265 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3afbe3e6ef419f2e226b5beceb23aafc.mp4 2361093f928533ec2fbb112295e11053 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/785983ef6c5962665f9d7ab4455dc1ad.pdf 8788fcee1f211068e8afbd693fd9604b PDF Text Text Living with PFAS Interviewee: Tobyn McNaughton Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: June 16, 2021 DD: I am Dani DeVasto, and today June 16th I have the pleasure of chatting with Tobyn Mcnaughton, hi Tobyn. TM: Hi. DD: Tobyn, can you tell me about where you’re from and where you currently live? TM: Yeah, I was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And currently I reside in Belmont, which is kind of part of Grand Rapids, just a little smaller like sub-town part of Plainfield township. So, I actually grew up in Plainfield township also, and then just moved about 10 min away to Belmont after having some adventures in teaching down in Kansas. I lived there for a year but now I’m here in Belmont, and I’ve been since 2012. DD: You anticipated my next question, which is how long have you been there so thanks for that. Can you tell me a story about your experience with PFAS, or with PFAS in your community? TM: Yeah, so I, like I said, I lived in Kansas for a year, and I had been dating my boyfriend, and he lived up here in Michigan, and I said if I’m moving back to Kansas or from Kansas back to Michigan we need to get married and get a house and do all that, you know, living the dream stuff. And he said “okay, you know, let’s do that.” And like okay. So, when we came back up after we started looking at houses, maybe like 3 or 4, and we found the house that we live in now and just fell in love with the space. We have about 3 acres, have plenty of room for the potential of children, and it butts right up to the highway, and were like, oh we can get used to that like the highway noise eventually it’ll turn into white noise. And so, we decided this was our dream house and we were super stoked about it. And then we got married and 2 years after we got married, we had our first son, and his name is Jack, and everything was awesome, and we were just having the good life, like you know things were working out for us really well. Then one day I stayed home sick from work and my son and I both were not feeling so well and I got a knock on the door. And I was like okay what’s going on here and a man had handed me an envelope and said this is from a law office, it’s about your water and we’re having this meeting the next day, a meeting tomorrow if you can attend it would be great for you to come and listen to what we have to say. And I was like, this sounds very bizarre, I feel like he is trying to scam me or something. I was just very untrusting of this I was like this is just strange, and so my husband got home from work, and I was like this guy came earlier today and he gave me this envelope and said it was about our water but he is from a law office so that doesn’t make any sense he is not from the health department or from any other agency like that. So, Seth took a look at it and he’s like this actually sounds legit like this could be an issue for us, I was like okay and so he went to the meeting, and they filled us in on the potential of our well-being contaminated from a dump that is about 1.5 miles south of us across the highway behind us. And I was like this doesn’t make any sense because why would a law office be telling us this and not anybody else. And so he started, he is just the personality where he is like I am going to investigate I need to know more information, so he started calling as many people as he could figure out who to call, the health department at the township, different places, and finally got ahold of someone and she 1 �Living with PFAS Interviewee: Tobyn McNaughton Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: June 16, 2021 said “ Yeah, you probably shouldn’t be drinking your well water right now.”, and that was a big shock because no one up to that point nobody had said yeah you probably shouldn’t drink your water until we started calling and asking. And that’s where everything kind of began and then after that is just kind of phone call after phone call after making appointments to have people come and check out our well. So, that all started in August of August 2017, and then by October we knew that we had 1,961 parts per trillion of PFAS in our well. And also learned that 70 was kind of the number that they had decided in the EPA was the safe, the safer number. So, that and then our life has been the same ever since then. [laughs] DD: And, and what has that meant for your life moving forward at this point, if you want to expand on that TM: Yeah, so of course your first question. You know, after the initial shock of your well-being that contaminated that you’ve been drinking since you’ve moved here in 2012 and being pregnant, I was like I’m going to do everything right: I’m going to drink 8 glasses of water a day, I’m going to breastfeed, I’m going to do all the things, and then you stop and you’re like what if that was the worst thing I could’ve done. Like what does that mean for our bodies, so the second question was of course, well this is in our drinking water so what’s in our bodies. And so, you know, starting to try to figure out, what do we do? Like will we be getting sick? Who knows like how- who do we talk to? So, it was a lot of our own- like we had to be our own advocates and say we want to be tested, we want to be looked at, we need to know more information, and just hitting a lot of walls. Well, we don’t have a lot of information so, you know, a lot of the time I felt like people were like just, “Oh well you know, we don’t know so just don’t worry about it.”. Well, I’m going to worry about it because that’s a lot, and at the time we ended up we did get our blood tested because a law firm paid for us to do that. They felt concerned enough themselves about our situation that they said we should have this looked into for you which I am eternally grateful for because no one else wanted to. The people that I thought should care didn’t seem to and I ended up going to the health department and kind of doing my, you know, I’m angry, like I want to know- I didn’t put this in my body someone else did. Whether it was 50 years ago they dumped it till, 30 years later till, you know, longer than that, like it doesn’t matter to me, the time frame. It’s just I am ingesting something that I didn’t put in my body and I deserve to know what is in there. And it took about a year for them to kind of do a 180 on whether to blood test or not. So, I guess basically for myself what it meant was- jumping into advocacy when I didn’t want to, or know what that meant, or what that looked like, but just something like you had just-- to me I just had to do it because I needed to know this information, knowledge is power kind of you know the more information we have the better off were going to be. And I had some neighbors that agreed with that too and jumped in on that with me. So, and then for my son at the time it meant a lot of pokes, a lot of blood draws, a lot of measuring trying to see what was going on with him and monitoring what was going on with him, and being worried like every day if, you know, how this is going to affect him in the future. [deep breath] So, it really stresses me out like I can tell I’m just like, [deep breath], you know it just stresses me out all the time, and now that we have more information than we did before, like there is still a lot of unknowns and it's really scary. 2 �Living with PFAS Interviewee: Tobyn McNaughton Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: June 16, 2021 DD: Yeah, I can imagine. It sounds like you’ve had to do a lot of this work on your own, or kind of self-advocating. TM: Mhm, yeah, I guess one positive thing that’s come out of it is there’s five of us ladies, that are neighbors, we started getting together and like just ground floor like where do we start, who do we talk to first, and just making phone calls reaching out to people and the government mostly because of you know the kind of where we had to direct our attention to, you know, get these laws put into place of like this chemical shouldn’t be dumped, anywhere, and it shouldn’t be these high of amounts that people are, you know, shouldn’t be okay with, we have to figure out a real number not something that is arbitrary like something that will really say how this can affect you and why it’s not good for you. So, yeah, we just kind of started from nothing and just talked to as many people as we could and attended as many meetings and conferences as we could. And we went to DC. Two of my neighbors and I got meetings with our senators, our state senators, and one of our representatives, and we went to DC and we said please listen to us because, and I brought a picture of my son with me and I wrote his PFAS levels on it, and I said if any legislation, like if you’ve been thinking about making a bill about this, or something slides across your desk, I want you to look at this picture of Jack and know that you have to do something because there’s going to be a lot more kids than him and we have to you know try to get ahead of it and stop it from contaminating other communities. And that- we’ve helped other communities too that have, you know, newly contaminated areas just finding out that they’re contaminated now they can look us up and be like “Oh well they’ve dealt with this for a couple of years now so let’s ask them where did they start what did they do.”. So, met lots of people. Unfortunately, like a lot of, you know people, that are also highly contaminated, you know at the time of Jack's blood results he was, as far as we knew, had the highest level of PFAS in his body of any child in the whole United States. I haven’t heard any number higher than him since then, but we need to do more testing and you know more investigating and-- but it was, I was able to reach out to people in New York that had issues, and ask them too like “What is- what is your community doing?” “They’re doing biomonitoring.” “Okay how do we get biomonitoring?”, and then kind of working on it from there and now we're finally starting to get into that space where we’re part of a health study. So, and I might’ve like went off on a tangent a little, sorry [laugh]. But, yeah, that’s kind of- and it’s just we have another son now, and I went through two miscarriages in a row, and it was- that’s very difficult anyway for any woman to go through. It was very hard. We wanted to have a second child; we’ve put our family planning on hold when we heard about everything going on. But then with a lot of the people that we talked to that were like “Well you probably don’t need to be concerned, like we’re- we don’t know.”. So, I was like okay so we kind of started back up again, then to have the two losses, you know, makes you like very concerned and then I found out that if I I was suggested to take progesterone to help with the third pregnancy, I ended up with if I’ve started progesterone right away that maybe it would bring the pregnancy to be viable. And then in my own research online there was a study done over in Europe about the link between PFAS and progesterone. And how the levels are much lower in woman that have PFAS contamination, so of course I bring that information to the people that I had been talking to and to my lawyers and things like that and someone had said, “Well that was done in Europe, that doesn’t matter here.”, and when you hear something like 3 �Living with PFAS Interviewee: Tobyn McNaughton Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: June 16, 2021 that, I’m like are you nuts? Like why would you even say that to anybody, but especially me going through all this hard time. Like well that was a study in Europe, like that doesn’t, and like how does that not- I don’t -it still boggles my mind. They were like, “Well we have to do our own study here if we want to really find like the links.”. And like, this is insane because yeah, there’s so much more information like Australia’s done, you know they’ve had a lot of issues with it, Italy, other places in Europe have done lots of other studies and things- I’ve actually, I can’t see it, but I have my shirt on that I got from a lady in Italy, she gave this to me when we went to Boston to the national PFAS conference which was really the international conference because there were so many other countries represented there. She has been fighting and stuff over there and they have a lot of information, and it’s like why aren’t we talking, you know, like why can’t we all figure this out and have some kind of, you know, like come to consensus of why this forever chemical is really bad, because we know- we know you shouldn’t eat it or drink it, we know you shouldn’t have it in your body, but if you do get it in your body we should all be figuring out what to do. So, yeah, I took that progesterone, and I can’t prove it, but I now have a 16-month-old boy that’s pretty healthy. Haven’t had any blood draws done on him just yet, but he’s had a lot less issues than my first son so hopefully that’s because we’ve stopped exposure and have been slowly losing some. Because right now really time is our only thing that we can do to get it out of our bodies at this point, so yeah. DD: Well congratulations on baby two. TM: Yeah, Bruce, yeah, he is a spunky little guy. [laugh] DD: He must be. [laughs] TM: Yeah. [Laughs] DD: Well, speaking of time, can you tell me about any concerns that you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? I think you’ve hinted at maybe a few but. TM: Yeah, concerns going forward- thankfully there has been legislation now that’s made its appearance in the US government too. He's upstairs with the babysitter, [laughs], sorry. DD: Being spunky. TM: Yeah, you know, so we do have some you know legislation that’s been coming through in Michigan. We’ve had some things come through, and the state legislator- legislature to get MCLs [maximum contaminant levels] lowered or you know things like that so in the future- I’m hoping that I can start to jump back into more of advocating and attending more meetings and doing more now that I’m over a year postpartum and like covid’s been so crazy. So, I’m hoping that I can get back into more meetings and advocacy stuff. So, yeah, my concern right now is testing our blood, figuring out what it could mean finding those- the links, you know, between health issues that people are experiencing and what their PFAS levels are. Getting the health departments in different areas more on board on- the same page of how important it is to do a health study when you have a highly contaminated group of people. Use that to your advantage of getting that data and, you know, it could help people in the future, and then it has been 4 �Living with PFAS Interviewee: Tobyn McNaughton Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: June 16, 2021 encouraging to hear in the news like fast food places are phasing out their PFAS wrappers and different places are starting to become more PFAS free, and then the next concern is like whatever they’re replacing the PFAS with, whatever chemical they’ve invented or whatever they are trying to replace it with, how safe is that, and what are really the appropriate ways to use it and dispose of it. So, lots of things like that and it’s just something that I know that we're just going to- it’s a forever chemical and it's going to be a forever thing for me to be thinking about it, talking about it, working on it with other agencies and stuff like that so. DD: How do you feel about that? That it’s going to be a forever thing for you, to be thinking, you know, like it’s never not going to be a part of your world anymore, and it probably was never on your radar I’m assuming before. TM: Nope, yeah, it’s really frustrating, you know, especially when you’re talking to people about it and they’re like “You’re still dealing with that?”. Yeah, it’s going to be like- this is our life now like PFAS life we’re never not going to be dealing with it, so yeah it's not like something that we can just wash out of our bodies and just be done with it and move on, especially just my personality is I feel compelled to warn other people and try to help other people, so as more communities find out that this is their problem too, you know, it’s- but it’s really frustrating and we worry about it a lot. DD: Before we wrap up today, is there anything else that you would like to add that we haven’t touched on or anything that you want to go back to and say more about? TM: [Sighs] I guess- I just- I hope that by me talking about it more people hear about it, because there’s even some people that live like kind of in the Belmont Rockford area that still are like “What are you? What's PFAS? What are you talking about?”, and I’m like you’ve really- like we’ve been dealing with this for almost 4 years now and you're still are not quite sure about it. So, I guess I’m hoping that more people will hear it and be concerned, and not just kind of like shrug it off, you know, realize that it’s in the rivers ,and lakes ,and different water sources and just because we’re in the United States doesn’t mean our water is 100 percent safe, like we really take it for granted that we have clean water sources, but they’re not as clean as we hope. So, we all need to be concerned about it, not just the people that are super contaminated by it, like I’m hoping that other people can be concerned about it too, and that’s why I appreciate you looking into this and deciding to do an archive of it. Because that just gives more people the access to the information. DD: Which seems like that’s been a real challenge for you and your stories. Either finding access to information or helping others get access to that information. TM: Yes, yeah. DD: Well, thank you so much Tobyn for taking the time to share your story today. TM: Yes, you’re welcome. [laughs] DD: Okay, I’m going to stop5 �Living with PFAS Interviewee: Tobyn McNaughton Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: June 16, 2021 6 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/61541d81fa10a4026050495269a8ed4c.mp4 df058693fe8bb74efc52e954f902362a https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b9617f94af9f55e5e2c52076e7677866.pdf dcce55740b9c6ab4cc3c6f82517932ac PDF Text Text Living with PFAS Interviewer: Dani Devasto Interviewee: Beth Markesino Date: June 3rd, 2021 [PFAS0010audio] DD: I’m Dani Devasto, and today, June 3rd, 2021, I have the pleasure of chatting with Beth Markesino. Hi Beth. BM: Hi. DD: Beth, can you tell me about where you're from and where you currently live? BM: Okay, I am originally from Grosse Pointe, Michigan and I live now in Wilmington, North Carolina. DD: And how long have you lived in Wilmington? BM: Gosh, about 7 ½ years, now. Yeah, about that. Yeah, somewhere around there. [chuckles] DD: Tell me a story, Beth, about your experience with PFAS, or with PFAS in your community. BM: [sighs] Oh gosh, okay. Story about P- I would probably start off with my contamination story, and, just, how I found out about our contamination. And that was basically- In 2016, I was a marathon runner, you could see, like, all my medals back here as a marathon runner. As a marathon runner, you drink loads and loads of water, you know, I would run with, like, a camel back, you know, and, just, chugging my water along. And in Wilmington, it's, like, great weather, so you can run, like, all year round and it's awesome. And in April of 2016, I ran, like, two marathons back-to-back a week apart, likeDD: [chuckles] BM: -full marathons, like, 26.2 miles. I was in, like, the best shape of my life, you know, I was, I would say, 37 at the time, you know, so it was just, like- I was feeling really good at that time of my life, you know. Wilmington is a beach community, and my daughter, at the time, I think she was about two and a half at the time, and so I was just enjoying life, you know. My husband had great job and we had just moved here not that long prior to that, and, yeah, I had no idea that the water that I was drinking was contaminated. And so, just after running those back-to-back marathons, I got pregnant with my son, Samuel, and it wasn't a pregnancy that we planned, but we were, like, over the moon to have, like, a second child. And, like I said, I was in the best shape of my life, like, health wise and with, just, everything. And the pregnancy was going great, I mean, even though I was, like, 37, I was still, [laughs] you know, in good shape, even though they say, like, “oh, you're older,” I was still in good shape, and everything was going great in my pregnancy until it was, like, 21 weeks of pregnancy. 1 �I got a very sharp pain in my stomach and it was on a Wednesday and I called up my OBGYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist), and at first I thought, like, maybe it was just gas or something. And my OBGYN told me to come in, and I brought my daughter in with me and usually, you know, when you go to the OBGYN they talk with you and you're all chit-chatty and stuff, and they were, just, like, really, really serious. And then I remember the ultrasound tech, like, ran out of the room and grabbed the doctor, and the doctor came back in and was doing, like, the ultrasound on my stomach, and then, like, told me, like, you have next-to no amniotic fluid. And it was just, like, at that time I remember, like, feeling the room and it was, like, so, like, bitter cold and, like, looking over and seeing my daughter, and she was, like, on my phone, like, watching a YouTube video. And I, like, I can remember, like, everything that happened at that exact moment, you know, it was, like, frozen in time. And she said, you have next-to no amniotic fluid, you have to get to the hospital, like, right now. And I couldn't cry. I had no idea what any of this meant, and I just got in my car, took my daughter home and my neighbors took her, and then they rushed me to the hospital where my husband met us. And then once we went to the hospital, that's when they told us that my son, Samuel, was going to die, that he hadn’t developed his kidneys, bladder, or bowel. And then they started, like, pumping me full of water. They kept, like, filling up, like, a mauve pitcher of water and, like, kept me on bed rest and, just, having me drink more and more water. And, again, we had no idea that the water that I was drinking was contaminated. We had no idea that that water had, like, the highest levels of GenX, like, recorded, but it wasn't like public knowledge. We had no idea that we had, like, over 50 different PFAS chemicals in our water. Like, I had no idea that I was, like, poisoning my unborn son, you know? I had no idea, like, the health effects that are along with PFAS chemicals to an unborn child, you know? And then, so, they kept me on bed rest, and they kept giving me water, trying to raise, like, my amniotic levels, and we couldn't get them raised, and Samuel just kept getting, like, worse. So then I went to a specialist at Duke University a couple of weeks later, and, at that time, I had placenta previa, which meant if I gave birth to Samuel natural, that I was going to bleed out, and Samuel then had, like, water around his heart, and his heart was, like, failing and stuff. So then, because we're originally from Michigan, we decided to come back to Michigan, and the doctor said I had to give birth to Samuel. And we came back to Michigan and the doctors, then, at Harper University in Detroit checked Samuel out and everything was exactly the same as they said in North Carolina, and so I gave birth to Samuel. I had to do a Cesarean and they had to cut me, like, both ways so, you know, I wouldn't bleed out, and it was, like, it was so awf- I literally felt like I was dying and, but Samuel, like, was dying, and we got to hold him, and we got to baptize him. We had our priest from our old parish came to the hospital, and our family all got to hold him, and we got to bury him at our family's plot. And we had no idea what was to come, what we were to learn, you know. Me and my husband then came home from Michigan, and was just trying to heal from losing our son, you know, especially because it was, like, I was healthy, you know, I had a healthy daughter, you know, we just – the doctors had done one of those DNA tests, and there was no markers or anything like that, and they just couldn't figure out what it was that had gone wrong. 2 �And so, Samuel had passed away on October 19th, 2016, and then on June – it's almost four years now- And, June 7th, 2017 was when we found out about our GenX contamination, and it was like front page news. It was, like, GenX and the Cape Fear River, and it was everywhere. It was like that phrase was, like, over and over again, you know? GenX and the Cape Fear River, GenX and the Cape Fear River. And because I lived in Michigan prior, I had experience with water contamination. I had volunteered working on the Flint water contamination. Even though I didn't live in Flint, I would drive from Grosse Pointe to Flint and volunteer at the Catholic charities and help them out. So, I knew a bit about water contamination, even though it wasn't PFAS, but I did know some information. So then when I heard about that we had a water contamination, it was, like, – I was shocked, but then once it became public in the newspaper, it was, like, I knew that this had to be going on for a long time and that the public was just finding out. So, it's, like, “Okay, how long has this been going on for us just to find out,” and – so then, at that time, I created a Facebook page which now we have, like, over 10,000, I think, members, and so that people in my community could go to find out information about GenX and, I – it's unbelievable, the lies and deceits that DuPont and Chemours has spun to make a profit off of poisoning people in not only my community, but communities globally. And, PFAS is just, or GenX, is just one chemical in a class of over 5,000 that are unregulated. And when I found out about our contamination, I remember going to a city hall meeting, and standing in front of our governor and other elected officials and telling them that they need to warn our community members and pregnant women about the harm of these chemicals, and they need to bring in bottled water, and- but, yet, our elected officials did not see that there was enough data or information about GenX to put out any alerts, or even bring in bottled water. Because the thing is, is that GenX is a new chemical, and because it's a new chemical, companies like DuPont and Chemours, they can use this chemical until the health information is out there showing that it causes harm. And, back in 2012, there was a chemical called C8, and they were told- DuPont was told by the EPA because they knew of the health effects and that it causes harm to pregnant women, and also to – causes liver cancer, it causes kidney problems, it causes, just, high cholesterol, all of these things. And so, the EPA said, “You can no longer use C8 anymore,” and DuPont said, “Okay, that's fine,” but then they ended up taking C8 and they just added an extra oxygen molecule, and that’s how they created GenX and was able to call it a whole new chemical and now it's - instead of a of a Long-Chain Perfluorinated Chemical, it’s a short chain. And even though it supposedly leaves our systems a lot faster than, like, a long-chain chemical, we're finding out that it causes a lot more harm than shorter chain perfluorinated chemicals do. And, I mean, it's really scary, you know? It's [pause], like, our department of environmental qualities, they knew about all of these chemicals for years and years. They never told the public. There were lawsuits, there was all of these spills and things like that. The public, like, never knew. Never knew. They knew the health effects. The public never knew. I mean, they knew there was- they allowed Chemours and DuPont to self-monitor the waste-water. I mean, it's, like – and nothing was done until, you know, 2017 when angry moms like myself just said, “Wait a minute, these are toxic chemicals in our water, and they cause all these health effects. Why aren't you doing anything?” 3 �And for, like, a long time, people looked at me as a crazy mom who lost a child and wondered if, like, these chemicals caused, you know, this harm to my son. And then we have some of the most world-renowned scientists in our field in North Carolina, and then we're having people like Dr. Detlef Knappe, Dr. Jaimie Dewitt, Dr. Hopkins, all coming out and supporting that saying, you know, these chemicals pass through the placenta to the child and it's, like, here's that information, here's that data, you know, that supports it, you know? And we're having so many other mothers coming forward and saying, “Yeah, I lost a child too. I wonder if this happened to me,” or, you know, and it's – even since then, since losing Samuel, I – my cyst, or I got cysts on my ovaries the size of oranges, and I had to get a full hysterectomy, at, I believe- I think I was, like, 39 when I got a full hysterectomy. So it was like, I can't have any more children, I have a tumor on my adrenal gland right now, and I have problems with my thyroid and my parathyroid. I have, like, cysts and nodules, like, all on them right now, and, like, my levels are just all over the place, and I have high cholesterol. I never had any of these things like years ago. Ever, you know. Like I said, I was always in, like, such great shape, and I take good care of my health, but it's these chemicals that are in our environment, here, at such high levels, and it takes years to get them out of our bodies. And it's just- it's nothing I did or anybody else did, but it's, just, these chemicals need to be regulated, and our elected officials need to be looking out for our communities and our health and our environment. And, another thing is, is even as citizens- I remember when I learned about our PFAS contamination, I remember thinking that we need to be more active about what's going on in our lives instead of just listening to what a politician says and “oh, he's for the environment. Okay, well, I'm just going to vote for him” and then thinking that he's going to do his job, you know, and I think as citizens, we need to be more proactive and not just think that politicians are going to do this job, because a lot of them don't. They say that they're going to do environmental things and they say that on their platform, but they never follow through on that, you know? So, I just really think that, as a community, we have that power to get that – get these regulations pushed forward. And I mean, I've seen this in my own life that, I mean, I don't have any scientific degree, you know. For a long-time people would say, “Oh, she's just a mom,” but you know what? I would go to all of DEQ’s meetings, Department of Environmental Qualities, I would go to their meetings, and I would speak in front of scientists. And I mean, I read- every single day, I read scientific papers and you could figure out the, you know, the language, [chuckles] you know, you read enough papers, you know, you'll understand it. And I speak at forums, and I go to our utilities meetings, and I speak to them about what our communities want and what we're seeing, and I address those concerns as a community activist. I'm even working right now to get a grant for a study for filters for our community and it's- and I talk a lot with our local senators about fighting for regulations for our state because states like Michigan, they already have regulations on the book, and so does New Jersey and New York, but we don't in North Carolina we don't have any regulations for PFAS. We do for GenX, at 140 parts per trillion, but we don't have anything for PFAS yet, so it's just really – there isn't anything that says as a resident that you can't go to these meetings, you can't speak up for yourself because you're being poisoned, you know, and you do have a say in all of this, you know, you really do. I mean, I have a daughter, she's going to be nine years old, you know? I mean, she’s – I already lost one child and I can't lose another, you know, and I want to make this world a better place for her. I want to solve this 4 �contamination, and stop these chemicals and future chemicals, because I know companies like DuPont and Chemours, they're always one step ahead with creating something new to replace, you know, a chemical and things like that. So I don't want my daughter to have to pick up this battle in the future, you know, I'm really hopeful that this is something that I can help solve within my lifetime, you know, as something for her and her generation so that they don't have to then fight, you know? But I then know that she's exposed too, she has these chemicals in her body, you know? We do have a GenX study going on. It's the first ever GenX study, and I've had my blood tested, I've had my urine tested, I've had my water tested, and I do have high levels of these chemicals in my blood. And so, I can say that, you know, I know that these chemicals are in my blood, and even though my son was never tested for them, it's like, if these chemicals were in my blood, then they did pass through the placenta to my son, and so it's just – I do this, everything I do in fighting for clean water and regulations, it's as for my son, it's for my daughter, it's for my community. And it's like, I can't get back my son or my ovaries [chuckles], you know, unfortunately, but maybe I can prevent somebody in the future from being exposed to these chemicals if I speak up, you know? DD: You've kind of started to answer my next question. BM: [chuckles] Yeah, sorry, I was – [chuckles] DD: No, it’s okay, I'm loving listening to your story. So if you don't have anything more to say in response to this question that’s fineBM: Yeah. [chuckles] DD: -but maybe you could say a little bit more about the concerns that you have about PFAS contamination moving forward. BM: Yeah, yeah, it's- the contamination moving forward is – regulating PFAS as a class is huge, so, like, in our state we have PFOA and- regulated at 70 parts per trillion. So those are just, likewe have two chemicals, you know, regulated. And so, we have to regulate everything as a class because there are so, so many chemicals under that, like, one umbrella. Yeah, and, I mean, we've already seen with a case of GenX, that DuPont and Chemours will make more replacements. And so if we don't regulate them as a class, then it's, like- it's trying to catch them in their own little game and the little loopholes of- and trying to regulate those chemicals. So, it's really, yeah. Regulating them as a class and holding them accountable for any potential new chemicals that they can use because they're very good at manipulating the system and finding loopholes in doing what they do. I mean, a lot of times Chemours, here, like, they say- at first they said that GenX was a byproduct of another chemical, you know, a lot of the chemicals that are- that we're finding in the Cape Fear River are new chemicals that are not on their discharge permit. And, they just keep saying, well, that's a by-product of another chemical. That's a by-product. And these are, like, PFMOAA (perfluoro-2-methoxyacetic acid), like, these are all chemicals that we're, like, “Wait, 5 �we don't know much about this chemical,” you know? So, it's just, like, our scientists here in North Carolina, keep finding, like, new and new, like, PFAS in our river. And then it's just, like, finding out, like, okay, well, what are these health effects? You know? And it's, like, this toxic, like, soup of chemicals. And it's, like, what are the combined effects of all of these chemicals that we don't know? So, it's just really regulating them as a class, stopping any new chemicals being introduced into production, really, because there shouldn't- they shouldn't need 5,000 chemicals. [chuckles] I mean, like, come on for, you know, sticky stuff [both laugh]. I mean, like, you know what I mean? Stop the slide off. [both laugh] Why do you need 5,000 different ones? You know? I mean, like, me personally, I mean, isn't one enough, I don't know. [both laugh] Can't one do the job? I don't know why you need 5,000 different ones, so it's, yeah, so it’s just really- That's what I really think it comes down to is just stopping all of that. DD: Before we wrap up, is there anything else that you would like to add that we haven't touched on today, or anything you'd like to go back to? BM: Just really a lot that- a lot of people – I remember when we found out that our community was contaminated. Some people had said, “No, our- we're not contaminated because, you know, that couldn't happen to us, we're not like Flint.” That's what people had said: “We're not like Flint. We're not, like, a low-income community,” or that's what people had thought. And water contaminations do not discriminate. It can happen to anybody anywhere. And if we tested everybody's water, they probably have some level of some type of contamination, so it can happen to anybody. And it's a shame that this is happening and I hate that it’s happening to my community, but it's a wakeup call for everybody. And, I mean, I'm sure if we tested your water, you would have PFAS and your water, lead, I mean, just high fluoride, just, a lot of different chemicals and, just, I just want everybody to know that it could happen to anybody. And if you got that call that yes, you have a water contamination, that it's your turn, then, to speak up about it and do something for your community to stop it because these chemicals are very harmful and it's not just some- it's just not some- I want to say it's not just some type of, like, person that's crying wolf that these – you know, sometimes people say, “Oh, it's just some hippie person talking about these chemicals being harmful.” No, it's scientific data that this is truthful, you know, these chemicals are harmful to you. There's data that supports it, and it really can happen to anybody, and it is. If we test water across the globe it’s probably in everybody's water. And these- DuPont, 3M, Chemours, we have to stop these corporations. I mean, my family in Michigan, like throughout Michigan, I have family in Wixom. They're contaminated. I have family in Gaylord, in Grayling. They're contaminated, you know? And I think about them all the time, that no matter where my family is, whether it's in North Carolina or in Michigan, they're dealing with the same thing I am. They have contaminated water. I mean, I grew upwhen I was younger, I grew up in Warren, and we had a 3M facility just down the road from us, across Eight Mile. And I remember, oh, 3M, like, the tape, you know, never thought anything about PFAS until now – I'm thinking, “Wow, I wonder how much of my early exposure did I get from that facility?” You know? DD: Mhm. 6 �BM: So, it's just- it's this buildup, you know. How many times did I go to my grandma's house in Wixom, and did I get exposed at her house to PFAS, too? You know, it's like that build up through the years. And then on top of it, my long exposure here to just so many PFAS. So, it's, yeah, it can happen anywhere, a contamination, and nobody is exempt from being contaminated, you know? It's in your food, it's in your clothing, it's in your beauty products, and we have to do something to stop being exposed to these chemicals, you know? DD: Mhm. Yeah. Well, thank you so much, Beth, for taking the time to share your story today. BM: [chuckles] Thank you. I hope I covered everything. I'm very passionate about stopping this PFAS and GenX. Just, I've seen too much happening in my community and, like, in my own life, you know, I mean, it's just been – it's hard when, like, you have to take- I have to take so much medication daily and go to so many doctor's appointments, and still I fight, [chuckles] you know, because that's all I know now is to fight for clean water. You know, it’s become my life now, you know? And, I know, just, so many other people, that's what they're doing too. So many people are called water warriors, because that's what they are. They're, just, they're having the same thing happen to them. Their families are sick, too, from these chemicals, [chuckles] so, and I hope that you get to talk to all of my friends too and hear their stories because they're all just so brave and doing some great things and fighting. So, but thank you so much. [chuckles] I’m like, crying. DD: Well, we know how important water is, and, so, thank you for the work that you're doing. BM: Thank you. I appreciate it. [chuckles] 7 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3544423da97070dbf57805f7dc181897.mp4 f6a6cd0718aff86254128bf8b523c6de https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ef83d090ed82e4cfc738301ce8f992a1.pdf fb7454f9543db4295e0068510b2bfec6 PDF Text Text Living With PFAS Interviewee: Peggy Merrill Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: June 3, 2021 DD: I’m Dani DeVasto and today June 3rd, 2021, I have the pleasure of chatting with Peggy Merrill. Hi Peggy. PM: Good morning. DD: Peggy can you tell me about where you’re from and where you currently live? PM: I am from, originally, the east side of the state, and moved here after I got out of college and lived outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan for the past 30 years. And now I just recently moved to the Hastings area which is just south of Grand Rapids. DD: And how long have you been in Hastings? PM: Lived here physically for 4 months but I’ve worked here for 3 years, and my husband is originally from here so very familiar with the area. DD: Wow, so you just moved. [chuckles] PM: Yeah. [chuckles] DD: I’m sure you maybe still have some boxes and things. PM: Oh yeah, and dirt for the yard. DD and PM: [Both chuckle] DD: Can you tell me a story about your experience with PFAS, or with PFAS in your community? PM: I can. PFAS, I had no clue what PFAS was until my sister-in-law- am I able to share her name? DD: Yes. PM: Sandy Wynn-Stelt called me, this was, what, 2017, and said something about her water was being tested because they had found something near her house at a- what was it? Airport? Some kind of reserved site, or training site, for the army, I think. Anyway, and said that’s really weird. And then about, I don’t even know how much longer, she called me one day and said, “I’ve got all this PFAS in my soil!” and that is when I learned what PFAS was, had no clue what it was. 1 �Basically, it’s on everything, I think. And I think it was at that point, oh, then she had her blood drawn and her level came back higher than any blood level of PFAS in someone’s system, I think, ever that they’ve had recorded. And that is when I said to her, “that’s what killed my brother.” Because my brother had been diagnosed, about a year before all this started, pretty much of the blue with liver cancer. We- I went with her when he had to go in and get his hernia taken care of at the hospital, and you know the doctor came out and everything looked good and blah, blah, blah, and then she called me a couple of days later said she’d gotten a call saying that he had liver cancer. And so, within a span of about 2½, 3 weeks, he ended up on hospice and he died, [cries] [sniffles] and to this day they say there’s no relationship that they can correlate to his liver cancer but a lot of the tests that she has shared with me as far as the studies and stuff show that it does cause various cancers and who knows what his level was. DD: Mhm. PM: Because they lived there for 25, 30 years, almost, and he drank water every day, you know, and subsequently my sister-in-law was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and luckily that was taken care of and she has no traces of it in her system now. But this whole PFAS thing, I mean, we spent every holiday there so, drank their water. My children, when they were little, they would be babysat and spend the night and they had bottles made out of that water. It just really makes you wonder down the road, you know, what’s gonna be the effects? And my sister-in-law, I mean, I’m in the medical field, and if I were her, and I know her very well, it would be like every ache and pain or bump or lump you know “What is this? What is this?” Because, you know who knows? And so, I have just stood behind her, to this day and till the day I die will contribute that to my brother’s death. Because it was just, I’ve never, I mean I’ve seen death, I work in health care. But to see someone go from being a vibrant person to sitting in a bed at University of Michigan hospital and the doctor saying there’s nothing they can do, going home on hospice and dying a week later. I mean I know it happens to people without PFAS in their blood system but that’s my story and I’m gonna stick to it. And I’ve often wondered about getting my own blood tested and my children, I mean I know they’re not children anymore, they’re young adults, but you wonder. Everybody has it in their system, I mean I've read- my sister-in-law forwards me articles all the time- I mean you probably do Dani, but you wonder, like, gee I wonder what my level is because it’s this forever chemical and I’ve drank their water for 25+ years every time I was there. Wha-whats the level in my blood? But on the same breath, it’s kinda like, eh, [chuckles] if I find out it’s really high, there is nothing you can do about it. So that's kinda a moot point but again I’m kinda scientific so I would- I am curious in some ways, and I’m curious for my sons and my husband. So, I