1050 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4565241592d490f1213586e5b9cd1e18.jpg 1792134ec0cbce88eb14a25fbd2e5da1 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_K164-0029 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-07-13 Title A name given to the resource West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a parked business van for the West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation located in Chicago's West Side. In the photograph, the van is parked outside the brick business and the side of the van reads, "West Side Community Paper Stock Corp., 1900 West Thirteenth Street, Chicago, Illinois" and lists the company's phone number, in addition to the names, "Chester Robinson, Hosea Lindsey, Kennth Parks, Lamont Pierce, and Douglas Andrews." Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Chicago (Ill.) African American business enterprises--Illinois--Chicago Stock preparation (Papermaking) 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/f05b926882baa2bcb58e311ff571a315.jpg 37d2957ed9fe5d1c525da8915c5defc3 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_K164-0033 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 1970-07-13 Title A name given to the resource West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of an exterior view of the West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation located in Chicago's West Side. The company was owned and operated by the black community of Chicago's West Side, including the "West Side Organization, Conservative Vice Lords, Student Afro-American Group, Egyptian Cobras, and Garfield Organization." In the photograph, the paper company's brick building is situated to the right of a large metal container parked in the foreground that is marked, "CCA, Container Corporation of America." Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Chicago (Ill.) African American business enterprises--Illinois--Chicago Stock preparation (Papermaking) 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/450d863a600f6bc4a21351f98f580b03.jpg 1f40acbd4a09a78d2471f1dbbe088ef3 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_K165-0002 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 1970-07-13 Title A name given to the resource West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a male employee working at the West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation located in Chicago's West Side. In the photograph, the employee is seen standing within a room full of recylced newspapers and paper products which will later be used for their paper production. The company was owned and operated by the black community of Chicago's West Side, including the "West Side Organization, Conservative Vice Lords, Student Afro-American Group, Egyptian Cobras, and Garfield Organization." Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Chicago (Ill.) African American business enterprises--Illinois--Chicago Stock preparation (Papermaking) 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/c4e51efeea5f9d324cbfa23122de2a31.jpg f148b461724a613568853da4ab95251e 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_K165-0009 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 1970-07-13 Title A name given to the resource West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a male employee working alongside the paper baling machinery at the West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation located in Chicago's West Side. The company was owned and operated by the black community of Chicago's West Side, including the "West Side Organization, Conservative Vice Lords, Student Afro-American Group, Egyptian Cobras, and Garfield Organization." Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Chicago (Ill.) African American business enterprises--Illinois--Chicago Stock preparation (Papermaking) 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/9ffd8aa5396767e42a077f3cf38fc9e2.jpg d44de7062b00ebf2091a6dd019506cf7 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_K165-0022 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 1970-07-13 Title A name given to the resource West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of an interior view of the West Side Community Paper Stock Corporation located in Chicago's West Side. In the photograph, a Clark forklift is parked next to the paper baling machine while recylced bales are loaded into the machine. The company was owned and operated by the black community of Chicago's West Side, including the "West Side Organization, Conservative Vice Lords, Student Afro-American Group, Egyptian Cobras, and Garfield Organization." Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Chicago (Ill.) African American business enterprises--Illinois--Chicago Forklift trucks Stock preparation (Papermaking) 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/bcfc61a0961ce906da2ed3a0f0df17db.jpg 4319bbd75762215fe85a96adedc0768b 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_3_004 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937-03-02 Title A name given to the resource West to Genoa Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a fenced in area. A statue is seen behind the metal fence, and a building is visible behind trees. Subject The topic of the resource Italy Pegli (Italy) 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/ac479ae17b9a4f66e9e8448ec8730de3.jpg c0d193c13807c05befd8968b81fd32f4 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 D.J. Angus Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography—United States Mexico Engineering Indiana Michigan Description An account of the resource An extensive photographic record of Angus’ work and travels throughout the U.S. and Mexico. The images of manmade and natural phenomenon often reflect his interest in engineering projects that include dams, bridges, mines, power plants, cliff dwellings, and quarries. Indiana resident and entrepreneur, D. J. Angus produced an extensive photographic record of his work and travels throughout the U.S. and Mexico, during the late 1920s -1940s. The images of manmade and natural phenomenon often reflect his interest in engineering projects that include dams, bridges, mines, power plants, cliff dwellings, and quarries. Over 10,000 still images from 1903-1966 document Angus’ family, friends, business, and travels. Over 12,000 ft. of 16mm movie film complete this collection. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Angus, Donald James (D.J.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/437">D.J. Angus Photographs (RHC-04)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> 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 RHC-04 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1900-1960 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-21 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/437">D.J. Angus photographs and films, RHC-04</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-04-A5-810 Title A name given to the resource West Virginia. Sternwheeler Greenwood on the Ohio River Description An account of the resource Sternwheeler Greenwood on Ohio River near West Virginia. Subject The topic of the resource West Virginia Photographs Photography Stern wheelers Ohio River Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Angus, Donald James (D. J.) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg 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 eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 Type The nature or genre of the resource Image https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5e498c0cf1f7a9da4e5364f899d5a8f2.jpg 6b62ce80b81694e180b05317e08b0281 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 D.J. Angus Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography—United States Mexico Engineering Indiana Michigan Description An account of the resource An extensive photographic record of Angus’ work and travels throughout the U.S. and Mexico. The images of manmade and natural phenomenon often reflect his interest in engineering projects that include dams, bridges, mines, power plants, cliff dwellings, and quarries. Indiana resident and entrepreneur, D. J. Angus produced an extensive photographic record of his work and travels throughout the U.S. and Mexico, during the late 1920s -1940s. The images of manmade and natural phenomenon often reflect his interest in engineering projects that include dams, bridges, mines, power plants, cliff dwellings, and quarries. Over 10,000 still images from 1903-1966 document Angus’ family, friends, business, and travels. Over 12,000 ft. of 16mm movie film complete this collection. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Angus, Donald James (D.J.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/437">D.J. Angus Photographs (RHC-04)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection 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 Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing 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 DC-05_IB0501 Title A name given to the resource West-östlicher Divan Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing 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 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 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of West-östlicher Divan, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published by Insel-Verlag. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 501 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.501 Language A language of the resource de 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/5c574ce1112ee8da8f23869d54d84208.mp4 52a09515db8916fb3f2145a3e972b4a8 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/8aabc81fe020bdcad9a828037c1b8bfb.pdf a7aa7d9d04330d690d1d884268d72d8f PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Tom Westbrook Total Time – (01:02:31) Background · He was born July 3, 1919 (00:38) · He was born in Ionia, Michigan Enlistment/Training – (00:49) · He enlisted January 3, 1942 (00:52) o He was twenty-two years old when he enlisted · He enlisted because he believed it was the thing to do o He was very unhappy with what the Japanese had done to Pearl Harbor (01:14) · For basic training, he was sent to Keesler Field, Mississippi (01:36) · In basic training he had to adjust to the new routine and discipline o Once he had been through his basic training, he had to do two weeks of KP (Kitchen Police) (02:19) § It was only for those that did not qualify for mechanic school · The food was very good in basic training (02:53) · The soldiers had to march back and forth to school · Basic training had eleven phases of schooling · There were 1,100 soldiers that graduated and 43 got sent overseas immediately (04:22) o They shipped in July of 1942 · The soldiers were in barracks during basic training · He was one of the 43 selected to go overseas right away (04:54) · He was sent to Angel Island near San Francisco, California (05:53) o They waited here to get on board their ships · The soldiers new they were en route to Australia (06:35) · His ship would change course every nine minutes (07:19) · He was on KP every other day that he was on the ship · Most of the men got seasick (07:47) · They first landed in Auckland, New Zealand and then went to Wellington, New Zealand (08:15) · The ship was the USS Mount Vernon (08:26) �· · · · o He was on D deck o His friend would get sick and he would take care of him He was on the ship for 23 days (09:44) There were roughly six thousand men on the ship (11:01) o It was a luxury liner during peace time In Australia, he was sent as a replacement o They received 90 more days of infantry training because the Japanese were pushing down on Australia (11:47) His specialty was to be an air mechanic even though he received all of the infantry equipment and training (12:01) o He received his training in the latter part of July of 1942 (12:43) Active Duty – (13:54) · His unit was guard duty for a large base that was being evacuated due to a large threat that the Japanese would attack Australia (14:03) · From there, his unit left for Brisbane, Australia · The American soldiers got along very well with the Australian soldiers (15:31) · After Brisbane, he left for Townsville, Australia where he worked to overhaul aircraft engines (16:12) o He worked seven days a week, ten to twelve hours a day o He received an engine specialist rating (16:37) o When he left Townsville he was offered Staff Sergeant position · He wanted to leave Townsville because he wanted to see what his reaction to war would be · The soldiers would play cards and other activities to pass the time (18:36) · He got on a Liberty ship and left Townsville o The Liberty ships were primarily meant to transport goods · The first base where he worked after Australia was on Finschhaefen, New Guinea (20:07) o They were in Finchhaven for six weeks o It rained so much that the G.I. shoes would last only ten days · The wildlife in New Guinea was beautiful but the mosquitoes were terrible · They did not face any kind of combat in Finschhaefen (21:42) · He was then sent to Hollandia (Jayapura) in the Dutch New Guinea (21:53) · A lot of the soldiers came down with sicknesses o He came down with Dengue fever (22:30) · British New Guinea was his worst experience because of the rain and mosquitoes · When he was living in tents, lizards and rats would crawl into their spaces (23:53) · After leaving British New Guinea, he was sent to Morotai · He was in Morotai working for six weeks before any missions had been done (24:48) · He was there to build a camp for a fuel base · The first time he faced combat was when the Japanese bombed the fuel camp �· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · o There was a Japanese base twelve miles away (27:46) Because