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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

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Names
Gill, John W., 1898-1997 13
Gary, Mitchell Joseph, 1900-1969 8
Read, Herbert W. 7
Waldo, Dwight B. (Dwight Bryant), 1864-1939 7
Smith, J. Towner, 1902-1996 6
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Redmond, C. Leo, 1900-1991 5
Spaulding, William H., 1880-1966 5
Boven, Donald E., 1925-2011 4
Dunlap, Samuel J., 1895-1961 4
Hoekje, John C., 1885-1959 4
Hyames, Judson A., 1888-1949 4
Miller, James W., 1913-1993 4
Potter, Harry E., 1901-1980 4
Briscoe, Thomas F., 1910-1992 3
Clysdale, J. Patrick 3
Dales, George G., 1921-2017 3
Johnson, Oscar E., 1901-1991 3
Mallard, Louis Bernard, 1910-2004 3
Bernhard, John T. 2
Brown, C. Bassett (Charles Bassett), 1923-2012 2
Haenicke, Diether H. 2
McCracken, William, 1864-1940 2
Moore, Floyd, 1889-1965 2
Murchison, Ira, 1933-1994 2
Sangren, Paul V. (Paul Vivian), approximately 1895-1967 2
Slaughter, Thomas C., 1910-2005 2
Sprau, George, 1876-2012 2
Stapler, Dorothy Eleanor Waldo, 1919-1991 2
Brinn, Chauncey J., 1932-2015 1
Burnham, Ernest, 1869-1950 1
Burnham, Smith, 1866-1947 1
Canham, Donald B., 1918-2005 1
Chandler, Robert C. (Robert Clarence), 1922-2004 1
Coyne, Thomas E., 1933- 1
Crisler, Herbert Orin 1
Culp, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1924-1990 1
Doolittle, Francis William, 1923-2014 1
Fetzer, John E. (John Earl), 1901-1991 1
Franks, Julius, 1922-2008 1
Gabier, Russell L. (Russell Louis), 1927-2018 1
Gilmore, Irving S., 1900-1986 1
Hilliard, George H. (Geroge Horatio), 1887-1972 1
Hoy, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas), 1918-2008 1
Huff, Fred S., 1888-1974 1
Macmillan, Margaret Burnham, 1898-1979 1
Maher, Charles H., 1902-1971 1
Maybee, Harper C., 1875-1951 1
National Collegiate Athletic Association. Division I 1
Newsome, Emanuel, approximately 1941- 1
Perigo, William J., 1911-1990 1
Ray, Harold Lloyd, 1929- 1
Scott, Don 1
Seibert, Russell H. (Russell Howard), 1908-2000 1
Shaw, John F., 1938-1990 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th 1
Upjohn, William John, 1925-2000 1
WKZO (Radio station : Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Wooden, John, 1910-2010 1
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