mean that's the story I wanted to share because I think they need to regulate it, and it just leaves me I can't talk about certain shoe distribution companies because I refuse to wear their shoes [chuckles] because of, you know, I- we’d been to my sisterin-law’s house, you know, numerous times and when she told me the stuff that was buried there I’m like, “oh yeah I remember seeing that stuff.” and since then, you know, we’ve walked around and you can see pieces of tanned leather, you know, all that concrete- or excuse me, metal barrels that were buried there and it’s just, you know, their home was a haven for them both, it still is but it’s a polluted haven in the ground. [chuckles] I remember they tried to grow a garden one year, and they did not have much success. [chuckles] [moderator chuckles] Makes you wonder why. You know you wouldn’t wanna eat the vegetables anyway I guess, but- so I mean that's kinda what I wanted to share, I will stand behind my sister-in-law forever and ever 2 �because I think she’s been a huge voice in this whole thing and I think it's important that it be shared with everybody and, again, regulated as far as PFAS goes and anything, so. DD: Yeah, well I do so appreciate you sharing it, and I’m sorry for the loss of your brother. PM: [Cries] It’s weird, you miss him, I mean we all have people die in our families, but we were very, very close, and it’s just hard. Even, what, 5 years later, 6 years later? DD: Yeah. It’s hard. PM: Yeah, and I guess one other thing, heck, as long as I’m crying I might as well cry! You know, my mom lost a daughter, my sister, and then she lost my dad, and a year after we lost my dad is when Joel became sick and, she was there when he passed away [cries] and she knew about the PFAS and it was so hard on her and until she passed away a year ago she was worried about Sandy all the time, I mean she started to get somewhat forgetful like you do when you’re 89, and she’d- “How’s Sandy? Is she really sick yet from that PFAS?” [sighs] So. [sniffles] DD: And Joel, Joel is your brother? PM: Yeah, yeah, my mom had 2 sets of twins: Joel and my brother Paul, who’s still alive, were about three years older than me, and yeah. [deep sigh] DD: What concerns- What concerns do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward, Peggy? PM: Well, I have a concern that, you know, I know this house that we built, my sister-in-law said, “get your water tested.” She said, “you will be surprised where it is and where it isn’t.” and, you know, she’s right because we live by fields where farmers know, but we didn’t get it tested cause it cost too much [chuckles], and that’s kinda sad, I mean, that is a test that if people wanna have done whether it's on their water or whether it’s a blood test, it shouldn’t be some astronomical cost. I mean again, there’s nothing they would be able to do right now, althoughwe, you know, we had it in our water we’d know to get a better filter, but the tests I think when I asked a local water conditioner place was like $300+ to get it tested for that. DD: Wow. PM: So. So, I think that’s one of my big concerns, hopefully to see it phased out and not be used on stuff or- you know. I don't know if you’ve seen some of the movies that are out there, I think once they stopped manufacturing this, now there’s some other chemical that they’ve found, you know [?] it’s kinda the same thing [nervous chuckle]. DD: Mhmm. Mhmm. Yes, yeah, I’ve heard that, you know just for some, in some cases they’ve just shortened the- the chain, the carbon chain so it’s very similar but not, not technically the same. 3 �PM: It makes you wonder down the road, are they gonna find that this is similar to the lead poisoning that they dealt with, with the kids from, you know, paint and dirt and stuff? And in 40 or 50 years, who knows? DD: Mhmm. Yeah. Do you find that your experience as a medical, someone who works in the medical field has, played a role in this or impacted your- your [?] PM: I think it’s impacted my thought process. I mean I- I honestly think the general population that isn’t interested in this or doesn’t have much knowledge of it doesn’t really realize, you know, how bad it can be. DD: Mhmm. PM: That, that movie that Mark Ruffalo did about that that was such a powerful movie, and I took friends of mine when we went to the screening with Sandy, who had no, you know, knowledge of it and they just went as support people, they were blown away by the movie and, you know, it was a good movie overall, but the information in it, and, you know. So yeah, I don't think the general public really realizes, you know, unless it’s directly affected them. DD: Mhmm, yeah. Before we wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to add that we haven't touched on today or anything you’d like to go back to? PM: I don't think so, I- I really think down the road anybody that is in an area where they question PFAS being in the soil or in the water, it would be nice to just make that a blood test that people could get their blood checked, just to see. Again, you can't do anything about it right now, but it would be interesting. So, I think that’s it. And I appreciate you sharing the story with whoever hears it, because I think knowledge is power and the more people that know the better. DD: Yeah, I agree. Well, thank you so much Peggy for taking the time to share your story today. PM: Thank you. 4 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/95bc5e2ce1cce409723437486c8651b8.mp4 2847111c65c59bbd76389e60cb7726e1 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/8b54521dd324c29223715f49d24ba13a.pdf 3b23af45a1a76cc6a87e6f99a7f3e35e PDF Text Text Living With PFAS Interviewee: Senator Winnie Brinks Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: May 24, 2021 DD: I’m Dani DeVasto and today, May 24th, I have the pleasure of chatting with Senator Winnie Brinks. Winnie, thank you so much for talking with me today. WB: You’re welcome, I’m happy to join you. DD:Can you tell me about where you’re from and where you currently live? WB: Yes, I currently live in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I have lived here since I came to the city to attend college. Before that, I was born and raised in Washington State. DD:Oh wow, what a beautiful place. WB: Yeah. DD: Can you tell me please a story about your experience with PFAS [Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] or with PFAS in your community? WB: So, I first became aware of PFAS in our community here in Grand Rapids, or in the Grand Rapids area when news stories started hitting in the summer of 2017, and they were talking about contamination in the Northern part of the county that was due to use of the chemical to waterproof shoes that had been in use for a couple of decades, several decades even, and the community was completely unaware of the dangers of the chemical, and even that it was in their water. So, I took great interest in that, in part because it was close to home, but also because I started getting phone calls from people in that community and they were telling me their stories and some of them were just tragic. And I just started to really dig in because there's really nothing more important as a foundation of health than having water that you can trust and that is not contaminated. DD: And so you started to dig in and what did you - what kind of transpired from there? WB: So, we realized how pervasive PFAS in water is, not just in Michigan. I think we know a lot about the prevalence of this chemical or this family of chemicals in Michigan because we bothered to take a look, now. But I’m certain it is quite widespread throughout the nation, certainly wherever we have industrial sites, a lot of plating, or anything that requires waterproofing. And a number of other uses so we just kind of started getting more and more information, understanding some of the health impacts, understanding government response to it - from a township level all the way up to the state and federal levels. And just realized that there was a lot of work to be done to address it, to ensure our constituents that this was �something that we’re paying attention to and that it’s important and that we would help remedy it and, very importantly, prevent it from happening again in other communities if at all possible. DD: Can you say a little more about the kinds of options that are available to you as a political leader from remedying or taking action? WB: Yeah, I think the first and most obvious thing that we have tried to do, and it has now been accomplished, is to institute permissible levels of any contaminant in drinking water, right, we all know that there’s a tiny bit of lead, and there’s a tiny bit of different things that are harmful to us, but they are in our water in very small amounts. And the reason they are in very small amounts often is because we detected them in higher amounts and decided to regulate them and treat water for them to remove things like lead from our drinking water. And we just didn't have a rule for PFAS, for any of the chemicals in that family of compounds, to guide water systems and what they needed to do, but also to ensure that there was only small amounts or none of those PFAS compounds in drinking water, so I proposed a bill to do that. Really, a better tool to do that would be through the department to go through a rule-making process with public comment and scientific study and to establish those standards, and since I started proposing it in 2017, in law, the department has, with the change of political control in the governor's office, the new governor decided to continue that process and to expedite the rule-making process to ensure that those chemicals were adequately addressed in the protection of water systems and the requirements placed on them to remove certain quantities of certain compounds. I think there’s seven of them that are currently regulated, so I think that’s the most important and significant thing that we’ve done to date. Also establishing a body within a state government to actually take a look at the PFAS problem throughout this state from various sources and I think another thing that is certainly incredibly important is when they identified PFAS in lakes or rivers, they would go upstream and basically try to figure out where that was coming from and to address it, to reduce the flow of that - of those chemicals into our water systems and when we test for water in wells to be able to know if it’s present. If it is present, then try to figure out where it’s coming from and, occasionally, the departments are incredibly effective at limiting the discharge of those chemicals from various sources. So being able to identify the sources before it's identified as a contaminant is sometimes an incredible way to stop further contamination. DD: Just to clarify, is the department, for you, EGLE when you say WB: Um, so it’s a little bit of both EGLE and DHHS. DD: All right, thank you. WB: So a lot of healthwork and health studies have gone on through the DHHS, and I think in part had representation. The Michigan PFAS action response team - they had representation from different departments as well working with them, but the regulatory aspect happened through EGLE. �DD: Okay, thank you, I just on - on maybe a side note - were you aware of PFAS before people started to come to you and tell you their stories at all, or was this something WB: I was not, I was not. And you know part of the reason people came to me was because they were talking to other elected officials that represented them in the northern part of the county and they were unresponsive. They just kinda kept saying: “yeah, we’ll take care of it,” and didn’t really do much about it, and so there were lots of folks who either lived there, in the northern part of the county currently, or previously for many years and now lived in my legislative district, so they now started coming to me because they felt were being listened to. And that's a constant refrain from lots of folks whenever there's the initial information that is coming out of a chemical in their water and so, to me, it's just really important to make sure that when new information becomes available about something this important, that we make sure that we are taking a moment to listen to those, those constituents are impacted - they are often the most well-informed about what's going on and what they’ve attempted to do to remedy the matter, but until significant attention from people in the halls of power, it just doesn’t get addressed. DD:Yeah. It’s a collaboration, isn’t it? WB: Yeah. DD: So as someone who wasn’t familiar with it, it sounds like one way you were learning about it was by listening to people. Are there other things that you do as a political leader to learn about PFAS that you did learn, because I know people bring all sorts of concerns to you - as government folk, you have to know lots of things about lots of things, so I'm just kinda curious. Beyond listening was there anything else that you did to begin to understand this so that you could move it forward in the legislature? WB: Yes, yes absolutely. I started doing a lot of research, so, you know, initially, just kinda scouring the internet and making sure that I understood exactly what PFAS is, how it originated, how widespread the use is and for what kinds of industries, so I did a lot of just kinda digging around as an individual, just kinda getting out there and seeing what I could see. We saw a lot of great coverage from reporters throughout the state on PFAS issues, so that was really helpful too - it kept it in front of not just me, but of constituency other policy makers so that was really incredibly helpful. But I also reached out to GVSU, to the Annis water institute, and spoke with I’m gonna say it wrong - Rich Rediske, and he was incredibly helpful and very instrumental in helping me understand what tools were available in terms of constituency and how to address this issue in our community in ways that have been effective in the past with other contamination and communities in west Michigan, so it was really helpful and I would say lastly seeking information from the department and importantly folks in Oscoda. So, Oscoda is the site of a military base and they had significant contamination there of PFAS and they had been fighting with the military on cleanup of a number of other chem for many years, and having little success, and it was then discovered in addition to all those other chemicals, there was PFAS present as well in very large quantities, and its having a huge impact still on their community, �but there have been people who have been fighting this fight for many years, trying to understand what's in their water and how to address it and how to respond, so that really helped me put together the pieces of what needed to happen - not just at a local level and the state level, but also at the federal level. DD: Is there anything on your plate right now in terms of PFAS work? WB: So yes, we’re constantly being vigilant about ensuring that water systems are responding and that they have the resources to do so, and the state can be really instrumental in ensuring that states - that water systems remain as policies, that water systems have the resources to add the filters they need to remove from the water. We also have to ensure that EAGLE is adequately resourced so that they can do that upstream work to locate areas of contamination, so that’s always something we’re keeping an eye out for. I think on the horizon as we learn more and more about additional compounds in this family of chemicals, that we will need to add chemicals or add certain additional compounds to the list of regulated PFAS compounds in our drinking water. Part of the flaws in our systems, in some ways, is that we’re very reactive, so we wait ‘til we have all kinds of information about chemicals that we think are probably harmful and we have a good amount of evidence that points to the direction that they are likely to be harmful, but we wait ‘til we have lots and lots of proof until we actually take action on them as governments. And I think that’s to the detriment of the health of our constituents, in many cases, so I think that as we see these chemicals replaced by industry with quote on quote “less harmful alternatives”, we’re really just seeing a shorter chain molecule of the same substance being used. It’s highly effective in achieving the purposes that they would like to achieve; it can be incredibly useful in making our lives better in some shape, but we are then exposed to continued health impacts and environmental impacts because we are unwilling to respond proactively to the wealth of information we see in the direction that it’s pointing. So I think that we’ll have to keep an eye on adding those additional compounds to the regulatory framework, and as soon as we have information to do so, we should take action on that and, frankly, I think it would be really important to help support industries to find alternatives that are not harmful that don't contaminate our water or impact our health long-term. And that may require some research scholars, it may require some assistance to ensure that we're moving in a direction that won't harm us. DD: So, you kind of, I think, anticipated my next question a little bit, but do you have any - what concerns do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? WB: Yeah, I'm really concerned that as we see more and more people who understand what they've been exposed to in various communities, now that we know how to test for it, we understand some of the harmful impacts. We’ll start to link health issues with that exposure in a more true way. I think in the past we’ve seen lots of people with inexplicable health issues from certain communities and we haven't really been able to pin it down, so I think as we go forward, we’ll get the benefit of that information, but it's also unfortunate, of course, because we’ll do so by learning more about the harms it has caused. �DD: Absolutely. Before we wrap up today, is there anything that you would like to add that we haven't touched on, or anything that you would like to go back to to say more about? WB: I think one big thing that is hard to wrap our heads around and really grab onto is the necessity for this to be regulated at the federal level and even at a worldwide level. It’s a compound that now we are finding literally everywhere in water. It’s incredibly difficult to destroy or get rid of. You can filter it out of drinking water, but then you have to do something with it, you know there is research on incinerating it, which we’re not sure is completely safe yet. You can basically isolate it and put it in a special landfill, but this is an enduring chemical in a way that we haven't seen in most other chemicals that we have identified as problems, and I think it has real potential to do incredibly widespread harm unless we interrupt this cycle of using it. And you know we already have a massive challenge just containing what we know exists out there, and so it can be daunting. But I think it’s one of those things that really deserves worldwide attention and international cooperation and I'm not sure we're really seeing that yet, but I think in the future those conversations are going to be really important. DD: Have you had any conversation or outreach yet with federal or global levels? I mean, I know Michigan is kind of leading the way on this, so I imagine that if you haven’t, you will. WB: Yes, yes, certainly a significant amount of conversation with our congressional members and our two US senators - they’ve been really great at identifying this as an issue and understanding that Michigan is poised to be a leader in responding to this, so making sure that we are talking about what policy changes can happen at the federal level - that would be helpful not just to Michigan, but to all of our states, is something that we've had significant conversation about. And I think that, you know, there's a lot of work to be done on this, so those conversations will continue for many years I think, but they've been really productive partners in terms of trying to pull all the levers that they have at their disposal at the federal level, and then various states responding at the state level in supporting them and being a model for them. But internationally, no, not much, you know, I'm aware of some things that are happening elsewhere but no, certainly no cooperation or significant conversation. Not sure head of state would take a call from a little state senator [laughter], but there’s certainly opportunities there and I hope that we take advantage of any opportunity we have conversation about - this and to deal with this in a much more productive way. DD: Yeah, I mean, it’s like you said, it’s likely in so many more places than just Michigan, we just haven't looked yet, but it seems- not - exciting might not be the right word, but hopeful for Michigan that we as a state could be a leader in this forefront - like a positive that we are making those steps, so I find that encouraging. Maybe that's the right word. WB: I think there’s one other thing I would like to bring up. In Michigan, the state laws- there's not really a setup incredibly well to sort of hold polluters accountable and to get them to participate in making things right when something is discovered. And part of that has to do with time frames, and statutes of limitation - when someone can bring a lawsuit it is harmful to individuals or harm to communities, so I have also proposed bills that would address that. So far �they've gotten no legislative attention to move toward being passed, but I think that's also going to be a piece of this moving forward. We’re going to need to help the industries that have used this to understand that they do play a role in remedying the damage that was caused, and the harm that is being caused to people's health, and they're going to have to participate in that. There's certainly a huge role for government, but there's going to be a role for private industry to pay and I think to be responsible, they're going to have to step up to the plate as well. And currently, we don't have the tools to obligate them to do so, and to take responsibility for their actions, and so I would like to see some changes there too. DD: That seems important there are lots of stakeholders in this situation. [ both speaking ] Yeah. DD :Well, thank you so much, Senator Brinks, for taking the time to share your story and your work today. I appreciate it so much. WB: Yes, you're very welcome. I look forward to viewing some of the other interviews, and thank you for bringing the voices of not just me, but all the folks that you're talking to to the public record and hopefully together we can make some progress. DD: My pleasure. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/de2b660352e5037db0dafaf86a58d40d.mp4 b2f17065cbef332f8f70648daabd8299 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/79b9c08b8c380db250d0d17a76a2645c.pdf 21a285522a55c52bed4dd5a0066d73c6 PDF Text Text Living With PFAS Interviewee: AJ Birkbeck Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: May 19, 2021 DD: I’m Dani DeVasto and today, May 19th 2021, I have the pleasure of chatting with AJ Birkbeck. Thank you so much for being with us today AJ. Can you tell me about where you’re from and where you currently live? AJ: Well I grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and went to school in Ann Arbor and after that moved to Chicago where I worked for many years as an environmental attorney. DD: And are you still based in Chicago right now? AJ: I do maintain an office in the Chicago-land area, and I’m still licensed in Illinois but I’ve been focusing pretty much exclusively on Michigan of late, so that’s my focus and especially when it comes to PFAS. DD: Alright, can you tell me how long you’ve been here? AJ: Well, I spent all but 17 years of my life, so over 50 years I’ve been in Michigan. DD: Okay. So AJ, could you tell me a story about your experience with PFAS or with PFAS in your community? AJ: The main story is just unfortunately the lack of information that’s available to everyone. You know, critically, lawmakers don’t have accurate information, and many times they’re being informed by the chemical industry exclusively, not necessarily by science. As science is coming online, not only in Michigan but across the country and around the world, it’s becoming evident that this problem is a lot bigger than people thought, because these chemicals are everywhere. So, the story is: how can we get information out to people and how can we inform people of risks related to PFAS, and that’s what we did when we discovered the wolverine contamination in Rockford, MI, which is one of the most contaminated locations in the US. Even worldwide, people have heard of it. DD: Do you want to say anything more about your efforts to help get out information to people? Especially kind of surrounding the Wolverine West Michigan area? �AJ: Right. Well as a group of citizens, to say resources are limited is kind of an understatement. It’s something that people in the neighborhood do in their spare time and there was a lot of footwork done, a lot of discovery. It’s when we clearly determined there had been releases of PFAS in and around Rockford that needed to be addressed. The next big step was informing the regulatory community because still to this day, these chemicals are not effectively regulated at the federal level, which is just incredible. But in Michigan, fortunately they moved very quickly in legal moves with regulation that happened to be exactly timed with pleadings that came down and legal actions between the state and federal government and wolverine. So it all was a simultaneous recognition that something needed to be done. The regulations were passed and wolverine agreed to step up to the plate and really move forward with a lot of what’s been happening out at that site right now. DD: Can you tell me a little bit more about your role in this process? AJ: Well, I’ve spent my entire career out at locations working in communities on large contaminations. The biggest client for many years was actually an instrumentality of the federal district court in San Francisco with the Northern district of California. We worked directly for the court working on cleanups that were driven by community concerns. I had experience in doing things like that, and I received a call one day from a small community group, that’s the CCRR, and they needed legal advice as to what they could do with respect to the tannerring. I heard about some of the things that were going on, and I tried to reach out to city government at the time, but they really weren’t interested in finding out what was going on, or in any investigation. For the first time in my life, I met active resistance from a unit of government. I worked in my day-job for decades with municipal leaders in a very constructive way, and here, the door was slamming in my face. So I agreed to work with the CCRR in bringing action in Belmont and Rockford, and that effort so far has resulted in, my guess, and wolverine hasn’t disclosed any costs, but at least $125,000,000 in response costs. So, it has resulted in what I think is a significant improvement, not only to the environment, but in human health, which is most important. It’s unfortunate that the exposures were there as long as they were there, but I think, you know, as a result of literally, concerned neighbors saying something isn’t right here and digging deeper, and deeper, and deeper, we have prevented all those folks from Belmont from drinking what was the most contaminated drinking water I would argue in the nation. I think there was a couple of commercial wells that were tested at slightly higher levels. But I mean this is one of the most PFAS impacted sites that there is. The fact that people were sitting there drinking this water everyday, you can't taste it, smell it, or see it, it was just insidious. The fact that we cut that off by who knows how many years, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, any day is too long to continue drinking what those residents were forced to drink. As we got more and more into it, I got more and more passionate about communities really needing help. What was going on in Rockford was the impotence for the founding of the PFAS alliance, which is- the motto is “From Communities, For Communities”. Taking everything we’ve learned in an area with very �little guidance as to what you should do as an impacted citizen, if it’s just finding out that you’ve been drinking PFAS for 25 years, you know, that's a scary prospect. There’s a lot more resources now than there were, but at the state level they’re really stretched. We need a lot more focused [?], which means a lot more resources, which means a legislature that’s willing to vote those resources into place in order to deal with this problem which is just getting bigger. I mean literally, go online to MPART and every week its 2 or 3 new sites. We had a big jump with, I think over 50 sites when the regulations finally came in. It’s so many communities being impacted and each one is related but in a unique way. So, how do you address that? It’s a huge problem which comes all the way back around to: I see this as a communication issue. A need to get information to the people who need it most, especially people living in impacted communities. DD: Do you want to say anything more about the PFAS alliance and either how that came to be or any of the work the PFAS alliance is doing right now? AJ: Some communities like to keep what’s going on behind a wrap, so if there’s a community that wants to remain confidential, we honor that request. We’ve reached out to a number of communities. Unfortunately, we are strictly an all-volunteer organization. We’ve received just a couple of very small grants, and on top of that it’s all volunteer work. So we have a dedicated group of directors and other folks that are members and work with us to really reach out, indepth, to communities. One of the communities we’ve recently worked with was down by Gerald Ford International Airport. There were, I believe, 247 households there with impacted wells, and we are working to ensure that they get hookups to the city of Grand Rapids water, which is very clean in respect to PFAS. So it’s the kind of thing that, as a community, they can’t do those things themselves, they don’t have the expertise and scientific help like we’ve gotten from GVSU with Dr. Richard Redinski, and with my experience with working with environmental laws with big cleanups in communities. Whenever we see success, like we’ve seen in several of the communities, it only makes us want to work harder and try to get the word out to more and more communities. Right now, we are just limited by assets. We do not have, you know, the grants behind us to really make things work as we’d like to. Because if we could expand and get out into 10s of communities, instead of just a handful of communities, which is all we can do at one time now. There’s 160 communities waiting for help across Michigan right now. DD: Wow. Before, I know you’ve mentioned that you’ve been involved for a long time with large community cleanups. But before you got involved with this, were you doing work with PFAS? Or is this a new contaminant that you encountered with CCRR? AJ: You know, it’s interesting. I used to go every year to these events that were hosted by the state of Michigan, DEQ at the time. You would sit around the lunch table with people that you mostly don’t know, and I happened to sit down next to a gentleman named Bob Delaney. Bob �Delaney is truly the biggest hero we have with the PFAS movement. He identified this stuff at one of his sites where he was project manager. He was researching into it and the more he found, the more terrible it became. He tried to elevate that within the state to an issue that should be addressed immediately. He even came up with a plan on how to address it, and unfortunately, it was placed in the circular file by those who made decisions, and there was no action taken. It turns out that literally 10 years later, actually it became more like seven years later, it became the template of how Michigan has handled this. So, you have a man that seven years beforehand was screaming, “something needs to be done about this”, I happened to sit next to at lunch. He started to explain this [?] and asked “have you heard of it?”, and you know, I hadn’t. I stay on top of these things, but the industry had done a very good job of making this appear to be a miracle group of chemicals, and it was like this isn't great? Science at work. “Oh so we have some evidence that it does some really bad things but we’ll just keep that quiet because this is extremely profitable and we don't really have proof.” That's basically what they ended up standing behind for nearly 50 years: We don't have proof that it's bad. The fact that there’s so many of these, 5,00 on a recent international science call. I meet every month with this group of PFAS scientists from around the world, but there has now been 9,000 categorized of them, and we know the health effects of approximately 2, maybe 3. The information we have, even there, is limited. So, this group of chemicals is out there and I think it’s something that ultimately, I became active in the environmental side of things as a geologist and in the light of when it happened with the love canal. That opened a lot of people’s eyes and I think when PFAS hits the mainstream media, there’s going to be a lot of eyes that are opened, as far as, “wow, I had no idea something this toxic was this close to my life every day”. They’re talking about going into camping stores where they have rack after rack of waterproof parkas and there could be a serious inhalation risk associated with that. Who would have had any idea? Dental floss, you know, wrappers for your burger, it just keeps coming up. The information that’s coming in daily is just mind boggling, and I actually suggested at a think-tank meeting that we create a worldwide information repository, scientifically vetted, because a lot of what’s going on right now is happening in the European Union. They tend to look more at human based health studies. So it was suggested that we start this, myself and Dr. Rediski are co-chairs on it, 2 and 3. We are working with China, Australia, the folks in Washington, and the European Union to get as much relevant health information in front of people in an easy to use interface and try to make that happen. But again, it’s all volunteer time by 20 people, no funding, no nothing, so it’s very frustrating unless you're plugged into that whole system of applying for grants and doing all that kind of stuff. We just have so many communities that need help, that we haven’t done that. DD: It seems like sometimes the timeline for some of those things like applying for grants and working through certain processes is not in sync with people’s needs too, adding to the challenge. �AJ: Yes, although I will say there’s been a number of groups, I can’t even list all them here, but one group in particular, Freshwater Future up in the Traverse City area, and they’re international as well, they’ve helped us with several grants. They’re helping us with our website right now. They are the group that came up with the $80 alternative to the $300 water testing alternative offered by the state. $300 is a lot for a lot of people, and the fact there’s an $80 alternative out there is great. Unfortunately, they had to shut their labs down due to COVID, but I’m trying to find out when they’re going to be back online. Ultimately, in my opinion, the way to address this is an initiative that I started with former chair of MPART, Steve Slyburn. We came up with computer systems to track, using PFAS, everywhere [?], then goes a step further to model groundwater flow to tell you if it’s moving towards you. So you can go and enter your address and it would say “you’re a quarter mile away from a landfill, where we know there’s PFAS, but you don’t have to worry about it because the water is flowing in the other direction.” Or, “you should be worried about it because it’s coming in your direction.” Those are the people who can’t know on their own, due to low funds, to test their wells. They could at least spring for the $70 and say “okay I’ve been drinking poison water, what do I do? Okay I get a filter, now what do I do?”. The state just doesn’t have the resources to deal with individual hits like that. There’s going to have to be a structure put into place, but the best hope right now is to come up with a system that allows any member of the public in Michigan to enter their address and find out if they’re at more risk or less risk. It can’t be able to say, you are definitely impacted. But I think people, if given the opportunity to check into risks, often will. We’re hoping that would be the case with this system. DD: That sounds like a great idea. I hope it comes to fruition. AJ: It’s been promised by the state by the first quarter of 2022. We’ve been told that certain aspects of it, the most difficult is the ground level water modelling as far as direction of groundwater, nobody’s ever tried that at a statewide basis based on well logs. They have to verify the data, because often well-logged locations often list the wrong location. That’s the element that’s taking the longest, but there’s 32 other layers of information, including manufacturers who utilize PFAS, in most cases in strict accordance with the law and there’s no spills. But, shouldn’t the person who lives right next door to that plant be able to say, “Okay, I’m going to spend $70 and test my water, and if it comes up clean then I can say I have a good corporate neighbor.” If it doesn’t, then we’ve got another site added to the ever growing list with MPART. Each one is a community with their own stories. DD: To go back to that original problem, the one where you said, “how do you get information, especially information about risk out to people?”, this would really help to address that lack. AJ: Right. Unfortunately, it’s come up against some real roadblocks. With respect to EPA, they have not really been allowed to look at PFAS until recently. The plan that they came out with in �the last year of the Trump administration was: “We agree to look at it, we’ll get back to you in a year.” They’re saying they could be as long as a year away from regulating this at the federal level. Which, by that time, Michigan’s regulations will be years old. Good for the folks in Michigan for recognizing how important water is and getting regulations in place to protect them. DD: So this kind of leads into my other main question, what concerns do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? AJ: It’s just that- I think unfortunately there’s parallels with what happened with Covid, which is initially ignoring the potential gravity of the problem. Then when it hits, really going through a period of denial, “oh it’s not that bad yet.” You know, I found that even immediately in a case in Rockford, you could go up to almost half of the people you run into, and they won’t even really know what PFAS is, because Rockford has been on clean water since at least 2000. It’s one of those problems that unfortunately unless it’s happening to me, it sounds pretty complex. These 5,000 or 9,000 chemicals that the federal government doesn’t even regulate. There’s a very high degree of apathy, but when people begin to realize they are being exposed, it’s in 99.9% of people in the world. You have it in your blood right now, I have it in my blood right now. The question is, how much? The question that very few people have been able to look into is, how much is too much? What we know about the current PFAS contamination is that they’re really bad. Instead of being measured in parts per thousand, parts per million, or even parts per billion, the regulations for PFAS are as low as six parts per trillion. It’s difficult to comprehend how minute that is. An analogy I’ve heard is: when there’s one drop of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool that renders the whole pool undrinkable. That’s some pretty toxic stuff. In the 50s and 60s, people were disposing of it in tanker trucks, thousands of gallons a day. Sometimes a local dump would take it. [?] turn on the spigot on a truck and just drive along the side of the road. This stuff can pop up anywhere, and it has been. In surface water, it’s pretty easy to identify because you have foam, and it’s a different kind of foam. It’s not that brownish-yellow natural foam, it’s bright white. Frankly, [computer stalls] [inaudible]because they’re PFAS in the Grand River, it doesn’t take much to generate foam. DD: So before we wrap up today, is there anything else that you’d like to add that we haven’t touched on? Or is there anything that you would like to go back to? AJ: Sorry, my internet is absolutely horrible. I used to have these fancy offices downtown and now I’m in the middle of the country in a rundown old town and we have to rely on cell towers that are miles away, [?] the phone companies lobbied….[inaudible]. DD: Uh oh, Aj I think you might have cut out...you’re back! �AJ: Can you hear me now? DD: I can. AJ: [Inaudible]...so now even though these phone lines [?] they won’t connect it. So actually, 100 years ago in 1921 there was better phone service here then there is today. DD: Wow. AJ: Anyhow, did I mention the one drop in an olympic sized swimming pool? Because I don’t remember when the question interjected into my line of thought. So I’m just trying to think where I left off. DD: Yes, you did talk about the one drop in the swimming pool. We had been talking about the concerns you have with PFAS contamination moving forward, and some of that conversation was helping people understand the magnitude of the problem. I don’t know if that helps jog your memory at all. Wait, are you still there? AJ: I mean without hearing what I really said before, I really risk repeating things, and that’s kind of embarrassing. It’s a result of the medications and everything they have me on right now. I don’t know if I could just listen to it and then we could ask that third question in a follow up in a day or two. That way, I could just say, “oh i left out these two or three points” and we could wrap it up that way. Does that sound like something we could do? DD: Yeah, absolutely. I can send you the recording. AJ: Unfortunately, with the recording also I’m usually a little more honest than I should be with the things that I mentioned to you earlier. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0af0527e421f10b2e7ea753910d7c8d7.mp4 0562173539c4fa0dd5b6710833511c89 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/05ede121339cff1f60241d7b11b60fc4.pdf 90de3536df8f5176615f327ba24dee6d PDF Text Text Living with PFAS Interviewee: Lance Climie Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: May 14, 2021 DD: I’m Dani DeVasto, and today, May 14th, I have the pleasure of chatting with Lance Climie. Lance, can you tell me about where you’re from and where you currently live? LC: I currently live in Plainfield Township, in Plainfield Township water system. Northeast set of Deenly, in that area. I have lived probably within 5 miles of that location the majority of my life. My family has been in 4 Mile and Beltline area since the 1870’s. So, long time in the area. DD: And how long have you been in Plainfield Township, specific? LC: Since I was born? DD: Okay, so yeah. LC: I have lived– I have worked away from Plainfield Township, but I’ve always said you got us working– but our primary residence was here, so. DD: Okay, alright. Lance, can you tell me a story about your experience with PFAS or with PFAS in your community? LC: Well, it’s kind of interesting ‘cause our family, we were fruit farmers, and I remember my grandfather talking about Wolverine’s offer to come spread “sludge,” free fertilizer, on your fields. Come to find out, this is how they are disposing a lot of the PFAS residue, was by offering to spread it free as fertilizer on farmer’s fields. They offered it in a sincere manner. A lot of people took them up on that, and my grandfather thought they were quite out of their minds, not knowing what they’re putting into the ground. So, little flashbacks like that, it’s- Or the fact that my father was- is a retired Plainfield Township employee. He was the original Parks Department person there. He’s been deceased, here, about 8 years but– being at the dinner table with him, and he starts just kinda huffing and, you know, upset with people at work because they’re going to let people build houses up on House Street dump. They were going to change the zoning, and a lot of people would go build up there on the ravines and the dump around the dump. Why would you let people do that? So, those are- I guess I got a couple of different recollections of that year. It’s been around a long time, and there’s always been whispers of it, and you’ve seen signs of it. Then you see things like a dump at the old Bell dump on the Beltline, and there were precursors of PFAS that should have been warning signs, but sometimes it costs governments and businesses too much 1 �money to really look at what’s really happening with what might happen, versus what they just got paid for. DD: And with your family’s history with being fruit farmers, were you- did you- did your family take up the offer for the sludge or anything like that? LC: No. As a matter of fact, I remember my grandfather talking to some of the other farmers, and said, “don’t you let them put that stuff on your ground.” Just not– but he did. He was against- I remember he was railing against DDT [Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane] when it first came out, think it was just [?]