443 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3c37bea0f552565eb48820a77d325562.jpg f66af8428ef2abac771d7476fd85adfd 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 GVSU Theatre Photos Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Theatre Department Description An account of the resource Photographs of Grand Valley theater productions from the 1980s to the 2010s. Photos include shots of performances, backstage, casts and crewmembers. Included in the collection are Shakespeare Festival productions and small acts such as Bard to Go and the Greenshow. 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Lemmen Library and Archives 1983s https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3869b733694d40a0b6c251ac79cd7773.mp4 e235725271f014e1c927bf18cbe5d56b https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/fe66d700ceac496d0be3fb92ed278f57.pdf cc086eb728147f4e02bcc378ecb15ba6 PDF Text Text William James College Interviews GV016-16 Interviewer: Barbara Roos Interviewee: John MacTavish Date: 1984 Part: 1 of 3 [Barbara] …saying is, the conclusion to be drawn, it seems as though one keeps on with the Geology lectures of three hundred and fifty students and a true/false exam, when you close these places down and there's no discussion. [MacTavish] But that's where the college makes its money. You stick three thousand students in the classroom and fill… and then spend the time with the teaching assistants. That's where they make their money. [Unidentified] Sit up so he doesn't [inaudible]. [Barbara] Yes, dear. What can we learn from the James thing though? I mean, it's like it's closed so it never existed. [MacTavish] Okay. James got more of a chance than almost any of the other colleges that I can think of, with some possible exceptions on the west coast. In the sense that we really were given a budget, we were really were cut free to make our own mistakes, we were given a considerable amount of support administratively, but we never reached a point where we were an equal amongst equals in terms of faculty perception of faculty, in terms of student perception of student, in terms of administrative perception of the unit. We never reached that original ideal of Grand Valley, of having a group of equal colleges. Thomas Jefferson, in a way, unfortunately started that by having their problems with courses in Zen Buddhism that started a wall and that kind of thing. And so, we were constantly fighting man image. At the same time, the easy way to fight that image is to show that we're like CAS which we weren't also. And so we ran around in circles fighting that image. I think that one possibility, as I mentioned, was that maybe permanent appointments aren't the answer. But as soon as I say that I think about certain faculty members that are still at the college that still could be in that kind of a setting and probably would prefer to be in the kind of a setting. And maybe on a permanent basis. Because if you think about it in terms of short-term appointments, you're saying things like: "Well, I'll take three years off of my life's work and I'll play in this college." And that doesn't accomplish what you want to do either. So, I think what you have to have is a setting in which you are an equal amongst equals. And given that then it's the game of equal but separate. The South played it the South Africans play it. And it's extremely difficult to be honest about. It might be that you can't do that and have the two units side by side or commingle. It may be that you have to have a separate campus. Because the �perception is always that's the way we grew up, that's the kind of educational system we went through, that's the kind we trained. And what we want to do is not a rebellion from that but is something different from that. And it's looked at as either a rebellion or playing around. [MacTavish] Eventually you will come back to the fold and he will teach your five hundred student lecture class, and you'll have your laboratory spread over the week, and you will do your twelve hours in committee assignment, and you will be available to answer students questions in office hours, and you go home and sail your boat or whatever. Treat it as a job, and that's not what people wanted to do. Unfortunately, the one that's the best, that is a person that commits themselves so totally, that they screw up the rest of their lives. [Barbara] Do you value your experience at James? [MacTavish] Oh, definitely. [Barbara] Why? Because, again, it sounds so crazy when you talk about it. [MacTavish] Well, it is crazy, but it's crazy in the same way that a lot of endeavors are started. It doesn't matter whether it's a marriage, or whether it's starting a business, (which I've also done) or starting college, or whatever. You have a tremendous flush of excitement at the beginning, you don't care that you're working eighty or ninety hours a week. But that's a pace you can't maintain and to shift to a maintainable pace is extremely difficult. And still keep the intensity of feeling and the intensity of dedication to an ideal or set of ideals, that's extremely difficult to do. Doesn't matter whether it's a marriage, or job, or whatever. [Barbara] I really only have two things in mind and there both really short. One is that I just remembered you told me in the halls, or some place, sitting there with applications or something. [MacTavish] Oh in the first year there were only… started out with about five faculty members. The Dean was Ken Venderbush, and he was also the Dean of Students. And that meant he had a full-time job as Dean of Students, but he was also assigned halftime as our [?] and he has no real commitment to us. So, what he would do is he would work his regular job and then he would come over to his office at William James, which would be 4:00 or 4:30 or 5:00 or 5:30 in the afternoon and that would be the only time we'd see him. He was also dying of a brain tumor at the time, which we didn't-- no one knew about. But what it meant was that Jenny Gordon, as his secretary, and the person who ran the office, and myself, who was some kind of an administrative assistant without title or pay or anything like that, end up making the decisions that ran the college on a daily basis. So, Jenny and I would sit down and do the things that a Dean, or an Assistant Dean, or �Administrative Assistant, whatever, would do. And that's how the college ran that first year. And other people jumped in and did their thing, and we just got it together. [Barbara] Did you guys read James? [MacTavish] No. [Barbara] Because it's remarkable, neither did I. I'm just reading him now. How remarkably the college echoes what you can read in James. [MacTavish] Some of the faculty members did, and some of the members of the committee did. And that translated itself through hundreds of hours of conversation. I read selected parts of James, but I can't say I sat down and read the whole book. Or you know we got stacks of books from James; everybody got their little package of little red books. And some us read the appropriate parts, some of us just participated in that first seminar on James. And some of the stuff that came out in the first semester was stuff that we weren't interested in. James wasn't going to be that way. William James College wasn't going to be that way. And so, what happened was the people that were really interested in the philosophy sat down in group meetings with us and your discussions, cocktail parties, dinner meetings, whatever, and just translated what they had read the into a living reality and then we argued back and forth about it and it worked out to be James. [Barbara] I do have one more. I remember we were both on SPACK. Do you remember SPACK? [MacTavish] S-P, ah, yes-yes-yes. I can't remember what it stood for, but I remember SPACK. [Barbara] No, I can't remember what it stood for either. But I remember we had terrible, terrible arguments. I don't mean you, and I mean SPACK there were terrible arguments. Can you remember back then and translate what kind of frustration went on then? Because I think it’s a key in a very pragmatic way to some of the tensions. [MacTavish] Well, when we got larger – second, or third, or fourth year – to the point we have double a couple times and we were up to fifteen or twenty faculty members, the faculty couldn't hold the tight cohesiveness anymore. And that's when we got into terrible arguments about grading. I can remember… what was his name? T.C.? The student that stood up and was hollering in one of those group meetings. And the tension was… you could feel it. I ended up in the hospital that day. It turned out to be hypertension attack, the only time in my life I've ever had any problems like that. They hauled me off in an ambulance. But it was so vivid, and the commitment was so close to the surface, and the people were so fervent about �their personal beliefs, and they were dumping them right out there on table. [MacTavish] About how you grade, about how you conduct a classroom, about what William James should be. And the students were right in there along with everyone else, they were considered as much a member of the community as anybody. And it got fairly vicious at times because groups tended to appear. I know when we were down to the wire on faculty, on choosing team, I think it boiled down to Ken Venderbush and Adrian. And there were some terrible arguments because of perceived differences in philosophy and differences in administrative style, administrative experience, et cetera that we went around, and round, and round, and they were not situations where people were pulling any punches. We were expected to say what we meant, we were expected to participate, and we were expected not to hold a grudge. You know, we were being honest. And it is very difficult to be honest for years, and years, and years. But we were. [Barbara] Herb, do you have any questions? [Herb] That was a great ending. [Barbara] I know. Is there something else you want to talk about? [MacTavish] Oh jeez. Not really, I'll probably think of something tomorrow. [Barbara] Well, I always think of something the next day. I was like, "why didn't I ask him?" – you know? Because we got more tape. It's in there. [MacTavish] Oh. We played all kinds of games; I don't know whether it's important or not. But when that college- that building was originally designed, it was designed with four suites of offices. And each one of those suites contained six offices. [Barbara] Just start there [Inaudible]. [MacTavish] Oh. Six offices and the administrative area, the secretarial area. And if you think back about those offices, every one of those offices is different. One has two windows, one is big with one window, and there's a couple of real small ones with no windows, and so forth. They were designed that way by Mr. George Potter, who was a system president, vice president, and then finally, interim president for a year, so the faculty could have something to fight over. And they did, and we did. And it got to the point, at one point, where we made a policy where everybody had to move every year. After a while I got nuts, but it was an attempt to break that, another attempt, to break that hierarchy of top faculty, middle faculty, and low faculty. The beginners always got that little windowless office the first year and then I got to move around and move up. We even went around one year and painted the whole inside the building. �[MacTavish] I remember one faculty member put up a picture of the of head Gandhi right outside of his office on the wall, so he could look out the office to see Gandhi's head. Another faculty put a little person with a wood screw his navel and the students put pictures on the wall. And some of it was very, very good. And that led to bring in a commercial artist, who did superb graphics on all the walls with the students. And that was one of those builders of community that we worked very hard to find builders of community. The original synaptic programs, the Piaget program where this little naive college, in what, its second year, or whatever, pulled off the world Piaget conference. You know, we didn't… we're like the G.E. engineer who didn't know it wasn't possible to frost inside of a light bulb. You know we just went up and did it. And there was a lot of those kinds of things that happened that'll never leaving because I don't even always remember, neither do the other guys, unless they sit around and have a beer and reminisce, which almost never happens anymore. Aren't many of us left in this area. That's the only thing I could think of off the top of my head. [Barbara] That's really great because we have… I'm almost