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Oral history interview with Mildred Johnson, November 4, 1989
File — Box 3-OralHist, Object: 18
Dates:
November 4, 1989
Oral history interview with Robert Beam, November 29, 1995
File — Box 1-OralHist, Object: 2
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Robert “Bob” Beam, Vice President for Business and Finance, conducted and recorded by Tom Coyne on November 29, 1995. Beam graduated with a business degree from Western Michigan University in 1965. He began working at WMU full-time as a senior. Bob discusses his career at WMU while working under multiple presidents, various aspects of the university’s financial history, building projects, and the changes technology has created to the administration of the...
Dates:
November 29, 1995
Oral history interview with Robert Wetnight, February 6, 1997
File — Box 6-OralHist, Object: 10
Dates:
February 6, 1997
Oral history interview with Russel Gabier, November 8, 1990
File — Box 2-OralHist, Object: 11
Dates:
November 8, 1990
Oral history interview with Russell Seibert, December 6, 1998
File — Box 5-OralHist, Object: 2
Dates:
December 6, 1998
Oral history interview with Shirley Van Hoeven, November 15, 1993
File — Box 5-OralHist, Object: 19
Dates:
November 15, 1993
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 Thomas E. Coyne, June 1989
File — Box 2-OralHist, Object: 1
Dates:
June 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