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Tag Archives: students confront Richard DeVos
Students confront Richard DeVos at GVSC in 1977
One of our earliest posting here on the GR People’s History site, was a student critique of Amway co-founders Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel by a Calvin College student in 1971. We recently came across another example of students … Continue reading
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