Happy Birthday

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16
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March
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1949
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Ypsilanti Girl Scouts Receive Honorary Piece Of Birthday Cake At Willow Run Airport, March 1949 Photographer: Eck Stanger

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1949
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Ann Arbor News, March 16, 1949
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Twelve-year-old Lena Lou Sturgill, a Girl Scout of Troop Seven at the Rackham School of Special Education in Ypsilanti, receives a piece of the Girl Scout national birthday cake from United Air Lines stewardess, Florence McCabe. The piece of cake, flown from Los Angeles yesterday, was presented to the troop in honor of its help during the past year to hunger-stricken children of Europe. Lena, who suffered an attack of infantile paralysis several years ago and her fellow troop members, all physically handicapped, were taken on a tour of the Mainliner by Capt. W. L. Fagen, nearest the door, and First Officer Price Downey.
Ann Arbor News, March 16, 1949
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Twelve-year-old Lena Lou Sturgill, a Girl Scout of Troop Seven at the Rackham School of Special Education in Ypsilanti, receives a piece of the Girl Scout national birthday cake from United Air Lines stewardess, Florence McCabe. The piece of cake, flown from Los Angeles yesterday, was presented to the troop in honor of its help during the past year to hunger-stricken children of Europe. Lena, who suffered an attack of infantile paralysis several years ago and her fellow troop members, all physically handicapped, were taken on a tour of the Mainliner by Capt. W. L. Fagen, nearest the door, and First Officer Price Downey.
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Ware Overcomes Real Handicap

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3
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November
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1951
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Kiwanis Club Picnic at Rackham School, September 1962

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1962
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Kiwanis Club Picnic at Rackham School, September 1962

Year:
1962
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Ypsilanti Press, September 20, 1962
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HELPING HANDS - Kiwanis Club members help handicapped youngsters of the Rackham School of Special Education on the eastern Michigan University campus to some hot dogs at the annual club-sponsored picnic held Wednesday.
Ypsilanti Press, September 20, 1962
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HELPING HANDS - Kiwanis Club members help handicapped youngsters of the Rackham School of Special Education on the eastern Michigan University campus to some hot dogs at the annual club-sponsored picnic held Wednesday.
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Ann Arborite is wheelchair-bound (and thus politically incorrect)

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1
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January
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1995
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Meeting of the Washtenaw Community Mental Health Board, September 1969 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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1969
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Ann Arbor News, September 23, 1969
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Their Object: Help For The County's Retarded. Some 50 concerned citizens and parents of retarded adults jammed the meeting room last night of the Washtenaw Community Mental Health Board. They listened while spokesmen asked the board for funds to avert the closing this week of the county's only program for retarded adults. The spokesmen included Dean Douthat (standing), president of the Washtenaw Association for Retarded Children; WARC executive director Norman Quackenboss (center) and Charles H. Ramsey (hand on chin), representative of the State Mental Health Department.
Ann Arbor News, September 23, 1969
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Their Object: Help For The County's Retarded. Some 50 concerned citizens and parents of retarded adults jammed the meeting room last night of the Washtenaw Community Mental Health Board. They listened while spokesmen asked the board for funds to avert the closing this week of the county's only program for retarded adults. The spokesmen included Dean Douthat (standing), president of the Washtenaw Association for Retarded Children; WARC executive director Norman Quackenboss (center) and Charles H. Ramsey (hand on chin), representative of the State Mental Health Department.
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Sam Denton, 79, Operates Switchboard At Gregory, April 1937 Photographer: Eck Stanger

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1937
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Ann Arbor News, April 27, 1937
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BLINDNESS NO OBSTACLE: For 32 years Sam Denton, 79 years old, shown above, has operated the Gregory switchboard in the rear of his grocery store. He has been blind for 54 years, but has always surmounted the obstacle.
Ann Arbor News, April 27, 1937
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BLINDNESS NO OBSTACLE: For 32 years Sam Denton, 79 years old, shown above, has operated the Gregory switchboard in the rear of his grocery store. He has been blind for 54 years, but has always surmounted the obstacle.
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Estabrook School decision delayed

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13
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December
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1978
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Paralyzed Veteran Robert Wagner and Wife Look for Temporary Home, April 1950

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1950
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