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Tennis Coaching Legend By Phil Barnes
WINTER 2011
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1929 Train Wreck
By George Ridenour
Joe Thompson’s
“Early Depot Town”
Ypsilanti’s WWI Hero By George Ridenour
Claude Wilbanks
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Some of the outstanding players who played on Claude’s championship teams in the ‘70s.
Left to Right: Top Row – Assistant Coach Dick Ouellette, Mark McClure, Scott McClure,
John Freatman, Bob Fisher, Anders Heimklo, Head Coach Claude Wilbanks;
Front Row – Steve Carter, George Wallace, Naz Sesi, Jay Carter and Rick Profit
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Aftermath: 1929 Train Wreck in Depot Town
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The Joseph H. Thompson Dodge Brothers Motor Cars dealership was once located
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Joe Thompson was active in the Michigan Automobile Dealers Association as
President and Board Member and owned
a Dodge dealership in Ypsilanti for more
than 40 years. He was a member of the
Masons, Knights of Pythias, Kiwanis
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Ypsilanti Board of Commerce. After his
retirement, he was appointed in 1935 to
the Mackinac Island State Park Commission by then governor Frank D. Fitzgerald
and held that post intermittently until his
death in 1977. The post did not pay a salary and Thompson was quoted in the local newspaper: “Everybody has to make
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has been my contribution.”
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of the mills that flourished along the Huron River. Thompson’s grandfather Oliver
once served as mayor of Ypsilanti. The
family owned the “Thompson Block” in
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