This letter, dated November 7, 1995, was sent to the Ann Arbor News Librarian by retired Outdoor Editor, photographer, and writer, Doug Fulton. Fulton had retired from the News in 1983 after serving as a columnist, editor, and photographer for 30 years.

Carolyn Houston was born in 1925 and grew up in Lakewood, Ohio. She spent the majority of her working years as a homemaker and mother of four boys. During World War II she was a nurse’s aid, and she was a secretary in Stanford’s civil engineering department to support her husband’s graduate studies. Her children grew up near Dexter, Michigan. After she divorced her husband in 1980, Houston worked at Rackham as a secretary to the associate dean.