0333 |
| Andy Van Slot Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0334 |
| Barbara Appledorn Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0335 |
| Harry Hoekstra Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0336 |
| Mr.and Mrs. Marvin Freestone Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0337 |
| Beverly Harper Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0338 |
| Marilyn Kooiker Oral History | Interview is also with Ken Kooiker. | HC 0339 |
| Jack Leenhouts Oral History | Interview is also with Thelma Leenhouts. | HC 0340 |
| Steve Zwiep Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0341 |
| Louis Hallacy Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0342 |
| Sharon Koops Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0343 |
| Mary Duistermars Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0344 |
| Randy Water Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0345 |
| Roger Stroh Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0346 |
| Bill Rogers Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0347 |
| Marie Zingle Oral History | Jason Upchurch with individuals involved with Tulip Time. | HC 0348 |
| John Boersma Oral History | Haworth, Inc. | HC 0349 |
| Clarence Boeve Oral History | Herman Miller | HC 0350 |
| Bradford T. Judson Oral History | Bradford Company | HC 0351 |
| Linda Bruursema Oral History | Old Kent Bank-Holland | HC 0352 |
| William "Bill" Clay Oral History | Louis Padnos Iron and Metal | HC 0353 |
| Randall DePree Oral History | Heinze USA-Holland | HC 0354 |
| Gloria Gomez Oral History | Heinze USA-Holland | HC 0355 |
| G.W. Haworth Oral History | Haworth, Inc. | HC 0356 |
| Kristi Heyboer Oral History | Haworth, Inc. | HC 0357 |
| Davis Hippolito Oral History | Louis Padnos Iron and Metal | HC 0358 |
| JoAnn Jalving Oral History | Bradford Company | HC 0359 |
| Maryam Komejan Oral History | Donnelly Corporation | HC 0360 |
| Seymour Padnos Oral History | Louis Padnos Iron and Metal | HC 0361 |
| Grace Piersma Oral History | Old Kent Bank-Holland | HC 0362 |
| Jerrald Redeker Oral History | Old Kent Bank-Holland | HC 0363 |
| Raymond Schaap Oral History | Herman Miller | HC 0364 |
| Jerry Shoup Oral History | Heinz USA-Holland | HC 0365 |
| Mary Jellema Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0366 |
| Judy Motiff Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0367 |
| Anthony Muiderman Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0368 |
| Nancy Nicodemus Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0369 |
| Robert Ritsema Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0370 |
| Elliot Tanis Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0371 |
| Rick Vandervelde Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0372 |
| Paul Van Faasen Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0373 |
| James Van Putten Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0374 |
| John Wilson Oral History | Retired member of Hope College faculty. | HC 0375 |
| Julius Becksvoort Oral History | Julius is a veteran. Interview is also with Sylvia Becksvoort | HC 0376 |
| Howard Deur Oral History | Howard is a veteran. | HC 0377 |
| Peter Douma Oral History | Peter is a veteran. | HC 0378 |
| Nelson Dykema Oral History | Interview is also with Caroline Dykema | HC 0379 |
| James Hoekstra Oral History | Interview is also with Grace Hoekstra. | HC 0380 |
| Eugen Kozak Oral History | Eugen is a veteran. | HC 0381 |
| Milton Pike Oral History | Milton is a veteran. Interview is also with Laura-Lee Pike | HC 0382 |
| Lawrence Schipper Oral History | Lawrence is a veteran. Interview is also with Jean Schipper | HC 0383 |
| Robert Snow Oral History | Robert is a veteran. Interview is also with Rita Snow | HC 0384 |
| John Steensma Oral History | Interview is also with Juliana Steensma. | HC 0385 |
| John Timmer Oral History | John is a veteran. Interview is also with Barbara Timmer. | HC 0386 |
| Lisa Bancuk Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0387 |
| Richard Bonge Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0388 |
| Burton Borr Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0389 |
| Paul DeBoer Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0390 |
| Robert DeVries Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0391 |
| Dave Guikema Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0392 |
| Russell Hopkins Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0393 |
| John Kruithoff Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0394 |
| Earl Doc Scholl Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0395 |
| Drew Torres Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0396 |
| Ollie Wierenga Oral History | Matthew Nickel with current and past members of the Holland Police Department concerning the history of law enforcement in the City of Holland. Collection also includes newspaper articles, research material and slides. | HC 0397 |
| William Bloemendaal Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0398 |
| Dr. Vern Boersma Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0399 |
| Melvin Budgell Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0400 |
| Rev. Dale Cooper Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0401 |
| Forrest Fynewever Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0402 |
| Ruth Fyneweaver Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0403 |
| Linda Gebben Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0404 |
| Katherine Lambers Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0405 |
| Jan Lozon Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0406 |
| Cherry Overway Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0407 |
| Sergio Pieksma-Delange Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0408 |
| Greg Shaw Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0409 |
| Edward Sjoerdsma Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0410 |
| Art Souter Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0411 |
| Ray and Doris Souter Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0412 |
| Ken Souter Oral History | Matthew Nickel interviews with Holland, Michigan, polio survivors. Collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, research material and slides. | HC 0413 |
| Gail Hering Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0414 |
| Harold Streur Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0415 |
| Patrick Thompson Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0416 |
| Delores Slikkers Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0417 |
| David Slikkers Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0418 |
| Rob Sligh Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0419 |
| Richard Ruch Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0420 |
| Seymour Padnos Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0421 |
| Lawrence Lee Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0422 |
| Robert "Buzz" Kersman Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0423 |
| G. Haworth Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0424 |
| Louis Hallacy Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0425 |
| Ron Griffith Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0426 |
| Carl Frost Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0427 |
| Bernard Donnelly Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0428 |
| Gary DeWitt Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0429 |
| Max DePree Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0430 |
| Charles Conrad Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0431 |
| James Brooks Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0432 |
| Dwane Baumgardner Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0433 |
| Fred Bauer Oral History | Ryan Harvey with Holland area business leaders who have utilized the Scanlon Plan, a form of management where all employees are encouraged to take a more active role in the company. | HC 0434 |
| Eva Ackerman Oral History | An interview with Eva Ackerman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Eva Ackerman was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926. Although an only child, Eva was part of a large extended family, most of whom perished during the war. Eva's parents divorced when she was young and she was raised by her mother. She had a reasonably normal childhood, even after the war began until the German annexation of Hungary in 1944. Eva was separated from her mother and marched to Zurndorf, Austria. She was put on a train to a labor camp in Landsberg from which she was eventually liberated. Her father perished in an air raid shortly before the end of the war and her mother died in Bergen-Belsen | b12600611 |
| Martin Adler Oral History | An interview with Martin Adler, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Martin Adler was born in 1929 in Volové, a village in Subcarpathian Ruthania. He was the oldest child and had two brothers and a sister. His village was occupied by Hungarians in 1939 when he was ten years old. Martin's father was conscripted into a labor unit in Russia from 1941 until the end of 1942. Eventually the family lost their store due to the Jewish laws. The Germans occupied the area in March of 1944 and soon after the family was deported, first to a ghetto in Sokirnitsa and then to Auschwitz where his mother and siblings were gassed. Martin and his father were sent to Buchenwald and then to Dora where his father was killed. Martin was eventually liberated by the British from Bergen-Belsen | b1234350x |
| Marton Adler Oral History | An interview with Marton Adler, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Marton Adler was born in 1929 and lived in a Czechoslovakian town called Volové. When the war started, life did not change much for Marton until his father was sent to a labor camp for two years in 1941. In March of 1944 all the Jews of Volové were deported, first to a ghetto set up in Sokirnitsa, a nearby town, and then to Auschwitz. Marton and his father were the only members of his immediate family to survive Auschwitz. They were there for three days before being sent to Buchenwald and later to Dora concentration camp, where his father was killed. At Dora, Marton worked as a clothes sorter until the camp was evacuated to Bergen-Belsen where he was liberated by the British on April 15, 1945 | b12103901 |
| Olga Adler Oral History | An interview with Olga Adler, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Jonathon Fishbane. Olga Adler was born in Beregszász Czechoslovakia. After the Hungarians invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, Olga's parents sent her to Budapest where she worked as a clothing model until the Budapest Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Olga's life was spared after a failed escape attempt and she lived in several camps until she was sent back to the Budapest ghetto as a nurse to the elderly and insane who had been left there. Olga's immediate family, her father, mother, brother and sister, all perished in forced labor or death camps. Upon liberation, Olga returned to her hometown, got married, and soon left for the United States when the Russians took over their town | b12830331 |
| Irving Altus Oral History | An interview with Irving Altus, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Bernie Kent. Irving Altus was born in 1920 in Czekanów, Poland. He was the middle child in a family consisting of his parents and five children, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Germans arrested Irving and sent him to various labor camps throughout Europe, including one in Königsberg, Germany. In 1942, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and assigned to an external labor kommando approximately 50 miles from the main camp. In 1945, he participated in a forced march towards Germany, eventually ending up at Theresienstadt. He was there one day before being liberated by the Soviet army. After the war, Mr. Altus returned briefly to his hometown and then relocated to Munich, Germany. He emigrated to the United States with his wife and son in 1949 | b1261564x |
| Eugene Arden Oral History | An interview with Eugene Arden conducted by Dr. Sidney , Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Eugene Arden was a corporal in the United States Army during World War II. His military government unit was attached to the U.S. 7th Army as it travelled into Germany. The unit was responsible for closing down Nazi labor camps and establishing DP (displaced persons) camps. The unit eventually helped liberate Landsberg, a sub-camp of Dachau. After the war ended, Eugene and his unit spent the post-war period in Heidelberg, Germany | b12615651 |
| Peri Berki Oral History | An interview with Peri Berki, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by an unidentified interviewer. Peri Berki was born in 1900 in Hungary. After her husband was deported to a labor camp and their farmland taken away, Peri and her son lived in a ghetto with her sister and at one point, with thirty-nine other people, in a one-bedroom apartment. With the help of her husband and a Gentile innkeeper, they obtained false papers, moved to the Hungarian countryside, and assumed Gentile identities. Throughout the war, they posed as Gentiles, avoiding detection and receiving help from several strangers. When the war ended, the family was reunited and they again obtained false papers to immigrate to the United States | b12769113 |
| Szymon Binke Oral History | An interview with Szymon Binke, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Binke was born in 1931 in Lódz, Poland. Shortly after the Nazi invasion his family was moved to the city's Baluty district which became the Lódz ghetto. In 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where his mother and sister were gassed. Szymon was placed in the Kinderblock but escape from it to join his father and uncles in the main camp of Auschwitz. Later he was transferred to a series of forced labor camps until he was liberated in May 1945 | b12410603 |
| Eva Boros Oral History | An interview with Eva Boros, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Kay Roth. Eva was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1932. After the German annexation of the area, Eva's father began sending her siblings to Budapest, Hungary. Eva was smuggled there in 1944 however, the German invasion of that country prompted her to return to Bratislava. In September 1944, Eva was sent to the countryside surrounding Bratislava in order to go into hiding. Following the end of the war, Eva immigrated to Israel and then to the United States in 1969 | b12713867 |
| Larry Brenner Oral History | An interview with Larry Brenner, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Larry Brenner was born in Vásárosnamény, Hungary in 1924. With the outbreak of the war, his father was sent to a forced labor camp and Larry went to live in Budapest to help an aunt run her business. In 1944, Larry was deported to a forced labor camp in Jászberény, the first of several forced labor camps to which he was sent. Larry was liberated from Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen, and after liberation, he spent the next several years finding surviving family members and dodging the Hungarian Army draft. In 1948, Larry immigrated to America | b12861194 |
| Irene Butter Oral History | An interview with Dr. Irene Hasenberg Butter, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Dr. Butter was born in Berlin in 1930 but moved to Holland with her family in 1937. In June 1943 the family was deported, first to Westerbork, a transit camp, and then in Feb. 1944 to Bergen-Belsen. The family managed to be included in an exchange transport in early 1945, using falsified Equadorian passports. During the transport her father died. The rest of the family were released and went to North Africa and later moved to New York City after the war ended | b12043722 |
| Bella Camhi Oral History | An interview with Bella Camhi, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Bella Camhi was born in Salonika, Greece, ca. 1925. Following the German occupation of Greece, Bella, along with her mother, father and three sisters, was placed in the Salonika Ghetto. In 1943, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where everyone, except Bella and another sister, was gassed on arrival. Bella was assigned to work in the Kanada Kommando and her younger sister was placed in the Kinderblock, from where she was later sent to the gas chambers. Sometime in 1944, Bella was moved out of Auschwitz-Birkenau, loaded onto a wagon and later abandoned in an empty field. After being liberated, Bella walked to Munich, Germany. She later returned to Salonika and finally immigrated to the United States sometime in the early 1950s | b1267655x |
| Franka Charlupski Oral History | An interview with Franka Weintraub Charlupski, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Charlupski was born in 1920 and lived with her family in Lódz, Poland. The Weintraubs were in the Lódz ghetto from 1940 until August 1944 when they were transported to Auschwitz and separated. Her mother died in Auschwitz and her father died in a labor camp. Franka and her sister spent three days in Auschwitz before being moved to a labor camp outside of Bremen, Germany. On April 7, 1945 this camp was closed and the inmates were moved to Bergen-Belsen where they were liberated by the British Army on April 15 | b12069024 |
| Eva Cigler Oral History | An interview with Eva Cigler, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Eva Lipton. Eva Cigler was born in Beregszász, Czechoslovakia in 1926. After the Hungarian annexation of the area, Eva's family, consisting of her mother, father, four sisters and one brother, experienced increasing anti-Semitism from the Hungarians. In 1944, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where her mother, father, brother, and one sister were gassed. After some time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Eva was transported to an unspecified satellite camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. From there she was sent to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated. After spending some time in a Displaced Persons Camp in Celle, Germany, Eva returned to Beregszász for a brief time. From there she went to Prague and immigrated to the United States | b1271186x |
| Barbara Cohen Oral History | An interview with Barbara Schechter Cohen, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Cohen, born in 1941, is a child survivor of the Holocaust. Following the outbreak of the war, Barbara and her mother were separated from her father. Traveling on forged papers, Barbara and her mother went to Austria, where her mother worked as a farm hand part of the time. An Austrian woman took Barbara in for a time. Towards the end of the war, Barbara's mother suspected that the woman wanted to keep the child so on her last visit, she ran away with Barbara. At the conclusion of the war the two were placed in a displaced person (DP) camp outside Stuttgart Germany, where they were reunited with Barbara's father. The family immigrated to the United States in 1946 | b12628311 |
| Regina Cohen Oral History | An interview with Regina Cohen, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Regina Cohen was born in Chust, Czechoslovakia in 1929. She was the fifth child of nine in a middle class Orthodox family. She and her family were sent to the ghetto in Chust and then were deported to Auschwitz in spring 1944. After a few months, she was selected to work in a Siemens factory near Nuremberg. She was then moved to a factory in Nuremberg where the American Army liberated her. Regina went home to Chust to find her only surviving family, one sister and one brother. Regina and her sister moved out of Russian occupied Czechoslovakia into a DP camp in Heidenheim, Germany where they stayed for three years. Regina continued her education in the DP camp and learned English in order to move to Montreal to be a mother's helper for a Jewish family. She met her husband in Windsor and soon moved to Detroit to start her family | b12848050 |
| Simon Cymerath Oral History | An interview with Simon Cymerath, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Simon Cymerath grew up in a close-knit family in Starowice [Starowicea], Poland. When the Germans first occupied Starowice, the family was moved into a ghetto and Simon was first sent to work in a local factory and then to work in a forced labor camp. Simon escaped from the labor camp with the help of a Jewish contractor and returned home to Starowice where he went back to work in the factory. Soon after, the family was sent to Treblinka where Simon's parents and youngest brother perished Simon and two other brothers were separated and sent to Auschwitz. Simon survived Auschwitz working as a painter on a Monowitz work detail. In April 1945, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners forced on a death march that ended with their liberation by the Americans. After liberation, Simon worked several years with the American army, reunited with his surviving brother, and immigrated to the United States in 1950 | b1282561x |
| Bert Dan Oral History | An interview with Bert Dan, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Kay Roth. Bert Dan was born in Cluj, Romania in 1916. He served as a soldier in the Romanian army at the outbreak of World War II. After the Hungarians occupied Romania, he was arrested and imprisoned for a year upon his release Bert was drafted into various labor camps and work details throughout Eastern Europe. During a forced march back to Hungary, he escaped with a group of other prisoners and was found by the Russian army. He was freed and eventually returned to Cluj. Bert began to work with Jewish committees helping to locate and assist Hungarian and Romanian Jews returning to their homes from Poland. He eventually set up a committee office in Prague, Czechoslovakia where he was reunited with his fiancée. They married after the end of the war and immigrated to the United States in 1949 | b12857397 |
| Clara Dan Oral History | An interview with Clara Dan, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Clara Dan was born in Tîrgu-Mures, Romania (later Hungary) in 1921. Clara was the youngest of three siblings. In the spring of 1944, Clara, her sister and her parents were rounded up and placed in a makeshift ghetto in Koloszvar, Hungary. After several weeks there, they were shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Clara and her sister survived the selection on the ramp and were reunited in the camp. After some time in Auschwitz, Clara and her sister were sent to work in a bullet factory in Hundsfeld. When the Russians came too close to the area, the sisters were marched to Gross Rosen and then sent to Bergen-Belsen where the British Army liberated them. After the war, Clara and her sister were placed in a DP camp in Celle, Germany where they were reunited with their brother | b12777262 |
| Lila Denes Oral History | An interview with Lila Denes, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Born in a small town in Hungary, Mrs. Denes moved to Budapest in 1940 with her husband. Her husband was taken to labor camps several times between 1940 and the end of the war. When the Germans occupied Budapest in 1944, Mrs. Denes had two small children, Judy and George. Using false papers, she assumed the identity of an unwed mother and was treated as such by the people around her. She was in Budapest when the Soviet army liberated it. Her husband returned soon after the liberation. Again using false papers, the family fled Hungary after the war and eventually settled in Detroit, Michigan in 1955 | b12213160 |
| Henry Dorfman Oral History | An interview with Henry Dorfman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Born in Glowaczow, Poland in 1922, Henry Dorfman was one of four children in a large Orthodox family. Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Dorfman family continued to live in Glowaczow under an increasing amount of persecution from the Nazi occupation forces. The family was relocated to a large ghetto in Kozienice in 1941. While in the ghetto, Henry and his father were separated from his mother and three siblings and used as laborers on the estate of a Volksdeutsche (native German) aristocrat. Sometime in the fall of 1942, the entire Dorfman family was rounded-up and put on a transport to the Treblinka death camp. Once again, separated from his mother and siblings, Henry and his father escaped from the train. His mother and siblings died en route to, or immediately upon arrival at Treblinka. Following their escape, Henry and his father hid in a barn and were given assistance by one of the workers employed by the Volksdeutsche aristocrat. Later they served in a partisan unit until the area was liberated by the Soviet Army in 1944. Henry remained in Europe for several years following the end of the war, helping his father establish two businesses in Lodz, Poland and establishing his own in Germany. He later moved to the United States with his wife, Mala, whom he met in Poland after the war | b12576700 |
| Mala Dorfman Oral History | An interview with Mala Weintraub Dorfman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mala Weintraub Dorfman was born in Lódz, Poland in 1923. When the war broke out in 1939, Mala and three of her five siblings were sent to live with their grandmother in the Kozienice ghetto. Mala worked as a nurse in the ghetto until she was deported to Skarzysko where she worked in an ammunitions factory for two years. She was deported to Czestochowa where she was liberated a year later by the Russians. After the war, Mala returned to Lódz, married and was reunited with her sisters in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. Mala lived with her husband in Germany until heir immigration to the United States in 1949 | b12854487 |