the Japanese and Americans were both trying to use Morotai, the Americans were attacked 7-8 times each night (28:21) o The Japanese never came during the day because the American antiaircraft was so good o The Japanese would drop phosphorous bombs It was close to 120 degrees in Morotai (31:03) After Morotai, he went on an LST that met up with a convoy en route to Okinawa (33:12) In Okinawa he helped take care of transit aircraft He worked primarily on C-47, B-25, P-47, or transport planes (37:37) o The pilots often flew some of the planes very dangerously There were times when planes could not make the trip back to the appropriate base because of damage and they would stop where he was stationed When casualties came back, the wounded or dead would get removed before he worked on the plane (42:06) Planes sometimes crashed on take-off (42:17) With time off, soldiers would play cards and do other competitions He had a fellow comrade who would go and fish when stationed on Morotai (46:21) o He used hand grenades to catch the fish (47:19) He remembers hearing that the Atomic Bomb had been dropped while in Okinawa After the Japanese surrender, he and ten went to an island off the coast of Japan called Kanoya Kyushu (50:11) The Japanese treated the Americans extremely well on Kanoya Kyushu because they knew that the Americans had won the war (53:05) o Of the 11 on Kanoya Kyushu, there were two radio operators, two American born Japanese interpreters, and two crew chiefs He received his discharge November 11, 1945 (55:18) On Kanoya Kyushu he witnessed prisoners being returned that the Japanese had held (57:13) o It was hard for him to see o They had been working in coal mines o He remembers one marine that was six feet three inches tall that was down to 130 pounds § He looked like a 70 year old man § A lot of the men were down to 150 or 160 pounds o One man had club foot (58:06) o It was evident that the Japanese had mistreated the soldiers The soldiers were ready to fight in Japan if the Atomic Bomb had not been dropped o They believed that their chances of survival were small (59:46) On his route home he flew over Hiroshima o It was nearly a month after the bomb had been dropped (01:00:32) �o He flew over on a C-46 o The soldiers were absolutely amazed that one bomb could create that much devastation (01:01:27) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WestbrookT1319V Title A name given to the resource Westbrook, Tom (Interview outline and video), 2006 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Westbrook, Tom Description An account of the resource Tom Westbrook was born in 1919 in Ionia, Michigan. He enlisted in the Army after Pearl Harbor and trained as an aircraft mechanic at Keesler Field, Mississippi. Immediately after training, he was sent to Australia, where he worked at bases in Brisbane and Townsville, and volunteered for duty nearer the combat zones. He then went to Finschaefen and Hollandia, New Guinea, and then to Morotai, and from there to Okinawa and, after the war, to Japan. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Weber, Mark (Interviewer) Lowell Area Historical Museum (Lowell, Mich.) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Army Air Corps World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-02-20 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 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/bd16c2d85fd0a20bb957cfd49ae09996.mp4 0a9991351cb79c1257a2073706ed9906 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5afcc72d25cbeca645a656d04567b0bd.pdf a308ee048f290252ed586e3d5a08c9cc PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Virgil Westdale World War II Total Time: 2:10:10 Childhood and Pre-Enlistment (0:00:40) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • His father was born in Japan, and immigrated to the United States because his stepbrother gave him money to do so in 1906 when he was 16. He started in San Francisco, California, moved to Denver, Colorado, then to Ohio after he married Virgil’s mother, then on to Indiana. Born in Millersburg, Indiana. Family raised peppermint in Indiana. His father then bought a farm in Michigan where they raised alfalfa. There were 5 children in his family all together. Finished high school. Played football in high school. Worked in trucking, and then attended Western Michigan College beginning in 1940 and Graduated after World War II in 1949. Obtained his private pilot’s license in 1942. Joined the War Training Service in 1942. (0:28:40) Legally changed his name to “Westdale” from “Nishimura” in 1942. Participated in air acrobatics in South Bend, Indiana as well. (0:30:10) Participated in a aerial acrobatics tour around the United States Lost his pilots license due to racial prejudice (0:33:30) Taught ground school before he went into the service. Training (0:35:06) • Went to Romulus Field, Michigan to join the Air Corps. • He got his license back in November 1941. • His training was very intense. For instance, he took commercial and instrument flying at the same time. • He took commercial flying because he wanted to become an instructor, and this required commercial flying. • He was chosen to be a flight instructor after training. Active Duty (0:39:58) • He instructed for 3 or 4 months before he got a letter stating that he was being transferred to the Army and that he would be given the rank of Private, which was essentially a demotion. �• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • (0:42:29) He was placed in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which consisted entirely of Japanese-Americans. (0:45:45) Had basic training with the unit and then went to Unit Training. He learned to operate the M1, BAR, and Flamethrower. Their unit ate a lot of rice. Many of the men in his unit were from Hawaii, until the 100th Battalion unit split off. (0:52:30) Right before he was shipped overseas, his sister wrote a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt requesting that he be transferred to some pilot position. He then received notice that he was being transferred to the Artillery Battalion attached to the 442nd to fly the observation aircraft for the Battalion. (0:54:40) He was then selected to be in the fire direction center, because it turned out he could not be a pilot due to his rank. (0:59:00) He was shipped over to Europe in 1944 on a Liberty ship with around 500 men. They were in a very large convoy. (1:01:45) They landed in Brindisi, Italy, and moved to Anzio, and then to Naples. (1:04:15) They move through Rome, where the group in front of them encountered some resistance. (1:06:35) Their unit first entered combat just after leaving Rome. He was usually a stretch back from the line. His job was to work in the fire coordination center, where they would receive and give coordinates for firing artillery. They would usually shoot smoke shells into an area to gauge where a target was in relation to wind. (1:12:09) He was engaged in Italy and then were moved to Southern France, landing in Marseilles, France. (1:14:00) While still in Italy, he was involved in an assault on Hill 140 where his artillery unit participated in a bombardment, which killed all of the 120 Germans that were on the hill. (1:22:10) They were moved to Southern France from Italy specifically for the invasion of Germany. The 100th Battalion had so many casualties they earned the nickname “The Purple Heart Battalion.” One of the main things that he noticed when he moved through France was that it seemed to be a cleaner place than Italy. (1:29:05) He remembers moving through France being very difficult. (1:30:55) His unit fought to free a battalion of the 141st Regiment when they became lost and cut off from the rest of the Army. It took them 4 days total to break through, and it cost them 800 casualties. (1:39:40) Right after they broke through and saved the 141st, they continued on without a break. He did get sick on one occasion with flu-like symptoms. On one occasion while he was ill, a house he was staying in was hit by artillery fire.. (1:48:10) Oftentimes, they would fire so fast that captured Germans would ask where the automatic artillery was that they were using. �• • • • • • • (1:49:35) They were eventually brought back from the line, to the Nice area, because of the losses they suffered rescuing the lost battalion. They stayed there for the winter of 1944-1945. (1:52:25) The unit was split in two at this point, with the artillery going into Germany and the infantry going into Italy. (1:52:45) He was sent to Worms, Germany where he crossed the Rhine on a pontoon bridge. (1:54:30) They fought through Germany however the fighting was more sporadic than they had been previously used to. They encountered heavy fighting at times, because the Germans saw this as their last stand. (1:56:20) There was a moratorium on talking to German citizens over the age of 12, however he got to know a 9 year old girl, her mother, and her father, who was a regular infantryman in the German Army. He was hospitalized for some time, and he was supposed to be sent home, but he didn’t want to, and left the hospital to return to the unit. (1:59:19) His unit worked as part of the occupation force in Germany after hostilities had ceased. His unit was also sent home without him, and he lost touch with many of the people in his unit. He stayed on until late November 1945 after his unit had left in late September 1945. Post-War (2:08:40) • Worked as a Chemical Engineer after the War, and he also worked at the TSA. He is also working on an autobiography. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WestdaleV Title A name given to the resource Westdale, Virgil (Interview outline and video), 2009 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Westdale, Virgil Description An account of the resource Virgil Westdale was born Virgil Nishimura in Millersburg, Indiana and served in World War II. He was trained as a pilot but because his father was Japanese he was demoted to an infantryman and placed in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which consisted primarily of Japanese-Americans. He worked in the Fire Direction Center for his unit, and spent time in combat in Europe. His unit also worked in occupied Germany after combat. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009-05-28 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 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/4fd79f3a42b80b163012ce9af72c0643.mp4 3ef4b44d77cb66a1b3a556ae5e1aa501 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d466a4826d54deafe6f3032ecc42eec8.pdf d9f9aa41ac8efd6f78dba6ee36c1b405 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University All American Girls Professional Baseball League Veterans History Project Interviewee’s Name: Joyce Hill Westerman Length of Interview: (54:24) Date of Interview: August 7, 2010 at the Reunion of the Professional Girls Baseball League Interviewed by: James Smither Transcribed by: Lindsey Thatcher, November 9, 2010 Interviewer: “The date is August 7, 2010. We are at Detroit Michigan at the reunion of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. We are talking today with Joyce Hill Westerman and the interviewer is James Smither of Grand Valley State’s Veterans History Project. Now Joyce, can you start with a little bit of background about yourself? Let’s begin with where and when were you born?” (00:51) I was born in on December 29, 1925. I might add that I lived through the depression. I mean, to me it wasn’t a big deal but to my parents it was a big deal. My father lost himself in the depression so I was in 6th grade, no 1st grade in the city, I was 6 years old and I went one year to school there and then we moved out of the county. My uncle had rented some land and there was an old house on this land and half of it was falling down and we lived in 4 rooms and I had 4 sisters and or 3 sisters and 4 brothers and my mom and dad and we lived in that little house that was not much. We did not have any running water, we did not have any electricity, and we had a potbelly stove to heat the house. We had to carry the water in from the water tank and also to take a shower we had to heat the water over the fire and stuff like that. Well I was a little bit of a tom boy and I played a little ball in Kenosha in school (02:00) and I used to be embarrassed at first to go up and hit because I hit better than most of the kids. And I started playing ball when I was about 5___ pounds so I played next door, but when we moved in to the county it was a whole different story. So I played mostly with all my brothers and sisters and stuff, and it was really a good thing for my parents because for us kids we loved it. We were out in the county and we could run, we had a big garden and I think that’s how we survived really, on the garden and so forth. Then as I grew up we went to a one room school with one teacher, actually the teacher taught my mother, she graduated from that school and I graduated from that school with the same teacher, from 8th grade from that school. So that in itself was an experience. I had played a lot of ball in school and stuff but then as I grew up and I graduated from my school when I was 17, and you couldn’t get a job until you were 18, now they didn’t have any (03:00) competitive sports to speak of in high school and junior high school but I did manage to go into the city and visit my aunt one night a week so I could play sports at the junior high school. Well then, after high school of course I finally, by the time I was 18 I got a job at the American Motors, they were making airplanes. Well we did have kind of a scrub team from the national holders (?). And that was the extent of pretty much of my baseball experience except with playing with my brothers and sisters in school and stuff like that. So anyway