Box 1-OralHist
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Oral history interview with Mary Cain, January 31, 1995
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 11
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Mary Cain (1924-2016), professor emerita of education, conducted by Mary Hurlbut Cordier on January 31, 1995 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cain discusses the School of Education and her career there, including her work on undergraduate curriculum development and the early childhood program. She also touches on the position of women in education. Cain talks about being involved in the early years of AAUP, striking in 1984, and faculty/administration relationships during...
Dates:
January 31, 1995
Oral history interview with Thomas Carr, December 6, 1996
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 12
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Thomas Carr, WMU alumnus and staff member, conducted by Lew Carlson on December 6, 1996 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Carr recollects his early years playing sports in Muskegon, being drafted into the minor leagues, attending Muskegon Community College after the service, and transferring to WMU to graduate with a History degree in 1959. He talks in depth about his time in Housing during years of massive growth and building projects, and describes attacks on his office...
Dates:
December 6, 1996
Oral history interview with Robert Clarence Chandler, April 30, 1990
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 13
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Robert Clarence Chandler, better known as Clare or Claire Chandler, conducted and recorded by Lew Carlson on April 30, 1990 in Clare’s home in Allegan, Michigan. Also present was Clare's wife Virginia. Clare was a student at Western Michigan University in the early 1940s, ran track, and was a member of the marching band. Clare discusses growing up in Allegan, his time at WMU, and his training and service in the Air Force, where he was a member of the Tuskegee...
Dates:
April 30, 1990
Oral history interview with Richard F. Chormann, November 16, 1993
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 14
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Richard F. Chormann, a 1959 graduate of Western Michigan University, conducted and recorded by Karen L. Miller on November 16, 1993 in Mr. Chormann’s office at First of America Bank Corporation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Chormann was a past president of the WMU Alumni Association chairperson for the WMU Foundation, and later member of the WMU Board of Trustees. He discusses his time as a student studying business education, and later knowledge gained at Western...
Dates:
November 16, 1993
Oral history interview with William Combs, November 17, 1989
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 15
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with William “Bill” Combs, Professor of English at Western Michigan University, conducted and recorded by Lew Carlson on November 17, 1989 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Bill discusses the racial tensions on campus in the 1960s and the take-over of the student union by black students following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He then talks about his involvement in the AAUP following it’s certification and various contract negotiations in the 1970s and 1980s. Bill’s...
Dates:
November 17, 1989
Oral history interview with Patrick Clysdale, October 25, 1989
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 16
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Patrick “Pat” Clysdale, student athlete, coach, administrator and professor at Western Michigan University, conducted and recorded Lew Carlson on October 25, 1989 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Pat discusses playing youth sports in Detroit and then coming to Western and playing basketball for coach Buck Read and football for coach John W. Gill. He received his B.S. in 1952 and his M.S. in 1953, returning to WMU in 1958 to coach basketball and recruit players. He worked...
Dates:
October 25, 1989
Oral history interview with Margaret Perry and Monique Coyne, April 22, 1990
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 17
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with WMU alumnae Margaret Perry and Monique Coyne, née Jako, conducted by Alan Brown on April 22, 1990. Both women attended Western in the early 1950s. They discuss college life, campus jobs, classes and professors, French Club and its sponsors Frances Noble and Marion Tamin, and the Colophon Club, for students studying librarianship. Margaret received her bachelor’s degree in 1954, Monique in 1955.
Dates:
April 22, 1990
Oral history interview with Mary Hurlbut Cordier, April 19, 1996
File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 18
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Mary Hurlbut Cordier, conducted and recorded by Mary Cain on April 19, 1996. Mary recounts her early career in education, starting at Western’s campus school in 1958, joining the Education Department in 1964 and working in teacher education until her retirement in 1990. She shares what it was like to be a women in higher education in the 1960s, the environment of WMU throughout her career, collaborations with other faculty, and her enjoyment in working with...
Dates:
April 19, 1996