35 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2219d5e03529b5b07a724b713c4bcc96.pdf 4ada91d2eb23837c12c6a9614ede31fc PDF Text Text FIRST ANNU4t\L --PONCA CITY INTERNATIONAL- POW -WOW --------1987_______... �I Cover §Jtory I - SPECIAL PERFORMANCES BY Kevin Locke A member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Locke is an international expert on American Indian culture, especially the heritage of the Lakota. Locke, his wife Dorothy, and their three children make their home in Mobridge, S.D. Kevin Locke didn't plan to become a performer. He's a teacher and principal with two master's degrees and lacks only his dissertation having his doctorate in education and administration. In the last four years though, Locke has left his classroom and principal's office to spend time traveling on speaking and performing engagements which have taken him to more than 30 countries, 48 states, and six continents. The State Department has sent him to Africa in an American culture program. European festivals, such as the Festival de Lille in France, have asked him to visit when their programs include American culture. - He has worked with five Canadian Indian tribes to develop educational policies and language curricula. Locke has played the traditional flute and performed the hoop dance for an audience of 5,000 at the Kennedy Center in the nation's capitol which was aired on five national television networks, and also performed throughout the Western Hemisphere and Europe. He has I made four professional recordings featuring the traditional Lakota courting flute and oral narratives of his native culture. Performing what could be called his trademark, a high-energy hoop dance, Locke tells of the hoop of life. Beginning with 14 hoops in each hand, he begins the hoop dance to show the unfolding of spring. Audiences are told to look for designs representing the sun, moon, emerging plants, birds, a butterfly, mountains and constellations. He begins with two of the small, slender hoops that are just wide enough for a dancer to fit into. Weaving them in the air, then around his body, he adds more circles to the motion to become a bird with wings sprouting from his back, to show the flowers that grow. Never stopping, he steps up hoop after hoop until he works with 28 black, red, yellow and white hoops, representing the people of the world. As the music ends, he slips the entangled hoops from his body, and they hang together in a fragile ball. The world is like that, he says. It's a fragile ball of different peoples. The design, like the hoop, must be held together with understanding and love. When he pulls just one hoop from the ball, it collapses. The world is like that, he says. I - � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_ponca-city-international-pow-wow_1987 Title A name given to the resource Annual Ponca City International Pow-Wow, 1987 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987 Description An account of the resource Annual Ponca City International Pow-Wow flyer, 1987, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7525ef463180151d1320c83c68488ab4.pdf 388cdf589f58f012ead9c605d643317c PDF Text Text Annual Report I • '' UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES , o/ GREATER MUSKEGON 1942 - 1943 i �*·============================* It is with a great deal of satisfaction and pleasure that we submit the second annual report of the activities of your United Jewish Charities of Muskegon. ' t Your chairmen, and the committee that was appointed by them, have worked hard to see that the monies were collected and properly distributed. Through our affiliation with the Federated Council of Charities, of which your organization is a member, we had able advice and assistance in the disbursement of the funds. The people of our community as a whole are proving to be highly understanding in the needs of the less fortunate. This is proven by the over-whelming success of the second year's campaign, and we sincerely trust that your cooperation in the future will be as unselfish as it has been in the past. We trust that you will read this report, and scrutinize it very carefully so that you may offer criticism, if due, at our next annual meeting and dinner which will be held Monday, October llth, at 6:30 P.M. in the Russett Room at the Occidental Hotel. Paul Wiener, Chairman Leo Rosen, Co-Chairman *===========================* �r *============================* J CONTRIBUTED BY FOLLOWING MEMBERS "-Aron Bros. Samuel Ashendorf Ralph August o Stanley Baru Gene Baum Harry H. Berman Harry S. Berman Louis Berman Ruben Berman Nathan Broutman MoITis Bespoloff Samuel Broutman H. Chase Robert Cherin Sigmond Cohen Sol G. Cohan Rabbi Cohen Ludwig Darmstadter Jacob Dunn Andrew J. Epstein Fisher Families Alfred Frank Harold W. Klein Morris Friend M. J. Goldberg Grossman Families Dr. Marie Keilen Da\'id Gudelsky Marvin Gudclsky Oscar Gudelsky Morris Kantor Jacob Kaufman Tilia Jacobs Samuel Klay£ Sara Klein Harold Kline Alex Krause Jack Lawson Rueben Levy Herman Mendelsohn Hyman Lipman Samuel Lipman Sam Orlikoff Chas. Locke James Mint1 Ted Neumer Max Newman Nathan Price Samuel Price Leo Rosen Harold Rosen Sam Rosenbaum Israel Roodin Rohen Rosenberg Fred Rodoff Max Rosenberg Samuel Siegel Harold Silverman Sol Silverman Joe Simon Ed Simcoe A. Shmookler Max Shumacher Charles Smith Eli Smith Carl Steindler Milton Steindler .Joe S. $trifling Josiah Wiener Paul Wiener l\forton W'olfc *·============================= . ( I• I J �*==========================* Allopncnls !\Jade by the J3udgct Cornmitlcc of the United Jewish Charities for the )Car 1912-1943 TOTAL PLEDGED INCOME ..................... S5,360.oo ,\DMINISTRATlVE: Expense ..................................... $ 150.00 LOCAL: u. s. 0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 REGIONAL: 15.00 J\\'.B.- Cigareuc Fund ............ . .. . . . ... . . . Michigan Hillel Building Fund ....... . ... . ... . 100.00 25.00 Bellefairc Cleveland Orphanage ... . ... . ... . ... . Hillel-Lansing .............................. . 25.00 15.00 J\V.B.-Camp Custer- Passover ... . ............ . NATIONAL: (a). Civic Protective Work: United Jewish Laymans Committee ...... . 35.00 500.00 Joint Defense Appeal (A.D.L. & A.J.C.) American Jewish Congress ........ . ..... . 25.00 (b). Health and Welfare: National Jewish Hospital-Los Angeles ... . 75.00 National Jewish Hospital-Denver ..... . . . 75.00 Ex-Patients Home-Denver .............. . 15.00 Leo N. Levy Memorial Hospital ......... . 50.00 National Home for Jewish Children ..... . 40.00 Jewish Consumptive Reliefs ............. . 60.00 National Farm School .................. . Jewish Brail Institute ... . .............. . (c). Education and Culture: Jewish Welfare Board .................. . ~ Wider Scope (J3'nai B'rith) ............. . 60.00 Hebrew College of Theology-Chicago .... . 25.00 Jewish Theological Seminary of New York .. 50.00 Rabbi Elehanan Seminary .... . ......... . 115.00 OVERSEAS AND REFUGEE: United Jewish Appeal ........................ 3,000.00 Hias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00 Hebrew Universitv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 Jewish Telegraphic Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Vadlunii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Federated Council of Palestine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Mores Chiclim Matzo Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.00 Histadruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 Total .................................. $4,905.00 Presents for Muskegon Jewish boys in Armed Services .. $ 150.00 Loan to Congragation Sons of Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00 TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS .. . .. .. ......$5,205.00 *===========================* 1 I ' �*:===========================* Greater Muskegon Boys in the Armed Service Their Contribution CannoL be Measured by Dollars and Cents LL Harry Ashendorf Pfc. L Ashcndorf Corp. J ..\shendorf Corp. Max Ashendorf Pvt. David Berman Pvt. Jack Berman Lt. Max 0. Berman Av. Cadet Stanford Broutman Pvt. Seymore Cane Pvt. Jerome Cherin PvL Ben Cohen Sgt. Oscar Daniels P\'l. Henq Darnstadtcr Lt. Leslie Davis Pvt. De Jong Capt. Diskern LL Eugene Fisher Capt. Norman Fleishman Lt. Ardo M. Friend Lt. Harrison (Buddy) Friend Pvt. Larry Gluck Corp. Dave Goldberg PvL Syd. Goldberg Lt. Louis H. Grossman Corp. Hilliard Gudelsky Pv1. Justin Gudelsky Pvt. Eugene Hirsch Pvt. Irving Hirsch Sgl. Sam Jacobs P, t. Herman Kessler Pvt. Ben Klitzner Sgt. E. H. Krause Cadet David Krupp Pvt. Bill Leibozic Pvt. Jack Lipman Capt. Phillip Miller James Mintz .-h. Cadet Dan M. Moore Chief Petty Officer Al Parke1· Pvt. Syd. Polly Capt. Leonard Price Lt. Seymore Rosenberg Pvt. Chas. Rubinsky PvL Louis Rubinsky Pvt. Sam Schumacher LL Jrving E. Silverman Pvl. Harry Singer l'\l. Hy. Singer Corp. Irving Singer Corp. N. H. Skolkin Pfc. Lewis Jack Steindler Lt. Nathan Talbot �J I l *============================* 1942 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL roa REFUGEES, OVERSEAS HEEDS AHD PALESTINE on behalf of JOIS r DISTI.IBUTION COMMIT Tl:I: ., ~ J 1· M D ,. A L t: S T 1 S E A J• r ! A L NATIONAL I.EFUGEE SE1t.VICE ,..,.,,.,u,1c1,.,..,._ J.41 M,4.0UON A\'UIUJ; HIW YOll CITY William R~wald R&bbl Abbi. Hilld LJ.,tt Rabbi JOGab 8. WiM H•IIHMJ CJ,.,.,.. PawllMrwold Louis&.......... Albet\lli.o.nelo ff.atl"J' fdcdea.....W Heery lttlaloa Louil E. K.lnwa Hon. Hcrbffc H. Leba,,ae Uon.Jlil.haa W.Madr: HfflryMoruk)' ;uu.:·l~~• Hoo. Mu C. Ste. Ferdi.a.aod Soooebcwa Hoo. Nathao Suaa, MJ.M Ht1>riecca bold !dw• rJ M. M. W~ra Mn. Fdiz M. WuktJ Rabbi Scrpbe:a S. WIH c....c;••Nl'Wil ~~=Goldaue Rabbi Is.-.el Goldstcia Mon,oe Gold,ara.tu Rabbi Jama G. Hcllu Hoo. Louis E. Lniotb• J Mn. l)a.,ld M. Le..., Louis Lipsky Chula A. Jlic,:tt.nao Hoa. Mortl• R.otbcobc-r, co.r~..,.,,.~, L Edwin GoldwUMt Cbarla J. Rosmhlooe, '·""'"";,. vu..o~ hidorCooot Hnr,-Mooco, E..ir•~_.,,;.,, c....;111# Hr. Paul Weiner, Chairman United Jew1111 Cbariti. . Huokegon, IUehigan Dear Hr. Weiner: Kr. Irving Kahn ha• forwarded a check in the amount ot $500.00 re1>reaent1n« a aupplement&r)' allotment on account of 1942 aede b1 the Uni tod Jewiah Ch,,.rHiee of Huakegon to tbe United Jew1ah Appeal. Thia brir:t;• to tho tum of $3,000,00 our total all~ment tor that rear. Our official eOllllUllitJ receipt has been fon,arded to Kr. Harold S11Yeman, Trea,urer ot rour c0111ll!UD1 tr campaign. It 1t harcil.1 neceu&r)' for me to t ell rou how grateful we are to rou and to our other friend, 1n Muekegon for 7our generoue and underatanding action in ma.ldng thit tdd1 t1onal 1um aYailable. Cooperation of the kind that "' recoiH fro• :,our cood communi t:, 1t a aource of conatant oncourece11ent to u,. W1tb l<ind. . t r~ardt, 1 aa Alben Abrabam.ton ~:~flcc:lct t.oui, Broklo Hoo. O.vld Dwoood S,.lvanGoabaJ ,~:J·.~Jta':~,.,_ Paalt.eftoo Al AJlifft H. L~t»ro,u Abn.h&nl L UtboYiU, Richard P. Limbu.rs CJR:PlU{ ll•bbl lr't'i.a1 Milltt Oaul•Rts Inioa- H. Sbttr:nH SJmoaSbctw" ti:!::.a:!c Mrt,.Rqg«W.Strn• au.~.,, *=============================* �*·============================* A M E:R IC AN FR I EN D S O I= TH t H t 8 R I: W U N IV t RS I TY - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 NC0•,0•11Tle - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 EAST FORT IETH STREET, NEW '1'011: ASHLA.HO • •HU A, S w IOSEN&ACH ht4•clt"t f0WA'0 M. M, WAUUIG •.O.S, fflllf M. WA-.UIW Cll.'--~.l1u. C . - MATMAN lATNOJFA.M. 0 • •--11 . l,,tc. JUUAM W. MAC( V,u,~.,,,... "°"'· '-'""'' 1.iALmCf WfClHUM eo...... 01,«" ti iJ,., H,.,.._.•u.......,IO JU'OAH l, 1,1.A(iHlS , ..1,fl11t T,......_, ALIS!,.!!:!~l~~t-1 ~II $.Al.l.lAMM SCMOCIClN c,.••._. &,~e.w.c.:a Al'J!:.t!~Ut\ 5'.L~;!",_~~'4-.C C.Ow11ea (J4A1M W(llMANtl c-~ ...,... ......,. September U, a.a llr-, Paul Wion.r, Cbainu.n 1'1l1Ud J.n1h CbaritiH of GN&ter lruebgon llllelotgoa, lolob., DMr llr, Wi•mr, Ila"')' tlwllcl for :,our lettor of S•ptemb~ 19th ill whioh you enoloaed choek for tlOO, u the 1943 o.llooetiCD tor tit~ Jia,riou Friend• of the llebr- Un1nr•~t)' t.•:z:, the l!ll1tod Jni•h 0lar1th• ot ONater llu1ll:eg011, We are deeply gn,.totul tor Bebr.,. 'OAiwrait,y, t.-.. it;,oreaao in )'O\lr ~upport ot I . . enoloeing ho"""1tb our TNuurer 1 1 t o ~ nffipt, With bHt wilbH tor ~ho ..... Yoar, I ... n,,ar *============================ � 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 Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_BI-UnitedJewishCharitiesAR_1942-1943 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943 Title A name given to the resource Annual Report, 1942-1943 Description An account of the resource Annual Report of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1942-1943 Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/73e1b5e8c695a686166bf9d36b57d320.pdf 236bdd1210ae7cbaa97e5d20b3fab047 PDF Text Text ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1948 - 1949 I I SAMUEL LIPMAN Chairman I I ; I ( �TZEDAKAH - CHARITY Whoso closes his eyes to this duty and hardens his heart to his needy brother is called a worthless man, and is regarded as an idolater. But whosoever is careful in the fulfillment of this duty attests himself as belonging to the seed of Abraham, whom the Lord hath blessed: "For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do Tzedakah and Justice." (Genesis 18. 19.) Charity is the main foundation of Israel's preeminence, and the basis of the Law of Truth. As the prophet says unto Zion: "By Tzedakah shalt thou be established" (Isaiah 54 . 14). Its practice will alone bring about Israel's redemption: "Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and they that return of her with Tzedakah" (Isaiah 1. 27). Charity is greater than all sacrifices, says Rabbi Eleazar; even as it is written, "To do Tzedakah and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice". Whoso pities the poor shall himself receive compassion from the Holy One, blessed be He. Let him further reflect that as there is a wheel of fortune revolving in this world, perchance some day either he himself, or his son, or his son's son, may be brought down to the same lowly state. Nor let it enter his mind to say: "How can I give to the poor and thus lessen my possessions?" For man must know that he is not the master of what he has, but only the guardian, to carry out the will of Him who entrusted these things to his keeping. Whosoever withholds alms from the needy thereof withdraws himself from the luster of the Shekh inah and the light of the Law. Let man therefore be exceedingly diligent in the right bestowal of charity. Jacob ben Ashe,·, 1269-1349 . �! m MESSAGE f g ~RARY QHAIIWAN The United Jewish Charities or Greater Muskegon should not be regarded merely as a unified fund-raising instrument that swings into operation onlf during the daya of its annual campaign. Throughout the year, the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon is your community servant and trustworthy agent of your humanity. It performs a multitude or services. The organizations which it helps to support e~compass a large part of the globe and include significant efforts in your behalf in the United States and in our own community of Greater Muskegon. So that you may know the sources of the funds and how they are utilized, this annual report is being sent to you by your Chairman, Samuel Lipman. The accomplishments of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon during the fiscal year 1948-49 evoked high praise among the Jewish communities of the country. fice this tude task For the outstanding leadership and saori• and devotion to the cause of humanity, comm.unity acknowledges a debt of gratiand appreciation to Samuel Lipman for a well done. PAUL M. WIENER Honorary Chairman ��! MESSAGE FROM ,lllli CHAIRMAN In terminating the campaign of 1948-49, I look back upon the years spent in the administration of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon. After four years as Treasurer, the past year as Chairman and a board member since the organization's inception, I have had the honor and the privilege, as well as the heartfelt satisfaction of contributing, in part, to the formation and maintenance of the new Jewish State. Not only do I feel that I have contributed to the welfare of my brethren, but in doing this, I have seen the positive results of true values; I have gained a working knowledge of religion and altruism. The success of one's undertakings brings with it a joy and spirit unsurpassed. The Jewry of Muskegon can be proud of the role it played in the fulfillment of our dreams. However, we must be mindful of the fact that our task is, as yet not completed. It is not enough to support financially; we must also give of our time and effort. I hope and pray that those men and women who are capable of leadership will assume their responsibility 'and that the members of our community will co-operate to insure the success of future campaigns. I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to my co-workers and to the community at large for their generous and unstinting time, money and effort. I'm sure all of us have benefitted spiritually and materially from participating in the worthiest cause in the history of mankind. SAMUEL LIPMAN, Chairman �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES CASH RECEIPTS A..tID DISBURSEMENTS FOR YEAR ENDED NOVElffiER 30 1 1949 Amount outstanding at the end of the 1947-48 Drive Amounts Pledged 1948-49 $ 6,69.3.00 76,187.00 $82,880.00 Cash in Bank December J, 1948 Checks on Hand December J, 1948 292.58 2,950.00 3,242.58 $86,122.58 Pledges Outstanding November 30, 1949 Cancellations 1947-48 11,969.50 2,575.00 Moneys Allocated 68,980.50 83,525.00 General Ex~nses Dinners, llusic, Printing., Stationery & Office Expense, Secretarial Services 1,131.05 Checks on Hand November JO, 1949 2,550.00 Less: Bank Overdraft November JO, 1949 1,083.47 1,466.53 ,, l86Ll22.58 ""' �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES ALLOCATIONS 1948-1949 Special Relief • • • • • • $2,155.50 .. . . . Congregation B'nai Israel . . . . United Jewish Appeal • • J.I.R. Hebrew Union College • • • Hadassah • • • • • • • Zionist Organization. • • • . .. . • • 100.00 250.00 .... . P,merican Fund for Palestine • 500.00 1,000.00 • • • • • • National Jewish Welfare 18,000.00 • • Weitzmann Inst. of Science •• American Jewish Cong. 45,000.00 50.00 100.00 • • 50.00 • • • • 25.00 • • • • • • • 100.00 Union of American Hebrew Cong. • • 200.00 Joint Defence Appeal • • • • • • • 1,400.00 ..... 50.00 Jewish Telegraphic Agency Hias Hebrew Shelter Histadrut of Palestine. �UNITED JE\l~SH CHARITIES 1948-1949 PLEDGES Ellen Aron • • • • • • • • • • • $ Louis Aron • . • . • • . . • . . . • Abe .Ashendorf • • • • • • • • • • • Jake Ashendorf • • • • • • • • • • • Max 1'1shendorf • • • • • • • • • • • Mrs. Sam Ashendorf • • • • • • • Mrs. Sam Ashendorf • • • • • • Dr. Ralph August • • • • • • • • • • Arthur Bell • • • • • • • • Harry H. Berman • • • • • • • • Louis M. Berman • • • • • • • • • • Ruben Berman • • • • • • • • • • • • Morris Bernstein • • • • • • • • • • Marcus Bess • • • • • • • • • • • • Sam Buckland • • • • • • • • • • • • Sigmund Cahn • • • • • • • • • • • • Mrs. S. Cahn • • • • • • • • • • • • Robert and Jerome Cherin • • • • • • Bennie Cohen • • • • • • • • • • • • Dr. Sol Cohen • • • • • • • •• Elsa Darmstadter • • • • • • • • • • Henry and Louis Darmstadter • • • • .Andrew Epstein • • • • • • • • • • • Blanche Fine • • • • • • • • • • • • Francis Fine and rtrs. Schmookler •• Harry, Jerome, Bernard, and Eugene Fisher • • • • Mrs. Harry Fisher • Jimmy Fisher (Gene) • • • • • Nancy Fisher (Bernard) • • • • Sally and Marilyn Fisher • • Mary Fogel • • • • • • • William Fogel • Dr. M. L. Friedenberg • Hyman Friedman • • ... . ... .. . . . . . . .. .. .. .. . . . . ...... ..... . . . . . . . . .. 36.50 200.00 200.00 200.00 500.00I 500.00 36.50 300.00 50.00 JOO.OD 400.00 300.00 50.00 35.00 10.00 15.00 1.00 600.00 100.00 300.00 J6.50 300.00 75.00 36.50 2,500.00 5,000.00 182.50 36.50 36.50 73.00 36.50 100.00 500 .. 00 100.00 1 ) �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIF.§ 1948-1942 PLEDGES Ir' I . .... . Maurice Golden • • • Mrs. M. Golden • Grossman Department Store Gloria Grossman • • Herman Grossman • • Louis Grossman • • Louis Grossman Sadie Grossman • • • David and Oscar Gudelsky . Madeline Half • • Hamilton Apartments • Hughes & Hatcher • • • Meyer Jacobs • • Mrs. Tillie Jacobs • • • • Saul Jacobson • • Morris Kantor • • • • J. M. Kaufman • Lillian Kaufman • • Dr. Marie Keilin • • $ 500.00 . . . . . . . •• • •• 36.50 . . 1,000.00 . . . .• .• . . •• 36.50 750.00 ... ... . . . . . . . .• •• 750,00 . . . . . . . . . . • 1,000.00 15.00 ... • ..•• . . 250.00 . . . .• .• •• • •• 25.00 . . . . . • • 1,000.00 100.00 . . . . . . . .• •• •• •• .• 35.00 . 5.00 . . . . • •• •• .• •• 200.00 .. . . 25.00 . . . . . •• . .• • •• 10,000.00 . . . . . 100.00 . . . •• •• . • •• 25.00 Jean Klayf • • . . . . . . • . • • . 5.00 Sam Klayf • . . • . . • • • • • • • 405.00 Harold Kline • • . . . . . • • . . • 75.00 Sara Klein . . . . . . . • • • . • • 250.00 100.00 Edward Krause . • . . • . . . . • • Harriet Ann Lahr • • . • . • . . . • 10.00 Harry Lahr • • • . . . • . . . . . • 35.00 Rose Lawson • . . • . . . . • . • • J6.50 50.00 Sam Lawson • . . . . . . . . . . . • 750.00 Max Lebow • • • • . . . . • . • • • ~ophie Lebow • • . • . . . • • . • • "36.50 . \ y .. .. Maxwell Lenhoff • Jess Levin • • • • • • Morris Levine • • Reuben Levy • • • Hyman Lipman • • • • . .. • • • . . • •• . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50.00 10.00 50.00 25.00 2,500.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1948-1949 PLEDGES $ 100.00 Ellen Lynn Lipman • • • • • • Jack Lipman • • • • • • • • • 50.00 Samuel Lipman • • • •••• , 3,790.00 50,00 Benjamin Marcus • • • • • • • • • • Herman Mendelsohn • • • • • • • • • 25.00 200.00 James Metz • • • • • • • • • Oscar Neuman • • • • • • • • • • • 100.00 Ted Neumer • • • •••• 1.,000.00 Bertha and Sylvia Paul • • • • • • 25.00 Betty Price • • • • • • • • 50.00 20.00 James Price • • • • • • • • • • Sam Price Family • • • • • • • 1,500.00 Dr. Robert Risk • • • •. • • • • 10.00 Israel Roden • • • • • • • • 100.00 Mr. and Hrs. Fred Rodoff • • • • • 350.00 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rodoff ••• 46.50 Lyle Rogers • • • • • ~ • • • • • • 750,00 Mrs. Lyle Rogers • • • • • • • • • J6.50 Leo Rose • • • • • • .. • • • 100.00 Douglas Rosen • • • • • • 50.00 Harold Rosen • • • • • • • • • • • 750.00 Mrs. Harold Rosen. • ••• 100.00 Jeffrey Rosen. • • • • • • •• J6.50 Leo Rosen. • • • • • . • ..• Mrs , Leo Rosen • • • • • • • • Max Rosenberg • • • • • • • • • • • Mrs. Max Rosenberg • • • • • • • • Robert and Rose Rosenberg • • • • • Marilyn Rosenberg • • • • • • • • • Suzanne Rosenberg • • • • • • • • Chas. Rubinsky • • • • • • • • • • Mr. and f.lrs. S. I. Rosenberg • • • Louis s. Rubinsky • • • • • • • • • Max Schubb • • • • • • • . . • . • 2,000.00 125,00 200.00 J6.50 200.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 125.00 50.00 100.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARIT.ll2 1948-1949 PLEDGES Leah Schumacher • • • • • • • • • • $ 25.00 Harold Schumacher • • • • • • • • • 36.50 200.00 Max Schumacher • • • • • • • • • • Sam Schumacher • • • • • • • • • • 5.00 Mrs. A. Schmookler • • • • • • • • .36.50 100.00 Sam Seigel • • • • • • • • • • ·H arold Silverman • • • • • • • • • 750.00 Mollie L. Silverman • • • • • • • • .36.50 Mr. and l 1rs. Joe Simon • • • • • • 150.00 Sarah Simon • • • • • • • • • • • • 36.50 Ed Simcoe • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50.00 Jacob Singer • • • • • • • • • • • 25.00 1,000.00 E. M. Smith • • • • • • • • • • • • 1,000.00 Chas. Smith • • • • • • • • • • • • Lillian Smith • • • • • • • • • • • .36.50 20.00 Harry Spiwak • • • • • • • • • • • Frances Steind-ler • • • • • • • • • 73.00 100.00 Jack Steindler {Irene) • • • • • • 700.00 Milton Steindler • • • • • • • • • Jos. S. Strifling • • • • • • • • • 3,500.00 35.00 J. S. Strifling • • • • • • • • • • 146.00 Syd F. Strifling • • • • • • • • • 125.00 Dr. M. Teles • • • • • • • • • • • 125.00 Rabbi and Mrs. Umen • • • • • • • • 2,000.00 Josiah Wiener • • • • • • • • • • • Paul Wiener • • • • • • • • • • • • 20,000.00 200.00 Mrs. Paul Wiener • • • • • • • • • Mrs. J. Wiener • • • • • • • • • • 36.50 Myrtle Tinterman • • • • • • • • • 25.00 1 $?6.18?.00 �Cancellations of Pledges for 1947-48-49 $2,575.00 00 0000 00 Pledges of 1947-48-49 still to be paid $11,969.50 0 000 0 �November 30, 1949 Mr. Samuel Lipman, Chairman United Jewish Charities Muskegon, Michigan Dear Mr. Lipman: Pursuant to your request, I have audited the books and records of the United Jewish Charities of Muskegon, Michigan for the year ended November 30, 1949, and submit, herewith, my report on my findings. Included with this report are statement of receipts and disbursements, schedules of pledges for 1948-49, unpaid pledges as at November JO, 1949 and other details. The casr on hand was checked and the bank account reconciled with a statement from the depository and found to be correct. Some pledges for 1947-48 which were not considered collectible were charged off. This report is submitted to you and your organization with my compliments, and I trust it will prove satisfactory to you. Yours very truly, DIXON Public Accountant C.T.C. WALTER A. Our sincere thanks to Mr. Walter A. Dixon is hereby gratefully acknowledged. � 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 Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_UJCGM-AR_1948-1949 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948/1949 Title A name given to the resource Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1948-1949 Description An account of the resource Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1948-1949 Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a11035e674d4fa8c006c667498ec0f29.pdf 5ef5dda8f03c0eb52c713a3ca412fa53 PDF Text Text ~NNUAL 1(EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1952-1953 HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman �MESSAGE FROM THE HONORARY CHAIRMAN We are deepiy grateful to Mr . Herman Grossman for his assuming the chairmanship of the United Jewish Charities during the past year. His was a leadership that was forthright and dynamic. With Herman in the chair, there never was a dull moment at meetings. His deep - rooted interest in the cause which he championed was expressed not only in his hard-hitting words, but in his traveling many hundreds of miles to regional U.J.A. conferences where he drew inspiration to carry on in the community. For his devotion and self-sacrifice, we extend to Herman Grossman our most heartfelt thanks . PAUL M . WIENER, Honorary Chairman. ------~-------------------------.----------- �MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN As the 1952-1953 year in the United Jewish Charities program closes, I give thanks and gratitude on behalf of the officers and trustees to a splendid community which continues to take its place among the Jewish communities of Michigan . I say splendid because our community, through its local efforts, has manifested its desire to help bring to fruition man's ins.tinct and determination to be free, an even1" we witnessed in Israel. I say splendid because our community, through its local efforts, has asserted its faith that there is a force for freedom and for good in Israel. I say splendid because our community, through its local efforts, has declared that the experiment seen in the rebirth of the world ' s youngest democracy shall not fail. I say splendid because our commun- ity, through its local efforts, has affirmed the strength of the Israeli soul which boasts a vastly greater power than any material consideration , a power which has settled for nothing less than freedom, a power so great that it surpasses the violence of the sun itself . I say splendid, too, because I know that you will not relax your efforts to help my successor. This work for the United Jewish Charities is a life-giving work for the entire community. I believe we can , I believe we must, mold and recreate the spiritual and moral leadership which has always united our peoples . I say splendid, again, for from this power to unite has come the rare gift of providing so much more for such a greater cause. Continue to encourage this young man who has just gone into business for himself . And for your generosity, cind for your overflowing hearts, God bless you. HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended November 30, 1953 Cash on Hand December 22, 1952 Bank Deficit December 22, 1952 $ 10,400.00 7 , 200.73 $ 3,199.27 RECEIPTS: Pledges Pledges - 1952-53 previous years $ 33,225 .25 1,950 .00 35,175 .25 $38,424 .52 LESS DISBURSEMENTS: Allocations to Charities Dinners and Banquets . Office Expense . Petty Cash, Transit Fund Misc. Expense, bank chg . $34,555 .00 875 .87 136 .84 250 .00 .30 35,818 .01 2,606 .51 Undeposited Checks, November 30, 1953 Cash in Bank, November 30, 1953 2,510 .00 $ 96 .51 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocations 1952-53 TO ISRAEL: United Jewish Appeal Hadassah American Fund for Israel Institutions Weizman Institute . Hebrew University Haifa Technological College Federated Council of Israel Institutions $27,500.00 2,000.00 100.00 300 .00 300 .00 150.00 100.00 $30,450 .00 OTHER: American Association for Jewish Education Union of American Hebrew Congregations B'nai Brith National Youth Service Brandeis University Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraphic Agency Hias Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y . Hebrew Theological College Leo Levi Hospita I . Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital National Jewish Children's Home Histadruth lrvith Bitzaron . Nation a I Jewish Hospita I of Denver Special Relief, Muskegon area $ 25.00 700 .00 150.00 200.00 100.00 125.00 200.00 50.00 25 .00 100.00 100.00 100.00 50 .00 50 .00 50 .00 25 .00 25 .00 50.00 1,980.00 4,105 .00 $34 ,555.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1953 PLEDGED Louis Aron ........ Mrs . Louis Aron .. Mr. and Mrs . Tony Aron .... Sylvia Aron ..... . Abe Ashendorf.. Isadore Ashendorf .... Jacob Ashendorf Max Ashendorf .. Mrs. Ida Ashendorf .... Dr . Ralph August Grace Atkinson .. Ira Bank ........... . Arthur E. Bell ... . Harry and Gene Berman ....... . Louis M. Berman L. J. Berman .... Reuben Berman .. Herman Braverman .... Nathan Broutman ..... . Mrs . Nathan Broutman ..... . Art Billings ..... . Marcus Bell ..... . Sigmund Cahn .. Dr. Seymour H. Cane ....... . Jack Chevlin ... . Robert Cherin ... . David and Beth Cherin ......... . Dr. Sol Cohan .. Jean Danigelis .. H. H. Chambers .. Louis Darmstadter .. Rose and Henry Darmstadter .. Mrs. Julius Dunn Father Dark ..... . Paul and Margaret Elliott .... ....... . $ MIL K FUND PA I D $ 100.00 BALA NCE 100 .00 50 .00 -0-0- 500.00 200.00 100.00 500 .00 -0-0-0- 30 .00 220 .00 250 .00 30.00 220 .00 250 .00 -0-0- 250 .00 300.00 10.00 1.00 150.00 -0-0-0-0-0- 100.00 450 .00 50 .00 100.00 100.00 450 .00 50 .00 100.00 - 0-0- 50 .00 50 .00 -0- 50.00 50 .00 -0- 10.00 10.00 10 .00 10 .00 10.00 10.00 10.00 -0-0- 50.00 10.00 250 .00 50 .00 10.00 250.00 $ 50 .00 200 .00 100.00 200 .00 300 .00 50.00 10.00 1.00 125.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 -0- -0--0- -0- 0-0-0- 0- 10.00 50 .00 50 .00 25.00 - 0- 50 .00 50.00 -0- 150 .00 10.00 50 .00 150 .00 10.00 50.00 -0- 15.00 15.00 50.00 25 .00 25 .00 25.00 - 0- -0-0- -0- - 0- -0- r l �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1953 PLEDGED r J 1 l Andy Epstein ... . Mike Erris ....... . Harry Field Nancy and Kenneth Fisher ........... . Maurice and Harrison Friend ......... . Warner Galombeck .... Mike Goldberg .. Maurice Golden Mrs. Sadye Golden .. ..... . Dr . Arthur Greenberg Herman Grossman, Sam Klayf and Louis Grossman ..... . Louis Grossman .. Mike Grossman .. David Gudelsky Meyer Jacobs ... . Ray Jasicki ..... . Saul Jacobson .. Morris and Frances Kantor ......... . J. K. Kaufman Asso . and Family ......... . Lillian Kaufman .. Dr . Marie Keilin Jean Klayf ..... . Sam Klayf ....... . Harold Kline ... . Harriett Kline .. Mrs. E. Klein .... Edward Krause .. Sam Lawson ... . Morris Levine ... . Max Lenhoff ... . Michael Leventhal ..... . Jess Levin ....... . MILK FUND 60 .00 25.00 20.00 PAID BALANCE 60 .00 25.00 20.00 -0-0- 36 .50 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 10.00 50.00 200 .00 10.00 50.00 -0- 36.50 36 .50 100.00 2,500.00 75.00 .25 200.00 60.00 2.00 250.00 2,400.00 100.00 25 .00 10.00 100.00 100.00 10.00 36.50 200.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 50 .00 36 .50 10.00 -0200.00 36.50 100.00 -0- 2,500.00 75.00 .25 -0-0-0200 .00 •- 0 -0- 60 .00 2.00 250.00 100.00 -0- -0- 100.00 -0-- 2,400.00 100.00 25.00 20.00 100.00 100 .00 36.50 200.00 150 .00 50.00 50.00 50.00 -0- 36.50 10.00 -0-0-0-0-0-0- -0-0-0-0- -0-0-0- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1953 PLED G ED Hyman Lipman __ Jack Lipman ---Samuel Lipman __ Bee Lipman ______ Sylvia Levey ---Reuben Levy ---Benjamin Marcus Ruth Marcus Herman Mendelson J. W . Metz ________ Ted Neumer ______ Jessie Neume r __ Betty Pr ice _______ _ Harold Page ____ Mr . and Mrs . Sam Price ---Mrs . Leah Richel! Mr . and Mrs . Fred Rodoff __ Raleigh Rod off __ Leo and Elizabe t h Rose Mr. and Mrs. Doug las Rosen Jeff and Barbara Rosen Harold Rosen -Leo Rosen -------Mrs. Leo Rosen __ Mr. and Mrs . MI LK FUND PAID BALA NCE 1,000 .00 50 .00 1,250.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 36.50 -0-0-0-0-0-0- 0-- 0- 10 .00 40.00 100.00 300 .00 50 .00 36 .50 10 .00 -0-0-0-0-0-0- 500 .00 10.00 500.00 10.00 -0-0- 150.00 36 .50 -0-0- 50.00 50 .00 -0- 50 .00 50 .00 -0- 50 .00 1,000.00 1,000.00 l 00.00 -0-0-0-0- 150 .00 -0- 36 .50 -0- 100.00 100 .00 -0- 50.00 50 .00 -0- 25.00 l 00.00 25.00 25 .00 200 .00 200 .00 50 .00 -025.00 25 .00 -0-0-0- 10 .00 10 .00 -0- 1,000.00 50 .00 1, 250 .00 50.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 36 .50 4 0.00 100.00 300 .00 50.00 36.50 150 .00 36.50 50 .00 1,000.00 1,000 .00 100 .00 I' Max Rosenberg Mrs . Max Rosenberg Seymou r Rosenberg Robert Rosenberg Florence Rubin sky -----Chas . Rubinsky __ Louis Rubinsky __ Maxwell Ross -Rabbi Ruderman Jacob Schreibe r Debby and Jerry Schreiber ______ 150 .00 36 .50 75 .00 50 .00 50 .00 200 .00 200 .00 50.00 r �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1953 PLEDGED I' Max Schubb ..... . Max and Leah Schumacher __ Leah Schumacher Sam Schumacher Mrs. Smookler and F. Fine ... . Sam Siegel .. ... . Sol Silverman __ Mr . and Mrs . Joe Simon ... . Eli Smith ...... ... . Frances Steindler Jack Steindler __ Milton Steindler Mr . and Mrs . Joe Strifling .. Syd Strifling ..... . Frederick Stein .. Mike Stein ....... . Esther Stein ..... . Joseph Singer .. Bill Stern ......... . Morris Teles ..... . Melvin Van Duren .... Josiah Wiener .. Joel Wiener .... Mrs. Josiah Wiener ....... . Paul Wiener ... . Mrs. Paul Wiener T. M . Whitman .. MI LK FUND 100.00 BALANCE PA ID 100.00 -0- 25.00 100.00 36 .50 25 .00 -0-0-0- 700 .00 125.00 100.00 700 .00 125 .00 100.00 -0- 100.00 1,000.00 100.00 1,000 .00 125.00 125 .00 375 .00 100 .00 36 .50 125 .00 125.00 375 .00 750 .00 365 .00 250.00 5.00 50 .00 50.00 100.00 125 .00 15 .00 1,000 .00 25 .00 50.00 10,000 .00 200 .00 25.00 $31 ,943.25 $ 1,868.50 -0-0-0- -0-0-0-0- 750 .00 365.00 250 .00 5 .00 50 .00 50 .00 -0-0-0-0-0-0100.00 125 .00 -0- 15.00 1,000.00 25 .00 -0-0-0- 50 .00 10,000 .00 200 .00 25.00 -0-0-0-0- $33,225.25 $ 586 .50 r Previous years unpaid balances : Sam Price Family ............................................................... . Bil I Stern ........................................................................... . 1,800 .00 150.00 $ 2,536 .50 �December 9, 1953 United Jewish Charities, Muskegon, Michigan. Gentlemen: Pursuant to your request, I have audited the books and records of the UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of Muskegon , Michigan, for the year ended November 30, 1952 and November 30, 1953, and submit, herewith , my report on my findings. The records were accurately kept and were in balance for both years under audit . Included in this report are the following : Statements of Receipts and Disbursements . Statements of Charitable Allocations . Schedules of pledges , for charity and milk fund . Balance sheet as at November 30, 1953. Cash on hand is shown in detail and the bank account was recon ciled with a statement from the depository. In my opinion, according to the accepted p r inciples of accounting, the attached statements and schedules truly reflect your operations for the two preceding fiscal years and your financial condition as at No vember 30 , 1953 . Thanking you for this opportunity to again serve you, I am, Respectfully yours, WALTER A. DIXON . Certified Public Accountant. �ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON . PAUL M. WIENER 1941- 1942 PAUL M. WIENER 1942 - 1943 PAUL M. WIENER 1943-1944 PAUL M . WIENER 1944 -1 945 PAUL M . WIENER 1945-1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948 - 1949 HARRY A . FISHER 1949- 1950 FRANCIS N . FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M . WIENER 1951-1952 � 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 Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_UJCGM-AR_1952-1953 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1952/1953 Title A name given to the resource Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1952-1953 Description An account of the resource Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1952-1953 Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/99986c2640cf96b0f2375ce549d8a57f.pdf 543261aa54f9acebcb2835680df4df01 PDF Text Text ~NNUAL 7@PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1953-1954 ABIE ASHENDORF Chairman �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended November 30, 1954 Cash in Bank Nov . 30, 1953 Undeposited Checks Nov . 30, 1953 $ 96 .51 2,510 .00 $ 2,606 .51 RECEIPTS : Pledges Pledges - 1953-54 previous years $28,102 .00 1,686 .50 29,788.50 $ 32,395 .01 LESS DISBURSEMENTS : Al locations to Charities Dinners and Banquets Secretarial Expense 1952-53 $26 ,545 .00 543.19 250 .00 Secretaria I Expense 1953-54 Other Office Expense Petty Cash, Transit Fund Legal Ex pense 1952 & 1953 Audit . 250 .00 122 .32 35 .00 100 .00 27,84 5. 51 4 ,549 .50 Undeposited Checks Nov . 30, 1954 3,261 .50 Undeposited 1n Bank, Nov . 30, 1954 $ 1,288 .00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocations 1953-1954 TO ISRAEL : United Jewish Appeal Hadassah American Fund for Israel Institutions Weizman Institute . Hebrew University Haifa Technological College Federated Council of Israel Institutions $20,000 .00 1,250.00 l 00.00 100.00 200 .00 100.00 100.00 $21,850 .00 OTHER : American Association for Jewish Education Union of American Hebrew Congregations B'nai Brith National Youth Service Brandeis University Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraphic Agency Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y. Hebrew Theologica I College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital National Jewish Children's Home Histadruth lvrith Bitzaron Nation a I Jewish Hos pita I of Denvc:· Hillel Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress Temple B' nai Israel Hebrew School Special Relief, Muskegon area $ 25 .00 700 .00 100.00 300.00 100.00 125.00 50.00 50.00 200 .00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 25 .00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100 .00 500 00 1,695.00 4,695.00 $26,545 .0J �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1954 PLEDGED Mr . & Mrs . Louis Aron Abie Ashendorf Jacob Ashendorf Isadore Ashendorf .... Max Ashendorf .. Mrs . Ida Ashendorf .... Margaret Ashendorf ---··Dr. Ralph August Arthur E. Bell ___ _ Harry and Gene Berman ....... . Louis M . Berman Louis J . Berman .. Reuben Berman .. Herman Braverman ___ _ Nathan Broutman ···-·· Marcus Bess --···Victor Burstein __ Sigmund Cahn .. Dr . Seymour Cane ----------·· Jack Chevlin ___ _ Robert Cherin ___ _ Dr. Sol Cohan __ Mr . & Mrs . Louis Darmstadter __ Mr . & Mrs. Henry Darmstadter William Druker __ Andrew Epstein __ Herman L. Everhart _______ _ Harry A . Fisher __ Mrs . Harry Fisher -------··--· Nancy and Kenneth Fisher ____ _______ _ Leo Fonstein ·-·--- $ MILK FUND $ PA ID $ BALANCE 75 .0 0 500.00 240 .00 -0-0-0- 30 .00 250.00 -0-0- 100.00 300 .00 -0- 5 .00 300 .00 100 .00 5.00 300.00 100 .00 -0-0-0- 100.00 250 .0 0 50 .00 25.00 100.00 250 .00 50 .00 25 .00 -0-0- -0-0- 50 .00 50 .00 -0- 50 .00 25 .00 75 .00 l 0 .00 50 .00 25 .00 75.00 20 .00 -0-0-0-0- 25.00 15.00 500 .00 50 .00 25 .0J 15.00 500 .00 50 .00 -0- 50 .00 50 .00 -0- 150.00 5 .00 50.00 150.00 5 .00 50 .00 -0-0-0- 10.00 1,000 .00 10 .00 1,000.00 -0-0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 36 .50 36.50 5.00 -0-0- 50 .00 500 .00 240 .00 25 .00 30 .00 250 .00 200 .00 5 .00 10 .00 - 0-0-0- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1954 PLEDGED Maurice and Harrison Friend ......... . Esther Freedman Dr . N . A. Fleishman .... Harry Fleishman Hyman Friedman ..... . Warner Galombeck .... Mike Goldberg .. Dr . Arthur Greenberg .... Herman & Louis Grossman and Sam Klayf ..... . Laurie Grossman Jeffrey Grossmari .... David Gudelsky Oscar Gudelsky Mrs. Tillie Jacobs ......... . Meyer Jacobs ... . Saul Jacobson .. Morris and Frances Kantor ......... . J. K. Kaufman Asso. and Family ......... . Lillian Kaufman .. Dr. Marie Keilin Sam Klayf ....... . Mrs. E. M . Klein .. Edward Krause .. Sam Lawson ... . Morris Levine ... . Max Lenhoff ... . Alvin Lerman ... . Micha e l Leventha I ..... . Jess Levin ....... . Samuel Lipman .. Bee Lipman ..... . Jack Lipman ... . MILK FUND PAID BA LANCE 100.00 36.50 -0-0- 150.00 50 .00 150.00 50 .00 -0- 10 .00 10 .00 -0- 10.00 50.00 10.00 -0- 125 .00 125.00 -0- 1,800.00 36 .50 -0- 200 .00 60.00 36 .50 100.00 60 .00 -0100 .00 -0- 10 .00 50 .00 250 .00 10 .00 50 .00 250 .00 -0- 25.00 25 .00 -0- 2,400.00 100.00 25 .00 200 .00 200 .00 50.00 50.00 50 .00 50.00 60 .00 -0-0- 15 .00 50 .00 1,250 .00 50 .00 60 .00 -0-0-0-0-0- 100.00 36.50 l l 50 .00 1,800.00 36 .50 36 .50 2,400 .00 100.00 25 .00 200 .00 200 .00 50.00 50 .00 50.00 50 .00 60 .00 15 .00 50.00 1,250.00 50 .00 60 .00 -0- - 0- -0-0- -0- -0-0-0...:_ -0-0-0-0- ·1 l �l l UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1954 PLEDGED Mrs . Jack Lipman _________ _ Hyman Lipman __ Reuben Levy ___ _ Maurice & Syivia Levy ___ _ Charles Locke ___ _ Benjamin Marcus James W. Metz _ Herman Mendelson ___ _ Miscellaneous ___ _ Ted Neumer _____ _ Jessie Neumer __ Florence Orlove Albert Parker ___ _ Samuel Price _____ _ Russell Quigley __ Barney Robert s _ Mr . and Mrs . Fred Rodoff __ Raleigh Rodoff __ Jeff and Barbara Rosen Harold Rosen __ Leo Rosen _______ _ MILK FUND PAID BALANCE -0-0-0- 15.00 1,000 .00 25 .00 15 .00 1,000.00 25.00 50 .00 75 .00 150.00 150.00 50.00 75 .00 150 .00 150.00 25 .00 200.00 500 .00 25.00 200 .00 500 .00 36.50 20 .00 40 .00 750 .00 15 .00 10 .00 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0- 200 .00 36 .50 -0-0- 75 .00 1,000.00 1,250.00 50 .00 -0-0-0-0- 200.00 -0- 36 .50 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 100 .00 25 .00 25.00 100 .00 25 .00 25 .00 -0-0-0- 100.00 250 .00 200 .00 50.00 50 .00 100.00 250.00 200 .00 60 .00 50 .00 -0-0-0-0-0- 136 .50 -0- 36.50 20 .00 40 .00 750. 15.00 10 .00 200 .00 36 .50 75.00 1,000.00 1,250.00 50 .00 Mrs . Leo Rosen __ Mr . and Mrs . -0-0- -0-0-0-0- Max Rosenberg Mrs . Max Rosenberg Seymour Rosenberg Robert & Rose Rosenberg ___ _ Chas. Rubinsky __ Louis Rubinsky __ Mrs . Rae & Florence Rubinsky _______ _ Maxwell Ross __ Rabbi Ruderman Jacob Schreiber Max Schubb _____ _ Max and Leah Schumacher __ 200 .00 36 .50 100.00 10.00 36 .50 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1954 PLEDGED Mrs . A. Shmookler Sol Silverman __ Mr . and Mrs . Joe Simon ___ _ Eli Smith ___ ______ _ Har·ry Sing-eer -··· Joseph Singer __ Frances Steindler Jack & Irene Steindler _______ _ Milton Steindler Mr . and Mrs . Joe Strifling __ Syd Strifling _____ _ Frederick Stein __ Bill Stern _________ _ Morris Teles _____ _ Josiah Wiener __ Mrs . Josiah Wiener _______ _ Mr . & Mrs . Joel Wiener __ Paul Wiener ___ _ Mrs . Paul Wiener T. M. Whitman __ MI LK FUND 50 .00 500.00 100.00 100.00 500 .00 5.00 50 .00 100.00 125.00 300 .00 750 .00 365 .00 400 .00 100.00 125 .00 500.00 550 .00 100.00 -0-0- 100.00 500 .00 5.00 100.00 -0-0-050.00 -0- 125 .00 300 .00 -0-0- 750.00 365 .00 400 .00 -0-0- -0100.00 40 .00 5 ,000 .00 125 .00 500 .00 -0- 50 .00 50 .00 -0- 10 .00 50.00 5,00 0.0 0 200 .00 25.00 -0- 0- 200.00 25 .00 $ 26 ,775 .00 BALANCE PAID $ 1,627.00 Pr-evious Unpaid Balances Fisher Family $ 250 .00 Maurice Golden 200 .00 David Gudelsky 200 .00 Sam Price 1,050 .00 Bill Stern 100.00 $1,800.00 $ 28,102.00 -0- -0-0- $ 300 .00 �ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M . WIENER 1941- 1942 PAUL M . WIENER 1942 - 1943 PAUL M . WIENER 1943 - 1944 PAUL M . WIENER 1944- 1945 PAUL M . WIENER 1945-194 6 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947- 1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948 - 1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949- 1950 FRANCIS N . FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN 1952 - 1953 GROSSMAN �OFFICERS Chairman ABIE ASHENDORF Vice -Chairman TED NEUMER Milk Fund Chairman MRS . J. STRIFLING LEO S. ROSEN Treasurer ROSE LAWSON Secretary MRS. FRED RODOFF . ( Collections up to $500 .00, Hadassah) MR . HARVEY LEVENTHAL B' na i Brith Representative MR . SEYMOUR ROSENBERG Legal Advisor MR. PAUL M . WIENER Honorary Chairman HONORARY CHAIRMAN PAUL M. WIENER TRUSTEES Dr. Ralph August Max LeBow Harry H. Berman Sa m Price Louis M . Berman Fred Rodoff Bernard Fishe r Eli Smith Herman Grossman Milton Steindler Lou is Grossman Joseph Strifling J. K. Kaufman Dr . Morris Teles Sam Klayf Josiah Wiener Edward Krause �� 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 Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_UJCGM-AR_1953-1954 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953/1954 Title A name given to the resource Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1953-1954 Description An account of the resource Annual Report: United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1953-1954 Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/541f13266d9de98247d4f0bb5fe7334f.pdf 2c3d694e98343ebde74979008e99280f PDF Text Text t,-- -------=___:_-=- ---..:::=- ______ --- ANNUAL SNOWSNAKE TOURNAMENT sponsored by: AMERICAN IND/AN CO-OP BLUEWATER and AMERICAN INDIAN CTYr1MUNI.T/ES' l£ADERSH/P COUNCIL EAST C/-IINA SCHOOL · DISTRICT JANUARY 2S, 1986 ISB5 MIESNER !<OAP 10:00 am. io 3 :00 pm. MARINE CITY 48039 CONTACT: NILA YOUNG- 313- 765 - 4998 313-765-8104 LUNCH- DRUM I TRADE.RS WELCOME pay_ fur meal only ,.P hot\ ( w,=th a school d strict J �� 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_snowsnake-tournament_1986-01 Title A name given to the resource Annual Snowsnake Tournament, January 1986 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1986-01 Description An account of the resource Annual Snowsnake Tournament flyer, Marine City MI, January 25, 1986, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bluewater American Indian Co-op Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/262c2d6caac5528f411fb841e25a8355.pdf 8ded96a2d44f47d80a74666ebb04197e PDF Text Text ~' i! 3rd Annual Traditional Pow-Wow HANNAHVILLE June 27 - 28,1981 ROUTE 1 \':ILSON. Dfff '.! \ J()NEY - )!ICH I GJ\"N 49806 F 11-1s ·1 ~; f \: D!U1'..1~ TO Tff(j I STEF BASEB,\LL TOUH.N.\1E:H CONT i\f:T HE~UY PH I LE:10\ RAFFLES ALL TRADERS WELC0~1E ENTHANCE FEE $3.00 FOH BOTH DAYS 01·' $2.00 ..\ Ds\Y FOR UORE INFOWL'\Tl0:,S; CONTACT HENRY DHILm10N l-906-·'1G(-;-q931 GLORI,.\ ncCCLLOL;(;II 1-0f)G- .:} (i(-i- 9'.) ~n NO ALCOHOL OR DRUGS : C'.'l~lAl{KED S[(:t;Hl TV Gu ..\RDS � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_traditional-great-lakes-pow-wow_1981-06 Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow, June 1981 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1981-06 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow flyer, Wilson MI, June 27-28, 1981, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b3e1e7b58f7427176ccdc826b36071d2.pdf 7a0ca76bb5d2ebd26f3c54da3ab783f0 PDF Text Text - ....... STOCKBRIDGE OJIBWA ONEIDA CREE ..... POTOWATOMI MENOMINEE ODAWA HANNAHVILLE INDtAN RESERV A TtON ROUTE 1 WILSON MICHIGAN 49896 JUNE 30 & JULY 1, 1984 MASTER OF Larry Matrious ingers-Kansas ers - Buddy Chevalier H ..,..G0 ~r~· VET ~','\ <c~~~'# ~ ~ S)~ ... ~~~ .~ SUNDAY Ceremonies Grand Entry 1 p.m. Bingo 1 p.m. SATURDAY Grand En1ry 1 p.m. Grand Entry 7 p.m $@§ FIRST 5 DRUMS $200.00 DONATIONS"P $2 TRADER FEE: $25 (The weekend-No imports) Meats Camping For Inf ormatton, Drum, and Trader Re;Jstration Calf (906) 466-2342 �COUNCIL DRUM NEWS GRAND VALLEY AMER. IND. LODGE 2512 UNION AVE. N.E. GRAND RAPIDS, MI. 48909 � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_traditional-great-lakes-pow-wow_1984-06 Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow, June 1983 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1983-06 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow flyer, Wilson MI, June 24-26, 1983, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4d78f4176b66982febc4c085ee3a874d.pdf 7a0ca76bb5d2ebd26f3c54da3ab783f0 PDF Text Text - ....... STOCKBRIDGE OJIBWA ONEIDA CREE ..... POTOWATOMI MENOMINEE ODAWA HANNAHVILLE INDtAN RESERV A TtON ROUTE 1 WILSON MICHIGAN 49896 JUNE 30 & JULY 1, 1984 MASTER OF Larry Matrious ingers-Kansas ers - Buddy Chevalier H ..,..G0 ~r~· VET ~','\ <c~~~'# ~ ~ S)~ ... ~~~ .~ SUNDAY Ceremonies Grand Entry 1 p.m. Bingo 1 p.m. SATURDAY Grand En1ry 1 p.m. Grand Entry 7 p.m $@§ FIRST 5 DRUMS $200.00 DONATIONS"P $2 TRADER FEE: $25 (The weekend-No imports) Meats Camping For Inf ormatton, Drum, and Trader Re;Jstration Calf (906) 466-2342 �COUNCIL DRUM NEWS GRAND VALLEY AMER. IND. LODGE 2512 UNION AVE. N.E. GRAND RAPIDS, MI. 48909 � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_traditional-great-lakes-pow-wow_1984-06 Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow, June 1984 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984-06 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow flyer, Wilson MI, June 30-July 1, 1984, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b921928be4aa67039424b1aae3ec8b4c.pdf fe4f32bb201b71f2122e3f47a5691674 PDF Text Text sssss $ oRUNI MONEY....s ..s_........ $ $$$$$ .... 111-.. STOCKBRIDGE ONEIDA OJIBWA POTOWATOMI a dz - I ODA WA 1/1! HANNAHVIU.E l) MENOMINEE INDIAN RESERVATION RO UTE1 WILSON, MICHIGAN 49896 ELEVENTH ANNUAL TRADITIONAL .GREAT LAKES AREA POW-WOW JUNE 25 & 26, 1988 WEEKEND BUTTON: $3.00 Sund8/NGo ay 7 ·oo OvER$ . P.rn IN PRIZE3,000.00. MoNEy MASTER OF CEREMONIES-Larry Matrious HOST DRUM-Smokey Town HEAD DANCERS- Marie lshkobok & Willy Trudeau VETERAN DANCER- Don Dowd SATURDAY Grand Entry Grand Entry MEALS 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. SUNDAY Grand Entry 1:00p.m. CAMPING SPACE TRADER'S FEE FOR WEEKEND $30.00 TRADERS (No Imports - Original Only) With Electricity $40.00 (Limited Space) SECURITY PROVIDED ALL WEEKEND NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL ALLOWED .FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: (906) 466-2342 466-2556, Ext. 77 � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_traditional-great-lakes-pow-wow_1988-06 Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow, June 1988 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988-06 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow flyer, Wilson MI, June 25-26, 1988, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b427bdc00413cb7e1dcfae2f72e3f42e.pdf d8f5782a30cd59a57ccc5d0b8a9472dc PDF Text Text Hannahville Indian Reservation N14911 Hannahville B-1 Rd. Wilson p Michigan 498.96 17th Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow June 25, 26 & 27, 1993 Honor our Veterans Master of Ceremonies - Sam Musqua, Canada Host Drum - Five Clan, Kesheena Head Dancers & Veteran Dancer Will be picked daily. First 1O Drums to Register Will Be Paid Friday Night Warm-ups Camp Day Supper: Saturday 5:00 pm Saturday Grand Entry 1:00 pm Grand Entry 7:00 pm Sunday Grand Entry 1 :00 Buttons: $5.00 per weekend - Adults $3.00 Daily - Adults $2.00 Daily - Children Seniors/children 5 and under - Free Traders: (No Imports - Original Only ) $75.00 w/ electricity Limited space $50.00 without Contact: Audrey Gamez - (906) 466-2342 Sharon Philemon - (906) 466-2342 Security Provided All Weekend No Drugs or Alcohol Allowed Powwow Committee Not responsible for Accidents or Lost or Stolen Articles �Grand /22;>,cls .Ph- $/Jal Ownci) 1/-5 GrMd kv5m12 Sf ;{). 1.JJ. Ja;1~ !ll1dja/J PJ6ot/ £ � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_traditional-great-lakes-pow-wow_1993-06 Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow, June 1993 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993-06 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Great Lakes Area Pow-Wow flyer, Wilson MI, June 25-27, 1993, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2dfa88703882816c866caf1b3914589e.pdf 4d7dc77aae7f1f3aceb343ba35ad488d PDF Text Text 1st Annual Traditional Pow Wow . - AUG UST 25-26, 1990 Co-Sponsored By Anishnabeg Mom-Weh Detroit Institute & of Arts Indian Center Master of Ceremonies Bucko Teeple Craft Contest: American Indian Crafts 10:00 a.m. Sat., Aug. 25th Host Drum Four Winds (Limited Drum Funds Avail.) (Paying 1st 10 Registered Drums) Traders Welcome Trader Fee $30.00 (906) 786-0556 Head Veteran Dancer Quentin Shawano Head Male Dancer Jason Dowd Head Female Dancer Robbin Teeple Information Write/Call Anishnabeg Mom-Weh Indian Center 1219 1st Ave. So. Escanaba, MI 49829 (906) 786-0556 NO RAFFLES Everyone Welcome No Drugs/No Alcohol Camping Available Admission Weekend: $3.00 Adult $1.00 Youth Datly: $2.00 Adult $ .50 Youth (12 & Under) Location Tri-Township School 10070 Highway 2 Rapid River, Michigan (see map on back) Grand Entry 1:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 25th 1:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 26th Feast Meal 5:00 p.m. Sat., Aug. 25th Breakfasts 9:00 a.m. Sat. & Sun. �US 41 (To Marquette) Rapid River Whitefish Hill Cl) -u- as ::s ~ C ~ Cl) C\I I.. • ·--r::: <t::s ... Cl) 0) 0. Cl) 0 o>C Hillcrest • Motel • Grammas Restaurant • C\I Cl) :) Tri-Township School Viaduct Stonington Road 1½ miles Rapid River Rustic Homes • Pow Wow Grounds � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_anishnabeg-mom-weh-pow-wow_1990-08 Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Pow Wow, August 1990 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990-08 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Pow Wow flyer, Rapid River MI, August 25-26, 1990, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anishnabeg Mom-Weh Indian Center Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2fd40a0a0815d6ab3712c2aa6b7d9c1c.pdf a8c8c8766ffd40f8550783c9be109281 PDF Text Text 2,ad Annual Traditional Pow \Vow --- AUGUST 23-25, 1991 Sponsored by Anishnabeg Mom-Weh Indian Center Host Drum Four Winds Craft Contest: American Indian Crafts 10:00 a.m. Sat., Aug. 24th Head Veteran Dancer Donny Dowd Traders Welcome Trader Fee $35.00 (906) 786-0556 Head Male Dancer Jason Dowd Head Female Dancer Athena Trentin Information Write/Call Anishnabeg Mom-Web Indian Center 1219 1st Ave. So. Escanaba, MI 49829 (906) 786-0556 NO RAFFLES EVERYONE WELCOME No Drugs/No Alcohol Camping Available Admission Weekend: $3.00 Adult $1.00 Youth Daily: $2.00 Adult $ .50 Youth (12 & Under) Location Tri-Township School 10070 Highway 2 Rapid River, Michigan (see map on back) Spiritual Conference Friday, August 23rd 9:00 a.m. Grand Entry 1:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24th 1:00 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25th Feast Meal 5:00 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 �Rapid River Whitefish Hill Hillcrest • Motel • Alyce's Too Restaurant Tri-Township School Viaduct Stonington Road 1½ miles Rapid River Rustic Homes • � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_anishnabeg-mom-weh-pow-wow_1991-08 Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Pow Wow, August 1991 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991-08 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Pow Wow flyer, Rapid River MI, August 23-25, 1991, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anishnabeg Mom-Weh Indian Center Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3fbfb6e66669cda2cdd103e7f7e15029.pdf 797dfec80285c1ecdfd316877eb49758 PDF Text Text . t9A 1\k ' '2:,-e:. ' qj\' .;,_ ~ l ,:y" ~s i/ '\'.. ' :\-,,· ~i;r ' !t", <., q"" "-. ~~ - q_"-y ~ ~ ~fi The ·l'\e\Neeno.w BQy tr, bo. \ Cons+ruction Co. ~ _, i Ze60... bo_\ \ t'te \d T \ , ·...-y-Tt\ql' Sun da:y, uu. yC\o ~:oo~m-? ~ rl"' ...l' Inu,o.n -rHUND-[R BIRDS Cho.\ l'enC)e o.\\ Nishno.bes!f • So . '3Q-\her ,, y6u.r bes+ .L 1 \rtle ,, ' '·,:-·+e~m . ~ \' come , pl,ct.y'So 11 ,-b('"'\ \ ,.c_ :: . -. . i t1 . \...A... fJ \ . -\... .. . '·1 ./, ,' ',· - .-,.. ' .-.:.--. -. _., .. :. -«' ,. •. (~.,-,. - --~· . .:.... ~-..-; )_;..: - .: ...... . ' c •~"\ . . _ ,.,: .. . • .. . -. .f '. '1)\·: ' •.. ,"' ·. . - '.Sponsored by: - K. B~ I, C ~ - .- '. .;J '· ._ ·:. · · &.bsfonce·: /\t:J.lse Prevention Rn.ram .. J i ~ '-:.· .• ..~ ....t,.:· _i .... ~ P\eo:se .;·~~~b ,\\coho\ ·ct"- dn.1qS � 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 Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American Publication Collection (RHC-14)</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Gi-gikinomaage-min Project (Kutsche Office of Local History) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958-2000 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection, RHC-14</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_honor-and-respect-traditional-pow-wow_ Title A name given to the resource Annual Traditional Pow-Wow, July ???? Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ????-07 Description An account of the resource Annual Traditional Pow-Wow flyer, July 26, ???? collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b307049d8181f91e333a7cc2adf7c0dd.pdf b92e64cb83bc98392aacff310b77ea8a PDF Text Text ANNUAL Women's Scholarship Walk-A-Thon November 1, 2001 GVSU Rec. Center 3-6pm Walk, Run, Bike, or Roller-Blade to raise money for the GVSU Women's Scholarship There are a variety of ways to participate: • Participate as an individual • Organize a team of 4 people • Or, simply make a pledge Prizes (Team and Individual): • Random drawings for all participants • Prize for most money raised • Prizes for best dressed team Contact Marlene Kowalski-Braun at the Women's Center for pledge sheets or information at 895-2748 (202 Student Services Bldg.) (Ifyou cannot participate the day of the event, you can participate any day before the ]st, and turn the pledge sheet in that day) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GVSU Sexuality and Gender Flyers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Rainbow Resource Center Women and Gender Studies Department Women's Commission Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity Description An account of the resource Digitized posters, flyers, event notices, and other materials relating to gender expression and sexuality at Grand Valley State University, with materials spanning from 1974 to 2019. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974/2019 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digitized from collections at the Rainbow Resource Center (formerly the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center), Women and Gender Studies Department, Women's Commission, and Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Gender identity Gender expression Sexual orientation Women's studies Queer theory Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-09 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource eng Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-09_SGF_Womens-Center_2001_Annual-Womens-Scholarship-Walk-A-Thon.pdf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Women's Center Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001-11-01 Title A name given to the resource Annual Women's Scholarship Walk-A-Thon Description An account of the resource Poster inviting people to come do different sport activities to raise money for a scholarship. Subject The topic of the resource Community centers Charity sports events Fund raising Scholarships Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women's Center Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a86a06111ee24156ff5e68f46a967b3a.pdf 27783c1c19deee454ddda4c499992d54 PDF Text Text Online Classes and COVID-19 Online classes for GVSU began Monday March 16, although the campus shut down faceto-face lectures starting on March 12. I believe that overall the switch to online courses will negatively impact the grades of many students attending GVSU. Many people benefit from faceto-face traditional lectures for many reasons including being more attentive, hands-on learning, and many more unsaid reasons. Although, I do believe the switch to online lectures was the best decision in this unprecedented situation to maintain the health and safety of students. Personally, my online classes have been going just fine but there are subjects in which I can tell I am falling behind and not comprehending the information as deeply as I would normally. It has been the hardest to switch over my chemistry lecture, lab, and my cadaver lab. Regarding chemistry it is so much harder to learn the information and make connections between all of the concepts when learning virtually than in person because you can ask questions and often go in more depth to the topics. Labs in general have been very hard to switch online because they are hands on, but I believe the professors have done a great job at attempting to bring as much online as they could. Next, my professors have been great regarding the messages I have received and the support they are willing to give. All of my professors have been sending emails out multiple times a week with updates, announcements, support, and due dates for material, so we don’t miss any assignments. The professors have offered help regarding the class material and also have given us extra resources for outside of class for help with mental health and other related issues. Overall, I believe the staff at GVSU has done a great job at accommodating material and lectures during this time. I am very grateful for that because without them and their enormous efforts to put these classes online this semester could have panned out much worse for many students. In regard to student organizations, I participate in the Pre-PA Club. The closure of campus and COVID-19 has caused our meetings to be cancelled since Mid-March through the end of the school year. This included our normal scheduled meetings, extra smaller group meet ups, and planned tour trips to various PA schools, including GVSU’s PA school. Our executive board has done a great job reaching out to us, keeping us updated about what is going on, and even transitioned some aspects of the club online. While this was great for us members of the club I feel it may have put some extra stress on the leaders of the Pre-PA club. � 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 COVID-19 Journals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Libraries Description An account of the resource This collection of journals and personal narratives was solicited from the GVSU community by archivists of the University Libraries during the events of the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic. During this unprecedented crisis the university closed suddenly, following federal and state guidelines of social distancing to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The university closed its campuses on March 12, 2020, and quickly moved students out of campus housing. Faculty swiftly transitioned to fully-online teaching for the remainder of the Winter 2020 semester, and all campus events, including commencement, were cancelled. The purpose of the COVID-19 Journaling Project was to document the individual and personal experiences of GVSU’s students, staff, faculty, and the wider community during this time of international crisis. Some project participants were university student employees who were compensated for their journaling. Other participants were granted stipends or extra credit for submitting entries to the archives. Still others participated without any compensation or credit. The University Archives remains grateful to all who submitted journals, for helping us to understand the impact of this crisis on our community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Subject The topic of the resource Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anonymous COVID-19 Journal Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anonymous Description An account of the resource Journal of an anonymous GVSU student's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-04-21 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context COVID-19_2020-04-21_Anon_004 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 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/866a0c63f9a7370f6dde180dee1023c7.pdf 1833174f5e785025d63bf202450f9c7c PDF Text Text 3/27/2020, 7:36pm EST It has only been four days since the Governor’s executive “stay at home” order went out and two weeks since classes went online, but pre-quarantine life seems like it was an eternity ago. Many of my friends have already lost their patience for this new form of asocial living. For a week, we all hid in our houses, sanitized our door knobs, our phones, our hands, and took action to “flatten the curve”. If you ask my peers, they’ll still tell you that this is the appropriate course of action, but they won’t follow through. One of my friends is a nursing student. In the beginning he was actively tracking the numbers, notifying us all of every new case and enthusiastically showing anyone and everyone “proper handwashing technique”. Today I spoke to him and he seemed dismissive. “Well, she only came over because we all know her, like she’s friends with everyone in the house, and she’s been really lonely.” This was his response to my concerns about their household continuing to admit visitors. A household of seven, I might add. One of the members of that household is my girlfriend. Tomorrow she is moving out. Temporarily - not that we know how long temporarily is right now. When she broke the news to her closest friends that she was leaving to live with me, so she could isolate herself as recommended, she was met with an uncomfortable silence. I can tell this has been upsetting her. Today as she packed her belongings she called to consult me. “What is the point of me coming to live with you if you are going to keep volunteering at that food pantry?” She says her roommates - our friends - have been judging her for this choice. That they don’t see the logic in it. “You know, you don’t have to come live with me. I know we made this decision rather abruptly and I would 100% understand if you changed your mind. I know it’s a lot.” And it is a lot. Only thirteen months into a relationship and we will be trapped in an empty house together - with nothing to occupy her mind other than her hobbies. I am grateful I still have my employment, my school, and my volunteering to keep me sane. But I worry about the tension this could create. We talked for a while about her concerns. I told her I would give up my volunteering if that made her feel safer, and I would. We both realize that our friends are reacting this way out of guilt guilt because they know they could also be doing more to protect themselves and the people they care about. But instead they rationalize and make exceptions. I only hope that none of them are exposed to the virus, because if one of them gets sick it will surely spread through that household like a wildfire. 3/29/2020, 11:03AM EST I can hear the wind whistling past my doorway. Kelly has just left for a bike ride, leaving me alone to my studies. I sit hunched over my desk, wrapped in a blanket, flipping through Panopto �videos with our biochemistry lecture material. I pause the video mid-sentence, as my attention jumps from the specifics of glycolysis to my planner. Did I write down our exam for next week? It would be a shame if I missed it - something I am likely to do with no set schedule. The exam is to be posted on blackboard Friday morning from 9am-11am, which means I have to start it before 10am because the exam times out after an hour…. or does that mean I have until 11am to start it? I note it as being until 10am just in case. My attention flips again. Now I’m checking the due dates for our MasteringPhysics assignments. I add another to my planner for the month of April. My attention fips again. I’m frantically scrolling through the announcements page of my psychopathology course. Dammit, the discussion board on Anorexia closed last night. Did I get all of my required submissions in? I search among our professor’s many updates to find the one with our new grading criteria - it's 25 posts down and was only sent a week ago. Shit, we needed 3 posts and I only posted 2. Minus another three points if any of your posts are from the same day. Are mine? I check. Posted 4 days ago. Posted 3 days ago. I let out a sigh of relief. Still missed 4 points for that last post, but eh. I search through the announcements again. Good, there are still extra credit opportunities. I make a note to myself to watch one of the videos in eReserve today and write a summary. I turn my attention to our case study analysis. Now that we are online it will surely be even more difficult to get my partner to carry her weight. Shit that’s due Thursday too. I add it to the list. The door downstairs cracks open. Kelly is back. I realize I spent almost the whole time she was gone updating my planner. What was I supposed to be doing...? My ADD-riddled brain is not having a fun time with these online classes. 3/30/2020; 5:02PM Today I ventured outside for the first time in what I am now realizing has only been a weekend, but has felt like several weeks. And by “ventured outside” I guess I really mean “I interacted with the public today”. Unfortunately, this venturing was for medical care. Nothing serious or emergent - well, I guess semi-emergent. I had a suspicious mole biopsied about a month ago. It came back as “severely dysplastic”, which I guess is an indicator of increased risk of melanoma. It’s also something that can develop into melanoma. At first when my dermatologist office called and said they wanted to remove the spot I was annoyed. Mind you the “biopsy” that had previously been done took several weeks to heal and basically looked like they had removed the entire thing. When this whole pandemic things started getting serious the office called again and asked if I was okay with moving my “surgery” back to May. Since I didn’t really want the surgery anyways, I figured it couldn’t hurt. But a few days later, the spot started coming back. I called and moved the appointment closer. Since in the week leading up to my appointment the pigmentation had almost fully returned. It �was actually rather alarming. I quickly went from being annoyed at the thought of having another procedure to fearing that I did in fact have melanoma. So here we are today. As I approached the office I was greeted by numerous large printed stop signs. They universally proclaimed that only individuals who had appointments and had experienced no symptoms of illness were to enter the office. When I approached the desk, they stopped me and took my temperature from a distance. In spite of this initial eerie demonstration, the rest of my appointment was seemingly normal. Other than the fact that I left with a giant scar in my abdomen. I may have underestimated the extensiveness of the surgery. Afterwards we picked up some Olive Garden to-go - tragically they only gave us 2 breadsticks (who goes to Olive Garden and only eats TWO breadsticks???). And then, because I only had ibuprofen at home, we had to stop at a pharmacy for some tylenol. There were two things that stood out to me about that Walgreens: 1) Blue painters tape marked 6-foot intervals on the floor. I guess to help customers visualize how far apart they needed to stay? 2) The shelving area that normally holds tylenol and acetaminophen was entirely empty. I can only assume the later of these two observations is the result of all the media telling people to have tylenol at hand in the case they get sick. Because apparently ibuprofen either isn’t helpful or makes things worse? Thankfully, the Tylenol wasn’t actually sold out, it had just been shifted to a smaller display at the front of the store. I guess they want to make sure people don’t try to steal it or buy the whole shelf or whatever. After all, these are wild times. 4/1/2020; 5:54PM Yesterday we took a walk in the evening. I told myself that I would go on a walk every day, but today I worked on my coursework all morning and afternoon. We just had dinner and now I only have an hour until my evening shift at work. I am not going to get a chance to leave the house today and that saddens me a little. I know I should be thankful I still have a job. Thankful that I still have income and something to keep me busy, but honestly work has been rather depressing lately. I’ve been picking up more hours because, well, what else do I have to do? And I don’t have any reason to ask my coworkers to pick up a shift because it’s not like I have anywhere else to be. At first it was nice working online and things being slow. I could get paid to sit at my desk and do homework, as long as I kept a few extra tabs open and maintained one eye on our chat in case there was a student who needed help. But at this point it just feels isolating. If given the option I would certainly rather have the “inconvenience” of driving to campus and looking alert and attentive. Before the library closed I could look forward to chatting with coworkers every week. I was even starting to make friends with a few of the new hires from the fall. We’d gossip and joke and even �when we were just sitting and doing homework, it was nice to sit with someone in productive silence. I also miss the students. If I’m being completely honest, there are certainly times when I would hope to go through my shift without having an appointment. I mean, everyone has those days when they didn’t study enough for their exam and are secretly counting on using that precious hour on the clock to cram. Or when you did study and now you’re so tired from pulling that allnighter that you don’t have the energy to hold a conversation. But for the most part, I have always really enjoyed my consultations. I love how energizing it can be to see a concept finally click for one of my peers. I love hearing about people’s interests and questions and ideas and I love the challenge of helping a student find information about a topic I have never studied in my life. Since we went online three weeks ago, I have only had one consultation and it was short and awkward because well technology doesn’t always cooperate. I miss the previous frequency of when my work was actually work and it saddens me deeply to know that there are many of my coworkers whom I will never see or speak to in person again. 