| Noemi Ebenstein Oral History | An interview with Noemi Engel Ebenstein, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Ebenstein, born in 1941, is a child survivor of the Holocaust. In her interview she retells stories told to her by her mother about how the family survived the Holocaust. Her father was sent to a forced labor camp when Noemi was a baby. In May 1944, Noemi, her brother and mother were deported from Subotica, Yugoslavia to the camps, first to Strasshof labor and then to Moosbierbaum where they were liberated by the Soviet army | b12269608 |
| Alexander Ehrmann Oral History | An interview with Alexander Ehrmann, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Alexander Ehrmann was born in Kralovsky Chlumec, Czechoslovakia, which became part of Hungary in 1938. His family consisted of himself, his parents, two brothers and three sisters. In 1944 the family was deported to a ghetto and then to Auschwitz where his parents, a sister and her son were killed. After the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto ended, Mr. Ehrmann was transferred from Auschwitz to Warsaw with a labor group to salvage materials from the ghetto. After spending five days in Dachau, he was transferred to Muhldorf, where the inmates were building an underground aircraft factory. When the camp was evacuated, Mr. Ehrmann and other inmates were put on a train and moved back and forth in the unoccupied area until they were liberated by American troops. After the war he was reunited with two sisters and his younger brother | b12089308 |
| Anne Eisenberg Oral History | An interview with Anne Eisenberg, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Charlene Green. Anne Eisenberg was born in Slatinske Doly, in Czechoslovakia. As a child, she and her family moved to Sighet. Following the Hungarian annexation of Sighet, Anne's father and brothers were conscripted by Hungarian authorities and sent away for forced labor. In 1944, Anne, along with her sisters, mother and aunt were placed in the ghetto in Sighet and then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where only Anne and one sister survived. They were then shipped to the forced labor camp Gelsenkirchen and then to Sömmerda. They were liberated near Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1945. Anne was then placed in a DP camp near Linz, Austria. Following a return to Sighet, she immigrated to the United States | b12766938 |
| Luba Elbaum Oral History | An interview with Luba Elbaum, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Arthur Kirsch. Luba Elbaum was born on Jan. 10, 1923 in Lublin, Poland. When the war broke out, she worked with her family for the Germans. While her family was taken to the ghettos in Lublin and Belzyce, Luba worked on a farm for the Germans. In 1941 she was deported to Budzyn to be a housemaid for the Oberscharführer Felix. A year later, Luba was deported to Plaszów for work detail, then to Auschwitz. In 1944, she was transported to Bergen-Belsen where she was selected along with 300 other girls to be deported to Aschersleben to work. Luba was then forced on a six-week death march to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia where she was liberated on May 8, 1945 | b12903814 |
| Isaac Engel Oral History | An interview with Isaac Engel, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Isaac Engel was born in Zwolén, Poland ca. 1921. Following the German invasion in 1939, Isaac and his family hid from the Germans in the village of Zileonka. Shortly thereafter, the family separated and Isaac moved between local villages. In 1942, Isaac's family left hiding and went to the town of Ciepielów where they were rounded-up by the Germans and either killed on the spot or deported to Treblinka. Isaac was sent to Skarzysko-Kamienna as a forced laborer for the Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft (HASAG). From Skarzysko-Kamienna, Isaac was sent to Gross-Rosen, Nordhausen, Dora and Bergen-Belsen. After liberation, Isaac was placed in the displaced persons (DP) camp at Celle, where he remained until 1949 | b12651552 |
| Eugene Feldman Oral History | An interview with Eugene Feldman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Eugene Feldman was born in the late 1920s in Glinka, Poland. Situated in the Soviet zone of occupation after 1939, Glinka was under Soviet rule until 1941. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Eugene and his family were sent to the nearby ghetto in Stolin. During an Aktion, Eugene, his father, stepmother, and cousin hid from the Germans, escaped from the ghetto and returned to Glinka. They left the village and hid in the countryside, following a band of partisans through White Russia (Belarus). After the war, Eugene went to Lódz, Poland and then on to a DP camp in Freimann, Germany. From there he immigrated to the United States | b12694927 |
| Manya Feldman Oral History | An interview with Manya Auster Feldman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Manya was born in Dombrovitsa, Poland in 1923. Her family was Orthodox and considerably large, numbering close to 200. Following the outbreak of the war in 1939, the Soviet Union occupied Dombrovitsa. Russian occupation ended in 1941 with the German invasion of the Soviet Union and Manya's hometown fell into German hands. The Jews immediately felt the effects of German anti-Semitic measures. In August 1942, the Germans liquidated the ghetto in Dombrovitsa and Manya, along with her father, brother and eldest sister escaped into the forest. Her mother and two other sisters remained and were deported to the nearby town of Sarny where they were murdered. After fleeing the Germans, Manya and her remaining family joined the Kovpak partisan movement. Manya was separated from her father and siblings and spent the remainder of the war hiding in several small villages in the region and serving in different partisan units. Her father and siblings were killed in combat. Following the end of the war, Manya was placed in a DP camp in Berlin. She then emigrated to the United States | b12554844 |
| Lily Fenster Oral History | An interview with Lily Fenster, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Lily Fenster was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. After the German invasion of Poland, Lily, along with her mother, father and five sisters, was placed in the Warsaw Ghetto. After some time, Lily was able to escape from the ghetto, leaving her family behind. In the ghetto, her four sisters died from hunger and her father disappeared. After making her way to Luków Podlaski, Lily was able to work on a farm and raised enough money to have her mother smuggled out of the ghetto. Within six weeks of the reunion, Lily's mother was deported to Treblinka where she died. Lily, having obtained a Kennkarte, and hiding among the gentile population, was able to evade capture. After her mother's deportation, Lily moved into the main city of Luków Podlaski, where she obtained work as a nurse until the Russian liberation. While in Luków Podlaski she met her future husband. After the war, Lily made her way to Lódz and then on to Germany. She emigrated to the United States in 1951 | b12651564 |
| Fred Ferber Oral History | An interview with Fred Ferber, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Mr. Ferber was born in 1930 in Swietchlowice, Poland. In 1933, the Ferber family re-located to Chorzów, Poland and then to Kraków, Poland, ca. 1936. Following the German invasion, the Ferbers were forced into the Kraków Ghetto located in Podgórze. In 1943, the family was rounded-up and sent to the Plaszów forced labor camp. While in Plaszów, Fred's father was murdered by the camp's Kommandant, Amon Goethe. Fred worked in the metal and fabric shops in the camp while his mother worked in a labor detail. Fred's brother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he died. Fred was separated from his mother when he was transferred with a number of other prisoners to the Mauthausen forced labor camp in Austria. From there, Fred was transferred to Gusen II and then to Gunskirchen (both sub-camps of Mauthausen). He was liberated by the American Army in May 1945. Following liberation and a short stay in a DP camp where he recuperated from typhus and dysentery, Fred returned to Poland to find his family. He was reunited with his mother in Sopot, Poland. He moved around Europe until the late 1940s, when he emigrated to America. In the United States, he stayed in an orphanage in San Francisco, while attending school and college | b12537731 |
| Miriam Ferber Oral History | An interview with Miriam Monczyk-Laczkowska Ferber, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Soon after Miriam's birth in 1942 in Sosnowiec, Poland, the Monczyk family was moved to the Srodula ghetto on the outskirts of the city. Miriam's mother asked the Laczkowskas, a Polish family who were former neighbors and friends, to take care of the infant Miriam until her mother could return for her. The Laczkowskas agreed and smuggled Miriam out of the ghetto. The Nazis murdered Miriam's father in the ghetto. Her mother and brother were deported to a death camp sometime later and never returned for her. Miriam spent the remainder of the war in the care of the Laczkowskas. She was portrayed by the family as the illegitimate daughter of the oldest Laczkowska daughter and was raised as a Polish Catholic. Near the end of the war, Mr. Laczkowska was deported to Gusen, a sub-camp of Mauthausen, where he died of typhus. Following the war, Miriam continued her life as a Polish Catholic. While still a teenager, Miriam found out about her Jewish background. As part of a program developed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to bring European Jews to America, Miriam was separated from her foster family and brought to America | b12537743 |
| Charlotte Firestone Oral History | An interview with Charlotte Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Mrs. Firestone, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, relates her experiences in Czechoslovakia and Poland before, during and after the war. Prior to the birth of her son in August 1942, her husband was taken to the Soviet Union where he was imprisoned and remained throughout the war. Mrs. Firestone and her son moved in with her parents. After the German occupation of Munkacs in 1944, they were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where her mother and son were gassed upon arrival. After a short time in Birkenau, Mrs. Firestone and her sister were sent to Stutthof, another concentration camp in Poland, then they were relocated to Praust, a sub-camp. While in Stutthof, Mrs. Firestone was made a Stubälteste and in that capacity, served as a senior inmate in charge of the barrack. After spending six months in Praust, the sisters were evacuated. While on the march west, they managed to escape, evading capture by posing as Hungarian nurses. Later she was reunited with her husband and emigrated to the United States in 1955 | b12543342 |
| Nancy Furdonski Oral History | An interview with Nancy Furdonski, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Charlene Green. Nancy Furdonski was born in Zlozew, Poland. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, Nancy, along with her mother, father and several siblings, fled to the nearby town of ZduÅska Wola, where Nancy's two older sisters lived. Following a brief stay there, Nancy, along with one sister and brother, went to stay with their grandmother in Szadek, Poland. After some time, Nancy and her family returned to Zdunska Wola where they remained in the ghetto until 1942. When the Germans liquidated the Zdunska Wola ghetto in 1942, Nancy and two sisters were sent to the Lodz Ghetto and many of her other family members were deported and murdered. Following the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, Nancy and her sisters were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After a brief time, they were shipped to Stutthof, where her older sister perished, and then to Dresden. Following the bombings of that city, Nancy and her sister were sent on a forced march to Theresienstadt. During the march, they escaped and hid on a farm near Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) where they were liberated by the American army. After a brief return to Poland, Nancy immigrated to America. Of her nine siblings, only a sister and a brother survived | b12680898 |
| Hilma Geffen Oral History | An interview with Hilma Geffen, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Jon Fishbane. Hilma Geffen was born in Berlin in 1925 and was an only child. Her father served in the German Army during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross. In 1931 the family moved to Rangsdorf, a suburb of Berlin, where they were the only Jewish family in town. Her father, an accountant, continued to commute to Berlin for work. A couple of nights after Kristallnacht in 1938, SA men came to the house and smashed the furniture. In 1939 the family moved back to Berlin because Jews could no longer own property. As Hilma was returning home after work in October 1941, her mother told her to run away because people were there to pick them up. Using false papers, Hilma went underground, living with a German couple who knew only that she was Jewish. She remained hidden with them until the end of the war, then moved to Miami Beach where she had relatives. Her parents were deported to Auschwitz and did not survive the war | b1208928x |
| Vera Gissing Oral History | An interview with Vera Gissing, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Vera Gissing was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1928. She lived in Celakovice, outside of Prague, with her mother, father, and sister, Eva. After the Germans invaded their town, Vera's mother contacted Nicholas Winton about having the girls sent to England. Vera and her sister left Czechoslovakia in July 1939 and were put into foster care with two separate families. Vera stayed with the Rainfords, a poor Christian family, before enrolling in a Czech refugee school in England where she spent the duration of the war. After the war, Vera went back to Prague to study and became a literary translator but eventually moved back to England. While being interviewed by the Welsh BBC, Vera revealed her diaries that she kept of her experience during the war and decided to translate and publish the entries in the book Pearls of Childhood. | b12922031 |
| Simon Goldman Oral History | An interview with Simon Goldman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Simon Goldman was born in Lódz, Poland and had three brothers and a sister. His father owned a moving business while his mother stayed at home. Shortly after the German occupation of Lódz, his mother passed away and his father moved the family to a small town near Czestochowa, Poland. There the family moved into a relative's house and Simon and his brother worked in a bakery. Around 1942, Simon passed himself off as a Polish orphan to obtain work at a farm where he stayed incognito for the duration of the war until the area was liberated in 1945. After the war he went back to Lódz looking for his brother and other family members. He got into trouble with the police for being involved with the Lódz black market. Simon then decided to go to Linz, Austria to find a cousin. Simon was detained for not having papers, but made it to Linz on Yom Kippur and found his cousin at the DP camp. Simon was eventually arrested by the CIA for being involved in another black market in the DP camp but he was released after thirty days. Upon his release, Simon registered with the U.S. Committee to move to America. He was sent to New York in December 1946 and later the Jewish Health System set him up with a family in Detroit | b12896895 |
| Erna Gorman Oral History | An interview with Erna Blitzer Gorman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. She relates her experiences as a child when she and her family were in Poland at the time of the Nazi invasion and were unable to return to their home in France. After living in various ghettos, they escaped and were hidden for more than two years in a barn by a Ukrainian farmer until the area was liberated by Russian soldiers | b12017747 |
| Emerich Grinbaum Oral History | An interview with Emerich Grinbaum, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Grinbaum was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia in 1930. After the Hungarian annexation of Munkacs in 1938, Emerich, along with his father, mother and brother experienced increased anti-Semitism under the Hungarians. In 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the Grinbaum family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Emerich's mother was gassed upon arrival and after less than a week in Birkenau, Emerich, his father and brother were shipped to a labor camp just outside of Warsaw, Poland. In August, 1944, the three were sent to Dachau. In Dachau, Emerich's father became ill and was sent to the camp hospital. During this period, Emerich and his brother were sent to one of Dachau's satellite camps, Allach. In Allach, Emerich worked on several labor Kommandos, including the BMW factory and as a potato peeler in the camp kitchen. While in Allach, Emerich's father was reunited with him and his brother and placed in a block for elderly people. In April 1945, the three were placed aboard a train and shipped to an unknown destination. While en route, the Germans abandoned the train and the three walked to a nearby village where they were liberated by the American Army. After liberation, they returned to Munkacs, now under Soviet rule as part of the Ukraine. Mr. Grinbaum studied medicine under the Soviets. He immigrated to the United States in the 1960s | b12628323 |
| Joseph Gringlas Oral History | An interview with Joseph Gringlas, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Joseph Gringlas was born in Ostrowiec, Poland. Following the German invasion, he was separated from his family and transported to a labor camp in Blizyn, Poland. After approximately one year, Joseph was transferred first to Auschwitz-Birkenau and then to the sub-camp, Monowitz, where he was reunited with his brother. In 1945, the camp was liquidated and the brothers were sent on a forced march to Gleiwitz and then on to Dora-Nordhausen, where they were liberated. After the war, he spent several years in Landsberg, Germany, emigrating to the United States in 1951 | b12562634 |
| Jack Gun Oral History | An interview with Jack Gun, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Jack Gun was born in Rozhishche, Poland, where he lived with his father, mother and older brother and sister. Rozhishche was later annexed into the Ukraine by the Soviets at the outbreak of the war in September 1939. With the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Gun family was forced to move into a make-shift ghetto in the city where they were used as forced laborers. In August of 1942, the ghetto was liquidated by the Germans and Jack's father, mother and sister were killed. Jack and his brother managed to flee and received help from their father's non-Jewish friend. Upon this man's urging, Jack and his brother hid first in the woods and then in a bunker they dug in a field. After several near-misses with the occupation authorities, the two were hidden in a non-Jewish Ukrainian household where they remained until the Russians liberated the Ukraine in 1944 | b1257434x |
| Werner Hasenberg Oral History | An interview with Werner Hasenberg, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Hasenberg was born in Germany and relates his experiences growing up under the Nazi regime until his family moved to Amsterdam, Holland in 1937. In June of 1943 the family was deported to Westerbork, a transit camp, and then to Bergen-Belsen in Feb. 1944. The family managed to be included in an exchange transport in Jan. 1945 using Ecuadorian papers made available by a family friend in Sweden. During the transport, Mr. Hasenberg's father died. After arriving in Switzerland, the rest of the family were released and briefly separated until they were reunited in New York in 1946 | b12407550 |
| Abraham Holcman Oral History | An interview with Abraham Holcman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Larry Berg. Abraham Holcman was born in 1925 in Lódz Poland. After the Nazi invasion, his family was moved into the Lódz ghetto where his father died of starvation. Abraham worked in a factory until 1944 when the family was deported to Auschwitz. Several weeks later, Abraham and his mother were sent to Görlitz where they were liberated in 1945. Abraham spent some time in a DP camp in Frankfurt and reunited with his sister in Sweden. In 1953, he immigrated to the United States | b12837489 |
| Esther Icikson Oral History | An interview with Esther Feldman Icikson, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Feldman Icikson was born in Chelm, Poland around 1935. After the German invasion in 1939, the family was sent to several different cities in the Ukraine and White Russia, including Opalin, Lebivne and Giesen. At this time, her father and uncle were arrested by the authorities and shipped to a prison in Asino, Siberia. Esther, her mother and two sisters were sent farther east to Sibiryak. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Esther's father and uncle were released under a general amnesty. The family was reunited in Asino after Esther's mother took the family back to Asino via a homemade raft. At the end of 1942, the family was resettled in Kyrgyzstan where they remained until the end of the war in 1945. Following the end of the war, the family returned to Chelm and then moved to a DP (displaced persons) camp in Ulm, Germany. From there they made their way to Israel where they lived in Lut. Esther immigrated to the United States in 1958 | b12651576 |
| Lanka Ilkow Oral History | An interview with Lanka Ilkow, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Lanka Ilkow was born in Novoseliza, Czechoslovakia (Ukraine) in 1920. Following the Hungarian annexation of parts of Slovakia, she and her family lived under Hungarian rule. In 1944, the family was shipped to a ghetto in Ungvar. From there they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where her father was gassed upon arrival. While in Auschwitz, Lanka's mother was later selected for extermination and Lanka and her sister were sent to the forced labor camp Hundsfeld, near Breslau. From there they were shipped to Gross Rosen, Mauthausen and finally, Bergen-Belsen, where the British army liberated them | b12676354 |
| David Kahan Oral History | An interview with David Kahan, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Kahan was born in 1928 in Gheorgheni, Romania. Under Romanian rule, the Kahan family experienced very few antisemitic incidents. However, with the annexation of Transylvania by Hungary in 1940, the situation began to change and the Jewish community began experiencing increased antisemitism at the hands of the Hungarians. In 1944, the Germans invaded Hungary and immediately began the full-scale persecution of the Jews. The Kahan family was detained and then deported to the ghetto in Szaszregen and then to Auschwitz where David's father, mother, sister and younger brother were gassed upon arrival. David, only 15 years old, was held at Auschwitz for about four weeks and then transported to the Mühldorf labor camp in southwestern Germany. He worked clearing trees for the construction of an underground airplane factory. He was later transported to another labor camp, Mittergars for a short time and then sent back to Mühldorf. He was liberated by the American Army near the town of Seeshaupt, Germany in April 1945. He eventually made his way to the Detroit area in 1950 | b12508974 |
| Simon Kalmas Oral History | An interview with Simon Kalmas, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Arthur Kirsch. Simon Kalmas was born in Drobin, Poland in 1915. As a boy he learned the trade of tinsmithing. After the German invasion of Poland, Simon and the men of his town were taken and held in another city for five days before being returned home and told to move into the Drobin ghetto later moving to the Neustadt Oberschlesien ghetto. Simon had the chance to escape to Russia but chose to stay with his family in Poland. The family remained together until 1942 when they were deported to Auschwitz. Simon was chosen for work in the coal mines of IG Farben Industry before being selected for his tinsmithing skills to repair the roofs of bombarded barracks from 1944 until 1945. After that, Simon was forced to march to Gleiwitz in a snowstorm to catch a transport train to Buchenwald where he was liberated. Simon moved to Nashville, Tennessee in April 1949 but moved permanently to Detroit in January 1950 because of the racism he saw happening against African Americans in the South | b12903802 |
| Alexander Karp Oral History | An interview with Alexander Karp, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Karp was born in Baktaloranthaza, a small town in Hungary. In 1944, when he was about 19 years old, his family was moved into the Kisvarda ghetto. His immediate family consisted of his mother and 15 year old sister, his father had been taken prisoner in Russia in 1942 and the family did not know if he was alive or dead. The family was transported to Birkenau where Mr. Karp was separated from his mother and sister. He and an uncle spent about 4 months in Birkenau. Claiming to be tool and die makers, they were sent to several different camps eventually ending up at an underground airplane factory in the Kochendorf area. In March 1945, they were evacuated to Dachau and then to Mittenwald, a town close to the Austrian border, where they were liberated. In August 1945 he was reunited with his father | b12362463 |
