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Oral history interview with George Dales, May 8, 1989
File — Box 2-OralHist, Object: 3
Dates:
May 8, 1989
Oral history interview with Ira Murchison, December 29, 1986
File — Box 3-OralHist, Object: 15
Dates:
December 29, 1986
Oral history interview with J. Towner Smith, May 5, 1989
File — Box 4-OralHist, Object: 12
Dates:
May 5, 1989
Oral history interview with Louis Mallard, May 24, 1989
File — Box 3-OralHist, Object: 8
Dates:
May 24, 1989
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 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 Tom Coyne, May 24, 1989
File — Box 6-OralHist, Object: 11
Dates:
May 24, 1989
Oral history interview with Tom Slaughter, May 4, 1989
File — Box 5-OralHist, Object: 9
Dates:
May 4, 1989