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Longtime Ann Arbor Schools Employee Waltstine Perry Honored at Retirement Potluck, April 1976 Photographer: Larry E. Wright

Longtime Ann Arbor Schools Employee Waltstine Perry Honored at Retirement Potluck, April 1976 image
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1976
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Ann Arbor News, April 23, 1976
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Kindergartner Thomas Gutow chats with his friend Waltstine Perry at a pot luck supper held Thursday night in Perry's honor at Newport Elementary School. More than 300 Newport staff members, graduates, students, and their parents attended the supper. Perry, 63, a custodian for the school district since 1953, retires in June. Before transferring to Newport when it opened nine years ago, Perry, called "Pudd" by friends and relatives, worked at Slauson, Jones and Bader schools. The school employee keeps track of many of those he knew as youngsters. "A lot of them did pretty good for themselves," he said.
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DJ Michael Jewett at WEMU Radio Studio, January 1996 Photographer: Lon Horwedel

DJ Michael Jewett at WEMU Radio Studio, January 1996 image
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1996
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Ann Arbor News, February 12, 1996
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Michael Jewett feels at home in the studio at WEMU radio
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AACHM Oral History: Sharon Gillespie

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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