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Title: Taboo topics in same-sex friendships
Creator: Ohira, Misako
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Children's strategies and goals for acquaintanceship and friendship formation
Creator: Meister, Judith C.
Date: 1984
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Have your cake and eat it too" : negotiating a friends with benefits relationship
Creator: Bisson, Melissa A.
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Perceived scholastic competence, social acceptance, and close friendships among female athletes and nonathletes
Creator: Richter, Michelle L.
Date: 1998
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Intercultural friendship formation and development : a survey study based on an all-Chinese samply about the role of Facebook in the friendship between Chinese and American students
Creator: Rui, Jian
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Exploration of the relationship between friendship at work and job satisfaction : an application of balance theory
Creator: Lee, Hye Eun
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Michigan State University Professor Emeritus Donald A. Yates talks about Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and his relationship with MSU
Creator: Yates, Donald A.
Date: 2009-10-15
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In a lecture entitled "Borges and MSU", Michigan State University Professor Emeritus Donald A. Yates discusses his long personal and professional relationship with acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yates describes Borges' childhood, reads from his work and tells of helping bring the author to MSU as an artist in residence in 1976. Yates says that knowing Borges "is probably the most important thing in my life". Yates is introduced by MSU Assistant Director of Libraries Peter Berg...
Show moreIn a lecture entitled "Borges and MSU", Michigan State University Professor Emeritus Donald A. Yates discusses his long personal and professional relationship with acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yates describes Borges' childhood, reads from his work and tells of helping bring the author to MSU as an artist in residence in 1976. Yates says that knowing Borges "is probably the most important thing in my life". Yates is introduced by MSU Assistant Director of Libraries Peter Berg and MSU Professor Michael Koppisch.
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Title: Filmmaker Eiji Wakamatsu interviews Kazue Kawasaki, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945
Creator: Kawasaki, Kazue, 1930-
Date: 2009-03-29
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Kazue Kawasaki talks about losing all of her classmates in the Hiroshima bombing while she survived because she was at work in an arms factory. She talks about feeling shame in the aftermath of the bombing because she still had her clothes on while everyone else was naked and burned. She also talks about immigrating to the U.S.

Title: Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Takeo Yamashiro, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945
Creator: Yamashiro, Takeo, 1943-
Date: 2009-03-23
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Takeo Yamashiro says he does not remember anything about the Hiroshima bombing, but does remember his classmates later dying from Leukemia. Yamashiro also talks about immigrating to Canada and his views on the current proliferation of nuclear arms.

Title: Michigan State University Libraries Africana librarian Peter Limb interviews documentary filmmaker Peter Davis talks about his career, and his work to end Apartheid in South Africa
Creator: Davis, Peter, 1933-
Date: 2004-04-13
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Documentary filmmaker Peter Davis talks about his career, and his work to end Apartheid in South Africa. Peter Limb, MSU Libraries Area Studies Librarian, interviews Davis. Davis recalls his youth in London during WWII, university, teaching, and his move to film production. He explains how he became associated with Citizens Association for Racial Equality (C.A.R.E.) and developed an interest in Africa. Davis also describes film making in South Africa, the Soweto Uprising, his relationship...
Show moreDocumentary filmmaker Peter Davis talks about his career, and his work to end Apartheid in South Africa. Peter Limb, MSU Libraries Area Studies Librarian, interviews Davis. Davis recalls his youth in London during WWII, university, teaching, and his move to film production. He explains how he became associated with Citizens Association for Racial Equality (C.A.R.E.) and developed an interest in Africa. Davis also describes film making in South Africa, the Soweto Uprising, his relationship with the Mandelas, and his efforts to preserve South African films. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the African Studies Center.
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Title: Florence Nightingale talks about her friends in Balaclava during the Crimean War
Creator: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Date: 1890-07-30
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: A recording of Florence Nightingale speaking about her friends in Balaclava during the Crimean War.

Title: Ena Malin discusses her career at the Olds mansion on Main Street in Lansing, MI
Creator: Malin, Ena
Date: 2004-06-26
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Ena Malin talks about her life in domestic service at the Olds mansion on Main Street in Lansing, MI. Malin and her husband, who came to the U.S. from Germany in 1961, were employed by Gladys Olds Anderson, daughter of auto magnate Ransom E. Olds. She talks about the pressures of working for demanding, wealthy people, her duties and how she came to work at the mansion and how her husband became the family chauffeur. She also discusses the mansion's opulence, the many famous and powerful...
Show moreEna Malin talks about her life in domestic service at the Olds mansion on Main Street in Lansing, MI. Malin and her husband, who came to the U.S. from Germany in 1961, were employed by Gladys Olds Anderson, daughter of auto magnate Ransom E. Olds. She talks about the pressures of working for demanding, wealthy people, her duties and how she came to work at the mansion and how her husband became the family chauffeur. She also discusses the mansion's opulence, the many famous and powerful house guests entertained by the Olds-Anderson family, and laments the demolition of the mansion and the end of an era in Lansing high society. The interviewer is Shirley Bradley. Recording ends abruptly. Recorded in commemoration of the REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
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Title: Last one out of Michigan : songs of working and not working
Creator: Bell, Nathan
Date: 2011-02-14
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Singer-songwriter Nathan S. Bell performs and answers questions in a public performance held at the Michigan State University Main Library. Bell tells stories about his family, friends and country music personalities, and about the various jobs he has had in his life, including his current "day job" in the telecommunications industry. He also sings about life, relationships, working people and the struggle to make ends meet in a very tough world. Bell is introduced by Professor John P. Beck,...
Show moreSinger-songwriter Nathan S. Bell performs and answers questions in a public performance held at the Michigan State University Main Library. Bell tells stories about his family, friends and country music personalities, and about the various jobs he has had in his life, including his current "day job" in the telecommunications industry. He also sings about life, relationships, working people and the struggle to make ends meet in a very tough world. Bell is introduced by Professor John P. Beck, Associate Director, Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum.
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Title: Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, MI, customer services, and collaboration with designer George Nelson
Creator: Price, Betty
Date: 2011-10-25
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan during a question and answer session at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI. Price discusses her merchandising and customer philosophy, her eye for art and talent, her long friendship and professional relationship with modernist designer George Nelson and their collaborative effort to create a classy, unique environment in her store. She also describes learning the business from her father and then...
Show moreRetailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan during a question and answer session at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI. Price discusses her merchandising and customer philosophy, her eye for art and talent, her long friendship and professional relationship with modernist designer George Nelson and their collaborative effort to create a classy, unique environment in her store. She also describes learning the business from her father and then making it her own, selecting merchandise for quality, cost and design and training her sales staff to help select exactly the right piece for a customer. Price is interviewed by Sandra Seaton, recent author of an article on Price in "Modernism" mnagazine and the MSU College of Law Writer in Residence.
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Title: Peter Berg interviews prose and poetry writer Kathleen McGookey
Creator: McGookey, Kathleen
Date: 2007-10-19
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Author Kathleen McGookey talks about developing her motivation to write during college and getting published for the first time. She also talks about the work required to assemble a number of pieces for publication, her relationship with editor Robert Alexander, balancing writing with being a parent, working on a children's book, the difference between simple prose and a prose poem, and the subtle influence of Michigan on her writing. She is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian...
Show moreAuthor Kathleen McGookey talks about developing her motivation to write during college and getting published for the first time. She also talks about the work required to assemble a number of pieces for publication, her relationship with editor Robert Alexander, balancing writing with being a parent, working on a children's book, the difference between simple prose and a prose poem, and the subtle influence of Michigan on her writing. She is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Peter Berg for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
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Title: Mark Groce discusses his career as a production and material handling worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Creator: Groce, Mark
Date: 2005-11-15
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Mark describes being hired in September 1976 and losing his lunch bag on his first day. He tells about being trained and doing a variety of jobs over the years. Mark recalls doing strike duty and comments on the union. He describes a ceremony conducted for retiring fork truck operators. Mark talks about friends, hobbies and interests.

Title: Hugh B. Fox, retired Michigan State University Professor of American Thought and Language reads from his works at the Michigan Writer Series
Creator: Fox, Hugh, 1932-2011
Date: 2009-02-12
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Hugh B. Fox, retired Michigan State University Professor of American Thought and Language, talks about his life, his youth as an only child, his affliction with polio, and his strict Catholic education. He describes his eclectic interests in literature and Peruvian archeology, his conversion to Judaism, and his prolific writings. Fox reads short passages from a number of his works, both in English and Spanish. He weaves in stories of his mother and father, academic life, wives and lovers, and...
Show moreHugh B. Fox, retired Michigan State University Professor of American Thought and Language, talks about his life, his youth as an only child, his affliction with polio, and his strict Catholic education. He describes his eclectic interests in literature and Peruvian archeology, his conversion to Judaism, and his prolific writings. Fox reads short passages from a number of his works, both in English and Spanish. He weaves in stories of his mother and father, academic life, wives and lovers, and literary associates. Fox is introduced by MSU Librarian Peter Berg for the 10th anniversary session of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
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