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Dennis Allen Receives An Award For Rescuing George Sims From The Huron River, March 1984 Photographer: Larry E. Wright

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Ann Arbor News, March 16, 1984
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AWARD RECIPIENT - Sgt. Charles Anderson of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, left, congratulates Dennis Allen during a meeting Thursday of area law enforcement officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan. Allen was honored for pulling a man from a car which had gone into the river last December. In the center is Jack Lousma, a Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate who was a speaker during the meeting.
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Grayce (Johnson) Blake (1930-1971)

Grayce Evelyn Blake was born on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan to Rev. David A. Blake Sr. and Grace Rogers Blake. She attended Jones School and Ann Arbor High School, where her 1948 senior yearbook noted her nickname as simply "Blake". Grayce Blake was an active member of the Bethel AME Church choir, following in the footsteps of her mother, as well as several high school singing groups. Following graduation, she left for Washington D.C. and became a student at Howard University.

Blake, Miss Grayce E.

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Ann Arbor News, November 22, 1971
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November
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1971
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Legacies Project Oral History: Ruth Carey

Ruth (née Dorsey) Carey was born in 1937 and grew up in West Virginia, Georgia, and Ohio. She attended Greenbelt College in Illinois and nursing school in Cleveland, Ohio. She and her husband had two children and moved to Ann Arbor to pursue graduate education. She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and went on to teach at the School of Nursing. She is passionate about educating new parents about health and nutrition. During retirement she began visiting inmates at the federal prison in Milan as a volunteer with the Prisoner Visitation & Support program.

Ruth Carey was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2015-16 as part of the Legacies Project.

Milan Says Escapers Pose Danger

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Ann Arbor News, September 11, 1973
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11
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September
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1973
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