903 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2ef530d32fcb893ea0a9f143a77dafb4.jpg 1bb0bbe2e6f468f618aca90a56b3f32b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. 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Title A name given to the resource Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. 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Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50_1126 Title A name given to the resource Stirling bomber Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource Stirling British B (bomber), October 1, 1947. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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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 StockmanCalvin_Photo01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Stockman, Calvin Description An account of the resource Calvin Stockman, Dean of Community and Continuing Education Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College administrators Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. 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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 StockmanCalvin_Photo02 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Stockman, Calvin Description An account of the resource Calvin Stockman, Dean of Community and Continuing Education Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College administrators Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e891f838e0489772a6f2abdb7764526f.mp4 97b02752fe06ab348515d52d36f4d663 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2d95c650c8e22f52f95091ffe5679db6.pdf 7653fcf5a5cb9f30c262e31b1249209a PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Jack Stoepker World War II-Postwar (00:00:10) Early Life -Born on February 7, 1928 in Holland, Michigan -Moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan when he was two years old -Has lived in Grand Rapids ever since -His father was a salesman for a Holland business -Once in Grand Rapids he became a staff manager for Prudential Life Insurance -He was regularly employed during the Great Depression -Family managed to stay in the “upper middle class” during the Great Depression (00:01:05) Start of the War and Following the War -He was in middle school when Pearl Harbor was attacked -Remembers hearing President Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech -His father became a Civil Defense patrolman -Patrolled the city streets at night looking for any signs of unrest -Nothing ever happened though; the city was calm and uneventful -Remembers products like gas, coffee, and sugar being rationed -In high school they would pray for the servicemen, especially the ones they knew (00:03:06) Enlisting in the Army -He was in his last year of high school and began to take college classes at Calvin College -He and his friends began to talk about service -On the afternoon of graduation rehearsal he and his friends went to the recruiting office -Did this unbeknownst to their parents -When his parents found out they were upset -He enlisted in the Army with the hopes that he’d wind up doing something with dentistry -In college he had begun the pre-dental courses (00:05:55) Reporting for Duty -He reported for duty in summer 1946 -He took a bus from Grand Rapids to Detroit then another bus to Fort Knox, Kentucky -Basic training was a shock for him -Complied with the orders and discipline and adjusted (00:07:10) Transfer to Dental Clinic -During a basic training exercise he twisted his knee -He was sent to Valley Forge General Hospital -A military hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania -The second floor dealt with dentistry, specifically for facial reconstruction -He never went back to basic training -During his recovery he got acquainted with the colonel in the dental clinic -This led to him getting transferred to the dental clinic at Valley Forge General Hospital -His recuperation took a lifetime -But the initial stage took about a month -The surgeons did well with what they had available to them �(00:11:36) Working as a Dentist’s Assistant -He assisted dentists by: -Assisting dentists with routine dental work -Making sure dentists had sterile instruments -Kept records of patients -He mixed fillings -Also helped with the creation of prosthetic jaws for wounded servicemen -He helped get the records organized -Helped dentists with the creation of new jaws -Did this by working with the dentists and the laboratory in the dental clinic -Made sure that patients were matched up with dentists that could best help them -He received no formal training, everything he did he learned how to do hands on -He did some basic business management in high school through his church -Helped him when he organized the records -There were originally six dentists in the clinic, and then it was reduced to four -This was because the frequency of men with severe facial wounds was decreasing (00:15:43) Working with Patients -Dentists and doctors at the hospital worked together to rebuild jaws -Creating artificial jaw bones, gums, and teeth for each wounded man -Then teaching them how to use their jaws again -About half of the patients also had brain damage -Needed to have an escort wherever they went -There was one patient that needed to be escorted to Little Rock, Arkansas -Jack was the man’s escort and personally took him there -The problem was that the man was incapable of making his own decisions -Delivered him to the VA Hospital then took a train back to Pennsylvania (00:19:21) Living Conditions -The living conditions were crude, but sufficient -He and the other medical staff lived in a barracks behind the hospital -It was cold in the winter, and snow got in, but they kept warm with a stove -Accepted the conditions for what they were -Lived with twenty-twenty five other men -There was a section of the barracks meant for getting fed -The hospital cook fed the patients and the staff (00:20:51) Visiting Philadelphia -While stationed at the hospital he also got to see Philadelphia -Did this because of the work he had to do with patients -Needed to help the patients