O'Rear, Nancy Kellogg (Interview transcript and video), 2016
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Baseball players--Michigan
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.
O'Rear, Nancy Kellogg
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
In Copyright
Grand Valley State University – History
College teachers
Universities and colleges – Faculty
Michigan
Grand Valley State University. University Communications
University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Oakes aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose in November 1968 after he contracted dysentery in the Khe Sanh Valley
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Marine Corps
Military life
Soldiers
Photographs
Oakes aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose in November 1968 after he contracted dysentery in the Khe Sanh Valley.
Oakes, Ronald
Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80)
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27
Oakes and his men preparing for their first convoy from FOB Q-West to Balad in April 2005
Iraq War, 2003-2011
United States. National Guard
Oakes and his men preparing for their first convoy from FOB Q-West to Balad in April 2005.
Oakes and LCPL Lamphere with the platoon radios just before Oakes began working with the company
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.
Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco
Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco.
Oakes at a refueling stop in Iceland on the way to Kuwait
Oakes at a refueling stop in Iceland on the way to Kuwait, the day after Thanksgiving 2004.
Oakes at Camp Hansen, Okinawa on his way home from Vietnam, April 1969
Oakes at Camp Hansen, Okinawa on his way home from Vietnam, April 1969.
Oakes preparing to go on a night patrol in March / April 1968 from Camp Dong Son.
Oakes resting after going from Camp Doung Son to a platoon patrol base in August 1968
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.
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)
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).
Oakes standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter
Oakes standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter.
Oakes, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2010
Michigan--History, Military
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
United States. Marine Corps
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.
Oakes, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2010
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
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.
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Oakes' superiors and Iraqi commanding general with assistant
Oakes' superiors and Iraqi commanding general with assistant at a dinner at FOB Q-West in September 2005
Oakland Class US light cruiser USS Fresno
United States. Navy
World War, 1939-1945
Military education
Warships--Recognition
Slides
Oakland Class US light cruiser USS Fresno, October 1, 1947.
Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)
No Copyright - United States
Oakland class, US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.
Oakland class US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.
Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Outdoor recreation
Boats and boating
Racing shells
Herbert Heinrich in single rowboat. In the background, a docked doubles rowboat with male spectator on left side.
Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club
Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)
No Known Copyright
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich.)
Boats
Women
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.
Digital file collected by the Kutsche Office of History as part of the Stories of Summer Project.
Copyright Undetermined
Obed López-Zacarias video interview and transcript
Young Lords (Organization)
Puerto Ricans--United States
Civil Rights--United States--History
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Puerto Ricans--Personal narratives
Social justice
Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Social life and customs
Poverty--Illinois--Chicago
Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago
Housing--Illinois--Chicago
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.
López-Zacarias, Obed
Macatawa, Lake (Mich.)
Archaeology
Photography
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.
Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955
Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222)