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Box 1-OralHist

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Contains 10 Results:

Oral history interview with Don Boven, May 16, 1989

 File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 4
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Don Boven, alumnus, former faculty member, and coach at Western Michigan University, conducted by Lew Carlson at Boven’s home in Mattawan, Michigan, May 16, 1989. Boven recollects his teammates and coaches during his time as a student athlete at WMU, playing baseball, football, and basketball. He was named First Team All-American his senior year, 1949. Boven also discusses his time as a coach, including head basketball coach, and a faculty member in the Department...
Dates: May 16, 1989

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 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 C. Bassett Brown, August 22, 1989

 File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 8
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with C. Bassett Brown, first black basketball player to play for Western Michigan, which he did back in the early 1940s. Interview conducted by Lewis Carlson on August 22, 1989, in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Brown discusses attending Western Michigan College, influential professors and coaches, and playing basketball on a record-setting team. He also talks about continuing his education after graduating from Western in 1948 to become an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.

Dates: August 22, 1989

Oral history interview with Dr. Richard Burke, December 7, 1993

 File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 9
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Oral history interview with Dr. Richard Burke, conducted and recorded by Sharon L. Carlson, December 7, 1993 in his office in Ellsworth Hall, Western Michigan University. Dr. Burke recounts his various positions with the university, first joining the Department of History in 1964 and teaching Western Civilization, then with the Graduate College, then Continuing Education. At the time of his retirement in 1995, he was the vice president for regional education and economic development.

Dates: December 7, 1993

Oral history interview with Mary Cain, January 24, 1990

 File — Box: 1-OralHist, Object: 10
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Mary Cain (1924-2016), professor emerita of education, conducted by Lewis Carlson on January 24, 1990 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cain discusses the School of Education and her career there, including a program on teaching the disadvantaged and a overall discussion of general education. She also touches on the position of women in education. Cain talks about being involved in the early years of AAUP, striking in 1984, and faculty/administration relationships during...
Dates: January 24, 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 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 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 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