A2: History

In his blog The Westerman Way, Scott Westerman III writes about the role of his father, Scott Westerman Jr., in Ann Arbor education during the transformative era of the late 1960s and early ’70s, when he served as superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools. ”Blessed with good health and a still sharp intellect, he’s still an active Ann Arborite, fully engaged in the present and thinking often about the future. But we’ve encouraged him to document his memories of that incredible time when we were all first hand witnesses to a tectonic cultural shift. A shift from grey flannel suits to tie-die t-shirts. From crew cuts to Beatle cuts. From exclusion to inclusion. All the while trying to educate children as the world around them was transforming. The tentative title of his book is ‘Sex, Drugs, Race and Religion: My years in the Ann Arbor Public Schools’. His life continues to be so full that we wonder if he’ll find time to write it.” The post also links to a podcast of  a recent talk that Westerman gave to the Ann Arbor Rotary Club. [Source]