Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 11, 1961
Caption:
LEARN TO LETTER: John Deniston, a fifth grade teacher at Carpenter School, (left) watches his pupil, Jay Morningstar, practice Old English Text lettering, while John Hogan, Marie Cook and Caryl Freeman watch.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 7, 1962
Caption:
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT: John Deniston, fifth grade teacher at Carpenter School was so delighted when his wife, Grace, gave birth to a boy Feb. 3, he pasted this announcement on his class window so the world might know. The baby, the couple's first child, arrived 3 1/2 weeks behind schedule, an amiable arrangement which permitted his mother to finish her examinations and to graduate from the University. Paul Michael Deniston, when he finally came, weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1962
Caption:
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: Students in a combined fifth and sixth grade science class at Carpenter School used their artistic talents to make their own solar system composed of papier mache planets and star formations as a class project. Above, John Deniston, teacher, explains the wonders of the universe to some of his students (from left) Sid Peterson, Patsy Morgan, Cathy Ogden and Steve Lindimore.