| Louis Kaye Oral History | An interview with Louis Kaye, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Arthur Kirsch. Louis Kaye was born in WÅoszczowa, Poland in 1925. When the war broke out, Louis amd his family were moved into a ghetto where they lived until his parents and most of siblings were sent to Treblinka while Louis and two of his brothers were sent to Skarzysko. Louis worked in an ammunitions factory for two years until he was sent to Czestochowa, Buchenwald, and finally Dora-Nordhausen where he was liberated April 11, 1945. Several years after liberation, Louis immigrated to the United States and in 1969, built a monument in the United States to memorialize his family and his birth city | b12896512 |
| Ruth Kent Oral History | An interview with Ruth Kent, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Ruth Kent was born in Lódz, Poland and lived with her family in the Lódz ghetto until it was liquidated in 1944. The family was then sent to Auschwitz where they were separated and some family members were immediately put to death. Ruth and a sister were sent to Stutthof, a labor camp, where they were later separated. Ruth survived a forced march as the Germans evacuated the camps in the face of the advancing Russian army. She was liberated by the Russians and was reunited with two brothers after the war | b12042523 |
| Bernard Klein Oral History | An interview with Bernard and Emery Klein, brothers and Holocaust survivors, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. The Klein brothers were born in Humenné, a town in eastern Slovakia. The immediate family of the brothers included their parents and a younger sister. The Germans occupied the area in 1939 and started to deport the Jews in 1941. The Klein family was not deported until 1944 because Mr. Klein was an important farming advisor. The family was sent to Auschwitz without Bernard, who had become separated. Mrs. Klein and her daughter were immediately gassed upon arrival at the camp. Bernard was reunited with his brother and father at Auschwitz a month later. The three were sent to Gleiwitz where Emery and his father worked in a factory while Bernard worked in the concentration camp kitchen. In 1945, as the Russian army advanced into the area, the camp was evacuated to Blechhammer, another camp in the vicinity. The German guards fled the camp, leaving the prisoners. A few days later, the brothers, their father and several others began walking back to Humenné. The Klein family moved to Israel, Montreal and eventually to Detroit | b12286096 |
| Martin Koby Oral History | An interview with Martin Koby, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Martin Koby was born in Rovno, Poland in 1930. During the 1930s, Martin along with his mother, father, and brother, moved to the neighboring village of Giuszwica. During the pre-war period, Martin and his family experienced several incidents of anti-Semitism, especially during Christian holidays. In 1939, the Soviet Union annexed eastern Poland as part of a secret agreement contained in the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and Giuszwica came under Soviet control. Under Soviet rule, Martin and his family lived a relatively normal life. In the summer of 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union and Giuszwica came under German control. Under German rule, anti-Semitism increased among the local population and Martin's father was abducted and beaten by members of the Ukrainian Liberation Army (UPA). Martin's father was released and due to the influence of a wealthy Polish landowner, the family was sent to work on an estate, rather than sent to the newly established Jewish ghetto in Rovno. In September 1942, the family, hearing news of the liquidation of the Rovno ghetto, went into hiding. Between 1942 and 1944, the family hid in six different locations in and around Giuszwica, usually with the knowledge and complicity of the local population. In February 1944, the Soviets liberated the area and the family moved to Rovno. In late 1945, they were allowed by the Soviet government to relocate to Poland and moved to Bytom, near Katowice. Sometime in 1946 or 1947, the family traveled to a displaced persons camp (the Sedan Kaserne) in Ulm, Germany. From there they made their way to the United States | b12604045 |
| Henry Konstam Oral History | An interview with Henry Konstam, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Born in Lódz, Poland, Henry Konstam and his five siblings were deported to the Lódz ghetto in 1940. In the ghetto, Henry volunteered to go to a labor camp in Gronow where he remained for two and a half years until he was sent to a labor camp in Posen. From Posen, Henry was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later to Jaworzno. In the last days of the war, Henry survived a march from Jaworzno to Dachau before escaping into the surrounding woods. After crawling to a nearby farm for food, he was captured and imprisoned in a German jail until the end of the war that occurred a few days later. Henry was reunited, after the war, with his only surviving family members, his brother and sister | b12766860 |
| Kozlowski Oral History | An interview with Marvin Kozlowski, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Marvin Kozlowski was born in Radom, Poland in 1920. Following the German invasion of Poland, Marvin and his family were placed in the Radom Ghetto where he worked as a forced laborer for Daimler-Benz. While in the ghetto, Marvin's mother and three siblings were deported to the Treblinka death camp. Following the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto in 1944, Marvin and his father were marched to Tomaszów where they were put on a train and shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, they were immediately sent to an unidentified labor camp in western Germany. After a brief time, they were sent to Unterriexingen, a labor sub-kommando of Natzweiler Concentration Camp. After one month, the camp was liquidated and Marvin and his father were liberated near Osterburken, Germany while en-route to an unknown destination | b12651588 |
| Dr. Henry Krystal Oral History | An interview with Dr. Henry Krystal, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Dr. Krystal was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1925. Shortly after the Nazi invasion, Dr. Krystal's brother and then father escaped to the Soviet occupied zone of Poland while Henry and his mother lived in Bodzentyn, Poland. In 1942 Henry was sent to a labor camp and his mother sent to Treblinka where she died. From 1942 until the end of the war, Henry was a member of a labor Kommando sent from place to place, including Starachowice, Bobrek, Birkenau, Siemenstadt and Sachsenhausen. He worked in a factory operated by the Siemens company. At the end of the war he was in the city of Schwerin, in the British occupied zone of Germany. In 1947 Dr. Krystal immigrated to Detroit, Michigan where he lived with an aunt and uncle, went to school and became a psychiatrist | b12407562 |
| Stefa Kupfer Oral History | An interview with Stefa (Sarah) Sprecher Kupfer, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Kupfer was ten years old and living in Sanok, Poland when the war started. Her father was killed in the early days of the occupation. Stefa, her mother and young sister went into hiding instead of registering with the occupational government. They were hidden in the basement of Mrs. Orlewska, a Polish woman, who played a significant role in their survival. They were also aided by other Poles, some of whom knew they were Jews | b12066643 |
| Alfred Lessing Oral History | An interview with Alfred Lessing, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Lessing recalls his experiences living with other families as a hidden child in the Netherlands during the war. He talks about the last year of the war when he was reunited and lived with his father and brothers | b12017796 |
| Rene Lichtman Oral History | An interview with Rene Lichtman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Rene was born in Paris, France in 1937, the only son of Polish immigrants who arrived in France in the 1930's. After his birth, his parents hired Anne Lepage to serve as Rene's guardian. Under this arrangement, Rene spent weekdays with the Lepages in a small town northeast of Paris and returned home on the weekends. Rene's father joined the French Army shortly before the outbreak of World War II. His father was killed in action in May 1940 when the Germans invaded the Benelux countries. After the fall of France, Rene's mother sent him to stay with the Lepages on a permanent basis where he was a hidden child for the remainder of the war. His mother went into hiding in Paris in 1942. After the war, Rene returned to his mother in Paris where the two stayed for five years. In 1950, Rene's mother married an American Orthodox Jew and the two moved from France to Williamsburg, New York, returning to France once in 1957 to visit the Lepages | b12537755 |
| Leo Liffman Oral History | An interview with Leo Liffman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Leo Liffman was born and raised in Wiesbaden, Germany. He relates his experiences with anti-Semitism as a child and young adult during the closing years of the Weimar Republic and the early Hitler years. He was arrested during Kristallnacht and imprisoned for several weeks at Buchenwald concentration camp. He left Germany in 1939, leaving his parents behind, and was the only member of his family to survive the war | b12089291 |
| Felina Lusopolus Oral History | An interview with Felina Lusopolus, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dawn Miller. Felina Lusopolus (maiden name Greenberg) was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1919. Her mother died when Felina was just two and a half years old. Her father, who worked in the lumber business until he died at the age of 49, sent his daughter to boarding school. After her father's death, Felina moved in with her grandmother in Chernowitz, finished high school, went to college and got a degree in teaching. Felina moved to Oradea to become a teacher and became engaged to a Jewish lawyer who was sent to the Russian front. After the ghetto was started in Oradea, Felina was sent to Auschwitz. She was then sent to a camp called Langenbielau-Biewala (a sub-camp of Gross Rosen) near Reichenbach and then sent to Parschnitz. The last camp she was sent to was in the Sudetenland and she worked in a factory making airplane parts. After the Russians liberated the camp, Felina started her long journey back home to Oradea where she found out her fiancé had died on his way home to see her. She acquired a job translating Hungarian movies left behind after the war into Romanian. She married a Gentile Greek professor and had one daughter. The Communists imprisoned her husband after he told two jokes in his classroom that offended the regime. Weakened by his ordeal, he died in 1957, three years after being released. Felina applied for a passport out of Communist Romania after his death. She was granted the passport and moved first to Paris, then Belgium, Germany and finally to the United States where she moved in with her aunts in Detroit | b12858237 |
| Helena Manaster Oral History | An interview with Helena Manaster, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Jonathon Fishbane. Born in Poland, Helena was one of eight children, all of whom were adults at the beginning of the war. After the German invasion in 1939, the family separated and Helen, along with several siblings and their father went to Lwów, which was under Soviet control at the time. In June 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union and occupied Lwów. Helena's father and brothers were sent to Belzec, where they died in the gas chambers. Helena and her husband were moved to Lesko and then on to Zamosc. Because Helena's husband was a doctor, the Germans sent them to a labor camp in Rokitna. They eventually escaped and made their way to Kraków, where they remained in hiding until the end of the war | b12554832 |
| John Mandel Oral History | An interview with John Mandel, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Charlene Green. John Mandel was born in 1927? in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia. After the Hungarian annexation of the area in 1938, John and his family suffered increasing persecution in the Hungarian regime. The family was deported to Birkenau in May 1944. John's mother, sister and two younger brothers were gassed upon arrival and John was separated from his father and another brother when he was transferred to Auschwitz I. After about seven months in Auschwitz I, John was transferred to Mauthausen then to Melk and finally to Ebensee (both sub-camps of Mauthausen), where he was liberated by the American Army in spring, 1945. After liberation, John went to the Displaced Persons Camp at Gabersee and in 1946, he emigrated to the United States | b12656823 |
| Simon Maroko Oral History | An interview with Simon Maroko, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Dr. Simon Maroko was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1923. Shortly after his birth, Dr. Maroko's family relocated to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and then to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1943, Simon's parents were deported to Westerbork and most likely from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Following the deportation, Dr. Maroko went into hiding on a farm outside of Amsterdam. He was liberated in May 1945. He immigrated to Israel where he served in the Israeli Army. Following that, he immigrated to the United States | b12761540 |
| Lucy Merritt Oral History | An interview with Lucy Glaser Merritt, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Lucy Glaser Merritt was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. Following the German annexation (Anschluss) of Austria in 1938, Lucy and her family experienced increased persecution by both Austrian and German National Socialists. After Lucy's father was arrested and released on Kristallnacht (1938), the family decided to leave Austria. Lucy left Austria to work as a nurse in England. Once there, she was able to secure the passage of her family from Austria to England. From England, they immigrated to the United States | b12766951 |
| Paul Molnar Oral History | An interview with Paul Molnar, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Paul Molnar was born in 1929 in Rákospalota, a suburb of Budapest, Hungary. Following the outbreak of the war, Paul and his family came under increasing persecution by the pro-German Hungarian government. In 1944, his father was sent to a labor camp and in July Paul, along with his mother, brother and grandmother, were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After arrival, Paul's mother, brother and grandmother were gassed. After a brief time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Paul was sent to Buchenwald and then to Magdeburg where he worked at a factory run by I.G. Farben. He then returned briefly to Buchenwald and then was sent to another camp, Berga. In April 1945, Paul was evacuated from Berga and while marching to an unknown destination, he escaped and was liberated. Paul later immigrated to the United States | b12694915 |
| Abraham Mondry Oral History | An interview with Abraham Mondry, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Mondry was born in Mlawa, Poland and with the outbreak of the war his family was deported to the Warsaw ghetto. Before, during, and after the war, Abraham actively worked as a smuggler on the black market. Abraham spent three years at Auschwitz where he served as a nurse aid to Dr. Mengele. With the liquidation of Auschwitz, Abraham was marched to Ebensee where he was soon liberated by American forces. Recovering from health problems, Abraham lived in Italy where he continued his black market activities until 1949 when he immigrated to the United States | b12777250 |
| Nathan Nothman Oral History | An interview with Nathan Nothman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Donna Miller. Nathan Nothman was born on July 15, 1925 in Kraków, Poland. Following the German invasion of Poland, Nathan, his parents, and his three brothers and sister were forced to move into the Kraków ghetto. Nathan and his father worked for the Nazis as plumbers and were allowed to leave the ghetto for work until his father was sent to Auschwitz and killed. In 1943 when the ghetto was liquidated, Nathan was sent to the Plaszów concentration camp and then to Gross-Rosen where he was assigned to a work detail on the Steinburg. He was then sent to Flossenburg to work on the railroads in 1945. Nathan and his friend escaped during a death march and walked to Laufen where he was rescued by the American Army. After some time in the DP camp at Laufen, he was transferred to the Ainring DP camp where he met and married his wife. Nathan was also reunited with his sister and mother after the war and together they moved to the United States in 1950 | b12938105 |
| Sonia Nothman Oral History | An interview with Sonia Nothman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dawn Miller. Sonia Nothman was born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1922. When the war started, Sonia was visiting family in Lódz. She returned to Chmielnik but due to her Polish language skills was able to move between Chmielnik and Lódz. In 1941, a ghetto was established in Chmielnik and Sonia, along with her family was placed in the ghetto. In 1942, Sonia, her brother and sister were deported to the Skarzysko-Kamienna forced labor camp. In 1944, Sonia was sent to Czenstochow. From there she was sent west into Germany proper where she and her sister were marched to several labor camps (Bergen-Belsen, Berga, Dachau and Allach). The American Army liberated them in 1945 | b12787851 |
| Nathan Offen Oral History | An interview with Nathan, Bernard and Samuel Offen, Holocaust survivors and brothers, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. The Offen family was from Kraków, Poland. The brothers tell stories of their life in the Kraków ghetto, Plaszów labor camp and Mauthausen concentration camp. While at Plaszów, Bernard and other children were transported out of camp, most likely to be executed. However, Bernard managed to escape and was then smuggled into another sub-camp to be with an uncle. The family was later reunited at Plaszów until they were sent to Mauthausen. After arriving at Mauthausen, Bernard and his father were separated from Sam and Nathan and sent to Auschwitz. Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz, their father was selected by Dr. Menegele and sent to the gas chamber. After the war, Sam and Nathan went to Italy where Bernard later found them | b1231318x |
| Sam Offen Oral History | An interview with Samuel Offen, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Sam Offen lived in Krakow, Poland. After the German invasion of 1939, Sam, his father, and his brothers, Nathan and Bernie, were recruited by the Germans as forced laborers. Nathan was sent to a nearby rock quarry to work. In 1942, Sam's mother and sister were rounded-up and deported and the three brothers and their father were sent to Plaszów. After a short time, the Offens were sent to Gusen I, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. There Sam and Nathan were separated from Bernie and their father it was the last time Sam saw his father. In 1945, Sam and Nathan were liberated by the American army. While waiting in Italy for a ship bound for Palestine, they learned of a Polish unit of the British army, based in Italy, and decided to join. Several weeks later, Bernie found his brothers and was reunited with them. In late 1946 or early 1947, Nathan and Sam went to England to be discharged, taking Bernie with them. The three brothers lived in England until 1951 when they emigrated to the United States | b12574338 |
| Michael Opas Oral History | An interview with Michael Opas, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Paul H. Draznan. Michael Opas was born in Lódz, Poland in 1910. In his youth, he learned the furrier trade but as an adult he operated his own shoe business. At the start of World War II, Michael, his wife and young son fled to Warsaw where they were imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto. Michael was sent to Majdanek then to Budzyn, a forced labor camp that repaired airplanes. From there he was sent to various camps like Ostrowiec and Auschwitz-Birkenau before finally being sent to Buchenwald, where he was liberated by the American Army. At liberation Michael was grossly underweight and had to recuperate for two months in a makeshift hospital in Buchenwald until he regained some weight and his health. After that he spent time in the Landsberg DP camp and then moved to the Stuttgart DP camp where he re-married and started a family. Michael, his new wife and one-year-old daughter moved to Detroit in 1949 | b12857385 |
| Abraham Pasternak Oral History | An interview with Abraham Pasternak, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Born in Betlan, Romania, he relates his experiences in Romania during the Nazi occupation and his internment in several concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Schlieben (a satellite of Buchenwald) and Zeitz, a city in Germany | b12018703 |
| Alexander Raab Oral History | An interview with Alexander Raab, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Alexander Raab was born in 1933 in JarosÅaw, Poland. Following the German invasion in 1939, the Jews in the area were deported over the San River, into territory newly annexed by the Soviet Union. Following a brief stay in Grudek, the NKVD deported the family to Siberia. After an arduous journey, the family spent time in the cities of Sinyuga and Bodaibo. During this period, Alexander's father was sent to a labor commando, where he perished. In 1943 or 1944, the family was sent west to the city of Saratov. After the end of the war, they went to Åwidnica, Poland. Alexander attempted to illegally immigrate to Palestine via a boat from Italy but the British Navy captured the ship. Interned by the British, he spent several years on the island of Cyprus and was finally successful in reaching Israel in 1948. He immigrated to America in 1962 | b12661193 |
| Mrs. Roemerfeld Oral History | An interview with Mrs. Roemerfeld, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Eva Lipton. Mrs. Roemerfeld was born in Plonsk, Poland. Following the Nazi invasion in 1939, Mrs. Roemerfeld, along with her parents and older brother, were paced in a makeshift ghetto in the city. During that period, her father was shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau and in December 1942, she, along with her remaining family, was shipped there as well. After arrival, Mrs. Roemerfeld was placed in the Kanada Kommando sorting clothes. She was then transferred to Budy, a sub-camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the liquidation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp system, Mrs. Roemerfeld was sent to Maehrisch-Weisswasser, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, and also worked at a Telefunken factory. Mrs. Roemerfeld was fifty-five years of age at the time of her undated interview | b12789410 |
| Nathan Roth Oral History | An interview with Nathan Roth, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Nathan Roth was born in Veliky Bereznyy, Czechoslovakia. After the German annexation of the area in 1944, Nathan, along with his mother, father and eight siblings, was deported to the ghetto in Ungvár where the family was split up. From Ungvár, Nathan was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and then to Jaworzno, a sub-camp of Auschwitz. While he was at Jaworzno, Nathan worked for I.G. Farben, a German company operating an excavation project in the area. Nathan was liberated by the Russians while on the death march following the evacuation of the Jaworzno camp. He returned to Veliky Bereznyy after the war and emigrated to the United States in 1949 | b12596504 |
| Agi Rubin Oral History | An interview with Agi Rubin, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Agi Rubin was born in Monkacz, a town in the part of Czechoslovakia which was annexed to Hungary in 1938. In 1944 her family was deported to Auschwitz where her mother and younger brother were killed. She worked in a sorting shed in the camp until it was evacuated in Jan. 1945. She survived a forced march of several months duration and was liberated in Germany when she was 15 years old. She was later reunited with her father | b12043734 |
| Zoltan Rubin Oral History | An interview with Zoltan Rubin, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Zoltan Rubin was from Kapúsány, Czechoslovakia. He was the youngest child in a large family of eight sons and three daughters. His family was fairly well off since his father owned a large farm and several mills. Zoltan and his parents were protected from deportation by an economic exemption until 1942 when the exemption was eliminated and his parents were deported. Zoltan was able to avoid deportation by using Gentile papers given to him by friends. In 1944, he was captured with a group of partisans and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Jena where he was part of a forced labor detail digging tunnels for the Germans. Towards the end of the war, he escaped with three others and lived off the land for about six weeks until the American army arrived in the area. He was later reunited with an older brother who was a doctor with the Czechoslovakian army | b12319697 |
