Longtime Ann Arbor News Employees Plan for Retirement, July 1982 Photographer: Larry E. Wright
Year:
1982
Ann Arbor News, July 28, 1982
Caption:
Retirees, from left, Harold "Whitey" Paul, Dorothy Fischer, Bill Vandenhoed and Bill O'Neal
Four News Retirees Starting New Lives
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AACHM Oral History: Sharon Gillespie
Sharon Gillespie was born in 1945 and raised by her grandmother in Oklahoma before moving to Ann Arbor with her mother at age nine. She remembers redlining in Ann Arbor and the breakup of the historically Black neighborhood she grew up in. She helped raise two younger sisters while her mother attended ophthalmology school at the University of Michigan. Gillespie excelled in her career as a typesetter at local businesses. After retiring, she has been active in volunteering at homeless shelters and hospice programs. She was married to Raymond Gillespie for 21 years.
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Legacies Project Oral History: Carolyn Houston
Carolyn Houston was born in 1925 and grew up in Lakewood, Ohio. She spent the majority of her working years as a homemaker and mother of four boys. During World War II she was a nurse’s aid, and she was a secretary in Stanford’s civil engineering department to support her husband’s graduate studies. Her children grew up near Dexter, Michigan. After she divorced her husband in 1980, Houston worked at Rackham as a secretary to the associate dean. She married Bill Houston and moved to Pittsburgh in the late 80s, but returned to Ann Arbor in 2001.
Carolyn Houston was interviewed as part of an internship at Applied Safety and Ergonomics in Ann Arbor in 2008 as part of the Legacies Project
Ruth Hollister, Ann Arbor News secretary, February 1942 Photographer: Attributed to Eck Stanger
Year:
1942