362 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c4f0b6906a50546cbd2e4c0ab47d6010.mp4 393c3b012831c9faf054e7c5f99a0ff8 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/456ee4d5ea78a67510f37b38df3fea51.pdf fbe60dce181af268ac53cf96079449d2 PDF Text Text Living with PFAS Interviewee: Grant Medich Interviewer: Dani DeVasto Date: December 11, 2025 Dani DeVasto (DD) (00:03): All right. I am Dani DeVasto, and today, December 11th, 2025, I have the pleasure of speaking with Grant Medich. Hi, Grant. Grand Medich (GM) (00:13): Hi, Dani. DD (00:15): Grant, can you tell me about where you're from and where you currently live? GM (00:20): Okay. Well, um, I was born in Indiana, but from a young age, uh, grew up in, uh, the locale of White Pigeon Michigan, which is in St. Joe County, uh, just north of the Indiana border. Um, and I am now living just north of Kalamazoo and, uh, Prairieville Township, which is the Southernmost, actually, I think it's the south southern southwestern-most township in Barry County, uh, just north of Kalamazoo again. DD (00:53): How long have you GM (00:54): For, I think it was 21 years. DD (00:57): Okay. So you were in Rockford 21 years. How long have you been in Prairieville Township? GM (01:02): The past four years. Yeah. DD (01:04): Okay. Um, Grant, can you tell me a story about, uh, PFAS, your experience with PFAS or with PFAS in your community? GM (01:15): Well, it's funny because we concentrate a lot on PFAS now is our, you know, with the whole, uh, issue. Well, not, not in just the Rockford associated community, but, uh, since I'm <laugh>, I'm no longer in Rockford, I'm no longer part of the community. I'm Rockford associated, I'd say. Um, but how we got, uh, concentrated on PFAS is interesting because it wasn't PFAS at the beginning. It was, it was a, uh, collo, uh, factory, which happened to be a tannery, and it was, which, which was closing down. And, uh, 1 �we knew there had been processing chemicals, and our focus was on hexavalent, well, chromium, which we were worried about the hexavalent, uh, uh, chromium. And as we got more into it and certain things are controlled or not, we found PFAS was as big, if not a bigger issue. And so, uh, I guess that's part of the story that our concerns about, um, a cleanup operation or, or a, uh, really it's a factory decommissioning operation. Uh, we wanted to see it done in a, uh, environmentally friendly way, not just for the local community, but as it's on the Rogue River, which runs through Rockford is a tributary to the Grand River. It would affect everybody downstream from that point. So, uh, again, we were focused on one issue and found, uh, PFAS was another issue. And then we found other communities were struggling with the same, same, uh, concerns. DD (03:10): So how did you come to be involved or concerned with the tannery demolition? GM (03:18): Okay. Uh, well, the tannery as is most older, um, installations are, was really a series of buildings. And, uh, the company, Wolverine Worldwide, which, uh, was the name of the company in, in charge of it at that time, they were pretty much, they weren't ever bought out by anybody, but they, that was their, um, the company name they had for quite some time. Um, they had basically, uh, continual ownership of that. And so there wasn't a case where one company bought, you know, another company's assets and liabilities. We thought, well, uh, this was founded in Rockford by people who lived in Rockford and just have a feeling that they kind of had a, an obligation besides providing jobs for so many years, uh, to decommission it you know, in a manner that didn't leave, uh, uh, leave it, um, to be a risk factor. GM (04:28): Um, but we found as they were beginning demolition, um, some of the, uh, issues involved were migratory dust. And, uh, shortly before we addressed this, uh, a couple of our streets in the downtown area started holding little meetings, um, kind of centered around the McIntosh, uh, family. Um, Mike and Lynn oftentimes hosted this, and there were a handful of other families, I think, I think, uh, my former wife and I hosted at least once. But when it became an issue that could be considered a bit more politically involved, which to us it wasn't ever a political issue, it was a, a health and safety issue. Uh, some of the families that have been involved in it all along, um, started being a little, little, uh, more, you know, circumspect and drew back from, from the continued meetings and along with the, uh, neighborhood association kind of spurned off, um, the, uh, uh, concerned citizens Association. GM (05:53): And so we would have separate meetings, basically the same, same core group for the better part. Uh, again, Lynn was instrumental in, in, uh, helping that happen, but she was always, uh, asking for help. And so, uh, we had, uh, Gail Mancewicz and I was involved in and out in various capacities, uh, selfemployed. Um, and so that gave me that freedom of interaction to where some days I was available midday and other people were not. They were at their, at their day jobs. Other times I wasn't, it was, I was in construction, so I wouldn't be available for a couple weeks because I was on a, you know, deep in a job. So that's how I became involved with that. And the more we, I don't know, I understand it. I mean, neighbors are neighbors and part of getting along with your neighborhood is, uh, being concerned for them, but not being too nosy. GM (06:52): 2 �And that is true also with corporate neighbors. So I think corporate neighbors, they like the idea of getting along with their neighbors, but they understand they are a corporation, and, uh, they can't be as chummy or, um, I mean, they, they go to their own homes and they have those neighbors, and so they, they can't really be double-dipping there. But when we get more into issues that they consider operations, um, related issues, uh, that's where it becomes none of our business, where if it's environmental, we do consider it, it is our business. Because at some point, um, Wolverine continues to be in, Wolverine Worldwide, continues to be located in Rockford. But my thought was, 'cause I had family members who worked for large corporations, and you have a change of CEO, and all of a sudden you're located in Denver or Chicago or Arizona. And, uh, even though they were a, had a long history in Rockford, I personally wasn't convinced that they just couldn't just pull up roots and get out of it. So that was kind of nature of my interest. And, and I lived right across the street from, uh, the building that remains, which is their shoe store. Yeah. But basically across the street from the, the factory complex DD (08:23): So was that a concern for you that they could leave? Or was that not a concern? GM (08:29): Uh, more concern of, well, my, you know, being in a small business that the, the, uh, scale of operations is vastly different, but I always figured there's a cost of doing business. And if they had done something that they didn't consider nefarious, but, um, over time was determined to be problematic, that cleaning up the, the residue is a deferred cost since they didn't do it, what we now consider right the first time. Or they didn't take care of, uh, spillage when it became known, but not publicized that they were dealing with hazardous chemicals that shouldn't get into groundwater. That's the time they should have dealt with it. And for it to be brought up to them at a later date, didn't negate the fact that they still had, uh, really an ethical responsibility to, um, have a clean and safe operation, not just for their workers or their consumers, but, uh, the people who worked there and lived nearby and, and their neighbors. DD (09:48): So, as someone who did live nearby, did you have any personal concerns about what was about to go down or what had gone down? GM (09:58): Well, I, I, in my, me and my family were rather blessed because we moved into our home in, uh, February of 1999. And, uh, we had city water, but that's the time when, uh, Rockford, uh, stopped drawing their city water from the river. Uh, and I believe it was downstream from the tannery. Um, and they started the deep well, um, deep well, uh, pumping system. And so my children, my family was never exposed to it, besides what it might have been residually located in the, uh, in the piping. Um, but it's, uh, been somewhat determined that ingesting PFAS is a little less issue than, um, inhaling it. And, uh, I always, I always kind of thought it odd too that, uh, the, when I was young, we always took baths. We didn't do showers, but at some point people started taking showers, and I thought, well, the aeriation of the mist in the water, maybe that became more of a health issue with issues like, or PFAS than, than just sitting in it, which is still not good for you, but seems less of an issue. But, yeah. So I had, uh, almost, oh, just kind of an ethical concern as a neighbor, um, of what, what the situation was there rather than a, a real health risk as we weren't exposed to it in that way. DD (11:46): 3 �You mentioned that, um, kind of as part of the, as someone who was able to stay and to, to be selfemployed, and you were perhaps more available at certain times than others, um, that you were asked for help. GM (12:00): Mm-hmm <affirmative>. DD (12:01): What kinds of things were you helping the, the citizens group, the concerned citizens do? Like, what, what was your role? What kinds of things were you doing? GM (12:11): Okay, well, um, early on, every now and then we would do, oh, maybe a little, a little walkabout, you know, take a look, uh, while during the, uh, demolition process, sometimes it's like, uh, Grant, what do you, you work in construction. What do you think of what's going on there? So I'd walk around and say, well, you know, they're, they're, they're spraying down the debris. This is a modern style of, uh, um, airborne dust containment. Uh, that's good. But, uh, you know, that, that, that definitely is, everything's supposed to be wet. And, and, uh, containable versus just spraying water in the area. One guy in the hose spraying in the corner of a parking lot, and they're working over there. That's not the idea, but they were pretty good about keeping the water on there. But every now and then, since these hoses were, didn't have a guy holding it, you know, it was an automated, uh, kind of a mount, and it was aerating the air while they, you know, migrate the work a little over, it's like, okay, you kind of, kind of keep that up. GM (13:22): But once the, the demolition crews knew the criteria there, and they had air monitors, they, they were able to keep on top of that. Um, other activities just was kind of us all familiarizing ourselves with things in the city that we never noticed before. Um, taking floats down the river in a boat, um, I mean, you walk down the sidewalk and you know, the same houses, but when you look at it with a different thought in your head, why is this this way? Or why is that there? Um, it gets you thinking about the potential problems and opportunities, like even the, the tannery, they, they talked about the, if there was the possibility of groundwater contamination, what were the options? And one of the more vocal, uh, I can't call him a Rockford, uh, resident or citizen because he lived in the townships, and this was a ongoing problem. GM (14:29): We had business owners that identified as being Rockford residents. I hate the term. I like citizen, not because I'm, I don't think-- it's politically charged. It means you live in a city, a citizen. I was a citizen of Rockford because I lived in the city of Rockford that didn't include the owner of the, you know, liquor store, the drug, you know, the drug store, the, the gas station. Unless they lived there, you know, I, I don't go into their townships and tell 'em how to run their, their business there. But, uh, other than weighing in on things that affect their business, I'd say, thank you, but no, thank you. We live here. You don't, we pay the taxes. You don't, so, you know, you take care of yours. We take care of ours. Um, but one of these more vocal people, he had an issue with the Brownfield in a property owned decades previously, and his thought was the only source of containment was that they were gonna pave it all over with asphalt capping it. 4 �GM (15:37): Well, when he used that term, I thought, well, capping it, it was already capped because there was a building there. It kept the rainfall from getting into the ground that was boom below with all the, the concrete pads and, you know, just flowing it into the water, um, to a, to a degree. Um, so removing the building kind of removed that cap and breaking up the found, uh, the, the, uh, paving, interior paving, uh, concrete pads did the same. So it all became an issue there. But as we looked more and more into it, and Lynn would talk, um, primarily Lynn would do a lot of interviews with other people, we found a lot of the sludge had been taken to other areas, which became almost bigger problems than the actual downtown area, which was the source of the pollution. So that was some of it, walking about, uh, taking a look at things, um, keeping an eye out, and meetings, meetings. GM (16:38): When we finally decided to write, uh, the petition to the EPA, um, I always remember the old movie, or not movie, it was a movie, actually, <laugh> after the song, Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie, where he talks about getting, um, arrested for littering. And this sheriff had a, a photograph with a paragraph with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one. And he would say this over and over again, explaining what the issue was. And this is Lynn <laugh>, she, these, all these photographs with, you know, arrows and circles and a paragraph <laugh> actually below, below each one. You know, it was so detailed. But, you know, getting it into a communicatable understandable, uh, presentation was a, a bit of, a bit of a challenge. We knew photographs are great if people know what you're photographing. You gotta explain what it is. GM (17:38): You gotta explain why it's important, and that you're not putting in additional photographs just to fill the air and make it seem like, oh, the sky is falling. These are, you know, we're, we're documenting conditions that happened. So, uh, sitting down, and usually the writing would happen by, uh, by, uh, Lynn and Gail. But, uh, I would, I would sit down, we would review what we went, what they had gone through, uh, you know, make some, some comments there. And, uh, those two kind of claim <laugh> that I would, that I'd be referee between the two, because they spent a lot of time together without me <laugh>. And then I would end up there. And so, like, almost like sisters, they would get a little, a little too personal with each other. Not, not, not in a heated way, but it's a little frustration because it was, you know, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. Well, you're, you being a writer. Yeah. When you collaborate, it's, it's hard enough to write alone, but collaborate. DD (18:43): It can be a challenge! GM (18:45): Yeah, does have some help. Yeah. There's some of the things I was involved with, though. DD (18:50): When did, so tell me a little bit more about the petition. I know that you, so you were, you just said you were part of helping to write it, review it. Um, tell me about, like, so the petition gets accepted, right? Like, and then tell me about like how that was, what your reaction was to that, um, like kind of the fallout from the petition getting accepted. 