| Leon Salomon Oral History | An interview with Leon Salomon, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Salomon was born in Maków Mazowiecki, Poland and lived there with his family until Poland was occupied by the Germans in 1939. Leon and two of his sisters moved east to Kobylnik to live with their brother, a school teacher who was later killed when the Germans took over the area. In 1942, the Jewish residents of the town were executed by the Germans in a nearby forest. As Leon was being taken away to be shot, he escaped from the guards and hid in the forest. Leon was the only member of his immediate family to survive and eventually joined a partisan group fighting in the Vilna and White Russia area. He joined the Soviet Army near the end of the war and fought with them until he was wounded in east Prussia | b12069929 |
| Vera Schey Oral History | An interview with Vera Schey, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Vera Schey was born in Budapest, Hungary. An only child whose father died before the war, Vera and her mother survived the German annexation of Hungary in 1944 by obtaining false identification papers. During the last months of the war, the two hid in different locations in and around Budapest, separating and reuniting on several occasions. Vera left Hungary for the United States in 1946 | b12651606 |
| Sam Seltzer Oral History | An interview with Sam Seltzer, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Anita Schwartz. Sam Seltzer was born in Modzurów (Modzdrzejow), Poland. Sam's family consisted of his mother, father and five siblings. Following the outbreak of the war, his mother and siblings attempted to flee east to the Russian border. Unable to complete their journey, they stayed instead with Sam's older sister in the small town of Zawiercie. After a brief time, Sam returned to Modzurów until he was rounded up by the Germans and placed in a number of forced-labor camps, including Sosnowiec, Klettendorf, Geppersdorf, Brande, Graeditz, Faulbrück and Annaberg. In 1944, Sam was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After several weeks in Birkenau, Sam volunteered to work as a mechanic and was sent to a labor Kommando attached to Buchenwald. Sam was liberated in Buchenwald in April 1945. After liberation, Sam was hospitalized for several years in Feldafing, Germany. In 1947, Sam's brother entered the same hospital and they were reunited. Sam immigrated to the United States in 1951 and his brother joined him a few years later | b12651618 |
| Martin Shlanger Oral History | An interview with Martin Shlanger, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Born in Vel'ke Kapusany, Czechoslovakia, Mr. Shlanger moved to Budapest in 1942 to work in a factory. In March 1944 the Germans occupied the city. Mr. Shlanger acquired false papers but was soon identified as a Jew and arrested. He was sent to Jaworzno, a sub-camp in the Auschwitz system. In 1945, he survived a death march to Blechhammer as the Russian army invaded the area. Because he hid when the Germans left Blechhammer, he was left behind at the camp and eventually encountered the Soviet army. He was reunited for a short time with his brother, who was serving with the Czechoslovak Brigade in the Soviet army. Martin returned to his hometown where he lived until 1949 when he immigrated to Detroit, Michigan | b12213007 |
| Irene Sobel Oral History | An interview with Irene Sobel (Miller), a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Irene was born in Warsaw, Poland and lived with her parents and sister in a Jewish neighborhood of the city. The family was not religious but embraced the Jewish culture. After the Germans invaded Poland, her family decided to escape to Russia fearing they would be prosecuted for being Communist. After being denied entrance into Russia, Mr. Miller escaped over the border and came back with falsified documents to get the family across. After residing in Ignatki for a short time, Soviet transport trains picked the family up and shipped them east to a Communist work camp in Siberia. After being released from the camp, the family was transported to Tashkent where Irene's parents were forced to work on a collective farm and the girls were put into an orphanage. Mr. Miller became ill and died during a dysentery epidemic even though Mrs. Miller walked all night to try and get him antibiotics. After the war Irene and her family returned to Poland where Irene was put into a Krakow orphanage because her mother couldn't support her. Eventually Irene and her mother moved to Haifa, Israel where Irene met her husband, Howard Sobel, an American living in Israel. Irene then moved to Cleveland with her husband and had three children, later moving to Detroit. Irene went to school, obtaining graduate degrees, and achieved a successful professional career. Irene and her husband later divorced | b12846144 |
| Emanuel Tanay Oral History | An interview with Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Although he was born in Vilna in 1928, Dr. Tanay spent the pre-war years in Miechow, a small community south of Krakow, Poland. During the occupation, his family lived in the Miechow ghetto until Tanay, his mother and sister escaped just before it was liquidated. His father did not escape and was later executed by Amon Goeth. Tanay spent part of the war living in a monastery hidden as a novice and converted Jew. He later used false Aryan papers as he moved around Poland and Hungary | b12064701 |
| Miriam Troostwyk Oral History | An interview with Miriam Troostwyk, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. This is a continuation of an interview started on May 20, 1998. Miriam continues to tell how other family members and friends helped the family, consisting of Miriam, who was about 11 years old, her mother, an older sister and her sister's husband, evade several German rounds-ups until the family went into hiding, first in Velp and later in Arnhem. In Arnhem the family stayed in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Vandenberg with several other families. The Troostwyks remained there until the liberation of the Netherlands in 1944 | b12615638 |
| Rose Wagner Oral History | An interview with Rose Wagner, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. At the outbreak of the war in 1939, Rose and her family lived in Lódz, Poland. After the German occupation, the family found themselves in the Lódz ghetto. By 1942, her parents had perished, leaving Rose and her sister to fend for themselves in the ghetto. In 1944, the sisters were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Able to stay together in the camp, the sisters were sent to the Halbstadt concentration camp in fall, 1944, where they were liberated in May 1945 | b12659125 |
| Larry Wayne Oral History | An interview with Larry Wayne, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Larry Wayne was born in Lódz, Poland in 1923. He had three blood siblings and two adopted siblings. His family owned a successful bakery and sent him to private school at the Katzenelson Gymnasium where he was trained to be a lieutenant in the Polish army. Shortly after the Nazi invasion, Larry and his extended family were forced to move into a small apartment in the Lódz ghetto in 1940. His father died in the ghetto. Afterwards Larry's family was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where his mother and little brother were gassed in 1944. Larry and his brother Jack signed up to work at the Janina coal mine and then were relocated to various camps. Larry attempted to escape during this relocation period and was shot in the knee. He was brought to Buchenwald where the Allied forces liberated him in 1945. After the war Larry was treated for typhoid fever by the American army and moved to Bad Nauheim where he began smuggling Aliyah Bet. Once he reunited with his brother Jack and sister Ruth, they immigrated to Detroit in 1946 | b1283032x |
| Ruth Musch Webber Oral History | An interview with Ruth Muschkies Webber, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Ruth Webber was about 5 years old when the war started. Her family was first moved into the Ostrowiec ghetto and then lived in the following camps Bodzechow, Sandomierz, Starachowice, Austrovietz, Annopol and finally Auschwitz. Her mother survived the war but her father died on the last transport out of Auschwitz. Ruth was in the children's block of Auschwitz when it was liberated by the Russians on Jan. 27, 1945 | b12042444 |
| Michael Weiss Oral History | An interview with Michael Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Born in Kascony, Czechoslovakia, Mr. Weiss chronicles his experiences under the Czechoslovakians, Hungarians, and Germans, both prior to and during, the Second World War. Mr. Weiss and his family were shipped to the Hungarian ghetto of Beregszasz (Berehovo) in 1944. From Beregszasz, the family was deported to Auschwitz, where his mother was gassed by the Germans. From Auschwitz, Weiss and his father were sent to Buchenwald and then on to Zeitz | b12407574 |
| Shari Weiss Oral History | An interview with Shari Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Robert Roth at the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Mrs. Weiss was born in Harina, a small village in Romania. When she was eight or nine, Shari went to live with an aunt and uncle in Cluj where she stayed until 1944 when the Germans occupied Hungary. In May 1944 they were transported to Auschwitz after staying at a transit camp in a brick factory for three weeks. Shari describes her life at Auschwitz where she and her aunt stayed for about five months before they were taken to a labor camp in Altenburg, Germany. She worked in a factory until April 1945 when the inmates were marched out of the camp. Shari and her aunt were liberated by the American army two days later. Shari's uncle did not survive the war | b12073027 |
| Cyla Wiener Oral History | An interview with Cyla Wiener, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Wiener was born in Kraków, Poland during World War I, one of nine children and the only girl. She recalls her experiences in the Kraków ghetto and the concentration camps of Plaszów, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during World War II. At Plaszów she helped care for the children, including her two year old son, until they were taken to Auschwitz. She worked as a seamstress at Plaszów and later at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, sewing for the Germans. After the war, she returned to Kraków and was reunited with her husband, a few remaining brothers and nieces. Mrs. Wiener and her husband eventually immigrated to the United States | b12230534 |
| William Agusta Oral History | MCLS 0001 | |
| Charles Anger Oral History | MCLS 0002 | |
| Emerald & Lila Baker Oral History | MCLS 0003 | |
| Anthony Banek Oral History | MCLS 0004 | |
| Norman & Edith Barkenquast Oral History | MCLS 0005 | |
| John F. Barnes Oral History | MCLS 0006 | |
| Ernest Bashaw Oral History | MCLS 0007 | |
| John & Emillie Bellair Oral History | MCLS 0008 | |
| Vern C. Bellner Oral History | MCLS 0009 | |
| Edward Bergmoser Oral History | MCLS 0010 | |
| Mildred Bernitt Oral History | MCLS 0011 | |
| Gilbert Berns Oral History | MCLS 0012 | |
| Mrs. William Bert Oral History | MCLS 0013 | |
| Viola Berta Oral History | MCLS 0014 | |
| Edward Bicking Oral History | MCLS 0015 | |
| Agnes Bigelow Oral History | MCLS 0017 | |
| Frank Billmaier Oral History | MCLS 0018 | |
| Frank Billmaier Oral History | MCLS 0018 | |
| William & Mildred Binns Oral History | MCLS 0019 | |
| Kenneth & Margaret Bird Oral History | MCLS 0020 | |
| Charles Black Oral History | MCLS 0021 | |
| Charles Boes Oral History | MCLS 0022 | |
| Anna Marie Bonifacio Oral History | MCLS 0023 | |
| Bonsac Oral History | MCLS 0024 | |
| Walter Boos Oral History | MCLS 0025 | |
| Dorothy Borhani Oral History | MCLS 0026 | |
| Dorothy Bosanac Oral History | MCLS 0027 | |
| Everett R Bosenbark Oral History | MCLS 0028 | |
| Marion Boudrie Oral History | MCLS 0029 | |
| Mabel Bourbina Oral History | MCLS 0030 | |
| Ethel & Leon Bowman Oral History | MCLS 0031 | |
| Edward Brooks Oral History | MCLS 0032 | |
| Jacob Bunkleman Oral History | MCLS 0033 | |
| Alex Burhart Oral History | MCLS 0034 | |
| Burkett Oral History | MCLS 0035 | |
| Burkett Oral History | MCLS 0035 | |
| Marjorie Busz Oral History | MCLS 0036 | |
| Virginia Caine-Crenshaw Oral History | MCLS 0037 | |
| Edgar Calkins Oral History | MCLS 0038 | |
| William Champagne Oral History | MCLS 0039 | |
| Arthur & Betty Chapman Oral History | MCLS 0040 | |
| Delmont Jr. Chapman Oral History | MCLS 0041 | |
| Delmont Chapman Oral History | MCLS 0042 | |
| Alfred Cloum Oral History | MCLS 0043 | |
| Raymond Colpaert Oral History | MCLS 0044 | |
| Mrs. Francis Conlisk Oral History | MCLS 0045 | |
| Peter Conte Oral History | MCLS 0046 | |
| Landon Cooke Oral History | MCLS 0047 | |
| Mary Cooper Oral History | MCLS 0048 | |
| Gladys & Lois Cousino Oral History | MCLS 0049 | |
| Rosa Cousumano Oral History | MCLS 0050 | |
| Virginia Logan Covington Oral History | MCLS 0051 | |
| Melville Cowell Oral History | MCLS 0052 | |
| George Cuthbert Oral History | MCLS 0053 | |
| Alina Czech Oral History | MCLS 0054 | |
| Glenn Daniels Oral History | MCLS 0055 | |
| Claude Davis Oral History | MCLS 0056 | |
| Fred Degner Oral History | MCLS 0057 | |
| Esther Deinzer Oral History | MCLS 0058 | |
| Alta Dennison Oral History | MCLS 0059 | |
| Harrison Dental Oral History | MCLS 0060 | |
| Alphonse & Doris DeSloover Oral History | MCLS 0061 | |
| Frank DeSloover Oral History | MCLS 0062 | |
| Frank A. DeSloover Oral History | MCLS 0063 | |
| Angelo Diaz Oral History | MCLS 0064 | |
| Curtis Dise Oral History | MCLS 0065 | |
| Alice Donnelly Oral History | MCLS 0066 | |
| Donald Doty Oral History | MCLS 0067 | |
| Elton Dubke Oral History | MCLS 0068 | |
| Elton Dubke Oral History | MCLS 0068 | |
| Marie Duvall Oral History | MCLS 0069 | |
| Doris Eber Oral History | MCLS 0070 | |
| Emerson Ebersole Oral History | MCLS 0071 | |
| Clarence A. Ehrhardt Oral History | MCLS 0072 | |
| Leonard Ellison Oral History | MCLS 0073 | |
| Millie Elmer Oral History | MCLS 0074 | |
| Harry Emerick Oral History | MCLS 0075 | |
| Kyle Evans Oral History | MCLS 0076 | |
| Madeline Fetzer Oral History | MCLS 0077 | |
| Howard Fix Oral History | MCLS 0078 | |
| Alva Folk Oral History | MCLS 0079 | |
| Lucille Folk Oral History | MCLS 0080 | |
| Lucille Forrest Oral History | MCLS 0081 | |
| M. Florence Foshag Oral History | MCLS 0082 | |
| Samuel J. Fox Oral History | MCLS 0083 | |
| Elmer W. Frank Oral History | MCLS 0084 | |
| Irma French Oral History | MCLS 0085 | |
| Irma French Oral History | MCLS 0085 | |
| Harold Frey Oral History | MCLS 0086 | |
| Beulah Fuhrmann Oral History | MCLS 0087 | |
| Clark Gallagher Oral History | MCLS 0088 | |
| Paul Garty Oral History | MCLS 0089 | |
| Ethel Gawronski Oral History | MCLS 0090 | |
| Murlin Gaynier Oral History | MCLS 0091 | |
| Carl & Cordelia Geiman Oral History | MCLS 0092 | |
| Charles & Dorothy Gere Oral History | MCLS 0093 | |
| Herman Gertz Oral History | MCLS 0094 | |
| John Giarmo Oral History | MCLS 0095 | |
| Bernard Gillenkirk Oral History | MCLS 0096 | |
| Catherine Gillespie Oral History | MCLS 0097 | |
| Edward Gligoroff Oral History | MCLS 0098 | |
| Oliver Golden Oral History | MCLS 0099 | |
| Mrs. Golden Oral History | MCLS 0100 | |
| Lucy Gonyea Oral History | MCLS 0101 | |
| John & Bertha Goodin Oral History | MCLS 0102 | |
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| Mary Graves Oral History | MCLS 0104 | |
| Dorothy Sr. Griffing Oral History | MCLS 0105 | |
| Eileen Grodi Oral History | MCLS 0106 | |
| Elsie Gutmann Oral History | MCLS 0107 | |
| Christina Sr. Haffendorf Oral History | MCLS 0108 | |
| Kenneth Harbaugh Oral History | MCLS 0109 | |
| Bernice Harpst Oral History | MCLS 0110 | |
| Otis Harris Oral History | MCLS 0111 | |
| PEG HARRIS Oral History | MCLS 0112 | |
| Albert Hassenzahl Oral History | MCLS 0113 | |
| Gwendolyn Hatcher Oral History | MCLS 0114 | |
| Jeanette Mrs. Hatter Oral History | MCLS 0115 | |
| Frank Heck Oral History | MCLS 0116 | |
| Wilbur & Lydia Heck Oral History | MCLS 0117 | |
| Anne Heckel Oral History | MCLS 0118 | |
| Anne Heckel Oral History | MCLS 0118 | |
| Leola Heiss Oral History | MCLS 0119 | |
| George Henrich Oral History | MCLS 0120 | |
| Mrs. Hiser Oral History | MCLS 0121 | |
| Milton Hoffman Oral History | MCLS 0122 | |
| Jennie Holcomb Oral History | MCLS 0123 | |
| Loretta Homrich Oral History | MCLS 0124 | |
| Richard Hurley Oral History | MCLS 0125 | |
| George & Evelyn Imo Oral History | MCLS 0126 | |
| Edna Jacobs Oral History | MCLS 0127 | |
| Robert Jeffrey Oral History | MCLS 0128 | |
| Helen Jones Oral History | MCLS 0129 | |
| Fanny Judson Oral History | MCLS 0130 | |
| Josef Julian Oral History | MCLS 0131 | |
| Alberta Kahlbaum Oral History | MCLS 0132 | |
| Warden Kahle Oral History | MCLS 0133 | |
| Herman & Hulda Kaper Oral History | MCLS 0134 | |
| Rosemary Kennedy Oral History | MCLS 0135 | |
| Rosemary Kennedy Oral History | MCLS 0135 | |
| Clara Kliendienst Oral History | MCLS 0136 | |
| Florence Knaggs Oral History | MCLS 0137 | |
| Lloyd Knapp Oral History | MCLS 0138 | |
| Mrs. Kocsis Oral History | MCLS 0139 | |
| Carl & Lucille Koppelman Oral History | MCLS 0140 | |
| Mary Korte Oral History | MCLS 0141 | |
| Charles Kreps Oral History | MCLS 0142 | |
| George & Selma Krueger Oral History | MCLS 0143 | |
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| Jeanette Kull Oral History | MCLS 0145 | |
| George Kundrat Oral History | MCLS 0146 | |
| Gus & Mary La Roy Oral History | MCLS 0147 | |
| Cletus Laginess Oral History | MCLS 0148 | |
| Gerald Lammers Oral History | MCLS 0149 | |
| Langton Oral History | MCLS 0150 | |
| Lynette Latondress Oral History | MCLS 0151 | |
| Edna Leyshock Oral History | MCLS 0152 | |
| Mary Licina Oral History | MCLS 0153 | |
| Charles Liedel Oral History | MCLS 0154 | |
| Joseph Liparoto Oral History | MCLS 0155 | |
| Joseph & Lena Liparoto Oral History | MCLS 0156 | |
| Lena Liparoto Oral History | MCLS 0157 | |
| Elsie Little Oral History | MCLS 0158 | |
| Evan Little Oral History | MCLS 0159 | |
| Eva Lockmiller Oral History | MCLS 0160 | |
| Joseph Loughney Oral History | MCLS 0161 | |
| James Lowe Oral History | MCLS 0162 | |
| Phillip Lynch Oral History | MCLS 0163 | |
| Harold Maloney Oral History | MCLS 0164 | |
| Marie Manausso Oral History | MCLS 0165 | |
| Warren Marshall Oral History | MCLS 0166 | |
| Marie Masserant Oral History | MCLS 0167 | |
| Dora & Carolyn Mathis Oral History | MCLS 0168 | |
| Dora & Carolyn Mathis Oral History | MCLS 0168 | |
| Elizabeth McWebb Oral History | MCLS 0169 | |
| Robert Meiring Oral History | MCLS 0170 | |
| Mentel Oral History | MCLS 0171 | |
| Lando Mentel Oral History | MCLS 0172 | |
| Rena & Anna Metdepenningen Oral History | MCLS 0173 | |
| William Metz Oral History | MCLS 0174 | |
| Clara Meyer Oral History | MCLS 0175 | |
| Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Meyer Oral History | MCLS 0176 | |
| Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Meyer Oral History | MCLS 0177 | |
| Pearl Meyers Oral History | MCLS 0178 | |
| Samuel Jr. Mignano Oral History | MCLS 0179 | |
| Earl Miller Oral History | MCLS 0180 | |
| Noreen Miller Oral History | MCLS 0181 | |
| Walter Miller Oral History | MCLS 0182 | |
| Mrs. Charles Milligan Oral History | MCLS 0183 | |
| Ruth Minney Oral History | MCLS 0184 | |
| Gustave & Florence Moede Oral History | MCLS 0185 | |
| Gustave & Florence Moede Oral History | MCLS 0185 | |
| Joseph E. Mohler Oral History | MCLS 0186 | |
| Ruth Montri Oral History | MCLS 0187 | |
| George Morris Oral History | MCLS 0188 | |
| Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Moyer Oral History | MCLS 0189 | |
| Milton Munson Oral History | MCLS 0190 | |
| Milton & Mary Munson Oral History | MCLS 0191 | |
| Milton P. Munson Oral History | MCLS 0192 | |
| Mrs. Mary Munson Oral History | MCLS 0193 | |
| Pat Munson Oral History | MCLS 0194 | |
| Dan Muszynski Oral History | MCLS 0195 | |
| Alice Newcombe Oral History | MCLS 0196 | |
| Raymond Noble Oral History | MCLS 0197 | |
| Peter Noelanders Oral History | MCLS 0198 | |
| Edward Nolan Oral History | MCLS 0199 | |
| Roland Oetjens Oral History | MCLS 0200 | |
| Ruth & Thomas Ong Oral History | MCLS 0201 | |
| Marino Pace Oral History | MCLS 0202 | |
| Jack Parker Oral History | MCLS 0203 | |
| Malvin Parks Oral History | MCLS 0204 | |
| Ortha Parmelee Oral History | MCLS 0205 | |
| Earl Parriet Oral History | MCLS 0206 | |
| Vincinzina Patania Oral History | MCLS 0207 | |
| Anna Pilette Oral History | MCLS 0208 | |
| Nicholas Pillarelli Oral History | MCLS 0209 | |
| Stephen Pipis Oral History | MCLS 0210 | |
| Wayne Plattner Oral History | MCLS 0211 | |
| Dale Porter Oral History | MCLS 0212 | |
| B. J. Poupard Oral History | MCLS 0213 | |
| Edmund Poupard Oral History | MCLS 0214 | |
| Marvin J. Poupard Oral History | MCLS 0215 | |
| Kenneth Pyles Oral History | MCLS 0216 | |
| Marie Rassel Oral History | MCLS 0217 | |
| Richard A. Rathke Oral History | MCLS 0218 | |
| Richard A. Rathke Oral History | MCLS 0218 | |
| Roseanne Rauch Oral History | MCLS 0219 | |
| Robert Raymo Oral History | MCLS 0220 | |
| Clarence Reaume Oral History | MCLS 0221 | |
| James Reifer Oral History | MCLS 0222 | |
| Reinhardt Oral History | MCLS 0223 | |
| Merl Rigel Oral History | MCLS 0224 | |
| Geraldine Robinson Oral History | MCLS 0225 | |
| Richard & Donna Rodziewicz Oral History | MCLS 0226 | |
| Eric Rogers Oral History | MCLS 0227 | |
| Pasquale & Frances Rossi Oral History | MCLS 0228 | |
| Stanley Rozycki Oral History | MCLS 0229 | |
| Maude Rye Oral History | MCLS 0230 | |
| Ernest & Marie Salisbury Oral History | MCLS 0231 | |
| Tolbert Hacker Sandlin Oral History | MCLS 0232 | |
| Hilda Savage Oral History | MCLS 0233 | |
| Russell Schafer Oral History | MCLS 0234 | |
| Charles C. Schankin Oral History | MCLS 0235 | |
| Charles C. Schankin Oral History | MCLS 0235 | |
| Hilda Trabbic Schaub Oral History | MCLS 0236 | |
| Viola Alice Scheuerman Oral History | MCLS 0237 | |
| Fred Schmidt Oral History | MCLS 0238 | |
| Ruth Schmidt Oral History | MCLS 0239 | |
| Dale Schroeder Oral History | MCLS 0240 | |
| Howard J Schuler Oral History | MCLS 0241 | |
| Howard J. Schuler Oral History | MCLS 0242 | |
| Howard John Schuler Oral History | MCLS 0243 | |
| Otto & Eda Schultz Oral History | MCLS 0244 | |
| Clarence Schwartz Oral History | MCLS 0245 | |
| Rita Seals Oral History | MCLS 0246 | |
| Elva Sefcik Oral History | MCLS 0247 | |
| O. Ruth Seitz Oral History | MCLS 0248 | |
| Alta Shey Oral History | MCLS 0249 | |
| Harold Shock Oral History | MCLS 0250 | |
| E. J. Shoemaker Oral History | MCLS 0251 | |
| Beatrice Sisung Oral History | MCLS 0252 | |
| Gerry Sjue Oral History | MCLS 0253 | |
| May Smith Oral History | MCLS 0254 | |
| Nita Smith Oral History | MCLS 0255 | |
| R. Harry Smith Oral History | MCLS 0256 | |
| Merland Sontag Oral History | MCLS 0257 | |
| August Sordini Oral History | MCLS 0258 | |
| Irene Southworth Oral History | MCLS 0259 | |
| Dominic Spinale Oral History | MCLS 0260 | |
| Mary Stasa Oral History | MCLS 0261 | |
| Staub Oral History | MCLS 0262 | |
| Margaret Stiffler Oral History | MCLS 0263 | |
| Iris Stocking Oral History | MCLS 0264 | |
| John Phillip Stoner Oral History | MCLS 0265 | |
| Luella Stoner Oral History | MCLS 0266 | |
| Phillip Stoner Oral History | MCLS 0267 | |
| Harold Stotz Oral History | MCLS 0268 | |
| Harold Stotz Oral History | MCLS 0268 | |
| Hugo Stotz Oral History | MCLS 0269 | |
| Helen Stoyanovich Oral History | MCLS 0270 | |
| Elmer Straits Oral History | MCLS 0271 | |
| Robert Strimpel Oral History | MCLS 0272 | |
| Leland & Marriet Sweet Oral History | MCLS 0273 | |
| Louis Switney Oral History | MCLS 0274 | |
| Beatrice Tremble Oral History | MCLS 0275 | |
| Augusta Trpelka Oral History | MCLS 0276 | |
| John & Viola Ucci Oral History | MCLS 0277 | |
| Madeline Vitale Oral History | MCLS 0278 | |
| Peter Vuich Oral History | MCLS 0279 | |
| Esther Waddell Oral History | MCLS 0280 | |
| Walbridge Oral History | MCLS 0281 | |
| Florence Weber Oral History | MCLS 0282 | |
| Vera Welch Oral History | MCLS 0283 | |
| Grace Dr. Wertenberger Oral History | MCLS 0284 | |
| Leo & Suzanne Wickenheiser Oral History | MCLS 0285 | |
| Leo & Suzanne Wickenheiser Oral History | MCLS 0285 | |
| Harold & Julia Willets Oral History | MCLS 0286 | |
| Clessie Wilson Oral History | MCLS 0287 | |
| Helen Winter Oral History | MCLS 0288 | |
| Norman Woelmer Oral History | MCLS 0289 | |
| Earl Wright Oral History | MCLS 0290 | |
| Dawson Yerkes Oral History | MCLS 0291 | |
| Marion Yoas Oral History | MCLS 0292 | |
| Frances Young Oral History | MCLS 0293 | |
| Anne Zast Oral History | MCLS 0294 | |
| Richard H. Austin Oral History | Discussion of his career as businessman, public office and terms as Michigan's Secretary of State. | DPL 0001 |
| Albert J. Dunmore Oral History | Interviews life & career, newspaper man and Chrysler Corp. Exe. | DPL 0002 |
| Ulysses W. Boykin Oral History | Biographical interview; ownership of Detroit Tribune; WGPR-TV & Radio involvement; Nat. Black Republican Council. | DPL 0003 |
| Nellie Huger Ebersole Oral History | Interview: involvment w/Art Center Music School | DPL 0004 |
| Telitha Cumi Bowens Oral History | Transcript of interview: career as artisit & education | DPL 0005 |
| Lillian Hatcher Oral History | Interview: life and career as UAW worker and admin. | DPL 0006 |
| Elizabeth Kohn Dunn Oral History | Dear Oral History Project | DPL 0007 |
| Anne Davidow Seeger Oral History | Dear Oral History Project | DPL 0008 |
| Walter Gibbs Oral History | Dear Oral History Project | DPL 0009 |
| Steven Spoils Oral History | Dear Oral History Project | DPL 0010 |
| James T. Jenkins Oral History | Transcript concerning founding and early history of Graystone International Jazz Museum | DPL 0011 |
| Minnie McGhee Oral History | Interview concerning her family's integrating an all-white neighborhood in Detroit in the 1940's and the legal precedent associated with their case | DPL 0012 |