. He was an advocate of using very little in the way of chemicals, natural fertilizers– Organic farmer before his time, just because it was the common sense way to do it. It was a good environment. He was- So we were definitely connected to the land, andAnd again, long ago, the county tried to take some of the farm to expand the dump that existed on the East Beltline a long time, too. That was a family fight, as well, too, that went through courts before we kept them away from taking the farm. So it was a– Some different stories, I guess. I kind of come at it from a different perspective. More of a family history perspective than- you know, a lot of people moved into Plainfield township and they moved into area, and had they known, they probably would not have done that. But, like I said, something was building for a long time. You know, I want to say that it’s unfortunate, and hopefully we’re able to rectify the situation, but this is a bad deal what’s happening right now, and it’s not going to get better unfortunately. DD: Is your connection with PFAS, then, mostly kinda through your family history and just being in the area for a long time? LC: I’ve also fished the Rogue River in 6 different decades now. So I’m a very– I’m an avid trout fisher and I’ve been involved with trying to limit it for a long time. We put- We are sorta affiliated with an organization that’s put close to 3 million dollars in working the watershed, just in the Rogue River, here, in the last 7 years. So we’ve been very aggressive in working to maintain that river and to improve it, not only for the common sense environmental aspects of it. It’s an economic engine, as well. So having a clean, chemical free trout stream [mumbling] within 10 miles of the major metropolitan area is a rare jewel in itself. DD: What concerns do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? LC: That it’s going to continue to spread, and we have no idea where it’s going to go. We do not have detailed mapping [of] the geomorphology in layers below us. We don’t know where it’s going to end up. All we know is it’s going to keep spreading. We got plumes, now that we have an idea of where they’re coming from, but we don’t really have a specific idea- you know, a specific detail or facts to back any of that up, and the will to drill all those wells in all those locations at all those depths is– it’s an economic obstacle. So I don’t really find a way to address it. We are just trying to remediate the best we can at multiple spots. And the rest is just going 2 �to continue to evolve, and in a way, we don’t know what’s going to happen, nor do we really have the power to stop it at this point. Unfortunately. DD: (chuckles) Yeah. It doesn’t feel really good. LC: Well, but things like this have been occurring at different levels for a long time. That’s- You know, like I said, our family has been fighting ground water pollution since the early 60’s without much success. ButDD: How does that- I was going to say, how does that impact your perspective? [laughs] LC: Well, first off, I think it taught me that an individual does have some power in the world to try to effect change, and it’s our obligation to take that responsibility. I mean, it’s our world. Got generations coming after me and I don’t want it to be a worse place, I want it to be a better place. So, it’s really pretty simple. Make the place better for my kids and their kids and their kids. DD: Yeah. LC: Basic premises. DD: You make it sound simple. [laughs] LC: Well, sometimes it is. The problem is the real world is not simple. It’s not black and white. It’s all shades of gray and it’s a jumbled mess. DD: Well, seems like if you can hold on to that simple truth it might help a little bit. LC: Well, it- Yeah- When I get to hold onto my grandkids it makes it pretty clear. SoDD: Yeah, absolutely. I bet it does. Before we wrap up, is there anything else that you would want to add to that we haven’t touched on today, or anything you would want to go back to expand on. LC: Well, yeah, I’m not going to go into any hindsight at this point, but I think that it’s important for us as a community action group to try to make sure that Wolverine stays on their toes regarding their mediation that was promised at the tannery site, and to properly make sure that the House Street location is secured as best we can at this point, and that doesn’t include planting 10,000 trees on top. DD: You’re not a fan of the current proposal. [laughs] 3 �LC: No, actually. I read science. I understand science and I can read it and understand that- No, the hocus pocus doesn’t work, so– ‘Cause trees, they will actually accelerate movement of materials not slow it down. DD: And aren’t there currently quite a few trees on the site? LC: Yes, it is. Look at it right now. So, [laughter] I listen. You know, we weigh in. We want to do the right thing, so. DD: Yeah. LC: It’s best as it was recorded in the settlement. DD: Yeah. LC: So hold them to it. DD: I hope we can. LC: I do too, I do too. But like I said, it’s been– Over the decades, it’s been pretty inspiring to see the work that’s been done within the Rogue River watershed and in Plainfield Township, regarding the improvement of the river itself. I mean, it’s gone slow, but year by year it getsthe river improves and it’s getting better, and there’s more people getting involved in that work. So there’s definitely hope down the road, too. DD: What are some of the improvements that you’ve seen happening? LC: Well, I can tell you one specifically, actually- there’s two things specifically that our [?] limited chapter worked on– was first taking out the Rogue Creek dam, specifically behind the school there in the east side of town. And second where Reds on the River near used to sit, there was little Blakeslee Creek, and it used to run in when it came the river in 2011 and 2012. With all of the developments that were up above it and all the higher elevations, it would be solid mud coming down. And it took us a few years ,but there were 3 small cofferdams that we got taken out and we actually regraded it and actually reseeded it and got a lot of irrigationexcuse me, the erosion takes care of. So it’s no longer a huge mud source in the river. Again, the- what came from the tannery not going into the rivers is a blessing, and what used to come from the papermill in Childsdale not being in the rivers is a blessing as well, so it’s- those are a couple of the major things but it’s get- you know, and it’s individual property owner, you know? Somebody lives on the river and makes sure they got a setback of 20 feet from the river and not mowing all the way to the river. Simple things like that, not using the types- use a chemical that’s natural- use something that’s going to be beneficial to the river, not derogatory. Some– a lot of what people put on their lawns, it all ends up in the watershed. So it’s important for us as individuals to look at what we are doing to our lawns. I mean, you know what? And a 4 �few weeds are okay. You know, it’s not going to– and as a matter of fact a few dandelions are good for the bees really here. DD: Yeah. LC: So, there’s again, from a farming aspect, you can’t- to me, my yard is sterile. It’s a monoculture. It’s negative, it’s contrary to what nature wants to do and it’s artificially manufactured through the use of chemicals in most cases. So, I mean golf courses. Golf courses are highly manicured fields of weeds done in specific manners with specific chemicals. So. DD: Yeah. LC: But I think there’s still hope, let’s just- I would like to say the chemicals are not going to continue to spread but I think we are going to continue to discover that it continues to go wider and wider and hopefully the- we can impact the [?], at least, by knowing about it, we can hopefully prevent some people from tapping into that as they have not done, and past people weren’t so lucky to know what was there. But now at least we know it’s there and can make sure they’re not going to be pulling the drinking water from the groundwater there so that’s an improvement as well. DD: Yeah absolutely. Well, thank you so much Lance for taking the time to shareLC: Thanks. DD: your story todayLC: Good luck with the project. I think I’m- I know I’m [?] the archives in the school because I used to write for the [?] back in the day. DD: OhLC: I’m on record in there someplace. So. DD: Oh that’s great [laughs] LC: But thanks a lot. 5 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PFAS0005 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Climie, Lance Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-05-14 Title A name given to the resource Lance Climie, 2021 (Interview video and transcript) Description An account of the resource Lance Climie has lived in Plainfield Township, near Deenly, Michigan for nearly all his life. In his interview, he discusses his family history as fruit farmers and how Wolverien offered to spread free fertilizer, or "sludge" on the fields. Only recenlty have people realized that this sludge contained PFAS residue. Climie shares other stories about his grandfather and other farmers' knowledge of other chemical contaminants in the environment, as well as his own perspective from fishing on the Rogue River. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource DeVasto, Danielle (interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f29a6dabf7ffab00479f5fc16c092b77.mp4 1aa6c9f4a8ebd77fda93f9d4dbb78168 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f1ae26b275d2c03816ed5cfb45994e8e.pdf 423ccd662dd077b5e5d44ffd0431d6a7 PDF Text Text Living with PFAS Interviewee: Jonathan Miner Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: Apr 13, 2021 DD: I’m Dani DeVasto, and today, Apr 13, 2021I have the pleasure of chatting with Jonathan Miner. Jonathan, can you tell me about where you are from and where you currently live? JM: Wow, that’s a long story, I’m old now. DD: [laughs] JM: I’m a Hoosier by birth, but I grew up on the East Coast, in Maryland. I went to the University of Maryland and got a degree in landfill engineering. But my wife is from Missouri, so back in 1991 we decided to split the difference and move to the midwest. DD: [laughs] JM: I took a job with a local company, and I moved from Baltimore, Maryland out to Rockford, Michigan - a suburb, just north of Grand Rapids in 1991. DD: Alright, so, you’ve been in Rockford for - wowJM: 30 years this year. DD: Ah, wow, must not be too bad. JM: No, it's a really great place. It’s a really great place to live. DD: So, can you tell me a story about your experience with PFAS or with PFAS in your community? JM: Yeah, my family, like I said, moved here in 1991, and we’ve- my boss at the time suggested Rockford as a great place to raise your family, because it's like Mayberry, you know, the crime rate here is an overdue book at the library DD: [laughs] JM: And my kids actually walked to kindergarten. 1 �DD: Wow. JM: We had moved here from Baltimore where, you know, you don’t let your kids out of your sight. Kids used to show up on milk cartons. Here [pause] it was just like shaded trees; it was just like Mayberry. We moved here with my two young daughters and they started school here and raised our family. At the time, we lived right in downtown Rockford in an old house and all of our municipal water was drawn from the Rogue River, which runs right through town DD: Mmhmm. JM: - Rockford was founded on a - alongside the river with a sawmill that was powered by the river. And factories were powered by the river, so we’re a river city. Our water sources were pulled from the river and treated at the water treatment plant right alongside the river. And it was downstream, important word, downstream, from the tannery. So, probably more than a hundred years ago, Wolverine Worldwide shoe company was started in Rockford. They’re most famous for making hush puppy shoes. But they also own a lot of other brands: Caterpillar, Harley Davidson, some other shoe brands they make, but they are still headquartered in Rockford, Michigan. They’re our biggest employer. They’ve been really good for the community in terms of prosperity. But they ran a tannery that was right along the river, and back in those days people just [pause] amazingly dumped things in the river, and buried things. So when we moved here our city water was drawn from the river and treated at the plant. We became good friends with the guy who ran the plant. He was a good guy, and he worked diligently to make the water safe to drink. But no one knew about PFAS back then. No one had the means for testing for it, or eliminating it from the water. So he was proudly treating the water. In fact, he used to bottle it and sell it at farmer’s markets and festivals in town. “Hey, here- for a dollar buy a bottle of our great city water.” DD: [slight disagreeing noise] JM: We all drank it, and one of my daughters, my oldest daughter, was sort of a fitness or health - shes a little mature for her age - but she was very conscious of drinking water and not soft drinks or juices with a lot of sugar, so she drank water all the time. DD: Wow. JM: And we thought, wow she's being very healthy, and encouraged her to drink water. So all of us in town were drinking water that probably has, had, PFAS in it. We don’t know. No water samples survived. I’ll talk about it a little later but, our bodies probably don’t have the PFAS in it anymore. So, my personal interest in it was wondering what effect that had on my family’s 2 �health. What long term effects, if any, will PFAS have on my family? Living right downtown, we, you know, we’re near the tannery. We used to live South and a little East of the tannery. About 5 blocks. And on a summer day when the tannery was working, and our windows were open, you could smell the tannery. DD: Yeah. JM: So you kind of just always had this eerie feeling that your environment wasn’t the healthiest. The smell of the tannery and knowing where the water came from, but nevertheless, that's what we had, that’s what my family grew up with. [pause] So, then about 1999-2000, the city changed its water source from drawing from the Rogue River to wells, deep wells, drilled outside of the city limits; south east of the city. I’m not sure why they changed. I don’t know if it was a capacity issue or not but, coincidentally, and some people are suspicious of the coincidence, about that time, Wolverine Worldwide, maker of Hush Puppies, was notified by 3M that Scotchgard, one of the ingredients they used to waterproof shoes, contained PFAS. They were learning that PFAS was potentially dangerous and pervasive. They told Wolverine that they were going to change the formula and encouraged Wolverine to stop using it or whatever, butDD: Mhm. JM: To some people it's curious that that’s about the time our water source changed and some people think that the city was told to do that or suggested that Wolverine - I don’t know if it's a true story. About that time the water source was changed to deep wells instead of the city and I feel better about that. DD:[laughs] JM: [laughs] And then around 2010, the tannery was demolished. You know, they slowly stopped doing any tanning in the U.S. It’s labor intensive and environmentally not easy to do, so they shut down and demolished the tannery in about 2010. Now we have a big green field of grass along the river where the tannery used to be. So, that’s the story on the city water. I’ve never had well water, unlike many members of our CAG, Community Advisory Group, that I’ll talk about a little bit later. So all of my personal exposure would have been from the city water for a decade that my family drank. Now, a few years ago, my wife and I were out gardening in our yard and we stuck a shovel in the ground and found some shoe leatherDD: Ah. JM: - in our yard, so she was concerned that maybe some dumping had occurred in our yard. But we had some people come out and do some test digs and they didn’t find any other shoe 3 �leather. We’re pretty sure it was just stray trash. But, you know, if you find something like that in your yard, it's like, “oh no, are we going to find barrels of PFAS in our yard?” But, no, we didn’t. So, my concern for my family is the ingestion and I’ve talked to people from the Michigan Department of Health, and the Health Department is now just beginning studies of PFAS and health effects. They’re recruiting volunteers to give blood samples. They want people that have a fresh dosage of PFAS - who have currently or are recently drinking contaminated well water. Because, PFAS, apparently even though it's a forever chemical, it does leave the body after a number of years. So if you tested my blood or my daughter’s blood, you probably wouldn’t find PFAS in there. Becauses of that, the Health Department can’t really correlate the PFAS level in my blood to my health outcomes. DD: Mhm. JM: That is the plan for the health study. They’re going to test the blood PFAS levels of a lot of people and see, correlate that with cancer, or liver disease, or other kinds of health issues. That health study is just beginning now. DD: And that’s the MiPEHS study, right? JM: Yeah, there’s two studies and I’m not sure the difference between them right off hand, MiPEHS is one of them. JM: Another part of my personal story with PFAS is that I am on the Rockford Planning Commission. As a planning commissioner I am concerned about - concerned - that’s the wrong word, interested in future land use of primarily the tannery property. Wolverine has a couple other facilities in town like an old shoe sole factory that's actually right in my backyard. I can see it from here. DD: [chuckles] JM: Right, which they’ll probably be vacating eventually, so mainly, that the big tanning tannery property is a big grassy field right downtown along the river. So, I’m interested in what that’s gonna become. Is it gonna be donated to the city for an amphitheater? Will Wolverine put up an office building there? Will it become residential? All of that will affect the city. All of that requires different levels of remediation to get approval. So as a planning commissioner, I’m interested in the land planning aspects of that property, and what the best use is for the city and to make sure the planning gets done properly. So, given those concerns, when the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, formed the CAG [Community Advisory Group] back in 2019, I applied to be on it and luckily I was chosen. There’s about 20 members on the CAG. The purpose of the CAG is to communicate with the parties involved with the clean up of Wolverine 4 �waste. That includes several sites around Rockford. I don’t know how much of this you need to hear, but there’s a dumpDD: As much as you wanna tell me. JM: [laughs]There’s two big spots. There’s a dump on House Street, North West of Rockford that Wolverine, back in the sixties, used to dump sludge- industrial sludge that contained PFAS. They buried barrels, and dumped raw sludge into this dump site. Back then, it was the thing you did. It was an approved site and they were driving trucks out there and dumping it. In fact, sometimes farmers would pay them to dump this stuff on their farm fields, because it was a fertilizer. I don’t know how the crops grew. You know, that was back in the day when you didn’t have filters on cigarettes and seatbelts in cars. You were living dangerously. DD: [chuckles] JM: Uh, [chuckles] so, that’s one site, the House Street dump site, the other big site is the tannery - the other hot spot. So the purpose of the CAG is to meet with the EPA and EGLE, E-GL-E, which stands for Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, Energy, used to be the Michigan department of Environmental Quality, so we meet monthly with EPA and EGLE and stay up to date on what's going on on the clean up. What is Wolverine doing and their hired contractors and what are the requirements, what do the test results show? We get into the nitty gritty of PFAS levels in the river, in the plume, where it's tracking - all of that stuff. And then we turn around and face the community and tell them what we know. JM: So we’re the communication conduit between the community and those involved in the clean up. I think it's been great. We have about 20 members; they’re varied in experience. I’m a retired engineer. We have a professor from your college, in chemistry, who’s an expert in this area. We have a lot of people who have had some serious exposure issues. One of our members, I believe, has the highest PFAS concentration in her blood of anybody in the world that’s been tested so far. She has some tragic personal family health history that you’ll probably talk to her about. We have a young mother whose 5 or 7 year old son has been drinking contaminated well water, highly contaminated, well water since he was born, so my exposure is nothing compared to that of some of the other members. Anyway, the CAG has been very good. I'm thankful for the EPA for forming it. The EPA and EGLE, both, they’re representatives have been wonderful. They’ve been honest with us and very informative, they’ve been great. JM: Unfortunately, Wolverine has not joined the CAG. There are some lawsuits flying around and these days when a company gets accused of something, the first reaction is to lawyer up and huddle and plant down, and they’ve kind of done that, not surprisingly. They do attend the 5 �meetings. We see their little Zoom picture now that they’re there, they’re listening. It would be great if they could contribute and talk to us, but I understand why they won’t - can’t. DD: Yeah. JM: Uh, Let’s see. [pause] Alright, uh yeah that’s my story. My feelings about Wolverine are mixed. They’ve been great for Rockford. They’ve made our town prosper. We have a nice little town here in large part due to their employment of our residents and investment in our town. I don’t know what they knew, when they knew it and what they did with that knowledge. Some people think, “uh oh they’re liars and cheats. They knew about it and hid the truth.” Others think they were just doing what people did back then. You bury your waste. In their defense, they were buying this product from 3M, this Scotchgard stuff. That turns out, it had an ingredient that’s harmful and lasts forever - or a long time. I don’t blame Wolverine for what’s in Scotchgard. That’s more 3M’s problem. They should never have made a forever chemical. I don’t know what we were thinking. [chuckles ]. DD: Yeah. JM: I don’t want to get on my high horse too much, but you know. Humans are the plague of this planet. We just produce all of this stuff. We’re driven to consume. We’re consuming the planet. Make plastics and forever chemicals and just spew them around. Whoever invented landfills, you know, what were you thinking? “Let’s bury our trash,” oh, what are we going to do next week, bury more? Look at the trajectory. Where does this end? The plague of the planet. DD: Yeah, we’ve definitely done some not so great things. DD: So, you’ve kind of maybe started to touch on my second question a little bit, but what concerns do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? JM: Well, you know, Michigan is sort of one of the hotspots of PFAS. That's not that I don’t believe that we have more, we have just been investigating more. I think it's going to be a nationwide and worldwide big problem. We don’t yet - I don't think - know what the true health impacts are - you know, if you drink a cup of PFAS, are you going to get cancer a month later? We don’t really have it tied down that well yet, but I suspect it's not healthy. We’re going to find more and more problems with that. I think we’re going to find more and more places in our country where there’s big contamination issues and drinking water issues. We had - in southern Michigan - a city shut down its municipal water because PFAS exceeded the limits for drinking water. We're going to have more of that in the country. So one of my concerns is just widespread problems with it. 6 �JM: Another concern is, I think 3M - this might need to be verified - but I think 3M’s answer is to make a shorter chain molecule instead of an eight carbon, make it six, or instead of six, make it four. A shorter chain molecule version of Scotchgard. Who says that’s safe? Maybe it's safer. Who- how do we know? So a concern of mine is the companies who are making these chemicals that are in everything we buy and touch and sit on and drink, have made it impossible, it seems, to test the long term effects of those in a short term development cycle. I’m concerned that we just as humans continue to poison ourselves. To foul our own nest. I almost wish we could go back to you know wooden plates and [chuckles] and growing our own food and [chuckles] not driving cars. DD: Then you’d be stuck back in Baltimore. [laughs]. JM: Yeah. [both laugh] JM: I’d probably be dead. I had a hip replacement recently and some other surgery, so from that standpoint, I’m glad to be alive this time. DD: Well, I’m glad you’re here, too. Before we wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to add that we either haven’t touched on today, or anything you’d like to go back to? JM: I don’t think so. I’m glad I live in Rockford still. I feel like, overall, it was a good choice for my family. We’ve been well here. I wish we hadn’t been drinking that municipal water that probably had PFAS and other things in it. But, that’s the way it was. I’m hopeful that, you know - my personal trait is that I like things to get resolved. I don’t like conflict; I don’t like hard feelings. My downfall sometimes is I try to make everybody like everybody else. I would love for some day Wolverine and the community could heal, and Wolverine could once again be a proud employer and all that stuff, but that may never happen. DD: But wouldn’t it be beautiful if it did, some sort of reconciliation? DD: Well, thank you, Jonathan, for taking the time to share your story today. JM: You’re welcome. I enjoyed it. Thank you. 7 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4261c43fc4cfdde943fc51c943939c6a.mp4 65a14a1e93a25d1c195b7c0c092a61e9 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/47edc50b31794ea1ab13157e2c5fb60e.pdf 70f9c411d28a0297f683dfe8ffec5901 PDF Text Text Living with PFAS Interviewee: Elaine Isley Interviewer: Prof DeVasto Date: April 9, 2021 DD: So, I’m Dani DeVasto, and today, April 9th, 2021, I have the pleasure of chatting with Elaine Isley. Uh, thank you for being here today, Elaine. EI: Sure. DD: Can you tell me about where you’re from, um, and/or where you currently live? EI: Uh, sure. Those are two different questions for me. Um. I– I’ve been in Grand Rapids for 20-plus years, but I still kind of, where I’m from. I grew up in the Washington DC area. So I’ve– I’ve, I’m not a Michigan native. Uh, I moved here to go to professional school, and I just stayed. Uh, particularly, once I moved to West Michigan. Um, I currently live in Grand Rapids Township with my family. DD: And you said you’ve been in Grand Rapids Township for the last 25 years or so? EI: I’ve been in Grand Rapids metro area for about 25 years. I’ve only been in the township for a year. DD: Okay. EI: We moved– we moved right before the pandemic started. DD: Oh my. [chuckle] EI: Yeah. [chuckle] DD: At least you were settled before the pandemic started. I can’t imagine– EI: We have a little more space in this house than we did in the last one, and we’ve been really thankful for that. DD: I bet– I bet. So, Elaine, can you tell me a story about your experience with PFAS, or with PFAS in your community? EI: Uh, sure. So, uh, the first– the personal story, which is not super exciting, uh, when we moved here uh, so Grand Rapids Township abuts Plainfield Township, and I am on the upper border. Um. I live on 4 Mile, and 4 Mile is the dividing line between Plainfield Township and Grand Rapids Township, so when we were looking at purchasing this house, the first thing we did was look for, um, PFAS drainage in the ground water and because of my work. Uh. We had 1 �a general idea of where it was, but um, that was a consideration for us when we were moving. And there is a super-fund site not far from here, so there actually were a lot of wells and there had been a lot of tests. So, we were able to find definitively that we are not in a PFAS groundwater plume. So, uh, that’s– that’s where the– the personal impact came from. It– it was certainly a consideration for me, um, in moving a little bit closer to the affected area. Um. But I am the Director of Water Programs at the West Michigan Environmental Action Council, and we have been working with the citizens group in Rockford for almost 10 years. Um. It was the– one of the first meetings that I went to when I joined WMEAC in 2012. We went to, uh, Rockford City Hall and we met with, uh, Wolverine Worldwide’s council and some representatives from the city. Now this was before PFAS had actually been identified on the site, um, and we were, uh, what was happening was the downtown tannery that, um, Wolverine had in Rockford had been torn down years before. But a small citizen’s group had raised some concerns about what had happened to those materials. How had they been removed from the site? Was permitting appropriate? Is there still a danger? And unfortunately, because Rockford is so entrenched as a company town, they– the citizens’ group kind of got a raw deal. Um. The city did not take them seriously. The local newspaper sort of painted them out as-as, just wild and crazy people. And-and so they– it became really contentious for these individuals personally. And so our organization got involved to make sure that they had a seat at the table. Um. On their own, they compiled a pretty large dossier, and they sent it to the US Environmental Protection Agency, ‘because they weren’t getting a lot of cooperation even from, um, then it was the Department of Environmental Quality, um, now it’s the Department of um, Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. So, if I go between DEQ and EAGLE, that’s why. Um. But the EPA came back and said, “Look, there’s a lot here. You should be looking at this.” So then-then the DEQ got involved, and things started to move a little bit. But there was still a lot of tension between this local citizens’ group and Wolverine and the city, and so we’ve remained involved and we’ve sort of helped them kind of work through how to raise these issues. Um. [sigh]. They didn’t need a lot of guidance. This group is very dedicated. Uh. I don’t-I don’t wanna name names because that’s not really my place, but they were affected or they had neighbors who were affected. They were worried about the air quality. There was a lot of concern– they were worried about what was getting into Rum Creek which flows right into the Rogue River, um, which ultimately flows into the Grand River and out to Lake Michigan. So this is a very interconnected system. Uh. It was a regional water quality issue. And it was during that time frame that we had, uh, started working with Dr. Rick Rediske. He is an environmental chemist at uh, Grand Valley State University at the Annis Water Resources Institute. I– he was actually one of my graduate advisors. And so I knew he had a background working with tannery contamination. He had done some work in White Lake up in Muskegon County, and there had been a tannery on the lake that had contributed to some of that pollution. There were other issues on White Lake. White Lake, um, was, uh, an area of concern, a designated area of concern in the Great Lakes, but they have been delisted. So I knew that he had that background for the tannery waste, and so they- we were finding documentation and- and sampling, um, data that showed contamination of ammonia and, um, hexavalent chromium, and there were some bad things there. Um. At some point, and I don’t recall exactly when, Rick started talking to us about PFAS, and none of us really knew what that was. To this day, I’m not sure I can give you the long chemical name of it [laughter]. [intermittent beeping] 2 �EI: So, it’s PFAS. PFAS and PFOS, PFOA. DD: [laughs] EI: It’s -it’s this horrible family of chemicals, and they’re forever chemicals. They-they can affect people in a number of different ways. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of data on it. Or there wasn’t at the time. But, um, Rick was- Rick was positive that we would find it in- on this site. One of its primary applications was Scotchgard. DD: Mhm. EI: And we know that Wolverine Worldwide used Scotchgard. I mean, Hushpuppies shoes. I mean, we just knew that it would be there. And, um, I think it was 2017 when we were able to get documentation. And when I say “we,” that’s the global “we.” It was really the citizens’ group. So, [laughter], um, of which Rick was a part– he became very invested in this project. And um, that sort of broke the whole thing wide open. And all of a sudden people started coming out of the woodwork, like “what is this stuff?” Uh, and then the House Street dumpsite was identified, and the woven jewel. [stutters]. It became very clear that this was a much bigger issue. And while my organization– which we go by our acronym, so WEMEAC, which is a little easier to say, um, we remained involved with the citizens group and we had a policy of-uh, on our books that we would support the citizens group and we would make this more public. We hadn’t really done a big push on that. All of a sudden with these concerns about PFAS and then it blowing up and it's coming from other parts of the state, people are seeing this as a bigger issue, we started getting a lot of questions. Um. There were people who, well-educated people, who could not find any information about what this body of chemicals was, what– where this plume was, was it affecting them? How concerned did they need to be? And it just became really clear that we would have to be much more present about, uh, getting information out there. And so, we started putting some information on our websites and Frequently Asked Questions. When uh, Rick started really pushing this issue of having a citizens group involved, um, with the cleanup because of his work in White Lake– there had been a citizens group that was sort of the liaison between the cleanup site and the local citizens, and he wanted something then put into place there. The one in White Lake, because it was an area of concern, there was a pot of money that was able to fund that. Um. We weren’t a designated area of concern. We’re still not a designated contaminant site, but right now the EPA is helping fund um, the community advisory group, or the CAG, um, through superfund. It’s not a designated superfund site and will not have um, indefinite funding. I think we have a few more months from the EPA, but the EPA helps set up the group. Um. And so we have been able to be a much better link for that information between what’s happening at the you know, at EAGLE, at EPA, at Wolverine, and the local citizens group. So that’s– so that’s really my PFAS story, is trying to elevate the issue uh, in a way that gives people the information and resources. Um, because communication has been sort of the big push there, I- I’ve taken– I’ve joined the CAG, I’m an official member, and I sort of, by default, have become the chair of the communications team. And so uh, we’re transitioning a few things, but right now I’m making sure that things are posted on the website and on our social media and we’re working with some other volunteers in the group who are trying to get um, a little bit more of a voice in the local Rockford Squire newspaper. So um, so 3 �yeah, it’s– my-my story is a bit more from the professional side of it. Uh, but it’s important because it– the people who are affected or the people who are potentially affected need more information. They need to know about the health studies that are going on. They need to know about what is happening on the cleanup. Um. They need to know what PFAS is to the extent that we’re finding out and what that effect would be for them. DD: Mhm. Is your sense that the, um, communication or the information available for people now is better? Is improved? That what is was- when you first- when people first started asking and looking for this information? EI: To some extent, yes. There are a lot more sources of information, uh, because of Rick’s work. Uh, Grand Valley State University has a lot of information. Um. The Annis Water Resources Institute has been putting up more information about that. The state has been doing a better job. They’ve created MPART, which is the PFAS uh, response team. And so there’s more information out there for people to find, but it’s still hard for people to find it. Um. I mean, that’s one of the things that my organization does. Uh. We are an action council, an environmental action council, and what that really means is we teach people how they can take action. And our organization does that in a number of different ways. Sometimes it's individual action, sometimes it’s municipal action. I mean– but in this case it’s really trying to empower people to find that information on their own. Um. Since PFAS is so complicated, we’re trying to pull as much of it together so that um, there’s a better sense of it. But I’m still- I’m finding that it’s not that easy to get information. When you listen to the– in some of our monthly meetings, you know, people will, you know, “well, where’s that information?” How do- you know, “how does my attorney find that information?” Because there’s a lawsuit now, um, against Wolverine. We’re not super engaged with that but a lot of the people who are engaged with us are engaged with that. And so there does still seem to be difficulty in finding the information, and I don’t-I don’t know– this isn’t meant to be an accusation but I don’t know if it’s because, you know, the industry is trying to be so secretive about what’s in these chemicals. You know, that’s often an issue. It’s a- It’s called “proprietary.” Um. Or if it’s just because it hasn’t been studied as widely, until recently. [stutters]. Or if it’s just because it’s one of those technical issues, that people just don’t quite know how to find– DD: Mhm. EI: – the studies or the information out there. DD: Mhm. So, that kind of might lead into the next question a little bit. Um. My- my last question for you is what concerns do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? And if you have a totally different answer, that’s fine, too. EI: [laughter] Um. [clears throat], My– [clears throat] Excuse me. I-I- my biggest concerns about PFAS moving forward are– that’s really interesting. When we spoke with uh, Representative Peter Meijer this week, we talked a little bit about this. And one of the things that he had raised, which I thought he articulated very well, was the concern about the prevalence of the contamination. We’re seeing higher rates of-of PFAS in Michigan because Michigan’s looking for it. 4 �DD: Mhm. EI: When and if other states start looking for PFAS contamination, they’re going to find it because it’s in so many different materials. Um. We’ve been utilizing it for so long, and really just unbeknownst how– what the big problems were. Um. Or at least, unbeknownst to many of us. And Representative Meijer’s comment was when that happens, his concern is that there’s going to be this shift of “oh, well we need to take care of ‘the PFAS problem,’’’ which, at that point is gonna be somewhat global, as opposed to a site like this Wolverine tannery site where there’s an actual hardcore contamination site and people are– have extreme levels in their systems. Um, I- I forget what the numbers were– and there’s still debate about what’s a safe level in a human body, but 70 parts per billion was- was one of them. And there are people who have like twenty thousand parts per billion. I mean, it’s just– there are people who are going to have much more severe impacts than others. And if, when we start realizing how big this problem is, will we be able to really truly help the people who need it most, um, and soonest? So that’s a concern. Um. That’s a big policy issue, though. That’s not something that an individual’s gonna be able to tackle. That’s not something that even my organization will be able to do. We can advocate for that, but, it’s- I mean, that’s going to take a lot of effort and a long term solution. Um. The other things that really concern me is just making sure that the people understand and how I–you know, I wasn’t around when people were really starting to understand the impacts of DET, uh, and what that did to animals and ultimately who that affected us, so I don’t- I don’t have a memory of what– how we responded to that. But now, 50 years later, we’re seeing another legacy problem like that, and how long is it going to take before we really can do something about it? Um. You know, life is politics. It- there’s always a give and take. And you hope, you hope that when somebody raises the alarm, that people listen. But they’re– there’s just so many different obstacles and challenges when it comes to- to these complex scientific, um, issues, even when they can be disastrous for individuals. DD: Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Before we wrap up, is there anything else that you would like to add that we haven’t touched on today? Or anything you’d like to go back to? EI: Um, I- I guess, from my perspective, this is one of– I mean, my background is in water quality. So I- I feel really comfortable talking about things that create problems in the water. But I don’t feel comfortable about talking this– to this with people because it is so complicated and complex. And I feel like I could go back and get my whole– a PhD in this, and still not feel like I have a grasp and- and do this. But I do understand why this is a hard topic for people to find information on. Um. It’s- it’s- it’s intimidating, and so I– It’s- even for me as a professional, it’s like “ooh.” Yeah, I wanna know enough to be able to talk to people about it. But I don’t want to do what Rick does. DD: Mhm. EI: Rick is the one who helps lead our technical committee in really delving into some of the technical aspects of the remediation plans and “will,” you know, “this method of cleanup really tackles these things?” And I really appreciate having experts who can help us work through those things. Um. So when I’m- when I’m saying that I’m concerned about how people learn about 5 �this topic, I mean, there’s a lot packed into that. It- I mean, doing this oral history project is going to be really interesting, because there will be a lot of people who have some personal stories about how that’s impacted them. Um. But I think it’s really something that’s impacting more of us than we realize, and we just all don’t necessarily have the story because it’s- it’s a frightening topic. It’s a complicated topic, and people sometimes don’t want to know, they don’t wanna spend that time, because unless they’re having something that they see as an immediate impact, they’re not as concerned. DD: Mhm. EI: So, so yeah. This is- This is not a small, small issue. DD: No. it’s really complex like you’re saying. And I think made even more complex by the fact that we’re– it’s still evolving and we’re still, you know, we’re still learning new things and uncovering this and figuring out how it works, which makes it, you know– even if we knew all the things it would be hard to talk about it. EI: Yeah. DD: But we don’t know all the things. [laughter] So. EI: And it’s not that it– the information is some place. DD: Mhm EI: I mean, DuPont’s been manufacturing these chemicals for decades. It’s not a brand new thing. It’s just the awareness is brand new. Relatively. DD: Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you so much, Elaine, for taking the time to share your story and perspective today. EI: No problem. Thanks for having me. 6 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf audio/mp3 Type The nature or genre of the resource Motion Picture Text Sound Language A language of the resource eng Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PFAS0003 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Isely, Elaine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-04-08 Title A name given to the resource Elaine Isely, 2021 (Interview video and transcript) Description An account of the resource Elaine Isely is the Director of Water Programs at the West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC). She grew up in the Washington, D.C. area, but has been a resident of Grand Rapids for more than 20 years. In her interview she discusses community activism related to water contamination in the Rockford, Michigan area and the leadership of Dr. Rick Rediske, an environmental chemist at Grand Valley State University. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource DeVasto, Danielle (interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4d9966a4576d113ffc2a55c2bf4545af.mp4 44859c354bcb41a7cc13cf6b54a2981c https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dd0156da8b10354852624702ed938c7b.pdf 10b894a10568ba20daee703f66ab4704 PDF Text Text Living With PFAS Interviewee: Sandy Wynn-Stelts Interviewer: Dani Devasto Date: April 8, 2021 DD: Alright so I am recording now. I am Dani Devasto and today April 8 th, 2021, I had the pleasure of chatting with Sandy Wynn-Stelt. Sandy, can you tell me about where you are from and where you currently live? SWS: I’m originally from the Kalamazoo area, I grew up in Parchment, but right now I live in Belmont, Michigan. DD: And how long have you lived there? SWS: I moved here to Belmont in 1991—1992 I think with my husband Joel. DD: So you are a long-time resident? SWS: I am a longtime resident, yes. DD: So, Sandy, can you tell me a story about your experience with PFAS [Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] or with PFAS in your community? SWS: Sure. So, Joel and I moved to our home in 92’. We’d gotten married in 1991 after dating for 4 years or so. We both loved being outside, we both loved nature and bird watching, and so we found our home in Belmont and it was perfect because it was right across the street from a 100 acre Christmas tree farm. It was — there’s actually Christmas trees to the south of us and so we had kind of this beautiful house in the middle of the woods and we loved it. We lived really boring dull [chuckles] obnoxious lives, really it was so boring. But we were best friends, so it worked out pretty good. Then, in 2016, Joel became ill, and we thought he was having problems with his - with a hernia and he went in for a surgery for that and it turned out that he had stage 4 liver cancer and he died like 3 weeks after that. It was the following year that EGLE had come to my home, which is our Department of Energy, Great Lakes and Environment, to ask if they could test my water for PFAS and I will be honest, I had never heard of PFAS before that. I wasn’t even saying it right for probably the first 4 months. But they tested my water, and my water came back at 21,000 parts per trillion, and again if you don’t know anything about PFAS you hear these numbers and don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. And it turned out to be a really bad thing, it was pretty high. So that’s how I became involved with this. Turned out that the Christmas tree farm we had fallen in love with was actually a former dumpsite for Wolverine Worldwide which is the manufacturer of Hushpuppy shoes and a lot of other shoes. They had used Scotchgard on all of their products, but had to dump all that tannery waste, so they had dumped it [electronic notification] in the 90 acres or 87 acres across the street 1 �from us for years and years and years in big trenches. When the trenches would start overflowing with the waste, they would punch through the clay lining and let it all drain into the aquifer. That water table then, obviously, traveled to my well, but it also travelled to like the 25 square miles of my community and contaminated all of our water. So, that was how my PFAS journey started. DD: Do you want to say anything about, you mentioned that then you got involved, do you want to say anything about that? SWS: Yes; I got involved because I happened to be the person that lives across the street, and [chuckles] so that, that was a deadlock. I think it also happened that, you know, they tested the first time and it was like 24,000 or whatever. They thought it was an error because it was so high, so when they tested the second time it was like 38,000. They tested again after that, and it was like 80,000 parts per trillion. I eventually got my blood tested and my blood came back at like 5 million parts per trillion, that’s some of the highest that you can find out there. So naturally, the press started coming by and wanting to talk about this because it became a pretty big issue here in Northern Kent County. You know, Wolverine’s is a - had been a really good company in this area and was really valued, but now they’ve contaminated a big part of it, so that becomes a pretty important story to read. And they became very reluctant to take responsibility for this. So, I started by just doing a few news interviews, and one day I was watching television and saw our Senator on TV, Senator Gary Peters talked about doing a hearing in Washington on PFAS. And I thought, and it was open to the public, I remember hearing that, and I said to my two cats: ” well I’m the public, maybe I should go?” [chuckle] - I know a thing or two about PFAS, and low and behold, I did. Eventually it just kind of snowballed from there. So, I went to Washington, and I met with both of our State Senators. I met with our local representative because I thought this is what governments are supposed to do; they’re supposed to step in and make sure this stuff doesn’t happen. So DD: Who was the - who was the local representative at that time? SWS: So, I met with Senator Peters and Senator Stabenow, and Justin Amash was our representative. So, I met with him as well. DD: Did you know that you were going to be such an activist [chuckles] in your earlier life? SWS: No! In fact, I still laugh when people say I'm an activist because I am not active. If you knew me you’d know [chuckles] I’m not — I’m busy, I’m just not really active. You know, it kind of gradually starts creeping into your life and I think what happened was I did that stuff and realized that people really sat down and listened to us. Senators Peters and Stabenow and Representative Amash made time out of their day to meet with us and that was really important to me because it made me realize that they do listen. I mean, when Senator Peters led the senate hearing that day, he talked about that he had just met us the hour before and he talked about it. At that point I realized that you really can make a kind of a difference if you just take a step towards that. DD: What concerns do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? 2 �SWS: Where to start? Obviously, this is a forever chemical so it’s not going away; it’s not breaking down; it’s not evaporating; it’s not doing any of that. I think every week I hear more and more examples of how ubiquitous this is. I was just, in fact, meeting with someone from EGLE that had come over and we were talking about PFAS contamination near airports, and that every airport in the country has PFAS contamination. So if you have people on private wells that live near airports, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re drinking contaminated water. Every military base, I’ve met people that are dairy farmers that live near military bases, that the cows have drunk PFAS contaminated water, and their milk is now contaminated. We don't test milk for PFAS, in part because we don’t want to know that. So it’s like an onion, the more you start peeling away, the more you realize that this is a problem. This is a slow-rolling pandemic of environmental consequences that we are going to have to deal with quickly to figure it out. DD: Wow, that’s so discouraging. [chuckles] SWS: [chuckles] Now you’ll sleep badly, right? [chuckles] DD: I mean, I’ve been thinking about it for a while probably not quite as long as you but, yeah, you know you hear about it everywhere and— SWS: Yeah, yeah it’s insane that we have done this to ourselves. It’s kind of crazy when you figure out that companies, Chemours is still in North Carolina making these products. That, you know, 3M and those are still making these products. They've tweaked them a little, but they’re still out there and they’re still being disposed of somewhere. So that’s what I worry about. I worry about how much we are all ingesting it, but I also worry that we don’t know what this does to people. Not just to me, right now, today, but what is this going to do for future generations? because I suspect we are going to find that this has got a genetic and ongoing legacy of issues that we haven’t even thought of. DD: Yeah, I’m really looking forward to hearing more from the MiPEHS study [Michigan PFAS Exposure and Health study] and other studies. You know, hopefully other studies that will be like that will get some of that longitudinal data. SWS: Yeah, yeah. DD: So, before we wrap up, is there anything else you would like to add that either we haven’t touched on or that you would want to go back to that you’d like to add more about? SWS: I’ve just been rambling on. I can't think of anything else I could say. I mean I could tell you recipes or jokes but that’d be kind of boring. [chuckles] No, I can’t think of anything else. That’s kind of my story in a nutshell. DD: Alright. Well, thank you so much, Sandy, for taking the time to share your story today. SWS: No problem. DD: I’m going to stop the recording. 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource DeVasto, Danielle (interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/55e3ff0945bfbdc56da4eadf5f332208.mp4 2d1607b97f864a89c5f4619ebed1c446 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b3db2e4edf4d48145bb5f2aff1bb2400.pdf 156fe76357851e079c8cd5c0a9672a91 PDF Text Text Living With PFAS Interviewee: Stacey Gardner Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: April 6th, 2021 [Construction noise] DD: Oh, and please excuse any noises if you can hear that. [chuckle] We have some plumbing work going on today. SG: Oh no! [laughs] DD: Which they just started sawing into the pipes. Both: [laugh] DD: Welcome to COVID life. Alright well, I'm Dani Devesto and today April 6th, 2021, I have the pleasure of speaking with Stacey Gardner. And Stacey, thank you so much for being here and participating in this project, I really appreciate it once again. I was hoping before we start talking about your experiences with PFAS, [Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] you could tell me where you live or where you're from? SG: Sure. So, I am from West Michigan, I grew up here. Upon graduating high school, I ended up getting married and my husband joined the military so we traveled around the country beforeーI eventually joined the military as well. Once I completed my service, I came back to West Michigan and have concerted my career here. And then,ーI currently live officially in Comstock Park, but it's really Plainfield Township just outside of Rockford. DD: How long have you been in Plainfield Township? SG: Since April 2015. DD: So, it must not be too bad of a place, you've been there for a while. Both: [Laugh] 1 �SG: Yeah it's actually really great, we love where we live. It’sー feels like it's out in the country, but Meijer is only a mile away. So we have access [DD laughs] to anything we might need whenever we want it. DD: [Laughs] Yeah Meijers has everything. [SG laughs] So you're pretty much set there. Alright so I am wondering, could you please tell me a story about your experience with PFAS or with PFAS in your community? SG: Sure. So, when we moved to our current home, we purchased it from a couple who have lived there for 57 years. And they were in their 80’s and they were getting ready to move to a retirement community. So, it was this great little homestead that they had built, I mean it- it’s beautiful, it has very mature plants, it was everything we wanted and it was just the right size for us. So, when we got the notification in the mail that PFAS had been found in our well water, honestly we weren’t really that upset by it because we figured that the people that lived in it before us were still very active in their 80’s, and if they have been drinking this water for the last 40 years then apparently it couldn’t have been too bad, because it didn’t affect them, it didn’t affect their children. So, all of them were all very active and healthy and didn’t have any history of unusual medical issues. So, we got this and we thought well, that’s probably not a big deal people might be overreacting. It wasn’t until it came out in the news that things were actually really not good for so many families. There were a lot of other health issues and kinda just some of the stories you would hear, you know, wasn’t our experience. So that's when we started to get a little bit more worried about, well maybe this isn’t a good thing and maybe we do have something to be concerned about with the levels in our water and, you know, how it might be affecting us in the long term. When the state came to our house to test our water we got our results for the first time, we were actually really excited to get that information and to find out that our levels were under 20, I think, which, compared to some of the friends we had, their levels were over 500, 600. And, you know, they had children with congenital anomalies who have been drinking this water, you know, forever and they really suffered from it. So, we saw first hand what can happen when you have this kind of exposure of long term to these chemicals. But our exposure was actually pretty limited time wise and with the limited amount in our water. So, we were solicited by a couple of attorneys to join some class action lawsuits, and we didn’t feel, for ourselves, that was anything we wanted to do. Because we 2 �didn’t feel we were harmed anymore than somebody who maybe didn’t identify PFAS in their drinking water because it's really iniquitous. I mean, most people have this exposure just in their daily lives and so looking at it from where we were at, just with our water, we felt like it wasn’t the right thing to do. But we absolutely know that there are those who have been more involved in this and more impacted and didn’t feel that a class action lawsuit was out of the question, it just wasn’t the right choice for us. So, that has really been how we’ve looked at this, is trying to make sure that our lives were impacted as little as possible by everything that’s going on. Knowing that, other people really have a lot to deal with, so we feel very lucky to be where we are at. And we actually are quiteー thankful to Wolverine for, you know, installing the whole home water filtration system and paying for all of that. I know that it's something they obviously should be doing, but were actually glad that, in this way, they were corrective in resolving the issue. So, I'm not looking forward to hooking up to township water at all, I don’t want to do that. [laughs] I would be fine keeping my well water with the water filtration system but it doesn’t look like we're gonna have that choice, so. DD: Why do you prefer well water? Just curious, as someone who is on city water. [laughs] SG: [chuckles] Yeah so, I know people who have Plainfield Township water and there were a lot of issues with it. There's a lot of unusual smells and discoloration, a lot of pressure issues. Andー the source of the township water is also highly questionable. And so, to me it doesn’t make sense to just go from one contaminated source to another while introducing all these other variables to the water system. Where I feelー and this probably isn’t true, but that we have a little bit more control if we have our own well and we know that this source of the water is local, is right there in our yard and we know who our neighbors are and what might be happening to the water source, as opposed to some of the other chemical dumps [laughs] that are close to the township water sources, so. DD: Sure, absolutely, that sounds totally logical and reasonable. And it sounds like from what you are saying you have reallyー you feel like you have been really lucky in a lot of the conversations and issues that are happening. SG: Yeah, yeah we do. We ended up joining the MiPEHS [Michigan PFAS Exposure and Health Study] study through the state of Michigan. Because we’re really interested in getting those individual lab results to see what our levels of 3 �PFAS are in our system and some of the other markers they’re testing for. So, we figured, while we’re notー you know the most active community members on this topic, at least we can help out some way by joining the study and having them use our information as somebody who had pretty minimal exposure as a comparison to those who had a lot more exposure. DD: Can you remind me, when did the state first start? When did they reach out to you to do the testing that you referenced earlier, the testing that you were really excited about? Do you remember? SG: I believe that it wasー late in 2017 [Unclear] DD: Ish? SG: Yeah I think that was about the time. I had a friend who had previously worked for Varnum Law and they were one of the firms that were soliciting for the class action lawsuit. And so, I remember reaching out to her at my former employer and saying who is this attorney? [DD laughs] Do you know him? Is he legit or is he just looking for a buck? So, [laughs] so that’s what I think it was about that time. DD: So, with the health study that’s going onー what's coming down the pipe for that? Anything for you all? Or anyー forget when that study is supposed to be concluded. Do you know? SG: It’s several years, it’s longitudinal. I want to say it’s 3 to 5 years. No, I think it's 6 years because we get our blood tested 3 times. Once every 2 years. So they are doing another study right now, related to the CoronaVirus Vaccine and how that might impact your response if you have these higher levels of PFAS in your system. But unfortunately, we couldn’t participate in that because we’ve already been vaccinated. And so, I am hopeful in the next 6 years though, they will have additional sub-studies related to the MiPEHS research that we can also participate in. So, I hope they can continue to keep contacting us with those opportunities. DD: Yeah. One more question from me. Do you have any concernsー or I say, what concerns if any do you have about PFAS contamination moving forward? SG: [Long pause] I thinkー itー where we liveー we have 1 acre of land and it backs up to a trust, a family trust that has over 800 acres of undeveloped woods and lakes right behind our house and that backs up to another 500 acres of 4 �privately owned woods that are also undeveloped with lakes and the water stream. And so, that is right where the house street dump site was. So, it’s really on the other sides of one of the lakes that’s back in those woods. And theー we have an arborist who helps us take care of all of our plants and trees, and he has been really involved environmentally with looking at the forensics of the plants and the trees in the area. He can walk through the woods and identify when a tree maybe has had unusual mutations due to chemical exposure, and it's made me really think about, as I’m walking through the woods through the trails back there; what's happened to all the wildlife? We have rattlesnakes back there, there's eagles, there’s amazing owls, and all kinds of different crazy things that you wouldn’t think are so close to such an urban area, but they’re all out there. Andー it’s nice to know that we as humans are going to be okay because we can filter the water, we can do all these extra things, we can watch the products that we buy and see if they have limited PFAS or no PFAS in them at all. But, you know, there's the animals that are there and they don’t have that choice. They’re out there in the water, you know, drinking it, swimming in it. Theyーand what is that doing ecologically to our neighborhood and how does that affect it and, you know, I justー it really bothers me to think about that because they didn’t ask for it and they’ve had generations of their own little animal families having this exposure and having it built up in their system, and does that impact make them really different compared to some of the other sites where, you know, the Michigan rattlesnakes are more populated and is itー how mutated are the ones we have here? I just think that would be a really interesting thing to consider because they need more help from humans right now in order to survive, so. That’s what I think is my main concern. [laughs] As opposed to people. People can take care of themselves. DD: [Laughs] We try don’t we? Both: [Laugh] DD: Sometimes we’re better at it than some others. I think those are really interesting questions and it sounds like you live in a really beautiful area. SG: It is absolutely beautiful, we are so lucky to be where we’re at. DD: Well, is there anything else that you’d like to add that we haven’t touched on today or anything that you want to go back to that youー feel like you didn’tー I 5 �don't knowー that you forgot something or anythingー before we end is there anything else you like to touch on or go back to? SG: [Long pause] I don’tー I don’t think so. I don’t think so. Although, there was one very interesting item in the MiPEHS study that they are looking at. My husband and I are vegetarian, and we haven’t eaten meat in almost 10 years. Soー I think that’s good for us, but within the study they are looking at people who hunt and fish locally that eat the animals around here that may have had that exposure. And so they're still looking at how that is affecting, kind of just, the life cycle of everything. And I think that’s gonna be a really interesting outcome, when they get to that point. And it’ll also be interesting, we do eat a lot of local fruits and vegetables from the farmers markets, to see, you know, could that have impacted us because we eat so many fruits and vegetables grown locally. You know, what’s in the plants that we’re eating? Is it there? And could that actually be increasing our exposure in ways that we haven’t considered before? So, I’m hopingー maybe in many years [laugh] that they’ll have that information available. We can understand better howー even though we are trying to make healthy choices it might have backfired on us and they’re not as healthy as we thought. DD: Yeah, that study is gonna have, hopefully, have a lot of information. A lot of really interesting information. Yeah. SG: Yeah I hope so DD: We’re all anxiously waiting for it. Both: [Laugh] DD: Alright well, thank you so much Stacey for taking the time to share your story and your experiences with me today. I’m gonna stop the recording now. SG: Okay. [Recording stopped] 6 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf audio/mp3 Type The nature or genre of the resource Motion Picture Text Sound Language A language of the resource eng Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PFAS0001 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gardner, Stacey Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-04-06 Title A name given to the resource Stacey Gardner, 2021 (Interview video and transcript) Description An account of the resource Stacy Gardner moved to the Plainfield Township area, north of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2015 after completing her military service. In the interview, she discusses the fairly low PFAS levels found in the well water at her home. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource DeVasto, Danielle (interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/87f88291b83ac519bcd902c793fd93f6.pdf fccd3431f2272db0ae0479e5baf888ba PDF Text Text Defenseless but Fighting: A Personal Battle with PFAS and Infertility PFAS is a group of chemicals known scientifically as perfluoroalkyl substances. Even more concerning, according to the CDC, is there are more than 9,000 different types. These include PFAS, PFOS, PFOA, and others. PFAS chemicals are incredibly stable both chemically and thermally. These are forever chemicals, meaning they bio-accumulate, bio-magnify, and will not degrade. These substances are in everything from carpet, furniture, camping gear, makeup, non-stick cookware, firefighting foams, fabric, and firefighting gear. These chemicals are in every living organism and virtually every body of water. As a 14-year Fire Lieutenant, I have been heavily exposed to PFAS. Here is my story. In May 2020, my wife and I thought our dream of having a family was about to come to fruition. A short time later, we quickly realized that wasn’t the case. My wife woke me in the middle of the night, stating that she had intense abdominal pain, severe cramping, and heavy bleeding. She was 10 days late, but never showed a positive pregnancy test. She informed me she thought she was having a miscarriage. Unfortunately, all this was taking place during a global pandemic. We immediately called my wife’s OB to be told that they weren’t accepting patients. After many phone calls, her doctor finally agreed to see her. Initially, the focus was on my wife. After many invasive and humiliating tests, we were surprised to learn that no abnormalities were found. We never found out whether or not she had a miscarriage. The focus quickly turned to me. I immediately referred to EVMS, where multiple blood tests and semen analyses were ordered. Ultimately the results from those tests were heartbreaking. They found no sperm and noted abnormal hormone test results. What followed still seems like a blur. First, there was a brain MRI. The results from the brain MRI came back and showed a tiny benign tumor on my pituitary gland. The tumor was ultimately ruled out as an issue and deemed not a concern — next, more rounds of bloodwork. Then, genetic testing is followed by more physical exams. No abnormalities were noted during my genetic testing, and no deletions were reported from my chromosomes. I then underwent hormone therapy via Clomid to increase my testosterone. I’m still recovering from what Clomid did to my body. I seemingly gained 60lbs overnight and always felt like I wanted to crawl out of my skin. My urologist then suggested doing a testicular biopsy. The testicular biopsy was scheduled for December 3, 2020. That biopsy would serve two functions, to check for testicular cancer and look for any sperm residing in my testicles. Unfortunately, again the results were not what we hoped. While they found no cancer, they also found no sperm. They diagnosed me with Sertoli-Cell Only Syndrome, NonObstructive Azoospermia with an unknown cause. Following that procedure, my wife and I discussed getting a second opinion at VCU Health. Our initial consultation was with Dr. Smith-Harrison in January 2021. He felt that he might still find sperm by doing a procedure called Microsurgical Testicular Sperm Extraction (micro-TESE). Following that consultation, I was placed on chemo. The goal of chemo was to control hormones my body was overproducing, specifically Estradiol. Chemo was single handily one of the worst experiences of my life. To this day, I deal with random bouts of hives, forgetfulness (chemobrain), and chemo rash. March 30, 2021, I had the micro-TESE surgery, and once again, the results were negative. While heartbroken and frustrated, my wife and I vowed to press forward. Dr. Smith- Harrison referred us to VCU endocrinology. My first appointment with Dr. Madan �Defenseless but Fighting: A Personal Battle with PFAS and Infertility was on April 20, 2021. The initial meeting again involved more blood work. The blood work was for thyroid, hemoglobin, and additional hormone testing. No abnormalities were noted. In May 2021, I was placed on testosterone replacement therapy. One definite is I will have to be frequently screened for testicular cancer for the rest of my life. The testicular cancer screening will occur twice a year. By all accounts, Sertoli Cell Only Syndrome is the precursor to testicular cancer. Having NOA is in 5% of males in the world. Having NOA along with Sertoli Cell Only Syndrome resides in 1% of males globally. Have Sertoli Cell Only Syndrome and NOA with an unknown etiology only occurs in 0.5% of all males globally. At the end of May 2021, I received a small piece of information that was significant. My liver enzymes were shit. The results indicated borderline non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. As a curious person, I went back in my records to see if the result replicated or if it was just due to the chemo. Come to find out, the first poor liver enzyme test I received was in 2019! Unfortunately, I never heard a word about looking into it. In June of 2021, I participated in the 2021 National Firefighter Cancer Symposium when Dr. Angela Slitt began to present. A few minutes into her presentation, a slide detailed the relationship between liver enzymes and PFAS. At that moment, a light bulb clicked. I rushed to my computer and immediately sent a screenshot of the slide to VCU with my liver enzyme report attached. Both the doctors noted the significance of the findings and are actively researching. I received two more vital pieces of information in June. First, Dr. Graham Peaslee notified us my 2018 gear tested positive for PFAS. My station wear did not. However, it did contain brominated flame retardants (banned since 2004) and Benzene, a known carcinogen. The combination of Brominated FR and Benzene mirrors the effects of PFAS on the human body. Unfortunately, for my testicles, they were given a high dose of toxic chemicals for 33% of the year, every year, for 14 years. Let that sink in. Now one more test to go…PFAS. This test will not confirm whether or not PFAS is in my blood; we already know it’s there. This test will indicate how much. On June 26, 2021 at 0530 in the morning I received the results. Keep in mind there are 9252 PFAS. I was tested on 6. I popped positive on 4. The highest were PFOS and PFHxS. It is important to note; I have kept two pieces of information out. One question asked at EVMS, Urology of Virginia, VCU Urology, and VCU Endocrinology was whether or not I have been exposed to any toxic chemicals. The answer I provided was yes. This question alone started us down a rabbit hole my family never imagined. We began researching firefighter fertility, firefighter endocrine issues, and firefighter testicular cancer. That research led me to have conversations with Diane and Lt. Paul Cotter (who is mentioned in a NY Times article), Captain Sean Mitchell from Nantucket Fire (IAFF Resolution 28), IAFF President Ed Kelly, Dr. Graham Peaslee of Notre Dame, Lt. Neal Sinatro from West Hartford, Ct, Dr. Madan at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Dr. Smith- Harrison at Virginia Commonwealth University regarding firefighter fertility research. I have reached out to many others in hopes of finding answers and getting the word out. In a profession where we encounter many hazards, we should not worry about the consequences of donning our turnout gear and putting on our station uniforms laced with chemicals. The second piece of information is a report from Dupont scientists. Lewis (2005) stated, “Beginning in 1992, scientists began to publish papers addressing how PFOA causes testicular tumors and other harmful effects on the male reproductive tract. First, they found that PFOA increases blood levels of Estradiol in male rats” (P. 29). Scientists �Defenseless but Fighting: A Personal Battle with PFAS and Infertility also found males who have been exposed to PFOA and PFAS having difficulty regulating testosterone. Consequently, my body has yet to regulate both of these hormones, verified with blood testing, Clomid, and chemo (Lewis, 2005). As a society, we must sound the alarm. Our blind trust in chemical companies and the EPA has led to arguably one of the worst environmental catastrophes known to humankind. PFAS is in everything, everyone, and has polluted every one of our waterways. Only recently has this began to garner attention. In June 2021, articles have been released detailing PFAS is in newborns, every citizen of the US, sparkling water, fish, makeup, and our waterways. We must hold the companies that have polluted our country responsible. Or this story will become all too familiar. Folks, we need to be better. Go to the DOCTOR! Trust me; I was that guy who didn’t want to go. I thought it was all BS, and I was fine. I wasn’t okay. I don’t know who out there needs to read this. But trust me, there is no shame. Talk about it. Write about it. Just get it off your chest. You are not alone. One Last thing, Our dream of having a family is still very much alive. We are actively navigating this next chapter and look forward to what the future has in store. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Living with PFAS Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Devasto, Danielle Description An account of the resource Beginning in 2021, the Living with PFAS interviews were recorded to gather the personal stories of individuals impacted by PFAS contamination. PFAS, or per- and polyflourinated substances, are a large group of human-made chemicals used widely since the 1940s to make coatings and products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. They can be found in countless household items, including food packaging, non-stick cookware, stain-resistant furniture, and water-resistant clothing. These chemicals are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily, can move through soils and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in animals, plants, and people. PFAS have been linked to increased incidences of various cancers, increased cholesterol, decreased fertility, birth defects, kidney and liver disease, and immune system suppression, and thyroid dysfunction. It is estimated that PFAS are in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans (Andrews & Naidenko, 2020). In Michigan alone, over 280 sites have PFAS contamination exceeding maximum contamination levels for groundwater (MPART, 2024). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Living with PFAS (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Personal narrative PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals) Groundwater--Pollution Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c4a40b71f07a637050aef53d9d57f00f.mp4 4a6af998f77663c25296b011a20be4e1 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/24a31e03c4899ec0a15e6a813693dca9.pdf 87577365de8f7070b7b64fb87afb21e7 PDF Text Text ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW JANE JACOBS BADINI Women in Baseball Born: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio June 16, 1924 Resides: Interviewed by: Frank Boring, GVSU Veterans History Project, August 5, 2010, Detroit, MI at the All American Girls Professional Baseball League reunion. Transcribed by: Joan Raymer, April 26, 2011 Interviewer: “Let‟s start with your full name and where and when were you born?” My name is Jane Janette Jacobs. I was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio at 1836 4th Street. Interviewer: “When were you born?” I was born June 16, 1924 Interviewer: “What was your early childhood like?” Well, I thought it was pretty good, I don’t know if you’d like to—my childhood—my mother found out when I was four years old that I was blind in my left eye, but I had— blind from birth and she was over protective, really over protective of me and everything. 27:53 We had—in the back yard there was a lot of property there and that’s where we played baseball and playing there, but I was the only girl. All the rest of them were guys. Interviewer: “Now, this is a neighborhood? A city neighborhood?” Yes, oh yeah Interviewer: “All right, so neighborhood kids kind of got together in a vacant lot to play ball?” Yeah, we just played and enjoyed ourselves. Interviewer: “So, you had a baseball, a bat, you had gloves?” Yes Interviewer: “How did you get your equipment? Did your parent buy it?” 1 �I had two older brothers. Interviewer: “Ah” They were baseball players and my older brother—at one time both my brothers were pitchers, and then my one brother, well they both were very, very good, but my one brother was an exceptionally good batter, so they asked him not to pitch anymore because they were going to use him for a batter all the time, but my brother Chuck, he pitched and he was terrific, terrific. 29:16 That’s how that was broke up, and then they got so nice with me because they wanted to teach me and since I was a tomboy you know. That’s what they referred to you then when you were out with just a bunch of guys, and there I was, the only girl. Interviewer: “How was school for you?” School? It was good; I got good grades and everything in school. Interviewer: “So the baseball part was just like any other kid? It was just after school you played baseball?” Yes Interviewer: “What position did you play back then?” 29:57 Oh, I was always a pitcher. Interviewer: “Always a pitcher?‟ Yeah, my brothers would show me. Interviewer: “Were you playing softball or baseball?” Well, at that time we were playing softball. Interviewer: “So, it was underhand?” Oh yes 2 �Interviewer: “Did you continue playing into high school?” Yes, I played in high school and I remember our gym teacher said, “Jane, let them hit the ball”, and I said, “no, I don’t think so”, and the gym teacher said, “ you know you are supposed to win if you can”, and I said, “if I let them hit the ball it’s not going to be good”, so the teacher said, “let them hit it anyway”, and I said, “no, no, I can’t do that”. 30:45 Interviewer: “How—your high school had a baseball team?” It was gym really because we didn’t have much of that then. Interviewer: “Ok, how come you were playing? You‟re a girl, how could you be playing baseball in high school?” Well, that’s the way it was. I think it was once a week, to tell you the truth. It wasn’t like playing every day. Interviewer: “It wasn‟t a formal team?” No, it wasn’t a regular baseball team, no. Interviewer: “So you had it almost like before were you had the neighborhood kids play baseball, in high school you just played baseball?” Yeah, right Interviewer: “Ok, all right, when did you first hear about the opportunity for an all American Girls Professional Baseball League? How did you hear about that?” Well, I heard when I played amateur ball when I was sixteen and got terrific—I was really good, I think I had twenty-four wins and either twenty-four or twenty-six, and four losses. 31:54 We had twins that played on the team then and their dad was the manager, I think that’s what you called them in those days, and that’s how I got to play. 3 �Interviewer: “So you—this is still during high school that you‟re playing in this amateur league, ok. Did your parent like the idea of you playing baseball like that?” Well, my mom didn’t know anything about baseball, and oh my gosh, my dad was a pitcher and like I say, my brother was a pitcher and he changed to be a batter. Interviewer: “But they encouraged you?” Oh yeah, my mom didn’t care that much, but my dad sure did. Interviewer: “Well good, so you‟re playing with this amateur league and somebody sees you, is that how it worked out?” 32:53 Yeah, they started to send scouts you know. Interviewer: “What year was this?” Well, they sent scouts when I was—that was a couple of years later. It was just before— when they started the league it was 1943. Interviewer: “1943, so when did you actually—“ We had teams and we traveled to different little cities. Interviewer: “Ok, the scout came around and saw you play—“ Yeah, then I went to Chicago. Interviewer: “So you were invited to go to tryouts?” Yes, right Interviewer: “How did you get there?” By train Interviewer: “Train, ok, were you by yourself?” Yes, at that particular time I was. 4 �Interviewer: “Had you ever traveled very far before?” 33:57 No, no it was completely different back then you know. Interviewer: “What was the experience of taking the train trip out to Chicago for the tryouts like?” Well, I was kind of scared to tell you the truth, because I hadn’t been out like that. It was interesting, when we got there they had someone meet us and we tried out at Wrigley Field in Chicago. We were a little nervous because we didn’t know whether we were going to make it or not, but I made it immediately. Interviewer: „What was that experience like of walking onto the field. Were there girls out there in uniforms already playing?” No, we didn’t have uniforms yet because we had to make the teams and I don’t know what they called the teams because they hadn’t organized the teams yet. Interviewer: “So what were the tryouts like? Did they have you field balls? Were they hitting balls to you? Were you catching? What were the tryouts?” I was just pitching because I wasn’t very good as a fielder you know. 35:00 Interviewer: “So you were pitching and other girls would go up to the mound and they would pitch and scouts were watching?” We were playing in different positions in different places you know. Interviewer: “Did you find out that day that you got in?” I don’t think we found out that day. It seems to me that it was, I hope I’m not wrong, but I think it was about a week before we heard because there were others that had to tryout with yet and that took a little time. Interviewer: “So, were you still in Chicago or did you come back home?” 5 �I came back home. Interviewer: “So, they contacted you at home?” Yes Interviewer: “Tell me about getting that, it must have been a letter in the mail, huh?” 35:52 It could have been a telephone call or something. So, we had the tryout and everything and there were only four teams when it first started in 1943, and like I said, in the beginning I went there and made the team real good and I got real sick. Interviewer: “Got sick?” Well, I got the Mumps and then I was a little afraid because I had to stay behind. I wasn’t use to that straying home and not going out anywhere. That was my first trip that I took in my life, so I went home and instead of going back, which I could have, I just oh no, I didn’t feel like it. Then I got the opportunity and got a contract and everything to come the following year. 37:00 Interviewer: “Nobody had any problem with the fact that you were blind in one eye?” They didn’t know it and this is a good story. I thought well, I’m not going to tell them I’m blind in one eye, and nobody knew it, even my friends, and I had a lot of friends and everything. One day Bob Knolls, he came to interview me after the picture was shown because I was taken on sick leave in a Limousine and all that so, anyway what was the question again? Interviewer: “That they didn‟t know that you were blind in one eye, yeah. You mean the whole time you were playing baseball people didn‟t know?” 6 �No, even my friends because I never told them see. 37:58 When Bob was interviewing me and everything, I said, “Bob, I’ll tell you one thing, but I don’t want you to be writing this up”, I said, “I was blind in one eye. I was born blind.”, and he said, “What?”, and I said, “Yeah”, and he said, “you could do a lot of good for kids that have a handicap. Would you please allow me to use this as a fact?” He said, “you will be surprised how much it helps kids”, which I was in the future, because they held them back you see. Through that kids started to do whatever they could. Interviewer: “So you tried out and what team did you get on?” I got on the Racine Belles and I played for two years with the Belles. Interviewer: “That meant that you had to move to Racine, so your parents were ok with your going?” Yeah, we stayed in people’s homes out there rather than staying in a hotel. Interviewer: “Hotels, right, did you have to go through that charm school?” Oh yes, I went through the charm school, and in fact there’s a write-up in the paper. You have one of the papers, don’t you? Interviewer: “Tell us about that.” Well, we weren’t that way, we were a little—we just didn’t like that you know because we had to use make-up and everything and we didn’t like it. Interviewer: “What were some of the things they had you do? In the movie they show a book on the head.” I was going to say, we had to walk a certain way and you couldn’t be tomboyish or anything like that because you had to be a young lady, so I thought it was terrible. 40:05 I said, “my God it was terrible” Am I allowed to say “My God?” 7 �Interviewer: “So the basic idea was that you had to act like a lady , so you had to sit a certain way and you had to eat a certain way and they taught you how to use the knife and the fork?” Well, they didn’t do that, but don’t slop it. Interviewer: “You say that you really didn‟t like it, the girls didn‟t really like it, but it was part of what you had to do.” You had to do it, you had no choice, and we just had to. Interviewer: “So, did that just happen? Did they do the charm school just a day or did they do it every day for a period of time?” For a while, but I truthfully don’t remember. Interviewer: “So, it wasn‟t just a one day thing, you had to go in there and they taught you one thing and then they taught you another thing? Yes Interviewer: Ok, alright, how was your first season?” 41:06 Well, the first season I did pretty good you know. Interviewer: “You were a rookie, right?” Yeah, right Interviewer: “Did you sit on the bench very much the first year?” I was right in there pretty much you know. As you will see by the card my earned run average was terrific, but if they didn’t get runs for you, you couldn’t win the game, right? Interviewer: “Oh yeah, and you started out as a pitcher, you were first string pitcher?” 8 �Well, we had I don’t know how many pitchers because you had a pretty good number of games you had to play, so we took our turns. 42:00 Interviewer: “You had home games and you had road trip games. How were the road trips?” They were good and we traveled the road trips by bus and stayed in hotels, but we stayed in the people’s homes there in Racine. Interviewer: “What did you think of the uniform?” Well, it was different you know, but we had to wear them, we had no choice, absolutely no choice. Interviewer: “Several of the girls said they had to adjust the dresses or skirts, or whatnot, because it‟s difficult to play ball that way. Did you do anything like that with your uniform?” If you notice in the pictures—I think it shows in the picture where—you know they were so full here they got in out way as we pitched, so it shows the uniform where we had to pin it down, so when we came through with the ball we weren’t in touch with the material. 