sure we can get illustrated stuff for the painting. [MacTavish] Yeah. [Barbara] And I have a painting. � 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 William James College Interviews Description An account of the resource Videotaped interviews of William James College faculty, students and administrators by Barbara Roos. William James College opened in 1971 as the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. Curriculum was organized around three concentrations that were meant to be interdisciplinary career preparation offerings: Social Relations, Administration and Information Management, and Environmental Studies. The college was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/69">William James College faculty and student interviews (GV016-16)</a> 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 Grand Valley State University Michigan Universities and colleges Oral histories Alternative education Interdisciplinary approach in education Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV016-16_GVSU_20_MacTavish Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource MacTavish, John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Title A name given to the resource John MacTavish interview (1 of 3, video and transcript) Description An account of the resource Interview with John MacTavish by Barbara Roos, documenting the history of Grand Valley State's William James College. William James College was the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. The college opened in 1971 and was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley State. John MacTavish was faculty member of GVSC who was hired to teach Geology courses in 1968 and later transitioned to planning and teaching for William James College beginning in 1971. In this interview, John discusses the lessons learned from William James College, how he valued being a part of the experience, and his earliest memories of the college. This interview is part 1 of 3 for John MacTavish. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Roos, Barbara (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Universities and colleges Oral histories Alternative education Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/69">William James College faculty and student interviews (GV016-16)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/01e89ad315320de66a14d3ab7ce8ccf8.mp4 f646366da7233fb969677d7ef1cf1106 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7f5957baa0b1c87f9dc89042d6abb881.pdf 16b12a1c292c0a5984c9f27d754f0de2 PDF Text Text William James College Interviews GV016-16 Interviewer: Barbara Roos Interviewee: John MacTavish Date: 1984 Part: 2 of 3 [Barbara] Are you rolling? [MacTavish] Yeah. [Barbara] Steven? [MacTavish] Yeah. [Barbara] Why don't you tell me about other, you know, what you know about…? [MacTavish] Well, I personally went to two or three conferences, but we were so busy doing things and we had so much to do that we didn't, at least, I didn't go to very many. I remember the Redlands conference. People were talking about their experimental program here or their experimental program there. And frequently it was just a few students inside of a department that were trying things; there were almost no one out there doing what we were doing. And the people, frankly, found it unbelievable that we were able to do this because that was even beyond what they were fantasizing being able to do: to have the backing of a college behind you to turn you relatively loose. And I can remember when the plan for William James was approved by the faculty council. The thing that put it over the back, over the top, was I think it was Dewey Heininga [?] that stood up and said, "there's a time when you have to cut the child free and let them do it," or words to that effect, because the faculty were wanting to put all kinds of strings and "we'll check on them next year and kill them if they don't do well" and this kind of thing. And I believe it was Dewey [?] that finally stood up and said, "We've got to give them a chance. We've got to let them do their thing and we've got to not have control over them." And that was almost the last thing that was said before it was okayed as a separate academic unit, but we were spending so much time actually doing what other people wanted to fantasize about that we didn't have time to go around and tell people what we were doing. Although the word did get out and it never ceases to amaze me the way that students found us, similar to the ways they found Thomas Jefferson, because somehow there was a student connection out there with high schools and so forth that I never knew about when I was a high school. Of course, I don't think anything like that existed back in the '50s when I was in high school. If it had I wouldn't have noticed. �[Barbara] John, but that didn't go on because our enrollment was down. [MacTavish] That's true. And I honestly don't remember why that happened. Eventually, we got up to over seven hundred and then they started back down again. And I think that at the point when you're seven hundred, then you're dealing with an institutional size that we didn't have in the beginning. And I'm not blaming the decline on that. It could easily have been economic. It could have been changes in the general cultural pattern in the United States. It could have been a lot of things. The '60s were gone, but it also could have been the fact that William James was at that point starting to be a large, standard type of institution, even though we did an awful lot of things that weren't. But there ends up being a level of bureaucracy that is necessarily just to function that the students were arguing with, participating in, and fighting against all at the same time. And I honestly don't know why they started back down. A lot of the faculty were starting to reevaluate their time commitments. I know I did. Some of our best faculty left. Well, if I name names, they all think those are the best and the others aren't. But we did have a fairly high faculty turnover. Eventually, people started hiring faculty for different reasons than they were originally hired in the beginning. They were hiring people to fill out levels of... or areas of expertise. They were hiring a person because he happened to fit as an intern specialist, or we needed a biologist. And the primary concern was a concern different from the original. Sure, in the beginning we needed a writer, and we needed a scientist and we needed a sociologist and a psychologist and so forth. But people were looked at as much for their secondary and tertiary interests as they were for their original interests because we knew that people had to be eclectic, broadly interesting, broadly interested. The person that you could describe as a graduate school teacher in a discipline spending eighty hours a week in the laboratory studyingI'll pick Paschke's rats as an example because Paschke doesn't fit the mold, but they spend their life studying the behavior patterns of rats. That isn't the kind of faculty member we needed in William James. We needed somebody who if he's a geologist, he's willing to tackle Piaget. If he's a writer, he's willing to try and analyze wines or the scientific basis for the difference in the way wine plants grow. And so, he ends up studying geography for a term. We needed people with the kind of interest and nerve to leave their disciplines. And that was phrase keys for me. One of our big problems is a lot of people felt like they were leaving their discipline when they came to William James. I did as an invertebrate paleontologist. I haven't done a whole lot since I joined William James and the rest of the academic world labeled you when you did that because those were lost years, if you tried to come back. Dick Paschke is one of the few people that were able to not have that happen to him, but many of the rest of us had that happen to us. In some ways, it's good; in some ways, it's bad. I don't think I ever want to go back to being a paleontologist again. On the other hand, I spent fifteen years of my life learning to be one, but it gave me and got me where I wanted to be at that time. And that got me somewhere else and so forth down �the road. Where do we go from here? [Barbara] Let's stop for one second. [Inaudible] [MacTavish] We looked for people that were compatible with ourselves and with what we thought William James should be. And that includes not just me who hired on, but that includes the Dan Clocks and the Woodys and the rest of the people on that committee. The Will Walkos, who knew he wasn't going to be in William James and wasn't for years, and then situations changed, and he came over. But we look for people who had what we thought William James needed in terms of educational philosophy and outlook. [Barbara] It's real hard to pin this down in my mind. I keep thinking, you're just not telling me what this magic thing was that made everyone understand what you were aiming for. [MacTavish] No, we did not analyze what we were looking for and we did not- Well, let me say it two ways. We did not sit down and say, "This is the kind of psychological profile we want. This is the kind of credentials we want." In fact, there was a move at one point to kind of look past credentials once a minimum level was established. We did, however, spend long hours haranguing each other with why we're interested in this person or this type of person. And when you spend thirty or forty hours a week, in addition to your regular job, discussing who you should hire, you tend to, as a group, reach a consensus. And they were consensus decisions. We didn't try to say we have to have a person with this particular leaning. We have to have a position for so-and-so. We tried to fight that. In fact, we wanted synoptic positions and everything. But we did look for educational philosophies and we didn't spell out in advance, "This is the cardinal philosophy." Mayberry has his cardinal philosophy; Zapp had his cardinal philosophy; I had my cardinal philosophy. And in a way, they were all the same with different edges and then in another way, they were all different, but the edges overlapped. So that we could out of the five or six thousand applications, we could find six or eight that made sense for everybody. [Barbara] You know, that's kind of hard to imagine. [MacTavish] Well, I think it was in the sense that there was a magic there. There was a feeling amongst this group that never knew each other before; in a period of two weeks, we were old friends. [Barbara] This is the committee? [MacTavish] No, this is the original faculty. The committee was never a group of old friends, but that's another story. The orientation occurred and the faculty started, and we �spent so much- we lived together. I mean, our wives saw less of us than [Inaudible] [Barbara] Really explain- Oh, I know it's about money. They didn't see why the hell you should come here when the money was so low. [MacTavish] Well, that was another thing William James did is they took away all the rewards for teaching. They took away the merit pay. They took away the titles. They took away everything. And the only reward you got was internal. Well, that's fine for a few people, but not for a lot of people. And people tended to grump after a while, even though they participated in the original decision to do that. We took away all the external rewards, which is not good, I don't think. [Barbara] But it's like what we did with the students. We said, "We're not going to reward you with an 'A.' We're going to reward you with an internal accomplishment." It's going to be pure. [MacTavish] Yeah, it's going to be pure. Well, pure works in the Land of Oz, but it doesn't always work in real life because there are so many other pressures involved. When you go to a professional meeting, you say, "Oh, I'm a member of the faculty." Everybody else says, "I'm associate professor, full professor, assistant professor, instructor." And there's some kind of pecking order that's known. When you say you're a member of the faculty, that means you could be anything from a dean on down to undergraduate instructor, you know. [Barbara] Well, what we've gotten into here, and we didn't finish the other thing. I'm asking everyone what critical steps were taken or not taken or what critical weaknesses were there or whatever that contributed to the closing? Surely there was more than one thing that contributed to closing the place down. [MacTavish] Well, I wasn't there for the final closing. I was there for, I guess, what you would call the downhill, at least a large part of it. There were several things, I think, that were involved. And