240 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6c57e90143fc8584c865d3f51e727f6c.pdf 29491c8538fecef049cc32d1ac8888b4 PDF Text Text cruisin' the stars YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 12th THRU DECEMBER 18th ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 20) Friendships are strongly represented in today's situation. You have support for bu ilding bridges from the economic to the social . Give due attent ion to personal grooming , fashion, and motivation in love matters. TAURUS (Apr 21-May 20) Avoid show downs and discussions with excitable persons under existing aspects. Don't include such persons in plans for the day. Marital partner is your best bet for meaningful conversations. ·career aims receive some support during the ladder part of the week . GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Some get-rich-quick schemes can be presented to you. Be wary of the silver-tongued orator . Romance is subjected to pressures and lovers should avoid arguments and foolish disagreements. Yo u could be called upon to do something rather unusual and even difficult. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You may awaken with a sense of loss . It could be bothersome to know you dreamed and not be able to pinpoint the content or meaning of the experience. The mail can bring something interesting . Others look to you for leadership and encouragement. LEO (July 23-Aug 22) Your awareness is especially strong and you can trust the answe rs that rise from your own intuitive . You receive a good stee r from a friend and investments show more promi se than they have in the past. Your luc ky number for Wednesday is 3 19 _ VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22) This is an excellent day , with health , travel , and shopping well aspected. Push business, money and employment matters now . Romance can be somewhat frightening for the single person . Avoid show downs and forced decisions. Think things over before jumping to an conc lusion. LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22) Divisiven ess is not your aim, but rather a true unity with the people who mean most of you . Even in the company of strangers, there can be gains where you appear formally friendly but can't warm up to them. Health holds firm , with mental stimulation giving you a sense of power in love matters . SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 22) Health is excellent. What wasn't_ clear to you in the past about life and love can become amply clear. You feel in the mainstream, anxious to perform well , to win approval of others. Now Is a good time for shopping and buying Christmas gifts for those you love . SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23-Dec 21) Idea development , personal objectives, and good groom ing are giving a boost in your chart. A discussion with _a loved_ one can be affective and productive. Health is good and you feel alert. Have confidence in the people who are telling you unusual things . CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19) Health aspects are favorable . If you don 't get in touch with people who expect to hear from you, they'll run you to earth. If you owe somebody money or a good turn, get in touch with that person or agency. Romance Is stimulated late in the week. AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18) Good news can materialize and change the picture in work matters . The more you attract favorable attention, the better you will fee l . You tra vel best alone and you can combine bu siness with pleasure. . . . . PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20) There is a danger of being misquoted , mIsInterpreted and misunderstood. Seasaw pattern how that makes for inner conflicts from veering back an d forth b&,~en security and extravagance. You may wish that you were somewhere else and tl'·-tter of ce rt ain people ca n get you down . • FIRST ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12th BENEFIT SHOW TO SEND EVELYN DAVIS TO MISS GAY USA PAGEANT Featuring EVELYN DAVIS Miss Gay USA-Michigan ABBEY RHODES APPLES VON RAVENSTEIN RENEE BEHAVEN RANDY JEPSEN CLAUDINE AS Ms. Santa Claus Bring a Gift for a Needy Child or Elderly Person , MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW FOR "A WILD NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY IN SAUGATUCK DISCO WESTERN & PATIO BARS FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT WEEKLY, WEEKEND & GROUP RATES COLOR CABLEVISION FOR COMPLE TE IN FORMATION WR ITE DOUGLAS DUNES BLUE STAR HIGHWAY, DOUGLAS, Ml 49406 PH# (616) 857-1401 JUST MINUTES FORM BEAUTIFUL LAKE MICHIGAN IN SAUGATUCK DOUGLAS 2-4-1 FRIDAY 9:00 P.M.-MIDNIGHT SUNDAY MADNESS 1:00 P.M . 22/CR UISE CRUISE / 11 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2cb965488f7741c1f00cad3a5ab80f88.mp4 b7a9a7a318d408d3002e27c954042e58 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/79489fd425c69301c1b56dd954703356.pdf c30c9b743abbe1654e87c23e38cd8770 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Vietnam, Cold War Interviewee: Linda Crumback Length of Interview: 01:06:54 Background                    She was born September 27, 1947 in East Grand Rapids. She grew up in Caledonia and her family has lived there since 1865. She still lives in the house her grandfather built, but the farmland has since been sold off. She went to high school in Caledonia and graduated in 1965. When she graduated, she went immediately to Grand Valley State College for the summer. She would get a job there as a lab technician in the biology department. At the time, they did have the lake complex, but the bridge wasn’t built. They did however have Loutit Hall, where she spent most of her time, for physics, biology and chemistry. While she was going to school she lived at home and drove 40 miles every day to school and was glad when she was done, because she had had 3 close calls driving over there. But she didn’t mind driving. She attended GVSC from the summer of 1965 and graduated August of 1968. There wasn’t much going on at GVSC as far as war protests. Most of the conflict she had was with siblings. The closest one was 9 years difference from her. She focused on her studies and didn’t really get involved in politics, though she had her opinions on some things. Once she graduated, she went into pre-med and was going to medical school. She discovered that it was hard to get loans, so she tried getting jobs at different labs with no success. Soon she discovered that the military would help you go to medical school, so she decided that was the route she was going to take. So she took the different tests for the different branches and was finally accepted by the Air Force. She enlisted in the Air Force in 1970. The family was proud and thought it was a good thing to do. Her brothers who had all been in the Army had said to her “Don’t volunteer” and her friends didn’t say much. They thought it was an interesting thing to do. When she signed up for it, she thought that she was going to see the world and get some training. Things were not what they appeared to be, but more than anything she just wanted to get in and get into medical school. When she signed up for it she did not think of it in any connection to the War in Vietnam. (6:55) �     She did go in and had the 10 week wonders, officer candidate school in 10 weeks instead of the usual 12. While she was there, one of the people in charge had asked who was there because they got their papers and about half raised their hand. It was not the easiest thing to get into and she was actually rejected for it twice before. But she finally got a call from her recruiting officer letting her know that she had got in. She was surprised. She just assumed that she wasn’t going. That had taken pictures of the women, but not of the men. Training (9:05)             They had sent her to Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio, for Officer’s training School. At that time, the women were a separate squadron. There were about 60 women. When they had classroom studies, they would have it with the men, but any physical training they did, they did separately. The exercises they did were different as well. They had to do 5 BX, which were jumping jacks, sit-ups and things like that. Classroom work consisted of military history, training and speaking. They also emphasized discipline. When you first got there you had chicken stripes, which meant that you had to salute everything with stripes. Adjusting to military life was not difficult for her. Being away from home was the hardest part. It was fun being with the gals. There were no problems with the male cadets. The men and women would eat together as well. They all had 15 minutes to eat. This first stage of training would last 12 weeks. After that she went home. Her family came down for the graduation ceremony and she drove back home with them while she was on leave. After that she would get her first assignment, in Florida Active Duty (12:30) Florida        She would be placed at the McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL. She got on the job training at the time. She did not get the course she should have had; she would get it later, after she knew what she was doing. She was in a little Aero Space Defense Command and worked on a 2 person crew and basically they watched for sea launched