O'Rear, Nancy Kellogg (Interview transcript and video), 2016
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
subject: Baseball players--Michigan
description: Nancy O'Rear was born on January 7, 1938 in Grandville, Michigan. She grew up in Grandville and Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in 1951 she started following the Grand Rapids Chicks, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team. From the 1951 season through the 1954 season she practiced with the Chicks, befriended the players, and traveled with the team to away games in Michigan and Indiana. There were plans for Nancy to join the team once she graduated from high school, but with the team's disbanding in 1954 those plans were scrapped.
creator: O'Rear, Nancy Kellogg
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
date: 2016-01-21
contributor: Boring, Frank (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: video/x-m4v
format: application/pdf
type: Moving Image
type: Text

O'Sullivan, Elizabeth
subject: Grand Valley State University – History
subject: College teachers
subject: Universities and colleges – Faculty
subject: Michigan
description: Elizabeth O'Sullivan, Public Service
creator: Grand Valley State University. University Communications
source: University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Oakes aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose in November 1968 after he contracted dysentery in the Khe Sanh Valley
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Marine Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose in November 1968 after he contracted dysentery in the Khe Sanh Valley.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Vietnam War

Oakes and his men preparing for their first convoy from FOB Q-West to Balad in April 2005
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: United States. National Guard
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes and his men preparing for their first convoy from FOB Q-West to Balad in April 2005.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2005-04
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Iraq War

Oakes and LCPL Lamphere with the platoon radios just before Oakes began working with the company
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Marine Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes and LCPL Lamphere with the platoon radios just before Oakes began working with the company. Lamphere was the man Oakes chose to replace him as platoon radioman. The day after this picture, Lamphere tripped a bobby-trapped hand grenade that took him out, Kirkpatrick and O'Rourke as well. Oakes was part of the relief party the arrived on the scene to take care of the wounded.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
source: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Vietnam War

Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Marine Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Vietnam War

Oakes at a refueling stop in Iceland on the way to Kuwait
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: United States. National Guard
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes at a refueling stop in Iceland on the way to Kuwait, the day after Thanksgiving 2004.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2004-11
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Iraq War

Oakes at Camp Hansen, Okinawa on his way home from Vietnam, April 1969
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Marine Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes at Camp Hansen, Okinawa on his way home from Vietnam, April 1969.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
source: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1969-04
rights: In Copyright
relation: 1969-04
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Vietnam War

Oakes preparing to go on a night patrol
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Marine Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes preparing to go on a night patrol in March / April 1968 from Camp Dong Son.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1968
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Vietnam War

Oakes resting after going from Camp Doung Son to a platoon patrol base in August 1968
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Marine Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes resting after going from Camp Doung Son to a platoon patrol base in August 1968. Oakes had collapsed from heat exhaustion due to the intense heat.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
source: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1968-08
rights: In Copyright
relation: 1968-08
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Vietnam War

Oakes spent the last 30 days in county as the NCOIC in charge of the transit tent of B Co 1/4 Marines Dong Ha (rear area)
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Marine Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes spent the last 30 days in county as the NCOIC in charge of the transit tent of B Co 1/4 Marines Dong Ha (rear area).
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
source: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Vietnam War

Oakes standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: United States. National Guard
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Iraq War

Oakes, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2010
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Marine Corps
description: Ron Oakes was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in March 1949. After briefly attending junior college, he enlisted in June 1967 and received training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot and Camp Pendleton, California. He then received instruction in the Vietnamese language before being sent to Vietnam. Once he arrived, he was trained as a radio operator and assigned to a squad in the 27th Marine Regiment in the Da Nang area, soon becoming his platoon's radio operator, and saw extensive combat experience. When the 27th was rotated home, he was reassigned to 4th Marines at Quang Tri, and operated between Quang Tri and Hue before being sent inland toward Khe Sanh. While in this area, he contracted dysentery and was sent to a hospital ship where he spent a month aboard a hospital ship before being returned to his unit. When his tour was over, re was sent home and discharged in 1969.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2010-06-15
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
contributor: WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Oakes, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2010
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. National Guard
description: After returning from Vietnam in 1969, Ron Oakes married, earned a degree in electronics and traveled around the Midwest working. Eventually, he and his family moved back to Michigan, where Oakes joined the National Guard. As part of the Guard, Oakes helped provide security for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia and deployed to Iraq in 2005 for eleven months. While in Iraq, Oakes performed a variety of jobs, including being a property book manager for his entire brigade stationed at FOB "Q-West", a former Iraqi Air Force base between Balad and Mosul. After the eleven-month deployment, Oakes returned to the United States with the rest of his unit and continued serving in the Guard until March 2009, when he retired at the age of sixty.
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2010-06-15
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
contributor: WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Oakes' superiors and Iraqi commanding general with assistant
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: United States. National Guard
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Photographs
description: Oakes' superiors and Iraqi commanding general with assistant at a dinner at FOB Q-West in September 2005
creator: Oakes, Ronald
source: Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2005-09
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image
coverage: Iraq War

Oakland Class US light cruiser USS Fresno
subject: United States. Navy
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Military education
subject: Warships--Recognition
subject: Slides
description: Oakland Class US light cruiser USS Fresno, October 1, 1947.
creator: United States. Navy
source: Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1947-10-01
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Oakland class light cruiser
subject: United States. Navy
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Military education
subject: Warships--Recognition
subject: Slides
description: Oakland class, US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.
creator: United States. Navy
source: Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1947-10-01
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Oakland class light cruiser
subject: United States. Navy
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Military education
subject: Warships--Recognition
subject: Slides
description: Oakland class, US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.
creator: United States. Navy
source: Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1947-10-01
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Oakland class light cruiser
subject: United States. Navy
subject: Military education
subject: Warships--Recognition
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Slides
description: Oakland class US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.
creator: United States. Navy
source: Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1947-10-01
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Oarman in Single Event
subject: Grand Rapids (Mich.)
subject: Outdoor recreation
subject: Boats and boating
subject: Racing shells
description: Herbert Heinrich in single rowboat. In the background, a docked doubles rowboat with male spectator on left side.
creator: Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club
source: Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: no date
rights: No Known Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Oars
subject: Michigan
subject: Saugatuck (Mich.)
subject: Allegan County (Mich.)
subject: Boats
subject: Women
description: Black and white photograph of a group of eight women in a rowboat. Each has a long oar. In the boat next to them are several men.
source: Digital file collected by the Kutsche Office of History as part of the Stories of Summer Project.
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
rights: Copyright Undetermined
relation: Stories of Summer (project)
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Obed López-Zacarias video interview and transcript
subject: Young Lords (Organization)
subject: Puerto Ricans--United States
subject: Civil Rights--United States--History
subject: Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
subject: Puerto Ricans--Personal narratives
subject: Social justice
subject: Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Social life and customs
subject: Poverty--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Housing--Illinois--Chicago
description: Obed López-Zacarias is founder of the Latin American Defense Organization (LADO), that organized for a caseworker union and for the dignified treatment of welfare recipients at the Wicker Park Welfare Office of Chicago. LADO was also instrumental in helping to develop the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, the longest standing Puerto Rican Cultural Center in the city of Chicago. Mr. López-Zacarias worked closely with the Young Lords and became the official envoy to the Presbyterian Conference in Texas by the Young Lords and the Lincoln Park Poor People’s Coalition. When the occupation was over and all the demands were won, LADO opened a free community clinic located in the Wicker Park neighborhood.
creator: López-Zacarias, Obed
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2012-03-02
contributor: Jiménez José , 1948-
rights: In Copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Oblique of ladder and grids on sand
subject: Macatawa, Lake (Mich.)
subject: Michigan
subject: Archaeology
subject: Photography
description: Black and white photograph of a ladder with two adjustable legs over a measuring grid square on sand. Part of a camera ladder rig system developed by Merrill for taking overhead photographs of archaeological excavations. A cottage is visible behind the ladder.
creator: Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955
source: Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1940-07-17
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Image

Oblique of ladder and grids on sand
subject: Macatawa, Lake (Mich.)
subject: Michigan
subject: Archaeology
subject: Photography
description: Black and white photograph of a ladder with two adjustable legs over a measuring grid square on sand. Part of a camera ladder rig system developed by Merrill for taking overhead photographs of archaeological excavations. A cottage is visible behind the ladder.
creator: Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955
source: Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1940-07-19
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpg
language: eng
type: Image