| Helen Malloy Oral History | Biographical interview: including discussion of involvement with the Detroit Housewives League and the National Housewives League | DPL 0013 |
| Leroy Mitchell Jr. Oral History | Transcript concerning life, career, war experience, Detroit in the 1940's and teaching experiences in Ghauna | DPL 0014 |
| Gladys Pelham Roscoe Oral History | Interview concerning life, African-Americans in Detroit, and genelogy of Pelham family. | DPL 0015 |
| Anne Dora Roberson Russell Oral History | Transcript: concerning her early life, education and teaching career in Dale, Montgomery, and Coffee counties Alabama. | DPL 0016 |
| Willis Eugene Smith Oral History | Interview concerning life and career as a mortician and Detroit funeral director. | DPL 0017 |
| Marcena Taylor Oral History | Biographical oral history interview, including discussion of career as Detroit firefighter. He was the first African-American to be promoted to barralion chief in the Detroit Fire Department. | DPL 0018 |
| James Thompson Oral History | Transcript of oral history interview concerning life and experiences as a solider in WWII and author. His book True Colors documents his experience as a Korean P.O.W. held of 1004 days. | DPL 0019 |
| Hilda Vest Oral History | Transcript of oral history interview concerning her work as Broadside Press owner and editor. | DPL 0020 |
| Roscoe Worten Oral History | Oral history interview concerning genelogy of the DeBaptiste family. | WPR 0521 |
| Albert J. Dunmore Oral History (DUPLICATE) | Interviews life & career, newspaper man and Chrysler Corp. Exe. | DPL 0002 |
| Conversations with Anna Diggs Taylor | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; civil rights movement (1960s); Detroit politics; Coleman A. Young; judging; Detroit Boat Club; Vincent Chin; Fruehauf; race and jury selection; University of Michigan and affirmative action. | MIED 0014 |
| Conversations with Paul J. Komives | Transcript of interviews with federal Magistrate Judge Paul J. Komives, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; United States Department of Justice; Solicitor General; racketeering; organized crime; moonshine; Appalachians; one man grand jury; gambling; Gotham Hotel; Federal Magistrates Act; Bail Reform Act; September 11, 2001. | MIED 0100 |
| Conversations with Julian Abele Cook, Jr. | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge Julian Abele Cook, Jr., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; segregation; Edward Bennett Williams; Harold Bledsoe; Oakland County; busing; Michigan Civil Rights Commission; judicial elections; John DeLorean; judging; Federal Sentencing Guidelines; juries, service and racial composition; crash, Northwest Airlines Flight 255; magistrate judges; cameras in the courtroom. | MIED 0010 |
| Conversations with Stewart A. Newblatt | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge Stewart A. Newblatt, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; Army Criminal Investigation Division; Phillipines; labor law; House Unamerican Activities Committee; Flint, MI; John Swainson; Spencer v. Flint Memorial Park; Republic of New Africa; Genessee County; Alex Dandy; General Motors; redistricting; Marsh v. Flint Board of Education; prison overcrowding; Barcume v. City of Flint; tax protestors; Paday Quinn; Professional Associates; tax shelters; Harry Mohney; sentencing guidelines; jury service; mandala; alternative dispute resolution; Herbert Milliken. | MIED 0013 |
| Conversations with Anthony Bertoni | Transcript of interviews with United States Marshal Anthony Bertoni, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; construction industry; Detroit Police Department; Big Four; Tactical Mobile Unit; Kercheval; Detroit Riot (1967); STRESS (Stop the Robberies and Enjoy Safe Streets); Olsonite Corporation; witness protection program. | MIED 0200 |
| Conversations with James P. Churchill | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge James P. Churchill, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; Wolverine Boys State; Senator Robert P. Griffin; GI Bill; 40th Judicial Circuit; Lapeer County; Tuscola County; Imlay City, MI; Vassar, MI; judicial elections; Peter Lazarus; U.S. v. Real Estate One; Judicial Conference of the United States; Federal Judges Association; Detroit Fire Department; discrimination; affirmative action; Theordore Sachs; Anthony C. Diminnie; Robert E. Ozer; United States Strike Force, Organized Crime; General Motors; Ku Klux Klan; Giacalone Brothers; James M. Canham; Beauregard Steuberfield; Dr. Leo Donaldson; Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole; tax protestors; Gladys Beaver; Lewis Gordon; Wurtsmith Air Force Base; Dow Chemical Company; Saraband. | MIED 0008 |
| Conversations with Robert E. DeMascio | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge Robert E. DeMascio, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; Coraoplis, PA; GI Bill; Phillipines; Wayne State University; United States Attorney's Office; Sen. Homer Ferguson; Detroit Recorder's Court; Detroit Riot, 1967; Alvin Davenport; Donald Leonard; public defender; Myzell Sowell; Geraldine Ford; Martin Hayden; cross-district busing; Chester Campbell; United States v. Bowers and Beckham; Bradley v. Milliken; public litigation; sentencing guidelines; Judicial Conference of the United States, Bankruptcy Committee; bankruptcy courts; Detroit Public Schools; United States v. City of Birmingham; Baldwin House; housing discrimination. | MIED 0005 |
| Conversations with George Brody | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge George Brody, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; Works Progress Administration; federal prison system; anti-semitism; University of Toledo; Office of Price Stabilization; sports; coaching; Theodore Levin; Wade McCree; Marion Pollard; insanity pleas; bankruptcy court, history; Boblo; Fred Sanders, Inc.; Bankruptcy Act of 1898; Bankruptcy Act of 1978; United States Trustees; Baptist Homes; Adat Shalom; attorney fees; Irving August. | MIED 0150 |
| Conversations with Judge Horace W. Gilmore | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge Horace W. Gilmore, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; Circleville, OH; journalism; Office of Price Stabilization; Democratic Party; Michigan Democrat (newspaper); Mennen "Soapy" Williams; Hicks Griffiths; Martha Griffiths; Neil Staebler; Blair Moody; United States Attorney's Office; State Board of Tax Appeals; Michigan Attorney General; Wayne County Circuit Court; judicial elections; Wade McCree; Republic of New Africa; Judicial Tenure Commission; Detroit Recorder's Court; jury selection; Detroit Public Schools; psychosurgery; child support payments; sentencing guidelines; writing; teaching; United States Census Bureau; Ferndale Public Schools; busing; bankruptcy court; Detroit Fire Department; Evan Callahan; Frank Battisti; Detroit Police Officers Association; affirmative action; civil rights movement; legal education; National Judicial College; National Center for State Courts; Institute for Court Management; Federal Judicial Center. | MIED 0015 |
| Conversations with Judge R. James Harvey | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge R. James Harvey, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; Upper Peninsula; Iron Mountain, MI; art; Army Air Force; GI Bill; W. Vincent Nash; Saginaw, MI; United States Congress, House of Representatives; Robert Griffin; Acorn Windows v. Reynolds Aluminum; Westwood v. Dow Corning Chemicals; McDonald v. West Branch; prison conditions; Kettlewell v. County of St. Clair; Dow Chemical Co. | MIED 0007 |
| Elizabeth White Oral History | Daughter of Lee A Wright. Tape 1. | CRA 0007 |
| Conversations with Judge John Feikens | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge John Feikens, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; dairy farming; Calvin College; Christian Reformed Church; Malcolm "Iffy the Dopester" Bingay; insurance industry; Republican Party; Dwight Eisenhower; Arthur Vandenberg, Jr.; Michigan Civil Rights Commission; Detroit Riot, 1967; Detroit Bar Association; O'Hare v. Detroit Board of Education; recess appointments; Sen. Patrick McNamara; Sen. Robert P. Griffin; Theodore Levin; automotive price fixing; Aladdin Hotel and Casino; bankruptcy court; Irving August; judicial security; judicial pay; cross-district busing; Detroit Water and Sewer litigation; judicial activism. | MIED 0001 |
| Richard Thomas Oral History | Head of CAA Metalsmith Department 1948-1984. Tape 2. | CRA 0008 |
| Rogers Marquis Oral History | Son of Reverend Samuel S Marquis: Christ Church Cranbrook. Tape 4. | CRA 0006 |
| Margueritte Kimball Oral History | CAA student and financial secretary 1942-1968. Tape 5. | CRA 0005 |
| Roy Slade Oral History | Director of CAA 1970-1977. Tapes 11-12. | CRA 0001 |
| Murray Douglas Oral History | Brookside School Art Teacher 1936-1950. Tape 13. | CRA 0002 |
| Peter Gilleran Oral History | CAA graduate 1950. Tape 14. | CRA 0003 |
| Elizabeth McLean and Shirley Sarver Oral History | Grandaughters of George Gough Booth. | CRA 0004 |
| George Winborne Oral History | George and Hank Winborne. Tape 19. | CRA 0011 |
| Dominick Angelosante Oral History | Dominick Angelosante with John Angelosante. Tape 20. | CRA 0010 |
| Marion Kirk Jones Oral History | Daughter of silversmith Arthur Nevill Kirk. Tape 18. | CRA 0009 |
| Adolf Rajanen Oral History Interview | Topics include farm life and relations with neighbors; Finnish organizations; the effects of World War I; life as a barber; Socialist and labor movements; a pastor at Wolf Lake; Finns and alcohol; sick care; and a wart cure. | OHP 1970s Raj |
| Adrian Heinonen Oral History Interview | Topics include porcupines; camping in the woods; and deer hunting in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. | OHP 1970s Hei |
| Aileen Jacobson Oral History Interview | Topics include family history; nursing school and nursing; the life of Finnish immigrants; different nationalities in schools and ethnic relations; life in Marquette, Mich.; and saunas. | OHP 1970s Jac |
| Aily Koski Oral History Interview | Topics include reasons for leaving Finland; her father's activities with the IWW; his being blacklisted and moving to a farm in 1922; his ideology; her own schooling; the role of the school in the community; the St. Louis County school system; and the McCarthy era. | OHP 1970s Kos |
| Al Harvey Oral History Interview | Topics include the life of a lumberjack; boxing; baseball; his father's mine accident and his own work in the mines; the 1913 strike; mine timbermen; the Depression; deer hunting; trapping; and Ernest Hemingway in the Copper Country. | OHP 1970s Har |
| Alexander Nelson Oral History Interview | Topics include his grandparents coming from Norway; moving first to Hancock and then to Calumet, Mich.; different ethnic groups; the 1913 strike; the Italian Hall disaster; the YMCA; Fourth of July; sports; Prohibition; gambling; the board of trade in Houghton, Mich.; Finns, Italians, Mexicans, and Germans in Copper Country; his restaurant and bar business (1920s-1940s); the Depression; politics; temperance; tourism; home remedies and medical care; recreation; and churches in Calumet. | OHP 1970s Nel |
| Alfred Pelto Oral History Interview | Topics include his father coming to Ishpeming; railroads; cabbage farming and marketing; potato marketing; the Cohodas family; logging; saunas; horses; dairy farming; cheese factory collapse; ethnic relations; and ice harvesting. | OHP 1970s Pel |
| Allen R. Good Oral History Interview | Topics include his genealogy; background and schooling; and the use of hydraulic air compressors in mines. | OHP 1970s Goo |
| Amanda Larson Oral History Interview | Topics include her family history; education; her work as a teacher; and teaching Finnish immigrants English. | OHP 1970s Lar |
| Andrew Mickelson Oral History Interview | Topics include his religious beliefs and awakening and his involvement with the Apostolic Lutheran Church of America. | OHP 1970s Mic |
| Anna Isola Oral History Interview | Topics include her birth in Calumet, Mich., and her family; teaching; problems teaching English; amusements; boardinghouses; the Tamarack co-op; Vertin Brothers department store in Calumet; home remedies; and picnics. | OHP 1970s Iso |
| Anna Kangas Oral History Interview | Topics include her work at Suomi College as a housemother; coming to America; school in Finland; Finnish foods; ethnic conflicts; boardinghouses in Hancock; Fourth of July celebrations; crime; home remedies; midwives; diseases; and ministers. | OHP 1970s Kan |
| Annie Broan Aldrich Oral History Interview | Topics include family history; the reasons her parents came to Copper Country; her father's work as a mine captain; celebrating Christmas and the Fourth of July; school; marriage to physician Addison Aldrich in 1907; life as an physician's wife; church life; social life; flu and typhoid epidemics; ethnic relations; a strike; temperance movement; suffrage; the WPA; Italian American community near Baltic; rationing; and killing wild game for meat. | OHP 1970s Ald |
| Arthur J. Niemi Oral History Interview | Interview also includes Ilma Niemi. Topics include growing up in Virginia; home life; Fourth of July celebrations; memories of Eveleth and Payne, Minn.; church life; working in mines; and lumber camps and lumbering. | OHP 1970s Nie |
| Armas K.E. Holmio Oral History Interview | Topics include Finland and the town of Rauma; famous Finnish clergy; living in the U.S. during the Depression; the Russo-Finnish War; World War II and his service as an army chaplain; teaching at Suomi College; conflicts between the Suomi Synod and the Finnish National Church; the Suomi archives; and bringing Finnish Americans together. | OHP 1970s Hol |
| Arthur B. Erickson Oral History Interview | Topics include personal history; Pelkie and Baraga, Mich.; William Pelkie; Baraga physician Romulus S. Buckland; cabbage as the area's biggest cash crop; the produce trade; the Mineral Range Railroad; logging; lumber camps; his work as a teamster; Nestor Lumber Company; saloons; a cheese factory and creamery; and entertainment. | OHP 1970s Eri |
| Arthur Mutkala Oral History Interview | Topics include the Depression; logging; hunting (including deer hunting) and hunting accidents; and trapping. | OHP 1970s Mut |
| Arthur Oinas Oral History Interview | Topics include his parents' emigration from Finland; lumber camps; copper mines and mining; school in Calumet, Mich.; the 1913 strike; Western Federation of Miners; Socialists in the mines; Finnish newspapers; World War I; farm life in Oskar, Mich.; selling produce during the Depression; the Congregational church in Hancock; the WPA; a dairy producers cooperative; Fourth of July celebrations; and religious life. | OHP 1970s Oin |
| Arvid M. Alanen Oral History Interiview | Topics include his father's leaving Finland, working at the mine in Ishpeming, family life and boarders, beginning his engineering career, and teaching at Suomi College. | OHP 1970s Ala |
| Arvid Wiitaniemi Biography -- Family Interview | Collective biography of Arvid Wiitaniemi, 1871-1961, compiled chiefly by various family members. Topics include his birth in Finland in 1871; coming to the U.S. in 1887; his two marriages; family life; working in the sandstone quarry in Jacobsville; peddlers; and farm life. | OHP 1970s Wii |
| Arvo "Charlie" Pyorala Oral History Interview | Topics include his father clearing land and building a home; starting a farm; working in lumber camps and mines; the 1913 strike; ethnic conflicts; religious life; keeping country roads open in the winter; a home remedy; moving to Pontiac in 1922; movement of many people downstate; the Depression; the WPA; a train robbery; a mine accident victim; cooperative movement; voting; running restaurants after World War II; and involvement in local social organizations. | OHP 1970s Pyo |
| Barbara Williams Oral History Interview | Topics include attending school; graduating (1930) from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis.; her work as a librarian in Calumet, first with the Calumet and Hecla library and later with the Calumet Public Library 1944-1966); the impact of World War I on the Copper Country; the Depression; copper mines and mining; ethnic groups and relations; amusements; the Calumet Theatre; Calumet and Hecla Band; the Fortnightly Club; and her work with the Episcopal Church. | OHP 1970s Wil |
| Battista Bigando Oral History Interview | Topics include coming to the U.S. from Italy; getting a job in the mines; boardinghouses; medical care and physicians; playing with the Calumet & Hecla Band; Allouez; and the visit of Theodore Roosevelt to Copper Country. | OHP 1970s Big |
| Russell Bergh Oral History Interview | Interview also includes Walter S. Holmlund--1908-1993 and Minnie Marsi. Interview relates chiefly to various aspects of life in Jacobsville,Michigan, a sandstone quarrying location at the mouth of the Copper Country's Portage Lake Entry. | OHP 1970s Ber |
| Bertha M. Jacka Oral History Interview | Topics include community life in Calumet. Includes references to ethnic groups; copper mines and mining; 1913 copper miners' strike; Fourth of July; summer and winter pastimes; churches; schools; and hospitals. | OHP 1970s Jack |
| Bill Waisanen Oral History Interview | Also present during the interview is Matt Waisanen--1894-1976 and Arthur Waisanen--1900-1978. Topics include various aspects of life in Pelkie, Mich. Persons represented include Urho Erikainen, Evert Larson, and William Pelkie. | OHP 1970s Wai 2 |
| Charles Hohl Oral History Interview | Topics include being the oldest living alumnus of Michigan Tech; copper mines and mining; the 1913 strike; ethnic relations; medical care for miners; geological work; World War I and the mining industry; the Depression; saloons; and tourism in the future of Copper Country. | OHP 1970s Pyo |
| Beaver Island Archaeology Oral History | Archaeology | BIHS 0001 |
| Allers Oral History | Recorded in the Marine Museum | BIHS 0002 |
| Isabelle Mooney Alimenti Oral History | Livery | BIHS 0003 |
| George Anthony Oral History | BIHS 0005 | |
| Catherine Bales Oral History | BIHS 0006 | |
| Catherine Bales Oral History | BIHS 0006 | |
| Barb Beckers Oral History | Recorded in Shamrock | BIHS 0007 |
| Agnes Bird Oral History | Recorded in the Print Shop | BIHS 0008 |
| Pat Bonner Oral History | fiddle music | BIHS 0011 |
| Helen Pike Oral History | With Bea Boyle | BIHS 0012 |
| Rogers Carlisle Oral History | misc events | BIHS 0013 |
| Ray Carnes Oral History | Recorded in Isle Haven | BIHS 0015 |
| Sister Agnes Clare Oral History | Recorded in Marywood | BIHS 0016 |
| Don Cole Oral History | studying R Rutt's photos. Recorded in the Print Shop. | BIHS 0019 |
| Joe LaFreniere Oral History | and Don Cole | BIHS 0020 |
| Garrett Cole Oral History | BIHS 0021 | |
| Grace Gillespie Cole Oral History | BIHS 0022 | |
| Grace Gillespie Cole Oral History | Recorded in her home | BIHS 0023 |
| Lilian Cole Oral History | funeral. Recorded on a boat. | BIHS 0024 |
| Robert Cole Oral History | BIHS 0025 | |
| Duane Mooney Oral History | Also interviewing with Tom Cole | BIHS 0026 |
| Helen Collar Oral History | Recorded at the Circle M during dinner. | BIHS 0030 |
| Hellen Collar Oral History | BIHS 0032 | |
| Lester Connaghan Oral History | BIHS 0034 | |
| Lester Tom Oral History | Ride in Town w Lester/Mary Tom. Recorded in the museum. | BIHS 0035 |
| Lila Lee Connaghan Oral History | Also interviews with Anna Mae/Georgie. Recorded at the Em Isle Hotel. | BIHS 0036 |
| Jack Coppens Oral History | Also interviews with Rod. Recorded in Ann Arbor. | BIHS 0037 |
| Vera Snider Crandell Oral History | BIHS 0038 | |
| Clare Left Cull Oral History | Recorded at Clare's home | BIHS 0039 |
| Glen Felixson Oral History | Recorded at the Boat Shop | BIHS 0040 |
| Doyle Fitzpatrick Oral History | Island Mormons | BIHS 0042 |
| Doyle Andy Oral History | Also interviews with Johnny Andy | BIHS 0043 |
| Stanley Floyd Oral History | showing photographs | BIHS 0045 |
| Aidan Gallagher Oral History | BIHS 0046 | |
| Anthony Gallagher Oral History | Also interviewing with Charlie Martin | BIHS 0047 |
| Earl Gallagher Oral History | Recorded in Traverse City | BIHS 0048 |
| Johnny Andy Gallagher Oral History | BIHS 0051 | |
| Nora "Nonie" Gallagher Oral History | BIHS 0052 | |
| Peter Gallagher Oral History | Subject covering farming | BIHS 0053 |
| Theresa Boyle Gallagher Oral History | Recorded at Charlevoix | BIHS 0055 |
| (Young) James Gallagher Oral History | Young James Gallagher | BIHS 0056 |
| Charlie Martin Oral History | Also interviews with Tony Gallagher | BIHS 0057 |
| Corneil Gatliff Oral History | BIHS 0059 | |
| Mary Tom Gatliff Oral History | BIHS 0060 | |
| Georgie Gatliff Oral History | Also interviews with Lila Lee and Anna Mae. Recorded at the Em Isle Hotel. | BIHS 0061 |
| Jewell Gillespie Oral History | Heritage Award | BIHS 0064 |
| Henry M. Gowman Oral History | BIHS 0065 | |
| Johnny Green Oral History | BIHS 0067 | |
| Phil Gregg Oral History | BIHS 0069 | |
| Anna Dowell Hammond Oral History | Recorded at the Print Shop. | BIHS 0070 |
| Henry Hill Oral History | Franklin Left | BIHS 0072 |
| Frank Howard Oral History | BIHS 0074 | |
| Bernadine McCauley Jouzapaitis Oral History | Recorded at her home. | BIHS 0077 |
| Isabelle Kenwabikise Oral History | BIHS 0079 | |
| Henry Kraus Oral History | Also interviews with Dorothy Kraus | BIHS 0080 |
| Archie LaFreniere Oral History | BIHS 0083 | |
| Don Cole Oral History | Also interviews with Joe LaFreniere | BIHS 0084 |
| Sybil Larsen Oral History | BIHS 0085 | |
| Franklin Left Oral History | BIHS 0086 | |
| Alice Lewis Oral History | BIHS 0087 | |
| Buffalo Malloy's granddaughters Oral History | Buffalo Malloy's granddaughters. Recorded at the Emerald Isle Hotel. | BIHS 0088 |
| Charlie Martin Oral History | BIHS 0089 | |
| Charlie Martin Oral History | BIHS 0089 | |
| Jimmy Swifty Martin Oral History | Recorded at the Marine Museum. | BIHS 0090 |
| Jude Martin Oral History | BIHS 0091 | |
| Tony Gallagher Oral History | Also interviews with Charlie Martin | BIHS 0092 |
| Anna Mae Maxwell Oral History | Also interviews with Georgie and Lila. Recorded at the Emerald Isle Hotel. | BIHS 0093 |
| Madonna McCafferty Oral History | BIHS 0094 | |
| Dave McCauley Oral History | Recorded at the Print Shop. | BIHS 0095 |
| Lawrence McDonough Oral History | Recorded at Charlevoix | BIHS 0097 |
| Mary Bert McDonough Oral History | BIHS 0105 | |
| Mary McDonough Oral History | w/ Madonna | BIHS 0106 |
| Lawrence McDonough Oral History | Also interviews with Winnie McDonough. boiled dinner. | BIHS 0107 |
| Winnie McDonough Oral History | Recorded at Charlevoix | BIHS 0108 |
| Tom Cole Oral History | Also interviews with Duane Mooney | BIHS 0109 |
| Mark LaF Oral History | Duane mooney | BIHS 0110 |
| Fred Moore Oral History | Talks about Eri James Moore | BIHS 0111 |
| Marguerite Cole Mulligan Oral History | Recorded at St. Claire Sh | BIHS 0112 |
| Frank Nackerman Oral History | Also interviews with Grace Nackerman | BIHS 0115 |
| Rod Nackerman Oral History | Also interviews with K Ricksgers | BIHS 0117 |
| Ramon Nelson Oral History | BIHS 0120 | |
| Joe O'Donnell Oral History | Also interviews with Charlie O'Donnell | BIHS 0123 |
| Jay Oliver Oral History | BIHS 0124 | |
| Bea Boyle Oral History | Also interviews with Helen Pike | BIHS 0126 |
| Helen Pike Oral History | school days | BIHS 0127 |
| Antje Price Oral History | Recorded at Protar Home. | BIHS 0132 |
| Proctar Oral History | 100th, Collar, Pike, Gill., Lange | BIHS 0133 |
| Antje Price Oral History | Recorded at Protar and Museum. | BIHS 0134 |
| Katherine Ricksgers Oral History | Also interviews with Rod Nack. | BIHS 0135 |
| Grace Bonner Rousseau Oral History | BIHS 0136 | |
| Rushin' Girls Oral History | Recorded at Kevin Gibson's home. | BIHS 0137 |
| Margaret Gallagher Zelley Schmit Oral History | BIHS 0138 | |
| Perry Smith Oral History | BIHS 0139 | |
| Perry Smith Oral History | BIHS 0139 | |
| Sondereggers Oral History | on Beaver Hotel | BIHS 0140 |
| Elizabeth Stephens Oral History | BIHS 0141 | |
| Louise Tennyson (Strangite) Oral History | BIHS 0142 | |
| Roy Gebo Williams Oral History | Recorded at J. Bartels' home. | BIHS 0143 |
| Conversations with Avern Cohn | Transcript of interviews with federal Judge Avern Cohn, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Discusses: personal background; education; Democratic Party; Michigan Civil Rights Commission; Detroit Board of Police Commissioners; American Civil Liberties Union; Red Squad; Coleman Young; Judaism; busing; Judge Leon Jenkins; Dr. Robert Kearns; intermittent wiper blades; University of Michigan, speech code; federal death penalty; Jake Baker; ACLU v. Ohio; magistrate judges; alternative dispute resolution; jury selection. | MIED 0011 |
| Charles O. McManiman Oral History Interview | Topics include working as a blacksmith; his father's coming from Canada; clannishness among nationalities; politics in the Copper Country; Democratic clubs in Houghton County; Finnish interest in politics; Democratic Party support; effect of World War II on Copper Country; his dislike for Communism; the White Pine strike of 1959 and the mining strike of 1968-1969; his feelings as to what the Copper Country needs; and the future of logging. | OHP 1970s McM |
| Charles Wilman Oral History Interview | Topics include his family, including his parents who were born in Finland; his career as a judge; his involvement with the Ontonagon County Historical Society and the Upper Peninsula Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society; and Ontonagon County social life and customs. | OHP 1970s Wil |
| Dagmar Perander Oral History Interview | Topics include farm and family life; picking berries; Christmas; cross-country skiing; forest fires; schools; and the Lutheran Church and pastors Edward M. Groop, Frans Koski, and Lauri Pikkusaari. | OHP 1970s Per |
