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WKAR (Radio station : East Lansing, Mich.)

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Amateur Radio Club records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.3.21
Scope and Content The Amateur Radio Club records cover the time period 1924-1992, with the bulk falling between 1948 and 1989. Minutes of meetings, financial transactions, correspondence, and station and contest logs make up the majority of the collection. One bound volume contains early logs for WKAR (1924) and W8SH (1927-1931), as well as minutes of meetings (1932-1936), a list of operators (1927-1936), treasurer's reports (1933) and vibration experiment notes (1925). The records also include two boxes...
Dates: 1924 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1989

Chace Newman papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.37
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of Chace Newman, including correspondence, newspaper articles, papers he authored, manuscripts, notes, drawings, collected research materials, a scrapbook of events and happenings at the college, and other materials he used to teach courses in mechanical drawing and design. There are also scripts for lectures he gave on WKAR Radio about the architecture of the home. Also include are Ruth Newman photographs which include images that are probably of...
Dates: 1894 - 1951

Joseph W. Stack papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.44
Scope and Contents The Joseph W. Stack papers relate to Stack's tenure as a professor in the Department of Zoology and as curator and director of the MSU Museum. His particular areas of interest were ornithology and bird banding. Other subjects covered in Stack's papers are the university curriculum, the Inland Bird Banding Association, and Stack's work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Materials found in the collection include maps, bird banding records, student reports and papers, manuscripts,...
Dates: 1916 - 1953

Walter L. Mallmann papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.34
Scope and Contents This collection contains the speech presenting Walter Mallmann with the Michigan Public Health Association Distinguished Service Award. Also included is the transcript and audio reels of four oral history interviews conducted by Vergil Noble for a history class at Michigan State University. In the first interview Mallmann discussed his family and life growing up in Escanaba. The second interview covers Mallmann's years as a student at Michigan Agricultural College. He talks about his...
Dates: 1913 - 1981