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While processing some unidentified Channel 9&10 News film yesterday, we were thrilled to find  moving images of a very young Michigan Governor William Milliken in his first year of office addressing a packed crowd in Central Michigan University (CMU)'s Finch Fieldhouse for President William B. Boyd's Inauguration on May 12, 1969. President Boyd is sitting behind him. President Boyd had assumed office on July 1, 1968. Folksinger Buffy Saint- Marie played at the end of the event, but was not filmed by 9&10 News. While CMU University Communications' predecessor units have still shots of the ceremony, there does not appear to be any CMU film of the event, so this is a huge find! Here are a two shots of the crowd. President Boyd is one of the most important CMU presidents. During his predecessor's tenure, the State of Michigan Special Investigative Committee of politicians agreed with CMU faculty after many hearings that we needed a union. How often does that happen?...

  It looks like a body bag, and it took two of us to lift it, but no, it is not a body bag. If you look at what Maci is holding for a clue, you'll see it's really oversized, rolled railroad drawings, which are densely packed, wrapped and taped inside several garbage bags to protect them. She's holding a smaller rolled drawing, but some of them are quite large, bigger than our processing tables. These drawings are part of the collection of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Historical Society (GTWRRHS) of Durand, Michigan. This is the second of two large "body bags" of drawings. There is also a large storage tub of them. The collection, which totaled approximately 90 cubic feet before processing, includes GTWRR annual reports and public relations publications, circulars, correspondence, administrative materials, manuals, catalogs, clippings, images, objects, and many architectural and engineering drawings. While most of the material covers Durand and Battle Creek sta...