get used to people staring at them because of being disfigured -They looked different, even after surgery, and had to psychologically adjust to that -Took them to football games and other social events where there were a lot of people -Took the patients to Philadelphia on the weekend -Took the patients around the city to see the sights -Some were able to walk, but others were bound to a wheelchair (00:22:30) Big Bands -Big bands that were touring in the area would come to hospital to play for the patients -There was a little stage on the front lawn so the patients would get wheeled out there �-He remembers when Xavier Cugat and his band came to play at the hospital -Xavier led the band while he would go out and meet the patients (00:24:20) End of Service -He spent the entirety of his military career, except for Fort Knox, at the hospital -He had signed up for an eighteen month enlistment instead of a two year one -This places his discharge date as sometime in late 1947/early 1948 -There were attempts to encourage him to stay in -He was a T4 (technical sergeant) at the time -Told that if he stayed in he would be promoted to master sergeant -He was ready to get out of the Army and go to college when the time came though (00:25:14) Life after the War -He returned to college on the GI Bill -Did the first two years of pre-dental work -Changed degrees after the final dentistry course because he stopped enjoying it -Changed his major to business -Civilian dentistry was far more routine and boring than military dentistry -Prior to graduation he was offered a job offer to be a business manager and took that job -National Union of Christian Schools (later known as Christian Schools International) -Wound up being able to work one job for about a decade, then move on to a new job -Home was always Grand Rapids, but he worked around the country -California, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula -He wanted movement in his life and was fortunate enough to get it (00:28:06) Reflections on Service -He doesn’t stare at disfigured people even today -His time in the Army taught him that they are people with feelings -After a while you stopped seeing them as just a body, but as a person � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27_StoepkerJ1745V Title A name given to the resource Stoepker, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2015 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-04-16 Description An account of the resource Jack Stoepker was born in 1928 in Holland, Michigan, and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served as an air raid warden during World War II, and enlisted in the Army in summer 1946. While training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, he injured a knee and was sent to Valley Forge General Hospital, Pennsylvania and during recovery there was transferred to the dental clinic at the hospital to work as a dentist's assistant. He specifically aided patients that had suffered severe facial trauma during the war and needed reconstructive surgery as well as physical and psychological rehabilitation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stoepker, Jack 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 World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American United States. Army Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Moving Image Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f88640944e0a183b94348c5344a9748d.jpg 32383ab9cf51c4a92f3bdbe5fd35a744 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_M214-0006a 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 1972-06/1972-08 Title A name given to the resource Stoke Pero Church, Somerset, England Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph featuring an interior view of the Stoke Pero Church, located in Stoke Pero in Exmoor National Park within the county of Somerset, England. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Churches--England--Somerset Exmoor National Park (England) Somerset (England) Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f35b6cfcc4bd7ae9c265afdd3262aaf4.jpg 71675a2fb16d881cad483648e96c9ccd 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. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_M214-0032a 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 1972-06/1972-08 Title A name given to the resource Stoke Pero Church, Somerset, England Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph featuring an exterior view of the Stoke Pero Church nestled in the rolling countryside of Stoke Pero in Exmoor National Park within the county of Somerset, England. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Churches--England--Somerset Exmoor National Park (England) Somerset (England) Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/68778124faf766c0e7ae19e6172cbde8.jpg dcbb7afbeaf3c82ca6e7133033a8ae0b 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. 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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. 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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. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/94c0172723c225250bbd22642033c5dd.mp4 9aec586c8aeb7745c8a7826a96beed29 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/03bf7d8bb747837a8d426a1fcd26902e.pdf 93b59f7454c91957bd4c4d724ba6fc2b PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Mike Stolk (1:05:47) (:22)Early Life • (:22) He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1920. He went to Union High school in Grand Rapids. • (:29) His father owned a business, making semi-trailers. He built trucks of all sizes, including the 35-foot trucks. Mike worked at the business until he joined the service. Originally his father had a shop on Leonard Street making various types of clamps for the furniture industry. One day, a milkman asked him to make some parts for his milk truck. His father decided to change his business into making trailers. They moved the shop to Front Avenue. • (2:16) At the time, he hated history and flunked it in high school. His mother warned