one of them is individual burnout or pullback because of the amount of work involved. Another is the change in the general direction or orientation of the college. It lost a lot of its freewheeling-ness and it became very much more rigid in terms of curriculum, in terms of faculty teaching patterns. We ended up with departments. They were interdisciplinary departments, but there were departments, nonetheless. I think also there were some real political and sociological problems that people experienced in what some people were calling the "Women's Club." We, in some cases, either made offers or hired people. The faculty didn't do it. A certain clique of people did it and they did it on grounds that were not traditional William James grounds. I'd rather not tape some of those things. But Inge got into a lot of trouble in that group setting and some of the other people did, too. I did for a variety of reasons and I don't think that helped �the college at all. Plus, there always was, in the eyes of some of the traditional faculty members on campus, the feeling that faculty members in that college, namely William James, were slumming in some way because they were not disciplinarians in the traditional sense of disciplines. That combined with some initial inabilities in the administrative level. She was learning a lot after she got here and she got much, much better. But for the first few years, she had some problems that tended to contribute to the point where once she was doing a pretty darn good job of it, some people had stopped listening. And there was a general conservativeness that was occurring, especially in this region and then in the college. We never did get to the point where there were a group of equal colleges. And then the fiscal crisis hit the state of Michigan and that was a disaster for William James because the argument was made and very difficult to fight that being a group of colleges was costing us money. What they did is they eliminated all the colleges except the ones that they couldn't get rid of for political reasons like the School of Business, but they kept all the administrators. And if you look at the faculty, if you look at the ratios between students and faculties and secretaries and administrators, you'll see, over a period of years, you'll see that administration level people were being added at a much, much faster rate than everybody else. And when it came to time for cuts, the faculty members were cut disproportionately to the administrators, so that made the ratios even worse. And in addition to that, the faculty members were cut in some cases in ways or places that were political in nature, rather than having to deal with how many students they had and so forth. And I'm not speaking about myself in that situation, although I was one of the ones who was cut. So that there were a bunch of pressures on William James near the end that were political, social, psychological. It was a long story. I don't think the faculty got the break in terms of the break from the heavy workload that they should have gotten to be able to maintain it continuously for years, after years. [Barbara] That's answering the next question I was going to say. I was going to say, the flipside of what I asked you is: in positive terms, what could have been done differently? Looking at this as an experimental school and saying… [Steve] Thirty seconds about until tape end. [Barbara] Alright, well, get the other tape in. Okay. Is there an answer to the positive? � 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 William James College Interviews Description An account of the resource Videotaped interviews of William James College faculty, students and administrators by Barbara Roos. William James College opened in 1971 as the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. Curriculum was organized around three concentrations that were meant to be interdisciplinary career preparation offerings: Social Relations, Administration and Information Management, and Environmental Studies. The college was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/69">William James College faculty and student interviews (GV016-16)</a> 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 Grand Valley State University Michigan Universities and colleges Oral histories Alternative education Interdisciplinary approach in education 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 Roos, Barbara (Interviewer) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV016-16 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Language A language of the resource eng Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV016-16_GVSU_21_MacTavish Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource MacTavish, John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Title A name given to the resource John MacTavish interview (2 of 3, video and transcript) Description An account of the resource Interview with John MacTavish by Barbara Roos, documenting the history of Grand Valley State's William James College. William James College was the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. The college opened in 1971 and was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley State. John MacTavish was faculty member of GVSC who was hired to teach Geology courses in 1968 and later transitioned to planning and teaching for William James College beginning in 1971. In this interview, John discusses the early days of William James College and its creation, in addition to the sense of "magic" that existed within the community and the critical weaknesses that contributed to the college's eventual decline. This interview is part 2 of 3 for John MacTavish. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Roos, Barbara (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Universities and colleges Oral histories Alternative education Interdisciplinary approach in education Bureaucracy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/69">William James College faculty and student interviews (GV016-16)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e7c954563d8ded187d4aee8b3c446c8d.mp4 e404facd0ab54ff7b4490f513353eb30 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/bc4930e3d15733897a6420709300aef8.pdf 6ef9f890f95ae19872c58628c8f7a059 PDF Text Text William James College Interviews GV016-16 Interviewer: Barbara Roos Interviewee: John MacTavish Date: 1984 Part: 3 of 3 [Barbara] Why don't you just start by saying how you ever got associated with an alternative college? [MacTavish] I was a junior member of the Geology Department at the College of Arts and Sciences and I was involved in administrative aspects of faculty and faculty life on the campus, and, for whatever reasons, he never told me… the President elected to put me on a committee with nine or ten other people to design a new college. And we spent a year going through the rigmarole of “what's our focus, what's our emphasis, when do we want to start?” All the things that no one ever even conceived would be necessary but had to be gone through. And at the end of that time, we started looking for faculty and I applied, and my application went through along with everybody else's. They interviewed me and I was hired as one of the… I don't know what the word is -- pioneer faculty? And at that point, the next fall we were off and running. [Barbara] I have two questions out of that. One question is: why, how on earth, could it be that only one year is given to planning a college? I mean, it's not like opening a Dairy Queen. [MacTavish] There was some experience on campus for Thomas Jefferson and one of the original scenarios for Grand Valley was a series of Liberal Arts colleges with the maximum size of fifteen hundred students. And the original scenario was all those colleges would be the same and the small size would be what would help the learning in the educational process. When Thomas Jefferson came along it did not fit that mold, but they still wanted to keep one college from dominating the campus and they needed - because of the growth - they needed another college rapidly. We had - I don't remember the exact numbers - but several hundred students immediately and we only had five faculty members, but we were interviewing and hiring as fast as we could. [Barbara] The James philosophy when we got there - which was maybe four years after school started - seemed so clear and so finished. I mean, we were always haggling about it, but it was a clear focus. [Barbara] How do you develop that clear of a… at what point did that clear focus get developed? �[MacTavish] [Laughter] That's your perception maybe, but there wasn't a clear focus in the sense that it was something that was polished and finished and going. It was never finished; it was never polished. [MacTavish] We had - in the very beginning - a lot of arguments over the gross emphasis of the college. Whether it should be a college of sociology. Should it have any science at all? And Will Walco and myself - being the two scientifically oriented members of that committee - were fighting for broad spectrum liberal education. And then the question arose: do you try to include all science? And how do you differentiate yourself from CAS? And there was some nervousness from the College of Arts and Sciences people for fear of competition over students and one of the ways we got around that was to emphasize the environmental emphasis - the environmental approach - to our science. And in fact, at one point they even had an agreement drawn up that William James would do no laboratory science, in effect because that was impinging upon the biologists and chemists and the geologists, and so forth. So, for a long time during that first year, we didn't even know what direction we were going. We landed with the William James philosophy fairly quickly in terms of approach to education, but we didn't know always what we were going to do. Now if you asked me what that approach is, I'll tell you to talk to each individual and he'll give you his ideas because that's how fluid it was. And when we start out with five faculty the first year, and double that the second year, and double it again the third year the philosophy changes every year because we were so democratic it drove us nuts. In fact, there were people pushing for Quaker approach (a hundred percent or nothing). And so, you start with five and end up with twelve months later and it's a totally different philosophy, but not different. It turned out it was a function of the people that were there. [Barbara] How would you characterize the core of what James pretty much was? [Laughter] [MacTavish] [Laughter] We were very naive. We invented the wheel more than once. We tried to set up an educational setting in which the students could learn. We tried to avoid the stereotype college education that we - many of us, most of us - had gone through: a faculty member giving you the rules in front of a thousand students and you giving them back on the exam. We wanted to set up an educational setting where students had a chance to learn, where they had a chance to learn on their own or with somebody, guided by somebody in groups, but in a sense… it's not working right. I'll think of it in a second. [Barbara] Okay, you don't have to hurry. [MacTavish] We wanted the people that were there, in the setting - whether be a classroom or �wherever - to treat themselves as a group of people trying to discover something. The faculty member at times was thought of as the chief learner in a situation where there were a bunch of learners. [MacTavish] We almost got in trouble with that at one point when we had our Piaget conference because the decision was everybody should teach a section of the discussion groups that were associated with the Piaget conference. I taught a section of Piaget. I didn't know anything about the Piaget going in there. I have almost no formal training in psychology or sociology - a little bit of undergraduate stuff in both, but not a whole lot - but the situation was such that we made that fact known. The students signed up for that class, signed up for it knowing that I was learning it the same day or the day before they were learning it - we emphasized that when we started the class. The students wanted that - the ones that sat in in my class - and we had a full classroom of students that were interested in trying to learn about Piaget in that way. It worked. I still have students occasionally, fifteen years later, that I see in the local area, that talk about that class because they really got what they were looking for out of the class and it was apparently one of the few times in their college