Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 7, 1973
Caption:
Charles Baird of Kansas City, donor of the Baird Carillon on the U-M campus, had a lot of help when he registered for the first room to be rented in the new Michigan Union annex in June 1937. The two Union employees at the left are Stanley G. Waltz, Union manager, who later became a sheriff in New York state, and night clerk Creighton R. Coleman, who is former majority leader of the Michigan Senate and now a Calhoun county circuit judge and husband of Judge Mary Coleman, recently elected to the Michigan Supreme Court. Third from left is Fielding H. Yost, former U-M coach and athletic director; and the others, left to right: Dean of Students Joseph A. Bursley; Prof. Henry C. Anderson; Baird; Arthur W. Stace, editor of The News; U-M President Alexander G. Ruthven, and the Ann Arbor attorney George J. Burke.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 18, 1936
Caption:
Carillon Bells Arrive From Foundry In England: Fifty-three bells of the Charles Baird carillon, third largest in the world, arrived in the city yesterday and were placed in storage until the framework from which they will hang in the Burton memorial tower is erected. F. C. Godfrey, chief carillon designer of Taylor & Co., English firm which cast the bells, is shown standing beside the 12-ton Bourdon bell, largest of the 53. It bears the inscription of the donor, Charles Baird of Kansas City.