Cathy Adorno-Centeno video interview and transcript
Young Lords (Organization)
Puerto Ricans--United States
Civil Rights--United States--History
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Personal narratives
Social justice
Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
Interview of Cathy Adorno-Centeno on August 24, 2012 by José "Cha-Cha" Jiménez and Melanie Shell-Weiss (identified in the transcript as "F1"). In the video, a Latina woman sits facing the camera and speaks to the interviewer who is off camera. Cathy Adorno-Centeno is the daughter of Angie Navedo-Rizzo, a Young Lord who also founded “Mothers and Others,” a sub-group within the Young Lords that organized around women’s rights issues. Born in Chicago, Ms. Adorno-Centeno describes growing up surrounded by Young Lords and in a home that was a central gathering for pot luck family dinners for members of the organization and their supporters. Following the brutal death of her Young Lord father Jose “Pancho” Lind, Ms. Adorno-Centeno and her brothers and mother went underground; staying at a rented farm near Tomah, Wisconsin that would become the Young Lords’ Training Camp. Her most vivid childhood memories are of the warmth and support she enjoyed as a member of the Young Lords community. It included block parties, farmworker pickets, demonstrations and social events held near or in the Young Lords headquarters on Wilton and Grace streets. She also spent time at Rico’s Club (which her mother owned) and enjoyed company for the Sunday pasta dinners in her home.
Adorno-Centeno, Cathy
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Audio Transcription Center (transcriber)
In Copyright
Agard, Kathryn A., video interview and transcript
Philanthropy and society
Charities
Michigan
Associations, institutions, etc.
Muskegon (Mich.)
Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
Women
Kathryn A. Agard, Executive Director of the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University, 2006-2010. She discusses her early life, education, family, and work in the Mental Health field, at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Hackley Hospital, Council of Michigan Foundations, and the Johnson Center. She discusses developing Youth Advisory Committees in Michigan Community Foundations, Learning to Give and the development of philanthropy curriculum for grades K-12. She shares the history of the Johnson Center, development of its programs and partnerships, efforts to capture Michigan’s philanthropic history and her goals as director.
Agard, Kathryn, A.
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project
Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives
Michigan--History
Local histories
Memoirs
Oral histories (document genre)
Heritage Hill (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Grand Valley State University
C. Bennett Ainsworth was born in Grand Rapids on December 3, 1890. He graduated from Central High School in 1910, and attended the University of Michigan. He was the owner of Bennett Fuel Co. He died October 7, 1974.
Ainsworth, C. Bennett
Grand Rapids oral history collection (RHC-23)
Akines, Margaret (Interview outline and video), 2016
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
Margaret Akines was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 18, 1938. She married Bill Akines in 1978. He was one of the 317 men that survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and in this interview she tells about his experience surviving that catastrophe. Bill was active in the USS Indianapolis survivors’ group, and since his death in 2011 Margaret still attends the annual reunions and maintains contact with the other survivors.
Akines, Margaret
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Arlene Akker audio interview and transcript
Civil rights--Michigan--History
Racism
Arlene Akker is a teacher at Muskegon High school. She was born and raised in Muskegon Heights. She discusses racism and diversity growing up in Muskegon
Akker, Arlene
Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral History Project
Howard Alan video interview and transcript
Interview of Howard Alan on August 22, 2012 by José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez. In the video, a man in glasses sits in front of a bookshelf and speaks to the interviewer who is off camera. Howard Alan is an architect who specializes in organic architecture, passive and active solar and alternative energy conservation. He grew up in Chicago and first learned architecture in high school before going on to attend the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. In 1969, Mr. Alan invited and brought the world renowned architect, Buckminster Fuller, to the People’s Church to meet with Mr. José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez and the Young Lords. The Young Lords and the Poor People’s Coalition of Lincoln Park (which Mr. Jiménez was also their president) hired Mr. Alan to draw up plans for a multi-unit, affordable housing complex, as a concrete cooperative alternative to Daley’s Master Plan; a plan which was displacing Latinos and the poor from across Chicago’s near-downtown and lakefront neighborhoods.
Alan, Howard
Vicente “Panama” Alba video interview and transcript, interview 1
Panamanians--Personal narratives
Puerto Rico--Autonomy and independence movements
Vicente “Panama” Alba is a Young Lord who was born in Panama, immigrated to New York City in 1961, and now lives in Puerto Rico. He worked many years as an organizer with Local 108 (L.I.U.N.A.) of the AFL/CIO, advocating for immigrant and undocumented workers in the solid waste and recycling industry. During the Attica Rebellion, September 9, 1971, he supported the inmates in their negotiations. Mr. Alba has been involved in two takeovers of the Statue of Liberty, first supporting the occupation and the planting of the Puerto Rican flag on the Statue as part of a campaign to free the Puerto Rican Nationalist prisoners and the second in support of the struggle of the people of Vieques. A fervent admirer of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Mr. Alba continues to advocate for self- determination for Puerto Rico and has been involved with the Nationalists and other parties, including several community organizing campaigns to free political prisoners, including Oscar López.