| Don Lehto Oral History Interview | Topics include picking blueberries; the Depression; clearing land; logging; early Pelkie, including the coop, creamery, and cheese factory; making hay; school; peddlers and beggars; ethnic relations; working in the mines; copper miners' strike (1913-1914); hunting; and trapping. | 1970s OHP Leh |
| Don Tahtinen Oral History Interview | Topics include selling vegetables; Alfred Pelto; potato harvesting; soil; frosts; fertilization; giving away vegetables; gardening as a youth; and storing vegetables. | 1970s OHP Tah |
| Dr. A.J. Janis Oral History Interview | Topics include his work as a physician in Hancock, childbirth, midwives, early medical techniques, Finnish Americans and their foods, labor-management relations, and working conditions in the mines. | 1970s OHP Jan |
| Dr. Clarence Andrews Oral History Interview | Interview on Andrews's research and publication on the 1913 Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Mich. Includes background information on the 1913-1914 copper miners' strike. Interviewed recorded on radio station WMPL in Hancock, Mich. | 1970s OHP And |
| E. Olaf Rankinen Oral History Interview | Native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula; graduate of Suomi College and Theological Seminary; military chaplain; Lutheran pastor in North Dakota, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan; pilot; and archivist emeritus at Finlandia University. Topics include his family; growing up on the Upper Peninsula; the Depression; ethnic relations; attending Suomi College and Theological Seminary; and his love of flying. | 1970s OHP Ran |
| Edith A. Koivisto Oral History Interview | Edith (Laine) Koivisto was born in Kuusenkoski, Finland, and immigrated to Spokane, Wash., in 1910. In 1912, she moved to Smithville, Minn., where she worked at and attended Työväen Opisto (Work People's College). In 1913 she married Arvid Koivisto; they lived in Duluth, Minn., and Quincy, Mass., before settling in Hibbing, Minn., where Arvid worked for the Hibbing Co-op and then for Central Cooperative Wholesale. In Hibbing, Edith Koivisto participated in numerous choral and theatrical groups, published articles in the Hibbing newspapers, and wrote many plays in Finnish and English as well as various histories of the Finnish Americans in the Hibbing area. Topics include the settling in Spokane, Wash.; schooling in Finland; Industrial Workers of the World; Työväen Opisto (Work People's College); cooperatives, Arvid Koivisto (1886-1964); and art work, theater activities, and playwriting. | 1970s OHP Koi |
| Edmond Raymond Oral History Interview | Topics include his family history; railroad gangs; machine shop; loggers; steam engines and whistles; the 1913 copper miners' strike; the Italian Hall disaster; work as a carpenter; his first car; and breweries. | 1970s OHP Ray |
| William Schumer Oral History | Interview with Mike Smith, covering Schumer's career as a business owner of the General Linen and Uniform Company in Detroit and his personal and professional involvement with the Jewish community. | WPR 0763 |
| Vincent Sombrotto Oral History | Interview with Mike Smith covering his personal life and career with National Association of Letter Carriers, especially his leadership, as New York City branch president, of the 1970 wildcat strike and the subsequent rank-and-file movement that elected him national president. | WPR 0778 |
| Julius Combs Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0768 |
| Horace Jefferson Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0769 |
| Suesetta Talbert McCree Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0770 |
| Felix Seldon Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0771 |
| Juanita Rosario Diggs Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0772 |
| Amelita Mandingo-Burton Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0773 |
| Jean Hurst Mitchell Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0774 |
| Glenn Wash Oral History | Oral history interview. | WPR 0775 |
| Ted Brandt Oral History | This interview with Ted Brandt describes his lifetime of union involvement. The interview recalls Brandt's early Local One union involvement working as a journeyman lithographer. Brandts active role in union negotiations, his positions as vice-president and International West Coast representative of the ALA are discussed as well as the issues confronting his union from 1964 to 1972. | WPR 0776 |
| Linda Bart and Judy Ellul Oral History | In this interview, sisters Linda Bart and Judy Ellul discuss their careers as rod busters. Bart entered the federally funded Trade Union Leadership Council in Detroit in 1979 and accepted a position as a rod buster with the Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local 426. Ellul was recruited by her sister in the mid 1980s. The sisters recall their first days on the job and explain the physical and mental strength it takes for a woman to work in such a physically demanding predominately male profession. Ellul discusses how the physicality of the job ultimately led to her going on disability, while Bart too left the rod busters for the less demanding electrical trade. The interview concludes with Ellul and Bart sharing their feelings on why few women are active in the union, the merger with the ironworkers, and general concerns about the impact of the economy on their profession. At the time of the interview Ellul was working toward a degree in construction management while Bart was planning to re-enter the rod busting trade. | WPR 0777 |
| Kenneth Brown Oral History | Ken Brown, President of the Graphic Arts International Union, is the son of Arthur Brown former president of the Toronto local. This interview was done in three parts. Part I covers Brown's earliest years; his lithographic-oriented family and their desire to follow the trade, Browns experience during the Second World War working in a topographical unit, and his return to Toronto.Part II deals with Browns involvement in the union, disaffiliation with the AFL-CIO, and his journey to presidency.Part III explores the political turmoil during the early years of his presidency and the mergers with several unions including the Photoengravers Union. | WPR 0780 |
| Arthur Brown Oral History | In this interview Arthur Brown recounts his early years as a lithographic artist for Stone Limited in Toronto Canada. Brown also recalls his election to numerous offices at the local level, and his twenty-year role as the international vice-president for the Amalgamated Lithographers. | WPR 0779 |
| Harry Conlon Oral History | This interview with Harry Conlon was conducted while he was executive-vice-president of Chicago local #245 chapter of the G.A.I.U.(Graphic Arts International Union) Mr. Conlon describes his apprenticeship as a photoengraver for the Chicago-Sun-Times. Conlon was local union president of the Photoengravers Union in Chicago and played a significant role in the merger at the local and international level. The interview also gives Mr. Conlons views on the nature of trade union leadership, political activity, and the future role of mergers in the trade union movement. | WPR 0782 |
| Richard Clarke Oral History | Richard Clarke began his lithographic career in Montreal and joined the Lithographers union in 1941. By 1949 he was president of his local. In 1957 he was appointed International Representative and became vice-president in 1964. Clarke describes the organization of the Lithographers union in Canada, contrasts the centralized control of the Canadian education with the American system, and discusses the whole question of merger and relations with select unions. Clarke completes the interview with a discussion of the nationalistic trend in Canada as far as International unions are concerned. | WPR 0781 |
| Bob Alleseee Oral History | Interview with Mike Smith about the Detroit radio and television personality's career as "Bob Allison," host of such shows as "Ask Your Neighbor" and "Bowling for Dollars." He and his wife Maggie Allesee are also well-known Detroit philanthropists. | WPR 0783 |
| Eleanor Josaitis Oral History | Oral history interview with Eleanor Josaitis, co-founder of Focus:HOPE. This interview covers Josaitiss involvement with the organization from 1968-2007. | WPR 0784 |
| Eleanor Josaitis and Senator Carl Levin Oral History | Oral history interview with Eleanor Josaitis, co-founder of Focus:HOPE, and Senator Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from Michigan. | WPR 0785 |
| John Connolly Oral History | This interview was conducted with John Connolly shortly after the union he was president of, the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, merged with the Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union to form the Graphic Arts International Union (GAIU). Mr. Connolly describes his early work experience as a bookbinder, the strike of 1921 which affected the entire printing industry, and the effect of changing technology and mergers. The latter part of the interview is devoted to a description of the development of the Bookbinders International. The interview concludes with a discussion of the events which led up to the merger in 1972. | WPR 0786 |
| Henry J. Dillon Oral History | Henry J. Dillon began his career in the photoengraving trade in Chicago in 1937 in a non-union trade shop. Having been fired by his shop for economic reasons, he received further employment at another non-union shop until his entrance into the Air Force during the Second World War. After the war he returned to Chicago to complete his apprenticeship for his pre-war employer which was now a union shop. Dillon became active in Local #5 of the International Photoengravers Union and in order to make a name for him, took on less desirable positions such as chapel chairman and delegate. Dillon attended a summer seminar at the famous Wisconsin School for Workers, upon his return he was appointed full-time union organizer. Dillon also talks about the kind of technological changes in the industry, jurisdictional problems, and traces the beginning of merger discussions with the Amalgamated Lithographers of America. | WPR 0787 |
| John R. Gabbard Oral History | John Gabbard joined the Photoengravers Union in 1954 when he was working as a mask-out artist and then as a permit man for Advertisers Engraving in Cincinnati, Ohio. In there was a four week strike at Advertisers Engraving. As a result of his involvement in that strike, Gabbard was taken in as a journeyman, became more active in union affairs, and finally ran for the executive board and won in 1963. In this interview Gabbard describes in detail the various job classifications in his industry: routing, etching, printing, stripping, and other processes. | WPR 0789 |
| Mel Galbraith Oral History | Mel Galbraiths introduction to the lithography trade began in the Navy in 1946 and later in 1952 training young people in a sub-tender print shop. Out of the service Galbraith served as an apprentice on a multilith press in Minneapolis, joined Local 10 of the ALA, and became shop steward in 1954. In 1960 Galbraith moved to become the full-time president of the ALA Local in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1961 he was appointed international representative to cover Midwestern areas. He discusses the role of an international representative, his experiences with conglomerate-type negotiations, stresses the pros and cons of the coordinated approach to negotiating contracts and reflects on the changing patterns of negotiations within the printing industry. Galbraith offers his thoughts on the merger with the Photoengravers Union, the merger with the Bookbinders, and he offers an opinion on merger in the future with other unions. | WPR 0790 |
| Martin Grayson Oral History | This interview was conducted in two parts. Part I explores how Martin Grayson was introduced to unionism by his father, a member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Grayson joined the Amalgamated Lithographers of America, Local One in 1936 as a pressman, and in 1938-39 represented the Lithographers local as a delegate. Grayson discusses the rapid expansion of the graphic arts industry during the war years, and the leadership of the ALA in gaining security and well-being for its people. Grayson reflects on the influence of the younger members of Local One, his election to Secretary-Treasurer of the International in 1948, and what it was like to step right from the bench into the second highest office in the International. In part II Grayson traces the history of the Lithographers Union and the philosophy of its leadership since the 1880s. He describes his own rise in New York Local One and the general political relationship with other unions in New York City. Grayson gives the details of his responsibilities as International Secretary-Treasurer and discusses the dominant personality of Edward Swayduck, president of the New York Local One. Grayson traces the circumstances of his move from the position of secretary-treasurer to the vice-presidency of the Mountain Region in 1952 and how he dealt with the issues in this new location. Grayson finishes up by explaining the reasons for his resignation from his union position in 1957 and for subsequently going to work for Printing Developments, Inc. At the time of this interview Grayson was vice-president of Color-graphics, Inc. | WPR 0791 |
| Bill Hall Oral History | William (Bill) Hall left school after the eighth grade and in 1925 became an apprentice to the photoengraving trade in a non-union shop. Having become a journeyman in 1930, Hall became active in efforts to organize Chicago Local 5 of the International Photoengravers Union. Hall describes some of the issues that led other workers to gain interest in joining the local, job discrimination and security being of major concern. After his participation in the successful organizing campaign of non-union shops in Chicago, Hall became involved in the union political picture. He was elected as a delegate to the 1946 convention and served on his locals executive board until 1949 when he began his movement onto the International stage. | WPR 0792 |
| Earl Kinney Oral History | In this interview T. Earl Kinney recalls how he obtained his first job as a delivery boy in the printing division of the Sun Publishing Company in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kinney describes how he became a letter press apprentice, a member of the ALA Local 44, and his 1945 election as vice-president of this local. Kinney tells of the withdrawal of Local 44 from the AFL affiliated Trades and Labor Congress and the struggle for financial survival. In 1952 Kinney was elected president of Local 44; in 1962 he was elected an International Councilor of his union. Kinney discusses the councilors election system, the workings of the International Council Board, and the Technological Development Committee. | WPR 0793 |
| Max Levine Oral History | Max Levine grew up in South Philadelphia and started working in the printing trade at age seventeen, this led to an apprenticeship and membership in the Bookbinders Union in 1951. In this interview Levine discusses organizing the Curtis Publishing Company, the eventual dissolution of the company, and why Philadelphia is no longer the printing center that it used to be. Levine recalls his role as shop steward for his union, his involvement as a delegate to the Allied Printing Trades Council, and his election to president of his local. Levine also discusses the main issues confronting the Bookbinders in the fifties and sixties and the relative non-union climate in Philadelphia. | WPR 0794 |
| Edward Vincent Donahue Oral History | In this interview Edward Donahue describes his childhood in South Dakota and leaving in 1939 to join the Army Air Corps where he studied photography. Donahue recalls his experience in WWII and working in the freight service after the war. Donahue enrolled at the Dunwoody Industrial Institute and this education led to his career in the engraving trade. Ed also discusses his involvement in politics and how this led to the elected positions he held in the ALA. | WPR 0788 |
| Eugene Macellari Oral History | Eugene Macellari moved to Boise, Idaho in 1950 and took his apprenticeship as a lithographer there. Macellari went to work in a mixed shop where just the litho department was ALA under Portland Local 36. Macellari describes the strike in 1957, which lasted for three months and was broken resulting in Macellari losing his job and relocating to Seattle. In Seattle he found employment as a stripper of North Pacific Bank Note Company and worked hard to establish an ALA Local , and became president of the local in 1961. Macellaris story then turns to how he came to learn about negotiations, unions, and labor-management relations especially under the guidance of International Representative James O Neill. Macellari discusses the internal politics of the ALA, the origins of the movement toward merger, and talks about areas of International concern. | WPR 0795 |
| Theodore Meyers Oral History | This interview takes place in two parts.In Part I of the interview Theodore Meyers recall s joining the ALA at age nineteen as a feeder, his time in the Navy in the Second World War, and his return to work as a feeder and how he became active in the union. Meyers discusses his roles as financial secretary, recording secretary, and serving as president of the Local 24-L, Pittsburg from 1951- the time of the interview. He recalls his own efforts as president of his local to get his own locals approval of the Inter Local Pension Fund and the unique way he finally succeeded. Part II covers the intricacies of the power struggle among individual union personalities, the mergers with the Photoengravers Union and the Bookbinders Union and the problems it posed for his own Pittsburg local and for New York Local One, and the whole issue of merging the pension funds of the two Internationals. Meyers concludes the interview discussing his relationship with the Teamsters and the United Farm Workers. | WPR 0796 |
| Gus Petrakis Oral History | In this interview Gus Petrakis recalls quitting college to go to work for Western Printing during the depression. Petrakis worked his way up to apprentice pressman, became affiliated with the Milwaukee local of the ALA, and became the first recording secretary. In 1944 Petrakis became president of his local and in 1947 took on the job of International Representative of the ALA. Petrakis recalls his involvement with the 1951 strike at the Michigan Lithographic Company and his views on the International presidency controversy. He became vice-president and reviews the nature of his work closely in the Racine-Chicago area with the newly-merged Photoengravers. At the time of the interview Petrakis had been retired for two years and is able to reflect on the kind of personal experience and his involvement in the labor movement has been. | WPR 0797 |
| Eva Caradonna Oral History | Eva Cardonna grew up Detroit and worked as a medical technician in a Doctors office for 20 years. Cardonna was looking for a change and after completing a carpentry class enrolled at the Ferndale Carpenters Local apprenticeship school. Cardonna describes her first day on the job and how she learned to adjust to an all-male work environment. After completing her apprenticeship Cardonna was recruited to work for Cadillac Motor Cars in 1983 as a result of an EEOC settlement. She was the first outside skilled tradeswomen and was able to find work for other female skilled tradeswomen. Soon she was offered a promotion as a supervisor and continued in that position. The interview concludes with a discussion on the change in the Union over the last 20 years regarding minorities and equality, and the relationship between UAW and IBEW. | WPR 0855 |
| William Schroeder Oral History | Born in 1918 in Chicago and beginning his career in lithography as a dot etcher, William A. Schroeder became a member of Local 4 of the ALA in 1942. Schroeder describes the local union during the period of the forties and fifties and describes the craft of dot etching. In 1960 Schroeder turned to organizing in the Chicago area and describes the nature of his work in that respect. In 1964 Schroeder was asked to make a study of web offset presses and to evaluate their possible impact on his industry. In 1966 he took over the job of Education Director. Finally Schroeder became vice president of the union and chairman of the Education Committee and describes his experience setting up a cooperative program between the Union, the companies, and the government to study the effects of the environment in occupational situations. | WPR 0799 |
| Harry Spohnholtz Oral History | This interview takes place in two parts. In part I Harry Spohnholtz recalls his interest in printing and working at printing shops in Chicago in the 1920s. Spohnholtz joined the ALA in 1929 and during the hard years of the depression, he changed jobs often and became exposed to many areas of his trade. He finally ended up in a non-union plant and was on the committee that negotiated the first written contract between his local union and the Chicago Lithographers Association. In part II Spohnholtz describes the development of Chicago as a center of the printing trade and the importance of the school in Chicago as a training center. He describes the emergence of Chicago as a political power in the International, his work and involvement with internal union politics especially the withdrawal of the ALA from the ALF-CIO in 1958. | WPR 0800 |
| Don Stone Oral History | This interview takes place in three parts. Part I discusses Stones early years in Wisconsin, attending the University of Wisconsin, and working as a stripper in a Lithography shop. In 1940 Stone became recording secretary of his local union in the ALA and in 1946 ran and won the election for editor of The Lithographers Journal.He moved to New York City and recalls the social issues he dealt with as editor of the journal and the political strength he gained in that position. In part II Stone traces the background of the issue of the union label and jurisdiction which led to the withdrawal of the ALA from the AFL-CIO in 1958. He discusses internal union politics during the fifties and recalls the Poughkeepsie strike in 1954. Stone then begins to trace the move toward graphic arts unity, and he gives his opinion President Ken Browns decision to re-affiliate with the AFL-CIO. In part III Stone goes into more detail about the disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO in 1958 and then moves to the subject of efforts that have been made over the years with respect to merger, federation, or amalgamation. Stone discusses the internal union politics that culminated in the withdrawal from the International of Local One, New York. The interview is finished with stone describing the circumstances that led to moving the International headquarters from New York to Washington in 1971 and reflects on the nature of Ken Browns presidency. | WPR 0801 |
| Dan Streeter Oral History | Dan Streeter started in the engraving business in 1930 and joined Chicago Local 5 of the Photoengravers Union in 1936. He gives the reasons for the organization of his own particular shop and describes the organizing campaign that took place under Larry Gruber. Streeter recalls being fired from his Chicago job and moving to Michigan and finally to Los Angeles where he became president of Los Angeles Local 32P in 1946. Streeter undertakes to trace the merger between the Photoengravers and the ALA back to its beginnings in 1962. Streeter reflects on his fifty years in the labor movement, the future of the labor movement and of his own union, and the nature of his job as financial secretary of the Graphic Arts International Union. | WPR 0802 |
| Roy Turner Oral History | Roy Turner was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1917 and began his career in lithography during the depression years. The Second World War and his active service in the Air Force interrupted his career temporarily. In 1956 Turner was elected full-time vice-president of his Toronto local with responsibilities mostly in the area of organizing. He describes the relationships between the ALA and the other graphic arts locals in Toronto at the time and the discussions of merger that took place. Turner was elected president of the Toronto local in 1959 and went on to the International Council in 1961. He discusses the Photoengraver-Lithographer merger, the prospects for merger with the Printing Pressman, and the current tendency on the part of some Canadian unions to disaffiliate from their United States international ties. | WPR 0803 |
| Edward Volz Oral History | Edward Volz, President of the Photoengravers Union from 1929-1954, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was apprenticed to a wood engraver at the age of fifteen and joined the Photoengravers Union at twenty-one when it was still part of the Typographical Union. In this interview he discusses how he became active in union booster trips and reminisces about various union officers. Volz talks about the various job classifications in his industry an how he helped get them under one minimum wage scale. He describes the 1922 lockout for a return to the 48-hour week, the movement for a general printing trades union and how he helped obtain the five-day week for his industry in 1929. Volz also recalls his experience as secretary on law of the AFL under the chairman of Dan Tobin and as a fraternal delegate to represent the AFL at the British Trade unions Congress in 1948. | WPR 0804 |
| Jack Wallace Oral History | Jack Wallace entered the lithographic industry after the Second World War as a litho artist, cameraman, and finally superintendent of a plant in Kansas City, Missouri. He describes the lithographic industry as it thrived in Kansas City; he describes the relationship between the lithographic industry and Hallmark Cards, one of its largest customers, and discusses the good relationship that Kansas City locals had with employers. Wallace tells about the 1951 strike in Kansas City, the roles played by individual participants, and how his involvement with the strategy of the Kansas City strike led to his appointment as International Representative in the Mountain Region. Wallace relates other union experiences including the merger between the Lithographers and the Photoengravers and the Kansas City locals disaffiliation from the AFL in 1948 and its subsequent joining with the CIO. | WPR 0805 |
| Leon Wickersham Oral History | Leon Wickersham began his career in Lithography working for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1948 he moved to Racine, Wisconsin, to work for Western Publishing Company as a stripper in the lithography department. His first experience in the ALA was as a representative of the strippers on the local union executive board. From the position of strippers representative he was elected president of his local and found himself immediately on strike. The strike eventually led to Wickershams appointment as International representative in 1956. Wickersham discusses union politics as they developed in the late fifties and tells how he was appointed as President Ken Browns personal assistant in 1959, a post he still holds today. Wickersham related how General Counsel Ben Robinson had to step down in1962 and discusses the relationship of the general counsel to the union. Wickersham discusses the merger between the Photoengravers and the Lithographers in 1964, and relates how opposition to the merger led the New York Local One to leave the organization. Wickersham closes the interview by reflecting on the problem of sex discrimination, the GAUI, and the future of his industry and his union. | WPR 0806 |
| Milt Williams Oral History | This interview takes place in two parts. In part I Williams discusses how he came from a family that believed deeply in the labor movement, losing his job in the lithographic trade on numerous occasions for organizing activity, and how he began his union career as a sentinel and became president of the Philadelphia Local 14, ALA, in 1957. Williams offers his thoughts on why the printing industry in Philadelphia has dissipated over the years. He traces his own experience and involvement with the International beginning in 1955. Since Williams has represented the Atlantic Region on the International Executive Board. He talks about the split with the AFL-CIO and recalls his own unions milestone achievements through collective bargaining. In part II Williams talks about the internal union politics anBd personalities of the ALA. Williams assesses the role of the councilor in the International organization and the influence he exerts on policy and decisions. He goes on to deal with the whole question of automation, from the lithography perspective and the graphic arts industry as a whole. Williams also reflects on the threat to the smaller unions who do not negotiate national contracts, and offers on jurisdictional questions. | WPR 0807 |
| Joe Buckley Oral History | As of January 2006, Joe Buckley was the regional director of SEIU based in Boston. He advised SEIU District 925 founders on organizing union locals at this affiliate's founding. During that time, he worked for the Alliance, charged with organizing 30,000 Massachusetts State workers. | WPR 0811 |
| Ben Robinson Oral History | Ben Robinson Grew up in Springfield MA, and arrived in New York City in the summer of 1929 immediately after graduating from the Yale Law School. He found employment with Manfred W. Ehrich, counsel to the United States Printing and Lithographic Company. Robinson spent time working in Buffalo and soon was asked to become counsel to the Lithographic Code Authority. With the dissolution of the National Recovery Administration Robinson was out of a job and after spending a year abroad, eventually gained a position as counsel for the International Council and the Local One. Robinson recalls various cases he won including the Foote-Davies case. Robinson discusses the movement of the AF of L into the CIO and the merger and comments on the question of the relationship with the AFL-CIO over the years. He briefly recalls his involvement writing for the National Lithographer trade magazine and his relationship with the magazines owner. Robinson closes the interview by discussing the possibility of Local One returning to the union and his feelings on the issue. | WPR 0798 |
| Ray Abernathy and Denise Mitchell Oral History | As of November 2005, Ray Abernathy served as president of Abernathy Associates and performed strategic campaign communications work for the AFL-CIO. At that time, Denise Mitchell served as Director of Public Affairs for the AFL-CIO. Together, they did public relations work for District 925 spanning back to the early 1980s. | WPR 0808 |
| Heather Tobis Booth Oral History | As of May 2006, Heather Tobis Booth served as an activist in the civil rights and women's movements. She founded the Midwest Academy and consults for progressive organizations and citizen's action groups. In this capacity she developed theories for organizing women and came to know District 925 from this work and work she did with Citizen Action. | WPR 0809 |
| Ellen Bravo Oral History | Ellen Bravo founded the Milwaukee chapter of 9to5 and later became co-director of 9to5the National Association of Working Women. As of September 2006, she was a writer and taught women's studies at the University of Wisconsin. Worked as a clerical worker in healthcare, in welfare rights, as a paralegal | WPR 0810 |
| Anna Burger Oral History | As of November 2005, Anna Burger served as secretary-treasurer of the the Service Employees International Union and chair of the Change to Win Federation. With SEIU she began with the Pennsylvania Social Services Union and worked her way up within that local, eventually becoming is president. She also worked under the leadership of John Sweeney when he served as SEIU's president. | WPR 0812 |
| Ellen Cassedy Oral History | Ellen Cassedy, a founder of 9to5 and District 925, was in 9to5 until 1985. After leaving 9 to 5, she worked as a speech writer for the EPA and for SEIU officials, wrote a book with Ellen Bravo on sexual harassment and was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. As of November 2005, she was completing a book about how Lithuania is engaging with its Holocaust past. After completing college, she worked at Harvard as a clerical worker and organized other women clerical workers. | WPR 0813 |
| Ellen Cassedy; Karen Nussbaum; Debbie Schneider Oral History | Ellen Cassedy, Karen Nussbaum and Debbie Schneider were all principals in SEIU District 925 with the former two founders of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women. They all sought to organize women office workers with the view of improving their working conditions. | WPR 0814 |
| Gloria Steinem Oral History | Gloria Steinem, a founder of Ms. Magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus, is a journalist and social activist. She is one of the best known feminist leaders of the 1970's and 1980's. | WPR 0816 |
| Jane Fonda Oral History | Jane Fonda, actress and anti-war activist, produced and acted in the movie 9 to 5. She is founder, with Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, of the Womens Media Center, a non-profit progressive womens media organization. | WPR 0817 |
| Tom Hayden Oral History | Tom Hayden, an activist for nearly five decades, is a writer and former state senator in California. He is involved in national progressive politics. | WPR 0818 |
| Geri Palast Oral History | Geri Palast was legislative director of SEIU, and then Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration. She is executive director of the campaign for Fiscal Equality. | WPR 0819 |
| Bonnie Ladin Oral History | Bonnie Ladin was one of the three original organizers of District 925 and later became the National Organizing Director of SEIUS office workers division. She teaches in the National Labor College in Maryland. | WPR 0815 |
| Vicki Saporta Oral History | Vicki Saporta was an organizing director for the Teamsters, and is president of the National Abortion Federation. | WPR 0820 |
| Anne Conway Oral History | Anne Conway was a president of a chapter of the Cuyahoga Country Public Library Chapter of District 925 in Ohio. She is a library branch manager. | WPR 0821 |
| Anne Hill Oral History | Anne Hill was one of the original organizers of District 925, and ultimately Executive Director of District 925. She was SEIU Ohio State Council Director, and is now Northwest Ohio Regional Director for Governor Ted Strickland. | WPR 0822 |
| Jacqueline Harris Oral History | Jacqueline Harris was a clerical worker at Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio, and a field representative for District 925. She is retired. | WPR 0823 |
| Ed Dailey Oral History | Ed Dailey grew up in Youngstown, OH during the depression. After working in a series of odd jobs Dailey found steady work with the Street Department of the city of Youngstown in 1934. Dailey formed an unofficial group with the other truck drivers and after the group gained some recognition they formed a civil service employees association and began organizing with other city departments. Dailey recalls that as the group grew in numbers he was referred to Mike Leiden, president of the Central Labor Council and president of the Ohio Federation of Labor, for guidance with the expansion. Dailey and Leiden got in contact with the AF of L and soon the Youngstown group voted to become part of the AFSCME. Dailey became president of the newly formed Local 288 and soon became fulltime staff at the AFSCME. This interview covers Daileys involvement up to the early 1960s. | WPR 0876 |
| Joe Collins Oral History | Joe Collins was born into a pro-union family in Brooklyn, NY. Collins briefly worked for the Edison Company before taking a civil servant job with the city of New York. Collins became chairman of the Civil Service Organization and was actively involved in the 1937 formation of the Civil Service Technical Guild. Collins left the guild and organized the Brooklyn Borough Presidents Office as part of the ACEU-American Civic Employees Union, which became part of the Utility Workers Union. He discusses the ACEUs opposition to the Communist dominated UPW and the eventual dismantling of the UPW. In 1951Collins helped organize the new chartered group into Amalgamated Local 37 and by 1954 Collins became chairman of the New York City Joint Board of the Government and Civic Employees. In 1956 the GCEOC merged with the AFSCME and Collins became a vice president. | WPR 0875 |
| Tom Hoffman Oral History | Tom Hoffman was an organizer for District 925 in Ohio. He is programs and communications director of SEIU Local 3, a Justice for Janitors local. | WPR 0824 |
| Carolyn Schweir Oral History | Carolyn Schweir was active in the organizing campaign at the University of Cincinnati. She is president of the union chapter at the university. | WPR 0825 |
| Carol Sims Oral History | Carol Sims was an employee at Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio. She started working for District 925 in 1984, and is a field representative in SEIU 1199. | WPR 0826 |
| Cinthia Sledz Oral History | Cinthia Sledz, librarian at Cuyahoga County Public Library, was a District 925 chapter president. She is now a member of the Board of the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System. | WPR 0827 |
| Peggy Torzewski Oral History | Peggy Torzewski was an active member during the organizing of her library in Euclid, OHIO, and then was president of the chapter. She came on District 925 staff as a field representative, and is now an Administrative Organizer for SEIU District 1199. | WPR 0828 |
| Helen Williams Oral History | Helen Williams organized Cleveland Women Working which became part of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. | WPR 0829 |
| Andrea Gundersen Oral History | Andrea Gundersen was the lead organizer and regional director for District 925 in Chicago and Illinois starting in 1981. She now works as a massage therapist with veterans and other trauma survivors. | WPR 0830 |
| Sue Chase Oral History | Sue Chase was a clerical worker and union steward at Quincy City Hospital (Quincy, MA) when District 925 was elected to represent the employees. She is now a field representative for SEIU Local 888. | WPR 0831 |
| Doreen Levasseur | Doreen Levasseur was one of the first organizers hired by 9 to 5, and was president of Local 925 in the Boston area. She is now a field representative for the Massachusetts Teachers Association. | WPR 0832 |
| Cheryl Schaffer Oral History | Cheryl Schaffer was one of the three original organizers of District 925, and later served as Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Director of the union. She works as executive director for a center at Boston College. | WPR 0833 |
| Janet Selcer Oral History | Janet Selcer joined Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassedy to launch 9 to 5 in Boston. She is director of the Brookline (MA) School-Community Partnership. | WPR 0834 |
| Evelyn Thorpe Oral History | Evelyn Thorpe is a secretary in the Boston Public Schools and served on the national executive board of District 925. | WPR 0835 |
| Maria DeLise Oral History | Maria DeLise was active in District 925 at the University of New Haven in West Haven, CT, and served on its national executive board. She retired after 43 years on the clerical staff at the university.The first part of the interview was accidently erased. The earlier part of the interview covered how the union got started at the University of New Haven. | WPR 0836 |
| Cindy Cole Oral History | Cindy Cole is office manager of Local 925 in Seattle. She is active as the union representative. | WPR 0837 |
| Kim Cook Oral History | Kim Cook was an activist in Seattle working Women and an organizer with District 925. She is president of SEIU Local 925, the union local that kept the name/number 925 after all District 925 chapters were restructured into SEIU locals in 2001. | WPR 0838 |
| Neal Culver Oral History | Neal Culver was a chapter vice-president, then president of District 925 at the University of Washington. He works at the University in information technology. | WPR 0839 |
| Rene DeVine Oral History | Renee Devine was a steward and vice president of the higher education chapter of District 925, then local president briefly. She is a manager of the cardiac lab at the University of Washington Medical School. | WPR 0840 |
| Dely Gasataya Oral History | Dely Gasataya is chapter representative to the SEIU national executive board. She works in the University of Washington Medical Center billing department. | WPR 0841 |
| Pam MacEwan Oral History | Pam MacEwan was an organizer for District 925 in the initial campaign at the University of Washington. She is now an executive vice president for the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle. | WPR 0842 |
| Linda Roberts Oral History | Linda Roberts was a steward, treasurer, and board member of District 925. She became a professional staff member at the University of Washington. | WPR 0843 |
| Gilda Turner Oral History Interview | Gilda Turner was an active member of District 925 at the University of Cincinnati Hospital before joining the union staff as an organizer. She works for Local 925 in Seattle. | WPR 0844 |
| Deborah Young Oral History | Deborah Young was a chapter president of District 925 at the University of Washington. She is now a managed care program coordinator at the university. | WPR 0845 |
| Robert Welsh and Jonathan Hiatt Oral History | Jonathan Hiatt is General Counsel to the AFL-CIO, and Director of the Legal Department. Robert Welsh is Executive Assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. This interview discusses their involvement with SEIU 925. | WPR 0846 |
| Valarie Long Oral History | Valarie Long was an organizer for District 925 in Ohio. She is now vice president of SEIU Local 32bj and a vice president on the Board of SEIU. | WPR 0848 |
| Judith McCullogh Oral History | Judith McCullogh joined the staff of 9 to 5 in 1975 and continued with District 925. She is operations manager for organizing at SEIU international headquarters. | WPR 0847 |
| Karen Nussbaum Oral History | Karen Nussbaum is Executive Director of Working America, AFL-CIO. She was a founder and president of both 9 to 5 and District 925 until she was appointed to head the Womens Bureau of the Department of Labor in 1993. She has worked at the AFL-CIO since 1996. | WPR 0849 |
| Jackie Ruff Oral History | Jacqueline Ruff was a founder then organizer with Local 925, and a director of District 925 until 1988. She has worked as an attorney in both the public and private sectors. | WPR 0853 |
| Debbie Schneider Oral History | Debbie Schneider was an active member and organizer with 9 to 5 in Boston and New York, and was an organizer for District 925 in Chicago and Cincinnati until she became president of District 925 in 1993. She is director of global organizing partnerships at SEIU. | WPR 0850 |
| Andy Stern Oral History | Andrew Stern has been president of the Service Employees International Union(SEIU)since 1996. | WPR 0851 |
| Barbara Rahke Oral History | Barbara Rahke became one of the early organizers of 9 to 5-National Association of Working Women while working at Boston University in the 1970s. After the winning the union contract at BU Rahke went on to work for the UAW-United Auto Workers organizing at Cornell. Rahke concludes the interview by discussing the impact of District 925 on the labor movement. | WPR 0854 |
| John Sweeney Oral History | John Sweeney is president of the American Federal of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). As president of SEIU in the 1980s he expanded 925 from a local in Boston to District 925, a union with a national jurisdiction. | WPR 0852 |
| Chris Hartmire and Cesar Chavez Oral History | The transcript of this oral history begins with the interview already in progress. In the first part of this interview Hartmire discusses the outline of shared qualities between himself and Chavez. Chavez joins the interview and they share their perceptions of the migrant ministry and relationship with it. They discuss the roles that different religious groups played in the boycotts and reflect on the influence of Ghandi on fasting and non-violent protests. This interview includes an outline of shared qualities of leadership between Chavez and Hartmire. | WPR 0877 |
| Elaine Crawford Oral History | Elaine Crawford was the first women hired at the Ford Motor Co. Rouge engine plant since the Korean War. She was encouraged by a coworker to take the skilled trades test and after scoring very high decided to become an electrician until the oil crisis of 1973. After the setback with the skilled trades Crawford took a job with the City of Detroit at the Waste Water plant and soon was able to fill a vacancy as an electrical repair woman. Crawford recalls what it was like to be one of two women working on a job and the adjustment it took to work in such an environment. Crawford became active in the IBEW Local 58 as an officer and committee member. She discusses her experience as a woman in Local 58, as an officer, and the locals attitude toward women. She concludes the interview by considering the future of women in trade unions. | WPR 0856 |
| Cathy Dawson Oral History | Cathy Dawson was born in Highland Park MI attended Michigan State University for three years before dropping out for financial reasons. After Dawson returned to the area she worked at Detroit Edison as a clerk for a few years but wanted a union job she that she could have more control over. Dawson apprenticed at Edison as a metal fabricator but realized that the physical demand was too much and found a new apprenticeship in the Edison machine shop. She discusses how she was (and remains) the only female worker there and explains the adjustment period that she and her male co-workers went through. Dawson explains that the apprenticeship program at Edison is no longer in existence and the problems this will cause the next generation of machinists. Dawson is currently Women's director of the local she describes that position. She concludes the interview by discussing the future of women at UWUA Local 223. | WPR 0857 |
| S.E. Oral History | S.E., a journeyperson pipefitter with Consumers Energy and member of UWUA- Utility Workers Union of America grew up in Detroit and graduated from Marygrove College. S.E. started working for Consumers as a part-time dispatcher and then worked as a meter reader for 4.5 years. S. E. describes her training and recalls that as a woman she was not given the full amount of training that the men received. S.E. discusses the shortage of pipefitters and how this had led to their schooling being cut short. S. E. became a union rep in 1990. She attended the Latino Workers Leadership Institute and has since volunteered at a variety of conferences, has become involved in committees, and organized for the union on the national level. S.E. concludes the interview with a discussion of her current union involvement, why so few women are in the trades, and the changes in working conditions in her trade. | WPR 0858 |
| Ann Francis Oral History | Ann Francis, a member of UAW Local 652, was a pipefitter, recruiter and instructor for the UAW-GM apprentice program at Oldsmobile plant in Lansing until her retirement. Francis joined the Peace Corps after college and taught English in Malaysia. After her service ended she taught in Tennessee then earned a Masters and took a teaching job outside of Lansing, MI. Francis taught in alternative education program where she was introduced to the skilled trades. She became interested in vocational education and realized that in order to teach the trades she needed to become a tradeswomen. She left her teaching position to work on the line at Oldsmobile and became an apprentice pipefitter in 1979. After working as a pipefitter for a few years Francis took a newly created position at the plant which required both a journeymans card and a college degree. After two years Francis began to work in a joint program with GM/UAW recruiting women and minorities. Francis retired in1998 and at same time started interviewing for her oral history Journeys of the Uninvited: a Feminist Oral History of Tradeswomen in the Auto Industry. Francis completes the interview with discussion of her oral history experience and her feelings on the role of affirmative action in the trades. | WPR 0859 |
| M.G. Oral History | M.G. is a member of Local 659 and is an Electrician at Flint Engine South. M.G began working at GM and after spending several years on the production line she began to seek a more demanding position. She tested for the skilled trades and was accepted into the apprenticeship program in 1977, the second female and the first to complete the apprenticeship. M.G discusses the difference in treatment she received from the varying generations in the plant; the younger were much more accepting of a woman in the trades than were the older generation. In 1999 she was accepted into a position in the facilities group at the new engine facility, and few years later was moved into a quality network processing position. M.G. discusses her union activities and is involved with the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Region 1C Women's Council, and the United Way. A letter from the interviewee to Margaret Roucher is included at the end of this oral history. | WPR 0860 |
| Denise Greer Oral History | Denise Greer of Local 898 is a millwright at the Ford Rawsonville plant. Greer attended college for music but found fulltime work with Ford in 1998. She describes the problems she has had with supervisors and harassment as she is only one of five women millwrights. Greer feels that she cannot rise politically in the union but would stay on in the plant if she could and cites the Old Boys Club mentality as one cause of her lack of political mobility. She discusses the lack of racial diversity in the trades and feels that there is very little encouragement to recruit women into the trades at Ford. At the time of the interview Greer was enrolled as a pre-law student at Eastern Michigan University and hopes to have a future in labor law. | WPR 0861 |
| Carrie Harding Oral History | Carrie Harding of Saginaw, MI is an Operating Engineer with Local 3241 and an instructor of MIOSHA, hazardous waste removal, and mine safety courses. While working as a traffic flagger she had an opportunity to train as an equipment operator. Harding explains that she was the only woman in the training program and describes the training and equipment. She recalls the sexist treatment she received by a foreman and compares that to the mentoring and friendships she had with her co-workers. Harding discusses how she stayed with her first company for nine years, worked for other companies and eventually became certified as a HAZMAT instructor, an OSHA outreach instructor and how she got a part-time job teaching at the local. At the time of the interview the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative was on the November ballot, Harding recalls the role it played in her entering the field and the possible ramifications if the initiative is ended. Harding closes the interview with a discussion of her feelings on why there are no women officers in her local, why there have never been and if there will be any in the future. An afterward by Harding is included at the end of this oral history. | WPR 0862 |
