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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Another Swiss Emigre Down South, Dr. Roger R. Varin

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In June of 1951, a few days after our wedding, my wife Annemarie and

I left Bern for our honeymoon in the USA. Today, 59 years later, we are

still here, on our seemingly everlasting honeymoon.

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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: February 2011, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2011

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from February 11 and 25, 2011.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Updates: February 2011, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2011

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from February 2011.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 035, Number 19, January 31, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2010-2011, Volume 35

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Hobson, William Edward, 1844-1909 (Sc 180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 180. Petition, including typescript, signed by 21 citizens of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 16 October 1864, addressed to Major General Burbridge, requesting that Colonel William Hobson retain command of the Union troops stationed there.

Mcwhirter, James S., 1837-1862 (Sc 181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 181. Three letters written by James S. McWhirter from Bowling Green, Kentucky, January and February, 1862, to his sister Zellora near Gallatin, Tennessee, relating war activities and personal matters. McWhirter was stationed in Bowling Green with the 24th Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteers. Also, letter 10 April 1952, from Harry Jackson, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning his family relationship with the McWhirters.

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 38, January 31, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 45, July 8, 2010 - June 9, 2011

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Program; 2011-01-30, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

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Robbie Lee Wallace

African American Funeral Programs

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Velouria M. Holloway

African American Funeral Programs

Interment: Sam's Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Metter, Georgia.

Mrs. Willie Mae Johnson Mccray

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mcclean, Roberta - Collector (Sc 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 133. Emancipation deeds for three slaves signed by Henry Fisk, Montgomery County, Kentucky; letters from W. M. Perkins, New Orleans, Louisiana, to his cousin Rebecca Fisk, Russellville, Kentucky, with family news; and a blank check of the Southern Bank of Kentucky, Russellville, which was robbed by Jesse James in 1868. Includes information on the subsequent fate of Fisk’s emancipated slaves.

Interview No. 1638, Margarita R. Mendoza

Combined Interviews

Margarita Mendoza was an employee for Union Manufacturing in El Paso, TX; was born in East Chicago, IN on July 28, 1927; her parents were from Durango, Mexico; her father was a farmer for his mother’s family on their hacienda, she describes how they met when she was a baby and he was a farmhand; she reveals father’s brothers fought with the revolutionaries in the Mexican Revolution, but he came to the U.S. in 1910; she relays mother’s family struggle to escape the Mexican Revolution, she describes her parent’s courtship; she mentions they had six children while working in Kansas …

Larry P. Corso

African American Funeral Programs

Corso, Larry.pdf - Funeral program for Larry P. Corso

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 37, January 27, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 45, July 8, 2010 - June 9, 2011

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Logan, Della (Haydon), 1873-1951 - Collector (Sc 132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 132. Miscellaneous documents relating mostly to the Haydon family, including a Barren County, Kentucky tax receipt, 1869; promissory notes; and an agreement to purchase a gravestone, 1873. Also includes an agreement to sell land in Edmonson County, Kentucky, 1830.

The Grizzly, January 27, 2011, Katie Callahan, Traci Johnson, Sarah Bollert, Jessica Long, Lisa Jobe, Kristen Wampole, Megan Ormsby, Jarod Groome, Katie Haldeman, Fran Macera, Kyu Chul Shin, Jason K. Mullins, Elizabeth Burns, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Bonner Leaders Host Hunger Banquet • UC Alumnus Discusses Alternative Careers in Science • Students Find Internships While Studying Abroad • Berman Museum Opens Two New Exhibitions • MLK Celebrations • Student Experiences Australian Flood • Students Travel to Spain for New Experiences • Internship Profile: Ananda Holton • Diversity Through Monologues • Opinion: Scheduling Classes is Too Difficult; Tragedy in Arizona: The Work of a Madman; Snapshots of London From my Time Studying Abroad • Swimming Training Trip to Florida Proves Rewarding

Wiley, John R., 1842-1886 (Sc 131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 131. Union Army discharge issued to John R. Wiley of Hamilton County, Ohio, and powers of attorney given by his sisters to Leroy F. Dudley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, pertaining to the settlement of Wiley's estate. A typescript of Wiley's obituary is included.

Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), B. 1924 (Sc 2412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2412. Three Christmas cards to Patricia M. Hodges from Elizabeth Ann "Libby" Hancock, Santa Fe, New Mexico, daughter of the author Janice Holt Giles. One includes a letter with family news. Also included is a Christmas card to Hodges from The Giles Society Board of Directors.

Joe Dean Smith

African American Funeral Programs

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Bell Family - Correspondence (Sc 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 97. Letters, 1831-1871, mostly incoming from relatives and friends, written chiefly to Caleb N. Bell, Methodist minister of Todd County, Kentucky. The letters contain mainly family news and religious comments. Also biographical information.

Owen, Jordan, 1793-1876 (Sc 130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 130. Photocopy and typescript of memoir by Jordan Owen, a Virginia native and Church of Christ minister of Green and Hart County, Kentucky, outlining his early life and religious views. Includes a published biographical sketch.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 035, Number 18, January 24, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2010-2011, Volume 35

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Bowling Green-Warren County [Kentucky] Junior Chamber Of Commerce (Sc 2411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2411. Directory of 1957-1958 officers and active members of the Bowling Green-Warren County, [Kentucky] Junior Chamber of Commerce. Includes the "Jaycee Creed" and procedure for nomination of new members.

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 36, January 24, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 45, July 8, 2010 - June 9, 2011

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Mr. Troy Alan Lanier

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Mr. Troy Alan Lanier on Jan. 24, 2011 at Mercer Grove Baptist Church

Elder Nathaniel D. Dixon

African American Funeral Programs

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Sammy Lee Young Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

Sammy_Lee_Young_Jr.pdf - Funeral program for Sammy Lee Young Jr.