Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and…
Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Ford’s Rouge plant.
Ann Fletcher chose engineering as a second career option, after teaching music for nearly ten years. Her career switch is a good example of the new opportunities that opened up to women as a result of WWII. She attended Wayne State University's…
Ann Francis, a member of UAW Local 652, was a pipefitter, recruiter and instructor for the UAW-GM apprentice program at Oldsmobile plant in Lansing until her retirement. Francis joined the Peace Corps after college and taught English in Malaysia.…
As of November 2005, Anna Burger served as secretary-treasurer of the the Service Employees International Union and chair of the Change to Win Federation. With SEIU she began with the Pennsylvania Social Services Union and worked her way up within…
Topics include her birth in Calumet, Mich., and her family; teaching; problems teaching English; amusements; boardinghouses; the Tamarack co-op; Vertin Brothers department store in Calumet; home remedies; and picnics.