Dive into the life of writer Betty Smith, who spent years in Ann Arbor with her first husband. During her time in Ann Arbor, she audited playwriting classes and learned from Kenneth Thorpe Rowe.
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In 1961, the Kennedy Ad-ministration sent the U-M Symphony Band to the Soviet Union in hopes of thawing relations between the two countries through the common language of music. Could young musicians succeed as diplomats?
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The monumental Tappan Oak tree reflects a layered history of Ann Arbor, much like the University of Michigan itself. Planted in 1858, this tree is now accompanied by 15,000 other trees on the campus.
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It has been 60 years since the University started to phase out the curfew, which wasn’t uncommon for women on college campuses. While the time of this curfew is remembered differently, it was only one of the policies that made the campus experience different for male and female students.
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Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, started quietly for Herbert J. Elfring, BS ’50. The U.S. Army private had just finished breakfast and was scanning the weekly assignments on the bulletin board at Hawaii’s Camp Malakole when he heard bombing coming from the direction of Pearl Harbor.
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