4/2/2020 1:01PM It is so sunny today. It is only 57 degrees out, but it feels much warmer. We took a picnic to campus and sat in front of Zumberge pond, crunching apples and watching the geese. I tried to feed the geese (aka I threw apples at them), but they just swam away. Campus is eerily quiet. We saw one man driving around in a van. He seemed to be using his phone to do a voice recording? I wonder if they are doing virtual tours of campus because all of the in-person tours stopped. I wonder how it is right now for students who are trying to decide what colleges they’ll attend in the fall. Kelly and I agreed that most colleges will probably have a lower admissions rate in the fall. Who would want to start classes at a time like this, when we still don’t even know if we’ll be having in-person classes in the fall? Who could afford to start college at a time like this? At one point a family came and walked by the pond. Our picnic blanket was nestled in the grass, between the upper two rows of stone bleachers that encircle the back side of the reservoir. For whatever reason the mother thought it would be a fine idea to walk along one of the rows bordering our setup. It seemed extraordinarily unnecessary given that she has the whole entire campus to walk about. What happened to a six-foot minimum? Retrospectively, I really wish that I had forced myself into a coughing fit as she passed. Some people clearly just have no respect for personal space. After our picnic we walked to the back of the arboretum. There was the occasional jogger or couple walking by, but for the most part things were fairly quiet. It’s weird to think how bustling things would have been given the weather - under normal circumstances that is. There was no fighting for tree real estate today. We stretched out between two leafless trees on the edge of �the ravines. The sun easily cut through the canopy of bare branches. It was nice to just lay there in the sun for a good hour. I really should start studying outside more often. 4/3/2020; 9:39PM Do you ever have a day that is both a good day and a bad day at the same time? Today is one of those days for me. It began with an exam. Normally that isn't a good start to a college student’s day but in this case the exam was in biochemistry - a subject that I have always excelled in - and it was open-book, meaning it had to be easier than ever right? Well, I don’t have my score back yet so time will only tell as to whether that’s true. The exam was from 9-11am, so mostly it was a good note in my day because I was glad to have it over so early. I was supposed to have a self-reflection meeting with my leadership academy from 1-4pm today, but truthfully I played hooky. Self-reflection events have always been something I enjoyed because they’re generally really enlightening, in addition to having free food and an opportunity to socialize with my fellow candidates. But the thought of engaging in such an intimate ritual via zoom seemed alien. Also, it’s pretty easy to rationalize skipping class or an event when “skipping” only means not opening my computer. So instead I called in sick and we went on a hike. I was nervous initially about the idea of heading to Rosy Mound. Earlier in the morning, I came across a Facebook post by Ottawa County Parks’ that requested hikers steer clear of lakeside parks because they had been notoriously busy in the past few weeks - an environment that isn’t too congruent with social distancing. We debated visiting other parks instead, but ultimately conceded that no matter where we went on such a nice day, it was hard to predict the level of foot-traffic. The hike ended up being a nice escape. We climbed many stairs, sticking close to the side of the path, our heads turned, whenever another party passed. Some people reciprocated our attempts at keeping a distance, while others plowed through the middle of the path, unperturbed by us clinging to the sides. After reaching the top, we ended up picnicking in the refuge of a solitary dune off the lake. Thankfully nobody bothered us there. That was the good of the day. The bad started a few hours after collapsing into bed, exhausted from our hike. One of my roommates who had moved home returned to pick up some extra things. No big deal. Except another one had also come back and was now doing her laundry downstairs. It frustrated me that as hard as we had tried to isolate ourselves for the past week, sacrificing time with friends we so wished to have, my roommates had now come meandering back through the house after spending time interacting with only god knows who. I had specifically asked them, multiple times, to just text me when they were coming back, if only so I knew who was in the house, but apparently that was too difficult a request. �Since then various rotten things continued to go wrong with my day - one of my roommates broke a glass, she took my vacuum when I needed to use it, my girlfriend accidentally spilled a full drink (with the last of my quarantine vodka) all over the carpet… Even saying this now it seems silly how upset I’ve been by all that’s happened. I guess when you’re cooped up all day and all you have is the little things it’s easier for the little things to get to you when they go wrong. 4/7/2020; 12:05PM Things are looking more and more ominous in regards to the severity of this public health crisis and with that more chaotic. I have been checking the Kent County public health website daily for updates on numbers. We are now at around 177 positive tests, which means realistically there are probably a lOT more positive case than that since 1) some people are asymptomatic 2) other people have mild cases that may as well be a cold (like any ol’ coronavirus) and 3) they are only testing people who are severe anyways! Public health recommendations are also a mess. Within the past couple weeks, the CDC has gone from telling people to only wear masks if they’re caring for someone who is sick, to saying that everyone should be wearing masks in public as a precaution. My parents tried to order masks off Amazon, but what would normally require 2-day shipping isn’t set to arrive until May. Some people are making their own cloth masks, but I don’t have the fabric, much less a sewing machine. My aunt, who works as a nurse at Bronson, is supposedly making masks for my family. My mom says she would send us some if they got extra, but I don’t know how likely that is at this point. We haven’t been to the grocery store yet and Kelly says she doesn’t want to wear a mask anyways because last time we went, we thought the few younger people who were wearing them looked stupid. I think public perception has changed now that the recommendations have flipped. In my spare time I’ve been reading and listening to podcasts. One of the podcasts I’ve always liked is called Sawbones, it’s a comic medical history show and one of the hosts is a family physician. In the past few episodes they’ve been talking about the COVID19 epidemic. It’s wild to think about how quickly this went from being overblow to scary. I remember listening to their first episode on COVID19 on the plane ride down to Florida for spring break. Even physicians were being optimistic, warning people not to panic and saying that this would likely only have an impact on countries like China, who are often hit hard by these kinds of outbreaks due to the overall poor respiratory health of their country. Two weeks later they came out with a follow up episode talking about how physicians were setting up decontamination stations in their garage to avoid infecting patients and begging people to stay inside. I can only imagine what people outside of the US are thinking about this situation. Probably the same way we have always looked at China through epidemics like SARS, thinking “Wow, it must suck to be in a country with such poorly established public health measures. I’m glad that could never happen here”. I think living through this has definitely made me realize the false sense of security that living in a �wealthy, developed nation can provide. Clearly we aren’t as separated from the world’s problems as one would like to think. Heck in this case, we, are “the world’s problems”. 4/13/2020 6:30pm Today I found out my summer internship program has been cancelled due to COVID19. While I always knew this was a possibility, it was still a huge blow. The research program was supposed to be my “in” to my top MD/PhD program. They bring you in for a summer, house you and pay you to do research, while at the same time you get to attend seminars by graduate students and talk to admissions counselors about applying. It’s essentially a 2-month long interview for them - or so my advisor told me. Well after receiving the news via email and briefly going through all 7 stages of grief, I shot out a desperate email to the PI I was supposed to be working under. I told her about the program being cancelled. “I know this may be a stretch, but are you aware of any other sources of funding that would still allow me to work in your lab over the summer?” I frantically emailed my supervisor at the library, maybe I can still continue working my current job?? I also emailed a few other contacts that one of my advisors had sent me, but I wasn’t holding my breath - it seemed like everyone was too busy doing damage control and nobody had jobs to offer right now. Then my email pinged a response - it was from the PI. “That is too bad. I’m happy to fund you to work in our lab – so, no worries.” Just like that, things were fixed (I think??). I have a phone meeting with her tomorrow to talk over details, but I’m still nervous about all the undetermined variables. It’s so hard to plan anything now because this pandemic is so unpredictable. I’m worried that even if I miraculously am still able to set up a job in this lab, our state could have its lockdown extended or their state could implement one or the hospital could shut down that research project. I’m having trouble coping with the uncertainty of it all. �4/16/2020 12:51 pm My partner moved out this morning. She’s going back to live with her roommates. Tomorrow, I will be heading back to stay with my parents for a couple of weeks - or as long as I can manage. Things have not been great for either of us, mental health-wise. The weather has been snowy and cold and windy and I haven’t left the house in probably two weeks. It’s depressing to say the least. We tried to mix it up. To roast marshmallows over our grill outside and have sushi picnics in the living room. But it’s hard to be trapped in a small apartment with the same person day in and day out, with no distinct purpose. Sure, I have school work right now, but even the courses I normally enjoy seem to drag. I no longer have any motivation to be productive. I only feel lethargic and empty. So we decided we both needed a change of scenery. Honestly, I almost wish we had decided to do this sooner. Things were strange and tense in the past few days. We both knew each of us wanted to be somewhere else. It’s hard to be with a person you’re supposed to love and only want to be somewhere else. The stress over thinking about what this could do to our relationship has not helped. I just hope we can both bounce back from this weird depression. I can feel myself sinking into a place of loneliness and mourning that I haven’t been in a while and I only hope that I can pull through finals. Even though my classes are mostly done - two of my finals were switched to take-home exams and I’m hardly concerned about those, I still feel as though I’m drowning in responsibilities. The leadership academy I’m in asked us to record 30 second videos of ourselves congratulating graduating seniors in place of the normal banquet we have. My research professor asked me to write up methods and results for our experiments from the past fall since I can’t do anything else in the lab. I don’t feel I have the energy to tackle either of these tasks. I am nervous about heading home. From what I’ve heard, my parent’s house hasn’t been the most hospitable of environments as of late. My mother has taken to obsessively reading all of the doom-and-gloom news and my younger sister - well she’s always been capricious. Normally she attends a day program for special needs adults, but she’s been home since the public schools were all closed. I get the sense that she has no real structure to her day anymore and apparently her fits have only been getting worse. Normally when I visit home we share a room, so this is moderately concerning. Nothing I haven’t handled before, but still I’m worried that the environment will only increase my stress load. Then again, my other option is to spend another few weeks wallowing within the same four walls - now alone. And that is not something I think I can take for a moment longer. � 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 COVID-19 Journals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Libraries Description An account of the resource This collection of journals and personal narratives was solicited from the GVSU community by archivists of the University Libraries during the events of the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic. During this unprecedented crisis the university closed suddenly, following federal and state guidelines of social distancing to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The university closed its campuses on March 12, 2020, and quickly moved students out of campus housing. Faculty swiftly transitioned to fully-online teaching for the remainder of the Winter 2020 semester, and all campus events, including commencement, were cancelled. The purpose of the COVID-19 Journaling Project was to document the individual and personal experiences of GVSU’s students, staff, faculty, and the wider community during this time of international crisis. Some project participants were university student employees who were compensated for their journaling. Other participants were granted stipends or extra credit for submitting entries to the archives. Still others participated without any compensation or credit. The University Archives remains grateful to all who submitted journals, for helping us to understand the impact of this crisis on our community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Subject The topic of the resource Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context COVID-19_2020-04-19_ANON-029 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anonymous Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-04-19 Title A name given to the resource Anonymous COVID-19 Journal Description An account of the resource Journal of an anonymous GVSU student's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subject The topic of the resource COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/088a002d1bcb0098ee15d8676ac5ed64.pdf c01a7fc86f3bca37a696375dd33fa129 PDF Text Text May 10, 2020 March 11 was a crazy day. I was working in the library in the morning when I heard about Michigan State being shut down. I thought this was crazy news. Why would it shut down already? It was clear that the coronavirus was a serious issue around the world, but it hadn’t quite touched any of our lives yet. On Wednesday, March 11, the state of Michigan announced its first two cases of the virus, and immediately, universities began shutting down. This didn’t make much sense at the time, but sure enough, Grand Valley made the call too. I was eating dinner at Kleiner Dining Commons when we all received the email. As a Freshman, the only way I can describe this was weird. Personally, I don’t get too worked up by things like this, especially when I know most people around me are reacting more strongly. Still, the environment on campus changed almost instantly. It felt like doomsday as people began leaving. Some were packing up their things and leaving within a half hour. Others (like me) took a few days to get themselves off of campus. The communication we received told us that classes for Thursday and Friday were cancelled. Everyone was feeling a really weird mixture of anxiety about the entire situation, yet freedom from academic responsibilities. It’s not like anyone could focus on schoolwork anyway. Even for those of us who were much more calm, the strange energy in Holton-Hooker, where I lived was too much to do anything productive. I made a lot of Facetime calls to different friends. Video Chatting with others was a great way for me to use my energy to make the best of the situation, and laugh with friends in the midst of everything. I came back to campus the next week with my parents to move out of my dorm completely. Throughout this first week away from campus, I had a really strange energy. Normally, I get stressed out by the day-to-day responsibilities, not the longterm things. This being said, I was really enjoying my time. All of my stress had suddenly vanished. I spent the first few days with my brother and sister-in-law downtown Grand Rapids. The government had just begun encouraging social distancing. Businesses were starting to shut down. The governor called for all nonessential business to first cut down their hours, and then later for them to close. This was the biggest bummer for me. I love doing homework in coffee shops, and this is where I hang out with many friends as well. With everything shutting down, I headed home to my parents. When I finally returned to my home in Portage, I have to admit, I was not happy. I had just begun to really feel really comfortable at GVSU, getting involved in various activities and pursuing my education full-force. My extracurriculars changed greatly when we left campus. This year was the first year GVSU has had a competitive speech team, and I was the first member. The COVID-19 outbreak really threw a wrench in the budding plans of the team. Together with two professors/coaches, I was in the process of preparing for a national tournament and recruiting new team members. However, with the exodus from campus as well as cancellations in speech tournaments, all of this came to a halt. My professors have texted with me, but we decided to start fresh in the fall. The other organization with which I am heavily involved is Campus Ministry (CM). The change from in-person meetings to online events has been a difficult transition as well. Normally, CM meets each Sunday night for a large gathering/church service, called, “The Well.” However, with all that has happened, The Well has changed to digital meetings. Each Sunday, �CM staff and student leaders put together a very well-done video for students. They broadcast it using Facebook Live. They still do music worship, announcements, and a lesson, but it is all put together using Zoom video calls and other things of that nature. It has been very encouraging to know the staff is there for us students, continuing to challenge us in our faith and to be available should we need people to talk to. We also have small group meetings, called Life Groups. These have moved to virtual video chats as well. All of the accommodations have been great, but unfortunately, participation has gone down. I don’t think it’s because of lack of interest, it is just difficult to keep students available at the exact times when it isn’t a live meeting that they can attend alongside many students who are equally excited. College students are really missing community right now - that may be the toughest part of this situation. I am managing to stay positive, but I miss my friends. I have regular meetings set up with them, but never do we have all of us on one call at the same time, and just when I could be progressing other new friendships, I can do nothing but FaceTime these new friends for chats that are good, but awkward nevertheless. I hope this can end soon. I know I am not the only one experiencing hardship, and there are many who are struggling to have good mental health and feel valued in this time of isolation. It is my goal to be better at reaching out and caring more for others during the pandemic. � 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 COVID-19 Journals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Libraries Description An account of the resource This collection of journals and personal narratives was solicited from the GVSU community by archivists of the University Libraries during the events of the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic. During this unprecedented crisis the university closed suddenly, following federal and state guidelines of social distancing to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The university closed its campuses on March 12, 2020, and quickly moved students out of campus housing. Faculty swiftly transitioned to fully-online teaching for the remainder of the Winter 2020 semester, and all campus events, including commencement, were cancelled. The purpose of the COVID-19 Journaling Project was to document the individual and personal experiences of GVSU’s students, staff, faculty, and the wider community during this time of international crisis. Some project participants were university student employees who were compensated for their journaling. Other participants were granted stipends or extra credit for submitting entries to the archives. Still others participated without any compensation or credit. The University Archives remains grateful to all who submitted journals, for helping us to understand the impact of this crisis on our community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Subject The topic of the resource Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context COVID-19_2020-05-10_ANON-030 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anonymous Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-05-10 Title A name given to the resource Anonymous COVID-19 Journal Description An account of the resource Journal of an anonymous GVSU student's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subject The topic of the resource COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/db2f431d7eae8767780b6cc791592fd4.pdf 342433cb44526c939dd9042f08ddbb64 PDF Text Text On Wednesday night March 11th 2020, I received an email from Grand Valley State University (GVSU) that classes were cancelled for the rest of the week and would move online from March 16th to March 29th. Many emails came to follow this one detailing all of the changes that were to come-- my shifts at work had been cancelled until further notice and that I was expected to move out of my on-campus apartment unless there were extenuating circumstances. It almost did not feel real. I desperately did not want to leave GV and all of my friends and community, especially because I had a feeling we would be doing class online longer than stated. I spent many hours trying to figure out a way to stay in Allendale. I thought of people I could ask to stay with or reasons as to why I had to stay on campus. However, I knew the best thing for me to do was go home. I spent the next few days being with friends and starting to pack up. I decided to not pack up everything in the hope that I would be returning to my apartment to finish classes inperson. I knew I needed to turn to God with my emotions. I journaled my prayers to Him; my sadness, my anger, my confusion. My prayers for health and safety for everyone. I said goodbye to my roommates and left that Saturday to go home, which was bittersweet. I love being with my family, but I couldn’t hide the fact that I would rather be at school. That following Tuesday, March 17th, I received another email stating that classes would be online for the remainder of the semester and I should schedule a day to completely move out. However as of April 11th, that has not happened due to the governor’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe Order” and most of my stuff is still at school. Upon hearing the official news that I would not be returning to GV, the wave of emotions hit me once again. I lamented my lost time with friends, no longer getting to live with my roommates, and the loss of future plans. I felt negative and a little hopeless. I prayed to God to ask Him for a heart attitude change and to not find joy in my circumstances, but in Christ alone. The beginning of all this change was the hardest. Like I said before, I was processing a lot of emotions and they definitely weighed heavier on me in the beginning. I also am the type of person who thrives on a schedule, so since my routine was thrown out the window I found it much more difficult to get done what I needed to get done. Additionally, the first week of doing class online was exhausting. I was now on my computer for a significantly longer amount of time than before. There were also a lot more distractions while I was trying to listen to my professors. I am normally a handwritten notes kind of girl, which means my laptop is away during lectures. Now, any and all notifications pop up while I’m “in class.” Like many others, my motivation to do my homework dwindled. My younger sister and brother did not have any work to be doing, which made it that much harder to concentrate on mine. I also wanted to spend the evenings �with my family. If I was back at school I would normally do homework in the evenings, but now that I am home I find it much more difficult to motivate myself to do work after dinner. Even though I much prefer in-person classes, I have been able to better adjust to online class and all that comes with it. April 12, 2020 Easter looked very different this year. Normally, we wake up and get ready for church. It’s a big celebration service where we praise the Lord for the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The church is always filled to the brim with people. However, this year the chairs in the auditorium of the church sat empty while the band played songs of worship and the pastor live streamed his sermon. At home, my family decided to get dressed up as we watched the service on Facebook live. Since the coronavirus, we’ve spent the past few Sundays in our pajamas while watching the service, but somehow it just didn’t seem right to be in pjs for the Easter service. Even though Easter looked a little different this year, the heart of it was the same. We still praised God for all He has done. We still sang songs, they were just from our living room. We still drank our coffee while taking notes on the message, but we were just on the couch instead of in the church. That’s the beautiful thing about God, He sees us and hears us no matter where we are. Yes, Easter looked different this year, but Jesus Christ still rose from the grave. He still died on the cross for our sin so that we could have a relationship with Him. That’s what Easter is about. It’s not about the clothes we wear to church. It’s not about the ham we eat for lunch. It’s not even about the extended family get-togethers. We still had the opportunity to celebrate Jesus, which remains the same even among the chaos of this pandemic. Usually, I would get to see all of my extended family as we spent the remainder of the day together eating, laughing, and playing card games. This year I did not get to see my little cousins, or my aunts and uncles, or my grandparents. Although this was disappointing, I am still thankful that I was able to be with my parents and siblings during this time. My mom made a wonderful Easter lunch of ham, mashed potatoes, and candied carrots. In addition, she made a chocolate cake that was extremely delicious. In the evening, we started to watch a free movie on Amazon Prime, but soon realized that it was a terrible movie. It was so bad that we could not even finish it. Instead, we watched Sweet Home Alabama, which is what the other movie tried and failed to be. Despite the unusualness of Easter this year, I still had a wonderful day with many blessings to be grateful for. �April 14, 2020 On most days I try to get up earlier so that I’m able to get most of my work done during the day. I started off the day reading my Bible and praying before breakfast and coffee. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have four classes normally, although not all of them meet synchronously. Doing classes online is strange because I feel like I’m working all the time while also not getting much done. Today I focused on a couple of projects for some of my classes, watching a recorded lecture, attending class, and other assignments. I definitely put in several hours of work, yet I feel that I accomplished little, which is quite frustrating. This week my little brother and sister started up online school for the first time. During the past month I’ve been working hard and having somewhat of a routine while they have not had any official responsibilities and have had more freedom during the quarantine time. My sister is a junior in high school and felt especially stressed today as she is in the process of adjusting to this new way of doing school. Since my brother is only in eighth grade, he does not quite have the workload that she does. Although who knows what he is actually supposed to be doing because he is a middle school boy. I’ve honestly started drinking more coffee during this period of staying at home then when I actually had to get up early and go to class, which is quite strange. I drink coffee almost every morning and then again almost every afternoon. To be quite honest, sometimes afternoon coffee time is the only thing I look forward to during the day. The thought of my afternoon iced coffee motivates me to get work done so I can enjoy a small break while sipping my coffee and perhaps enjoying a little treat. We always eat dinner together as a family, which I love and helps establish a feeling of normalcy during the time of chaos. One thing I’ve come to appreciate since going away to college is having my mom make dinner for my family each night. She is a wonderful cook and I’ve found that it is quite exhausting to plan, shop for ingredients, and then make meals for myself. After a long day of classes and then a night full of extracurriculars, making a healthy dinner can be such a hassle. On Tuesday nights I co-lead a small group for Delight, which is a nationwide women’s ministry and we happen to have a chapter at GVSU. Our club has really expanded this past year, which we are so thankful to God for. This semester we are going through the book of John, and I’ve really enjoyed talking about the Bible with all my girls. We took a couple weeks off of meeting so that everyone could adjust to going back home and doing classes online. At first, I wondered if there even was a point in trying to meet anymore, but I am so glad that we as a leadership team decided to keep going. We meet with our small groups over zoom. My co- �leader and I try to talk a little bit before our small group so that we have a general idea of what we want to do with our time. We start out by everyone talking about how they are doing and how their week is going. Then we pray before we dive into that week’s scripture and devotional. There are discussion questions that we sometimes follow, but lately we’ve just been discussing which verses stuck out to us. Tonight was John 20, which covers the resurrection of Jesus. It was so perfect since this past Sunday was Easter! We had a really good conversation tonight and I am so thankful for the opportunity to continue to meet digitally and to connect over God’s word. Normally, our club meets for an hour but our zoom calls usually are closer to an hour and a half because we have such a good time talking with each other. To close, we ask how we can be praying for each other and then we close in prayer. April 16, 2020 Today was my last day of classes for the semester! I never would have imagined that this is what the end of the semester would have looked like for me. Thursdays are my busiest days. I have four classes and then two meetings in the evenings, which I’ve pretty much kept up since coming home. My mom looked at me and said she could not believe the schedule that I kept at school, but I guess that’s college. Today was not any different. I was working on assignments and attending lectures for all of my classes today. It was a full and busy day. My first class period is a time where students can go in to ask my professor questions about our project and final. I attended speech science today because I had questions for my report, but I don’t always attend because it is optional. Then I worked on my project for speech science for the remainder of the hour. My next class was a review and again a time to ask my professor questions for our final. We had made virtual children’s books based on a concept we learned about the neurology of speech and hearing. My group shared our book, which was about the brainstem and I really enjoyed listening to other groups share their books. Then I watched a recorded lecture for aural rehabilitation and took notes. Finally, I worked on some exercises for french grammar, took a quiz, and then attended my last class. I did not get any time to rest though because I was working on things up until my first meeting, which was our last delight leadership meeting. Again, we used zoom for the meeting. We had a couple of business items to attend to, but mostly we talked about what a wonderful year we had together. Everyone went around and shared some of their favorite memories from this past year. The hour was filled with a lot of laughter. Many of us are not doing leadership again next year, so I felt a little sad that it was all ending and we couldn’t even be in person. Unfortunately, I had to leave quickly so I could eat dinner and get ready for my next meeting. �My second meeting on Thursdays is Life Group. I co-lead a small group through Campus Ministry. Normally, we meet for two hours spending an hour on talking and hanging out, and the other hour going over the scripture and message from the Well the past Sunday. That’s changed a little since going virtual. Instead, we mainly talk for an hour to see how everyone is doing and see how we can be praying for each other. Honestly, my co-leader and I have not had a lot of girls show up for our virtual meetings, which was a little discouraging at first. But I had to remind myself to give everyone grace since we are going through an unprecedented time. We were excited because we had two girls show up tonight and it was good to talk, catch up, laugh, and pray with them. I finished both meetings with my heart very full despite the stress I had been feeling from school. Hard to believe my busy Thursdays are over! April 17, 2020 Well it’s that time of year again, the end of the semester crunch to finish up papers, projects, and studying for finals. The rush to get everything done so that we can enjoy a welldeserved break. It’s strange to look back and realize that it’s been over a month since I got sent home from GVSU. Normally, this is around the time I would be packing up stuff to head home, but I’ve already been home for five weeks and most of my stuff is still at school. The past couple days have been full of anxious thoughts and a bit of mental spiraling. I care a lot about my grades so I hold myself to a high standard and put a lot of pressure on myself to do things “perfectly.” So as I’ve had to juggle the influx of assignments that comes with the end of the semester, I’ve found that my stress levels have skyrocketed. Additionally, the fact that I’m already home makes it difficult to keep up the motivation and attention necessary for finals. However, I’m doing the best I can given the circumstances and I have to remind myself that my best is all I can do. And today that looked like sitting in the same spot for five hours to finish a rough draft due tonight. Thankfully, I was able to finish that at a reasonable time and could enjoy my evening. Fridays are always pizza and movie night at my house. This has not changed since the coronavirus because we are still able to enjoy these things while quarantined. Over the past few weeks we’ve been rewatching different series. We started with the Hunger Games and then the Chronicles of Narnia. Tonight we started the James Bond series starring Daniel Craig. It’s nice to have some stability and sameness in a time where so many things have changed. April 18, 2020 �I allowed myself to rest today as I have felt that I’ve been working non-stop these past few days. I slept in a couple hours past the time I would normally get up. Then I read my Bible while enjoying breakfast and coffee. I’ve felt pretty lethargic after sitting all day doing school and homework the past couple days. I decided that I needed to move so my mom, sister, and I all did a workout video. Once we’d finished I noticed that it was a beautiful day outside. The snow had melted from the day before, and the sun was shining. I threw on a sweatshirt and went for a walk. I listened to some worship music and spent some time praying. There is something so restful about a walk outside on a beautiful day. The fresh air is refreshing and it’s one of the few times that I can be alone during the stay home order. After that I did have to get some work done. So I worked on a couple assignments and organized what I needed to get done in the next week. I love organizing my planner and I love making lists. It makes me feel accomplished and helps clear my head. Yet lists are deceptive, in the fact that I feel more productive than I actually have been. After this, my sister and I painted a sign for one of our friend’s birthdays. His parents had arranged a car parade that many are doing during this time of social distancing. And so cars were lined up down his street with happy birthday signs and balloons. Then all the cars drove by his house while honking their horns to wish him a happy birthday, and we circled around his house twice. I had texted him earlier in the day, and I don’t think he suspected that this was happening, so I truly believe he was surprised. He texted me after that it made his day and how much he missed being with everyone. It was nice to still be able to celebrate a friend during this time even if I couldn’t physically be there to celebrate with him. �April 20, 2020 Well finals week is finally here. It’s hard to believe that it is the last week of school. I’m looking forward to having a lot more free time and downtime to do what I would like. On the other hand, it will be weird to not have a purpose and to be trapped at home. Normally during the summer I would have a job, but I am not sure that will happen. There is so much that is uncertain about the future. What’s more is that I can’t be with friends during this time either. No fun excursions to coffee shops, no picnics, no going to the beach, no road trips, and no going out to lunch. These are things I normally look forward to with the end of school, but with the stay home order that's not possible. I’m still trying to stay on schedule this week by waking up early so that I’m able to finish everything I need to get done. So this morning I woke up, read my Bible, wrote in my prayer journal and then ate breakfast. Next I worked on a reflection assignment for my french class, which took a lot longer than expected. My mom, sister, and I all decided to work out so after my mom’s meeting, we did an exercise video and it felt good to move. After that I continued to study until my final conversation for french. Since it’s a conversation class, a written final would not make any sense so everyone had to schedule a meeting on zoom so she could assess how our conversational skills have progressed. It was the shortest final I’ve ever had to take. After that it was more studying and getting ready for other exams. However I did allow myself some relaxation in the evening as my whole family watched a couple tv shows together. I figured it was a well deserved break. April 21, 2020 Today I had my first official final. To be quite honest, since we were allowed to use our notes, I did not study for this exam. I have some that are not open-note so I’ve been spending my time preparing for those exams instead. This happened to pay off for me because I got a good grade and my grade overall is right where I’d like it to be for this class. The rest of my day was spent studying for my other exams, talking to my professor about my research project, and talking to people over zoom. My group of life group leaders met for an hour today to catch up and see how everyone was doing. It was our last official meeting, however I know that we will continue to keep in touch. We spent some time praying together as we head towards the end of our semester and into summer break which is filled with uncertainty. I love these girls a lot and I am so thankful for them. Tonight was the last delight bible study for the semester. I know it won’t be the last time I see these girls though because we are going to do a summer study on James together. I can’t �wait! Like usual we talked about how we are doing--the ups, the downs, and life in general. Then we dove into John 21, the last chapter in John!! One of the girls pointed out that there is a reflection page to highlight how you’ve grown and the ways you’ve come to know Jesus better. I think that it is so cool and I did not realize that it was there. I’m looking forward to filling it out myself. I am so incredibly thankful for these girls and I love them lots. April 22, 2020 I once again started my day with reading my Bible and then exercising. I really enjoy starting the day that way since I get to grow spiritually, and then work physically. I did not have any exams today, so a few of my friends decided to study for our exam together. This is the one exam I had to study for because we were using a lockdown browser while being recorded so that our professor could make sure no one was cheating. We spent most of the day going over practice exercises and questions. This took a surprisingly long time to go through and then try to answer each other’s questions. We all knew this was going to be our hardest final and wanted to prepare as much as we could for it. I thought it was very helpful and glad we spent time working on them together. After we finished that, I looked over some of my notes for that same class. I also prepared for my other final, which was open note, by bookmarking my notes so I could easily find any information I needed during the test. I was not quite sure what to expect for this exam, but I did my best to get ready for it. Since I had worked so hard studying the whole day I let myself rest in the evening. I am a big proponent of balance in school. I care a lot about my grades and how well I do, but I think rest and relaxation is vital in performing well academically. April 23, 2020 Today was my big day! I had three exams to complete. The first one was at 8am and required that I set up the lockdown browser. So I made sure that I was up early enough to complete all the steps for set-up while still optimizing my sleep. I woke up with a sore throat so I made sure to make some tea and have some cough drops ready. I also was a little nervous while completing the environment check. That was when we had to show our testing area to the camera before we could take the test. I made sure to show all of the things I had out so that I would not be suspected of cheating. There were some questions I did not recognize from the practice questions, but I did the best I could. �I only had a small break between finishing my first exam and the start of my second one. So I quickly ate some breakfast and then prepared myself for the next one. I was a little nervous for this one because even though it was open note, I still had not spent much time preparing for it. I would have liked to go over my notes as though I couldn’t use my notes, but I just did not have the time or energy for that. I finished that one and received my grade shortly after, and I did extremely well! I was very pleased with my score. My next exam had a “take-home exam” format. My professor had given us the exam a few days earlier and it just needed to be turned in by midnight. This was my French grammar exam, which is not an easy subject. I gave myself a little break before working on it. My goal had been to do it in pieces, but once again I ran out of time to do that. This left me with only a single page done and about five pages left to go. I knew it would take time, but this test took me a lot longer than I had anticipated to complete. I got stuck on one part near the beginning, so I decided to skip it and come back later. Finally, I finished my last exam. Only one paper left to go. April 24, 2020 This was the first day I let myself sleep in. I figured I deserved it and I only had one thing to do today. Again, I spent some time in the Word and in prayer. It was a slow morning and I let myself relax and enjoy it, before I took the afternoon to work on my paper. It was so strange that I had work to do today. Every other semester, I’ve been done by Thursday. Unfortunately, the coronavirus created a shift in due dates and now my final report was due today. Thankfully, all that needed to be done was a little editing, However, I’m a bit of a perfectionist so the editing took a few hours. But I finished it before dinner and I call that a win! With that I turned it in, and officially ended my sophomore year at Grand Valley. It was definitely not the ending I had imagined for my year. I couldn’t help but compare it to the end of my freshman year. There was more of a resolution with finishing finals and then packing up and moving home. In contrast to this year where I’ve finished my finals, but I’ve been home for about seven weeks. It kind of lacks closure in a chapter of my life. That's just how life goes. It doesn’t always follow the plan or expectation, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good or that there wasn’t any growth. It just looked different and that isn’t necessarily bad. It’s Friday, so of course my family celebrated the end of my semester with pizza and a movie. I could not wait to truly relax and enjoy the quarantine without worrying about school work. �April 25, 2020 A few days ago, my sister and I had an idea to have a tea party. I said that it needed to wait until after my finals and so it was decided that this Saturday, today, would be our tea party. My dad is gluten-free so we made sure to have snacks that he could enjoy, so I made glutenfree chocolate zucchini muffins that are full of protein. My sister made cucumber sandwiches, both regular and gluten-free. We cut up some strawberries and added some blueberries and raspberries to make a small fruit salad. We also put out some chocolate-chip cookies to enjoy. I love earl gray tea so I decided to make that to drink for our tea party. We used our china plates, tea cups, and saucers to make it a little fancier and more fun. This was definitely the highlight of my day, and perhaps the highlight of the whole quarantine. I had such a wonderful time. It was so relaxing to drink hot tea and eat treats while the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack played in the background. It sort of made me wish that we did it every day. My whole family participated, even my fourteen year old brother. He was very reluctant to join, which was not surprising but we essentially forced him too. Getting him to join our tea parties was a lot easier when he was little. My mom tried to take some pictures, and he straight up jumped out of his chair and onto the floor to avoid any pictures and videos. All it did was make us laugh. April 27, 2020 Ah my first true day of freedom. I got to sleep in, read my Bible, and work out. It was an absolutely beautiful day outside. It was warm and sunny so I went for a walk after I worked out with my mom and sister. Days like these make quarantine seem a little more bearable. I have a few goals that I want to accomplish with all my free time since classes have ended and I can’t work anywhere. One of them is to go through my clothes and get rid of some of them. However, I felt that it would be a waste of a beautiful day to be inside going through clothes so I did not do that today. So I made a salad, and apples with peanut butter for lunch and ate it outside. I then read my book outside for most of the day. Another one of my quarantine goals is to read all of Jane Austen’s novels. I read Sense and Sensibility back in January. I am now working on Pride and Prejudice, which I am enjoying immensely. With good weather inevitably comes grilling so we grilled burgers for dinner, which were satisfying. April 29, 2020 �Today was a rainy day, which sometimes I enjoy almost as much as a sunny day. I slept in and began my morning routine of reading my Bible and then working out with my mom and sister. By the end, we were so hot at the end that we stood out in the drizzling rain and it felt amazing. I finished my goal and finished Pride and Prejudice! It was absolutely amazing! I am very much looking forward to reading the others, although I do not think they’ll be as good as Pride and Prejudice. I also finally started on my other goal of going through my clothes. Today I just worked on going through my dresser. As I sorted through all of my clothes, I was finally able to catch up on some of my podcast episodes. At school, I would listen to them in the bus on my way downtown. However, since I have not done that for several weeks, I had not found a new time to listen to them and had gotten behind. There is something so relaxing about and going through organizing things. My dad also told me today that our church was putting together a video of children wishing their mom a Happy Mother’s Day, so my siblings and I spent some time making that. It had to be done while my mom started making dinner because she would be guaranteed to be distracted and we could film it without her noticing, hopefully. May 1, 2020 I finally got to move out today!! It was such a relief to finally be able to get my things, although there were some rules we had to follow such as wearing masks. My family decided to make the trip to Grand Rapids as fun as possible, so we got Chick-fil-a for lunch on the way up to school; it was amazing. I was the last person to move out of my apartment, so we got stuck with most of the cleaning. My wonderful mom cleaned out the fridge where I had pried a kombucha bottle that belonged to one of my roommates off the shelf. All in all, it took about two hours to clean and pack up all my remaining stuff. It was quite strange to be back when the building was so empty and hardly anyone was there. On the way back we got coffee from Starbucks, again to make our trip out of the house fun. Today was one of my best friends’ birthday and she only lived fifteen minutes away from me. So after we got back and ate dinner, I decided to drive by her house and wish her a happy birthday. We stood outside on her front lawn, several feet apart and got to talk for about 45 minutes. It was so nice to see her for the first time in what felt like forever. As much as I wish that I could have celebrated her birthday like normal, I’m glad that I was able to stop by and chat for a little bit. �May 2, 2020 Today was my best friend’s bridal shower. Before the coronavirus, the shower was going to be at the church with a lot of friends and family. That had to change, so everyone sent gifts to her house and the shower was live-streamed on Facebook. Since I am her maid of honor, she asked if I could be there. After talking with my family, I decided to go. I made sure to take the necessary precautions; I wore my mask and kept my distance while washing my hands and avoiding touching my face. I was so glad that I could support her during this time where so many of her plans have had to change. Once I got home, I found out that my cousins were going to stop by so that we could talk outside while social distancing. That was a pleasant surprise! This past weekend I have seen more people than I’ve seen for the past seven weeks combined! They stayed and talked for about an hour and a half and we chatted about how everyone had been doing. To be quite honest, I’m not sure how much more the general population will listen to social distancing rules. It is getting to the point where we have done this for about two months without any idea about when it will end. I know that I miss seeing people, as many others do. Additionally, the weather is getting nicer which in my eyes only makes it easier to want to break the rules. Well, we’ll see what happens. None of us can know the future except God. May 4, 2020 Many of my days look the same now that classes have ended. I sleep in and then do some combination of reading my Bible, working out, eating breakfast, and drinking coffee. I thrive off routine and it doesn’t really bother me that most of my days look the same. Today I had the inspiration to clean out my craft drawers that have been collecting junk and art supplies since elementary school. It has been a task on my to-do list and when the motivation to organize strikes, I have to act on it. It felt amazing to get rid of stuff I no longer needed and that I had not used in years. I was also able to walk down memory lane a bit with old projects and photos. I found remains of shrinky-dinks from my fifth grade mini society project. There were still some sheets left, so I decided to keep it to do one day. You never know what you might want to do during quarantine. Additionally, I found some things I didn't even know I had such as the combination to a lock that I used for middle school swim and high school P.E., which was lucky because my whole family had forgotten the combination. It was a nice day so we ate dinner outside, as we have been doing these past few weeks. Any chance to get out of the house, even if it’s just to be outside in our backyard, we �take advantage of it. My dad suggested that we have our first bonfire of the year and we all agreed. The tricky thing about a spontaneous bonfire is that we might not have all the necessary items to make s’mores, and unfortunately, we were out of Hershey’s chocolate bars. This forced us to get creative with Nutella and chocolate chips, which wasn’t bad but I think I’ll stick to chocolate bars. May 5, 2020 Again the day started out the same as yesterday: sleep in, read my Bible, work out, eat breakfast, and drink coffee. I usually end up not actually getting ready until like 1pm due to the fact that our workout didn’t start until close to noon because my sister likes to get some homework done before we exercise. My friend had texted me asking if I had any books she could borrow because the library was closed and she was spending too much time watching Netflix. She has texted the right person, as I love to read and have an endless amount of suggestions. I was only limited by the lack of space in my house, causing many of my books to be digital on my Nook. To begin, I suggested To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series because they are quick and entertaining reads. So she stopped by with her finacé to pick up the books. We then kept our distance in my front yard and got to talk for a little bit. At this point in the quarantine, many of us are longing for actual face-to-face human interaction and relish any chance to talk while still being safe. I then proceeded to watch Gilmore Girls as it was not that nice outside and it is a comfort show for me. I try not to spend all of my time watching tv and being on my phone during this time because I do not think it is that healthy to have that much screen time, even though that would be easy to do. So when it’s nice I try to read outside and take walks or ride my bike. However, sometimes I just want to watch Gilmore Girls and that’s okay. As it is Cinco de Mayo today we decided to order Mexican food for dinner. We tried to order from a local business, but they were extremely busy. So in the end we ordered Chipotle which was delicious, even though it didn’t arrive until 7:30pm which is a late dinner for us. May 6, 2020 My morning routine continues with the same items to start off my day. Today’s differentiating items was a visit with my cousins. One my aunts said her boys were missing their cousins, especially the girls in college, and wanted to see everyone. So the older cousins got together in one of our backyards and talked while maintaining some distance. Again, it was wonderful to actually talk and see people face-to-face, even if it wasn’t quite normal yet. This �afternoon my mom went into work while we were with my cousins, so my dad had the whole house to himself. This is an extremely rare occurrence during quarantine since it’s been the five of us at home all the time. After that, my siblings and I decided to get some iced coffee through the Dunkin’ Donuts drive through. As I’ve mentioned before, I absolutely love afternoon coffee time and I savored every sip of that iced coffee. May 8, 2020 Today was a pretty relaxed day. I had my usual morning routine and the rest of the day to do as I pleased. So I read as I typically do when I have free time. Before I read my next Jane Austen novel, I wanted to break it up with some easier reads. Currently I was working on the second book in a murder msytery series about a lady and her lady’s maid, think Downton Abbey. And I spent most of the day doing that. Now that I’ve gotten used to being home, I’m pretty comfortable with having time to relax and not have many responsibilities. I’m a bit of a homebody, so although I miss being with my friends, I don’t feel like I’m going crazy staying home. It’s Friday so that means it’s pizza night. Tonight we started the Netflix series that most people have started watching during quarantine, Outer Banks. In my mind, it’s THE show everyone will associate with quarantine and this season of life, or at least people my age will associate with this time. It’s geared towards teens/young adults so I was surprised when my dad suggested it for us to watch. It’s a little overly-dramatic, but I was hooked and just enjoyed the unrealistic adventure. May 9, 2020 I had a bit of a shortened morning routine and didn’t work out this morning because I got to work. My mom works at a small business in our town and sometimes her manager has me come into work when things are busy and I’m home. They’ve been slammed with shipping, so I got to go to work today. My mom and I were the only people in the store and we worked on filling orders for curbside pick-up. The store sells olive oils and balsamic vinegars so I spent the whole time filling bottles to complete people’s orders. It felt nice to be out of the house and busy for the first time in a while. We made sure to follow the health guidelines and clean everything we touched before we left. The Starbucks in our town opened back up for pick-ups orders, so we got coffee to bring home for the whole family. �Once we got back home, I found out that my nana had dropped some books off at our house and sadly, we had just missed her. Then I was able to spend the rest of my afternoon relaxing by drinking my coffee and reading. Overall, it was quite a nice day. May 10, 2020 Today was Mother’s Day. My mom slept in while I brewed the coffee and then brought her a cup with the card I had made for her. Then we watched church, which had a special video where kids wished their mom a Happy Mother’s Day, as well as a baby dedication video that our church usually does on Mother’s Day. The baby dedication is a declaration that the family is deciding to raise their child to love and know Jesus, and that the church will come alongside them in that process. After we watched church, my siblings and I made brunch for our mom. We made waffles, bacon, and cut up some fruit. We also did the dishes and then proceeded to make a mess again by making a lemon poppyseed bundt cake from her gluten-free cook book. We also had a tea party for Mother’s Day. We made cucumber sandwiches again and served the lemon poppyseed bundt cake. This tea party was a little less elaborate, but it was still delicious and a fun way to celebrate my mom. For dinner we ordered take-out from Noodles and Company to eat while we watched James Bond per the request of my mom. I was glad we were able to celebrate my mom today even though it looked a little different during this time of staying home. �May 11, 2020 Today was back to the routine of coffee, Bible, breakfast, and then working out. I still felt a little restless after so I took a quick walk around my neighborhood. Once I got back and had showered, my mom reminded me that I still needed to do my taxes. The due date for taxes had been extended because of everything that has happened with coronavirus. I got my first “real” job at the library at Grand Valley’s health campus this past fall, so this was the first time I had to do taxes. Previously, all my other jobs have been babysitting so there’s never been a need to do taxes. It was supposed to be simple enough because I don’t make enough money to support myself and therefore could use TurboTax for free. My mom sat down with me to do them and all was going well until we got to city taxes. She had never had to fill that out, so it was new territory and it caused a lot of strife. Needless to say, I now understand why people hate doing their taxes. Although it is necessary, it sure is a pain. May 12, 2020 My friend was back today to return the books she had borrowed and pick up some new ones. This time she brought some cookies for me as a little thank you. I was really looking forward to seeing her and talking again. I had been thinking of everything I wanted to remember to tell her once we were together in-person. Crazy how you begin to appreciate things you took for granted, like talking with someone in-person. We set up chairs six feet apart and talked for about an hour under the sunshine. That’s something else I’ve come to appreciate more: sunshine and good weather so I can leave my house. After she left, I drove to Michael’s to pick up some supplies I had ordered. My roommates and I decided to make each other gifts for when we move in this August. I saw this really cute idea of making initial key chains out of clay on Pinterest. Then I saw that you could make cute earrings out of clay, so I’ve decided to start a new hobby. Hence, the order at Michael’s. I had almost everything I needed, but I had to order a couple things on Amazon because they weren’t available at Michael’s. I can’t wait to start my new little project. May 14, 2020 Today was a lazy day. It was raining and thundering outside so I pretty much laid around and switched between watching Netflix and reading. I still read my Bible, but we didn't exercise today. That’s fine though because life is all about balance. I started my next Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park and I think I will still like Pride and Prejudice the best. �My brother wanted to make chocolate chip cookies so he did, however they turned out smaller and puffier than usual. I kept asking him questions to figure what he did wrong because he had used our usual recipe. Finally he admits that he used pure cane sugar. I was a little confused so he showed me the bag he used. He put powdered sugar in instead of granulated sugar. I couldn’t stop laughing because the two look nothing alike. Then I found out this was the SECOND time he’s made that mistake. As a teenage boy, he just goes too quickly and doesn’t pay enough attention to the ingredients he adds to the dough. I probably laughed for 15 minutes about the whole thing. That evening we finally utilised my recently rediscovered shrinky-dinks. We had decided to make it a sibling activity so we all drew and colored some designs onto our sheets. Then we baked them so they curled and then flattened out to our smaller designs. My favorite one that I did was a little pig in a paper airplane; it's adorable. May 16, 2020 Today my sister and I decided to go on a bike ride. We have a trail near our house so that’s where we decided to go. It was a nice and pleasant excursion until we encountered the goose. There were two geese with their babies near the path. I had stopped to wait for my sister because she was a little bit behind. I started to move ahead and the goose hissed at me. I knew geese could be mean so I said that I thought we should turn back. Then a jogger came by giving the geese space and he was fine. My sister decided to follow suit, however the goose did not like that at all. It threw its wings back and chased after her while it hissed. My sister was so scared she threw down her bike and ran back to me. I had been terrified while watching it, but couldn’t help laughing afterwards. The whole situation was funny and frightening. The geese crossed the road and we were able to move ahead. It was quite the story to retell later. After we got back, my mom said she was going to buy some flowers. My sister and I wanted to join her so we ate a quick lunch and then headed out with our masks to buy some flowers at an open market stand. The first place we went to had so many cars there that we knew we wouldn’t be able to park. If there were that many cars, that meant there were probably too many people for it to be ideal to shop. So we went back up the street to another one. This one didn’t have the herbs and lavender my mom wanted, but we bought some flowers anyway. � 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 COVID-19 Journals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Libraries Description An account of the resource This collection of journals and personal narratives was solicited from the GVSU community by archivists of the University Libraries during the events of the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic. During this unprecedented crisis the university closed suddenly, following federal and state guidelines of social distancing to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The university closed its campuses on March 12, 2020, and quickly moved students out of campus housing. Faculty swiftly transitioned to fully-online teaching for the remainder of the Winter 2020 semester, and all campus events, including commencement, were cancelled. The purpose of the COVID-19 Journaling Project was to document the individual and personal experiences of GVSU’s students, staff, faculty, and the wider community during this time of international crisis. Some project participants were university student employees who were compensated for their journaling. Other participants were granted stipends or extra credit for submitting entries to the archives. Still others participated without any compensation or credit. The University Archives remains grateful to all who submitted journals, for helping us to understand the impact of this crisis on our community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Subject The topic of the resource Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context COVID-19_2020-05-16_ANON_031 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anonymous Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-05-16 Title A name given to the resource Anonymous COVID-19 Journal Description An account of the resource Journal of an anonymous GVSU student's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subject The topic of the resource COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c818b35502666e439a328d3a28762000.pdf 1a429014b51287b3d0fd6dd242a117e9 PDF Text Text Dear March, we were not prepared. March 18: went to cousins house for dinner despite feeling uncertainty March 19: spent the day alone, cooked a lot of the food in my kitchen. Florence Pugh inspired me to cook and dance! Call your dad it's not that bad! March 21: facetime with annabelle March 25: still in the honeymoon stages, doing okay March 26: family zoom March 28: drinking a lot of coffee, mom working at greenhouse still (essential agriculture) dad working from home, constantly walking up and down the steps to get more coffee. Distracted by Dua Lipa's new album. April 1: April 2: morning yoga with annabelle and mom April 3: worked at metron, took a long nap after April 4: made more mango and tofu, watched ozarks, took food to brothers April 5: call to friend interrupted by neighbors, panicking over computer complications, finally finding comfort and inspiration on the couch April 6: made to do list for the week, overwhelming April 7: tried to do yoga while listening to class, tried to make breakfast while listening to class April 8: walk with Emily, so many worms on the track. Bernie announces dropping presidential bid. April 11: 3.3 mile walk around gr, nice nice day April 12: Easter, slow, clay earrings, painted computer case with no plan Memorial weekend was warm and it seems that everyone forgot about the virus. It doesn't seem real to many. Conspiracy theories flying through the air with the fireworks. May 27: it's warm! It's rainy! Breathing outside helps me think about the future that will happen. A couple weeks ago, around March 10, I remember a professor warning us about the possibility of online school. She said, “it's not a matter of if, but a matter of when.” She was spraying tables with Meyers cleaning spray, and saying we weren't going to pass around papers anymore. I was a little shocked and a little mad that she jumped the gun and scared us, doubting the possibility in my mind. Two days after, l am sitting in my apartment living room with my roommate discussing the buzz of all the colleges cancelling classes for the rest of the semester, just waiting for the email from Grand Valley. The paranoia came in weird stages the next couple of days. One of my roommates moved out the morning after we got the email from Grand Valley. My other roommate, Emily and I spent a lot of weird moments together in the apartment over the weekend. Anxious anticipation filled the moments we talked about how we would make money over the next couple of weeks. This semester has been extremely overwhelming and I was barely surviving. It was reliving in the moment seeing some of my responsibilities, being forcibly dropped. Emily �who worked for the telephone outreach program no longer had employment there and was considering going home to work at the deli. However this decision was not easy since she was also immunocompromised. A few mornings later when I came downstairs, Emily looked a little frazzled and quickly informed me that she would be going back to her parents’ house near Detroit because she woke up with a sore throat. (one of the known symptoms of COVID-19). I remember trying to seem calm and chill and said okay. As she packed up her stuff I sat in my bed trying to start some of my homework. When I’m nervous, my head feels very hot, often thinking I have a fever. I began to think what it would look like if I went to get tested. As the day went on she no longer felt like she had a sore throat and admitted to a bit of paranoia as well, but she still headed home at the request of her parents. My parents live ten minutes away so I spent some time there and some time back at my apartment. Mornings are either the best or the worst. Waking up is difficult when no class is telling me to be there. A good morning/ afternoon last week was spent sitting in the kitchen playing songs for my mom, making coffee, and connecting with my brother who lives far away. In the beginning I was determined to keep my class routine; watch the lectures at the right times and work ahead. As the weeks have loomed on I’ve started to feel behind and overwhelmed again. My self driven schedule fools me into thinking it's summer and I shouldn't have to spend every night doing homework. My parents want to spend time with me but the nightly news and my procrastination anxiety catching up pushes me away. Social media keeps suggesting what I should do with all my extra time but I seem to use up the hours so quickly. I then spend hours feeling guilty and anxious that I will look back on this time with so much negatively wasted time, when I could have done a lot in it. I spend about 75% of my time thinking this way and then I read an article, most fittingly titled, “Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure” and feel slightly better about all the times I havent started my next great painting, clay earrings or even finished one book, or even as the bar lowers: LEARNED A TIK TOK DANCE. However, the articles push me to think positively, however crushing the uncertainty of the next couple of months might be. I have made a few spotify playlists, my dog and I are closer than ever, and I have started mixing pineapple and mango with tofu. April, praying for better The weird thing about all of this is that everyone is experiencing it at the same time. It's not a heartbreak that I am going through that my friends and parents can counsel me through. We are all trying to make up small, useful hopes to hold onto about our current situation. It could be worse, people tell us. And it could. This isn't awful when I really think about it. It's so much worse for other people. No one I know has tested positive for COVID-19. The nursing home that I work at has no residents who have any symptoms. I think the scariest part about the virus is its ability to hide. Its ability to take up residence undetected. �Impacting every host differently alerting some of their presence only after 14 days have passed After 14 days, having moved on to so many others. I called in 3 times before I went to work. I had a cough, which is not unusual for me. I feel feverish when I am extremely nervous about something, but the thermometer told me I was okay. After talking on the phone with my boss for half an hour she said I should be okay to come in. We all have times when we feel awful, everyone is walking around others not knowing if it's their sad time or their ok time. Right now we all collectively feel awful and there is inevitable doom and we want answers but all we have is the hope of “flattening the curve.” But nobody knows when things will go back to normal and if we will ever shake hands again. Living in the Ozarks till this is all over Humans of ny is the best page on ig: it makes everyone’s, sometimes awful stories- seem still so beautiful and human. �Looking through my notes app and found a random quote that says, “anytime we are in a desert we find out what is truly in our hearts” We have to be comfortable with ourselves. This quarantine is forcing us to spend copious amounts of time with ourselves. (edit May 27): You don’t have to take your pandemic self as your real self though. You don't have to accept that how you are dealing in this time is your true self. You are hopefully doing your best. It feels like the time when Carsen and I got separated at a music festival we were volunteering at and we all had to evacuate because there was massive flooding and it was going to ruin the field and there was lightning??? Anyways, Hoizer and Jack Antonoff were somewhere near us,,, paralleled to this celebrities are not immune to the virus Can you tell me what's real? Last night was the pink super moon! I ran outside at around 12:30 am to see and it was beautiful, the rare, warm breeze made it especially eerie. This morning when looking at pictures far superior to my own, I learned that it's not called a pink super moon because the date (April 8) correlates with the starting bloom of a wildflower in parts of Canada and the United States. This blue chair reminds me of bernie. �He dropped out of the presidential race today and it makes me feel hopeless. What a time to say goodbye to healthcare for all. A person who has ALWAYS fought for the under dog and for the general good. April 12 If you don’t think about it too hard, life is okay. We have adjusted. We find new things to fill our time. We are adaptable and we are surviving.I wonder how these new found habits will affect us in the future. I have done some things, made some things, and read some things. It still sucks, I don’t like being told what to do; being told to stay home and feeling like my breathing is constricted when I go to the store. I watched Saturday Night Live this morning. It was a weird mess. But it's cool to see them still trying to make it happen. �These pictures are from my walk yesterday (April 11). SO refreshing I need to do this everyday. I talked to my brother and sister in law today and she said her family friend died from coronavirus. The closest ties I've had to a death caused by the virus. The nightly news that my parents watch is filled with sad stories from nurses in Boston and New York. Stories about moms saying they haven't hugged their children in weeks, or living in hotels so that they don't expose their family to the germs they are exposed to. I work a few hours a week at a nursing home with no cases still, wearing the mask is exhausting and hot. You are breathing in your own air and I find the stress of it all always causes my throat to feel a little sore after. I can’t imagine how these healthcare workers feel after 8-12 hour shifts. I can’t imagine the celebrations that will take place when this is all over. My roommate got into nursing school and celebrated her birthday since I’ve seen her last. Maybe NYC: How the city has changed from my window From crowded streets, to now only sparse beats Time passing nonetheless All the happenings, happening inside no longer under the sun, under street lights From a city of life and flesh To dry bone People and parties and countries divided on what is my freedom, what is her freedom, how should he protest the best, and will you act in a way that is better for your larger community? What does that look like? �Suddenly everyone is forced to take an opinion on how their governor is handling the shutdowns. Everyone must care about politics now because it now directly affects them. Whereas before, many of us could say, “I'm not into politics.” We had the privilege of not caring about the policies because we knew we wouldn't be the ones under the knee of police brutality. May 27, 2020 I have been absent from this journaling. But i've thought about it often- the activation energy in journaling is just too much sometimes. Whenever I get over the, more realistically, small hump of opening the doc. I have no regrets. I think I have a hard time processing shocking things in the moment. Even still- this whole thing doesn't seem real. And yet I am amazed at the resiliency of people. Then again I am seeing a small representation of people still doing and progressing. The ones struggling with mental illness are not the ones being highlighted and having their voice being heard. �About a month ago we found out my mom’s cousin and her husband tested positive for Covid19. They were fine, in their homes with manageable symptoms. Last week we found out that during this recovery she had a stroke- related to Covid. Her husband was not allowed in the hospital as she lay in a bed in the ICU for a few days and later on a Covid floor. It was a sobering reminder that no one is completely immune. They are in their mid 40s, pretty healthy. People provide blanket statements of hope- for the most part the young and healthy have not been too greatly impacted by the virus. Neighbors have gotten close, even strangers, forgetting about the virus that just a few months ago had me washing my hands at the top of the hour, (or more). It is no less dangerous than then. But- now it doesn't seem real. �Today, especially, the thought of spreading the virus is absent when fires are in the streets of where we stood a few hours ago. When “I can’t breathe” is not in reference to the rampant virus but the last plea to a police officer’s knee. � 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 COVID-19 Journals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Libraries Description An account of the resource This collection of journals and personal narratives was solicited from the GVSU community by archivists of the University Libraries during the events of the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic. During this unprecedented crisis the university closed suddenly, following federal and state guidelines of social distancing to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The university closed its campuses on March 12, 2020, and quickly moved students out of campus housing. Faculty swiftly transitioned to fully-online teaching for the remainder of the Winter 2020 semester, and all campus events, including commencement, were cancelled. The purpose of the COVID-19 Journaling Project was to document the individual and personal experiences of GVSU’s students, staff, faculty, and the wider community during this time of international crisis. Some project participants were university student employees who were compensated for their journaling. Other participants were granted stipends or extra credit for submitting entries to the archives. Still others participated without any compensation or credit. The University Archives remains grateful to all who submitted journals, for helping us to understand the impact of this crisis on our community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Subject The topic of the resource Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context COVID-19_2020-05-30_ANON_032 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anonymous Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-05-30 Title A name given to the resource Anonymous COVID-19 Journal Description An account of the resource Journal of an anonymous GVSU student's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subject The topic of the resource COVID-19 pandemic, 2019-2020 Epidemics Grand Valley State University College students Personal narratives Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Archives. COVID-19 Journaling Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ce32c46471d74e7cca31e54b0498e5e7.pdf 446391883367ec2568b97138688c1b83 PDF Text Text 1 Monday, March 30, 2020 We’ve just begun week three of having all of our classes online and my dominant thought today is, Monday’s are even harder now than they already were! I spent the weekend lazing around home where I live with my mom, dad, and teenage sister. Because Governor Gretchen Whitmer passed a stay-at-home order last week, none of us had anywhere to be. We watched the news, sat around, chatted a bit, watched some movies, watched more of the news. I felt like I was in an alternate dimension. Waking up this morning and realizing that I needed to catch up on class work, homework, and due dates made me feel almost confused. How can I do school when I suddenly have no structure? How can I think about learning French when the entire world is closed down and the study abroad trip I had planned for this summer is cancelled? How can I think about practicing clarinet - my major - when my recital is cancelled anyway? I entered into this stay at home period full of optimism, thinking it would be similar to when I lived at home in high school. My older brother has moved out of our family home already, so I set up his old bedroom as my own school/music practice room and prepared to go to “class” each day. But wow, it has not been that simple. Mainly because of the fact that it feels like the world is breaking down. None of us alive today have ever seen anything like this coronavirus epidemic. This means that as a young adult, I do not have the luxury of asking my elders, what did you do when you went through this? They never did. I can’t really look to the adults in my life for comfort because I can see through their masks of calm to the anxiety many of them feel underneath. My mother is a Registered Nurse, currently working at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids. She has been a nurse ever since she graduated from college, and I’ve always looked up to her for her compassion for others, which I can almost describe as fierce. My mother will protect you, you have no choice in the matter, that’s what it feels like! I’ve watched her come home from her 14-15 hour long shifts at the hospital, which are technically only supposed to be 12 hours long, exhausted and heart-sore. She is the strongest woman I’ve ever known and she has never been afraid of anything. But now, when she comes home from work I see not only exhaustion and stress, but also fear. Back at the beginning of this when many were still convinced that the whole thing would blow over and we would all be fine, my mom was hearing the truth from other hospitals who were already facing a battle against coronavirus. She sat my sister and I down and explained that she didn’t want us visiting with anyone (this was before the governor mandated the same order). She said, “most importantly, I don’t want either of you two or Dad getting sick. I also don’t really want to be sick myself, but even more important than that, I need to be able to help at work. If I get sick I can’t help them fight this at work.” I’m sure those weren’t her exact words, but that was the gist, and even though I was sad that I would literally have to cancel the plans I had made for the following day, I decided then that I would stand with her and support her in any way she needed. Since then I’ve seen many newscasts honoring healthcare workers and pointing out the fact that without them, we wouldn’t have a chance against this virus. They’ve equated healthcare �2 workers to soldiers, saying that they are our first line of defense for this invisible enemy. People are finally seeing how hard they work, how ridiculously stressful their jobs are. It is easy to take these things for granted when the world is not in chaos. This virus has pulled many things into the light for humanity as a whole, and I hope we take the chance to learn from it and grow in a way we never have before. Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Yesterday I felt like there were a million thoughts racing through my head, about politics, about my friends, about my schoolwork and my family. Today, I swung in the opposite direction and had a hard time focusing on anything at all. I told my friends and my boyfriend that I was taking a break from technology today, because I felt too tired and drained to talk to anyone. I am an extrovert, so I get my energy from interacting with other people. Ironically, interacting with people online has the opposite effect. I don’t like holding seven different conversations, one through text, a few through facebook messenger, and a handful through snapchat. This is what I’ve been doing since I’ve been stuck at home and the incessant sound of my phone buzzing is driving me absolutely insane. I want to see my friends and family members with my own eyes, and hear their voices and be able to hug them! That is where I get my energy from! I’ve definitely been making good use of the many different video chatting apps such as facetime, google duo, google hangouts, and zoom, and those are wonderful ways to stay in touch but I am craving an opportunity to sit down across from my best friend at a coffee shop and just talk about anything. Or cuddle with my boyfriend on the couch watching a movie. I find myself missing my grandparents the most because neither of them are tech-savvy enough to use video chat. In the past, visiting my grandparents has served as a way for me to escape reality. I have my paternal grandfather, who lives five minutes from me in a tiny house that’s full of stories, and my maternal grandmother who lives in an old country house which is filled to the brim with her quirky, artsy personality. I need to call them more! Both of them have a way of making me feel like life is bigger than me and my problems. Now more than ever before I would love to drive out to my grandma’s house, away from my town, away from my school and work, and just breathe in the day with her. But both of my grandparents are in the “high risk” category of people during this coronavirus disaster. I cannot visit them, in case I’ve picked up the virus at some point. They also both have health conditions that put them in the very high risk category, so if they were to catch this virus, they would be in a massive amount of danger. I have a difficult time considering the fact that before all of this is over, I could be missing members of my family. As of right now, I do not know a single person who has the virus. I’ve obviously heard about tons of people getting it, but there is no one I know personally who is sick. I don’t consider myself to be very religious, but I pray to God that it stays that way. �3 Thursday, April 2, 2020 We just got the order from the Governor today that the rest of the school year for grades k-12 if officially cancelled. My younger sister Elise is currently a high school senior, so I feel like she got a pretty bad deal out of this. This was her final year with the people that she has been going to school with for her entire life. School was initially cancelled for them with little to no warning in mid-March so there was never time to say goodbye to anybody. She doesn’t get to walk for graduation unless they are able to pull something together at the beginning of the fall semester but it doesn’t seem like that would work very well because most of the students, Elise included, will be starting college at that time. She also doesn’t get to have a graduation party which I personally find to be the most unfortunate part. My experience at mine and all my friends’ graduation parties was that it was a time for everyone to honor the graduate’s hard work and accomplishments. I felt so special at my party in 2016. My Dad put together a few photo boards documenting my life, my Grandma decorated a beautiful box for me to put cards in, and my Mom made sure that I had vases of colorful flowers on the tables, and other music-themed decorations. Elise is much more introverted than me so I suspect she isn’t as heartbroken about missing out on this as we might expect her to be, but still, I wish she could have that. My only other sibling is my older brother, Drew. He lives with his fiancé Shannon and their two cats, and they have always had to scrape by with an insufficient amount of money. Because of the coronavirus, both of them have gotten laid off from their jobs. This has happened to an immense number of Americans which has caused the system they need to use to apply for unemployment to crash. With absolutely no income and no unemployment benefits as of yet, they are in an incredibly tight spot. Today my mom put together a box full of food for them to take back to the house they rent. To prevent spreading any germs back and forth, she put the box outside for them to pick up and though we went out on the porch to say hello, we kept our distance from them, like we’re supposed to! I actually cheated today with the social distancing… I absolutely take it seriously and have not seen any of my friends in person since this all started. But today I desperately wanted to see my best friend. Since it was the first sunny day we’ve had in nearly a week, she and I meet up at some trails to walk together and chat. We truly did stay at least six feet apart the entire time and we didn’t hug or anything, but it was wonderful to be able to see and talk to someone standing in front of me! Though it was extremely refreshing, it almost made me feel more lonely when I got back home. Since my Dad is now working from home at a makeshift desk he set up in the middle of our home, we find ourselves having to be quiet all day during the week. When my Mom is off work she keeps busy with chores and tasks around the house, and my extremely introverted sister likes to stay in her bedroom and read, write, or draw. That leaves me to attempt to entertain myself so I feel very acutely the lack of socialization. My boyfriend wanted to drop off a mystery gift to me today, so I baked some chocolate chip pumpkin bread to trade with him, and I was so excited! But in the middle of the day I got a voicemail from him saying that he had had a sore throat for the past couple days, and although he was almost certain it was only seasonal allergies, he didn’t want to risk passing anything on to �4 me or my family and therefore wouldn’t be coming. My mom expressed how much she appreciated his caution, but although I appreciate it too, I was disappointed to not have even that small bit of connection with him. The world is becoming a strange new place now. Last week I called my doctor’s office to try and reschedule an appointment that I had coming up. The nurse who answered the phone asked me to wait just a moment while she checked the calendar for later in the summer. A few seconds later I heard her whispering to herself, saying something like “no I didn’t mean to do that, go back,” speaking to her computer. I found this a little comical but tried to stop myself from laughing until I was saved the trouble by her own laugh and her apology as she said “things have been pretty crazy around here lately.” In that moment, though she and I were sharing a laugh together, I felt bad for her too thinking about how truly hectic it probably was at that doctor’s office. Another similar instance happened when I called Grand Valley student accounts to ask a question. A woman picked up and asked how she could help me but as I started to ask my question, I heard a baby cry loudly in the background. I paused and could tell the woman was trying to shush the baby and respond to my question at the same time. Unlike the nurse, this woman didn’t sound ready to laugh. She sounded stressed and tired. She quickly answered my question and I said thank you and let her go as quickly as I could, then took a moment to feel impressed that this woman was still able to give me a concise answer while taking care of a baby at her home. On a lighter note, it’s fun to watch the news now and notice all the different locations news anchors are suddenly reporting from. Many that I’ve seen have equipment set up in their homes and conduct business as usual from a distance. One news anchor was in his “man cave,” another in her living room with the dog laying on the floor in the background. The entire network of people who deliver the news to us on TV is scattered, yet they still manage to do their jobs. They have also made a habit of reporting light and happy stories about how people are stepping up to help in the effort to overcome the coronavirus, or about the different ways that those stuck at home have found to entertain themselves, from having puzzle tournaments, to writing funny songs, to learning how to draw. I’ve definitely noticed among the people in my own life that creativity is making a comeback. My grandma is a painter who hadn’t been painting the last several months, yet when I talked with her on the phone a couple weeks ago, she told me about how she was painting lots of things and exploring new styles and subjects that she had never done before. My sister pulled out a massive piece of paper that she had been saving and decided to start meticulously drawing a horse on it. My mother, who used to write beautiful poetry and still does occasionally, decided to start writing down some of her thoughts and experiences similarly to how I am doing right now. Our neighborhood has also come up with a way for kids to still have a fun easter egg hunt this year despite not being able to gather with a church community or family like they may have done in the past. We all received notes in our mailboxes detailing a neighborhood easter egg hunt. Kids will walk up and down the streets with their parents looking for participating houses. The houses that decide to participate hang strings of colored plastic eggs from their trees, mailboxes, �5 or eaves so that they are visible to kids walking along the street. The kids then count the eggs and try to find as many as possible. It sounds like a wonderful way to get our little community together without actually being together! Friday, April 3, 2020 I thought this would be an interesting additive. I was scrolling through Facebook and discovered a post that people have begun to copy and share so that it will appear in their memories in the future: Just so I NEVER forget….. April 2, 2020 ● Gas price a mile from home was $1.40 ● School cancelled - yes cancelled (students left March 12 and wouldn’t return) ● Self-distancing measures on the rise ● Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6 ft) from each other ● Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors ● Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed ● Parks, trails, entire cities locked up ● Entire sports seasons cancelled ● Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled ● Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled ● No masses, churches are closed ● No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now no gatherings of 5 or more ● Don’t socialize with anyone outside of your home ● Children’s outdoor play parks are closed ● We are to distance from each other ● Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers ● Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill ● Panic-buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel, no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer ● Shelves are bare ● Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE ● Government closes the border to all non-essential travel ● Fines are established for breaking the rules �6 ● Stadiums adn recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients ● Press conferences daily from the President ● Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths ● Government incentives to stay home ● Barely anyone on the roads ● People wearign masks and gloves outside ● Essential service workers are terrified to go to work ● Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-10) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020 Why, you ask, do I write this status? One day it will show up in my memory feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted. We have so much! Be thankful. Be grateful. Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone. We are all one! <3 Copy and share. Whoever first created this is someone who realizes how important it will be to remember this time in the future when it is finally over. My generation has always heard about the horrors of 9/11, which happened when we were too young to remember. Yet we still can feel the terror and grief of those who lived it. Our children will learn about the Covid-19 pandemic, and hopefully they will be able to draw hope from however we end up overcoming it. Friday, April 10, 2020 Yesterday our stay at home order was extended by Governor Whitmer to the end of April. We have already been stuck at home for weeks and looking at several more like this is a bleak thought. I have been staying busy with school but school becomes extremely tedious and suffocating when the experience is not shared with friends and other sources of support. �7 Unsurprisingly, the weather day to day seems to have the biggest effect on my moods - it’s the only thing that ever changes. Right now it is cold and cloudy and still outside and days like this make me feel the most trapped and the least in control of my life. Though I agree with the steps that have been taken to slow the spread of the virus, I hate having to abide by all the new rules. We must stay in our homes at all times. The only time it is acceptable to leave is when you must make necessary trips to buy food or supplies, go to the bank, etc., or when you walk your dog. I recently read somewhere that the new rule is that you are only allowed to take your dog for one walk a day, and that counts as your excursion for exercise for the day. Meaning that we are not even supposed to walk through our own neighborhoods more than once a day. Grocery stores and any other businesses that are allowed to remain open must now limit the number of people who are inside the building at the same time to 4 customers for every 1000 sq. feet of floor space. I will be interested to see what humanity actually learns from this experience. I read something somewhere that a person wrote saying, our grandfathers were asked to go fight in wars and we’re being asked to stay home and watch TV, what’s the big deal? Aside from being insensitive, this comment is missing an important factor that makes this current “war” different from any we’ve fought in recent memory. This is that we are not allowed to comfort each other, or do anything really. Something terrifying has hit and it’s not just our country, it’s every country around the world. There’s nowhere to go to escape this. Now when we need hugs and hand holds more than ever, not only are we not allowed to, but doing so would be to risk the safety of those we love. Now when we need distraction more than ever - and have in fact been used to distraction for most of our adult lives - we are instead forced to sit home with our thoughts and brood. There is much good coming out of this as people adapt and grow to be able to help others, yet this new life also brings the damaged parts of our society into stark relief. Saturday, April 11, 2020 Today I wanted to take a moment to focus on our president, Donald Trump. I’ve been avoiding talking about him because my writing will become one long rant if I do. But I found an article that I wanted to add here which describes many of the reasons why I think he is the worst possible person to be leading our country through this crisis. It is called “This Is Trump’s Fault” (the main reason it caught my eye), and cites actions that he has taken during his presidency to lead us straight into this fire. ● Quotes Trump on March 13 saying “I don’t take responsibility at all” ● Previously promised that casualties could be held near zero - has since changed his stance to the opinion that if we keep the death toll under 200,000 people, then apparently we’ve done a wonderful job. �8 ● The federal government let maintenance contracts lapse in 2018, which caused a loss of stockpiled respirators to breakage ● Failure to store sufficient protective medical gear ● States are competing against each other for access to the limited equipment available to combat the infection ● Spent nearly 10 weeks after discovering the coronavirus insisting that it was as harmless as the flu ● Failure to close borders early ● Constant (CONSTANT) lying about the actual facts of the case, which his medical advisors then have to correct him on ● Many key government jobs were empty or filled by unqualified people ● Trump’s ignorant son-in-law inserted as commander in chief of national medical supply chain. The coronavirus began in China in late December, 2019. The Trump administration was officially notified of the outbreak on January 3rd, 2020. The United State’s first confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus appeared in mid-January. The first person known to have died from the disease lost their fight on February 29, 2020. By March 20, New York City (our epicenter) had confirmed 5,600 cases. Only after this, on March 21, did the government begin marshaling a national supply chain to combat the threat. Between this date and January 3, Trump and his government did nothing except insist that the virus was not a threat. Wishful thinking. What disgusts me the most about Donald Trump is not his incompetence, but rather his compulsive lying which cause confusion and opposition at a time when the people of the United States should be working together, and also his lack of empathy or urgency as he decides that 200,000 deaths would be a small price to pay. Horrifying, disappointing, disgusting. Thursday, April 16, 2020 I have now been home from school for over a month. My Dad has been working from home for nearly the entire time so that I have to try and be quiet as much as possible during the day so that he can focus. I don’t have any problem with this that is aimed at him, but I’ve started to feel that there is so much pent up energy in me that I need to run and scream and jump and dance and go wild, but there is no outlet for me to do those things because I am never alone. I cannot say I would rather be alone during this period of self-quarantine (I’m very grateful for my family and my house!) but I desperately miss feeling free. I miss being able to visit friends and family spontaneously, and I miss that feeling of elation I would sometimes get when I realized I was the only one home. I would love to open the windows, blast some music, and sing and dance like a fool until I’m too tired, but all I can do is sit quietly and work on school. Tomorrow it will be exactly a month since I’ve been able to hug my boyfriend, and longer than that since I’ve been able to hug any of my friends. I’ve been staying in touch with all my friends and my wonderful �9 grandparents, but there is hardly anything for us to talk about when our days consist of absolutely nothing! I haven’t wanted to write like this because it sounds so negative and pessimistic, but today I’m really struggling. I’ve been reading a lot of books and watching a lot of movies and TV shows in my free time. They offer an escape from real life, and a chance for me to feel things that I wouldn’t otherwise have any reason to feel. In the past I’ve gravitated more toward light comedies when choosing movies or TV shows to watch, but lately I’ve gone more for dramas or mysteries things that make me feel and think. I’m wondering if I shouldn’t take so many adventures through books and movies though, because every time I come back to reality, I feel a little more caged in. Saturday, April 18, 2020 All I have been able to think about - despite trying hard not to - is the idiocy of President Donald Trump. He goes back and forth and contradicts himself daily, causing confusion and at this point anger and frustration. He won’t stop trying to blame literally anyone else for his failures, and especially when he tries to go up against state governors like New York’s Anthony Cuomo, it becomes evident that despite being the president, he somehow doesn’t have a solid grasp on the US constitution. In the last several weeks, I have heard Donald Trump go from literally claiming that he has “total control” over the states and whether or not they close to fight the virus, to telling governors “you are going to call your own shots” (which they had the right to do in the first place, based on the conduct laid out in the constitution), to then tweeting (how ludicrous is that in the first place) “LIBERATE MICHIGAN,” “LIBERATE VIRGINIA,” and “LIBERATE MINNESOTA.” In one of these tweets he added that citizens should rise up against their governors to fight for their second amendment rights which are “under siege”. First of all, the 2nd amendment is the right to bear arms. Does this mean that Trump was implying citizens should use weapons in their protests?? I cannot even begin to understand how someone who is the face of our nation can get away with saying things like this, and over social media of all things. What is more, he has backed states that have decided to reopen AND attempted to take credit for their reopening by claiming again that he has power over that. Trump’s actions are so random and nonsensical, that no one can keep track of them. I read multiple articles on this man every day and each time I learn something brand new. Further, each new thing I learn contradicts some other thing he did recently. I am now reading an article discussing Trump’s insane actions having to do with the tweets mentioned above. He recently announced a set of guidelines that states should follow before beginning to loosen restrictions in order to prevent any resurgence of the coronavirus. None of the three states that he openly �10 addressed in his tweets met the requirements which HE HIMSELF LAID OUT to be ready to reopen. This event is exemplary of the kind of things Trump does on a daily basis which make little to no sense, and only serve to turn citizens against each other. An interesting thing to note about this is that the three states Trump targeted with his tweets are led by Democratic governors who are apparently politically competitive with Trump. In other words, they stand a chance at beating him in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. I am sad to say that this past week in Michigan, conservatives protested at the state capital in Lansing, gathering together in a large group to claim that Governor Gretchen Whitmer is taking away our rights as citizens of the United States. They complain that she is taking away our freedom by putting a stay-at-home order in place, and that we must all come together to fight her and get her out of office. I truly do not understand how it is possible that people can be so incredibly STUPID. Gretchen Whitmer is doing a fine job in office by taking action to prevent the spread of the virus. She listens carefully to what the top medical experts of the country say should be done, she consults with other governors, she consults with specialists at some of the top universities in the country to make her decisions. To make the claim not only that people’s rights are being taken away, but that it is the fault of Gretchen Whitmer is utter BULLSHIT. They gather to fight for the right to continue life as normal at a time when a horrific virus has rendered the ENTIRE WORLD helpless to stop its spread. Except that according to the smart people who actually know what they’re talking about, there is one thing we can do to help, and that is to social distance. These utter imbeciles have failed to grasp this concept. Not only does their meeting alone potentially increase the spread of coronavirus, but they are protesting for something that would likely kill them. It is as if they are begging to be poisoned. But somehow they do not see this. These people follow the direction of President Donald Trump, who throughout his life and presidency has openly incited violence, mocked minority groups, disrespected women, and NEVER taken responsibility for any of his idiodic choices. They claim they like Trump because he is open and honest about his actions but it seems that they’ve failed to notice the countless times he has blatantly contradicted his own words. By countless, I do mean countless. It has happened so many times that we all expect it now. In fact, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Trump’s greatest care right now is not in fact the prevention of lives being lost to the coronavirus, but rather his own chances of reelection in 2020. If I were speaking out loud right now I would be screaming from frustration. I am unable to think clearly because of the frustration I have with Donald Trump. He is truly the worst thing to happen to our country. He is going to cause more deaths in a variety of ways, for instance by pushing to reopen too soon and thus causing a resurgence, or by encouraging violent uprisings with his reference to the 2nd amendment (the right to bear arms!). Tuesday, May 5, 2020 I haven’t written for quite a while for two reasons. First, there are really no words for what is happening right now in our country. It is carnage. Second, for the sake of my mental health, I’ve �11 been trying to avoid reading more than an article in a day. Some days I’ve avoided any news of the outside world altogether. Days like that almost feel like a dream. It is difficult to stomach the state of our country right now. The coronavirus has brought all our dysfunction into the light. Donald Trump leads the charge for those who want the right to do whatever they want even if it means hurting others. He gives them enough validation that they feel justified in maiming, killing, or otherwise harassing those who disagree with them. These people are wildly out of control and they are so loud. I think that a majority of Americans are good people who want peace and positive change, but none of those people seem to be doing anything. I imagine that like me, these people must be too overwhelmed or disheartened to get involved in politics right now. But therein lies the problem. The unstable, radical people who worship Donald Trump have decided that they want to be involved in the running of our country. Trump gave them a leg-up and they have taken their opportunity and no one is stopping them. On what planet is it acceptable for unstable, aggressive men to be allowed to parade around and through the capitol building with massive guns? Apparently ours. The bit that really makes my blood boil is that if these were people of color “protesting” in this way, they would be shot dead by law enforcement. Here we see racism at play - white supremacy, entitlement, and a total disregard for the safety of others. These people have always existed, have always held their poisoned beliefs, but Donald Trump has given them total permission to act in exactly the destructive, corrupt way they’ve always wanted to act. And the good people do nothing because they fear for their lives. If we take a moment to reflect on why people stormed the capitol with guns, we find further corruption, further ignorance and entitlement. These people want haircuts. These people demand haircuts, despite the risks that would accompany a rapid reopening of the economy. They either don’t believe that the coronavirus is anything more than a bad strain of flu (despite the fact that it shut down literally the entire world), or they believe that “saving the economy” is more important than saving lives. These people have literally compared our governor (who is doing an incredible job) to Adolf Hitler. By doing so, they imply that their situations are similar to what Jews faced during the Holocaust. This is beyond disgusting. Jews were forced from their homes and dragged to concentration camps where they were imprisoned in total squalor, their humanity stripped away. These people today are literally being asked to simply stay at home. Holocaust victims were killed without a thought if they were suspected of rebellion, if they were seen to be disrespectful, or for any reason a Nazi soldier came up with, and there was no justice for them. These people today are allowed to angrily march on the state capitol with massive guns, threatening violence if they can’t have what they want. Law enforcement apparently tolerates it when these people scream in their faces, despite the prominent risk of them spreading potentially deadly germs. Their situation is absolutely nothing like the Holocaust and Gretchen Whitmer is nothing like Adolf Hilter. In fact, ironically, expert historians as well as psychologists have likened Trump to Hitler a number of times. And just like with Hitler and his Nazis, Trump’s followers are utterly blind to the chaos and destruction he continues to cause. �12 Perhaps at this point it is fair to say though that our country was already in shambles before Trump came along. We were a forest of dying trees when he came along and dropped a match. I can’t continue to talk about all these things for very long or I begin to feel absolutely hopeless. But here is a bit of a list of the biggest problems that I see with our country. ● Absurd wealth gap - A vast majority of Americans are essentially poor while most of the country’s wealth is held in the hands of just a few people. ● Capitalist culture - People must work until they literally can’t anymore. Sick days are barely tolerated, mental health days aren’t even a thing. Pregnant moms often must keep working up until they deliver their child and get only a brief chunk of time for maternity leave. There is no paternity leave. All employees are expendable. ● Costs of education - Absolutely no one coming out of high school could possibly afford to attend college without substantial help from parents, scholarships and grants, loans, or other sources. Most full-time students I know have at least one job (I myself have two), which they will put directly back into their education come tuition-payment time. How can we be full-time, successful students while working copious hours at minimum wage jobs which barely earn us enough to live? ● Blind Racism - This needs no explanation, except the addendum that when slavery existed in the United States there was blatant, undisguised racism, and now though our culture still drips with the same toxicity, people have convinced themselves that it is no longer there. ● Profound Ignorance - I don’t know how else to say this…. People are just extremely dumb. I mean this very seriously, I am baffled on a daily basis by the alarming levels of stupidity I see from people. It is as if as a race we are losing the ability to think critically. People are walking through life blind and deaf to half of it. I can’t understand this and it is truly the most alarming thing to me because I think it is probably at the heart of many of our other issues. Because it’s not simply that people disagree on a topic, but rather that some of them literally cannot seem to see the opposition. The conclusions these people come to about the world and how it is or should be run are simply bizarre. It’s like they’ve read only every other chapter of a book and have pieced together a new reality for themselves. It is entirely baffling. To return to a positive note, the environment is thriving without humans mucking it up on a daily basis. I’ve been going outside for fresh air and sunshine nearly every day. I sit in my backyard and pet my cat, or I walk through this rolling green field that is enclosed by trees near my house. I play piano every day and for the first time in a while have started learning a new piece, Debussy’s Clair de Lune. I ordered a bullet journal starter-kit so I could explore this as a new hobby. It came with 10 fine-tip pens, 20 stencil sheets, 9 rolls of decorative tapes, and a bullet journal, and I absolutely love it. There is something extremely therapeutic about designing and creating a page here and there. I’ve also been doing yoga frequently, using the youtube channel called “yoga with adriene,” which has suddenly become extremely popular as more people stuck �13 in quarantine discover her! I’ve been doing her videos for 3 and a half years and I am excited that so many people are now jumping on board. Adriene Mishler is such a pure and authentic person, and at the moment she symbolizes to me all that is good about humanity. As a race, we need Adriene Mishler. I just hope her increasing popularity won’t ruin her life, like it seems to do with so many celebrities. Somehow though I have utter faith that she will never let it get to her. I cleaned out my childhood bedroom over the last couple weeks and rearranged it so that it better fits the person I am now. It makes me feel like I am being officially recognized as someone new. I am reading for the second time Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, hoping it can help bring me clarity and peace during this time when so much feels so wrong. In this book, Tolle discusses the existence of the ego, which left unchecked can entirely take over a person so that they are ruled completely by compulsive emotion rather than logical thought… Highly relevant today. I have only been growing closer with my family, even though I was worried that the opposite would happen after we’d all been stuck together for so long. In these times, it is a relief and a blessing to know that I can rely on my parents, grandparents, older brother, and younger sister to become even more supportive, even more understanding, and even more compassionate towards their loved ones than ever before. I have been calling both my grandpa and grandma weekly, and also sent them each a letter with some questions in them. I asked them both what they would buy if they suddenly became billionaires. Funnily enough, they both wanted their own version of a cottage on a lake where they could sit and feel peaceful. I asked my grandma what she would ask or say to her parents if she was able to but have yet to get an answer from her! I asked my grandpa what he is most proud of in his life and he said without hesitation that he is most proud of having met his wife (who passed away when I was seven), having two children, six grandchildren, and one great grandchild. He told me family is the most important thing and I believed him. I am closer to him than I’ve ever been and am so thankful for him every day. Saturday, May 23, 2020 Governor Whitmer has gradually begun to reopen Michigan, so that now we are allowed to have gatherings of ten people or less. The mother of one of my long-time high school friends set up a surprise party for her last night and invited myself and four other girls from high school. This family who threw the party (I’ll call them the Smith family!) all had Covid-19 within the last month. They are over it at this point thankfully, but two of the girls didn’t come to the surprise party, one because she herself didn’t feel comfortable, and the other because her parents didn’t feel comfortable with her going. So the three of us who were okay with meeting up at the Smith’s house made sure to keep our distance from one another, sitting outside and only touching our own things, not making contact with each other. We knew that most likely none of us have been exposed to the virus, but all of us decided to err on the side of caution, considering �14 how many deaths there have been. [Just counting deaths for a moment, there have been 65 reported in my county alone, 5,158 in the state of Michigan, 97, 414 in the United States, and over 341,000 worldwide.] But the Smith family have always had their own ideas about things. Mr. Smith is a loyal Trump supporter, and therefore believes the severity of the Coronavirus is a sham. He believes that the numbers are only as high as they are because they are being falsely reported. He believes that things like wearing masks, and social distancing, and wiping things down with antibacterial wipes is unnecessary, and in this case, stupid. He said so himself to us last night. We jokingly took a picture of all of us with our arms out, standing apart from each other to show that we were social distancing, and Mr. Smith laughed and told us that in a few years we would all look back at that picture and realize how stupid we were being. We all looked at him with blank expressions and his daughter said, no I don’t think we’ll think it was stupid, before quickly changing the subject. I’ve known this family for over half my life and he is a good man. He is very religious and he is kind and generous, yet he firmly supports Donald Trump, who in my eyes represents everything wrong with our country. The Smith family are also anti-vaxxers, because they believe in the holistic healing process and natural medicine. I don’t know exactly what their arguments are against vaccines, but they are totally convinced that they are right and the rest of the world is wrong. They are so calmly confident in their convictions that vaccines are terrible and no one should get them. I have not ever been able to understand this point of view. The daughter, who has been my friend for years, blindly follows her parents when it comes to this, though she herself is not even remotely medically trained. At her surprise party last night, we had one of the girls who had stayed home on the phone. This girl was just getting over being sick, and we teased her for being sick much more often than the rest of us. She then laughed and mentioned a time when she got sick right after getting her flu shot. The Smith daughter heard this and immediately shot me a look as if this one instance was irrevocable proof that vaccines are bad. It could have been simply a facepalm moment, but instead I was furious. I was so angry at their entire family for having the audacity to call our caution stupid, to believe things without even understanding the science behind it, to discount all the evidence collected by scientists all over the world which shows undeniably that vaccines have helped keep extremely deadly diseases at bay. I think their reasoning is that we need to give our bodies the chance to build up immunity to these illnesses. But what about the thousands and thousands of human beings whose bodies are immunocompromised for one reason or another? What about the huge demographic of elderly people who are just trying to live out the rest of their lives peacefully? Or the children who can’t help but run and play and spread germs everywhere they go? Or the pregnant women who need to be as safe as possible? By the Smith family’s reasoning, we shouldn’t try and control deadly health threats like the coronavirus because we’ll be weakening people’s immune systems… But does that mean they’re totally fine with only half the population making it through? Survival of the fittest? Natural selection? I cannot understand how people can look and see all the evidence and still refuse to believe they might be wrong. Despite thousands of people dying prematurely, they still prefer to �15 believe it’s a hoax. I read a news story that said a covid-positive hair stylist went back to work and infected upwards of 20 people. Maybe most of those people will have mild symptoms and be completely fine, but then they will be carrying it and spreading it to all the places they go. Then anyone they come in contact with could get it and spread it, and it will just keep going, killing some, and travelling through others. What on Earth is so bad about wanting to be careful? I am not afraid of this virus. I make runs to the grocery store and the bank. I take walks with friends outside and have even visited my grandparents a couple of times. But I wear a mask, and I bring hand sanitizer with me everywhere, and I stand apart from people when I’m speaking to them. These things are not difficult to do and even though I don’t like wearing a face mask or avoiding public places, etc., I would rather do all that than risk being responsible for someone’s death. I still believe our governor has done well making important decisions for our state. She has been constantly discussing with other governors around the country and with public health professionals to determine how soon and how quickly we can reopen. I would rather be stuck at home than go about my normal life knowing that thousands of people are dying all around me and I’m doing nothing to help stop it, but in fact may be helping cause it. It is alarming how individualistic our culture has become. How selfish and privileged we are. It makes me sad because I was raised to believe that the United States was a wonderful place full of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But it really isn’t that at all. Wednesday, June 3, 2020 A ton has happened in our world since I last wrote. As far as Corona goes, Governor Whitmer just lifted the stay-at-home order as well as other restrictions on Monday. More and more businesses are allowed to reopen and cases have been going down. They are apparently still worried about a second wave that would be even stronger than the first, but this issue isn’t even the focus anymore. Covid is the forefront in hardly anyone’s mind. Because on May 25th, George Floyd died. He was a black man suspected of forging checks, so he was apprehended by a group of (white) cops. There is video evidence that Floyd was complying with police orders, not resisting them at all. Yet they still threw him to the ground and pinned him there with their knees along his body. One of the officers, Derek Chauvin, placed his knee directly on Floyd’s neck while Floyd lay face down on the pavement. Two other officers were applying their body weight to Floyd’s back. They stayed this way for nearly 9 minutes, despite Floyd’s crying out that he couldn’t breathe. Eventually he passed out, and the officers remained with their body weights on Floyd’s back and neck for three more minutes, until Floyd’s heart stopped and he died. According to autopsy reports, Floyd did not die from strangulation, but the pressure applied on his back and neck were the cause of his heart going into cardiac arrest. Perhaps if the officers had acted to save him, he would have lived, but instead they remained on top of him until he was dead. �16 This insane act of cruelty - which is not uncommon in black communities - turned out to be a catalyst for nationwide and even worldwide outrage. There were riots the next day in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, in protest of police brutality. Businesses were broken into and looted and the city was trashed. Since then, protests and riots have continued in all fifty states, as well as in other countries as people everywhere have joined the Black Lives Matter Movement. This movement strives to bring attention to the injustices the black community faces daily just for the color of their skin. It brings attention to white privilege and educates the world about black history. It vehemently condemns police brutality and demands justice for those that have been treated unfairly, and especially those who have died for no reason other than that their skin was black. Many white people balk at this idea that racism still exists and that white privilege is so prevalent, but I believe it. I see it every single day when people of the white community stubbornly believe that if you just do what the cops tell you, you won’t get hurt. They continually believe that black people truly are just criminal and unruly. They continue to believe that black people do this to themselves, that black people are the only ones killing black people, that white people are innocent. They are ignorant. It is an extremely uncomfortable reality to have to accept, so many people don’t accept it. This is the point of the protests. Centuries of unacknowledged injustices without respite have finally given way to a movement fueled by anger and the condemnation of cops. I support this movement, though I do worry that, as happens with so many issues, we will first swing too far the other way. In other words, I am concerned that before we are able to find any kind of peace, there will be a massive and long-lasting hatred and mistrust of law enforcement, as well as the government and the media. When I scroll through Facebook I see countless different accounts and opinions about these issues. We cannot seem to find common ground on anything. I know I’ve been saying this in nearly all of my entries, but I honestly blame Donald Trump. He is behind the mobilization of the national guard to quell these protests, whose cause is righteous and which are most often completely peaceful. He is the one who has constantly condemned any and all news sources that do not agree with him. He is the one who has sown more hatred and division than nearly any other president in history. He is the absolute worst kind of person and seems to be trying to turn our democracy into a dictatorship. As far as I can tell, most people hate his guts like me. But Trump still has a hardy group of supporters who truly believe he can do no wrong. I have truly tried to understand these people, but all I can conclude is that they are just plain stupid. I plan to attend a silent sit-in today in the city of Grand Rapids, of which nearly 3,000 people have said they will participate. From 4-5 pm we have been directed by organizers to sit silently lining the sidewalks of Fulton street with signs that say “I’m still here. I’m still pissed.” We will not be blocking traffic at all, or causing noise pollution, or doing anything even remotely destructive. At 5 pm we are supposed to take a knee for 9 minutes and chant “I can’t breathe,” to represent George Floyd’s horrible experience. I was not originally planning on attending this for two reasons. First, despite the fact that no one is thinking about it, Covid-19 has not magically �17 disappeared, and I don’t want to contribute to spreading it more. Second, many groups who are separate from the groups of protesters have been coming to these organized peaceful protests with the sole purpose of causing trouble and discrediting the movement. I do not want to be at all involved in violence. I have decided to go because I think that this movement is more important than my reasons not to. The Grand Rapids chief of police has been in contact with the organizers of this sit-in and has actually agreed to participate in our protests against police brutality. I’m excited to go and see history in the making, and I hope desperately that this movement can bring about real change, both in America and in the world. Tuesday , June 9, 2020 Last Wednesday, nearly a week ago, I attended a protest in downtown Grand Rapids for the Black Lives Matter movement. I went to this one (and not the previous ones) because this was labelled as a peaceful sit-in, and was cleared with the Grand Rapids Police Department. The chief of the GR police also said beforehand that he would join in our protesting and take a knee for George Floyd and all the black lives that have been needlessly taken. Over three thousand people had responded that they were interested in attending this event on Facebook, and I would not be surprised to learn that they had all come. We lined the Fulton street single file (nearly everyone with a face mask on for Coronavirus) for what must have been miles and sat there - not blocking car or foot traffic, not being rowdy in any way - from 4-5 pm. Then from 5-5:09 we all knelt on one knee and chanted “I can’t breathe,” to relive the memory of George Floyd’s last experience on Earth. Following this we continued to sit peacefully until 5:30, which was when we were all supposed to go back home and clear the scene. This was a strict rule so that if any rioters did decide to show up and cause trouble, it would be very clear that they were a separate group from the peaceful protesters. Right before my friend and I headed back to the car, a chant erupted of “No Justice, No Peace,” among a large group of people who walked down the road, past all the protesters. During the hour and a half that we sat there, many cars drove up and down the street and at least half of them would honk their horns in support as they drove by, or reach a closed fist out the window, or give us some other kind of sign of encouragement. I am so glad I was a part of it. It was especially interesting to see what kinds of people turned out to support Black Lives Matter. I saw mostly people who were very near my own age, and quite a few more white people than black people. Yet I also noticed among the crowd middle aged people and even elderly people. It was excellent to know that this movement finds support among all demographics of people, throughout the country and even throughout the world. Though I was not near enough to the police station to know what was happening there, I later saw pictures of the police chief keeping his word and taking a knee with protestors at 5pm to chant “I can’t breathe.” As we were leaving, my friend and I had to walk a block over to the car and as we did so we noticed heavily armored police troops guarding the perimeter of the police station. There were no protesters in that area, and as far as I know, there never ended up being �18 any more destruction that night. But looking around me I could see all the destruction which had been done the previous weekend throughout the city. Many restaurant and shop windows had been smashed, and were boarded up when we walked through. This included the courthouse, which makes sense, but also many many small businesses that should not have been in the line of fire. The beautiful thing is that at this point, a small group of (african american) artists have been going through downtown and painting beautiful pictures of hope and peace on these boards. They are using art to change the boards from a symbol of past violence into a symbol of hope. Another major event that happened last week was Donald Trump’s disgusting use of force to clear the way through protestors for a photo-op. Washington D.C. was crowded with peaceful protestors calling for change, when Trump decided he wanted to walk to the small church there and pose in front of it with a bible. In order to reach the church, which was blocked by protesting citizens, he called in a force of police who reportedly fired tear gas into the crowds to force them to disperse. This in itself is absolutely disgusting. These were unarmed, peaceful protesters who happened to be protesting police brutality when our demented president saw fit to clear them and their very valid concerns away with a violent chemical, just so he could get a picture taken. This is far more disturbing when we consider that Trump does not even attend that church, which apparently nearly all American presidents have attended throughout history. He does not go to that church, nor any other church for Sunday mass. The bishop of the place was outraged to see that the president of the United States had used her church and a bible that he never reads simply to garner support for his reelection campaign. In a country that is plagued by a global pandemic and has given way to uprisings in every single state, the President uses excessive force to quell their outcries so that he can focus only on his popularity. If this story sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is the actual stupidest thing that I’ve ever seen, and not only stupid, but blatantly evil. Trump’s main supporters are people who blindly follow him without watching the news or educating themselves on any domestic or world issues. They seem to believe exclusively what Trump tells them to believe, so this disgusting and unnecessary show of power will probably appear to them as a good thing. His ill-won picture with someone else’s bible in front of a church that he doesn’t attend will probably make him appear to them as a very godly man who they should follow to the ends of the Earth. And the rest of the world laughs at us. Now there is a growing movement in the United States to defund and/or abolish the police altogether. This has understandably received mixed opinions. The first time I heard it from a friend I thought that was crazy. This friend simply told me that there was a movement to get rid of the police, and in my head I thought of all the true criminals in the world and thought that abolishing the police would be equivalent to allowing them to run free. There would be no one to call if someone broke into your home, no one to call if you were being followed down dark city streets, or if you’d been assaulted. I completely understand why every single person of color in the country would be all for this. Amazingly (bafflingly!) for a huge amount of black Americans, police have been one of the biggest threats to their health and safety. So where I (a young middle class white woman) see the police as a force for good who will protect me against evil, an �19 overwhelming number of others in the country are forced to see police as people who will harass them and threaten them for no good reason, and with no repercussions. And it goes without saying that they also must fear being unjustly murdered by the police on a daily basis. If I were a person of color, I would prefer anarchy to a police force. Since I am not a person of color, this most certainly was not my first reaction, and I still do not support the total eradication of any sort of police force. I have since learned however, that the idea is not to simply have nothing in place to protect people, but to have an entirely new system of public safety in which professionals in a variety of fields are called on to deal with problems that arise in a more individualized way. In other words, instead of sending strangers with guns to deal with every single problem ever, reformers want to be able to send out social workers, psychologists, behaviorists, etc. to help troubled people rather than simply arresting everybody and sending them to jail. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This is because our justice system is antiquated. Massive amounts of money are funneled into beefing up the police force so that they can continue to arrest everybody. Our prison systems are not to help rehabilitate convicts, but simply to put them in long timeouts. It doesn’t make any sense at all. This is why I support the abolish the police movement. Though I do think we need some semblance of the police to remain, I very strongly believe that sending a person to prison should not be the first solution. If a single mother steals from a grocery store because she does not earn enough to feed her children, she should be led to resources that could help her and her kids, not led to jail. If a high school student pulls a gun on classmates, he should be put in a rehabilitation center with professionals who can examine his mental state, not put in jail for the rest of his life to waste away. Certainly there will always be crime, but there would be far less if we funneled more money into programs to help people live a happy life. As soon as a person is deprived of their basic needs of food, water, and shelter, their fight-or-flight response will kick in and they will likely do something like steal or even kill others. If there was less crippling poverty, less unfair treatment by police, more attention from government officials, more prosperity and equality, there would be less crime. Let’s defund the police and reallocate that money away from weapons that will be used to hurt already damaged citizens and into programs that will help them heal. Let’s put that money toward funding public schools, which are struggling so much that they’ve begun to cut programs like art and gym class (which if you know a child are essential to helping them focus and absorb information). Let’s put that money toward buying more Personal Protective Equipment for the doctors and nurses across the country who have been helping to fight Covid-19 and putting themselves at risk this whole time. They have had to cover their clothes with trash bags and rewear masks (which renders them essentially pointless) because the government has not funded them well enough. This is disgraceful. Let’s put money toward getting homeless people off the streets and on their feet so that they have the option to reenter the workforce. Let’s put money into the foster care system so that parentless children don’t have to live through neglect and poverty only to be thrust into the “real world” on their 18th birthdays with no idea how to be a �20 productive adult. Let’s put money into bringing down the cost of college tuition so that education is available to all rather than just the middle and upper classes. We would have no need to beef up our police force if the country’s citizens weren’t treated so badly as to make them want to revolt. Donald Trump is like a really bad monarch and I can only hope that he will be overthrown this fall when we elect the next president. Thursday, June 11, 2020 Finally, after being home for months, I am beginning to feel like I can have a somewhat normal summer. I recently applied for a job at a ziplining adventure park near my house and have a virtual interview with them tomorrow. Thus far, I have only been earning minimal money at my Library job, which had to cut our hours when the pandemic hit. Luckily I haven’t been going anywhere or spending money on much of anything, so this hasn’t been a huge strain, but it will be once school starts and I have to start paying rent at my apartment! I am very excited to finally have the opportunity to begin making more money (in an environment different from my home!), and I feel ready to battle whatever struggles arise from reentering the service industry after so many weeks of people being cooped up. In addition to the scattered hours I’ve been able to work for the Library Virtual Services, I’ve also been teaching piano lessons several times a month to a couple of beginning students. One or two of them will continue through the summer, so that will be a tiny trickle of income for me as well. Every single penny counts! Though I have been stuck at home without much to do, I have tried to stay busy. I wrote up a list of all the things I have committed to this summer, which is as follows: ● French classes (one the first half of summer, one the second half), twice a week ● Piano lessons (2-3 times per week generally) ● Library virtual services shifts ● Band camp (A two week camp I help teach for my previous high school each summer. They only just got the official green light this past week to have it!) ● Family vacation (Likewise, we didn’t know if or when we would be able to have any vacation this summer, but it looks like we will be heading elsewhere at the end of July) ● Senior Project (Which I was unable to finish last semester due to the pandemic, and which is now due within the first month back to school this fall) ● Graduate schools research ● Clarinet Practice ● Yoga/daily exercise In addition to all of these things, my hobby is reading books. Despite its becoming more cheesy to me every time I read it, I reread the entire Twilight series a month or two ago. I love rereading books because it feels like visiting an old friend, or returning to a place from childhood! I’ve perused a couple different philosophy books and most recently charged through Roald Dahl’s Matilda. I am currently in the process of reading for the first time Jane Austen’s �21 Pride and Prejudice, which is absolutely phenomenal. I believe I mentioned in an earlier entry that I picked up ‘bullet journaling’ at the beginning of this quarantine, and have created several new designs that I am very proud of! I have loved being able to embrace all the creative pastimes that I don’t normally have time for during the school year, or when my week is full of work shifts. Because of this, part of me is sad to know that with this potential new job, my creative freedom and energy could come to an end. But I have no choice if I want to be able to pay for my apartment next year, as well as food, tuition, etc. Wednesday, June 17, 2020 I have always been someone who has used writing as an outlet for overwhelming emotions or ideas. These last couple months I have felt so many things that I haven’t even felt capable of writing them down. There is so much anger and hate in the world, as well as anguish and sorrow. So many incomprehensible horrors, things we have always read about in history books and never expected to encounter in real life. Even now as I sit here feeling on the edge of tears, I can’t think where to begin... I watched two videos recently of elderly men being violently pushed over by law enforcement, who were, both times, dressed head to toe in defensive armor. The first video I saw hit me so deep to the core that I felt physically nauseous and began to cry. In the video, a tall and thin elderly white man who was protesting with the black lives matter movement walked slowly up to a couple of police and began speaking to them and gesturing with his hands. He did not look in any way threatening, out of control, or even angry. In fact to me it looked like he may have been asking a question. Then, without warning, one of the officers shoved the old man forcefully backwards. He stumbled back several paces, waving his arms as he frantically tried to regain his footing, but his old legs couldn’t move fast enough and he tipped back. He crashed to the cement, the back of his head cracking on the ground and a pool of blood visibly forming around him. The officer who had stood next to the one who pushed the man began to lean down to check on him, but was immediately pulled away by the one who pushed. They walked past him and a group of more officers followed behind, all stepping over this elderly, bleeding man. The video went viral, and most people were equally terrified and appalled. I just recently saw an update on the man in my facebook news feed. His name is Martin Gugino, he is 75 years old, and now has a fractured skull and is unable to walk. This video circulated quickly and caused anguish in most who saw it. Most but not all, because our own president unfeelingly suggested that Gugino could be an ANTIFA provocateur, and faking the fall. This disgusting suggestion came after the knowledge that the police station had reported the incident by claiming that Gugino tripped and fell and that they had nothing to do with it. If it weren’t for the teenage girl who had been filming, none of us would know any different because an entire troop of cops were prepared to sell a blatant lie to the public to cover their own asses, at the devastating expense of their victim. �22 The second video I saw was fortunately less devastating, but still scarring in its own way. It showed another elderly white man, who was quite small and defenseless. He was simply standing on a sidewalk looking out toward the street when a group of cops came up behind him and started pushing him up the sidewalk. I truly don’t even know why or where they wanted him to move to. I cannot even describe the feeling of intense anguish for the man and hatred toward those awful cops that I felt when seeing this take place. The man jumped when he suddenly felt hands on him and tried to turn to see what was happening, but was not able to because they just kept pushing him further and further along. Like Gugino, this man quickly lost his balance and fell to the ground, though thankfully it was face first and he was able to absorb the fall with his arms instead of his head. These scenes awake some kind of animal instinct in me where I just want to rip and tear and I can’t imagine the otherworldly chaos I would be feeling had either of those men been my own grandfather or father. Here’s a bit of comic relief, which I will credit to the stupidity of our esteemed president. As I mentioned, he tried to claim that Martin Gugino (an innocent, previously unknown, peaceful protestor for BLM) was an ANTIFA provocateur. So I’ve had to learn recently what exactly ANTIFA is, because the way Trump talks about it makes it sound like an evil organization that exists to dismantle our government and destroy our country. He literally put forward a proposal to label ANTIFA as a terrorist organization. HOWEVER. IT’S NOT AN ORGANIZATION AT ALL AND ANTIFA IS SHORT FOR ANTI-FASCIST. So beyond the fact that Trump is putting forth blatant lies, he is also declaring himself against antifascism. Which, by extension, means that he has declared himself for fascism. Ha. Ha. He’s not even trying to hide the fact that he does every immoral thing in his power to be a dictator instead of a president with checks and balances. Probably because he believes his followers will follow him anywhere, even if it’s off a cliff. I hope that in the next few decades our democracy is restored and strengthened and history books will look back at this time as a low point that we must never repeat. Another point of grief on my mind today is that the Trump administration has apparently rewritten the Title IX rules, which is now thousands of pages long. Under the Obama administration, if someone came forward and accused another person of sexual assault, the accused could be considered guilty not with clear, obvious evidence, but with at least a 50% chance that it had happened. In other words, the old rules heavily favored the alleged victim in sexaul assault cases on college campuses, and subjected the accused to punishments such as being expelled from their university. At face value this may seem radical, but it was an aggressive measure put in place to help correct what had been a huge problem on college campuses for so long. Women have always been shamed for BEING RAPED. You don’t watch an innocent person get punched in the face and blame them for it because their face looked funny. You don’t hear that a woman was violated and blame her for dressing the wrong way. But people do. Because misogyny is so ingrained in our collective psyche that people aren’t even able to wrap their heads around the concept that a man who goes after a “provocatively dressed” woman actually just doesn’t have self control or respect for that woman. And other men protect rapists because they understand the feeling of being so tempted and wanting so badly to give in. �23 But not all men are racists, because some were raised right; some have learned self control and respect for others and some have integrity. Anyway, as a young woman who lives on a college campus for most of the year, the sight of a man walking toward me at night has the power to fill me with anxiety. I want to be able to know that were anything to happen to me, I could get the emotional support I need, and the man who assaulted me would face punishment. Trump’s new rules give universities the option to go back to the system that was used before Obama made changes, where punitive measures will only take place if there is evidence beyond a doubt that the accused committed the crime. In other words, Trump has changed the system back to heavily favoring the rapist. In the interest of creating an informed opinion, I must say that Obama’s rules resulted in a swing so far to the other side that girls were falsely accusing men that they didn’t like, who then were treated unfairly without further consideration into the matter. That occurrence is nearly as bad as a true rapist never facing consequences. So I agree that perhaps there needed to be more measures set up, but considering the history of this issue and the vulnerability of women, I personally feel that the rules should favor the victim rather than the accused. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that this new change came about under the Trump administration, as they have spent most of their time in office undoing everything that Obama did to help us. President Barack Obama began his presidency in 2008, when I was ten years old. I was young enough for most of his presidency that I wasn’t informed of most anything that he did. But my parents have told me that for them, having Obama in office was a welcome relief from the struggles that they’ve always faced in life. My family is situated firmly in the middle class, where we are generally very comfortable, but never waste money on frivolous things, and budget and save and sacrifice here and there so that we can stay comfortable. Many of Obama’s programs and laws went a long way toward making life easier for working-class families. As I said, I’m not familiar with his entire presidency, but I know that his Title-IX regulations made a big difference, as did Obamacare, and his treatment of immigrants. He did good things for the working class, and did his best to make the obscenely wealthy citizens of America pay more taxes for the good of all. (The wealth gap in this country is absurd, but that’s a qualm for another day.) Donald Trump these past four years has worked his way through undoing change after change after change made by Obama. � 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 COVID-19 Journals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Time feels so relative now, like we should be measuring it in some other way. What constitutes a day in these uncertain times? Is it still 24 hours, or should I measure my days in anxious fits, depres sive episodes, moments of solitude? Most gruesome, should we start marking time by COVID deaths? That’s what the news is doing. “March- 25,035 27 total deaths.” On bad days, I used to take comfort in the knowledge that somewhere on the planet, many good things are happening. A baby is being born. A couple is getting married. A father and son are taking a trip. These microcosms of happiness combine to combat whatever obstacle I’m facing at the moment. Now, though, my front line of defense against the darkness is dwindling. Across the world, weddings are being canceled. Vacations are turning into nightmares. Babies are being born into oversaturated, infected hospitals. As I race to find the light, coronavirus is three steps ahead of me, snuffing out each can dle one by one. These are dark times indeed. 3/29/20 - 1:34 pm "As the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor is close to sacrament. Because the vastness and richness of reality cannot be expressed by the overt sense of a statement alone." - Jeffr ey Burton Russell In times of extreme duress, I retreat. For as long as I can remember, my immediate response to stress has been to jump on a horse and run away, sometimes quite literally. Now, as I feel stressed and - most frustratingly - trapped, I find myself retreating into books to retain my sanity. Books are deep wells where I can pour my emotions into and drain them all through the sieve of a great story. When they emerge, they are filtered clean and pure and stable. I drink from this well copiously,greedy in my conquest for release and solitude. Unfortunately, living with your boyfriend prevents a complete retreat from happening. The boy with whom I live subsequently became, through a series of strange events, the boy that I date. We had two other roommates, one who happened to be his ex. She found herself unable to live with us being together and promptly moved out. That knocks off one. Our fourth roommate was recently laid off and moved back home to quarantine herself in. That knocks off two. What ’s left is just myself and my roommateturned-boyfriend as we navigate trying to start a new relationship while being quarantined alone together. It’s been strange trying to find ways to be together and create space for each other in a tiny apartment. We both struggle with anxiety, and this crisis has flared my OCD to a nearly unmanageable point. There’s so much that’s overwhelming about our lives and our home that I struggle to find peace. This is where my books come in. But my boyfriend has never datedbookworm a who’s content to hole herself in her room and read for 12 hours straight. He’s an outdoorsy type; he wants to do yoga, walk outside, and my clean up the earth by picking up trash. I absolutely adore him for it, but I have to express that books are way of responding to the crisis. Sometimes, getting lost in the words of my beloved poets is the only way I keep my grip. �3/30/20 - 11:03 am Woke up today without the usual chest tightness that accompanies my morning anxiety. Perhaps my brain and nervous system are settling into this new normal. I picture my little apartment as this bubble that cannot be penetrated, by people, disease or otherwise. Last night my boyfriend’s friend came over to drop off some more concrete makeshift weights for themto throw around and he stayed to chat. I’m pretty sure my heart rate was well into the 100’s imagining him as an intruder breaking through our defenses and shattering my little bubble of defense. Though he stayed well away from both of us, I was torn betwe en welcoming the social interaction and wanting to kick him out. My parents are both old, well within the demographic most at risk from the virus. My father is turning 71 in May and my mother, who’s been a smoker her whole life, turns 58 in September. Tho ugh there’s been many days I’d love nothing more than to give them both a hug, I know that I can’t. Not until I wait out the incubation period, solo, to see if I have it. Every stranger that walks through my door sets my incubation period back and makes mylong-awaited hug that much farther away. I miss the days when I could jump into people’s arms without fear. I’m a hugger, a toucher, an extrovert; I thrive in social situations and am most content in a crowded, lively room. Now, as my boyfriend and I swim this sea alone, I know I’ll never take hug a from my parents for granted again. I pray that they’ll make it through this and we’ll see many more hugs on the other side of coronavirus. 3/31/20 - 12:48 pm The air has never felt more still. The virus became real today. It became a big, swampy monster that’s wreaking havoc on my life and tearing my loved ones away from me. Last night, a close friend from high school lost his battle to the virus. He was a mere 24 years old; a baby; a blink in the universe’s eye. Yet to me, and my tight -knit circle of friends from younger days, he was everything. Ben Hirschmann- you stood up for me when nobody else would. You had a twinkle in your eye and a bellowing laugh that filled our hearts. How this virusswallowed you whole I’ll never understand; your personality and enthusiasm was larger than life, larger than this world. Today I am heartbroken. I am emotionally ransacked and vacant; I have nothing left. My fragile sanity has been teetering on madness o f r weeks now and I fear this may be the beginning of a very long descent. For while I’m aching now, I know this won’t compare to how I’ll feel in a couple weeks. The monster is coming and it is incredibly hungry. Ben will certainly not be the only casualtyI’ll suffer in the monster’s wake. I can’t reiterate enough how devastatingly real this feels now. God help us. �4/7/20 - 7:08 pm Spent the last week grieving, processing, self-destructing, and rebuilding. Wasn’t sure I’d be able to write tonight but the air felt still and calm and suddenly I was drawn to my journal. It’s incredible to me how one can find moments of stillness and peace in absolute chaos. School has felt incredibly optional though I know, internally, that it’s very much not. I’m having trouble finding the motivation to get things done when everything around me is slowly evaporating. I lost my study abroad trip/summer plans and now I’m applying for internships that probably don’t even exist anymore. It’s terrifying seeing the newsreports display the unemployment figures, and I shudder to think how dangerously close to that I am. My school job ends in a few weeks, and then what after that? 4/9/20 - 7:51 pm Today has been overwhelming, but it’s almost asinine to use that word now. We’re literally living in unprecedented times, of course everything is going to be overwhelming. But school has proven to be especially trying. Today I finally counted up everythingI had to do to finish the semester. 14 things. It amounts to roughly 32 pages of writing, at least 6 hours of coding, and then 7 hours of online exams. I am so frustrated with the amount of work that’s been given I could scream. I know that professors don ’t know how to handle this either, but they could try by not randomly assigning papers just for something to do. I have to write roughly 6 pages of justreflection papers. Reflection on what? The online class I’ve had to suffer through for a month now? Notmuch to reflect on. I was telling my boyfriend yesterday that I can’t believe we’re two days shy from it being a month into quarantine. This month has felt like a blur. It was supposed to be my busiest; my grandest month yet. I had two trips to DC planned, a conference, an event to host, new candidates to welcome. I’m a Lead Fellow in the Leadership Academy and I was so excited to hug our new cohort in person. Each person I personally interviewed, took time in crafting. We’ve pulled together an incrediblegroup of future changemakers and now I don’t know if I’ll even see them for orientation. I’m tired of wondering when all of this is going to blow over. I’m tired of the fact that the piling deaths are having less of an effect on me now. My best friend st lo her grandpa, my dad’s friend lost his father.. The list goes on and on. I yearn for better, brighter days. 4/14/20 - 4:23 pm It’s getting harder and harder to journal. It’s depressing only having bad news to report, but that’s all that’s coming in. The IMF reported today that the global economy could take a 3 point shock, the worst since the Great Depression. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared to graduate into a depression. My family lost everything in the ’08 recession, and it’s taken us 12 year s to crawl back from square one. They say they’re doing okay now, but I fear the worst for my family in these coming days. I remember the last time we were so poor we �couldn’t afford groceries; those days felt so hopeless. I’m certainly not prepared for wh at’s coming, but how can you be? My mom told me today that life as we know it is over. I pray that it isn’t true, but, I know deep down she’s right. With the coming depression and the way lives have already been altered, there’s no way we can go back to normal. I know, too, that normalcy will be unachievable for the families who have had loved ones ripped away. The family of my friend Ben who died just a couple weeks ago is not done with their turmoil. Now, the father of the family has fallen ill as well. All over stories are coming in from households who are losing multiple people at a time and can’t hold a funeral. After all, the CDC traced the entire Chicago outbreak to just a single person who attended a funeral in the city. Now, because of that one person, ten thousand people in the city are infected, and I fear my parents are next. The virus is so infectious that if one person in the house gets it the others are likely to follow suit. How terribly violent and senseless it is to lose multiple family members in one sitting. Yet again, I remember this happens daily to people all over the world. In the Gaza strip, bombings regularly ravage families. In sub-saharan Africa, infant mortality kills 40% of babies before they’re even born. Are we privileged people finally getting a taste of the chaos we so carelessly create? I’m still mourning the loss of my summer plans and now my hopes for the fall are fading. If we can’t contain the virus or find a vaccine, it’s likely that the fall semester will be moved online as well. As difficult of a decision as it would be, I think I would defer for that semester and hold my hopes out for winter. I refuse to lose my senior year to this pandemic after I’ve already lost so much. From my apartment I can still hear the bells of the clock tower rolling over from campus. Those bells, which used to peeve me on my way to class, now sound like the melancholy remnants of a distant past. What I would give to be annoyed by those bells just one more time! I suppose the good news in all of this is that I’m still alive. I’m healthy, I have a roof over my head, food in my fridge, and a boyfriend who continues to be my rock through all of this. Perhaps all is not lost. 4/16/20 - 3:11 pm The days are starting to muddle together and th e moments are losing their luster. I need to feel reinvigorated but it’s hard with so much stress weighing down on my shoulders. In these tense times, though, I have found moments of extreme tenderness, and I began recording them. These are some of my favo rite things from the last week: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● The mouthwatering smell of fresh garlic and good olive oil sizzling in a pan The warmth I feel when my boyfriend holds me and I’m enveloped in his smell of tea tree oil and sandalwood Waking up to my cat lazily stretched out beside me, the sun rays warming her belly The comforting, homely smell of fresh coffee brewed in the morning, my hands wrapped around the steamy mug Signs of growth from plants I’ve been nurturing all year The happy look in my cats eye when she watches snowflakes fall through the window The roaring, resounding laughter of my friends coming through the phone, showering me with love and happiness �Yes, things are bad, but they can be relatively good too. Youstjuhave to find the silver linings. 4/18/20 - 3:01 pm Today my family and I were told that my grandmother’s nursing home has been exploded with cases of COVID-19. I have dreaded this day ever since I learned about the virus, knowing full well itsplications im for the older demographics. My poor grandmother Rosemary Risk, aka the light of this world, has been battling dementia for about ten years now. I used to wake up at 5 am before school every day and go give her a bath, change her diapers and shee ts, and sit with her while she ate her breakfast. She’s the sweetest little lady, always humming as she walks around. During bath times, she used to make me sing all of her favorite old showtunes. These are the lyrics to her favorite one: Here we are, out of cigarettes Holding hands and yawning, look how late it gets Two sleepy people, by dawn's early light And too much in love to say good night Here we are in the cozy chair Pickin' on a wishbone from the Frigidaire Two sleepy people with nothing to say And too much in love to break away Do you remember the nights we used to linger in the hall? Mm-hmm, your father didn't like me, at all Do you remember the reason why we married in the fall? To rent this little nest and get a bit of rest Well, here we are, just about the same Foggy little fella, drowsy little dame Two sleepy people, by dawn's early light And too much in love to say good night Here we are, don't we look a mess Lipstick on your collar, Wrinkles in my dress Two sleepy people, who know very well They're too much in love to break the spell Here we are, crazy in head Gee you're eyes are gorgeous, even when they're red Two sleepy people, by dawn's early light And too much in love to say good night Do you remember when we went dancing at the Palomar? When it was over why naturally we cuddled in the car So you ran out of gas, and I was green as grass Here we are keeping up the pace �Letting each tomorrow slap us in the face Two sleepy people, by dawn's early light And too much in love to say good night Grandma, I am too much in love to say goodnight to you. Please don’t leave us yet. 5/5/20 - 12:51 pm I took a break from journaling after the winter semester ended. I was so terribly burnt out after my grandma passed away that I needed a break from my own thoughts. Now I’m back to consultant work/journaling and can affirm that, oddly enough, things are pretty normal as far as quarantines and pandemics go. Life has definitely slowed down and adapted to the new conditions. I’ve been drawing quite a bit, planting and preparing my garden, and renovating my apartment. My boyfriend and I have grown quite a few egetables v from seeds and we’re hoping to get them all in the ground by the end of May. Some of the hardier vegetables like asparagus and kale have already been planted outside and I check on them like a dutiful mother. I’m pretty sure our neighbors think we’re nuts for having a full garden outside of our dinky college apartment complex but we take pride in our little oasis. Watching everything grow from seeds into strong young plants has been such a fun journey for us while we remain isolated in our home.ouring P ourselves into our hobbies has been a great way to stay sane. In unrelated news, 2020 has decided to play a new joke on us by introducing literal murder hornetsinto the narrative. Japanese murder hornets have somehow made their way over to the Nor theast coast and prove to be the icing on the cake of the strangest year ever. These giant hornets grow to be-32 inches in size and prey on precious bumblebees. They use sharp mandibles to decapitate the bees and take their thoraxes to feed their young. Japanese honeybees have developed certain adaptations that allow them to fight off the hornets, but our American honeybees have not. Entomologists say if we can’t eradicate all the hornet colonies within a year, we won’t be able to stop them from rooting he re permanently and decimating bee populations. To boot, hornets are so venomous that a few stings can kill a human. How much more fucked up can this year get?? I was watching a sweet, fat little bumblebee lazily sniff my begonia bush the other day and thought of it being decapitated by a murder hornet. I sincerely hope they fix the issue before it’s too late. 5/6/20 - 1:01 pm Found out today that I’m eligible to receive a huge grant from GV through the CARES Act to help support me financially through this pandemic. I’m really grateful for the extra income because now I can afford to help cushion my family a little bit through the crisis as well. My dad’s job is based on sports advertising, so the lack of sports has taken a huge toll on his income. My mo ther completely lost her job due to the pandemic so the only thing keeping them afloat right now is her unemployment benefits and my dad’s struggling income. We don’t complain because we know that we have it far better than many other people. There’s somuch talk about certain businesses that probably will never recover from this setback. They say we’re headed for an economic downfall that could rival the Great Depression, and I’m afraid for what the future holds. My brother is a prominent chef in New Yor k, but he’s not sure he’ll have a job when all of this is �said and done. New York relies on the tourism and food industry, and it’s damn near collapsed without it. My sister owns a little vintage clothing boutique in Brooklyn that may also never open its doors again. I’m trying to remain optimistic but, quite frankly, there isn’t much hope to hold on to. My family barely survived the last recession so I’m nervous about these projections. All I can do is hold on to the hope that maybe things aren’t as bad as they seem and we can find a way to bounce back sooner than we thought. I read an article today, though, that showed evidence Trump shelved a CDC document meant to help reopen the economy and provide safety guidelines. Why the document will never see the light of day is beyond me when so many people have been begging for ways to slowly reopen the economy and get people back to work. The stupidity of the Trump administration never ceases to amaze me, and I blame the president wholeheartedly for his impotence and lack of leadership in these times of duress. 5/7/20 - 8:48 am Today is the day! After months and months of quarantine and only seeing one familiar face, I am finally going to see another friend! My best friend and soul sister Lisa has been quaran tined with her boyfriend for the last couple of months. They both have the privilege (like I do) of working from home so it’s safe to say we will not be giving each other the virus. She was going to come visit me this past weekend, but she started getting severe back pains after a morning run. After a virtual doctors appointment and a carefully -socially-distanced MRI, we found out she has a bulging disk in her back. The poor thing will be bed bound for the next couple months and has to undergo physical ther apy to recover. I decided to surprise her to cheer her up by coming to visit with my boyfriend. She doesn’t know that I’m coming but her boyfriend does, and he says she’s been terribly glum. I do hope that our presence will lighten her spirit as being arou nd her will surely lighten mine. It has been so long since I was able to see others and hold them. I can’t wait to go! 5/9/20 - 7:31 pm It’s getting hard to find things to journal about because everyday is like groundhogs day! Seems like I have the same routine every day, the only difference between them is the amount of anxiety I’m carrying. I recently started taking pills to help cope with my severe anxiety. The pandemic and its stress have exacerbated my anxieties, making it nearly impossible to getthrough the week without a panic attack or emotional breakdown. It’s difficult being transparent about this knowing that someone will read this journal years after it’s writing and may judge me for my choices, but please understand how excruciating thishole w process has been. I’ve never been the type to turn to pills to get myself through; I hardly even take Motrin when I have a headache. Usually my anxiety is mild enough to be cleared up with a good strain of marijuana. The anxiety I’m dealing with nowsi a whole other beast; one I haven’t battled in many years. I knew that my mental health would take a turn with all of these changes but I didn’t expect a reaction like this. Every day there is a new looping circuit of anxiety in my head, swirling round an d round like a whirlpool. I can’t fight the currents alone, so the Xanax helps me swim to shore. I wish it didn’t have to be this way but my boyfriend reminds me that needing medication doesn’t make you weak; sometimes the strongest thing you can do is ask for help. I really need help and, for better or for worse, the pills help make these anxious days bearable. I do hope that I’m able to stand without them soon. �5/21/20 - 9:01 pm Today was an extremely hard but rewarding day. Without going into too much detail, my -girlfriend ex and I had a very passionate but tumultuous relationship for two years. We became so enveloped in each other that we lost our own independent identities. That, coupled with her family’s constant rejection of me and her sexuality in general, made the relationship a miserable chore. Despite that, I loved and continue to love her deeply and wish that it had worked out. I think the hardest breakups are the ones wh ere two people just aren’t right for each other no matter how real the love is. We broke up mid -January, and I started dating my boyfriend a few months later. The quick transition shocked both of us, and I hadn’t expected to move on so fast and neither did she. I’m a big believer that you can love multiple people at once, and the timing of my new relationship was incredibly unfortunate. It has made it difficult for my ex and I to stay friends, an endeavor we deeply wished for. Today, she came over to grabhet last of her things and give mine back. It was an incredibly emotional encounter filled with lots of tears, hugs, a couple joints, and some Taco Bell. We smoked in her car and ate tacos like we used to after practice when we played Grand Valley lacrosse together. It was jarring to be so near her doing familiar things when I’ve seen no one but my boyfriend in my house for the last few months. I know she’s been quarantining herself properly so I wasn’t worried about catching the virus, and it was so enriching to hug somebody new. We were able to find real closure and make progress towards embracing the new roles we have for each other. I’m so grateful to have a wonderful boyfriend who gives me the space to mourn my past relationship as we grow our new, beaut iful one. He’s so tender and genuine and I feel so lucky to have him. It is my dear hope that my ex and I will reconcile and she can get to know him the way I do. 5/25/20 - 11:43 am It’s hard trying to remember the last time I had a day without anxiet y. It eats at my insides, gnawing at what’s left of my hollow bones. 6/23/20 - 10:21 am So here it is, my first diary entry in nearly a month. I didn’t realize so much time had gone by, but then again, time had begun to mean nothing at all. I debated writing any of this because I didn’t want my dark times memorialized in the University archives, but in the end I knew vulnerability was the only option. I promised myself I’d not edit or water down any of my feelings or experiences so that thislittle snapshot in time would be as real as possible. I had somewhat of a mental breakdown weeks ago. I was going through the motions of daily life, trying to be as normal as possible, but everything felt hollow. I realized my use of anxiety medication wa s becoming addictive, so I did what I knew I had to do - cut cold turkey. Three days after my decision to quit, my parents informed me they were going through another separation. They’ve done this thrice before, but never has it been so explosive, or final.They began filing with attorneys immediately. I found it difficult to get out of bed every morning, and it took incredible amounts of patience from my boyfriend who gently coaxed me alive every day. I took to long hours of meditation and silence to cope ith w my anxiety, and eventually my frayed �nerves began to settle. Then, on May 25, George Floyd died. And the events that followed have certainly changed my life, and the lives of many others. This is a journal about the coronavirus pandemic, certainly, but I would be remiss if I did not memorialize my experiences during the beginning of what will certainly be a large chapter in the history books. George Floyd’s death is the spark that will flame an entire revolution, and I’ve seen the front lines of history. If you are a reader looking at this diary years after I am gone, surely you too will know how George Floyd. You will know more than I about the repercussions that follow the waves of his death, and I am hopeful that history is favorable to our revolution. I hope that his death will not be in vain. George Floyd is only one in thousands of black people that have died at the hands of racist police. We took to the streets in the days after Floyd’s death, but there were so many others we were marching for. Breanna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. J ustin Howell. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Oscar Grant. Sandra Bland. I could fill pages upon pages of this journal with the names of black lives lost to police brutality. We marched, protested, chanted, and burned down buildings and police precincts for them. In my city of Grand Rapids, we took to the streets for a silent march, a peaceful protest. We did not bring weapons or gear, but signs and our anger. We brought a desire for justice to the march, and the police showed up in riot gear. They cornered us in the streets with tanks and suped up police trucks. They barricaded off the streets to the police precinct so that no one could touch it. Before a protestor had so much as raised a fist, the police marched out in single formation, dressed in military style riot gear with shields, face masks, rubber bullet guns, tear gas canisters, batons, and even many real guns. Tear gas, which was deemed illegal to use in war after WWI, was used mercilessly on protestors who knelt on the ground with their hands up, screaming “don’t shoot!” I was on the front lines, my heart racing as we formed a barricade of white people to protect people of color from the police. We were weaponizing our privilege to protect those who have been targeted. The hatred from the police was so visceral; their gazes cut me like knives. I could feel their disgust that we were on the “other side.” I had never felt the reality of the police state until I was face to face with it, locked in a showdown that I was hopeless to win. They tear gassed us to much I felt like I was truly dying. I couldn’t see or breathe, and people were running and screaming in every direction. They shot rockets off and eventually rubber bullets. I was knees down on the ground, face in my hands as my eyes burned like fire, when a kind stranger lifted back my hair and poured milk on my face. I choked at first and then relaxed as the milk cooled my burning eyes. The stranger handed me water and I drank, grateful and unable to speak. I never caught their name as they ran away to continue helping, but I will never forget that moment of humanity. I will also never forget the way the police herded us like animals for slaughter, just for asking them to stop killing black lives. I will never forget how a peaceful protest was transformed into a war zone by cops who incited an agitated crowd. I will never forget when they brought guns and we brought signs. And reader, I hope you never forget this too. I hope these words burn into the back of your mind forever: We are not free in a police state. We are not free until every systemically racist institution is dismantled. Equality cannot be achieved without equity first. Demand reparations. �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Antal: I am Christopher Antal, and how much should I say right now? Charlotte: Just share A little bit about yourself and your experience when you first joined the military. Rev. Antal: Sure. Well, I am a citizen of the United States, born in New York, and I'm forty-nine years old right now. I work presently as a chaplain in the Department of Veterans Affairs. I volunteered to serve as a chaplain in the Army. And my service started in 2008 and it ended in twenty sixteen. So just short of eight years. I was in the Army Chaplain Corps. Charlotte: OK, and you said you brought some documents with you and other artifacts that you want to share to give a little more context to your service, do you want to talk about those? Rev. Antal: Sure, yeah, I brought some things. There is a paper trail that captures a lot of my experience. But before I get into that, maybe I will just say that my father was in the United States Navy in Vietnam, and after growing up in a household, learning about that war, I thought I would never serve in the military. And, in fact, when I turned 18 and my father encouraged me to register for Selective Service, I refused. That changed for me when I was in graduate school. I was a student in seminary when September 11th happened in New York. I was studying in New York, and I began to rethink my responsibility as a citizen of the United States and began to think about what it meant for me to do my part with regards to the military, and I decided my part could be serving as a chaplain, and so I started that path towards the chaplaincy, about two thousand five. �2 So, for me, the motivation to volunteer to serve as a chaplain in the Army in a time of war came out of my commitment to fairness and compassion and responsibility. It has been an interesting journey. And just in terms of—as I think back on some of the themes—just the tensions and the complexities of standing in multiple worlds, as an ordained religious leader, representing a religious community with its own culture, with its own values and traditions, and also a commissioned officer in the United States Army, which has its own culture, traditions, values, and being at that intersection and living in that, the tension. Additionally, just being, on the one hand, a soldier in a military uniform, but also a noncombatant, somebody, as chaplains are, who do not train to use weapons. The third kind of complexity to this was that I was not just any chaplain in the military, I was endorsed by the Unitarian Universalist Association, which, in the whole spectrum of religious denominations in the United States, is progressive and pretty far to the left in terms of social causes. So that brought in another dimension of complexity, of coming into a chaplaincy that was not progressive, necessarily not left leaning, but rather quite the other extreme. So, from the outside looking in, all those things were attractive to me. I thought, “this is a really interesting opportunity to make a difference, to bring diversity into the military chaplaincy, to bring a voice of pluralism in a time when the United States was at war in Muslim countries.” My denomination is committed to free exercise of religion. We are not Christian. I am not Christian. And I saw the military chaplaincy as a place where I could make a great contribution, not only to support, with spiritual care, the lives of women and men in difficult conditions, but also to be a cultural bridge and even a peacemaker between the United States military and Muslims in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. So that was all the pretty interesting from the outside, looked like a pretty interesting path. So, I set out on that path in about 2005. The document trail begins with the first ever encounter I had with the military, which was at a medical processing station in Albany, New York. And this was in 2006, in November. So, I got my fingerprints stamped and I went through, it is called a MEPS station. And I just wanted to show this because it is 2006 in November, when I started this process. I mentioned that I had not registered for Selective Service. This quickly became an issue. I was over the age of 25 �3 and after the age of 25, if you are a male in the United States, you cannot register for Selective Service. So, the window of opportunity to register closes. And so, I had not registered, and registration is required to enter the military. So, I began what was called a process of requesting a waiver. And I was guided by the Army recruiter, and I put in a request for a moral waiver for my failure to register for Selective Service. And that process began in 2006, it took over two years before that moral waiver was granted and I could take the next step and be commissioned as an officer in the reserve component of the United States Army. So, my military service obligation, that is what this is, began on December 3rd, 2008. This is my oath of office, where I raised my right hand and took my oath “to protect and defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” My father came to New York when I was sworn in on this day, and he was quite proud that his son was taking this path. So that was the start of it for me. And I entered the chaplain candidate program of the New York Army National Guard. I was still going through the requirements of my denomination to be a credentialed, ordained religious leader. This letter here is from the Command Chaplain of the Department of Army and Air Force Joint Force Headquarters in New York. It is written to my denomination, the ecclesiastical endorser who was Beth Miller at the time. And it was in December 2009, about a year after I entered the chaplain candidate program. And this is a letter from Chaplain Olsen, seeing if my denomination can expedite the process by which I am credentialed because the Army needed chaplains that were deployable. And that is what this letter is. So, the context in which I entered the chaplaincy, there was a real urgent need to fill empty slots with deployable chaplains. I got my ecclesiastical endorsement in December 2010, that is the official sign-off of a religious body credentialing a chaplain as a religious leader for the military. And so that was in December 2010. And then in 2011, I was accessioned as a full chaplain, 20th of April 2011, and promoted to first lieutenant. This is a document from the Army that says I was accessioned as a chaplain, as a first lieutenant. And the following year, I got my orders to active duty. So that is what this is. Activation to active service. And these are my orders from the Department of Army to go to Afghanistan. These were dated 24 September 2012. My orders to go to Afghanistan. �4 So, I arrived in Afghanistan. I was a battalion chaplain for a signal battalion of the New York Army National Guard that was attached to the 3rd Infantry Division based in Kandahar. And as a chaplain at the battalion level, my responsibility was to provide spiritual care and religious support to the soldiers in my assigned unit, and also to provide denominational coverage to service members as well as U.S. civilian contractors from my denomination across the battle space. And then, the third was to provide support within my area of operations to service members from all branches as well as U.S. civilian contractors. So that was the scope of my responsibility. I was the only chaplain for my denomination in Afghanistan in 2012 and I was one of about 20 chaplains based out of Kandahar Airfield. My unit was spread throughout southeast Afghanistan at about 20 different locations, forward operating bases. So, my routine from the time I arrived in late September 2012 was to travel with my chaplain assistant. I had a chaplain assistant who was assigned to protect me, essentially. He was an enlisted soldier, who carried a weapon, and I traveled during the week by air, by helicopter to different forward operating bases, visiting soldiers in my assigned unit. But, in almost every case, when I arrived at those forward operating bases, I was the only chaplain there. So, I would encounter other service members from all branches, not just my own unit, who were looking and interested in support from a chaplain. Charlotte: What did that support look like? Rev. Antal: The Chaplain Corps response would be “nurture the living, care for the wounded and honor the dead.” I think that works pretty well in terms of a snapshot. The chaplain, in the context of the military in a deployed setting, is, for many people, the only safe place to speak. I can joke that the chaplain is the one officer who is not going to yell at you if you are a soldier. So that was part of—a big part o—the chaplain's role. We call it a ministry of presence. And within the context of the military, the chaplain provides absolute confidentiality. So, no matter what a person may be dealing with, and that includes homicidal or suicidal ideation or intent, the relationship between a service member and their chaplain is protected. It is quite unique; it is not even like that within the hospital. That kind of level of absolute confidentiality does not exist, as far as I am �5 aware, in any place other than within the military. So, there is a safety to the relationship and, so, for telling stories, sharing experiences, but also expressing emotions. And when I say that I am talking about a lot of grief, a lot of sadness and, in some cases, guilt, and disgust, and resentment over betrayal. Something that we have come to call within my work now, with Veterans, Moral Injury. So, there was a lot of it, a lot of grief, over loss, loss of life, but also often loss of relationships. People, like I was, separated from spouses, from children. I went to Afghanistan—I was commissioned at the age of 36 and I went to Afghanistan in 2012—just after my fortieth birthday. I had five children and I was married. And it was common, especially among reservists, to find older service members who were married, who had children, and they were struggling with the separation. Managing the mission and still being a husband and a father, or a mother and a wife, because we had women. So, those were the kinds of things I dealt with. In terms of religious support, I was back at Kandahar Airfield every weekend with my chaplain assistant, and I began offering religious services from my tradition, and since I was the only Unitarian Universalist chaplain in Afghanistan, it was my prerogative to offer that type of service at the airfield where there were many other chaplains offering many other kinds of services. And at that time, Kandahar Airfield was like a city. There were twenty thousand people at Kandahar Airfield, contractors and service members from a dozen different countries that were part of ISAF, International Security Assistance Forces. So, it started small, just me and my chaplain assistant, but we promoted it around the airfield and our congregation grew, and by January—I brought a picture—we had a congregation! This is our congregation in January of 2013. And you can see, I was I was wearing my robe and—yeah that is me, no hair—so I brought my robe, I brought my minister's robe, and I am wearing what is called a stole, and I actually have that stole here. This stole. So, the robe, I actually brought my robe to Afghanistan, and it seems crazy, but I did it because the robe reminds me of who I am as a minister, and I was very concerned about forgetting who I am in the context of the military, where we are all wearing uniforms; we are immersed in the military machine. So, I wanted something that would ground me and remind me of who I am, other than an officer, other than a soldier, who I am as a minister, who is ordained and endorsed by a religious community to represent the values of that community in the context of the military. That was very important to me. �6 So, my practice on every Sunday was, I would put on my robe—and it was the one time during the week that I was not in an Army uniform, it was the only time—and it became a very important time for me. A couple hours on Sunday morning where I put that robe on, I put on the stole, and this stole is again, it is like the complexity, because this is the intersection of my denomination. And this stole was made for me by members of a congregation in Massachusetts. It has the symbol of our faith here; it is the flaming chalice. So, it was made for me by members of the congregation in Massachusetts, but they made it out of multi-cam, which is the material of the Army uniform that I wore in Afghanistan. So, it is like this intersection of the faith community and the military, it is all tied up right here in this stole. I do not wear this anymore, but it is an artifact that I saved. And it was, for me, a reminder in Afghanistan of the community that I represented and the support I had of the community for the work I was doing as a chaplain. So, in any case, it became an important part of my routine to put on my robe, to wear that stole, and to gather in religious community at Kandahar Airfield with the people in that photograph who were from the Army, Air Force, Navy, civilian contractors. And it was it was a beautiful part of our week, something I looked forward to, and it was a place for me to get in touch with my values and the community that sent me essentially into the military. Does that make sense? Charlotte: Yes. What did you feel was your responsibility for those people? Rev. Antal: So, in my denomination, we covenant to affirm and promote principles, and that is what defines us as a religious community, and those principles include a free and responsible search for truth and meaning, justice, equity and compassion and human relations, the goal of world community. So, in that context, in that role, my responsibility was to embody those values, was to speak the truth as I understood it, to speak it with compassion, and to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all people, which is another one of our principles. And that is a challenge to do in the context of a tribal culture like the military, that wants to prioritize certain lives, and place greater value on certain lives, than other lives, specifically the lives of U.S. personnel over the lives of, say, local Afghanis. So, one of the practices we had on Sundays was to acknowledge the deaths during the week, and we would light candles to the service members and then also— and often these names were hard to find, but we could find them through media reports—the names of Afghans who were killed, and to lift up those names as well, �7 alongside the names of U.S. personnel who died. And, for me, that was a simple practice, but a very important way of acknowledging the inherent worth and dignity of all people, no matter which side they are on in this conflict. It human, it was a humanizing practice that was quite sacred. So, it was in the context of that congregation that I gave a sermon that changed the whole trajectory of my military career. It was November of 2012, and I had been in Afghanistan just over two months, and Veterans Day, which is November 11th, fell on a Sunday in 2012. And so, we were gathering, I knew we would gather as a religious community, on Sunday morning, and it would be Veterans Day, and I, by that point, had heard a lot, I had seen a lot, I was struggling with a lot and, I felt and, and I was... I was... present to the struggle of others around, around a lot of moral concerns with what the military was doing in Afghanistan and, and in surrounding countries like Pakistan. So, I, I gave voice to it, in what I called a “Veterans Day Confession for America,” that was the name off the sermon, And it is here, it is not long. I was kind of debating about whether I should read it or not. But, you know, I think I will. It will not take long. So, this is the sermon I gave to that community on Veterans Day 2012. On this Veterans Day, let us confess ours sins before God and neighbor. Most merciful God, we confess we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and what we have left undone. We have become people of the lie, out to tame the frontier wilderness while the beast within lurks hidden in shadow, paralyzing us in a perpetual state of denial. We have made war entertainment, enjoying box seats in the carnival of death, consuming violence, turning tragedy into games, raising our children to kill without remorse. We have morally disengaged, �8 outsourcing our killing to the one percent, forgetting they follow our orders. The blood they shed is on our hands too. We have insulated ourselves from the painful truths Veterans carry. Our bumper magnets proclaim, “Support our troops,” but for too many, suicide is the only panacea. Our insulation is their isolation. We have made our veterans into false idols, blood sacrifice and the national altar of war. Parades and medals perpetuate the hero myth, glorifying those who kill and die on our behalf. We have betrayed the dead, saying they will not be forgotten. Yet how many among us, can name a single war casualty of the past decade? We have sanitized killing, and condoned extrajudicial assassinations, death by remote control, war made easy without due process, protecting ourselves from the human cost. We have deceived ourselves, Saying, "Americans do not kill civilians, terrorists do," denying the colossal misery our wars inflict on the innocent. The national closet bursts with skeletons. We have abandoned our allies, luring them in with promises of safety and security, Then failing to follow through with promises made, using them, and leaving them, to an almost certain death. Almighty God, on this Veterans Day, �9 help us turn from this wayward path. Deliver us from indifference, callousness, and self-deception. Fill us with compassion for all who bear the burdens of our wars. Grant us the courage to pay attention, stay engaged. So, we may listen without judgment, restore integrity, accept responsibility, keep promises, and give honor to whomever honor is due. It always hurts to read that. But it is as true for me now, as it was nine years ago. Charlotte: You said, “death by remote control.” Can you talk a little about, like, the issues going on? Rev. Antal: Yeah, well, the United States is operating weaponized, remotely piloted vehicles, or drones, out of Kandahar Airfield, and killing people. And I saw the drones, on the flight line. I read reports by mostly outside investigative journalists—because the whole program was secret—and found the whole practice deeply disturbing. In terms of the allies. I meant, Afghans who worked as interpreters for the United States military. One, in particular, Tariq, came to our congregation and told us his story. Tariq, like many of the Afghans who became interpreters for the United States military, was promised protection. In 2009, the United States Congress passed the Afghan Allies Protection Act which authorized six thousand visas to Afghans who worked as interpreters for the United States military, because they were getting killed for associating with the United States military. And their families were being killed. When I met Tariq in 2012, he had been waiting two years for his visa interview. And, sometime in October, The Washington Times reported that, after three years of the Act, something like sixty visas had been issued, and there was a backlog of four thousand. So that was bothering me. I felt ... I was a citizen of the United States, that my government had made this promise to these people and betrayed them. So, I wanted to address that. Charlotte: So, what did you do to address that? �10 Rev. Antal: It started with speaking to this little community that was gathering on Sundays. We brought in Tariq; we made a recorded interview with Tariq. I started reaching out to my colleagues in the United States who lead congregations around the country. And we started a letter campaign. We set up a website for Tariq in particular. I wrote to my elected officials. We advocated. It took until 2016, but, in February of 2016, I met Tariq at the airport in Buffalo, New York with his wife and four children. So, he is here. Charlotte: What was that experience like for you? Rev. Antal: I will never forget that. I brought my daughters, and a pickup truck filled with furniture, and three thousand dollars in cash my congregation had collected. I felt relieved that I did something. We are still in touch. We are friends. Charlotte: And going back to that letter you were talking about. What was the military response? Rev. Antal: I shared that sermon with my denomination, which is based out of Boston. I sent it by email and gave them permission to post it on the denomination's website. They have a page for military ministry. Two days after they posted it, I was called to meet the commander of the battalion that I was assigned to. He showed me the sermon online. He said, "did you write this?" I said, "yes, sir." He said, "Your message doesn't support the mission. You make us look like the bad guys." I offered to take it down. As soon as the meeting ended, I did. I contacted my denomination and told them to take the posting down, it was creating issues. But the commander started an investigation against me. It is called an Article 15-6 investigation. He appointed an investigating officer to write up charges against me. I was advised to get legal counsel. So, I did. I got a trial defense lawyer who was based out of Kandahar Airfield, working for the United States Army. And that started a two-month process of me basically having to fight the Army to stay in my role as a chaplain, and possibly stay out of prison, while I was still in Afghanistan and still providing—trying to provide—spiritual care to the people I was responsible for. I had a good trial defense lawyer, Major Sean Park. We worked hard and he believed—and he said this to me, “Chaplain, this is a misunderstanding,” That a... “a misinterpretation.” He said, he said “misinterpretation… that has turned into a fishing expedition.” Yeah, that is what he said. �11 So, I mean, I have got like pages and pages of investigative documents, and questions and then our response to these questions, all that came out of that sermon. I was handed a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand for “politically inflammatory speech.” I was given the option to appeal. So, I filed a rebuttal, and, with my rebuttal, I submitted over twenty-five letters of support, including letters from every person that was there in the congregation and heard the sermon, as well as people from around the country who had read the sermon online. One of the most important letters, for me, was this letter here from a theologian from our denomination. I reached out to him. His name is Paul Rasor. He got his doctorate from Harvard. He is published. He is a leading thinker on justice and peace within our denomination. And he wrote this to the General who issued the reprimand—a letter of support. I am an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and a Unitarian Universalist theologian, my doctoral studies focused on theologies of Unitarian Universalism and related religious traditions. I have published two books and many articles on Unitarian Universalism and its theological principles, including its understanding of issues relating to war and peace. For the past eight years, I have served as the director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom and Virginia Wesleyan College. In this capacity I am experienced in matters of religious freedom, including First Amendment principles of non-establishment and free exercise of religion as well as in interfaith relations. So, I mean, he has got credentials, and he says this: I can affirm that Chaplain Antal's public prayer entitled "A Veteran's Day Confession for America" violates no tenet of the Unitarian Universalist faith. In both its content and its tone, the Confession speaks both to and from the heart of Unitarian Universalism. Moreover, in my judgment, the Confession does not bring dishonor to the United States military. Instead, it constitutes a careful and sensitive expression of concern by a Chaplain towards those in his spiritual care. All ministers, including military chaplains, must constantly honor and balance their pastoral and prophetic roles. This dual responsibility is recognized within Army regulations and has always been part of the Unitarian Universalist ministry. �12 Those dual roles are sometimes in tension with each other, but more often they work together in a mutually supportive way. And that is the case with Chaplain Antal's confession, which blends and balances the pastoral and prophetic voices in a constructive and effective manner. I believe his chaplaincy, including his Veteran's Day Confession, Chaplain Antal has upheld these values and brought honor, not dishonor, to Unitarian Universalism and the United States military. I mean, I have got a stack of letters like that. That one that on is especially important to me because I was always clear that I was a minister first, representing my faith community. And an officer and a soldier, that all came much later. So, to have that kind of affirmation, while I was being reprimanded by the military, I was being validated by my denomination. And it helped sustain me through a pretty difficult period, having that kind of support. Charlotte: This is the first time I heard that letter read out loud. It is interesting because it sounded like he was saying you were very consistent with the ethics of your denomination and the military, and it is not at odds. So, you said, there is a lot of tension between the two. Do you feel that the behavior and values you were upholding as part of your denomination were well in line with the military? Rev. Antal: Yeah, well, it is complicated. I mean, the military is a very complex organization, and the Army regulation that Dr. Rasor referenced in that letter, I am very familiar with that Army regulation, it speaks to the job of chaplains, and it says that chaplains are “to speak with a prophetic voice against issues of moral turpitude in conflict with” military values, or “Army values.” So, in other words, Army regulations, at that time, did say that chaplains had a responsibility not only to provide spiritual care to individual soldiers, but to speak truth to power, which is this idea of a prophetic voice, which is a deeply a part of my tradition, as well as many religious traditions. Truth to power. That regulation has been removed. Charlotte: Removed? Rev. Antal: Yes. After I invoked it. It is sad. But I think I brought... I raised this tension and ... and rather than address it and integrate this into the chaplaincy, the leadership �13 decided to avoid it and to remove it. Any reference to the prophetic of the military chaplain has been removed from Army regulations. I mean, I will finish the story because, I mean, this went all the way up to the Pentagon. And I got, I did, a rebuttal. I had letters of support. And, at the end of the day, the General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand was not rescinded, which is what I was requesting. But it was filed locally. Which is supposed to mean it does not have an impact on my career. It stays in Afghanistan, in theory. However, the commander of the battalion who I was assigned to use the reprimand as the basis to release me from active duty. So, I have here a release from active duty. “Early release of Chaplain Antal,” citing “extenuating circumstances. Chaplain Antal requires more mentorship and training. And he's being redeployed early.” That is what this letter says. That is called a REFRAD, release from active duty. And then this is my Officer Evaluation Report. February 15, 2013. Says, “do not promote.” The box for “unsatisfactory performance” is checked. And, in the text, the senior rater, who was my battalion commander, wrote “during this rating period he received a GOMOR,” which is a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand, “during our deployment. He should be given opportunity for retraining to support the overall mission. The rated officer refused to sign.” I refused to sign this. By referencing the GOMOR in my officer evaluation, the commander made it a part of my permanent record. Which was against the intent of the general officer who filed it locally. So, I was released from active duty. I got an honorable discharge. I got a statement of wartime service. I came through Fort Bliss, Texas. This is the medical station I went through, March 6th. Question 13 asks, "Have you suffered from any injury or illness while on active duty for which you did not seek medical care?" I wrote, "moral injury, a betrayal of what's right." That is what I wrote on this. And then, number seventeen, "do you have any other questions or concerns about your health?" I said yes, “How do we heal the moral and soul wound?" The poor tech medical tech who received this did not know what to do with what I had said. Charolotte: It is interesting because that is consistent with everything you have done since, right? �14 Rev. Antal: Yes, the work that I have done since has come out of that experience, yeah, pretty much. Charlotte: Could you talk about that work? Rev. Antal: Yeah. I will. Let me just finish the story of the General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand, so I came back, and I wrote to my senator. These are a bunch of letters from Senator Kirstin Gillibrand. She wrote back and I started a congressional inquiry about what went down with me. So, I have some correspondence from that. And that congressional inquiry went to the Pentagon. And I actually got a response from—this is a response from a senior chaplain in the Chief of Chaplains Office at the Pentagon— where he is acknowledging that, it was “inappropriate for the senior rater to mention that GOMOR in my office evaluation report” and that constitutes “discriminatory treatment.” So, I got support from the Pentagon's Chief of Chaplains Office, which felt good. That was in December, and I was eventually promoted to captain—I got my promotion orders 2 May 2014. And these are my promotion orders to captain. So, it felt good, it felt good to push back. You know, I thought I would just quit, but I had a lot of support and a lot of encouragement. People saw the value of my work within the military. So, I was promoted, so that that meant I could stay in, and the “do not promote” Officer Evaluation was removed from my permanent record. End of the story is in April 2016, I resigned. I hung in there for a couple more years, but this is my letter of resignation, which I wrote publicly and dated April 12, 2016, and then April 14th, [October] I got my discharge orders. 14 October 2016 I was out. So, there are a lot of gaps in that chronology, but… The experience I had with my deployment, and encounters with Tariq, but also service members—David was a Veteran I encountered in my first assigned unit. And I first met him in an orange jumpsuit with handcuffs at Rikers Island. He had come back from Iraq and murdered his girlfriend. And I came to know David by visiting him in prison as he went through his trial and sentencing. And I learned about his combat experience in Iraq on multiple tours and the kind of trauma that he suffered. And the challenges he had in getting care. Coming out of that, the challenges he had of "reintegration" is the word we use. And it was heartbreaking, it was heartbreaking. To see him sentenced to life in prison as a 30-year-old man, father of two children. So, I will never forget that experience I had with David. And then, in Afghanistan, I met and worked closely with another Veteran of Iraq who had been deployed then to Afghanistan. His name was �15 Angelito. And he came to me in Afghanistan, and he was going to kill himself. And I worked with him, I made a promise not to, and meet with me, and had my chaplain assistant take the firing pin from his gun. And over a period of weeks the story emerged about his own experience that he had had in Iraq. And how he was haunted by an incident that left innocent people dead. And he was burdened by guilt. And, with Angelito, I was able to provide some guidance and he was a musician, and he wrote a song of lament, with my encouragement and then I invited him to the congregation that was meeting on Sunday to share his song. And he did. And that whole process, of him giving voice to this lament, of using music and finding the supportive community, did what no medication could do for him, no therapy could do. And he is doing well now. I mean, he's doing well. I spoke to him a few weeks ago, actually. So, David's story had a tragic ending. Angelito was not tragic. I like to think that, you know, my intervention with Angelito, at that point in his life, changed the outcome of what could have otherwise been another yet another Veteran suicide. So, I, I left the military, but the issues that I encountered, the people I encountered, the pain that I encountered, I could not walk away from all that. And I found a way to continue. To work with people like David, people like Angelito, without having to wear a uniform, without having to follow orders. And so, I do that now, as a chaplain in the Department of Veterans Affairs. And the kind of pain that I encountered, which is probably best described as moral pain or soul anguish. Now that has become the focus of my work. And I published three papers in peer-reviewed journals about our moral injury work at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. I am in the process of publishing a fourth. The practice that I started, which is a group that has a public ceremony component, I started in 2016. We worked with over fifty Veterans now have gone through our group. It has become very meaningful work, for me. It was borne out of my experience in the military. My encounter with service members, my own experience of moral pain and anguish, and trying to reconcile who I am, what I believe and what I value with all that has been going with our nation, and our wars. Before I get into what I am doing now, I did want to share a piece of the military story that I have not mentioned yet. I mentioned that I was a progressive chaplain for the Unitarian Universalist Association and, I mean, this this part of the story is precious to me. I am a straight heterosexual male. I belong to a denomination that has a long history of being open and affirming, of ordaining gays and lesbians, officiating weddings between gays and lesbians, and advocating in public policy for changes in policy for �16 respect and equity in the law for all people. So, I entered the military at a time when the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was on the cusp of being repealed. That policy was in effect from 1993 until 2011 and it was creating great stirs within the culture of the military, especially within the Chaplain Corps. In fact, on April 28th in 2010, a group of more than sixty retired generals, who were chaplains in all branches of the military, wrote a letter to President Obama insisting that he not repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell because it would lead to the total moral collapse of the military. This was the argument they were making. None of these chaplains were from my denomination. Yet the very existence of the letter brings to the surface the culture of the chaplaincy that I entered in that time. Obama was not swayed by the letter. On December 22nd, 2010, he repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell. It went into effect in September of 2011. So right at the time I was coming in as a chaplain into the Army, the repeal was taking effect. And so, I got involved in this, I got involved with OutServe, this is a conference I went to in October of 2011. I was a speaker. This is the association of actively serving gay personnel, lesbian gay personnel. I did not go in uniform. I went as a minister. My denomination paid for the trip. I got involved in the Forum on Military Chaplaincy, which is a progressive group of chaplains. And I went to a conference out in Dallas, Texas, and I did an interview with The Dallas Voice and I got put on the cover. This is me in November of 2011 on the cover of The Dallas Voice, which is the gay and lesbian newspaper in Dallas, Texas. And it says, "Perform or provide, every soldier is entitled to pastoral care. The Forum will make sure they get it." This is the Forum of Military Chaplaincy that I was a part of. So, I was put on the front page of this. I was interviewed in this article. I talked about being a Unitarian minister in the Army, and this article went online, and it then shot like wildfire across the whole military chaplaincy. And, within a week, I was being summoned to the Public Affairs Office. I was being ... getting emails from chaplains. And one chaplain, who is a Major, came to the post where I was on active duty working, and threatened me, physically, threatened me, called me "poison to the chaplain corps," those were his words, for taking this kind of public position. So, it was it was quite, quite a period. This is a picture of me in uniform at West Point in April of 2000, March, actually, end of March 2012. I was there to give the invocation at the inaugural Knights Out Dinner. Knights Out is the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association of West Point. My congregation was very close to West Point. None of the assigned chaplains [at West Point] would give the invocation. I happened to know Sue Fulton, who was a Unitarian and was on the Board of Visitors, like the Board of Trustees of West Point. She was a lesbian and she invited me to come and do the invocation. So, I showed up and did the �17 invocation. This is a picture of the Knights Out program. And I did it in uniform, I was a first lieutenant, a new chaplain, I showed up at West Point, did this invocation in uniform, and there were a lot of people there, including Colonel Tom Kolditz. At the time he was the Professor and Head of the Department of Behavioral Science and Leadership at West Point. And he came to the dinner. And after I did the invocation, he came up to me and said, "you know, I am so impressed that you, as a chaplain, would show up here and do this invocation. I want you to do the invocation at my retirement ceremony. I am retiring from West Point from the Army. I am going to be promoted to general at the time of my retirement. And I want you to do the invocation." So, this was really an honor. This is the program for the retirement ceremony of Colonel Tom Kolditz. And I am smiling because, I mean, this is a big deal. And there were chaplains assigned to West Point who were colonels, but I was being asked to do the invocation. And so, I had to deal with the politics of that. I had to go talk to the colonel chaplain at West Point and say, "hey, you know, I got invited, I am coming in to do this." But so, this was the beginning of my chaplaincy experience. I was being called on the one hand, "poison to the chaplain corps" by chaplain colleagues. And, at the same time, I was being invited by the Professor and Head of the Department of Behavioral Science and Leadership of West Point to do his invocation because he thought I was such a great chaplain. So, it was like this, the Twilight Zone world that I was stepping into, where I was getting my mixed messages from one place and from another. And then it was just kind of the course of my military career was like that. I was I was getting reprimanded on the one hand and like affirmed and validated on the other for doing the same thing. So, it was just part of the whole experience of living in these two different worlds and multiple worlds, multiple cultures, and trying to just navigate through that. So, I smile when I think about that. Those were some of my fonder memories. There is a lot of beauty in my ministry as a chaplain. This picture was also at West Point. This is me doing a funeral. I brought this stole. This is my chaplain stole. It is black on one side for funerals. It is white on the other side for weddings. I did both. I did funerals. This is at West Point, a Unitarian graduate who had passed away. The family invited me. Beautiful memories and experiences of being able to officiate these rites of passage. I also did same sex weddings. I did, I married two men in the Cadet Chapel at West Point. I will never forget that. It was a wonderful experience, a wonderful memory. And I did other marriages and other weddings as well. Other things that I value and treasure from my time as a chaplain include just being present with people in times of �18 death and loss. I did over fifteen dignified transfer ceremonies in Afghanistan where we transitioned, brought a casket of a service member who had been killed. I did casualty notification teams with the Casualty Notification Officer, where I would show up, in the middle of the night. I remember one night knocking on the door, letting the mother know that her son had just died, by, in that case, suicide. So, between visiting veterans in prison, and being officiants at weddings and gravesides, and notifying people in the middle of the night of the deaths of their loved ones, and just being present with people in the midst of some of the most difficult and painful moments of their lives. That is an experience that I will always treasure and hold as quite sacred. So, despite all the crazy bureaucracy in the reprimand and investigation and these kinds of things, it was all worth it, I think, for me to have done, to have gone through all of that, to just have had the privilege of serving as a chaplain in the Army. So, I continue that kind of work, as I said, I work within the VA Medical Center. I brought another picture. Our group, Moral Injury Group, meets for 12 weeks, and at the tenth week, we have a Community Healing Ceremony. This is a picture from a ritual that I lead in that ceremony. The inner circle, these are Veterans, the outer circle, these are civilians. And before we do this ritual, which I call the Reconciliation Circle, Veterans share their testimony with the community. The community bears witness and then, through movement, and touch, and a confession, a community confession which I lead, the community bears witness to the Veteran’s pain, and shares responsibility, culpability and responsibility. So, you know, I gave a sermon that was a confession and I continue to do that kind of work, of public and communal confession, of acknowledgement of our losses, of the harm that we have inflicted as a nation, through these wars, the pain that has been inflicted. There is a lot of reckoning that the country needs to do. And I sit on the high-risk team at the hospital where we review, each week, the Veterans flagged as high-risk for suicide. We continue to have 18 to 20 veterans die by suicide each day in the United States. And I think the work that I am doing around moral injury, and involving the community, is exactly the kind of work that needs to be done to reduce Veteran suicide, but also to educate the society about the real costs of military force. So, in the future, we do not so readily resort to the use of our military. So, it is meaningful work, and it has grown out of my experience. And there is nothing I would rather be doing, quite frankly, than the work I do. So, I feel very fortunate. �19 It has taken its toll on me personally, and my family. After twenty-one years of marriage, my wife, then-wife, requested a divorce in two thousand and nineteen. After my deployment, her health deteriorated. The stress that I went through impacted my whole family, and it certainly impacted my marriage. But I have learned to take care of myself, by a few practices. One I started in Afghanistan, which is which is blood donation. I have gotten a few coins and medals, but the one I am most proud of is from the Armed Services Blood Program. This certificate is from Afghanistan, it is from twenty-three units of platelets donated between October 12th and February 2013. So, every week I was on the apheresis machine donating blood. And I got a coin for that, and that was meaningful for me because I there was so much taking of blood and I, I wanted to give blood. And it became very clear to me about the value of life and how fragile life is. And I even experienced blood leaving my body and being carried down the hall and going into someone else's body who was bleeding out from a traumatic wound. So, I continue to give blood. Last year I donated nineteen times at the Red Cross. And it keeps me in touch with what matters most, which is life, and the preciousness of life. Certainly, my experience in the Army, and in Afghanistan, has helped me appreciate the value of life, and the fragility of life. And that is a precious lesson. I think I will stop. � 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. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context AntalC2375V Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Antal, Christopher Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-05 Title A name given to the resource Antal, Christopher (Interview transcript and video), 2021 Description An account of the resource Christopher Antal was born in New York in c. 1971. He decided to become a Unitarian Universalist chaplain in the military in 2005. Because he was not registered for the Selective Service and had passed the age of 25, he requested a moral waiver to register which was not accepted until 2008. He then entered the chaplain candidate program of the New York Army National Guard. He got his ecclesiastical endorsement in December 2010 and was accessioned as a full chaplain in April 2011, and promoted to first lieutenant. He was ordered to go to Afghanistan in September 2012, where he provided religious support to the soldiers of his battalion of the New York Army National Guard that was attached to the 3rd Infantry Division based in Kandahar. The task given to the Army Chaplain Corps was to “nurture the living, care for the wounded and honor the dead.” Veterans Day in 2012 was on a Sunday, and on that day he gave a sermon criticizing the violence America had inflicted in Afghanistan. This sermon was posted on his denomination’s website, and when the batallion commander found it he started an investigation against Antal, who needed to get a lawyer to avoid losing his position as a chaplain in the Army or possibly going to prison. This began a long process in which he was released early from active duty and his GOMOR (General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand) was made part of his permanent record, which the Pentagon deemed discriminatory. In May 2014, he was promoted to captain and the GOMOR was removed from his permanent record. While in Afghanistan, Antal advocated for Afghans that worked as interpreters for the United States and had been waiting years for their promised visas. He started a letter-writing campaign to help one interpreter, Tariq, in particular. In February 2016, the campaign had succeeded and Tariq and his family arrived in New York. Antal resigned from the military in April 2016. He believes that his experience in the Army has helped him appreciate the value of life and its fragility. 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