Alba, Vicente
Vicente “Panama” Alba video interview and transcript, interview 2
Vicente “Panama” Alba is a Young Lord who was born in Panama, immigrated to New York City in 1961, and now lives in Puerto Rico. He worked many years as an organizer with Local 108 (L.I.U.N.A.) of the AFL/CIO, advocating for immigrant and undocumented workers in the solid waste and recycling industry. During the Attica Rebellion, September 9, 1971, he supported the inmates in their negotiations. Mr. Alba has been involved in two takeovers of the Statue of Liberty, first supporting the occupation and the planting of the Puerto Rican flag on the Statue as part of a campaign to free the Puerto Rican Nationalist prisoners and the second in support of the struggle of the people of Vieques. A fervent admirer of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Mr. Alba continues to advocate for self-determination for Puerto Rico and has been involved with the Nationalists and other parties, including several community organizing campaigns to free political prisoners, including Oscar López.
Comprehensive plan publications
Albert Township (Mich)
Montmorency County (Mich.)
Comprehensive Plan for Albert Township, Montmorency County, Michigan developed by the Albert Township Planning, Zoning and Sanitation Commission with the assistance of the Northeast Michigan Regional Planning and Development Commission September 17, 1975.
Albert Township Planning, Zoning and Sanitation Commission. Albert Township, Montmorency County, Michigan
Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
Northeast Michigan Regional Planning and Development Commission (consultant)
No Copyright - United States
Incunabula
Printing 1450-1500
One leaf from De laudibus Mariae by Albertus Magnus. Printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach (Printer of Strassburg) in 1493. [GW 0061610; ISTC ia00248000]
Albertus, Magnus, Saint. 1193?-1280
Seidman Rare Books Collection
Astrology, Arab
Albumasar, d. 886
Flores astrologiae by Albumasar. Printed in Venice by Johannes Baptista Sessa circa 1500. Quarto. [ISTC ia00358000]
Albumasar
Seidman Rare Books Collection: BF 1680.A28 F56 1500, A1
Alcumbrack, Lester (Interview outline and video), 2008
Michigan--History, Military
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Lester Alcumbrack was drafted into the army in 1942. Les became very sick during basic training, and became a truck driver. He trained as a fuel truck driver and received amphibious training. He began duty in Scotland and Wales prior to the Normandy Invasion, and continued to serve as a truck driver in France and Germany during and after the Invasion. After the German surrender, he spent his last months working with a refrigeration unit delivering food to US occupation troops.
Alcumbrack, Lester
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Kentwood Historic Preservation Commission (Kentwood, Mich.)
Aldrich, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2011
United States. Navy
Charles Aldrich was born in 1925 in Hastings, Michigan, and enlisted in the US Navy after Pearl Harbor at the age of 17. He trained for 5 weeks at Great Lakes, and then went to gunnery school in Little Creek, Virginia to train as an Armed Guard for merchant ships. On his first voyage, he was on the Murmansk run with convoy PQ 18. He shot down a German bomber, but his ship was sunk by a torpedo, and he was rescued by a British destroyer. He then spent time on a US Marine base in Scotland, Oran, Algeria, on an oil tanker In the Caribbean and Atlantic, a tugboat in the Caribbean, and finally on a cargo ship in the Pacific after the end of the war, visiting Okinawa and Japan.
Aldrich, Charles
One leaf from Destructorium vitiorum by Alexander Carpentarius. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger on September 20, 1496. Illustrated with red rubricated initials. [GW 867; ISTC ia00393000]
Alexander, Carpentarius, active 1429
Alexander, Floyd (Interview outline and video), 2013
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Floyd Alexander was born in 1949 in Jerseyville, Illinois. He grew up in that area and joined the Army in February 1969. He trained at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and Fort Sill, Oklahoma to be a part of the artillery. He was deployed to Vietnam in December 1969 and attached to Bravo Company of the 2nd and 319th Artillery of the 101st Airborne Division and later Alpha Company of the 2nd and 506th as a radio operator. In Alpha Company he saw action in the Battle of Firebase Ripcord and served in Vietnam until he was released early on December 1st, 1970. After the war he returned home and served as an honor guard at Fort Hood during the last part of his enlistment.
Alexander, Floyd
Master plan reports
Algoma Township (Kent County, Mich.)
Master Plan for Algoma Township prepared by the Township Board, Township Planning Commission, and Master Plan Task Force with the assistance of WW Engineering & Science November 19, 1991.
