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- Description: ...The majority of the video is from the Festival ’79 in downtown Grand Rapids. There are clips from musical performances from different groups, children painting and playing, shots of the crowd, tents and food cooking, and runners finishing a race. The end of the video is footage of a fores...
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- Text: ... we were just… felt real wounded and so the funeral happened on a summer day. We had a huge box just full of costumes, and musical instruments. We were at the farmhouse, and we got all dressed up and we drove over to Grand Valley. We went to the Lake Huron Hall, which is where Thomas Jeff...
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- Text: ... what we were doing, we weren't just dabbling. So, I did stay in touch with the literature, but I had a whole career in music. I didn't really know what I was going to, you know, do. Where I would end up. I guess I still don't. And that I made several readjustments in my care...
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- Text: 00:40:58 (DJ): Currently, I’m on the board of the Grand Rapids Symphony, I’ve always enjoyed classical music, also the Princeton Theological Seminary. I’ve continued on the board of the Kellogg Foundation, and the Kellogg Company. Over the years, I’ve had many different interests.
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- Text: ...[Unknown] Yeah just real involved. He was the only person I saw… [Troost] He taught music, didn't he? [Unknown] Yeah. He's the only person I ever saw talk to everybody personally, and to the whole class at the same time. Every time he talked, you thought he was talking to y...
Russ Mawby discusses his youth on a fruit farm and involvement with 4H and the Boy Scouts, his agricultural studies at Michigan State and Purdue Universities, and his military service in the US Army. He reflects on the history of the Kellogg family, the Kellogg Company, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and his work as CEO of the W.K. Foundation. He details efforts of the Foundation in Michigan and abroad, his involvement with the Council on Foundations and the Foundation Center, and his work developing the Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Nonprofit Association, Michigan Community Service Commission, and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy. He concludes with reflections on the initiatives that have given him the most pride, and those that still need the most work.