him not to buy a used car, or a new suit because he would soon be drafted but he didn’t listen. He did not heed his mother’s warnings. (3:19) Enlistment/Training • (3:06) He was drafted; he received a 1-A card in the mail. He took the physical at the armory in Grand Rapids, and thought he would fail it. He passed it “with flying colors.” • (3:30) He was sent to Fort Custer, in Battle Creek, Michigan for the “official physical.” The men were put in a line with two medics and inoculated speedily. Some of the men were so concerned about the needles that they fainted. • (4:17) Next he was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for Basic Training. He was put in the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center. It was an artillery school set up before the war even really began. • (4:56) In civilian life, he had been on a horse once, and fell off it. They used horses at Fort Sill frequently, mostly to transport the guns. Some of the men were afraid of the horses since they were such large animals. The horses were used to pull equipment. • (5:22) The horses didn’t really bother him that much, once the sergeant told him how to handle them. Some of the other men tried to bribe the horses into good behavior with apples they saved from breakfast. The ploy did not help. • (6:07) Walking with the horses wasn’t so bad, nor was trotting. Galloping was the major problem, mostly because the helmets they wore would hit them in the face from the movement. Many of them had cut noses after awhile. They used old helmets, and old equipment generally. Most of it came from WWI, and had to be cleaned off and otherwise repaired. • (7:15) He missed his girlfriend more than anything else. • (7:33) He continued basic training at Fort Sill. Mostly he learned marching, which some of the men had problems with because they didn’t know the difference between left and right. They had a hard time with rear-marching, and oblique marching. �• (8:19) He had a pass while in New York on his way to being shipped overseas, and went to the Empire State Building. Soldiers were generally well-liked, and he the elevator operator showed him the interior the building’s superstructure. He wanted to see the top, but was not allowed since it was restricted at the time. He was given a rain check, which he still has as a souvenir. From time to time he thinks about cashing it in, but isn’t sure if it would be honored. • (9:25) He had athlete’s foot very badly for a while, and annoyed his bunkmates by rubbing his feet together and shaking the bed. (10:23) Deployed/England • (10:23) On the ship, he saw the S.S. America sign one night. He was not supposed to be on that part of the ship, and did not return to it. • (11:02) From then on, on the ship, he stayed in his bunk being sick and eating saltine crackers. Fortunately the sergeant was also horribly seasick and did not give many orders. • (11:28) The ship was in a convoy, which was escorted by the Navy. One night, he smoked a cigarette, which was not a good idea at night. The smell, and the glow could alert the enemy. He was very lucky to only do it once. • (12:30) One of his friends went into the woods while in Europe and came back with eight surrendered Germans, and he got a Luger—his first pistol. • (13:23) They landed in England, and set up the equipment. He had to tighten the screws on the trucks after assembling them. They went to Wales to train and testfire the guns. • (14:25) They had landed in Liverpool, which was a nice town. They slept in Quonset huts. The officers stayed in some local homes. • (14:46) They ate large quantities of orange marmalade, which attracted hornets. One of the men accidentally ate a hornet and was stung on the tongue. • (15:03) The officers ate better than the men. Many of the officers had English girlfriends, even the married ones. • (15:55) He was twenty-one at this time, they had men of all ages. One of the men was about forty, and he was in the radio section. They all thought that he was old at the time. That man nearly died from exhaust fumes at one point. Later he got very drunk when his older brother sent him whiskey in a can of grapefruit juice. • (17:00) The base was somewhere in the English countryside. He went to London on furlough, after the war. He wanted to go to the Netherlands, since he had family there, but he was not allowed to since the Netherlands were very impoverished at the time. He had been pen pals with Ott, a Dutch boy until he came back after the war and was unable to “sponsor” him, and they ended their friendship. His sister sponsored a cousin of theirs once. The cousin, Neil, got a job at a tool and die and bought a big Buick. • (19:02) He was in England until 1944. He did not see the German bombings of England. He also didn’t see much of other American outfits. (31:36) Active Duty in Continental Europe • (19:39) His unit was sent to France June 12th. It rained horribly their first night, and the next day was sunny. �• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • (20:02) They were sent over the Channel with black soldiers. The men were very scared. The first day in France they found a dead German, who they initially thought was black because he had changed color in the sun. (20:51) The Americans often collected souvenirs. (21:00) France was very hot and dusty. They landed at Utah Beach, probably. After landing, they killed many of the German horses and the French ate some of them. While in France, he ate horse and found it to be tough, but otherwise good. (22:12) They were in a truck convoy. He was constantly afraid of being shelled when they stopped, especially at intersections or high ground or open country. He was the driver of the truck. (22:34) One night, while he was on guard he could hear shells at night. The first man they lost was the colonel, when his jeep went over a mine. The drivers kept sandbags in their jeeps to try to absorb the shock from mines, but the bags in that jeep had been removed after getting wet and freezing. The colonel might have survived if the sandbags had been in place. He was killed at night, and the next morning he was found, with his