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As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. 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Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/cb825aa570fcafb56f139b01d39d4958.mp3 86fa46c264fde4d2c9e26fda78b2902c https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5b06125e55896f490abe8b000fdcc5da.pdf cf411fc660b5d2a1d1b86df20f45c2a3 PDF Text Text Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 1 Ken Kutzel: This is Ken Kutzel and I’m here today with um, PG Walter at the old school house in Douglas Michigan uh, June 2nd 2018, this oral history is being collected as part of the Stories of Summer Project which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Program. Thank you for taking the time to talk with me today, I’m interested to learn more about your family history and your experiences of summer in the Saugatuck Douglas area. Can you please tell me your full name and spell it? Philip Walter: Philip P H I L I P George G E O R G E Walter W A L T E R. KK: Okay, thank you. Uh, PG [pronounced PEEGUH] tell me about where you grew up? PW: Starting in 1946, my family purchased a 2 story commercial residential building on Butler Street in Saugatuck and from then till basically I got married in 1966 that is what I considered my residence. Um, after 1963 or ’64 I was pretty much living in the Lansing area but, again still considered the Butler Street home my home. KK: Okay, good. Uh, tell me some, well, I know your family goes way back. PW: Yes. KK: So, why don’t you tell me a little bit about how far back your family goes here? PW: Well, my mother’s parents moved here, I believe it was in 1888 and was, were one of the first families in Fishtown and I have given the Historical Society a copy of a letter that my, who would be my grandfather sent back to his parents in York Pennsylvania about the difficulties in fishing in the winter and things like that. Then in, I think 1906, when the new piers were put in, Fishtown basically was deserted then and the families, I don’t know where they all scattered to but the Sewers family basically all moved onto Lake Street in Saugatuck, um, several of the old buildings in Fishtown were put on rafts or barges and taken down to the summer school of painting, Oxbow and used there for various things and [pause] that takes care of pretty much the Fishtown era. Um, [coughs] my grandparents had a house on Lake Street, uh, as you’re going out of town, right on the corner it would’ve been on the right hand side. My mother’s brother Frank lived in the large white house, I’ll call it for lack of a better word, the awning house, um, for as long as can remember. His brother, twin brother, Rube lived on the West side of Lake street about 5 or 6 houses up towards town in the house that has kind of a little peaked entrance to which the historical commission gave permission to basically saw the back end of the house off and add a huge house to it. Um, in 1946 my mother and father bought, from my Uncle Rube the aforementioned commercial residential building downtown at 237 Butler Street and he at that time, my father, started a clothing store in the front of the building and my mother started her one chair beauty shop in the back of the building. We lived upstairs, in the back, in a large apartment and my mother’s uh, old maid sister Florence Sewers, called Aunts Toots by everybody lived in the one bedroom apartment in the front end of the building upstairs and again, that was occupied until eventually my family sold the building to Stub and Sue Lewis of East of the Sun in 1968. KK: Okay, and the name of which building is that? Is that? Well, yeah, sure? PW: It’s Sinbad now. KK: Yeah. Okay, thank you. Um, what are some of your most vivid memories from being a kid? And I know you said you went to school here in the Old Schoolhouse. �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 2 PW: Yeah, I was in the Old Schoolhouse and um, was confused the morning that family did not, my mother didn’t wake me up to get ready to go to school and was told that the school had burned down. I was in 2nd grade at that time and we finished 2nd grade in the now apartment condominium building at the top of the hill at the four-way stop in Saugatuck. We finished 2nd grade there, I think there was another class in that building also. [Coughs] We did 3rd grade in the basement of the Congregational Church and then by 4th grade, the new school built on the site of the old school was ready for occupancy and that’s where I started the rest of my school term. Um. [00:5:31] KK: So that’s right, you actually went to school in Saugatuck. PW: Yes. KK: Not here in Douglas. PW: Yes. KK: Okay, uh, just to clarify that. Um, and you know is there anything more you can tell me about your family or your family history or have you pretty much covered it? PW: Well, I pretty much covered it, the Sewers’ is all stayed, the Sewers’ and their extended Sewers family all stayed in commercial fisherman, fishing until essentially the commercial fishing industry just collapsed and the, the Sewers twins, who were my mother’s brothers they of course were very elderly at that time, but uh, the son Bud and the son of George Sewer, Jim Sewers he and his brother Jack commercially fished here for quite a while so, essentially the whole Sewers family. Um, at least the sewers side of it was all in commercial fishing. KK: Okay, can you share any particular memories about living here, things or moments that are especially memorable for you? Uh, I know you witnessed the pavilion burning. PW: Yeah. Yeah. KK: You’re in the video. PW: Yep. Yeah. That, that is probably the most memorable event of all. [Laughs] But, my father was a volunteer fireman and so I remember when Leland Lodge burned, I remembered when the building next to Kilwins burned and I remember when Holiday Hill burned, and I remembered when the Mount Baldhead Hotel burned and Gary Depenhorse and I lost a job when that happened for a while because we were uh, back then, and I always get a laugh when I see the ads for the longest serving chain ferry in Michigan we were actually rowing square end wood scaus across to take people back and forth across the river for I think it was either 15 or 20 cents, I forget what the price was. But uh, so I guess the fires are, are more than anything else, the rest of it was just a kid growing up. We, we all spent all of our summers on the river, either in boats we built or boats we cobbled together or with our little two horse sea kings you know, we were off to cruise the world as far as we were concerned. But, um, I would say definitely the fires, and then the crowds in the summer, of course, too were quite an event because I would sit upstairs in the window of my Aunt Toots apartment in one of the windows over Butler Street and of course watch the surge of people going back and forth and of course the Police breaking things �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 3 up and everything. So I really had a window on the world in downtown Saugatuck and it was quite interesting. KK: Yeah, that’s interesting, um, how long was the season because I know you know when we think about it now, uh, people start coming here real early in the spring and stay quite late. How long was the, the tourist season here? PW: My father always used to say, because being the dry cleaner he would see the people from Chicago coming up and what would happen most of the time is the, the husbands of the family were still wearing suits to work and they’d bring their suits up and he’d dry clean then and they’d pick them up the next time they were back. But he always said the Fourth of July really was the start of the summer and then literally the day after Labor Day, uh, the city set up tables um, right down the middle of Butler Street between Maplewood and at that time, Koning Hardware and there was a town potluck. The day after Labor Day. KK: Yeah, and that