career that they were able to do that. And we had innumerable meetings over philosophy of education, grading systems, pass/fail, credit/no credit, credit/no credit honors, what does honors mean? Does that mean A-C-F? We went around and around like I perceived virtually every other experimental college at that time doing. We didn't think of ourselves as experimental. We didn't think of ourselves as an experiment which was going to run and then they were going to take it apart and dissect it and see whether or not it worked. We saw ourselves as an alternative which was a permanent fixture, and it was for over ten years on a campus. But it did change every year. The bigger we got, the more bureaucratically ossified we tended to get, the more difficult it was for people to branch out and try things, when in the early years we could. I figured it out just before I left that in the approximately ten years I was there, I taught forty-seven different courses. Almost every one of them several times and in every case, I had to design a course from beginning to end. And my level of involvement was - after about the first five years - probably atypically low because I was burning out. I did burn out. A lot of people were doing more than I was and we are all putting in eighty-hour weeks. [Barbara] Going back to the very beginning, when you applied… it sounds, from your description, that it was nuts. Like the committee… it was so much to decide and everything. What would attract you from a predictable position, such as Geology Department at CAS, to something like this? [MacTavish] Well, the Geology Department of CAS, I don't want to pick on them because they are very much like other science departments in many state schools around the �country. [MacTavish] But it's the kind of a situation where you know what you're going to teach this term, next term, two years from now, five years from now. The only thing that is different is: do we change a laboratory exercise? Do I upgrade the book to another book? Do I get a different collection of specimens and for the laboratory? In the three years that I was there, the third year I was designing the William James College, the second year I designed an Earth Science major because they didn't have one up to that point. But I sat back, and I said: "Is this really what I want to do for thirty years?" And the answer was no. And that's one of the reasons I got involved in campus administrative work. That's one of the reasons I got involved in William James. It's one of the reasons I got involved later in elective governments and that kind of thing. Because I can't do the same thing all the time. I go nuts. So, we had a situation in which we had to hire a staff, recruit students, to a place that had never been. And then once those students got there and that staff got there, we had a couple of weeks to get to know each other and set up a curriculum and bring the students on and give them their orientation and start the whole thing. And boom, we were into recruiting staff the size of our staff, including the Dean, in either the first year or the second year… fog sets in after fifteen. We were looking for a Dean and faculty members, and we got over eleven thousand applications. And we used to sit at a round table and feed the applications in and there were usually six people at a table - three faculty and three students - and if the application got three black balls by the time we got around the table, it was thrown out at the third black ball, and everything that got around the table without three black balls was then looked at again. And by springtime, we were interviewing two faculty candidates a week and the interviews were two days long - all day, both days, with a very heavy dinner and party in the middle. And in some cases that party went on till two a.m. because we felt that we had to get through the academic crap – or through the administrative tie or whatever the person had – to find out who he really was. And at times we didn't get there until two or three o'clock in the morning. And so here we are interviewing two or three people a week, doing our classes, and at the same time trying to recruit as many students as we had in existence. And that's why we're doing eighty-hour weeks. [Barbara] That's neat. Do you remember anything… I know I found in these notes that you went to some meeting in Ann Arbor, some big meeting with lots of representatives from other alternative or experimental schools. Can you tell me anything about the general movement at that time? [MacTavish] That one isn't real clear to me. I know I went to Redlands and did the same thing and… [Unknown] Excuse me, were running out of tape. �[Barbara] Okay, we’ve got to put another… Just thought there might be something you remember. [MacTavish] Yeah – No, I've done that two or three places. Redlands is the one I most remember because it turned out we were doing what a lot of people were saying to do… what it amounted to. People couldn't believe it. [Barbara] Okay, we'll save that. � 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 William James College Interviews Description An account of the resource Videotaped interviews of William James College faculty, students and administrators by Barbara Roos. William James College opened in 1971 as the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. Curriculum was organized around three concentrations that were meant to be interdisciplinary career preparation offerings: Social Relations, Administration and Information Management, and Environmental Studies. The college was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/69">William James College faculty and student interviews (GV016-16)</a> 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 Grand Valley State University Michigan Universities and colleges Oral histories Alternative education Interdisciplinary approach in education 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 Roos, Barbara (Interviewer) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV016-16 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Language A language of the resource eng Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV016-16_GVSU_22_MacTavish Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource MacTavish, John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Title A name given to the resource John MacTavish interview (3 of 3, video and transcript) Description An account of the resource Interview with John MacTavish by Barbara Roos, documenting the history of Grand Valley State's William James College. William James College was the third baccalaureate degree granting college for Grand Valley. It was originally designed to be an interdisciplinary, non-departmentalized college consisting of concentration programs, rather than majors. The college opened in 1971 and was discontinued in 1983 during a reorganization of Grand Valley State. John MacTavish was faculty member of GVSC who was hired to teach Geology courses in 1968 and later transitioned to planning and teaching for William James College beginning in 1971. In this interview, John discusses his transition from being a member of the Geology Department within the College of Arts and Letters to becoming one of the pioneer faculty of William James College, in addition to the development of the James philosophy over time. This interview is part 3 of 3 for John MacTavish. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Roos, Barbara (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Universities and colleges Oral histories Alternative education Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/69">William James College faculty and student interviews (GV016-16)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1283ae3613fc689e103f6e3a59de61cf.jpg d91e8175a28fb7d7194c8cb5ad5f4874 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_LS00618 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938-10-26 Title A name given to the resource John Merrill ancestry chart Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide copy of an ancestry chart of John Merrill (1772-1818). Subject The topic of the resource Lantern sldes Genealogy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 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 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/3b4859e82098ff7d78f27c1bef793378.jpg 511cd53bfbcf4fc9c5e0869d11d974c2 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_A029-0043 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 1960-08 Title A name given to the resource John Merrill launching rocket among crowd Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of John Merrill's rocket launching among a group of onlookers. In the center of the photograph, John Merrell is propped on the shoulders of another gentleman while preparing to launch a rocket from a wooden setup while a surrounding crowd looks on. Photograph by Douglas R. Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Rockets (Aeronautics) Launching 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 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/f46067a92cb76c8ec4530867517376f0.jpg 4d22a4074e79406108d30b01e044d246 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_A030-0037 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 1960-08 Title A name given to the resource John Merrill with launched rocket Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of John Merrill posing with his launched rocket in what appears to be a wooden barn with hay on the ground. Photograph by Douglas R. Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Rockets (Aeronautics) Launching 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 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/a700cb9a20ce28c4f9f7da33e2a3f2e3.jpg 810f26c0ba1b54d5431ed272b656605f 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. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_A029-0041 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 1960-08 Title A name given to the resource John Merrill's Rocket Launching Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of John Merrill's rocket lauching and the surrounding smoke as it takes flight in August 1960. Photograph by Douglas R. Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Rockets (Aeronautics) Launching 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. 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Title A name given to the resource GVSU Concert & Event Posters Subject The topic of the resource Posters Events Michigan Universities & colleges--Michigan Description An account of the resource Division of Student Services provides programs, services, and environments that enhance the personal, social, and intellectual growth of undergraduate and graduate students at the University. Events including concerts were managed by the office of Student Life. Posters for music, speakers, poetry readings and other campuswide events are included. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Division of Student Services Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. 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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_E003-0022 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 1964-06 Title A name given to the resource John Sebastian and Bob Dylan at Café Espresso, Woodstock, NY Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of Bob Dylan and John Sebastian playing guitars in Café Espresso, Woodstock, New York by Douglas R. Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Dylan, Bob, 1941- Sebastian, John, 1944- Woodstock (N.Y.) 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 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/cf045b13e024006d5156751bb8cedc69.jpg 5e8a4b2bdbd288e577119e60658d0f0e 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. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_M295-0003 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 1972-10 Title A name given to the resource John Senzer, American photographer Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of American photographer, John Senzer, smiling and holding his camera toward photographer Douglas Gilbert. In the photograph, Senzer is carrying his camera bag while posing in front of a stop sign and a parking lot across the street. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Photographers--American Photographers--United States Cameras--1970-1980 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/53f81032e4838a1bc663bbd9a6c514a3.mp3 899798d1d6b0bdc7607eb45a1e02d854 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2445c212d6441a4228867e5288bf7a7e.pdf e229b1f6a9b6372d0f2d77049bdca596 PDF Text Text Wrath – Sometimes Necessary: Never the Solution From the series: Heroes in Clay: John the Baptist Text: Matthew 11: 3, 14 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan November 22, 1992 Transcription of the spoken sermon Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another? Matthew 11:3 ...if you are willing to accept it, he [John] is Elijah who is to come. Matthew 11:14 Wrath is a word that we don’t use often. It bespeaks a violent kind of anger, indignation. It bespeaks a strong passionate anger. When we think of wrath, we often associate it with the “wrath of God.” We even use it colloquially, almost flippantly when we speak about the “wrath of God” coming down on someone. Why do we identify wrath with God? We do so legitimately because, both in the Old and New Testaments, wrath, violent reaction, strong indignation is indicated as that which, from time to time, God expresses. The wrath of God comes to expression most often through a prophet. Israel gave to the world prophecy, that speaking in the name of God, on behalf of God. Most often it was a word of judgment, a word that called God’s people into account. The prophetic word reflected the wrath of God against all that was wrong, all that thwarts God’s purposes of love, and of grace in the world. All that oppresses, all that exploits, all that dehumanizes calls forth from God a wrathful response. God is not all sweetness and light. God is not a wimp. God cares too much. God loves too much. When God’s care and love and God’s purpose for humankind is thwarted - the prophet tells us that God’s response is wrath. Now the prophetic word that announced God’s wrath was never the last word. It was always a penultimate word. For it was spoken in order to elicit in its turn a response from God’s people, a turning back to God in order that God may save. The word of judgment that the prophet speaks, announcing the wrath of God against all that is wrong, is a word that is intended to turn God’s people in order that they might experience the saving love of God. But, nonetheless, that word wrath has a legitimate place in the biblical story. It is the other side of God’s passionate love and all that stands in the way of that love elicits from God wrath announced by the prophet. © Grand Valley State University   �Wrath... Never the Solution Richard A. Rhem Page 2   John the Baptist was among the greatest of the prophets. John the Baptist spoke a word of wrath. John the Baptist was tough. John the Baptist was angry. John the Baptist addressed his word of wrathful judgment against God’s people. The prophetic word of judgment was not often spoken to the world in general. Primarily the prophetic ministry of the Word of God which calls people to account and announces God’s wrath is addressed to God’s people, to the faith community that has failed to trust God and has failed to respond in the way of living to which God calls God’s people. John the Baptist in his day rose up in the wilderness and spoke this word of judgment to the religious leaders. And all of Jerusalem and Judea came to him and heard his preaching. He was tough. How would you like it this morning if I said to you, “You brood of vipers, what are you doing here this morning?” [Laughing] Tough word from old John. He never took Dale Carnegie’s course. He didn’t know “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” John was tough. John was serious. John was passionate, and John was only half right. John was right and John was wrong. John was right in the words he addressed to the community of God’s people at that time, a community that had fallen into a kind of complacency, a kind of spiritual dullness and decadence where religious service had become form and in many cases empty ritual and where the religious worship of God’s people was not reflected in the life that they lived. John preached against the tax collector for exploitation and the soldiers for dehumanizing people, and the Pharisees and Sadducees and religious leaders for their blindness and their unspirituality. He was right about that and in so speaking he spoke a word of God, and the wrath of God on that dead faith community was a word spoken in due season. But John was only half right. When Jesus appeared John embraced Jesus. Jesus was baptized by John. Then Jesus inaugurated his own ministry, and here is where we see that John, who was in many senses a prophetic hero, was nonetheless a Hero in Clay, for Jesus disappointed John. John hoped that Jesus would be the one to ring down the curtain of history and bring fire on earth. John hoped that the world had come to its end point, that soon the wickedness that so tore him up would be blotted out by the judging vengeance of God. He hoped that Jesus would be the one to effect this. John himself in consistency with his moral severity had the audacity to confront Herod for his immorality and was thereby cast into prison. And eventually he lost his head! But while in prison he heard reports of Jesus’ ministry and what he heard he didn’t like. Remember when the disciples of John came to Jesus and they said to him, “John asks, ‘Are you the one that we are looking for or should we look for another?’” That’s where you see the clay in John, the human error. John had a preconception of what Jesus ought to be and when Jesus failed to live up to that preconception John did not say, “I wonder if I’ve got it wrong?” John was ready to look for another one. He could not hear Jesus’ word of grace. He could not hear Jesus’ word of invitation. And he could not countenance the compassion, the healing ministry of Jesus. He was ready to switch messiahs rather than to question his own predisposition. He failed to recognize that, as a forerunner, he had brought only half the message and that his © Grand Valley State University �Wrath... Never the Solution Richard A. Rhem Page 3   message announcing God’s wrath against all that was wrong, was only Act I in order for Act II to happen, which would be the announcement of God’s grace that would embrace all. John was a hero, but a Hero in Clay. He had a true word of God, but his error was making it God’s last word. Wrath is sometimes necessary, but it is never the final solution. I find that juxtaposition of John and Jesus rather interesting for our understanding of what’s going on in our own world, our society, our own lives today. Last week we focused on Samuel and we noted that there was a cultural war in Samuel’s day. There were those who said to Samuel, “You are old and we want a king.” But Samuel reflected those others who said that to serve a king would be to undercut the old values and the old ways. In Samuel’s day there was the conservative party and the liberal party. There were the orthodox and the progressives and there was this great divide within Israel. So we noted that the cultural wars in our day are really nothing new - that God’s people have always lived with these kinds of tensions, the things that are dividing us today in our society, the things against which fundamentalist Christians, especially, are raising their voice: questions of abortion and homosexuality and family values and education, etc. These tension-filled social matters that cut across denominational lines and faith group lines and divide people with great acrimony and create a polarization in society – these issues are not new issues. And we saw last week that God somehow or other is able to embrace the whole spectrum. God does not choose sides. This morning as we look at John in juxtaposition to Jesus, I think we get another interesting angle on what is going on today. Let me say first of all something that you may not agree with, which is alright, and which I may not be able to express with great clarity, I am sort of struggling with this, but it seems to me as I experience what is going on today in contrast to biblical prophecy, the biblical prophets spoke the Word of God to the people of God. And I find today that the Word of God that is being spoken by fundamentalist circles is not addressed to the people of God but to the world out there, as though the Church somehow or other is a kind of a society of the righteous, and the world is a wicked old world that needs to be bombarded with the threat of judgment and hell. It seems to me that is to set prophecy on its head. If God is as Jesus reflects God, there is a great deal of compassion for the world on God’s part. God is rather easy on the world. It is the people of God that get the prophetic word - the people of God who ought to know better. So, that’s the first thing that I would observe as I think about John. John at least addressed the faith community. He addressed tax collectors and soldiers, and Pharisees and Sadducees, and anyone else who dared come within range of his voice, but essentially he was addressing the covenant community. I wonder what John might preach to the covenant community today. I wonder if John would have anything to say to the fact that things in Muskegon Heights are so poor that 68 teachers are getting laid off and class sizes will get doubled, and © Grand Valley State University �Wrath... Never the Solution Richard A. Rhem Page 4   education becomes a joke, and the dropout rate can only increase, and the unemployment among young blacks exacerbates, which results too often in a reaching out for a quick buck through the passing of drugs - a temptation almost too great for anyone to withstand. I think John the Baptist would have a Word of God full of wrath maybe for us who sit twelve miles to the south. Thursday night I saw Malcolm X. When I see a film like that, when I see the way we white people treated black people before the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s I could weep. It is treating people in a dehumanizing way. It is creating in them a slave mentality where they cower and where they don’t rock the boat, where they take abuse. They were treating them with paternalism and condescension. Malcolm X experiences that and says to his people, “Don’t turn the other cheek.” And that word, diametrically contrary to Jesus, was the right word. I think John the Baptist would say, thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement, that racism is alive and well in our hearts, and our society continues to be divided and the people continue to be treated as less than human. Time Magazine’s cover this week has God and women - the story of the Roman Church’s continued intransigence against allowing women into the priesthood and the Anglican Church’s admission of women into the priesthood amongst a furious controversy. I think John the Baptist would have something to say about that. We are in the midst of a cultural, social revolution. The Time article (which I know is not the Word of God; nonetheless it is an astute comment on our social situation) calls the movement of the women in the Church a “Second Reformation,” and points out that an all male jury of bishops sits in judgment as to whether or not a woman ought to be a minister of Christ. I think that some day we will look back on this whole period like we look back after a hundred years on the slavery issue. Again, there were those within the Church who were justifying slavery from the Bible. So often the Church, rather than being the avant guard, rather than sensing the movement of the Spirit, becomes the entrenchment of old ways, full of prejudice, and blindness, unable to see the nose on its face. Where in the world is the world going, and where must the Church be are the questions to be asked of ourselves if the Church is to continue to be taken seriously as a community of the people of God. I imagine, just out of events of this past week, there would be enough fodder to keep old John the Baptist preaching along the Jordan for a long time. And it would be a tough word. It would be a hard word. He would say, “You Christian people coddle yourselves in your aesthetic beauty and wonderful ritual and you don’t give a damn about people who are bleeding, people who are hungry, people who are dehumanized.” There is a place for the wrath of God to be spoken. But not out there to the world. Goodness sakes, let MTV alone; let Madonna do her thing. An old English professor of mine at Hope College had more wisdom than I did one day when I was complaining about the worldliness on campus. [Laughing to himself.] She said, “Let the wicked have their pleasure. They have so little.” We get all steamed © Grand Valley State University �Wrath... Never the Solution Richard A. Rhem Page 5   up about all of the nastiness in the world, and we don’t see the depths, prejudice, racism, and lack of compassion in