Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Materials on the dedication of the religious school and library of Temple B'nai Israel, November 14 1948.
Congregation B'nai Israel
Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
In Copyright
Script of reading, pledge, and devotion read by the leader and congregation during the 25th Anniversary Sabbath.
Petition in Opposition of Reform Services
Petition to the officers and Board of Trustees of Congretation B'nai Israel, protesting the proposed employment of religious leaders and rabbis to conduct reform services, and expressing a desire for conservative services, undated.
Large scrap book with photographs of temple construction, programs, annual reports, and other documents dating from around 1948 to 1957.
Synagogues
Binder of charts and records for plumbing, wiring, keys, heating and ventilation system, hardware schedule for the Muskegon Jewish Center and House of Worship.
Connelly, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2012
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
United States. Army
Joe Connelly was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1949, and was drafted into the Army in 1969. After basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and infantry training at Fort Ord, California, he was sent to Vietnam in January, 1970, and assigned to D Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based at Camp Evans. His unit did routine patrols near the coast until the monsoon lifted, and in May they started operating in the mountains, and his company took heavy losses at LZ Maureen. After taking replacements, they returned to the field and participated in fighting near Firebase Ripcord in July, and helped to re-establish Firebase Kathryn. Connelly was wounded in action and sent first to Japan and then back to the US to recover, and completed his enlistment as a truck driver.
Connelly, Joseph
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Mark Connorton audio interview and transcription
Civil rights--Michigan--History
Discrimination
Mark Connorton is a mathematics major at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He discusses his alcohol and drug addiction issue and how it affected his relationship with his parents.
Connorton, Mark
Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral History Project
Conover, Daniel (Interview outline and video), 2007
United States. Marine Corps
Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
Daniel Conover enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating from high school. Conover served in the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marines from 1981-1985. In the interview he talks about life in the Marine Corps, some memorable training including rappelling from a helicopter, and recreational activities while in the service.
Conover, Daniel
Incunabula
Printing 1450-1500
One leaf from Concordantiae bibliorum by Conradus de Alemania and edited by Sebastian Brant. Printed in Basel by Johann Froben and Johann Petri de Langendorff in 1496. [GW 7422; ISTC ic00853000]
Conradus de Alemania
Seidman Rare Books Collection
Basel: Johann Froben and Johann Petri de Langendorff
No Copyright - United States
Annual Anishinabe International Winter Fest, December 1979
Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals
Indians of North America
Michigan
Michigan -- Grand Rapids
Annual Anishinabe International Winter Fest flyer, Sault Ste. Marie MI, December 23, 1979, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.
Consolidated Bahweting Ojibwa and Mackinac Tribe
International Bahweting Ojibway Anishinabeg Festival and Pow-Wow, June 1979
International Bahweting Ojibway Anishinabeg Festival and Pow-Wow flyer, Sault Ste. Marie MI, July 16-17, 1979, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.
Consolidated Bahweting Ojibway
Cook, Doris (Interview outline and video), 2010
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
Baseball for women--United States
Baseball
Sports for women
Baseball players--Illinois
Baseball players--Indiana
Baseball players--Michigan
Doris Cook was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1931. She grew up in a large family and played baseball and other sports. When a women's professional baseball team moved to Muskegon in 1946, her older sister tried out and joined the team. Doris then joined the league after finishing high school in 1949, and played first for the Springfield Sallies, a barnstorming team, and then for the Kalamazoo Lassies and the South Bend Blue Sox, and played through the 1953 season. She initially expected to be an outfielder, but when she had some problems running, she was converted to a pitcher, and was a pitcher throughout her professional career.
Cook, Doris
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
Cooley, Jack and Eileen (Interview outline and video), 2007
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Women
Jack Cooley served in the US Army between 1943 and 1946. He initially trained as an engineer, and then went into the ASTP engineer training program, and then was switched to the infantry when the program was shut down. He served as a mortarman with the 44th Infantry Division in France, Germany and Austria in late 1944 and 1945 and recounts several battles with German armor, infantry and artillery in the later stages of the war. Eileen relates her experiences on the home front during the same period.
Cooley, Jack and Eileen
Cooley, James (Interview outline and video), 2007
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
James Cooley joined the Army National Guard in 2003 at age 17, and served in the Iraq War. He worked in transportation while he was there, specifically he operated the .50 caliber machine gun on a truck that guarded convoys. He served a yearlong deployment, and at the time of the interview is scheduled for another year tour of duty.
Cooley, James
Cooley, James Peter (Interview outline and video), 2015
United States. National Guard
James Cooley was born on March 6, 1986 and grew up in Caledonia, Michigan. In 2003 he enlisted in the Army. He received basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia and after that Advanced Individual Training. He deployed to Iraq and served with a transportation unit, moving food, ammunition, supplies, and vehicles to bases around the country. He also helped with the distribution of humanitarian aid to Iraqi civilians. After nearly a year he returned to the United States and spent two years in the United States. He redeployed to Iraq and worked as a Detainee Payroll Manager. His first tour was in 2004-2005 and his second tour was in 2008-2009. His enlistment ended after his second tour, but as of 2015 he is trying to reenlist as an officer.
Cooley, James Peter
Cooley, Robert I (Interview outline and video), 2008
Robert Cooley joined the US Army in 1940 and served through World War II. He was a platoon sergeant in the 5th Infantry Division, and was stationed in Iceland, England and Northern Ireland before landing in France after D-Day. He saw action at St. Lo, Metz, and in the counterattack after the Battle of the Bulge before advancing into Germany and Czechoslovakia. His account includes descriptions of life on garrison duty in Iceland, combat in the Norman hedgerows, taking German prisoners and coming upon a small concentration camp shortly after it was liberated.
Cooley, Robert I
Cooper, Dale (Interview outline and video), 2012
Dale Cooper, born in 1948 in Southern Illinois, served in the U.S. Army from late 1968 through early 1971. After completing basic at Fort Leonard Wood and AIT at Fort Ord, Dale was sent to Vietnam. Here he was assigned to C Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He went on patrols both in the lowlands near Camp Evans, and in the hills and jungles of the interior. He eventually became a radio operator, working his way up from platoon to company level, and then to the battalion. During the Ripcord campaign in 1970, he was serving in the battalion headquarters until he rotated home on July. He spent the last part of his enlistment as a tank commander at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Cooper, Dale
Cope, Randal (Interview outline and video), 2011
United States. Air Force
Randal Cope was born into a lower-income family located in Wyoming, Michigan. He entered the United States Air Force at a young age in search of an employment opportunity. He was trained as a security officer, which also included police work. After training, he volunteered to be an Air Commander and was deployed to Germany shortly after. He spent three years, from 1980 to 1983, in the small town of Zweibrücken where he attended to mostly small security matters, that of both United States and Germany. In 1983, Cope was sent back to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri until he received a mandatory recall notice to Grenada, an island in the Caribbean. This deployment marked the official beginning of the Invasion of Grenada, an event attributed to the end of the Cold War. The men of the Air Force, including Randy, were in charge of clearing the airfield for the safe landing of other American vehicles. Cope was involved in the initial search of the airfield for Russian, Cuban, and Grenadian.
Cope, Randal
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich.)
Newspapers
Galley Gazette newspaper highlighting news stories and menu items from Coral Gables of Saugatuck, Michigan. The articles highlight different aspects of the iconic downtown location such as the impact the business had on the community, as well as its history and the varied background of the building which Coral Gables now inhabits. The right-hand side of the newpaper has a menu and details the 25th anniversary celebration which was planned. Circa the 1960s
Coral Gables
Digital file contributed by Jerri Walsh as part of the Stories of Summer project.
Copyright Undetermined
Vita S. Augustini. Orationes de laudibus S. Augustini [folium 182]
One leaf from Vita S. Augustini, Orationes de laudibus S. Augustini, by Ambrosius de Cora. Printed in Rome by Georgius Herolt on December 8, 1481. [GW M21548; ISTC ic00881000]
Corano, Ambrogio
Corbett, James (Interview outline and video), 2013
Jim Corbett was born in 1938 in Big Rapids, Michigan. He grew up in Detroit during WWII, attended high school in Big Rapids and graduated from there in 1956. He attended Ferris State University for two years until he enlisted in the Air Force. Prior to serving in the Air Force he joined the Michigan National Guard during his senior year of high school and served with E Company Light Infantry 126th Regiment 32nd Red Arrow Division from fall of 1955 to April 1958. He was trained at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas and was transferred to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi for advanced electronics training. He served with the 341st Strategic Air Command Bomber Wing at Abilene Air Force Base, Texas; the nuclear strike force at Elmendorf Air Base, Anchorage, Alaska; Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan; Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam (prior to the outbreak of war); Langley Air Force Base, Virginia and saw a myriad of international deployments to France, Libya, Germany, Thailand, and the Panama Canal Zone.
Corbett, James
Anne Corlett (audio interview and transcript) 2018
Douglas (Mich.)
Outdoor recreation
Gay bars
Audio recordings
Anne Corlett describes her experiences as a summer cottage resident during the 60s and 70s. She recounts her experiences of the beaches, her connection to the arts and Oxbow, as well as her various experiences with the LGBT community.
Corlett, Anne
Stories of Summer project, Kutsche Office of Local History. Grand Valley State University
Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project)
Cornelius, Philip (Interview transcript and video), 2017
United States—History, Military
Other veterans & civilians—Personal narratives, American
Philip Cornelius was born on June 1, 1925, in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. In June 1943, after graduating high school, he enlisted in the Navy. Due to having glasses, he was placed in the Construction Battalions, better known as the Seabees. He received his training at Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois, then went to Attu in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. While at Attu he helped build airfields and bases, and Japanese aircraft routinely attempted, and failed, to break through the defenses on Attu. From Attu, he went to California and oversaw German prisoners-of-war from the Afrika Korps, and also did construction work in Egypt. Sometime between his places of service he was in New York City and witnessed the accidental crashing of a B-25 bomber into the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. He served on the Philippines and Okinawa doing construction work, and the same in Japan as part of the Army of Occupation. He was discharged in early 1946.
Cornelius, Philip
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401.