Scrap Drive: Paper Collection at Tappan School, November 1943 Photographer: Eck Stanger
Year:
1943
Ann Arbor News, November 17, 1943
Caption:
STUDENTS COLLECT SCRAP PAPER: Members of the Victory Committee at Tappan school spent a lot of time last week collecting paper for a scrap drive, and at the end of the week discovered they had accumulated 50,862 pounds of paper. Here some of the committee members and their advisor are shown with part of the haul. In front from left to right are Miss Marie Bloomfield, teacher in charge, and Nancy Townsend. In the rear, sitting on the pile of papers are Jim Ueberhorst, Wesley Pennington and Bill Slawson. The boy sitting directly behind Nancy at the right is Virgil Fairbanks.
Jones School
Jones School was an anchor of Ann Arbor’s historically Black neighborhood (what is now Kerrytown) from the early twentieth century until 1965. Many living Ann Arbor residents remember attending Jones School during the Civil Rights Era. In 1964 the Ann Arbor Board of Education acknowledged that, with over 75% Black students, Jones was a “de facto” segregated school. Jones School closed in 1965, and several years later the building reopened as Community High School.
Waste Paper - Our Job
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Hamburg bus purchased by Brown-McLaren Manufacturing to transport Hamburg children to Ann Arbor schools, March 1944 Photographer: Eck Stanger
Year:
1944
Ann Arbor News, March 31, 1944
Caption:
SCHOOL ABSENTEE PROBLEM SOLVED: When Hamburg High school students, who attend classes at Ann Arbor High school, found wartime travel restrictions making it nearly impossible to attend school, many of them dropped out and forgot about further education. Then R. C. Brown and some of his cohorts at the Brown-McLaren Manufacturing Co. in Hamburg stepped into the picture and solved the school transportation problem by purchasing a $3,300 school bus that makes the Hamburg-Ann Arbor trip daily carrying 12 Hamburg students and an extra 10 picked up at Whitmore Lake. The new bus started its runs this week but it isn't the first effect of Mr. Brown's benevolence to be felt at the Hamburg school. He also purchased a $1,000 fire escape for the school building and has made other improvements possible. Shown in the picture foreground, left to right, are Mr. Brown, the company president; Harry Andrews, treasurer; Ora Moehl, auditor, and Charles Heath.
Line-Up at Muir's During Cigarette Shortage, November 1944 Photographer: Eck Stanger
Year:
1944
Ann Arbor News, November 18, 1944
Caption:
BANANAS? NO. NYLONS? NO. JUST CIGARETS: Ann Arbor's shortage of cigarets is growing no better fast, if the above picture is a criterion, for this is part of a line-up of more than 50 persons who were waiting to buy cigarets at Muir's drug store on Main St. this morning when the photographer happened along. A sign on the window says "cigarets, first come, first served."
Line-Up at Muir's During Cigarette Shortage, November 1944 Photographer: Eck Stanger
Year:
1944
Bananas? No. Nylons? No. Just Cigarets
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Legacies Project Oral History: Peggy de Vries
Peggy Jenny Winick was born in 1920 to Russian immigrant parents in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her father, George Winick, worked in the metal industry. Following the Great Depression, she worked part-time to help rebuild the family’s livelihood. In 1945 she married Gerritt W. de Vries and they moved to Ann Arbor so that he could attend the University of Michigan School of Architecture & Design. Peggy worked in photo finishing and printing at Ivory Photo. The de Vries had three children, and they retired in Lake Leelanau. She passed away in 2010.
Peggy de Vries was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2010 as part of the Legacies Project.
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Legacies Project Oral History: Shirley (Rusty) Schumacher
Shirley (Rusty) Schumacher was born in 1930 in Detroit. She remembers war bonds, scrap drives, and special manufacturing during World War II. She attended William and Mary College and received two master’s degrees in speech and education from the University of Michigan. Schumacher spent most of her career as a teacher at Clague Middle School. In 1985 she founded a student exchange program with Ann Arbor’s sister city, Hikone, Japan. She led a year-long stay there in 1992-93.
Shirley (Rusty) Schumacher was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2018 as part of the Legacies Project.