then in 1944 that was the first time that I got to see the Comets who were one of the regular teams of the league. And it was really �funny because they had a bunch of injuries on the team and they had called somebody. Who? I don’t know. But anyway they picked two girls from Kenosha to try to fill in. (04:00) Well luckily I was one of them and got to start with Hugh Rights a friend of mine who was a ball player. Well I got a uniform and everything for that series and all I did was get up and pitch some runs and I fouled the ball and I could…I thought oh my heavens it’s girl’s baseball. What a dream this would be? You know, always wanting to play professional ball and you know being a Cub fan it was the big thing you know, so anyway it was really funny because living on the farm and so forth by that time we had moved on to my grandmother’s farm and lived upstairs by the time I was in junior high school so we had all the conveniences then but my Dad still didn’t have the money where I could run back and forth from Kenosha to play ball and stuff like that. So anyway I tried out and like I said I got up a hit and fouled the ball and that was wonderful because they were so (05:00) fast that I couldn’t see the ball anyway in my estimation. And I tried out, they had try outs that fall in Kenosha and it was about 50 girls so I tried out there and I made the try outs and then the following week they had try outs where they were seeing and some of the girls went there and it was another I think another 50 girls there and I tried out there and there were only 2 of us girls out of all those kids that made the cut to go spring training. Like I said I was working at American Motors or National Motors at that time, I was making a dollar an hour and so forth and you know after that I went to spring training, and then I found out that I made the cut and I would be going to Grand Rapids. Well I signed a contract like $55 a week. Well my dad was making $40 in the plant you know at that time and I thought “Oh wow, I’m going to be making more than my dad,” and you know they weren’t sports people. (06:00) But my mother, they didn’t say I couldn’t play or anything and it wasn’t you know something like that but I think they knew how much I loved baseball you know, so anyway it was a little scary for me in spring training because I had to take the train heck I had never been out of Kenosha hardly you know, so I got on that train and got to Chicago. I made it through someway I don’t remember how, but I got there. And like I said, I made the cut. My first year I went to Grand Rapids and it was really cool, I had a lot to learn. Not having, I mean I had the ability but I didn’t have the experience I had a lot to learn and of course when I went to Grand Rapids Mickey Maguire was the captain at the time, and I was the catcher at that time and I didn’t get played too often but I learned a lot from her. She was a competitive let me tell you, she was but that was a really wonderful experience to be behind her. And I did, one time I was catching (07:00) and I did catch my finger. The first knuckle was lying on the back of the second knuckle and doctor came down and pulled it back into place you know and stuff like that. Anyway from then, I went to went to South Bend the following year and then I went on and played for 8 total years so, it was a wonderful experience. You meet so many wonderful gals you know that you get very close. (07:32) Interviewer: “Ok, that’s a really good overview or starting point here. Now I’m going to back us up a little bit.” Ok. Interviewer: “And have you fill in a few more pieces of this process. Why don’t you, the other thing I’m not quite getting out of your stories, where did you go to high school?” �Oh, I went to a Kenosha high school in Kenosha. Interviewer: “So you were able to go into Kenosha at least at that point?” Yeah, yeah. Actually we had to get up early in the morning and ride in when my dad went to work (08:00). Way before any other school started, and we stayed about oh half a mile or so from it and he would take us into high school as well. We would get up and in the morning go in with my Dad in the morning and stay up at my aunt’s until it was time to go to school, and then walk to school. Interviewer: “Ok, and the school, did they have were there any kind of sports there, or gym class or anything like that?” The school wasn’t didn’t have anything. Interviewer: “Nothing at all.” No, like I said junior high school had gym once a week, I mean we had gym but nothing after school. Interviewer: “Ok. And the Comets were a pioneer team and they would’ve been in Kenosha in 1943.” Yes. Interviewer: “Did you go watch them play?” No. I didn’t watch them, and I didn’t even remember seeing them. We didn’t get the paper, you know. And it was just all new to me I heard about them, but not a whole lot you know. And so no, when they called for me to come into their try out I was surprised I was brave enough to do it. I was pretty shy at that time. (09:06) Interviewer: “At that time, alright. And then, when you are doing the try outs, what did they actually make you do?” At the try out? Well we had to bat, and hit and then field you know you caught during the try outs, and stuff like that. But we didn’t do a lot of exercises and stuff it was mostly batting and catching and stuff like that you know. Mainly if you are a catcher they had you back there catching but that was pretty much, we didn’t do many exercises or anything like that so 50 girls you know so hit around with all of them. Interviewer: “Alright, don’t catchers have a lot sort of to learn about how to call a game and that kind of thing? Now you hadn’t played a lot of organized ball.” �Right, and you know the reason that I did that was because I thought well I think there is one position that they might need more than anybody else and it would be catching. And I thought well I can do that. (10:00) I can throw a little pitch you know and I thought, well that’s something I can do so that’s why I tried out for there, I thought that was my best chance. I was, I was probably a little chunkier at that time and that was another thing, I wasn’t one of the real fast girls that run and stuff like that and I thought, I think that’s my best chance. So that was why I tried out and I did hard too, you know. And that’s why I said being out batting late it helped. Interviewer: “Alright, and then, tell me a little bit more about how the spring training worked. There actually still doing that at Wrigley Field there was the first couple seasons they, what’s the process there? Now the people that come there, are they already signed into the league? Or are they still eliminating people? Well some of them were were, I mean they had been they had been there for 2 years. So a lot of them were regulars, but then us rookies had to fill in for the regulars you know, and that was put you know in a hard spot there (11:00) because they were so good and we were just so inexperienced and trying so hard you know. But we did all kinds of exercises and stuff. Being to the farm I worked on the farm and I did just about anything you could do on a farm. Milked the cows you know, but I, you know I was in pretty good shape even though I was a little bit heavier. And I, so it didn’t really bother me, the exercises and stuff. But still, at the end of the day you it would almost like you could crawl back to the hotel you know, so and it was after the exercise it was bad and the usual, much like the men’s you know. Interviewer: “Ok, and then how do you find out how you made the cut and you are assigned to a team? What happens?” Well, there, well I can’t remember exactly but I know they read it off or we, I can’t remember if we read something or, they just notified us and I don’t remember exactly how. Interviewer: “Ok, so what was your response when you found out that you had sort of made it?” (12:01) I was elated. I hadn’t quit my job or anything; I had to taken a leave of absence. So I went back and I had to quit my job and stuff, before I started playing ball. Interviewer: “Alright, now this is still fairly early in the history of the league. How much of the rules and regulations and etiquette training and all of that kind of stuff, when they teach you how to behave and so forth, how much of that was still in place when you started?” Well when I was there in 45, I did not go to charm school. Now the gal that went with me said that she did. So I don’t know how I got out of that, but somehow I missed that. So they must �have had it in 1945, but I think that was the last year because the following year it wasn’t in effect. And we thought it was ridiculous to put on eye shadow and lipstick and put on our masks and then go out and catch, you know? Play any position and you are perspiring (13:00) it’s bad enough the way it is, all of that gear on you and stuff. But I knew the girls had to keep their hair short and keep it curled. And anyway, down down to your neck there and so forth. And I wasn’t much, I always had really short hair, much as I do now as I grew up. Then of course I had to learn to curl my hair so it would look nice and then you would go out to practice in the morning and you had your hair curled and when you come home it wasn’t curled, you’d curl it up again, and I got so tired of curling my hair that after I was out of baseball it didn’t take me long to have straight hair. Interviewer: “Alright, and they had the dress code regulations? The skirts and…” Yeah, yeah. No slacks, and things like that. And we would go on the bus and if you had to have a potty break or something you would put your skirt over your slacks or take them off and if you had shorts on you know you would have to cover them up (14:00). But one thing that I didn’t like and I heard about the Comets and so forth was the skirts. I thought oh my god I couldn’t show my legs, and I came from a town that was very modest and so that was hard, that was something I thought I couldn’t do that. But once I played in the, the one series I thought well I guess I could wear these uniforms. I never knew what to do people. Interviewer: “Alright, now you were not too much of a runner so you didn’t get as many strawberries as some of them did?” Right, I got my share. But you know, they would send me, there would be a shock to the pitcher, I would make second base but yeah, you get your share. But I didn’t steal like a lot of the girls. Interviewer: “Alright, tell me a little bit more about that first season in Grand Rapids as sort of a learning experience for you, you are the backup catcher. What kind of accommodations did you have? Where did you stay when you were up there?” (15:05) We stayed with private families. And that was real nice you know, but we didn’t always have transportation so it was like you had to take a bus or take a car. I didn’t have a car until 1948 so that was a little difficult you know. Getting there in the morning for practice and then go home and shower and so forth and go back and get ready for the game at night that was kind of a bummer but you know it all worked out but… Interviewer: “About how far from the field were you living from do you think?” I don’t think I can remember. Interviewer: “Were they playing at Southfield at that point?” �Yeah. Interviewer: “Ok, so that’s still in town right?” Yeah Interviewer: “Rather than Bigelow field which they played at later. Alright. Ok, and then what was it like going on the road with the team?” Well that was really super, I mean you know, at first when we went to spring training and from there we went to Grand Rapids we took trains and that was really a bummer (16:01) because we had to get on a train and it was it was one of those old fire trains and you would get all dirty and then you always had a layover in in in Chicago and you wanted to go enjoy the scenery and everything when you went back and forth, and we spent a lot of time you know, just getting back and forth and it was during the war too and you know if if there was military men on the train you were supposed to stand up and let them have the seats but of course the guys were always so nice they always let you sit down which was very nice. So when they got the buses we were just elated by that time I mean oh my goodness. To just hop on a bus you know was wonderful. Interviewer: “That first season in Grand Rapids you were still riding trains most of the time?” Yup, yup. Interviewer: “Alright, and then how much supervision did you have? How much supervision did you have? How much did they look after you or regulate what you did?” (17:00) Well if you had a sore arm or any kind of bangs or bruises or anything you know, they would take care of you. I know when I have a picture of I was in, we were we were practicing on some field I don’t know where it was. Whether it was spring training, I think it was part of spring training. And I had, I was playing in the offense catching flies and stuff. And I had stepped and sprained my ankle really bad. So the chaperone came out there of course and took care of me. And we had to put ice on it and all that stuff. Well then she said well you have to use heat. Well evidently I must have been able to stand a lot of heat or something because I burned my ankle something fierce and I had to heat it and it was going to make it well in a hurry you know and so that wasn’t too pleasant. But had our share of, you know got spiked several times and stuff like that. So they were wonderful really. But my first year I might add that I was so shy I don’t know if I said 3 words the whole year. I’d listen and I didn’t ever have much to say you know, and I kind of got over that but it took awhile. You know because I was just a _ you know. (18:13) �Interviewer: “Ok, ok you got to the end of that first season. Now, did they tell you that they wanted you to come back or what?” No, I was just went home and when they wrote in the spring training you know I went to South Bend. Interviewer: “Alright” And that was fine. It didn’t bother me. The only time it bothered me was when I was with some, I had met some wonderful, really close friends. We lived in, we lived in a house and a lady went away for the winter and she let us stay in her house. It was 4 of us there and we got to be so close you know. Well we were going on a road trip and we were loading up on the bus actually and they called me over and told me it was I was traded to Racine (19:03). And at that time I thought Racine was one of the better teams and I thought oh gosh you know, how will be accepted in a team like that that won a championship? You know and stuff and I was kind of worried. And I cried a lot, and I hadn’t before ever ever cried, couldn’t. And at that time I had a car so I had to drive wherever it was to be the Racines so that was a bummer right before the bus left to go somewhere and then told that you had been traded you know, so. But after that it didn’t bother me. Interviewer: “Alright, after your first season did you get more regular playing time as catcher?” Yeah, probably, well yeah probably even the second year I was behind Bonnie Baker as catcher and it took a couple of years or so before I got to being got more playing time (20:04) you know, but you got wait your turn you know. And you know I always thought a lot of the girls have so much experience of course they had teams out there that played a lot so I just waited it out. So I just kept trying and working and catching a lot batting practice. So… Interviewer: “K, did you get to pitch hit or come into the games?” Oh yeah I would a lot of times. I was a pretty good hitter. And yeah I did pitch you know, I’d get my chances if we were ahead they put me in so I would get the experience and yeah that never bothered me. I was just there and I was playing you know, and hung in there. Interviewer: “Now you played with a number of different teams. Who do you think were the best pitchers that you got to catch?” Well the underhand pitchers was Connie Wisniewski (21:01) she was terrific. She was really fine. Jo Kabick was on the team and was an underhand pitcher and she was fast, she was a really good pitcher. Then, then later on when we went overhand I admired Jean Faut she was a great pitcher and you know it was funny because I could hit Jeannie like nothing for some reason and it used to get to Jeannie and she said she told them one time that it didn’t matter what she pitched I would get a hit you know. But she was a great pitcher. �Interviewer: “Alright, when you were catching her, who called the pitches? Did she decide pretty much what to pitch, or did you just know?” I called the pitches pretty much, when she was there. And we just got along so good and I think it was Dottie Mueller that she pitched a golden game one time and I got her and you know I did call the pitches (22:00). I used to sit in the dug-out you know when the other team was warming up and stuff like that and I would watch the hitters, where they hit the ball and how they hit the ball you know and kind of study them so I would kind of know where not to pitch them you know. Interviewer: “So it may be that you and Jean were pretty much on the same page.” Yeah. Interviewer: “Because when I interviewed her, she was pretty sure that she was picking most of her own pitches.” Well you know, she shakes it off and maybe she did, you know it’s been a long time. But I know for the most part I… Interviewer: “Right, but you and she did essentially the same thing. Which was to study the hitters and then to get it so you got that together.” Yeah, yeah. Interviewer: “Now, one of the things about the league was there were certain women who were really good base stealers. And, were you, how successful were you at keeping them under control?” I’ll tell you what to be honest I wasn’t the best catcher to pick off people (23:00). Now I had this thing when I was in Grand Rapids, I used to throw a little bit more side arm and I had a much better arm. Well when I got there they said oh, you go to learn how to throw overhand like this. So I got so that I practiced, I did have a good sore arm from doing it in Grand Rapids my first year, but I got the hang of it. But what it did was made me conscious of I had to bring my arm up to throw the ball and I lost the timing of it and I just couldn’t overcome that so I wasn’t the best in my mind I was always you know am I going to do this right?, or something you know and it probably, I wasn’t the best catcher to pick off people. I was good at something but just to be honest. Interviewer: “Now once you got to be playing fairly regularly, were you a pretty consistent hitter?” Yeah, yeah. I was a pretty good hitter considering the batting averages that we have you know the girls. I was right up there, not real close to the top but my last year in South Bend was my best year around 77 so… �(24:12) Interviewer: “Now would you get extra base hits, would you get doubles and triples?” Yeah. I never hit a home run. I can’t believe that because I was so slow. That would mean that I would have to hit it over the fence and we didn’t have that many fences. We did in South Bend but we didn’t in Grand Rapids. And I could do it in practice but I never did it in a game. Interviewer: “Alright, now you were, what was the total length of time you were playing? You started in really in ’45 in terms of full seasons and… ” ’52, eight years. Interviewer: “Okay, that’s a good chunk of time in there and a lot of different things went on in the league at that time. One of the things was that you kept moving spring training around.” Right. Interviewer: “Your first spring training was Wrigley field.” (25:00) That’s right. Interviewer: “Where did you go in later years?” Oh gosh. We were in Mississippi, Indiana. We went to Florida. And I don’t know, so many places I can’t remember all of them. Interviewer: “Did you make the trip to Cuba?” Yes I did. Interviewer: “Alright” That was quite a thing. My first airplane ride and first of everything and that was a lot of fun. I mean, but I wasn’t too crazy about the food over there. So I ordered some leche, that’s milk and at lunch time they would have ham sandwiches and stuff, American you know, milk…and I kind of liked that. And they had fried bananas and powdered eggs and stuff that I didn’t eat… Interviewer: “Alright, now how was playing in Cuba different than playing in the states?” Well actually it was very much the same. Interviewer: “Well I’m thinking in terms of the fans and the atmosphere.” �Well the fans, yeah yeah. They were something else. Actually we knew more people over there than we did in America so that was really interesting (26:00). So being in a hotel at that walking on the streets you have to be with somebody at the time. And we had a curfew. And we couldn’t go out of the hotel you know, because it was too dangerous. But anyway it was kind of comical we had, I have a picture of it, we had we had the long rope had been hung from the 3rd floor and it had a basket on it and we would lower that and the guys down stairs would go and get us some cokes you know and we would pull it up and I got a picture of that you know. But my daughter brought them up when she was here some of them, I remember that you know and sloppy joes. I have pictures of course. I have a lot of pictures. Interviewer: “And what sloppy joes?” Well it was, they use a lot of their drink, what is it? Rum, they had a lot of rum and stuff, but I wasn’t a drinker so I had coke, never was one to… I have never had a drink in my life. (27:00) Interviewer: “Alright, then what did you remember about Pascagoula? What was that like?” I remember going into the barracks when we were at an army base and opening the door and turn on a light and cockroaches running everywhere you know. And we used to call it Cockroach Boulevard and it was something else you know, it was something else. We slept with the lights on but that was something else. But our managers at that time when they saw the situation they came back with this, I forget what kind of fish that was red...no that’s not it. Interviewer: “River snapper?” Yeah, something like that. And they cooked it outside on a fire pit and that was the best fish I’ve ever…that was good. Interviewer: “Now when you came back from Pascagoula did you just go to your individual teams or did you stop and play along the way?” (28:04) We paired off with another team and then we would stop at various places. They had a book and we would play at exhibitions. Gave us the practice to play with teams and people could see what kind of ball we played and in many places the people there were so great you know. That one place, I think it was North Carolina a guy took us out on a cruise it was so nice, a nice man you know took us out on like on a boat and we went on a cruise and stuff like that. But they always wanted us in parades and stuff like that. You know, it was, it was fun. We would kind of laugh amongst ourselves, we’re not nothing you know we’re just ball players you know. But it was a great experience. �Interviewer: “Now were you with the group that played at Griffins Stadium in Washington and then when up into Yankee stadium? You didn’t do that part?” (29:00) I wished I had, but no. Interviewer: “Ok, so what parts of the country did you tour through then, because you were in the south?” Through the south North Carolina, South Carolina, or Virginia or whatever…Mississippi. Interviewer: “Ok, did you have one season that you thought was probably sort of your best season or your most successful one, or either individually or as a team?” Well I don’t know. Yeah I guess you know as far as the friendships and stuff that was one thing, but of course I was fairly happy with my last year when we won the championship because I had never won a championship before, but then in ’52 we won a championship then and that was just an amazing you know. Although at that time you know I had been married for 2 years and after a game I would go right home you know. I didn’t participate with the girls a lot and stuff. So I probably wasn’t as close to them as I was with some of the other teams before. (30:06) Interviewer: “Now were you still catching at that time or had you changed positions?” No, at that time I was playing at first base. I played the last two years. Interviewer: “Now would you rather have kept catching or was it better at first?” Well I like catching better but first base was ok too. Interviewer: “Why did they shift you out from catcher?” I don’t know. Maybe because, maybe because I didn’t throw well enough. Interviewer: “Alright, well let’s see what was it? Well I guess when you had been growing up and had been playing you would play anyplace, well first base you got to field grounders and that kind of thing…” Oh yeah, we’d play short stop or play the outfield you know. A few times I played the outfield sometimes they would just stick me in so I could play. I was a pretty good hitter so they would put me in and I liked that. �Interviewer: “Ok, well you mentioned that you got married during your career, which was a little bit unusual. Tell us a little bit about that, how did you wind up getting married? And what, how, what happened after that?” (31:04) Well yeah, well I had been going with my husband for about, I probably met him about a year or two into when I was playing ball. And he used to come to Peoria and places to see me play and stuff like that. And then of course then when I would go home we liked to dance and we would go to a lot of dances every Saturday night and stuff. And then finally he in ’50 we got married so I was playing in Racine, well no I wasn’t but anyway a bunch of the girls from the Racine girls came to the wedding and it was real fun we had a big wedding. So we had been building our own house before we were married because I said my parents lost their house and I saw what they went through and I always said if I’m going to get married I’m going to have a house. So my husband and I, he hadn’t done much building, (32:00) he had some cows and stuff but he hadn’t done much building. But I had worked on the farm. I had shingled roofs and I had made cement block. My Dad was always going to build a house and he never got to it but I would make cement blocks by myself you know. So I had more experience. And we bought a place you know and we did all, we built the house ourselves and we did all the cement work. I mixed it with an electric mixer I mixed all the cement and Ray would install it. And I ended up bricking the whole house and we had a very very nice house. We had hardwood floors. We did have, my uncle was a carpenter so we did have him that was quite a job in itself you know. Ray learned and did the electrical and the plumbing and I was right there to help with whatever, I helped with the roof and putting in the cement floors. So we built part, we built 4 rooms and it was like a little doll house. It was really cute, all we needed was utility you know. And then we added on 5 rooms and we didn’t move in until it was done and we did have it plastered. We did all the dry wall but we did get it plastered. (33:14) Interviewer: “At the beginning of that you mentioned that you had a book on how to build a house?” Yes, how to build a house. Interviewer: “Alright, and you just followed that.” Yes. Interviewer: “How did you pay for it?” Well I was working then again at that time American Motors. When I left South Bend, people from the South Bend from the dealership there got me a job again back in American Motors. So when I went back I had a job. So I worked there for several years and we were paid for it as we �went along. Because we didn’t have much money and they wouldn’t give you a loan. So then we paid for it as we went along. And we never owed a penny on our house. Interviewer: “Were you able to save any money from when you were a ball player?” (34:01) Oh yeah. I was a saver. I used to save you know. Well you could get a meal for a buck then you know after a game and stuff. Yeah I was a saver and that was one of the reasons that I could con my husband into letting me play ball I could save my money you know and you could save yours and we can add that 5 rooms on you know. So he was, he was a wonderful guy and very great so he went a long with it. Which was so...yeah. Interviewer: “Now did the league have a policy about married players? Were you treated differently?” Not really, except for riding the bus. I know Karl Winsch was our manager at the time and Ray came down and it wasn’t too long after that we were married and we were both one city to another and Ray was down there to visit and he wouldn’t let me ride with him. He said no, you can’t ride, you have to ride in the bus because of insurance and blah blah blah you know and so Ray had to drive by himself. I thought well come on. (35:02) Interviewer: “And then did you still have to stay in the team hotels with the girls and that kind of thing?” Oh yeah. Interviewer: “So he was on his own there?” Yeah, yeah. Interviewer: “Alright, now why did you wind up leaving the league? Because you finished after ’52.” Mainly because I had been married for 2 years and things, you could see that things were going to slow down. We weren’t going the way we did Ray coming over and driving back and stuff like that. So there was one time that we didn’t we had to wait for our bus and stuff and I thought I had been married for 2 years and it was time and it’s not fair to Ray and you are going to have to hang it up sometime. But then, so then I called it quits. But I went on playing since and I played with my two daughters until they went to college. I even played when they were in college, we played summer ball. You know, so I never quit playing. Actually I played quite a bit so. �(36:03) Interviewer: “Alright, so now so did you go, did you have continue to work or were you eventually able to just to stay home or…?” Well yeah, I worked for I guess about 5 years until when Janet my oldest daughter was born I had to you know. And I was working nights, and Ray was working days. Well you know how was it? He was working the nights and I was working the days. So Janet the baby, Janet the baby would sleep during the night when I would get home from work should we rearing to go you know. So I didn’t get much sleep. Well one day I was giving her a bath in the morning and I fell asleep giving her a bath and it scared the tar out of me. So I quit after that, I took a leave of absence, I quit. So then I didn’t work for, until the kids were in school. Then I worked part time in the post man’s office. I used to fill in for her some. Then the last six years I worked full time in the postman’s office and I retired from there. (37:16) Interviewer: “Alright, now as time goes on and you’ve got your daughters growing up, do your daughters play sports or did you encourage them?” Oh yeah, both of them played. Well Janet was more interested in music which she was a good ball player but my youngest daughter was an excellent ball player and she’s a phys ed teacher today. She was an excellent, she could have made the, actually they had a team in the Peoria after that we went down when I was coaching and we went down and played them and lost to them but I think we lost one to nothing actually. But Judy played in the, what was it? Applehorn. Irene Applehorn was signed down there and she said you know you should Judy try out for this team. Well you know, she was only 15 and I said oh she’s too young. Come on. But I couldn’t let her go, so. (38:13) Interviewer: “As you are kind of going forward in time there are starting to be more opportunities for women to be involved in sports and Title 9 comes into and stuff. Were you following that or paying attention to what was happening?” Not, not a whole lot. I mean, I mean we had more competitive sports. Although when my kids were in high school they just started a basketball and volleyball or something, there still wasn’t softball or anything in high school. But then when you went into college she played, the youngest one played volleyball and softball and then I coached at the college area she was in, close to Kenosha. And she, Janet went on into music. (38:58) �Interviewer: “Okay, back when you were playing in the league, did any you think about what you were doing as sort of pioneering? Or doing new things for women?” When I came home from the league I had, I had 8 balls one signed from every year that I played. I had a bunch of different program books from all the various towns. I had contracts; I had 2 uniforms, a jacket with that went on the league at the time. I take the uniforms and stuff like that so I had all that stuff and I threw it into a closet and forgot about it, you know. Well then when my kids got to be 7, 8 years old one time I dragged them out put the uniforms on them and took pictures of them you know. So they knew a little bit, I never really talked about it, but all the years I played nobody really…you know and then it seemed like we had our first reunion in 1982 (40:00) and when I got that letter it had a picture of a baseball player on it and it was just like they were calling you for spring training and you are getting your contract. I opened that letter and I was just so excited you know. That we were going to have a reunion. Well I went to the post office and I had, you had to pick your spot when you wanted to take your vacation at the beginning of the year and that was it. So I had taken vacation a different time already with Ray, and so I went up to them and said well you know this reunion is coming up and I am going to that reunion I have to have off. You know I have to change, and at first they said well that’s too bad you had your vacation picked out, we can’t do anything about it. I says, well then I quit. I would’ve quit too. No question in my mind. Well anyway, it didn’t take them too long after that. Then I found out that I could take off of work you know. So I went to that reunion and of course that was something else. And you would have to look at people they would have a little picture from when we played and we would say oh that’s who you are. You know, just like we knew it. Now we see each other more often. (41:19) Interviewer: “So you’ve really been involved in this sort of league organization to regroup since pretty much its inception. Now were you involved at all in the steps surrounding the movie?” Oh yeah, oh yeah. Actually we went out to Cooperstown (New York) for the unveiling of our display for the first time and that was something else. I think they said there was around 400 people there. The guy said he never saw so many people for something like that you know at the museum there. So that was really a thrill to do that. So then when they came and said they were going to make the movie oh my god we were like wow (42:00). You know so then they were going to have these try outs for the movie and they said whomever would like to try out for the movie if you can still play ball come to Smokey, Illinois. Well Anna Hutchinson who was a great pitcher and lived in Racine, we were pretty good buddies by that time said we can play ball, heck we can go down to Smokey. So we went down to Smokey and of course Madonna was there and other ball players were there and stuff. And what was really cute was I went up and asked Madonna for an autograph and I got a ball. So I got an autograph from Madonna and I didn’t realize that nobody else but the ball players could go talk to the movie stars you know. Well we �all had shirts on that we could tell so in the meantime I met this young man there and he was so elated that Madonna was there he just wanted to say hello you know (43:01). I said to him, I said “Gee I went up and asked for her autograph and I don’t think it’s any problem. Just go up and ask her she’s very nice”, you know. Well he starts walking up toward Madonna and there were men all around her within about 2 seconds they said “Where do you think you’re going?” You know, I felt so bad I thought oh my god I told the poor guy that you could go up and ask Madonna for an autograph. They just chased him away they didn’t do anything you know but so that was all of you know. But then they were looking for the way I understand it that we could play the part of the older players later you know, but you had to have the same eyes, the same hair this ball of wax and it didn’t work out you know. Then we heard that they were just going to take a few people extras to Coopersville. Well then our advisor said that I could that she had talked to Penny or somebody and said you know all these 49 people came out for the play offs. I think you should take them all (44:06). Well then they decided to take them all. So then Hutch and I got to go there for the movie. But what the sad part was that the reunion at that time was the same time as the movie in Florida. So that was the first reunion I was going to miss. You know, and that kind of broke my heart, but you have to make a choice and I think we made the right one, it was a fun time. We played ball all day and stuff like that. And she took hundreds of film you know and one thing that I thought was great was on the scene when they came back to the hall of fame but my friend there one day she forgot her glasses. Well they’re filming and all of the sudden they say cut and Madonna or or...what’s her name? Our producer, Interviewer: “Penny Marshall” (45:00) Penny Marshall, I’m sorry. She goes up and says you don’t have your glasses on. I mean, you know here’s this whole bunch of people and she had to go get her glasses on before they could start the film. She was just a stickler for…you know just oh just perfection. And then the thing that killed me was when we had to cut the ribbon to the hall of fame, it took us 2 days to get that right and we were there until I don’t know what time in the morning before she was satisfied, and we were all going home that day. We were pretty concerned you know but…geese, she was a perfectionist. But it was neat, we stayed in the motels there. And we got to see a lot of friends again, all my friends were there. So that was really, it was a good time. But like I told Penny one time, I said well I said it was a great time I talked to her but I wouldn’t want to be a movie star I says it’s too hard. You spend all that time doing it over and over you know so. Then Penny, she really put us on the map. (46:18) Interviewer: “Now if you look back over your playing career, what affect do you think getting to play professional ball, what affect did that have on you or what did that do for you?” �Well I’ll tell you, for me it made me more outgoing type of a person. I had more confidence in myself you know and I just figured it wasn’t anything I couldn’t do. So when we could build a house, we could do anything. Anything you want to do you can do in this life if you just work hard and keep working. Interviewer: “Alright, well you got a great story, you do a great job at telling it.” I was going to tell you about where I saw the movie. (47:05) Interviewer: “Yeah, do that, yes please.” After we were in the movie, then my daughter lived in Europe for 7 or 8 years in Germany, and we had been over there several times. Well we went over there, it must have been ’91 or ’92 when the movie came out and so Janet had a radio station or something and said you know about me being in the movie and that I had played in that ball. And so Frankfurt called us, called Janet, they must have gotten her number. And said that they had already shown the movie at the theatre in Frankfurt, and she said Piper’s her daughter and they said would your mother come to the movie and she can bring her family and she said and talk to the people afterwards after the movie you know, and we will bring the movie back. So we said, oh sure, so we went to Frankfurt and they took us all through the studio (48:00) and showed us a bunch of stuff and that and we went to the movie and we talked for a little bit afterwards with the people and stuff but the thing that I thought was neat is that my family over there got to get in on this movie thing you know because they didn’t get much news and stuff from at home you know. Where my other family, my other daughter was right there in Kenosha and she lived with me kind of. So then this reporter came over to interview us and Piper’s daughter. And my grandkids were pretty small then and I had brought one grandchild with me from Kenosha and so they, we were throwing balls and doing all kinds of things and they were pitching to me and we were hitting and she took all these pictures and everything and you know or movies and they put it on the TV and of course they made it sound like I was Tina Davis because I had (49:00) come from a farm and I had told her all that stuff. You know, but I had also told her that this was a composite; you know it’s not about me, it’s not about, it’s about all the players and everything and I had never liked that when one would take credit for it you know. So when she made the movie the tape, it made it sound like I was Tina Davis you know, and I was pretty embarrassed about that, I didn’t want to show anybody. And she did a really good job, so anyway later somehow she contacted me and sent me the tape. So I have a tape of that interview in the in Germany you know. So that was a thrill. And then too they took pictures and that and put them into the Stars and Stripes in an article about all the league and about my name. So we were somewhere with Janet and some guy walked up and said you look so familiar were you in the