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July, 2001 Notes of Interest to COE Alumni and Friends

Archived Alumni Notes

July 30 , 2001

Ron Collins `74, principal of Ann Arbor's Thurston Elementary, is one of 10 Michigan educators picked for a highly selective state program that aims to improve performance of lagging schools by bringing in specially trained professionals through the Partnership for Success program. Collins will spend a two-year assignment at Hampton Elementary School in Detroit.

William J. "Bill" Bushaw `79, `81 is now the "Chief Academic Officer," a new position, in the Michigan Department of Education. Bushaw will head efforts related to accreditation and accountability.

Louise Marshall, age 88, died recently in Detroit. She was one of the very early Black teachers in the Ypsilanti schools. She also taught in Mt. Clemens and was principal of Howe Elementary in Detroit.

George A. Moroz `37, age 86, of Detroit, died recently. He was a star athlete at "The Normal," later having a career as a special education teacher at the high school level in Detroit and Redford.

Charles H. Lane `48, age 77, died recently in Florida. For 20 years he was principal of Chelsea High School.

There will be an August 5, 2:00 p.m. memorial service at the Ladies Literary Club for Leila Riley `59, who died in May at age 86. Riley's late husband was a professor in the EMU Department of Music and she assisted him in writing a history of the viola. Riley taught 5th grade for 25 years at Willow Run's Holmes Elementary School.

July 23 , 2001

Elsie Lucille Huffman, age 93, died recently in Ann Arbor. A graduate of "The Normal," she was a longtime employee of the University of Michigan.

James H. Rossman, '47, age 84, died several months ago. His teaching career began in 1935 and he eventually served as superintendent in four districts, retiring from the Plymouth schools. He was a former president of the MASA.

July 2 , 2001

Emmy Thomas, `99, and Kevin David, `99, did their student teaching in Cairo, Egypt in the fall semester of 1998. They stayed in Cairo until June 1999, returned to the U.S., married each other, and then moved to Damascus, Syria, in the fall of 1999, where they have lived since. Both teach in the Damascus Community School, she at the first grade level and he in mathematics and science at the sixth grade level.