ballistic missiles. She lived off base and worked shift work, 8 hour shifts 5 days a week. Given her solitary job, she did not have much interaction with other people on the base. She was the only woman in that detachment. The maintenance crew was all men. �         The computers were new to her. So when they came in and said they had to replace a card in the computer. Of course the only card she knew of was made of paper, but when they opened it up and showed her she got the idea. She doesn’t remember a lot of false alarms. But she does remember times when there would be alarms caused when the people near New Orleans burned their sugar fields. For some reason that would set off alarms for them. It was an interesting time, with a 2 person crew, waiting for nothing to happen. She did have a couple people tell her that they thought women shouldn’t be in the Air Force. She thinks she convinced them otherwise. She would converse with the enlisted men that she worked with to help pass the time. The enlisted men would have to do the watching, while the officer was there mostly to make decisions. She had that job for about a year and a half. During that time, while off duty there would be get togethers with other members of the attachment and she went to see the sights of Florida. After that year and a half she went to Denver, Colorado, to the 2nd Communications Squadron. Colorado (17:30)             At the time, she couldn’t have said much about it, but now she can tell us that it is the defense support program. They use the satellites that were in geo-synchronous orbit to watch the world for missile launches. This was quite a bit bigger than what she had experienced in Florida. There were about 500 people there. There were other women there and one of them she went through OTS was there as well. She got there just before she had, and there were a few others but not many. While she was there she was the Deputy Director on D crew. There were 12 people in D crew, sitting there receiving the data from the satellites and sending out all the necessary data to where it needed to go. There was much more to know working there than her old job. You had to know how everything worked and operated, not just how to operated it. When she first got there, there was only one satellite in orbit, so they would only get data every couple of hours. During that time, a civilian would train the crew. She would have training before that to help her, a four week course. She ended up living in off base housing again, because the officer’s quarters were full. Not one time in 22 years did she have to live on base. She did not run into any friction of her being a female in the armed forces. The crew was all about the same age, except for the enlisted, they might have been a little older. She and her friend ended up being the Senior Directors of two of the worst units. It was difficult working in them, but she made it through. She was told by her previous Senior Director that she was given the job because they believed that she could do the job and keep it going. �     It was interesting, as far as the operations, they were all standard and nothing really exciting happened during that time. The morale level at the bases she worked at was good. The officers were qualified and there was a new system and it was fun to explore. She was doing an operation and everything was supposed to go ok and suddenly there were arrows up everywhere. Her director was there for the whole thing and SAC was called, and they tried to decide if they wanted to bring in bombers, but nothing came of it. When she left Colorado, she was three years into the four. After that she was sent to Shemya Air Force Base, which is on one of the islands in the Aleutians. She and another woman were the first women ever assigned there. Alaska (26:15)                    The island was two by four miles. It was all men except for the general electric girls there, who welcomed them and told them what to expect. There were about 2,000 people there when she first arrived. The majority of the people there were taking care of the rest who actually had the operations there, and a lot of the operations at the time were monitoring Russia. She was also space tracking. She was flown out there on Reeves Aleutians Airlines. It was quite an experience as it is foggy most of the time and very cold. The pilots were really good at their job. When you wanted to go on leave, you would leave on military transports, which would be the only way they got fresh food and things that they needed. They would bring in barges during the summer months to bring in other things, like trucks. A semi came off the barge, it was strange. Collecting bottles off the shore would be one of their pastimes. They would collect 1950’s Coke bottles and they would find sake bottles along the shore. There was nothing to do there, so that entertained them. Almost everything was in a single building, from administration, to sleeping quarters, to the mess hall, everything. They did have an NCO club that was relatively new and it was nice. All the organizations on the base had their own little building. One of them was built with two little huts put together and a fireplace was put in it. It’s where the squadron got together. That’s where they spent their off time was in those places. She would be stationed there for a year. That ended right around the same time as her enlistment term. She didn’t think about getting out at all. She just got her next assignment, which brought her back to Denver. The range of the temperatures was 50-20 degrees. They were not allowed to go too far off base or you could fall and freeze out there. The flowers there were very beautiful. The wind made everything very cold. There was snow, in varying amounts. They would have tremors there too once in a while. �              The General Electric girls were there as maintenance. They came from a general contractor and worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Their job was maintaining the antenna and the ladies came to work as secretaries. The job she had there was very interesting. The equipment there was older, which made the job more hands on. Later, when new equipment was brought in, it just wasn’t the same. It was also interesting to see the men when they were getting ready to go home, especially in the last two weeks. They probably did some things they wouldn’t normally have done. When they were going there, there was a sign that said “Welcome Linda and Terry”, well Alaska’s only congressman was on the plane, so their names came down and his went up. There was no trouble with her squadron about her being a woman in the Air Force, but there was one other woman who came up, who was assigned alone in the administration and she had some trouble. There was one individual who should not have been sent to the island. He had already been in some trouble on the mainland. He was an African American. He got upset with her and asked if he was different and there was tension that way, so instead of letting her handle it, one of the men told the individual that he owed her an apology. Well, this was the wrong thing to say, because this individual got really upset and that night he came into the room and tried to stab the man who had talked to him, and accidentally stabbed his roommate instead. She had planned on going to a movie the next day and was advised against it. But she felt it was necessary for people to know that she was not going to put up with that kind of stuff. There had also been rumors going around that they had all been flown out of there immediately, and she wanted to make sure those rumors were put to rest. (36:50) She ended up going to the movies with four men and there were not any African Americans in the movie that night. The individual who stabbed the man was eventually caught and put into custody. The man who was stabbed was taken to the mainland so he could recover. She believes that if they had just let her do her job, things would have been ok. That was the first time she saw that kind of racial tension and the only time she would deal with something to that magnitude. After Alaska she was sent back to Colorado, to 2nd Com, but this time she would work as a computer programmer. Colorado (40:00)    The job she had before was not to her liking. So she changed careers, which was not really available to women at the time, but they managed to get her switched. Her job would be to do the software and testing the software of the system. The biggest thing she can see is the difference in capacity, between now and then. She worked with a system that had 2 meg of high speed and 1 meg low speed. She had 64kb to herself. �                      Nowadays, in your telephone you probably have more memory to work with. The changes in hardware since then have simply been amazing. She had a training course for it right there and she was the only gal in it. She was never the kind of person to get up early to go to class, but the guys seemed to want it that way. So she would fall asleep at night, while writing her program. The operators would have this wild printer going and the paper would just shoot out. It would turn out to be one of the trainees not doing something right and they would quickly turn off the printer to avoid mass chaos. She was there for 5 years. During that time, she remained a