Black and white lantern slide of a several surveyors standing and squatting in a cultivated field with hills in the background.

Player on the Grand Valley baseball team, 1975

Andy Chopp baseball coach on left with Gordy Alderink assistant baseball coach.

Black and white photograph of a group of men playing a game of baseball at a roadside baseball field in Grant Park, Chicago. Scanned from the negative.

Lin Bashford was born in Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska, on August 20, 1946. He was drafted in April 1969 and went to Fort Ord, California, for basic training and later advanced infantry training. He was selected for Non-Commissioned Officer School and went…

Basketball in the Field House dome (GLIAC).

Basketball team 1970. On far left, head coach Dave Sharphorn. Paul Springer, assistant coach far right.

Students compete for the ball at the beginning of an intramural basketball game.

Dennis Bassett was born in 1942 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After graduating from high school in 1960, Bassett decided he wanted a different direction for his life, so he enlisted in the Army. After completing both his basic and advanced training at…

This interview session recaps the first part of Bassett's tour in Vietnam, and then covers the second half, when he was a brigade-level staff officer in the 9th Division. Bassett supervised long range reconnaissance patrols, organized and ran a…

Black and white lantern slide of two bat-wing sailboats on China's Grand Canal.

Norman Batch was born in 1925 in Muskegon, Michigan. Since he was raised on a farm, he received 6 months of deferred service, but ended up enlisting on his own. He served in the 80th Division of the 3rd Army under General Patton, and fought at Metz…