School Trustees Will Run Again

School Trustees Will Run Again

Washington, Burlingame Reveal Plans

By Marianne Buffer

YPSILANTI — Ypsilanti Board of Education Vice-President Amos S. Washington and Trustee Richard L. Burlingame, whose terms on the board expire June 30, said today they would seek re-election. The vote is scheduled June 11.

Theirs are the only two posts expiring on the school board this year. Board vacancies in three other area school districts include three at Willow Run, one in the Lincoln District and two in Van Buren. All are four-year terms.

Willow Run Board Trustee Robert M. Heller, appointed in September to fill a vacancy, has indicated he would run for election. The two other Willow Run board members whose terms expire, Vice-President Elbert C. Farley and Treasurer Jesse C. Rutherford, have made no public commitments yet.

The Van Buren board incumbents, Treasurer Melvin C. Budd and Trustee William B. Horton, reportedly will seek re-election. Lincoln Board Treasurer Willard H. Raymond has indicated he will not run again because of ill health.

Washington, 56, executive director of the Ypsilanti Housing Commission for the past 11 years, has been a member of the Ypsilanti Board of Education since April, 1956, when he was appointed to fill a vacancy. He ran successfully two months later to fill the remainder of the unexpired term and was elected again in 1958 to a four-year term.

A native of Bristow, Okla., he attended public school there and in Jefferson City, Mo., where he also was graduated from Lincoln University in 1931. He has been a resident of the Ypsilanti area since 1932.

Before joining the local agency of the Public Housing Administration here in 1943, he worked for seven years as an educational adviser to the Civilian Conservation Corps for the U. S. Office of Education.

Washington, who is married and has two grown children, lives at 109 E. Ainsworth Blvd. He is a member of the Board of Commerce, the County Health Department’s visiting nurses board and the Ypsilanti Business and Professional League.

He was a member of the City Council from 1947 to 1950 and was one of the organizers of the race relations committee which led to the later forming of the Human Relations Commission.

Burlingame, 38, was first elected to the school board in November, 1959, to fill a vacancy. The following June he was elected to fill the remaining two years of that term.

The incumbent, who is supervisor of salaried personnel and labor relations at the Detroit Transmission Division of the General Motors Corp., moved to Michigan in 1935 from Montclair, N. J., he has been an Ypsilanti area resident since 1946.

Burlingame was graduated from the Westtown School in Westtown, Pa., attended college in Indiana for a year and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1948.

He worked for the former Kaiser-Frazer Co. at Willow Run from 1947 to 1954, worked briefly for the Ohio Boxboard Co. in Rittman, O., and then returned here to join Detroit Transmission in 1955 as labor relations supervisor. Last June he was named supervisor of salaried personnel as well.

Burlingame was a second lieutenant in the Air Force during World War II. He lives with his wife and three children at 1353 Jeffery St. in Ypsilanti township.

He is a member of the Community Chest board of directors and has served on the chest’s' budget committee. He also is a member of the Board of Commerce.