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AADL Talks To: Bev Willis

Bev Willis
Bev Willis

Bev Willis is an Ann Arbor historian who has worked with several historical organizations, including the African American Cultural and Historical Museum, the city’s Historic District Commission, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society’s Museum on Main Street. Bev talks with us about her passion for local history and the mentors, family members, and cultural influences that helped chart the course of her career.

Washtenaw County Historical Society's Museum on Main Street

African American Cultural and Historical Museum

Ann Arbor High School Track Team - Five-A League & Regional Track Champions, May 1952 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Ann Arbor High School Track Team - Five-A League & Regional Track Champions, May 1952 image
Year:
1952
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 24, 1952
Caption:
MEET ANN ARBOR HIGH'S TRACK CHAMPS: For several years The News has honored the city's championship high school teams by printing pictures of the squad which took the title. Here, then, is the squad which holds this year's Five-A League and regional track championship. Some of its members today were competing at Ferry Field in the State Class A title meet. Those above who failed to qualify for today's competition were on hand to cheer. The squad members, left to right, in each instance: BOTTOM ROW - Assistant Coach Hank Fonde, Prenty Ware, Chuck Morton, Jack Newman, Don Franklin, Coleman Jewett, Co-Capts. Bob Barr and Bill Newman, Art Preston, Bob Winder, and Coach Tim Ryan. SECOND ROW - Joe Bone, Bruce Rockman, Harry Haas, Bill Koch, Dick Mayers, Don Koch, Bob Hensen, Dick Sleet, Harry Shore, and Hugh Correll. THIRD ROW - Manager Jerry Waxman, Art Clark, Jim Ritchie, Milt Theros, Marv Baker, Duane Calvert, Mike Berg, and Hathaway Gulley. FOURTH ROW - Manager Don Thomas, Pete Gilbert, Bob Evans, Jerry Leith, Stewart May, Tom Leith, Howard Reidell, and Bob Wright. The Leith twins, transfer students from U high at midyear, were not eligible for competition this spring but trained with the rest to keep in shape for next year's campaigning.
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Tappan Middle School Opens A Time Capsule From 1950, October 1992 Photographer: Benjamin Rusnak

Tappan Middle School Opens A Time Capsule From 1950, October 1992 image
Year:
1992
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 26, 1992
Caption:
BACK TO THE FUTURE - Coleman Jewett, assistant principal at Tappan Middle School from 1972-1989, shows current Tappan students Gayle Soskolne, center, and Rossie Gafni some of the prices in advertisements from a 1950 copy of The Ann Arbor News that was found in a time capsule opened on Sunday. The time capsule was found in the school this summer. It also included a teacher's contract, the math curriculum and a picture of Ann Arbor school board members.