Several readers responded to the photograph of an unidentified man in a workshop surrounded by wooden prosthetics that ran in the on March 12.
The man in the picture is Melvin Hollister and the picture was taken in his shop that was on Garfield Road where the Kmart store is today. Jerry Annis
His name was Melvin (Mel) Hollister. He had a shop on Garfield Road that is now the Cherry Mall. He was into CB radio back in the 60 through the 80's when I knew him. We worked on setting up CB radio antennas and towers together. Garry Curtiss
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A number of readers submitted information on the photo of Brig. General George Schulegen making a visit to the Grand Traverse area in 1948 that ran on March 19.
Brig. General Schulegen was a distance relative of mine. I remember my mother speaking of him and the house his family lived in on Union Street, somewhere in the 1000 block. He was related thru the Culman family who roots go back to the late 1800's in the region. Roger Birks
This is my uncle George and my aunt Lillian Schulgen and they were in the home that I currently reside in at 212 E Tenth St in Traverse City. George Steffes
What a surprise to see Brig. General George Schulgen looking out from the photograph in Wednesday's newspaper. (3/19/08). I'm sorry that I cannot identify the lady in the photo nor say for sure if it was taken at his parents' home at 212 East Tenth Street in Traverse City.
I can however give you some background information about the General and his family.
His parents, Mr and Mrs. Louis Schulgen lived and raised their children George, William, Eleanor, Robert and Margaret at 212 East Tenth St.
George graduated from St. Francis High School in 1918, playing on the school's first basketball team. He then went to Michigan Agricultural College where he lettered in varsity football and graduated in June 1922 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
He joined the Army Air Corps and earned his wings in 1924 at Brooks Field, Texas. His brother, William, a St. Francis graduate of 1921 also attended MAC and entered the Army Air Corps following graduation. Both received rapid promotions.
In the early 1930's when they flew to the airbase in Traverse City, they always flew quite low over St. Francis School and their parents' nearby home to let them know they were arriving.
When the Army Air Corps became the Air Force they continued their careers and retired sometime in the 1950's. They often visited their two sisters, Eleanor Schulgen and Margaret Schulgen Steffes at the family home at 212 East Tenth St.
Both General George and Colonel William are buried at Arlington Cemetery.
The reason I have this information is because the Schulgen's lived across the street from my grandparents home at 211 E. Tenth St. My mother, Lillian (Antony) Ludka grew up there and eventually she and my dad bought the house and raised eight children there.
Elaine (Ludka) Kozlowski
While I don't have any information on the photo of General Schulegen in the March 19 edition of the paper I do have some other info.
After he retired, he and his wife lived in Suttons Bay on S. Shore Drive (they owned the home currently owned and occupied by Ed and Bev Newcomb) during the early to the later 50's. Can't remember, but Mrs. Schulegen might have been Eleanor. They played cards with my parents and several couples on a fairly regular basis. My brother remembers that in the Summer of 1953 General Schulegen and my father went with him to the Oscoda Air Base for an Air Force physical. If I remember correctly General Schulegen passed away (he wasn't all that old) while they still lived in Suttons Bay - in the 50's - and then Mrs. Schulegen moved away. As a teen-ager at that time I remember him as being a very impressive but personable man.
I love having these old memories revived!
Rosemary Beuerle Kelsch
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