Official publication of the Ypsilanti Historical Society, featuring articles and reminiscences of the people and places in the Ypsilanti area FALL 2015 In This Issue...
In Search of the Real Rosie the Riveter...... 1 By James Mann The Mushroom Traffic Signals....6 By Al Rudisill The George Families of River Street...... 8 In Search of the By Jan Anschuetz Finding George Family REAL Tombstones in the Anschuetz Family Backyard...... 14 By Robert Anschuetz ROSIE One Towner House...... 16 By James Mann THE Big Sister is Watching...... 18 By Fred Thomas RIVETER Holy Trinity and the Anniversary That Will Not Be...... 20 BY JAMES MANN By James Mann Return of Education (James Mann is a local Movie Night...... 23 author and historian, Hosted By: James Mann a volunteer in the YHS The Way We Word...... 24 Archives, and a regular contributor to the By Richard Lederer Gleanings.) Incident at the Archives...... 28 By James Mann Society Briefs
From the President’s Desk...... 2 Society Board Members ...... 2 Museum Board Report...... 15 Membership Application...... 29 The original “We Can Do It” poster. GLEANINGS Sponsors ...... 31 s part of the effort to save the of the women who set the record were Advertising Application...... 31 Willow Run Bomber Plant from dressed as Rosie the Riveter. Ademolition, some 776 women dressed as Rosie the Riveter to set a The requirements were based on the Guinness Book of World Record. The World War II era “We Can Do It” poster. requirements for participation were This poster has come to be accepted as stringent, the white poke-dots on the the image of Rosie the Riveter, urging YpsilantiHISTORICAL SOCIETY red bandanna had to be the right size women to leave the traditional role of 220 North Huron St. |Ypsilanti, MI 48197 and the women had to have on the right homemaker and replace men in the fac- shoes and pants. The women succeed- tory. The problem is the girl in the post- www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org ed in achieving their goal. Pity, none er was not Rosie the Riveter. There is
From the PRESIDENT’S DESK BY ALVIN E. RUDISILL Ypsilanti HISTORICAL SOCIETY e have installed a “Charles S. Kettles” display in the Edmunds/Ypsilanti Room in the Museum. Lt. Colonel Kettles served during the Vietnam Board of Trustees: WWar and is currently being considered for the Medal of Honor. The Maria Davis, Virginia Davis-Brown, program at our 2:00 pm, Gerald Jennings, Val Kabat, September 27th, Member- Jackson Livisay, Karen Nickels, ship Meeting will be pre- John Pappas, Alvin Rudisill, sented by Bill Nickels and Diane Schick, Robert Southgate, Nancy Wheeler will feature the service of Lt. Colonel Kettles. The Museum Advisory Board: display will be dedicated Virginia Davis-Brown, following the program Kathleen Campbell, Marjorie Fahndrich, and meeting. Make sure Jackson Livisay, Fofie Pappas, you place the September Robert Southgate, Rita Sprague 27th Membership Meeting Nancy Wheeler, Daneen Zureich on your calendar. Archives Advisory Board: The YHS Museum and Kim Clarke, Maria Davis, John Pappas, Archives was part of the Gerry Pety-ex officio, Hank Prebys, George Ridenour, Diane Schick, “Walking Tour of Histori- Jane Schmiedeke, Lisa Walters, cal Sites” that took place Bette Warren at the Ypsilanti Heritage Endowment Fund Festival. Many people Advisory Board: toured the museum and archives and had their The display case in the Edmunds/Ypsilanti Room featuring the military Nat Edmunds, Lynda Hummel, service of Lt. Colonel Charles Kettles. Mike Kabat, Paul Kuwik, “ticket” punched so they Don Loppnow, Michael Newbury, would be eligible for the tour prizes. First prize was $1,000 and second prize was Karen Nickels, Melanie Parker, Steve Pierce, Alvin Rudisill a $500 golf and weekend stay at the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor Marriott Hotel. We are looking for authors to contribute articles for the Gleanings. With the • passing of prolific authors Phil Barnes and Tom Dodd it has been somewhat of Ypsilanti Historical Society a struggle to gather the number of stories we need to fill the available space. 220 North Huron Street Please call me at 734-476-6658 or email me at [email protected] if you are interested Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197 in submitting a story or in becoming one of our regular contributors. Museum: 734.482.4990 Archives: 734.217.8236 One of our new projects in the Archives is to transcribe the many “Oral History” www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org audio tapes that have been produced over the years by YHS members and many • others, including A. P. Marshall who produced a series on African American his- tory in Ypsilanti. Alice Calder started this project a couple of years ago and now volunteer Sam Smaltz has taken on the responsibility. A new collection titled GLEANINGS Staff “Oral Histories” will be established and the printed version of each audio tape Editor...... Al Rudisill along with the actual audio tape will be placed in a folder in a file cabinet. Assistant Editors...... Peg Porter Fofie Pappas I want to thank all of the volunteers who serve on our boards, docent in the Mu- Kenneth Warner seum, provide services in our Archives, or provide other services to the Ypsilanti Design & Layout...... Pattie Harrington Advertising Director...... Michael Gute Historical Society. Without their efforts it would be impossible to provide the Finance Director...... Karen Nickels many services available through the Society. Distribution...... Michael Gute
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2 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org In Search of the Real Rosie the Riveter continued from page 1 nothing in the poster, to indicate that her name is Rosie or Rosie, brrrrrrrrrrr, the riveter that she is a riveter. The poster tells us, “We can do it,” but does not tell us what we are to do. Rosie’s got a boyfriend, Charlie The “We Can Do It” poster was the work of graphic artist Charlie, he’s a Marine J. Howard Miller, who was commissioned by the Westing- Rosie is protecting Charlie house Company to create a series of posters. The purpose Workin’ overtime on the riveting machine of this series of posters was not to empower women, or encourage women to join the workforce, but to discourage When they gave her a production ‘E’ disputes between labor and management. Workers were She was as proud as a girl could be encouraged to meet production goals, cooperate with There’s something true about, red, white, and blue management and accept corporate values. Workers were about not to consider joining a union, demand higher wages or Rosie, brrrrrrrrrrr, the riveter better working conditions. The posters were displayed in employee only areas of Westinghouse plants, and were Doo-doo-doo-doo never seen by the general public during the war years. Ev’ryone stops to admire the scene On the bottom of the “We Can Do It” poster is the West- Rosie at work on the P-19 inghouse logo, as well as the words, War Production Co- She’s never twittery, nervous or jittery ordinating Committee, a Westinghouse committee to deal I’m Rosie, hm-hm-hm-hmm, the riveter with issues that might affect war production. The woman is wearing a badge on her collar, such as workers wore on What if she’s smeared full of oil and grease the plant floor, and includes an employee number. In the Doin’ her bit for the old lend-lease bottom left corner of the poster are the instructions: “Post Feb. 15 to Feb. 28.” The poster was taken down after this She keeps the gang around, they love to hang around time and forgotten until the 1980’s, when it reemerged as Rosie (Hm-hm-hm-hm, that’s me, the riveter) a feminist icon. Rosie buys a lot of War Bonds The young woman in the poster was most likely mold- That girl really has sense ed after Geraldine Hoff Doyle, who graduated from high school in Ann Arbor, and at age 17, found employment as Wishes she could purchase more Bonds a metal presser in the American Broach & Machine Co. of Putting all her extra cash in National Defense Ann Arbor. She left the factory after only a few weeks, be- cause as a cellist, she feared she might injure her hands in Oh, when they gave her a production ‘E’ the machine. During her brief time at the factory, she was She was as proud as a girl could be photographed by a wire service photographer. The photo- There’s something true about, red, white, and blue graph shows Doyle standing at the metal press, wearing a about bandanna with white poke-dots. This image may have in- Rosie the riveter gal spired J. Howard Miller to create the We Can do It poster. Doyle did not know of the poster, until 1984. While other girls attend their favorite cocktail bar At about the time the We Can Do It poster was being tak- Sipping dry Martinis, munching caviar en down, to be replaced with the next one in the series, There’s a girl who’s really putting them to shame the song Rosie the Riveter was being released. The song Rosie is her name was the work of Redd Evens and John Jacob Loeb. The two may have been influenced by the story of Rosalind P. Oh, Rosie buys a lot of War Bonds Walter, who was employed by Corsair, building the F4U That girl really has sense marine gull-winged fighter plane. Wishes she could purchase more Bonds All the day long, whether rain or shine Putting all her extra cash into National Defense She’s a part of the assembly line She’s making history, working for victory Oh, Senator Jones, who was in the know Rosie, brrrrrrrrrrr, the riveter Shouted these words on the radio Berlin will hear about, Moscow will cheer about Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage Rosie (Hah-hah-hah-hee-hee-hee), Rosie Sitting up there on the fuselage (Hee-hee-hee-hee) That little frail can do more than a male can do Rosie the riveter gal
3 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS In Search of the Real Rosie the Riveter continued from page 3
The original “We Can Do It” poster may have been inspired by a photograph of Geraldine Hoff Doyle taken by a wire service photographer.
The song was originally recorded by Kay Kyser, the big band leader, and was played on radio, becoming a hit. Norman Rockwell, the popular cover illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, was almost certainly among those who had heard the song. This was when women were leav- ing the home to work in industry, as the men were entering military service. Early in the war effort, there was not only a call to arms, but a call to the production line. At Willow Run, the work force would hit a high of 60% women out of the 42,000 workers there. Normal Rockwell, the cover illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post asked Mary Doyle Keefe to pose for the cover of the 1943 Memorial Day issue. Rockwell asked Mary Doyle Keefe, then a 19 year old red- haired telephone operator, to pose for a picture. Mary The Rockwell Rosie is not as well known today as the “We Doyle Keefe agreed, and posed twice for Rockwell, and for Can Do It” poster, perhaps in part because of concerns this she was paid $10. The finished picture was the cover over copyright. The cover was published soon after the for the May 29, 1943, Memorial Day, issue of The Saturday release of the song “Rosie the Riveter” and the publishing Evening Post. This image is clearly “Rosie the Riveter.” company may have feared it could be sued over copyright infringement. We know this is Rosie, because her name is on her lunch- box. She is clearly a riveter, as there is a large rivet gun At about this time Hollywood leading man actor Walter in her lap. The focus of the cover is her large masculine Pidgeon arrived at the Willow Run Bomber Plant near Yp- arms, and she is wearing rouge and lipstick, as well as nail silanti, Michigan, to appear in a promotional film for war polish. She is dressed in overalls, as women did not wear bonds. There he met Rose Will Monroe, who was employed pants in public at this time. That would change as the war as a riveter. A real woman named Rosie, who was working went on. She wears penny loafers, as there were no safety as a riveter in an aircraft factory was too good to pass up. shoes made for women until July of 1943. One foot rests on She was asked to appear in the film, and she agreed. As her a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. This gal means business. daughter Vicki Javis noted years later, “Mom happened to be in the right place at the right time.” In fact, Mary Doyle Keefe did not have the masculine build of the cover image, and she took a lot of ribbing because of Born Rose Will Leigh on March 12, 1920, at Pulaski County, it over the years. “The kidding you took was all my fault,” Kentucky, she was one of nine brothers and sisters. “She wrote Rockwell in a 1967 letter, “because I really thought was,” as her daughter recalled, “the one who was a tomboy you were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.” who could use tools. She could do everything.” Rockwell was known for his penchant for touches of hu- She moved to Michigan with her two children, after the mor and satire in his work. Not long after the publication death of her husband in an automobile accident, to seek of the issue, it was noticed the Rosie bore a remarkable employment in the war industry. Her hope was to be cho- resemblance to Michelangelo’s Prophet Isaiah from the sen to learn to fly transport planes to carry aircraft parts ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. around the country. She was passed over, because she was
4 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org a single mother. Instead, changed life in Ameri- she went to work on the ca, including the role of line, as a riveter. women. Before the war, women were expected to The movie was shown be content as housewives throughout the nation in and mothers. Working theaters between the fea- and living on their own tures, to encourage the brought a new freedom sale of war bonds. After to many, and they were the war, Rose drove a never going back to the cab, operated a beau- old ways. The number ty shop and founded a of women working out- construction company side the home has never called Rose Builders. dropped to prewar levels She died at the age of 77 Walter Pidgeon visited the Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti and since. in 1997. asked Rose Will Monroe to appear in a film, which she agreed to do. There is no wonder in Geraldine Doyle, of this, as They Can Do It. the We Can Do It poster, married Leo Doyle, a dentist, in 1943. The couple had six children. She died at the age of (James Mann is a local author and 86 in 2010. historian, a volunteer in the YHS Archives, and a regular contributor to The experience of the war years the Gleanings.)
JUST IN! The World Record that was set in Ypsilanti last year with over 700 Rosie’s has just been broken in Richmond, California with over 1,200 Rosie’s showing up.
5 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS The Mushroom Traffic Signals BY AL RUDISILL ccording to the “History of Ypsilanti” on the city’s web site: “By the 1920s, officers had begun to pa- Atrol the streets in a Model A Ford wielding two submachine guns. The first man to actually be called Police Chief was John F. Connors, who managed the de- partment from 1922 to 1929” An article in The Ypsilanti In 1922, Thomas Hayes designed a mushroom that Press of February 28, 1924 was titled “Traffic Orders Must doubled as a traffic signal Be Obeyed – Police Make First Arrest for Disregarding with “Stop” and “Go” lighted sections. This mushroom was Signals and Regulations.” often used with an overhead or post mounted signal that The article goes on to describe the arrest of Frank Scott could be seen from a distance. for disregarding the “Mushroom Light” traffic signal. The article describes Scott’s offense as follows: “Scott instructed as to what the city traffic regulations are. It didn’t have time to wait for the D.U.R. (Detroit United is altogether likely he will find out what the penalty for Railway) car to take on passengers and leave the waiting violating them is also.” room; he accordingly drove around on the left hand side and went on. The chief wasn’t in his car so he didn’t see In the article Chief Connors was also quoted as saying, Scott that time. It wasn’t more than a few minutes later “Autoists will have to learn the traffic signals are to be that he came driving back on Michigan Avenue and this obeyed. The police department has been lenient during time he decided the mushroom light wasn’t put there for the winter when the streets were slippery but the thing any specific purpose and he cut on the wrong side of that has gone too far, now. All autoists seen disregarding the too. This time the Chief stopped him. This afternoon he mushroom lights will be brought into court from now is to appear in municipal court and will doubtless be on.”
The earliest mushroom lighted traffic signals were placed in the middle of an intersection to show drivers where the edge of their lane ended. 6 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Some of the lighted mushroom designs had “Keep to Right” cast into the base.
According to court records in 1924 there were 54 Washten- aw County Traffic Court cases from the City of Ypsilanti in- volving the mushroom signals. Fines in these cases ranged from $4.25 to $10.00 and jail time ranged from 0 to 40 days. Three of the 54 cases resulted in 40 days jail time, 10 of the 54 cases resulted in 20 days jail time, 21 of the 54 cases resulted in 10 days jail time, and in 10 of the cases no jail time was assigned. At the time there was a great deal of debate regarding traffic signals. The issue related to keeping traffic to the right of center at each intersection. One side argued that mushroom type signal lamps created less of a hazard to errant drivers of motorcars and horse drawn vehicles who miscalculated a turn. The other side argued that pedes- tal mounted lights were easier to see from a distance and it would cause less damage to run into a pedestal signal than to disregard a mushroom signal and run into oncom- ing traffic. As time passed the argument became moot as automatically timed traffic signals were suspended over intersections rather than placed in the center of intersec- tions. (Note: This article was inspired by the research being done in our Archives by Marcia McCrary. She is indexing early Ypsilanti court documents and has run across sever- al cases of fines and jail sentences imposed on individuals Patrolman Emil Susterka in 1934. Susterka later became Chief of the Ypsilan- for violation of mushroom traffic signals.) ti Police Department in 1958.