was it? PW: Yep. That was it. There was just nobody in town. KK: Yeah but, the downtown was still, was kind of active because it wasn’t so touristy, wasn’t it at the time, or? PW: Well it was active only as a function of the people who lived in town. It wasn’t that there was people from out of town. KK: Right. PW: Coming in so. KK: Okay, um, [pause] how aware uh, how aware were you of the Art’s School meaning Oxbow and what went on there? Living in town? PW: I was aware of it because my mother and friends of hers when they were in late high school posed a lot of times for them, au natural in some cases which of course raised a lot of eyebrows of people in town and um, I actually had a couple of postcards once but somewhere they disappeared. They had a, they had an old Model T truck or something, not like Frank Wicks had but a similar thing and the girls had done a lot of posing on it that like, you know, laying across a fender or something like that and one of these postcards, which I think did not get a lot of circulation was two girls including my mother in the nude on that, so. Uh, that would’ve been oh, in the [pause] well let’s see probably in the 30’s, ‘20s and ‘30s. [00:10:29] KK: Yeah, okay. PW: Just guessing, and that was my only real knowledge of it except [laughs] they had a fire in the dunes over there one time, and of course the Saugatuck Volunteer Fire Department responded to it and, Oxbow was so grateful they said that they would have a pot luck for the fireman and their families, and anybody else that wanted to come along and just in, and I was with my father and Bill Wilson and uh, Garth Wilson and a couple other guys when they were having this conversation and they said um, the �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 4 girls would like to play you in volleyball and we think they can beat you and the fireman just kind of laughed and we went our way. Well we got to the, we got to the party and uh, they played volleyball but the girls played topless [laughing] They beat the fireman so, that’s how, I guess liberated Oxbow was. KK: Well…. PW: …From my limited perspective. KK: I’m glad you brought that up because others have said that, you know a lot of those rumors about strange things going on there were true and I think that’s good that for the future that people ‘yeah it was real open I guess, from what I understand’. Um. PW: And of course, just as an aside note, Mary Kay Bettles was chasing us out of there uh, if we tried to fish or something. KK: Yeah, the sheriff? PW: Yeah right the sheriff of Oxbow-ham. KK: Oh boy, um, let’s see [pause] what did, what what, what did you do for a living here? PW: Um, [paused] well first I mowed lawns, when I was a kid and then when I turned 16, in the summer I would drive the dry cleaning truck for my father and then in the evening I would work the back bar cashier’s station at the Coral Gables, the back bar being the bar that was back on the river. And um, just cause my mother and Vy Fox knew each other very well, course Vy had her hair cut by my mother there, as did most of the women in town, and um, that was essentially it. I was ether drive the dry cleaning truck or, and before I had a license um, I was just doing work in the dry cleaning plant for my father in the summer, um, and that could get to be a very hot place of course, everything was driven by steam, the presses and everything else so, but that was my summer job. KK: Um, can you describe, like what are some of the greatest changes in the area, I mean, you’ve been here for your whole life. What are some of the, things that you like about that changed or don’t like about it, or, are just really different? I mean besides, you know you talked about the uh, the short season. PW: Yeah, well the thing that, [pause] there’s really nothing that I dislike. Change happens, I mean that’s just, that’s a given, um, we’re lucky were a harbor town and we have some of the things because in my, in my career, which really isn’t pertinent to this, but I’ve been in front of about 50 different municipalities in Michigan, zoning and land use issues and there are a lot of small towns around that just, they would, they would give their left arm to have the type of cash and everything that Saugatuck generates. The thing that I, I’ll be very candid with you, the thing that I don’t like, and of course it gets me in trouble a lot, is that I don’t like new people coming into town and saying well this is the way we think it should be and um, my, I, I’ve been zoning administrator in Douglas 3 times and have been fired from that position 3 times and one of the things that would get me fired is that people would come in and say ‘Well we’ve been visiting here for 40 year and we think we should have some say’ in you know zoning and stuff like that and I would say, politely, ‘Well my family has lived here continuously for 127 years, we do have say in what happens here’ and, that would get me fired occasionally [laughs] so. That is my biggest headache, personally, about people that we’re here now and we want nothing to change from here on out. But if it hadn’t changed to that point, we wouldn’t have come here. �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 5 [00:15:14] KK: Right. PW: Were here now, we don’t want anybody else to come and that’s what bothers me. KK: Okay. Um, you know, because this is supposed to be about summer memories and all that, are there any special things you can tell us about summer. I mean, I know you talked about you you fooled around on the river and that with the boats but, and any other special things about summer? PW: [Pause] Well, as kids we were just footloose and fancy free. My typical summer evening, um, a lot of my close friends all had families that either worked or had businesses literally right downtown. Within the two or three blocks of downtown. That’s where there jobs were and at 5 o’clock or 6 o’clock all the couples would go over, my mother and father, Ward and Betty Martin, and Val Smith postmaster and his wife and you know, names that I can’t even remember now. They had what they called the 5 o’clock club over at the Coral Gables and they would all go over there and they would each give their kids $1 and for that we’d go down the street, to either Ms. Balls restaurant or across the street from my house to Mrs., Ms. Simmons restaurant and for 60 some odd cents we’d get a blue plate special with a pork chop and green beans and mashed potatoes and everything else and then a movie [coughs] at the big pavilion, and there was a new one every night, was 12 cents and a bag of popcorn was either a nickel or a dime, something like that. So, for a dollar our parents had a 2 and a half, 3 hour baby sitter just built right in and they, they knew where we were all the time. We were either at one of these restaurants or we were watching the movie. And on Monday nights down at the, uh, at the um, tennis courts, every Monday night there’d be a square dance and there’d be a painter in front of the building which is now the ‘Always going out of business’ . KK: Oh yeah. PW: Downtown that would paint oil paintings every night from scratch, he’d just start painting the scenery or something like that, and the most funny thing I can remember about that is he had lights of course on and it would attract mosquitos and the mosquitos were always getting caught in the oil paint. He’d had to flick them off and… KK: …Yeah. Was that Hasselbar who was doing that? PW: Haven’t the foggiest. KK: Okay, because I know there was a guy named Hasselbar that used to sit in the street and do them. That might have been him. You know, uh, you’ve been here a long time and I’ve talked with other people about the difference, geographically, and what I mean by that is, I’ve heard stories all like from the Belvedere you could see downtown because there went really trees. Can you talk about that a little bit? What what did it look like, because now when you see photos of Saugatuck