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Jackie Love

Jackie Love https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/christina_lupu_and_jackie_love.jpg 700 525 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 22, 2016 January 22, 2016

christina_lupu_and_jackie_love As part of WDET’s program of community outreach, producer Mike Blank and the Hannan House have been collecting and producing oral histories from senior citizens throughout the region. This collection focuses on Seniors’ contribution to communities through volunteering.

Jackie Love started volunteering at an early age in the church. She began to serve on the scholarship committee at her church and still continues to. She also does volunteer work with her sorority and has served on its homeless committee.

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Lawrence Glenn

Lawrence Glenn https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/rev_glenn.jpg 700 524 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 22, 2016 January 22, 2016

rev_glenn As part of WDET’s program of community outreach, producer Mike Blank and the Hannan House have been collecting and producing oral histories from senior citizens throughout the region. This collection focuses on Seniors’ contribution to communities through volunteering.

Reverend Dr. Lawrence Glenn has been involved with volunteering for a long time. He helped to organize several programs at his church to help foster a community. In 1993 he was called to serve on the executive board of Presbyterian Villages of Michigan. Dr. Glenn’s efforts have caused him to receive a few awards, including the diversity award in 2007.

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Marian Stephens

Marian Stephens https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 22, 2016 January 22, 2016

As part of WDET’s program of community outreach, producer Mike Blank and the Hannan House have been collecting and producing oral histories from senior citizens throughout the region. This collection focuses on Seniors’ contribution to communities through volunteering.

Marian Stephens is a retired educator. She is a strong advocate for children’s education and art programs. She has done a variety of volunteer work and held several leadership roles throughout her life. She was a Girl Scout leader for ten years, president of her area’s block club, and a member of the board of the Virginia Park Citizen’s District Council.

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Mary Simpson

Mary Simpson https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/mary_simpson.jpg 525 700 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 22, 2016 January 22, 2016

mary_simpson As part of WDET’s program of community outreach, producer Mike Blank and the Hannan House have been collecting and producing oral histories from senior citizens throughout the region. This collection focuses on Seniors’ contribution to communities through volunteering.

Mary Simpson has lived in Detroit for about 74 years. She has been contributing to the area for a long time. She says volunteering comes naturally and that her family (especially her father) motivates her to help out. Some of her service and leadership roles have included being a Block Captain and President of the Quincy Avenue Block Club and a founding member of the Blue-Collar Workers of America. She currently works with Oakman Boulevard Community Association.

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Francis Parker

Francis Parker https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ashley_cherry_and_francis_shani_parker.jpg 700 525 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 22, 2016 January 22, 2016

ashley_cherry_and_francis_shani_parker As part of WDET’s program of community outreach, producer Mike Blank and the Hannan House have been collecting and producing oral histories from senior citizens throughout the region. This collection focuses on Seniors’ contribution to communities through volunteering.

Francis Parker went from being a school principal to being a hospice volunteer. She considers herself a patient advocate. She has written a book, has a website and a blog—all putting her experiences as a hospice volunteer into perspective. The experiences have changed Ms. Parker and she believes she has become a better person because of them.

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James McCree

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Mr. McCree was born in Massachusetts, went to college in Tennessee, but his volunteering path didn’t start until he came to Detroit. Most of his volunteering work has been through the Detroit Renaissance Lions Club, which he has been a member of for about 25 years. McCree wants to stay healthy enough to continue to contribute to the Lions Club. He also does volunteering work with his church.

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Eleanor Anderson

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oral_history_eleanor_anderson As part of WDET’s program of community outreach, producer Mike Blank and the Hannan House have been collecting and producing oral histories from senior citizens throughout the region. This collection focuses on Seniors’ contribution to communities through volunteering.

Eleanor Anderson is a retired school teacher that loves to volunteer around the city. She has been a Historical Museum volunteer for over 3 decades, has volunteered for the United States Coast Guard, and is a member of the Detroit Association of Black Storytellers.

OUTRO:

The words of life long Detroiter Eleanor Anderson.

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Detroit Institute of Arts Community Program, May-June 2015

Detroit Institute of Arts Community Program, May-June 2015 https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/kayrod-dia-2015.jpg 400 300 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 8, 2014 September 7, 2016

During the recent Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo exhibit at the DIA, Hannan artists not only had an opportunity to tour the exhibit but also to create their own retablos as seen in the gallery. Using clay, workshop artists designed, fashioned and painted their individual retablos, telling stories they shared with each other. For five weeks in May and June, they worked at the DIA studio with instruction and guidance from Byron Nemela and Vito Valdez.

Through this community art program, the DIA continues to partner with local agencies providing unique art experiences for groups touring the galleries and creating in the studio. Reflecting on what they see and learn about in the galleries, each participant is able to express their own thoughts and emotion in the work they create. These pieces are now on exhibit in the Kayrod Gallery Summer Open. As the pictures show….this group included a preschooler!
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“Sunbeam” Project

“Sunbeam” Project https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sunbeam.jpg 846 634 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 7, 2014 September 7, 2016

Bob Sestok conducted a series of workshops with older artists (see below) in 2010 to share mutual experience and ideas from which he drew inspiration for the “Sunbeam” sculpture now installed as the center piece in a newly created pocket park in front of the Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation.

Sestok describes his piece as a functional sculpture constructed of welded bronze, interpreting nature in both abstract and representational imagery. Using squares and spheres protruding from a central core representing the energy of the sun and the movement of water, the piece is designed to engage community and highlight the Hannan Foundation as a center of growth and creativity.

The Hannan Foundation is deeply grateful to the Erb Family Foundation for its grant making this project possible. Additional thanks and appreciation for contributions from Edith Sestok, Gilbert and Lila Silverman, Steve and Kelly Pappas, Myron and Joyce Labau, Jim and Lynn Harper, Dennis Nawrocki, Vern and Evie Wheat and Skip Davis.
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“Transitions” Tile project, front lobby installation at Hannan Foundation

“Transitions” Tile project, front lobby installation at Hannan Foundation https://www.hannan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/transitions.jpg 1443 720 Hannan Center Hannan Center https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/93c049233ae4b274f7b3b443765808b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 6, 2014 September 7, 2016

Artists: Matt Lachowski, and Deanne Rogers, with in-kind support from the Ceramic Department at Wayne State University. Senior artists from at Hannan reviewed the work visiting the design studio at WSU and meeting with the artists throughout the project.

Commissioned by the Foundation in 2010, this installation was conceived and designed to provide a link between the surrounding urban landscape and the diverse daily activity within the Hannan Non-Profit Service Center, exemplifying the creative energy inside and out!

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