43:07 Interviewer: “Yeah, so you started out playing underhand, right?” Oh yeah, Interviewer: “And it was a softball size?” A twelve inch, yeah. Interviewer: “You were already use to doing that though.” Yeah Interviewer: “Now after your first season, you came back home?” 9 �Oh yes, at the end of the season, yeah, I came back home again. Interviewer: “And what did you do?” Well eventually—after I retired, I retired after—I could have played—see, I played four years. I had a contract to go to the fifth, but my statistics, and I don’t mean to be bragging on you, but it was so good that the talk went through my mind that if I have a bad season I’m going to ruin everything, and this way I’m going out—and you will see the statistics, they were very good, and I didn’t want to do that, so I had the contract signed and everything and I said I wasn’t going to play any more and this was the end of my professional ball. 44:22 Interviewer: “We‟ll get back to that later on, but I want to get back to that first season. You played out the season, and then you came back home. Did you move back in with your parents or did you have to work?” I was with my parents you know. Interviewer: “Did you have to work?” I worked for Woolworth’s down on Front Street in Cuyahoga Falls. I started working and you know. Interviewer: “Did they know you were a baseball player?” Yeah, they did Interviewer: “Were you kind of a local celebrity?” 45:00 Well, we didn’t do that much celebrity at that time you know. Interviewer: “But it was unusual for a girl to be playing professional baseball.” Yes it was. 10 �Interviewer: “So the second season comes along and you get another contract playing for the same team?” Yes Interviewer: “So you move to Racine, and did you stay in the same house?” Yes, we were friends you know. The people, Conrad was their name, and they were just—they treated me so great. When we had a few days off or anything, and they would go out of town, they took me right with them and we enjoyed it, and we became—they had two daughters and even after I retired and everything—when I was playing ball the daughter always came to watch and after I retired they kept writing to me and we wrote back and forth—it was great. 46:01 Interviewer: “How was your second season? You‟re not a rookie anymore.” No I wasn’t, but I was treated great, absolutely great and that’s what everyone else is saying. Interviewer: “Are there any highlights or games that you remember that were exceptional? You said that you were a pretty good pitcher.” I was a good pitcher. The thing, the big thing that was really something was that I was allowed to bat. You know my left eye was blind and everything and I hit a home run. Unbelievable, I couldn’t believe it myself you know. That drew a lot of attention. Interviewer: “That‟s wonderful, that‟s wonderful. Sp then you‟re offered a third season, but this time you‟re playing with a different team?” Yes, because they were trying to equalize the teams and see what you could do, so I played the whole year with them and then I got to go back to Racine, which really tickled me because I loved playing with Racine. 47:11 11 �Interviewer: “What was the other team you played with?” Peoria Interviewer: “Peoria, ok. That was the third year you went to Peoria?” Yes Interviewer: “Ok, alright” Peoria, and then back to Racine again, and then I quit. Interviewer: “Was there a big difference in the playing from Racine to Peoria?” No, it was pretty much the same thing. Interviewer: “Were you still pitching underhand?” Yes, oh yes Interviewer: “So the side arm didn‟t come until later?” Yeah, I don’t know how many years later. Interviewer: “How were the fans?” Wonderful, oh my goodness, they couldn’t do enough for us. They would invite us to their homes, the whole team they would have coming to their home. They would invite us and just be wonderful. 48:04 Interviewer: “Now the beginning of the league, at least some of the stories were that the fans kind of thought it was a novelty, these girls playing baseball, did you experience that too?” A little, yeah Interviewer: “But soon, playing ball, they realized these are good players?” Right, yes they did. 12 �Interviewer: “So, in your third season, you‟re playing once again, were you thinking about this as a career?” No, never once Interviewer: “You did it because it was fun and they were paying you.” Yeah, I’ll tell yeah, we made a big, big salary. We got fifty dollars a week. Interviewer: “Were you able to send some money home?” Yeah, because when I grew up we didn’t have as much or anything else. We were kind of hard up and I always thought of my parents and sent a little bit of money. Interviewer: “At that stage in your life, what did you think you wanted to do? You‟re playing baseball and you‟re getting paid, but what is it you wanted to do?” 49:13 I had an idea that I wanted to go into my own little business at that young age and that’s exactly—I worked for Acme for a while and then I thought, “ well it’s about time that I start”, so I went around to the houses and picked up junk and I went into the dry cleaning business although I put it out to be done by other businesses that were doing it and I built a pretty darn good business. First I had a car and when I got a little money, I got a truck you know and I went around and gosh, the people were wonderful to me, they were. It was unusual to have a girl dry cleaner. 50:10 Interviewer: “So, your fourth year comes along and you‟re still playing with Racine, but you made a very important decision?” Yes I did, at the end. Interviewer: “Could you tell us—how did you come to that decision?” 13 �Well, just like I mentioned, I had very good statistics and man, they were great, for that time they were, and I got home and thought, “What if I have a bad year?” So, that’s when I quit. I worked around a little bit at stores like Acme you know, and then I thought, “I’m going into my own business”, and started a route of dry cleaning and I rented a little shop on Tallmadge Road in Cuyahoga Falls. Believe me or not, but I bought the place after a couple of years and I still have the place and that’s the story. 51:23 Interviewer: “Did you miss it, baseball?” Yeah, because we weren’t allowed to play on another team because we were considered professionals, but my brother Chuck, he was a—he worked for plumbing and heating, and they always had—every year they had a little shindig going on and they said, “Chuck, we want your sister to come down here and pitch for us, you know, we’ve never had any audience of any kind”, and he said, “I’m sure she will”, and so I did and eventually I was the CEO officer at the heating and plumbing for twenty years and I made a lot of friends down there because I just wasn’t allowed to play any more. 52:22 I had customers from there and it worked out real good. Interviewer: “What were some of the highlights? I mean, you get together with these gals for these reunions and what stories do you tell? A no hitter or?” The biggest thing for me that I tell, was hitting that one home run. That’s the greatest thing and no one believes it hardly because I was a lousy batter. Interviewer: “Most pitchers are.” Yeah 14 �Interviewer: “I was a pitcher too, in little league, and my claim to fame is that I got a homerun on a bunt.” On a bunt? Interviewer: “That‟s how bad the other team was, so I can appreciate your homerun there. I only had one in my life too. 53:24 Did you talk about being a professional baseball player after you left the league and were working in the dry cleaning?” No, because my intention was—we grew up poor, my family and my mom and dad had very little, and I wanted to do something where I could help my mom, I had the greatest mom in the world, absolutely, the super greatest mom in the world. We didn’t have much, but we had respect for each other and loved each other you know and we kind of went along that way. 54:03 Interviewer: “So, you were able to help support her?” Oh yes, because I didn’t get married until I was forty-nine, so that was a long way to go. Interviewer: “But you were a career woman I guess, from early on, and there weren‟t many career women around then.” 54:16 No there weren’t Interviewer: “did you already have that kind of drive before you played professional baseball or did professional baseball kind of help you to make that move into that?” I never thought of that and I wanted my mom to have it good because she was such a good soul. A terrific lady and my drive was to do something for my mom, and I did. Interviewer: “What did those four years do for you, playing baseball?” 15 �Well, I think it gave you a lot of—what it is when you feel good about yourself? Interviewer: “Confidence?” Yes, that’s it Interviewer: “Because you were a young girl.” Oh yeah Interviewer: “You played ball and you felt a little more confident.” Oh my goodness, yeah, and the fans, it was unbelievable; they lined up just to get your autograph. 55:20 That went on for the four years that I played. Interviewer: “Did you have fans that kind of picked you out and you were their favorite?” Well, yes, I don’t want to brag, but I’m not going to lie either. Oh, yeah, oh my goodness yes, they invited us out for dinner and everything, and it was really nice. Interviewer: „so you didn‟t really talk about the league, you didn‟t talk about being in baseball for many, many years?” Oh no, and I wasn’t allowed to play amateurs and it died out. Interviewer: “Right, but in terms of that part of your life, you were moving on and you were going to go and do other things.” Yes 56:08 Interviewer: “When did that change?” Well, it changed not too many years afterwards because I was always thinking, in my mind, what could I do to help my mom because she was such a good, good woman, so she could have a little better life than what she had, and yet, I never wanted to sound like I was bragging about anything because there was much, much love among us. 16 �Interviewer: “Did you know when the league ended? Did you see the newspapers or did you know in 1954 that it was all over with?” I don’t think I knew right away. I was out of there and I didn’t pay much attention to it. 57:02 Interviewer: “Did you keep in contact at all with any of the girls that you played with?” Eventually I did, but mostly with the family I stayed with. I was, oh my goodness, because we played near San Francisco, I got to love San Francisco because I went out there so much to see them and everything, and I would go out four times a year. It was only for a few days or a week and they always wanted me to come to their house and they would take me somewhere. We would go somewhere, you know, to enjoy ourselves. I was just great and I don’t know if I’m explaining it right or not. Interviewer: “Well, I think you‟ve seemed to developed a close and almost second family.” Yes, I did and I called them mom and pop and they wanted me to. Interviewer: “Did they have any opinion about your quitting baseball?” 58:01 Well, a lot of people didn’t want me to quit. They said they would love to see me stay and everything, but I just had a little bit different things I wanted to do in my life. Interviewer: “So you never saw baseball as a career?” Oh no, I never did and like I said, it did a lot of good after I told Bob Knolls that I was blind and he, and different ones, said that I have helped the kids through what I had said. There were some kids that could come and they wouldn’t be made fun of. See, I use to be called “four eyes’ all the time in grade school and that made me mad, so what I would 17 �do, because I had to wear glasses—a lot of kids had to pass my home to school from where I lived there was always a certain bunch you know. 59:10 It was “hello four eyes”, and everything and when they got to my house I said, “I’ll be out in a minute”, and I took off my glasses because I couldn’t afford to have them broke, and I would go out and say, “now call me four eyes”, and we had a few fights and I won. Interviewer: “Did you go to the first reunion, the All American Girls reunion?” I probably did, but truthfully, I can’t remember. Interviewer: “But you had some interest to want to see those girls again?” Oh my gosh, yeah Interviewer: “What changed? Was it just age? You were getting older and looking back on that time? :03 If it was only four years of your life, and you certainly accomplished a lot more afterwards, why would you be interested in getting back together with these people?” Because I had a good relationship with them and they treated me so good. They treated me like a daughter instead of somebody just coming into the house. Interviewer: “I mean with the teams. Going to the reunions with the teams.” Well, I didn’t go to that many though. Interviewer: “Did the movie change anything for you? You saw the movie?” Well, I saw it and I thought it was pretty neat, that was my impression. Interviewer: “How did you see it? Did you see it in a movie theater?” I was picked up by what do you call it? Interviewer: “A limousine?” A limousine, yeah 18 �Interviewer: “Who arranged for that?” Evidently before it came out we were invited to the premier. 1:28 Interviewer: “Tell that story, tell that story, yeah.” That was great and we were in a theater of some sort, I think it was a theater. Interviewer: “Had you ever been in a limousine before?" No Interviewer: “Tell the story.” I thought, “that can’t be me going in a limousine like that”, and then they were so great to me, it was just marvelous, and I thought, “My goodness, what’s happening?” Everything was just great and I think you have a picture of it there. 2:08 Interviewer: “So you arrive in a limousine at the theater and?” Everything—there was a lot of talking going on and they were just good to me and let me know that I was appreciated. Interviewer: “What did you think of the movie? Did you like it?” Yeah, it was pretty good, but Tom Hanks, he stretched it a little bit you know and I wasn’t a stretcher. Interviewer: “A lot of the girls say the movie changed everything and people suddenly knew who you guys were.” Yes it did and I was going to get to that and it made a really great name for all of us. 3:05 We were highly respected and of course when the boys came back from the war, and they had been in for quite a while then, but that’s what broke it up, the boys coming back. 19 �Interviewer: “What do you think about all this excitement? You‟re being treated, in many ways, like movie stars.” Yes we were treated like movie stars. Interviewer: “And you still are.” Yes, it’s unbelievable to think that something like that could happen. Interviewer: “why do you think there‟s all this excitement? You only played four year, why do you think people get so excited about this?” I don’t think the average person knew how well women could play, and they found out there was a lot going on there, they can really play good. We would slide into bases, but they didn’t want the pitcher to slide and get hurt, but that’s how I messed my knee up. 4:11 You have so much interest in the game that you don’t want to be out if you can slide and be safe. Does that make sense to you? Interviewer: “Yeah, yeah, one of the husbands of one of the players said he never got an opportunity to see his wife play until much later and like you said, you couldn‟t just go off and spend money going to see a baseball game, but he finally got a chance to see her and he said he had known her, her whole life, but he never realized she was such a good ball player.” Yes Interviewer: “So, I guess that‟s what the fans saw too, they saw a good baseball game, and you guys were pretty good at what you did.” We thought we were without being smart. I was never a bragger, but when they would say, “boy, that was a great game”, I would say, “Thank you”, it was pretty good wasn’t it?” 5:16 20 �Interviewer: “You went on to accomplish some major goals that you want to take care of your mother, you wanted to gain security, but if you look back on your whole life, where do those four years fit in? How important were they to you?” I think they were very important to me because they gave me a start. Fifty bucks a week, and the one manager we had, he said, and I never told this to people because I thought it sounded like bragging, he said I should be making more than the fifty dollars that everybody was making. He raised my pay every week, but I forget if it was seventy or seventy-five dollars, so I don’t want to say it was seventy-five if it was seventy, but it was one of the two definitely. 6:16 Oh my gosh, can you imagine getting that, that early in life? To make that much? I called home and oh my, everybody was happy. Interviewer: “one of the other questions that I have—the phenomenon that the movie created, put you in a whole different position than you were before. You were a ball player and now you‟re part of American history. I know you didn‟t think about it at the time, but how do you reflect on it now? People are saying to you that this is an important part of American history.” Yes, well, my first impression was, “I can’t believe it, are they saying that you’re part of history because of baseball?” At first I thought it had to be a dream and it’s super. 7:22 Interviewer: “It‟s kind of hard to think it‟s a dream when you come to these reunions.” My gosh, we are treated so great, it’s wonderful, but that’s what you think unless you’re a big bragger. Interviewer: “There‟s a big difference between bragging and just telling the truth and that‟s what it really comes down to and that‟s why I‟m here. I‟m not asking 21 �you to brag, I just want you to tell what you did and if that sounds like bragging to you, it‟s not bragging to me, I‟ll tell you that because you did it and there‟s proof. We know what all of you accomplished.” Yes Interviewer: “One of the main reasons I decided to do this project was because I saw some film footage of the Grand Rapids reunion in which a number of you were signing autographs and there‟s a line of little girls with their mothers holding on to them. What do you say to the little girls? What is the message you have for these younger girls that you see at these reunions?” 8:22 My thought is to always do the best you can for everything and when you do the best you can you will succeed. You might not be the best, but you won’t be the worst. I think that explains it. Interviewer: “There is something I want to talk about and it‟s major. It‟s something that happened to you and I don‟t even know you and yet I believe this. When that reporter came out and you revealed for the first time about your eye, why did you decide, at that point, you wanted to tell people?” 9:13 Because I wanted to let him know that I didn’t let that interfere and that I didn’t just lay down and forget about life and want people to be sorry for you. I never, never, never wanted people to feel sorry for me because that would have killed me. So, I went on all those years and when Bob Knoll put it in the Beacon Journal he said, “I’m telling you right now Jane, you’re doing the biggest favor for kids to be able to make an adjustment”, and it did, it did. I got an awful lot of publicity on that and the parents thought it was 22 �super great. It pleased me very much because I felt like I was a part of helping kids. 10:14 Interviewer: “How do your teammates, obviously you‟re not playing anymore, none of them knew, right?” No, none of my best friends and everything and when this all came out in the Beacon Journal they said, “Jane, all the years we’ve known you and you never said anything”, and I said, “well, what’s to say, I didn’t want anybody feeling sorry for me”, and I said, “Can you imagine, all I had to do was make an error”, and you’re dead. That was about it, I just didn’t want anybody to feel sorry for me and say, “oh well”, and to be extra nice to me because I was that way. I guess that’s it. 11:04 Interviewer: ”How difficult was it playing with one eye?” I never even considered it because I just went on and hoped to do the best I can. I’m not a religious nut or anything, but I thank God so many times that I was allowed to just get started and my big, big thrill was that kids who never had a chance at least get a chance, and that did something to my whole body and I felt great. Interviewer: “Now, if this is getting too personal you don‟t have to say anything, but you said you took until you were forty-eight until you got married.” Forty-nine Interviewer: “Forty-nine, why this guy?” I had my dry cleaning business going and I was golfing and this guy ended up, he use to watch me golf, so he asked the guy that owns Tommy’s Café there in the falls who that lady over there was and he said, “I know her, that’s Jane Badini”, and he said, “she has a dry cleaning shop”, and he said that he would like to talk to me and take me out, so he 23 �came over to my shop and started bringing in his dry cleaning and laundry and everything. 12:50 He started talking with me and I had talked with him a few times and a friend of mine said, “Jane, he’s a nice guy and when you feel like it, he wants you to go out with him”. I said, “thanks a lot”, so when he came in, and I don’t know how many times he asked me out, so after I knew that he was a nice guy, he came in and said, “Will you please go out on a date with me?” I said, “sure I will”, and we went out and we just started going together and everything clicked and we got married. Interviewer: “Wonderful, that‟s wonderful. I have one story that might top that one. A very good friend of mine, who is a volunteer who works on this Library of congress project and he‟s eighty years old now I think. He did the same thing, his wife worked in a bakery and he came in and asked her out and she said, “no, no, I‟m too busy”, so one day he came in with a used calendar and he said, “find one day on here”, and they got married. 14:07 That’s great, that’s nice. Interviewer: “They‟re still together and I love that story.” Have you ever heard of Tommy’s Café years ago in Cuyahoga Falls? Interviewer: “No” He worked for Tommy and he was next to the younger Tommy and the next man in the link. Interviewer: “Did you tell him about your baseball career?” No, oh no, I never did, I mean it took a long time because I never wanted anybody to think I was bragging and I just was sincere about that. I didn’t want anybody to like me because I was a ball player and if you’re going to like me, like me for who I am. 24 �Interviewer: “Well, I think you‟re real easy to like.” Oh, thank you so much, I appreciate that. Interviewer: “This was a wonderful, wonderful time with you and thank you.” 15:06 Thank you very much. 25 �26 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was started by Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, during World War II to fill the void left by the departure of most of the best male baseball players for military service. Players were recruited from across the country, and the league was successful enough to be able to continue on after the war. The league had teams based in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and operated between 1943 and 1954. The 1954 season ended with only the Fort Wayne, South Bend, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Rockford teams remaining. The League gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball. Many of the players went on to successful careers, and the league itself provided an important precedent for later efforts to promote women's sports. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) Video recordings All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Baseball for women--United States Baseball Sports for women World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Baseball players--Wisconsin Baseball players--Illinois Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp4 pdf Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)</a> Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-08-05 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/454e45fc4558dcecd92f0b5b749cd52a.pdf 7e677ad8eb170482e3bf43cdcac210e6 PDF Text Text Charlie Mc uewan a Youngster at Ripe Old Age of 7 Boasts-Season's Bowling Average of 175; Rowed on World'sChampionshi.pCrewHere• a Uope1• picture shows the old Owashtanong club at Reeds Lake, which was located ju.st south of where Rose's bathing beach is now. On the right is a picture of Cl1arles McQuewan, wl,o at 70 is as spry and atl,letic as n,any n,en 40 years l,is junior~ By Heinie !Ifarti1t l\Iost 111en at 70 are hobbling around ,vitl1 a car1e and just begin11111g to e11joy tl1eir seco11d cl1ild1100d. Not so, Cl1arlie lvicQue,van, Gra11d Rapids' greatest rowi11g e11tl1usiast. He is still enjo:ri11g J1is first a11d does11't wear a ca11e. Charles reacl1es tl1e ripe age of Jesse Fox pulli11g No. 3 and W. D. Sargent bow. Setting that record gave l\-1!". l\T cQuewar1 l1is greatest tl1rill. Ten tl1ousa11d people li11ed th e sl1ores of Reeds lake a11d fi]le·d the gra110sta11d tl1at ,·vas located on the prese11t site uf Rose's bathing beacl1 to with11ess tl1e rowing classic of 1886. 111 tl1at record- breaki11g race, cre"\\"S fro 111 Detroit, Lansing and Cl1icago co1npeted agai11st the Grand Rapids four. 'l'he Detroit crew finisl1ed 10 lengtl1s bel1ind tl1e O"\\rashtano11g four. As tl1e Grand Rapids ro·~:ers reached tl1e float. in fro11t of the grandstand, the crowd surged out to the float, the peofJle, \\'alking i11 ankle-deep '\\·ate1· to reaGl1 tl1e four 111e111bers of tl1e crev{ 1\·110 ,·vere carried on tl1e sl1oulders of tl1e people to the clubl1ouse v.,·l1ere a banquet '\'\·as tendered the111. tl1at nigI-1t. l\Ir. l\fcQueVv·a11 ,,·as bor11 in Pittsburgh in 1859 a11d ca1ne to Grand Rapids at tl1e age of 11, later graduating fro111 Grand Rapids higr1 school, no,v lr11ow11 as Ce11tral. Charlie sa:rs there were no higl1 scl100I athletics i11 tl1ose days, the chief form of recrea tio11 being a ga111e of "po1n-1)0111 pull a\\·ay." I , 0 next Tl1ursday, '",ut today he ca11 still go out and tal~e l1is seat in any four-oared sl1ell. Three ti1nes a week l1e can be found at tl1e Elk's temple 1:fo,vli11g alleys, \\'l1ere , l1e rolls 111 tl1ree leagues. A11d tl1ink of tl1is-he l1as an average of 175 for 60 ga111es. Tl1at 111ark would be up near tl1e top in a11y bo\\·li11g league in Grand Ra1)ids. 1\Ir. ~IcQuewan's . greatest love, l1owever, is tl1e ro,ving gan1e. Charlie is 11ever l1appier tl1a11 vvhe11 clad in shirt and trunks and pulling a11 oar in a raci11g sl1ell. It was bacl{ 1n 1886, just 43 years ago, that Cl1arlie was rovling No. 2 in the Owasl1tar1ong club, junior four~ oared shell that s1"1attered tl1e ,vorld's rer-ord with a 1nark of 12 111inutes, '27 seco11ds for tl1e t,,ron1 'le distance. It was rowed on Re,:icls lake, between the spot "Vvl1ere Form Club in 1884 the Ovv"ashanong club forn1erl)' In 1884 a grou1) of Grand Rapids tood a11d l\[anhatta11. sportsmen got togetl er a11d -organA.\ A. Carroll, superi11tende11t J°.f 1 ~zed· tl1e o,'.ttasl1tanong Boat club on 011" , ,v:is s:roke in tt1at shell, , 1{i~l1e V\ est sl1ores of Reeds lake. T. f l\I. \Veston, 110w deceased, \'\·as tl1e greatest of all ·sports and his stror1g pl1ysique at 70 bears out. his statefirst president of the club, wl1ich boasted 1,000 111er11bers in its first )"ear. Cl1arles Seidel. a well lrnown boatsman fron1 Pittsburgl1, can1e to Grand Rapids witl1 a carload of second 11.and racir1g and rowi11g equiprr1ent, ,,·l1ich he i11stalled at tl1e club wl1ere 11e "\'\"as also giveri. a job as ca'retaker. l\Ir. Siedel l1as bee11 a Gra11d Ra1)ids resident ever since and is still in the boat bus• 1ness. Startir1g in 1886, tl1e Nortl1wester11 An1ateu1~ Rowing association regatta was held here fol1r consecuti·ve years. It "·as i11 its fi1•st seaso11 l1ere that the Owashtanong four sl1attered · tl1e world's record. Edward Telf~r, who died two years ago, V/aS coach of tl1e raci_ng cre,vs here. . Ge R. Boat Club Organized Tri 1900 the . club broke up and two l"ears later, Mr. Quewan organzed the Grand Rapids Bo·at arid Canoe club, which passed out. of existence last year, due to lack of i11terest here. Charlie v~ttributes this lack of i11ter·est to -autorr1obiles a11d golf and it is l1is belief tl1at the ro~"ing gam4e l1ere is gone for good. He doesn·t think it can ever con1e back. ...\.s a body and 1nuscle builder, 1\-ir. McQuewan thinks rowi11g 1s tl1.e • 1 CHARLIE M'QUE n1ent. .....\.b Carroll 1s an ing example of the '\ alu to one's ph)Tsical condit1 l\Ir. l\1cQue'\\ran is 11 !umber business "'~itl1 c lY!icl1igan Trust buildi sides at 335 v\.,.asl1ingto1 --------Tkeater Tickets t Free readers. I.ook for yo1,1r ~ a! ClasBified Ad columns.-...\ �p:: ' J :~!: ~t a8ir L tnt& ?z : a, 4 ,i f ::iw:, tays31a r,'l #• pit !• •t : :: ., : r + ~ I, DO YOU REMEMBER? I ,, I . ) 0-lVA5H-TA-NONG JUNIOR FOU~ (7. R, 1897, J£SSE RJ~!3, \Vl!J SAWEN7; Clll-iS" A'/C(i/1/ElVA"' z. AB'£ CARIJOLJ 5lRO/(£. eo,v. (This is the 22nd of a series of sports pictures dealing with athtetes well known to Grand Rapids' sporting fraternity. These pictures date back sev~ eral years and wilT be run as ~n interesting feature to The Herald sport page.) . Very few rowers of today remember this femous quartet that rowed Qn the old Owashtan()ng crew. The above picture was taken 37 years ago and shows two of the best known men in Grand Rapids. Charlie McQuewan, still a member of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club, is the handsome youth standing next to Ab Carroll, superintendent of police in Grand Rapids. Ab is the powerful lcoking youngster at the extreme right. He was one of the best rowers in the state a.t that time. Last week l\1r. Carroll gave an inter• esting speech at the annual Boat and Canoe club baRquet, telling of days when he and Charlie McQuewan row-edin ti,e same ~hell . • �• I • �• ' .,. - .. l ��f=- • ' • • 1 �7 l ,J r I • . .. • �I ---- \ • -,~ :· • - ----·--~ - ' t!=, ••• • ·-:-: ••••• ••• t- • ·•:•:•: fj • • •• ••• ••• • •••• ••••••' •••• ••• •••• • •••• •••• ••••••• ••• •••••••• ••• •• •• •••• ... ... I t ._ !OAT ~ CAN t CLU • I Still in-the shell, pu)ling away at the oars, is Charlie McQuewan. , • �v,e--1"1-.;i,... , """"'.,..._,.....,--..----•______,_........,_-.--•-•-----_ _____...----...,,,_...___,.,___.....,,__,,_...........-•--- ----- ~ - - -........- - - - · - - - - ·) ' BOAT CLUB PLANNING FOR ACTIVE SEASON ---------------- Members at Annual Feast Hear Committee Men Tell What's · Coming; Speakers .Stress Importance of Athletics. ll TL If only a part of ,vl1at Boat a11<:L Ca11-0e club 1ne111bers expect actually co111es true d rinig 192¾ thi,c:f seaso11 ,vill go d·o" n i11 histor~ as one of the :111ost successfrul i11 tl1.e l1isto1"Y of tl1a club . 1\fo11day Jlioht, at the a.n11ual banquet and ibusdn~ss 1neeti11g of t11is orga11izatio11, ,co111:111ittee me11'1lbers rose right a11d l eft and told wh-lt ,,ras going to l1apperi1 i11 19 2 4 a11d: tl1e 11.1eo:nbersl1i1) sat ba.clr in their· chairs a11d cheered. First of all tl1ere will be tennis pl1ysica.IIy· yo11 v.rill ride a t:r<=at c1eal tot1rnaments, l)e1--haps ii1c1udii1g the lo11ge1' i11 tl-1e autos than if ~·ou did 11't. Michigan state cl1a1npionsl1i1•s , a Dean c. E. Jackson of St. )iarl{'s dual regatta wit h Detroit a11d ma)r- procatl1edral ga'v~e his impressio,ne. be 011e 01: two other invitation af- of team pla,:y·, stressing the necesfairs, dai cing parties galore wltl1 sit~ of "pulling togetl1.er'' ,,.rhethe~ 1 in religious, natio11al er athletic feature musio and other stunts de- life . signed to attract the men1bersl1ip A. P. J"ohnson, tal{i11g as 11is st1bto the clubl1ouse at night, a l1alf ject "Wha.t S1)orts l\l[ean to Civildozen 01~ 1nore canoe trips, a "\Tene- izatiori," traced tl1e rise and fall of tian 11igl1t pageant and a rowing 11ations through l1istory as tl1e coach organizi11g l1is v,rork so as to pl1ysical fitness of tl1e 1nen mal{ing teach youngsters how to operate a tl1at 11atio11 rose and fell. Ile shell are a few of tl1-e thi11gs tl1at started ,vith the Greeks pot11ting ,vere Sl)Ol{en oC at tl1is fea.st and to tl1e Ol)"I111Jics of today ~ one of being loolred forward to. tl1e great thi11gs that l1a,re lived l\icQum,a11 Re-elected. fro111 that fi11e ci,rilization ,vl1e11 Tl1e cl11b aln10~ ttnanimously re- Greece ,vas at its best. Jie showed elected Cl1a1~1es McQuewa.n to tl1 e ho,v Rome e:xicellecl in spo11:s and board of directors and supported tl1e11 fell ,v:pen nations better l1i1n ft.1rther by llutting Clayton ,V. ph)rsically excelled them. Lawson, club 1nanager, on tl1e "It is as impos_sible to live with-board. Al E.,olger also ,vas 1~e-elect- out sports as it is without food," ed to tl1e board. tl1e spea.lrer said. ''If we educate Activities of the Boat club i11 ottr children to understa.]ld spo1~s years gone by and what they stand and to u11derstand what physical for in the co111n1u11ity ,vere re,rie,ved fit11ess 111eans, what athletics mean • i11 attractive st7>-·le b.v A. A. Carroll, to tl1e1n and the nation, ·v;-e need superintendent of police and at one have 110 fear of what w.ill become time No. 3 oa1~ in G1~and 11apids' of tl1e.:in.'' fllrst cre..\,·s. A grea.t deal o•he roRobert 1-r. i\fe1~rill told the cl t1b ·1 mance of tJ1e ro,, ·ng gn i-r1.<~ in th,,se 110,v ten11is is being introduced i11 days a.ind a recot111ttn;; of \\·J1at 1 ovt- Chi11a and related various experi- · ing 111eans v as injoctecl by S11pt. ences l1e had playing the gan1e ar oll 11 to 11is tn l • Ile stressed tl1ere. the 1eed of phvsical de,1 elopment dro,.re1~ C. Good presided as toast- ( by the yo11th of today ,,.declari11g: "I master. Claude GoldJ1er did the ha e bee 1 told the automobiles leadi11g in the community singing made great inroads in the feature and VanDusen's orchestra 1 ure 1·re of the youth. The auto and the "No l\{ore Frettin's'' trio ·s ~ -.&.&;:- ight b11~ 1• 1l1e · ell ) o 1 11. furnished the rest of the entert i g f you build o s up tainment. 1 rµ,,t.·Q,V �_,______._____________________________.....__ 'l' J I I • • n ,.. a • • • • " •• .. •• " " ••-• ,,,.,_,, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ • II ADDITIONAL SPORT Annual Boat and Canoe Club l Banquet Proves Bi Success •···---•-n--s, .. •• •• .. - • ·----·· • • - II u II n n a •• Ill . . _ , , _... By HEINIE MARTIN Cl1arles McQuewan, C. W. Lawson and Al Folger we1·e elected new directors of tlie Gra11d Rapids Boat and Canoe club . for a term of three years at ttie annual banquet and n1eet!ng held by the club members at the Pantlind Hot.e last night. About 200 men1il1ers attended the anr1ual get-together, wl1ich proved a rousing su1'Cess from every point of ,,iew. After a dinner fit for a king, the .. , . "gang" joined Leader Claud Goldner in a number of community songs, which ,vent o•ver big. , Spry young· Cl1arlie l\IcQuewan then i11t1·oduced Grover C. Good, who acted as toastn1aster of the evening, keeping tl1e crowd in good humor with his Wise cracks about the various speakers. Good lived rigl1t up to his name as a toastmaster. Carroll Gives Speech. I I Supe1·intendent of Police Ab Carroll ,vas tl1e first spealcer of the evening. Genial Ab subbed for Cl1arles R. Sligh, ,vho was unable to attend after being I N. scheduled as a speecl1maker. First of all Chief Carroll paid a fine compliFloy, rnent to Mr. Sligl1 as a 1nan, which no mtl.'-'" doul:rt earned the Honorable Charles !B ,, a couple of dozen '\'Otes in case he ruIJ!l fort for a11othe1· political office. boxe Chief Carroll urged the boys to go i11 A strong for rowi11g, saying: "Rowing beca i,s tl1e greatest sport in the world. It's of t1 1 11ot only the greatest, but the healthicaus est. I've played 'em all and- I ,lcnow. I T Nowadays all tl1e young folks think of 1 title· is automobiles. Do more rowirlg and t.he build yourself up, and tl1e11 you'll be 1 sent batt· able to drive an automobile longer." 1 l'Iere Chief Carroll threw a few b•ou- I Squi quets at Charlie J.\,fcQuewan, saying: will "I 1·owed for yea1·s ,v!tl1 Charlie Mc- '' trai Quewan on the old Owasl1tanong crew, ~~ncl a gainer n1an tl1an Charlie never • sat in a boat." { Trio Features Next came some mighty fine ihar'I n1ony by the "No More Frettin' " trio, which is composed of Bob' and Berna1·d O'Brien and Paul Jl,fcOsker, all wellkno,vn Grand Rapids singers. The trio CHARLES P. M'QUEWAN. sang ,vith and witl1out. A piano, we Wl1er1 the board of directors of the • 1rtca11. r: . nd Rapids Boat a11d Canoe club held Dean Charles E. Jackson of St. c.-la t d 'd ·,d to l\Iark's Pro-cathedral was introduced . its election Tuesda.y nig~ ~ ~-~n"' the as the next speaker. IIe responded in , . honor· again lcharles P. c 1eth ~Jub a l1ighly entertaining way, 'telling the , o11ly honorary )ife mem_?er o ane offic~ ·boat club members to work on the by electing him president, n1otto of '"rean1-play" in everytl1lng. wl1icl1 he held twice before sible for "It's tean1 play that counts. Work toMcQuewan is greatlrt_respop the up- HUI getl1er all the time and you're bound the present J1 igh pos1 10n o . . b , one of its orgar11zers. to make a success," he said. r1ve1· cl11b, ,.,,ng f 192'' were re"'I'ennis In China,'' was tl1e subject All the other officers o ~ d ~Iected 'rhey are: .Joseph Kortlan er, of Robe11; Merrill's tall<. J\,lr. Merrill . : . ~ t. . v.r. Honecker, treasrecently returned fron1 a trip to the 1.ce p1eSlt..:en , ... - ·' H -.c't • , 1d , I <'S }. • e.,.. s ecr<ltar:1)-..• ~ , _· Orient, where lie got a first-hand view ·~prI cl .._:_i ..; ..;. ~ tl1e retiring l)"i'esi-.i;· of tl1e game as it is played by Chinese. .L " '-..... ~• Fie told of the differences in making tl1e courts over tl1ere fro1n tl1e way tl1ey make them l1ere. __.,._,.._-=="------------··__,__,____II, HONORED AGAIN - 1 l v I I y A, P. Johnson Gets Big Hand The final speaker of the evening was A. P. Jol111s011, ·pron1i11ent Grand Rapid.s bltsiness rnan and ,vriter. After relating several h.umorous stories, which receive,:t a big !1and, Mr. Johnson commenced his talk on "Wha Sports Mea.n to Ci vilizat!on." ''Sports and athletic events have th greatest influence on civilization today, next to religion,'' said J.\,Ir. Johnsoi1 in 01)ening his talk. "Outdoor sports are the personification of freedom. It is as i1npossible for a nation to live withont sports as it is to live without food.'' l\Ir. Johr1so11 told o·f the grad11al · g-rowtl1 of sports from the early centuries. He told of how one must have tl1e desire to strive for sornething higl1er in order to prove a winner. He ,vas thunderously applauded at the e11 d of l1is speech. Next ca1ne tl1e awarding of merchancllse prizes to holders of lucky tickets. Herb. •C'onlon, Joe Kortlandllr, Chuck lieasly, Tom DeFouw, Hei11ie Martin, Olt1nan and Blair \Vere the winners. Reports by the various committee al1airma11 were read,, A. A. Bullock making a report on tennis, J·oe Kortlander 011 rowing, Mart Buursma on canoeing, Charlie He:xt on entertainn1e11t and C. W. Lawso11 on membersl1Ir,. . ,--.. �I/ • L - - • �13 t • a • •RiP ~ - -- - )IX: I ,. • -~ - - ____ ,,,....._ �• . ,. • ., �C r: > 0 a Q V ,-. - • �,. _, • �1 • r �r-----..--.--~----~-~--~-----~----·-------.. . ---.. . . -------~---~----------~. . . .,-.,.,_. .-_____ ~--...~--~.-,.,,.,...-........--._-......~--......, SUND.A •• ~-, •:,} _a.-:,.·,"'. · i· I ,· • . ' .-,_ , .. . . 1!, :_~~ ~-:.: I-_, ·:- ....... ,. M OFT BIG ~ ' ;. . ' GATTA .. ., _,, ••o- ~ · - - -· ___ .,....,..,._ ' ~ -~.-.. _-:.· •:•· •: ' 6. .. -..... . :rids crew in foreground. No. 3~-Norman Ross, national champ;o • fred Green of Chicago, regatta jud ge. No. 6-Kundsen winner ,-_~ - --- • of 220-yard swim. "'nt, , �2 • II ;:...· ..:; 1· '. • · ,,, I . ,. . I -::.)' • ......... -,, . ,; , ::. . , -'; .' .:-1• • ~,. \'.t_~-. SAND FIGU S IN SECOND DJ • l ,l" '1.. , 4 l, ·..•:. .·.) . IC JJ ·, £. .I) ·: I ;;·:::::: j·;· ,,,, ii ,,;,❖-·,,-(··· .•. ... \i ' I I No. 1-Finish of tilting canoe race. No. 2-Finish of the senior four ,oared shell race, Grand Ra No. 4 Charles McQuenam telling the. crowd all about the races. No. _5 -Col. \V. ) l • �THE DA_ LUB ARTER . . . I 22 ... t1e er-. l,house, ,,.,,1 c.1c11 11ct\ cc>mpletc:.-l and is today ·'-A-u-~-; -l~- -; ....,G:>---'."';i.se ve1 a 1datof the bdoatshoved ,r.1rec atit~l1e {et~ t1. t.,s 1.111 er t e 10n 5 course. 1 •J. ro1 n open for tll"' flrst time to ics of a ,;p('ci al com1nittee of the club are nembers, was b•iilt at a cost of $'13,000, h1>ld every tw •> weeks during the _snmand the officers of the club pride them- mer the ,,.,,hen club isthe look;ng "rarclseason to tl1.ean<! time city fo:rwill selves on the fact that the organization enjoy "idesprui CT renown in its great0,1 es at the present tin1'c but $4,000. est of aquatic sports. Canoeing has 'fhe festivities attending the opening of ·won for itself a "ann place in the the club's new quarters will include of theby~nembers many trips · d · • tian hearts are talcen varties and every year to informal reception with ancmg m i n Plainfield. In th•: .annual Memorial aay spacious new dance hall. OYcr 600 in- run this se>,,~on over 50 participated, ·vitatio11 v e bRen ot1t for tl1e oc- making tile trip down the ri ;er ft·om casaion inl1a·the form sent of bea,utiful bookLov·ve 11. lets containing· the photographs of ~he Every accommodation has been pronew clubhou~ and the officers and vided ·r or the s\\ Imming enthusiast, as pregent sport eommittees. The club- he 11as beer rrovidcd with a spring house has been profusely decorated for board, shower bath, which, with the the affair "ith plants and ferns a..'S well refreshing waler and a fine bathing as many athletic trophies on the walls, beach, makes his pleasure eon1plet"tl. which remind the visitors of the vie- ,vhen the :spring board is not in use tories of the club in times past. the war car.oe 'ls very popular and In 1886 C. w. Chauncey, George R. swilnming races arc held at various PerrY, A. B. Kennan and John Homil- times. which are developing smne ve1Y I ler started the 0- \.Vash-Ta-Nong club fa.st men. 'Ille Jover of field sports is\ at Reed's Jake, which later, through a'so given a chance to exercise at the reorganization, became the Grand Boat and ('anoE- club ground>'. They\ Rapids Boat and Canoe club, which 11a.,•e fine tenis courts, baseball dia.- \ ,,ras re1noved to Nortl1 Park on Granc1 111.ond an<l a ,vell lcept green to river. Charles McQuewan was electPt for other sports . l • "l �he rst pl esi(1, . )f~nller h\n1. and :. · 1 Ca . J1 ' nings, who succceoed h ;:< had an era of prol'J'.W'1 "u ---. ( : ~ Grand Rapids Boat ancl mor It is 1,~hen the new club ''lloa q ll!J...,...,_T-----.. 0 1 ·t1 fl ~ cclt:•brating tl e op .,. was but $50 in •v &s O .:> s• 1 s ne nc,, • club and barclY t/J J st 1 of the G r a n ( ~ ____,- --park. port it. Since that nme 1ub ti \ a d, Y long 1001,cd fonvard to bY t 1e \ 5,, ~ :members thisUrn organization and v-ill markofboth inuuguration of ita grown more than anY socia1 or at . \lt>tic naineclub for in Grand B.av1ds as a made cente new era in the historY· of this club anl1 the citY ~nd has the close of the summer season, wtn,•h has been one of the :most succe:,sful in the club has for acquatic sports. the new club househas and grounds .Ample pr<•Yi&ion been made for at 1 the club the lif<'l.new Grand rivervaried at thep1,a~cs point of where club I a rnernncr- house is located gives an excellent years. ~rnall beginnings manY on its waiting I speedwaY for Ehell racing, and a s91enFrom it 110,,~ it has grown u11til a11d ~hiP of 350 \ t ' I • • 'I "; I \ \ i ) \.• j \ I II \ \~ ) " \ I \ \ • I • •I . \ \ l oFFJCERS .t\~i> 01:RECTORS, noAT AND CANOE CLUB • A. Jen11i11g~, i>reoide11t. C. ~JcQne"an. Vice president. J. ,,~. 1>utna1'l 1, sccret.a1•y. -- " ~..-,f':ir. ~casurcr. ...,. J. R. Tttl'lo-r. · A.. J. PlU111.b. B. l\{. ~"'ox. J;. T. c1oste1.•l\Ot1se • C. A. ~{cC01111ell. �I I • 2 ___________ ____ , _,. ------ __ __________ -----_..._-_-_.. _-_-_... ., . GRAND RAPI _- ----------:-- _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- ._- son1.e of tl1e artistitc members of tl1e organizatio11. The 11e,,, clulll1ouse if:: a l1a11dso1110 f strurtltre of co11crete an(~ i.v<)Od locateLl jl1st north of tl1e street :~:¾-il,va~r bric1g·e n.t Xortl1 Parl(. A foot bridg·0 leads f1 on1. a 11e,v st"'eet rt1il,~.;~1:f st.atic>n tJ..t . . .;5¾1ct Canoe Ciurb Also Open tl1e bridg·e to tll_(~ mai11 tlo or of the clt1b...." r-, l1ou~e. 01, · o~ jcle <,f tl ~e 011tranee is - ~ r -..lr-~easor . . . i 1 Century Ft1rniture 1 Ft1r11iture co1n1)ar1y, f c-on1pa113r, 1\-1 iC'hig·a11. [~Clat i11g co111pa11y, f <Jra.11d l{apids F~tney F1..1rniture co1npa11y, (;. H. Pai11e co1npa11y, J. D. Itan lJ Cl1air • con1pa11y, J"'uxt1ry (;h[tir eo1n1>ar1y, I11peria I 'J,cll)le co11111a11y, Hl10 l to11-811y·cler l1"'ur11i ture C'0iUJ)a11J'. (1 r .. t11<1 I{H,I>ic1s ( ~l1ctir 1 co111J)~111~-. Gra11(l l{api<is I(it('l1c11 <1 <:Lbinet f C'Oll11clnY. ,rall<•y (iit~~ De~k ('Ol11l)<ll1Y, _-l-lJe.c(' ;i( ~o ,vii}) C'ollll e-"~ ~; C]l()C'l(l'OOn1~. I L11eo-l{,·clrno11(i lf't1r11iture co1npa11)', l{er.:\ t the t1tl1er sic1c i.s tlie ·,p.f~rlor. rr111s key· & <~ clY :B,ur11i turf' C<.>1npc1,11y, <..~harles j:,:. [t 1arg·e ron111 \Yjtl1 11arri-,, c>fLfloor~, 1 T..1ue0. 1-~a rb0r _Bros.' (!11~1 ir t·on.11>:t 11)-• J'ed \Ya.I ls, ,vl1 ite "- a11(l ~Vf' 1l()'v\~ C(•i1 i11g :.ti~ I 'rai1k \\1 it1eg,J r, t :ra,vf<.1rcl (~ha i 1· c-O111tri n11ni11gs a.11cl g·rep11 clr,~i11g·s. Jt j l f)~t11>,.., I{art ~'l irror, 1)1,:tte COlll]>Ull"j-, }{o}·dJ ~ l>eautifull}· fu1·r!.iBllt"'Cl. ~ l •,ur1l.iture C'on11,;.t11y, T-Ierr1olsl1Pi1:1t.•r c-01111 1 1JJr1.11y, Grand l{c:LJ)icls VVoo<l _(~a, ·,· 1' ... • .,,...., Handsome Both on ·Exteri~r and I 6 1 , ·' ' 7 • l..1i1t1l)<'rt l 1,ur11i.tt1re • _ ,.., .,....,.__.o co 111 in .lnRide Furnishings. Dir0c1.JJ-, i11 fro11 t Of l il.<.' J1~1i11 {'lltl'ctllC<~ I lHllt~ - (1a11fiP1d H:trVl'~I' <'011ll>c..lll)r, HP~·&- \ . l a r<.ls'' .1\ rt '--1 iR tl1c lH.rg·e balJ roon1. ~CI~i~ t ..tltes l~1, 1 ~,'-'tnl-.; .,... ►✓ eyn1O11r c-O1111 tl1c• g·reate1· part t>f t~l(' 111t)'?rio1· <>f tlt(~ .' J~an:,.