Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 24, 1963
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EXPLORING THE AUTOMOBILE: Fourth grade students of Mrs. Kay Moody at Carpenter Elementary School are studying a unit on the automobile industry. Above, David Garter (left) and Tom Leighton, sixth graders at the school, explain about the intricate parts of an automobile engine for the class by using a scale model engine which they enjoy working on in their spare time. The engine is complete.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 8, 1963
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ART ON DISPLAY: Carpenter Elementary School will sponsor its 4th annual art show and music festival at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the school. Art work of Kindergarteners through sixth grades will be on display in the halls and classrooms. The schools orchestra and chorus will perform at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited. Above, (from left) sixth graders Jim Baker, Jackie Ward, Doug Downs and Christine Harless hang pictures for the show. The public is invited to visit the school.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 12, 1963
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FACULTY IN UNUSUAL 'CONCERT': Members of the Carpenter Elementary School faculty, (from left) David Aberdeen, principal, Mrs. Pearl Franzblau, Don Dygert, Dawson Burt, Miss Nancy Hornby and Mrs. Marilyn Moss, demonstrated their musical ability on string instruments in a special "concert" yesterday morning before the school children. They hope that their rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" will give a boost to the school's musical program by creating an interest in musical instruments among the children. They had no encore to play, despite the applause.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 12, 1964
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SHOW GOES ON: Fifth grade students of Mrs. Jarvis Franzblau at Carpenter Elementary School made puppets and wrote a script for the marionette show they put on for the school pupils today. Cheryl Todd (left) and Sandy Ernst practice manipulating the puppets.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 2, 1966
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The "westward movement," a unit in American history being studied by these Carpenter School fifth graders, takes life in the form of a covered wagon. Posing as a pioneer family are (left to right) Arthur Lau, Kenneth Buxton, Deborah Dinwiddie and Cindy Cody. The wagon was constructed by these youngsters and their classmates in Mrs. Catherine Forbes' room. It bears the traditional slogan of westward bound pioneers, "California or Bust!"

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 11, 1973
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Demonstrating a German folk dance, third graders at Carpenter Elementary School join in the school's weeklong International Fair. The fair concluded today with an assembly to honor foreign students attending Carpenter.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 4, 1974
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David Launstein, a fourth grader at Carpenter Elementary School, prepares for the Ann Arbor public schools' Annual Youth Art Exhibit being held at the University of Michigan Rackham Building. The show will open from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and then will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily except Sunday through June 6. More than 1,000 pieces of art work by Ann Arbor public school students will be on display. The art show is sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Association. (News photo by Jack Stubbs)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 10, 1974
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Carpenter Elementary School students continue to use their playground even though school workmen are digging it up to improve drainage. The school site is also to be landscaped. (News Photo by Jack Stubbs.)