7 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS The George Families of River Street (Another Episode of the River Street Saga)
BY JAN ANSCHUETZ iver Street in Ypsilanti is a short and beautiful road that has led to fame and fortune for several of its res- Ridents including Mark Norris, Lyman Norris, Benja- min Follett, Shelly Hutchinson, Walter Pitkins and Walter Briggs, all of whose stories can be found in past issues of the Gleanings. In this installment I will tell the story of an immigrant family who came to this country from England seeking free and excellent education for their children and whose grandchildren, in turn, did much to influence edu- cation in Ypsilanti. Our tale begins in England and is the life-long love story of Cary Eaton and George George. Cary was the daugh- ter of Susannah Woodhams; she was born in July, 1781 in Hartfield, Sussex, England and died circa 1812. Her father was James Eaton; he was born circa 1772 in Kockholt, Kent, England and died about 1818. His profession is list- ed as a farmer on Cary’s marriage record. Susannah and James were married August 11, 1800 in Hartfield, Sussex, England, and Cary was born May 28, 1808 in Godstone, Funeral photo for Worgor George. Daughter Anna Marian is holding his Surrey, England. photo. Second wife Anna E. Shutts Georgs is holding baby Edward Shutts George. Standing is Frederick George and seated is Percival George. Cary wrote her own life story as published in her obituary in Ypsilanti in 1895: “My parents lived at Godstone, Sur- any trouble.” rey, England, and their six children were all baptized at We don’t know what Godstone Church. My mother died when I was only four troubles that Cary years old; my father died soon after, and my Aunt Hes- was referring to in ham who was my mother’s oldest sister, and who stood George George’s life, sponsor for me when I was baptized in infancy thought but we do know that it was her duty to take me and bring me up with her own Cary and George de- family. When I was 15 years old I went to live with a cided to immigrate distant relation of my mother’s who had not any family to the United States and she wanted a companion and someone to write her of America with their notes and teach her little niece; so I went there and had children. Their old- a pony to ride and was quite happy. They had a nephew est son, Worgor, was living with them, George George. He fell in love with me. born July 4, 1840. He I consented at last and we were married in 1838.” was married while in Their marriage record can be found in Guild Hall, St. Bride England to a woman Fleet Street, Register of marriages, 1837-1839 in the parish seven years older registry, City of London for July 22, 1839. George George than him, Emily Mor- is the son of George George (1788 to 1845), whose occupa- gan, and had a daugh- tion is listed as a farmer on his son’s marriage record. His ter, Marianne, who was born in 1863. mother was Ann Worgor. Cary writes a little about their life Emily Morgan George, first wife of Worgor together, referring to her husband as she continues: “He Cary and George’s George with daughter Marianne. Emily is holding her son Percival. had a great deal of trouble, poor man, through the sacri- son, Frederick, was fice he had made, and I am afraid he was never repaid born February 24, for it: but we loved our children and they were so good 1842; Cary Elizabeth was born November 16, 1843; George and dutiful to us I think that we can say, what very few Edward was born September 1, 1845; Eliza Ann was born parents can say, that not one of our children ever gave us in 1847; Susanna was born September 27, 1849 and died two years later; and Martha Maria was born July 14, 1851. 8 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org In an audio-taped interview record- then sold to the public school system ed in 1965, Cary and George’s grand- and became the Fourth Ward School daughter, Jessie Swaine, stated that in 1850. her grandparents decided to come George George, L. C. Wallington, and to America because they had a large Worgor George went to work convert- family and wanted their children to ing the structure into a malt house. have a good and free education. In A second cousin to the George chil- England, at that time, parents were dren visited the family from Kent, responsible for paying for England and was impressed with the their children’s school- opportunities in Ypsilanti, Michigan ing, and the George for the brewing industry. Frederick family could not af- Swaine’s family occupation, that of ford to educate their his father and grandfather, had been many children on brewers, and they were licensed to their own. Family brew for the king. Although he had records tell us that been orphaned as a baby, Frederick George George came was interested in investing his inheri- to the United States in tance, talent and ambition in the malt Martha (Patty 1863 and the next George) daughter business to supply the two breweries year sent for the rest of George and Cary in town. He also fell in love with the Eaton George. of his family. beautiful young Eliza Ann George, We do not know how it was that Cary his second cousin. Swaine returned and George George and their chil- to England to pack up his belongings, dren ended up in Ypsilanti, but we arrange his finances and affairs, and do know that their daughter Cary moved to Ypsilanti where he married married a local man, Leonard C. Wal- Eliza in 1874. The young couple then lington, and lived at 627 River Street. moved in with his brother and sister- Jessie Swaine, their niece, tells us in in-law on River Street while he went an interview recorded 60 years ago about the business of becoming a that Leonard inherited part of a fam- maltster. Frederick quickly bought ily farm which was on Cross Street out the interests of his father-in-law where the golf course is, sold his por- and two brothers-in-law, Worgor tion, and purchased a large home on and Lawrence, even though they re- River Street. He soon went into the mained employed by him. He also malt business with his father-in-law, set about greatly enlarging the malt George George, who in 1866 bought house from a 20 by 40 foot structure the brick school which was built in to a three story building of an impres- 1839 as the Peck Street Primary and sive size: 50 by 94 feet.
Worgor George with pitchfork in front of the Malt House on Forest Avenue. 9 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS The George Families of River Street continued from page 9
Lizzie George had a seven weeks earlier. From census total of four children: records, we know that her daughter Florence born in 1875, Maude moved into her Aunt Lizzie’s John in 1877 (who died home. the same year at about Tragedy continued when Worgor’s six months), then Jes- wife, Emily, died of consumption in sie born in 1880, and June, 1879 and despite the kind and son Frederick who faithful nursing of her Aunt Lizzie was born in 1880 and George Swaine, his daughter Mari- died two years later of anne soon joined her mother. Her diphtheria. touching obituary in the Ypsilanti Meanwhile the malt newspaper reads business and the “GEORGE – Dec. 8th, 1880, of George families pros- Jessica Florence and cousins having fun outside the Malt House. Note the consumption, MINNIE, beloved Swane home on the left. pered. It seems that and only daughter of Worgor the dreams of George and Emily George, aged 17. Furthermore, Frederick Swaine con- and Cary George were coming true Minnie was left motherless a tracted for the building of a home for at last with prosperity for their chil- few months since. The eldest his new bride on the north east cor- dren and a free and excellent edu- child she was her fond father’s ner of River Street and Forest Ave- cation for their grandchildren in the dependence. She was ‘glad to nue. River Street was soon teaming new country. All of the grandchildren go and meet her mam’. Shortly with George family members – work- of George and Cary were attending before her death she said to her ing, playing and living. Worgor, Emily the excellent public school at the 4th aunt, Mrs. Swaine, ‘Pa cries and their three children, Marianne, Ward School, and then the Seminary and you cry, but I don’t.’ Her Percival (born in 1867), and Freder- and Ypsilanti High School. However, pastor, Rev. Dr. Wilson made ic Morgan were living at 505 River their joy was tempered with sadness some affecting (sic) remarks Street. Leonard and Cary George with the death of their beautiful 22 at the funeral. Thy Father Wallace lived a few doors south of year old daughter Patti in 1873. A few called thee, loved ones, while the malt house at 627 River and had years later, in 1879, Cary Elizabeth yet in early bloom but fond, two daughters: May, born circa 1870, George Wallington died, along with sad hearts of earth will cry, too and Ethel Maude, who had been the baby boy named George Edward soon, too soon.” born in 1872. Frederick Swaine and Wallington she had just delivered Worgor did not give up on love and a few years later married a local girl, Anna E. Shutts, who was born Sep- tember 10, 1850. Anna was the daugh- ter of Martin and Mary A. Shutts who owned a farm in Plymouth, and soon two more children joined their cous- ins on River Street: Anna Marian and Edward Shutts. Despite these bless- ings, sorrows were not over for Cary and George George. In 1886, George George, the optimist who moved to Ypsilanti from England to seek his fortune and make sure that his children and grandchildren were educated, died, and his widow Cary moved in with her daughter and son- in-law. What type of man was George George? Perhaps we can glimpse his kind character and genuine affec- The Watllington girls May and Maude with cousin Jessie Swaine with bicycles on River Street at Forest tion for his grandchildren in the little Avenue.
10 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org poem he wrote to his four-year-old are safe in Heaven.” made her own way in the world. In granddaughter, Jessie Swaine, which 1838 she became the wife of George The sadness continued on River was found in her childhood album. It George, with whom and the family Street, and Worgor’s son Percival died reads: she had she came to this country in of consumption only four months af- 1863. Here she has lived ever since, I have searched and searched ter his father. His obituary in a local her husband and five of their seven the place around newspaper states: “Died – 11-7-1887: children preceding her to the other Percy George, son of Mrs. Worgor Searched nearly every house in shore. The two surviving members George of River St. died suddenly town of her family, a son Edward George last Monday of hemorrhage of the of Kansas City and a daughter, To see if I could possibly find lungs. He was but nineteen years Mrs. Swaine, were at her bedside old, and a young man respected by A nice little girl for a Valentine to receive her dying blessing. Mrs. all who knew him. The funeral ser- George was a consistent member of All at once I thought of you vices were held at the house, Wednes- the Episcopal church in which faith day afternoon and conducted by Rev. I want no other she will do she found comfort and happiness in Mr. MacLean.” her declining years.” That’s the girl for me, say I Cary George, who lived with her Two years later, Frederick Swaine, The one that suits my eye daughter Lizzie and son-in-law Fred- husband of Lizzie and once a success- erick Swaine and their two daugh- You are mine dearest Jess ful business and civic leader as well ters, passed away eight years later. I choose you from all the rest Her obituary gives us a glimpse of her life and her last hours, as published Grandpa, 1883 in the Ypsilanti newspaper: “Mrs. There are sev- Cary Eaton George died at the res- eral other af- idence of her daughter, Mrs. F. J. fectionate and Swaine, Monday, June 10, 1895, sincere notes at midnight, aged 87 years and 13 from her grand- days. The life which then was trans- father carefully ferred from this to the world beyond pasted by the was a beautiful one and presents an little girl in the example worthy of emulation. Mrs. scrapbook on George was born in Surrey, England, pages which in 1808, left an orphan while a little are now yellow child, and was reared to womanhood and brittle, and Eliza (Lizzie) George by relatives. At 15 years of age she now reside in the Swaine, wife of Freder- shouldered the responsibilities of ick Swaine. Ypsilanti Histor- life for herself, and for a long time Jessie and Florence Swaine circa 1883. ical Museum archives. The album is filled with childhood memories of Jessie Swaine, who died in the same bed and in the same bedroom that she was born on River Street nearly 90 years later. Within a year after George George died, his son Worgor died in July, 1887. By this time, Cary had only two of her seven children living – daughter, Liz- zie George Swaine, and a son, George Edward, who was a grain buyer in Kansas. Cary wrote “Bereavements have been a great trial, only two left out of seven children, my daughter Lizzie and my son (George) Edward of Kansas City. God grant they may be spared to me. The others, I trust The log cabin built by the Ypsilanti Kiwanis Club for the Ypsilanti Centennial celebration.
