Reade heads city historic organization

Reade heads city historic organization

Marjorie Reade has been erected chairwoman of the Ann Arbor Historic District Commission. Dr. Raleigh Morgan has been named vice chairman.

A city resident since 1946, Mrs. Reade has been active in conservation and planning groups, serving on the Elizabeth Dean Fund Committee and on the Sierra Club board.

She is a past president of the Sister Lakes Conservation Association and has been a member of the Citizens Association for Area Planning.

Other community activities include several years on the board of the First Unitarian/Universalist Church and a current position as treasurer of the Friends of the Library. She was appointed to the Historic District Commission in 1979 and has served as its vice-chairwoman for the last year.

Morgan has been a professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Michigan since moving to Ann Arbor in 1965. His specialty is in linguistics research into French Canadian, Occitan and Creole dialects. He helped to found the Michigan Council for the Humanities and served as its first chairman from 1974 to 1978.

A native of Nashville, Tenn., Morgan has taught at North Carolina Central University and Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was also associate director of the Center for applied Linguistics. He has been a member of the Historic District Commission since 1977.

The commission meets the second Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at Kempf House, 312 South Division. All meetings are open to the public.