Algoma Township Board, Township Planning Commission, Master Plan Task Force, Algoma Township, Kent County, Michigan
Alioto, Michael (Interview outline and video), 2013
Michael Alioto was born in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. Despite having a college deferment, he received a draft notice in 1969, and rather than argue the issue, he decided to go into the Army anyway. Despite his high test scores, he was trained as an infantryman, and was deployed to Vietnam in April, 1970. Assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, he spent most of his year in Vietnam on patrol in the northern part of South Vietnam, usually in or near the A Shau Valley. His platoon took heavy casualties in a number of firefights, and participated in the Ripcord campaign in the summer of 1970, reopening Firebase Gladiator to support Ripcord while it was under siege. When he tour of Vietnam was up, he was sent to Germany briefly, and then completed his enlistment in the United States.
Alioto, Michael
Alkema, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2015
Richard Alkema was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. After graduating high school in 1944 he enlisted to the Navy. For his brief basic training he was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois. In Norfolk, Virginia he was trained to use the anti-aircraft guns to be a guardsman. Thereafter he traveled aboard the Seatrain Texas ship to Falmouth England, Naples Italy, and Marseille France to deliver locomotive engines. The ship next passed through the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor where Richard boarded LST 801. Their next destination would be Okinawa where they transported Japanese to the mainland in the aftermath of the War. His time in the military lasted two and a half years and he was discharged in 1946.
Alkema, Richard
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Dutch
Teachers
Teaching certificate of Pieter N. Termaat. In Dutch.
Alkmaar (Neth.), Rijksweekschool
Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)
JaQueshia Allen interview (audio and transcript)
Universities and colleges
College students
Oral histories
Education, Higher--United States--Anecdotes
Interview with JaQueshia Allen conducted by Gayle Schaub for the GVSU Libraries' Connected Exhibit, displayed in September 2016. Edited clips of interviews accompanied watercolor portraits of students and an interactive watercolor activity for exhibit visitors. Ja-Queshia is an April graduate now enrolled in the Advanced Standing Master of Social Work program. A first-generation college student from Flint, Michigan, Ja-Queshia decided early on at GVSU to step outside of her comfort zone and get involved on campus. She got a job with TRiO Student Support Services in her freshman year, joined Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed business fraternity, and actively sought out events and opportunities to connect with other students. Interested in working in a helping profession, Ja-Queshia took advantage of a service-learning experience in Mississippi, interned with the Grand Rapids Housing Commission, and intends to use her degrees to eventually work in hospice care. She wants to encourage other students to keep moving forward and accomplishing their goals, no matter what they may face, and not let anything stop them from being successful.
Allen, JaQueshia
University Libraries. Connected exhibit files
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Connected Exhibit, September 2016
Allen, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2014
Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
Paul Allen was born in 1926 in South Boston. His father served in World War I for the US Navy. Paul graduated high school at the age of 15 in 1942. Although he wanted to go to Harvard, Paul knew he would end up in the military
he wound up being stationed to the battleship New Jersey as a dispersing officer where he would be the youngest officer on the ship at age 19. After a few years on a few different ships, Paul would arrive to the Eastern theater during the Korean War as he was primarily based out of Yokusuka Japan in late 1950. He later served assignments at the Pentagon and aboard the carrier USS Essex (1954-56), and later had assignments in the Philippines and at the naval base in Da Nang during the Vietnam War.
Allen, Paul
Allen, Ronald (Interview outline and video), 2013
United States. Air Force
Ronald Allen served in the Air Force from 1970 to 1974. He enlisted in the Air Force to avoid getting drafted into the Army and had a deeper interest in serving with the Air Force and working with aircraft. After travelling from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Indianapolis, Indiana he was inducted into the Air Force and was sent to basic training. He was deployed to Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam in April 1972 where he served with the 37th Air Rescue Recovery Squadron after he trained with the 1550th Combat Crew Training Wing in Ogden, Utah. During his time in Vietnam he was involved in a large number of rescue missions and had multiple incidents involving enemy artillery fire. In December 1972 his unit was deactivated and he was flown out of Da Nang by the Utah National Guard and attached to the 40th Air Rescue Recovery Squadron stationed in Thailand. In February 1972 he returned home and continued to work with the 1550th Combat Crew Training Wing in Ogden, Utah.
Allen, Ronald
Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)
City of Alpena Comprehensive Development Plan
Alpena (Mich.)
Alpena County (Mich.)
Comprehensive Development Plan for the City of Alpena prepared by the Alpena Planning Commission with the assistance of The WBDC Group June 26, 1990.
Alpena Planning Commission, City of Alpena, Alpena County, Michigan
Alpena Township (Mich.)
Comprehensive Plan for Alpena Township developed by the Alpena Township Planning and Zoning Commission with the assistance of the Northeast Michigan Council of Governments January 8, 1979.
Alpena Township Planning and Zoning Commission, Alpena Township, Alpena County, Michigan
Northeast Michigan Council of Governments (consultant)