Class of 1910 Memories Reflections at Alumni Meeting
Esther Landwehr recalls the Class of 1910 as they mark fifty years since graduation from a small high school. The narrative wanders through past routines chapel commencements and old transport like Old Maud streetcars and a 1910 campus layout. It links memories to milestones from 1912 Titanic to 1945 end of World War II and the ongoing Cold War era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Bixby
Whitmire’s
Ypsilanti
William Howard Taft
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Union
Russia
Charles Lindberg
Atlantic
St. Louis
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Stalin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Mars
Washtenaw 4‑H members invited to Michigan Milk Marketing Tour
Three Washtenaw county 4‑H members Keith Haab from Chelsea Doug Spike Manchester and Carl Macomber Ann Arbor were selected for the Michigan Milk Marketing Tour in Detroit June 15 and 16 One hundred seventeen young Michigan Dairymen attend the tour with six to be chosen for the 1960 Dairy Conference in Chicago Also over one hundred 4‑H horse club members compete June 18 at the Youth Activities Center for a place on the County 4‑H Horse Judging Team and training that morning is included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washtenaw County
4-H
Michigan
Detroit
Keith Haab
Chelsea
Doug Spike
Manchester
Carl Macomber
Ann Arbor
Chicago
4-H Horse Club
Washian
Tuscola County
Farm Council
Kensington Park
Hog cholera cases rise prompts statewide watch
The Michigan Department of Agriculture warns swine owners as hog cholera cases increase. In April, five cases were reported, about one third of last year’s total. Michigan raised 1 180 000 hogs valued at 3814 million, ranking 17th in swine production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Quinn
Michigan Department of Agriculture
Michigan
Quinn
G. S. McIntyre
Special Council Meeting Topics and Appointments June 1960
A Special Council meeting on Saturday June 11 1960 discussed remodeling the rest room building adding three block walls and an upper level storage area for Cemetery with one toilet. The clerk was to mail police car bid specifications and sealed bids due by 8 pm Monday. An Evening session on June 20 proposed contacting Atwell Hicks for a Willis Road city limit stake and hiring summer help, plus utility work on E McKay and S Harris Streets. A park attendant was approved a $10 monthly car allowance and Strait would seek more information on the High School sidewalk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt
Strait
Ed Warner
Atwell-Hicks
Willis Road
Deede
Bennett & Carl
Leutheuser & Little
Herman J. Merte
E. Henry St
Wayne Predmore
Mark Hannah Ct
Spl. Ass. Dist
Spring St
Columbia Construction Company
Mile Rd
Detroit
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Buffalo
Benton Harbor
ST. Joseph
Creek Law
Paw Paw
Kalamazoo
Albion
Jackson
ARBOR
Erie
Detroit Chicago
State Highway Department
Automobile Club of Michigan
Stevensville
Bridgman
By Esther Landwehr
City OF Saline
Ronald Finch
Board of Education
Old Maud
Helen Woodworth
John Minor
Anna Koegler
Max Blaess
Club News
Fred Gross
Royal Oak
Ferman Clements
Saline
Jay Gould
Lyle Hurd
Luella Kyte Harwood
Esther Landwehr
Paul Boettger
Esther Fairbanks
Seattle
Washington
Ruth Gillen Rouse
Lillian Lindenschmidt Reed
Sylvania
Ohio
Eda Clark Pester
Camp Councilors Training School
Scio-Lodi
Ings
Gary Eschelbach
Donna Baker
Ralph Diable
Earl Graden
Margaret Frey
Donna Diable
Janet Weber
John Deere
W. Bennett ST. Saline Ph
JON Deere
Carl Lehman
Murray
Tecumseh
Bridgewater Lumber Co
Bridgewater
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