paper? You know, and here he had seen it in Stars and Stripes you know. I thought that was pretty great. �(50:01) Interviewer: “So when you are being interviewed in Frankfurt was this by sort of by the American military bases there and stuff? Yes there was from the military bases. She was in the military and actually she tried to contact me after she got out of the military and she called Dolly White and for some reason Dolly wouldn’t give her my address and stuff and we lost track. And I went she was supposed to move to Warsaw. So my husband and I were going up that way to see my brother and we stopped there and tried to find her name in the book and stuff and we couldn’t find her. I felt bad about that, she was a nice gal and she was really interested in the league and she wanted to stay interested you know and we just lost out on her. You know, so that was that was a real experience that I never would have thought I would have. Oh and I was on a marquee at a theatre. It said: “Joyce Hill a Western Leader,” you know and I thought oh my god. (51:00) Interviewer: “You’re a star. Did you have something else? Oh you have a…” Oh a friend of mine is from a neighboring place there and plays with the Kenosha Kings and he hits. He comes back every year from Australia he went over there to coach and its softball or baseball for the girls. So then after a couple of years the Australian girls came up here in Kenosha were in the World Series thing. So this summer since they’ve been back again in to play once again, and married a girl from Australia, she’s young. Oh they’re bringing 5 or 6 girls over from Australia and they are going to make a tour of Rockford and there’s another team, I don’t know much about it, we just found out about it at the meeting but they are going to play those girls. I met the head of it (52:02). It was Ron, you know my friend. Everything just sort of gels somehow you know? From one thing to another, so I had talked to Ron and he gave me a schedule and said that you’re invited to come to all these things you know the Cubs games, you know go see the Cubs. He said I’ll pick you up and take you and bring you back so that’s another thing these girls are doing which is just super. It call came kind of from the background of the All Americans. And I think that is one of the things that I’m the proudest of. You look out how these kids started in little league as little girls you know, and they are great athletes. That’s nice. Interviewer: “Alright” Oh in Milwaukee, yeah (53:00). They have a wall of fame and they were honoring some of the Wisconsin girls. One every year for awhile and they would have a luncheon and we would get up on a plaque. Now we have new owners in Milwaukee and they don’t do as much for us. So they just decided that they just said that they put all the Wisconsin people on a plaque you know. But that was really nice you know ...they gave us a Milwaukee blue jacket, it was nice yeah. It was nice being there. There were several of us that would go there. �So many things that, and it all evolved from the league so, it’s all tied together. Interviewer: “It is and it’s kind of good to see more things coming back around kind of getting more connecting women back to base ball, and more people playing. And you get to sort of be connected to them. Alright. Yeah right. One thing that I am really proud of, it’s my family. Two girls (54:00) and I have 8 grand children. Jan has 4 and my other daughter has 4. And most of them, almost all of them are really good athletes. Dance, you know and that sort of thing. I’m very proud of them. Next to the league that’s the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Interviewer: “Alright, well thank again for coming in and talking to us.” (54:24) �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was started by Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, during World War II to fill the void left by the departure of most of the best male baseball players for military service. 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Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-58)</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 Sports for women World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Oral history Baseball players--Minnesota Baseball players--Indiana Baseball players--Wisconsin Baseball players--Michigan Baseball players--Illinois Baseball for women--United States 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-58 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 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-10-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4084378ac2a5eb6ee3f7b819905d24f0.mp4 e93c66fa5badca0536dd01613d4536d1 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0d414131540ed74fb9032e6338eee8fc.pdf 0c4220105c2cdda158740303267c176f PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of Interviewee: Clyde Westra Name of War: Vietnam War Length of Interview: (01:36:50) Pre-Enlistment • • • • • • • Born in Grand Haven, MI in 1948 (1:50) Attended Grand Haven Junior High, got interested in the Marine Corps at this time (2:20) Took a week off of school to make up his mind about quitting school and joining the Marine Corps (3:15) Ended up joining (3:20) Marines appealed to him because of his brother in-law’s involvement in the Corps (4:15) Did not have to wait until he was 18 to join because of his score on the aptitude test and his parents signed off (5:20) Joined on January 27, 1965 (5:30) Training • • • • • • • Went to Detroit for the basic physical, then home for 2 days and off again to California (5:45) Flew into San Diego and went to the Marine Corps Recruitment Depot (MCRD) (6:30) Took the enlistment oath and 16 weeks of boot camp there (6:45) Thought it was the worst possible thing in the world (7:05) Day started at 5:30 am, and got done whenever the drill instructors decided to be done (9:00) Came home for 30 days after boot camp was over (11:50) Already had orders to go back to Camp Pendleton, and knew he was being shipped overseas (12:10) Active Duty • • • • • • • • Two weeks after his leave, he received final orders to go to Okinawa (12:20) Scored well enough on his tests that he was a Combat Engineer (12:50) Was in Okinawa with an Engineer company for 4-8 weeks (13:15) Was shipped to Vietnam (13:45) Arrived in Vietnam via transport ship (14:25) First duty station was at a resupply company in a secured area (14:45) Stayed there for 6-8 months, training and doing support and logistics (15:15) Moved to Danang, and was trained to be a radio operator (16:25) �• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Life expectancy of a radio operator in combat is about 15 minutes (16:35) Was attached to different outfits as a Helicopter Support Team Member (HST) (17:00) Would go out into the field and call in resupply operations, bombs, food, whatever was needed for the outfit (17:30) Also had to call in Medical Evacuations, which was not his favorite job (17:45) Always two HST members tag teamed the radio, in case one was injured or killed (18:55) Saw all kinds of action: involved in all sorts of fighting (19:40) Traveled the A Shau Valley at least 6 times, nicknamed it the Valley of Death (19:45) Carried a map with him, marked all the places they had been (20:00) Would clear out the Valley, return home, but then something new would come up (20:25) During the Tet Offensive, he was sent to the city of Wei to set up an ammo dump (20:45) Was then sent to Khe Sanh during the seige of the city (21:00) Was shelled for 77 days, nonstop (21:15) When choppers were called for resupply, they wouldn’t land for fear of being shelled (21:30) The C-130’s wouldn’t land either, just slide their supplies out the back door and fly away (21:45) During the shelling, they would stay as far underground as possible (22:15) Stayed armed at all times. When he started out in Vietnam, he carried an M-14 and a .45 caliber pistol (24:00) Over time, he went from carrying the M-14 to the M-16, which he didn’t like initially (24:40) Never fully liked the gun (26:25) Slept on the ground in the field, but slept in a cabin on a cot while on base (26:45) Learned that war is mostly boredom, followed by 5 minutes of sheer terror (28:00) Would do anything they could to relieve the boredom (28:15) Played cards, had different clubs you could join, or just writing letters home, cleaning gear, etc (28:20) Could go into the field at any moment, night or day (29:50) Gear was always packed for 2-3 days (30:15) Carried his pack, weapon and a 25 pound radio (30:40) R&R • • • Was in-country for 26 months (31:20) Was ready to go home at 13 months, but had a 6 month involuntary extension because he was a radio operator (31:45) Packed up to go home again, but got extended again because he was a radio operator (33:00) �• • • • • • Put in for R&R to go to Australia, then to Hawaii (34:10) His dad met him in Hawaii (35:50) Flew into Hilo, where his dad met him at the gangway (36:15) Tried to rent a Camaro convertible, but he wasn’t 21 years old yet (37:45) His father rented the car for him (38:20) Won a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Vietnam Campaign and Service ribbons (39:00) Purple Heart • • • • • • • • • • Purple Heart was from Operation Swift (39:30) Was in the A Shau Valley, and came to a rocky outcrop and the VietCong started mortar attacks when they got there (39:40) Ended up separated from his unit when everybody ran for cover (40:40) Was hit by shrapnel, and took off through a hedge (41:25) Found 26 of his unit, finally found the rest of his unit (41:50) Despite the medic’s order, he tried to stay with his radio (42:30) Medic injected him with morphine and he followed orders (42:55) Found one of his good friends dying with the rest of the wounded (43:45) Was lifted out on the first chopper out of the area, then spent the next 4 months at the 12th US Air Force Hospital in Chu Lai(45:55) Doctors stopped counting at 17 holes full of shrapnel (46:45) Bronze Star • • • • • • • Setting up a new base, had trenches and tents set up (47:50) Vietcong started shelling from the hills (48:05) Had a brand new lieutenant who was standing in the middle of the compound (48:20) Clyde jumped out of his hole, tackled the lieutenant and brought him back to his hole (48:30) Received the Bronze Star for his actions (48:45) Was a TAV for a Vietnamese unit (49:00) Never had a whole lot of interactions with Vietnamese people, but generally found them to be friendly (54:10) INTERVIEW ENDED, PICKED UP LATER • • • • • Some drug use in the Marines, not as much as the movies would have one believed (49:30) Could buy beer in secured area once shift was over (50:45) Had a beer ration of 6 beers (51:10) Cigarettes were very common, at least 90% of enlisted men smoked (52:00) Occasionally knew exactly what was going on, but sometimes would only be given the information necessary to proceed with his mission (55:50) �• • • In Danang, the USO came to put on shows (56:50) Favorite show was from Martha Raye, who had a high fever at the time (57:00) Loved listening to rock and roll while in country (58:20) Post-Service • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Came home, got a job (59:30) Started hanging out with a motorcycle club, drank too much (59:50) A friend called him out on his change in attitude (1:00:50) During his second marriage on a home improvement project, almost hit his granddaughter with a hammer (1:03:20) Came back the next day, but has no recollection where he went (1:04:30) Wife suggested that he find help (1:05:20) This occurred 20 years after he was discharged (1:05:30) Started at the DAV, but it wasn’t helping too much (1:06:20) Then went to the Veterans Center, got the help he needed (1:06:35) They sent him to Chicago to a PTSD clinic for 35 days straight (1:08:40) Lived with 26 other veterans with PTSD (1:09:10) At the end of the clinic, started to realize what living with PTSD means (1:13:45) Continued with counseling at the Disabled Veteran’s Administration (DAV) (1:17:00) Has learned to control his rage (1:17:15) VA came out with a newsletter wanting Vietnam veterans tested for Agent Orange (1:18:40) VA later listed illnesses that stem from Agent Orange, of which he has one (1:19:20) Also has heart disease, poor eyesight, neuropathy of his legs stemming from Agent Orange (1:22:15) Has had some issues with the VA, but generally a good experience (1:22:40) Never took advantage of the GI Bill, and belongs to the VFW and the American Legion (1:30:00) Feels his military experience was both good and bad (1:31:35) Made him grow up, maybe too fast. Gained knowledge and got to travel (1:31:50) Only bad part was spending 26 months in Vietnam (1:32:15) Feels that everyone should spend some time in the military, but it takes the right kind of person to remain in a combat zone (1:34:40) Would do it again if he had to (1:35:10) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WestraC Title A name given to the resource Westra, Clyde (Interview outline and video), 2009 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Westra, Clyde Description An account of the resource Clyde Westra was born in Grand Haven, MI in 1948. He dropped out of high school to join the Marine Corps at the age of 17. Clyde was initially trained and worked in Vietnam as a Combat Engineer, but was shipped to Danang and trained to be a radio operator. He served in Vietnam for 26 months, including at Khe Sanh and in the A Shau Valley. For his service in Vietnam, he recieved a Purple Heart, and Bronze Star. After Clyde came home, he was diagnosed with PTSD and other illnesses as a result of exposure to Agent Orange. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Moore, Deb (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American United States. Marine Corps Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009-06-17 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 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/aae8c627a147f811f17637ce2a44243d.mp4 8a7ccb4e81a1d6279ff4281a77a473c5 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d5a9eb2cf0eb3cb9496c0dfe81e24fd9.pdf 6fd217c2892720da4797605b0d5e9182 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project Doré Westra World War II 1 hour 5 minutes 33 seconds (00:00:08) Early Life -Born in Byron Center, Michigan -Father was a teacher -Had a job in Byron Center as the principal of a Christian school -Born in 1925 -Moved to Detroit/Grosse Point when he was four years old -Grew up there -Oldest child of the family and had two younger brothers -Father's job wasn't a good job to have during the Great Depression -Had plenty of work, but wasn't getting paid much, if anything (00:01:16) Start of the War and Following the News of the War -Heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor by reading about it in the newspaper -Wanted to serve his country immediately -Came as a surprise because he wasn't following the news of the war in Europe and Asia -Wanted to join the cavalry -Didn't know that the cavalry did not mean cavalry charges on horses anymore (00:03:06) Getting Drafted -Received his draft notice shortly after he turned eighteen (February 22, 1943) -Immediately reported for service -Had been doing carpentry work before being drafted -Had dropped out of high school to help his father pay off debt -Had been working with his father for $1 a day -Father eventually got a job at Ford River Rouge Complex -Teaching sailors about diesel engines -Had been taking courses about diesel engines (00:05:00) Basic Training -Reported for training at the end of June 1943 -Took a train down to Camp Claiborne, Louisiana -Located in the south-central part of the state in a dry area -General training camp with some engineering elements -Learned how to march and received rifle training with the M1 Garand -Scored second highest in his battalion for marksmanship -Won a ten day pass and got to go home for a week -There was a heavy emphasis on discipline and following orders -Every morning they would have to clean the grounds -Mostly meant picking up cigarette butts -He didn't feel that it was fair to pick up butts since he didn't smoke -Eventually led to him being picked to be a dispatch rider �-Delivering messages on a motorcycle (00:09:17) Engineering Training -Stayed at Camp Claiborne for engineering training -Learned how to put Bailey bridges together, and learned how to climb telephone poles -Part of the 1302nd Engineer General Service Regiment -Bailey bridge: Made of eight foot panels bolted together on a truss -Only about fifty to sixty feet long -Made of steel -Learned how to build pontoon bridges -Inflatable pontoons made of durable rubber holding up the bridge platform -Inflated using air compressors -Stayed at Camp Claiborne until the end of 1943 (00:13:00) Deployment -Sent up to New Jersey by train -Part of B Company which numbered about one hundred men -The camp they arrived at was near New York Harbor -Boarded a troopship that was a converted cruise ship -Nicer than a Liberty Ship -His job was to work for the Merchant Marines cleaning toilets and doing odd jobs -Much better than just sitting around -Had good weather on the voyage -He didn't get seasick, but felt uncomfortable -Sailed as part of a convoy -Sailed north to avoid U-Boats (00:16:28) Stationed in England -Arrived at Wales and unloaded there -Taken to a temporary camp and stayed there for a few days -By now it was January 1944 -Snuck out at night and went to a pub -Tried hard cider unwittingly -From the temporary camp got sent to a base near Cardiff, Wales -Worked twelve hour days unloading and loading box cars -He worked on small cranes and on a thirty ton crane -Getting material ready for the Normandy invasion -Spent a few months there -Got to visit town on passes -Went to the movies -Met a few English girls -Sent south to Bournemouth, England -Widened a runway at an airbase there for the American bombers -Also started building drainage fields and septic tanks for incoming U.S. troops -Starting to assemble forces for D-Day -While stationed in England they got harassed by German aircraft -They would fly over at night -Spotlights would illuminate them for antiaircraft batteries �-Remembers antiaircraft fragments raining down on their camp -Germans were targetting cities and mostly ignored their camp -He was in Bournemouth when D-Day happened on June 6, 1944 -Got sick and was in the hospital during the invasion -Eventually got sent to Bristol, England -Went to the movies with a few Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service) -Escorted them back to their quarters and realized that he was lost -Got picked up by a high ranking officer and was taken to the Red Cross station -He was in Bristol because the 5th Armored Division needed replacements in Europe -He volunteered to be one of those replacements -Sent to a replacement camp in Ipswich, England -Kept busy by going on twenty five miles hikes -By now it was late summer 1944 -On hikes he would separate from the group and visit English farmers -Stayed in Ipswich for about one month (00:28:51) Joining the 5th Armored Division -Crossed the English Channel in early fall 1944 on a Landing Ship, Transport (LST) -Landed at Omaha Beach and was then loaded onto box cars -Traveled through the slums of Paris on the train -Stopped somewhere in France and boarded trucks, was then taken to the division -Joined a combat engineers unit -Numbers were being rebuilt, most likely following fighting on the Siegfried Line -Started moving towards the Rhine River -Clearing minefields, building bridges, and destroying bridges -Came upon an abandoned German base -Did not know that the Germans had left already -There was still food on the tables and it had not gone rotten yet -Had to clear a radio tower on the base and did not know if there were still soldiers in it -By now it was late fall 1944, approaching the winter of 1944 (00:32:32) Battle of the Bulge -During the Battle of the Bulge they were camped out in a farmer's field in Eupen, Belgium -His unit's duty was to keep roads clear to make sure supplies could reach the frontlines -They would fill in craters created by German artillery strikes -There were some artillery strikes against the town they were in -Germans would keep them pinned in by bombarding both ends of the town -Get sent to destroy a bridge -Carrying dynamite in his backpack -Got to the bridge and set up camp for the night -The next day the Germans blew it up -In the meantime an American convoy was approaching the bridge -Some of the trucks got hit and were abandoned -One of his friends commandeered one of the trucks �-Truck was on fire and still being fired upon -Could never get undressed because it was so cold -Slept in pup tents -Never had any problems with frostbite -At the farm in Belgium the farmer would four or five GIs into the house to warm up -Shared his cognac with them -He would converse with the teenage daughter using a French/English dictionary -The son had managed to escape being conscripted by the Germans -Father had been on the Belgian national soccer team -At the end of the battle he saw American troops returning from the frontline -They were so exhausted they couldn't even smile or wave -At the end of the battle and afterwards saw a lot of German prisoners of war -Many of them were either very young, or very old (00:39:02) Advancing into Germany -In late winter/early spring 1945 they began to advance east into Germany -Didn't encounter a lot of fighting -Went from house to house in German towns collecting weapons -Built a pontoon bridge while advancing into Germany -On the other side of the river there were German soldiers waiting to surrender (00:41:22) End of the War and Occupation Duty -Got transferred to the 2nd Armored Division after the war was over -Slept in a house after Germany surrendered -The woman of the house would cook meals for them -German civilians were friendly towards American troops after the war was over -During the war you were not allowed to even talk to the civilians -After the war that rule was relaxed -With the war over he got to be a dispatch rider again -Rode around in the country -On one occasion he picked up a girl and brought her back to town -Turned out that she had been a carnival motorcyclist before the war -In the countryside there wasn't much evidence of the war -Roughly in the middle of Germany (00:45:27) Occupation Duty in Berlin -In July 1945 the 2nd Armored Division was sent up to Berlin -He got to see the Brandenburg Gate -There was a lot of damage from the war in the city's center -Allowed to associate with the Russian troops in the city -Could trade with the Russians -Got a flat tire once and a Russian officer and German civilian helped him fix it -The Germans hated the Russians -Russians would indiscriminately rape attractive German girls -German girls would stuff their clothes with pillows to appear fat -In the U.S. sector there were dances organized for GIs and local girls -Made friends with one German girl -Learned that her father was missing (or dead) and had been in the �Gestapo -A lot of Germans acted like they had never had anything to do with the Nazi Party -Russians were always eager to trade things for the money issued to American soldiers (00:51:36) End of Service and Coming Home -Left Berlin and on the way got two dozen hard boiled eggs from a German woman -Shared them with some of the men in his convoy -It was around fall 1945 and they were on their way to Stuttgart, Germany -From Stuttgart they went to Marseilles, France and waited to be sent home -Not allowed to go into the city because GIs would get mugged -They had a recreation center on the base where he played ping pong with a French girl -Boarded a Liberty Ship and sailed across the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean -Took six days to sail back to the United States -Arrived in the New Jersey/New York area -Boarded a train and was sent to Camp Atterbury, Indiana to be discharged -From Indiana took a train to Waupun, Wisconsin -Parents had moved there from Michigan -Got home in winter 1945 (00:55:56) Life after the War -Got back into carpentry work after the war -Worked in carpentry until he decided to work on his own -Built pig pens, corn cribs, and repaired roofs -After getting married, he worked for his father-in-law in Corsica, South Dakota -Doing electrical work -Installing lights in houses and barns that still used gas lamps -Helped him build a house -People heard that he was good at building cupboards, so he did that for a while -Wife got pregnant and eventually gave birth to a baby boy in Mitchell, South Dakota -Drove to Corsica to tell the family about the birth -Drove back to the hospital in a snowstorm -Then drove back to Corsica in that same snowstorm -Lived in South Dakota for another three years -In-laws wanted to raise their other children in a better environment -Decided to move to Holland, Michigan -Mayor of Corsica begged Dore to stay, but he wanted to go back to Michigan (01:04:23) Reflections on Service -Learned to make decisions for himself when he had to as well as confidence -Feels that the Army didn't change him too much -Believes that he is the same man that he was before he went into the Army � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27_WestraD1743V Title A name given to the resource Westra, Doré (Interview outline and video) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-04-14 Description An account of the resource Doré Westra was born on February 22, 1925 in Byron Center, Michigan. He grew up in the Grosse Point area of Detroit, Michigan and lived there until he was drafted after his eighteenth birthday on February 22, 1943. He received basic training and engineer training at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana and was assigned to B Company of the 1302nd Engineer General Service Regiment. In late 1943 his unit was sent up to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey and by January 1944 they were in England. He was stationed in England for over half of 1944 until he volunteered to join a combat engineer unit in the 5th Armored Division. He joined that unit in fall 1944 and was in the Battle of the Bulge and the crossing of the Rhine River. After Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945 he was reassigned to the 2nd Armored Division and was stationed in Berlin until he was sent home in late fall 1945. He was discharged from Camp Atterbury, Indiana in winter 1945. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Westra, Doré Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American United States. Army Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Moving Image Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2e94a1dc22bdcca681b9b3670a9ea3ed.mp4 8c30c0c0f1470bf49bfa106c339c5e61 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c141d5c16fef24b943e9878e3c1486c2.pdf 4a37c52b6b0d9bafc88d1785756f4776 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Jacob Westra Length: 1:25:23 (00:20) Civilian Conservation Corps  Jacob was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on November 18, 1918  He grew up during the Great Depression and it was very difficult for him to find a job once he had turned 17  Jacob signed up with the Civilian Conservation Corps for one year and was sent to Camp Silver Creek  It was a very beautiful area and Jacob really enjoyed his time there  He often planted trees and also worked at the ranger station in the fire tower  At one point a girl scout camp caught on fire and it was a real mess; it took them 3 weeks to put out the fire and clean the area up  Jacob signed up for another year with the CCC and was sent to a lumber jack camp in the Upper Peninsula  Jacob then joined the National Youth Administration and went to Forestry School at Michigan State University  The classes were only 16 weeks long and Jacob was still bored when he was finished, so he signed up for another year in a CCC Camp in Grand Haven, Michigan (12:15) Enlistment  There were rumors that the US would be getting involved in the war and Jacob did not want to end up getting drafted  He had been under Army control in the CCC, so he was used to marching and drilling every morning  Jacob enlisted for a term of 1 year in 1939 and would not be called up until 1941  He was sent to Fort Sheridan in Illinois where he trained for 2 weeks and then went through more training in California with the Ordinance Department � Jacob was then sent to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri for 1 week and then a staging area in Virginia (15:40) England  The men were supposed to go to Africa, but got orders at the last minute to stay behind  They waited in Virginia for 1 month and then took the USS Argentina to England  The trip only took 1 week and they followed a zig zag course with nice weather  They landed in Liverpool and then took over a GMC factory that they were going to use as a supply storage facility  Jacob worked with the assembly and inspection of tanks, trucks, Jeeps, ambulances, and anti-aircraft guns  They worked with the supply line in the factory for 2.5 years (21:45) France  The men were called out of the factory shortly before D-Day in 1944  They were put on a Navy ship and brought to Normandy after the battle  They set up a supply depot on the beach and put up their tents on a base 2 miles from the beach  Jacob took inventory on the beach every morning  He later received orders that he was to go through infantry training for 3 weeks  They were shipped in box cars through Belgium and Luxembourg, to Germany (25:10) Germany  Jacob became part of the 78th Infantry “Lightning” Division, 310th Regiment, Company A  They were fighting back and forth with the Germans over control of a town that had a dam in it; eventually the Germans surrendered � They moved along through the valleys, fighting along many rivers and taking small towns on their way  They received orders that they were to capture a bridge over the Rhine River to stop the Germans’ supply line (31:50) Rhine River  They attached to the 9th Armored Division and went ahead to find the bridge they were supposed to destroy  The Germans knew of their plans and were shooting at them and trying to block off their way  The Armored Division began blowing up the bridge and it slowly began sinking on its pillars  The engineers took out the demolition wires after the majority of the Americans had crossed and the bridge was destroyed  All the time they were being shot at with rifles, machine guns, and artillery from the hills (39:10) End of Service  They went North and found many German soldiers hiding in ditches; they took many POWs  The men continued through Germany for 128 days taking more POWs and small towns  Jacob then found out that he had enough points to return home  Many of the men had enough points and they were all very excited and so sick of eating food out of cans  They took trucks to Paris and then went to Camp Lucky Strike where they waited to be shipped back to the US  Jacob had furlough in England for 14 days (50:40) Reunions � After arriving back home Jacob had thought about going to Penn State for forestry, but his wife and daughter missed him so much and convinced him to not go  He got acquainted with the 78th Infantry Division and went to many reunions with them all over the country  On June 6, 1948 Jacob went through a D Day Reunion Tour in Europe  He spent 1 week on Omaha Beach where they was a big ceremony with the Queens of Holland and England, Duke of Luxembourg, and the Presidents of the US, France, and Prime Minister of Britain  There were many speeches and a parade with bands from all over Europe  Jacob also visited some cemeteries from WWII, traveled to Britain, Germany, and Holland � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WestraJ Title A name given to the resource Westra, Jacob (Interview outline and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Westra, Jacob Description An account of the resource Jacob Westra was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on November 18, 1918. He grew up during the Depression and was not able to find a job once he had graduated from high school. He joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and was sent to Camp Silver Creek where he worked in the ranger station for one year. Jacob really enjoyed working in the CCC and signed up for 2 more years until he enlisted in the Army in 1939. He was not called up to service until 1941 and went through basic training in Fort Sheridan Illinois. Jacob was then sent to England where they took over an old GMC factory and used it as a supply storage facility. He worked there for 2.5 years until right before D Day when Jacob joined the 78th Infantry "Lightning" Division. They traveled through France and Germany taking many small towns and POWs for months until many of the men earned enough points to return to the Unites States. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource McCauslin, Kelly (Interviewer) Spring Lake District Library (Spring Lake, Mich.) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/61abd8c3f02e6e3a92ebef87c1eda1ab.pdf 07033e54af099aa0ba565580b9fae4ff PDF Text Text Workshop will be held: Wednesday, October 4th 6-Bpm maJors, minors, LOH 167 Studies minors Open to WGS . . and LGBTQ In preparation for: Fall Career Fair Thursday, October 19th, 1-5pm, Devos Place Convention Center DINNER WILL BE PROVIDED! R.S.V.P. TO WGSSTU@GVSU.EDU QUESTIONS? WGS@GVSU.EDU � 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 Sexuality and Gender Flyers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Rainbow Resource Center Women and Gender Studies Department Women's Commission Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity Description An account of the resource Digitized posters, flyers, event notices, and other materials relating to gender expression and sexuality at Grand Valley State University, with materials spanning from 1974 to 2019. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974/2019 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digitized from collections at the Rainbow Resource Center (formerly the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center), Women and Gender Studies Department, Women's Commission, and Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Gender identity Gender expression Sexual orientation Women's studies Queer theory 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 DC-09 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 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 DC-09_SGF_WGS_2017_WGS-Career-Fair-Prep-Workshop.pdf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-10-04 Title A name given to the resource WGS Career Fair Prep Workshop Description An account of the resource Poster of a prep workshop for WGS majors inlcudes location, time and date. Subject The topic of the resource Women's studies Career fairs Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dbc1db78ad2bb0f17f70a7ddb0968b81.pdf 81a8fdb67803920c2165c6b33fe12c82 PDF Text Text WGS Fall Kickoff Please join the WGS Faculty as we kickoff the 2017-2018 academic year with food, fun and conversation! • • ' ~ ~ * * TUESDAY, OCT. 24 KIRKHOF 2215-2216 6 - 8 PM i • @ GRANDVALLEY STATE UNNERSITY. WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES • � 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 Sexuality and Gender Flyers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Rainbow Resource Center Women and Gender Studies Department Women's Commission Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity Description An account of the resource Digitized posters, flyers, event notices, and other materials relating to gender expression and sexuality at Grand Valley State University, with materials spanning from 1974 to 2019. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974/2019 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digitized from collections at the Rainbow Resource Center (formerly the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center), Women and Gender Studies Department, Women's Commission, and Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Gender identity Gender expression Sexual orientation Women's studies Queer theory 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 DC-09 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 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Subject The topic of the resource Women's studies Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3ea0c0367f312ef19a0cca3d322f8861.pdf 37ec003deca772020f12d05cd371a5c6 PDF Text Text WGSF~J.2001 w~ Mvl qe,,,./4,,, ~ Monday March 19 9:30am 10:00-10:50 am ll:OO-l l:50am 12:00-12:50 pm 1:00-1 :50 pm 2:00-2:50 pm 3:00-3:50 pm Tuesday March 20 9:30am 10:00-11:15 am 11 :30-12:45 pm 1:00-2: 15 pm 2:30-3:45 pm 4:00-5:00 pm 5:00 pm ~~ Sandra Steingraber Welcome in the Grand River Room Student Presentations - [dea of Nature Film about Judi Bari Music by Barbara Jordan Gender, Faith, and Nature Gender and Agriculture Sketches - Gender, Science, and Nature Welcome in the Grand River Room Symbolic Mythology Literary Sketches III Nature Writing -Annie Dillard and Others Keynote Address - Sandra Steingraber Women's Commission Maxine Swanson and Barbara Jordan Awards Gender, Cancer. and the Environment 2:30 pm on March 19, Cook De-Witt Auditorium f:.L.,..f~.J. Gender and Nature 12:00-9:00 pm at the Loosemore Auditorium, De Vos Center, downtown Grand Rapids Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer. Stcingraber's highly acclaimed book, Livi11g Downstream: A11 Ecologist Looks al Cancer and the E11vironme111 presents cancer as a human righlS issue. She is the author of PostDiag,wsis, a volume of poetry, and co~author of a book on ecology and human rights m Africa, The Spoils of Famine. Sandra Stcingmber 1s currently on the faculty at Cornell Umversity's Center for the Environment in llhaca. New York. � 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 Sexuality and Gender Flyers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Rainbow Resource Center Women and Gender Studies Department Women's Commission Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity Description An account of the resource Digitized posters, flyers, event notices, and other materials relating to gender expression and sexuality at Grand Valley State University, with materials spanning from 1974 to 2019. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974/2019 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digitized from collections at the Rainbow Resource Center (formerly the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center), Women and Gender Studies Department, Women's Commission, and Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Gender identity Gender expression Sexual orientation Women's studies Queer theory 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 DC-09 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 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 DC-09_SGF_WGS_2001_Gender_NatureFestivalFlyer.pdf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Women & Gender Studies Program Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001-03-19/2001-03-20 Title A name given to the resource WGS Festival 2001 Description An account of the resource Detailed itinerary of the two days, including dates, times and locations of discussions and speakers. Subject The topic of the resource Women's studies Festivals Nature Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3ede639e142be28a200315c62335e60b.pdf efd2acbd7149af721f42194723c987c1 PDF Text Text Post-Graduate Planning Oct. 24 Resume and Career Prep Oct.3 Both workshops will be fJlfw'ye, I~'tuf,f held in 167 Lake Ontario • Juniors & Seniors H~II from 6:00 - 7:30pm • WGS Majors Dinner provided! I • WGS & LGBTQ Minors w~,,,,~~P-¥ {;If, P-'vf/P-fJt;-v4tl}/t, ~,,,,: Resume building_ a nd Fall Career Fair (Oct 16, 1-spm, DeVos Place) Planning for what's next after graduation Rgvp to wqsstu@qvsu.edu & speciflf which workshop/s lfOU plan to attend. Questions? wqs@qvsu.edu � 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 Sexuality and Gender Flyers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Rainbow Resource Center Women and Gender Studies Department Women's Commission Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity Description An account of the resource Digitized posters, flyers, event notices, and other materials relating to gender expression and sexuality at Grand Valley State University, with materials spanning from 1974 to 2019. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974/2019 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digitized from collections at the Rainbow Resource Center (formerly the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center), Women and Gender Studies Department, Women's Commission, and Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Gender identity Gender expression Sexual orientation Women's studies Queer theory Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. 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Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1970s William James College Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000293 Title A name given to the resource WGVC auction Description An account of the resource Behind the scenes at a WGVC public television auction. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) 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