The Kleiber Family Timeline

Category: General Day to Day

General Events

  • Story – Perry Place by Aunt Peg 1954

    There was a Centennial Parade in Wyandotte in 1954. They had soldiers from past wars marching in the Parade. The earliest war than the next and so on. In this Parade the soldiers not many but were in their blues and grays it was the civil war heroes. Mom told me it would be the last year and I said why? Mom said they are so old now. Mom was right next year they were not there. Our cousin Mark played in the school band and was in the Parade .

    I remember one year when it was after Christmas and everyone was crying when we came through the front door of the house on Perry Place. Our Mom went to her Mom and said is it true? Grandma said I’m afraid so, but he died in his sleep. Dad held onto Mom and they both sat down on the crouch it was the first time I saw our Dad cry, you see our Dad loved Grandfather Graf so much. That was the year everyone in the family brought plots out at Michigan Memorial Park except Uncle Joe his wife was expecting a baby.

    Now Uncle Harry and Aunt Louise had been looking for a home in the suburbs, they found one but they didn’t have the down payment. Grandma Graf asked to take a look at it too. Uncle Harry said that the bedroom with the private bathroom would be her room if she wanted to come with them. Grandma Graf sold her home and more than enough for the down payment for the Trenton house. Now that is how the Trenton house came about.

  • Story – Door Slamming Incident by Aunt Criss 1954

    I remember being at Hudson’s with Mom and Peg (we lived on Sherwood court at that time before Charlie was born,I was only 4 or 5 at the time)

    They had those glass shelves there and one little boy the same age as me had a balloon and let go of it and I tried and jumped up to grab it in the air and on my way up scraped against the corner of the glass and cut the crease on the side of my nose(which I still have a little scar from)so Mom with the bleeding was taking me to the hospital because I needed stitches as I got out of the car,scared,blood all over me my sister Peg shuts the car door right on my hand.lol

    The doctor said I needed stitches and Mom asked while I was there if he would look at my hand that I got slammed in the car door on the way in.

    Funny being so young and I remember it so well,was on the table and they gave me a gas mask I remember thinking it looked like a strainer and wondered what they were doing with a strainer over my face.lol

    I remember only seeing the needle going to and from my side of my face.

    We went home and the wizard of Oz was on that evening and remember sitting in my little rocker with an ice pack on my head and my doll in my arms rocking and watching the wizard of oz.

    I remember it vividly,maybe it was because it was the scariest thing that happened to me up until then.

  • Howard Landis Middle Tennessee Agriculture Club 1950

    Howard studies included agriculture at Middle Tennessee and in 1950 he was a member of the Agriculture club. Agriculture is still a main curriculum at Middle Tennessee and the agriculture department is still accepting students and their facebook page is very popular with the students.

    Since 1911, more than 100,000 students have graduated from MTSU. Despite the university’s growth from a campus of 100 acres (0.40 km2), 125 students and a faculty of 19, to an academic city of more than 500 acres (2.0 km2), more than 26,000 students (second largest in Tennessee), and a faculty of more than 900, the institution is still essentially a “people’s university” with a concern for the diverse needs of the area that it serves. In the 1980s and 1990s, the institution dedicated resources to become a leader in technology, both in the classroom and in many services to students.

  • Howard Landis Middle Tennessee State College 1950

    In addition to Howard Landis (James Grandfather) other notable alumni are listed below.

    Politician Albert Gore Sr.
    Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan
    NFL quarterback Kelly Holcomb
    Multi-Platinum Producer Tay Keith
    Grammy-nominated audio engineer (Prince) Chris James
    Music executive Bayer Mack
    Nashville Star winner Chris Young
    Film director Seth Christian
    Country music artist Hillary Scott of Lady A
    Composer George S. Clinton
    WNBA players Alysha Clark and Amber Holt
    Rock artist Amy Lee of Evanescence
    Country music artist Hardy (singer)
    Alternative rock/ indie rock artist Julien Bak

  • Howard Landis Middle Tennessee State College 1948

    As Middle Tennessee State University developed and grew, the Doctor of Arts program was added in 1970 and the Specialist in Education in 1974. These degree programs became attractive centerpieces for other efforts to improve and enhance institutional roles. Library resources were dramatically increased and sophisticated computer services were developed to aid instruction and administration. A highly trained faculty enabled the university to continue growth in program offerings. In 1991, the university’s six schools—five undergraduate and the graduate school—became colleges. In 1998, MTSU’s Honors program became the Honors College, the first in the state. In 2002, approval was granted to redesignate three D.A. programs to Doctor of Philosophy programs, expanding the progressive institution’s offerings. Ph.D. degree offerings now include computational sciences, mathematics, and science education (including concentrations in biology education, chemistry education, mathematics education, and interdisciplinary science education), molecular biosciences, economics, English, human performance, public history, and literacy studies.

  • Virginia Graduates High School

    Virginia Kleiber graduates from Lincoln Park high school in 1948.

  • Howard Landis Freshman at Middle Tennessee State College 1947

    Middle Tennessee State Normal School (MTSNS or MTNS) opened on September 11, 1911, with a two-year program for training teachers. It evolved into a four-year teachers’ college by 1925 with the power of granting the Bachelor of Science degree, and the institution’s name was changed for the first time to Middle Tennessee State Teachers College. The school was often abbreviated as “S.T.C.” In 1943, the General Assembly designated the institution a state college, changing its name for the second time to Middle Tennessee State College. This new status marked a sharp departure from the founding purpose and opened the way for expanding curricular offerings and programs. In 1965, the institution was advanced to university status, changing its name to Middle Tennessee State University. In October 2010, the Student Government Association at MTSU proposed that the university be renamed to the University of Middle Tennessee, though, at the time, approval from both the university administration and the Tennessee Board of Regents was required.

  • Loretta Working At Dupont 1943

    During the war many of the wives took jobs that were normally done by men at that time, Grandma Loretta was no different and took a job working at Dupont in the electro-chemical department at their Michigan Plant.

  • Loretta Kleiber Graduates High School 1938

    Loretta Rose Graf graduated high school in 1938. Shown here is her graduation picture.