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Press releases submitted by News & Information Services to news agencies concerning people, places, and events related to the University.
Universities & colleges--Michigan--Allendale; Universities & colleges--Michigan--Grand Rapids; Grand Valley State University; Grand Valley State College; College publications; Press releases
Press releases submitted by News & Information Services to news agencies concerning people, places, and events related to the University.
Ralph Baldwin was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During World War II, Ralph Baldwin was a senior physicist in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he helped develop the radio proximity fuze, a crucial secret weapon of the war. The...
William Kirkpatrick was the President of the Kalamazoo Paper Box Corporation and one of the original members of the Grand Valley State University Board of Control. The collection includes building plans, budget reports, annual reports, and self...
The Arnold Ott collection documents the life and work of Michigan-born chemist and entrepreneur Arnold Ott from 1940-2008. He worked at Dow Chemical Company and the Upjohn Company where he authored 55 domestic and foreign patents before starting...
Edward V. Gillis worked in the tool and manufacturing business in Grand Rapids Michigan. Gillis was a collector whose focus was Native Americans. This collection includes magazines, posters, maps, other published and some unpublished materials. The...
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Grant, U. S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891; United States--Politics and government--19th century; Republican National Convention; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Reminsciences about Abraham Lincoln written by a man who grew up on a farm near the Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. In his letter to Mr. Lucas, he recounts his boyhood impressions of Lincoln, of his attendance at the 1860 Republican National...
Colette Seguin-Beighley was born in Oakland, California. She attended California State University, Haworth. She is a liscensed counsoler in California and Michigan. She discusses her activism with the Grand Valley State University LGBT Resource...
Grand Valley State University; Grand Valley State College; Michigan; Allendale (Mich.); Lubbers, Arend D.; Universities & colleges--Michigan--Allendale; Events; College presidents; College administrators; Governors; Building construction;
LV Eberhard Center groundbreaking ceremony with: President Don Lubbers, Governor Blanchard, Maxine Swanson, Jim and Audrey Sebastian, Dick Gillett, Jim Brett, Arnold Ott, Jacqueline Johnson and Rob Pattison.
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President Zumberge, Arnold Ott and others review plans to recruit students from community colleges.
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Members of the first Board of Control; l to r back row-- Edward J. Frey, James Copeland, Dale Stafford, William Kirkpatrick, Icie Macy Hoobler, Kenneth Robinson; l to r front row--Arnold Ott, Grace Kistler, and L. William Seidman, Chair. The nine...
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Board of control members: Dave Dutcher, Phil Buchan, Ed Frey, Bill Seidman, Dick Gillett, Arnold Ott holding fascimile of GVSC mortgage. The group was about to celebrate paying off the mortgage by burning it.
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President Zumberge showing 1963 student enrollment figures to Board members Arnold Ott, William Seidman, and to Dave Dutcher, the first chairman of the Citizens Council.
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Board of control members: Phil Buchan, Ed Frey, Bill Seidman, Dick Gillett, Arnold Ott burning a fascimile of GVSC mortgage. The group was about to celebrate paying off the mortgage by burning it. (Dave Dutcher is cropped from this photo).
Harvard Law School; Unitarian Universalists; Abolitionists; Women's rights 1850-1860; United States--Politics and government--19th century; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Douglass,...
Letter to a friend from Harvard law student regarding his attendance at Boston political festivals where he heard Abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, and at a women's rights convention. He also discusses politics in the...
Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States--History, Military; Michigan--History, Military; Veterans; Video recordings; Iraq War, 2003--Personal narratives, American; United States. Marine Corps
Steve Dumond was born in 1986 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He joined the Marine Corps immediately after high school in 2005. After boot camp and infantry training, he completed two tours in Iraq, one in 2006 and the second from September 2007 through...
Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States--History, Military; Michigan--History, Military; Veterans ; Video recordings; United States. Air Force; Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
Arnold De Loof grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War. After training, he was sent to Alaska and Korea, where he did supply work and eventually became a fireman.
Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States--History, Military; Michigan--History, Military; Veterans; Video recordings; United States. Army; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American;
Kenneth Vander Molen is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Army, first as an infantry replacement and then later in the regular army from August 1945 to December 1946. In this account, Vander Molen discusses his pre-enlistment,...