wallet and watch missing, probably stolen by his own men. (24:25) They had 105’s, they had been trained on the French 75. (25:02) His unit was frequently in action, but he was free once the surveying was finished. After awhile his superiors noticed this, and put him on artillery observation during combat. He saw dead men frequently, and it was very disturbing, especially when they had had photographs of their family on their person. (26:19) He stayed with the infantrymen, who were staying in a captured German log cabin. One of the men very casually put his gun on the top of the shack. (27:09) They usually were out for a day at a time. They usually stayed in the area for a few days. (27:28) The Americans frequently used church steeples to see the land better. As a result, the churches were favorite targets of the Germans. The captain and the corporal were killed in a church because of a German shell. The corporal had been in C battery with him. (28:13) His battalion was usually in Patton’s Army. (28:59) His unit did not stay in Normandy very long, they were soon in Belgium. They moved frequently while in Normandy. (29:30) Once, after dinner, a corporal came in to camp and a shell nearly hit him. He was unharmed, but very badly scared. Enemy mortars often came down near street intersections, and military policemen were often hurt. The military policemen directed traffic since they didn’t trust the signs as the Germans frequently changed them. Being a medic was also dangerous; the Germans did not respect the rules of war and shot them. (31:00) Some of the men made a makeshift fire with their pup tents underneath an unfinished building. They made a fire and nearly died from the fumes. (31:30) His group stayed together for about two or three years. (31:52) He got into Belgium later. He thought France was very “dirty,” and easily perceived the difference between the Belgians and the French. He spoke �• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • German, after taking classes in high school, which helped. He helped patch over relations with a German family called Miller once when a corporal tried to seduce their daughter and accidentally set their curtains on fire. The corporal was demoted to private afterward, and assigned to “hard labor,” which at the time was KP duty. Mike talked to the family, and was given a basket of eggs, and a handmade Nazi flag as thanks. (34:50) The war moved quickly. They were at one point pulled off to help supply Patton’s Army. Sometimes the truck drivers ran out of gas. (35:31) He went to town daily to get supplies. Later in life, he travelled the same route with his wife and showed her where he had waved at a French woman each day. (36:09) The usual quartermaster did not supply them since they were away. One day, a cat got into the supplies and ate a substantial amount of raw beef. (36:49) The war continued to accelerate, and they went into Paris soon. (37:14) One of his friends, Rose, traded a carton of cigarettes to a Frenchman for a bottle of wine. When he opened it, it was full of water. He saved up his cigarette boxes for the rest of the war and traded a carton full of cardboard to a Frenchmen for a bottle of wine. (38:11) His unit was soon pulled out of the reserve, and officers were periodically sent to the front. (38:40) The officers stayed in houses, and sometimes they evacuated people to use their houses. One woman got angry with them and broke all her wine bottles. (39:15) He spoke German very well, and also spoke Dutch at home because his grandfather did not speak English. He was able to read signs in Belgium, which were in Flemish. He was glad to see Europe. (39:49) They met the Russians in Czechoslovakia. He “captured” a German Air Corps wristwatch, but later he found out it was a fraud when he tried to sell it. (40:46) The worst part of the war for him was in the Hurtgen Forest. It was dreadfully cold, and they were outdoors twenty-four hours a day. They stayed there for some time. Some of the men had never seen snow before. They pulled snow down off a tree onto Cavassa as a prank. (41:27) They were in Hurtgen Forest from the fall through the winter. (41:44) He spent some time in a pillbox, and felt very safe with the eight-foot thick walls. He stayed in the room where the food was kept, and his sleeping bag had just enough room. They took the headlights off a truck for a light source. He took a souvenir by taking the manufacturer’s plaque off of the door. (44:28) During this period they came across the German prisoners. He felt sorry for them a little. (45:22) They got lots of supplies from the men in the field. He usually traded his chocolate rations for his friends’ cigarettes rations, since his friends did not smoke. They sometimes traded cigarettes with civilians for eggs, and used a gas stove to fry eggs. He took an ammunition box to use to store his stationery. (46:41) At night, they drove with the windshields down to prevent glare. That made it even colder. �• • • • • • • • • • • • • • (47:30 They crossed the Rhine at some point. The engineers had to build a bridge over the huge river, which was dangerous because of enemy fire. They commandeered a fire truck to wash their trucks with water from the Rhine. He came back to the area later with his wife, and they saw a hotel that he had seen in the war. (49:41) If he had to live in Europe, he would live in Germany. He did not hate the Germans, it was the Nazis who were the problem. (50:17) They met a German woman who told them she hated the Nazis, and had never saluted them. They didn’t believe her and went through her things and found a picture of her saluting, so he “liberated” her radio and gave it to a Czech man. (50:32) They built two log cabins in the Hurtgen forest, and had to be careful not to take trees from any one area, which would make them obvious to the Germans aerial reconnaissance. They also used the wood from the ammunition crates. They built bunks and the roof out of pine-wood and lived relatively comfortably. (52:25) In fall it was rainy, and messy. The trucks got stuck in the mud, and they had to move them back and forth all night to prevent them freezing in the mud. While doing this one night, he broke the drive shaft on the truck. (53:03) The forest was very, very cold. He felt that the people could sense that he spoke German sometimes. The Germans would ask them how long they would say, and he never told them. He played Dutch songs on a piano. (53:52) He got a bottle of schnapps from a man. Once they got into Czechoslovakia, and they learned quickly not to pursue the girls. One of the troops killed a rabbit, and a local woman made sauerkraut for dinner. She fixed his buttons with horsehair thread. (55:07) They came across a factory that had liquid soap. He later gave it to a woman as a kind of rent payment and she was ecstatic. They stayed at a spa later as well. (55:48) They ordered items through the stock exchange. He ordered shampoo and gave it away to a local girl, Annelisa. He liked the German children because they spoke slower. She said “my mumma says you’re an angel.” She was raised a Nazi because her father was a Capitan in the German Army. (56:38) He got some items from a German woman, Klaus Frisch’s mother. He had many nice experiences in Europe. (57:04) The Russians didn’t speak very good German. They didn’t interact with the Russians very much, and spent most of the time with the Czech civilians. The Czechs didn’t like the Russians, and kept asking them when they would fight the Russians. (58:07) They ended up in Kanitze later. They met a young girl who wrote him letters in German. He continued to get letters once back in the States in 1946. “They were nice people.” (59:15) Next the trucks were put in a motor pool. They had limousines they had commandeered. Many of the men took cars and didn’t know how to care for the German cars and ruined them. (1:00:05) The trucks had to be gathered. The Army of Occupation needed the vehicles. �• (1:00:34) The rations came in round, tin cans that could ruin the truck tires. Flat tires were very bad. • (1:01:11) He often wondered later how he survived the winter. (1:01:41) Return to the States • (1:01:41) He came back to the States in November. He had earned enough points, in part because of his service and in part because of his time spent I the service. The camps were named after cigarette companies. • (1:02:40) They were told they would be sent home on a certain day, but then something would come up. • (1:03:10) They landed in New York on Armistice Day. The tugboats all whistled at them. The Red Cross handed out doughnuts. He didn’t call home because of the long lines for the telephone. He told himself the entire war he would kiss the ground, but decided not to after seeing a man get sick from drinking. • (1:04:21) His brother was from Pennsylvania and wrote him to get any dental work he needed before leaving the service. He married in1946. • (1:05:05) He worked at the Post Office, delivering mail on the West Side of Grand Rapids. His brother-in-law lived in the area so he visited them on his route. He later worked at a plating company plating car parts and making racks. He did not like the job. He earned a dollar an hour as a carpenter, and so did Peggy, at the time it was a lot of money. • (1:06:33) He made about twenty dollars an hour when he retired. He thinks the military taught him to appreciate life more, and to be more empathetic. He thinks he “has been blessed.” They had four children, two boys, and two girls. � 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 StolkM Title A name given to the resource Stolk, Mike (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stolk, Mike Description An account of the resource Mike Stolk was born in 1920, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was drafted in 1942, and trained at Fort Sill as an artillerist. His main job was to site guns and check their ranges. His unit went to England in 1942 and served in France, Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia. He discusses his experiences in the Hurtgen Forest, and occupation duty in Germany and Czechoslovakia. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-11-12 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/a78ec3351eb40e46046ccdfcdf22360d.mp4 50959e73338d8f6c05bda2df8514dfdc https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f721bdb90e0855ad829e04c17796a9e4.pdf 67385e713b419bcf20a39cd10c723aec PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Peggy Stolk Length of Interview: 23:54 (00:09) JS: We‟re talking today with Mrs. Peggy Stolk of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The interviewer is James Smither or Grand Valley State University. Mrs. Stolk, can you start by telling us a little bit of your own background. For instance, where were you born? PS: I was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and we lived here until I was about four years, and then we moved to Bay City. JS: And why did you go there? PS: Because my dad got a job there. JS: What kind of work was he doing at that point? PS: He was…furniture, he was in the furniture business. And I started school there, and we lived there until I was about 9 or 10, and then we moved back to Grand Rapids. And then I went to West Leonard school, through the sixth grade. And then I went to Harrison Park through the ninth grade. And then I went to Union and I graduated from there. JS: Okay. And what year did you graduate from high school? PS: 1942. (01:07) JS: Now you‟re growing up in kind of the depression era there in the „30s. How well or poorly was your family doing at that point? PS: Well, my family didn‟t suffer at all through the Depression. My dad had a job the whole time and we had it good. JS: Did he have a skilled enough job, or whatever he was doing, designing or whatever, that it paid decently… PS: Yeah. JS: He could do pretty well. Did you have a car in those days? PS: Yeah. We had a car. �(01:43) JS: Now as it got to be 1939 and 1940 and ‟41, so before America is in the war, were you paying much attention at all to what was going on in the world? PS: No. JS: Did you know there was a war in Europe or anything like that? PS: No. I didn‟t pay any attention to it until Pearl Harbor. (laughs) JS: Okay. What were you paying attention to, as you were there in high school? PS: I don‟t know. Just anything that was going on. JS: I don‟t know. What did people do for entertainment at that point? PS: Movies, mostly. JS: Movies. Radio? Listen to that much? PS: Yeah, the radio. JS: Okay. Now, do you remember hearing about Pearl Harbor, where you were, how that happened? (02:23) PS: My brother came home on a Sunday afternoon and he said the Japs burned, bombed Pearl Harbor. We thought he was lying. So we put the radio on. Well, we sit by the radio the rest of the day. JS: Now, let‟s see, you had a brother. Was he older or younger than you? PS: He was older. I had three brothers and two sisters. JS: And then did the brothers go into the service? PS: One brother. My oldest brother went in. He volunteered. And he went to, he was in, he landed in England three days after D-Day. So… JS: And were the other ones younger, or…? PS: Well, one of them was dead by then. And the other one was younger. And he was married with kids, so he didn‟t have to go. (03:19) �JS: Okay. Now, did you know, or were a lot of the boys that were your friends, did they run off and enlist right after Pearl Harbor? Or did they get drafted? Or… PS: Some of them enlisted, because they were only out of high school. And some of them died in the service. So… JS: Now, as the war went on, how did that kind of effect daily life back here, in Michigan? How did you…in what different ways did you know there was a war on? PS: Well, rationing was one thing. And, I don‟t know…I didn‟t pay too much attention to it. JS: Well, the rationing. What kind of stuff was being rationed? PS: Oh, sugar. Coffee. Cigarettes. We didn‟t smoke so it didn‟t bother us. And gasoline. We didn‟t have a car at that time, so it didn‟t bother us. (04:15) JS: You had a car before though, right? PS: Yeah. JS: So what happened to that? PS: Well, my dad left when I was about 11 years old. He took off and left our family. So it was my mother and my sister and I that…during the…well, it was before the war that he left. I was eleven years old. JS: So how did your family support itself at that point? PS: Well, my mother worked for the WPA and then, she did housework. JS: What kind of work was she doing for the WPA? PS: She used to make flags. (laughs) (04:50) JS: Okay. So that part of growing up must have been a little bit more of an adventure. PS: Yeah. We had hard times then, after my dad left. JS: So how did you get around? Did you just have to walk everywhere? PS: Bus. Or walking. JS: Now, what did you do once you graduated from high school? �PS: Well, when I was in high school, I worked for the NYA. It was started by Roosevelt. JS: And what was the NYA? PS: National Youth Administration. And it was for underprivileged kids. And we had, made $21 a month. And when I was in school, I had to watch a room while it was lunch hour. Or, if there was activities after school or at night, I‟d have to sit and watch coats. Or serve at banquets. And then when I graduated in February, they divided the school year in two at that time, and then I went and worked for the police station. (06:08) JS: What did you do for them? PS: I, first I started out filing and then I ended up typing driver‟s licenses. And I could have stayed there, had I taken…it went civil service, but I don‟t know why I didn‟t, cause it was hard getting a job once I was out of school. JS: How long did you stay at the police department? PS: I could only work there until I graduated, which would have been in June. JS: And then, for whatever reason, you didn‟t go and take the civil service exam, was that part of what you‟d have to do? PS: Yeah. Yeah. JS: And then where did you go after that? PS: Well, then I worked for Collier Publishing. Made $13 a week. I had to post customer‟s payments. And then I worked there a couple of years. And then I went to Colonial Bakery and there, I did office work. (07:06) JS: Okay. Now, as you were working in these different places, the police station, the publishing house, the bakery, and so forth, were there a lot of women working in those places, and doing some things that maybe men had done before? PS: No. They were mostly ladies. But when I worked at Colonial, I worked there quite a few years, and I got a telegram on Sunday night that my then boyfriend was coming home, after being in the service for four years, so I thought I‟ll call my boss up and tell him I‟m not coming in tomorrow. So I called him, and he said “whose going to do your work, if you‟re not at work?” And I said, well, whoever would do it if I was sick. And he said, well, if you don‟t come in tomorrow, you don‟t have a job. So I said, well, I quit. So, then I went and worked at Seedman/Seedman, typing tax returns, yeah. Or audits. And I worked there until I got…while I worked there, I got married and I worked there until I had my first baby. �(08:27) JS: Let‟s back up again, sort of to the war years there. One of the things that you‟d mentioned before the interview was that you‟d go with a group of girls, and so forth, to dances down at Fort Custer, down in Battle Creek. Now, tell us a little bit about that. How did that come about? PS: Well, my girlfriend, she went and she said, would you like to go. And I liked to dance and I said sure. And we went one Saturday night a month, by bus. And there were a whole bunch of girls that would do it. JS: And how old were most of the girls who were doing this? PS: Oh, in their early twenties. JS: So it wasn‟t like high school kids or things like that? PS: No. I was out of school. JS: Okay. And, so you‟d go down there by bus. Do you have any idea how long it took to get down there? PS: No. JS: So I expect at least a couple of hours if things were good, at that point. It‟s not that close to Grand Rapids. Well, how were things set up at Fort Custer? What did it look like? (09:31) PS: I think it was USO sponsored. Well, you could get soft drinks and stuff. But you couldn‟t go out of the building once you got there. You had to stay in the building. We danced. Had a lot of fun. JS: Right. Well, let‟s see. How did they keep you in the building? PS: They must have been checking, cause they told us we couldn‟t go out once we got there. JS: But you didn‟t see military police standing around, or anything like that? PS: No. No. JS: Now, did they have chaperones for this, older people who were looking out? PS: Yeah. Yeah. They had chaperones. JS: And then, for the music, did they have live bands there? Or just records? PS: I think it was records. �(10:18) JS: How big were these dances? How many people do you think were at them? PS: Oh, there were quite a few girls that went. A whole busload. JS: Were there girls coming in from other places. PS: No. They were all from Grand Rapids. Cause we didn‟t stop any place, so…” JS: Well, you are at Fort Custer, so that could draw on a fairly large area of places. Now, the men that were there. Were they sort of there once and then they‟d be gone the next time you came? PS: No. I saw that one fella there for as long as I went, cause he wanted to come to Grand Rapids to visit me, and I thought, oh…I don‟t know. And so…then I got engaged, so I didn‟t go anymore. (11:05) JS: Now, where did you meet Mike? PS: Well, I met him through his sister. His sister was my girlfriend in high school. So I met him through her. And we went together a year and a half, and then he was drafted. And he didn‟t come home for a furlough for, oh, I think it was fourteen, sixteen months. So… JS: So, you had to do something else for entertainment. PS: Yeah. Well, I used to meet my girlfriend downtown. We‟d meet every Monday, met her and we‟d have something to eat, and we‟d try on clothes. We didn‟t buy nothing but we tried them on. (laughs) And then I‟d meet girlfriends and go to the movies on Saturday nights. (12:01) JS: Were there not a whole lot of young men left in town at that point? PS: Well, there was that weather school that was here. That was in the Pantlind. And every day when I went to work, I‟d see these guys marching down Monroe. So… but that was about the only guys that were around, were those. And guys that were 4F. Or married. JS: Okay. Now do you remember things about…I guess, the government made an effort to rally people behind the cause and to get them to do different things and so forth. There were a lot of different ways they were trying to give you messages and tell you to support the guys and that sort of thing. What sort of things do you remember? I mean, obviously there was the USO stuff that you got involved in, that was cause your girlfriend brought you in. What other kinds of things were you being encouraged to do, or…how were you supposed to be supporting the war effort at home? (13:01) �PS: I don‟t know. I didn‟t do nothing. Some of my friends did socks, darned socks, but I didn‟t do any. JS: Did you buy war bonds, or things like that? PS: Oh, yeah. I bought war bonds. JS: And how did that work? I mean, did you have money taken out of your paycheck, or…” PS: Yeah. So much every week. JS: Now, was that something that pretty much everybody did, as far as you could tell? PS: No, not everybody did that. JS: But you made a decision that that was something you wanted to do, then? PS: Yeah. And to save money. JS: So it was practical on that level, too. All right. So were there people going around collecting scrap of different kinds? You know, metal and paper, that kind of thing, that you noticed particularly? PS: No. No. (14:00) JS: Was there anything going on here in Grand Rapids that you noticed, for civil defense, that sort of thing? PS: Yeah. They did have civil defense. And every once in a while, they would have bomb black outs. You‟d have to practice that. JS: And what did that mean, on a practical level? PS: Just that you‟d have to turn all your lights off. I remember that it looked kind of eerie. But other than that, I don‟t remember much of what was going on. JS: But even that was something that was a occasional drill, rather than something you had to do every night? Now, were things kind of weird, or confused, right after Pearl Harbor? Was there a lot of speculation about what we might have to do, or… PS: Well, everybody was worried then, they thought, oh boy. What‟s coming next, you know. Are they coming here? So… (15:04) �JS: So you said you weren‟t paying a whole lot of attention necessarily to what was going on in the war and stuff. Did things change once Mike got shipped overseas? PS: Yeah. Then I watched the news. And you‟d have to go to the movies to see the news reels. And I‟d read the paper. So. JS: Now, do you remember how the paper covered the war? What kinds of things showed up there? PS: Well, if somebody…the boys killed in the war, it‟d be weeks later before they‟d know about it. Their picture would be in the paper. And a write-up. But now-a-days, you‟d have it right on television. JS: That‟s right. Now, when Mike went overseas…was Mike writing to you on a regular basis? PS: Oh, yeah. JS: And was he doing that when he was gone, before you got engaged, or… PS: No. Cause he lived right…not too far from me. No, he started writing, and he was gone a long time. (16:09) JS: Um hmm. How regularly did he write, especially once they shipped him out? PS: Practically every day, but sometimes you wouldn‟t get a letter for weeks. Then you‟d get a bunch of them. So. Then you‟d wonder if something happened. JS: Did you try to follow or keep track of where he was, as best you could? PS: Well, you couldn‟t, because he wasn‟t allowed to write it. JS: He didn‟t have some kind of way of sending a code or whatever? PS: We didn‟t think about it. JS: Cause a lot of guys, when they were in the States, at least, might be able to tip off where they were. It wasn‟t to hard. Like, I‟m near Grandma‟s or something like that. But, yeah, once they got over to Europe, they did their best to cover it up. They were postmarked “New York” or something like that. PS: Yeah. They were all censored. (17:00) JS: So did you get censored letters? �PS: Pardon? JS: Did you get censored letters? Did Mike write things and then… PS: Yeah. Well, not very often but once in a while there‟d be something cut out. So then you got those v-mails. JS: The v-mails, the little photographed versions of letters. (17:26) JS: So now as the war