The 3rd Reunion of former patients, staff, volunteers and families of the Michigan Hospital School, Michigan Convalescent Home, and the Sister Kenny Hospital — all names of the early children’s hospital in Farmington — will be held this fall. If you’d like to come, contact Kimberly Gimmarro or Pam Everidge at (248) 426-6951 or peveridge@botsford.org.
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04Feb
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17Mar
Mark your calendars! Welcome Home - A Reunion 2009 will be held Saturday, July 11, 2009 at Botsford Commons Senior Community. We welcome those affiliated with the Michigan Hospital School in Farmington, Michigan back for a special day!
Reconnect with your past, and tell your story! This is the year we will establish the formal archive for the former children’s hospital with the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. The oral history project which began last year will continue, in hopes of preserving personal recollections of an important hospital in Farmington area history.
For reservations, contact Kimberly Gimmarro at (248) 426-6951 or kgimmarro@botsford.org.
Directions to the former hospital site are on the web at www.botsfordcommons.org.
Welcome home for your reunion!
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11Jun
The “Casual Ts” and “Piquette Ts” chapers of the Model T Ford Club International will be at Botsford Commons on Saturday, June 26, 2010 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for their “Trip Down Memory Lane” tour. Model Ts were built by the Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1927. You’ll be treated to a fine example of early automotive history on that day, complete with owners in period costume. Famed architect Albert Kahn was both the architect for the Highland Park plant that built Model Ts, and of two buildings original to the Botsford Commons campus. For event details or directions, contact Kimberly Gimmarro at (248) 426-6951 or via e-mail at kgimmarro@botsford.org.
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14Jul
Saturday, July 11, 2009, we welcomed back 40 former patients, their families, and a relative of a two former staff members. Along with those present, Wayne State University’s Walter P. Reuther Library Director Michael O. Smith led a team of archivists in cataloguing early photographs and memorabilia from those affiliated with the early hospital.
The collection will afford researchers and those affiliated with the early hospital a unique glimpse into life at the early Farmington children’s hospital.
More than one Reunion attendee was able to locate with some degree of certainty their former room. Attendees represented the years 1929 - 1954, and came from as far as Long Beach, California and Plano, Texas!
Persons interested in donating to the hospital’s archive may contact Mike Smith at the Walter P. Reuther Library at 313-577-0415.
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21Apr
Our thanks to the Farmington Rotary Club for the opportunity to share with them on April 21, 2009, the early history of Botsford Commons, which includes the history of the local children’s hospital - a hospital which treated debilitating childhood illnesses including polio and tuberculosis.
Their members are involved in Rotary International’s campaign to End Polio Now..
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