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2005
Marilyn Crandell Schleg, '58, Memorial Lecture
with
Mr. Hank Meijer
Co-chairman & Co-CEO of Meijer, Inc.
presenting
"Searching for Senator Vandenberg"
Senator Arthur Vandenberg
Senator Arthur Vandenberg was Michigan's most
influential senator
and an architect of U.S. foreign policy after World War
II.
Researching Vandenberg's life has been a goal of Meijer,
who will share his biographical and archival adventures.
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Tuesday, October 25th
7:00
p.m.
Wendell Will Room
Stockwell Memorial Library
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There will be a reception with music starting at 6:30 p.m.
A melodeon, also donated by the Schleg Family, will be
played
by Dr. Royal A. Ward, Professor of Theatre and Vice
President
for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.
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The
Marilyn Crandell Schleg Memorial Lecture
is funded by a gift
from the Schleg family in the name of Marilyn Crandell
Schleg, Albion College graduate of the Class of 1958.
In 1998, a love for libraries prompted
Marilyn to endow Albion College's Stockwell-Mudd Libraries
with a College Archivist position and to fund an annual lectureship. The Marilyn Crandell Schleg,
'58, Memorial Lecture provides visiting archivists,
preservationists, curators and historians the opportunity
to lecture on archival and library topics and work with
the Albion College community in preserving their legacy.
Marilyn Crandell Schleg was a medical
librarian with two Master's degrees, one in microbiology
from the University of Wisconsin and the other from the
University of Michigan in library science. Marilyn was
afflicted with Multiple System Atrophy, a form of
Parkinson's disease, for many years before her untimely
death in July of 2001. Her husband, Edward, and son,
David, now continue to fund the Lecture in her name. |
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"(My family and I) wanted to do something
for Albion
because Albion did so much for me," Marilyn
stated.
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Hank Meijer
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Hank Meijer,
53, is co-chairman and co-CEO of
Meijer, Inc., in Grand Rapids, which currently
operates 170 self-service combination
supermarket-discount department stores in Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. Hank joined
the family retail business at the age of eleven as a
bagger.
After serving as a reporter for a southeast
Michigan suburban newspaper group, he became editor
and later publisher of The Crier, a weekly
newspaper in Plymouth. He rejoined Meijer in 1979 as
assistant advertising director, and became marketing
director in 1982.
In
1984 he published Thrifty Years: The Life of
Hendrick Meijer, a biography
of the Meijer company-founder and Hank's
grandfather. To read reviews of Thrifty Years,
see
Amazon.com
and
Epinions.com.
Hank has had articles on Senator Arthur Vandenberg published in the Michigan Historical Review
("Arthur
Vandenberg and the Fight for Neutrality, 1939" from
the Fall 1990 issue, and "Hunting for the Middle
Ground: Arthur Vandenberg and the Mackinac Charter,
1943" from the Fall 1993 edition)
and he wrote the entry on the Senator for Simon &
Schuster’s Encyclopedia of the US Congress.
He
is a Trustee of the Ford Museum Foundation, Vice
President of the Grand Rapids Area Council for the
Humanities, and has been active in fundraising for
the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Hank also serves on the
boards of Fifth Third Bank, the Kettering
Foundation, and the Food Marketing Institute. |
For More Information
Hank Meijer
Senator
Vandenberg
Past Schleg
Lectures
Hank
Meijer
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InBrief. (2005, October
15). The Jackson Citizen Patriot.
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Meijer.
(2005, October 12). Wikipedia.
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Communications Office.
(2005, October 10).
Michigan Senator Vandenberg is focus for Albion
College Schleg Lecture. Albion College News.
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One-stop shopping, 168 times. (2005, May 9).
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Associated Press. (2005, April 16).
Meijer announces executive reshuffle, plans to grow
faster. Detroit News: Business.
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Meijer changes top
executives.
(2005, April 16).
Morning Sun. Mount Pleasant and Alma, Michigan.
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Meijer announces
appointments: Boyer, Meijer, and Zigerelli
Look Toward the Future. (2005, April 14).
Press Releases. Grand Rapids, MI.
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Guest, G. (2004, February 4).
Q&A with Hank Meijer: CEO calls Wal-Mart a
challenge, not a threat. Detroit Free Press.
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Rogers, D. (2003, August
6).
Bay City to make pitch to host
2006 state history conference:
State Historical Society director opens door to
local bid in speech here.
MyBayCity.com
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Dybis, K. (2003, May 4).
Fred and Lena Meijer: Their good deeds reached into
every part of the state. The Detroit News.
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Vanderheide, A. (2003,
February 23).
Role respected U.S. Senate leader of the 1940s
fondly remembered. godutch.com
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Hunt,
M. (2002).
Hank Meijer '73: Man of commerce, man of letters.
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Elinksky, J. (2002).
The American Horse. Leonardo da Vinci's
Horse.
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February 4). Press Releases. Grand Rapids,
MI.
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English, J. (2001,
September 13).
Meijer chief visits Haworth
College of Business.
WMU News.
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Brinkley, D. (2000, April 24).
History:
Of ladders and letters;
On the anniversary of Saigon's fall, a trove of
documents sheds new light on old traumas.
Time, 155(16).
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Library receives two major donations. (1999,
Spring). The Clarke Review. Central Michigan
University.
Senator Arthur Vandenberg
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Acheson, Dean. (1961).
Arthur Vandenberg and the Senate. In Sketches
From Life Of Men I Have Known. NY: Harper &
Brothers, 123-146.
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Anderson, J.E., Jr.
(1974). The ‘Operational Code’ Belief System of
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: An Application of the
George Construct. Ph.D. dissertation, University
of Michigan.
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Arthur Vandenberg.
(2005). Time Archive 1923-present.
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Arthur Vandenberg dies. (1951, April 18).
U.S. Senate.
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Truman & Hoover
Presidential Libraries. Biographical sketches:
Arthur Vandenberg. Hoover & Truman: A
Presidential friendship.
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Boulard, G. (1987,
July/August). Arthur H. Vandenberg and the formation
of the United Nations. Michigan History 71,
38-45.
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Bradshaw, J.S. (1975,
July). Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Article 51
of the United Nations Charter. Mid-America
57, 145-56.
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Briggs, P.J. (1978,
October). Senator Vandenberg, bipartisanship and the
origin of United Nations Article 51. Mid-America
60, 163-69.
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Cable, J.N. (1973,
Winter). Vandenberg: The Polish question and Polish
Americans, 1944-1948. Michigan History 57,
296-310.
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Classic Senate speeches: Arthur H. Vandenberg,
American foreign policy. U.S. Senate.
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Dunlap, A.N. (1955).
The Political Career of Arthur H. Vandenberg.
Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University.
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Eldersveld, A.M. (1960).
A Review and Thematic Analysis of Arthur H.
Vandenberg’s Senate Addresses on Foreign Policy.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan.
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The "Famous Five, now the "Famous Seven".
U.S. Senate.
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Fetzer, J. (1974,
February). Senator Vandenberg and the American
commitment to China, 1945-1950.” Historian
36, 283-303.
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Gazell, J.A. (1973,
September). Arthur H. Vandenberg, internationalism,
and the United Nations. Political Science
Quarterly 88, 375-94.
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Grant, P.A., Jr. (1992,
Spring). The Michigan Congressional Delegation and
the Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940. Michigan
Historical Review 18, 71-81.
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Gregg, R.G. (1975,
April). A rhetorical re-examination of Arthur
Vandenberg’s ‘Dramatic Conversion,’ January 10,
1945. Quarterly Journal of Speech 61, 154-68.
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Hill, T.M. (1970).
The Senate Leadership and International Policy from
Lodge to Vandenberg. Ph.D. dissertation,
Washington University.
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Hill, T.M. (1975-1976,
Winter). Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, the politics
of bipartisanship, and the origins of anti-Soviet
consensus, 1941-1946. World Affairs 138,
219-41.
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Hindley, M. (1998,
November/December).
How the Marshall Plan came about. Humanities,
19(6).
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Hudson, D.J. (1977,
Winter). Vandenberg reconsidered: Senate Resolution
239 and American foreign policy. Diplomatic
History 1, 46-63.
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Kling, M. (1949). The
tenability of isolationism and internationalism as
designations of the foreign policy of the United
States—A case study of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
and Representative Vito Marcantonio. Ph.D.
dissertation, Washington University.
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Lehman, R.F., II.
(1975). Vandenberg, Taft, and Truman: Principle
and politics in the announcement of the Truman
Doctrine. Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate
School.
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Moore, N.S. (1954). The
role of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg in American
foreign affairs. Ph.D. dissertation, George Peabody
College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University.
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Neil, M.S. (2003-2005).
Senator Arthur Vandenberg. The Studio of
Michael Shane Neil.
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Patterson, J.W. (1970,
October). Arthur Vandenberg’s Rhetorical Strategy in
Advancing Bipartisan Foreign Policy. Quarterly
Journal of Speech 56, 284-95.
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Patterson. J.W. (1961).
A Study of the Changing Views in Selected Foreign
Policy Speeches of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg,
1937-1949. Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Oklahoma.
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Portraits approved for Senate reception room.
U.S. Senate.
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The Private Papers of
Senator Vandenberg. (1952). Vandenberg, A.H.,
Jr., & Morris, J.A. (Eds.). Westport, CN: Greenwood
Press.
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Reston, J. (1969,
Spring). Arthur Vandenberg. Michigan Quarterly
Review 8, 73-82.
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Senator Arthur Vandenberg: A profile in courage.
(1998, April 6). Mackinac Center for Public
Policy.
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Silverman, S.A. (1967).
At the Water’s Edge: Arthur Vandenberg and the
Foundation of American Bipartisan Foreign Policy.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los
Angeles.
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Stennis history. (2004, November 25).
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Tompkins, C. D. (1967,
Spring). Arthur Vandenberg goes to the Senate.
Michigan History 51, 19-35.
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Tompkins, C.D. (1969,
Summer). Profile of a progressive editor.
Michigan History 53, 144-57.
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Tompkins, C.D. (1970).
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: The Evolution of a
Modern Republican (1884-1945). Lansing, MI:
Michigan State University Press.
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Tompkins, C.D. (1960,
March). Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg: Middle
western isolationist. Michigan History 44,
39-58.
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U.S. Congress. (1951).
Memorial Services Held in the House of
Representatives and Senate of the United States,
Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Arthur
Hendrick Vandenberg, Late a Senator from Michigan.
82d Cong., 1st sess., 1951. Washington: Government
Printing Office.
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Vandenberg, A.H.
(1921). The greatest American, Alexander Hamilton.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
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Vandenberg, A.H. (1923).
If Hamilton were here today: American
fundamentals applied to modern problems. New
York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
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Vandenberg, A.H. (1926).
The Trail of a Tradition. New York: G.P.
Putnam’s Sons.
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Vandenberg, A.H. (1945,
January 10).
American Foreign Policy.
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Vandenberg, Arthur
Hendrick. Biographical Dictionary of the United
States Congress.
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Wilcox, F.O. (1975).
Arthur H. Vandenberg: his career and legacy.
Michigan Historical Collections Bulletin no. 25.
Ann Arbor: Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley
Historical Library, University of Michigan.
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Yang, R.H. (1974,
September). Chairman Arthur H. Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee and China Policy,
1947-1948. Chinese Culture 15, 76-99.
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Yang, R.H. (1966).
The role of Chairman Arthur H. Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 80th
Congress, 1947-1948. Ph.D. dissertation, New
School for Social Research.
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Listed in the
Dictionary of American Biography and American
National Biography
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Research Collections at
Central Michigan University, Columbia University,
Cornell University Libraries, George C. Marshall
Research Foundation Library, Hagley Museum and
Library, Indiana State Library, Joint Archives of
Holland (Hope College), Knox College, Library of
Congress, Michigan State University, U.S. Senate,
University of Oklahoma, University of Michigan,
University of Virginia, Wayne State University, Yale
University Libraries.
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Items related to
Vandenberg can be found at Harvard Law School
Library, Radcliffe College Schlesinger Library,
State Historical Society of North Dakota, Syracuse
University, University of Pennsylvania.
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