it’s just full of trees. Were there as many trees? PW: I think there were as many trees, I think they had just not grown up to the point that they have now and it’s just something that, it’s strange that you mention that because I used to work in Kalamazoo and um, in the, in the 80’s coming back from Kalamazoo, at the top of the uh M89 hill before you drop down to Blue Star Highway you could see Lake Michigan, well now you can’t because it’s all just huge tree �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 6 foliage out there. And even driving some of the country roads, you know, roads where you used to be able to see the sky, trees are now overhanging it and I think that’s it. KK: Yeah. PW: It’s just the natural course of things. KK: True of anywhere. PW: Yeah. KK: Right. But it’s just kind of interesting because I know, even when I’ve looked at photos, it just looked different. PW: Yeah, and well probably, well, that was it was coming out of the timber era of the late 1800’s. So there weren’t a lot of big trees around, and it took them a while to get back to that point again. KK: Do you remember the music festivals or the motorcycle groups or the races, I mean what, did you participate in any of that? PW: What races are you talking about? KK: Well, I think, weren’t there motorcycle races or there, wasn’t there a racetrack just outside of town? PW: Oh yeah, Air Park Speedway. KK: Yes. PW: Yes, yeah I, my father, my father would take me to that all the time. Ev Thomas was the uh, announcer and of course Ev was, no matter what Ev did it was funny and he’d talk about the old ’37 Ford coming around the corner with its door flapping and stuff like that. Well that was about it because they were racing jalopy’s on a dirt track and um, my father when we got out of the uh, Air Force got a pilot’s license and he would fly out of that little airport and the um, the headquarters of the airport was that building that sits right out on the road now, and still does, just just south of the entrance that goes into the estate that’s back in there now and the old Air Park Speedway property and he would fly just a Piper Cub and you know, he’d he’d sit in the front seat and I’d sit in the back and that’s how wide it was, it wasn’t two seats wide. And um, the um, there were no motorcycle races, there was the um, the road race, the called the Saugatuck or the Oval Hill Climb which I partici-participated in all of its years. Took several trophies, where you basically raced from the bottom of the first hill to the top of the last and because you could get going quite fast through there, um, there were pylon set up you had to slow down and get through them cause you’d lose 5 second if you hit a pylon that would cost you literally first place in your event if you hit one of those. The thing that a lot of people don’t believe is that in one of the races there was a guy that was down from Holland with a uh, a Corvette called Der fliegende Hollände or the Flying Dutchman, highly souped up and I had my dad’s 8mm movie camera, I’d asked if I could ride through with him and that was back, well we wore seatbelts, we didn’t have helmets or anything and we went up first hill and down into the valley of the second and then going up towards the gate there was a pylon she had to go through, slow down before got up to the gate, just before we got to those pylons and we were going 107 miles an hour in that Corvette on the Oval Road. [00:21:14] �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 7 KK: Wow. PW: A lot of people just, you know they just can’t believe that but. KK: Does the film exist? PW: No, we got going so fast, I just, I could hold the camera up. I was back in my seat like this and I was forward in my seat like that when he got on the brakes and uh, I would be, I would be right at the top of third gear with my, uh, ’65 Corvair, I’d be about 83 or 84 miles an hour you know, and that’s flying on the Oval Road and after a while people that didn’t know what they were doing would come and they’d get out of control and they’d bang up the guardrail post so the Saugatuck just called it off. KK: Yeah. PW: It ran from about ’66 to maybe ’71 ’72 something like that, I know it stopped. Which is probably a good thing. KK: Yeah, probably. Do you remember the um, the rock festivals, the two of them on Potawatomi Beach? PW: No. Not at all. KK: You don’t? PW: No. KK: Okay. Do you remember the crowds? PW: I don’t, you know, do you know when those were? KK: Yeah! Ah, ’68 and ’69? PW: Oh yeah, no I wouldn’t have been here then. KK: Oh okay. PW: No, I mean would’ve been, I might have been here, you know for a weekend or something. KK: Yeah. PW: But I lived in Lansing at that time. KK: Oh okay, well that really um, I didn’t know that. Um, and let’s see. You know I have a question for you PG [pronounced PEEGUH] How involved were people in Saugatuck with what went on in Douglas? In other words, did people go back and forth a lot? No. And the reason I’m asking this is Jane VanDiss had the same reaction you did. She said ‘we just never went there’. PW: We would go, just because my family ate out a lot because they both worked, all day. We would go to what is now Everyday People Café. KK: Yeah. �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 8 PW: Um, I forget the owner back then, Bill somebody. I have a picture, I don’t think I brought it along with me but I have a picture of a birthday party I had there when I was like 5 or 6 years old, and you can see on the side the exact same décor that’s there now. Those shelves built into the wall that have that Depression glass. I don’t know if they’re still like that. I haven’t been there for long time. KK: Yeah, sort of an Art Deco look. I have a question for you, um, in going to Douglas do you remember the Greyson School of Painting at all? PW: No. KK: Okay, because there was a little building back, one picture I know of exists of it, and I always ask that question because it’s something I’m very interested in. PW: Something that I’m sure a lot of people know but just don’t think about, um, and when I bring it up they’re surprised. They um, the uh, Red Barn Theatre got its start in the little building down the hill from Joyce Petters on Lawn Street and most people don’t know that. KK: Yeah, yeah I did know that. PW: In fact I’ve got a Red Barn program in there that I’m going to give to you that has, has me as of the players. KK: Oh! Who were you in the? PW: I was one of the dead people in the cemetery in Our Town. So I didn’t have a speaking part, but Dave Showers and I got to play two of the dead people and we were just sitting in chairs while the play is you know, going, going on in front of us. KK: Oh, oh, that’s fun. That’s fun. Uh, what are some of your hopes for the future for here and for the community? PW: To be honest I haven’t even thought about it. KK: You just seem like you’re happy here. PW: My hopes, well yeah I am, my hopes for the future, I can’t imagine living anywhere else. I can’t imagine having these kinds of, I mean how many places you get to live where a huge building burns down you know every two, every two years or something like that? Even the Leeland Lodge and stuff like that, buildings people don’t even remember anymore. KK: Uh, remembering that this interview will be saved for a long time, when someone listens to this thing 50 years from now, what would you like them uh, to know most about your life in the community right now? [00:25:09] PW: [Pause] That I always tried to be a thorn in somebodies side. [Both laugh] KK: That’s probably how, ‘Oh PG Walter, oh yeah, we remember him” so, you know the, when the council is having trouble getting the expansion of Blue Star put together in the ’96 whenever the heck �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 9 that was, I mean there was just, there was a lot of people just adamant Joyce Petter and everything didn’t want it and the Council was fighting and Deb Couty called me one day and