Interview of philanthropist Selma Hollander on her firendship with retired faculty Dixie Platt, husband Stanley Hollander, and her life at Michigan State University
In an oral history interview, Selma Hollander talks with retired Michigan State University faculty Dixie Platt about their fifty-year friendship. Platt reminisces about coming to Hollander's home and tip toeing through an art project that Hollander had laid out on her living room floor. Platt also talks about living next door to the Hollanders in the Marilyn Apartments as a new faculty member and being introduced to other MSU faculty and administrators by the Hollanders when she came to visit. Hollander talks about pursuing her bachelor's and masters' degrees at MSU, exhibiting her art at various venues including, the Wharton Center, teaching classes, aging, fashion and travel. She also talks about her husband Stanley's blindness and how, with her help, he was able to continue teaching and traveling and her recent one-hundredth birthday party. The third of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2018-06-19
- Interviewees
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Hollander, Selma
- Interviewers
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Platt, Dixie
- Recordist
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Vincent Voice Library
- Subjects
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Hollander, Selma
Platt, Dixie
Hollander, Stanley C. (Stanley Charles), 1919-2004
Michigan State University
Friendship
Learning and scholarship
Philanthropists
Travel
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:12:05
- Venue Note
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Recorded 2018 June 19
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 42635
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b12827010
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