Category: in Memorium

  • Remembering Wayne Dyer

    Remembering Wayne Dyer

    Dr. Wayne Dyer left us this past week. But his wisdom endures. Here are some of our favorite Wayne Dyer quotes.”How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.””You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.””When you judge another, you do not define…

  • Remembering Hazen Schumacher

    Remembering Hazen Schumacher

    By Scott WestermanOur good friend, Hazen Schumacher, passed away on the morning of July 19, 2015 in Ann Arbor. He was 88 years young.Hazen was one of the world’s leading authorities on the first three decades of recorded American Jazz, served on the Ann Arbor School Board at a pivotal time in the district’s history and…

  • Remembering Don Herro

    Remembering Don Herro

    The elements that so mix to create the tapestry of words and deeds that reveal our character are the creations of many artists. If we are lucky, there are singular people who come into our lives at just the right moment, guiding our adventures in the direction of excellence.In my life, one of those amazing…

  • Remembering Tanna

    Remembering Tanna

    “Let’s get the kids a dog.”I can’t remember which of us said it but there was a lot of discussion about the particulars. Our house in Florida was small back then and the kids were not yet in high school. We had tried our luck with a Brittany Spaniel several years before but drew a…

  • Remembering Joey Morrison

    Remembering Joey Morrison

    If we’re lucky, when we are young we are blessed with a best friend; that person with whom you shared the ups and downs of adolescence, tested the waters of adulthood and had adventures that nobody else but the two of you knew about.For me, Joey Morrison was that person. We met when our parents…

  • Carl Martin

    Carl Martin

    In every organization there is that one person who you can always count on to get the job done. Someone who isn’t afraid to tell you what you need to hear instead of what he thinks you might want to hear and does it in a calm, professional, empowering way. A person who seems to…

  • Remembering Paul Harvey

    Remembering Paul Harvey

    In the days before automation, a rite of passage for many a young disk jockey was running the local control board for Paul Harvey News and Comment. My own experience came in 1971 at Ann Arbor’s WPAG. As the agricultural station for southeastern Michigan and northern Ohio, our noon-time Farm and Home Hour was punctuated…

  • Remembering Paul Harvey

    Remembering Paul Harvey

    In the days before automation, a rite of passage for many a young disk jockey was running the local control board for Paul Harvey News and Comment. My own experience came in 1971 at Ann Arbor’s WPAG. As the agricultural station for southeastern Michigan and northern Ohio, our noon-time Farm and Home Hour was punctuated…

  • Remembering Cyrlena Aldrich

    Remembering Cyrlena Aldrich

    As some of you know, we recently learned that my sweet mom had liver cancer, a metastasis of the breast cancer she beat several years ago. Her time to battle was a short one, only about 2 months. She passed away around 1am on November 22 in Houghton Lake, MI in the same nursing home…

  • Remembering Ted Heusel

    Remembering Ted Heusel

    In the days when my dad was an administrator at the Ann Arbor Public Schools, election nights took on a special significance. It was a time when people actually voted “yes” on school bond issues and the money drove the construction of  Scarlet Junior High and the venerable Huron High School. I don’t remember the…