5 �GM (19:23): Yeah. So that was a whole, you know, a whole process of course. But as I remember, we had, um, a good number of, uh, names. I mean, there were, to my recollection dozens that, um, subscribed to it. And these are people that were familiar with the issue, uh, both people living, uh, nearby and, uh, people in the general area, um, who were, you know, wanting this to be addressed. But, uh, there were, we, we realized it would be a publicly accessible document, and that, uh, there were perhaps some parts of it that certain people supporting it would not want to, uh, have their name divulged. So we knew there'd have to be some, uh, people name who, who had names on the, on the front of it. And Lynn was fine doing that. I was okay with that because, uh, being self-employed as a, as a, basically a, a remodeling contractor, my territory was larger than Rockford. GM (20:42): And, uh, as much business, uh, work as goes downtown Rockford, I, I got project here and there, but it wasn't, was not a majority of my business. So I had no concern about losing business there. And I thought it was an important issue. And, uh, Gail, of course, was, was, uh, noted there as well. Um, yeah. So, um, had that submitted and, uh, then there's that quiet period, you know, is it still in the mail, <laugh>, what's going on? Like, you know, acknowledge receiving, it's almost like, uh, oh, like a movie with you all, you know, stamp. Okay, now it's official, but it's here, <laugh>, it's not re you know, it's, it's received, but it's, here's your receipt for it's receipt. But it's, it's not. In the process yet. So there's the discovery and, and making it known. And, uh, I can't remember at one point, but it got into the, the local newspaper. GM (21:57): And, uh, it's, I'm not a big spectator sports fan. And the tangent on that is, I remember hearing that intercollegiate sports, I guess college boys would get out and have this big brawl. It was a common thing. And so they started, you know, intramurals and they did intercollegiate. It's basically to turn people's focus towards something different, something constructive. But now it's a whole industry. But I think the side benefit is that, is that the average American thinks us versus them. And so you gotta, you gotta have a team, you gotta pick a side. And there's so few people that will look at both sides and take a, take a moment and not choose a side, but just kind of, kind of percolate. And we had a lot of people charging in, oh, Wolverine, they, you know, they've created so many new jobs. I'm like, well, what does that have to do with them dumping chemicals in the water? GM (22:59): This is what we're talking about. It's just like, and I'm not even saying they meant to do it, but it happened. It's like, you know, whether it's a child, you're in charge of, your neighbor, your neighbor has a dog that jumps the fence and bite your kid. I mean, are they gonna say, well, you should have fixed the fence? It's like, no, it's your dog. It is like, it is an issue of responsibility. So people wanted to end run because that was their team. Uh, I remember one situation where former council people would say, "oh, we never had any problem with anybody getting sick. We even, you know, we drew drinking water from the river." And I was on city council at the time thinking, oh, so you're responsible also, not that we knew that people were actually getting sick at that point, but, uh. Yeah. It just, those things that are said in the heat of the moment, and you think back and say, wow, you really said that out loud. Out loud. DD (24:07): Yeah. 6 �GM (24:08): Makes you pause. DD (24:12): How did it feel then, when the EPA turned the site back over to the DEQ? GM (24:19): Oh ho ho, yeah. I guess we didn't know what happened. Before I lived in Rockford. I lived in Ypsilanti Township down the street from a, a Superfund site. I think it was an old Ford facility or supplier. And as a local, I'm like, all of a sudden there's a chain link fence and a do not enter. And, you know, no trespassing didn't know what was going on. Uh, but that was a big concern that people would say, oh, they're gonna cordon it off and it'll look like, uh, Chernobyl, you know, a big, you know, toxic waste area. It's like, you know, 21st century, you know, I don't think all that's gonna happen. So we, we figured it'd be a guarded approach. Um, really one of the frustrating, um, parts of it being turned over to the Michigan DEQ was that, uh, previous to, uh, petitioning the EPA, uh, uh, local, um, officials in the DEQ, um, some were approached about this, and, uh, basically they had ran to Wolverine and, you know, talked all about it and just made a big, big fluster about it, and then did absolutely nothing. GM (25:53): Um, it was, to my understanding, the efforts of, uh, mostly one, one person in charge there locally, where a lot of the rank and file people did want to get involved. Uh, there were a lot of good people, some of them becoming, you know, approaching retirement age. They'd been there a good while, but they had that experience. They knew it was a bad situation, but they weren't the one politically appointed to the local office, and so they kind of had to basically follow orders. Uh, so yeah, it being turned back to the DEQ was a, was a disappointment. And, um, you know, it's, it's one of those things, sometimes you speak outta turn, but I thought, you know, at this point, point, I'll just, there's nothing I can do. But my expectation is that it would run the full course of doing nothing until, um, the EPA would have to step in again DD (26:56): Mm-hmm <affirmative>. GM (26:58): And, uh, I'm not kept up to date since I moved some four years ago. So, um, I'd still get notices about the meetings, but, uh, um, you know, things move on and my family has other, other needs. So, uh, I'm a little ignorant about what's happened more recently. But, uh, DD (27:22): After the, um, after the EPA turned the site back over to the DEQ, I know there was another kind of quiet lull for a while where a lot of things weren't hap, there was little work happening. I know that certain members in the CCRR were still trying to kind of go underground, if you will, and, um, continue to try to figure out what was going on and what was there. Um, did you remain involved after, like, were you still involved at that point? GM (27:58): 7 �Well, to answer it somewhat indirectly, what I remember of what the was happening on the site is that, um, one far end of the site got paved over into some parking spaces and they started holding farmer markets and the, like, there, um, they opened up the field for families to run across during, you know, um, movie nights. They'd, um, have some fireworks. And, um, although new fresh soil was put there, I didn't have the best, I, you know, feeling that it was necessarily safe for, uh, young people to be there. Um, there are, there are monitoring wells, but, uh, and when they talk about the fact that Rockford has a historic dam that was one point hydroelectric generation, um, and what, what, what should one do with it? Um, what's never said is that they would never wanna do anything with it, because the, the, the backwater area has so much, you know, retained sludge and who knows what, uh, presumed to be not good stuff, that it would just all get released. And again, so much of my focus has been on what was happening downtown, where the, uh, house Street site is one of the primary areas that we rolled into in playing, uh, playing field, uh, township because it's part and parcel of the same problem. Sledge was relocated and then crept into the groundwater. GM (29:54): But, uh, yeah, it just seems, uh, it just seems, uh, that there's a marked degree of irresponsibility. I mean that when we, when we were posting the petition, uh, Wolverine was, um, they were posting this, you know, um, historic gains in, in, uh, profit. Uh, there was some sort of crisis, I can't remember what it was in Texas, and they were sending down, um, you know, large contributions, you know, it was in excess of a million. I thought, well, why don't they do something local? I thought, well, because that's not glamorous, and that's not, you know, you come out and say, we, we just spent this much money cleaning up our own mess. They know that's not gonna help. But, oh, you know, children, you know, children need shoes in some foreign land. Oh, we, well, yeah, we'll cut a check for that. It's like, while that would be nice, how about taking care of what you, you created yourself? It's just, I just, just reminds me the old, the old names. The, the, the, the Rockefeller, the Carnegie, these, you know, captains of industry back in the day that, you know, they bought tooth and nail and there was a lot of blood and guts spilled, but when it comes full circle, they make donations or open libraries, which is a wonderful thing. But how they got the money, I think is sometimes more important than if, if they didn't clean up their mess on the way out. I'm just thinking, just cl if, if sooner or later somebody's gonna acquire wolverine or they're gonna shut down, or who knows what, just clean up your mess before you do. That's what I do, you know, before I go to bed, the house is still a mess, but there's certain things I make nice and tidy. I usually hand wash my dishes. That's what I like to do. I like putting 'em away so I don't come and have to put 'em away in the morning. That's what we do as responsible adults, and there's no reason why a corporate entity can't do the same. DD (32:21): Fair, very fair GM (32:24): Preaching to the choir, I suppose. <laugh>. DD (32:27): That's okay. It's good to put it down on record. GM (32:29): Yeah. Yeah. 8 �DD (32:31): Um, do you think there are any parts of the story that, as far as you're aware, that have been underreported? GM (32:42): I'm sure there are, but you know, with I am sometimes, well, I, I'm plagued with a good memory in some ways and a bad memory in others <laugh>. And one of the things I gets me through life is, uh, trying not to hold grudges. So I, I forget the bad things that happen sometimes, uh, but that, that lets people off the hook a little bit more than they should at times, I suppose. Um, and when it, when it comes to winners and losers, I mean, there were, there were relationships and friendships that were strained. Um, I had an interesting situation because my, uh, my next, so I lived right next to what had been a series of houses until at some point, uh, they were paved over for parking lot, which in Rockford that was allowed, you know, it was residentially zoned, but, uh, you couldn't build a convenience store there, but you could pave it and use it as a commercial parking lot, which seemed contradictory to me. GM (34:02): So anyway, it was nice place to have kids grow up because there wasn't much happening over there usually. Uh, so I only had a neighbor on one side, and, uh, the neighbor was a retiree from Wolverine Worldwide and his wife, and they were, uh, wonderful people. A part of the, I mean, um, the husband grew up there. I don't know if he's actually born there. I think he might've been like in the town, but he, he grew up there and he, he lived in that home after he had, um, well, they moved there in the early fifties eventually bought the home, and he died locally. So he spent his whole life there and, uh, had a lot of respect for him. Um, but, uh, his wife was on city council, and, you know, when you are in a, I always think of communities, when you're a certain community, um, your ears turned, uh, sympathetically toward those, uh, closest to you. GM (35:09): And so we were obviously on different sides of the issue, but it never really strained our relationship because we chose to be good neighbors and not, not really discuss that topic because, um, when, you know, somebody has the opposite point of view, and, uh, there is no real way of convincing them to change their opinion, um, I'm typically of the, of the opinion that, that, um, my best testimonial is just to continue. And if they ever have a question about how I feel I'll do so somebody is undecided about something, I'm more than willing to discuss it. But, uh, I'm not big into, you know, trying to change the world to agree with me. It's just, just not my way. But, uh, a lot of people that, uh, work quite differently in, in that community and other communities, but, uh, that, that strained a lot of relationships. GM (36:14): And, uh, the city manager of the time, he was a very, very energetic fellow. Um, but I think he was much on the wrong side of this issue, and I think he was used by Wolverine Worldwide. Um, which I don't know, it just, I, I, I saw the irony of it because as I said before, my opinion is that Wolverine Worldwide decided to stay in Rockford because they decided to stay in Rockford. And no matter what the city manager did or did not do, he's, he was like a gnat to them. A city of 6,300 people was not gonna do a whit of good or ill to them because they had been there since, I think the 1920s was the founding of Krause and Hurst tannery, and it's, I mean, it was a long, long time ago, and as much as he thought he was doing them favors, I think they would take any favor they gave him, but they were not gonna scratch his back in return. 9 �DD (37:30): Mm-hmm. GM (37:31): So, I, I just think he didn't, he didn't value the, the citizens of Rockford over the corporations of Rockford. DD (37:40): When did you, um, first hear about PFAS? GM (37:47): Oh, probably after we, I mean, I, I suppose I might have heard of it, you know, like in the news here and there, but is where, bang your head on, on hexavalent, chromium, hexavalent, chromium, hexavalent, chromium. All of a sudden somebody's like, well, what about PFAS? So I think, I think it might've even been after the petition was issued, I think it might've been amidst or in the formation of the, uh, community advisory group, Wolverine Community Advisory Group. I was a member, founding member for a while there. And, uh, and I think that that's where the, the focus changed over time. Uh, of course, the challenge there was that both the EPA and the DNR, they didn't have, oh, what, what do you call it? Legislative directives as to what contamination was. So, uh, after being a, uh, uh, remodeling contractor, I became a home inspector. GM (39:07): And so I got more into science, like radon and concentrations of this and that. And so, uh, oh, even some water quality analysis. So I got into a better understanding of what, what, what is, um, contamination, you know, what, what's, uh, the maximum MCL maximum contamination level, which is used with, I can't remember what is the hexavalent chromium, I think that's in, in there someplace. Uh, but, but other things, lead, arsenic, all those, and then the, the lower limits of detection, the LLD, that's where your, um, detection method can't, it might be there, but it's so small that there, it's undetectable. Um, but yeah, I find that there isn't, was no MCL and they, they knew PFAS bad, but they didn't know how much PFAS bad, which we kind of find that any amount is bad if it's, as they like to call it forever chemical. GM (40:14): And that it not only is, uh, pervasive and sticks around, but evidently is, can also accumulate as opposed to be something easily, uh, uh, removed. So, um, I'm just trying to think. The year we submitted the petition, do you recall, I thought it was 2012, DD (40:48): 2011? GM (40:48): 2011, 2012. I thought it was, yeah. 2012 came to mind, but maybe it was 2011 and I moved in 2020, so that was a long time to see not a whole lot done for that. So somewhere in the midst there, we got looking at the PFAS, and strangely enough, uh, where I live now isn't too far from Parchment, which has the, uh, paper mill PFAS issue in the Kalamazoo River. I drive by that every now and that the Kalamazoo 10 �River, I'm like, oh, there's another affected river. Unfortunately, I think it's documented to be, the documentation is more acute down here. I'm not sure that the Rogue River is better. I think it is. It's, it's, it's, it's a smaller river and it's a tributary, and it moves a little faster. So I think we have all that. But, um, yeah. Yeah. Just that an irony there. DD (41:54): So maybe that's a good segue into another question. Um, do you have any concerns about PFAS contamination moving forward? GM (42:06): Yeah. Well, largely like, if I think of, uh, people of Plainfield Township, there's a big bolus of, I can't remember the term. They would use, um, plume plume of, uh, contaminated groundwater that continues to migrate. Now they've tried to stop the wells that would draw from that, but that doesn't mean that's the only, um, vector of contamination. It comes up to the ground source. We have sludge that was there. There's a, there's a subdivision that was built over an area that anecdotally was reported to have surface, um, application over farm fields. Uh, the farmhouse is still there, the fields are gone. They put in a bunch of homes. And there was some reports of kids in the nineties having a strange form of cancer, of the sinuses and such. And it was just an uptick. And it passes and, you know, it's, it's not like a smoking gun. It happened there. How did, how did they get contaminated? Well, could have been private wells, but it was on city water, but it had developed homes with soil kids playing on the ground. GM (43:49): Who knows? Who knows? Um, in my little lake here, uh, I mean, I, I grew up downstream from, um, a paper mill. And every now and then they would have, oh, a little bit too much rain, and the holding pits would overflow, and the White Pigeon River would run a lime green. It's almost this like what they'd do in Chicago for <laugh>, or is this for St. Patrick's Day? Except for this is unintentional. This is a milky lime green. And it was disgusting. Hey, you know, it's poison. They would just go right down the river, which is tributary to the St. Joseph River, and they would get some sort of fine, but I believe it was a business decision that the fine was probably more affordable than cleaning 'em out. I don't know why otherwise they would do this. These weren't, it wasn't a, it was an old plant, but it wasn't an antiquated plant. GM (44:53): So I think that's kind of the way business used to be done quite a bit. So when we get back to the issue of the, the PFAS, um, what came to mind is, I would walk along the river as a little kid, and I'd see this foamy water, I think, oh, it just happens. It just happens. But, uh, Lynn was one who's just saying, what is this foam? I'm like, it just happens at rivers, Lynn. everybody said, it just happens. Well, it doesn't. More often than not, it's some sort of a, PFASis a what do they call it? Anti, it's a surficant. Anti. Surficant. Anyway, DD (45:33): Surfactant? GM (45:34): Surfactant, yeah. So it floats and it's a thing that keeps things from adhering to each other. So it's, it's, it's on the surface. Um, I have a neighbor at my lake here says, do you think anybody would mind if I check the water? 11 �GM (45:50): Because every now and then the wind blows and we get little foam <laugh> of water. I'm like, now don't tell me we got PFOS here. But we might, we don't know. I mean, I'm not near an airport. I understand. I think it was Grayling, the National Guard Airport, that they would use the foam that the firefighters use, and that, that there was a big contamination issue there. It just seems that, I don't know, there's, there's, there's too many things that just don't add up. I mean, we know we have, oh, for lack of a better term, plastic food. I mean, food that just isn't always food. It's just byproducts put in there, or products put in that we ingest. Um, so there's other issues. GM (46:41): But when I look at my generation and my children's generation, seems like we have a lot more problems with, uh, infertility than I remember hearing from prior generations. Um, a lot of people struggling to have children to have, uh, early, early life cancers. And, uh, it could it be the food? Could it be the water? Well, anything we can do to reduce our exposure to, um, carcinogens is, is, is not a bad way to go. And that's my biggest concern about this PFAS, that it's, it's, it's still, it's still out there. Seems like we're still adding to it. And being an old geology student, I know the earth heals itself, but I also <laugh>, like Carl Sagan would say, billions and billions of years <laugh> for the solar system. But like with, with the Earth, it can take a million years to heal something. It will heal, but it might take another species to <laugh> enjoy the benefits and we don't want that. DD (48:02): Well, you're just a jack of all trades, a geology student, construction, remodeling, and home inspection. GM (48:10): I think they, I think they now call that ADHD <laugh>. It wasn't a thing when I was a kid. I was just, I was just, well read <laugh>. DD (48:24): Is there anything before we wrap up that you'd like to add or, um, that we haven't touched on today? Or anything that you wanna go back to say more about? GM (48:38): Well, shame of it all is, uh, you know, I was a little delayed in getting back with you and, uh, by, by months, really as it's just been these weeks. But, uh, and being a little separated from the issue and distracted by other other concerns, it, it does get, it does get a little foggy over time as to And every now, and you have the, oh, yeah. That mo mo type of moment where you're like, okay, yeah, that was a, that was a, a big day or a big event. Um, but, uh, nothing really comes to mind. I, you know, as I age and mature, I, I think I oftentimes try to look at the theme, uh, versus the details. I'm very detail oriented, but I think to understand how details fit into a situation, you have to look at the overarching theme. GM (49:42): It's like, okay, what, why does the puppet move? Well, there's a puppeteer. Why does a puppeteer make that choice? Well, and it goes further and further and further back to, uh, a theme of where are we going with the whole thing. But, uh, yeah, I, I, I think we have a societal problem of not asking why we should, you know, continue to add untested, unproven products of all sorts of all sorts. That, uh, um, 12 �sometimes will have well established, um, methods of introducing, um, new products that we will just push the wayside because all of a sudden we think, oh, this is a crisis. We need to find a solution. Well, solution can be worse than the problem. GM (50:45): And, uh, I think it's important that we don't stop progress, but we start to find better methods to, uh, evaluate what things are progress. Uh, the continued proliferation of pharmaceutical drugs. We have plenty of pharmaceutical drugs that do just the same thing that the new ones will, but they're coming. The old ones are out of patents. So, you know, it's not always the case, but they try to find a, a new wheel, uh, you know, a better, you know, the wheel's been invented, get a better tire, that's fine, but gotta stop. Yeah. I don't know how we do it, but, uh, yeah. You know, fixing the past, I mean, that's an industry in itself. But, uh, trying to do, undo some of the, some of the harm we've done. I think that, you know, puts us in better stead for generations to come and say, well, they, they might have been a little warped, but they, they, they did their best to try to clean things up a bit. DD (51:59): Yeah. Well, Grant, thank you for taking the time to talk with me today. GM (52:05): Oh, gladly, gladly. 13 � 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) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives 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 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a670b43f92de530c13831e4e5429f4d4.mp4 56f1a9efe455af3ea0e7e4d5dead3c4f https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e63bab6d808ffb8c2b5a3633328d57b3.pdf 233c837706ff97cdf7ec6770cdc72566 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Bruce Grant World War II (51:19) Background Information (00:14)     Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1923 (00:16) Enlisted in the Marine Corps when he was 17. (00:24) His mother passed away when he was an infant. His father worked as a tailor. (00:45) Because his father traveled often, Bruce lived with his aunt on occasion. (1:10)   He attended Hughes High school and later the University of Cincinnati after his service. He enlisted before Pearl Harbor because the Depression made work difficult to find. (2:40) Basic Training (3:14)           He was sent to Parris Island, South Carolina, for boot camp before being transferred to Camp Pendleton, California. (3:40) Boot camp involved a lot of physical training and practice with rifles. (4:50) There was a lot of emphasis on discipline. (5:15) He remembers a particular Sergeant (Sergeant Woods) who aided Bruce with his schooling and got Bruce into radio training. (5:55) He was sent to the Hawaiian Islands by boat from San Francisco California. (7:20) When Pearl Harbor occurred in December of 1941 Bruce was in the 1 Marine Division at Camp Pendleton. He was soon transported to Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. (7:48) In September of 1942 Bruce’s Unit is sent to Guadalcanal. (9:30) At this point Bruce was a foot soldier and carried a rifle. (10:00) While traveling across the Pacific there were constant air raid warnings. He went across the Pacific on a cargo ship. (10:10) When he crossed the Equator men who where new in the Navy (Pollywogs) were initiated as Shellbacks. (11:09) st Guadalcanal (11:33)      He came in with the initial landing at Guadalcanal. (11:36) After securing Guadalcanal, Bruce was sent back to the Hawaiian Islands where he was enrolled in a radio school. (12:10) Landing craft were used to land on Guadalcanal. (12:22) While on Guadalcanal Bruce and his unit ran patrols until they encountered Japanese soldiers or were relieved. (12:40) He could see the shelling from battleships off shore at night. (13:24) �       Every night the Japanese would try to breach the Marines' line. (14:00) Patrols were conducted by the Marines during the day and the night. (15:00) Early on in the battle there were supply shortages. However, Bruce’s unit never ran low on food. (15:26) He was able to see Henderson Field and eventually was stationed on it. (16:05) Henderson Field was often bombarded at night while Bruce was there. (17:17) Near the end of Bruce’s time at Guadalcanal Bruce did encounter some of the native people that were being used as scouts. They were very courageous fighters. (18:10) His limited knowledge of Morse code made Bruce one of the more qualified soldiers for radio school. (19:40) Service in Radio School (20:28)       Radio School lasted 2-3 months. (20:48) He joined the BMB 612 Squadron after having completed radio school. This squadron flew converted B25s. (20:56) This squadron flew only at night. (21:37) He trained with this squadron while in Hawaii and stayed with it till the end of the war. (23:27) He admired the men in his squadron. There were high casualties among pilots. (23:50) The squadron’s first main base for flying missions was in Hawaii. However, this location was only intended for training. (24:55) Service in the Pacific (26:30)           The Squadron flew 37 missions all together. (26:45) Almost every mission there would be a target. The aircraft were told to fly only above a particular parallel and attack any target that moved above that parallel. (27:00) The aircraft did not have escorts. (27:38) The aircraft flew individually in 3 separate sectors. (28:28) The aircraft would be out on a mission for 12-14 hours. Extra fuel was carried to compensate for this extra time. (29:10) The base facilities were all very good. The pilots typically slept in tents. (30:12) There were 18 planes in Bruce’s squadron. (31:17) The squadron took very high losses (approx. 50%). (31:26) He did not see too many Japanese prisoners. (33:40) When Bruce arrived at Iwo Jima there was still fighting on the North end of the island. (34:12) Shot Down (36:35)   Bruce’s plane was shot down while at Iwo Jima. When it was hit, he and his fellow crewmen ditched the plane and landed in the water. (36:40) All the crew members had life jackets. Bruce sent in a radio signal that his plane had crashed. After 12 hours in the water the crew members were pieced up by a PBY Catalina seaplane. (38:00) �      The men stayed together by verbal communication while in the water. They were very frightened of sharks. (39:30) The crew was not given any time off after having been shot down. (42:28) The squadron then was stationed at Okinawa. Here the squadron flew missions to Japan and Korea. (42:45) Bruce was on Okinawa in August of 1945 when the war ended. After the war ended he was stationed in Japan. (44:46) Bruce served in Japan for 2-3 weeks. Here he did very little work. (45:22) He was discharged from Great Lakes Naval Base in 1945. (46:35) Life after Discharge (46:40)      After being discharged Bruce returned to the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and worked in communications. (46:48) Bruce worked in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Michigan at a radio station. (47:14) He worked at WJBF for 7 years. He helped start WGRD in Grand Rapids Michigan and WTRU in Muskegon Michigan. (48:19) He also worked in television doing voiceovers in advertisements. (49:30) He was invited back to the Marines in approx. 1950 for the Korean conflict however Bruce turned it down. (50:06) Effects of Military Service (50:20)  Bruce had a very determined “get it done” attitude after his military service. (50:38) � 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 Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e3fcccf6093c01a5ff01c67092a480fb.mp4 8a58335356923d36ba66d5542d09fde3 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e133845a074cc5da7d8063328d6154aa.pdf 396d1ef255c607af871381ab5909b9f7 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Conflicts Served In: Iraq War, Operation Spartan Shield, Operation Inherent Resolve Interviewee’s Name: Philip Grant Length of Interview: 49:37 Interviewed by: Elle Griffiths Transcribed by: Sam Noonan Interviewer: “My name is Elle Griffiths from Drexel University, I am interviewing Phil Grant on June 2nd, 2021, in a Drexel studio. Also present with us is Caroline Cottmeyer operating the camera and Kate Wagner. This interview is being conducted for the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. So what is your full name?” My name is Philip Ryan Grant. Interviewer: “What is your date of birth?” November 18th, 1986. Interviewer: “And what is your branch of service?” Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Interviewer: “And your highest rank attained?” Sergeant 1st Class, E-7. Interviewer: “And what is your war or conflict that you served in?” I was in Iraq in 2009 and I was in Jordan in 2018 for Operation Spartan Shield and Operation Inherent Resolve. Interviewer: “Okay great. So let’s get started with talking about your childhood - so where did you grow up and what was your childhood like?” (00:55) So I grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, and I had a very fortunate childhood – so I grew up in a rural home in Reading to an intact family, my mom and dad were both present, still married. Had an older brother, and went through the Reading public school system, 13th and Green, Northeast Elementary and Reading High School, graduated in 2005. And by and large, it was a very positive childhood experience. It was a city, so just like any other city there are challenges, there are considerations in the city regarding safety and opportunity. So we didn’t have much growing up, but we did have a really supportive family and network of friends. So yeah, it was a decent childhood overall, and sprinkled in some interesting experiences with various issues with crime throughout my childhood, so yeah. �Interviewer: “And what led you to join the military?” Biggest reason was 9/11. I was in ninth grade on September 11th, 2001, and I remember being in my Spanish class in the morning and the principal came over the loudspeaker and said, ‘Teachers, turn on your televisions,’ they each had a – they don’t exist anymore, the box televisions – on a mount in the corner of the room, and I’m sitting there and we’re watching. The first tower had already been hit, and they were replaying some footage and as the newscasters were talking the second tower got hit, so we watched that all unfold. And while I was still in Spanish class, which would’ve been second period, second or third period, one of the towers had fallen – I think maybe both of them had fallen before we left. So they actually kept that on the entire day. Each of the classes we went into, we were watching over and over again the towers get hit, and then the Pentagon, and then just outside of Somerset, Pennsylvania. So that was my biggest motivator for joining the military, I remember going to my last class of the day and walking with a friend of mine Jimmy, and we were talking about what had just happened and I said, ‘I’m gonna join the military, I want to get these guys back.’ And so my initial motivation for joining was revenge. I also realized that being in the situation we were as a family, I wouldn’t have [the] opportunity to go to college unless I got scholarships or loans or.. did something else. So I picked something else. (laughter) (3:41) Interviewer: “And once you joined, what was basic training like?” So I went to basic training between my junior and senior year of high school. They have a program called the Split Op Program, so I joined up, I was seventeen years old, my parents had to co-sign. We sat at the dining room table in my house in Reading, and it was – I’m smiling because the dining room table, the house, if you’ve ever been [in] a rowhome it’s kinda, you open the front door and then you can see straight back through to the kitchen and out the back door. And along the way there’s a hallway with some rooms – so our dining room was one of those hallway rooms, and the table sat out pretty far so you had to kinda turn sideways to get by. And so the recruiter’s sitting there, I’m sitting there, my mom’s crying behind me and my dad is just looking, observing. And I signed, they signed, and that summer I went to basic training, Fort Jackson, South Carolina – at seventeen years old, knowing that I would have to go home and finish high school. It was interesting, it was surreal. You would see movies with basic training experiences and it was – it was a positive experience because it gave me confidence and it helped me feel like part of a team, but at the same time I had never been away from home for that long and I had never had that experience, so it was very unique and it was also – it prepped me for what [lay] ahead. I remember on one particular occasion one of our drill sergeants had just gotten home from Iraq and at the time she went, everyone was issued a body bag. So the idea was – and I know that sounds morbid - but the idea was you would keep your body bag on you so when whomever came across you – wouldn’t have to use their own body bag, they would take it out of your cargo pocket and then they would place the remains in the body bag. So she would carry it around with her, and anytime we messed up she would throw it at us, and she would say ‘You’re dead, you’re dead,’ kinda to help you understand the severity of what they’re training you for. So there was a lot of little experiences like that that were very interesting. And you came home – and again, I had to go through my senior year. I was – I missed the entire summer camp for the football season, I was on the football team – and I missed the entire summer training camp. So we had a new coaching staff that year for my senior year, and they tried to start me on JV since I had missed the entire summer camp, and I wasn’t a big fan of that. So I didn’t play that year, and I worked full-time – well, after school I �worked for Subway as a sandwich artist. And then experienced my senior year as a member of the Army National Guard waiting to go to my advanced training the following season. Interviewer: “And what about your deployment? So where did you serve and what was it like?” (6:49) So my first deployment was in Iraq in 2009, we were based out of Camp Taji, Iraq. So Camp Taji – named because it sits next to the village of Taji – is not too far from Baghdad. So if you’re looking at a map and Baghdad’s in Eastern Central Iraq, northwest of that is Taji. There’s a main road that goes through there into Taji called MSR Tampa so we were there as part of the 56th Stryker Brigade combat team and I was with the 2nd 104th Cavalry. I was the chaplain assistant and what we did over there, we actually experienced multiple transitions throughout the conflict. So we were there and they were still kicking down doors, we transitioned to join operations with the Iraqi army and Iraqi police, and then we transitioned to beginning the process of handing over bases and areas of operation to the Iraqi army and Iraqi police. I was part of Task Force Raven, and in Task Force Raven we had what they call an operating environment, or an area of operations that was primarily rural, but then it’s relatively ‘cause there’s towns within rural areas there. So our Charlie troop was at Falahat, our Bravo troop was at Saab Al Bour, and our headquarters troop was out of Taji. Alpha troop fell under different command while we were there, but we were still.. difficult to explain. They were still part of us, but.. operated under another command, and they were at … our Delta troop were the UAV, or the unmanned aerial vehicles, they were operating out of Camp Taji as well. (8:47) Interviewer: “So do any stories stick out in your memory from your first deployment?” Oh sure. (laughter) A lot. So one of my favorite stories to tell is getting there at first. So we flew from Fort Dix, New Jersey, over to Kuwait. We stopped somewhere in between, I think it was – you know what, I don’t remember. We stopped over at some place in Europe to refuel, and we were flying – when we were flying we had our weapons with us, we didn’t have ammunition on us, but we had weapons with us. And so we landed and.. I want to say it was Amsterdam but I’m not a hundred percent sure, so we landed in Amsterdam, and we had an opportunity – well, we had to get off the plane so they could refuel, and as we’re getting off the plane there’s a specific holding area where we had to stay, we weren’t allowed to venture outside of this holding area. And so left our weapons on the plane, and we left a guard behind to watch the weapons so everyone could go off, use the restroom, smoke break. And we were greeted by their military as we got off the plane, and they were holding – I think they were holding MP5s, their service weapon, guarding us, making sure that we weren’t secretly invading the country. So it was entertaining, but it was eye-opening, you know, I’d never been through something like that. So we flew from there to Kuwait, and we got to Kuwait, stayed at Camp Buehring for a few days, did some training. The first time I ever saw wild camels, when we got there we re-zeroed our weapons because the change in humidity, change in temperature, can adjust the zero on your weapon. And so we got there and we re-zeroed our weapons a couple days in, and we actually had to call a ceasefire to the range because there was a herd of camels crossing behind the berm, and certainly don’t wanna shoot anything that you’re not intending to shoot, but especially in that area there are Bedouins, and sometimes those camels are – they do belong to somebody. You don’t necessarily know that though, so we took extra precautions, but that was an interesting cultural shift for me. Eventually we flew up to Taji, but before we got to Taji we �landed in, it’s called BIAP – Baghdad International Airport. And prior to us arriving in 2009, BIAP was, in an earlier campaign in the Iraq War, BIAP was taken by coalition forces – so U.S., Britain, and so on – as a strategic location, and so we took over that airport, and that became an entry and exit point out of the country. So we flew in there, we stayed a couple of days. We got there, and we immediately got separated onto this base, and we stayed in what were called transitory tents. So it’s a big tent, with cots and you have your one duffel bag that you live out of for a few weeks on your way to Iraq. So I have my duffel bag and my body armor, and this is over the course of about seventy-two hours, and you’re not getting sleep – you’re just up and napping when you can. So we get there, and staying on these tents, or in the tents, in the cots, and all you need to know is where the chow hall is and where the latrine facility is, the trailer – latrine trailer. (12:23) So we get there and immediately we heard similar to an emergency vehicle, type of sirens. And that was our – we didn’t know what was going on, no one told us, we assume that there was some type of IED strike or some injury or something, but that was our introduction to – welcome to Iraq. Ooh – forgot a big transition there. We flew from Kuwait to BIAP in I believe it was a C17 aircraft, Air Force plane. I was – I was in the jump seats alongside the side, and there’s no.. I don’t think there’s any – you know, commercial planes have pressurized cabins? This didn’t, I don’t think. Whatever it was, I fell asleep and I woke up to – you ever see a movie where a plane’s nosediving and it makes that sound like it’s about to crash? Yeah. So I woke up to that sound, and us descending very rapidly and I was like, ‘Oh my god, we’re hit,’ so I panicked, and I slapped to the left and right – I don’t know who was sitting next to me, but I hit ‘em both. And they were doing what’s called a combat dive, so those planes move very slowly and [it’s] not necessarily difficult to hit ‘em with [an] RPG or air defense missiles. So they do what’s called a combat dive, so they descend faster than you’re used to as a way to divert getting hit. So I woke up to that, so my heart was already pumping, I was – you know, ‘Here we are, we’re in combat,’ turns out it was just standard procedure. So fast forward, we leave BIAP on a Chinook and we go to Taji, where we’re gonna be stationed for the next year or so. When they took off, again, the crew didn’t share this with anybody, but we grabbed all our gear, we ran onto the Chinook, we strapped in, and as we ascended – and this is all done at nighttime. But as we ascended, they shot off flares out of the back of the Chinook, because if there’s any type of heat-seeking round those flares will take care of that and they won’t hit the aircraft. So again they didn’t tell us that, and so I’m sitting in the seat you know, ready to go, and I see these flares go out the back and you know there’s a sound to ‘em, there’s a pop to ‘em, and so I was like ‘Here we go again, we’re getting shot at.’ Nope. Not at all. They were just sending the flares out. (15:00) So we land at Taji, and we’re all wearing all of our full battle gear, body armor, and we’re like, we’re ready to go, coming off the ramp just ready for combat. And our company commander who was on the torch party, meaning he was in a couple days ahead of us, he greeted us at the flight line with no body armor, no cover, and a big smile and he said, ‘Hey guys!’ Like nah, nah, this isn’t what I saw in the movies. So we got settled in, we got out room assignments and we got a chance to finally get some sleep. So that transition in the country is significant because in my twenty – how old was I then? I had just turned twenty-two. In my twenty-two-year-old brain, I’m ready for what they taught me in basic training, I’m ready for what I’ve seen in the movies, I’m ready for all the combat they promised me in the train-up period. That didn’t happen, but I was still at a very elevated state. I was still at a very – my adrenaline was pumping, I was looking for something to happen, and it just never happened. So it never really came down off of �that. It was always waiting for something to happen. We didn’t have – I personally did not have a lot of action in Iraq, I was very fortunate. I went on a lot of missions with the chaplain, we went to visit our soldiers, we had our fair share of time outside of the wire but I never had any type of significant engagement at all, I was very fortunate. But I was always looking for it, I was always waiting for it to happen. Cause in my training, they promised me it was gonna happen. So the – lot of those types of stories, just being out on a mission, getting ready to go, waiting for something to happen, waiting for someone to shoot at you, waiting for someone to try to blow you up, everything is suspicious, everyone is suspicious, you assume that everybody’s the enemy. Again, it’s part of how they train you but you also don’t know. So there was a lot of that. (17:16) For me, my most significant experience in Iraq was on Easter Sunday. In 2009 it was April 12th, 2009. For the chaplain and I, that’s like our big day. Easter and Christmas, it’s like, you know, it’s our time to shine. So we had all these events planned for Easter Sunday, we were gonna do what’s called a sunrise service, meaning that you literally are having your service was the sun is coming up behind you. So we did our sunrise service on base there, on Camp Taji. And everything went well, it was very nice, and our next stop was gonna be Charlie troop to offer the Easter message and communion. So we moved back to our office area, we got our gear on, we got ready to go. And we go to the motorpool where the Strykers are, the Strykers were the vehicles that we travelled in. And the operating procedure every time you go out on a mission is you have to do what’s called a ramp brief. And a ramp brief is an operational brief for the troops leaving the wire. In this brief you talk about things like reaction to contact, so if we get contact this is our course of action. If there’s a casualty, this is our course of action. Here’s your radio frequencies, here’s the order of the vehicles. Ramp briefs take a while, they can take up to an hour, usually not. About a half hour or so. And the whole time you’re getting briefs on what to expect and how to prepare for all the what ifs. Part of that brief usually includes a brief from the S2, the intelligence section, and they tell you what the potential threats are in the area you’re traveling [in]. You have a main route, you have an alternative route, and you have a couple of other – ‘it got really bad’ routes, this is how we’re going. So we did that, we’re ready to load the vehicles, we started to load the vehicles I should say, the chaplain and I were heading into one of the vehicles with red platoon Charlie troop, and they affectionately called people like us strap hangers, there’s literal straps that you hang on to like a subway when you’re just the passenger, you’re not part of the platoon. So they like to joke with us and it was, it really was a term of endearment. They liked having us on the vehicles with them because the thought was, ‘Well if the chaplain’s with us then we’re safe.’ Well, we’re loading up on the vehicles and we get a notification that the command sergeant major, command sergeant major White, he wanted to go with us when we visited Charlie troop, and there was another convoy heading out in just a couple of hours. So we sent a message that myself, and chaplain Myers should stay behind, and wait for the next convoy out so that he could go with us. (20:08) So we got off, we went back to our office, we unloaded our gear, and no sooner did we get our gear down, then we got a call over the radio that red platoon had been hit. And the air was red, which means that helicopters can’t fly, so our primary mode of medical evacuation when there is a casualty is [a] Blackhawk helicopter called a medevac. And they come to the site, they pick up the casualties, and they take ‘em back to the – whatever base is closest that can handle their level of care. So on Taji, we were a level two trauma facility. Which at the time, meant that we could handle most things minus major surgery. So what they did was they casevaced the casualties back to the base, and what that means is they just took a truck on scene, turned it �into an ambulance, and sent ‘em back to base. So chaplain Myers went right away to the level two facility, I went up to the CQ or the orderly building for headquarters troop to give accountability to the first sergeant and the XO. And so I said, ‘Sir, this happened, we’re going to go check it out.’ So in the chaplain corps we have, I’ll call it a motto for lack of a better term, and our motto, our mantra is to nurture the living, care for the wounded, and honor the dead. The way we do that is when there is an injury or someone is expectant, meaning that they’re presumed to be dead soon, it’s our job to be there with that soldier, to provide them with comfort so that they’re not dying alone. So this happened, we went to the level two facility, and I got to the parking lot of the level two facility and the medic there, PFC Mayo, he was I think maybe nineteen at the time and he was holding – the ramp to the Stryker was down – he was holding a ball of gauze in his hands, and there was blood dripping out of the back of the Stryker, and the gauze he was holding was bloody. I ran up to the ramp and I looked at everything, I looked up at him, he was crying and trying to – he was shaking. And he was trying to clean up, get ready for the next one, you know, I would imagine that he really wasn’t sure what to do at that moment, neither was I. So I wanted to say something to him, I couldn’t talk. I just couldn’t talk. So I ran into the trauma facility, soon as I walked into the door I could hear screams. It’s hard to describe the scream, it was a moan and a scream all at once. I still had no idea what was going on at this point, and I had to drop [my] weapon off at the check-in, and then I’m getting closer and closer and I run back to the room and then I get to the room they’re being worked on, and I see everything. It’s almost like a faucet, the flow of blood coming from – the primary casualty was Miller. He was the gunner on the truck, and his legs were really banged up. His legs were mangled pretty badly, there was a steady stream of blood coming out of his leg dripping onto the floor, and it was a linoleum floor kind of like this, and next to him, on the bed next to him was Baldwin, the driver. Baldwin had taken a very significant laceration to his back from a piece of shrapnel. Miller had a bolt sticking out of his leg in addition to the other part of his other leg pretty much just hanging on. It was pretty gruesome, I had never seen anything like that – again, I was twenty-two years old. It was the first time I had ever been exposed to anything like that. And the medics are there working on him, and just – everything they could think of to try to stop the bleeding, there were already two torniquets on his leg, he was still bleeding. They were shoving gauze into the wound… how graphic am I allowed to get? (24:46) Interviewer: “As much as you’re comfortable with.” Alright. They were literally, their hand was inside of his leg trying to pack it with gauze to get it to stop, the type of gauze they have is called combat gauze and it has QuikClot in it, which is a compound that helps congeal the blood, and try to get it to stop bleeding to keep him alive. He was combat stripped, which means that he was on the table, he was nude, and he was just getting worked on. Finally they got the bleeding to stop a little bit, they had already given him a ton of morphine and he of course was asking for more, he was in a lot of pain. Couldn’t do it, and so he was still screaming. I’m standing outside of the room still at this point, I’m just, you know, mouth open just watching. Trying not to get in the way. And then a medic just kind of slaps a clipboard on my chest and says, ‘Help us fill this out.’ I look at it, it’s his casualty feeder card. What that is — demographics and point of injury, and extent of injury. Information you get on the casualty because the assumption is by the time they get onto the medevac they may not be conscious and the people on the medevac, the flight crew, flight surgeon, needs to have that information to keep them alive in transit to the bigger hospital. So I walk up to Miller’s head and I start to tell him, ‘Hey, this is Specialist Grant, I’m really sorry I have to ask you these questions,’ cause it was like, you know, his social, date of birth, name, things that he really wasn’t concerned about answering at that time. So he did, to the best of his ability, and I filled it out and �I left. And there, you know there’s a cleaning crew in there trying to mop up the blood so no one slips on it and falls — things that I still think about today that I can’t really forget are the smell that I walked [into] there. It was a very, it was a very interesting smell. Combination of iodine and other stuff. But the scream, it was — it wasn’t like you see in the movies, it wasn’t a scream of terror or wasn’t… it was just unique. And I can recall it in my head, I can’t replicate it. But at some point, the air cleared and they were able to bring a medevac onto the base, there was a helicopter pad right outside of the hospital. So we got the notification they were ready to go, and I was responsible for helping carry Baldwin the driver onto the medevac, and chaplain helped carry Miller onto the medevac — that was the last time I saw either of them. They’re both alive, thank god, Miller ended up — through multiple surgeries and over the course of his healing journey — he ended up getting a leg amputated as a result. (27:48) And then there were other injuries from that truck, the platoon leader, Lieutenant …, he and his brother are twins and they’re probably the… some of the best soldiers I’ve ever interacted with. The one brother had taken shrapnel to his neck, and just to tell a little bit about their character, he took shrapnel to his neck and he refused to leave the scene where the explosion was because he wanted to stay there with the rest of his platoon. I believe he got out, but his brother’s still serving. But hell of a leader, and a great man. And so we caught up with him later that day, you know he downplayed it and he said, ‘I’m fine,’ he ended up getting awarded a bronze star with a V device for valor for that day. So that was my ‘big T’ trauma in Iraq, and again I didn’t get shot at, I didn’t get blown up, thank god I didn’t have to deal with that stuff. But that was very profound for me, there were other events throughout the course of that day, later that night our base got mortared. I was nowhere near it so again, no big deal. But the most profound impact of that for me was it happened on Easter Sunday, and that it was really a… it was the point in the mission where things got real. Like, you know, ‘we could die.’ And so come to find out later that the truck that got hit was actually the truck that chaplain Myers and I were supposed to be on, and that was a very sobering experience to think that.. cause there’s picture of the vehicle after the aftermath, and all you see is a ball of flame and black smoke — there’s nothing left. So to think that we barely missed that explosion, remember, the convoy was about to take off just as we got taken off the mission, and so I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to think that within a window of about a minute or so, either direction, we were either on that truck and dead or not on that truck and safe. So those are two very profound thoughts that I had after the fact — Easter Sunday and near death. After that things got a little more serious, our posture changed in our area, meaning that we took a more defensive — well, offensive posture. So that was probably the most interesting experience… interesting is the wrong word, that was the most traumatic experience for me in Iraq. But there were also a lot of really entertaining experiences, there were also a lot of really funny stories and lifelong friendships that you know, nothing can break. So I’m grateful for the experience, I wasn’t back then. I am now. And just cause I don’t want to be too depressing I’ll end on a funny story. (31:13) So we — there’s a lot of dust in Iraq, just everywhere. Everywhere there’s dust. So it’s really hard to keep your things clean, and one of the biggest basic soldier tasks is to keep your weapon clean at all times because if the time comes ever, god forbid, that you have to use your weapon, you want it to be functioning. And when there’s dirt in your weapon it does not function properly, it malfunctions. So I had just finished detailing my weapon, I had completely field stripped it, had finished cleaning my weapon, it was pristine. I had put on a new uniform that day and the reason that’s significant is because we didn’t typically change our uniforms for weeks or �so. For me at Taji it wasn’t that bad, I could wear – I could wear a uniform for like four or five days and send it to get washed and I was fine. For the guys out in the field, they didn’t have a choice. They had to wear the same crusty uniform day after day after day until they could come back in. So I had just put on a new uniform after about a week of wearing the same old uniform, and in 130°F heat [it] gets pretty disgusting after a while. So I was clean, my weapon was clean, I was feeling really good, and my chaplain and our S4 – Captain Harry Diaz – also very good friend of mine. The three of us, we called ourselves the three amigos, we were heading over to have lunch together. Now to get to the dining facility where lunch was it was about a half a mile walk each way, right. Really not that big of a deal, but… it’s significant, cause sometimes you weren’t that hungry, so you didn’t [want] to walk for a half mile to get food. Today was the day, I was clean, my weapon was clean, we were going to get chow. Now outside of each of the buildings was an air compression unit. Saying that wrong, condenser I think it’s called. Anyway, the box outside of the house for your central air system, they had those over there. But how they would clean those is they would come up alongside ‘em and they would hit the side of the box and it would shoot out all the dust that collected in there. So my chaplain thought it would be funny — and it was, just not for me at the time — my chaplain thought it would be funny to kick it at the right time as I was walking by to get it to cover me in dust. So we’re walking by, he kicks it, and unbeknownst to us they hadn’t cleaned these things in a while so there was a lot of dust. I – they said they looked back, I literally disappeared. The dust was so thick and so heavy they could not see me anymore. And as soon as the dust settled, if you’ve ever seen the movie The Sandlot and the vacuum cleaner blows up as they’re trying to retrieve the ball, and the engineer brothers — the dust, he gets covered and caked in that dust — that’s kinda what I looked like. All of me was caked in dust. I was so angry (laughter) that he had done that I… we went to the dfac and like, you know like a child I got my food and I sat on the other side of the dfac, I refused to sit with them and I ate with my head down the whole time cause I thought he was such a jerk for doing that. And the funny thing was, he couldn’t stop laughing. He couldn’t even stop laughing long enough to apologize, so they got a big kick out of it and that’s a positive memory that I have from that, not to mention again the friends and the experiences overall. So lot more stories, but I’ll leave it at that. (35:00) Interviewer: “Okay, what about your second deployment, so where was that and do you have any stories you’d like to share?” Sure, Jordan was a lot different, Jordan was a beautiful country, what I like to tell people is Jordan is just a great place and has some interesting neighbors. So we were really blessed to be there, had an opportunity to interact with the Jordanians, not just their military and their police but also the citizens and it was just a really positive experience overall. We had a chance to be out in the economy and to interact with people, and it was very… very different deployments, two very different experiences, and so it was almost redeeming in a way because it helped us understand that not everybody in that part of the world is trying to kill you, not everybody in that part of the world is a bad guy, far from it — very few people in that part of the world are involved in those types of activities, and by and large the rest of the community is just trying to do what we do, make a living, provide for their family. Sense of mission, task, and purpose, and that’s just where they are in the world. So yeah, really positive experience, got to see a lot of really great things. There’s a lot of biblical history in Jordan — it sits right next to Israel. And so for the chaplain and chaplain assistant it’s like a dream come true, you’re literally visiting sites that are talked about in the Bible, and because of the history of that region, talked about… throughout the tour talked about… throughout the Quran, there’s just so much, and it’s all happening at the same time, so it’s beautiful. I had deployed again with chaplain Myers — �now he and I have a history, and this is probably the best story of all the stories. He was the pastor at my church when I was growing up, and so we go back farther than the military. So ever since I was ten years old, Schaun was the pastor at my church and our families know each other well, we’re good friends, and he’s — he and I have been on two deployments together, we’ve worked together professionally in the military but more importantly we’re great friends. And being able to experience that with him was fantastic because you could really appreciate it a little bit more as you’re sharing the experience with somebody. So we got to see the Jordan River, we got to see Jericho from across the Jordan River, we got to see Mount Nebo which is where Moses stood and overlooked the promised land, we got to go to some towns that had Roman ruins. Some of the most comprehensive or eclectic Roman ruins outside of Rome. There’s a town called Jerash, and Jerash actually has the most well-preserved Roman ruins in the world outside of Rome. So it was just [an] incredible experience, interesting is.. the city of Amman, the capital city in Jordan used to be called Philadelphia and it was the original Philadelphia. But stuff like that, the amphitheaters… they have clay pots, broken shards of clay pots laying on the ground like we have gravel in the States, it’s just — it’s there from the Byzantine era. And so a lot of history there, and I won’t say that the deployment was easy, far from it. Again we were in a peaceful place, with an ally of ours. And we were supporting operations in other parts of the world, so there were things that were happening around us but again, nothing ‘big T’ traumatic. So yeah, really overall just a really great experience in Jordan for the second deployment. Interviewer: “And what about when you got back from your deployment, so how did you adjust to life at home?” (39:12) For the first one not well. (laughter) Yeah. There are a few folks that had to experience me after I got home from my first deployment that didn’t get the best version of me. It was hard to come home, coming home was bittersweet. At first it was just a celebration, it was euphoric, I saw grass again for the first time in a year. It was gorgeous. Everyone was excited to see me, all my friends who were still going to college while I was deployed, wrapping up their college careers and were just all really excited to see each other, and rightfully so. I would go out, we would go out and party, we’d go out and tell stories, people would ask me about my deployment, you know, ‘What was it like?’ At first I started to tell them stories, I started to tell them things that I saw, things that I did. And I watched their face as I was telling these stories, and I watched them slowly detach. It was not as interesting to them as it was to me, maybe it was… too much, I don’t know. But what that did for me, again, at the age of twenty-two, was that made me feel like… you know, life for me stopped for a year. For, when I was continued. And it should not have stopped for them — I chose this, they didn’t. But in my head I’m thinking, ‘I feel really alone.’ And that was the most prevalent theme when I got home, is I felt really alone. And that loneliness turned into anger, and I struggled with anger for a long time, I ended up going to therapy for over two years to try to figure out how to make sense of what just happened. I was engaged during the deployment, we ended up getting married and unfortunately — in large part because of my difficult transition home and you know, life happens and people grow apart, we were both very young — it did not work out, we ended up getting a divorce. And there was again, you know, she had to deal with the worst parts of me coming home, there was a culminating incident where the SWAT team came to my house to pick me up and that… that’s about the point where we both agreed that it’s time for us to move in different directions. She was concerned for my safety, she thought that I was going to kill myself, and I’ll spare you the details but that’s what she felt at the time and based on how I was described to the local police department I think maybe they thought they were coming to pick up Chuck Norris or something. �I’m not that serious of a guy, but… they rolled in deep, they rolled in with their whole SWAT team and they came, picked me up and that was difficult for me for a number of reasons. But the biggest reason is because one of the SWAT officers that was putting me in cuffs was a soldier that I had deployed with to Iraq just a few years prior. And I remember very vividly he came up to the porch — there was a team of four of them, now I was flanked, they had very good tactics. I was flanked on either side, there were some in my neighbor’s yard and I lived in a cul-de-sac so you know, even though it was midnight everyone was watching and curious what was happening in their peaceful neighborhood. (42:56) So the team of four in front of me were pointing their ARs right at my chest and they were approaching me, I had my hands up in surrender, and they put the cuffs on me and turned me around and one of the SWAT officers rolled his mask up and said, ‘Sergeant Grant are you okay?’ And I smiled, cause I didn’t know what else to do. But we were fighting the same enemy just a few years ago and now all of a sudden I felt like I was the enemy. Now this isn’t his fault at all, he was just doing his job. And thankfully he was there because he helped tell the other folks that ‘Hey, this doesn’t sound like him, I think this is you know, let’s—’ so they took it easy on me. But that was very surreal, and reflecting on it after the fact it was very… very painful to deal with. That was the point after my Iraq deployment where I lost my last shred of dignity and pride in wearing the uniform. I literally pulled my uniform out of my closet and I put it in a box and I just remember saying, ‘I don’t even want to look at this thing anymore.’ I just, I felt so ashamed because it had turned into service in Iraq, and in my own head I was you know, doing a noble thing, serving my country… to being arrested and taken to a psych hospital for evaluation. I felt like I… I didn’t think I could fall any further than that, and so I was very, very impacted by that experience. But again, grateful for it because it helped motivate me to get to where I eventually got to, and during that time the SWAT officers came to me in late April of 2013, and it was the four-year — just after the four-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday trauma, and it was two weeks before my finals — excuse me, two weeks before graduation. The week of my finals at Temple University, so there was a lot of stress in my life at that point, and that just kind of added to it a little bit. (laughter) But we made it, graduated, and thankfully all is well. (45:33) So that was my initial transition. Eventually it turned into me recognizing and me coming to terms with the idea that I can find life, and I can find purpose after Iraq — I don’t have to just be the Iraq war veteran, I don’t just have to be the guy who served, I can be Phil and that can be a part of who I am. And that’s where it is, it’s a part of who I am, it’s a very important part of who I am — but it’s not all of who I am. And so throughout the journey of getting my undergraduate degree and my graduate degree, becoming a professional, having a new family — my wife who’s also a veteran, we met in the Army. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to meet her had none of this happened, and so [I’m] very grateful for that. Her and I have three beautiful daughters together, and I have what I have today because of what I went through. And so I’m so grateful for those experiences and now I can sit back and say the transition went exactly how it was supposed to go. If you would’ve asked me about five years ago I might’ve had a different story for you. Interviewer: “Yeah, so overall how would you describe your experience with the military, do you have any final thoughts that you’d like to share?” �Love it. Absolutely love it. I’ve been afforded so many opportunities because of the military, because of the Army. I’ve been able to see things and do things that I couldn’t have even dreamed of — again, I met my wife in the military, I got to — for the last seventeen years of my time in the military I’ve gotten to meet some incredible people and do some really cool things. And I’m so glad that I made that decision. I was able to go to college, I was able to get my master’s degree because of the military. I don’t believe that if I would’ve gone to college right out of high school I would’ve done very well, I was too immature. I needed the military to prepare me to be a good student, to prepare me for that journey. So I’m so grateful that everything worked out the way it did, and after Easter Sunday I was really angry at God for what happened. You know, as a Christian Easter Sunday is the holiday that legitimizes our faith, if that didn’t exist there wouldn’t be Christianity. And so I was very upset with God that that terrible thing happened on Easter Sunday, you know, of all the days it could’ve happened why then? But one of the most beneficial things that happened to me because of the military was after that event I realized that you know, I came very close to dying that day — or at least seriously injured, I don’t know what would’ve happened. But that was an example of you know, that one minute window where things could’ve turned out very differently, where the series of events happened the way that they did, I mean in my mind there’s no other way to explain that other than divine intervention, right. And so in my mind I was pulled from that vehicle, the chaplain was pulled from that vehicle because it wasn’t our time. After I came to realize that a few years after coming home, the impact of that was that it strengthened my faith and it improved my spiritual health significantly. Had I not had that experience, I wouldn’t have had that growth. And so I thank the military for a lot of things, but that’s probably the most important thing that’s happened to me in the last seventeen years. Yeah. Interviewer: “Alright, thank you!” Thanks so much for doing this, I appreciate it. Interviewer: “Thanks for coming in, thanks for sharing your stories.” Thanks for letting me! Appreciate it. [END] � 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 Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. 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Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> 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 GrantP2377V Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grant, Philip R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-06 Title A name given to the resource Grant, Philip (Interview transcript and video), 2021 Description An account of the resource Philip Grant was born on November 18th, 1986, and grew up in rural Reading, Pennsylvania. He attended basic training for the Army National Guard between his junior and senior year of high school, completed his advanced training afterward, and was first deployed to Iraq in 2009. He belonged to the 56th Stryker Brigade, 2nd 104th Cavalry as a chaplain assistant, and was based out of Camp Taji during his Iraq service. On April 12th, 2009, Easter Sunday, Grant and the chaplain were busy attending to religious services and were intending on visiting their Charlie troop to offer the Easter message and communion. Just before they left, they received a message that the platoon they would have been traveling with had been hit. As part of their chaplain corps duties the two went to help attend to the casualties, Grant witnessed his first gruesome combat injuries when helping the wounded soldiers and considers this incident to be the most traumatic event he experienced during his service. Despite this traumatic event, Grant still made many meaningful friendships during this time and maintained a positive outlook overall. After returning from service, however, Grant struggled with feelings of disconnection from the life he had before, which turned into a sense of deep loneliness and anger. His personal life and relationships were negatively affected by this, and Grant reached his lowest point when a SWAT team came to his house in order to be admitted to a psychological hospital for evaluation. After struggling with the role the military played in his life, learning how to live with it, and recognizing it as an integral part of who he was, Grant was able to attend therapy and come to terms with both his identity and the future he wanted for himself. His second deployment was spent in Jordan, which proved to be an overwhelmingly positive experience for Grant. He was able to interact with the locals and experience many of the significant historical sites within the country, which held even more significance considering his faith and role as a chaplain’s assistant in the Army. Grant met his wife in the military, graduated with his master’s degree, and is raising three daughters. Grant is incredibly thankful for the time he spent in the military, and believes that both the positive and negative experiences were worth it and a necessary part of his development as a person. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng 1992s https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c5fda524fd65a4cdbdfb66ad650c7fd6.jpg d9f65d32a2038cbf6ffc23cc25d23e7c 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 Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. 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Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. 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Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. 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Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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-183_D167-0016 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1963-05-18 Title A name given to the resource Grant's Drug Store, Hannibal, Missouri Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the interior of "Grant's Drug Store" in Hannibal, Missouri. In 1846, Mark Twain's family fell on hard times and was invitied to live with the Grant family in the rooms located above their pharmacy. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Hannibal (Mo.) Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 Drugstores Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</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 Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s 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/78adf14878567b7d497a90bfde675cd4.jpg ee6be4a42a02e665f13b3bfd2163ef40 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 Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> 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 GV012-01_UAPhotos_001470 Title A name given to the resource Graphic of Grand Valley bus Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Description An account of the resource Graphic of Grand Valley bus used in a publication. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives color photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/bb5328939d60c915dfc0858dcfeb452d.jpg 380db30d80dbfc2b3103d647cd1c1b48 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 Decorated Publishers' Bindings Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Pictorial bindings Description An account of the resource From the early 1870s to roughly 1930, many publishers issued their commercial book covers with a remarkable variety of graphic designs and illustrations. This sixty-year period saw many artists and designers contributing to this art form. While some can be identified from their style or initials, others remain unknown. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Michigan Novels Collection Regional Historical Collection Lincoln and the Civil War Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-08-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a>, <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-01 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source Seidman Rare Books. PS3523.Y73 G7 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 DC-01_Bindings0154 Title A name given to the resource Graphics Description An account of the resource Binding of Graphics, by Harris Merton Lyon, published by W.M. Reedy, 1913. Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Pictorial bindings Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1913 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/5ce97532aa7bad6b9d18b8a6022a1134.mp4 e29bb642cab831aa7fdcc3adffa3f255 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/169bf04329784986894e41ca8238bf96.pdf 300151485a9f615d3cde9a6f8fd338ad PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Charles Grasman World War II Total Time: 1:00:56 Childhood and Pre-Enlistment (0:00:00) • • • • • Born in Georgetown Township, MI in 1923. Enlisted in December, 1942. He was 19 years old. His parents did not want him to sign up at first, but they finally agreed. Attended school up until the 8th grade. Wanted to be a pilot when he signed up for the Army Air Corps. Training (0:05:25) • • • • • • • • • • • • Left in February, 1943 for Basic Training in Miami Beach, FL. They were housed in the Haddon Hall Motel in Miami. Was there for two weeks and then moved across the street. They were there for a further two weeks, and then they were shipped to Erskine College in South Carolina. He was at Erskine for 5 months and learned mathematics. (0:08:52) He was then shipped to Nashville, TN where he was classified. He was put into pilot training. He was then shipped to Alabama where he was taught the coursework on how to fly a plane. Then he went to Clarksville, MS to fly training airplanes. This training was about 9 weeks long. (0:10:10) From there he was sent to Greenville, MS and then to George Field, IL for twin-engine school. (0:11:00) Then attended four-engine B-17 school in Florida. Got married to his girlfriend and then they moved to Sebring, FL so he could finish basic training. He was then shipped to Lincoln, NE where he was supposed to enter B-29 school, but they didn’t have enough openings in the program so he was unable to attend. He was sent back to B-17s He was then sent to Ardmore, OK with the crew that was assembled. He attended combat training in Ardmore. Then went back to Lincoln, NE and was issued their combat equipment and were shipped to Norfolk, VA where they got on a boat for Europe. This was in March, 1944. He was on the SS Mariposa. There were around 400-500 men. On the way over they ran into a German submarine and had to turn around for a time but they finally turned back He graduated as a second Lieutenant �Active Duty (0:24:40) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Disembarked the boat in Naples, Italy and took a train to the boot of Italy. They slept in tents in Italy. They had 4 officers in one tent and 5 enlisted men in another tent. (0:27:40) His first mission was in early April. He flew as a co-pilot with a seasoned crew. The mission was over Northern Italy, and lasted 6 hours 8 minutes. His crew got along very well. After the war ended, his B-17 shuttled soldiers from France home between Pisa and Casablanca. (0:34:14) His typical mission was to either Northern Italy or Austria, and was generally 6-8 hours in duration (0:34:54) On one mission, he got two of his engines shot out on the same side. They were shot out by anti-aircraft fire. He was on his way to the target when he lost the engine over Austria. He was escorted back by Tuskegee Airmen to the base. Remarked on how good the Tuskegee Airmen were. The Germans looked for stragglers when they were attacking bombers. One of the worst places to fly was the oil fields in Romania [Ploesti], as there were so many anti-aircraft guns. They usually bombed around 28,000 feet. A good bombardier could hit target from around this height. Generally bombardiers did not decide when to deploy the bombs, they just deployed theirs when the lead bombardier in the formation deployed theirs. (0:44:23) Their group had a good range of experience. He had four missions by the end of the war. He was initially going to go home at the end of the war, but they changed the system so he didn’t get to go home immediately. (0:46:40) He did a number of tasks in the interim, including flying troops around and accident investigation. Got to spend some time in Switzerland after the war, and noted the May Day festivities. Had some opportunity in Italy to tour around as well. He was shipped to Le Havre, France, and was shipped back to New York. Got on a train to Camp Atterbury, IN and joined the Reserves. Post Service (0:55:40) • • • Did quite a bit of work with the Civil Air Patrol when he was in the Reserves. Was also assigned as a ground school instructor. Spent some time on the road as a salesman Lived in Traverse City, MI and worked as a housing manager for a Ski Resort, and then moved back to Grand Rapids, MI and then back to Traverse City, MI. � 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 Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> 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/. Title A name given to the resource Grasman, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grasman, Charles Description An account of the resource Charles Grasman was born in Georgetown Township, Michigan in 1923 to a family of farmers. He enlisted it the Army Air Corps at age 19 and began a lengthy training regime to become a pilot. He was eventually assigned to become a bomber pilot and flew B-17s for the duration of the War. He was stationed in Southern Italy, and flew raids into Austria, Romania and Northern Italy. After the War, he served some extra time in Europe flying GI's to ports to be sent home, and doing other tasks. He joined the Air Force Reserves after his discharge. 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.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/489105643f24db748d13d900521e90f9.mp3 8543217aee94c6908024a959c4ccf726 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 Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/514">Richard A. Rhem papers (KII-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kaufman Interfaith Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KII-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1981-2014 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 text/pdf Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Event Thanksgiving Sunday Scripture Text Psalm 116:12, I Timothy 6:17-19 Location The location of the interview Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI 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 KII-01_RA-0-19981126 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998-11-26 Title A name given to the resource Gratitude, Generosity, and the Good Life Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard A. Rhem Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Sermons Relation A related resource Richard A. Rhem - An Archive of Sermons, Prayers, Talks and Stories: http://richardrhem.org/ Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on November 26, 1998 entitled "Gratitude, Generosity, and the Good Life", on the occasion of Thanksgiving Sunday, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Psalm 116:12, I Timothy 6:17-19. https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7bb7eb5510e06561d4eabfbbd3bddff1.mp3 09c37129a98f55c6a5cc0384bc7b829c 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 Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/514">Richard A. Rhem papers (KII-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kaufman Interfaith Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KII-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1981-2014 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 text/pdf Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Event Thanksgiving Day Scripture Text Isaiah 58:12, I Timothy 6:6-10, 17-19, Luke 12:13-21 Location The location of the interview Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI 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 KII-01_RA-0-20031127 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003-11-27 Title A name given to the resource Gratitude: Its Source and Its Fruit Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard A. Rhem Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Sermons Relation A related resource Richard A. Rhem - An Archive of Sermons, Prayers, Talks and Stories: http://richardrhem.org/ Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on November 27, 2003 entitled "Gratitude: Its Source and Its Fruit", on the occasion of Thanksgiving Day, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Isaiah 58:12, I Timothy 6:6-10, 17-19, Luke 12:13-21. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives Thanksgiving https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/46e8a6539ecb5345da78bfe5693af159.jpg 3d7018d08ea0b50e87d7bf30b953efee 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 Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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-183_M170-0029 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1972-06/1972-08 Title A name given to the resource Grave of C.S. Lewis, Holy Trinity Church Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of writer C.S. Lewis's grave located at the cemetery of the Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry just outside of Oxford, England. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 Cemeteries--England--Oxford Holy Trinity Church (Headington Quarry, Oxford, England) Oxford (England) Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</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 Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s 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/fb965edcdb86942331dc21076b5ab5ac.jpg a2b8d05bdae62b95d6a5f298fc054829 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 Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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 Merrill_Films_A_011 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1936-05-30 Title A name given to the resource Gravel pit near Ft. Wayne Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of groups of people standing in front of piles of gravel, the face of a rock ledge, and a wooden house. Subject The topic of the resource Ft. Wayne (Ind.) Gravel Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 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/42499b048fde467544afa6d61fae3b1e.jpg 306f346c872e0658fd4dc62a2c53faaf 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 Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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 Merrill_Graflex_A_1936_008 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1936-09-01 Title A name given to the resource Gravel pit north of Olivet Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a man leaning against the back tire of an automobile in the middle of a gravel pit. Two boxes stand on the ground near his feet. Subject The topic of the resource Olivet (Mich.) Gravel Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 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/26ce7ae7e936be5b6fae9cd7197fc521.jpg de68bde8ec6f7c0147f0c06429cffccc 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 Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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 Merrill_Graflex_A_1936_009 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1936-09-01 Title A name given to the resource Gravel pit north of Olivet Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of an automobile parked at the bottom of a gravel pit with two boxes on the ground next to the car. Subject The topic of the resource Olivet (Mich.) Gravel Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 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/e86541ba2d3c75ab429cad23cd5b2af1.jpg 76c2d9ffa1bb2eeded731090d293d922 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 Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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-183_M159-0020 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1972-06/1972-08 Title A name given to the resource Gravestone of British poet, Charles Williams, Oxford Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the gravestone of British poet, Charles Williams, in the Holywell Cemetary in Oxford, England. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Williams, Charles, 1886-1945 Cemeteries--England--Oxford Graves--England--Oxford Oxford (England) Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</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 Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s 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/657f754942fe82faac9f28e5bc98bc96.jpg e2d54c2d809136d5005020a4252cf8f2 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 Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Termaat, Adriana B. (Schuurman) Termaat, Peter N. Description An account of the resource Collection contains genealogical, personal, and family papers and photographs documenting the lives and interests of Adriana and Peter Termaat. The bulk of the materials are related to family history and genealogical research carried out by the Termaats, including research notes and materials about places in the Netherlands that were significant to the Termaat and Schuurman families, such as the city of Alkmaar. Other materials in the collection are related to the Termaats' experiences on the eve of and during the Second World War, especially the German occupation of the Netherlands and the Termaats' participation in organized resistance to the Nazis. Also included are materials that document the family's post-war life in the United States, including their public efforts to recognize, commemorate, and honor people and events significant to World War II. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1869 - 2012 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/719">Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection, RHC-144</a> Subject The topic of the resource Netherlands Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945 World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands Dutch Dutch Americans 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 RHC-144 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Text Image Type The nature or genre of the resource application/pdf image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng nl Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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-144_Termaat_PHOT_1956-Nico-Termaat-gravestone-img012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1956 Title A name given to the resource Gravestone of Nicolaas Pieter Jan Termaat Description An account of the resource Photograph of gravestone of Nicolaas P. J. Termaat Subject The topic of the resource Dutch Americans Gravestones Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/719">Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)</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 Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg 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/ee52fda6fb74fe8c30cf421aa32e40fc.jpg 369e5cb229e3daeaf4c55eb0fcf572d7 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 Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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-183_G056-0017 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-06 Title A name given to the resource Gravestones in All Saints Churchyard, Canterbury, England Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of gravestones located in All Saints Churchyard in Canterbury, England. The gravestones are seen outlining the brick-lined churchyard, with the gravestone for William Goulden of Canterbury standing out visibly from the others. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Canterbury (England) Cemeteries Gravestones Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</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 Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s 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/1c7034adde7a01e924430a9ef7513f69.jpg d4d3ab0c71f3c6c07a3645eed76f0dcf 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 Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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 GrayLee Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Gray, Lee Description An account of the resource Lee Gray, Document Design Deputy Director, Washington D.C. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/41eb8f5ccc6da0c6308d63d4bed53403.jpg a5c45a9537b2598ef1a9c2e5e5de44ab 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 Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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 Merrill_NE_58_1924_023 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1924-06 Title A name given to the resource Greason Home Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a man and woman sitting on the front step of a house. The woman is feeding some chickens. Subject The topic of the resource Farmers Chickens Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives