Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 7, 1942
Caption:
Seventeen Negro men left Ann Arbor by train this morning for Fort Custer to begin Army training. A farewell party was given for them Friday night at Dunbar Civic Center. With the group in the above photograph is Rev. C. W. Carpenter, pastor of the Second Baptist church. The men (from left to right) are: Kenneth Fox, Adoulphus P. Thompson, George Cromwell, Furman Wright, Leon F. Whitehead, Arthur F. Jones, Rev. Mr. Carpenter, Sherman Baker, Vernon B. Adams, Earl E. Jackson, Samuel Thomas, Sidney Henry Rinke, Robert M. Scott, Howard Lee Miller, Clinton Brantley, Frank Edward Bostic, Richard Anderson. The 17th inductee, William F. Hawkins, was not present when the picture was taken.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 26, 1938
Caption:
NEW YORK MAYOR ARRIVES HERE: Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, dynamic and colorful political leader of the nation's largest city, is shown, carrying his own bag, just after he stepped off the Wolverine at the Michigan Central station this morning in a snowstorm. He stopped here briefly on his way to Lansing for a speech. With him are Paul J. Kern, formerly of Ann Arbor, now a member of the New York city civil service commission; Miss Esther Kern, his sister, and Karl C. Kern, his father, both of Ann Arbor.