Eastern Michigan University Archives

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The Eastern Michigan University Trophy collection is an artificial collection of items whose provenance is unknown. There are other trophies in a variety of collection including the Forensic Team records, Roosevelt School records, and Student Government, to name a few. Included in this collection is a trophy for the Ohio Relays Challenge, Homecoming and Champion of Students.

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The Jack Weiss collection contains one letterman blanket that belonged to Weiss while he attended Michigan State Normal College. Weiss lettered in both football and track and field. He was number 64 on the football team and play for four years. Weiss competed in the weights division of track and field for three years. He graduated from MSNC in 1950.

Abstract James J. Balten, Sr. born September 13, 1915 and graduated from Akron New York High School. During his time at the Normal College he was a member of the Phi Delta Pi fraternity and the Physical Education Club, held the position of lineman on the football team where he lettered in the fall of 1936, '37 and '38 and threw shotput for the Track and Field team (1938, '39). He graduated in 1939 with a Bacelor of Science degree in Physical Education. Balten served in the 505th Bomb Group during...

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The John Harold Goodsman collection contains several letterman sweaters and blanket that belonged to Goodsman while he attended Michigan State Normal College (MSNC) from 1935-39. Goodsman, nicknamed "Red" by his team, lettered in tennis and band. He played tennis for three of his four years attending the school. He was captain of the tennis team for two of his three years participating. Goodsman graduated from MSNC in 1939.

Abstract Lloyd W. Olds was an alumni, faculty member, and athletic coach at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Olds joined the EMU faculty in 1921 and worked in the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, of which he served as the department chair from 1956 to 1963. Olds was also a track and field coach at EMU and served as an associate coach of the US Olympics track and field team in 1932. Notably, Olds established the first collegiate intramural athletics department in 1921,...

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The Michigan State Normal College Track and Field Uniform collection contains one sweater and one pair of shorts. This uniform would have been worn by a men's track and field team member between 1935-1965

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Robert Packard was a student at Michigan State Normal College in the early 1930s. His collection consists of a green wool blanket that was donated by Eastern Michigan University alumni Shirley Hinkle.

Abstract Sigma Delta Psi is an honorary national physical education fraternity which promotes total fitness of male college students and was active on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in the 1920s through the 1960s. Materials in the Sigma Delta Psi collection dates from 1927 to 1967 and contains Application Records from the Michigan Normal College chapter arranged alphabetically, a series of Notecards from member John Johnson dating from 1950-1951 and Clippings...

Abstract The University Photograph files is the photographic record of the Michigan State Normal School, Michigan State Normal College, Eastern Michigan College and Eastern Michigan University. Although additional photographs reside in other collections, these subject files were compiled from photographs from the official university photographer, alumni, Aurora and the Normal News and ...

Abstract The William Henry VanFleet collection includes personal items collected by William H. VanFleet (class of 1930) and donated to the Univeristy Archives by his son, William E. VanFleet (class of 1965). VanFleet was a member of the Kappa Phi Alpha Fraternity, the 1927-29 basketball teams and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education, going on to teach Physical Education and serving as the department head at Hutchins Junior High School in Detroit,...