Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 12, 1956
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KIWANIANS PRESENT AUDIOMETER TO RACKHAM SCHOOL: A new audiometer was given to the Rackham School of Special Education in Ypsilanti yesterday by the Ypsilanti Kiwanis Club. The equipment, which replaces an obsolete model, will be used to checkhearing of Rackham pupils and to aid hard-of-hearing children in other Ypsilanti schools. Future teacers enrolled at Michigan State Normal College will also be trained in useof the audiometer. Here, Marilyn Weeks, instructor in the Rackham primary deaf department, demonstrates the audiometer with four-year-old Linda Bruce. Watching (left to right) are Carroll Curtis, Kiwanis vice-president; T. S. Weber, immediate past-president of the club; and Dr. Morvin A. Wirtz, Rackham director.

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Ann Arbor News, November 25, 1946
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DEAF MUTES WED IN AIR: An all sign-language wedding 1,800 feet in the air, united Marguerite Thornton, 40, and James P. McArdle, 45, this noon. Both deaf mutes, the Detroit pair said they met when they were passengers in an airplane, and so decided to hold an airborne wedding. Left to right are Capital Airlines Hostess Carolyn Siewert, 23, of Detroit, McArdle, his bride, Detroit Police Officer Fred Ryan who served as an interpreter, and Municipal Judge John R. Labadie of Allen Park, who officiated. The plane took off from Willow Run, circled over Wayne County and returned in a half hour.