-, Hie . . is,\ 11 ( 1ii:~ :::;t<>rt•, E"'ostcr & cltil.l {>Jl. tllC' 1naj11 flO<)l'. :·.t i.s tirii~1tv{l -1:~1n1d1·ccls 1\tte11d: G1·<-t11,d ·Hnll r.t1l1.:t t i:l,IJJ)l'Ol)l'i<.ttel~r ill a, (lttlI 0,tlr and !1a~ c.t l ~tev·<'11s. J 011 t;~ i.- ;, 6 c:.Lr eo1111>a11:',', <1. A. i .:V[i tts, J ti Jl(!g·<•- },~·~ ~£-! eo11111a11~r, \ \ri 11 ia 111 1'1,trks ~lcti,·c lJse of tl1£~ X eyv J1igh l)c-':.11:r1eci l'l"'ilj11g·. 'I'll(\ t•l<:c.:tl'i<' 1ix- f <~l11 1 11i11g·}1a111, l-Ie11r:{ H111itl1, lvliss llttrttl1rPs a1·c uf ,,·oot.i 011 t11e :\!i...-:~iun Ol'(iv1·. 1 :i 1ett, .r. J . . l1a~'li~s, c1. , \T. Dicrclorf <iig·ar 1ll1i1tlin·e:. ._, "\\Te ll 1't1r11i1-:,l1ecl i-cti1·i11g roo111s for coinfJtW.lJ,', ll. ~c;l111eid01· co1111Ja11y, I{ecd- ! '\Ii - HO!JE ! I I i 'fl1c beatttifltl 11e,v· clubl101isc <)f tl1c ,. (ira11d Rapids Boat a11d Ca11oe cl11b, tl1e • !)ride <Jf ev-ery 111cn1ber a11d ail ol)ject oC ac1miratio11 to the <:)11tire co1n.111li11it),.., ,va,·-:; I givne a holIS(~ ,,-arming· ~rhursda~'-r'\ after- j • • 110011 a11cl c·vpr1.i11fl· that ~ttt1·ted ,;t bril---liantl'y upo11 it..; career. ~\II tl1roug·l1 t.110 after11001't n.. rcce1Jtio11 ,v~1s 11<'ld for tl1n l)Ublic a,11.(1 great 11u111- j bers tl1ro11g·ed tl1roug·J1 the fi11e l)uilclir1~ I tl1at tho clt1b has e1·ectctl as its l10111e. t 111 the e:·ve11i11g· tl1e 111e111lJcrs c.t1JL1 their ,,-0111e11 rc"'lativ·e~ a11d friends (ledica.te(l lI tl1e., 11c:,v l)allroo1i1 \ 'Vitl1 a dt.t11ci11g· 1>arty tl1at IJl'O\'ecl 011t• ()f tl1.c 11otcLblc c\-e11ts oi" il1c ca.rly soeja l ~<'aso11. ,l\ t c.JI1t! t.i!11e· I I '( l.J-er(~- 'v,·u;,:e f>UO ])81'8011:, 011 tl1 C l)t.ll] ruon l . I i.oor, ,,·11ilc tl1e otl1er JJ<}l'tio11~, <)[ t11c pui1cli11g· ~tll(l tl1 e J)Orches ,,·ere ,ve 11 lille(.1 ,vitl1 111 c11111ers ai1d thcjr gt1es ts. In the first public tef5t tl10, clubhouse l)ro,·ccl ,it8e1f fully up tc> the hoJ)es of its lJ11ilt1- ~ I1<'l11rl~c~l~lC · RecPptio11 a11d Bali. Tl1 e g·uest.~ of t,1e clt.11) ,,·C're rccei,,e(1 11~,,· <.·li1l.,I1011sc~ of Bo,tt ail(l Ca11oe Clllb:; fo1~11all).. Opcnetl '1']1i1rsda.~To ·--··----- - --- ....-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - : : - - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .... j11 tl1e ha11dso111e 111ai1.1. J)a.rlor by tl1e f ,Yo1-r1e11 are ~ tl1e south e11cl of the officers a11d directors, i11c1~1di11g Presi-1 1nain floor. ...~t t:1e vvest side is· a ,·vlde Tandler co1111Ja11)'"', Kup1)e11hein1er comde11t ..L\.brcl111 .Jc11n.i'ng·8. "\Tice Presider1t l)or,;n uver1oo1~!1.11g· Grand ri1.7er. 1\ t tl1e pany-, Bissell CarJ)et S,veepe1.. co111pa11)·, J. 1-1.. J. Friedrie;l1, liugo E,riedricl1, '\,Vcst's.... .-CJ1a r}(:'S .J\icQu,(}\,·a~1 Secret3;r_y- aTasetm,,.. . . - (?!i.'is~\rrt-8id.e c.~11otl1er ])Ol'Ch 0\1 ~:H.'lool(S clrug stores, Jarvis con1pa111y, I~e0.119 ~- tPtitr1an1, Trcasurc-r Rol).f'rt ~peir: Direetl1,) lJl'OI)osecl 1;er111is cot1rts. tors Jf;se11h }{. 1'a)rJc)1·. r . . .'\. l\l c(~o.1111ell.. 011 t11e lu,,·er· !1001· is tl10 large bo<-tt Pl1i l li1):-;1 co111pa11y, J osc1Jh K.ortla1:.der. j r., f J. "\,\T. 'l ho1111)so11, 1-~-oger H1ln11Jl1 re~.r, PPC-1( Burt 11,ox, l..1e<)11 tJiosterl1r>t1sr~ c.111cl ..-\. D. · roo 111 ,,ritl1 a Cl:( 11,11 r11odc.t tio11s for tl1e racBrotl1ers, .J. (;. Herk11er & ( ~-0.. Ira M. J>l11111 b. Dliri11g· tht--: cour.c.;e ,)f tl1e cve 11 j11g· c1·c.tft a11(1 1 tu111erot1s clt1b lJOctts, a11cl 1ng- J..:u.111u11<1 "\\·-. Bootl1 011 i.J.1•vittti io11 of J c<-t11-oes :111ci also for tl10 ~cores of f)ri- Sr11ith., B.:1xto1· & (;o., l)a,,--jd If. Bro,v11. - - - - - - ~ ,t,-it.~~---tl1e <.;lt1b official~ add:res:-;ed t.he ;;tssc1r 1- t ,·ate ca11oes o,vnecl lJ).i 111c•1111)C'l'S. <...;<.}111l)lage, co11gratl1lati11g· ihc clul) on tl1c 111odious JocJ{c1:· roo111s exte11d. arol1r1cl.. f'rectif111 of st1el1 a fi110 1101110 a.11.d (ll\rpJlt11e boat c1uarte;rs a11c1 shc>\\·er l1ath.s arc j11g t11,011 tl1e useful11ess a11d ·\'aluo of tl1(~ j11 cn1111ecti<)11. Tl1e t:onstructio11 i11 tl1e <·1 LllJ to Gr"a11d Fta1,ids. 'l'is topic ,,;-<-1s I boat roo111. is -<Jf C()Ilcrete <111d steel Cl1ilcll•t-.11~s JI0111c and Sal \'ati<)Il A1•111~· ''~.1110 You11g· l\'la11 i11 SiJort.'' t11rougl1out. Rt1·n,v,1~·s leacl c1irectly from ~Jx1llai11 I11fa.r..t Case. ~\ l)retty i11cidcr1t of t11e e·v:c11ing ,,~as tl1e l)Oat ro.on1 to. tl1e flo,tts 011 tl1e The statemc11t ,vas 111ac1e that tl1e Cl1iltl1e J)rese11tatio1t by tl1c club of a hai1c1river. O11ts1de stairs als~ lead dO\\:11 so1110 dia111011cL-,stu(iclcrl ,v~ttcJ1 fol> to c. fro111 the .lt~rg·c. l)Orc}1. .t11 tl1c attic dre11' s Home refl1setl to take the i11fa11t ..,'\.. l\fcC01111011, ehai1·111a11. (>f th0. btlildii1g- a,re th1·ee l1vrng 1·00111s for the cli,1b attl1at ,vas deserted a,t l\frs. C. E. Monroe's con1111ittee, i11 a.J)preciatio11 r,f his excel:.. tcridan ts. r<)Orni11g l1ouse, 37 Ionia siree~, laBt lP11t ,vork. 1>reside11t .Jen11i11g·s 111ade the, Cl11I> I...Aa1·g·:e a11cl Pros1lc1·<>us. prcse11t,.:t,tio11, ,;vJ1ich took :::.v.rr. l\{cC011nell I The Boat a11<l -Canoe clt1b is -011e of "\°\Tednesday. The 011ly reaso11 ,vhy the by· st1 rprise. J tJ1e n1.ost t)rc>s~rous a11<.1 lJest 111a11.aged 1 homo did 11ot take the child vvas because l\Iusic \\·as fur11isl1ecl by Tulle r's or- , el u l)s Gran cl ~R,l~11icl8 · l1as ever kno\,·11. It the nt1rsery is tor11 dow11, tl1ere is conse· f:ra a11d 1~efreshme11 ts ,vere ser·"t.red 1 ha~ a n1en1 hers hip of 3 5 0, ,vhicl1 is que11tly 110 11t1rsc ir1 the l1ouse and there ._,. rrt-nr~1:ernoo11 a11d 0\-eni11g;. f completel~· filled, \\·itl1 a 11u111ber of ap..,._ iratio11.c:; of tl1e clulJ ·\\~ere 1>ai-- I plicar1ts 011 the \Yaiti11g.. list. It is n1ade f are scarceJJr adequate conveniences for taiti11r;--eu::e---,~ .,_ . :: - 1,-. ~! rl :!,01'.) fi11e. te1T1porar~:- e111belli$h111e11ts llP of vigCArous. aettve ~·ou11g 111en de·0(l j11. adclitio11 to the per111~t- ,roted to ,v:hole~on1e Olltdoor spor·ts a11d I the l10111e at prese11t, as they are gettures of tl10 clubl1ouse. I11 tJ1e I its ,rariow activities are carl'iecl on ,,vith ting ready to 1no\·e into the 11e,,,. l)uildtl1e effect "~as particlllarly f a11 e11tl1uJSiasan tJ1at is co11tag•iol1s. i11g. ...l\.fter tl1e Blodgett Children's Home rl,he l'lubl1ouse has boe11 erected from f is opened tl10rc- ,vill be ample J)rovision .flllldS ::.lC<~Ul11lllated for so111e years a11d f for all such calls for aid. 11t~ ;111.cl Stt•iI~:i11Q: Deco1·ations. . jt 110,v ha'i.,.<5 a debt of only $4,000 upon it. I Officers of the Salvation Ar1ny Rescue >1ne rlra_pi11g·s 11 u11g fro111 tl1e Extensive g·rot111as arot111d it are o,vned f Home on South Di,·ision street say that 11d alo11g the ":-alls. Suspe11ded : rafter~ ,,~a~ a large bircl1 barl·: by the clut).). tl1e cl1ild \\'as brot1gl1t to the rescue 1 Scores of the frie11ds of the club rallied 'J 1n b()licaf of the pasti1ne to home about 10 o'clock 1."uesday· night and to its aid iJl ft1r11ishi11g the bt1ilding, co11club is chiefl!y c1ev·ote,J. that tl1e 1v·o1nan carr)ri11g· the cl1ild had tributing· f•,nr11iturc, cushio11s a11d various st8.ted tlJat sl1e \\'0Uld be able to c-arc tho ,val.1E1 ,,,.ere cro~sed oarf:; te1111is rackets a11d baseball fixtt1res. ~ores of ct1shions were co11- for it for the · 11igl1 t, ,,·11er~upo11 the peosig•nifica11t of tl1e sports ,,·l1ich tribt1 teu b:_v~ girl a11d ,vo111e11. friends of ple at the hon1e · agreed to start a11 i11 .. .11jo~recl at the new (J.11a.rters t)f tl1e club, :gev·e11ty-ti,,.e 11ames being. 011 vestigatio11 tl1e 11ext day. 'I'he child has 111 the c~or11ers, also, stacl(ecl · the list of fair do11ors. Bt1si11ess houses sec11red a t0m1Jorary hon1e at the .Detens,veeps acT<led to the effectivecontributi11.g· i11 ad<.litio11 to those already tio11 11.ospital. 0~tl10 ctecoratio11s. I•t'<.rr tl1e fi11e publi8hed a re as foll.ovvs: i\[ichiga11 Chair • ei. . i ff.:'hieved tl1e clt1l1 l1ad to ti1anlr con1pany, :!llf.:tcey con1pa11~\ Sto, & Davis "Parker House," tl1e health coffee. Gj VE G()OD ·REAS()NS ! I ! '--' I HH&!BAIP& • <, Nii i • ii I f &Q;4; fii f Dj a - .fK CY.e+44¥1FN,ii �- - Would Have Recreation Park Preserve Gay Tradition Tl1e property of the Gra11d Rapids Boat a .11d Ca11oe club, located 011 Grand ri"ver at Nortl1 Parl-r, 011ce tl1e sce11e of colorful athletic con1 .. r1etltio11s a,nd social events, last nigl1t was offered to tl1e cit)· as a donation for public recreational activities by the board of directors of tl1e club. The comrriur1ication. presented to the city co1nmiss!on. 11tated tl1at owing to radically changed condi:.. tions it is impossible to maintai11 the organization as a private insti ... tution and rather than sell the J property to a private agency a11d t.o preserve the sentiment arid tradi• ·tions of the club. the directors decided to offer it to some public · agency for 1:~ecreational and social purposes. • I 80-Vear Lease The property consists of a large clubl1ouse. well equipped for these purposes. on land upon which tl1e club holds an unexpired lease of 80 )"ears from tl1e Grand Rapids Railroad company. and two acres of adjacent land. Valuation is l)laced at $16,000, ,vhicl1 is all paid except a i 1nort~age of $5,000, whicl1 the cit3-· t I would be asked to assun1e. Defi11ite action on the offer. without undue delay. is asked. The matter was submitted by ?t·t ayor Elvi11 Swartl1out to the cor11mittee on ad1ninistration. Tl1e club sponsored ro"1·ing crewl-t vthich :\'.\·on national honors and many intercity regattas and rowing a11d canoei11g ... competitio11s were held on tl'1e river ~vh1ch the club• l1ouse o·verlooks. It i1ad bee11 used by the Grand Rapids Naval reserves until that organization 1noved into larger quarters at Reeds Lake. Tl1e communication to tl1e commission was signed by Charles ~le• Quewan, president, and Cl1arles li'. Hext. secretary. • • �... - 1 : ,,,..- ( j{f • I- /4 In:- /;-. . ,,/,,, ;; ' I'° - ; pf~ ~ ~·✓~ foU4f •--· _._I31!,;.., fo~ #1~~au -k t~Edf~A/ a-f. - • • LfUU-/ �3( . ,~__..._...__..,___............,.... : B:r CASE!Y "l'1ie persistence and loyalty of one -tnan. the «ameness of another. and the ucellent coaching by a third probably •ere :the big factors in the victory Sat1 urday, which gave the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club supremacy over all central state& rhers for 1921. Charles ~cQuewan. for years a familiar tlg"ure.. in the annals of the• local o~anizatlon. has given unreservedly of •Ma w.Iuable time to ''his club"-has helped train its crews. has watched lta euccesse$ and reversals in past Y,t.t, rs with impartial exterior calmne,s, bqt with heartfelt concern. He is la.rgely responsible fOT the brl»ging tit one of the big.g.est. 11.®ors ft the country to Grand a.aids and -never has such an honor »Ab 'SO fully appreciated by a Grand Rapids citizenry. For his great Interest In the affairs of the Boat and Canoe club a,eti for the time and effort he has dedicated to its orogress in suorts. Clalre Fox, club president. in bebalf of the club, has conferred uoon McQuewan the flnst honorary membermip. It waR the fl.nest way that aopreciatlon could be show11. and. need- I lees to say. he would ask no better re- , •ai-~ Xortl~de1·'s Pluck. l Joseph Kortlander was the individual hero of the regatta. .-:;:;:;•,~;:;:,; Almoet ohysically unfit Friday on account of a slight illness. Kortlander nevertheless took his place in the shell. helping the club to 5 ooints in the ~~r mile dash for doubles. After fiYs • ffefeat in Saturday's single shell racea. in which ''Joe'' finished third. ! he collapsed and w~ DUt under a YlhY- I an'.s cere at the clubhouse. but the W ft,thting .snirit wo1tld not be downed fq easily, aitd \\"lien Kortlander heard ffiii! <!lln f'or i:he eenior doubles he cried .. ~~•m in -on that.'' and despite the oroeats of h1s friendsr took his way to the ver, irt1:o the shell with Peterson. and e pe.lr- won the race. Kortlander cold in t4e shell after the gruelling I I ~ ;=; ,,, • Service Rewarded �• -. , - • �• azu:a&ac: , ma• ••• •• =w• • - --~ - • • Chicago Lut j ft Wa, in the Gala Day When Jack Corbet, Who Died m Week, Coached Local Oarsmen • rhe death in Chicago last week : John E. (Jack) Corbet, noted •wing coach, served to recall to ndreds of Grand Rapids men the :lla days of Corbet's residence here ben the oarsmen of the Grand apids Boat and Canoe club, tu>red by him, were rated among te finest in the land. When the old club disbanded bout 10 years ago there were .)m!e big showcases full of trophies Lnd walls of several rooms were ~vered.\ tightly with plaques, all !apture« in regattas held through,ut the ·n1ted States and Canada JY Grah4 Rapids oarsmen who ,tlldied un<l~this same Q>rbet. He Wlt.8 83 at the time of his ''!eatlL 1 -4 tta1 Crews Win Bega • The club hl the early nineteen 1undreds had virtually no CQmpe:ltion from automobiles or golf ~lubs and for years had a full membership of 4(¥), reaching its peak in 1q. At that time Charles McQuewan was president and prominen.t Qfflcials of the club included Lon McConnell, Joseph R. Taylor, llunfley R11saell and others. They decided to employ the best rowing ooach to train the young members. Corbet from 1883-1886 w~s champ1oi.. ]>N)fessional sculler of the Unltnd States and he was employed. Corbet was with the Grand Rapids club from 1909 to about 1922 with the excepti~ of about two years whetl ~ coached the Chicago Rowing clab. Crews of single, double, four and eight-oar shells represented Grand Rapids at the Nattonal Rowing association regatta, sociation regatt&, and Central States Rowing associ~tion regattas. During this time two of the crews representing Grand Rapids won signal honors. In 1912 the winner in the National in Peoria was a C 1 four-oared crew stroked by hares Foote the other members being Ben Kuyers, Edward Schopps and Herb Conlon. The previous day the same crew with Edward Steinberg rowiqg in p1ace of Schopps won the fdbr-oared race in the Central States regatta. S~inberg was taken sick in the night and Schopps was substituted In his place in the winnlng crew. In 1914 at the National regatta at Philadelphia an eightoart!d crew stroked by Lester Stiles and crew members, Podge Holoway, now coach of Ann Arbor High school, Jule Peterson, Sophus Johnson, present city manager, Ernest Conloh, Frank Brummler, Fred Lindner, Cliff Dolan won this feature event of the regatta. Also among the trophy winners was Joseph Kortlander, an outstanding single ·sculls perfonner. Honor List Long. Many of Grand Rapids' men who in association regattas brought fame to Grand Rapids inclQded Tom Luce, Art Godwin, Charles Dregge, Aeraham Jennings Ned Raiguel Dudley and H~w.ard Dewey: Dave Brown, David warner, Elmer Cress, Neal Wagenaar, Paul and Frank Goebel, Edward Fitzgerald, Roy Johnson, now football coach in Arizona· Mart Boursma, 'William Young, 'George Do~r and many others. At the same time two crack coxswains were developed at the club and directed many eights in Southw•ern Amateur Rowln& as- wtnning race~ • Fowler and Peter DeYoung. A erack eight-oar crew representing Grand Rapids was made up of Russell Davis, stroke, Alvin Hoek, Dick Tanis, - George Donker, William Th d k M t· Young, Phil orn Y e, arm Buu,.rsma, Howard MacMillan with Peter DeYoung, coxswain won the eight-oared race at the Southwestern regatta in Peoria in 1922 and the ame year won the eightoared Central States regatta and in won the dual regatta with 1923 the Detroit Boat club in Detroit. Big ._gatta Here. In the peak of activities crews each year entered regattas throughout the middle west and east. The crews many times were represented in the Canadian Henley at St. Catherines, Ont., and in r~gattas at Chicago, Duluth, Peoria, St. Louis, Detroit, Buffalo and Philadelphia. In 1920 th~ Central States association joined with the Southwestern Amateur auociation to -hold their annual regattas in Grand Rapids. More than 3)() oars1,1en were represented from all parts of the country and during the regaU. a championshiJ! swimming event was held, sanct1o~d by the Amateur Athletic un1on._The feature race w_as won by .Non11ui Ross, ~t that time holder of the worlds swimming championship. Ross _ls now a well known Chicago radio announcer. Most ~f the old trophies have been distributed among the members and nearly 100 were donated to the local naval unit for use in what at that time was a proposed new clubhouse for their crews. The old club building still stands on Grancl They were Jack river at North Park. �GRAND 1 8 2 6 i....,'" 1 9 2 6 RAPIDS AMPAU __ ENTENNIAL ~ELEBRATION OFFICIAL PROGRAM c--------o DEDICATION • To those sturdy pioneers, living and dead, who have contributed so much in building this beautiful city on the rapids of the Grand, these exercises are reverently dedicated, with sincerest appreciation of the past, devout consecration of the present and ambitious resolution for the future. • c,- - - - - - - - o 1826--1926 SEPTEMBER 23 TO 26, 1926 Commemorating the founding of Grand Rapids \ • �1 8 2 6 GRAND RAPIDS 1 9 2 6 SEPTEMBER 2 3 TO 2 6, 1 9 2 6 0 cial Program Friday, September 24th, 6:30 P. M. Downtown Streets Thursday, September 23rd, 2: 30 and 7: 30 P. M. Ann Street Bridge OLD FASHIONED PARADE PIONEER PAGEANT Episode One: LANDING OF LOUIS CAMPAU Life in Indian village, which surrounds first Baptist Mission, is shown while Louis Campau, first permanent white settler, approaches in a canoe paddled by two Indian squaws, who have brought him from Lowell. Chief Noonday, Ottawa Indian leader, has conference with Campau relative to establishment of permanent trading post on this site. Episode Two: MARRIAGE OF HARRIET GUILD TO BARNEY BURTON Pioneer life in the settlement shown, enshrouded with the spirit of festivity contingent to the first wedding among the permanent settlers. Episode 'Three: AN. ANNUAL INDIAN PAY DAY Government agents are shown fulfilling the treaty which made the Indians beneficiaries of the government treasury. Following this historic affair bartering and trading is being carried on until a dramatic crisis is encountered which leads to a historic Indian Cou11cil Fire and ceremonials. ~ ~ Friday, September 24th, 2: 30 and 8 :00 P. M. Armory HISTORICAL STYLE SHOW Five episodes, each depicting a twenty-year period in fashions and costumes, furniture and vehicles then popular. Characterizations portrayed by groups from Daughters of American Revolution, Business Girls' Co-operative Club, Ladies Literary Club, Women's City Club and representatives of leading merchants of the city. St. Cecelia Society and Shubert Club, accompanied by Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra will render music popular to the period portrayed. Dances popular in the various periods will be presented by students of the Misses Calla Travis, Marjorie Ford and Edythe Mansfield, dancing tutors. At the evening performance, George E. Fitch, compiler of the book, "Old Grand Rapids," will show stereopticon views of "Evolution of Campau Square," "Citizens of the Old Village," "Faces and Places," and "Old Street Scenes." ~ ~ Friday, September 24th, 2:30 P. M. (Also 7:30 P. M. September 25th) Ann Street Bridge PAGEANT OF PROGRESS Spectacle Extraordinary, 6,000 People Participating Spectacular pageant effectively portraying the idealized factors of Grand Rapids' spirit of the future, comprised of four main episodes, Spiritual or religious; Americanization; Peace; Health, Joy and Beauty. The magnificent grand march with 6,000 participants under the triumphal arch will vividly point the necessary steps in the progress of the city-"Grand Rapids-A Good Place to Live." 2,500 People Participating. . Parade designed to portray historic evolution of Grarfd Rapids' i11dustries, city government, public service, education and religious systems. One section devoted to historic "Raggamuffin Political Parade," and torch light groups. All bands, fraternal, military, social, religious and business organizations invited to participate ; Captain Chas. E. Belknap, generalissimo : George C. Blickle, marshal} of parade. ~ ~ Saturday, September 25th, 7: 30 P. M. Ann Street Bridge PAGEANT OF PROGRESS Repeat of this unusually spectacular pageant, (See Friday, September 24th), with addition of a gorgeous fireworks display ~ ~ Continuous, September 23rd to 25th Klingman Builq,ing, Open Daily, 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. PIONEER EXPOSITION One of the most comprehensive exhibits of Pioneer and Indian relics ever assembled, augmented by displays showing the evolution of various industries and public service organizations. Chief Pontiac, youthful descendant of the famous chief of 100 years ago, will be an attendant in native costume, throughout the exposition. Charles T. Manktelow, famous connoiseur of Indian relics and lore, will be present with his unexcelled collection and will give lectures - on the specimens. ~ ~ Sunday, September 26th All Religious Houses ~~ouR FUTURE'' Reunions of old school classes, fraternities, societies, clubs and church present and ambitious anticipation for an even more glorious future will be the theme of all religious organizations in Grand Rapids, regardless of creed or dogma, sect or school. All churches have been requested to co-operate with such special sermons and programs. HOMECOMINGS AND REUNIONS Renuions of old school classes, fraternities, societies, clubs and church groups are scheduled at various places, during the Celebration. Story telling, reminiscences and old-time games will be a marked feature of these affairs. Many families will have reunions and special social features are being planned throughout the city. THE MEMORIAL MEDAL As a memorial to the celebrating of Grand Rapids' one hundredth birthday, beautiful bronze memorial medals are being offered for sale. These handsome medals bear, on one side, the cameo-likeness of Louis Campau and his wife, Sophie DeMarsac Campau. On the reverse side is shown in excellent perspective and authentic view of the "Beginning of Grand Rapids." The medal is the size of a half-dollar. A limited quantity are being offered for sale. By displaying this medal, the bearer is admitted to the Pageant of Progress and the Pioneer Exposition. Priced at $1.00 each. . �SJ ~ . -- - - -- - - - ·-. \ ,,,w:! ' ----·-- ' 1111111' ) • • • �.... / Aquatics-·-Plan for C in Nevel H~ National - G. R. t •Y TOM JONES. ne,v epoch in the history of \ ,ds rowing, and a,vakening lf some of the old crews \ ht honor and fame to the'\ ·ty some tv{enty years ago, ne of the Grand Rapids \ Canoe club was opened '.!iously with a house warm-\ hursday afternoon and even- \ club house the new building'\ th whlch the local members e to talre a second place ,vith , west. Every appointment is te as it could possibly be. y is the club house one of xcellenRe, for a building of its , '\vhat s more important to of the club, it opens up a at ca11not be beaten bY none. 1is course it is the hope of the >f the club to hold a national within tl1e next two years, at e Grand Rapids rowing course ~ ft·v·'1...,.ht to the attention of the 1~ { of the country. ll J ew cours' is a three-quarters \ d aighta\.,r&.y, extending from the n: • to the cl11bhouse without the \ '} 1struction. While it is too late i.' nt to make a bid for the 1909 \ C. A. M'CONNELL. "II l regatta of oarsn1en, much as 1 Chairman Building Comn1ittee. CHARLES M'QUEWAN. 1 cers ,vould like to do so ,,. .ith VicQ Presiden • w clubhouse, a strenuous eff•ort n1ade to land the 1910 meeting. are the lockers and bath rooms. Ther~ ' ly the Detroit boat club, which are t,vo locker roon1.s, while the fines ' rominent part in the Springfield · held last month, has given its regatta held last Saturday, when of sho,,rer baths form the bath roon; to help in landing the 1910 club members and their fair friends equipment. · I' The Detroiters have looked\ took opportunity to witness the races. Boating and conoeing is not the onl: ne local course and have proOn the lower floor of the clubhouse is ·of the Grand Rapids Boat an ed it every bit as good for row- stored the equipment of the club, con- feature Canoe club, h·o\vever. The f ollowin irposes as the Springfield $1,000,- sistlng of the canoes and rowing shells. is quoted fron1 the souvenir booklE ', .;e that caused so much talb. \ '.rhree spacious doors give exit from the issued for the o:peni11g day features: the 1909 attractions there will b'e equipment room to the docks, from ''The swimming enthusiast is also pe \ than the regular bi-weeklY re- where the boats may be sl~pped into the at home, as he has his sprin ; of the club members. It has al- water for the best of fun or the stern- fectly board, shower and refreshing water f hnen arranged that either the est of races. make his pleasure co111.plete. ''At the ne,v s,vimming beach, go( 1it Boat or thehere Chicago Boat will send~lub a crew to contest Other Features of Club. the Grand Rapids organization. And it is not onlY contests that fea- bathing will be possible with shallo e for the beginner and deep watf; ldeal House and course. ture theanysport features ny of the club. water Nearly aftern94cc members into which the more experienced swhf; can be seen packi ·,O, ir equipment mer maY plunge. When he tires of 1 canoes for a g Ji at may 1ast .•:.· ... t as for these coming c,ontests, tl1.ey into ... , one day or one •p of nyhoW, it is ·!f >nly sup-plen1entary to the new club { ti e in the eyes of the members. And --'- ~ fl I,.~~ - i----------------------------::\i ., ABRAM JEC J Presld• �1'908.- ------ • 1 HERA . • / ' . . . TGUR.t • . _ :se Marks Epoch in History of ·:l~ocal itta--The Club"'s History. I •' I -. ),,. • G. R. ---·- - - - - - - - - - - - - - · - - - - - - - - ' ~~•- ?'~< I 4 ' I· begun, •• f '• .Id the list continued to grow, • ·•' ' \:s;:; ' · ,..,uod boat ).rene hot -c ,ncl • ' "· l JJ. W, PUTNAM. 1.nter11g the ~ber of I n, but ver of pretty court, green ·ecrea1 supcourts excelnjoyed Secretary. • \ • The property which the club now holds is valt1ed. at $13,000. It incl11des tl1e club house and equipn1ent and a. 99-year lease O,f! a four-acre plot of ground, extendinc7. along the river front, affording· ample op1 ,ort11nity for the i.n · dulgence in tennis a1.'d the building of a baseball diamc,nd nE: xt spring. Testimony of the regara· in which th& club me1nbers held the 1nE:,-;1 ,vho were most il)Jltrumental in . bring/ng about the present state of affairs -.v,,s indicated wl1en C. A. McConnell, cha/:;;,,m.an of the building committee, ,,·aF pi•~ sented w!tl1 a diamond watch fob on Thursday night and forced tc, make a speech that didn't go very fur becau~e Of the i11terruption of the c1'.eers for McConnell. Associated with :McConnell on the building committee ,vere Earl Irwin, J. R. Tayior, Leon Closterhouse an('! J. R. ' R. V. l • IR, Sommers. Treasu • The present officers of the club are: Abram Jennings, president ' -whe h"s 11eld the position during the last t,vo the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe years; Cl1arles :vJ:cQuevvan, vice presiclub, saved the sport i11 Grand Rapids. dent; J. W. Putnam, secretary, and R. They formed the Gr,111d Rapids Boat Y. Speir, treasurer. On 'the board ot club and occupied the. house of the old directors, besides the .officers, are: J. , Owash-ta-nong club. This they oc- R. Taylor, A. J. Plt1111b, B. M. Fox, cupied for a year until the Lakeside Leon Closterhouse and C. A. McCon11ell. club was organized, when that body The ne,v club house is under the c.onoffered to build a new boat house if trol of the house con1mittee, of wl:ich tl1e club would surrender its lease. Charles McQuewan, the 1nost prominer,t This was done, and, the boat ho::ise of Grand· Rapids' oarsmen, is chalrn1an was built at Reed's µ1,e. I and ·J. R. Taylor the other m<>1nber. This boat house wits occupied until On the 11ew course one regatta was , 1902, when It was dficlded that better l1eld last Satt1rday and the final of th~ quarters were neede .. and the change season comes this coming Saturda· • • • • l I • • • • • ' • • • • ; ' y see enjoy.mond, n1akes ,ber of • ' other, was never tried ag·aln, and rowIng is dead on Salt lake. Returning from the west to their hon1e cour~e the Owash-ta-nong club tore through in great style In t!1e 1889 regatta, and wcin first place fron1 the other northwest cre,vs, gaining perma11ent possession of the Perry tropr..y. Jn this crew were Charles Forbes, stroke; William Beason, No, 3; Claude F:eeman, No. 2, and Ed Earl, bow. The next year markec1 tl1e end of the Owash-ta-nong club, however, and In t1·:: disruption the property of the • • • Propertr, of High Value. -- • • ' I> • unt\-1 at tl1e present tin1e the club l1as a m, n1bi,rship of 050. Tht. a~· nual membership fee of the clt1b ,,,a1; set at $10 ,vl1en the move ,vas rn,:. ~e to North pal'!,. Out of each paymer.l. $4 ,·,as laid aside as a building fun(, until ,vhen the tin1e for buildine- Cl',ri1e there was $6,000 in tl1e treasury, This ,vas considered a sufficient bt1iluin e- fund and the balance needed ,,as 1·aised by the selling of bonds. s. V i · t Bob vlndy C • �, .. ... '/ t • • .•, ~-· \ -- ., • . , -., J :.·.: , , t • • ,- ✓ I • • ..•.. ... .. . • ~ •• ~ ., /,.·· - ·- .-.&. h44 - _,,,,,,,., - -- - ' ,. - -- - ., _ & -- ------ - a - ~ -~- - -~~--;;: - - - ..- ---·::.·--- ·--~-:.-- - _- - -----,..- .=. - -_:_,_ -- -... \ . •.\ �• I • , l Grand Rapids Leader Taken By Death • I ' f t \! I ,{ I t w. • MILLARD PALMER • .. 0 - lS l-. ��4 • A GRAND RAPIDS PRODUCT. One of the Young Veterans of the Furniture City Trade. 1'11e ,risitor to Grand Rapids, 1\llich., ca11 hardly consider himself familiar \vith the promi11ent f actors i11 the trade in that n1arket u11less he knows I Charles McQt1e,van, \vho has been identified with the l11m1)er business there for o, er a quarter of a ce11tt1r:y. Dt1ri11g tl1e greater part of this interval Mr. McQuewan has been engaged on bis own account, ha, ing started busi11ess for l1imself in 1886. He has co11fined l1imself ex-elusively to hard,voods, maki11g at all times a specialty of 1'1exican m~hogan)T, and is regarded as one of I the experts in . the handling of that product. His familiarity witl1 the hardwood trade is brought abot1t thro11gh )rears of activ·e participatio11 i11 1 I l • • \ ... CH-L\..RL};S ~\'.f cQvE,VANt OF ~flCH. GRAND R1\.1'IDS, 1 it, a11d ,vhile l1e l1as passed tl1ro11gh tl1e , ario11s stages of mill a11d :yard a11d l1as dealt i11 aln1ost e,·er:ythi11g i11 the l1ard\voocl li11e, l1e is today confi11ing his efforts cl1iefly to plai11 and qt1artered oak. He has son1e en·viable mill connections a11d cloes a strictly ,vholesale busi11ess, a11d has 111ade good ,·vherever his effort l1as led l1im. 11 r. McQue,Ya11 is promi11ent in atl1letic circles, a11d for tnany· )Tears has de,roted a great part of his tin1e to ro,vipg, a11d is regarded as a sculler r..,f 11atio11al capabilities. Mr. rv1cQt1e~va11 does 11ot make mt1cl1 11oise abo11t l1is lt1n1ber bttsiness, but oes alo11g i11 a11 exceedi11gly i11depende11t and 1:J.ser,·ati,re 1na1111er, a11d has demo11strated his rtl11ness of the respect and co11ficle11ce of the 1berme11 of t11-e-Micl1igan trade . • �Charles 1:cQuewan 80 ' ' Ce1ehrates Birthd Charles McQuewa ay ,tis o~rsman, celebr n, f?rm~r local birthday anniver:~~ eightieth old friends and as . uesday with and Canoe club d soc1ates of Boat is still very active ay~. McQuewan 1ime in the wor - an spen~ much of Which he ha~ ob~ the Elks club, for almost 50 Years. en a member • Ice Skates of 1871 Are Exhibited Here I A pair of ice skates given Charles : McQuewan, Milner hotel, by his father in 1871 are being exhibited in a window at the Goebel & Brown store. McQuewan, who is 78 years old, was one of the best fancy skaters in Grand Rapids when he was a young man. He skated each winter until last year. • • • �• ·.-- ~ -- tt ... I - • - / .. • -,-- - -~'"=Tr �• , •4 - • • �' • ' �• • • �* 0 SJ • ==- ::.:...=• -~~~ ~ , .. • - - - ~ -.=---·- --------- - ----=- --=-----= __ \ : • I A T • \ • t g. ? • • 'l ' H.l:CU:--;E PRINT, SALT LAKE. • 1 �' .. ,, - • , 1. J. F. KORF and Wl\1. WEINAND, DEL-"1 WARh', • • t • • 2. A. MALCOM and FRED GAS'fRICH, MODOC, . . . . . 3. G. B. JENNISON and 4. J. 5· WM. and FRED S.l\.RGENT, 0-WASH-TA-NONG: . . . J. F. CORBET, FARRAGUT, • • P. FLEMING and J. R . OSBORNE, SYLVAN, . . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • YELt.OWa ,. \V. D. S..\RGENT, bow, J. . . . . . . Color, \V H11·E . 2. J. • • • . . . . • • • • • • • • • . • I • • • . ' • • • • • . . Color, BLUE. . . Color, • • t Color, • • GREEN. . . Color, J. FOX, FRED SARGENT, A. CARROLL,stroke, O-iVASH-'TA-NONG, R . OSBORNE~ bo\v, I~. JOHNSON, A. BAUSCH, BEN \VEBBER, stroke, S}~L VA.f\1, J. F. KORF, DELA WA RE, . 2. FRED GASTRICH, J,£0DOC, 3. J. 4. J.P. FLEMI:'J"G, .';YLVAN, • . F. CORBET, F~4RRA GUT, • • • 0 • • . . • a • • • O • g • • .... • • . . ' 0 • • e • . O • • • • . . . . 0 • Q • . • • • .. • • • • . . • ~ • • • • • . Color, \\' H11· E . . . . Color, . . . . . . Col0r, l~LUE. GREEN. • • GREEN. G. B. JENNISO'.\J, bow, H . C. A -fE:RY, E. S. HUNTER, G. C. PLUMMER, stroke, FARRA GUT, 4· FRED G.\S1"'RICH, bo\v, \Vl\1 . vVEINi\.ND, J. BLUE. F . KORF, A. M.-\.LCOM, stroke, MODOC, . . . . WHITE. ,_ft1b Races, S\vin11ning Races, etc . RED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co 1o r , '\f' E LL o \\' . • 3· _ _ _ isae!!aneous. 1. • RED. Farragut four, 160 pounds; Modoc four, 150 pounds; Sylvan four, 140 pou11ds; Average \Veigl1ts: ' 0 -\Vasl1-ta-11011g four, I 48. ,_l'he course \Vill be one a11d 011e-half miles \vith~a turn. as 11ro1111)tly· as possible. • • Races ,vill ~begin about 3: 30 P. 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Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Scrapbook-GRRC_002 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Title A name given to the resource Green Scrapbook Description An account of the resource Green scrapbook with a number of newspaper clippings and photos related to the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">No Known Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/292423754640b1f17d1370147e49a3e2.pdf fec0f60252f10607b47a4917ae25cfe5 PDF Text Text Gra11d Rapids Boat and Canoe Club gets into, action, and the camera man ''shoots'' the veteran of the ''8'' cre,,1, Howard IVIacMillan, a11d Capt. Russell Davis, who have pulled the oars for four years with the big crew. · �I ~fAY 7, 1922. _.. ., ,~ ----::;:----------------- COMMON SCENES ON GRAND RIVER GRAND RAPIDS BOAT AND CANOE CLUB CREWS AT WORK. 1.-Rookie eight in foreground and veteran eight in rear. Members of crew·s are: Rookie-Antrim, DeFoe, Kuyper, Otte, Gogulski, Leys, Vander Hyde, Buekema. Ranger is acting as coxwain. Veteran: Capt. Davis, Mc• Mirian, Young. Bursma, Donker, Thorndyke, Tanis and Hoek. De Young is coxwain. 2.-Hoek in single. 3.-The four-, composed of Hoek, Yeung, Bursma, Davis, 4.-Capt. Qavies. 5.-Capt, Davis and Bunker. 6.-Practice of putting eight in river correctly. This is some job, at that. �,.. , - • ... 1 • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 191g. 7 =-=============================-===-::-:=====================--==-==--==== Local Crews Capture Regatta at Chicago, Taking Seven FirSts Local boating enthusiasts had all Tl1e senior double race was take11 their expectations more than ful- by half a boat length by Kortla11der filled Monday ~·hen the Grand Rap- and Petersen of Grand Rapids o,rer ids Boat and Canoe club squad of a fast Chicago crew. The eightcrack oarsmen and paddle artists oar race brought out two of the \·vere-rett1rned the victors in their fastest eights in the middle ,vest. regatta at Chicago ,,rith the Chicago The Chicago me·n had trained hard Boat club, taking seven firsts in the for this race and tl1eir club mates big n1eet. had great faith in them. At the Chicago won but three races. start Chicago jun1ped into a. sca11t Grand Rapids did ·not have a crew 10-foot lead which they held for a for the junior double shell and in quarter mile. From here on first the junior single shell Petersen was one crew and tl1e11 the other \·vo1.11d rowing his fifth race of the day change positio11s until the la,st and was unable to hold the pace l qt1arter. Both crews were on e·ven that earlier in the day had vton the I terms when Chicago started to Chicago championship for him. sprint. The cheers of the 10,000 Chicago also captured the si-:.1gle rooters had hardly started v\rhe11 paddle ca·noe race. the Grand Rapids men could l1e The record of Grand Rapids' vie- seen gaining with e·very stroke and tories tells a story of 1iard prepara- within 100 J,.ards of the finish the:v tion and excellent tutoring by Coach I had pulled i11to the lead, which Corbet, who thus adds another to was maintained to the line. Coach his long string of enviable coaching Corbet's crew rowed a wonderful records. The local boys returned race. All the members are new men home Tuesday morning bearing 2 3 developed this )'"ear and wPre gold medals and all the Chicago ! matched against the best men Chichampionships. ca go could place against them. The All races were held in the lagoon winning eight "ra8 composed of at Lincoln park. The Grand Rap- Wagnaar. Gill, 1\icDonald, Goel1el. ids crews started off with a rush. Allen, l\iicMillan ,Zweekyk, Da,.. is Thev captured the senior single in , and Raiguel, coxswain. which the fastest men of Chicago ! In the canoe races the Gra11 d were entered. Jules Petersen, row- I Rapids paddle sharks upheld the ing in splendid form, was seldom honor of the club by winning the in danger of being headed. fast four-man race with Leitz, 1 The quarter-mile dash for singles I Moha11, Tanis and Van Ess. In the was won by Kortlan-der of thE; tandem canoe Leitz and va·n Ess Gra·nd Rapids club, who led Slocum, of Grand R~pids captured a beau'of Chicago by fi,ye feet. The se11.ior ' tjful race. four shell was• one of the hardest The C . .1\. A. swimming cl1an1pionfought races of the day, hut Grand ships "·ere held just before the Rapids won from Chicago in the regatta and the local crevvs witl~st 100 yards. Gill. l\1cDonald, nessed some wonderful aquatic Davis and Wagnaar composed the j work by Perry McGillivray, Norman ,,iutg.~~ous ere'"'"'· Ross and other stars. 1 ( �' ... .... . -,, . • -Noted Oarsman Dies at 83 • John F. Corbet, one of the country's noted oarsmen in his younger I days, as he appeared at the he~ght of his career in 1893 when he won 1 a $1,000 prize at the Columbian exposition, def eating Edward Clator in a single sculls race. 1· Bury Corbet, Note·d Sculler, Tomorrow Funeral services for Jol1n F. Cor• bet, in his younger days one of the most fan1ous oarsmen of the country when that sport ranked high in popularity, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel at 5501 North Ashland avenue. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery. Corbet, who was 83 years old, died Friday in his home at 6329 North Francisco avenue. A month ago he I attended the funeral of Edward Cla• tor, Corbet's opponent in his last professional race. In 1893, as a feature of the world's Columbian exposition, Corbet beat Clator in a single scull race and won. the then unheard of purse of $1,000. Wins U. S. Amateur Title. I11 his prime, Corbet held the ama• teur championship of tl1e Unit e.d Mr. Corbet as ~e appeared in States for single sculls from 1887 through 1889, defeating sucl1 famous his later years. Funeral services r o,vers as Edward Hamlon, George will be held tomorrow. Hosmer, and John Teemer, and Denny Donohue of Hamilto11, Can. The defeat of Donohue was Corbet's biggest thrill because the Chicagoan 1 tl1at day was the under dog in the betti11g. . In 1887 Corbet, representing Chicago, won the senior singles championship of the Mississippi Valley Rowing association, and the North• western university race. On Lake • Chatauqua, N. Y., he repeated this feat , a11d the following day defeated the l best amateurs of the United States a.nd Canada. 1 Record Stands 15 ¥ears. The next year, at Duluth, Minn., Corbet rowed tl1e quarter mile in one minute and lD seconds. This mark . remai11ed 011 the records of. the Arna, teur Athletic union for fifteen years. ~ At that time Corbet was a rmember of the old Farragut Boat club, to whicl1 leading Chicago sportsmen belonged. Soon after the old world's fair, Corbet b e came coach of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club, a position he held for seven years. In all except one year his crew swept the v1aters of the central west in every rowing eve11 t. He the11 became coach of the Lincoln Park Boat and Canoe club, remaining t h ere for twelve years, during the time of the late Walter Eckersall of University of Chicago football fame who became a sports w r i t e r for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Corbet had been employed by the Peoples Gas Light and Coke company s.ince 1873. He retired on a pension in 1921. A son, George H., survives. . , · . . , One Son Killed in Action. Another son, John F . Jr., was killed in action with the marines . during the world war. The son, who had bee11 trained by his father, at the time of his death held the Mississippi valley rowing championship of the single sculls, ,vl1ich his father had l1eld ~Tears before. �- - - - .DE msr ~ ER F B AT HIS E VIC , sions, yielded to tl1e plea of the local club to get in to the game this summ-er when he had decided to do 110 coaching this· year. . But the coming of Corbett didn't stop l\icQuewan. He kept right on ,vith l1is. efforts and the two men worked to' gether for the good of the club. A short ti'me ago the boa.rd of directors of the club made it possible for tl1e organization to have honorary members and it was decided to top the list ,vith the name of McQuewan. Last 11ight President Claire Fox expressed the appreciation of the ·club to boys in .tri·m: . . : · ·. · McQuewan for his efforts, and Charlie ,,. • Jack :Corbett-, · who had coached- the Well, Charlie did11't kno,v just what local oarsmen a number of occa- to say. When there was -· ,a . hard job . to do ' Charlie 1\1:cQuewan djd it. La~t night . the membership of the· Grand Rapids Boat and Cano_e . ~lub remembered this when it made ·him the first honor·ary meni-ber · of the organi.zation. . . . ·, . •· · · Cl1arles l\:IcQ·ue,van ·11as given ·much of l1is time to the boat club, of ,vl1ic,h he l1as been one of the most active . . members. Wh~n it came time to thresl1 material into shape for the big Central States regatta he got out and worked day· a11d night to:·help place ·the ' • ori C 'T --- . .. . - ~~ ~••••-••r•••••••••e••••••• 1 f CORBETT PLEASED AT I l SHOW'ING OF LOCALS j 1. lN THE BJG EVENT I f. --if ; • ! 1. ~ t '.;) .., , t C?ach J a c k C o r b e t t, who f whipped the o-arsmen of the t & Gran~ Rapids Boat and Canoe f f club Into shape for the big Cen- t f traf States. regatta, last night f f e~pressed himself as well pleased O t w),th the show~ng of the locals. f f The,,-boys_d:1d themselves f t proud, he declared, ''and I am t t proud of them. They showed a f t expected." i y ~ ,,~---···~-~ ..•............ i·" ' • • �\ - ~rE~~ESD...~Y, JULY 5 1922 - ' \ - Gra11d Rapids o ·a rsmen Strong : . ' ·=-' .. •: •.• Tl1e Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe (1ub junior eight. Reacl Alvin Boele, No. 1; Diclc 'l'nnis, No. 6; Phil Tl1orndylic., No. 3; ,vililam Yo11ng, No. 2; Howard 1\-lacMillan, bo w • The junior eight which will repre-. sent the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club at tl1e Central States and • Southwestern States rowing regatta here t}?.is ,veek· is doped by onr experts as probable winners of the eight-oared events. . rigl1t, ~ from left to Russell Davis, strol{c; Donkcr, No.. 4; ~fartin Bt1rsman, coxs,,,aj11, kneeli11g. Detroit Boat club is • for tl1ree months for the coming be the closest rival of the Grand reg·attas. According to the . coach, Rapids bunch. Tl1e Detroit~rs put the local crew is one of the fines out a winning crew last season and lie has ever coached. It has made re1narkable time in time tests -and nosed out the Jack Corbet ... coached Corbet says is "~rking · a~ smoothly clan. as any eight ·he has ever worked The local crew has been at work with. I ' Club Colors I , Detroit Boat club-Navy blue and white. · Baden Rowing cl~b-Red, white and blue. Central Rowing club-Pale blue and white. Mound City Rowing club-Orange and black. st. Louis Rowing club-Black and 1 • ., ,; II ' j red. Western Rowing club-Navy blue and white. Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club -1\'Iaroon and white. Illinois Valley Yacht and Canoe club-Blue and white. Lincoln Park Boat club-Navy blue and white. Culver Military Academy~Blue :; and white . I I • PLAY 2ND ROUND • • • I I l ' �·a, JULY 10, 1921 • OAR ' :IAN ,LF;A VES BED I AflD ROWS TO VICTORY! .., Joseph Kortlander, Jr., Reviving From F&ini i A ter Hard P.ull on River, Rushes Back 1·nto Race and Wins r l Spartan courage of a man whose l every ounce of strength seemed to . lJave been forfeited to the heat radiating ! from a glaring riv,er rowing course, .fc·-~).\"e tl1e Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe •·· i1.1 b the l1igh point trophy in the ·.:!.~}1tral States Amatel1r Rowir1g as·:·ociation regatta l1ere :y·esterday . ~ I ..T<>Sel)h l{ortlancler, .Tr.~ v.ntil 1resterr da.y· l10Jder of tl1e Senior Si11glcs cha1npio11sl1ip, "\\ras the 111an, a11d in losing the championship he gave every ounce of power in his bocly to the riv•-er and the big °""\)Ode11 oa::ts. -·ainted Away But ev?en after he had fainted dead away at the finish and had been put to •b ed under the care of attenda11ts at the clubhouse, he gainecl ne,v strength, seeming·ly •b y a miracle, and as the senior double shells t\·ere pl1tting out i11to the 1"iver, ,vith Julius Peterson of the local club. he took ·his place in one of the craft, and the two "-on for Grand Rapids, giving th-e local clu•b enough points to cop the big silver l f I I ,. Cllp. I KortlaJ1cler.. wl10 hag held the singles charmpionship for four years, hadn't been himself in the regatta which ended yesterd·ay. Friday~ he was beate11 by Petersen in the qua.rter n1ile dash. Yesterday, ho,vever, 11e was €Xpected to come back and wi11 the singles. But Kortlander wasn't himself )·esterday either, at least not until the • ' JOSEPH KORTLANDER, JR., • doubles, for he was only third in the singles, which were won by A. l\1ucklor o!'. the Vve~tern Rowing club of St. oui~. I.:>etersen, after his Jfrida;y· v·ictory over Kortlander, also was expected to place in this -eve11 t, but failed to show. ",I'm In On That.'' At the conclusion of the race Kort- · lander we11 t in to the clubhouse and: took a sho,ver, fainting dead away as he came out of tl1e shower roo·m. I-Ie ,vas put to bec1 a11d ,vas fanned and rubbed, a.lthoug·h there was not the faintest hope on the part of an,ybody at the club that he would be able to take his place with Petersen in th-e senior doubles. "They're l)Ulling out for the doubles/" remarked one of those in the room, as he 1Jeered 011t' the window. "I'm in on that,'' ,veakly remarked Kortlander who was al1nost buried un- , der blanl{ets. "Lie do,vn, keep quiet, you're not going into that ·race," was the reply. "I ne,rer yet entered a ra•c,e I didn't finisl1," said Kortlander quietly,.. "and I'm going· into that." . And They Won. With the words he snrang from the bed and ,vas half,v-a y do,·~.rnstairs before those in the room had grasp-ed the I Coach Jack Corbett of the boat club nea.rly collapsed as he sa1,v Kortlander appear on the float. Bt1t l1e ha.dn't time J to finish up- the collapse. "Come on. Pete.rsen,'' yelled l{:ortlander, and the next i11stant the t,vo were in one of the double shells pulling up the course. :B.,or a long time tl1e winning of that race will be a subject for conversation · at tl1e boat club, for I~ortlander and P~tersen did win it, giving Grand Rapids 3 points an<l enough, ,vith tl1e other points colle.cted, to- gai11 the trophy• I • • • • �I goLY 10, 1921. l • --- Provides Hot Fini~-h .. ' Tl1~ fir~t ev·ent on :vesterday's prog·ram ,vas tl1e senior fol1r-oared sl1ell, and this race provided a hot fi11ish. CenturJ' F.1oat club of St. IJouis spt1rte(l ahead nea.r the finisl1 anc1 it ,vas ~L close contest bet,:veen tl1e Grand Rapids Boat & Canoe cluj:> and tl1e Illinois \ 7 n.lle~· y ·acht cll1lJ of I)eo,ri:.1, for seco11d. Near the firti~l1 line, 110,,,.ever, R. l\.. Bre~r ineyer. stroke of tl1e Peoria crew, collapzed in the shell froin tl1.e grind of the race and tl1e Peoria.ns ,vere ot1 t of it, (¾rand Rapids g·etting· second n.nd Lincoln Pa.rk of Chi12ago ·vlin11i11g· third. The senior sing·le shell was a surprise. Kortlander, w110 hn.d held the chan1pionship for fOllr ~-ea.rs, and Peterse11, wl10 }j...riday beat Kortlander in the quarter-mile sing·le s11ell dash, were figt1red on ,LS s11re win 11ers. The event went to A. 1\I11clz1er of the \Vestern Rowing club of St. Louis, with H. A . . Clarke of the Detroit Boat club second and Kortlander third. Peterse11 failed to sho,v. Only St. Louis cre"rs were entP-red in the six-oared barge race, whici1 ,vas '\Von by the Central club. After finishing behi11d the singles, Kortiander and Petersen came back and won th~ doubles for the local club. givini it enot1g·l1 points to win the l1igh p•oin t troph)· . The ca11oe events ,vere exciti11g a11,l pleased tl1e crowd, w;hicl1 was much la.rger than that of Friday. The quarter-n1ile dash for singJe shells, "·hich was ro·vved twice Friday· and Whicl1 ,·vas to ha;·e been ro,ved again ~·esterc1.a-y· becal1Se of protests, ·vvas a1lo,ved to stanc1 as ro,,yed the second time Frlda .v·. T·l1is ev.e11t ,vas ,von by the Lincoln Pa --1~ clll1) of Cl1icago. La.st eveni11g a s11ecial da11cing part~~ was held at the boat clubl1ouse with visiting oarsmen as g·uests, a11d gold medals were presented t11e v\rinnerc:; l)yJ. A. Hard,·vig·er of Chicago, presiclent - --· ~ of the rowing association. Yesterday's su:nma:ries: ' KORTLANDER AND ~ETERSEN SAVE DAY FOR BOAT AND • C.A.NOE CLUB. I DETROIT TAKES EIGHT-OAR FOR THE SECOND TIME l • Norman Ross Defends Title in Swim ming Chan,pJonships-Quarter--Mile Dash Allo\,,,ed to Stand-Canoe Races Entertain Crowds. • The Grand Rapids B-oat a11d Canoe c.Iub did itself proud ·_ a11d gave the wl101e Ft1rniture City cause for rejoicing J esterday by clea11ing up enough point·s in tl1e second and closing day of the Cetra.1 States A~1..teur Ro\'\"ing association regatta, to ,,ri11 the higl1 point tro1)hy·-a beautiful silver Clll) · offerecl l:>y the local club. The nece-ssarJ' poi11 ts for t11e cup ,vere won ,vl1en Joseph Kortlander, ..Tr.. ,vho previously hacl lost the Be11ior sing·les cl1am1)ion:ship he had l1elcl for four ~rears, a11d Julitts Petersen of the local club, won the senior doubles. Grand Rapids also sho"red 'its merit when tl1e senior fot1r-oared shell p-ulied in al1n'Ost up to the, Century Boat club cfow of St. Louis, ,vhich won the e,,.ent. and again in tl1e se11i.or eight-oared J sl1ell ,vb.en its cre·\V, almost ne•w to the rovving c0t1rse, came in fourth agai11st a feld of well-trained cre,v·s. Detroit toolc tl1e E:ie:ht-oared sl1ell ~,,ent, the big· e,rent of the reg·a tta, V{hen th€~ crew v.rhic.:h won the jt1nior chan1pi-onship Friday, took first place. The. standing by poi1.1 ts for tl1e t,~.ro da:.rs of the regatta ,vere as follo,vs: G)~anfl Rapids, 16; Cent11r)r Boat club, Et. Lo11is, a.nd Detroit Boat cl11b, 15 each; Lincoln Park _J\.thletic cl11b, Chicago, J 2; W("Stern R01''i11g clt1b, St. Louis, 9; Ce11tral Rowing club, St. Lot1is, 4: Illi11oi~ \--alley Yacht cl11b, Peoria, Ill., 1. In the A. A. U. S'\\'im1ning and c1iving 1 cha1npi•onsl1ips Gra11d Ra1)ids 1nacle another mark when Ho\'.varrl Rose of the local club finished thirc1 in the 220-:v·ard da~h, ,, in11ing a bronze mt:clal. N"orman Ross of tl1e Illinois Atl1letic club of Chicago, national champion, l1acl. no trouble ,vinning the event, v.rith :'1ixo11 1 of the Detrod.t Athletic clttb, second. Ro~~ ·An "' P-Q1d mPd n l and Nixnn ~~ sil: 1 ver med,1.1. Gold, silver a.nd bronze n1edals also were given for first, f:.econd and third in the fan(~Y diving contest held t1nder auspjces of the A. A. lJ. ,.I'his ever1t was won by Briggs of Detroit Athletic 7 , Senior Four-Oared Shell-One l\Iile· Century Boat club, St. Lou~s, first; Grand Rapids Boit & Canoe c:lub, second; ,Lincoln Park Athletic club, Chicago third. No tim~ vlas 1 taken. Athletic club ' ! 1 \'orsen of tl1e Chicago 'third. Senior· S1ngle Shell-One l\1ile-A. Muckler, v.restern Ro~ving club, St. Loui~ first; H. A. Clarke, Detroit Boat club. se-cond; .Joseph Kortlander, ,Tr .• Grand Rapids Boat & Canoe club, third. Time 6 :01 1-5. Senior Six-Oared Barge Three-fourths milE.-Centra! Ro\.ving club, St. Louis., first; \Vestern R':>wing club, St. Louis second; ., . C~11turr Boat club St. Lot:is, third. Tir<1e-'-·· I 4.04 4-~. , Senior Double She·II--One m1le-Kortlan<l.er . and Peterson, Grand Ra.pids Boat '-~ Canoe club, first; Lir coln P~rk Atl1letic club, ere\.'; No: 1 Johnson and Greene, second; I,incoln Park club • ere~~: No. ~. Gellan and Gellan, third. Time-5 :49 1-5. Sf!nior Eeight-Oaretl Shell-Deitroit Boat cluh. first; Century Boat club, second; Detroit Boat club, cre-w No. 2, tl1ird. Sun1maries A. A. u. s~Ti1nn1ing Championships: 220-yard dash-Ross, Iilliriois Athletic club, first; Dixon. Detroit Athlt~tic club, second; Ros~ Grand Rapids Boat & Canoe .club third. • 'l'ime-1 :5fi 3•5. Fancy Diving Contest-Briggs, Detroit Athletic club, first; Hartung, Illinois Atl1letic club. Chicago, sec.ond; Halvorsen, Cl1icago Atl1letic club, third. Canoe -events: Airplane Canoe Race·- won by Knudson. ot Grand Ra.pids ;~Io han. Grand Rapids, second. Tilting Canoe Contest-\,lon by Duey and Tanis• Grand Rapids. l·~our Jvlen Ca.noe Race Won by Ryan, Rosenberg, Brock and Bergers o! Grand Rap- I ~ clt1b, ,vitl1 Hartung of tl1e l1linois ....\ thtetic club of Chicag·o seconll and IIal- r 4 It 1 - , tde. I .. ,. �SE OR ·s TO IN TO T GRAND RAPIDS CHICAGO REG. BY TAKING ~ I ~ ---e·· ' • Grand Rapids Crew 1· 1 Wins Senior Event For . , First· Ti111e in History . . Cl1ica{Jo "c~ ,.o.nd with Tlzree .;nts, :B.,or the ·first time in the l1istory of the Grand Rapids Boat a11d Canoe club, its members will welcome horJ1e the ,vinners of the senior eight - oar cen ... tral states meeting when the 'n1en vtho ,~ton -yesterday's race at Peoria ar1~ive in the city tonight. In 1914 Grand Ra•pids ~had a ,vinning • eigl1t-oar cre,v, put not a senior one. Tl1e junior crew won first place that year at Philadelphia. Very fe,,r crews have ever accomplished what the Grand Rapids eight-oar crew did ~t Peoria. The one crew, entered in both the junior ?,nd ~enior events, won both races. · G1~eat cFedit must also be given Alfred Davis, who, after winning the sin gle shell ju11ior _event at Peoria, doubled with Harold Hart,vick . and '\v·on the doubles event in the sa:me class. Both men are first year men. Coach J·ack Corbett has co,Tered himself with glory by turning out wonderful crews year after year. Peoria has given the Grand Rapids oarsmen their full share of credit for the wonderful fights they p-qt. up in the races.· If they did not cross the line first they were usua-lly in second - place and pgp.ting hard to gain tte ·victory'. A crew of only lO men went from here, while 40 were at the regatta from Detroit. The trophies, plaques and medals won by the Gra11d Rapids entrants ,vill be exhibited at one of the do,,rntown stores in tl1e near future. The me11 will a-1:ri"\re in Grand Rapids tonight at the Union station at 6: 30, city time, and a large ·1delegation will be 011 hand to. greet them. 1 • .. . . i t· • "" t I . i'. • t 1 I'. f t 1f .. l Other Club ,lVinning ·111 ore Than One. • I ; • f\T o Oarsmen of the Grand Rap!ds 1 Boat and canoe club were the w~n .. ners of the Central States Rowing associatio11 regatta at Chicago la~t w·eek takin er fou1· events of the s1x in which they started. while Chicago, despite the large number of crews entered, won only three and no othe.r club more than one. _The Lincoln Parks of Chica.go obtained their hio-h point rating because of the nun~ber of crews finishing sec011d an.cl third but which could not beat Grand Rapids. Tl1e events won by Grand n.R~pids ~ere: Quarter mile dash for single ~hells, Kortlander; junior dou?le shell, Hoek and Petersen,; se?J.1or double shel'!. Kortlander and Petersen· association championship single;, Kortlander. Chicago wo_n t.he ·junior and senior eight and Junior j tour. The Western ,Rowing club ot ~t. Louis took the six-oar ba.g~ the [peoria Rowing club the senior four ~ell, the Ce11tral Rowing club of St. Louis the senior six oar barge, . the Detroit Boat club the junior ~ingle shell, Petersen of Grand Rapids finishing second, the Mound City Rowing club of St. Louis the Jlalf mile dash for four-oared shell. " There were eight fast crews in the ~unior double shell, Hoek and 1£Pf~tersen beating the best of the ,, other seven ·b~y· half a lengt.t1. The canoe bo:rs took one first and tl1.ree seconds in the Saturday e,-ents. Ro}~ l{nudson won the tail(-lncl race. H. S. Conlon was second 111 the single l)lade event, the prin <·! I)a l canoe race of the regatta, and the Gr[~nd Rapids doubles and fours ea.c:h tinisl1ed second in their respec- I . . . .'.RAND RAPIDS FOUR-OAR four-oar cre·1.v upon \\'hicl1 Grart(l P'3.y>ids Boat and Canoe cl ttl> members a.nd follo,vers are pla clog their ho1:>es is .made up of A Hoek, stroke; William Yo,1ng, No. 3; Howa1u !\IacMillan, No. 2, and R11ssell Da,ris, This four is e11tel'ed i11 the single event~ ~'liday and t11e senior e,re1i ts for S..'l..turclaJr. Another fot1r, a se11ior quartet strokecl by H. S. Conlon, is con1peting· in the senior ha.lf11111<' dasl1. · 'The time made ll~- the ji1nior fo1tr is ,~cry good a11 d cha.nc-cs for malring points are exct'lle11t, altho11gh the Lincoln Pa1tk four and the Century f(1u11· of St. l.JOui~ a1·e do~d to be faster than the locals. • ---- ---=-=-=--=--=--=-.. .=~-~r;::===:::::=::=-----~--~ - - - -- -----=--=======-=-=-=-=----~----=---=.-=..-=.-:::.,-::..-::..-::..-::..-::..-::..-=..=.==-~----- =~:-:=====:::.~::"':- =::..=..:.:..==: bo,,T. ' �• - - --· - }AR · .- - - GRAND MI·OH., FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921. • GRAND · PIDS ENTRI IN C. S. A. R. A. REGATTA Represeni , Make Law Ar can Magna Chart ' FORMAL • • ' July 7.-A ta an F'orclne3• Presents Repo. he report as present, airman Fordney said thr Tl1e Li11co.Jn P~trlc senior eight-oar c1·e,v· (top), cl1ampions of the Central States A1nattee members in draftii against eigl1t other crc,,·s in tl1e ru1nual regatta. to be 11eld c,11 the Grand rive1· 00111 were governed by a de, ,,·on its title last l"t•ar on 1 ts o,,'11 eo11rse. The G1·ancl Rapids 13c,ut and Canoe fo11r St. Lonis cre,,-s ancl a11 otht'r C11icago outfit ,,'ill eompete 111 this ra-cc v.·hich ,\' OTE PL.4.XXED JULY • ' left to right: X. :11. C. Olsen, lJov,·: T. Lonclon, Xo. 2; I{. :licKc11 no1t, Xo. 3; 0. \\·. C --- · • ~ 0 . Ji. Jol111son, stroke; Geo1·ge l{1)hl<•r, c-o:v.s,,·ain. Washington, July 7.-Wit , 6; L . Di11ea11, No. 7; :,. ou b . . . se eg1nn 1ng conside1 'l.I1c j1 ,11or c1gl1t of the IAnc·ol11 l'urk clu-b ( bclo,,·) is one o( tl1e most to11tt•d 11e,v crc,r the general tariff bill t 1·ight: H. C. Carlso11, bow: 0. X. J•etcrson, Xo. 2; J-t. l{. Rolicrts, No. 3; l~. \\', Grh<; Republican majority ' ( .l11re, N' o. 6; H. Tcmplelllil 11, No. ; ; H. E. Seh11macher, strok l); Rill Corbet, c<>x~xed July 21 as th<i date ___ nal vote on the measure. c.~------------ - • �~ - ·--------- .. - • FINISHES AND FIG - SIN SECON_ DAY-- PROGRAM - - -- ~-·oF T BIG • 4 • -- -- -------1-Finish of tilting cartoe race. No. 4 Charles fvlcQuenam tel Iing the crowd - .., No. 3-Norman Ross, nati•onal • swim. 220-yard chan1p;on 'h'1nner of • • ' of Chicago, regatta jua ge. ·----------- ------------------- races. �.,~ - .. \ .... I - ... ~. ' ' , • • • \ • Rapids No. 2-Finish of the senior four •oared shell race, Grand Ci'eW • foreg round . 1n • 7'Jo. ~Kundsen winner of canoe ----- - ----event_.__==::-::::::::::====== - :1 .. . �I ...."'!"r•• I • MONDAY, JULY 10, 1922. . . -------==- .::::=:===-=====-==-=-=-:--::-:=-:;:=---:=~~:.:~=-~=-=_:::..;;::::_:::::::_=-;_=_=_=_:-:..~=-=-=-=..=-=-=..=-=-=-~=_=:=_::;.------, _ __, L--~--~·.~--------~-.:i~.~..;..----------------=·-,. \ .:·1 '' . , 'I . . '.. ~- '· :: ,• , Boat Club Crew Home After Winning · Central .States Classic. - Tired but happJr, and with 30 ~old tnedals and five silver plaques in their baggage, the 14 members of the Boat and Canoe club crews arrived in the city Sunday night after having given an excellent account of themselves at the three regattas at Peoria. Detroit won the high point trophy but to the Grand Rapids eight goes the honor of winning, for the first 'time in the history of W-Bstern racing, three firsts in as many days. The locals brought home t,vice as many medals with them as did any other club, despite the fact that the Detroit clubs had entered 42 men, while but 14 -represented the Boat and Canoe club. The thriller of the three regatas came ·s aturda:," · afternoon when the race between tl1e Detroit and \ . Grand Rapids eight was staged. There were nine ' e11tries in this , ev·ent, but all interest '\\"as centered • on the battle between the t,,,,.o Michigan cre"rs. The men from the Auto city ,vere 01)enly predicting a ~~in over the locals and much money was being, placed on then-i. Coxsu·ain Is Lauded. };>erhaps the credit for winnit?-g this race should go to Coxswain Peter DeYoung. Members of the eight ad1nit that it \'.\ras by his work that they w ·e re able to nose out the, Detroit crew. The finish was so close that the winner was not known· to the spectators until the judges ga·ve their decision. The mile and r r - ~ - - • a quarter was covered 1n 6 minutes (Hartman) won; Western (Muckano. 12 seconds, about 20 seconds Ier) second.; Detroit (Clark) third. f aste~ than had ever been made Ti' . me, 5 : .:>... 5 • before. Coach Corbett was not to be Senior six-oared barge, threeforgotten in this victory. His short quarters mile; St. Louis Boat culb snappy stroke, with 34 strokes to won; Central, St. Louis, second; the minute prov"ed to be better than North End, St. Louis, tl1ird. Ti1ne, the long English stroke employed 1: 54. , · by the Detroit crews. Charles McSenior doubles, one mile, WestQuewan, veteran local oarsnwn, ern St. Louis ,von; Detroit, second, ,vas one of the judges in the South--1 Lincoln Park, Chicago, third. Time, western regatta, and B. Leys, was a 5: 44. · ~ judge in both affairs. Tue~day the Quarter-mile dash, for si11gle: trophies will be placed in ~om~ Western (Muckley) "·on; Detroit downtown store window. ' (Clark) second; Detroit (Lane), The Summary: th·1r d . T.1me, 1 : 18 . s ·e nior :toul"S' one mile: Century,. Senior eight, one and 011e-quarter St. Louis won; Detroit, second'; mile: Grand Rapids "~on; Detroit, Peoria, No. 1, . third. Time, 6: 39. second; Peoria, third. Time, 7: 2 7. Senior single, one mile: Detroi\ ...... WINNING THE EIGHT. Irt all ro,ving circles, mhether college, outside amateur or pro·f ess1onal, the classic is the €ight-oared race . Last ~·ear our Grand Rapids Bo,a t and Canoe club carried -off the high point trophy in the Central States amateur/ ro,ving re gatt•a on Grand r.iver, but to the insiders the m~sive silver cup 1-\ras only a consolation. In a sunset fini•sh above the -o ld Xort;h Park bridge the Detroit eight, losing its lead to the locals with every stroke, had managed by ,a scant length to pull .o ut ahead. • ednesday, after a j,•ear's "raiting and trai11ing, and still as a "junior,, aggregation because it had not ,,ron a first, the local crew •c ruptured the eight-oared race from the Detroit Boat club in the Southwestern regatta at Peoria and then on Friday I\Venit into the senior eight event, the sum.mit of rov;ing ambition, and nosed out Detroit again. The r1ext day it repeated th is triumpl1. b:r 1vinn,ing the senior eight in the Central States regatta. 1 ~ - ,v. . • 1 , "( ~ -~ Grand Rapids' cre-v~rs have neither the 1 financial backing nor the equi'pment · wihich . is possessed by the1r leading op1 ponenrts, pa.rticul-arly tl1e Detroit and • · Chic~go clubs, and their achievement and th.a.t of the veteran Coach Corbett 1 i~ the more nt>table for that reason. Their splendid fight has broug,h t national ro,ving fan1e to this cit:r: and ' both deserves and receives our congrat1 hlations. , < J ' ( l ., c • ~ t i ' �G. R. BOAT CLUB EIGHT WINS IN PEORIA REGATTA Race Is Feature; Crews • Make Splendid Fight for Point Leadership. SPECl~L TO THE HERALD. t P EORIA, July 5. - Cirand Rapids oarsn1en put up a spirited fight for the j point t r ophy i11 the first day of ro,v1ing in the annual Southwestern Amat eur Ro,ving association regatta here t oday. The l\faroon and White \\-·ent i11to the final event tl1e singles, locked with Detroit for the lead with five poi11ts, but f.iie·d to place while Detroit ,va..s an easy ,vinner. Detroit's victory gave them eight points toward the point prize while Grand Rapids and Lincoln Park of Chic~o, tied for second ,vith five points eac h. .. The Grand Rapids rowers captured one first and one second. Tl1eir junior eight outclassed ·o ne of the greatest fields tl1at ever pulled over the one and a quarter mile course in the tneeting of the association ,vhile they took second in the junior double shell event. The time in the junior eight ,vas 7: 13. A brisk wind a11d cl1oppy sea ~·as a great handicap. Grand Rapids' victory in the junior eight ,vas easily the feature performance of the day. After trailing· Detroit throughout the r ace, the }.,faroon had the winning puncl1, speeded up the stroke and passed Detroit two lengths from the finishing line. winner by a half a length. Peoria was third. • Rooters in Frenzy. The remarkable finish of tl1e Grand Rapids crew thre·w their Ii ttle band of rooters into frenz}·. Several hats sailed out into the strea111 and they were given a noisy reception upon their return to shore. In the Grand Rapids boat were: H. Mcl\'lillan, bow; W. Young·, M. Bursma, George Donker, P. Thorndyke, Tanis, A. Hoek and R . Da, ris, stroke. The shells were bunched for half a mile, the closest of the day. Detroit II sudden1,, went into the lead a.nd Grand • Rapids went out in second place. The Detroit craft forged ~head and seen1ed a sure winner. They saw the . stroke speed up in the Grand Rapids boat bu t could not spurt. 'l,he lviaroon made a sensational spurt, drew along·side their rival and then passed a half boat. winner over I the line. , In the junior doubles, Lir1cpln Park of Chicago, and Grand Rapids had · things much to themselves after the half mile post. Grand Rapids had the . far lane while Lincoln Park was in the middle. They held together well but Grand Rapids lost seconds by swerving off the course and the Chi- I cago boat ,von by two lengths. Detroit ,vas third, three lengths be- ,· hind Grand Rapids. The time was , • I 1 l • I ' 6.32. 1I Grand Rapids placed fourth in the half mile dash for fours in a well J i bunched finish. Detroit held a good i lead for a quarter of a mile but -Cen1 tury· cut it do,v11 and spurted a few j Iengths fro1n the line for a victory by half a length. St. Louis ,vas third. I Protest Al lowed. Peoria 's victory in tl1e junior four was thro,v11 out 011 a protest b) De, troit, who c laimed Peoria's 11umber f t\v-o crew fouled her near the starting· I point. A fiery debate was launched and tl1e protest ,vas allowed. The race ' ,vill be re - rowed tomorrow mor11ing. I The summary: Junior Six-Oar Shell, ¾-1viile-Nortl1 End (St. Louis); Western (St. Louis), secor1d; Baden (St. Louis), third. Time 7 --6: 35. .. H~tlf-1\tiile Dash for Fours:._Century (St. Louis), won ; Detroit, second; St. Loui-s club, tl1ird .. Time-3: 10. Ju11ior Double Sl1ell, 011e Mile~Lin coln Park (Chicago) , ,von; Grand Rapid&, second: Detroit, third. Ju11ior Eight, l ¼ l\files~Grand Rap-ids, won; Detroit, second; Peoria, tl1ird. Ti111e-7: 13 . .Ju11ior Single8-Detroit, l\I. E. Lane, won; Lincoln Pa:rk, Chica.go, second; Peoria, third. • • - -- --· - �• . ;. .-- . ,, ,. ~ ,• ;._ .-.·.·-·-·-•- .-.-.-.· ·-•-·: -?::::<ttdr>i>rfrttii?Jnt\l:tt:/t{HtiJii]1tm:rr::::::::-::=:::::.:::.:::;::-.-:;·:::.::-.;-_-:. -: :-·-·-. -;-:-: .•: :-:-:-.-,:-. ·-·-:-.:.:.: :-:-:-...-.-.:-. ..._...... . -.,----. ', ·1 •, l ,. ,•,·. ·' II ' .' • ' j I ' • ' '''The best crew ever turned out at the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club'' says Coach Jack Corbet, speaking of the Grand Rapids eight, which has the distinction of being the only crew in the history of the Rowing Association t o win three races and one regatta. At Peoria, they won the Junior eight. Southwestern, Senior eight, Sout hwest• ern and Senior eight, Central .States. From left to right. they arePeter De Young, coxswain : Russell Davis, stroke ; Alvin Hoek, No. 7; Dick Tanis, No. 6 ; Phil Thorndyke, No. 5 ; Geo. Danker, No. 4 : Martin BuursIT' a, No. 3 ; Bill Young , No. 2: H oward McMillan, bow . • Snapped at Peoria, afte r w1nn1ng t he ' Junior eight event. • " ' , ' ' • • �• • ' • I II • • �, Will Race at Chicago • I l I I l ... The fast junior four ro,ving ere w from the GrJ..nd Rapids Boa-t and Canoe club, which will go to Chicago on· Labor day to compete with the Cl1icago crew. This outfit bad little difficulty in defeating t.h~ Cadillac Boat club ·or Detro it two weeks ago in a local regatta. J E. Winegar, W. Gill, W. MacDonald, R. Davis. , - ---- -·-:~-- ---:-:::::::::- - ------------ ' ~- • ·• Falllous Coach Of Many Chicago Rowing Teams, Including the Well-Known Iroquois, Has Worked Wonders With Local Oarsmen' Enter ~'Big l League'' Next Year. • --------------------- CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-One of the greatest aquatic coaches in America came Jto town a week ago Saturday, and his name ls John F. Corbet, commonly l called "Jack." You have heard of Teemer, Panlan, Gardner, l\tiurphy, Ward, Nicholls and 11umerous others who have made a specialty of rowing in both scull and sweep work, but the king of them all is no other than Jaclr Corbet, the olq Iroquois • scull, the same Corbet that made Chicago famous away back In the early 80's. Chicago was then a real rowing center. With its vast water front, it has gone back, and today is the laughing stock of the country, as far as aquti<Y sport is concerned. We have held water carnivals and regattas, but they have ., been only side shows. •••••• CHICAGO WAS FAMOUS IN THE SO'S. Going back to the early 80's, Chicago had the follo,ving boat clubs: The Farragut, Iroquois, Delaware, Catlin, Pullman, Evanston, Quintard, Riverdale, Social, Douglas and South Chicago. All these clubs were ,vell equipped with I }laraphernalia for rowing, and had memberships ranging from 25 to 250, and almost in every instance they were enthusiastic and active. I • �• l ' II ' I , COACH "JACK" CORBET ] ' ( 'l'he two big western associations, the Mississippi and the Northwestern, t w~re n1ade up of clubs from St. Louis, St. Paul, lvlinneapolis, Duluth, Moline, Grand Rapids, Detroit a.nd small to,vns in the vicinity of these cities an • around Chicago . The gan1e '\Vas good, and Chicago '\vas on the map, and much credit must be given to "Jack" Corbet for calling the attention of the world to the fact I hat Chicago was a live town, for he went to Sara toga as a dark horse and .....~ on the national championship in the senior singles, winning from the best i1\ America. The same year, .Johnny Korf and Billy· Weinan, representing the t Delaware Boat club, captured the national champio11ship in the doubles. THEY WENT OUT TO WIN THEN. In the old days, the Iroquois were out to ,vin. The Delawares, too, were there in earnest, and while the sport was keen, the fello'\¥8 were "all for Chicago, and went in to win ,vith the Chicago spirit. The Chicago clubs made "the Chicago navy." They created all sorts of interest, and encouraged young fellows to join and try their hand at the game. The only boat club in Chicago is now housed in Lincoln park, and, instead of elev.en active clubs with a membership of 2,000, ,ve have one club with a possible membership of a little over 100, and of that number only a handful are in active competition. I From South Chicago to Evanston is the greatest rowing stretch of a,ny city · i11 the world and there is only one boat club. Jack Corbet, a Chicago product, went to Grand Rapids in April and came to town a ,veek ago Saturday ,vith a single sculler, in the Junior and senior d ·i~.(f;n, a four and an eight oared crew, and made Chicago boys take hi's back- l • \\\_jfi. ' ~ • Not once did the locals I1ave a look-in. The good natured J"ohn_did the trick. 111 the meantime, Corbet is going ahead and putting Grand~ Rapids on the map. The coming year he ,vill invade the big derbies and there is no doubt of his success. - --·- ' .. , • • . • • • - �.... r A HISTORIC CLUB. The Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club. property at Nortl1 Parlt has bee11 offered to tl1e city fo1-- use as a public clubhouse ,,·itl1. facilities fo1· ro"·ing; . canoeing, swi1nmi11g and tennis. If the city .~ccepts, as it well may in vie,v of tl1e proximity of the Boa.t clull to the new Riverside park a11d the projected road along the river through tl1e Soldiers home ,voods, Grand Rapids will merely be taking over formally a property which has been a mt111icipal institution for nearly thirty ~·ears. On a morning in 1914 tl1e Philadelphia 11e,vspapers carried full page streamers heralding the fact tl1at Grand Rapids' • eight-oared cre,v l1ad "·on the National ...t\.mateur Ro,ving association race on tl10 SchU)"llrill riv·er, and mournfuliy remarked: ''Our bo·y·s were no match for the tall, rangy so . .1s of lumbermen frotn 1\Iicll;iga11.'' • This publicity "·as t)·pical of tl1e Boat a11d Canoe club's , sel"·v ice i11 l~eeping Grand Rapids• name l)efore tl1e 11ation for a decade. The ''sons of lt1ml)ermen"-they actually ,vere nothing of the kind, but hard "'·orking boys in Grand Rapids offices and factories · who could practice only after five when the day!s job . o'cloc}t . ,·vas. over--annually proved themselves . , tl1e greate·s t · oarsn1en. in the middle ,,~est. In 1911. -they won tl1e Central States regatta at Peoria and tl1e Labor day regatta. at Cl1icago. Tl1ese t,~;o ev·ents became almost· the pri,·ate property of •tl1e . local club, ,rl1ich a11nexed them year after year clespite competi ... tion from clubs in the largest cities of the central states. Grand Rapids took them all, big 'an~ little. In 1912 the Boat club "·on a national f our-oa1· chan1pionship, captured the Central States title and tied witl1 St. Louis for tl1e Soutl1,, ester11 associati911 . . titie. 1111915 Gra11d Rapids defeated the Detroit Boat club a11d Cadillac Boat club at ·Ann Arbor. • In 1921 the club entertained the Central States regatta on . Grand river, and 1von the regatta to boot. In : 1922 it entertained and . . won botl1· the Central and . Southweste1"n regattas. . Tl1.e club's final big year '\'\:-as 1923, when • its: eigl1t defeated tl1e Detroit Boat club, . . , ,1 inners·· · of •the Canadian Henley at ...... "l,orohto. This ,·ictory ,,·as 011 l)ctroit 's o,vn co1.1tse. 4.\.fte;r tl1at . tl1e auton1obil0 and tl1e de- · . 111:.1.t1d for l1olidaj·s . at a c1istance tool{ tl1ei1.. to11. The c1u!b bccan1c largely a socioJ, canoc:i11g arid tcn11is org_a nization, pe1..forming admix·ablo service i11 tl1e • • latter field a114 e11te1·taini115 the West... ern •·l\ficliigan- -tournaments for years.II t \ I • • • • • But hundreds ot Gt"and Rapids business n1en can bla.rne their present good health an1~ inuscle to the hours they ~p~t wltl1 _tl1eir feet in · the ''shoes'' and their oars s1vinging in the rowlocks to the cadence of such ''co-es'' as J ames ,v~a: ot .Harvard and the t1\?o natio~al scull1ng champions, Jaclt Corbett and George Lee, who coached the local crews during the-ir years of fame. City acceptance and preservation of the •Boat club for a permanent c~v1c i • use wo.uld h€l1> to keep ali,re a glorious athletic epoch in Grand Rapids history....:. not to mention. tl1e clear ad·v antages of I s~ch a. property , in bringing the new . river front park to maximum public· usefulness. . • • 1 : I' • , ' , I A. l I . ere \ can Milo H8zell, War Vet·, Dies I , • • • Ill in Hospital for Eight Years; Funeral in .Battle Creek Ill eight years as the result of injuries suffered in the World war Milo Dale Hazell, 43, formerly of • ~r:ind Rapids. died Monday night 1n the veteran's hospital at Battle Creek. He was a native of Grand Rapids graduate of Union High ~chool on~ of the original members of ' The Press Newsboys band and member of other music. groups here. He enlisted on June 12, 1917, in the band of the 126th infantry and later was promoted to band sergeant. He took part in several major engagements in France. He was severely shellshocked. Ret~rning to Grand Rapids, he established a dental laboratory in the Metz building, which he operated until illness compelled his retirement. He frequently predieted to his mother that "taps will be blown for me before I am 45." Surviving him are his mother Mrs. Helen Hazell of 443 Clancy~ av., N. E.; tvvo sisters, Mrs. Norma Holinger of Grand Rapids and Mrs. Lalah Longstreet "of Thompsonville, and a brother, Charles W. Hazell of Grand Rapids. Military funeral services will be held Thursday at 'lO o'clock in Fars, ley's chapel in Battle Creek. Burial r- will be tl\ere. ~~ .~oo.Eaa f:h-ieL:cn - _, ~ ~ • : ~ . ' • . - 1 ' 1 d �• ·----- --• - L Boat Club Junior Eight • • • \ ' • • I Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club j11nior eight-oar crew which ,vilJ 1 go to Chicago Labor day to row against the Cl.iJcago Boat club eight. This crew consists entirely of oarsmen who have taker up the sport this season under the direction of Coach Corbet Jirom left to right: W. Gill, W. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Scrapbook-GRRC_001 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Title A name given to the resource Dark Brown Scrapbook Description An account of the resource Dark brown scrapbook with a number of newspaper clippings and photos related to the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">No Known Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5ec80597de3adf68688fb680fc95e07f.pdf c667839d4a74980f0b3e0e1f05e9b717 PDF Text Text ' ' Noted Oarsman ies at 83 I ,I John F. Corbet~ one of the country's noted oarsmen in his younger ays., as he appeared· at the height of his career in 1893 when he won i $1,000 prize at the Columbian expositio11, defeating Edward Clater n a single sculls race. ry Corbet, ote .· Scul e_ , Tomorrow Funeral serv~ices for J"ol111 F . Corbet, i11 l1is you11ger days one of the most fa111ous oarsmen of the countr~.,. \vl1e11 tl1at sport ranked high in popularity, ,vill be l1eld tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel at 5501 North Ashland avenue. Burial will be in Elmwood cen1etery. t Corbet, who was 83 years old~ died Friday in .his home at 6329 North Francisco avenue. A month ago he attended the funeral of Edward Clator, Corbet's opponent.in his last professional race. In 1893, as a feature of the world's Columbian exposition, Corbet beat Clator in a single scull race and won the then unheard of purse of $1,000_. ' 4 ] j C I r • •• lVins Ue S. Amateur Title. In his pri111e, Corbet held the an1ateur . cl1ampio11ship of tl1e Uni t e d Mr. Corbet as he appeared in · States for si11gle sculls from 1887 tl1rougl1 1889. defeating sucl1 famous his later years. Fu11eral services rowers as Ed\vard Hamlon, George will be held tomoriOWa Hosmer, and John _Teemert a11d Den11y Donohue of Hamilto11, Ca11. fl1 e d'eff:~ of .D011ol1ue ,vas Corbet's biggest fhriU- ..., se the Chicagoa11 1 tl1at_ da)7 '\\1 as t11e U1• .. in th.e betting·. 111 1887 Corbet, reprcsenti11g Cl1i• cago, wo11 the se11ior singles championship of the Mississippi Valley Rowing associatio11, and the North• ,vestern uni\rersity race. On Lake :hatauqua, N. Y., he repeated th.is feat J a11d the folJ.o,vi11g day defeated the best amateurs of t he United. States " and Ca11ada. Record Sta11ds 15 - Years. The next year, at Duluth, Min11., < Corbet rowed the quarter mile in one minute and 1!) seconds. ~his mark remained on the records of the Amateur Athletic union for fifteen years. At tl1a t time Corbet was a member of the old Fa:-ragut Boat club, to which leadi11g Chicago sportsmen belonged. Soo11 after the old ,vorld.'s fair, Corbet b e c a m e coach of tl1e Grand Rapids Boa.t a11d Canoe club, a posi• tio11 l1e held for se,ren years. !11 all except one )'ear l'lis cre\v swept the v1aters of the central \vest in every rowing event. He the11 became coach of the Lincoln Park Boat a11d Canoe club, remaining there for twelve years, during the time of the late Walter Eckersall of University of Chicago football fame who became a . sports ,v r i t e r for THE CHICAGO- I TRIBUNE. Corbet had been employed by the Peoples Gas Light and Coke company since 1873. He 1·etired· on a pension in 1921. A s011, George H., survives. One Son Killed . in Action. A11otl1er so11, Jol1n F. Jr., was killed in act ion ,:vit h the marines duri11g tl1e \\ orld war. Tl1e son, who l1ad bee11 trained bJ' l1is father, at the tin1e of l1is death held tl1e Mississippi ,,alle:\' ro\ving cl1an1pionship of tl1e si11g·lc sculls, wl1ich his ·f athe r had l1eld years before. 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F203 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chicago Tribune Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 Title A name given to the resource John F. Corbet Death Description An account of the resource Newspaper clipping of eulogy for John F. Corbet, who died at 83 and won a $1,000 prizeat the Columbian exposition, defeating Edward Clator in a single sculls race. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/41ad9ea7c5cd3043f60dee6348e0a88e.pdf d49c10c6df560b570746d96e440688a0 PDF Text Text THE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD, SUNDAY, Rugg Oarsmen ho on orld Honors In 1887 ill Have Reunion at Luncheon ( The 0-Wash-Ta-Nong Junior Four oarsmen broke a world's record in a two~mile race, with turn, in 1887-and their feat has never been duplicated. The famous quartet will be reunited at the Rotary lunch• eon given in honor of Albert A. Carroll, w·ho has just retired as superintendent of police, From left to right, Jesse Fox, William Sargent, Charles McQue wan and Albert A. Carroll, Charles McQuewan was bowling with a group of friends at the Elks temple when a. Herald reporter talked with him, between frames, of the old 0-Wash-TaNong rowing club. McQuewan, a medium-sized man with the compact body and smooth, strong hands of an athlete, despite 77 years, was sending his favorite ball floating down the long hardwood alleyway with the enthusiasm and skill of a bowler of long practice. He grinned at the reporter and flexed his arm "Poke it," he invited, "and see what rowing did said. "You won't find any healthier men than the members of the old 0-Wash-Ta-Nong junior . four." The junior four, by the way, is to reassemble next Thursday noon ,vhen A. A. ·C arroll, retired police superintendent, is guest of honor at the Rotary club luncheon at the Pantlind hotel. Carroll S•troke Oar Carroll was stroke oar in the l'.amous junior four that set a world's record for the two-milewith-turn race held at Reeds• lake in the' summer of 1887. McQuewan was No. 2 man. William Sargent, now a farmer near Frelll'lnt, was bow-oar and Jesse for us." Fox, now of Alaska, Mich., was No. The reporter poked blacksmith- 3 man. hard muscles that bulged under Mr. Sargent, who paid Carroll a McQue\van's shirtsleeve. visit Thursday, didn't belle the ''I'm no exception," McQuewan oaken-soundness of his fellow oa·rs- I • ~ .: Will Be in Direct Control of Detectives, Under O'Malley Frank O'Malley, Grand Rapids' new superintendent of police, entered office Saturday on one of the quietest days in the n1onth, so far as c·rime reports were concerned. He came into a flower-bedecked office and spent moct of the day in receiving well-wishers. Chief O'Malley announced that Lieut. Detective Albert ,S cheiern would take direct controi of the detective bureau. While O'Malley continues to be chief of detectives, it "'as necessary for him to name someone to take active charge of that bureau, make the necessary assignments to investigations and handle the routine work. Mifts Mabel Gordon, stenographer in the superintendent's office under A. A. Carroll, will remain in that capacity and Mrs. Addie Deutsch will remain as stenographer in the detective bureau. ..............~, Month Has New Claim to Fame • Damage Suit Retrial 1s Denied C. Kalder ·Circuit Judge W. B. Perkins denled ·S aturday the motion of counsel for Charles W. Kalder for a new trial of the ·damage suit brought against him by his sister, Mrs. Hazel Abbott, of Detroit. Mrs. Abbott was given judgment for more than $900 and title to an automobile, the ownership of which was in dispute. Kalder, former South Division ave. business man, is serving a term in Leavenworth penitentiary for a narcotics law violation. Town Has $142,000 High School, No Operating Fund; It's Idle for 2 Years DUCKTOWN, Tenn., Feb. 1 UP)This center o:f the famous Ducktown copper basin has a $142,000 Junior high school building over Sargent Good Boxer • As a former state champion, Mr. ,Sargent is greatly interested in boJi.ing or, 1t·s he prefers to call it, "sparring." He voiced objection t newspaper reference to boxing a, a "brutal" business. "I'd say it wa. the most scientific game going," h opined. Carroll's eyes lighted a little and he said soothingly, "Now, you know boxing Is a brutal business. Don't you remember how hard I hit you in that friendly little .sparring match we had out at Reeds lake one summer?" Sargent admitted he remembere this. He also remembered that on summer when the captain of a De troit crew, just defeated by th Grand R a p i d s oarsmen, had wagered his men could out-spa the Grand Rapids crew, Carroll ha blithely volunteered the sparrin services of William Sargent, 14. pounds, against the 18'5-pound De troit bow-oar. a. World's Record Stands NEW YORK. Feb. 1 IUP)Today was the first of five Saturdays in Febru·a ry, It won't happen again until 1964. The fact the first day of the month was Saturday and this is a leap year is responsible. It's the seventh time since the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Great Britain and this country in 1752 that the month will have had five Saturdays. •••• • men. He shook; hands in the same firm-handed manner, and displayed as keen an interest in sports. M'r. Carroll was a strapping fellow with thick, curly black hair and an impressive moustache In 1887, when he stroked the junior four to its momentous victory in the Northwestern Amatuer Rowing association regatta at Reeds lake. The crew cut the world's record for the two-mile-with-tu·rn race from 12: 42 to 12: 27. This record still stands. Nowadays that distance is not raced, so the record probably will continue to stand. The 1887 junior four won the first leg of a trophy offered for that race and two years later Carroll coached the junior four that won the second leg, and permanent possession of the trophy, for Grand Rapids. :Mr. Carroll now has this trophy. The Grand Rapids club participated in many events. One well remembered was a regatta, in 1889, ·at Salt Lake City, Utah. The Grand Rapids team was invited by that city's chamber of commerce and had it-s expenE:es paid for the trip. It was the first such race ever rowed on Great Salt lake, and the oarsmen. they came from Chicago, St. Louis and Peoria as well as Grand Rapids, found rowing in the salt-heavy waters both exasperating and amusing. McQuewa11 Organized Club The 0-Wash-Ta-Nong club was organized in 1884 and passed out of existence in 1890. It Wa!!l succeeded by the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club, of which /Charles McQuewan was organizer. Mchill and none is left to run the Quewan was president of the latter Junior high school. club when it was organized and So the 30-room building, flanked he was president of the club, in on one :,ide by a big auditorium 1928, when it was disbanded, withand on the other by a gymnasium, out, McQuewan proudly points out, stands idle and vacant. owing a cent to anyone. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F202 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Grand Rapids Herald Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource no date Title A name given to the resource Rugged Oarsmen Will have Reunion at Luncheon Description An account of the resource Newspaper Article about the 1887 World Honors Winners from Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club, and their reunion at the luncheon honoring A. A. Carroll. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">No Known Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/58fd74e808bbd9697b7582f4f3c0671f.pdf 0559d455ce26e07f8a4f8a080bfd58f7 PDF Text Text r ( .,,. I' Second Section l - • Editorials, Books, Spotlight Abroad, Outdoor GR.AKO RAPIDS, MICH., SUJ\.DAY, JUNE 16, 1963 • I 21 • • • ~~~~.f::~:t::~::::~::::~:.Z:::!~::&!:$::;:::~5~;:;~:t:!:!~t:~~~m~~~i::@ ::?::~ W::-:::::::::~~-::::.: -::::::-:.::::?:1:1:f:~:l::::.:::::::=:::::~::y !:};*M$.:~:-f,:t;~~~~~:r::~~:;:;:$::f;$:~f:;;~;:;:~~::;:;':;*;::*;W.~~~~::~:r:::::::5~::::;~:;:;:~~t:.:;:g~;:;·;::·:·:~J!Z:-'9 I :•:{• :;:::: ,,,,., :::::: A Look Baek at a Colorful Era :::::: :-:❖ •,•,:, ili~l , ~i...i • ( ;:;~! :;:1; , ?, •=❖ .· :-: !❖! '• •'• ,.' ,. :ii:: n. :]it :ii::; ;:;:; ' < ~ \ Grand Rapids Rowers' E niblem ' THREE VICTORIES IN FOUR DAYS-This eight, called ''the finest crew ever turned out at Grand Rapids'' by Coach Corbet, set a Western record at Peoria, Ill., J:iy winning three races in four days. This picture was taken just after they had won one of the three. They are Peter DeYoung, cox' swain; Russell Davis, stroke; Alvin Hoek, No. 7; Richard Tanis, No. 6; Phil Thorndyke, No. 5; George Donker, No. 4; Martin Buursma, No. 3 ; William Young, No. 2, and Howard MacMillan, bow. • :::::: :•:•:- :1:11 ....... ...... .,, ,.,.,. HERE'S WHERE IT ALL STARTED-Grand Rapids' golden .::;< S • • • It well may be a new sport for those youngeror newer- residents of West J\,[ichigan whose memories go back no further than the mid-1920s. But there are more than a few Grand Rapids citizens ,vho recall when the names and photographs of local oarsmen topped the sports pages of newspapers not only in Grand Rapids but also in Philadelphia, Buffalo and Chicago. And there are a handful of local men who remember vividly the Jung-straining, arm-numbing finish sprints in which stroke for stroke they matched - and bettered - the efforts of s_o]!l_~ q( t.1.i.~ {i.!.l.~~t. Qal,'.~W.~!.l. of the tin1e. < F'lr ~bou' , r, ~ears - f1 v111 1885 until the m1d1920s - Grand Rapids built a golden reputation in the rowing world. Like many another facet of an American way of life, it ended with the mass-produced auto and the advent of the country club. . • • • But while it lasted, the Goliaths of Detroit and Chicago more than once met their David in less well equipped, financially poorer Grand Rapids crews that didn't know ,vhen to quit - literally, Take, for example, the Central States Amateur Rowing Association regatta held here in 1921. , Joseph Kortlander, now a Grand Rapids real estate dealer, was rated high in the doubles and singles events, but he was ill, apparently suffering from a virus infection. It was a glaring hot day on the Grand River that Friday, July 8, 1921. Kortlander ignored his fever to row in the quarter-mile dash, Although he lost, he picked up points for the home club. The next day he finished third in the singles race and collapsed at his oars. ''That:s all,'' said the club doctor. Kortlander was carried to the clubhouse and put to bed. But when he heard the call for the doubles race less than an hour later, he climbed out of bed, mumbled: ''I'm in on that'' and ran out to the dock. Friends and coaches protested, but he climbed into the double shell with Julius Petersen. They were first across the finish line a mile later, beating six other entries. Kortlander again collapsed in the boat, but his dogged determination had clinched the high-point trophy for the Grand Rapids team. • • • There were other days of glory: -In July, 1922; Grand Rapids' 14 oarsmen came home from Peoria, Ill., with 30 gold medals and 5 silver plaques from the combined regatta of the Central States and Southwestern Amateur Rowing Associations. The local eight won three races in four days. -In 1886 a four-oared shell with a Grand Rapids crew broke. the world's record for two miles with turn, trimming the mark from 12 minutes 42 seconds to 12 minutes 27 seconds. The record was still standing 50 years later. In 1914 the Grand Rapids eight won the national an1ateur championship at Philadelphia, beating challengers from all over the United States and Canada. • • • It all started back in 1884, ,vhen a group of local sportsmen organized the Owashtanong (or 0-WashTa-Nong) Boat Club on the west shore of Reeds Lake. A clubhouse, long since vanished, ,vas built in 1885. Rowing almost immediately became one of the club's major activities, Charles Seidel, a well-known Pittsburgh boater, came to Grand Rapids with a load of used rowing equipment to manage the club's program. For four years, 1886 through 1889, the Northwestern Amateur Rowing Association held its annual regattas at Reeds Lake. It was in the first of these that the Owashtanong four-A. A, Carroll, later police chief of Grand Rapids, Charles McQuewan, Jesse Fox and W. D. Sargent-set the Wl'lrld's two-mile mark. Newspaper accounts said the crowd of 10,000 spectators went wild at tl1e end of the race, scores of them wading into the water to carry the ro,vers and their sl1ell ashore. On • • • Aug, 30 and 31, 1888, the Grand Rapids oars- men underwent a new experience rowing in salt water. The Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce invited, expenses paid, several Midwest clubs to a l ' , • '•'• By PAUL HINES OME bright and preferably windless day within the next year eight husky oarsmen will carefully lower a 60-foot racing shell into the Grand River near Grand Valley State College at Allendale. Delicately balancing the slim craft, they will take their places and fit their long sweeps into the rowing sockets. A ninth man-the bantamweight coxswain who steers the shell and sets the rhythm for the oarsmen -will start his chant: • ''G'1ve way-"'one, two ... '' And what some GVSC officials have recently referred to as a ''new'' sport in the Grand Rapids area ,vill make its debut. •'• era of rowing, which lasted for almost 40 years, started with the • establishment of the Owashtanong Club on Reeds Lake, The :11::: :;:;:; club, organized in 1884, built this clubhouse-long since vanished -on the west shore of the lake in 1885. This rendition is probably the combined effort of a tintype photogfapher and an artist, produced sometime around 1890. •,•:-: :l)\i~ ~::•: ~:: ) NEAR END-This -Grand Rapids Press Photographer. CUP RETURNS TO GRAND RAPIDS - Four local men who rowed for Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club more than 40 years ago admire one of the club's trophies, which by chance was saved from being melted down by a Southeastern Michigan antique dealer. Ernest L. Bates of 1638 Wealthy St. SE was looking for antique gun parts in a shop at Somerset c:enter, 25 miles south of Jackson., when he spotted the trophy and bought it, From left to right are Fred Lindner, whose name is engraved on the cup for the years 1911, 1913 and 1914; Joseph Kortlander, whose ''iron man'' performance helped the club win a Central States Rowing Association regatta in 1921; How~ rd MacMillan, who rowed bow on a championship Grand Rapids eight crew from 1919 to 1924, and Russell Davis, stroke and captain of the same eight, called ''the finest crew ever turned out at Grand Rapids." How the cup got to the Somerset Center anti ue shop ,is a mystery. \ is the Grand Rapids ~:: 1 ;:::;: Boat and Canoe Club facility as it looked shortly before t h e c I u b disbanded in !Iii: 1929, The heyday of lil~ the auto and the ad- fl! vent itJJ; , 1ubs brought about 1 t e demise of the fili ;-.-:• of country • cl b, which for years . .. '' ) - regatta on Grrat Salt Lake. 1111> Crsnrl R ·,•pids team won rto race~, but ''found rowing in the salt-heavy waters both e¥asperating and amusing," according to a news report 1 The Owashtanong fours were active in 1887, 1888 and 1889, winning the junior and senior events in the National Amateur Rowing Association. In the 1890s, rowing activities gradually shifted to a small building on the Grand River in North Park, and the O,vashta11ong Club, in fine quarters at Reeds Lake, became a social and canoeing club. 1'he river organization was the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. The Northwestern association held its last regatta on Reeds Lake in 1901. Rowing slacked off a little in the first years of the 20th century, although several local regattas were held and Grand Rapids oarsmen met competitors from Chicago on Lake Macata,va several times before 1910. • • • the Boat Canoe In 1908, and Club opened new quarters on the Grand River in North Park, and the clubhouse became a social as well as athletic center. Said the program for the club's opening party of the year Friday, May 27, 1910: ''Dancing at eight-thirty to Tuller' s Orchestra." For years the Friday night dances were a social "must'' in Grand Rapids. Then the club made a move which brought a golden era of rowing to Grand Rapids. It hired as rowing coach John F. (Jack) Corbet of Chicago, who was to train local oarsmen for 13 years except for a twoyear interval at Chicago. The handlebar-mustached Corbet, then 55 years old, was the professional champion sculler of the United States from 1883 to 1886. At the ' Columbian Exposition in 1893 he defeated famous Edward Clator in a single sculls race for the then-unheard-of purse of $1,000. • • • Corbet's teaching brought quick results from the eager Grand Rapids youths. In 1911, the club entered . six men in the Central States regatta at Peoria, Ill. They brought home the high-point trophy, winning the junior doubles, half-mile dash for fours, junior singles and senior singles. Ernll_st Conlon pulled to victory in the single sculls, the11 hopped into a double shell with his brother, Herb, to take that race. The next day, July 18, 1911, Ernest Conlon won the Boat and Canoe Club's first senior race-the single scull event. Later that year the local club scored anoth~r smashing success in a Labor Day regatta at Chicago. But there was more to come. Tl1e next year, 1912, Grand Rapids went to the combined regatta of the Central States, Southwestern and National Amateur Rowing Associations at Peoria, Ill. • • • When they came home, they brought with them winners' trophies for the national intermediate four, all singles and doubles in both the Central States and Southwestern meets and the Central States high point trophy, They tied for the Southwestern high-point trophy with St. Louis. Until that time, the Boat and Canoe Club had competed in onlr single and double scull events and four-oared shells. But in 1913 the club added an eightoared shell. Coach James Wray, who had raced at Harvard, set abotLt training the crew-Lester Stiles, Podge Holoway, Jules Petersen, Sophus Johnson (later Grand Rapids city manager), Ernest Conlon, Frank Brummler, Fred Lindner, Cliff Dolan and Jack Fowler, coxswain. In 1914 they were ready. At the regatta at ·Philadelphia they beat a favored Philadelphia crew for the U.S .-Canadian championship. Said a Philadelphia newspaper: · ''Our boys were ,-;o 1,,atc;, foi· ~lite ,,;il;~a11gy so11s 01 lumbermen irom Michigan." • • • • Years later, when the Boat and Canoe Club was disbanding, The Grand· Rapids Press recalled the Philadelphia reporter's words and remarked in an editorial: ''The 'sons ' of lumbermen'-they actually were nothing of the kind, but hard-working boys in Grand Rapids offices and factories who could practice only after 5 o'clock when the day's jqb was over-annually proved themselves the greatest oarsmen in the Midwest." On May 15, 1915, a fire hit the Boat and Canoe Club, destroying a storage building and $8,000 in equipment-members' canoes, camping and rowing equipment. Only one eight-oared shell, slower than the one used in the Philadelphia victory of the pre' v1ous year, was saved. But the club continued its ro,ving program, winning the singles and doubles events from Cadillac Boat Club of Detroit in a meet the same month at Ann Arbor. On ·July 10 Grand Rapids again met Detroit, \Vinning the singles, four and eight races. . . ·•···• w s a !'locial ""' ,.,.,JI a athletic c e n t e r. •...,, ::;::: *::: -·-··· T, .., ·- ':::--: ··-·.·.•. .lit e property now is fti ::::~ the cJ' ,house of the Ame~,can Legion, •:-::: !~~ ~i=~ :-::-;. ·}!:: .::·.:: ., -~:-: :;:;;; :~-,. h.• :::::: .... ~ -:❖• :·~•,: ~;: -~:•, ... !❖:- 1~! =·•·!, :::::: :=:::: :::::: ❖·•: '.:!(:[ '❖!, :,-:-: ... ...... ······ :-:❖ .:::::: ..... :;::~, .... :❖:• •=❖= :::::: •❖J. •••··• ·•·•·• :•x• ~~ •• ·' 'f' •.. •.• n.• ,;,:,; ·-~•.. .... ::~:: •'•'•' ,•u ... '.{!: ~ !❖"• ,•,❖ • • :~:-: ..•. :::•·,· .,,,;' ......, ••••• •..;.,, .,. ..... ••••• '❖'• :.:❖ !•:❖ .•. ,• !:~!: :;~:; :-:;:··~ •:-;,; ! ~i ::::.: •..•, ,;❖: :-:❖ -:-:-: •;-❖ :-:❖ w ···-:: :::x ' Iii! :-:-:• .....,·· ···· ··-···.~ ~:' -:❖• :.;,;. ,:.·,: ,,;,:, .... !i llif :-'>.,: .::-:, ..:=:::-,.,,. :!%, •••••• ...... • .,., .(:::::•••••..... • • • ❖:.! ❖,•! ;.;,:: Rowing took a back seat during World War I. But in 1919 Grand Rapids met Chicago's finest oars- ,;.:,: ~:::: men in Lake Michigan just off the Windy• City and took home every trophy that Chicago offered. The I~il ~(~! local club also won four first places at the Central States regatta at Chicago in 1920. · !l!!f ...... Then came 1921, and Kortlander's iron-man performance at the Central States regatta here. But although Grand Rapids won the high-point trophy, . ,:,:-: .,._. local oarsmen were disappointed at ,the eight losing to Detroit in a close finish after leading most of the ~j..... way. i}: ..... Revenge for that defeat was not long in coming. ,,,_, An eight crew w-hich Coach Corbet called "the best ;::: ever turned out at {}rand Rapids'' set a record at ;,·,•,•~;~ Peoria at the combined Central States and Southwestern regatta. The Grand Rapids eigl1t, rated in the junior division ~::;; because it had not yet won a first place, whipped ... :~::: ... ~;-;, Detroit in the ilouthv;/estern junior eight race, rowing :t: the 1½-mile course in 7 minutes 13 seconds in a brisk -~--. m!i ❖-•· wind and chop. i!li!: -::::: ···-·· ·-:-· .,J.,; ::,. :- '*:•:-:• ... -:-c:,; .,,,,;., :,::,. •...,. :;:;..: t.-~· t( :-':{~ :::,:: •••••• ..... ::;.:: ❖"i' ❖.•: ·-·,:, :,• (.;,• ..,,... :~ ..... ·-···· f:~~! =~-~ :::::: ::,::i *'• ::::;: ~ii •:•::: ,•,:-= ...... ,,...,.. .•••..,t.. JOHN (JACK) CORBET, who coached Grand Rapids crews for 13 years, made the local boat club famous in national competition. He was professional champion sculler of the United States from 1883 to 1886, ~? • • • The 11ext day they ,von the South,1,eslern senior race, trimming a mi11ute and a second off the pi;evious day's time. With only a day's rest, they took the Central States eight, again beating Detroit's best. Peter DeYoung, the Grand Rapids coxswain, was applauded for his expert handling of the crew Russell Davis, stroke; Alvin Hoek; Dick Tanis; Phil Thorndyke; George ,Donker; Martin Buursma; Bill Young, and Ho,vard MacMillan, bow. And in 1923 that crew added insult to Injury by whipping a Detroit eight which had won the Canadian Henley race at Toronto only a few weeks before. The race, on the Detroit River, gave Grand Rapids the Midwest championsh~p. On this note of triumph, the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club began to die. · Country clubs were springing up, the automobile was in its l1eyday and the Friday night dances in 'the clubhouse by the Grand River somehow seemed gay and exciting no longer. • • • In late 1928, less than a decade after its highest days of glory, the club offered its property and its 80-year lease on the land-owned by Grand Rapids Railway Co.-to the city for use as a park. The price was $5,000, the amount of a mortgage on property valued at $40,000, · • F, CHARLES McQUEWAN, left, who helped organize the Grand Rapids Boat f?::i: ❖'•'. ;~::: and Canoe Club, had the sad task of presiding over its liquidation. He was in t h e 1~11 crew of a four-oared shell which in 1886 set a two-mile record that was standing half a century later. ! :j .,,,,.. •••••• ~=i~:~~:::::~:::::::::~:::~:§:::~=~:~::~:;::;;;;:r:~:r:;!§fil:1:::t.:=r: s~:r:;: ;: : §~*l:::a~z~~::eg::§:*~~::: :~~~:s: ~;:; $;:;&;!; ;;:~:x,.::-;:;.;~1z.«:~;.:::»; :~...:.{;i;:::::••;::.i::~;$~:-::::::::;;";£1:~:;::r:r:~::~~;~:§:Bt:1::m::;;;;;-:~:;;:s• After a sad conference with Charles McQuewan, the club's president and for years its guiding light, a city commission committee agreed to recommend acquisition of the clubhouse by the city. • Later the city acquired title to the land from Gra11d Rapids MotoF Coach Co., successor of the Grand Rapids Railway Co., ln a tax adjustment deal. And in June, 1941, the American Legion leased the property for use as a clubhouse. Two years later it ,vas sold to the Legion for $1,000. So was stilled the coxswain's chant on the Grand River: But, silent for almost 40 years, it soon will be heard again, Last April• 9, a 60-foot, eight-oared rowing shell arrived at Grand Valley State. It and a four were purchased from Detroit Boat Club \\rith funds donated by M. S. I{eller II of Grand Rap- I· lds, who is heading a campaign to raise $15,000 for GVSC's rowing program. • • • By next fall the college hopes to purchase another four. The two fours then \1'111 be raced against each other to train a crew for the eight, said George Potter, assistant to the president for academic affairs. Potter, who rowed for priva te clubs in Engla11d and in intramural races at Oxford, will help athletic director Cha rles Irwin in training the crews. When the new college ope11s its first semester next fall, Irwin and Potter will have their eyes open for muscular lads who look as if they might take easily to pulling a sweep. And again, as in days past, the Grand River ,viii echo to the coxswain's orders : "Give way - one, two .. ," ~:l~ :-:~❖ ... :-·, :,:• . ~-,:::::-~ ~:~ !❖!• -:~i si ?l:-"& ;i .-;.,._. ..,,. :-:.> .• .• *~ , .,.;:t :-:•J! NI' ~4 ...,\: ..... ~~, ~'.,'. :-,•), «-: ,.,1":❖•.• ;,:•,: f:• ~11 i:i:::.-....... :-» ::-::: ... ~==~ :::::: ~---i ,.,,! ~ •,:,,-. ~-;.;, ,,;.,; -;, • ..... • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F201 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Grand Rapids Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1963-06-16 Title A name given to the resource GVSC Revives an Old, Proud GR Sport Description An account of the resource Newspaper article detailing GVSC's role in bringing crew back to GR, after Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club gifted clubhouse back to the city. One section tells the history of Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club prior to GVSC. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F111 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource no date Title A name given to the resource A Four Out for a Spin Description An account of the resource Full-sized sheet of paper, pencil script. At the top, crossed out, "Members of first crew to win race for," underneath that, "A four out for a spin - Herbert Conlon, Ernst Conlon, McQuewan, Corbet." Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F110 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1923? Title A name given to the resource Crew Positions on Scrap Paper Description An account of the resource Piece of scrap paper with notes in pencil: "Won Central States Regatta and Southwestern States Regatta in Peoria in 1922 - Also, won dual regatta with Detroit in 1923: Russ Davis (stroke), Alvin Hoek, Richard Tanis, Geo. Donker, Bill Young, Phil Thorndyke, Mart Buursma, Howard Macmillan (bow), and peter De Young (coxswain)." Also, "Cliff Allison Cox 1923" Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) 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Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F109 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource no date Title A name given to the resource Detroit Challenge Cup Description An account of the resource Image of the Detroit Challenge Cup for the Intermediate Fours event, won by Conlon, Foote, Kuyers, and Schipps. On the back, an image of the cup for the Senior Quadruple Sculls event. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">No Known Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ff9f4356016596b7b0af8ea161eef333.pdf f39dea71e8d619ecc99b72a58d8d6f6d PDF Text Text ..,_ ) • < • ' • • • Memories of Great Races hich on National Fame ith Sport Lovers Linger -----·--- G UARDIAN of atl1letic l1·aditio11s, lJL1ilde1· of ll1Cll a11d cha111JJio11s, tl1c G1·a11d RatJids Boat ~t11tl l:a11oe club, fo1· yea1·s outsta11di11g i11 tl1e .:t1111als of loc,tl l1isto1·y, l1as clecided aside its idc11lity. 1'110 club l1as oll'c1·ed lo Ll1e city its p1·ope1·ty a11d clubl1011sc 011 (;1•a11cl ri,·c1·, r1ca1· Nu1·ll1 Park, ,vitl1 tl1c 11n<le1·sta11di11g ll1al tl1c city cor1tin11c ll1c ,,,or!-: of· tl1e cl11b i11 SJJ01·ls. Eve1·y i11dicalio11 l1us l)CC11 J,y tl1e fact tl1,1t tl1c Jirst eigl1l• to lay oarccl C~ra11d l{:.llJi(ls boat "\\'US see11 ill actiOll ::tway fL'OJ)l 1101110. give11 by l:ity Ma11agc1· 1,·1·ed Locke a11d 111c111bc1:s ot· tl1e co111111issio11 tl1at tl1e gift ,vill 111 1914 the Ce11t1·al States l'ega.tt:..t. l1igb lJOint LL"OlJhJI' agu,in ca1ne to Gra11cl 11-aJ)icls \vl1e11 six erc\vs \vo11, ]Je acce1Jted as 011e of tl1c 111ost 'fl1is ycn.r tl1c se11ior cig•ht-oared sl1cll ,vas entered in tl1c People's ge11ero11s offe1·s eve1· 111ade. reg-utt,c at Pl1iladelpl1i,1. 'l'l1c local Tl1e sole stipulatio11 n1ade by crc,vs wou11d 1111 tl1e year by ,vinPresident Chat>les Mc(,,!ue,va11 u.nd 11i t1g tl1c larger sl1aro af tl1e races men1bers of tho club is "tha't the at tl,e Cl1icago Labor day rcga.tta. city assume a 111o·rtgage of $3,000 'T'l1e11 1914 sa,v t)10 <'ii;l1t-oarecl agai11st tl1e property, wl1icl1 is val- crew reach the fl.11al heigl1ts of 1,ed at n,ore tha1, $30,000. '.L'l1e city ro,ving and Vl·in a first at ll10 Na11,1s expressed tho J101Je tl1at tl1e clut, will f1111ction as a self-sttt111orling utility, provlcling an excelle11t 111t1nlc!pall)• cor,trolled 1,lace fol' social and atl,,etic ,,ctivities. 'l'he Uru11d - l~~nirlR J-:Jor,t pnrJ~.<::innr n]11l, hrilrl1.1 I \ r I 1110 ln11,i 1t11dcr '" 99-year lease l'.·l1lcl1 l1as 80 n10,·e ;;cars to run. 1 l\la11y notable prii,es havo been· brou.e;l1t to tl1c city by club rr,ernbers. Discarding the practical value of tl,e publicity attendant 011 sucl1 efforts ar1<l lool{ing or1 tlte glamorous scene of clea11-limber, higl1 spil:ited ~vou11g men forgi11g ahead tl1rougl1 years oJ: p:ttient effort to rea,•11 son1e of tho pinnacles in tl1e ar1.1ateur sporting world, it ma~,. be seen that tl1e club ,vill 1'ing·er long and fondly in tl1e 111emories of tl1ose ,vl10 favor sport~ma11shi1> in Its best for111s. First Victory Comes 'I'l1e first winning crew to appear on local waters as the result of orgar,i«ed efEort was a four comJ?osed of A. B. Carroll, strcl,e; Je~sie Fox, No. 3; Cl1arles McQuewa11, No, 2, and Willl11n1 Sargeant, No. 1. It was the juni01· four-aared event held 011 lleec1s lal,e 011 a two- R"'g;:.Jtf-:=t "'"'::-·' ~t"ff:!c1 P..:1pld1 Bc::it ..:tl~ Cance ... !ub !.t.i cu,1JJ. ~kcl -~ ... overflowing, The two large pictures were taken in 1921 whery the club was host to Central States Amateur Rowing association, In tile smaller pictures (upper right) are the members of the first crew to win a race for Grand Ra,pids. From left to right they are: William Sargeant, Charles McQuewan, Jesse Fox and A. A. Carroll. Directly beneath then, is the famous eight of 1922 which won three races in four days at Peoria, Ill. The man witl, the megaphone strapped to his face is Pete DeYoung, one of the best coxswains over known hereabouts, Others in the boat are Russell Nelson, stroke; Alvin Hoek, No, 7; R. Tanis, No. 6; Phil Thorndyke, No. 5; George Dunker, No, 4; Mart 8ursn1a, No. 3; Bill Youngs, No, 1, and 1-loward McMillan. bow. Upper left is a four out for a spin. They are, from front to rear: Herbert Conlon, Ernest Conlon, Charles McQuewan, and Jack Corbett, the latter coach of the crack crews for many years. In the small pi~ture, low,, left, are seen Lester Stiles and Clarence Worfels, who won the junior clouble sculls of the Southwestern Amateur Rowing association meet held at Peoria in 1912. ' era mile course tl1at tl1t::se me11 ca1Jt11recl and t!·1eir ti1ne, 12 minutes, 27 H iSecond:.:;, stands as a l'ecord today, This ot1tstancl'ing victory ,vas the result of 1norc lht-t11 tl1ree years of r,rcparalio11, The first club lo be organizecl l1erc was tile o,vashlanong clttb, ir1 1884. In 1385 it built a boat l1ouse on needs lal,c. Tl1is <club contin11ed until 1891. !11 1889 1.11e jurtior cre,v, cor111,osecl of Ja.n1C'~ J1'orhes, strol-<e; C. Freeman, No. 3; W!ll!a111 Beeson, Nci. 2, and :Ed Earl, bo1,·. \¥011 the junior fotn· l'ace at tl10 Nort11,vesler11 Amalet1r Ro,ving associn.,tjon regatta. Tho senior c1·e,v again annexed anotl1er first place. 111 1802 the Gra11d Rapids Bo,it club wa:; born, successor to tl1e 0,vashlanong clttb. I11 1901 the ENRY FORD ,vas in the public eye a quarte1· of a ce11tu1·y ago but 11ot as the moto1· mag11ate and manu- factu1·e1· of 10 million a11to1nobiles. On Jan. 13, 1904 newspapers ca1·1·ied repo1·t\ that ''He111·y l!.,ord of Detroit'' set a ne,v speed 1·ecord fo1· -automobiles by driving the ''famous 999'' The 1·eco1·cl a n1ile in 39 2-5 seconds. Da)· lot1 and Vv"heeli11,:;-. Da11ville ancl New Baltimo1·e befo1·e offi- Peoria prese11tecl '1jJplicatio11s to ll1c cial ti1ners and b1·oke the pre- leag·t1e should a11y cities clrop out. Nortll,vestE'rn An1ateur Jtovving as- sociation held its last regatta in Gra11cl l1apids at Reeds Lake, at ..,·J1ich meet tl1e local club 1vo11 tl10 1ntern1ediate four-oared eve11t. Club Settles Down The year 1902 sa,v the club r,1ovc to tl1e locatio11 it is 1101,· g·ivi11g to tl1e city. Tlte r,arno at tl1is ti111e ,,:as cl1anged to the• one it hare fro1n then on, namely, tl1e Gra,11d Rapids Boat and Canoe cl11i,. Organization of cre,,vs :tnd training wc11t forward slowly but surely. In 1904 fo11r local rcgattn.s ,vere l1eld and in 1906 medals ,verc given. !11 1907 anotl1er regatta was J1eld a11d tl1e club also J)articipated i11 tl1e Macalawa regatta, rowi11g against Cl1 i~ago a11d \vi1111ing ft ve out of six events. The11, In 1911, ll1e club swu11g Into realizatio11 of its hopes and plans, a11 era that lasted u11til nuton1obl)es and a growing public Jove for distant ar1ci faster moving pleasures ,vitl1 less worlc brougr1t a slaclceni11g of interest in river sporta. At tl1e Central States regatta at Peoria, Ill., the local club entered six 1nen. 'fl1ese 111en brought hon1e tl1e associatio11's higl1 poi11t lt·ophy after winning tl1e ju11ior singles, junior doubles, half-mile dasl1 for fours and tl1e senior single title. When Labor day of tl1e san1e year arrived tl1e Grand Rapids club went to Chicago and rle[eated the l,1ke city men In almost every contest. Triumphs Continue In 1912 tl1e club co11ti11ued its conquests. At the Central States ancl Soutl1west regattas they won all single a11<l do11ble shells races, one four-oar sl1ell race in both tl1e Central a11d South,veste1·11 r11eets; all q11ttrter-rnile clasl1 events, the Ce11tr,1l high point tropl1y and tied 'l'.·itl1 St. Lo11is for ll1e s:tmc trophy In tl1e Soutl1,vestern 111eet. ln tl1e l\"atlonal associatio11 regatta tl1ey won the i11tcrn1c<liate four-oar race. This year was also marked ·• tiona.l r<>gatla at Phil,1delphia. I,oc-al strol,ers took six firsts at tl1e (lran,l Rapids-Cl1ic1go meet at Wl1ite Jake. !11 1915, at tl1e Michigan Union reg,1tta at .'\nn Arbor in ,vl1icl1 were e11tered crews from tl10 Detroit, C'adillac, Gra11,l 11aplds boat clubs and tl1e stude11ts at tl1e 11niversity, Gran<l Rapids made a clca,1 sweep of ,,11 canoe P-vc11ts 81Jd ,vo11 five of seve11 shell races. The Worlcl war came alo11g· and rowi11g languisl1ed. 111 1920 the sport was revived an<l at the Central States reg1,tta at tJ1e n1unicij,al pier i11. ·C hicago the Grand Rapic,s club wo11 fou1· firsts. Hold Major Meet H,re The role vf l1ost to a 111a.jor meet ,vas first tairen by the Grand Rapicls 1.:lub ,·n 1 921 •·,hen 1·t 1-11 vi'ted the " Central States ,\.mateur 11owing associatio11 J1ere. G,·ai,d Rapids played tl1e perfect J1ost but refused to ,c;i,'e UJJ its claim to beiiig tile best ro,ving club nncl 1,r~St'llt ,valkecl away witl1 the J1 igli point tror,l1Y, I,, 1922 ca111e a series of haJ,pening·s tl1at cl imaxecl all that l1ad gone befo~ :i.11d \vhicl1 sent the high reputatio11 of tl10 local club across tl1e cou11 try. 1,1 1021 at tl10 !1on1e regatta Detroit J1ad 11osed 011 t the Graild Rapids eig!1t-oared cre,,v i11 a rousi1t~ fi11isl1 and i11 111any hearts g-100111 had settled i11 spite of the fact tl1e local club ,,011 tl1e l1igl1 poi11t iropl1y. T-tatecl as a ''jlLt1ior" eigl1t, becattse ;t_ l1ad 11ever ,vo11 2. 11rst P):tce, tl11s same ct·e,v ,ve11t to the Soutl11\'est :tssoc1,ttio11 111cet ,J Ltlv G, 6, 7, S, Tl1e Centra,,! States regatta ,vas being lleld tllere at tlIQ sa 1110 tiiiie. Famous 19 22 Eigl,t Wins . . Entering the Soutl1wcst Ju111or r<:1.ce tl1e eight ,vo 11 ll,'l,lltlily i'.ro 111 Detroit, tl,eii· iie,,rest coii1petitor. 'I'liis er,titlecl tl1e 111 to enter sciliur competitioii, aiid on tJ-,e folloiving day th8 Y agai)l wall,e<l a,vay ,vitll tlle race a nd th " chainpiitosliip. Not satiSfied wjth this spleridid sl1owi11g, tl1e crew in1mediate ly ar1·angect to row i11 the Central re,;·attii final ai,a 0 11 ce n1ore, witl1 cnly a day's rest, ,van a.not)1cr title. Wi11nlng ll11:ee starts in four days over cot1rses a11d d ista11ces sucl1 as were l!iid out at Peoria ren1ains a feat rarely equalled. Besides the achievement of their . leading cro1,v, otl1e1· Gr,1nd lt:11,1cls co111bi11ations ,van four firsts :i.na an equal numbei· of seconds and thirds in tl,c South,veste,·i, 11 ,,,~t and tl,e junior slng·les ai,d jtiiiict· cloub)es iii tlie Cei,tral races. Fron, tliis l,io! poirit t\lAre caiiic abottt the gradt~al cleclin; of the sport of ro,,•in'' wl,icli !,as caiise<l tl1e directors the club to l1o!cl tl1e opinion that tl1e club will f1111ctio11 best, 1ierl1aJ)S, in 111unicipal l,ai,,Js. It rnay continue to be a part of tho city's recreatio11 but it v,ill hav<'> to worlc Ion~ and h rd to acl1ie,,o tl1e l1ig!1 ~place tl1~t tl1e Gr,,11d Rapicls Boat ancl Canoe club helcl in the eyes of the rowir,,:;world for many y0ars a11d to brir1g to tl1e city ll1c famo that v.·as sl101v0rctt on lt by tl10 l1nrd-worJ.::i11g· a111alet1r oarsn1e11 of otl18r d:1.,•s. It is a 11oliceal,lc J)Oint i11 tl1e l1istory of tl1e club tl1at tl1roughout it ,vas n1aintained by the n1embers ;;f I I and. tl1at c·,e11 after it l)ogan to gai11' pro111i11e11te, it preferred to l1t111dle its o,vn aff~iirs. Amateur Spirit f,Jolds If ever a cltlb' v.•as tho1·ougl1ly a1nateur i11 tl1e entire spirit of the ,vord it ,vas 1.110 Gr2.11d Ilapids Boat and C,1.11oc club. 'fl1e mcn1bcrs met crews backed by u11Ji111ited finances, witl1 more expensive equipn1e11t and. greater resources of all otl1er 1,inds, but always abided by tl1ci1· o,vn decisions an,! ,vere 1·ev.•arded by tl1eir victories. The cltlb in later· years l)ecan1e r11ore of a social ce11tcr tl1,1.11 sports lielcl, altl1oug·t1. it foster~cl tl1e ud·va11cen1e nt of tennis i11 the city and offered encouragement in other sports. ::l{a11y peo1ole l1ave memories of the openi11g r,arties that followed ereclio11 of tl1e clubl1ouse ill 1907 a11d tl1e sul,sectue11t wl1irl of :;ociul ev·e11Ls tl1rougl1 tl1e years. Tl1e dining roo,n, ,vitlt ils up-river vista, will re111aln as one of the fragrant 1ne1nories of tl1e ciL1l1l101tSl', as ,viii ,memories of · its spacious verandas and green lawns and tl1e J h't ·1 ct1 ea11, w , e sand p1 es provided for 1e chilclre11 . ,vorl,er and unclivicled eutl1usiast, 110 ,vas honored by tl1e club in 1921 Associatecl witl1 thoug·I1t of the pJaco will rerr,ain other memot•ies, tl1ose of men ,vl10 W".'' for the club, and wl10 \'lorked for 1t. Among tl1c latter ,,vas tl1e late ll11ntley R1,ssell, wl1ose" l:'":de1:sl1i1, 1i11. ": <l:·iv~ for !11en1b~rsl11J) 1n 19(2 1es11lted 1n an inc~·eu.se oJ: . nearly 100 and . ,vt1lcl1 ultimately I esult:d ln erect1?n of tl1e clubhou~e which v.·as cons1~ered one ot tl1e _f111e~t 1~ tl1e coun,t'. y. It l1ad room for .JO 1_ac111g sl1el,s an_d 150 canoes. Besides tl,e ten111s '.'01,rts tl!e1 e ar': pla.ces fo1· quoits and a ba~eball cl1arno11d. Honor Charles McQuewan F.very s1,orting club l1a:; its clea11 :i11d to C~l1srles 1\,lcQuewan. of :i~r, ,,.rttsl1ing·to11 st .. SE .• g·oes tl10 11011or ,v1ll1 tl1e Gra11d ll:t)Jids l3oB.I. a11d (canoe club. A me111be1· of tl1e first ~re,v io ,,·in l1 erc in tl16 (.J1vasl,t,,nong club days, coacl1, counsellor, BREAKING IT GENTLY Tl1ere ca111e a !1urried !,11ock at the cloor and a voice 111ade Itself l1eard througl1 the letter box. "01it11 up, Mt·s. O'Malley-open Uy lJeir1g 11un1ed tl1e n,st me1111Jer 011 tl1e honorary roll. It was tl1roi1t;-l1 J1is 1nediation that .Jack Corbett, one ti1ne An1erica11 an1ateur sculljug· chan1pion, Came l1ere year after year to coach the cre,vs a11d that the Cc11tral States association l1elct its regatta he1·e. Associated ,vitl1 tl1e na111e of Mr . :VJ cQuevva11 are l1u11dr eds tl1at ca11 be 11a111ecl. Among tl1e1n, givi11g 011ly a tJarlial list, are Lo11 MeL'o11- nell, '.ron1 T,uce, Ned Raiguel, Will Conger, Alfred Davies, Cllft'oed Dolan. Franlc Bru,11n1eler, Herb and Er11est Co11lo11, Art GoclY\ir1, J,"red Collins, Guy Dawson Fred Li11der, Clarence Worfel, 'Lester Stiles, Julius Pete1·se11, Sop!111~ .Joh11son, ~\lvi11 Floel,, Dick Tanis, Pl1il '.rhor11clyke, George Dor1ker,, !viarlir1 Buursrr1a, Willi,1n1 Yo11ng, H. l\'[cMlllan, JD. M. Schopps, J,1ck l•ov;Jer, .Joseph I{:ortla11der, .Jr., a11d J0 eter DeYoung, 1nedal winners all, wl10 contributed to the more than 500 gold n1edals and 75 tropl1ies wl1ich appeared in the clubrooms. upl" Mrs. O'Malley 011ened tl1e door (]Uickly. On the ste1Js stood her 11eighbor, crying softly. "Oi've come to tell ye yer 'usba11d has met ,vith a11 accident, Mrs. O'Malley," she wailed sadly, "Ah. lo be sure, an' ph\vat is ut 110,v ?" cried the other, a11xiously. ''Ocl1, tl1e poor 1na11 Vv·as o,,ercon1.e l)y tl1c heat, darlin'." "1'l1e heat? At this toin1e o' tl1e ,vas . made at vious speed mark of 46 seconds n1ade in Augers coui·se, Fi•a11 ce. The 999 was tl1e same car which Ba1·r1ey Oldfield drove i11 the N cw ·ace the year befoi·e York r and was originally designed - F d by 01· • Two wars ,verc in tl1e offing 25 years ago but only one materialized. Colu1nbia was marl,ing time 11ntil l1oslilities 1nigl1t be declared wit\1 Panama, wl1icl1 just previo11sJy l1ad seceded from tl1at natlo11. Russia was 1nobillzing troops for a possible struggle with .Ta.pan. A decl:1ra,tio11 of ¥.-·ar and two ~rears of strife; resulted. .... Eigl1t St, Lc,11is workrr1en were l<illed in a po$t-l1ollday misl1ap. Tl1e ,vt,istle sounded the end of labors and the workmen, all of wl1om were employed 011 tl1e sixth floor, rusl1ed for the e levator. The cro,vd surged against the hrittlc gnte, guardi11g the elevator shaft, u11d as it s11apped u11der the 1,ressurc, 10 persons were J1urled Into space. T,,ro recovered. ..... The Iro(]uois tl1eater fire caused Chicago l1uilding i11spectors to close all theaters in the city wl1ile tl1eir res1)ectiv·~ stati were in~'esLigatecl. 'l'his resulted in several ma11agers ba11ding in damage suits against tl1e city fot· loss of patronage for no reaso11. Tl1e tl11al fa'tality report in the fire disclosed 588 perso11s lost tl1eir lives. • • • considerable Tl,c ya11guar~ o•f t;1e pcrso1111el or ll1e House o·f tl1e Good Sl1e1)l1erd arri,ed i11 Grand RaJ)ids .Ta.1,. 18, a qtrarter centtrry .ago. Two nuns. c·on1i11g· fron, Cinci11r1ati, ~stablisl1e,1 tl1e order whicl1 l1as flourished 111 its reforma1.ory worlc and 1Jt1ilt u 1, a state ,vide reputation. Tl1e first locatio11 wa-s a building- adjoiningto the west of St. James church 011 Bridge st., ne,vs reports asserted. Winter of '64 Was So Cold Mercury Sank From Sight It takes all l,inds of weather to make a climate. "Old Man Winter" l1as been getting in a few good licks 1·ecently but he l1asn't been really steamed up generally since 1864, records i11 the possession o:f Willian1 I-I. Tracy, U. S. meteorologist, sl1ow. If you don't believe that 1864 'l'.·as cold, l1unt up a Civil war veterar1 a,nd ask him how the sunny soutl1 lost its reputation that year. Tho weather tl1at winter did n1ore dan1 • age than both armies. Louisville, on the edge of tl1e ,vinter bouncl north, saw tl1e n1ercury climb down to 25 degrees below zero, Jan. 1. St. Lo11is citizens scraped tl1c frost off the wi11dows and read 20 below. Georgia and Alaba1na saw a dro11 to below zero. Federal and soutl1ern soldiers alilce declare\! an ar111istice and we11t cl1op11ing ,vood in perfect l1armo11y. And in Qrand Rapids it was a mild 8 degrees be10,,·. Farmers in Ca11ada and Montana saw the botton1 break out of all thermometers a11d didn't bother , Following agitation as to wl1ethe1· Grand Rapicls ,vould 0ontinue to be represented in organized baseball tl1e quostio11 was definitely settled i11 fa,•or of repre- to go out Lu 1nake re1Jairs. sentation in the circuit at the an11ual electio11 of officer8 of tl1e CenNEVER THOUGHT OF THAT tral Jen,gu c. 'fl1e officials were "l\ian, your hair is gray, yet l 11n,,nin1ous in objections to a11y cl1ange in tl10 loop. Tl1e leaguei don't see a single gray !1air in your year!" "Yis, yj~," returnRcl tl,e l,ea.rer of v,rl1iel1 scl1eri.ulccl 140 ga1i1es. was bearcl." "vVell, you must re111embet· that tl1e 11e,vs, o,,r11estly. "Your 111an agains to lie con1posed of Grand fel I into the fur11ace o' the fo11n- Ra1Jicl.s, Terre Ha11tr:>:, l 1:var1svilie, 1ny hair is so1newl1at older tl1an mY South Bend, E'ort Wayne, Marion, ,vhisl{ers." drJt· ." ' ' • • ' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/120499cc7db26859ae40aa0c775fecb9.pdf 280cc59b9d56642d7b2f04fffb4e76af PDF Text Text Hundreds at Luncheon i, Honor of.A. A. Carroll TIDJ GRAND RA PI J>S 'FRifiAY, ttE:BRUARY tr, 1886._ ] r t • 1 ( • 1 ] i ] C • , • • 1 •' 1 ( • ( ] I • 1 i • 1 4 1 1 1 ] l • r • l I ., -Photo by Robinson. Here is part of the crowd of 400 citizens, members of Rotary and other service clubs, who attended the testimonial luncheon in· the Pantlind ballroom Thursday noon in honor of A. A. CARROLL, just retired after 22 years a~ superintendent of police. MR. CARROLL is seated sixth from the left at the head table. In front of the table are standing the• three fellow-members of the O-Wash-Ta-Nong Junior Four, who with Carroll established a world rowing record in 1887. They are CHARLES McQUEWAN, WILLIAM SARGENT and JESSE FOX. }I t1111or a11cl serious et1logy 11ear(l f1~0111 l\'.[elvi11 Jl. Pt1rvis, noted ca11 or will i11 reality retire until "G-man," a11d fro1n .T. Edgar l1e goes down tv stay, and we shall , 7 ETERAN OARS~IEN ,vere mixed i11 tl1e address of Hoo·ver, depart1ne11t of justice exaex1)ect tl1at, for 1nany years to nd for nlany ~l~:trs. He conG..'\TlIER. Fred C. v\T et111ore, f or111 er fri.e come, you will as l1eretofore walk tjntlCd: ' amo11g your fellow men, with head 0 n~:; of: tl1e f eatu1·es of tl1 e U11jtccl States district attor11cy, "But 111ost irnprcssive of all to me llotar:v ruccti11g· ,vas tl,e i11tro- Up a11d chin ot1t, with a cl1ip on frjcnd to a,11otl1er, ,vllat v;,re thinlr of each shoulder, reac1y to spring i11to (lt1ction of t l1e crc,v of four. i11speaki11g 1Jefore tl1e Rotary l1i111. fig·I1tjng position vvhenever the ca.II cl ucli11g· ..\Ir. C:11·roll, \\ h ich • "Our l)resc11ce 11,~re e, idcnces our clttb rfl1ursclay.. at tl1e test11110- regard fo1· l1in1 ~!lOl'e eloquently estab1j::;hcd a record of 12: 27 to combat comes; a11d that you will over it t,vo a.ntl 011e-tl1ird mile be on l1a11d in person to see for th 11ial di1111er for fortncr .Police an any combination of scintilyourself that Grand Rapids does col1 rs-8 :i 11 the 18 8 7 s,vee11stakes lating syllables, but tl1ere are a fe,\7 at l)l1i ladel1)hia. Carroll's three not forget Ab Carroll.'' Sut)t. A. A. Carroll., ' things that ol1ght to l)e said rig·ht fello,v-111en1bers, all more than 1 7 lvlr. Wetmore'~ ·address i11 pa1·t ,vas as follwos: 0110 of our good friends has coin!)leted a long term of notable public service, during vvl1icl1 he l1as all the tin1e beo11 'on tl1e spot! jn the full g·lare of tl1e pitiless ligl1t that shi11es upon all who deal ,·vith the cleli11qt1encies of n1a11l{ind. Ottt of it all he has coine ,Yith ple 11 ty of scars a11d bun1 ps a nd bruises, but ,vithout a si11gle stain tll)On his shini11g l1011or and ,,rithout a sing·le crack in his unlJreaka,ble integ·rity. The lt1ster of his armor may be dimn1ed by the dirt through ,vl1ich he has plo,ved, perh_aps dented here and tl1ere by the slings and arro,ys of outrageous fortune, rusted maybe by exposure to storms of abuse and criticism, bt1t that armor is stJll i11fact and the n'l.an within is as ~•"ea~1 a11d st1taig;-11d aa ¥-1'.11:en- ......h-e stepped over tl;e tl1t~sholtl of life. "It is well ,vdrth\~~11ile to stop and lool<: at such a r11ai1, to size hi111 1J1), to tl1i11l:: about 11:m a.nd to tall< abot1t l1im, a11d ,vl1ile ,ve are at it v.re n1ight as well tell hi1n, as on~ i11 whose hearts ,viii al,vays be a. deep and sincere reg·ard for the 1nan who brought them from darl;:11ess i11to liglit." I-Iere JVIr. "\Vetn1ore dig·ressed to tell of the expres:s10ns of r·espect for Supt. Carroll l\'hich he had t"o his face. Se1•vice to Co111111unit3r. 70 Jrca.rs old, ,\·ere present fo1· tJ1.e ret1nion. ~rl1is group \"\1 as called the 0- ''A.lbert_ Abner, .i\.Lsalom, Abijah, Abiinelel{, or ,vl1a':')V6r YOttr 111011iv\'ash-Ta-N ong· Ju11ior JI'our and kor inay be, ,ve l~no,v as ,vell as you \\r011 fa111e in rowirtg circles d.o that Y 011 arc nl) ang·el and we ,vh011 tl1is s1Jort was in tho as('<='n.cJa.nc:\~ i11 Grand Rapids .. al'C g·lacl of i.t. Vin k 110 ,v that VOll arc juS t aii 5.nlperfi.:,c't, 11nfinisi1cd rchoso introdt1ced ,v-ere Jesse hu111an l)ci11g·, lil{e the rest of t1s, 1i'ox, C11u,rlPR 1\'.fcQt1c,·van and onl'jr inore so, and ,-·v:~ J<rlo,,T tJlat YOtl \\''illia111 Sarg·c11t. could 11cver ha.,,e :01a do tl1c record t11at is ,vrittc11. into tl1e l1Jstory or tliis comr1:i1.111 it.y if }·•tl lladil't be~r: crin1ir1als who k110,v, better than so exceedillgly, P.VCll excessively all oC;llers, l1ov,r keenly and pera11d, occasionallj t preposterously sistently a11d ruthlessly you and hun1an. · yo11r p1en pursued tl1e lawbreakers. "I bri11g· you no medals of goli We cruh11ot cal1 tl1em here as witor silver, 110 chevro11s or stars or• 11 csses, lJecause most of them are in s1:,oulder bars, but. l clo . bring_ and priso 11 or fugitives from justice, but r.;-1ve to YOll the sincere grat1t,.1de we do 'ha,re the silent but irrefutof the people of this cjty for tl1e able records of our critninal courts splendid servic~ you have r~ndered ,vhcrc are set do,vn the sentence~ to all of t~em, 111 thrJ pro~ect1on a11'1 iillpos~ 011 con·victed transgressors. :.J)" B;UJ•l'.J\Utt'O.Q. .of .J.i£.o~ ,~l~Qtti:r f:)1~•i .,.... ~ ·lJi ... Ii' ~tl h'I1 . ~ 1 ·• :t 1 })ro1)erty; -b11t mor0 especicl~lly do I~• ~ ..: t-iJ.b vOL{~ e'4t ~ J)hY · cai I bri11g to YOt1 and leave ,vitl1 ou inJUl'l(\ done, tl1 e J)rooei ty st0 1en the undying· a1)l)reciatio11 o1: ~h•~ and d :-~troyed and. the ~oi:row and fatl1ers, and the 1ear-bejc,velle,1 s11fferrt1g ca11sed b! cr11n1nal acts blet,;sing·s of tl1e 't"notl1ers, ,vl1ose tlierc J1~s been paid a, pelia.Ity of toys. a11d g·irls yo:1 11 a,ve tttr 11 e.1. j,•ears 11Icd 11po11 years of penal fro1n the do\v11warj p8,tl1s. of s~.n s01·,1 it.ude, the totn;l of which is a. a11d deg·radn,tion i11to the ttl)\Va.rd to,vc~~ a11d lasting testimonial to roads that lead to ha.pp)" J10111es ai:d tl1e ei rjcicncy and the everlasting ltseful ii,res ....i:\.nd to tl1ese let t11ere vig·i~awee of Ab Carroll and his be added tl1e glad t:·ib11te of thos~ valiant c0Ileagt1es. 1·escued a11d i·estor\'.!<l your1g folks, ''\i\~6 p1•efcr 11ot to thi111{ of you , is the testin1ony of the crool{s a11d as retired, as 110 man of you1• ty1,e 7 J ~ j l~ponse by Ca1·roll. Iii l1is response, Mr. Carroll paid stro11g tribute to Mayor William J Tim1ners as tl1e fi11est may@r under whom he had served a11d ''one J 1na11 who never said to me 'soft pedal this or that.' "'For 22 years our city has not hacl a ,11 1111solved 111urder or ba11k < robbery and I hope 1nder Frank·' O'Malley you n1ay have 22 years more,'' l\,Ir. Carroll a cclared. "I · want to see you men step up behind ~ O'Malley just as you did ,vith me.'' , IIe referred to the occasion as J som.ething he would remc.-mber al- · ,vays a11d noted that this was t~e tl1ird tin1e he had. been honor d ] by the Rotary club. : Precinct police captains, Matthew Fritzen, John Spoclstri. and Leigh ~ Slater, as well as Mrs. Carroll a11d 1 others of his family and associa PS intrt:l<l1lr.P(i , t,1 Weather conditions a11d prior e - l gagements prevented out-of-to, n 1 guests from attending, but n1ar y : expressions were recei\red fro1n t friends of Mr. Carroll in all sectio11s • of the country. Frederick II. Mueller, jr.. pres!- c• dent of the Rotary club. presided, . extending \\relcome to scores of n1embers of otl1er service clubs ,,rho joined in the affair. Spec!ia1 1 111usical 11umbe1."s were offered by ( tl1e Wolverine Four. • -~rt•~ 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F107 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Grand Rapids Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1936-02-07 Title A name given to the resource Hundreds at Luncheon in Honor of A. A. Carroll Description An account of the resource Newspaper article about a luncheon held in honor of A. A. Carroll, just retired as superintendent of police, who established a world rowing record in 1887, along with Charles McQuewan, William Sargent, and Jesse Fox. 400 Grand Rapids citizens and members of the Rotary and other service clubs attended. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1ae325215a43384cc654a16d521769ff.pdf a2bc7911f02a521fd5042d1ff7493598 PDF Text Text WINNING THE EIGHT. In all rowing circles, w.hether college, otttside a.mateur or professional, the classic is the eig,ht-oared race. La.s t }·ear our Grand Rapids Bo,a t and Canoe ciub carried off the high point trophy in the Central Strates amateur rowing regatta on Grand r.iver, but to the insiders the massive silver cup was only a consolation. In a sunset fini,s h above the old Nor.bh Park bridge the Detroit eight, losing its lead to the locals ,vitl1 every stroke, had managed by a s cant length to pull out ahead. Wednesday, after a jrear's waiting and training, and still as a "junior" aggregation because it had not won a first, the local crew ca:pt ured the eigh t-oared race t.r om the Detroit Boat club in the Southwestern regatta at Peor•i a and then on Friday I\Ve11t into the senior eight event, the sum·m it of row ing ambition, and nosed out Detroit again . .q-,he l!ext day it repeated th1s triumph b)· "'· inning the senior eight in the Central 8taties regatta.' Gr·and Rapids' ·c rews have neither the financial backing nor the quipment which is possessed by the-ir leading op-_. ponenrts, particularly the Detroit and Chicago clubs, and their achievement • and that of the veteran Coach Cor'bett i~ the more notable for that reason. Their splendid figh t has broug'ht national ro·,,,.ing fame to this cit:r, and both .deserves and receives our congra.tulationiS. 1 1 1 MAKING LIGHT LAND PAY. W"'est and south of Michigan are great farming areas where heavy soils prevai1I, and e,"-ery year farmers selling out anc1 moving from .these regions to the light or sand soil disricts orf western a.nd northern Michigan m.a;ke the natural mista,ke of ap.p lying th-eir old methods, fail, return to Illinois and oth·er corn belt states, and -g ive Michigan an ~gricultural black eye. Under the sup,ervision of D. L . Hagerman and Raymond Holden the Pennsylvania railroad's experimental farn1 n-ear Hoiwa.rd City has b-een performing & -vitd piece of NMeat,oh Pl'Ovin.g tha.t ~ ' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_F106 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource unidentified Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource no date Title A name given to the resource "Winning The Eight" Newspaper Clippind Description An account of the resource Newspaper clipping detailing th Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club's win over the Detroit Boat Club in the Southwestern Regatta at Peoria Lake. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">No Known Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. 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