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Smuckler, Ralph H.

 Person

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

03_29_06-ISP_AwardsCeremony

 Digital Work
Identifier: 8cdee99a-43a2-4540-a99c-502a50c9e7f3
Dates: 2023-05-30 - 2023-05-30

Donald Hayworth papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.216
Scope and Contents The Donald Hayworth papers consist of political campaign material, photographs, scrapbooks, and personal certificates of Hayworth’s career. Also, the collection contains a scrapbook of a lecture tour of Louise Morley, “Role of British Youth and Women in World War II”. Also include are film of Report from Washington in which Congressman Donald Hayworth, U.S. Representative for the 6th Congressional District of Michigan, reports to his constituents on matters of special concern to his...
Dates: 1943 - 1958

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 1), 1955

 Item — Reel 85
Scope and Contents

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include the country's resources, technical assistance programs, geographical location, barbed wire barricades and bomb shelters, burning of opium pipes and retaliation against vices.

Dates: 1955

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 2), 1957

 Item — Reel 86
Scope and Contents

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include appointing staff for the Vietnam Project, moving staff and their families to Saigon ("cultural shock"), transportation, Vietnamese society, issues with housing and slums, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the National Assembly, architecture, Catholicism, the building where the Michigan State University Group is housed, and meetings headed by Dr. Wesley Fishel.

Dates: 1957

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 3), 1957

 Item — Reel 87
Scope and Contents

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include security issues in Vietnam, economic and social development, Ngô Đình Diệm's election to the presidency, ad hoc responses to issues brought up by President Diệm, and aid to Vietnamese villages (including farming, and the creation of roads).

Dates: 1957

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 4), 1957

 Item — Reel 88
Scope and Contents

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include the Michigan State University Group's programs in Vietnam, the National Institute of Administration (NIA) in Saigon, other technical assistance programs worldwide, and the education and police training at the NIA.

Dates: 1957

Michigan State University: Technical Assistance Program, Vietnam (reel 5), 1956

 Item — Reel 89
Scope and Contents MSU professors Edward Weidner and Ralph Smuckler discuss police training, and the first scenes show MSU professor Richard Rogers visiting a civil guard camp. Field training exercises are shown, and Weidner and Smuckler discuss issues with resettlement due to lack of proper police force training. The professors suggest the ideas of in-service training placement, and the creation of police records. Weapon proficiency training footage is shown. Shots of a Vietnamese municipal police...
Dates: 1956

MSU 125th Anniversary Oral History Project records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-13.3.5
Scope and Content

The collection is arranged into six series. They are Transcripts; Restricted Drafts, Duplicate Copies, Research Accomplishments, Project Committee Records, and Reel to Reel Audio tapes.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Nicolaas Luykx papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.235
Scope and Contents The papers contain correspondence from Luykx to Akhter Hameed Khan. Khan was a Pakistani scholar, an activist for rural development, an advisor for the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, and a visiting Michigan State University professor. There are also speeches and articles by Khan about rural development and the MSU Pakistan Project in Comilla, East Pakistan. The papers also contain articles by Edgar Schuler related to the project and Khan. In addition, there are articles written by...
Dates: 1958 - 2002

Ralph H. Smuckler papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.234
Scope and Contents

Smuckler’s papers consist of chronological correspondence, memos, articles and reports related to the Michigan State University Vietnam Project. A copy of Smuckler’s book A University Turns to the World is also available. His book is an autobiographical account of his career at MSU.

Dates: 1955 - 2003

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Collection 6
Archival Object 5
Digital Record 1
 
Subject
Technical assistance, American -- Vietnam (Republic) 5
Letters (correspondence) 3
Photographs 3
Publications 3
Scrapbooks 3