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Aerial view of Robinson (left) and Copeland (center) dormatories, and Kistler dormatory under construction, ca. 1970.
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Students using IBM punched card machines in the computer center, ca. 1970.
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Student on the phone in his dorm room. Room has guitar, album collection, tape player, chess set, American flag, and Easy Rider poster, ca. 1970.
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Aerial view of Zumberge Library facing northwest, ca. 1970.
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Exterior of the west side of Zumberge Library taken from across the pond, ca. 1970.
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Jim Harris was born in South Dakota on December 29, 1941, and later moved to Minneapolis. After college, medical school and a year of internship, he was drafted into the Army in 1969. He trained at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, and was then sent to...
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Steve Avgerinos was born in Chicago in 1949. He enlisted late in 1968 to stay ahead of the draft. He took basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, then AIT at Fort Lewis, and then went on to NCO school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was then...
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Monthly Grand Valley State College supported student newspaper published from November 22, 1963- January 21, 1966 (Vol. 2 No. 9 missing). The paper was published as the Grand Valley State College Sampler on September 20, 1966, then the Valley View...
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Russ Mawby discusses his youth on a fruit farm and involvement with 4H and the Boy Scouts, his agricultural studies at Michigan State and Purdue Universities, and his military service in the US Army. He reflects on the history of the Kellogg...
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Lanthorn is a student newspaper published twice weekly for the students, faculty and staff of Grand Valley State University. The Lanthorn, first published in 1968, succeeds the Keystone, the Sampler, and the Valley View as the official student...
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Pro-Vietnam War demonstrators in the Seidman House pit, ca. 1969-70.
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Rep. Gerald Ford speaking on Allendale campus for the first time. Ford is holding a flag he donated to the school. The flag arrived by anonymous donor in 2008.
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David Christian was born in 1946 in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. After completing high school there in 194, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. After training in California, David was sent to Chu Lai, Vietnam in 1965. David’s first tour was spent...
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Richard Millard Jr. was strongly influenced by his father at an early age to join the service. After graduating high school, he enlisted into the Air Force where he became a part of the Security Police, and, eventually, a dog-handler. He was...
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Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1942, John Sampson joined the ROTC while at Western Michigan University. Following graduation from Western Michigan and graduate school at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Sampson went through signal corps...
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Paul Lecours was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1946 and decided to join the U.S. Air Force in 1966 because of concerns that he wouldn't be able to keep his deferment from the draft. Following basic training, Lecours briefly served at a...
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Bob Anderson was born in August 1948 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. While growing up, his father re-enlisted in the military, meaning Anderson and his family moved constantly, although Anderson’s father stayed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland long...