our own hearts. Sometimes a word of wrath is necessary, but it is never the solution. And now you see the juxtaposition of John and Jesus. John could serve as a forerunner, but not the answer. The answer came in the one whose coming we will remember next Sunday. Jesus full of compassion and full of grace. Jesus who said, “Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they are doing.” For wrath confronts and may make you cower, may bludgeon you into submission, but only love can transform. Only love can change people. When we are angry we lose our effectiveness. Jesus was no wimp. He was every bit as tough as John the Baptist. But rather than anger that wished that the earth would be set on fire, Jesus was full of anguish, “Oh Jerusalem, Oh Jerusalem, how often I would have gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks under her, but you would not.” He came to the crest of Olivet and looked across to the city on Palm Sunday and he wept, and said, “If you had only known the things that belonged to your peace but now they are hid from you. And there will not be left one stone upon another...” But he said this with anguish, not with anger. I get angry. I get angry. Sometimes I would love to run from it all. Sometimes I would love to throw in the towel because it seems such a hopeless task. Anger is self-defeating and doesn’t do the job. Only love can change the world. Only love can change our personal relationships. Anger begets anger. Love melts. Only love finally can bridge the abyss of our culture wars. Angry accusation, acrimony and hatred only polarize and entrench. Only love can change the world. John was a prophet of God with the Word of God, announcing the wrath of God on my life when I fail to be God-like. It’s not the last word. The last word is God’s love that will never let us go - and keeps beckoning us to love in turn. God help us! © Grand Valley State University � 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 Pentecost XXIV Series Heroes in Clay Scripture Text Matthew 11:3, 14 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-0-19921122 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992-11-22 Title A name given to the resource John the Baptist: Wrath - Sometimes Necessary: Never the Solution 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 Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on November 22, 1992 entitled "John the Baptist: Wrath - Sometimes Necessary: Never the Solution", as part of the series "Heroes in Clay", on the occasion of Pentecost XXIV, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Matthew 11:3, 14. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives God's Grace John the Baptist Judgment Prophetic Transforming Love https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c103efe30091adf6eab7c5248cebe712.jpg a40d309783df89ae6df22acee6d7c2f6 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_FilmPacks_V_15_004 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938-08-12 Title A name given to the resource John Upham stone, Bell Rock Cemetery Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the gravestone of John Upham (range 3 row 11) which reads, "Here Lyes y Body of John Upham Aged 84 Years Died Feb 25 1681." Subject The topic of the resource Boston (Mass.) Gravestones 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/591ffaf8dffcd38a1aa64619026b8103.jpg 7418430e492be6adfb0d0dfbe870adab 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_D213-0008 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 1963-07-18 Title A name given to the resource John Vachon, LOOK Magazine Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of LOOK magazine photographer, John Vachon, loading a camera while working in the studio. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Look magazine Vachon, John, 1914-1975 Photographers 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/7381c846e31d1f02acb9f7b2577a1271.jpg 1e264541312f8ad94caa67d5a213f989 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_D213-0011 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 1963-07-18 Title A name given to the resource John Vachon, LOOK Magazine Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of LOOK magazine photographer, John Vachon, smoking a cigarette while working in the studio. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Look magazine Vachon, John, 1914-1975 Photographers 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/43adc561b790a22373eb27def5bac60c.jpg 2ae94036f489a71041a6848cc7760b27 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_D213-0024 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 1963-07-18 Title A name given to the resource John Vachon, LOOK Magazine Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of LOOK magazine photographer, John Vachon, holding onto a film canister while standing next to a large camera in the studio. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Look magazine Vachon, John, 1914-1975 Photographers 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/67642028dd3a7b1b5f263a98cd0c9d9c.pdf f39eb191591ff3e89cb01c81f72b3568 PDF Text Text ���� https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9b3a683d1367b7447c8934834ebadb50.pdf ab2dbb21483cb43ef8a88a6c8a01c11f PDF Text Text Forte Carroll December the 21/64 The District of Columbia Dear Wife Took the opurtunity this morning to let you know That I am Well at Present and I hope it Will find you and all the rest of the Family in the same state of health and last Night Reseivet two Letters from you and Was glad to here from you that you Was all Well at Presend and one but one dollar in money in it and the other hat six stamps in it and g thank you verry much for it for it Come goot to me I Went this morning and Cought five cents a pease I thought I would send you sum rice[?] once this time for you sent me sum money to by with � 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 Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</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 1804-1897 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> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW1-4377 Title A name given to the resource John W. Markle to his wife Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-12-21 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Markle, John W. Subject The topic of the resource Dix, John Ross, 1800?-1865 Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Broadsides Magnus, Charles Washington (D.C.) Fort Carroll (Md.) Nashville (Tenn.) Description An account of the resource Letter from John W. Markle written on Charles Magnus broadside ballad of "Nobody Hurt" (Old Abe) by John Ross Dix with images of Columbia holding a pen, the Constitution and a shield; the face of Abraham Lincoln framed by a star and array of U.S. flags; and the U.S. Capitol. Letter includes account of the Battle of Nashville. 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> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 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/2b4fac905001ac81a7e7710ee822af5d.jpg 94cb643a4086753d09e48672c315f739 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 .A824 1899 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_Bindings0277 Title A name given to the resource Johnnie Description An account of the resource Binding of Johnnie, by E.O. Laughlin, published by Bowen-Merrill Co., 1899. 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 1899 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/164a84813d922dc637315515c10852af.pdf 6d39feaed83f7183a09e62c1d7db87e6 PDF Text Text Philanthropy Center Named for Johnson Posted on November 05, 1999 The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University has been named for Dorothy Johnson, who just after 25 years as president and CEO of the Grand Haven based Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF). GVSU President Arend D. Lubbers announced the official new name of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at CMF's annual meeting in Grand Rapids recently. CMF is the nation's largest association of family foundations, philanthropic organizations and corporate giving programs. Johnson, of Grand Haven, is the founding president of CMF and a longtime GVSU supporter and current vice chair of the GVSU Board of Control. Johnson is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Kellogg Company, National City Bankcorp, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. CMF is giving its own substantial library, presently housed at CMF headquarters in Grand Haven, to GVSU. The library, which will provide GVSU students with one of the country's most complete collections dealing with philanthropy and related subjects, will be relocated to GVSU's Grand Rapids campus. A $500,000 endowment gift to GVSU from CMF will be used to maintain, expand and permanently house the collection. http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=B74F8FBF-DA57-421F-DFCEB9E9442DB9DA&print=true � 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 Our State of Generosity Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Description An account of the resource Collection contains the records of four Michigan nonprofit organizations: Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Nonprofit Association, Michigan Community Service Commission, and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at GVSU. The documents are compiled by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, and records document the history of the organizations from the 1960s to the 2010s. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1968-2014 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> 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 Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Council of Michigan Foundations Michigan Nonprofit Association Michigan Community Service Commission Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council of Michigan Foundations; Michigan Nonprofit Association; Michigan Community Service Commission Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04 Language A language of the resource eng Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04_OSOG_JCP_1999-11-05_Philanthropy-Center-Named-for-Johnson Title A name given to the resource Johnson Center for Philanthropy 1999-11-05 Philanthropy Center Named for Johnson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Subject The topic of the resource Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999-11-05 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/88838e6dec934228509cb1a06b0e8f93.pdf 537d5a08066028e39b29951331efb18c PDF Text Text Community bond Posted on December 05, 2000 Addressing local and regional issues like poverty, racism, health care access, family stability and education will be easier when a planned clearinghouse of social data about the greater Grand Rapids community is established. The Grand Rapids Community Foundation and GVSU have joined forces to create the Community Research Institute, which will be housed in the DeVos Center's Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy. The foundation has committed $250,000 for start-up costs for the Community Research Institute. Additional amounts could be available in each of the next two years, for a total investment of $750,000. The institute will employ two full-time researchers with expertise in social sciences or community development, associate researchers, faculty consultants, graduate assistants, student interns and clerical support. The staff is expected to be in place by spring. We need to base our efforts on credible data, said Diana Sieger, foundation president. Businesses take great pains to base their activities on market research. Social data is vital to the entire community. We need to know where there are needs and also to have a way to measure and evaluate the success of what we do. In addition to driving foundation activities, the institute will be a resource for other organizations and offer recommendations on public policy to government agencies and elected officials. Donna VanIwaarden, director of the Johnson Center for Philanthropy and director of the institute, said because Grand Valley is primarily a teaching institution, faculty members have limited time to devote to research. Currently, community organizations have difficulty finding local expertise and solid data on specific issues, she said. This institute will be one-stop shopping for data about our community. http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=B74F82A2-9304-980D-FBCFAE3E2E696BA0&print=true � 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 Our State of Generosity Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Description An account of the resource Collection contains the records of four Michigan nonprofit organizations: Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Nonprofit Association, Michigan Community Service Commission, and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at GVSU. The documents are compiled by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, and records document the history of the organizations from the 1960s to the 2010s. 