went on and it became one year into the next, and that kind of thing, do you think people‟s view changed, or expectations changed, as it went on? PS: No, I don‟t think so. It lasted so long. JS: Did you worry that it might not ever actually end? PS: (laughs) Yeah. Then, when they dropped that bomb, that was the start of the end, so. JS: Now do you remember hearing about that, or reading about that when it happened? PS: Oh, yeah. That was big news. JS: And in the news stories, I mean this was still a little bit before the actual Japanese surrender, were they speculating that this would sort of finish off the Japanese, or just saying, hey. We got a big bomb. (18:12) PS: I don‟t remember. JS: Cause we look back at it now, we always connect the two. And they certainly made a lot of noise about it at the time. But so we like to ask, hey what do you remember about that time. But quickly enough after that, you actually have the Japanese surrender. And it‟s finally over. Now, how long did it take for life to return to something like normal back here? PS: Oh, boy. I don‟t know. A while. JS: And what were there…when the guys came back, did they have trouble finding jobs that you noticed, or… PS: Yeah. Some of them did. JS: And were there women being moved out of their jobs? Or, did you now women who did? PS: There were a lot of women in the factories at that time. I don‟t know. I didn‟t pay that much attention to it. �(19:10) JS: Now, how long did rationing go on? PS: Well, after the war, I think it was still on for a little while. But it doesn‟t seem like gasoline was rationed after the war. Although it was hard to get a car. JS: It took a while. They had to start making new ones again. PS: Yeah. And then I remember they couldn‟t get tires. JS: And that was also something that was rationed, too. You couldn‟t get those. PS: Nylons, during the war. Ad I remember once being in a store and ladies were crying because they couldn‟t get flannel, for diapers for babies. JS: so what would they use for diapers, if they couldn‟t get flannel? PS: I don‟t know. Cause…I can still see those ladies crying, cause they couldn‟t get flannel. (20:04) JS: But you didn‟t have kids until after the war, so you at least avoided that one. PS: No. That didn‟t bother me. JS: Are there other things that kind of stand out in your mind at all, about kind of what it was like, or what people were doing, or things that went on during the war that you saw or heard about, that you didn‟t get later on? PS: I remember I saved my money, I was going to go with some girlfriends to Chicago to see Frank Sinatra. And my brother told my mother, not to let us go. Not to let me go. JS: And how old were you at that time? PS: Oh, I was working so I was out of school. JS: You were still living at home at that point? PS: Oh, yeah. He said, no, don‟t let her go. So my mom said, no, I couldn‟t go. JS: Okay. Did he ever explain that one? PS: Oh, he was always after us. We couldn‟t do this, and we couldn‟t do that. And my mother would listen to him, so. JS: Now was he an older brother? �PS: He was eighteen years older than me. (21:11) JS: So did he kind of fill in in the family, once your father left? PS: Yeah. Because when he went into the service, my mother got an allotment from him, so. He always watched over us. JS: Yeah. He had to take on that job. Just make sure you stayed out of trouble. PS: And he gave us, my sister and I, each got fifty cents a week, spending money. Which was quite a bit in those days. JS: I don‟t know, what could you get, what might a teenager want in those days? PS: I saved mine. But my sister spent hers and wanted to spend mine too. (laughter) JS: Okay. Anything else from that time that sort of sticks out in your head when you think back to that time? PS: No. JS: (addresses someone else in room) Do you remember anything else? Unknown speaker: Just about your wedding, you said it was hard to find dresses… PS: Oh, yeah. When we got married, you couldn‟t find dresses for bridesmaids. Bridesmaids had different kinds of dresses on, cause you couldn‟t find two of them alike. (22:23) JS: When did you get married? PS: We got married…he came home in November and we got married in June. JS: June of ‟46, then. PS: June, 1946. JS: So that‟s going to be one area where things are in shorter supply then they were before. Unknown speaker: And wasn‟t it hard to get a wedding cake… PS: Oh, yeah. (break in video) JS: There was something about the wedding cake? �Unknown speaker: Yeah. You couldn‟t get butter or flour. PS: We had to supply our own sugar for the wedding cake, so. That was hard to get at that time. Even after the war. JS: So why would you have to…did you have the cake made by a bakery, or just have an individual… PS: Well, we had a reception at the Pantlind Hotel and they must have wanted the sugar. JS: So the Pantlind Hotel, the nicest hotel in downtown Grand Rapids, they can‟t get sugar? Okay, then. That‟s kind of an odd things to kind of have stand out. I‟m sure the Amway people wouldn‟t let that happen. (laughs) Okay I think we‟ve pretty well covered it there… (23:47) JS: I want to thank you for taking the time to talk to us today. We‟ve gotten some things here that a lot of people later on will not have known or thought about, so…thank you very much. (23:54) � 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 StolkP Title A name given to the resource Stolk, Peggy (Interview transcript and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stolk, Peggy Description An account of the resource Peggy Stolk was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up during the Depression. Her family never ran into any major problems during that time, but afterwards her father left her mother with six children to raise on her own. Peggy worked during high school and during the war, while she was waiting for her boyfriend to come home. She said that most of the young men were gone at the time and she spent a lot of time hanging out with girlfriends. She wrote her boyfriend everyday while he was fighting in Europe and they finally got married in 1946. 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