243 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a4de442f46ba8e7e8a19b0e5db34d63c.jpg 26a4066a0f6408070da13f3cb85b715b 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. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5fc7576f3fb5e0a71ab05c0f3063f034.m4v 379449f22faeb4adf6c42ee5e20bfc5c https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e28077674b090e59d908f0d40babe7ff.pdf 9190ccb5a6f681870a51c9ca30bccb01 PDF Text Text ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW AUDREY HAINE DANIELS, Pitcher Women in Baseball Born: Winnipeg, Canada May 5, 1927 Resides: Interviewed by: Frank Boring, GVSU Veterans History Project, August 5, 2010, Detroit, Michigan at the All American Girls Professional Baseball League reunion. Transcribed by: Joan Raymer, November 16, 2010 Interviewer: “Audrey, let’s start with your full name and where and when were you born?” My maiden name is Audrey May Haine. I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on May 5, 1927. No, May 9th, I told you I would make some mistakes, meant to say 5/9/27. Interviewer: “What was your early childhood like?” I suppose it was not much different than any of the others at that time. I had a very good childhood, it was a—my father really wasn’t there most of the time and when he was he just upset the whole thing, do you know what I mean? We had kind of a bumpy road there for a while, but we got out and played. We played baseball around the street with the other kids. 1:28 Interviewer: “Where did you grow up? Was it on land or in the city?” It was in the city of Winnipeg. Interviewer: “So, did you live in an apartment?” We had a house. Interviewer: “All right, and then you went to school, did you walk to school?” Yes we walked to school; we weren’t too far from school. Interviewer: “All right, how did you get involved with playing baseball?” 1 �With the kids in the street, I mean we always played baseball. We didn’t have to stop too often to let cars go by because where I lived in those days there weren’t too many cars. The doctor went by occasionally and we didn’t really have a good bat or a good balls. Our balls were usually half ripped, but I don’t think it ever bothered us, we were out there playing and had a great time. Interviewer: “It was neighborhood kids? Did you ever play kids in other neighborhoods? 2:30 No Interviewer: “So it was just pretty much by yourselves. How was school for you? Did you like school?” Interviewer: Oh, I liked school very much. Interviewer: “You got into high school I take it?” Yes I did Interviewer: “Did you have any idea what you wanted to do at that stage of your life?” I wanted to be a nurse. Interviewer: “How did the opportunity to become a baseball player come along?” I knew I had no opportunity to be a nurse for sure, and baseball was just something that I grew up with. I didn’t just say, “I want to be a baseball player”, I just grew up with it and I played for a team called the St. Anthony Brown Birds when I was fifteen or something like that and I was a pretty good pitcher. Interviewer: “Now, is this softball or baseball?” 2 �Softball, so I moved up to the next bracket and I played with them for a year and had a very good year. Interviewer: “Now, this is just for fun and you’re not getting paid or anything like that?” No, absolutely not, this is just teams that were put together and you had managers and everything that went with it, uniforms. 3:48 Interviewer: “All girls?” Yes, all girls Interviewer: “When did you first hear about the professional league?” Well, I got a call from a girl who played in the league the first year and her name was Dotty Hunter, she called and she said that a scout had seen me play and wanted her to get in touch with me and tell me all about the league and see if I would be interested. Interviewer: “Had you heard about it before?” No, I had never heard about the league before, so I invited Dotty over to my home and she told us, my mother and myself and my sister probably, all about the league and that it was run on very high standards and that the players lived in private homes with good families and that we got paid for playing and when on the road we had real money and stayed in the best hotels. So, that sounded pretty good to me 4:46 Interviewer: “What was your mother’s reaction?” Well, she didn’t react, and she certainly didn’t say, “no, you’re not doing that”, no she didn’t, she always let us have opportunities when they came up. Interviewer: “How old were you at that time?” Fifteen 3 �Interviewer: “So, they were offering you to play in the league at fifteen?” I was fifteen when I got my contract and I turned sixteen that following summer and then when I played and got to leave, I had just turned seventeen.. Interviewer: “What was your first experience? Did you go for tryouts?” I never went to tryouts, and being young; I assumed I was on the team. Interviewer: “Wow! Where did you go, to Peoria?” 5:46 First of all Dottie Hunter came and explained the whole thing to my mother and me finally said I could go. I had never been more than one hundred miles from home or ordered or eaten a meal out, so I was just about as green as the grass we were going to play on, you know. I had never had any experience being away, so it was a pretty exciting and nerve-wracking experience for me to join the other players from western Canada and get on the train in Winnipeg and head for Chicago. 6:48 Interviewer: “You had never been on a train before?” No, I hadn’t Interviewer: “How was the trip?” Well, it was nerve-wracking for me you know, you want to do the right thing and everything is new to you and I don’t think I slept much that first night on that train and the first sun-up I looked out and saw the wonderful rolling hills of Wisconsin go by and it is a memory etched in my mind forever, those wonderful rolling hills and green grass. Everything I did-- I was a little bit nervous about everything and when we had breakfast on the train I just didn’t even know what to order because I had never been out. Seeing the waiter with this white towel over one arm and a silver coffee pot in the other had, I 4 �was just baffled by it all. 8:05 It was just over whelming to me, but we headed out and I guess most of the girls going were in the same position as I was. Interviewer: “Had you met some of them at that point and you were talking?” Oh yeah, I had met some of them and there might have been one from the team that I was on going as well, but we headed up to Chicago and we were met there and they put us in a hotel. Interviewer: “Did you meet the chaperone? Did you have a chaperone that met you?” 8:40 No, personnel from the league met us because at that time we weren’t assigned a chaperone. You were assigned a chaperone when you were on a team. So, we arrived and they put us up in a hotel and I think it was on the seventeenth floor. Alright now, wow! Interviewer: “Did you have a room mate in your hotel room?” Yes Interviewer: “Also from Canada?” Yes, I think it was the player I had played with before. Then of course there was the spring training the first day out there. Interviewer: “What was that like coming out?” It was—I was really nervous and self-conscious because I didn’t have all those clothes and mind you there were others in the same bracket that I was, but I didn’t have the clothes that they had. I remember on a hot day I had this pleated woolen skirt on and I was just about melting, but you met these girls and they were from all over the U.S. and Canada and you realized that they were in much the same spot at I was. 9:59 Spring 5 �training went well and much like in the movie, they put up a list of who made what and where. I was assigned to the “Minneapolis Millerettes” and it was a new team in the league that year. Unfortunately the game did not go over well there because the field where we played was too large for the type of game we played and it was just something they weren’t ready for, so during the season, I guess halfway through the season, that whole team went to Fort Wayne, Indiana where it was very successful. 10:44 I played for Fort Wayne and our manager was Bill Wambsganns, who made the only unassisted triple play in the world series in 1920, I believe, and he was great. So, I played for Fort Wayne for two years I guess, Interviewer: “What was your—going back to your first team, you actually played for half the season though?” Yes I did, we played half the season and the other half we were a road team. We were called the “orphans”. Interviewer: “Did your nervousness start to go away once you started playing?” Yes I think it did a little bit, but I was always tense you know, you don’t get over that in a week or two. 11:35 Interviewer: “Plus you were very young.” Exactly, I had just turned seventeen. Interviewer: “How did you rate yourself compared to the other players? Did you feel like you were a good baseball player?” Well, I always felt like I was never as good as the others, but I was a good pitcher, yes I was Interviewer: “Is that what you trained to be, a pitcher?” 6 �Yes Interviewer: “Did you play any other position?” Never Interviewer: “Same with me, I couldn’t play any other positions and that’s why they gave me pitching.” That’s probably the way it was with me. I couldn’t have made out it any other position. Interviewer: “The first manager you had, did you learn very much from him? One of the things I have asked the girls is that they knew how to play baseball, but the managers gave them new tricks and techniques they didn’t know about.” My first manager was—I can’t remember his name, but I don’t think he really taught the girls too much. We were all so basically green that it was a big job to—but we gradually got pretty darn good. 12:49 Interviewer: “Were you thinking at that stage the this was going to be your career, that you were going to be a professional baseball player?” No, absolutely not, no Interviewer: “This is going to sound like a stupid question, but what was the point, why did you do it then?” Because it was fun and I got paid for it, I mean, it was something I loved to do and I got paid for it quite well and I was able to send money home to my mother. If you’re a ball player and you’re on a team and you’re doing ok, you’re not leaving it. Interviewer: “So, what was the fort Wayne experience like?” 13:29 It was lovely, we had a lot of Canadians on that team and I played with them for about two years and Bill Wambsganns was a terrific guy. 7 �Interviewer: “Did he treat you like a woman or treat you like a ball player?” Oh, I think he treated us like a ball player with consideration. We had chaperones of course, who really took over that part of the job. Interviewer: “You didn’t have to go through the charm school or any of that?” I did, don’t you know? Interviewer: “Well, let’s talk about that. You were a green seventeen year old.” I thought maybe you would recognize that I had been to charm school. Yes, we learned how to pour teas, how to sit properly, stand properly, how to walk with a book on your head straight and tall, and we learned all those essential things. I think they only had the charm school for one year as I recall, but we were all so bright we picked everything up in one year. 14:45 Interviewer: “What was a typical day like during the season, you got up at a certain time?” Yup, got up and if we were home, probably had a practice scheduled and of course the afternoon or evening baseball game and we had to be in the home or in our rooms when we were on the road, two hours after the game. On the road we did—we went to a movie or just walked around the city or things like that. Interviewer: “Well, this is a new experience for you and you’re completely outside of the home, what were you thinking? You make friends and there were a lot of Canadians on that team, so we felt a bond you know, so we sort of strengthened each other. 15:46 Interviewer: “there were older girls there too?” 8 �They were mostly older than I was, but they were maybe eighteen, nineteen and even twenty. Interviewer: “What was your social life like during the Fort Wayne period?” Well, very often we were invited out to dinner by some of the families, they were really very good to us and I think that was probably our only social events that we got to go to, otherwise we were pretty well secluded from—I mean it was practice in the afternoon, game at night, so you didn’t have too much time to get into trouble, but we tried hard. Interviewer: “What were the road trips like?” The road trips were a lot of fun, but also very tiring, we played every day and double headers on Sundays and got up and got on that—at first each team didn’t have a bus, so that first year we traveled by train and after that each team got their own bus. We spent the time by doing crossword puzzles, reading a book and singing the songs of , popular songs of those days. 17:04 Interviewer: “Any particular memorable games during the Fort Wayne experience?” Fort Wayne? No, I don’t think so or maybe that was the year—that might have been the year I pitched a no hitter. We were playing against Kenosha, it was a very drizzly day, kind of foggy, and I was pitching against Helen Fox, who was also a Canadian girl and very good, and we both pitched a no hitter because of course, the fog and the mist, I mean we were just great. Interviewer: “Once the season was over with you went back to Canada, you went back home?” 9 �Yes I did, went back to Winnipeg and back to my job. They always took me—I worked for the Hudson Bay Company and they always just took me back and I left in the spring and came back in the fall. 17:57 Interviewer: “They knew you were a ball player?” Yes, of course Interviewer: “Were you kind of a local celebrity?” Well I was kind of because I had done so well and my picture was in the paper practically after every game. I must sound like I’m kind of—but anyway it was because I had made the record in strikeouts and stuff like that. Yeah, people treated you very good. Interviewer: “So, Fort Wayne you did for two years and then what happened after that?” I was traded to Grand Rapids, to the Grand Rapids Chicks. I think I played with them a year and a half and then I went to—Grand Rapids Chicks, I can’t remember where after the Chicks. Interviewer: “We’ll go there later. How was your experience with the Grand Rapids Chicks?” Great, all the experiences were great. You know, we were all young, we were just looking for new friends and we did find them and you would always stay with a few Canadians because you were Canadian. I always had about four or five Canadians that went to have lunch together or whatever. The Californians probably stuck together and that’s the way it went. 19:23 Interviewer: “Any memorable games when you were with the Chicks?” 10 �No, I had some very good games, but none of them stand out except that no- hitter that I pitched. I did pitch another no hitter during my days. Interviewer: “How were the teams that you played against?” Oh, they were very good, we had some absolutely marvelous players, and they were just outstanding you know. When we first started playing, people came out to laugh—“oh my gosh, girl baseball players”, but we showed them that we could play just as well as men and gradually then the game did change into the regular baseball. 20:18 Interviewer: “So, you started out pitching underhand?” Yes, and then side arm and then overhand. Interviewer: “How was that transition for you?” It went pretty well. When they transferred from the regular, from the size of baseball that we were using to the regular hardball size, they sent us baseballs for us to work on before we got to the spring training and Doris Barr, who lived on the same street as I did, just per chance, she knew someone who allowed us to practice in the armory where we had a lot of space and that’s what we did. 21:08 Interviewer: “So by the time you got to spring training, you already had been practicing throwing overhand?” Right Interviewer: “Was that a difficult transition for you though?” Not really, I don’t recall it as being, if I had to pitch overhand I would have found that difficult. 11 �Interviewer: “Did your record change? You were pitching very well in the beginning with the larger ball, but was there any difference in terms of your record?” I can’t tell you that, I just really—it’s not a secret or anything, I just don’t remember. Interviewer: “Nobody complained anyway and said you were a lousy pitcher now?” No, they didn’t fire me or anything. 21:52 Interviewer: “What did you think of the uniform?” It didn’t matter what kind of uniform they would have given us, we would have put it on. We were playing baseball and we were so thrilled to be there, but there was a lot of laughing etc. of the uniforms, especially by fans in the first year, but I think most of us liked to play in that. I cannot speak for all of them and I know that some didn’t. Interviewer: “I guess what I’m trying to get at is, I know a lot of them did adjustments. One of you said that when she first started wearing it and when she went out to catch a ball she got most of her hands in her dress as opposed to getting the ball. Did you alter your uniform at all?” I altered mine because coming through on the pitch. I had to pin a large portion of the dress onto the front so it wouldn’t go into that material. 22:52 Interviewer: “If you were on the bus and you needed to get off the bus could you wear blue jeans?” No, no, you had to have a dress or skirt on and no, we were never allowed to get off at stops, so we followed the rules. Interviewer: “The playing field it’s self changed, the distance and whatnot. How did you adjust to that?” 12 �Yes it did and yes, Philip Wrigley wanted the game to be faster and more like baseball, so the pitchers mound was lengthened and the base paths were lengthened and now we were pitching either side arm, I believe started side arm, and then side arm and overhand, so those were the changes that were made and you could of course in regular softball you can’t lead off now, so we could do everything that the major leagues could do. 24:03 Interviewer: “Then you were traded again?” Yes, then I was traded to oh, gosh, the Peoria Red Wings. Interviewer: “How was that experience?” Very nice and I liked that team very much. We had a very good team. Interviewer: “Any favorites of the three?” I think Fort Wayne, I think because of all the Canadians on that team. Interviewer: “Any particular hitter that you did not want to go up against?” I know there were some that didn’t want to go up against me because I was wild at times. Of course there were hitters that I didn’t want to pitch against. I mean they were good hitters. 24:58 Interviewer: “By the time you got through several years now, were you looking at this as something that was a lot of fun and not something you were going to do for the rest of your life?” Oh no, no, no Interviewer: “What did you want to do?” I wanted to get married and I had been going with my husband, previously my boyfriend, for six years or so, so we eventually got married. 13 �Interviewer: “I guess that’s one of the questions that I have. How did you meet him?” Oh, we lived on the same block and on the same street. Interviewer: “Oh, from childhood?” Yeah, we never dated anyone else and now we have been married for sixty-one years. Interviewer: “Wow! I didn’t know that.” We’re going to stick with it. 26:02 Interviewer: “You’re finally sure of each other.” Yeah, the trial’s over. Interviewer: “Alright, so you knew him from childhood and you went off to play, you came back and he was?” He was there waiting. Actually we generally played catch most of the time. Walking down the street, he’d go backwards and I’m be going forward pitching to him, but that’s what we did.” Interviewer: “Did he come to any of your games?” I think he was able to get to—let’s see, one of the seasons, where was I at that time? He came down to see me play. Interviewer: “I understand he has a special picture he carries around with him?” He does Interviewer: “What is that picture?” It’s of me in my uniform and he’s carried it around for all the years we’ve known—when we got the picture it was probably in the third year or something of my ball days and yes, 14 �he still has it. 27:12 He’s very proud of it and I’m proud of the picture and proud of him, maybe proud of him and then proud of the picture. Interviewer: “What brought your baseball career to an end?” Getting married, what could you do? I mean, yes we got married and I did play for a year after that, yes. Interviewer: “Then what, you got married and had a child as well, but did you go to work of any kind? Were you still working?” No, and then we were living in the states, we had moved from Canada and I played home games for the Rockford Peaches. Interviewer: “But then, you made a decision not to play anymore? The league still went on didn’t it?” 28:11 Well, I made the decision because we had family and then another family and you know, we added on and it was impossible for me to play, but I think family like probably just became more important. Interviewer: “Did you miss it?” I think I probably did, no doubt about that. Interviewer: “Some of the girls never even talked about their baseball career and their kids didn’t even know about it. How about you?” Same thing, because people made fun of you, like you told them you played and you played men’s rules and they go and say,”yeah”, you know, “yeah, right”, so you felt embarrassed, so there came a time when you didn’t tell anybody. 29:02 Interviewer: “How did that change because you came to a certain point in your life—you’re coming to reunions for example?” 15 �Absolutely Interviewer: “Was it the movie that changed things?” I think so and I think the movie helped a great deal, right. Interviewer: “How did you hear about the movie to begin with?” We had meetings and talked about this movie and that there was a possibility because of the Players Association, we have a Players Association, and all news gets into the newsletter and people have a chance to study it and that’s how it came about. Interviewer: “Now, the association formally began in? I forgot what year it was, do you remember?” I do not. Interviewer: “Were you one of the first members?” Oh yeah, I was one of the first, I mean in that group. Interviewer: “Right, we talked with someone who actually put together the original database and contacted all of you and said, “we’re forming this association”. 30:05 After all those that have gone by and not talking about it, why did you want to get involved with an association of ex ball players?” Of course you’re—it’s in you and of course you’ve met all these young women and everything. The girls you played with, I mean they were all important to us and they were like family to us. After all we lived with them all summer and played ball and kept in touch with them and Christmas cards and they were and still are a very, very important part of our life. Interviewer: “What did you think of the movie? 16 �Well, I think we liked the movie because we saw that it was pretty well accurate and we were happy with Madonna’s part in it. I mean, it wasn’t what Madonna was popular for at that time, so we were happy with the movie. 31:13 I think we all really liked it, I did anyway. Interviewer: “Did it change your attitude about talking about the baseball period?” Yeah, it did, definitely, oh definitely because now people saw it and they were able to see that it was pretty good and these girls could really play. Interviewer: “In terms of reaction, people actually treat you almost like movie stars because of that movie.” Yes they do. Interviewer: “It rubs off on me, I told my students--I’m a professor at the university, and I tell my students that I’m doing this documentary and they’re excited because I get a chance to meet you.” It’s amazing you know, we can’t understand it, but now we’re used to it because it’s been going on year after year and they come and, “oh my gosh, can I have your autograph?” Come on. 32:15 Interviewer: “You seem amused by it.” I am amused by it you know, by the way they are just lined up with a hat to sign or a baseball glove or a card or whatever. Interviewer: “Why do you think people react that way?” Well, I think it was something different that turned out ok. It was pleasing to watch, it was on the up and up. 17 �Interviewer: “Now, you had a full life, you’ve had a family and you’ve had a lot of other experiences, and how does that few years, how does that fit into the scheme of things in your life? You obviously loved it.” You’re asking me to compare that? Interviewer: “Yes, somewhat.” My baseball life with my family life?” 33:08 Interviewer: “Well, I’m not asking you for a comparison, if you prefer this or prefer that, just where does it fit in terms of—some of the girls said, for example, it was their first experience of really becoming a woman and having a more broad understanding of life as opposed to being in a small town. Was it a like changing experience for you at all?” It taught me a lot. It taught me to be considerate, it taught me quite a few things you know. Interviewer: “At the very least you know how to pour tea, right?” Listen, I was one of them that learned how to pour tea and if you ever need someone to pour tea at some of your social events. Interviewer: “I’m going to ask you about putting a book on your head and see if you can still do that or not.” I honestly—yes, we learned all that and I thought you would notice it. 34:12 Interviewer: “Looking back on it now you said you’re amused by how so many people just get so excited about all this kind of thing and I had asked you why you think people are so excited about it and you said because it was something unique and it’s got to be more than that. It’s—young girls especially look up to you.” 18 �Yes they do, they really do. I mean, even now if we go out to eat or if somebody knows that I played in the league, they are just all mushy. We get better service, we give them a card and it just fixes everything up. Interviewer: “I want to ask you a more philosophical question, it may be a tough one. Looking back on that experience at that time, what do you think the All American Girls Baseball League accomplished? What do you think they—I mean they were a baseball team, there are lots of baseball teams.” 35:15 No, we accomplished more than playing baseball, we showed that we were as equal as boys. Coming into sports and giving the women’s sports the same consideration that you’re giving the boys and we did you know, chapter nine [Title IX] was passed for equal opportunity in sports and I think we accomplished a great deal and we’re proud of what we did, we’re very proud of it. If you’ve been through—I’m sure you’ve been through and seen the girls and that and yes, we’re proud of what we did. Interviewer: “Let me ask you a real stupid question. Why do you come to the reunions?” Because I love all of my friends and it’s so exciting. You come to see your friends, absolutely; because they’re like more than just friends and some of them you probably think are your family you know. Yes, that’s why we all come and I’m sure that you might get a similar answer from many. 36:27 Interviewer: “One of the things about reunions that I’ve learned, because I got to reunions of my fathers, for example, because of his military history. You get to know people that you didn’t get to know when you were playing ball. Did you meet some of the players that you never knew?” 19 �Yes, absolutely, that’s true—that you never got to meet. You played against them, but then you were a player and they were a player and you just hoped you got the batter of them, but other than that, you come for your love of the game and love of the people you played with. Interviewer: “Did you have any involvement in the production of the film like some of the women did?” 37:16 I happened to be an extra. I did get into the movie as an extra and it was great and I got paid. Interviewer: “What scene were you in?” Ah, well when they were talking about the Canadians there was a scene there and they were singing a song about the Canadians and there were about three or four Canadians and they had us standing at the back and we were Canadians, Irish ones and Swedes, so there were a few Canadians in that. Then I was in another spot too, but you know, you have to be quick to see that. Interviewer: “Were you in Cooperstown film at all?” Yes and that’s in Cooperstown and that’s in the scene where we’re being inducted into the Hall of Fame. 38:18 Interviewer: “Now, did you go to the induction?” Absolutely Interviewer: “What was that like?” Incredible, incredible, I mean it’s all incredible you know, something that other people have never done. I’m sure other people have done more important things, but this was special. 20 �Interviewer: “What was your reaction to the whole league being inducted into the Hall of Fame?” It’s fabulous, I mean we all figured we had it coming and we deserved it so to speak. We played hard and a lot of people enjoyed our games and why not? 39:05 Interviewer: “My favorite scene in the whole movie, and I actually use it in my classes, is the scene between Tom Hanks and Geena Davis where he says—“she said it got too hard.” Yes, that’s one of my favorites. Interviewer: “That brings tears to my eyes whenever I watch that.” It’s hard yes, something like everything is hard you know. Yes, that’s one of my favorite spots. Interviewer: “He says, “of course it’s hard, if it was easy everybody could do it”, and obviously they couldn’t because only you guys could do it.” Right Interviewer: “Which is great. Well good, I’ve enjoyed myself and I hope you have survived through this.” Yeah, well I did my best. Interviewer: “Thank you so much.” 21 �22 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was started by Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, during World War II to fill the void left by the departure of most of the best male baseball players for military service. Players were recruited from across the country, and the league was successful enough to be able to continue on after the war. The league had teams based in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and operated between 1943 and 1954. The 1954 season ended with only the Fort Wayne, South Bend, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Rockford teams remaining. The League gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball. Many of the players went on to successful careers, and the league itself provided an important precedent for later efforts to promote women's sports. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-58)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Sports for women World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Oral history Baseball players--Minnesota Baseball players--Indiana Baseball players--Wisconsin Baseball players--Michigan Baseball players--Illinois Baseball for women--United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-58 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-10-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. 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-58_ADaniels Title A name given to the resource Daniels, Audrey (Interview transcript and video), 2010 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dearfield, Norma Description An account of the resource Audrey Daniels was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1927. She grew up playing ball with the boys in the neighborhood, and then joined a girls' team when she was fifteen. She was later spotted by Dotty Hunter, who had played in the All American league's first season and encouraged her to try out. She joined the league in 1944, and was assigned initially to the Minneapolis Millerettes, who then moved to Fort Wayne, and she later played for Grand Rapids, South Bend and Rockford. She was a successful pitcher who threw several no-hitters over the course of her career. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Boring, Frank (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) Video recordings All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Baseball for women--United States Baseball Sports for women World War, 1939-1945 Baseball players--Indiana Baseball players--Minnesota Baseball players--Michigan Baseball players--Illinois Women 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 2010-08-07 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c5b6c020c55bc76f9c0961283bbd2dcf.mp4 82a3387a6491c93b57b3692ed2d69462 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/eb05af25d56f4d5b7cad1aab799a3731.pdf 41f571904a625f2aa8ad601621ddcffb PDF Text Text ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW BUD DANIELS REGARDING AUDREY HAINE DANIELS Women in Baseball Born: Resides: Interviewed by: Frank Boring, GVSU Veterans History Project, August 5, 2010, Detroit, MI at the All American Girls Professional Baseball League reunion. Transcribed by: Joan Raymer, May 12, 2011 Interviewer: “Lets begin with your full name and where and when were you born?” My first name is Austin, but I’m Bud, Bud Daniels and I was born in Winnipeg like Audrey—grew up there. I spent the whole early part of my life in Winnipeg, even up through the time and all the years that Audrey was playing baseball. You asked interesting questions about how she got—she’s extremely modest, extremely so because—we lived on the same street and in the same block. She lived at 729 College and I lived at 628, but as kids, we just grew up together and sports were a common interest. I played hockey and she played baseball, so we had a lot of—sports was our common ground. 30:26 She first started out playing with the St. Anthony Brown Birds and it was her first organized baseball and I saw her from starting there and, of course, she went to the St. Fidel Tigerettes. She was in the senior women’s league in Winnipeg at sixteen and she was playing with these women that were probably in their mid twenties. They were the prime seniors fast pitch softball players in Winnipeg, but she was just sixteen when she tried out with the St. Fidel Tigerettes in 1943. 31:03 She wound up pitching for the Tigerettes and they won the seniors women’s championship that year. Now, they played seven inning games, double headers twice a week, I think, these seven inning double headers. She said she had her picture in the paper a lot and she did and there are many games where she had nineteen, twenty or twenty-one strike outs 1 �in a seven inning game, which was just incredible, and that’s how she got picked up by the league. In the year they won the championship, 1943, was the best of seven championships and she pitched all seven games and won four and lost three and they were all extremely close games. But, it was from that year she had with The St. Fidel Tigerettes, which was the senior women’s fast pitch league that the scouts saw her. It wasn’t just that she knew Dolly Hunter, the scouts had actually seen her pitch and that’s really how she got rolling into the pros. 32:16 Interviewer: “This is probably a tough question, but when did it turn from neighbor, friend to “I think I want to marry that woman”?” Gosh, it was a slow process because it started out that I would never miss one of her games in 1942 when she played with the Brown Birds, then 1943 before she went away, but we still we were a pair through 1944, I mean I didn’t date any other girls, I wasn’t interested, but we were just generally interested in each other and grew that way, grew that way. 33:02 I never got to see then play until 1948, I never saw her play. I man, I couldn’t afford—I was in the engineering business in Winnipeg, I was serving in an apprenticeship, so I couldn’t get away, but that last year, we were getting married in November of 1948, and July of 1948 I went down to see them play and I was aghast at the baseball. I remember her—all the great games she had as a softball pitcher, this wasn’t softball, this was hardball let me tell you, and they really played—I couldn’t believe the level. I use to go to see the northern league hardball, as we called it, northern league baseball up there, professional ball, and those women played every bit as good as those northern league players. I was amazed at how good they were. It was really an awakening to me because I followed the papers and I would send the clips of different 2 �games, but it’s not like being there and seeing it. 34:09 When you see it you really have to believe it. I just saw some outstanding plays and what not. We also had a very good friend, a lifetime friend that we had—she played in the league and Audrey referred to her not by that, but it was Dottie Key, Dottie Ferguson, and they stood up for us when we got married, we stood up for them and you were talking about—did you have any batter that was, you know, but she didn’t say anything about Dottie, but Dottie, she was her very best friend, our best friend. When Audrey pitched for Peoria against Rockford, Dottie was one—she would make Audrey pitch to her and she would lean way over the plate purposely to get hit because she was one of the top base stealers in the league. 35:02 So, that’s how—she would purposely tell us that she was going to get on base. Audrey was her best friend, but she would lean way over the plate to get hit, because she couldn’t get a hit on her, but she would get hit and she’d get on base and once she got on there was a pretty good chance she was going to steal it. 1948 was the first year I saw them play and it was just an incredible experience. I guess I’m one of the few that’s still around that actually saw these women play, but they were outstanding. Interviewer: “When did you start carrying the picture in the wallet? When did that start?” Actually I got that and I started carrying that the year we got married. 1948, the summer of 1948, when I was down there, and this was a team picture, just of herself, they took individual pictures of the players and I have this picture of her and this picture has been in my wallet for sixty-two years, and that’s the condition of it. 36:30 Every day for sixty-two years, that’s the picture. That’s gone through about eight or ten wallets, but I think just the quality of that picture from 1948 is outstanding. 3 �Interviewer: “Beautiful, at the last reunion you were off by yourself and we just got talking and that’s when you pulled that out and I said I had to get you on camera with that picture and now we’ve got it, which is great, which is great. Let me ask you the same question I asked Audrey. What do you make of all this “whoop la la” about all of this?” 37:18 Well you know, when you went back earlier they didn’t talk about it. Our kids never knew anything about it, never talked about it and it was just like it never even existed. But, in 1982 when they had their first reunion in Chicago that opened the whole thing wide open. From there on, each reunion, there became more interest in this talk about the book or the movie or something else and it’s absolutely taken off. Now, today, I’ll bet you when we get home there are going to be at least four or five pieces of mail requesting autographs. There is not a week that goes by that she doesn’t get mail-requesting autographs, information about somebody who’s doing an essay for school, it’s endless. 38:17 I said it’s hard to believe, I know a couple of months ago I mailed twenty-one pieces of mail and I said, “How can this be after all these years?” But, that’s what happens—the media—through the movie, there’s not—I haven’t run across anybody who hasn’t seen this movie. Like I said, we go to a restaurant or something—we know different ones that know her and they come and see her and talk about it and then they bring other waitresses over to meet this woman, it just goes on and on and it’s wonderful. 39:06 I said to Audrey many times, I said, “when you have the opportunity to talk to somebody you should tell them about this, don’t keep it a secret. You’re not bragging or anything, you’re sharing a wonderful moment”. I said, “that’s what you have to do, you have to allow other people access to all this”, so she does now and it’s wonderful. I said, 4 �“share it, share it, don’t take it with you, share it and let as many people as possible enjoy it”. Interviewer: “That’s wonderful and thank you so much.” 5 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was started by Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, during World War II to fill the void left by the departure of most of the best male baseball players for military service. Players were recruited from across the country, and the league was successful enough to be able to continue on after the war. The league had teams based in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and operated between 1943 and 1954. The 1954 season ended with only the Fort Wayne, South Bend, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Rockford teams remaining. The League gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball. Many of the players went on to successful careers, and the league itself provided an important precedent for later efforts to promote women's sports. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-58)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Sports for women World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Oral history Baseball players--Minnesota Baseball players--Indiana Baseball players--Wisconsin Baseball players--Michigan Baseball players--Illinois Baseball for women--United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-58 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-10-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. 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In addition to telling his side of their story, he discusses both the quality of play he saw, and the popularity of the league and their players over the past twenty years. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Boring, Frank (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) Video recordings All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Baseball for women--United States Baseball Sports for women World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-08-05 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/cf93d3ea31d017714663de671f188ce3.pdf 1f9671dc4ecd8af4c7a1faf8ccb4255e PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Vietnam War Wesley Daniels (15:02) Background Information (00:20)    Served in the Marine Corps (00:20) Wesley joined the Marines after being influenced by many of his school friends who also enlisted. (00:40) Wesley believed he would be drafted if he didn’t first enlist. (1:18) Service (1:30)         He served in Helicopter Squadron 647, which was based just south of Da Nang. (1:42) Wesley served as a squadron clerk. He handled much of the administrative business of his squadron. (1:47) After several months working as a clerk he asked to be transferred to a ground unit so he had a chance to fight. Instead he was told to go on a helicopter flight and then visit the hospital. He changed his mind as a result. (2:55) Wesley felt pretty safe in his area of work. (4:50) He wrote many letters and was once allowed to call home in order to talk with his family. (5:40) The men would often go to China Beach for recreation where the men were able to drink beer and relax. (6:52) Wesley went to Australia for some R&R. For his second R&R he went to Bangkok, Thailand. (7:30) He was able to see fire fights happening at night from the base that he was stationed at. (8:50) End of Service (10:35)      Wesley was excited to leave Vietnam. After being home for a week, he began attending Junior college. He did not experience much protesting when he returned from service. (11:34) He does not believe his military experience affected his life as a civilian too greatly. (12:40) He is a member of veterans' organizations. (13:30) Over all, Wesley was glad to have a chance to serve his country. (14:24) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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 Daniels, Wesley (Interview outline), 2012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daniels, Wesley Description An account of the resource Wesley Daniels enlisted in the Marine Corps and served during the Vietnam War. He Served in Helicopter Squadron 647 and worked as a clerk. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Plattner, Spencer (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/83ef58ff7fd401a2fcfd54c26e691194.pdf a6c401321cd204b372ff1c1e460f533f PDF Text Text Dare To Follow the Light Text: Isaiah 60:6-7; Ephesians 3:9; Matthew 2:2 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan January 5, 1997 Transcription of the spoken sermon Epiphany, the manifestation of Christ, the Light of which the prophet in Israel spoke, that Light of God which was Israel's treasure in order that they might be a beacon to the nations, Matthew now sees coming to manifestation in Jesus. There, in the face of Jesus, we see into the heart of God. And Paul with his experience, being knocked off his horse by that light from heaven, realizes that the mystery of God hid for the ages, now manifest, is that there is grace for the whole world. That really is the Epiphany story. We read it in Matthew's Gospel, and not only there but in the prophet, in Paul's understanding, the Light has come. "The Light has come; the Light has dawned upon you." The light has dawned upon us but we recognize immediately in that story of Jesus as Matthew tells it that, when the light comes, the darkness is threatened, and all hell breaks loose. This is the story of Herod, threatened by the announcement of this newborn king, who passes a decree that the innocents should be slaughtered in order to wipe out any pretender to the throne. Matthew is telling us immediately in this joyous announcement of the birth of Jesus that the world will not take kindly to the light, and that has been the story down through 2000 years, has it not? It has been the story forever. The Christian Gospel is the announcement of the Light of God. It is seen in continuity with that light that dawned on Israel, and now for 2000 years the Gospel has been proclaimed and the light of God has shined throughout the whole world. This morning I want to suggest to you that it is not a question of whether or not the Light has dawned. The question always before the Church, and the question before us this morning is whether or not we will dare to follow the Light. I want to suggest to you that Paul was a courageous person who made a radical break with that heavy, sturdy tradition in which he had been nurtured. When confronted by the Light, he recognized the call of God to take the Light to the nations. We take that for granted. We celebrate Epiphany as the dawning of the Light that had shone on Israel, which was now being manifest to the whole world, symbolized by the coming of the Magi. So, it's ho-hum; we take it for granted. © Grand Valley State University   �Dare to Follow the Light Richard A. Rhem Page 2   But, you couldn't have taken it for granted if you had lived at the time of the event itself. For Paul to realize, to sense a calling of God, to take the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles involved Paul going contrary to all of that that had been nurtured in him. Paul had to be a person of daring to say that the Gentiles can be reconciled to God by God's grace without first becoming Jews. Paul was a radical reformer, and there was great tension in that early Church. It was a long time before the question was settled as to whether or not there would be a separate Jesus Christian Movement or whether Paul could prevail within the Jewish community itself to see in Jesus this Light of God. But, Paul had the courage to act on his conviction and that at great cost. As he writes in this third chapter to the Ephesians, the secret, long hid with God, but now made manifest, is precisely that - that the grace of God is for the Gentiles so that Jew and Gentile will form one new humanity. In another place in this letter he speaks about that wall of separation being torn down. Paul had cut his eyeteeth on the idea of Jewish separation, that separation over against all others. But, Paul says no more wall, no more partition, no more separation. Now what God has said in Jesus Christ is that God is moved to embrace all. That took courage and Paul paid for it dearly, as many of his writings will indicate. My Epiphany message 1997 is this: Do we have the courage to follow the light? Our problem is not a lack of knowledge. I think the prophets and apostles and preachers for ages have recognized that the light has dawned. But there has been a failure of nerve to live out the implications of the light. It seems to me that here we are 2000 years down from the event of the gift of that one in whose face we've seen the light of the glory of God. What are the issues before us in the light of that light; what is God calling us to do and to be in our day in order to follow the light? It's one thing to dance in the light. It's another thing to behave and to act in light of the light. I want to suggest to you, because of the nature of our situation, that the stand we have taken as a congregation is the only responsible and reasonable way in which the Church of Jesus Christ can respond to the light and follow the light. Bill Moyers has been in the news a lot lately. His Genesis series is very, very popular, and he's done a lot of other things. I knew he was a Southern Baptist minister, but I was surprised that Southern Baptists invited him to address the Texas Conference, because the Southern Baptist Convention has been taken over in the last decade or decade and a half by very conservative, fundamentalist forces. But, Moyers addressed the Texas Southern Baptist Convention and he said to them in a little clip I found in the newspaper, that there is a "whole new religious reality out there" and you have to change from militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static. Well, it sounds like he really gave them both barrels, and he probably won't be invited back, but what he said is true and we all know it. There's a whole new religious reality out there and most of the Church wants to put its head in the sand as though it doesn't exist. © Grand Valley State University �Dare to Follow the Light Richard A. Rhem Page 3   Isaiah thought the end was imminent and the light was dawning. Five hundred years later, and Matthew thought the light had dawned and the end was imminent. And now it's 2000 years later still. Do you suppose that God in heaven is saying, "What in heaven's name are you people doing? Why don't you keep following the light? Why don't you keep working out the implications of the light?" Is it not evident to anybody with any sensitivity to our present global situation that world evangelization that has been the impulse of the Church all these years is an impulse that has hit a dead end? We do not see the evangelization of the world according to the Gospel of Christ. We see the resurgence of the great world religions. We live in a global community that must increasingly become a community of communities. We are able to communicate together in the world that has become a neighborhood; we are learning the insights and the sensitivities and the light that has dawned on others. Are we not being challenged to go into the arena and share our insight and our light that has been God's gift through Jesus Christ with others who share their gifts, as well? On the edge of the third millennium, should we not be facing the reality of global consciousness and working out the implications for our pluralistic world? Paul was confronted with a new situation a new door opened and Paul had the courage to go through that door. It is time for someone to recognize that the mystery is even deeper, grander, and brighter than even Paul understood, that God has a grander scheme, and that we have a treasure in Jesus Christ to bring to the table in a world that sits down and discusses the respective riches of the traditions, bringing together the Light that God has given. It's one thing to say the Light has dawned. It's another thing to have the courage to live out its implications, and it does take courage. Such courage is exercised only at considerable cost. That's the reason that the world is not transformed. It's not a lack of light; it's a lack of courage. I got a letter the other day from an old friend. Really a dear letter. Worried about me, he says after a bit, "What if you've been wrong? What if the faith you once held but have moved more and more away from is true?" He's a friend saying to me, "What if you're wrong?" Well, he says I hear you say I'm willing to take that chance. Finally, he says, "So, I invite you to take a fresh look, to ask again for God's light." I say, "Fine. Don't think I don't." I know that there is insight out there; there's a sense down deep in the core of many people that the kind of things I have said publicly are what any reasonable analysis would conclude, but it's costly and it takes courage to say it. That word has appeared in letter after letter from around the world. "Thank you for your courage." Do we have the courage to follow the light? How long will we bask in the Light that has dawned without doing something about it because, without the courage to act on the Light, the world will not be transformed. © Grand Valley State University �Dare to Follow the Light Richard A. Rhem Page 4   The issue that got us into controversy a year ago was the issue of sexual orientation and my recognition because of the growing light, knowledge, and experience, that sexual orientation is not a moral issue. I have in my hands a book which is brilliant. It's called Virtually Normal, written by Andrew Sullivan, who is the editor of "The New Republic." It is splendidly written and beautifully argued, and Andrew Sullivan, dealing with the whole matter of sexual orientation, himself being a gay man, speaks about various groups lined up on this issue - the prohibitionists, the liberationists, the conservatives, the liberals he comes to the liberals, and one would think that he, being a gay person, would affirm the liberal attempt to create space for the gay/lesbian community. He is appreciative of the legislation that seeks to rule out discrimination and that kind of thing, but he says finally the liberals who believe in freedom are denying their own most fundamental principles because this issue is not something that can finally be legislated and it cannot be fixed by law. Then speaking for himself, but I think speaking out of a profound experience and a brilliant insight, he says that the key to the healing and liberation of any person of homosexual orientation lies within themselves. He points to the civil rights movement of the 60s and he says perhaps the most enduring legacy of the civil rights movement was not its panoply of complicated and cumbersome laws, but the memory of the simple courage of those who stood up in the face of considerable danger for their dignity and equality. "What one remembers, what will never be erased from human consciousness was the gleam of integrity in the eyes of those who took it upon themselves to change their world, expecting no protection and no applause for doing so. It is courage that gets noticed and courage that changes the world." The pain of the homosexual experience requires that kind of catharsis to be healed. Nothing else can replace it. That is the case with Jerry Crane, the teacher in Byron Center who declared who he was in his faithful covenant relationship with another, who to be sure was hounded out of his teaching job and who had to endure two and three and four times as much press as I have, but who nevertheless as a dignified human being, as a man of class and culture, had the gleam in his eye because he was who he was and he stood there exposed in his full humanity. He died this week, but his courage will change the world. I'll tell you there are all kinds of us crouching in the bushes, and I'm not talking now about sexual orientation, I'm talking about the things, the core values by which we live - there are all kinds of us who believe things deep down that we've never had enough courage to stand up and speak for. And there's only one thing that really liberates the human soul; there's only one thing that brings us into the fullness of the human experience - it is when we are true to the light as it has dawned upon us. When the light has dawned upon us and we are true to it, we may find ourselves in Ramah, weeping for our children, not able to be comforted. But we will have been true, and when we will have been true, that will be enough. © Grand Valley State University � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/482a107479c0f0dee2a4cc8fab1ca231.mp3 3c84ed5ea3e120e9c0c42966d8e7c48f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. 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Epiphany Light of God Pluralism Universal Grace https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/292423754640b1f17d1370147e49a3e2.pdf fec0f60252f10607b47a4917ae25cfe5 PDF Text Text Gra11d Rapids Boat and Canoe Club gets into, action, and the camera man ''shoots'' the veteran of the ''8'' cre,,1, Howard IVIacMillan, a11d Capt. Russell Davis, who have pulled the oars for four years with the big crew. · �I ~fAY 7, 1922. _.. ., ,~ ----::;:----------------- COMMON SCENES ON GRAND RIVER GRAND RAPIDS BOAT AND CANOE CLUB CREWS AT WORK. 1.-Rookie eight in foreground and veteran eight in rear. Members of crew·s are: Rookie-Antrim, DeFoe, Kuyper, Otte, Gogulski, Leys, Vander Hyde, Buekema. Ranger is acting as coxwain. Veteran: Capt. Davis, Mc• Mirian, Young. Bursma, Donker, Thorndyke, Tanis and Hoek. De Young is coxwain. 2.-Hoek in single. 3.-The four-, composed of Hoek, Yeung, Bursma, Davis, 4.-Capt. Qavies. 5.-Capt, Davis and Bunker. 6.-Practice of putting eight in river correctly. This is some job, at that. �,.. , - • ... 1 • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 191g. 7 =-=============================-===-::-:=====================--==-==--==== Local Crews Capture Regatta at Chicago, Taking Seven FirSts Local boating enthusiasts had all Tl1e senior double race was take11 their expectations more than ful- by half a boat length by Kortla11der filled Monday ~·hen the Grand Rap- and Petersen of Grand Rapids o,rer ids Boat and Canoe club squad of a fast Chicago crew. The eightcrack oarsmen and paddle artists oar race brought out two of the \·vere-rett1rned the victors in their fastest eights in the middle ,vest. regatta at Chicago ,,rith the Chicago The Chicago me·n had trained hard Boat club, taking seven firsts in the for this race and tl1eir club mates big n1eet. had great faith in them. At the Chicago won but three races. start Chicago jun1ped into a. sca11t Grand Rapids did ·not have a crew 10-foot lead which they held for a for the junior double shell and in quarter mile. From here on first the junior single shell Petersen was one crew and tl1e11 the other \·vo1.11d rowing his fifth race of the day change positio11s until the la,st and was unable to hold the pace l qt1arter. Both crews were on e·ven that earlier in the day had vton the I terms when Chicago started to Chicago championship for him. sprint. The cheers of the 10,000 Chicago also captured the si-:.1gle rooters had hardly started v\rhe11 paddle ca·noe race. the Grand Rapids men could l1e The record of Grand Rapids' vie- seen gaining with e·very stroke and tories tells a story of 1iard prepara- within 100 J,.ards of the finish the:v tion and excellent tutoring by Coach I had pulled i11to the lead, which Corbet, who thus adds another to was maintained to the line. Coach his long string of enviable coaching Corbet's crew rowed a wonderful records. The local boys returned race. All the members are new men home Tuesday morning bearing 2 3 developed this )'"ear and wPre gold medals and all the Chicago ! matched against the best men Chichampionships. ca go could place against them. The All races were held in the lagoon winning eight "ra8 composed of at Lincoln park. The Grand Rap- Wagnaar. Gill, 1\icDonald, Goel1el. ids crews started off with a rush. Allen, l\iicMillan ,Zweekyk, Da,.. is Thev captured the senior single in , and Raiguel, coxswain. which the fastest men of Chicago ! In the canoe races the Gra11 d were entered. Jules Petersen, row- I Rapids paddle sharks upheld the ing in splendid form, was seldom honor of the club by winning the in danger of being headed. fast four-man race with Leitz, 1 The quarter-mile dash for singles I Moha11, Tanis and Van Ess. In the was won by Kortlan-der of thE; tandem canoe Leitz and va·n Ess Gra·nd Rapids club, who led Slocum, of Grand R~pids captured a beau'of Chicago by fi,ye feet. The se11.ior ' tjful race. four shell was• one of the hardest The C . .1\. A. swimming cl1an1pionfought races of the day, hut Grand ships "·ere held just before the Rapids won from Chicago in the regatta and the local crevvs witl~st 100 yards. Gill. l\1cDonald, nessed some wonderful aquatic Davis and Wagnaar composed the j work by Perry McGillivray, Norman ,,iutg.~~ous ere'"'"'· Ross and other stars. 1 ( �' ... .... . -,, . • -Noted Oarsman Dies at 83 • John F. Corbet, one of the country's noted oarsmen in his younger I days, as he appeared at the he~ght of his career in 1893 when he won 1 a $1,000 prize at the Columbian exposition, def eating Edward Clator in a single sculls race. 1· Bury Corbet, Note·d Sculler, Tomorrow Funeral services for Jol1n F. Cor• bet, in his younger days one of the most fan1ous oarsmen of the country when that sport ranked high in popularity, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel at 5501 North Ashland avenue. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery. Corbet, who was 83 years old, died Friday in his home at 6329 North Francisco avenue. A month ago he I attended the funeral of Edward Cla• tor, Corbet's opponent in his last professional race. In 1893, as a feature of the world's Columbian exposition, Corbet beat Clator in a single scull race and won. the then unheard of purse of $1,000. Wins U. S. Amateur Title. I11 his prime, Corbet held the ama• teur championship of tl1e Unit e.d Mr. Corbet as ~e appeared in States for single sculls from 1887 through 1889, defeating sucl1 famous his later years. Funeral services r o,vers as Edward Hamlon, George will be held tomorrow. Hosmer, and John Teemer, and Denny Donohue of Hamilto11, Can. The defeat of Donohue was Corbet's biggest thrill because the Chicagoan 1 tl1at day was the under dog in the betti11g. . In 1887 Corbet, representing Chicago, won the senior singles championship of the Mississippi Valley Rowing association, and the North• western university race. On Lake • Chatauqua, N. Y., he repeated this feat , a11d the following day defeated the l best amateurs of the United States a.nd Canada. 1 Record Stands 15 ¥ears. The next year, at Duluth, Minn., Corbet rowed tl1e quarter mile in one minute and lD seconds. This mark . remai11ed 011 the records of. the Arna, teur Athletic union for fifteen years. ~ At that time Corbet was a rmember of the old Farragut Boat club, to whicl1 leading Chicago sportsmen belonged. Soon after the old world's fair, Corbet b e came coach of the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club, a position he held for seven years. In all except one year his crew swept the v1aters of the central west in every rowing eve11 t. He the11 became coach of the Lincoln Park Boat and Canoe club, remaining t h ere for twelve years, during the time of the late Walter Eckersall of University of Chicago football fame who became a sports w r i t e r for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Corbet had been employed by the Peoples Gas Light and Coke company s.ince 1873. He retired on a pension in 1921. A son, George H., survives. . , · . . , One Son Killed in Action. Another son, John F . Jr., was killed in action with the marines . during the world war. The son, who had bee11 trained by his father, at the time of his death held the Mississippi valley rowing championship of the single sculls, ,vl1ich his father had l1eld ~Tears before. �- - - - .DE msr ~ ER F B AT HIS E VIC , sions, yielded to tl1e plea of the local club to get in to the game this summ-er when he had decided to do 110 coaching this· year. . But the coming of Corbett didn't stop l\icQuewan. He kept right on ,vith l1is. efforts and the two men worked to' gether for the good of the club. A short ti'me ago the boa.rd of directors of the club made it possible for tl1e organization to have honorary members and it was decided to top the list ,vith the name of McQuewan. Last 11ight President Claire Fox expressed the appreciation of the ·club to boys in .tri·m: . . : · ·. · McQuewan for his efforts, and Charlie ,,. • Jack :Corbett-, · who had coached- the Well, Charlie did11't kno,v just what local oarsmen a number of occa- to say. When there was -· ,a . hard job . to do ' Charlie 1\1:cQuewan djd it. La~t night . the membership of the· Grand Rapids Boat and Cano_e . ~lub remembered this when it made ·him the first honor·ary meni-ber · of the organi.zation. . . . ·, . •· · · Cl1arles l\:IcQ·ue,van ·11as given ·much of l1is time to the boat club, of ,vl1ic,h he l1as been one of the most active . . members. Wh~n it came time to thresl1 material into shape for the big Central States regatta he got out and worked day· a11d night to:·help place ·the ' • ori C 'T --- . .. . - ~~ ~••••-••r•••••••••e••••••• 1 f CORBETT PLEASED AT I l SHOW'ING OF LOCALS j 1. lN THE BJG EVENT I f. --if ; • ! 1. ~ t '.;) .., , t C?ach J a c k C o r b e t t, who f whipped the o-arsmen of the t & Gran~ Rapids Boat and Canoe f f club Into shape for the big Cen- t f traf States. regatta, last night f f e~pressed himself as well pleased O t w),th the show~ng of the locals. f f The,,-boys_d:1d themselves f t proud, he declared, ''and I am t t proud of them. They showed a f t expected." i y ~ ,,~---···~-~ ..•............ i·" ' • • �\ - ~rE~~ESD...~Y, JULY 5 1922 - ' \ - Gra11d Rapids o ·a rsmen Strong : . ' ·=-' .. •: •.• Tl1e Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe (1ub junior eight. Reacl Alvin Boele, No. 1; Diclc 'l'nnis, No. 6; Phil Tl1orndylic., No. 3; ,vililam Yo11ng, No. 2; Howard 1\-lacMillan, bo w • The junior eight which will repre-. sent the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club at tl1e Central States and • Southwestern States rowing regatta here t}?.is ,veek· is doped by onr experts as probable winners of the eight-oared events. . rigl1t, ~ from left to Russell Davis, strol{c; Donkcr, No.. 4; ~fartin Bt1rsman, coxs,,,aj11, kneeli11g. Detroit Boat club is • for tl1ree months for the coming be the closest rival of the Grand reg·attas. According to the . coach, Rapids bunch. Tl1e Detroit~rs put the local crew is one of the fines out a winning crew last season and lie has ever coached. It has made re1narkable time in time tests -and nosed out the Jack Corbet ... coached Corbet says is "~rking · a~ smoothly clan. as any eight ·he has ever worked The local crew has been at work with. I ' Club Colors I , Detroit Boat club-Navy blue and white. · Baden Rowing cl~b-Red, white and blue. Central Rowing club-Pale blue and white. Mound City Rowing club-Orange and black. st. Louis Rowing club-Black and 1 • ., ,; II ' j red. Western Rowing club-Navy blue and white. Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club -1\'Iaroon and white. Illinois Valley Yacht and Canoe club-Blue and white. Lincoln Park Boat club-Navy blue and white. Culver Military Academy~Blue :; and white . I I • PLAY 2ND ROUND • • • I I l ' �·a, JULY 10, 1921 • OAR ' :IAN ,LF;A VES BED I AflD ROWS TO VICTORY! .., Joseph Kortlander, Jr., Reviving From F&ini i A ter Hard P.ull on River, Rushes Back 1·nto Race and Wins r l Spartan courage of a man whose l every ounce of strength seemed to . lJave been forfeited to the heat radiating ! from a glaring riv,er rowing course, .fc·-~).\"e tl1e Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe •·· i1.1 b the l1igh point trophy in the ·.:!.~}1tral States Amatel1r Rowir1g as·:·ociation regatta l1ere :y·esterday . ~ I ..T<>Sel)h l{ortlancler, .Tr.~ v.ntil 1resterr da.y· l10Jder of tl1e Senior Si11glcs cha1npio11sl1ip, "\\ras the 111an, a11d in losing the championship he gave every ounce of power in his bocly to the riv•-er and the big °""\)Ode11 oa::ts. -·ainted Away But ev?en after he had fainted dead away at the finish and had been put to •b ed under the care of attenda11ts at the clubhouse, he gainecl ne,v strength, seeming·ly •b y a miracle, and as the senior double shells t\·ere pl1tting out i11to the 1"iver, ,vith Julius Peterson of the local club. he took ·his place in one of the craft, and the two "-on for Grand Rapids, giving th-e local clu•b enough points to cop the big silver l f I I ,. Cllp. I KortlaJ1cler.. wl10 hag held the singles charmpionship for four years, hadn't been himself in the regatta which ended yesterd·ay. Friday~ he was beate11 by Petersen in the qua.rter n1ile dash. Yesterday, ho,vever, 11e was €Xpected to come back and wi11 the singles. But Kortlander wasn't himself )·esterday either, at least not until the • ' JOSEPH KORTLANDER, JR., • doubles, for he was only third in the singles, which were won by A. l\1ucklor o!'. the Vve~tern Rowing club of St. oui~. I.:>etersen, after his Jfrida;y· v·ictory over Kortlander, also was expected to place in this -eve11 t, but failed to show. ",I'm In On That.'' At the conclusion of the race Kort- · lander we11 t in to the clubhouse and: took a sho,ver, fainting dead away as he came out of tl1e shower roo·m. I-Ie ,vas put to bec1 a11d ,vas fanned and rubbed, a.lthoug·h there was not the faintest hope on the part of an,ybody at the club that he would be able to take his place with Petersen in th-e senior doubles. "They're l)Ulling out for the doubles/" remarked one of those in the room, as he 1Jeered 011t' the window. "I'm in on that,'' ,veakly remarked Kortlander who was al1nost buried un- , der blanl{ets. "Lie do,vn, keep quiet, you're not going into that ·race," was the reply. "I ne,rer yet entered a ra•c,e I didn't finisl1," said Kortlander quietly,.. "and I'm going· into that." . And They Won. With the words he snrang from the bed and ,vas half,v-a y do,·~.rnstairs before those in the room had grasp-ed the I Coach Jack Corbett of the boat club nea.rly collapsed as he sa1,v Kortlander appear on the float. Bt1t l1e ha.dn't time J to finish up- the collapse. "Come on. Pete.rsen,'' yelled l{:ortlander, and the next i11stant the t,vo were in one of the double shells pulling up the course. :B.,or a long time tl1e winning of that race will be a subject for conversation · at tl1e boat club, for I~ortlander and P~tersen did win it, giving Grand Rapids 3 points an<l enough, ,vith tl1e other points colle.cted, to- gai11 the trophy• I • • • • �I goLY 10, 1921. l • --- Provides Hot Fini~-h .. ' Tl1~ fir~t ev·ent on :vesterday's prog·ram ,vas tl1e senior fol1r-oared sl1ell, and this race provided a hot fi11ish. CenturJ' F.1oat club of St. IJouis spt1rte(l ahead nea.r the finisl1 anc1 it ,vas ~L close contest bet,:veen tl1e Grand Rapids Boat & Canoe cluj:> and tl1e Illinois \ 7 n.lle~· y ·acht cll1lJ of I)eo,ri:.1, for seco11d. Near the firti~l1 line, 110,,,.ever, R. l\.. Bre~r ineyer. stroke of tl1e Peoria crew, collapzed in the shell froin tl1.e grind of the race and tl1e Peoria.ns ,vere ot1 t of it, (¾rand Rapids g·etting· second n.nd Lincoln Pa.rk of Chi12ago ·vlin11i11g· third. The senior sing·le shell was a surprise. Kortlander, w110 hn.d held the chan1pionship for fOllr ~-ea.rs, and Peterse11, wl10 }j...riday beat Kortlander in the quarter-mile sing·le s11ell dash, were figt1red on ,LS s11re win 11ers. The event went to A. 1\I11clz1er of the \Vestern Rowing club of St. Louis, with H. A . . Clarke of the Detroit Boat club second and Kortlander third. Peterse11 failed to sho,v. Only St. Louis cre"rs were entP-red in the six-oared barge race, whici1 ,vas '\Von by the Central club. After finishing behi11d the singles, Kortiander and Petersen came back and won th~ doubles for the local club. givini it enot1g·l1 points to win the l1igh p•oin t troph)· . The ca11oe events ,vere exciti11g a11,l pleased tl1e crowd, w;hicl1 was much la.rger than that of Friday. The quarter-n1ile dash for singJe shells, "·hich was ro·vved twice Friday· and Whicl1 ,·vas to ha;·e been ro,ved again ~·esterc1.a-y· becal1Se of protests, ·vvas a1lo,ved to stanc1 as ro,,yed the second time Frlda .v·. T·l1is ev.e11t ,vas ,von by the Lincoln Pa --1~ clll1) of Cl1icago. La.st eveni11g a s11ecial da11cing part~~ was held at the boat clubl1ouse with visiting oarsmen as g·uests, a11d gold medals were presented t11e v\rinnerc:; l)yJ. A. Hard,·vig·er of Chicago, presiclent - --· ~ of the rowing association. Yesterday's su:nma:ries: ' KORTLANDER AND ~ETERSEN SAVE DAY FOR BOAT AND • C.A.NOE CLUB. I DETROIT TAKES EIGHT-OAR FOR THE SECOND TIME l • Norman Ross Defends Title in Swim ming Chan,pJonships-Quarter--Mile Dash Allo\,,,ed to Stand-Canoe Races Entertain Crowds. • The Grand Rapids B-oat a11d Canoe c.Iub did itself proud ·_ a11d gave the wl101e Ft1rniture City cause for rejoicing J esterday by clea11ing up enough point·s in tl1e second and closing day of the Cetra.1 States A~1..teur Ro\'\"ing association regatta, to ,,ri11 the higl1 point tro1)hy·-a beautiful silver Clll) · offerecl l:>y the local club. The nece-ssarJ' poi11 ts for t11e cup ,vere won ,vl1en Joseph Kortlander, ..Tr.. ,vho previously hacl lost the Be11ior sing·les cl1am1)ion:ship he had l1elcl for four ~rears, a11d Julitts Petersen of the local club, won the senior doubles. Grand Rapids also sho"red 'its merit when tl1e senior fot1r-oared shell p-ulied in al1n'Ost up to the, Century Boat club cfow of St. Louis, ,vhich won the e,,.ent. and again in tl1e se11i.or eight-oared J sl1ell ,vb.en its cre·\V, almost ne•w to the rovving c0t1rse, came in fourth agai11st a feld of well-trained cre,v·s. Detroit toolc tl1e E:ie:ht-oared sl1ell ~,,ent, the big· e,rent of the reg·a tta, V{hen th€~ crew v.rhic.:h won the jt1nior chan1pi-onship Friday, took first place. The. standing by poi1.1 ts for tl1e t,~.ro da:.rs of the regatta ,vere as follo,vs: G)~anfl Rapids, 16; Cent11r)r Boat club, Et. Lo11is, a.nd Detroit Boat cl11b, 15 each; Lincoln Park _J\.thletic cl11b, Chicago, J 2; W("Stern R01''i11g clt1b, St. Louis, 9; Ce11tral Rowing club, St. Lot1is, 4: Illi11oi~ \--alley Yacht cl11b, Peoria, Ill., 1. In the A. A. U. S'\\'im1ning and c1iving 1 cha1npi•onsl1ips Gra11d Ra1)ids 1nacle another mark when Ho\'.varrl Rose of the local club finished thirc1 in the 220-:v·ard da~h, ,, in11ing a bronze mt:clal. N"orman Ross of tl1e Illinois Atl1letic club of Chicago, national champion, l1acl. no trouble ,vinning the event, v.rith :'1ixo11 1 of the Detrod.t Athletic clttb, second. Ro~~ ·An "' P-Q1d mPd n l and Nixnn ~~ sil: 1 ver med,1.1. Gold, silver a.nd bronze n1edals also were given for first, f:.econd and third in the fan(~Y diving contest held t1nder auspjces of the A. A. lJ. ,.I'his ever1t was won by Briggs of Detroit Athletic 7 , Senior Four-Oared Shell-One l\Iile· Century Boat club, St. Lou~s, first; Grand Rapids Boit & Canoe c:lub, second; ,Lincoln Park Athletic club, Chicago third. No tim~ vlas 1 taken. Athletic club ' ! 1 \'orsen of tl1e Chicago 'third. Senior· S1ngle Shell-One l\1ile-A. Muckler, v.restern Ro~ving club, St. Loui~ first; H. A. Clarke, Detroit Boat club. se-cond; .Joseph Kortlander, ,Tr .• Grand Rapids Boat & Canoe club, third. Time 6 :01 1-5. Senior Six-Oared Barge Three-fourths milE.-Centra! Ro\.ving club, St. Louis., first; \Vestern R':>wing club, St. Louis second; ., . C~11turr Boat club St. Lot:is, third. Tir<1e-'-·· I 4.04 4-~. , Senior Double She·II--One m1le-Kortlan<l.er . and Peterson, Grand Ra.pids Boat '-~ Canoe club, first; Lir coln P~rk Atl1letic club, ere\.'; No: 1 Johnson and Greene, second; I,incoln Park club • ere~~: No. ~. Gellan and Gellan, third. Time-5 :49 1-5. Sf!nior Eeight-Oaretl Shell-Deitroit Boat cluh. first; Century Boat club, second; Detroit Boat club, cre-w No. 2, tl1ird. Sun1maries A. A. u. s~Ti1nn1ing Championships: 220-yard dash-Ross, Iilliriois Athletic club, first; Dixon. Detroit Athlt~tic club, second; Ros~ Grand Rapids Boat & Canoe .club third. • 'l'ime-1 :5fi 3•5. Fancy Diving Contest-Briggs, Detroit Athletic club, first; Hartung, Illinois Atl1letic club. Chicago, sec.ond; Halvorsen, Cl1icago Atl1letic club, third. Canoe -events: Airplane Canoe Race·- won by Knudson. ot Grand Ra.pids ;~Io han. Grand Rapids, second. Tilting Canoe Contest-\,lon by Duey and Tanis• Grand Rapids. l·~our Jvlen Ca.noe Race Won by Ryan, Rosenberg, Brock and Bergers o! Grand Rap- I ~ clt1b, ,vitl1 Hartung of tl1e l1linois ....\ thtetic club of Chicag·o seconll and IIal- r 4 It 1 - , tde. I .. ,. �SE OR ·s TO IN TO T GRAND RAPIDS CHICAGO REG. BY TAKING ~ I ~ ---e·· ' • Grand Rapids Crew 1· 1 Wins Senior Event For . , First· Ti111e in History . . Cl1ica{Jo "c~ ,.o.nd with Tlzree .;nts, :B.,or the ·first time in the l1istory of the Grand Rapids Boat a11d Canoe club, its members will welcome horJ1e the ,vinners of the senior eight - oar cen ... tral states meeting when the 'n1en vtho ,~ton -yesterday's race at Peoria ar1~ive in the city tonight. In 1914 Grand Ra•pids ~had a ,vinning • eigl1t-oar cre,v, put not a senior one. Tl1e junior crew won first place that year at Philadelphia. Very fe,,r crews have ever accomplished what the Grand Rapids eight-oar crew did ~t Peoria. The one crew, entered in both the junior ?,nd ~enior events, won both races. · G1~eat cFedit must also be given Alfred Davis, who, after winning the sin gle shell ju11ior _event at Peoria, doubled with Harold Hart,vick . and '\v·on the doubles event in the sa:me class. Both men are first year men. Coach J·ack Corbett has co,Tered himself with glory by turning out wonderful crews year after year. Peoria has given the Grand Rapids oarsmen their full share of credit for the wonderful fights they p-qt. up in the races.· If they did not cross the line first they were usua-lly in second - place and pgp.ting hard to gain tte ·victory'. A crew of only lO men went from here, while 40 were at the regatta from Detroit. The trophies, plaques and medals won by the Gra11d Rapids entrants ,vill be exhibited at one of the do,,rntown stores in tl1e near future. The me11 will a-1:ri"\re in Grand Rapids tonight at the Union station at 6: 30, city time, and a large ·1delegation will be 011 hand to. greet them. 1 • .. . . i t· • "" t I . i'. • t 1 I'. f t 1f .. l Other Club ,lVinning ·111 ore Than One. • I ; • f\T o Oarsmen of the Grand Rap!ds 1 Boat and canoe club were the w~n .. ners of the Central States Rowing associatio11 regatta at Chicago la~t w·eek takin er fou1· events of the s1x in which they started. while Chicago, despite the large number of crews entered, won only three and no othe.r club more than one. _The Lincoln Parks of Chica.go obtained their hio-h point rating because of the nun~ber of crews finishing sec011d an.cl third but which could not beat Grand Rapids. Tl1e events won by Grand n.R~pids ~ere: Quarter mile dash for single ~hells, Kortlander; junior dou?le shell, Hoek and Petersen,; se?J.1or double shel'!. Kortlander and Petersen· association championship single;, Kortlander. Chicago wo_n t.he ·junior and senior eight and Junior j tour. The Western ,Rowing club ot ~t. Louis took the six-oar ba.g~ the [peoria Rowing club the senior four ~ell, the Ce11tral Rowing club of St. Louis the senior six oar barge, . the Detroit Boat club the junior ~ingle shell, Petersen of Grand Rapids finishing second, the Mound City Rowing club of St. Louis the Jlalf mile dash for four-oared shell. " There were eight fast crews in the ~unior double shell, Hoek and 1£Pf~tersen beating the best of the ,, other seven ·b~y· half a lengt.t1. The canoe bo:rs took one first and tl1.ree seconds in the Saturday e,-ents. Ro}~ l{nudson won the tail(-lncl race. H. S. Conlon was second 111 the single l)lade event, the prin <·! I)a l canoe race of the regatta, and the Gr[~nd Rapids doubles and fours ea.c:h tinisl1ed second in their respec- I . . . .'.RAND RAPIDS FOUR-OAR four-oar cre·1.v upon \\'hicl1 Grart(l P'3.y>ids Boat and Canoe cl ttl> members a.nd follo,vers are pla clog their ho1:>es is .made up of A Hoek, stroke; William Yo,1ng, No. 3; Howa1u !\IacMillan, No. 2, and R11ssell Da,ris, This four is e11tel'ed i11 the single event~ ~'liday and t11e senior e,re1i ts for S..'l..turclaJr. Another fot1r, a se11ior quartet strokecl by H. S. Conlon, is con1peting· in the senior ha.lf11111<' dasl1. · 'The time made ll~- the ji1nior fo1tr is ,~cry good a11 d cha.nc-cs for malring points are exct'lle11t, altho11gh the Lincoln Pa1tk four and the Century f(1u11· of St. l.JOui~ a1·e do~d to be faster than the locals. • ---- ---=-=-=--=--=--=-.. .=~-~r;::===:::::=::=-----~--~ - - - -- -----=--=======-=-=-=-=----~----=---=.-=..-=.-:::.,-::..-::..-::..-::..-::..-::..-=..=.==-~----- =~:-:=====:::.~::"':- =::..=..:.:..==: bo,,T. ' �• - - --· - }AR · .- - - GRAND MI·OH., FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921. • GRAND · PIDS ENTRI IN C. S. A. R. A. REGATTA Represeni , Make Law Ar can Magna Chart ' FORMAL • • ' July 7.-A ta an F'orclne3• Presents Repo. he report as present, airman Fordney said thr Tl1e Li11co.Jn P~trlc senior eight-oar c1·e,v· (top), cl1ampions of the Central States A1nattee members in draftii against eigl1t other crc,,·s in tl1e ru1nual regatta. to be 11eld c,11 the Grand rive1· 00111 were governed by a de, ,,·on its title last l"t•ar on 1 ts o,,'11 eo11rse. The G1·ancl Rapids 13c,ut and Canoe fo11r St. Lonis cre,,-s ancl a11 otht'r C11icago outfit ,,'ill eompete 111 this ra-cc v.·hich ,\' OTE PL.4.XXED JULY • ' left to right: X. :11. C. Olsen, lJov,·: T. Lonclon, Xo. 2; I{. :licKc11 no1t, Xo. 3; 0. \\·. C --- · • ~ 0 . Ji. Jol111son, stroke; Geo1·ge l{1)hl<•r, c-o:v.s,,·ain. Washington, July 7.-Wit , 6; L . Di11ea11, No. 7; :,. ou b . . . se eg1nn 1ng conside1 'l.I1c j1 ,11or c1gl1t of the IAnc·ol11 l'urk clu-b ( bclo,,·) is one o( tl1e most to11tt•d 11e,v crc,r the general tariff bill t 1·ight: H. C. Carlso11, bow: 0. X. J•etcrson, Xo. 2; J-t. l{. Rolicrts, No. 3; l~. \\', Grh<; Republican majority ' ( .l11re, N' o. 6; H. Tcmplelllil 11, No. ; ; H. E. Seh11macher, strok l); Rill Corbet, c<>x~xed July 21 as th<i date ___ nal vote on the measure. c.~------------ - • �~ - ·--------- .. - • FINISHES AND FIG - SIN SECON_ DAY-- PROGRAM - - -- ~-·oF T BIG • 4 • -- -- -------1-Finish of tilting cartoe race. No. 4 Charles fvlcQuenam tel Iing the crowd - .., No. 3-Norman Ross, nati•onal • swim. 220-yard chan1p;on 'h'1nner of • • ' of Chicago, regatta jua ge. ·----------- ------------------- races. �.,~ - .. \ .... I - ... ~. ' ' , • • • \ • Rapids No. 2-Finish of the senior four •oared shell race, Grand Ci'eW • foreg round . 1n • 7'Jo. ~Kundsen winner of canoe ----- - ----event_.__==::-::::::::::====== - :1 .. . �I ...."'!"r•• I • MONDAY, JULY 10, 1922. . . -------==- .::::=:===-=====-==-=-=-:--::-:=-:;:=---:=~~:.:~=-~=-=_:::..;;::::_:::::::_=-;_=_=_=_:-:..~=-=-=-=..=-=-=..=-=-=-~=_=:=_::;.------, _ __, L--~--~·.~--------~-.:i~.~..;..----------------=·-,. \ .:·1 '' . , 'I . . '.. ~- '· :: ,• , Boat Club Crew Home After Winning · Central .States Classic. - Tired but happJr, and with 30 ~old tnedals and five silver plaques in their baggage, the 14 members of the Boat and Canoe club crews arrived in the city Sunday night after having given an excellent account of themselves at the three regattas at Peoria. Detroit won the high point trophy but to the Grand Rapids eight goes the honor of winning, for the first 'time in the history of W-Bstern racing, three firsts in as many days. The locals brought home t,vice as many medals with them as did any other club, despite the fact that the Detroit clubs had entered 42 men, while but 14 -represented the Boat and Canoe club. The thriller of the three regatas came ·s aturda:," · afternoon when the race between tl1e Detroit and \ . Grand Rapids eight was staged. There were nine ' e11tries in this , ev·ent, but all interest '\\"as centered • on the battle between the t,,,,.o Michigan cre"rs. The men from the Auto city ,vere 01)enly predicting a ~~in over the locals and much money was being, placed on then-i. Coxsu·ain Is Lauded. };>erhaps the credit for winnit?-g this race should go to Coxswain Peter DeYoung. Members of the eight ad1nit that it \'.\ras by his work that they w ·e re able to nose out the, Detroit crew. The finish was so close that the winner was not known· to the spectators until the judges ga·ve their decision. The mile and r r - ~ - - • a quarter was covered 1n 6 minutes (Hartman) won; Western (Muckano. 12 seconds, about 20 seconds Ier) second.; Detroit (Clark) third. f aste~ than had ever been made Ti' . me, 5 : .:>... 5 • before. Coach Corbett was not to be Senior six-oared barge, threeforgotten in this victory. His short quarters mile; St. Louis Boat culb snappy stroke, with 34 strokes to won; Central, St. Louis, second; the minute prov"ed to be better than North End, St. Louis, tl1ird. Ti1ne, the long English stroke employed 1: 54. , · by the Detroit crews. Charles McSenior doubles, one mile, WestQuewan, veteran local oarsnwn, ern St. Louis ,von; Detroit, second, ,vas one of the judges in the South--1 Lincoln Park, Chicago, third. Time, western regatta, and B. Leys, was a 5: 44. · ~ judge in both affairs. Tue~day the Quarter-mile dash, for si11gle: trophies will be placed in ~om~ Western (Muckley) "·on; Detroit downtown store window. ' (Clark) second; Detroit (Lane), The Summary: th·1r d . T.1me, 1 : 18 . s ·e nior :toul"S' one mile: Century,. Senior eight, one and 011e-quarter St. Louis won; Detroit, second'; mile: Grand Rapids "~on; Detroit, Peoria, No. 1, . third. Time, 6: 39. second; Peoria, third. Time, 7: 2 7. Senior single, one mile: Detroi\ ...... WINNING THE EIGHT. Irt all ro,ving circles, mhether college, outside amateur or pro·f ess1onal, the classic is the €ight-oared race . Last ~·ear our Grand Rapids Bo,a t and Canoe club carried -off the high point trophy in the Central States amateur/ ro,ving re gatt•a on Grand r.iver, but to the insiders the m~sive silver cup 1-\ras only a consolation. In a sunset fini•sh above the -o ld Xort;h Park bridge the Detroit eight, losing its lead to the locals with every stroke, had managed by ,a scant length to pull .o ut ahead. • ednesday, after a j,•ear's "raiting and trai11ing, and still as a "junior,, aggregation because it had not ,,ron a first, the local crew •c ruptured the eight-oared race from the Detroit Boat club in the Southwestern regatta at Peoria and then on Friday I\Venit into the senior eight event, the sum.mit of rov;ing ambition, and nosed out Detroit again. The r1ext day it repeated th is triumpl1. b:r 1vinn,ing the senior eight in the Central States regatta. 1 ~ - ,v. . • 1 , "( ~ -~ Grand Rapids' cre-v~rs have neither the 1 financial backing nor the equi'pment · wihich . is possessed by the1r leading op1 ponenrts, pa.rticul-arly tl1e Detroit and • · Chic~go clubs, and their achievement and th.a.t of the veteran Coach Corbett 1 i~ the more nt>table for that reason. Their splendid fight has broug,h t national ro,ving fan1e to this cit:r: and ' both deserves and receives our congrat1 hlations. , < J ' ( l ., c • ~ t i ' �G. R. BOAT CLUB EIGHT WINS IN PEORIA REGATTA Race Is Feature; Crews • Make Splendid Fight for Point Leadership. SPECl~L TO THE HERALD. t P EORIA, July 5. - Cirand Rapids oarsn1en put up a spirited fight for the j point t r ophy i11 the first day of ro,v1ing in the annual Southwestern Amat eur Ro,ving association regatta here t oday. The l\faroon and White \\-·ent i11to the final event tl1e singles, locked with Detroit for the lead with five poi11ts, but f.iie·d to place while Detroit ,va..s an easy ,vinner. Detroit's victory gave them eight points toward the point prize while Grand Rapids and Lincoln Park of Chic~o, tied for second ,vith five points eac h. .. The Grand Rapids rowers captured one first and one second. Tl1eir junior eight outclassed ·o ne of the greatest fields tl1at ever pulled over the one and a quarter mile course in the tneeting of the association ,vhile they took second in the junior double shell event. The time in the junior eight ,vas 7: 13. A brisk wind a11d cl1oppy sea ~·as a great handicap. Grand Rapids' victory in the junior eight ,vas easily the feature performance of the day. After trailing· Detroit throughout the r ace, the }.,faroon had the winning puncl1, speeded up the stroke and passed Detroit two lengths from the finishing line. winner by a half a length. Peoria was third. • Rooters in Frenzy. The remarkable finish of tl1e Grand Rapids crew thre·w their Ii ttle band of rooters into frenz}·. Several hats sailed out into the strea111 and they were given a noisy reception upon their return to shore. In the Grand Rapids boat were: H. Mcl\'lillan, bow; W. Young·, M. Bursma, George Donker, P. Thorndyke, Tanis, A. Hoek and R . Da, ris, stroke. The shells were bunched for half a mile, the closest of the day. Detroit II sudden1,, went into the lead a.nd Grand • Rapids went out in second place. The Detroit craft forged ~head and seen1ed a sure winner. They saw the . stroke speed up in the Grand Rapids boat bu t could not spurt. 'l,he lviaroon made a sensational spurt, drew along·side their rival and then passed a half boat. winner over I the line. , In the junior doubles, Lir1cpln Park of Chicago, and Grand Rapids had · things much to themselves after the half mile post. Grand Rapids had the . far lane while Lincoln Park was in the middle. They held together well but Grand Rapids lost seconds by swerving off the course and the Chi- I cago boat ,von by two lengths. Detroit ,vas third, three lengths be- ,· hind Grand Rapids. The time was , • I 1 l • I ' 6.32. 1I Grand Rapids placed fourth in the half mile dash for fours in a well J i bunched finish. Detroit held a good i lead for a quarter of a mile but -Cen1 tury· cut it do,v11 and spurted a few j Iengths fro1n the line for a victory by half a length. St. Louis ,vas third. I Protest Al lowed. Peoria 's victory in tl1e junior four was thro,v11 out 011 a protest b) De, troit, who c laimed Peoria's 11umber f t\v-o crew fouled her near the starting· I point. A fiery debate was launched and tl1e protest ,vas allowed. The race ' ,vill be re - rowed tomorrow mor11ing. I The summary: Junior Six-Oar Shell, ¾-1viile-Nortl1 End (St. Louis); Western (St. Louis), secor1d; Baden (St. Louis), third. Time 7 --6: 35. .. H~tlf-1\tiile Dash for Fours:._Century (St. Louis), won ; Detroit, second; St. Loui-s club, tl1ird .. Time-3: 10. Ju11ior Double Sl1ell, 011e Mile~Lin coln Park (Chicago) , ,von; Grand Rapid&, second: Detroit, third. Ju11ior Eight, l ¼ l\files~Grand Rap-ids, won; Detroit, second; Peoria, tl1ird. Ti111e-7: 13 . .Ju11ior Single8-Detroit, l\I. E. Lane, won; Lincoln Pa:rk, Chica.go, second; Peoria, third. • • - -- --· - �• . ;. .-- . ,, ,. ~ ,• ;._ .-.·.·-·-·-•- .-.-.-.· ·-•-·: -?::::<ttdr>i>rfrttii?Jnt\l:tt:/t{HtiJii]1tm:rr::::::::-::=:::::.:::.:::;::-.-:;·:::.::-.;-_-:. -: :-·-·-. -;-:-: .•: :-:-:-.-,:-. ·-·-:-.:.:.: :-:-:-...-.-.:-. ..._...... . -.,----. ', ·1 •, l ,. ,•,·. ·' II ' .' • ' j I ' • ' '''The best crew ever turned out at the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club'' says Coach Jack Corbet, speaking of the Grand Rapids eight, which has the distinction of being the only crew in the history of the Rowing Association t o win three races and one regatta. At Peoria, they won the Junior eight. Southwestern, Senior eight, Sout hwest• ern and Senior eight, Central .States. From left to right. they arePeter De Young, coxswain : Russell Davis, stroke ; Alvin Hoek, No. 7; Dick Tanis, No. 6 ; Phil Thorndyke, No. 5 ; Geo. Danker, No. 4 : Martin BuursIT' a, No. 3 ; Bill Young , No. 2: H oward McMillan, bow . • Snapped at Peoria, afte r w1nn1ng t he ' Junior eight event. • " ' , ' ' • • �• • ' • I II • • �, Will Race at Chicago • I l I I l ... The fast junior four ro,ving ere w from the GrJ..nd Rapids Boa-t and Canoe club, which will go to Chicago on· Labor day to compete with the Cl1icago crew. This outfit bad little difficulty in defeating t.h~ Cadillac Boat club ·or Detro it two weeks ago in a local regatta. J E. Winegar, W. Gill, W. MacDonald, R. Davis. , - ---- -·-:~-- ---:-:::::::::- - ------------ ' ~- • ·• Falllous Coach Of Many Chicago Rowing Teams, Including the Well-Known Iroquois, Has Worked Wonders With Local Oarsmen' Enter ~'Big l League'' Next Year. • --------------------- CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-One of the greatest aquatic coaches in America came Jto town a week ago Saturday, and his name ls John F. Corbet, commonly l called "Jack." You have heard of Teemer, Panlan, Gardner, l\tiurphy, Ward, Nicholls and 11umerous others who have made a specialty of rowing in both scull and sweep work, but the king of them all is no other than Jaclr Corbet, the olq Iroquois • scull, the same Corbet that made Chicago famous away back In the early 80's. Chicago was then a real rowing center. With its vast water front, it has gone back, and today is the laughing stock of the country, as far as aquti<Y sport is concerned. We have held water carnivals and regattas, but they have ., been only side shows. •••••• CHICAGO WAS FAMOUS IN THE SO'S. Going back to the early 80's, Chicago had the follo,ving boat clubs: The Farragut, Iroquois, Delaware, Catlin, Pullman, Evanston, Quintard, Riverdale, Social, Douglas and South Chicago. All these clubs were ,vell equipped with I }laraphernalia for rowing, and had memberships ranging from 25 to 250, and almost in every instance they were enthusiastic and active. I • �• l ' II ' I , COACH "JACK" CORBET ] ' ( 'l'he two big western associations, the Mississippi and the Northwestern, t w~re n1ade up of clubs from St. Louis, St. Paul, lvlinneapolis, Duluth, Moline, Grand Rapids, Detroit a.nd small to,vns in the vicinity of these cities an • around Chicago . The gan1e '\Vas good, and Chicago '\vas on the map, and much credit must be given to "Jack" Corbet for calling the attention of the world to the fact I hat Chicago was a live town, for he went to Sara toga as a dark horse and .....~ on the national championship in the senior singles, winning from the best i1\ America. The same year, .Johnny Korf and Billy· Weinan, representing the t Delaware Boat club, captured the national champio11ship in the doubles. THEY WENT OUT TO WIN THEN. In the old days, the Iroquois were out to ,vin. The Delawares, too, were there in earnest, and while the sport was keen, the fello'\¥8 were "all for Chicago, and went in to win ,vith the Chicago spirit. The Chicago clubs made "the Chicago navy." They created all sorts of interest, and encouraged young fellows to join and try their hand at the game. The only boat club in Chicago is now housed in Lincoln park, and, instead of elev.en active clubs with a membership of 2,000, ,ve have one club with a possible membership of a little over 100, and of that number only a handful are in active competition. I From South Chicago to Evanston is the greatest rowing stretch of a,ny city · i11 the world and there is only one boat club. Jack Corbet, a Chicago product, went to Grand Rapids in April and came to town a ,veek ago Saturday ,vith a single sculler, in the Junior and senior d ·i~.(f;n, a four and an eight oared crew, and made Chicago boys take hi's back- l • \\\_jfi. ' ~ • Not once did the locals I1ave a look-in. The good natured J"ohn_did the trick. 111 the meantime, Corbet is going ahead and putting Grand~ Rapids on the map. The coming year he ,vill invade the big derbies and there is no doubt of his success. - --·- ' .. , • • . • • • - �.... r A HISTORIC CLUB. The Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club. property at Nortl1 Parlt has bee11 offered to tl1e city fo1-- use as a public clubhouse ,,·itl1. facilities fo1· ro"·ing; . canoeing, swi1nmi11g and tennis. If the city .~ccepts, as it well may in vie,v of tl1e proximity of the Boa.t clull to the new Riverside park a11d the projected road along the river through tl1e Soldiers home ,voods, Grand Rapids will merely be taking over formally a property which has been a mt111icipal institution for nearly thirty ~·ears. On a morning in 1914 tl1e Philadelphia 11e,vspapers carried full page streamers heralding the fact tl1at Grand Rapids' • eight-oared cre,v l1ad "·on the National ...t\.mateur Ro,ving association race on tl10 SchU)"llrill riv·er, and mournfuliy remarked: ''Our bo·y·s were no match for the tall, rangy so . .1s of lumbermen frotn 1\Iicll;iga11.'' • This publicity "·as t)·pical of tl1e Boat a11d Canoe club's , sel"·v ice i11 l~eeping Grand Rapids• name l)efore tl1e 11ation for a decade. The ''sons of lt1ml)ermen"-they actually ,vere nothing of the kind, but hard "'·orking boys in Grand Rapids offices and factories · who could practice only after five when the day!s job . o'cloc}t . ,·vas. over--annually proved themselves . , tl1e greate·s t · oarsn1en. in the middle ,,~est. In 1911. -they won tl1e Central States regatta at Peoria and tl1e Labor day regatta. at Cl1icago. Tl1ese t,~;o ev·ents became almost· the pri,·ate property of •tl1e . local club, ,rl1ich a11nexed them year after year clespite competi ... tion from clubs in the largest cities of the central states. Grand Rapids took them all, big 'an~ little. In 1912 the Boat club "·on a national f our-oa1· chan1pionship, captured the Central States title and tied witl1 St. Louis for tl1e Soutl1,, ester11 associati911 . . titie. 1111915 Gra11d Rapids defeated the Detroit Boat club a11d Cadillac Boat club at ·Ann Arbor. • In 1921 the club entertained the Central States regatta on . Grand river, and 1von the regatta to boot. In : 1922 it entertained and . . won botl1· the Central and . Southweste1"n regattas. . Tl1.e club's final big year '\'\:-as 1923, when • its: eigl1t defeated tl1e Detroit Boat club, . . , ,1 inners·· · of •the Canadian Henley at ...... "l,orohto. This ,·ictory ,,·as 011 l)ctroit 's o,vn co1.1tse. 4.\.fte;r tl1at . tl1e auton1obil0 and tl1e de- · . 111:.1.t1d for l1olidaj·s . at a c1istance tool{ tl1ei1.. to11. The c1u!b bccan1c largely a socioJ, canoc:i11g arid tcn11is org_a nization, pe1..forming admix·ablo service i11 tl1e • • latter field a114 e11te1·taini115 the West... ern •·l\ficliigan- -tournaments for years.II t \ I • • • • • But hundreds ot Gt"and Rapids business n1en can bla.rne their present good health an1~ inuscle to the hours they ~p~t wltl1 _tl1eir feet in · the ''shoes'' and their oars s1vinging in the rowlocks to the cadence of such ''co-es'' as J ames ,v~a: ot .Harvard and the t1\?o natio~al scull1ng champions, Jaclt Corbett and George Lee, who coached the local crews during the-ir years of fame. City acceptance and preservation of the •Boat club for a permanent c~v1c i • use wo.uld h€l1> to keep ali,re a glorious athletic epoch in Grand Rapids history....:. not to mention. tl1e clear ad·v antages of I s~ch a. property , in bringing the new . river front park to maximum public· usefulness. . • • 1 : I' • , ' , I A. l I . ere \ can Milo H8zell, War Vet·, Dies I , • • • Ill in Hospital for Eight Years; Funeral in .Battle Creek Ill eight years as the result of injuries suffered in the World war Milo Dale Hazell, 43, formerly of • ~r:ind Rapids. died Monday night 1n the veteran's hospital at Battle Creek. He was a native of Grand Rapids graduate of Union High ~chool on~ of the original members of ' The Press Newsboys band and member of other music. groups here. He enlisted on June 12, 1917, in the band of the 126th infantry and later was promoted to band sergeant. He took part in several major engagements in France. He was severely shellshocked. Ret~rning to Grand Rapids, he established a dental laboratory in the Metz building, which he operated until illness compelled his retirement. He frequently predieted to his mother that "taps will be blown for me before I am 45." Surviving him are his mother Mrs. Helen Hazell of 443 Clancy~ av., N. E.; tvvo sisters, Mrs. Norma Holinger of Grand Rapids and Mrs. Lalah Longstreet "of Thompsonville, and a brother, Charles W. Hazell of Grand Rapids. Military funeral services will be held Thursday at 'lO o'clock in Fars, ley's chapel in Battle Creek. Burial r- will be tl\ere. ~~ .~oo.Eaa f:h-ieL:cn - _, ~ ~ • : ~ . ' • . - 1 ' 1 d �• ·----- --• - L Boat Club Junior Eight • • • \ ' • • I Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe club j11nior eight-oar crew which ,vilJ 1 go to Chicago Labor day to row against the Cl.iJcago Boat club eight. This crew consists entirely of oarsmen who have taker up the sport this season under the direction of Coach Corbet Jirom left to right: W. Gill, W. 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Lemmen Library and Archives Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Rainbow Resource Center Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Rainbow Resource Center https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6c3291e9a6ad8822dac613f7062dab25.mp4 c0cda1ecbaaf3d9a1b637cb4ef6925be https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/20428d33e3cdadfb1ab937acd574a4a8.pdf 962d3b47547aaedfecb18d9988c640d4 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Civilian Service Interviewee: Ed Darling Length of Interview: 1hr 6mins Pre-Enlistment (00:12) • Childhood (00:14) o Darling was born in his parents’ farm home in Alpine Township, Michigan, on June 20, 1924. (00:25) o Growing up, Darling lived and worked on his father’s farm until he was old enough to work elsewhere. (00:37) o Once he became of age, the draft board put pressure on him to enlist but he deferred several times to avoid having to serve and yet eventually his time ran out and he had to enlist. (00:57) o Describes what it took to get a deferment. The reason for his deferment was doing farm-type work at the time. (01:20) • Education (01:58) o Stayed in school until 9th Grade but then dropped out because he had gotten sick of it. (02:05) His Jobs (02:18) o Describes what jobs he held and what the responsibilities were of each one. He mentions that on one of his jobs several German POWs worked with him in Sparta picking apples. (02:37) o About the time, Pearl Harbor was attacked Darling was 17. He continued to follow the news of the war. (04:20) Enlistment/Training (05:38) • Where he went (05:41) o Darling joined the armed service on September 15, 1944. From May to September Darling was still in basic training. (05:45) o Got engaged to his wife on May 2, 1945 and was married in 1947. (06:44) o Backs up again, and mentions that after he was drafted he reported to an office building for paperwork in Grand Rapids and then onto to Detroit for a medical physical. (07:30) o 4 weeks afterwards he was sent to Fort Sheridan, Illinois for induction. (08:21) • Camp Robinson training (08:42) o From here, he was sent to Camp Robinson near Little Rock, Arkansas. Describes the trip there in some detail. (08:50) o He then describes his experience at Camp Robinson in some detail. Briefly describes what the men he trained with were like. He and his fellow draftees were training here for the invasion of Japan. (09:15) �o His training consisted of bayonet and rifle training. This training also consisted of marching. (11:01) o Briefly describes how the drill sergeants treated draftees. (12:40) o On one specific encounter, Darling describes how a rifle grenade exploded blowing up his ear drum. (14:06) o Reviews the fact that his training lasted from May, to September upon which time he was shuffled around the country to different bases such as Fort Riley, Kansas, Fort Ord, California, Camp Anderson, California, and then overseas. (15:40) • Traveling overseas (17:01) o Left the U.S. aboard a troop transport bound on the northward circular route to Yokohama Bay, Japan. Describes what this experience was like. (17:14) Active Duty (19:01) • Japan (19:03) o Landed in Yokohama, in the dark and from there boarded a train. Describes his o o o o o o train experience aboard an original steam engine. (20:12) Stayed at a supply depot for up to 10 days in a 20-man tent. (20:40) A little later, he was assigned to the 4025th Signal Service Group where he served as a driver shuttling officers to various functions. (21:41) ƒ On one occasion, he drove a captain to a camera ship where the officer bought him a camera. (22:26) As a driver, serving in Tokyo he describes what the city was like and what damage American strategic bombing did to the city buildings. (24:13) Among the buildings not bombed was the Imperial Palace and important buildings up on the hill which were not in located in the industrial area. (26:03) On Christmas Eve, he and a few other piled into a truck to St. Xavier Church where they celebrated Christmas. Describes what the reaction of the civilians was to the soldiers. The service he attended was done all in Japanese. The Japanese he worked with spoke no English so he couldn’t understand what was being said. (27:20) While he was assigned to the 4025th (Mobile) Signal Service Group he and his unit’s job was to respond to any emergencies that broke out around Japan if any occurred with their trucks. (30:42) On a few encounters, his unit witnessed a number of beheadings around the area of Shimbashi, Japan. (31:46) ƒ According to the account of a Japanese soldier, from the northern regions of Hokkaidō he informed Darling of what his service was like while stationed in Manchuria. This Japanese soldier discussed how the Japanese felt towards the Chinese while they occupied the Manchuria region during the war. (32:15) After this time, Darling was reassigned to the 71st Signaling Service Group or the 71st Signal Battalion, a new group which had just been formed to better manage the paperwork. (33:24) ƒ His battalion was stationed 5 miles outside of Tokyo in an abandoned warehouse near Tokyo Bay. His unit was responsible for the distribution �and inventory of supplies to any unit that needed them. Describes this in some detail. (34:23) ƒ Briefly describes what each of his team member’s roles was and where their routes took them. When not doing this, Darling filed and sorted paperwork. (36:29) ƒ Describes what his supply officer was like. (38:03) Sightseeing (40:10) ƒ Briefly describes what a 5-day work week looked like. (40:12) • Among the things he mentions is some of the people he bumped into such as MacArthur’s driver and other officers. (42:21) ƒ On weekends, he and a few friends went sightseeing. On one occasion they climbed Mt. Fuji, aka in Japanese (Fujiyama) (43:45) ƒ Briefly discusses some of the experiences he had with the Japanese people in some detail. Once they realized the U.S. army was there to do a job and not to conquer they felt more at ease with the American soldiers.(44:38) ƒ Briefly describes a visit he had with a few Australians who were in the area during his stay there. (47:20) ƒ On one encounter, he and his unit found a hidden ammunition dump stocked with artillery pieces behind a railroad which they confiscated. This supply of weapons and ammo would have been used against the Americans had they invaded Japan. (48:48) Leaving for Home (52:46) o Darling mentions that he received individual orders on when he could go home; while other soldiers were usually sent home after they had accumulated 120 points. (53:02) o The Japanese Noritake tea set he received from a local Japanese laborer was probably the best thing he said he got out of Japan among the other things he received. (54:54) o Went home aboard a LST called the Marine Swivel, operated by some 1st Marines of the Merchant Marines. Briefly describes what they were like. (56:47) Back in the States (59:14) o Landed at Oakland, CA where he took a day to rest. Afterwards he boarded a Southern Pacific train bound for Fort Sheridan, Illinois where he was soon to be discharged. Was not discharged until Dec. 15th 1946. (1:01:16) After the Service (1:01:47) • Adjusting to Home (1:01:57) o Once home, Darling took a job working in the Medical Arch Pharmacy stocking medicines. Spent 30 years in drug distribution, handling orders for hospitals, and retail. (1:02:36) • Reflection (1:03:45) o Darling describes how the service made him grow up and become an adult. (1:04:01) o While with the Army, he enjoyed the service very much. (1:05:13) �• Interview Ends (1:06:41) � 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 Darling, Ed (Interview outline and video), 2009 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Darling, Ed Description An account of the resource Ed Darling is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Army from September 1944 to December 1946. In this account, Darling discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and training in the U.S., and his active duty in Japan during the military occupation of their country. Darling takes a depth look of what occupational life in Japan was like for an Army soldier and mentions a number of social encounters with former Japanese soldiers. He briefly describes what his duties consisted of and what the attitude of the Japanese people was like towards the U.S. occupational forces. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e9994c7e30fbe19fc9c476d87a8f744b.mp4 62d0be77b534e542e1d4be62c24065b4 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/546c04ed563d1780c1439ca09fd84ae3.pdf dace005f7355c38cc09982008ca71bc5 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Karol Darling Interviewer: James Smither Transcribed by Emilee G. Johnson, Western Michigan University Length: 26:55 James Smither: Today we’re talking with Karol Darling of Byron Center, Michigan, the interviewer is James Smither of Grand Valley State University. Mrs. Darling, can you start by telling us just a little about your own background, for instance, where were you born and where did you grow up? Karol Darling: Oh, I was born up in the little thumb of Michigan in a tiny little town called Yale. And I can’t remember just how long I lived there and then we moved. My dad was a pharmacist and so he would get transferred every now and then and the family would move. I was the oldest of 4 children. And I can remember we moved to Detroit and lived in about 3 different houses in Detroit while I was growing up. And I know when I was in the 9th grade, we lived in Muskegon, Michigan, but just for one year. And then we moved— Well, one time we lived in Pontiac, Michigan when I was young. And then when I got older 1:00 we lived in Pontiac again. And that’s where I went to high school. That’s where I lived when I got into the WAVES. James Smither: All right, let’s see, tell us a little bit about those experiences, now, when you were in Muskegon, what do you remember about being there? Because that’s a West Michigan place. Karol Darling: Well I remember fishing on the Muskegon River. My dad would come home from work and my mother’d have a picnic packed and we’d dash out to the river there and the thing I remember about that mostly was, I had this fishing pole, this bamboo pole, and I’d put that in the water and I got a fish right away and I yelled, “I got a fish! I got a fish!” And I scared all the fish away for the rest of the fishermen. And it was a catfish that I had caught. And I remember the sand dunes. Sunday when my dad had off, 2:00 we would go for a ride, and we would frequently end up at the sand dunes and then you could out and you could climb up those big sand dunes and run down. I doubt if you can do that anymore. James Smither: No, most of them are protected now. Karol Darling: That’s what I thought, but we had the fun of doing that when I was growing up. James Smither: And you were also going on the radio? �Karol Darling: Well— James Smither: Singing on the radio? Karol Darling: Yes. From the time we were fairly young, like the time I was in the 9th grade, my dad, who was quite a musician, taught us harmony. And I had a brother and two sisters. And at that time, my brother’s voice hadn’t changed, so it was me and my next youngest sister and my brother, who is just a year younger than I am. And we had this trio. And I don’t remember why, but for some reason, we sang at the radio station in Muskegon, and I think it was a supper club something or other, and we sang there, and they liked it so much, 3:00 that they wanted us to do this every week and my dad said, “No way, you’re not doing that.” So my dad didn’t want us in show business in any way. James Smither: But you’re only there for a year, so they can’t get ahold of you too badly anyway. Karol Darling: No. James Smither: And then you go back to Pontiac, now, in what year did you graduate from high school? Karol Darling: 1939. James Smither: All right. And then, what did you do once you graduated? Karol Darling: I worked at Waite’s Department Store, which is a wonderful store there, owned by Mr. Waite, and I worked in several different departments there, for— I worked there for several years. I worked in cosmetics, and then I worked in jewelry and accessories, and then they promoted me, and I went downstairs and worked with the buyer. I was like an assistant buyer, although I didn’t buy anything. But I had that title. James Smither: Now, 4:00 before Pearl Harbor, do you remember paying much attention to what was going on in the world, were you aware that there was a war going on in Europe and that sort of thing? Karol Darling: Probably vaguely, but not a lot. James Smither: Ok. Karol Darling: My life— The important things in my life probably took precedence over that. James Smither: All right, now, in some point in there, your brother joined the Marine Corps, didn’t he? �Karol Darling: Yeah, he did, when he got out of high school. The only job he could find was driving a truck and he didn’t want to do that, and there wasn’t money for him to go to college, so he joined the Marine Corps. James Smither: Was that in 1940, maybe, if he was a year younger than you, or? Karol Darling: It probably was 1940, yeah. James Smither: Ok. Now with him in the Marine Corps, did you think at all about how you might get into a war and he might get into it, or did that not really occur to you until after Pearl Harbor? Karol Darling: It didn’t occur to me until after. I don’t believe I thought much about it, I just thought it was nice that Keith had this nice uniform and that he could do something that he really wanted to do, but it wasn’t that important 5:00 in my life. James Smither: Right. Now, when Pearl Harbor happens, do you remember how you heard about that, or what you thought at the time? Karol Darling: It was a horrible feeling when that happened. We heard Roosevelt when he announced it, and we knew then that we were in a war, that they had attacked us. And I can remember very strongly hearing about that. And probably, I was at home, and I think it was a Sunday night. James Smither: It was. Karol Darling: Because I was home and I heard it on the radio and of course my brother was in the Marine Corps. We were pretty upset with that. Very upset with that. And life changed from then on too, it really changed. James Smither: What was it, you know, in what ways did life, sort of, in Michigan, in Pontiac, whatever, how did that change for you? What did you notice changing? Karol Darling: Well, all the old boyfriends were 6:00 drafted and went off to war. And I remember when I was working at Wait’s???, there weren’t any boys, and I was of dating age, but there were no boys to date. And I can remember that. So a bunch of us girls who worked at the store, on Saturday nights, we’d find a place to go. And we’d go out, you know, and have this whole table of girls out at different places, wherever you could go at night. I don’t remember much about where we went, other than we went once to have our fortune told. Over near Selfridge Field, which is an air field. James Smither: Right. �Karol Darling: Over there. And I can definitely remember that. Having my fortune told. James Smither: Now were there sort of events organized by the USO or anybody that you might get to go and meet some of the guys at the bases or things like that. Karol Darling: Oh yeah. The USO, I have a letter in my scrapbook thanking me for coming to this, and it was a dance, and we had the strict rules where 7:00 we could go to this dance, and dance with these soldiers, whoever was there. But there were strict rules, you couldn’t go outside with them, you couldn’t leave with them, you had to just go there, dance, and then that was it, and I got this thank you letter for them. And one other thing I remember is, when we, my sisters, at that time, my brother, of course, was gone, when his voice changed was when he was out of the trio and my younger sister was in. And we sang at a USO benefit in Pontiac at the high school. I have an old picture of us standing up there, singing. Our trio. So I remember the USO. James Smither: All right, now, how is it that you wound up joining the WAVES? Karol Darling: Well, I can remember, I had a friend who used to come over to the house and spend the night and we talked a lot about things, and one of the things we talked about was, they’d started the WAVES. 8:00 Thought maybe we should, maybe we should do this. And it ended up that I did do it and she didn’t. James Smither: But when did you sign up? Karol Darling: 1943. 1943. So it wasn’t too long after the war started that I signed up. James Smither: Right. Because it was pretty early in the year, I think, when you started training. Karol Darling: Mmhmm. It was. James Smither: Ok, now once you’d signed up, where did you go and what did they have you do? Karol Darling: The first place I went was Cedar Falls, Iowa. James Smither: That’s the logical place to have the Navy, I guess. Karol Darling: [laughs] Cedar Falls, Iowa! I can remember, I lived in Pontiac, and I can remember my mother and dad driving me to the train station. I had to take a train from there to Chicago, where I would meet up with whoever it was who was going to take us to Cedar Falls, were going to be, like, chaperones, or whatever. James Smither: Right. �Karol Darling: Anyway, that was my first time ever going away from home, my first time on a train. I’d never been on a train before. And I liked the train ride. And it stopped in Jackson, Michigan and picked up some other girls that stopped on the way, and I remember sitting next to this girl and I wrote down her address, her home address. Never used it, but anyway, she was joining the WAVES too. So we got to Chicago, and then there was quite a group of us that ended up in Chicago and they put us on another train, and we took that train to Cedar Falls, Iowa. We were escorted there by the officers in the Navy. And we were escorted there and there we lived, that was a teachers’ college, and we lived in a building called Bartlett Hall. 10:00 And they had us 4 to a room in bunk beds. And that’s where we learned all about the Navy and the history of the Navy and how to make a bed with square corners, and how to keep your room neat, and all the Navy language. And there we were given aptitude tests and intelligence tests and we marched everywhere we went, we learned that. And we were fitted for uniforms, cause when we first were there, we didn’t have them. And the uniforms were designed by Mainbocher???, who probably nobody will remember, but this person was famous in New York as a designer. And this person designed the uniforms. And they had to measured us, we had to go to a certain store, where they measured us, took all the measurements and then after about 2 weeks we had our uniforms. 11:00 And we marched everywhere we went. We had to do the calisthenics, we had to take all these tests, and our life was pretty regimented. James Smither: Who did they have teaching you or training you? Karol Darling: It was always women, that I remember, but women who were officers in the Navy. That’s what I remember about it. James Smither: Ok, where would they have come from? Had the Navy had a limited number of women in it already, do you think, or were they recruited just to do this? Karol Darling: I really don’t know. I just don’t know. They probably were already— Well, only nurses would have been in the Navy. I don’t know. James Smither: So but were these older women, then, or? Karol Darling: Yes, most of them were older. You had to be a college graduate in order to be an officer. So, they evidently got them from somewhere, and trained them. Cause, I don’t remember, I don’t remember any men 12:00 handling us, but my memory might not be quite that good. James Smither: Now how prepared were they—because you were in the first group of WAVES going in, right? �Karol Darling: Yes. Wherever I went we were just the first WAVES there. So it seemed to me, they were probably pretty well prepared, because, at Bartlett Hall, that had, that whole dormitory there, the students weren’t there, they had to put them somewhere else, and we took over that whole dormitory. And so that seemed like it was well-prepared. The uniforms, we had to wait 2 weeks, and I suppose if you joined the Navy later, you got a uniform right away. James Smither: Unless they were actually still measuring people for uniforms. I don’t think they usually did for the men. Karol Darling: I doubt if they were doing that. James Smither: Now, what was life like there, was it very regimented and they were just, all of your time was under their control, or? Karol Darling: It was pretty much regimented, but we did have some time, because I can remember 13:00 going out in the snow. And there were one of the students, some boy there, and I can remember, I think I have a picture of him in my scrap book, I can’t remember anything about him or his name or anything, but I think we walked together. And we did have off-duty time, some of it, where we were not that regimented. We could go for walks, we really didn’t—but I don’t remember going anywhere off that campus then, we pretty much had to stay there, but we did have some time off. I don’t remember exactly what we did on our time off. James Smither: Ok. But how many of you were in this group of WAVES, do you think? Karol Darling: Oh, I think it was over a thousand. James Smither: All at once in that college, or total around the country? Karol Darling: I’m thinking at that college. I think I have somewhere in my scrapbook, I think I have that and the figure 14:00 1,500 comes to my mind, I’m not sure if I’m right, but then…Would there have been that many in that Bartlett Hall building? It was a big building and 4 to a room. James Smither: It’s possible if there were 2 or 3 places where they were doing it, but a lot of you were certainly together there at one time. Karol Darling: Yeah, there were a lot of us were there. James Smither: Now how long do you think you were there? Karol Darling: 6 weeks. �James Smither: Ok. Karol Darling: I think I was there 6 weeks. James Smither: And after those 6 weeks, where did they send you? Karol Darling: Oh, well, during that 6 weeks, we had to take all kinds of tests and they would tell us all the different things that we could learn, so, for what we would do next. And so, I wanted to go into the airplane part of this, and they had link trainers, they had a lot of control tower, and different things that you could go involving planes. And one of them was the link trainer, and they described it, and course, I thought that would be really 15:00 nice, I’d love to do that. So you had to take special tests for that. And one of the tests I remember was going to this big auditorium and there was full of WAVES, and when it came your turn, you had to go up in front and you had a microphone and you had to answer everything, all these questions through a microphone and I think they were checking your voice to see how well it would carry, whether you could handle this. And I did get that. And so when I knew I got that, I was really, really happy. Then I went home. I believe I was home for Christmas, on leave, before I went to Atlanta, and then I left Pontiac and went to Atlanta, Georgia, which is where I trained to be a link trainer. James Smither: Ok, and how long did they have you in Atlanta? Karol Darling: I’m not sure. James Smither: Ok. A couple of months, or? Karol Darling: I think it was about a couple of months. James Smither: Now tell us a little about and what you did. 16:00 what the link trainer was and how it worked Karol Darling: The link trainer is like a small, it looks like a really small airplane. And it’s on a bellows, and it has the nose and the tail and you get in, you climb up and get into this and you have a, there’s a hood you pull the hood over. And then it’s all dark and the only thing you can see in there are the instruments in front of you, that’s all you can see. And someone sits at a desk, the trainer sits at a desk, it’s a pretty big desk and it has this piece of paper and it has what they called a crab, which was I think about that high, and you put it on the paper, and when you turn it on, you instructed the pilot what he was supposed to do, his next maneuver, and the crab then would do exactly, on this piece of paper, would do what 17:00 he did in the plane. Follow the right path or not the right path. And you had to keep �instructing them and you talked with them, on the microphone, into this link trainer. James Smither: Ok. So essentially this was a flight simulator, I guess that’s what we might call it. Karol Darling: That’s exactly what it was, yes. James Smither: And then, you were managing them. Now, did you have, what sort of did you have control over, were you just telling them what to do and the simulator sort of did the rest, or you kept track of it, or? Karol Darling: The crab kept track of exactly what they did in there, and you had to correct them if they were doing something wrong, and they had, I don’t remember what their procedures were, but there were certain procedures that they had to pass and you would probably do a pilot more than one time. I think each flight was probably about an hour, it was quite a while. And then that same pilot might come on another day, and do another hour. 18:00 And there were different procedures they had to do because, the ones I was training, were going to fly the torpedo bomber fires, the TBFs, and they were going to take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier and land, so these were the things that we had to teach them. Special procedures of how they would take off and how they would land. James Smither: Now the people that you were training, were these guys who had not yet had any real flight training, was this the stage before they’d flown airplanes or had they flown planes already? Karol Darling: Oh, they had flown a lot. This was their last train before they went out on an aircraft carrier and went out into the war. They had already done all their training, this was the last thing. James Smither: So they knew how to fly and that sort of thing, but you were kind of preparing them for the special conditions involved in flying off of a carrier and flying this particular type of aircraft. Karol Darling: That’s right. James Smither: Do you think there were also things that simulated torpedo bombing runs and so forth that they did as far as you can tell, or? 19:00 Karol Darling: I think so, and I can remember, I can distinctly remember at one point, during the middle, they came up with this brand new thing we had to teach them, it was very, very important. Now I don’t remember what this was, but it was a certain procedure, something very new that was going to be very helpful. I can remember �everybody was excited about this. But, it’s so long ago, I don’t remember just what it was. James Smither: Now, what kind of accommodations did you have when you were in Atlanta? Where did they put you? Karol Darling: Oh, we lived in the Biltmore Hotel, which sounds luxurious, and it sort of was. They didn’t have barracks for us or anything, because they were already filled with the Navy people. So, but they moved more beds into a room, we would be 3 to a room. And it would be a long hallway, and I can remember at the end of the hallway, there was a desk. And no one could, we had to take turns being on duty. When you were on duty, you sat at that desk, and I think you took a 4-hour duty, 20:00 it was on like, all night. And you had to only let people who were qualified to pass through there, you had to stop anyone else from going down that hallway because it was full of women sleeping. James Smither: The last thing you want is a bunch of Navy guys coming down there. Karol Darling: Yeah. And Army. I met an Army guy while I was there. He came up to me in the hall, I don’t know what he was doing there, but I remember meeting him, and I remember he took me to breakfast in the Biltmore Hotel, I think it was every Sunday morning we had off, he took me to breakfast there. It must’ve been my time off, because while we were there, you had to eat with your group. James Smither: Right. Now, did you get out much and see anything of the city at all, while you were in Atlanta, or? Karol Darling: Yes, you had your day off. I think you had one day a week off. So you could go downtown, you could go to the beach. 21:00 You were pretty much free on your time off to do what you wanted to do. James Smither: Now what was it like living in the South? Were there things different than like in Michigan or Iowa or whatever? Karol Darling: Oh, yes. Atlanta was different. I had never been away from Michigan in all my life. Atlanta was different. It was in Jacksonville that we went to the beach on our day off, not Atlanta. Atlanta, I would go downtown and shop in the stores. I didn’t buy anything because we didn’t have much money. But I would go downtown. Sometimes I’d have a roommate to go, and sometimes I’d just be alone. Just roam through the stores. That was about all I did on my time off. �James Smither: And did it register with you that you were in a segregated society and that there were places where white people went where black people didn’t, or anything like that? Karol Darling: Now that you mention it, I think that did come up. It seems to me that there was a conversation about a great place to each fried chicken. 22:00 Southern fried chicken, which of course, I’d never had. And I can remember someone saying, “Well, don’t go there!” That’s all I remember is being told, “Don’t go there!” So there was, that did come up. It did come up. James Smither: Now, you complete your training in Atlanta, and then they move you on from there to Jacksonville. Now, what sort of place was that? Karol Darling: We lived in a barracks there. On the Navy base. That’s where we lived, 4 to a room. Back in Atlanta, though, I remember, we ate, we didn’t eat at the Biltmore at first, some of us, we ate in different places. Some of us ate, and we always marched to wherever we were going to eat. We ate at a hotel, at first, and the waiter served us, just like 23:00 you were a hotel guest, and I can remember sitting there and looking down, and here was this fish on my plate. There was a whole fish with eyes and the head. I was horrified, all of us, we were pretty horrified with that. But that was where we ate. And then we ate at the Naval base some. And I can remember that was back when smoking was ok. And I can remember eating there and this little tiny guy in a uniform came around hollering, “Philip Morris,” whatever that was, there was something you could see on, you heard on the radio or in the movies or something, where, “Call for Philip Morris.” And he, you know, passed out little packages of cigarettes to everybody. We all got cigarettes. I can’t imagine that now. Then we did eat at the…we ate at Georgia Tech for a while too, with the students. Karol Darling: So those are the 3 places 24:00 I remember then, then when we were moved to Jacksonville, Florida, we lived in the barracks on the Naval base there. They were really ready for us there. James Smither: Ok. And what were you doing in Jacksonville, then? Is that the actual training of pilots now? Karol Darling: Yes, that was where we started. And there were 4 of us to a room. We had bunk beds, and 2 of my roommates taught PBY fliers, the ones that landed on the water. James Smither: Seaplanes, yes. �Karol Darling: And Leah Davis and I taught the TBF pilots, so we, she and I were in the same building, after that training. James Smither: Now, how many pilots do you think you trained? Karol Darling: I don’t remember how many. If I had my log book, I suppose I could look it up and see, but I don’t know. James Smither: Because I noticed in the log book, you seem to have the same names listed in several different sessions. Karol Darling: Yeah, I did have, because they had to have different 25:00—some of them didn’t pass the training. They had to come back and do it again. And there was one, I think that these were all officers that I was teaching, there was one ensign there, he came from a very wealthy family, and I can remember, his mother came—I only heard this, I wasn’t involved in it—his mother came, it was one of them I was teaching, and he wasn’t very good. His mother came, and gave a humungous party for him right there in Jacksonville. I can just definitely remember that. I don’t remember his name, but I remember he didn’t do too well in the link trainer. Some of them did real well, and some of them, it was very difficult for them. They had a hard time passing it. James Smither: What sort of people were they, or what kind of…? Do you remember much at all about them except that they were just young men? Karol Darling: Yeah, they were just nice, 26:00 normal young men. Young men who were in the service. They were in the Navy, so, they had to have enlisted if they were in the Navy cause I don’t believe, I don’t believe they drafted you. James Smither: Draftees go into the Navy, but usually, if you were going to be an officer, commonly you would have enlisted and these men would have been college graduates who had cases too at that point. But most of them would have been enlisted. Karol Darling: Yeah. Funny how some of these memories start coming back! James Smither: Yes, they do. Now, about how long do you think you were based in Jacksonville? Karol Darling: It wasn’t a year. Because then, I’m not exactly sure what happened, but something with my health came up while I was there, and this ensign 27:00 Schwaub, Ensign Schwaub, had put me in the hospital, and I was in the hospital, I was there for I think several weeks, I’m not exactly sure how long. That part has �gone pretty vague, but the thing I remember most was they pulled all my wisdom teeth. I think they were trying to find out what they could do to fix me, they figured something was wrong health-wise, and eventually, there was another WAVE in there. I forget, I don’t know, she had some illness too, and I remember she would always get all these Hershey bars, and she would say, “It’s ok, you can eat all these you want as long as you” she did something, she drank something after she ate those that made it all right, so this was kind of strange. But eventually, then there, they did send me home with a good discharge. So, that ended my Navy career. 28:00 James Smither: Ok. Well let’s go back into it for a little bit. What other particular incidents and things do you remember about the time you spent in Jacksonville? Now, you’re a flight trainer, but you’re based on the ground. Did you ever actually get to go up in an airplane? Karol Darling: Well the only time I got up to go in an airplane, was flying home, of course, when I had to leave, cause I would always fly. And then, the ensign who ran the building that I taught in, he, I believe he wanted to be a flier, but he didn’t make it. So, but he could fly. So, Leah, my roommate and I, both wanted to get in an airplane in the worst way, so he took us one day he had off, he took us out to the airfield, not the Navy airfield, but the real one, and he evidently rented a small plane there, which he flew now and then, and he took each of us, he could only take us one at a time, and he took us each up and he did 29:00 all these fancy maneuvers, flying upside down and what they called a loop-the-loop, flying around and around. We just thought that was great. Didn’t get sick or anything, just loved it. Thought it was wonderful. And I can remember once I flew home one time on leave, I flew home once from there, and it was very foggy and nasty weather outside and I can remember sitting there and I talked with a stewardess, I think that’s what we called them then, and I said, “We flying on instruments?” And she said, “Yes.” I was thrilled. We were flying on instruments. That’s great. James Smither: Just hope the pilot had the right training first. Karol Darling: Yeah! James Smither: Ok, now, what else could you do in Jacksonville? You said you could go to the beach there and that kind of thing, what else was there to do there? Karol Darling: Well, you could go to the beach when you had time off, and we always could get in a bus right there at the base, you had to walk quite a ways, but you got on a bus. And you could go into town or you could go to the 30:00 beach. And, which I did every now and then, and there was some boy there that, someone in �the Army, I think it was, who took me to the beach on my day off now and then. Then you did always have the duty, then you did always have a day off, leave. And then, one time, my roommates, I had Emily Jump, Dorothy McClanahan, Leah Davis, and me, and we all had, I think we had a couple of days off, because Emily, who was from Boston, and she had lived a pretty high life there, with her family, she said we should go to Ponta Viedra Beach???? SPELL and stay in a motel, hotel, or whatever it was. And we did, the four of us, and we didn’t have to wear our uniforms, we had time off. We went there and we stayed overnight. 31:00 And I can remember how wonderful that seemed to me. We stayed in this wonderful place at Ponta Viedra Beach, Florida. James Smither: Now, how many WAVES do you think were on the base in Jacksonville, were there a lot of you or just a handful? Karol Darling: There were quite a lot of us there. Cause, there were, like the building that I taught in, the TBF, there were a lot of us teaching there, and the PBY building had a lot of them there, and I remember the barracks was pretty big. Then there was a mess hall, you know, where we had to go to eat. And you had just certain hours where you ate. We had a wonderful big swimming pool, though. That was one of the best things about it, that we had this swimming pool with diving boards. And the only place I had ever been swimming was in Lake Huron, I grew up in Port Huron and my family had a camp that we set up every summer 32:00 and we all stayed there for weeks in the summer and went swimming in the lake, but I’d never been swimming in a pool before. This was a big pool with a low diving board and a high diving board and I can remember I got so brave that my roommates told me, “Oh, try the high board,” and I even tried the high board. Did a jackknife and did it off the high board. That was a pretty good education in swimming. James Smither: What range of jobs did women have there? There were WAVES doing the flight simulators, but what else were they doing? Karol Darling: I don’t really know. I don’t really know. I know some of them trained in, like, control tower, and then some of them would have been mechanics, airplane mechanics, so there were a lot of different fields you could get into and were there, a lot of them there in Jacksonville. I don’t remember how many buildings we had. That’s kind of a long time ago. James Smither: Now, who’s supervising you 33:00 as you were doing your jobs or in the barracks, things like that, who was in charge of you? �Karol Darling: Well the one, only Ensign Schwaub is the only one I remember being in charge of us in the building. He was the only one. And I can remember we did have to get back in the link trainer and go through and do some more training while we were there, every now and then, we did do that ourselves so that we were more familiar with it, so we knew how to handle that. James Smither: Now back in the barracks, what kind of system did they have for security, and keeping the wrong people out or that sort of thing? Karol Darling: We all had to take turns having the duty. 24 hours a day, everybody there had to take their turn having the duty. James Smither: So, you’re pretty much policing yourselves, in effect? Karol Darling: Mmhmm, yeah, we pretty much did. I think there probably was at least an ensign or some kind of officer in each of the buildings to kind of watch over us. Make sure we did right. James Smither: But it was a little bit different than what is was back out there in Cedar Falls, with women in charge of things 34:00 and in charge of you. And they may have been teachers themselves, professionals in civilian life who could have [garbled] things that are similar. Karol Darling: Yeah, that might’ve been. James Smither: At a college and so forth, a teachers’ college, they may have had some people to draw on for that. Karol Darling: We didn’t question anything, we were there just to do. And we did it. James Smither: How much discipline did they actually have in the WAVES? I mean, they train the men, and so forth, and there’s a lot of “obey orders” and “follow orders” and the whole drill sergeant. Karol Darling: We had the same thing. We drilled all the time, marching, I can remember marching, a huge platoon of us marching through the streets in Atlanta, Georgia. And it was some special event or something, and we were part of the parade, or whatever it was and there were a lot of us there. We had to learn a lot of different marches. And we were very disciplined in that. You had to do everything just right. James Smither: And what happened if you didn’t? �Karol Darling: Well, I don’t remember, cause I think I did it right. 35:00 That’s all I remember. I don’t remember having any discipline, I just did what I was told to do. James Smither: Now, were there people that you were training with, either, in Iowa or Atlanta, that were having a hard time making it, or doing what you were supposed to do or were they pretty consistently successful? Karol Darling: Pretty much successful but there were some exceptions to that. I remember one of the girls didn’t like it and her mother, she got her mother to come and tell them what it was all about and I think she didn’t get an honorable discharge. So, that’s that. James Smither: What do you think morale was like for the WAVES? Were you pretty upbeat and enjoying what you were doing? Karol Darling: It seemed like pretty much that way, and my roommate, I can remember, one of my roommates did not stay in. And two of them did, 36:00 Emily Jump and Leah Davis stayed in. But oh, I remember now, Leah Davis, she met someone, Leah’s family were Jewish, her father was in the cigar-making business in Boston, and I can remember, she met someone, and she just fell head-over-heels. This happened a lot in the Navy. I think people were lonely, and this guy was, I don’t know the Army or the Navy, but she met him there, so it might have been Navy. And I can remember, she ran away, and got time off, and they got married. But it was not a successful marriage, I can remember that. And the other roommate, Dottie, she had a boyfriend, and I think, she just missed him so bad, that she wanted to go home. She wanted him. So, I remember those things, so there were some hurdles 37:00 that a lot of people had to get over. James Smither: Now did they allow married women in the WAVES, or if you got married did you have to leave? Karol Darling: I guess they must’ve allowed it, if Leah married— James Smither: Leah stayed in? Karol Darling: Yeah, she stayed in. Yeah, so it must be that they did allow that. James Smither: What if a woman got pregnant, or did that not come up, so you don’t know about that? Karol Darling: The only thing I know about that is, one of the women who was in my room in Atlanta, there were three of us there. When we went home on leave, she came �back and I know she had an abortion, so I think that’s how she solved her problem. Cause I can remember her being deathly ill, and not wanting anyone to know this, 38:00 but somehow or other they found out, the officers didn’t find out and nobody told on her, but some of them knew she was really ill, cause I’m sure she had that done in Atlanta, illegally. But, I remember she was one of my roommates there. So that was a pretty sad situation there, really, pretty sad. So those things did happen. Being in the service wasn’t all that easy. James Smither: What were the challenges for you, or what made the service difficult for you in certain ways? Or things that you didn’t like about it? Karol Darling: Oh, I think I liked most everything about it, I don’t remember anything I didn’t like. But I’d never been away from home before, and although I was 21 years old, I was probably, I was very unsophisticated, I had lived a very sheltered life at home with big family, and 39:00 I was very lonesome for my family. And my father was a pharmacist, owned a drug store then, and he had a hard time getting help there and I remember wishing that I could go home and help my dad in the drug store. So it was kind of a lonely time in a lot of ways, and I’m sure other people had their problems with this too. Some of the girls were a lot more sophisticated, they had travelled, this was my first time away from home, my first time on a train, you know, just first of a lot of things for me. James Smither: But you did a pretty good job of staying out of trouble there. Karol Darling: I didn’t ever get in trouble. That was one thing. I obeyed, I obeyed. Because I didn’t question it. I can remember my roommate, Emily, saying, “Ours but to do or die,” when we were in Cedar Falls training, our very first training, she was telling us how we had to obey, we had to obey. 40:00 “Ours but to do or die, we have to do this.” So we all shaped up and Emily helped us. James Smither: Are there other things and experiences in service you might have had that stick out or come back to you that you haven’t mentioned to us yet? Karol Darling: Oh, I remember my brother, Keith, who was in the Marine Corps, he was born on my first birthday, so we were just a year apart in age. And he and I had leave at the same time, we went home to our family and had leave together. And there was a big write-up in the paper about us and a picture in the paper and all about how wonderful it was. And we had a lot of pictures there, and of course, and we had two uniforms, we had the Navy uniform and we had a dress uniform, which was all white, so I wore the white uniform for the picture with my brother. 41:00 It was nice. �James Smither: Other things that stand out or kind of come back to you if you think about that time? Karol Darling: I pretty much told you just about everything. Seems like. James Smither: Now you, basically, they decide that you were sick or whatever, and they decide that, they give you the discharge, they send you home, do you remember about when that was? Was it ’44, or? Karol Darling: I think it was late 19-, late 19-, the end of 1943. James Smither: Ok. Karol Darling: Cause I was in for over a year. About that length of time. James Smither: All right. And then what did you do once you got home? Karol Darling: Well, I think I went to work in my father’s drug store. He was happy to have me. I think that was what I did. I went home. James Smither: And then, how long after that did you get married? Karol Darling: I got married in 1944. 42:00 1944. In May of 1944. James Smither: And when did you meet your husband? Karol Darling: Well, I had met him before I went in the Navy, cause he was in school at Michigan State, and he was in the ROTC, so he was allowed to finish his senior year there, graduate, but then went right into the Army after that, cause the war had started. He went into service right after that, in the Army. He was an officer. A lieutenant in the Army. So, I had met him when I was working at Wait’s??? Department Store, and he was in college and then we got married in 1944 when he was home on leave. He called me up on the phone and proposed over the telephone. Then he came home and we got married in May. James Smither: And then 43:00 after the war when you got home, did you continue working or did you just stay home at that point? Karol Darling: I didn’t work after I was married. I didn’t work. He had worked at General Motors as a summer student while he was in college, so when he got out of the service, he went back to General Motors and had a very menial, low-paying job to start with there, but worked his way up very well. But we lived in a, it was very hard to find a place to live back then after the war, you know, the food was rationed, the war years were pretty hard on you. And after the war, the food was still rationed. And they hadn’t built any houses, they hadn’t manufactured any �cars, there were so many things like that that happened. And my brother had a friend whose father 44:00 was in the banking business, maybe it was the mortgage department or something, cause he found us an apartment in Detroit, where my husband was working. Found us this old apartment, we were just thrilled, just to have a place to live, it was just wonderful. So I remember that. James Smither: So how long did it take for things to sort of go back to normal? Because you’re talking about, rationing is going on, after the war. Karol Darling: Yeah, it was. James Smither: Do you have a sense of how long that went on? Karol Darling: I don’t really remember how long it went on. Cause I remember entertaining my in-laws for the first time in my little apartment, and you had to have coupons in order to buy meat, there were a lot of things that you had to have your ration coupons for, and I can remember that. And I don’t think I served them any meat, I think I served them pancakes or something for dinner, 45:00 which was pretty much a disaster, according to my in-laws. But, I didn’t know any better, I guess! It was hard. James Smither: Ok. Then how’d you wind up in West Michigan? Karol Darling: Well, we lived on the other side of the state in a subdivision called Fox Trot, we lived there and raised our boys there. We lived there 27 years. And my husband took an early retirement for health reasons from General Motors, and he just did not want to stay there, so he wanted to move to North Carolina. And we had friends who had done that, moved from where we lived to North Carolina, and he was by then retired from General Motors and wanted to move so we did move to North Carolina and we lived there for 46:00 17 years and our three sons would come and visit us now and then, we decided the house we lived in was too hard to take care of and we should move to a smaller place, we were getting older, so we should move to a smaller place, we were looking for different places in Henderson, North Carolina, where we lived, that were like retirement places. So our boys came down one at a time and they decided, they weren’t building things very well there, they didn’t like the way things were there, and it was too far away and we should come back to Michigan. Because it was too hard for them to come and see us in our old age. So they convinced us we needed to come back to Michigan, and they really worked on us, and that’s why we ended up here. James Smither: Well thank you for taking time to talk with us today. �Karol Darling: Thank you. 46:56 � 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. 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Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0316 Title A name given to the resource Das kleine Baumbuch Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</A> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das kleine Baumbuch, by Willi Harwerth, published by Insel-Verlag. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 316 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05_IB0281 Title A name given to the resource Das kleine Blumenbuch Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</A> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1933 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das kleine Blumenbuch, by Rudolf Koch, published by Insel-Verlag, 1933. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05_IB0054 Title A name given to the resource Das kleine Buch der Edelsteine Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</A> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1938 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das kleine Buch der Edelsteine, by Hans Lang, published by Insel-Verlag, 1938. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05_IB0158 Title A name given to the resource Das kleine Buch der Meereswunder: Muscheln und Schnecken Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</A> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1936 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das kleine Buch der Meereswunder: Muscheln und Schnecken, by Franz Michael Regenfus, published by Insel-Verlag, 1936. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05_IB0226 Title A name given to the resource Das kleine Buch der Nachtfalter Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1936 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das kleine Buch der Nachtfalter, by Jakob Hübner, published by Insel-Verlag, 1936. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 226 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.226 Language A language of the resource de Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/de0c084e89e6e3012c7a535920ba6aaa.jpg 4c34050e0e66a24a68ca3beedaa87db9 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b5fa38b756dedc1ada5c590694e05ab2.jpg a79eb380c907608eed0c0ee05033067c 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 Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0269 Title A name given to the resource Das kleine Kräuterbuch: einheimische Heil-, Gewürz- und Duftplanzen, nach der Natur gezeichnet Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das kleine Kräuterbuch: einheimische Heil-, Gewürz- und Duftplanzen, nach der Natur gezeichnet, by Willi Harwerth, published by Insel-Verlag. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 269 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.269 Language A language of the resource de Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7a6ae91e4a63fb62ecacb86032ddc005.jpg 81c3b1519a955bc4b8e3e17f08e72b00 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/502b9d0e703667b36cc0a76c5319e958.jpg d07c8b049454716fc74579132b8a8ab7 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 Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0213 Title A name given to the resource Das kleine Schmetterlingsbuch Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1934 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das kleine Schmetterlingsbuch, by Jakob Hübner, published by Insel-Verlag, 1934. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 213 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.213 Language A language of the resource de Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/31f3d42beb50fb4fad37453affd6f4e9.jpg b82d5ed894f254bcdd1e6d2f3940cc2f https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/019dad51a4748238b5ea99821feddbb7.jpg 29a88b1f6c55aeb007582b21a43e0ed0 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 Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0417 Title A name given to the resource Das Lächeln der Gioconda Jung-Archimedes: zwei Novellen Description An account of the resource Cover of Das Lächeln der Gioconda; Jung-Archimedes: zwei Novellen, by Aldous Huxley, published by Insel-Verlag, 1951. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 417 Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1951 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.417 Language A language of the resource de Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3897dd7e8ad08a0f99ac16f056aa37ca.jpg eab0dbd639599ff50270cfcfe98a0508 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1d2f883a618151054de65ae70c485b0f.jpg c954833f3980ee29d674ab235bd22e16 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 Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0696 Title A name given to the resource Das Mondschaf Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</A> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1953 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das Mondschaf, by Christian Morgenstern, published by Insel-Verlag, 1953. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 696 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.696 Language A language of the resource de Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d718220128d6717ed8f16aeeb1339c57.pdf 54ba02e2bdba869e7e263b33c47a71c7 PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) 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 </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 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 it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Das Narrenschiff (Stultifera navis) [Latin] [folium 29] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_029Brant1497 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521 Description An account of the resource One leaf of Das Narrenschiff (Stultifera navis) [Latin] by Sebastian Brant. Translated by Jacobus Locher Philomusus. Printed in Strassburg by Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger in 1497. [GW 5057; ISTC ib01089000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521 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 1497 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 Philomusus, Jacobus Locher (translator) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/875e4c59cf51ad2a679d2b0bd8feea2f.pdf 5639454b185584f38072afb2cf88311b PDF Text 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/. Title A name given to the resource Incunabula Description An account of the resource The term incunabula refers to books printed between 1450 and 1500, approximately the first fifty years following the invention, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, of printing from moveable type. Our collection includes over 200 volumes and numerous unbound leaves from books printed during this period. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1450/1500 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Incunabula Collection (DC-03) 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 </a> Subject The topic of the resource Incunabula Printing 1450-1500 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03 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 it la nl de 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/. Title A name given to the resource Das Narrenschiff [Latin] Stultifera navis [folium 189 a-j] Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-03_189Brant1497 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521 Description An account of the resource Ten leaves, a-j, from Das Narrenschiff [Latin] Stultifera navis by Sebastian Brant and translated by Jacobus Locher. Printed in Basel by Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, on August 1, 1497. Illustrated with woodcuts and bound. [GW 5061; ISTC ib01090000] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe 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 1497 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 Locher, Jacobus (translator) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4a0b8b5951f1de061347bda20730ef1c.jpg d53c9cb787622778e5e7a90f60fe92b1 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c627a0426ecc33acd3249047cb840c05.jpg fa5a9e108f0915995d1a697baf8e1a5a 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 Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0216 Title A name given to the resource Das Perlenhemd: eine chinesische Liebesgeschichte Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</A> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1951 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das Perlenhemd: eine chinesische Liebesgeschichte, by Franz Kuhn, published by Insel-Verlag, 1951. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 216 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.216 Language A language of the resource de Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/63f4ba8adff1ecc27ae8c573b06c3a89.jpg 6c24550f168210f03e962bbba6b87442 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f61274479a9b1b588d18d35521f71cb1.jpg a4b7e23e99eb19fa50349b042e9a44f0 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 Insel-Bücherei Series Description An account of the resource The German publishing company Insel Verlag was founded in 1899 by Anton Kippenberg in Leipzig. In its early years the firm only printed expensive, beautifully-produced volumes, until demand led to the publication of the more modest Insel-Bücherei series in 1912. Relatively inexpensive but with the same careful sense of design and typography, these smaller-format books reprinted shorter works from a variety of German, European, and world authors. The series numbers considerably more than a thousand titles and is still being issued. The Digital Collection contains the scanned covers of 140 titles held by Grand Valley State University Libraries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1904-1987 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 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 DC-05_IB0998 Title A name given to the resource Das Tagebuch einer Reise nach Lissabon Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</A> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1974 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-29 Description An account of the resource Cover of Das Tagebuch einer Reise nach Lissabon, by Henry Fielding, published by Insel-Verlag, 1974. Insel-Bücherei Nr. 998 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. Insel-Bücherei. Z315.I5 B83 no.998 Language A language of the resource de Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives