Gore, Jerry (Interview outline and video), 2009
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
United States. Army
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Jerry Gore was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War in 1969. Having gone through Advanced Infantry Training, he served as a machine gunner and tunnel rat until he became too ill to fight. He states that he was in combat all the time, but chooses not to talk about it.
Gore, Jerry
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
In Copyright
Richard Gottlieb interview (1 of 2, video and transcript)
Grand Valley State University
Michigan
Universities and colleges
Oral histories
Alternative education
Social work education
Interview with Richard "Dick" Gottlieb by Barbara Roos, documenting the history of Grand Valley State's William James College. William James College was the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. The college opened in 1971 and was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley State. Richard Gottlieb was a Social Work faculty member at William James College and a co-director of the Social Work program at Grand Valley. In this interview, Richard discusses the closing of William James College, the movement of the Social Work program to the College of Arts and Sciences, and the essence of William James. Richard's wife and fellow social worker, Julie Gottlieb, can be heard off camera while joining in on the conversation. This interview is part 1 of 2 for Richard Gottlieb.
Gottlieb, Richard
William James College faculty and student interviews (GV016-16)
Richard and Julie Gottlieb interview (2 of 2, video and transcript)
Interview with Richard "Dick" Gottlieb and his wife Julie Gottlieb by Barbara Roos, documenting the history of Grand Valley State's William James College. William James College was the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. The college opened in 1971 and was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley State. Richard Gottlieb was a Social Work faculty member at William James College and a co-director of the Social Work program at Grand Valley. In this interview, Richard discusses how the future of William James College was limited in West Michigan and his thoughts on the college's closing. Richard is later joined on camera by his wife and fellow social worker, Julie, who worked as an adjunct faculty in William James College and discusses the essence and importance of the William James community. This interview is part 2 of 2 for Richard Gottlieb.
Comprehensive plan publications
Bingham Township (Mich.)
Leelanau County (Mich.)
The Comprehensive Plan for Bingham Township was prepared by Gove Associates, Inc. and was approved on September 1, 2005.
Gove Associates, Inc.
Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
No Copyright - United States
Comprehensive Plan publications
Delta Township (Mich.)
Eaton County (Mich.)
The Delta Township Comprehensive Plan was prepared by Gove Associates, Inc. in June 2004.
City of Eaton Rapids, Michigan Comprehensive Development Plan 1990-2010
Eaton Rapids (Mich.)
The City of Eaton Rapids, Michigan Comprehensive Development Plan 1990-2010 was prepared by Gove Associates, Inc. and adopted by the Eaton Rapids Planning Commission on December 4, 1989.
Master plan reports
Midland County (Mich.)
The Midland County Comprehensive Plan of April 1993 was prepared by Gove Associates Inc. and is an update of the 1987 Midland County Comprehensive Plan.
St. Joseph (Mich.)
Berrien County (Mich.)
The Comprehensive Plan for the City of St. Joseph was prepared by Gove Associates, Inc. in February 1993.
Gower, Michael (Interview outline and video), 2009
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
Michael Gower was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and served with the Army in the Iraq War. He served in the First Stryker Brigade to enter Iraq, and was deployed twice. He was discharged for medical reasons on August 2nd, 2007 after being injured in an explosion that killed three of his squad members and injured several more.
Gower, Michael
Grace, Matthew (Interview transcript and video, part 1), 2016
United States—History, Military
Afghan War, 2001-2021—Personal narratives, American
After leaving his first unit after his first deployment in the Fall of 2010, Matthew Grace moved to Fort Carson, Colorado where he was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. At this point, Grace was a Specialist and was quickly back to his normal routine by January of 2011. As a Specialist, Grace took an interest in helping to train his unit’s new group of Privates, specifically through PT and weaponry. Grace found out that he was leaving for his second deployment in the Summer of 2011 and left for Afghanistan in April of 2012. Grace left later than the rest of his unit to go to dog handling training, but eventually flunked out and returned to his unit in Afghanistan. Once in Afghanistan, Grace’s platoon had the job of specifically ensuring the safety of their Battalion Commander and getting him to wherever he needed to go. This was his platoon’s main task throughout the entire deployment. Grace’s tour was over at the end of November/the beginning of December of 2012. Upon finishing his deployment, Grace returned home to the States and took his block-leave, returning back to work for the remainder of his time with the Army. Grace’s ETS date was January 26, 2014. Grace encountered minimal amounts of reintegration training once resuming life as a civilian. One thing Grace was required to do, was to create a plan for life after reentering society. Grace applied to a couple universities and eventually ended up attending Grand Valley State University where he studied history to eventually get his PhD and become a professor. As a whole, Grace believes that his time in the Army plays a big role in his life and states that he would not be as successful as he is without it.
Grace, Matthew
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401.
Grace, Matthew (Interview transcript and video, part 2), 2016
Graff, Marion (Interview outline and video), 2012
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
United States. Navy
Marion Graff, born in Ironwood Michigan in August of 1922, served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946 in the Pacific during World War II. During his service, Marion was a Medical Corpsman aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia and provided anything from basic medical care to surgeries for the sailors on aboard. During his time spend on the West Virginia, he participated in several major engagements, including the Surigao Straits, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Graff, Marion
Graham, John (Interview outline and video), 2004
John Graham is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Anti-Aircraft Corps from September 1944 to an undisclosed date. In this account, Graham discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment, training, and active duty. While not going into much depth about his active duty he does mention where he trained in the U.S. Graham concludes by reflecting on his time in the service
Graham, John
Graham, Mark (Interview outline), ca. 2013
Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
United States. Air Force
Mark Graham was born in 1971 in Douglas, Michigan. At 18, Mark joined the Air Force right out of high school. He went to Lackland Air Force Base in September 1989. After basic training, Mark went to Chanute Air Force Base to work on cruise missiles. His first station was Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. He worked there for four years and was transferred to Pope Air Force Base in 1994 and served there for seven years.
Graham, Mark
Graham, Walter (Interview outline and video), 2006
Walter "Red" Graham was born in January of 1917 in Lowell, Michigan, and lived there until he was drafted into the Army in 1941. He spent a year and a half training on Whidbey Island, near Seattle, Washington, and was then sent to Kodiak, Alaska as part of the 14th Coastal Artillery. In 1944, after spending significant time in Alaska, he was sent to Oklahoma for retraining before being shipped to Italy. Walter traveled through the Po River Valley in Italy until they reached Northern Italy when the war was won. Walter was eventually discharged from Camp Carson, Colorado in 1945.
Graham, Walter
Lowell Area Historical Museum (Lowell, Mich.)
Grahl, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2010
Robert Grahl was drafted in 1943 and trained as an artillery gunner. He was shipped to England in 1944 and initially assigned to the 78th Division in Normandy, but before he saw action there, he was reassigned to the 363rd Infantry Regiment north of Florence. He spent several stints in the front lines confronting the German Gothic Line defenses during the winter of 1944-45, but this was interrupted by a bout of hepatitis. He returned to his unit in time to participate in the spring offensive in 1945, and his unit had reached Trieste on the Yugoslavian border by the end of the war.
Grahl, Robert
Helen Grahuis audio interview and transcript
Civil rights--Michigan--History
Women--Personal narratives
Helen Grahius was born and raised in Haren, Groningen, Netherlands. Later in life, she moved to West Michigan to be with her siblings. She discusses her life in the Netherlands and in the United States.
Grahuis, Helen
Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral History Project
Grams, Leonhard (Interview outline and video), 2017
Germany. Army.
Leonhard Grams was born on May 20, 1920, in Adamow, Poland. After war broke out in 1939, his family moved to German-occupied Poland because they were ethnic Germans. On February 2, 1941, he was drafted into the Luftwaffe and served at Tempelhof-Berlin Field in Berlin. He served as part of an antiaircraft crew and witnessed multiple bombings of Berlin. He was sent to the Russian front in 1942, and was later wounded and sent to a hospital in Austria, went back into the army and was taken prisoner by the French at the end of the war.
Grams, Leonhard
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Outdoor recreation
Boats and boating
Racing shells
Unidentified 8-man crew boat racing before a large crowd in the background. In the foreground, a bouy holds a flag with a large circle in the center.
Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club
Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)
No Known Copyright
Alfred Davies, Junior Single, with Harold Hartwick, Junior Double, posing with their oars in the grass. In the background, a building and chair.
Herbert Heinrich in single rowboat. In the background, a docked doubles rowboat with male spectator on left side.
Unidentified 4-man crew boat racing with 3 other bpats visible. Trees in the background, open water in the foreground.
4-man crew in the water with James Stewart at the bow, Herbert Heinrich in 2nd position, John T. Jans at 3rd, and John C. Spaulding on stroke.
8-man crewboat with cox in the water before a dock with 3 spectator boats and a few spectators in the background. Herbert Heinrich at the bow, John Spaulding on 2nd, J. Walters on 3rd, E. Heinz on 4th, W. Garsztecki on 5th, John Jans (Captain) on 6th, E. Heinrich on 7th, James Stewart on stroke, and C. Randall as Cox.