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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 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

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Names
Carlson, Lewis H. 22
Gill, John W., 1898-1997 15
Read, Herbert W. 11
Gary, Mitchell Joseph, 1900-1969 10
Waldo, Dwight B. (Dwight Bryant), 1864-1939 8
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Smith, J. Towner, 1902-1996 7
Spaulding, William H., 1880-1966 7
Hoekje, John C., 1885-1959 6
Hyames, Judson A., 1888-1949 6
Redmond, C. Leo, 1900-1991 6
Coyne, Thomas E., 1933- 5
Dales, George G., 1921-2017 5
Miller, James W., 1913-1993 5
Potter, Harry E., 1901-1980 5
Boven, Donald E., 1925-2011 4
Dunlap, Samuel J., 1895-1961 4
Johnson, Oscar E., 1901-1991 4
Maher, Charles H., 1902-1971 4
Sangren, Paul V. (Paul Vivian), approximately 1895-1967 4
Briscoe, Thomas F., 1910-1992 3
Brown, C. Bassett (Charles Bassett), 1923-2012 3
Clysdale, J. Patrick 3
Mallard, Louis Bernard, 1910-2004 3
Bernhard, John T. 2
Culp, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1924-1990 2
Doolittle, Francis William, 1923-2014 2
Haenicke, Diether H. 2
Henry, Theodore S. (Theodore Spafford), 1878-1948 2
Hoy, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas), 1918-2008 2
Knaus, James O. (James Owen), 1885-1970 2
McCracken, William, 1864-1940 2
Moore, Floyd, 1889-1965 2
Murchison, Ira, 1933-1994 2
National Collegiate Athletic Association. Division I 2
Seibert, Russell H. (Russell Howard), 1908-2000 2
Slaughter, Thomas C., 1910-2005 2
Sprau, George, 1876-2012 2
Stapler, Dorothy Eleanor Waldo, 1919-1991 2
Wright, Michelle 2
Brinn, Chauncey J., 1932-2015 1
Brown, Alan S., 1922-2006 1
Burnham, Ernest, 1869-1950 1
Burnham, Smith, 1866-1947 1
Canham, Donald B., 1918-2005 1
Chambers, Bill M., 1924-2017 1
Chandler, Robert C. (Robert Clarence), 1922-2004 1
Coyne, Monique Jako (Monique Yvonne), 1934- 1
Crisler, Herbert Orin 1
Decker, Fred L. (Fred Leslie), 1942- 1
Donnelly, Charles G. 1
Ebert, Frances H., 1930-2008 1
Fetzer, John E. (John Earl), 1901-1991 1
Franks, Julius, 1922-2008 1
Friedel, Jean E., 1929- 1
Gabier, Russell L. (Russell Louis), 1927-2018 1
Gilmore, Irving S., 1900-1986 1
Green, Allen B. 1
Green, John, -1981 1
Harbaugh, Jack Avon, 1939- 1
Hilliard, George H. (Geroge Horatio), 1887-1972 1
Hohnke, Abraham 1
Huff, Fred S., 1888-1974 1
Karrer, Robert N. 1
Kowalski, William J., 1923-2014 1
Kuhle, Betsy 1
Mack, Connie, 1862-1956 1
Macmillan, Margaret Burnham, 1898-1979 1
Mattison, Greg, 1949- 1
Maybee, Harper C., 1875-1951 1
Meyer, Ruth Ann, approximately 1949- 1
Miller, Rudel Charles, 1900-1994 1
Miner, Margie J. 1
Nagurski, Bronko, 1908-1990 1
Navy V-12 Program (U.S.) 1
Newsome, Emanuel, approximately 1941- 1
Offerdahl, John Arnold, 1964- 1
Perigo, William J., 1911-1990 1
Powless, Edward 1
Ray, Harold Lloyd, 1929- 1
Roell, Candace L., 1908-2001 1
Scott, Don 1
Shaw, John F., 1938-1990 1
Sorensen, Raymond, -1987 1
Starring, Charles R. (Charles Rix), 1903-1976 1
Stevens, Fred, 1922- 1
Stowe, Allen Byron, 1896-1957 1
Streidl, Jack, 1918-2012 1
Streidl, Phyllis 1
Taylor, Robert Jared, 1957- 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th 1
Upjohn, William John, 1925-2000 1
Van Riper, Charles, 1905-1994 1
Vredevelt, Jack, approximately 1934- 1
WKZO (Radio station : Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Waldvogel, John 1
Wichers, Wynand, 1886-1971 1
Winter, Ronald J., 1963- 1
Wooden, John, 1910-2010 1
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