11 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS The George Families of River Street continued from page 11 as noted musician, died suddenly, George, son of Worgor and Anna, leaving the family destitute. By this also grew up to pursue an advanced time, Florence and Jessie Swaine degree and make his mark on educa- were in their early 20s and, after grad- tion in Ypsilanti. In fact, he was so uating from high school in Ypsilanti esteemed for his contributions that and from the Michigan Normal Col- George School on Ecorse was named lege, they were able to supplement for him. the family income by money earned In remarks made shortly before he in their teaching careers. died, we get a glimpse into his per- George George and his wife Cary sonality. Edward teasingly admitted came to America so that their de- that “as a boy we had a neighbor, a Cary Eaton George and George George. scendants could receive a free edu- dear old Irish lady, who once told cation and would have been proud my mother. ‘Why – he’s the devil of who had founded the dental school at to know that this dream had come the Fourth Ward’”. We know that the University of Michigan. true and that at least four of their Edward grew up with this sister and grandchildren attended college. Jes- half-brother, Fred, on River Street. His life continued to improve when sie and Florence were both life-long He liked to play at the Huron River on June, 1915, he married a local girl, teachers who went on to continue bank and served as a choir boy at the Alice Mable Gass. They lived with Ed- their education beyond their college George family’s church, St. Luke’s, on ward’s mother, Anna, on River Street degrees, and Jessie was an especial- North Huron Street. He graduated until they purchased a large home a ly loved and honored founder of the from Ypsilanti High School in 1906 block from his dental practice at 219 first home economics department in and worked as a lineman on the rail- Huron Street. Edward and Alice had Ypsilanti Public Schools. road that passed two doors from his one daughter, Marian Elizabeth, who home on River Street, to earn money married George N. Elliot and they, in We know that Fred George, son of to go to the University of Michigan turn, had three daughters. Worgor and Emily, attended college. Dental School, from which he grad- We have several pictures of him as a uated in 1911. Edward worked at a Edward’s philosophy was to serve student with a mortar board on his dental clinic in Ann Arbor for a year the community as well as his family. head and pipe in his mouth in a stu- and then joined a partnership with Soon he went about proving his lead- dent bedroom looking very happy. Dr. Louis James in the office at 119 ership talents and positive outlook on life through a variety of community Fred’s half brother, Edward Shutts Huron Street, started by Dr. Watling commitments. In a speech he once wrote, he stated his view on life by saying “If you want to be really cruel to a man, just deny him the opportu- nity of serving his community and his fellowmen.” Perhaps Edward was influenced by his grandparents’ reverence for ed- ucation. He served on the school board from 1919 to 1939 and wanted to make sure that the educational system in Ypsilanti met the growing needs of the community. During his time on the school board, a gymnasi- um was added to the high school and the aging Prospect School was re- built. Also, an addition was added to Woodruff School and Harriet School was built on the south side of town. In an undated newspaper article pub- lished after Edward’s death, found Children from Fourth Ward School at the corner of Prospect and Michigan Avenue in 1892. Front row 3rd in the Ypsilanti Historical Museum from left is Edward Shutts. Second row in the middle is Miss Stuffy, the teacher. (Anna) Marian George is at the right end of the second row. archives, we read about other ways
12 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org that he served the com- a child along the banks of the Hu- munity: “Another of his ron River.” Thus we learn that what contributions to the we know as Frog Island Park was city was his lead- once named Island Park and, in jest, ership in the con- “George Island Park.” struction of Island Park. When De- Dr. George was also president of the troit Edison bought Kiwanis club from 1923-1924 and was the water rights at the enthusiastic energy behind their th the Huron River he participation in the city’s 100 anni- foresaw the possibil- versary projects. The Kiwanis built ities of using the land an authentic log cabin, completely for a recreational furnished appropriately for the 1823 Cary Eaton George era at Gilbert Park, where it remained as a young woman in center. The electric England. company deeded the for several years. They also obtained land jointly to the an ox cart, oxen, and driver and gave rides to eager children. city council and the school board. Worgor George, son of Cary and George George. Dr. George together with his friend, In a speech he gave to the Ypsilan- Fielding Yost, who took a personal ti school board shortly before his know that the surname of George interest in the project, worked to lay death, Dr. Edward George relayed his would be written on a school build- out the recreational field. Both men philosophy of education: “Sometimes ing and stand for quality education had become close friends while work- we put too much stress on buildings in their chosen city. The Georges are ing together on the County Boy Scout and equipment, when the backbone still on River Street – resting togeth- Council. Dr. George had worked so of a good school system is in the er on a beautiful bluff high above the hard on the island project that one teaching staff. Personally I have al- Huron River and city of Ypsilanti that day a group of his friends called ways felt – start with the best kin- they loved so well, where the dreams him down to the area where they had dergarten teachers that can be found of this immigrant family seem to have placed a sign naming it “George Is- – then go one better – if possible – for come true. land.” One reason he chose the spot the rest of the grades.” was because he had played there as The grandson of George and Cary George was well loved and honored for his contributions and betterment of education and the community of Ypsilanti, so much so that after his death in 1949, the new E. S. George School at 1076 Ecorse Road in Ypsi- lanti was named for him. In a short paper, handed out when the school was opened in 1951 it was written Joseph E. Thompson making presentation to “this school was named for a Den- Dr. E. S. George in 1949. Seated at right are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ungrodt. tist, Dr. Edward Shutts George who was born and raised in Ypsilanti in Other stories in The River Street Saga 1886 and lived here his entire life, series can be found online at the Ypsi- until he passed away in 1949. He lanti Historical Museum web site. More had been President of the Ypsilanti still can be read about the Frederick School Board from 1919 to 1933 and Swaine and Lizzie George family, as because he was a staunch believer well as others who lived on this pretty little street in Ypsilanti, Michigan, most in improving educational facilities, of whom are still there, in body if not this school was named for him.” in spirit, in the historic Highland Cem- Over 150 years ago when the George etery. family made the long and perilous sea (Jan Anschuetz is a local history buff crossing from England to American and a regular contributor to the Marianne George, daughter of Worgor and Emily for the education of their children Gleanings.) George. and grandchildren, little did they
13 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS Finding George Family Tombstones in the Anschuetz Family Backyard
BY ROBERT AND ERIC ANSCHUETZ (Robert and Eric Anschuetz are members of the Tombstones were found in close proximity to one another near this garage Ypsilanti Historical Society and regularly which began life in 1839 as the Peck Street Primary and then became a malt contribute articles for the Gleanings.) house before being converted into a garage in 1912.
he Swaine family property at Memories don’t recall who struck the loween decorations for years. The the northeast corner of Forest marble tombstones first, but the post old tombstones are now safely pre- TAvenue and River Street held diggers originally thought the ob- served in the Anschuetz’ basement. many treasures that went undiscov- struction must be a large rock. When The Highland Cemetery now holds ered for years until the Anschuetz they dug the first tombstone out of the remains of the George family with family moved into the house. Over the hole, they were really shocked. their once-new tombstones, buried the years while planting gardens and Robert and Eric were certain that next to the Swaine family. The cur- burying animals, the Anschuetz fam- there must have been bodies buried rent tombstones marking the George ily dug up several artifacts on the near the garage. It was their mom graves are now crumbling, with the property, including pottery, china, Janice Anschuetz’ knowledge of local original ones probably in even better old coins, a clay pipe, bottles and history that quickly let them know shape since they were persevered un- buttons. Nothing, however, beat the that the tombstones must have been derground for several decades and discovery of seven tombstones they placed in a heap by the garage when are now protected from the weath- found while digging fence posts in new tombstones were purchased for er. Janice Anschuetz has dug up their backyard. the George family plot, probably after two more unmarked tombstones in the death of Anna E. Shutts George in the past few years along with much The tombstones were found in close the 1920s, and most likely by her son sidewalk slate, buttons, hair pins, proximity to one another near the Edward Shutts George. old English coins, and slate pencils Anschuetz family garage, which be- and slate tablets as reminders of the gan life in 1839 as the Peck Street The tombstones were from the school house. She has also excavat- Primary school and then became a George family. The largest tombstone ed a silver thimble with an etched let- malt house before being converted was for Worgor George. There were ter “S” for the Swaine family who are into a garage in 1912. In the early also tombstones for two of his chil- still remembered for living and dying 1970s, twins Robert and Eric An- dren. One reads “Precious Minnie” in the home at the corner of Forest schuetz, along with their father Bob for his daughter, and another bares and River. Anschuetz, took turns with the fence his son’s name - Percival. The col- pole digger for the purpose of install- lection also has smaller footstones, ing a wooden fence in their backyard. and a tombstone for an infant. The George’s were cousins to the Swaine family and lived a few blocks away on River Street. Finding such a strange treasure in their yard justified a visit by a Detroit Free Press reporter, who came over to shoot a photo and write an article of the Anschuetz family and their tombstones. One day in 4th or 5th grade, Eric was embarrassed as one of the girls in his class read the article in class for “show and tell.”
The Worgor George and Anna Shutts tomb- The Anschuetz family used the tomb- The George family tombstones that were dug up stones in Highland Cemetery. stones as part of their ambitious Hal- near the Peck Street Primary structure.
14 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Museum Advisory Board Report
BY NANCY WHEELER, BOARD CHAIR
harles Kettles was award- ed the Distinguished CService Cross in 1967. A display to honor him will be ded- icated at the General Meeting on Sept. 27, 2:00 p.m. The display is located in the Edmonds-Ypsilanti Room. The quilt exhibit will be held Sep- tember 13 thru September 26. At least 85 quilts are scheduled to be on display. This is always a beautiful exhibit. Thank you to Sara VanderMeulen and her com- mittee. An exhibit of 25 chairs is now ready throughout the Museum. Low-Back Armchair, circa 1850-1900 We have many styles dating from (Lowest back chair photographed). the 1800’s. The history of each style is included in the descrip- ly missed. Both will continue to tions. Be sure to see the Boston docent and work on special proj- Rocker once owned by the Stark- ects. Thank you Rita and Midge! weather family. More than 50 volunteers helped Rita Sprague and Midge Fahn- to present our beautiful Museum drich have asked to be replaced to the public during the Heritage on the Museum Advisory Board. Festival. Will you help next year? Both have served in many capac- Will you help us before then? Call ities for years and will be great- 734-482-4990 and Volunteer.
Boston Rocker, circa 1840 from Wicker Rocking Chair, circa 1830-1900 Starkweather family (Black rocker with (Wicker with scrolls on back). stencils on back and seat).
15 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS The “One Tower House” at 701 East Forest Avenue burned to the ground in 1903. One Tower House BY JAMES MANN
psilanti is fortunate to have so many stately homes “In those days the river front, from Gross Point to Wy- of the late nineteenth century lining its streets. andott was considered rather “lively,” and in certain YSome of these homes have been restored to their localities low dives and gambling dens existed with lit- past glory and add to the quality of life. Then there are tle restriction. Cock fights, dog fights, fargo tables, road homes that can be called “works in progress.” Sadly, there houses where orgies were held, and other interesting are not as many of the grand homes as there once were. places, made up a rather warm combination,” noted The A number of the grand old homes have been demolished Ypsilanti Commercial of Thursday, January 4, 1900. because of neglect or to make way for a new structure. A “Sheriff Littlefield made a systematic move on the gam- few have been lost to fire. One such house stood at 701 blers and pit fighters” the report continued, and many East Forest Avenue. are the interesting stories related to his raids. When the William Evens built the two and a half story frame house famous McCarthy road house murder occurred he be- at 701 East Forest Avenue in 1892. He is listed in the 1896 gan a systematic effort to restore law and order among Ypsilanti City Directory as a real estate agent. The house this class of public places, and succeeded admirably. He had a tall tower on the front west end, and a wide porch was an officer feared by law breakers, and was always below the tower. Evens and his wife Helen lived in the prompt in deciding on his official course. So great was house until 1899, when it was sold to a Major B. H. Roth- the fear of his strong hand that a number of River Rouge well of Detroit, who moved into the house in April of that and Ecorse’s sporting residents can even now remember year. William and Helen Evens moved to Detroit. Major taking a cold plunge into the river one night from back Rothwell would return to Detroit to live in October of the windows of a certain resort, when it was announced that same year, after selling the house to Louis B. Littlefield, the “Louie Littlefield was in front.” Littlefield was later elect- former sheriff of Wayne County. Successful in business in ed city treasurer and then retired from politics because of Detroit, Littlefield was elected Alderman in 1883, and later failing health. as sheriff of Wayne County.
16 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org “The property conveyed to Mr. Lit- the house on Wednesday, November tlefield includes 10 acres, fruit 25, 1903, and found everything in order. orchard and buildings, and the The furniture consisted chiefly of two price paid was $16,905,” reported stoves, a gas range, curtains and cush- The Ann Arbor Argus-Democrat of ions. Cremer locked the house as he Wednesday, October 20, 1899. “It left. is not known,” the report conclud- A neighbor was returning home just ed, “whether he will remain out of after midnight of Saturday, November politics in this county or whether 27, 1903, and saw the house was on fire. he will soon make a break for the An alarm was immediately turned in. republican leadership here. At any The fire department responded prompt- rate, the younger politicians who ly and did Trojan work, succeeding in get into his good graces will find his saving the laundry buildings, barns and political advice of value.” the adjoining neighboring residences. Whatever reason Littlefield had for “When they arrived on the spot there moving to Washtenaw County nev- seemed to be fire in every room in the er became clear, as he died at his house, and the floors were falling in,” new home on Wednesday, January noted The Ypsilanti Sentinel-Commer- 3, 1900. Soon after, the house was cial of December 1, 1903. “The origin sold to a Charles Widrig, a traveling of the fire is unknown.” All that was salesman, and his wife Elizabeth. left of the house were two tall chimneys Charles Widrig seems to have come and the foundation walls. Everything into some notoriety himself, as The else had burned to the ground. “There Ypsilanti Sentinel-Commercial of was an insurance of $5,000 on the December 1, 1903 noted: “This is the house but this will not begin to cover house where Mr. Widrig had his cel- the loss,” reported The Evening Times ebrated smoking den, which figured of Saturday, November 28, 1903. “There so largely in the lawsuit about the seems to be some question, whether on fine rugs which he bought in De- account of the vacancy of the house troit.” the insurance has not been reduced one-third,” noted The Ypsilanti Senti- Widrig and his wife sold the house nel-Commercial. and moved out by September of 1903. The house was then the proper- In time, a new house was built on the ty of D. C. Griffin. Mr. Griffin appears site, which still stands today. to have been in no hurry to move in, as the house stood empty for some (James Mann is a local author and histo- time. A Martin Cremer stopped by rian, a volunteer in the YHS Archives, & a regular contributor to the Gleanings.)
17 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS Big Sister Is Watching BY FRED THOMAS (Fred Thomas moved to Ypsilanti in 1948, graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1958, and then from Eastern Michigan University in 1965. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a regular contributor to the Gleanings.)
had the pleasure of being a public school teacher lege in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I think you will find it is in Michigan for 32 years. A parent shared the fol- one more example of how the world has changed. Her Ilowing letter that they received in 1956 from the name and address have been changed to protect the Office of the Dean of Women at Western Michigan Col- innocent. Enjoy!
The card sent to parents by Western Michigan University in 1956 when their daughter was off campus overnight.
18 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Dear Parent or Guardian:
In order that you may have a clear understanding of some of the policies of Western Michigan College, we are writing parents or guardians of all women students who are here in 1956-57.
Because the campus is extensive, students have tended to hitchhike from one area to another. The college is definitely opposed to hitchhiking at any time, and hopes students will ride the college bus or accept rides from specially designated areas only with a person known by the student.
You will find enclosed, if your daughter is a new student and not living at home, a card which you may, if you wish, fill out and return to my office. This will permit your daughter to spend weekends away from her residence, at places other than home. If it should be necessary for her to be out of her residence overnight during the week, she will be expected to have in my office or in the office of the dormitory director, a written note from you giving such a permission. If the time element makes this impossible, the permission may be given by a telephone call from you, to me or to the residence hall director.
It is our policy to send a postcard to parents, specifying the dates when a girl has been out of her residence overnight, and her destination. You need not reply to the card, unless the information on it does not agree with your knowledge. Perhaps it should be pointed out that there have been occasions, such as after some of the big dances, when students have signed out for a certain destination, and then gone elsewhere. When we do not hear from you, we assume you know of your daughter’s plans.
We also want you to know that Western Michigan College is opposed to liquor, including beer, being introduced into any college building, and that students entering their rooming places under the influence of liquor may be subject to dismissal from the college. However, since many colleges are faced with the fact that sometimes liquor is served at non-college affairs, and that students, including girls who are minors, might possibly attend such affairs, in order to better understand the student and perhaps be of help to her we would like to know whether your attitude on the use of liquor agrees with ours.
This office is anxious to be of service to you and your daughter in every way possible. We are always happy to hear from, or meet parents, and hope you will feel free to communicate with us at any time.
Sincerely yours,
Elizabeth E. Lichty Dean of Women
19 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS Holy Trinity and the Anniversary That Will Not Be
BY JAMES MANN riday, September 18, 2015 should have been a spe- cial day for the community of Holy Trinity Student FParish, as it was on that date, 50 years ago, the building was dedicated as a place of worship. This should have been a weekend of special events, a gala party for the members of the community, for example , a mass with the Bishop of the Diocese of Lansing presiding. Instead, nothing will happen. Holy Trinity is no more. Those who were the community of Holy Trinity have joined the St. Johns parish or scattered throughout the region in other Catholic parishes. The story of Holy Trinity begins in June of 1961, when Fr. Leo Broderick was named assistant pastor at St. John’s the Baptist Catholic Church at Ypsilanti. His duties included supervising the Newman Club at Eastern Michigan Uni- versity. The University had just begun a period of expan- sion and growth, new buildings were planned and student enrollment was increasing at a record pace. The religious Fr. Broderick was named to the position of full-time Campus Minister at needs of the Catholic students at Eastern could no longer Eastern Michigan University in 1964. be met by Tuesday night meetings in Starkweather Hall, a Communion Breakfast once a month and other social events. The style of ministry had to change. the Trinity. The pinnacle of one triangle is the skylight over the altar space, 70 feet above the floor. The base of a sec- “The greatest need I think,” wrote Fr. Broderick to John ond triangle was formed by placing the pews around the Dearden, Archbishop of Detroit, of which Ypsilanti was altar. “This style,” said Fr. Broderick, “allows the priest to then a part, in March of 1962, “is for an altar and chapel be a living part of the congregation.” New for the time, was that would be specifically the students own. St. John’s is the placement of the tabernacle apart from the altar. Gold close; but the students still come as visitors, not as really sanctuary carpeting accented the black pews. The baptis- belonging. It is separated from their lives as students, tery was located at the main entrance, “to remind the con- just as religion is carefully kept separated in everything gregation of the holy sacrament.” The stations of the cross else they do at school.” and the crucifix were designed and made by John E. Van That same year Fr. Broderick arranged with the Univer- Haren, then associate professor of art at Eastern. A lower sity to say mass in Strong Auditorium each Sunday of the level with a small kitchen provided space for social events school year. By January of 1964 attendance had increased and rooms for offices. to 150 to 260 students each week. The students called Holy Trinity Chapel was dedicated at 10:00 am on Satur- Strong Auditorium, “St. Strong.” day, September 18, 1965 by the Most Rev. Henry E. Donnel- Fr. Broderick was named to the position of full-time cam- ly, D. D., auxiliary bishop of Detroit. Attending the ceremo- pus minister in 1964. That same year plans for a chapel ny was Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, former President of Eastern were made. Land for a chapel had already been purchased Michigan University. The main address was delivered by at the corner of Forest and Perrin. Construction on the the national Newman Chaplain. The theme of his homily Chapel began during the summer of 1965. was: “How Wonderful is the House of God.” Msgr. Bradley called upon Eastern President Harold E. Sponberg “and Holy Trinity Chapel was the first Catholic Church in Washt- the whole university to see Holy Trinity as a sanctuary enaw County to be built in accordance with the decrees of of prayer and a house of study.” He said he saw three the Second Vatican Council. The interior of the Chapel was challenges for those who would manage the Chapel: “To designed to emphasize the shape of a triangle, symbolizing overcome complacency, to keep the church from becoming
20 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org a “ghetto”, a mere refuge from atheism, 10 hours per week in the confession- and to avoid becoming an egocentric al.” Barr, center.” For Broderick, as for every member Anhut & Bishop Donnelly, in a brief address on of the staff who came after, the great- Associates, the new humanism of the church, said est frustration was the rapid turnover P.C. students “must learn to understand the of students. Every September he be- ATTORNEYS AT LAW positions of their separated brethren,” gan the work of building a commu- 105 Pearl Street and said the church was “rectifying nity, which would end when the stu- Ypsilanti MI 48197 mistakes of the past in this regard.” dents dispersed. Over the years the 734-481-1234 He expressed the hope that dialogues community at Holy Trinity changed, would reach a better understanding. as some of those who graduated EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST Holy Trinity was blessed with an all- stayed in the area, and continued to wood, mechanical tracker-action organ, attend the Chapel as their place of Karl A. Barr, J.D. [email protected] one of only a handful in North Ameri- worship. can. The organ was hand made by Fritz By the early 1970’s people from the John M. Barr, J.D. Noack, a New England organ builder. general population began coming to [email protected] Holy Trinity, as many were dissatis- Wills, Estate Planning, Probate The story of how Holy Trinity managed Real Estate, Business, Family Law to acquire such a gem is this. Not long fied with services elsewhere.“Tra - ditionally,” explained Fr. Bob Kerr, Contracts, Municipal Law after the Chapel had opened, Erich Litigation in all courts Goldschmidt of the Department of Mu- who was pastor in the 1970’s, “the sic at Eastern came to Holy Trinity to haven of refuge for the dispossessed Highest “AV” Peer Rating give a talk on Gregorian chant. Gold- has always been a university chap- Named “Super Lawyer” schmidt was a native of Europe, and is el. Holy Trinity is no exception.” said to have been a very cosmopolitan The newcomers provided Holy Trin- • Since 1959 • man. He believed there had been no ity with a permanent population and composer of note since Bach. He had on-going financial and volunteer re- been a professional organ builder, and sources. They also provided a sense had personally installed every pipe to of continuity and tradition. the organ in Pease Auditorium a few As the population of Holy Trini- years before. Impressed by the acous- ty changed, the ministry changed tics of the building, he decided this was as well. Free dinners were held on the perfect place for a tracker-action Thanksgiving and Christmas Day for organ. The type of organ used by Bach. years. Food for the weekly free din- Until then, music had been performed ner at Emmanuel Lutheran Church Candy*Toys*Novelties on portable electric organs. on River Street was prepared every The organ was installed in December Tuesday in the kitchen of Holy Trini- of 1966, over the Christmas break. The ty. Holy Trinity took part in the Rotat- dedication was held on the Feast of the ing Shelter program for many years. Epiphany, January 6, 1967. Goldschmidt For two weeks every winter for sev- performed “Toccata in D” by Wackman. eral years, homeless men were con- The University Choir, under the direc- veyed from the shelter in Ann Arbor tion of Blaine Ballard, participated. by members of the Holy Trinity com- Their selections included “We Chris- munity to the Chapel. Here the men tians Now Rejoice” and “The Old Year spent the night, were fed, and were Has Passed Away” by Bach. The organ returned to Ann Arbor by members has classic toning, making it excellent of the parish the next morning. th for 18 century music. Still, Holy Trinity never lost sight “Students,” wrote Broderick to Dearden of its main mission to the students in January of 1968, “seem to be ques- of Eastern. “Students need to be af- tioning more than they ever did; they firmed and loved and petted and Ypsilanti seem less bound by tradition than they told that they are O.K.” explained Fr. 122 W Michigan Ave ever were. I have to spend much time Kerr, “and that they’re worth some- listening and counseling; I spend 8 to thing. No matter what posture they www.ShopThe Rocket.com
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now had computers for the use of students and space for study. On a table in the atrium were snacks for hungry students, donated by some of the resident parishioners. One Sunday a month, during the school year, the parish council of the Knights of Columbus would host a pancake breakfast in the dining area, cost of admission was a free will offering. No one was ever turned away. Holy Trinity now had a debt of almost one million dollars, to be paid over the coming years to the Diocese of Lansing. The Dio- cese granted Holy Trinity a two year grace period, before annual payments were to be made. Holy Trinity was now staffed by priests from the PIME missionary order, but still under the authority of the Diocese of Lansing. The order had a contract with the Diocese, re- newed every five years. The con- tract was up for renewal in 2012. Holy Trinity Chapel was dedicated on Saturday, September 18, 1965. The pastor of Holy Trinity, Fr. Phil- ip Mayfield, wanted to remain at assume, whether a flaming radical liberal, or the most Holy Trinity for another five years. The PIME Missionary consequential looking conservative, their needs are the order wished for the contract to be renewed for another same; they’re on a new plane, of spreading their wings, five years. On August 10, 2012, The Most Reverend Earl testing new things. Their needs are the same. They just Boyea, who had succeeded Bishop Mengeling, announced express it differently.” the merger of Holy Trinity with St. John the Baptist. The merger was effective at the end of Monday, September 3, In July of 1971 the boundaries of the Archdiocese of De- 2012. troit were redrawn, and Holy Trinity became part of the Di- ocese of Lansing. The Most Reverend Carl Mengeling was “This decision,” announced Bishop Boyea in the decree, Bishop of the Diocese of Lansing from 1996 to 2008. On a “is based upon a number of factors, among which are the visit to Holy Trinity, Bishop Mengeling said he found the reasonable proximity of the worship communities and place dark and unwelcoming. He instructed that changes the churches, the desire to avoid duplication of services, be made to the building. the spiritual welfare of the parish communities, the spread of the Gospel, the promotion of unity among the Plans were made and members of the community pledged People of God, the enhancement of collaborative ministry sufficient funds to cover the cost of the improvements. and the better utilization of available priest personnel.” The plans were submitted to the proper offices of the Di- ocese for approval. Instead, the Diocese said, more had to In time, services at Holy Trinity were ended and the build- be done. ing stood empty and unused. Then in June of 2015, the Board of Regents of Eastern Michigan University approved Following approval by the Diocese new plans were drawn the purchase of the building for $940,000 as the new home up, and the addition to the building would double the of the Honors College. space of the Chapel. Construction was begun and work was to be completed by Easter of 2007. Everything that was done, was done with the knowledge and approval of (James Mann is a local historian and author, a the Diocese. volunteer in the YHS Archives, and a regular The new space included meeting rooms, a dining room with contributor to the Gleanings. Also, he was a member of a larger kitchen and an atrium. The expanded lower level the Holy Trinity parish community.)
22 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Return of Education Movie Night
HOSTED BY JAMES MANN ducation Movie Night in the Archives will return this fall, beginning on Friday, September 11, 2015. Movies will begin at 7:00 pm, in the Archives Eof the Museum. The educational program provides free admission and free popcorn. Entrance to the Archives is on the north side of the Museum, on the side opposite from the parking lot. Open daily 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Friday, September 11, 2015
Moby Dick 1956, Running Time: 1 hour 55 minutes Film adaptation of the novel by Herman Melville. Consumed by rage, Johanna McCoy, Proprietor Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) seeks revenge on the great white whale, Moby Dick, who maimed and disfigured him. Friday, September 18, 2015
The Long Voyage Home 1940, Running Time: 105 minutes Adapted from four one act plays by Eugene O’Neill, and set in the early days of the Second World War. The crew of the cargo ship SS Glencairn set sail for England with a cargo of high-explosives. Members of the crew begin to suspect that one of their number is a spy. John Wayne plays Swedish sailor Ole Olsen. Friday, September 25, 2015 The Informer 1935, Running Time: 91 minutes Based on the novel by Liam O’Flaherty. In Dublin of 1922, wracked by Civil War, Gypo Nolan, a brute of a man, turns informer and sells out his friend Frankie McPhillip to the Black and Tan for money. Now Gypo must try to keep suspicion from him, as others search for the informer. Victor McLaglen received the Academy Award for best actor, and John Ford for best director. Friday, October 2, 2015
Submarine 1928, Running Time: 93 minutes Two career Navy men (Jack Holt and Ralph Graves), are the best of men, until both fall in love with the same woman. The two have a falling out, and vow never to speak to each other again. One of the two is transferred to a submarine, which, while on maneuvers, collides with a ship. The other, a deep sea diver, is called on to save the men trapped in the submarine. 23 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS The Way We
WordBY RICHARD LEDERER ack in the olden days we had a lot of mox- ie. We’d put on our best bib and tucker and Bstraighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We’d cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitch woo in (depend- ing on when we were making all that whoop- ee) flivvers, tin lizzies, roadsters, hot rods, and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers’ lane. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumpin’ Je- hoshaphat! Holy moley! We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn’t accuse us of being a knuckle- head, a nincompoop, or a pill. Not for all the tea in China! Back in the olden days life was a real gas, a doozy, a dilly, and a pip; flipsville, ends- ville, the bee’s knees, the cat’s whiskers, the cat’s meow, and the cat’s pajamas; far- out, nifty, neat, groovy, ducky, beautiful, fabulous, super, terrif, sweet, and copacet- ic. Nowadays life is the max, ace, awesome, bad, sweet, fly, kick-ass, gnarly, rad, dank, word, and phat. Life used to be swell, but when’s the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys, and the D. A. (duck’s ass), of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn’t anymore. Like Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap and before we can say. “Bob’s your uncle!” or “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!” or “This is a fine kettle of fish!” we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards. Poof, poof, poof go the words of our youth, the words we’ve left behind. We blink, and they’re gone, evanesced from the landscape and wordscape of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate keys, cap guns, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water, Photo of Richard Lederer by Hoffman Photographic. and an organ-grinder’s monkey.
24 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all those phrases gone? Long time ago:
Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think about the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston. The very idea! It’s your nickel. Don’t forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Third world. Fail safe. Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. I’ll see you in the funny papers. Don’t take any wooden nickels. And awa-a-ay we go! Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter had liver pills.
The world spins faster, and the speed figure of speech has disappeared. We of technical advance can make us used to dial telephone numbers and dizzy. It wasn’t that long ago that, in dial up people and places. Now that the course of a typical lifetime, only almost all of us have converted from the cast of characters playing out the rotary to push-button phones, we human drama changed. Now it seems search for a new verb -- “Sorry, I must the text of the play itself is revised have pushed the wrong number”; “I every day. think I’ll punch up Doris”; “I’ve got to index-finger the Internal Revenue Hail and farewell to rumble seats and Service”; Press M for Murder -- and running boards. Iceboxes and Frigid- watch dial dying on the vine. With aires. Victrolas and hi-fi’s. Foun- modern radios, can the demise of tain pens and inkwells. Party lines. “don’t touch that dial!” be far behind? Test patterns. Tennis presses. Slide rules. Manual typewriters. Corras- How many more years do hot off the able Bond. Ditto for Photostats and press, hung out to dry, put through mimeographs. (Do you, like me, re- the wringer, and carbon copy have, member that turpentiney smell of the now that we no longer print with hot lead, hang wet clothes on clothes- mimeo fluid?) lines, operate wringer washing ma- The inexorable advance of tech- chines, and copy with carbon? Do nology shapes our culture and the any young folks still say, This is language that reflects it. We used to where we came in? The statement watch the tube, but televisions ar- means the action or situation is start- en’t made of tubes anymore, so that ing to repeat itself, and it comes from
25 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS The Way We Word continued from page 25 the movies. Today there are so many in the 1940s radio quiz show Take It While our bodies and our possessions ways of finding out exactly when a or Leave It. By the 1950s, inflation have expanded, our world has grown movie begins, but back in the olden had set in, and $64 no longer seemed smaller, and the language of distance days we’d get to the theater at pretty wondrous. Then in 1955 came The has changed. Remember that admo- much any time and walk in at random. $64,000 Question. The populari- nition Shhh. I’m on long distance!? We might watch the last half of a mov- ty of the show helped the $64,000 Phrases like long distance ie and then some trailers, and coast to coast and even a newsreel, and cartoons worldwide used to hold such (which the multiplexes excitement for us. Now we don’t show anymore) and take them for granted, so we then the second movie in hardly ever use them. Nor do the double feature and we use the likes of mailman, then the beginning of the fireman, waiter, and work- first movie until the point man’s compensation. As a where we could say, “This culture we have fashioned is where we came in.” letter carrier, firefighter, Do I sound like a broken server, and worker’s com- record? Do you think I pensation, genderless terms must have been vacci- that avoid setting males as nated with a phonograph the norm and females as ab- needle? In our high-tech errations from that norm. times, these metaphors When’s the last time you fade away, like sepia pho- heard or uttered the word tographs in a family al- stewardess? Now those bum. women and (increasingly) Technology has altered men who try to make us our sense of the size of the comfortable as we hurtle world and the things in it. through the air packed in Remember the thrill your a winged sardine can have family felt owning that transmogrified into flight six-inch black-and-white attendants. Isn’t is wonder- rabbit-eared television set ful to live in an age when a (soon to be known as the flight attendant can make a boob tube and idiot box)? pilot pregnant? Keep the lights off. No This de-gendering of our talking, please! language reflects the new Today more and more realities of our lives and TV screens are upwards a growing respect for the of forty inches. We drive humanity of women. Re- bigger cars, live in bigger member housewife and homes, eat bigger meals, homemaker? Now we call and inhabit bigger bodies. One of many books published by Richard Lederer on words and language. such a woman a stay-at- I am 6’3” and I used to be home mom, respecting her called a six-footer. Now the choice to fill such a cru- question become a metaphor for a NBA is studded with at least a dozen cial role. Remember how we used question whose answer could solve seven-footers, and outstanding female to taunt other kids with “Your moth- all our problems, but the expression athletes, such as Lisa Leslie, Lindsay er wears combat [or army] boots!”? has faded from our lives because that Davenport, and Venus Williams, regu- These days, your mother could very once sumptuous figure no longer im- larly and majestically top six feet, so well be wearing combat boots! presses us. Neither does millionaire six-footer has lost its magic. command our awe anymore, now that And we’ve grown more sensitive How to respond to the supersizing of there are more than two million mil- about other areas of life. Whither America? That’s the $64 question. The lionaires in the United States. spinsters and old maids, divorcees, $64 question was the highest award illegitimate children, juvenile de-
26 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org linquents, cripples, midgets, and problem.” No problem? I’m sure I’m homosexual community. the deaf-and-dumb? Gone, too, are not the only one who wants to grab But as much as heteros believe they Bowery bums and tramps and ho- the server by the collar and hiss, need gay, the English language needs bos riding the rails. They’ve left the “You’re darned right it’s no problem. it more -- as a more fulfilling word for neighborhood and been replaced by It’s your job!” the gay community than homosexual transients and the homeless -- kinder, During the past century, the English because it communicates a culture gentler, less judgmental words that language has added an average of 900 rather than concentrating on sexual recognize that people living on the new words a year. As newly minted orientation. For those who lament street and in the woods usually hav- words have added to the currency the loss of gay to general discourse, en’t made some sort of lazy choice to of our language, the meanings of the I recommend that henceforth they be be there. words we grew up with have changed merry. At the same time, we’re more blunt under our eyes and ears. A hunk no This can be disturbing stuff, this about a lot of things. Did women get longer means simply a large lump of winking out of the words of our pregnant when I was a lad? Not that something, and rap isn’t just ‘60s talk. youth, these words that lodge in I recall. Pregnant was a little too Crack means more than just a small our heart’s deep core. But just as graphic for polite company. Women, opening, ice more than frozen water, one never steps into the same river instead, were in a family way or ex- and pot more than a cooking utensil. twice, one cannot step into the same pecting. What they were expecting A pocket isn’t just for pants, and a bar language twice. Even as one enters, was a visit from the stork. code is no longer ethics for lawyers or words are swept downstream into the etiquette of behavior in a café. A At the high risk of being labeled a the past, forever making a different pound is no longer just a unit of cur- geezer, fogy, and curmudgeon, I’ll say river. We of a certain age have been rency or measurement but that tipsy right here that along with the blunt- blessed to live in changeful times. tic-tac-toe game that sits above the 3 ness of modern parlance has aris- For a child each new word is like a on your keyboard or below the 9 on en a certain impoliteness. Has that shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We your telephone. simple first-person pronounI been at the other end of the chronological banished? What we’re hearing these Remember when IBM was something and language arc have the advantage days is “Me and Chip like to go to par- a two-year-old might say to a parent? of remembering that there are words ties that blow out our eardrums.” To The computer, the most deeply strik- that once did not exist and that there those of us who remember the days ing technology of our lifetimes, has were words that once strutted their when teachers thought it important powerfully challenged our sense of so hour upon the earthly stage and now to pass the torch of correct English many hitherto uncomplicated words are heard no more, except in our col- to the next generation “Me and Chip” -- back up, bit, boot, cookie, crash, lective memory. It’s one of the great- squeaks like chalk scraping across disk, hacker, icon, mail, memory, est advantages of aging. We can have the blackboard of our grammatical menu, mouse, pop-up, scroll, spam, archaic and eat it too. sensibility. But “Me and Chip” is also a virus, and window. Of all the words social atrocity because it reverses the that have undergone a semantic shift order of words that we were taught this past half century the one that (Published with permission from back in the olden days: always to put rattles the most cages and yanks the Richard Lederer, an American ourselves last in a string of nouns and most chains is gay. We grew up with author, speaker, and teacher. He pronouns. “Me and Chip” literally re- gay as an adjective that meant “exu- is best known for his books on the flects a me-first culture. I’ll stick with berant, high spirited,” as in the Gay English language and on wordplay “Chip and I.” Nineties and gay divorcee. such as puns, oxymorons, and ana- grams. He refers to himself as “the As long as I’ve left the rant-control In the second half of the 20th centu- Wizard of Idiom,” “Attila the Pun,” district, a certain polite acknowl- ry gay began traveling the linguistic and “Conan the Grammarian.” His edgment from our youth has gone path of specialization, making the weekly column, “Looking at Lan- far south. That statement is “You’re same journey as words such as chau- guage”, is syndicated in newspa- welcome.” I’m sitting at a table in a vinism, segregation, comrade, and pers and magazines throughout the restaurant, and I ask the server for colored. Shortly after World War II, United States.) extra lemon with my tea. He or she activists popularized the concept of returns with those slices and I say Gay Liberation -- and many hetero- “thank you.” How does the server sexuals have lamented that a per- respond? You know, don’t you? Not fectly wonderful word has been lost with “you’re welcome,” but with “no to general usage, wordnapped by the
27 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS Incident at the Archives BY JAMES MANN
ome years ago, back when the YHS Archives were house is haunted and the ghost does not like children.” This in the carriage house behind the Museum, a strange was a reference to the then popular television show, Ghost Sevent happened. Late one afternoon a tall thin man Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. The premise of the entered the Archives, stepped up to me, and asked for show was that the lead character could communicate with James Mann. I told him that was me. The man told me he the dead. She helped those who could not cross over be- had come to the Archives at the suggestion of the staff at cause they could not find peace because of unfinished busi- the Library, as I might help identify the ghost in their apart- ness. The stories were said to be in part based on the work ment. The family, he added, was in such of Mary Ann Winkowski, who claimed to fear of the ghost that they had spent the communicate with the dead. The show night sleeping in the car. He promised “Mary Ann, the ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to to pay for the research. Ghost Whisperer, May 21, 2010. As we talked, a little boy entered the Ar- The reference to the Ghost Whisperer chives, holding a smaller child up to his is a friend of ours, meant nothing to me, as I had stopped chest. The boy asked if we had a bath- watching television several years before, room. We did, and quickly directed him and she said and had never heard of the show. Instead, to it. Once informed of where the bath- I asked for the address of the house, room was, he hurried past us and went the house is haunted which was 106 North Adams Street. to do what had to be done. Right after The house was built for Dr. Thomas Shaw, this, a petite, dark haired young wom- and the ghost when he moved to Ypsilanti from Chelsea an wearing glasses entered and asked in 1888. He had lived in the house until about the children. She was the wife of does not like his death on March 19, 1917. I pulled the the man and mother of the children. At biography file on Dr. Shaw and found two some point, we were told she was em- children.” photographs of coffins set out in the par- ployed as a waitress at a nude dance lor of a house. It was a common practice club, east of the city. well into the 20th Century to hold funerals The man told me the family had left the house one day, and in the family home. These were photographs of two differ- on their return had found a noose hanging from the light ent coffins, at two different funerals, in two different homes. in the dining room. He told me about the children playing There was no information on the photographs as to who was on the floor rolling balls that would roll back to them from in the coffins and or where or when the funerals were held. across the room. There was the time, he told me, of a ball Dr. Shaw had one child, a daughter, Mary Shaw, who nev- rolling down the stairs, stopping halfway down, and roll- er married and lived in the house until her death at the age ing back up the stairs. The man added: “Mary Ann, the of 94. She, as her father, is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Ghost Whisperer, is a friend of ours, and she said the Chelsea. George Ridenour, a fellow volunteer at the Archives, con- tacted the producers of the show Ghost Whisperer because the man had claimed her as a friend. Not long after, George received a phone call from Mary Ann Winkowski, who said she knew nothing of the haunted house, and did not know the family involved. She added, she would have remembered a name like Ypsilanti. The family disappeared from the area soon after their visit to the Archives. A relative of the family told George they were safe, and no harm had come to them. We finally concluded that the family had probably wanted to break the lease and escape from paying the rent. Such is life in the Archives. By the way, the visitor never paid for the research.
(James Mann is a local historian and author, a volunteer in the YHS Archives, and a regular contributor to the Gleanings.)
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29 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS 2015 September 13-26 Tuesday through Sunday QUILT (closed Mondays) EXHIBIT 2-5 p.m.
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Approximately 100 quilts will be on display featuring Historical, Traditional, Contemporary and Art Quilts.
For more information contact: Sarah VanderMeulen | 734 483-6451 [email protected]
30 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2015 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Gleanings Advertising Application Sponsor 1/6 page 1/3 page 1/2 page Full page? (2.375”x4.625”) (2.375”x9.5”) (7.5”x4.625”) (7.5”x9.5”) Spring Issue (Ads Due March 15) $20 $50 $75 $125 $200 Summer Issue (Ads Due June 15) $20 $50 $75 $125 $200 Fall Issue (Ads Due August 15) $20 $50 $75 $125 $200 Winter Issue (Ads Due November 15) $20 $50 $75 $125 $200
Sponsorship: A list of “Sponsors” is included in each issue. Sponsorship is available at a cost of $20 per issue. Company ______Contact Person ______Address ______City ______State ______Zip Code ______Phone ______
PLEASE CHECK APPROPRIATE BOXES Issue $20 $50 $75 $125 $200 Spring ______Sponsor ______1/6pg ______1/3pg ______1/2pg ______Full Summer ______Sponsor ______1/6pg ______1/3pg ______1/2pg ______Full Fall ______Sponsor ______1/6pg ______1/3pg ______1/2pg ______Full Winter ______Sponsor ______1/6pg ______1/3pg ______1/2pg ______Full
Send this form, ad copy GLEANINGS SPONSORS & payment to: The Anschuetz Family Ypsilanti Historical Society Jim Curran 220 N. Huron Street Fred & Maria Davis Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Virginia Davis-Brown Earnest & Carolyn Griffin If you have questions call Bob & Marcia McCrary Al Rudisill 734 484-3023 Bill & Karen Nickels Maxe & Terry Obermeyer John & Fofie Pappas Hank Prebys Al & Jan Rudisill Diane Schick Bob & Shirley Southgate Ypsilanti Animal Clinic. P.C. Rita Sprague 37 Ecorse Road at Michigan Avenue, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 48198 Nancy Wheeler Telephone: (734) 485-1622 Daneen Zureich Website: www.ypsivet.com Ypsilanti Animal Clinic
Clinic Hours: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Gerald Glencer, D.V.M. Doctor’s Hours: By Appointment Peter Kunoff, D.V.M.
31 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2015 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Ypsilanti, Michigan Permit No. 399 Ypsilanti Historical Society, Inc. 220 North Huron Street | Ypsilanti, MI 48197