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Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council of Michigan Foundations; Michigan Nonprofit Association; Michigan Community Service Commission Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04 Language A language of the resource eng Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04_OSOG_JCP_2000-12-05_Creation-of-Community-Research-Institute Title A name given to the resource Johnson Center for Philanthropy 2000-12-05 creation of Community Research Institute Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Subject The topic of the resource Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49402 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000-12-05 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7e65e1e51bdd6bba507c058448473590.pdf ad184509897e8249be8fc0226e231dcc PDF Text Text Philanthropy center celebrates Posted on November 06, 2002 Grand Valley's Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership celebrated its first decade with a significant new contribution from the foundation that helped it get started 10 years ago. The Johnson Center's 10th anniversary celebration held this week coincided with the presentation by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of a $2.9 million grant for a new knowledge management initiative at the center. William C. Richardson, CEO of the Kellogg Foundation, formalized the new grant with an oversized check presented to Grand Valley President Mark A. Murray. Special guests also included Dorothy A. Johnson. The funding enables the Johnson Center to develop a new initiative to organize and disseminate information for the nonprofit sector. This new knowledge management initiative, directed by Distinguished Professor Joel J. Orosz, has already established the online Nonprofit Good Practice Guide (www.nonprofitbasics.org) and will be establishing a new grantmaking school to train foundation program directors across the country. The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership was established in 1992 with support from the Kellogg Foundation. Since then the center has worked with faculty members to develop curriculum in nonprofit studies, promote service-learning and volunteerism, and conduct research to benefit the nonprofit sector. 'We've accomplished a great deal in our first 10 years, thanks in large part to our partnerships with the Kellogg Foundation and the Grand Rapids Community Foundation,' said Donna VanIwaarden, director of the Johnson Center. 'This support has allowed us to move to the forefront of this new and tremendously important field of study.' In 1999 the center was named in honor of Dorothy A. Johnson, president emeritus of the Council of Michigan Foundations and current chair of the GVSU Board of Trustees. At that time, the center also received an outstanding philanthropic studies library along with an endowment for its upkeep from the Council of Michigan Foundations. http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=B74F957B-CF04-F2B3-6C190FE3BB18D135&print=true � 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 Our State of Generosity Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Description An account of the resource Collection contains the records of four Michigan nonprofit organizations: Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Nonprofit Association, Michigan Community Service Commission, and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at GVSU. The documents are compiled by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, and records document the history of the organizations from the 1960s to the 2010s. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1968-2014 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> 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 Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Council of Michigan Foundations Michigan Nonprofit Association Michigan Community Service Commission Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council of Michigan Foundations; Michigan Nonprofit Association; Michigan Community Service Commission Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04 Language A language of the resource eng Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04_OSOG_JCP_2002-11-06_Establishment-of-The-Grantmaking-School Title A name given to the resource Johnson Center for Philanthropy 2002-11-06 establishment of The Grantmaking School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Subject The topic of the resource Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49403 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002-11-06 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2b97927231e810b74de027a2e34c0fa9.pdf cf5ce013057d4e6bc2c99a061b4936af PDF Text Text Johnson Center for Philanthropy receives $1 million grant Posted on May 31, 2005 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University has received a $1 million grant from The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. It is a leadership gift for the $3 million Growing the Greater Good Endowment Campaign for the Johnson Center. "This generous grant is focused to identify and disseminate the best practices of the nonprofit community," said Mark A. Murray, president of Grand Valley. "It is a vital sector for overall community health. This grant ensures we can share the lessons of those who are doing outstanding work, so that other groups can have an even bigger impact." Grand Valley State University was the first university in Michigan, and among the first in the nation to establish a formal academic center for research, teaching and public service in philanthropy, volunteerism and nonprofit management. The Johnson Center is the only academic center for the study of philanthropy of its size and scope in the state of Michigan. It is in the top tier of academic centers for the study of philanthropy, volunteerism and nonprofit management in the nation. "The Johnson Center has already become known as an organization that utilizes known information and practices to make the nonprofit community more effective," said Margaret Ann (Ranny) Riecker, president of The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. "This grant will enable the Johnson Center to continue its good work and help them promote their concepts of 'smarter giving' and 'better performance.'" The grant money will provide initial funding for an endowment to support the operations and programs of the Johnson Center in the university and the community. One way the Johnson Center impacts students is through American Humanics, an award-winning certificate program at Grand Valley for undergraduates from all academic majors who are interested in working with nonprofits after graduation. Stephanie Miller already knew she had a passion for service when she joined American Humanics. For two years she had been commuting between Grand Valley and her hometown of Lansing to work with Listening Ear, a volunteer crisis center. Stephanie's passion for service was soon demonstrated within the American Humanics program. Acting as the American Humanics Management Institute liaison, she provided information and logistical support to Grand Valley students attending the national AH conference. She also participated in many fundraising activities associated with the conference and was an active volunteer with the AH group. Stephanie did all this while completing her bachelor's degree in political science, continuing her work with Listening Ear and working at the City of Grand Rapid's information desk. Stephanie plans to launch her career with international nonprofit work this fall when she will travel to Southeast Asia with the Peace Corps for a two year placement. The Johnson Center also provides financial support to various university programs including Student Life for its student volunteer program, the College of Education for the Learning to Give program, and to faculty members to add service learning components to their classes. http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=337EF438-C6C5-97C8-E3E7AC9F62C45263&print=true �Three components of the Johnson Center are already national leaders and models: Community Research Institute, The Grantmaking School and the Nonprofit Good Practice Guide. The Community Research Institute (CRI) provides nonprofit leaders and philanthropic organizations with information that allows them to make decisions based on community-specific data that measures actual needs. The institute has worked with several organizations including Head Start, Women's Resource Center, Kentwood Public Schools, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Frey Foundation. The Grantmaking School is the first university-based program in the nation to teach skills of advanced grantmaking to foundation program officers, who recommend where scarce grant dollars should be allocated. The Nonprofit Good Practice Guide is on the World Wide Web to provide answers to questions about any aspect of philanthropy, volunteerism and nonprofit management (www.npgoodpractice.org). Launched in May, the $3 million Growing the Greater Good Endowment Campaign for the Johnson Center is co-chaired by Margaret Ann Riecker and David G. Frey, senior vice president of Bank One. The campaign is advised by an honorary committee of 25 nonprofit, philanthropic and community leaders. "We are deeply appreciative for this generous gift from the Dow Foundation," said Donna VanIwaarden, director of the Johnson Center. "It will help support our research that has practical application in our local community and programs that provide a strong connection with the students of Grand Valley." http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=337EF438-C6C5-97C8-E3E7AC9F62C45263&print=true � 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 Our State of Generosity Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Description An account of the resource Collection contains the records of four Michigan nonprofit organizations: Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Nonprofit Association, Michigan Community Service Commission, and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at GVSU. The documents are compiled by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, and records document the history of the organizations from the 1960s to the 2010s. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1968-2014 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> 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 Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Council of Michigan Foundations Michigan Nonprofit Association Michigan Community Service Commission Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council of Michigan Foundations; Michigan Nonprofit Association; Michigan Community Service Commission Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04 Language A language of the resource eng Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04_OSOG_JCP_2005-05-31_Nonprofit-Services-Dow-Grant Title A name given to the resource Johnson Center for Philanthropy 2005-05-31 Nonprofit Services Dow grant Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Subject The topic of the resource Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49404 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005-05-31 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d866b57ad80f67469cc9f71aa2127126.pdf 3d4788aa236e36604dfa2b5c0f814401 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State establishes nation's first endowed family foundation chair Posted on April 26, 2006 ALLENDALE, Mich. -- The tremendous power of some 32,000 charitable family foundations and their billions of grant dollars will begin to be harnessed more effectively thanks to the establishment of the nation's first endowed chair focusing on family philanthropy. The Frey Foundation is pledging $1.5 million to Grand Valley State University's Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership to establish this chair which will lead to a pioneering program of study on family foundations and how they are led and managed to help society. "Few institutions in American life are so vitally important, and so poorly understood, as family foundations," said Joel J. Orosz, interim executive director of the Johnson Center. "The Frey Foundation's bold gift will allow the Johnson Center to identify their keys to success, and most importantly, to find ways to enhance their beneficial impact upon society." The Frey Foundation has made its pledge as a challenge to help the university raise $5 million in endowment for the Johnson Center. The university's campaign for the center has raised $3.5 million toward this goal. To meet this challenge, the university will need to raise the remaining $1.5 million. In many American communities, family foundations define and enhance the quality of human life. More than 32,000 family foundations provide critical assistance to America's 1.2 million nonprofit organizations, supporting their programs in health care, education, human services, religion, arts and culture, and the environment. In 2003, the top 50 family foundations in Michigan awarded more than $885 million in grants. This represents 74 percent of the $1.2 billion given by all types of Michigan foundations in 2003. A distinguished scholar-practitioner will be selected as the new Frey Foundation chair. That person will take the lead on this innovative program, which will research family foundation formation and grantmaking practices, and teach effective operating techniques to family foundation trustees. "We believe the Johnson Center holds the promise to be the premiere university center of its kind in the nation," said David Frey, chairman of the board of trustees of the Frey Foundation. "Exploring and understanding the role of private family foundations is critical to the Johnson Center's mission. This challenge grant from the Frey Foundation should do much to acknowledge and promote the increasing importance of family foundations in the realm of philanthropy. It is our hope that thoughtful and effective philanthropy will benefit from the skills and focus the new Frey chair can provide." Relatively few universities have programs for the study of philanthropy and nonprofit leadership recognized by the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council. The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership is one of the oldest of these centers, having been founded in 1992, with major support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It is considered one of the top institutions in the nation for helping nonprofit organizations and foundations work more effectively through the use of best management practices and better access to research data. This is the second fully endowed chair for Grand Valley State University announced this year. "These chairs signal Grand Valley's growing academic maturity and commitment to academic rigor and innovation," said http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=D7BA7E76-06DB-AE45-24C94F6C0262E787&print=true �Mark A. Murray, president of Grand Valley. *We applaud the Frey Foundation and the Frey family for their vision, leadership and generosity." A nationwide search for the person to fill the Frey Foundation chair will commence as soon as possible. Orosz noted the position will require an unusual combination of skills and background (scholarship, family foundation experience, teaching ability and record of community service). Due to the unprecedented nature of the position, the center will look in a wide range of settings for the right candidate to launch this new field of study. Grand Valley State University, established in 1960, is a four-year public university. It attracts more than 22,000 students with its high quality programs and state-of-the-art facilities. Grand Valley provides a fully accredited liberal arts undergraduate and graduate education and has campuses in Allendale, Grand Rapids, and Holland and centers in Muskegon and Traverse City. Grand Valley is the comprehensive regional university for the state's second largest metropolitan area and offers 69 undergraduate and 25 graduate degree programs. The Frey Foundation, based in Grand Rapids, is one of Michigan's largest family foundations. Grants are provided primarily to nonprofit organizations in western Michigan for projects to enhance children's development, protect natural resources, promote the arts and expand philanthropic and civic action. The Frey Foundation was established in 1972 and was permanently endowed in 1988 from the estate of the late Edward J. and Frances T. Frey. For more information visit the following Web sites: www.gvsu.edu, www.johnsoncenter.org, www.freyfdn.org. For interviews, contact GVSU's News and Information Services office at (616) 331-2221, and Milton Rohwer, Frey Foundation (616) 451-4561. http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=D7BA7E76-06DB-AE45-24C94F6C0262E787&print=true � 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 Our State of Generosity Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Description An account of the resource Collection contains the records of four Michigan nonprofit organizations: Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Nonprofit Association, Michigan Community Service Commission, and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at GVSU. The documents are compiled by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, and records document the history of the organizations from the 1960s to the 2010s. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1968-2014 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> 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 Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Council of Michigan Foundations Michigan Nonprofit Association Michigan Community Service Commission Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council of Michigan Foundations; Michigan Nonprofit Association; Michigan Community Service Commission Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04 Language A language of the resource eng Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04_OSOG_JCP_2006-04-26_Frey-Family-Foundation-Chair Title A name given to the resource Johnson Center for Philanthropy 2006-04-26 Frey Family Foundation Chair Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Subject The topic of the resource Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49405 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-04-26 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e554839c112fc1e6448824bd129af405.pdf ac5d4602335e9b75f9d621804f9173c6 PDF Text Text Grand Valley announces publication of new philanthropy journal Posted on February 06, 2008 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University announces a new peer-reviewed journal for philanthropy, The Foundation Review. “The field of philanthropy has grown increasingly professionalized over the past 20 years,” said Kathy Agard, executive director of the Johnson Center. “The time is now ripe to take another step in the development of the field by launching a journal devoted specifically to improving foundation philanthropy. We believe a peer-reviewed journal can help build the field’s knowledge base on both the science and the art of philanthropy.” Joel J. Orosz, founding director of The Grantmaking School and distinguished professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Johnson Center, sees The Foundation Review as “a practical tool for the thoughtful philanthropist and philanthropic professional. We want this to be the ‘journal of record’ for the field, rigorous and impartial, but accessible in style and written for practitioners.” The editor-in-chief is Teresa Behrens, the former director of evaluation for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Behrens is a loaned executive to Grand Valley, helping launch The Foundation Review. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, has also provided a planning grant to help develop the business plan. Behrens said The Foundation Review will be a quarterly journal, with each year emphasizing an overall theme and each issue focused on a particular topic within that theme. The theme for the first year is “community change.” The first issue will concentrate on comprehensive community initiatives; publication is slated for late 2008. “Learning more about what is happening in the arena of social change — what works and what doesn’t — is one of the best ways to improve our effectiveness,” said Jim McHale, Kellogg Foundation senior vice president for programs. “There is a real hunger for learning from the experiences of others, yet there have been few mechanisms to promote that exchange of information. In keeping with our mission of encouraging the practical application of knowledge, we welcome the opportunity to support the launch of this important publication.” BACKGROUND: The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership began in 1992 as a multidisciplinary, university-wide center developed with the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Grand Valley State University. In 1999, the center was renamed in honor of Dorothy A. Johnson’s superb contributions to the growth and development of Michigan’s philanthropic and nonprofit sectors since the early 1970s. The Johnson Center’s divisions are the Nonprofit Leadership Institute, the Community Research Institute and The Grantmaking School. The center continues to be an asset to the Grand Valley State University community through its Faculty Service Learning Grants, the Dorothy A. Johnson Library and Archives Collection, and http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=F9FC6056-DD9C-7F2F-53B64CBCE43BA85E&print=true �partnerships with the School of Public and Nonprofit Administration and the Community Service Learning Center. Grand Valley State University, established in 1960, is a four-year public university. It attracts more than 23,000 students with its high quality programs and state-of-the-art facilities. Grand Valley provides a fully accredited undergraduate and graduate liberal education and has campuses in Allendale, Grand Rapids and Holland, and centers in Muskegon and Traverse City. Grand Valley is the comprehensive regional university for the state’s second largest metropolitan area and offers 69 undergraduate and 26 graduate degree programs. The university is dedicated to individual student achievement, going beyond the traditional classroom experience, with research opportunities and business partnerships. Grand Valley employs more than 1,750 people and is committed to providing a fair and equitable environment for the continued success of all. For more information, contact Teri Behrens at behrenst@gvsu.edu or (734) 646-2874. http://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/index.htm?articleId=F9FC6056-DD9C-7F2F-53B64CBCE43BA85E&print=true � 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 Our State of Generosity Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Description An account of the resource Collection contains the records of four Michigan nonprofit organizations: Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Nonprofit Association, Michigan Community Service Commission, and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at GVSU. The documents are compiled by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, and records document the history of the organizations from the 1960s to the 2010s. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1968-2014 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> 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 Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Council of Michigan Foundations Michigan Nonprofit Association Michigan Community Service Commission Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council of Michigan Foundations; Michigan Nonprofit Association; Michigan Community Service Commission Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04 Language A language of the resource eng Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-04_OSOG_JCP_2008-02-06_The-Foundation-Review Title A name given to the resource Johnson Center for Philanthropy 2008-02-06 The Foundation Review Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Subject The topic of the resource Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Charities Philanthropy and Society Fundraising Records Michigan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49406 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/515">Our State of Generosity collection, JCPA-04</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-02-06