she said ‘PG you need to come and talk to George Baker and I’, I said okay. They wanted to hire me, basically a gun fighter to come in and get the squabbling solved, and they did, and I did and um, there’s probably not a lot of people around that would have the temperament to do something like that but mine, mine is like that. You know when you’ve been in front of literally, one of my best friends in Lansing, in fact he almost got me in trouble once at a court hearing we were at, was uh, oh god, Mike, can’t think of his last name, ex Supreme Court Justice, geez. Mike Cavanagh he was a Lansing City Attorney when I was doing developing work up in Lansing so we knew each other quite well and uh, you know, it’s just, it’s just, when you, when you revolve, revolve and evolve around people like that and see all the things that I’ve seen in zoning across 50 municipalities, you just get a, you get an instinct for what’s going on that’s right and what’s wrong within municipalities and even though they think what they’re doing is right, after I spent 2 months with them, they fire their professional planner out of Royal Oak Michigan because it’s just no doing it, they’ve written a lousy new Ordinance and charging them 50,000 to do it and so, I, I get under peoples skin there’s just no question about it and its just the way I am. KK: Well, there are people that like you! [Both laugh] PW: Well, good! KK: Uh, anything else that you’d like to share that I maybe haven’t asked you about? And I know you brought some stuff, was there something in particular, you know that you want to share? PW: Well I was just piling stuff in here because its stuff that I want to have end up here anyway. Its stuff that didn’t make it into the uh, didn’t make it into the, most of it is all just paper stuff. This is my dad pushing a barrel that said Community Cleaners on it in one of the Memorial Day parades, many many moons ago and these are things that I have no use for anymore, period, so I just as soon not take them home. KK: Well, yeah, we very much appreciate anything that’s shared with us, so. PW: This is my mother and father in Chicago in 1938. This is my mother just washed the car on Pearl Harbor Day. KK: Oh wow. PW: Um, these are more of my father’s thing in Fennville, and it’s got a tab there. You may have this book in your file or system somewhere. KK: Oh, great. Oh that’s great PG. PW: Class of ’60. KK: Uh huh. PW: A somewhere rare postcard because they realized their mistake and didn’t print a lot of them, it’s an interesting view but look at the…. �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 10 KK: Oh the Muskegon River. PW: Yeah, yeah. KK: Yes. Yeah, that’s wonderful. PW: And this is just one I think looking at the cars this was probably taken in 1957 or so, Butler Street. That’s me and Fred Gores, appointed to Boys State. KK: Oh my gosh you know that’s so funny, I really have to look to see you in here. Well I’ve always known you with a mustache and that so. Well, that’s great. PW: This is um, one of the Venetian night, shows the old Butler and that happened to be our boat. KK: Oh! PW: Just because I’ve been around here so long I’m in 4 postcards. KK: Yeah. PW: Um, my mother is in 6 and I’ll never beat her record I’m afraid. These are, I can’t this book that I took these out of because I was going to take these to various people. But this is from the ‘50s I think. KK: Okay. Oh yeah. Well, you know what, the pavilion gone so it’s got to be after ’60. PW: Oh yeah, right, right, okay. I was just looking at the, the stories of the Butler but, yeah I should’ve realized that, considering the day it was. This was the High School band in the late ‘50’s. KK: Oh that’s fun. PW: This is really old. [Pause] [Inaudible] Well anyway the names are all on the back. I know you like to have those kinds of things. [00:30:10] KK: Oh yeah. PW: My Aunt Toots’ ID and everything from the Order of Eastern Star there, 50th anniversary, golden anniversary book. KK: Oh! Oh, that’s neat. PW: Commemorative map, ’76. Oh, here’s the Red Barn Theatre. Got a lot of interesting ads in there from places that of course, no longer exist. I know what they all are. KK: Yeah. PW: What does it say, Philip Walter? Philip Walter. I was Wally Web. [Laughs] sitting by myself, there were other bodies in the cemetery too. Well this is just the fact that I got out of the 2nd grade in 1948. KK: Oh that’s fun. PW: Back before there was the um, uh radar tower, the Sea Scouts used to have to take the cable up. �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 11 KK: Oh! PW: For the power, for the star every year and that’s a bunch of us, myself included. KK: Are you the one that told me the story about unplugging the lights? PW: Oh, sloppy mountain? KK: Yeah. Well why don’t you tell that story. PW: Well, we uh, me and kids um, the star of course was all white lightbulbs. And they were just incandescent 1600 watt screw in bulbs just like you’d have in your house. KK: Yeah and you’re talking about the start on top of Mount Baldhead. PW: Yeah, yes. And the Christmas tree in Douglas had all colored lights on it, but they were all, all the same as like the screw in at your house. So we got the great idea one night we start swapping those bulbs out and um, we started doing it and we were doing it in stages, because we didn’t want to just get caught up there, we thought we’d do 6 or 8, 10 12 a time whatever there was and the, we were taking them out of the tree in Douglass, and the police showed up and um, the police department at that time was in a little side annex wing of the Maplewood Hotel right there on Butler street and uh, the McCrea’s had the, had the hotel and Bobby McCrea was the dispatcher, and she said that a woman had called in and said that it was a sign that Jesus was come back or something because the light on the star on Mount Baldhead was changing colors, so. That’s what got us in trouble, had she not made that phone call, we probably would’ve done our 2 or 3 more trips and got them all swapped out. KK: Oh that’s funny. PW: We got, you know, we kind of got a reprimand but we didn’t get thrown in jail or anything like that so. KK: One last question I have for you, uh, are you aware at all of Walkers Landing? PW: Yes. Just that it exists. KK: Did you know anything about it? PW: Zero. KK: Yeah, okay. Well it’s just something I’m doing research on, so I’m asking. PW: We would go, you know when we were when we used to uh, uh, spear a lot of carp and we would haul them up river to the rendering works uh, by the 58th street bridge and we would get, I think a penny a pound or 2 cents a pound and on a good day we’d get 25, 30 bucks cause we’d haul 2 or 3 full boat loads of dead carp up there for the, and we’d go by Walkers Landing but I, I had no connection or idea. KK: Okay! Was curious. Okay well, um. PW: Here. You probably have a copy of this too but it’s just things that, you know, should end up here. �Philip Walter – Interviewed by Ken Kutzel June 2 2018 12 KK: Well that, you know that will go in the archive and uh, no that’s great and thank you for bringing these things. PW: and this was just a personal item. This is my script for the play I was in, that was happening two days after the big pavilion burned. ED Lambers was afraid we weren’t going to be able to get it pulled off because of the…that was the senior play. KK: The, the title is funny. In that context. PW: I never thought about it that way but that’s right just 2 or 3 days. KK: Okay, well I want to thank you for coming in today, I really do PG [pronounced PEEGUH] and anything else you want to share? PW: I think I shared this with you about the day the big pavilion first, course, I’m, I’m on the CD or whatever it is, but, my mother realized [coughs] because of the heat of the fire, that the fireman were literally getting sunburned and she ran into the drugstore and Dick Snyder who was the Pharmacist at the time or half owner or whatever he was. She just, you know, my mother being my mother she just said ‘Dick I want all the sunburn ointment you’ve got.’ And he starts and he says ‘Well Lucille what kind of sunburn are you trying to treat?’ she says ‘Just give me all the goddamn sunburn stuff you’ve got!’ [Laughing] so she loaded it up in a big bad and took it over and they just smeared it all on their faces and their arms and everything because it, you know, it was breaking windows on places across the street from it. KK: Yeah, from the heat. PW: Yep. KK: Okay, thank you. PW: Yeah, you’re very welcome. [00:35:17] � 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 Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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training at Fort Benning, Georgia -Eligible for officer training (since he had a college degree) -Didn’t interest him; he wanted to get out of the Army as soon as possible and alive -Older than most of the recruits -Majority of recruits were 18 or 19 years old and he was 21 years old -It was a culture shock for him, especially with the drill sergeants screaming obscenities at him -He was a little overweight, so drill sergeants focused on him -Didn’t stop him from completing basic training -Discipline wasn’t a problem for him -Lasted nine weeks -First week spent at the induction center getting processed due to the Moon landing -Next eight weeks consisted of training -Most drill sergeants had served in Vietnam, and all of them were career soldiers (00:04:08) Advanced Infantry Training - 2/3 of his training company was sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana, for advanced infantry training -Fort Polk was a primitive base -Buildings had been built during World War II, had scorpions, and wild boars -Eight weeks of intense training -Some training was geared towards fighting in Vietnam, but most of it focused on conventional warfare -Did an “escape and evasion” course -Learning how to avoid capture and how to endure being a prisoner-of-war -Had non-commissioned officers (sergeants) training them -Some of them were younger than him, and most were new sergeants with no experience -They were nice men, at least (00:06:48) Deployment to Vietnam -He got two weeks of leave after completing advanced infantry training -On December 10 (or 11), 1969, he left for Vietnam -Flew from Birmingham to Los Angeles to Fort Lewis (near Seattle, Washington) -Stayed at Fort Lewis for two or three days -Flew from Fort Lewis to Alaska to Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam -Flew there via Flying Tigers Airlines -Landed during the day and it was hot -Boarded buses with wire on the windows to keep out grenades �-Sent to an induction center for processing (00:08:21) Service with 1st Infantry Division -His first assignment was with the 1st Infantry Division at Lai Khe -Served with them for two months -He served in the Color Guard -Responsible for “casing” (or retiring) units’ colors that returned to the United States -Spending his first two months with the 1st Infantry Division was excellent training -Taught him the skills that helped him survive with the 101st Airborne Division -Got into occasional skirmishes -Usually 20 – 25 American soldiers against 2 or 3 North Vietnamese soldiers -He watched the experienced soldiers to learn how they acted in combat -Discovered a few bunker complexes -Told to do as he saw, and don’t talk -Gave him more discipline -He served as the radio-telephone operator with the 2nd Battalion of the 28th Infantry Regiment -Operated in triple-canopy jungle -No contact with civilians unless they passed through a village -Joined 2nd Battalion (mechanized) of the 2nd Infantry Regiment -Had armored personnel carriers for travel and combat -Easier than walking, but lost the element of surprise -Saw no combat with them -Spent six weeks with that unit -Saw an old man walking around in the middle of nowhere, so they brought him back to base -Suspicious, but not an immediate or apparent threat (00:15:40) Morale in the 1st Infantry Division -Most of the men had a bad attitude because they had been drafted -Focused on survival, not heroism (00:16:18) Transfer to 101st Airborne Division -Reassigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Phu Bai -Passed through Long Binh during the reassignment process -Stayed there for five days -Took a C-130 cargo plane up to Phu Bai -Went through SERTS (Screaming Eagle Replacement Training School) -Learned how to rappel and go on long marches -Some replacements had experience while others were brand new soldiers from the States -Most of it seemed pointless to him, especially the rappelling -Joined Delta Company of the 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment -1st sergeant asked him which platoon he wanted to join -Joined his unit on March 1, 1970 -Commander of Delta was Patrick Skinner -Nice, relaxed man -Flown by Chinook helicopter to the field to join his unit for maneuvers -Joined the 2nd platoon in the field (00:20:13) First Major Enemy Contact -One week later he saw his first major combat action -They set up a night defensive position -Operating in “I Corps” (military district in South Vietnam in the mountains) -At midnight he heard 25 or 30 explosions at 1st platoon’s position -2nd platoon moved to their position to assess the damage �-Skinner had been knocked unconscious, and several soldiers sustained critical wounds -He and the other men built stretchers to carry the wounded -Waited two hours for a helicopter to evacuate the wounded -The enemy knew the company commander was at the position they attacked -One of the wounded men ultimately died from shock -They had most likely been attacked by sappers -Small teams of North Vietnamese soldiers that hit and ran with satchel charges (explosives) -They weren’t able to catch the sappers -Left the area too fast, and the American soldiers focused on securing the perimeter -A couple nights later they got hit again, and that time it was his platoon -Taken to Camp Evans to regroup and recover -He had taken a small piece of shrapnel in his eye during that fight -Awarded the Purple Heart for his wound -Brought in replacements to account for the severely wounded and the dead -Spent one night at Camp Evans (00:27:17) Firebase Ripcord Campaign – Entering the Area -Flown to Firebase Rakkasan with a new company commander -Before leaving Firebase Rakkasan on May 5, artillery hit the landing zone to prepare their assault -Flew out to Firebase Maureen, an abandoned base in the A Shau Valley -It was a hot landing, because the artillery had been fired at the wrong coordinates -Landed in the midst of a thousand North Vietnamese troops -They fired tear gas at the firebase to hamper the American troops -A long firefight ensued with the North Vietnamese until they retreated (00:31:22) Firebase Ripcord Campaign – Operating out of Firebase Maureen -Conducted patrols in the area around Firebase Maureen -Someone spotted an enemy soldier with red hair -Unless it was a genetic anomaly, then it was probably a Soviet adviser -Remembers making camp to the west of Maureen and seeing mountains on the Laotian border -On May 6, his platoon moved to the south of Maureen -North Vietnamese soldiers ambushed them and wounded two men -Continued moving through an abandoned bunker complex area -North Vietnamese opened fire from an embedded machine gun position -Called in air support and a jet dropped a 500 pound bomb on that enemy position -No effect; North Vietnamese still kept firing -After the failed bombing run, his platoon decided to fall back to Maureen to get resupplied (00:34:56) Firebase Ripcord Campaign – Battle of Firebase Maureen -2nd platoon went to Firebase Maureen and established a perimeter -Two-man positions around the base -Set out anti-personnel mines -Some men dug foxholes while other men used existing bunkers -Dusk on May 6th when they established their positions at Maureen -At 4 a.m., on May 7, North Vietnamese forces attacked Firebase Maureen -Platoon leader got killed first -North Vietnamese attacked with satchel charges and small-arms fire -Killed seven men on the west side of the perimeter in the initial assault -Multiple wounded -Gregory set off his mines to hinder the enemy attack -Platoon sergeant fell back to the center of the perimeter with a radio to call in reinforcements -The platoon sergeant ordered Gregory to help another soldier on the west perimeter �-He ran to that position and fought from there for 2 ½ of 3 hours -During the battle he was wounded six times, but never stopped fighting -North Vietnamese continued to throw satchel charges at the perimeter -One landed two or three feet away from him, but it was a dud -They threw out flares to guide the helicopters -During the battle he was about 25 yards away from the platoon sergeant (small perimeter) -Armed with an M79 grenade launcher and a pistol for the duration of the battle -Shrapnel from an RPG hit him in the back of the head -North Vietnamese closed to within 15 feet of his position -He shot a grenade at one enemy soldier and the force crushed the man’s skull -Fired a canister round (similar to a shotgun round) at another enemy soldier -Enough force to lift him up ten feet and throw him down the hill -He took his friend’s rifle and charged down the hill to engage the North Vietnamese -At this point he was shot in the side -Doesn’t remember if he turned around killed the shooter, or someone else did -The North Vietnamese fell back once 1st platoon arrived at Maureen -He was treated and stabilized long enough to be evacuated via helicopter -Gregory didn’t tell anyone about his experience at Firebase Maureen for over 20 years (00:49:10) Reunions Pt. 1 -In the early 1990s he started talking about his experience in Vietnam -On Veterans’ Day he wore his Purple Heart ribbon on his shirt -Someone made a positive comment about it -Led to his decision to start talking about his time in the war -Got involved with the 506th Infantry Regiment Reunion group, Currahee -The writer, Randy Mills, reached out to Gregory to give his perspective of the battle at FSB Maureen -Gregory remembered the most out of all the men -Mills wrote, Troubled Hero: A Medal of Honor, Vietnam, and the War at Home (2006) -About Medal of Honor recipient Kenneth Hays and the battle of FSB Maureen (00:51:18) Recovery & Coming Home -First sent to the Camp Evan’s infirmary -1 – 1 ½ hours later he was sent to the hospital in Phu Bai for surgery -Stayed there for one week -Sent to Cam Ranh Bay to being the process of returning to the United States -Didn’t realize the severity of his wound until he learned he would return to the US -Sent to Japan for one week of surgery and recovery -Returned to Fort Rutger, Alabama to complete his recovery -Spent three months there recovering and working as a hospital orderly (00:54:23) End of Service -For the last ten months of his service he was assigned to Fort Hood, Texas -Assigned to be a tank commander -He knew nothing about tanks -Made a tank instructor -Did his job as best as he could despite not being a tank soldier -Participated in secret weapons training -Wife lived with him at Fort Hood until she got pregnant -Returned to Alabama and gave birth to their child there -Working at Fort Hood was like having a civilian day job -No anti-war activity other than Jane Fonda trying to get on the base to protest the Vietnam War �(00:56:55) Drug Use in Vietnam -There was a fair amount of drug use on bases in Vietnam -His first exposure to marijuana was in Vietnam -Men in rear positions were most likely to abuse it -Had down time and it was readily available -He never saw anybody using hard drugs like heroin -Some of the officers smoked pot with the enlisted men -He didn’t appreciate that since they were supposed to be leaders -North Vietnamese smoked pot to get the courage to attack -Never saw men smoke in the field (00:59:05) Life after the War -He had studied to be a teacher, but lacked the patience -Got a job in sales with a food distribution company based in Ohio -Worked for them for ten years -Only way to move up in the company would have been to go to Chicago or Ohio -Didn’t want to do that, so he quit -Returned to Birmingham and started his own food business -Had that business for 15 years (01:00:50) Reunions Pt. 2 -He joined the 506th Infantry Regiment Association -Given a roster of the names of the men that served in the 506th in Vietnam -He was able to make contact his old friend, Dick Doyle -This led to him talking to Randy Mills about his book -Contacted his platoon sergeant, man he fought alongside at Maureen -Which in turn led to contacting other men from 2nd platoon -Gregory is one of a group of men in 2nd platoon awarded for their actions at Firebase Maureen -He received the Silver Star for his actions -Another man received the Distinguished Service Cross -Kenneth Hays received the Congressional Medal of Honor -One man received the Bronze Star for Valor -Has attended Ripcord Reunions to see the other men of D Company -Although he didn’t fight at the battle of Firebase Ripcord, he fought in that campaign -In 2009 he went to his former platoon sergeant’s hometown for a smaller reunion (01:07:55) Reflections on Service -It was a maturing experience -Allowed him to be a district manager at 25 years old in charge of men double his age -Taught him that he could live with less and be alright -Little food and water, sleeping outside, and being in combat -Able to endure more than civilians that haven’t seen combat -He wouldn’t repeat his experience, but he appreciated it � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. 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Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27_PhillipsG1963V Title A name given to the resource Phillips, Gregory (Interview outline and video), Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-10-06 Description An account of the resource Gregory Phillips was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 22, 1948. After graduating from college in 1969 he was drafted into the Army. He received basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and his advanced infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana. In December 1969 he deployed to Vietnam. He was first assigned to the 1st Infantry Division at Lai Khe and he served with them for two months (first in 2nd Battalion/28th Infantry Regiment then 2nd Battalion (mechanized)/2nd Infantry Regiment). Gregory transferred to the 101st Airborne Division at Phu Bai, and joined 2nd platoon of Delta Company, 1st Battalion/506th Infantry Regiment on March 1, 1970. On the morning of May 7th he and the rest of 2nd platoon fought at the battle of Firebase Maureen where he was wounded six times and was later awarded the Silver Star for his actions there. He was medically evacuated to the United States and served at Fort Hood, Texas, for the last ten months of his enlistment (he was most likely discharged in June 1971). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Phillips, Gregory Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American United States. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PhillipsHamilton Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Phillips, Hamilton Description An account of the resource Hamilton Phillips, Counselor Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan Student counselors Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PhillipsPaul_Photo1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Phillips, Paul Description An account of the resource Paul Phillips, Board of Trustees 1976 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan College administrators Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. 