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Dr. Jack Carmichael, Michigan State University alumnus and noted chemist and expert in environmental pollution studies and industrial development discusses his life and career in a wide-ranging oral history interview
No full textDr. Jack Carmichael, Michigan State University alumnus and noted chemist and expert in environmental pollution studies and industrial development discusses his life and career in a wide-ranging oral history interview. Carmichael reminisces about growing up in Ravenswood, WV, becoming an Eagle Scout, being voted "best Thespian" in school and later being chosen as valedictorian of his class, all while working in the family business. Carmichael talks about leaving home to major in chemistry and physics at Ohio Wesleyan, taking a job with Dow Corning in Midland, MI after graduation and later coming to MSU in the early 1960s to earn his doctorate degree. Carmichael also talks about his post-doctoral work at the University of Oregon, teaching at the University of Massachusetts, changing direction to tackle environmental issues, joining the Peace Corp, consulting with American cities and foreign countries on clean water and sanitary systems, and starting a family while working for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Carmichael is interviewed by his daughter Christine Carmichael, doctoral candidate in the MSU Department of Forestry
Glenn Carmichael and Aili Carmichael Interview, April 28, 1987
No full textGlenn and Aili Carmichael discuss the history of Butte, Montana. Glenn Carmichael describes how his family came to in Montana, when he met Senator William A. Clark as a child, and how he ended up working in medicine. The couple talk about the Prohibition and the Great Depression, recalling when President Franklin Roosevelt closed the banks. Glenn Carmichael reminisces about working as a doctor during the Depression, the birthrate in Butte, and becoming the head of the Maternal and Child Health Committee for Montana. He describes the lack of obstetrics standards, how women preferred to have babies at home, and the prevalence of impetigo in hospitals. Aili Carmichael discusses the nursing standards in the 1930s, and compares them to the nursing standards of the 1980s. Both recall changing medical standards during World War Two, and starting Red Cross nursing aide training program during the war.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/depressioninmissoula_oralhistory/1004/thumbnail.jp
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No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Frank Junior Carmichael being charged with murder in Fort Worth
Stokely Carmichael Speech at Huey Newton Rally
No full textThis recording features a speech by Stokely Carmichael at a Huey Newton rally on August 22, 1968. Huey was a young black man convicted of murdering police patrolman John Frey in November 1967. Carmichael joined others in the Black Panther party to advocate Huey\u27s release. In this speech, Carmichael also speaks against racism, capitalism, imperialism, and the Vietnam War.
For more information about Carmichael, please see this obituary and biography.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/library_lectures/1010/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview: Mary Carmichael
No full textThis interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Mrs. Mary Carmichael, born January 12, 1920, began working at the Owens plant in the corrugated department in 1943. She was transferred to the selecting department when automation displaced her from her job in corrugated. Later, Mrs. Carmichael was promoted and worked as an inspector in the selecting department. In this interview, Mrs. Carmichael discusses the details of the jobs she performed, union activities, strikes, automation, and company-sponsored activities. Furthermore, she talks about the plant production during WWII and the issue of job segregation. Finally, Mrs. Carmichael talks about the physical problems she continues to have because of the strenuous work she performed at the glass factory.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1399/thumbnail.jp
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael collection, MSS.0279
No full textAbstract: A miscellany of material relating to this University of Alabama president, including a newspaper clipping, a Carmichael writing entitled "The Function of Instinct in Education," and a scrapbook.Scope and Content Note: The collection contains a miscellany of material relating to Carmichael, including a newspaper clipping, "Dr. Carmichael to be Honored at UA" (1973), a Carmichael pamphlet entitled "The Function of Instinct in Education," and a scrapbook.Biographical/Historical Note: Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, born on 3 October 1891, was an educator who earned his A.B. (1911) and M.A. (1914) degrees from the University of Alabama. He taught German and French at the University of Alabama, 1911-1912, and at Florence Normal School, 1912-1913, before entering Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1913. However, his studies there were interrupted by World War I. Following the war he taught high school and served as a principal before becoming dean and assistant to the president of Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) in 1922. From 1926 to 1935 he was President of that institution. In 1935 he was appointed Dean of Vanderbilt University's graduate school, serving in that capacity until 1937. He was also the University's vice chancellor, 1936-1937 and chancellor, 1937-1946. He left Vanderbilt and served as President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, from 1946 to 1953. In 1953 he was named President of the University of Alabama, from which post he retired in 1957. Carmichael was author of Changing Role of Higher Education (1949), Universities: Commonwealth and American (1959) and Graduate Education: a Critique and a Program (1961). He died on 25 September 1966
Jere Nash Interview with Gil Carmichael
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Gil Carmichael as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. A Republican, Gil Carmichael unsuccessfully ran for a state senate seat in 1967; incumbent U.S. Senator James O. Eastland\u27s seat in 1972; Mississipp governor in 1979; and Lieutenant Governor in 1983. Topics covered include his family; education; military service in World War II and Korea; his automobile dealership and real estate businesses; joining the Republican Party in Mississippi; Rubel Phillips; influence of election commissioners; Prentiss Walker; Charlie Sullivan; Republican National Convention in 1968; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Hurricane Camille redevelopment commission; James O. Eastland; school desegregation; James Meredith; Robert Clark; Charles Evers; Ellis Bodron; Walter Brown; Clark Reed; Haley Barbour; Spiro Agnew; appointment to Highway Safety Advisory Committee and the Department of Transportation; need for a new Mississippi Constitution; gun control issue; Leon Bramlett; Gerald Ford; Sonny Montgomery; and James Meredith
Dr. Bill Carmichael and Dr. Nancie Carmichael
No full textDr. Bill and Dr. Nancie Carmichael speak on relationships and how a good relationship with yourself helps you to have good relationships with everyone else.
Bill and Nancie Carmichael have been teaching and writing about topics such as Leadership, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and Family Relationships. The Carmichael’s speaking and writing work drew them into the publishing world. They are the founders of Good Family Magazines, which included Christian Parenting Today, Virtue, and Parents of Teenagers magazines, with a combined readership of over one million. After selling the GFM, they founded Deep River Books, which has, since 2001, published over 400 authors and tens of thousands of books. Bill and Nancie are the authors of many books published by Tyndale, Moody, Thomas Nelson, Harvest House and others, including: Seven Habits of a Healthy Home; Lord, Bless My Child; Lord, Bless This Marriage; Praying for Rain; Desperate For God, How He Meets Us When We Pray; and Your Life, God’s Home; The Missionary (a novel by Bill), and Surviving One Bad Year, Spiritual Strategies to Get You Through to a New Beginning, by Nancie.
Bill’s education includes a Masters degree in Family Counseling from the University of Santa Clara, a Bachelor of Science from Vanguard University, a degree in Pastoral Theology from Bethany University. Nancie earned her Master’s degree in Spiritual Formation at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. Both Bill and Nancie have been given honorary doctorates from Corbin University for their writing and speaking achievements.
Bill and Nancie’s greatest delight is their family. They have five children and thirteen grandchildren. They make their home in Camp Sherman, Oregon, a tiny town in the mountains of Central Oregon located on the Metolius River that boasts of having one general store and a post office
Stokely Carmichael Speech at Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington
No full textThis recording features a speech by Stokely Carmichael, given on April 19, 1967, at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. Here Carmichael speaks out against racism and the Vietnam War. Please note: This recording contains strong language that should be understood within its historical context.
For more information about Carmichael, please see this obituary and biography.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/library_lectures/1009/thumbnail.jp
Raymond B. Witt correspondence with Benjamin Carmichael, 1966 May 19
No full textLetter from Raymond B. Witt to Chattanooga Public Schools superintendent Benajmin E. Carmichael reviewing and evaluation a desegregation plan recently adopted by the school board of Richmond, Virginia
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