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Western Michigan University -- History

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

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

Oral history interview with Milt Brawer, November 17, 1989

 File — Box 1-OralHist, Object: 5
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Dr. Milton J. Brawer, Professor of Sociology, Western Michigan University, conducted and recorded by Lew Carlson on November 17th, 1989 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Milt describes joining the Sociology Department in 1960, being appointed the university's first ombudsman in 1970, and serving on the Faculty Senate Executive Board and WMU's chapter of the AAUP. He discusses his experiences with the certification vote in 1975, the beginning of collective bargaining for...
Dates: November 17, 1989

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 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 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 Tom Briscoe, May 11, 1989

 File — Box 1-OralHist, Object: 7
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with WMU alumnus Tom Briscoe, conducted by Lew Carlson on May 11, 1989 in Detroit, Michigan. Briscoe recollects his youth in Detroit, playing athletics at the St. Antoine Street Branch of the YMCA, and coming to Western Michigan University where he majored in Physical Education, boxed, and played football. He talks about what it was like to be a black college student athlete at WMU in the nineteen thirties. President Waldo is remembered, as well as various faculty and...
Dates: May 11, 1989

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

WMU Centennial Oral History Collection, 1989-1999

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Records include transcriptions, cassette tapes, and videotapes of alumni, faculty, administrators, staff, and people associated with the university.

Dates: 1989-1999