captain, but rose from a computer software developer to chief of software development. They did one project, where they did the software instead of contracting it out. They got compliments on what a good job they did. By the end, she was in charge of 25 people. Most of them were officers. There were not too many enlisted that worked there. She made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun and she really loved Denver. She completed that in 1980. After the Soviet threat starts to diminish, the Air Force begins cutting down on people. But this would be after she got out and would not have to worry about those kinds of things. It was not a typical thing to work in one place for so long, but they wanted her to stay there because she was training others. She thinks it didn’t hurt any either, because she was able to make the next rank. After she finished that, they selected her to get a Master’s degree. So she was sent out Monterey, California to the Naval Post Graduate School. It was not a bad assignment by any means. They have their own campus after they acquired the Delmont Hotel and built a military base, with housing that she did not get, yet again. At that time, you went to the college as a civilian and there were a lot of foreigners there. The degree she was getting was sponsored by the Joint Command Control Communication. She was a little more senior than most of the others at the college. She took a few classes in each of the required topics, but they were not experts in any one thing. The program lasted 18 months. Since most of them had been out of college for a while, they gave them classes to get them back into the swing of things. Once she had her degree, she was really involved in looking at the National Command Control and how to improve it. She would return to a staffing job. Her system was taken over by the SAC, Strategic Air Command, so she was sent to SAC headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, in Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska (48:00) �                   When she got there and there were some of the people she had worked with were there. They informed her that they were creating airspace and many of them would be transferred soon. She would work there for a year and then be transferred to Space Command. She would do planning for new software while she was there. Her area was warning and tracking systems. She was there from 1983-1986. Things were discussed about the Soviets, but there was no real concern about going to war and most things kind of stayed on the same level. By that time, things had really changed for women and the military service. When she went in, you couldn’t have children. Now you can. There are also more fields opening for women at the time as well. There was nothing during that time that really stood out. From there, she went to the Naval Post Graduate School again, as a curriculum officer for the classes she had taken. It was an interesting job as she would work for the Navy and not the Air Force. She would work there for three years. While she was there she had a bomb threat to the school. There wasn’t much difference in what she saw in the Navy, but the attitudes for the importance of rank were very different than the Air Force. She could sense a difference, but can’t really put it into words. She worked just as an administrator and spent her time writing reports on finances and the curriculum and keeping the programs up to date. The relations between the military and civilians were always good, no matter where she was. Of the different places that she lived, she really liked Colorado. After Monterey, she was sent to Sacramento, where she worked at a joint job, working with the different military branches. She had to train and keep the software going for the system there. It was not the most exciting job, but it was an important job. There wasn’t a lot to do, except preparing for exercises. After this, she would decide to leave the Air Force. She had her mother living with her and she decided that it was time to get out, so they moved back to MI. Post Duty (1:00:15)     Since she left the Air Force, she’s retired with a pension, so she didn’t need a job. So she volunteers her time for different things. When people found out she was in the Air Force, people were surprised and she never had any negative reactions. Most people are interested and excited to learn about it. She notices a constant recognition and admiration for the military nowadays. They didn’t have that back then. She worked with a lot of veterans who worked in wars and it was interesting to see and hear their reactions to military life. �  She didn’t have a plan to make it a career, but since she didn’t have to reenlist, so all she had to do was take the next assignment. She would not be in the Air Force today, as they do not offer her job anymore. They contracted it out. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Crumback, Linda (Interview outline and video), 2011 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Crumback, Linda Description An account of the resource Linda Crumback was one of the first women to go through the Air Force ROTC School. She would serve her country for 22 years, initially monitoring missile launches, and later working with computers and computer software. She served on bases in Florida, Colorado, Alaska and California, and worked with officers from other branches, especially while serving as an instructor at the Naval Post Graduate School. 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 Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American United States. 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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_2012_EqualiTEA_Crumpets-for-Conversation.pdf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Women's Center Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Title A name given to the resource Crumpets for Conversation Description An account of the resource Flyer listing several questions intended to start conversations inspired by the play "Antona Garcia". Subject The topic of the resource Community centers Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women's Center 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/82d614c1436ec57a13a2c5997678df44.jpg 75189e3ed4735bb8ec52016dd1c0b4ee 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_LS00204 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1930 Title A name given to the resource Crumpled bison Altamira Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of a Paleolithic drawing of a crumpled bison from Altamira. Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Drawings Cave paintings Archaeology 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/4c6fa9b44ce8c7cc71ef91f020db6759.jpg 97329eb156c7eebccc40186fc6450382 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_LS00205 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1930 Title A name given to the resource Crumpled bison Altamira Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of a Paleolithic drawing of a crumpled bison from Altamira. Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Drawings Cave paintings Archaeology 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/696978626fb4a735c98467adc6b4e54e.jpg f2aad2e574757f8c30d4434d4d3066f8 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_LS00206 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1930 Title A name given to the resource Crumpled bison Altamira Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of a Paleolithic drawing of a crumpled bison from Altamira. Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Drawings Cave paintings Archaeology 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/930ecf320b65eb694025d20d58efa3c0.jpg acbbb5234481494cd945660284be08c9 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_K212-0012a 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 1970-09-01 Title A name given to the resource Crystal Lake, Michigan Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a calm and hazy shoreline view of Crystal Lake in northern Michigan. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Crystal Lake (Benzie County, Mich. : Lake) Benzie County (Mich.) Shorelines--Michigan 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/c99623962d3c43989fec3b091bea91a8.pdf 88a5d9a29e23debbc560b7dddac03965 PDF Text Text Wqt 1\aanriatintt 111lag A pointed Burgee, the wiath twothirds of the length; stripes, two red, one white, each one third the width. The white stripe in the center, on which in large blue letters shall be C. S. A. R. A. This flag is intended to be used by Club Members of the Association on special occasions and when attending the C. S. A. R. A. Regatta. • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club Description An account of the resource Scrapbooks of newsclippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Photos were taken at regattas on Reeds Lake; the Grand River; Peoria, Illinois; and in Chicago of club members, and events. Historical articles, reports of regatta events, and articles featuring members Charles McQuewan and Jack Corbett are included. Programs include the First Grand Regatta on Great Salt Lake 1888, and Peoria Rowing Festival, and banquet and music programs and the GR Log, a publication of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club. Materials from the Central States Amater Rowing Association, and the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen are also included. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1980s to 1940s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks, (RHC-54)</a> Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Racing shells Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-54_Ephemera-GRRC_Con12 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Central States Amateur Rowing Association Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource no date Title A name given to the resource CSARA Flag Description An account of the resource Single page with a drawing of the CSARA Flag, and a short description underneath detailing the presentation and use of the flag. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grand Rapids Rowing Club Subject The topic of the resource Grand Rapids (Mich.) Outdoor recreation Boats and boating Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/481">Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club scrapbooks (RHC-54)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">No Known Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7037a89e49b8579f1990dfaff761a4a6.jpg fcc393a768c1a0cbc82e441d7c90a473 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_NE_62_1926_001 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1926-01-31 Title A name given to the resource Cuban Village, Jamaica Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of four people, two men and two women, standing in a street across from a stone building. Storefronts are visible along the street. "A Cuban Village, Jamaica 1926-1-31." is written on the bottom of the image. Subject The topic of the resource Jamaica Villages 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/1f93e2552fd68cb47374e91d6f1811db.jpg 964b762a871368878c1e5d9eee1bf99f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_FilmPacks_V_22_010 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939-03-02 Title A name given to the resource Cuicuilco interior plaster Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the interior of a section of the Cuicuilco Pyramid from above. A man holding a sombrero is standing in the center of the image, surrounded by plaster walls. Subject The topic of the resource Archaeological sites Archaeology Mexico Mexico (City). Ayuntamiento 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/c573637a79a6433566032f68c0ce01a3.pdf c511f53812a08221db1efdc04560d232 PDF Text Text Culture Wars: Battling For the Soul of the Nation Reformation Day Sunday Text: I Samuel 8:7; I Samuel 9:16 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan Pentecost XXIII, October 30, 1994 Transcription of the spoken sermon ". . . The Lord said to Samuel, 'Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but have rejected me from being king over them.' " ". . . you shall anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the suffering of my people, because their outcry has come to me." In the lesson from the Hebrew Scriptures you will notice a reference to the book of Judges. I am not going to read that, but that simply is a reference that says that after Joshua, Moses' successor, died, there arose a generation that knew not the Lord – a very serious portent of bad things to come. The book of Judges talks about that period of time between the settlement in Canaan of the children of Israel, and the first king, Saul. It was a period of a hundred or two hundred years. It was a time when leadership was charismatic. A leader would arise, would be filled with the Spirit of God, execute a task and then retire to his farm, or her farm. Deborah, Gideon and Samson, those great Bible stories are recorded in the book of Judges. The last and greatest judge was Samuel. Samuel was a priest, prophet, judge, and ruler. He led Israel for many years and then as he grew older the people were concerned because his sons were not following in his steps, and they wanted a king like all the other nations, so they asked Samuel for a king. Israel had been a loose confederacy of tribes, and they had gotten together to do certain things on specific occasions, but they were rather loosely connected as semi-independent tribes. But now, recognizing the threat from without, they request a king. The scripture lesson lists in the first book of Samuel a Saul source and a Samuel source. I do that so that you can see that there were two points of view that come together in this lesson. There are two traditions, and the author purposely let both traditions stand. The one tradition said that the people of Israel were vulnerable and in danger, and God said to Samuel, "Anoint Saul. Through this © Grand Valley State University   �Battling for the Soul of a Nation Richard A. Rhem Page 2   first king I will deliver my people." The Samuel source, the conservative point of view, rejects that idea and resists the movement toward monarchy. I list these two sources so that you could feel the two of them that are interlaced together in these chapters. First, the ninth chapter of I Samuel, the fifteenth verse: "Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel: 'Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the affliction of my people, because their cry has come to me.'” Doesn't that remind you of Israel in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh? The cry comes to God, God raises up Moses, and the people are led to freedom. Now here they are in Canaan, but they are in a situation again of danger, and so God says to his leader, Samuel, "I hear their cry. Anoint this man. I will, through this man, deliver them." Samuel saw Saul. The Lord told him, "Here is the man of whom I spoke to you. He it is who shall rule over my people." Now that happens. Then in the tenth chapter and the first verse, Samuel took a vial of oil, poured it on Saul's head and kissed him and said, "Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you shall save them from the hand of their enemies round about. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord had anointed you to be prince of his heritage." If you go on to read the eleventh chapter, Saul gains a great victory and everyone says, "Wow, what a man. He's our man." They are all ready to go. They are excited. The other point of view is expressed in the Samuel source, the eighth chapter and the fourth verse: "Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, 'Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint for us a king to govern us like all the nations.' But it displeases Samuel when they say, 'Give us a king to govern us.' And Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, 'Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. According to all the deeds, which they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you. Now then, hearken to their voice; only, you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.' " Then follows a serious indictment of monarchy — In a word God says, "Tell them that once they get a king, the king will be on the take. Take their money. Take their sons and daughters. Take their animals. Take their property. They are in for trouble because governments tend eventually to become oppressive and coercive. Just let them know what they are in for." Then in the nineteenth verse of that chapter, the people refuse to listen to the voice of Samuel and they said, "No, but we'll have a king over us." © Grand Valley State University �Battling for the Soul of a Nation Richard A. Rhem Page 3   I set for you this Biblical story because you have two traditions next to each other, and it was a hinge-point in Israel's experience. We know about the confederacy, the tribal union. It was very much like the early colonies in this country. Those thirteen colonies did not have a strong central government. They were a confederacy. They each yielded of their sovereignty some of their power and some of their rights in order that there might be a central government to do certain things for them that they couldn't do for themselves: national security, for example – trade, commerce, that kind of thing. To this day in this country that tension continues to exist in our nation. Do you remember Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers, and how he argued for a strong central government. There was a conflict at that time. In the nineteenth century this country went through the terrible tragedy of the Civil War and, though it was really over the question of slavery, what was being tested was this form of government, a federal government where they could instruct the states to give rights to people or could instruct all states to release their slaves. The governors of some southern states back in the 60s, in the Civil Rights days, argued for states rights over against the interpretation of the constitution from the federal government which said that it is wrong to segregate in schools and all of those so called Jim Crowe Laws that demeaned and dehumanized the black race. So we know about confederacy. It is a kind of government that has power on the periphery and less so in the center, as opposed to the federal form of government where there is power at the center that can dictate to the respective units of government. That was what was going on in Israel. They were a confederacy. A charismatic leader would arise on occasion to meet a specific crisis and then go back to the farm. And they had a central shrine where they worshiped together, and where they renewed their covenant. But God was their king, that was their understanding, and they had no strong central government or strong national leader, no dynasty, no imperial house. But as a kind of loose tribal confederacy they were vulnerable to the attacks of people on their borders, and once they got established people began to get some possessions. They built barns, and had fields and oxen and one thing and another. They said, "We don't want to be vulnerable to these attacks. Every six months or so somebody comes in and burns our fields. We need a strong leader. We need a strong government. We need security. We need secure boundaries." Sound familiar? So they came to Samuel who had been the greatest spiritual leader in Israel since Moses and they said to him, "Your sons aren't following in your steps. You are growing older. We need to move on to another form of government. We need a king." Well, if you read the one source, it sounds as though that was a movement that was not only approved by God, but initiated by God in response to the cry of the people and who said, "Through this man whom you are to anoint, I will deliver this people." © Grand Valley State University �Battling for the Soul of a Nation Richard A. Rhem Page 4   But if you read the Samuel source you see that God not only does not initiate it, God doesn't even approve of it, but sort of reconciles God's self to the inevitable, and says "Go ahead and do it, but warn them because they are in for trouble. Just wait until the king really establishes a royal house." That's the situation. That's the focus of the morning as we think about the culture wars, the battling for the soul of a nation. There were conservatives who said, "Foolish people, you want a king? Don't you remember that it was Moses who led us out of the oppression of Pharaoh out of the bondage of Egypt? Don't you realize that in establishing a royal house you will be bringing yourselves right back into a situation where there is oppression from on top? The conservatives had a point. They did remember. That was the best thing about the conservative mind. It remembers the values of the past. It has a memory of those things that were valuable and important and significant and that had a shaping determination of a people. But there were progressives as well, and they said, "To be sure. But on the other hand, look, we simply can't survive this way." The conservatives said, "Trust God," and the progressives said, "We do trust God, but look what's happening. We are being assaulted, invaded. The marauders come in. We are at a loss, we are victims. And, it's not going to change." So they went at it, these conservatives and progressives, and the Biblical story allows both of those voices to be heard. Now it is interesting that on Reformation Sunday we should have a scripture lesson that has two traditions that are at variance with each other because one of the models of the Reformation was sola scriptura— Scripture alone is our authority. But I would raise the question: If scripture alone is our authority, which of the traditions are you going to buy into? Where would you have been in this discussion? Are you a conservative or are you a progressive? Do you remember the values of the past and try to preserve them and perpetuate them, or are you one who believes in the movement of history, that new times demand new forms and new structures? Do you set things in concrete or do you remain fluid and flexible with the ongoing movement of history? The Reformation was a time that gave us this insight, which ought never to be forgotten–the Latin model I can't repeat but its translation is– the Church re-formed according to the Word of God and always being re-formed. In the sixteenth century there was a situation where the Church, not the nation Israel in the thirteenth century B.C.E., but now in the sixteenth century C.E. you have a church that had become a mammoth world power. There was a union of throne, and altar, and thus times during those centuries of Christendom, a medieval age when the Church was the most powerful human institution. It was not simply a religious institution. It was cultural, it transcended national boundaries, it was powerful, and it became decadent, just as decadent as any imperial house that has no checks on it. And the reformers said, "Something has © Grand Valley State University �Battling for the Soul of a Nation Richard A. Rhem Page 5   to change. The Church needs to be renewed. We need a reformation of the Church." Institutions don't change until something blows sky high. Martin Luther, of course, was the one who blew it. Martin Luther, brilliant, powerful, vulgar, a bull in a China shop, was excommunicated. He returned the favor and excommunicated the pope. And we were off and running. At that time, just as in the experience of Israel, it was a hinge-point in human history. It was Luther who said, "We must re-form and we must become the body of Christ in a total new structure. The other is the Babylon, the harlot that is in bondage, and God has turned away from it." A humanist scholar, a Dutchman named Erasmus was a faithful son of the Church. He and Luther communicated. Erasmus was a renaissance scholar. He was a part of the fifteenth-century revival of learning in Europe where they rediscovered the classical culture of Greece and of Rome and the old language of the Semitic peoples. And in that renewal and revival there was a whole blossoming of the human spirit in the fifteenth century, and it was a preparation for that breakthrough in the sixteenth century, the religious Reformation. Luther wrote to Erasmus, "Join me." Erasmus said, "No, I am going to stay." Luther said, "You can't stay. That Church is decadent and it is dead." Erasmus said, "You want to break it, rend the Body of Christ. For your renewal the price is too high. I will stay within the Church of the Body of Christ. We must not rend this institution that is, after all, in all of its corruption and decadence (which Erasmus readily admitted), nonetheless still the Church of the Living God." Luther left. Protestantism is the consequence. Erasmus stayed and in the following century the Roman Church reformed itself, as always happens in human culture. It's action and reaction. As the Reformation identified or created its identity over against Rome, the reforming Roman Church reformed itself over against the Reformation. Yet we have had this tragic split for all these years. Who was right, Luther or Erasmus? The conservatives who came to Samuel and said, "Don't do this." or the progressives who said to Samuel, "Give us a king." Who was right? Who was wrong? In human history, there's not right and wrong. There are wise choices, foolish choices. There are marvelous breakthroughs and dead ends. It's not a simple question of something being right or wrong. In the ambiguity of the human situation, in the ambiguity of the text of history at any particular time there are a lot of factors that have to be factored in. Erasmus was right. The price was too high. It was tragic. Luther was right. Nothing would happen without the break. Of course, some four or five hundred years later for us to continue to reiterate the sixteenth-century insights is to fall into the pattern of fundamentalism. For us to continue to talk about Reformed distinctions is to forget that we, with history, continue to move. We inaugurated a new President at Western Seminary, and you can hear him preach tonight. As Peter said, "He's a great guy, a good scholar, a good preacher." The Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches are getting together for that © Grand Valley State University �Battling for the Soul of a Nation Richard A. Rhem Page 6   service, and I think that's nice. But if you really want to celebrate Reformation Day today, then why don't we get together with the Roman Catholic Church and all the other churches in the community to recognize that the split back then was tragic, as well as necessary. Then, of course, if we really want to be prophetic, next year let's gather all the churches across all the barriers and also some people from Islam and our Jewish friends and let's have an inter-faith service of worship that recognizes that the future does not lie in the perpetuation of the divisions of the past but the overcoming of those decisions and the healing of relationships. What we need in this world is reconciliation. We live at a hinge-point in culture, which is as critical as that faced in Israel when they were trying to decide whether to have a king or stick with the old forms. We are at a hinge-point in history, which is as critical as the sixteenth century. We are in this nation today in the midst of a culture war. If you had the misfortune of listening in one evening to the Republican Convention a couple of years ago when Pat Buchanan said, "we are in a warfare." If you listen to the rhetoric of Randall Terry, the anti-abortion person, if you receive the propaganda of the religious right, you will find that what they want is the restoration of yesterday, failing to recognize that history is a stream that moves on. Now the conservatives back in Israel had remembered some important things that ought never to be forgotten — and that is the value of the conservative. But the progressives knew that new times demanded new forms — and that is the value of the progressive who recognizes that history is movement, and that yesterday's answers reiterated become fundamentalism today. Today's crises and dilemmas demand deliberation and decision today, in the light of the Biblical story, in the light of the Church tradition, with the exercise of human intellect, and in the evaluation of human experience. It not sola Scriptura. If we really want to be true to the Reformation and continue being Re-formed then we've got to stop throwing those models around, as though once that model is set, everything is set. That is not sola Scriptura. It is one witness. It is a valuable witness. This is our Book. This is our story, but the story has been lived out over centuries of time. We take that tradition seriously. Rome was right about that. Rome has always been right about that. This Book ought always to be a prophetic critique of tradition. But we weren't born in a vacuum. We take seriously the roots from which we come, and we use our heads. For God's sake, we use our heads, we think. To have an external authority that we simply clamp onto ourselves without being able to think, to liberate ourselves, is to deny we are made in the image of God, to think, for God's sake. Then, of course, human experience. You can't just speculate in the abstract. You make decisions in the concrete context of human experience. For example, the people who are pro-choice are not necessarily pro-abortion. They have other values they are looking at. What does it mean to be human? There are other human values that they weigh over against the value of the fetus. It's not easy folks. It's not simple, you see. To get up with all kinds of violent rhetoric and to © Grand Valley State University �Battling for the Soul of a Nation Richard A. Rhem Page 7   make out as though there is a simple easy course, and every God-fearing person would go that way is to deny the reality of the whole course of history in which we see it even in this Biblical example today, where there were Godly people who were trying to find out what it meant to be the people of God in the twelfth and thirteenth century B.C.E. Some said, "Don't you dare anoint a king." And others said, "You'd better anoint a king." And both of them had a text. And we have a text for both of them. Some of us will tend to be conservative. Some of us will tend to be progressive. But in the culture war of this nation today, what is so absolutely imperative is that we begin to talk to each other and to listen, that we be done with this sloganeering and just thinking that once you've said the cliché the argument is over. Look at the data, listen to each other, be in dialog, respect each other, esteem each other. Modernity was born in the French Revolution actually. The Renaissance detoured by the Reformation of the sixteenth century and came to full flower in the eighteenth century with the Enlightenment. The French Revolution, which overthrew the authoritarian divine rights, etc. had as its slogan, "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." If we remove the sexist language, "Liberty, Equality, and Community." That was the birth of the modern. Unfortunately, the modern came to birth in reaction. It had to come in reaction. These things always move in history by reaction. You bust something open, and consequently modernity has been colored with secularism and it has given birth to atheism, which is a recent phenomenon of modernity. But we are moved beyond that. We are in a postmodern age. We know that modernity lost mystery, transcendence. But now, before the face of God, in serious reverence and deep engagement, it is time for us to spearhead a new movement of reconciliation. Some of us recently, had an opportunity to stop in Coventry at the Cathedral. Perhaps you've read the story of how Churchill had gotten possession of the machine by which the Nazis coded their messages and he learned that Coventry was to be bombed a couple of days hence. It was a great industrial center with this great cathedral. Churchill had to wrestle – Do I simply give away the fact that I can break the code or do I simply let it happen and preserve the code and the ability to break the code? He did the latter. Coventry was terribly bombed. The Cathedral was in ruins. And they have allowed the ruins to stand. In the midst of the ruins they have built a magnificent new Cathedral. The morning after the bombing someone went in to take two of the old timbers from the roof that were smoldering and tied them together in the form of a cross. And with the char wrote on the stone ruin, "Father, forgive." If you would go there today, you would find there is still a charred cross. Behind it, etched in stone of the ruins, in gold now, "Father, forgive." There is a magnificent chapel off to the side. It is the Chapel of Reconciliation. Someone, the morning after the bombing, took the old square nails out of the beams and wired them together into a cross. The nailed cross, which perhaps you've seen, has become a symbol of reconciliation. © Grand Valley State University �Battling for the Soul of a Nation Richard A. Rhem Page 8   It is time for Christ Community to lead in a ministry of reconciliation. It will not try to reinvent yesterday, but believe in tomorrow when all God's children will kneel and embrace each other. © Grand Valley State University � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1f8ace430c49ad2039781db4b7e16e45.mp3 31f476273ee8681425944f84ce35a08d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_FilmPacks_7_007 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937-04-05 Title A name given to the resource Cumae Acropolis Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the ruins at the Cumae Acropolis. Subject The topic of the resource Archaeology Archaeological sites Italy Cumae (Extinct city) 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. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_FilmPacks_7_006 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937-04-05 Title A name given to the resource Cumae wine carts Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of three men next to wine carts on a narrow dirt path near Cumae. Subject The topic of the resource Italy Cumae (Extinct city) 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. 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Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</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-50_M873 Title A name given to the resource Cumberland-Suffolk-Kent classes heavy cruiser Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource Cumberland-Suffolk-Kent classes, British-CA (heavy cruiser) November 1, 1943. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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Title A name given to the resource Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. 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Navy Military education Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Slides Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naval recognition slides (RHC-50) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947-10-01 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/b37c20fbdfda8aca71b95a3df2c4d259.mp4 fa0023d3419a92df5502f0c412992bb5 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/916466f5ea298ced70fe5ed99e5f7371.pdf 288884a0c92b00bffefe333aa8986074 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Randy Curry (02:38:00) (43:00)Washington D.C. • Born November 19, 1944 • Father was in the military for 23 years. He was the head dietician at Walter Reed Hospital • When he was two he spent 3 years in Bettelheim Germany where his father was stationed • (2:50) He began school in Germany. He took the bus to school. • He had a maid in Germany named Elsa • His parents took him for a walk and his dog was ran over by a truck • Came back on a ship to the states • (4:36) Remembers the ship was big and he was seasick • Went to Sandia Base in New Mexico • They lived in Albuquerque where he took his first communion • He started first grade here and remembers it was really hot (6:40) Fort Riley, Kansas • They lived in Junction City for 6 months before being given base housing • His father was an officer here so they lived in the officer quarters • Randy remembers that he had to eat salt tablets daily • (8:25) Remembers going to Manhattan, Kansas, close to Fort Riley • Stayed here for about 2 years (9:23) Raymond, Washington • Father was sent to Korea. They stayed with the Nevitts in Washington who had two daughters and a son • Lived here for 6 months • The school was at the end of the block. He remembers being a crossing guard for the school. (12:30) Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Randy’s dad decided to retire while in Korea, so when he came home they moved to Wisconsin • St. Peter and Paul Elementary School 1955-58 �• • • • • • Randy went to the seminary his freshman and sophomore year. His parents moved to Lacrosse, Wisconsin, during the same time. He decided that being a priest wasn’t right for him so he went back home and his dad was transferred back to Milwaukee. Started school at Pius High School and graduated in 1962. He wrote a few articles that were published in the school newspapers (17:50) Remembers at graduation having a picnic and it was hot His father retired from the Army as a Major Randy was anxious to leave home and join the service (19:00) Randy joins the Navy--Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Randy’s father signed for him to join the Navy at 17 years old even though he had apprehensions. Because he was in the military, his father was able to swear him into the Navy. His father also swore 2 of Randy’s friends in since they went in under the buddy program (20:37) San Diego California-Boot Camp • Randy and 11 other guys went first class on an airplane to California • Chief Petty Officer Pierson was his Commanding Officer • Randy became a squad leader right off the bat because of his history with the military • Remembers boot camp was vigorous: fire safety drills, procedure to wash and dry your clothes aboard a ship, drills on the blacktop, rifle training, • (23:40) After 5 weeks they go over to a camp called Camp Nimitz where they live out of cement buildings and hand wash and dry there own clothes and basically rough it • After 4 weeks they go back to main base and are allowed freedoms • At graduation they did the manual at arms and all the divisions and companies came together in a great stage • Randy put in to be in A school- torpedo man • Went home for two weeks on leave. He took a train home • (27:58)The Zephyr train had a car that you could climb upstairs in and look out at the sky through a glass dome • Randy took a plane back to San Diego (28:50) Torpedo Maintenance School • Randy attended classes teaching you the basics of electronics and electricity • Was allowed to look at the insides of dummy torpedoes but wasn’t much training on them �• • Randy passed school with an A after twelve weeks and put in for submarine school Went home again for a two week leave (29:39) New London, Connecticut--Submarine School • They had a nuclear submarine called the Nautilus • Went on board conventional submarines and learned what tight quarters are • Randy decided that he did not want to be on a submarine and that he wanted to see daylight a little more often. • He said you slept in the torpedo room and the mess hall consisted of two tables with a few chairs; you couldn’t eat with anyone since they took turns rotating • (32:00) Their training consisted of swim training, depth training from 50 to 100ft depths • Randy dropped out after 2 months (33:20) Port Mayfield, Florida • Randy was assigned to a destroyer • Randy had to request permission before boarding the ship and then he was shown his quarters in the ASW [anti-submarine warfare] compartment • His division consisted of Torpedo men and Sonar men • There was 25 men in his compartment with a 3 tier rack of beds • The beds were tubular frames with a canvas stretched over them with a 2 inch mattress that you slept on. Once on the bed there was a 6 to 7 inch space between you and the bunk above you • In the morning the guys would always say the same thing. “Heave out, Heave out…” (35:20)Aboard Ship • Each rack would turn their bed at a forty five degree angle so they could get underneath to get into their locker. • Randy was a Seaman Apprentice at this point • Up the ladder was the ‘head’-toilets, sinks, and two showers • When they woke up they had to shower, shave and clean the area for an hour before breakfast which was at 7:00a.m. • (38:00) Chow line went passed the kitchen where you ordered your eggs how you liked them, then you went to the mess hall where you were given grits or chipped beef on bread �• • • • • • • • • • Usually the new guy got mess duty where you would have to clean up the tables after people ate. You were given this duty for two weeks to a month before a rotation was done If not on mess duty you would do chores for eight hours with lunch in the middle (41:30)They had a Mark 15 and a Tripod on board and his job as a torpedo man was to maintain the 4 torpedoes inside the tripod on each side of the ship They had to undo the hatches three times a day and record the temperature, check the straps on the torpedoes so they didn’t come loose, maintain the decks by painting and repainting the boards Navy gray. They painted once every 6-7 months. They corroded quickly There was a helicopter hangar that they also had to maintain. It had mesh netting that was over the hangar, which they would have to scrape and paint black. It was a continuous process. (44:55)The sonar men had a better job and were up in the sonar room which was air conditioned. They traced sonar that reverberated off of anything in the area. There was a rubberized area that would receive those receptions. They could plot what it was, where it was going, and how close to them it was. The guys in the torpedo room would man the torpedoes and let the sonar men know that the torpedoes were ready so they sonar men could fire at targets in the area that they were in fear of either hitting or were a threat to the ship They had tests they would perform with the torpedoes where they had a submarine in the area and they would fire a torpedo at the ship, track its movements and at the point of impact it would shut down and rise to the surface for a tracking team to locate and recover with a motor whale boat. Once recovered they would have a recording ship check the torpedo to see where it went and how close it came to impact. Randy said they lost more than they recovered because of treacherous waves. (48:05) Once found they were refurbished and ready to go back out to the ships. Not necessarily the ones you sent out. They would dock at ‘GitMo” (Guantanamo Bay) for leave and go to gentlemen’s clubs and drink a lot and came back on cars called camel bars. Many times there were fights on the cars. The beaches were nice there and Randy said you could feed the iguanas popcorn and they were friendly. There were areas you couldn’t go beyond because it was under Cuban government and was hostile with Fidel Castro in power. (51:30) Port-Mayfield Florida • Randy was on the ship for approximately three years. �• • • • • • His home port was Mayfield, Florida. They got liberties here at night but had to be back by midnight. Weekends had 48-72hour leave unless holiday where you could get 96 hour leave. They hung out at the beaches in Florida on leave. They wore civilian clothes while they were off the ship and kept them in lockers in Florida. Sometimes they bought their civilian clothes on credit. (53:45) Randy and two other guys had an apartment in Jacksonville Beach for them to sleep at on their liberties. Only a mile to the center of town where the bars and restaurants were. Randy remembers while on leave a house behind his was on fire and it woke him up. He went to help with a garden hose and climbed up on a shed to reach the roof of the house adjacent to the house to keep it from burning down. Randy was seen by an officer in the military who wrote a letter to his superiors who gave him a commendation for doing what he did with the fire. (56:55) Randy’s compartment was just above the frozen food compartment. People were unloading turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner. Randy was going on liberty and took a frozen turkey to his apartment and had a Thanksgiving party complete with Bloody Marys to serve. Randy said the day he got out of the military he went around to the officers aboard ship and the chief cook told him he knew where that missing turkey went to. Randy finished his duty on this ship. (1:00:00) Stops out at sea • He made a cruise to the Mediterranean which took 37 days to get there. He was in the 5th Fleet and went to Sicily, the island of Malta, and Naples. He was a driver for officers who went into town for shopping or work. In France he took his captain to Normandy where they saw the landing sites. • (01:02:45)There were a lot of plaques at Normandy but not remnants. Overwhelming feeling of pride with Randy as he walked on the shores. • Randy said 10 guys who originally jumped off a plane in 1944 on Normandy shores re-qualified in 1998 for a 50th anniversary of Normandy where they jumped again and landing on the shores. One of the guys was Roger Williams. • Went to Nassau, St. Thomas, Guantanamo Bay, Key West (1:04:35) Midshipman Cruise • They went across the east coast picking up guys who were going to become officers in the Navy. They were treated very well, did work aboard ship, but were a class above enlisted crewmen. Went to Oslo, Norway, on the cruise. Randy said it was beautiful. Had to be on the ship by 11:00p.m. There were no real bars in Oslo. �• • • • (01:06:45) From there they went to Le Havre, France. Then off to Antwerp, Belgium, where the tides were 12-17 ft every day. Portsmouth, England, was the next stop. They got an overnight liberty here. The locals did not often see men off ship here. Randy went to a restaurant called Wimpy’s while they were there. (01:09:00) Florida Due to get out on November 18 1965, the day before his 21st birthday. Unfortunately, he was involuntarily extended for 4 months because of Vietnam. He received a notice telling him. Randy got out on March 16 1966 and signed out with the officers. The captain told him that if ever in a war he wanted him by his side but he wasn’t much of a peace time sailor. (1:10:45) Released from the Navy • Randy headed back to Halo Michigan where he had met a friend’s younger sister and had corresponded with her while he was aboard ship and asked her to marry him. • On April 2 he married Connie Stoll. He then phoned his parents and told them that he was home and had got married. (1:12:04) Ionia, Michigan • Lived here for a year and worked for his father at Gibson’s in Greenville, Michigan • He took parts off a line and painted them • His brother worked for Pesky Packaging Company so he left to here for better money. He put up orders for Petal Trucks to head to stores around Michigan • Worked here for about a year • Put in to go to school in Wisconsin (1:13:30) Milwaukee Wisconsin June 1967 • Lived in an apartment working for Dictaphone phone company repairing instruments making $50 dollars a week • Went to night school with the GI Bill to become an architect • Starts working for Western States Envelope Company as an engineer making envelopes in Sept 1967 making $80 dollars a week • (01:15:36) They had their first son in January 1969 • Lived on 76th and Morgan • Randy was offered a job as a salesperson in Inside Sales in the office • Promoted to Outside Sales in Michigan-January 1970 �• • (01:18:30) Randy increased sales 40% but was on the road 90% subsequently was separated from his wife Randy resigned from his job to try to patch things up with his wife (1:19:50) Enterprise Envelope, Grand Rapids Michigan • Randy returned to sales after 1 ½ years • Randy did end up getting a divorce (1:20:25) Western States Envelope Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Returned to Inside Sales with the company • Randy could not get an Outside Sales job with the company so he quit (1:20:45) Continental Envelope Minnesota • Salesman here • Met Nancy Goldwasser and married after a year in May 1978 • Randy seen an ad for sales manager in Idaho and applied (1:22:20) Porter Printing Company, Rexburg, Idaho • Department manager for the company • Lived for 2 years here in a Mormon community (1:23:45) William House Incorporated, Denver, Colorado • Randy took a job here as plant manager • Moved here in February 1981 • Worked her for 3 years • Lived in Aurora • Worked here till 1986 till company closed down (1:25:38) American Fiber Envelope Company, Gurnee, Illinois • Randy took a job as a 3rd shift plant manager • Worked here for a year before being offered a job in Milwaukee (1:26:38) Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Took over a plant in Toledo, Ohio, and one in Kentucky • Randy turned over the company in a year before it started making money • Moved his wife and him down to Kentucky and bought a 30 acre farm (01:28:30) Union, Kentucky • Randy took over plant here and was supervisor over it �• • • His job was to make sure the plant made money Lived here for 8 years Moved to St. Louis to take care of his mother-in-law (01:30:20) St. Louis Missouri • Randy started his own distribution company here printing and packaging supplies • His mother-in-law passed away 2 years later and ultimately divorced his wife in 2001 • Stayed here till 2003 (01:31:45) Grand Rapids Michigan • Randy had three of his children living in Lake Odessa • He got a job as a telemarketer in Grand Rapids for two years before moving (01:32:10) Lake Odessa Michigan • Randy moved here to be near his kids • Worked for a liquidation company and a bean and vegetable processor • He ran out of money and moved in with son for 6 months • (01:36:00) Randy checked himself into the Veterans facility in Battle Creek because of severe depression in Ward 39 • Randy learned here that he could go to the Veterans Home in Grand Rapids • July 24th he moved to the Veterans Home in Grand Rapids • (01:38:30) Randy is very happy that he found a home here where people understand his situation and care about what happens to him • (01:41:15) Randy said he is determined to recover by taking part in all the activities at the home • Randy is 62 years old now and is planning on moving on out of the facility • Randy wants to move down to San Jose Costa Rica in July of 2007 and has the encouragement of his children (01:46:30) Randy’s children • Son Sean (39) has Megan who has two children, Lindsey, Tyler, in Schuyler, Michigan • Daughter Shannon (34) Colleen lives in Woodland, Michigan with daughter Macy • Son Kevin (32) lives in Michigan with wife Marcy and son Caleb and daughter Anna • His son Kevin owns K&M Concrete in Lake Odessa • Shannon and his ex wife own a restaurant in Lake Odessa called C&R and she waitresses here �• • • Kevin lives in St. Louis, Missouri sells cell phones and is divorced from wife (01:51:00) Randy had no children from his second wife (01:54:45) Randy has a sister named Sandy married to Mike Dolak, sister Karen was killed in a auto accident, brother Doug married Ann live in Florida, brother Mark married to Lori in Wisconsin � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Curry, Randall Lee (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Curry, Randall Lee Description An account of the resource Randy Curry enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1962 when he was 17 years old. He served on a destroyer as a torpedo man. His ship sailed to the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Norway. He spent an extra 4 months in the service due to Vietnam and signed out after that. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer) Collins, Carol (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. Navy Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American Video recordings 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 2007-01-22 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CurryR 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. 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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/. Title A name given to the resource Cursus quaestionum super totam logicam [folium 85] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_085Bruxellensis1494 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Georges, de Bruxelles, active 15th century-16th century Description An account of the resource One leaf from Cursus quaestionum super totam logicam by Georgius Bruxellensis and edited by Thomas Bricot. Printed either in Basel by Michael Furter or Johann Amerbach; or in Freiburg im Breisgau by Kilianus Piscator (Fischer) circa 1494. [GW 10644; ISTC ig00148000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Basel: Michael Furter or Johann Amerbach; or Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Fischer) Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Language A language of the resource la Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1494 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bricot, Thomas (editor) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b9710cd1b17dc47eef1177a56ac4bff8.jpg c7eb457585108077e912c9ce3707f1ee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CurtinColleen Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Curtin, Colleen Description An account of the resource Colleen Curtin, Nursing Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College teachers Universities and colleges – Faculty Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f143c2c63081188e2b6f716c1d7248bb.jpg 42c482c8eb29ed8cc44498ed3fcde02e 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 Concert & Event Posters Subject The topic of the resource Posters Events Michigan Universities & colleges--Michigan Description An account of the resource Division of Student Services provides programs, services, and environments that enhance the personal, social, and intellectual growth of undergraduate and graduate students at the University. Events including concerts were managed by the office of Student Life. Posters for music, speakers, poetry readings and other campuswide events are included. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Division of Student Services Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-07-17 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 GV028-06 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1963 – 1981 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 GV028-06_CurtisMayfield Title A name given to the resource Curtis Mayfield, November 16, 1972 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities & colleges--Michigan Events Posters Description An account of the resource Curtis Mayfield, in the GVSC Fieldhouse, November 16, 1972 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grimshaw, Gary Rainbow Graphics Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg 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> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1972 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image 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/50f5f0bfff725393fe8ea23ffc45e4c0.jpg 0325550a7720d502de222a6fd8cd8c0e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1970s Thomas Jefferson 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_000291 Title A name given to the resource Curtis Menning with students in photography class. Description An account of the resource Curt Menning with students in Thomas Jefferson College photography class. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Students Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo