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Former Michigan State University Trustee Delores M. Cook talks about her life changing relationship with MSU
No full textGift of the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association.Former Michigan State University Trustee Delores M. (Dee) Cook talks about her life changing relationship with the Michigan State. She recalls her youth in Detroit, her budding singing career in local radio, coming to MSU to major in Communication Arts, campus life in the early nineteen-fifties and the atmosphere of excitement and challenge on campus. An emotional Cook reflects on her love of the University, her early married life and what brought her to run for the position of Trustee. She also discuses being recruited by John Engler to run for the board, the creation of the Wharton Center and the Broad School of Business, the duties of the trustees, hiring a university president, dealing with controversy, and the great value of university faculty. Cook is interviewed by Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project
Winifred De Witt Van Zantwick-Cook : early twentieth-century life, part 2
No full textIn Part 2 of Dave Seibold's interview with Win Dewitt Vanzantwick-Cook, Mrs. Cook recalls the role of milkmen during Prohibition, taking the passenger ferry the Fannie M. Rose to the Fruitport Pavilion, and labor-saving devices utilized by women in the 1920's. The Cutler House, The Magnetic Mineral Springs and Sanitarium, the Crescent Theater, area float bridges, former Negro slaves, Grand Haven's first strike at the Challenge Stamping & Porcelain Company, and the fire of 1889 are also discussed
Memo re: Airports Advisory Committee
No full textMemo from Robert Cook, to Amon Carter regarding usage of airports for military activitie
Memo re: Airports Advisory Committee
No full textMemo from Robert N. Cook to Amon Carter with attached program for Airports Advisory Committee
Letter re: Airports Advisory Committee
No full textLetter from Robert Cook to Amon Carter regarding upcoming meeting of Airports Advisory Committee
Winifred De Witt Van Zantwick-Cook : early twentieth-century life, part 1
No full textIn Part 1 of Dave Seibold's interview with Win Dewitt Vanzantwick-Cook, Mrs. Cook describes her life in the Grand Haven area, including the Kilbourne Mill, the Akeley School for Girls, VanWessem's Candy Parlor, the Dummy Line, and the Grand Haven Basket Factory. She also remembers the flood of 1904 on the Grand River and the fire that burned First Reformed Church in 1907. Win gives a description of the Christian Church in the area and when it changed from Dutch to English services
Letter re: attached questionnaire
No full textLetter from Robert N. Cook to Amon Carter asking Carter to fill out the encolsed questionnaire regarding government employee classificatio
Letter re: Airports Advisory Committee
No full textLetter from Robert Cook, Civil Aeronautics Association, to members of the Airports Advisory Committee regarding names and addresses of members
Letter re: Airports Advisory Committee
No full textLetter from Robert N. Cook, Airports Advisory Committee, to Amon Carter regarding upcoming Airports Advisory Committee meeting in Washington
Memo re: Airports Advisory Committee
No full textMemo from Robert Cook to Amon Carter regarding upcoming Airports Advisory Committee conference in Wilmington, Delaware. Includes programs for the meeting
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