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Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PhillipsPaul_Photo3 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Phillips, Paul Description An account of the resource Paul Phillips, Board of Trustees 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan College administrators Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e145b8c5f831a8517b8d166e7383f5d8.mp4 9561650b17eb0472acad7071e682a912 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a9bccb9efbf15492ef2cde4f788263da.pdf db581cce414b277ce22f9c1e0f61b6fa PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Notes Length: 13:56 Randolph Elbert Phillips Jr. Vietnam Veteran United States Navy, February 1963 to August 1968 A-Branch (00:26) Pre-enlistment/Family: • Due to poor grades in college he joined the Navy • Joined Navy because it had better standards of living during the war • His Uncle’s Navy experience influenced his decision • His father had retired from the Army, and his uncle had retied from the Navy as an Admiral • He had another uncle who had been in the Korean War • His father had served in WWII (landed during D-day), the Korean War, and Vietnam before retiring • Father is buried at Arlington (1:43) Enlistment: • He was a communication technician (A branch) • Ended with the rank of Petty Officer 2nd class • Had a category 3 security clearance • His job was classified • He went to Yeoman A school, Instructor school, and Leadership school • Stationed in Hawaii for a year and 10 months • Stationed at US Naval Reserve Training Center in Jersey City for 3 years • Learned to instruct reservists during his time their (3:25) Free Time/Friends: • In Hawaii they would go to the beach to surf and pick up girls • He had multiple friends who were married, and when holidays came around he would visit them • In general people in the service did not celebrate holidays that much because they were away from their families • Made many good friends during his enlistment and is still close with buddy from the Reserve Center in Jersey City (5:50) After Enlistment: • Went back to same University he had been at before the war, and finished his degree • Went on to be a Sales Representative for a few different companies (6:37) Lessons Learned: • The main lesson he learned in the military was how to be disciplined �• Some were forced to go into the service just so they would learn some discipline • Learned that life was not all fun and games • When he went back to college (1968-71) his experience in the military helped him understand the importance of education (9:01) Vietnam Memorial: • Many veterans were affected by the war, and the wall brings back a lot of those memorizes • It make him remember the three classmates who lost their lives during Vietnam (10:23) Soldiers Coming Home (then and now): • When they came home they were spit on and called baby killers • The Veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq are treated with more respect • Veterans from Vietnam were impacted deeply by the way they were treated when they came home • Veterans, when asked about their combat experience, are very reluctant to talk about their experience in Vietnam • His veteran friends only talk about the humorous experiences, but not much else � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PhillipsR Title A name given to the resource Phillips, Randolph Elbert (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Phillips, Randolph Elbert Description An account of the resource Randolph Phillips served in the US Navy as a communication technician from 1963-68 during the Vietnam War, training reservists for service in Vietnam. He joined the Navy because his grades were too poor to keep him in college. For part of his service he was in Hawaii, and for a longer period he was in Jersey City at the US Naval Reserve Training Center. He talks about what he learned by being in the military and how it applied to life after service. He talks about the Vietnam memorial and its affect on him and other veterans of Vietnam. He also talks about how the Vietnam veterans were treated when they came home, and how it differs from how veterans are treated today. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Przybysz, Molly (Interviewer) Horn, Alison (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-01 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/39d8242df9f54f725f87e3bcacaeb94f.m4v 648f66c1341a93774361fd43c2942c18 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6432d7377aa08e6b3b5dcd3bad8c1ded.pdf 7fe7568bb3425ea35045a2c69666111e PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview William Phillips Length: 57:45 (00:15) Background Information     William was born in Flint, Michigan and graduated from high school in 1936 His father was an insurance agent and able to keep his job during the Depression William stopped by a recruiting station and was told he was likely going to be drafted in the future so he should enlist now so that he would have a say in what he would be doing William enlisted in the Army Air Corps in April of 1941 (5:35) Training  William was sent to Chanute Air Field in Illinois  He worked on KP for a week and then began taking airplane mechanics classes  William never went through any actual physical training, but only took classes  William graduated from airplane mechanic school and was then sent to a hotel near the beach in Miami  They did not yet have any planes to work on so William worked in the mess hall for 6 months  He was cooking for men in Officer Candidate School  William was finally sent to Miami Airport to work on single engine trainers (11:45) Advanced Training  William was then sent to Kessler Air Field in Mississippi for crew training with B-24s  They were not actually doing any hands on work, but just taking classes learning the systems of the schools  William spent 6 months at the Field and had some time off on the weekends to go to the bar  He was later sent to Santa Ana, California for Air Corps Cadet basic training  William also went to Arizona for primary flight training, working with B-22s  William did very well in training and enjoyed flying  He also went through basic training with Stearmans, but washed out  He thinks that probably saved his life because he would have been in class 43G, which had a +70% mortality rate over Germany (19:25) Gunnery School  William later went to a gunnery school and after passing the classes volunteered for permanent party to help run the base �  He was in Utah working with shot guns, hand guns, rifles, skeet, and machine guns They first started on the less complicated guns and later began working with moving targets (22:50) Idaho  William was transferred to a field in Idaho for crew training  He became an instructor and was training gunners with B-24s  William was in Idaho for about 7 months in 1944 and like living there; he made many good friends  While working there he helped build an underground gunnery range (27:00) Training for Overseas  William was sent back to Kessler field for crew training with B-17s  They began flying as a crew and William was assigned as a gunner  They trained for 4 months and were then sent to Savannah, Georgia to receive their own plane  Then they were sent back to California, flew to Hawaii, Christmas Island, and then Biak (31:05) Biak  They stayed in Biak for one month just waiting around because a general needed to use their plane  It was a rustic camp on a very large base with many people  They finally got their plane back and then moved to Puerto Princesa Bay where they began working with the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron  William figured that he would be going home after the bombs were dropped on Japan  Everyone was very happy and not really expecting to be part of the Japanese invasion (38:00) Sent back to the US  William took a ship back to the US instead of flying and the trip took 25 days  He would have rather flown; there were very rough seas and it felt like the ship was falling apart  There were about 3,000 men on the ship, while most of them were sick below deck  The weather got better as they got closer to the United States and they landed in San Francisco  William took a train to Chicago to be discharged and then took another train back to Flint (40:25) After Service  William began working at his old job with AC Spark Plug, but did not enjoy his job  He then began working with his father’s insurance business � William and his brother bought their father’s business in 1955 and William continued working there until 1990 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PhillipsW Title A name given to the resource Phillips, William (Interview outline and video), 2009 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Phillips, William Description An account of the resource William Phillips was born in Flint, Michigan and graduated from high school in 1936. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in April of 1941 and was sent to Chanute Air Field in Illinois for airplane mechanic school. William also went through crew training and gunnery school, later becoming an instructor training men to work as gunners with B-24s. He later got his orders to work overseas and was sent to Puerto Princesa Bay where he began working with the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American United States. Army Air Corps Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009-09-19 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5531ef6e636a491545b56cdcac0decd4.jpg 0d2e85de08a404010d310ee6d64b06c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_EastmanAlbum_2_1909-1911_026 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910-07-17 Title A name given to the resource Phoenix cottage looking east Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of Phoenix cottage in Macatawa, Michigan, taken from the water. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Holland (Mich.) Beaches Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1e1e70f25b2cabbd53b9a82e1bdbcce1.jpg 91f406ddf798777e5cb4b533a9ddc75a https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dce5b7abb7658b341cfd76ca8b0c29d8.jpg 995f2b63ac1ef648d0f3ec272d7255f8 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 Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Brigham-D_0024 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brigham, D. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1931 Title A name given to the resource Photograph of A.H. Palor Sr. and Elizabeth T. Palor, circa 1931 Description An account of the resource Photograph of A.H. Palor Sr. and Elizabeth T. Palor sitting on lawn chairs with Greta at their feet. Verso: Lists the details of individuals in the picture, alongside a potential date. "Probably late '31 or '32" Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f728250395c5a773e8936f5a8f28e73d.pdf 82102795c12f7b812e8b1985e5671e60 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW1-4378 Title A name given to the resource Photograph of W. H. Seward Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1860-1869 Subject The topic of the resource Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 United States--Politics and government--19th century Photographs United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Description An account of the resource Carte-de-visite of William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 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/5de0c9d9454fd5432049ae90974f2c74.jpg c4b1951e5233deccaf16405297c000c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1960s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001043 Title A name given to the resource Physical education class Description An account of the resource Dave Scharphorn former basketball, cross country and tennis coach teaching a physical education activity class near "old fieldhouse" (farmhouse). Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Sports Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dc0f669e64701e64dbc81c4d20d3ceb9.jpg 76b8eceb20c7b0f257ed1b92eb09db46 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 Honors Institute for Young Scientists (HIFYS) Scrapbook Subject The topic of the resource Science--Study and teaching East Grand Rapids (Mich.) Grand Rapids (Mich.) University of Michigan Description An account of the resource The Honors Institute for Young Scientists provided a competitive scholarship to an advanced summer educational program in science and math for high school juniors and seniors in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. It expanded to include approximately 12 states by 1962. In 1966, Grand Valley State College took over the program, changing its name to the Honors Institute for Young Scholars. The scrapbook includes articles and photographs of the Honors Institute for Young Scientists (HIFYS) in Grand Rapids. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Honors Institute for Young Scientists Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/465">Honors Institute for Young Scientists (RHC-38)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/465">Honors Institute for Young Scientists (HIFYS) scrapbook, RHC-38</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-38_HIFYS61 Title A name given to the resource Physicist emphasizes importance of humanities in training young scientists Subject The topic of the resource Honors Institute for Young Scholars Honors Institute for Young Scientists East Grand Rapids (Mich.) Grand Rapids (Mich.) Grand Valley State College Science--Study and teaching University of Michigan Science Description An account of the resource Physicist Emphasizes Importance of Humanities in Training Young Scientists, article in the Grand Rapids Press, June 21, 1961. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Honors Institute for Young Scientists Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e065df6b89b177dd0ce6bf6b5ae313d5.jpg c74f509a3434a68a420ebac11143ca0b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1960s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001149 Title A name given to the resource Physics professor James Strickland Description An account of the resource Physics professor James Strickland. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Students Faculty Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5143b17fd3ac7b88fb577d43ca0e116d.jpg 0742ea139ed7d9fa7695d33bebc8498a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1980s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001118 Title A name given to the resource Physics professor James Strickland lectures students Description An account of the resource Physics professor James Strickland lectures students. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Students Faculty Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/662b815c04512ff4fb01c82e0a830693.jpg 2747c65eeca35be7e4799c202f961d1e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_G061-0018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-06 Title A name given to the resource Piccadilly Circus in London, England Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the famous intersection view in Piccadilly Circus, featuring the advertisement-covered buildings at the intersection of Coventry Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in London, England. In the photograph, advertisements for Coca-Cola, Guiness, and Wrigley's Spearmint Gum can be seen on the buildings' exteriors. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Piccadilly Circus (London, England) London Pavilion (London, England) Advertisements Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s 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/d3bea1084b2d2063de09897fe36c75e8.jpg bd958a78c07d04b2400fd77ce46be2d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PickardWilliam_Photo1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Pickard, William Description An account of the resource William Pickard, Board of Trustees 1977-1988 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan College administrators Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng