Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 20, 1939
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WILL DIRECT SUMMER RECREATION PROGRAM: Recreation in Ann Arbor this summer will be handled by the largest staff in the history of the city recreational department. Director Louis Hollway has 20 trained assistants helping him on the playgrounds. The board of education hires 16 of the instructors, the W. P. A. furnishes four and the Kiwanis club one. There will be nine full weeks of the playground season which opened yesterday and two partial weeks. Shown above are 17 members of the recreational staff. Front row, left to right: Irene Boyce, Riverside; Ruth Patton, assistant at Riverside; Marian Fisher, Wines Field; Ruth Carlisle, Waterworks. Second row: Louise VanDalen, Burns Park; Alice Malleck, Jones; Rosemary Klug, West Park; Louis H. Hollway, city recreational director. Third row: Donald Gary, Wines Field; Pete Hanna, Riverside; Willard Curtis, Burns Park. Top row: Bernard Price, assistant at Dunbar; Cameron Henderson, assistant; Howard VanBurn, assistant at Jones; Joe Fisher, West Park; Louie Wenger, Waterworks and Al Shaw, Jones. Four members of the summer recreational staff were not present when the above picture was taken. They are William R. Champion, director of summer orchestra and summer playground music; Arthur Wright, dramatics and Nellie Felker, handicraft and Eleanor Reynolds, swimming instructor at the Beach.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 20, 1938
Caption:
RECREATION LEADERS: Directors of Ann Arbor's parks and playgrounds for the summer recreation program posed Saturday after receiving final instructions at a meeting at Ann Arbor High school. Left to right are: First row, Jean Johnson, Bertha Albrecht, Ruth Patton, Grace Roszel and Elnora Reynolds; second row LaVerne Walls, Louise Winchell, Myrtie Terry, Beatrice Hopkins and Mrs. Nellie Felker; third row, Donald Gary, Joseph Fisher, Wesley Darling, Clinton Mahlke and Willard Curtis; and top row, Ralph Clark, Louis Hollway who is director of the program, and Alex Shaw. Three others, William Champion, Rosemary Klug and H. L. Howard were not present when the picture was taken.