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Abbot School Students Create Decorations For The Ann Arbor Symphony Ball, March 1972 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

Abbot School Students Create Decorations For The Ann Arbor Symphony Ball, March 1972 image
Year:
1972
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 12, 1972
Caption:
Supporting your local symphony orchestra can be great fun as Jack Junttonen, pictured below, discovers. He's painting a papier mache maraca, one of several that third-graders in Mrs. Robert Millard's class at Abbott School have been making as decorations for the annual Ann Arbor Symphony Ball. The students have combined their regular art class with a little community service project. In the picture at the right, Mrs. Millard, left, and student teacher Kerrin Flamm supervise another art session. The ball, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Weber's Inn, will kick off Ann Arbor Symphony Week. Ticket information is available from Mrs. Douglas Doane. (News photos by Cecil Lockard)

Abbot Elementary School Third Graders & Abby The Dinosaur, April 1979 Photographer: Deborah Ouellette

Abbot Elementary School Third Graders & Abby The Dinosaur, April 1979 image
Year:
1979
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 23, 1979
Caption:
There is a new member of Abbot Elementary School who has come to stay. It has been christened Abbotsaurus, or "Abby" for short. The 20-by-6-foot papier mache dinosaur is the creation of the school's two third grade classes, taught by June Anderson and Betty Lardas. The pupils got involved in the project as part of a unit on dinosaurs and spent about two weeks working on it.

Principal Josephine Brokaw In Thurston Elementary School's Art Room, October 1964 Photographer: Doug Fulton

Principal Josephine Brokaw In Thurston Elementary School's Art Room, October 1964 image
Year:
1964
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 23, 1964
Caption:
Brightness Featured: Thurston Principal Josephine Brokaw shows off the bright art room which may be seen at a dedicatory open house from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

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Legacies Project Oral History: Louise Adams

Louise Adams was born in 1928 and grew up in Ecorse, Michigan. She was the first Black student to graduate second highest in her class at Ecorse High School in 1946. She studied art education at Wayne State University and taught in public schools from 1951 until her retirement in 1983. She married Chuck Adams in 1951 and they had two children, Marcus Adams and Sylvia Adams Burns. They lived in Detroit and then Inskter, where the family built their own home. Louise Adams passed away on June 12, 2014.

Louise Adams was interviewed in partnership with the Museum of African American History of Detroit and Y Arts Detroit in 2010 as part of the Legacies Project.