| Renee Holbrook Oral History | Renee Holbrook is a mechanic with the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers Local 1219 under SEIU. Holbrook was born raised in Owosso, MI and attended technical school at Universal Technical Institute in Illinois and completed a certificate program in mechanics. After she completed the technical school program Holbrook moved to southern Illinois and took as job as a mechanic at a truck stop. The birth of her second nephew brought Holbrook back to Owosso in search of employment. An aunt who was employed at the Ann Arbor Railroad encouraged Holbrook to submit an application and soon she took a temp job doing miscellaneous work, she eventually progressed to mechanical work on the locomotives. That Fall Holbrook was hired as a full time employee in the union shop of the railroad, she was the first female employee to work outside of the office for the railroad. Holbrook describes the railroad shop, the different levels of job classification, the role of the mechanics, and the work on the engine itself. At the time of the interview Holbrook was active in her union. She recalls how she became the union secretary- treasurer and describes her duties in that office and union meetings. Holbrook was informed the week prior to her oral history interview that the railroad was being sold; at the recording she still had no news on the state of her job. | WPR 0863 |
| S.H. Oral History | In this interview S.H., a sheet metal worker with Local 80 recalls growing up in Taylor, MI and attending college in Kentucky and Lawrence Technical University before having to drop out for financial reasons. A sheet metal worker friend encouraged S.H. to take a placement test at Local 80; she passed and was offered a position. S.H. describes apprentice school, the sheet metal trade, and recalls that she was only the fourth female in her trade. She describes the transition from working in the shop to gaining hands on experience in the field where she first worked with local 80 members. This led to her interest in union activities. After experiencing and witnessing the unfair treatment of women in her field, S.H. ran and was elected an executive board member with the determination to make a change. S.H. describes the duties and functions of the executive board and its members. S.H. closes with her thoughts on the future of the trades, and how the economic conditions will affect the future of women in the trades. | WPR 0864 |
| Sue Jantschak Oral History | Sue Jantschak is a business agent with the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights. After graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in veterinary technology and working in that field for thirteen years Sue developed allergies to the animals and had to leave the profession. Jantschak worked briefly in a bank but soon applied for the Carpenters apprenticeship after learning of the program. Jantschak recalls the difficulties she had during her apprenticeship and the general bias against women in the trades. Sue explains how she started attending union meetings to see where her dues were going and discusses the volunteer work she has done with the union. Jantschak completes the interview by discussing how and why she transitioned into a business agent, mentions that she was the first female business agent in Michigan and in the Carpenters, describes the job process and the danger the job poses. | WPR 0865 |
| T.M. Oral History | T.M., a non-union roofer and general contractor, was born and raised in Trenton, MI. T.M. got into the construction trade at age 18 after buying a house, realizing she could not afford to hire help she learned how to do the repair work herself. At the same time she became involved in drag racing and raced cars with her husband in the professional circuit for twelve years. T.M. returned to Michigan after her divorce and worked for her brothers roofing company until she remarried and started a company of her own. T.M. explains some of the roofing work she has done, the roofing process and the various materials involved. She discusses being a licensed business owner and what it entails to get a license. T.M. stresses that her position as the boss and business owner were important factors in her being treated as an equal as compared to most women in the trades. At the time of the interview T.M. had just begun teaching in the building trades program at Lincoln Park High School and hopes to continue teacher in the program. | WPR 0866 |
| Pat Nuznov Oral History | Pat Nuznov is an electrician with IBEW-International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 58 Detroit. In 1978, thanks to President Carter and affirmative action, Nuznov applied for and was accepted into IBEW Local 58s apprenticeship program. Nuznov recalls her apprentice schooling and the sexist treatment she and the other female apprentices had to tolerate from their teacher. She describes her experiences in the field, the working conditions, and the lack of accommodation on the job site for women. Nuznov was appointed steward and explains that duties that position entails. She discusses the difficulties she has had in becoming active with her union and explains the problems she and other tradeswomen have had forming the Detroit tradeswomen group. Nuznov discusses why she feels there are so few women in the trades, why they are not being recruited, and why so few female union members are active in their unions. Nuznov closes the interview with her thoughts on the role of affirmative action in the trades and her hopes for the future | WPR 0867 |
| Terri Patterson Oral History | Terri Patterson is a structural ironworker with Ironworkers Local 25 and a third generation Native American ironworker. In this interview Terri describes the apprentice program and the classes. Many of her male relatives are in the field and she describes some of her experiences working with them. Patterson emphasizes that feminism and womens rights never played a role or affected her desire to work in the iron field and that her relatives in the trade, her tomboy nature, and appearance probably factored into her success. Patterson questions her future in the profession as she is not sure how much longer she wants to work in the field because of the physical abuse the work inflicts on her body. Patterson mentions her activity in the union and closes the interview with her hopes for the future including plans to run for sergeant at arms, get involved as a mentor to female apprentices, and to form a support group for women ironworkers. | WPR 0868 |
| Jola Stone Oral History | Jola Stone attended art school and worked in the engineering and drafting departments of Consumers Power in Grand Rapids, MI before a friend referred her to an opening at MichCon (now DTE). Stone was the first women hired into the drafting department. Stone discusses the technical aspects of drafting and compares the way drafting was done by hand when she entered the field in 1975 to the current practice of drafting on computers. A year into her employment the drafting department joined the International Chemical Workers Union (currently under the United Food and Commercial Workers) and Jola became active in the union. Stone was vice president of her union until 1987 when she became president. She is the only female officer in her union and she discusses the underrepresentation of women in the union and the lack of encouragement for women to advance in the union. Stone ends the interview with a discussion on the benefits of being in a union and her hopes for more women to become involved in union activities. | WPR 0869 |
| Carrie Wells Oral History | In this interview Carrie Wells, a tile setter from Detroit recalls how she entered the tile setting trade after attending college and working in a radio station. Wells explains the apprenticeship programs mandate to accept women and minorities and the high turnover of these minorities upon completion of their training. Wells cites the multiple generations and the persistence of racism, sexism, and nepotism in the trade as factors in the high turnover. Wells sustained a herniated disc on the job and at the time of the interview was out on disability. She discusses the physical toll the tile setting profession can put on the body, the high rate of injury to tile setters, and job safety issues. Wells discusses her union, its membership policy, and her feelings of dissatisfaction about the unions policies and politics. At the time of the interview Wells was out on disability and was using the time to complete her degree at Wayne State University, she was unsure if she would return to work after her injury has heeled. | WPR 0870 |
| J.W. Oral History | J.W. is a metal model maker and a trainer with the UAW. Born and raised in Flint, MI J.W. went to work on the line at Delphi East in the mid 1970s. She worked on the line for 10 years, took the skilled trades test and scored very high. J.W. chose to be model maker because she was afraid of the heights involved with electrical work. J.W. describes her apprenticeship and the mistreatment she had to endure not only because she was not only a woman but because she was African American. J.W. decided to get involved in the union increase the representation of women and minorities. She won the position of recording secretary and in 1997 she was appointed to International staff for the UAW, the first African American woman in the history of the UAW to come out of her region to the International staff. J.W. closes the interview with her thoughts on what the union can do to get more women into the trades, the future of the trades at GM, Chrysler and Ford, and the impact that new technology has made on the trades. | WPR 0871 |
| Sara Willis Oral History | Sara Willis is an electrician at the Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant. Willis grew up in Grand Rapids and moved to Detroit in the early 1980s to care for her ailing grandmother. She applied for the Local 58 electrical apprenticeship at the urging of a friend and after two years was called to start the program. Willis describes the apprenticeship schooling and work experience, she did not recall any mistreatment caused by her sex or race. Willis started working at Chrysler after 8 year of working at Local 58 and she compares and contrasts her experiences with both. Willis joined the UAW Local 1700 when she started working for Chrysler and is a member of CBTU-Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, CLUW-Coalition of Labor Union Women, co-chair of Women's Council Region 1, and chair of her Women's Committee. Willis explains what her official duties and activities with the groups are. At the time of this interview Willis was working towards a Bachelors degree in Management at Cornerstone College and did not plan on retiring from Chrysler. Willis closes by discussing the changes she would like to make in the local and the trades and how to make them more inclusive for women. | WPR 0872 |
| Al Church Oral History | This interview covers Al Churchs early years with the AFSCME. Church entered the service in 1942 and was discharged in 1946. He returned to Hibbing, MN and took a managerial position with a construction company until he found employment with the UPW-United Public Workers at the referral of a friend. Church discusses the UPW, its jurisdiction, and affiliation with the CIO. In 1950 the UPW was expelled from the CIO and Church eventually transitioned to work with the Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee (GCEOC). The GCEOC merged with the AFSCME in 1956 and Church recalls the events after the merger and the formation of Council 65 which was chartered in 1959. | WPR 0874 |
| Gordon Chapman Oral History | This interview is conducted in two parts. Part I discusses Chapmans early years in Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1931 during the Depression. In 1934 a college fraternity brother asked Chapman to help him out with the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration, distributing surplus commodities to relief clients. Chapman recalls the origins of the AFSCME and how he became involved with the organization. He explains the missions on which the union was built and discusses his relationship with Arnold Zander, the first International president. In part II Chapman continues the discussion on the impact of WWII on the union. He recalls Zanders interest in international affairs and how this concerned the union. The opposition to Zander and the origins of the opposition are mentioned as well as the 1964 conventions and the defeat of Zander. Chapman stepped down from his official union duties in 1966 but continued to attend conventions. He discusses his feelings on the events of the last ten years and closes with his views on Zander as a person and his feelings on collective bargaining. | WPR 0873 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Billups Oral History | Joseph Billups was one of the first members of Local 600. He worked at Ford and was fired numerous times for his union association. Mr. and Mrs. Billups discuss their roles with the Ford Hunger March of 1932, their participation with the Detroit Unemployment Council and Soup Kitchens, and the assistance they provided for evicted persons before the founding of the welfare department. Billups describes the Nat Turner Club, a progressive group that influenced the advancement of Civil Rights. He recalls his involvement striking various auto plants and Henry Fords recognition of the union. Billups recalls how he became pro-union and explains the reasons that other black auto workers did not participate in union activities. | WPR 0878 |
| Jack T. Conway Oral History | Oral history interview with Jack Conway and Alice M. Hoffman (AFL-CIO Oral History Project) | WPR 0879 |
| Jack T. Conway Oral History | Oral history interview with Jack Conway and Michael L. Gillette. (Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library) | WPR 0880 |
| Betty Lou Bailey Oral History | There were few other women studying engineering at the University of Illinois when Betty Lou Bailey entered its undergraduate mechanical engineering program. When she received her degree in 1950 she was the only woman in a graduating class of 700 engineers. Following her graduation, she began what would become a long and successful career at General Electric. Bailey originally planned on focusing her engineering talents on household appliances, however she discovered that she liked turbines more than refrigerators while working as a testing engineer for GE. During her career she held positions as a testing, design, and systems engineer in GE's Large Jet Engine Department, Gas Turbine Department, and in its Valley Forge Space Technology Center, where she worked on the NASA Nimbus weather satellite project. She received a Master of Engineering from Penn State in 1967 and became a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio and New York. She holds a patent for a variable exhaust nozzle. A member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1951, Bailey has been an officer of the Philadelphia Section and served on the SWE Executive Committee. Bailey's contributions to SWE were recognized in 1985 when she was elected to the College of Fellows. She was the first woman member of the Engineering Society of Cincinnati, and eventually became the chair of its Guidance Committee. She has also served on national committees for the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Engineers Joint Council, and the American Society for Engineering Education. | WPR 0881 |
| Yvonne Brill Oral History | Yvonne Brill's high school principal encouraged her to become a teacher, her parents remained neutral, and her physics teacher believed that, as a woman, she would not become anything at all. Nevertheless, Brill pushed to receive a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Manitoba in 1945, and a Master of Science in Physical Chemistry in 1951 from the University of Southern California. Since then, Brill has received numerous honors and awards and is known internationally for her work on rocket and jet propulsion systems. Brill began her career as a mathematician at Douglas Aircraft Company but switched careers in 1946 when she became a research analyst on rocket propellant systems project for RAND Corporation. Since that time, Brill has held numerous positions as an engineer or manager at Marquardt Corporation, United Aircraft Corporation, Curtiss Wright, FMC Corporation, RCA Astro-Electronics, NASA, and the International Maritime Satellite Organization. Since 1991 she has been an aerospace consultant for such clients as Telespace, Ltd. in Norway and has served on the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel and numerous U.S. National Research Council Study Committees. A member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1975, Brill is a past president of the New Jersey Section, chaired numerous national committees, served as the counselor for two collegiate sections, and has served on the National Executive Committee as both Treasurer and Director of Student Affairs. She is a Fellow of SWE and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and is a member of National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics. Among the many honors and awards Brill has received are the SWE Achievement Award, the SWE Resnik Challenger Medal, the NASA Public Service Medal, and the IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award. | WPR 0882 |
| Lois Cooper Oral History | The first person in her family to graduate from high school, Lois Cooper originally went to Tougaloo College in Mississippi to study law. She discovered that she preferred working with numbers and eventually graduated in 1954 with a degree in Mathematics from Los Angeles State College. In 1953 she became the first African-American woman to work for the California Department of Transportation (CALTRAN), where she began as an engineering aide. She progressed in her career, eventually becoming a Transportation Engineer and Project Manager for major transportation projects including the I-105 Century Freeway, as well as heading the Public Information department and the newly minted Civil Rights department in the 1970s. During her time at CALTRAN, Cooper visited over 100 classrooms to promote engineering to all young people. Cooper became a student member of the Society of Women Engineers in 1978 while taking post-graduate classes at California State University in Los Angeles. She went on to serve as the counselor for that section, co-chaired the Los Angeles Section's career guidance committee, and was elected the SWE College of Fellows in 1990. The only female member when she joined in 1971, Cooper became the first woman president of the LA Council of Black Professional Engineers. She works with the Council to encourage African-Americans to pursue engineering and continues to offer math and science tutoring on the weekends. She is also a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering. | WPR 0883 |
| Bonnie Dunbar Oral History | A ceramic engineer and former NASA astronaut, Dr. Bonnie Dunbar is currently President & CEO of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. Dunbar received her M.S. in ceramic engineering from the University of Washington in 1975. Upon graduation she joined Rockwell International Space Division as a Senior Research Engineer, where she worked on the original ceramic tiles of the space shuttle. In 1978, Dunbar began her 27-year career at NASA when she was hired as a flight controller at Johnson Space Flight Center. In just two short years she was made a mission specialist astronaut, where she logged 1,208 hours in orbit on five space missions aboard the shuttles Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia and Endeavour. She was a member of the first mission to dock with the Russian Mir Space Station in 1995. Early in her career as an astronaut, Dunbar also earned her Ph.D. in mechanical/biomedical engineering from the University of Houston. On her last mission in 1998, serving as Payload Commander, Dunbar was responsible for more than four tons of scientific equipment, supplies and water for delivery to Mir, as well as 23 scientific experiments aboard the shuttle. Dunbar became the Assistant Director for University Research and Affairs at Johnson Space Center in 1998. In this capacity, for the next five years, she was actively involved in the center's educational and grant programs, as well as its extensive collaborative efforts with colleges, universities and scientific and engineering organizations. Her final position with NASA was as Associate Director of Technology Integration and Risk Management at the Johnson Space Center's Space and Life Science Directorate. Dunbar's space experience and scientific accomplishments have garnered her many honors and distinctions, including SWE's Resnik Challenger Medal (1992) and 2005 Achievement Award. She is a member of several engineering, scientific and medical organizations and serves on a number of boards. She has published extensively, holds one patent, and has given countless presentations on behalf of the engineering community many to school age children and college engineering students. | WPR 0884 |
| Thelma Estrin Oral History | Thelma Estrin originally intended to become an accountant but became interested in engineering after taking a three-month training course at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1943 and working as a machinist at the Radio Receptor Company. When her husband returned from from the Second World War they both enrolled in undergraduate programs in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. By 1951 Estrin had completed her doctorate. Estrin was a pioneer in the application of engineering and computer electronics to medicine and established the first integrated electronics and computer laboratory for neuroscientists. She developed an interest in biomedical engineering in 1951 while working as a research assistant at the Electroencephalography Department at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Neurological Institute. In 1955 the Estrins settled in Los Angeles, where Thelma Estrin taught engineering courses at Valley College. She joined the the Brain Research Institute in 1960 and was named the director of its Data Processing Laboratory ten years later. Beginning in 1982 Estrin was appointed to a two-year term as the Director of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at the National Science Foundation. In 1980 Estrin returned to the classroom as a professor in residence at the UCLA Computer Science Department, from from which she retired in 1991. Estrin is a Fellow of the Society of Women Engineers and received the SWE Achievement Award in 1981 for her contributions to biomedical engineering. She is a IEEE Fellow and was the first woman to serve on the IEEE Board of Directors. She also served as President of the Biomedical Engineering Society. | WPR 0885 |
| Ruth Gordon Oral History | Realizing that her dream of becoming a concert pianist would not materialize, Ruth Gordon instead decided to pursue a degree in civil engineering at Stanford University. She completed a master's degree in structural engineering in 1950 and has since become regarded as an icon of earthquake safety. Gordon was turned down for several jobs because of her gender but was eventually hired by Isadore Thompson to oversee the construction of a hospital in southern California. She became the first female member of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California in 1953 and the first female state-certified structural engineer in 1959. Gordon worked for the Structural Safety Section of the California Office of the State Architect from 1959 to 1984 , primarily overseeing the construction and renovation of hospitals and schools. In 1984 she founded her own company, Pegasus Engineering, Inc., and conducted safety and earthquake survivability studies and post-earthquake evaluations on hospitals and schools. Gordon retired in 2001. Although Gordon has resigned from the Society of Women Engineers national organization twice in political protest, she remains very active with the Golden Gate Section. In addition to her numerous professional speaking engagements, she works with the Math Science Network to encourage a new generation of girls to pursue engineering. She served as the first woman president of the Bay Area Engineering Council from 1982-1983. | WPR 0886 |
| Mary McCarthy Oral History | Mary McCarthy was a freshman studying communications technology at an Oklahoma junior college when the United States entered the Second World War. She joined the Civil Service shortly after and spent the war years repairing damaged planes and testing aviation communications equipment in San Antonio and Hawaii. After the war ended she got married, adopted a child, and did not return to school or work for another 20 years. In 1968, at the age of 45, McCarthy began the transition from kitcheneering to engineering. She originally enrolled in San Francisco City College so that she could help her daughter with her homework, but in 1973 McCarthy transferred to the University of California, Berkley to pursue engineering. She completed her degrees in electrical engineering and material science in 1976 and was hired by Lockheed as a reliability engineer to work on parts control and standardization. During her career at Lockheed she worked on military and aerospace projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope and became the chairperson of the Parts Control Board. She retired from Lockheed in 2005. McCarthy is a Fellow of the Society of Women Engineers. She has served as the president of the Texas and the Santa Clara Valley sections and as the national Vice President of Student Services. In addition to her professional achievements she has contributed to the success of others by giving presentations and developing career guidance programs with SWE, the American Association of University Women, the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, the Girl Scouts, and 4-H. | WPR 0887 |
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