Betsy Brandt is an American actress. Born in Bay City, she developed a love for theater after winning the lead in a high school performance in her junior year. She graduated from Western High School in 1991 and continued her education at the University of Illinois, Harvard University, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glascow.
On television, Brandt has enjoyed multiple guest appearances on popular shows such as ABC’s Private Practice and Boston Legal; CBS’s “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and NCIS; NBC’s hit drama Parenthood and ER; and USA Network’s Fairly Legal. She was also a recurring guest star on CBS’s Without a Trace, playing Libby Coulter.
In the summer of 2012, Brandt appeared in director Steven Soderbergh’s blockbuster feature Magic Mike, alongside Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn and Matt Bomer. Previously, Brandt starred in the independent features Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Shelf Life and Memphis Bound…and Gagged and Confidence, which Variety called a “whip smart” film that “taps into a fresh source for American comedy.”
She is currently known for her role as Marie Schrader in Breaking Bad and as Annie Henry on The Michael J. Fox Show.
For more information, see Wikipedia entry
B. J. Hammerstein, Betsy Brandt bids good-bye to ‘Breaking Bad,’ hello to Michael J. Fox, Detroit Free Press, September 29, 2013.
The state’s first prison for women, The Huron Valley Women’s Facility in Ypsilanti, opened.
Source : Historical Society of Michigan
On November 14, 1986, Lansing was rocked when Court of Appeals Judge S. Jerome Bronson was arrested by Michigan State Police and arraigned on felony bribery charges stemming from a case pending before him.
Authorities said the 56-year-old jurist, with an unblemished record, accepted an envelope stuffed with $20,000 in cash. More money was to be paid later.
Bronson was allowed to leave pending further legal action. He drove to his home in Oakland County’s Franklin Village.
He committed suicide later that day.
Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace : Michigan from the Political Graveyard.
Cabrera, 30, in 2012 became the first player to win a Triple Crown in 45 years, and he followed that feat up with an even better season. He won his third consecutive batting championship (.348), and was second to Davis in home runs (44) and RBIs (137). His on-base percentage (.442) was up nearly 50 points, slugging (.636) 30 points, and his OPS (1.078) nearly 80 points.
And he did all that despite playing through injuries the final three months of the season. The last month was especially bad, playing through a groin injury that would’ve sent a healthy majority of players to the disabled list.
For more information, see Tony Paul, “‘He’s the best:’ Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera wins second straight AL MVP award”, Detroit News, November 14, 2013.
Renovation has been completed and the public is invited to see the expansion of Michigan State University’s medical school in Flint.
A ceremonial ribbon-cutting and open house are planned Friday at Michigan State’s College of Human Medicine’s downtown campus. Located in the former home of The Flint Journal, the facility includes a public health research center.
Speakers during the morning ceremony include university President Lou Anna Simon and medical school Dean Marsha Rappley. The afternoon open house includes self-guided tours of the lecture hall, computer labs, study and exam rooms, research space and two loft apartments.
For the full article, see “Michigan State finishes medical campus in Flint”, Detroit News, November 14, 2014.
The first time Michigan State University enrolled more than 10,000 students was in the 1946-47 academic year, when soldiers returning from the second World War nearly doubled the size of the student body.
What followed was a period of explosive growth that would continue, not quite unabated, well into the 1970s. The university crossed the 20,000 student mark in the 1954-55 academic year, exceeded 30,000 in the fall of 1963 and 40,000 six years later.
But as the baby boom generation moved into adulthood, the growth stopped. Enrollments dipped in the early 1980s, went back up and dipped again at the start of the 1990s.
But this fall, for the first time, MSU’s enrollment has topped 50,000. To be precise, it’s 50,085.
For the full article, see Matthew Miller, “MSU enrollment tops 50,000 students”, Detroit Free Press, November 14, 2014.
State Rep. Laura Cox, R-Livonia, is set to become the first female chair of Michigan’s House Appropriations Committee next year.
Cox, who was first elected to her seat in 2014, currently serves on the Appropriations Committee and chairs the Subcommittee on General Government, and is also a member of several other subcommittees.
Prior to her turn as a state legislator, she was a member of the Wayne County Commission and a U.S. Customs special agent. Laura Cox is also wife of former Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox.
For the full article, see Lauren Gibbons, “Rep. Laura Cox to become first female chair of state House Appropriations“, MLive, November 14, 2016.
Michael Gerstein, “Rep. Cox set to make history, puts Detroit on notice“, Detroit News, November 27, 2016.
The cornerstone was laid for the first building of the Central Michigan Normal School campus, now called Central Michigan University.
Old Main, as it came to be called, was the first building constructed for Central Michigan Normal School.
Central actually opened its doors on September 13, 1892, as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute, with classes in teaching, business and stenography. At that time, few of the state’s teachers received any formal training in teaching, so school founders made teacher training their mission in founding the state’s second normal school.
Thirty-one students attended classes in second-floor rooms over an office on the corner of Main and Michigan streets in downtown Mount Pleasant. Most students at the time were eighth-grade graduates, attending the “Normal” for a few weeks or months prior to beginning their careers as teachers. Within the first two years, land was acquired and a $10,000 Normal School Building was constructed where Warriner Hall now stands.
Sources:
“Michigan Historical Calendar”, courtesy of the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University.
Central Michigan University History courtesy of the CMU School of Music
Claude S. Larzelere, “The Central Michigan Normal School at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan History Magazine, July 1919, Vol. 3.
When the Ambassador Bridge opened on November 15, 1929, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. The George Washington Bridge in New York displaced this record in 1931, yet the Ambassador remains the world’s largest international bridge. Its center span is 1,850 feet and its total length is 7,490 feet. It is made of 21,000 tons of steel and rises 152 feet above the river.
Proposals to build a bridge over the Detroit River date back to the mid-1800s. None succeeded until John W. Austin and Joseph A. Bower connected in the mid-1920s. The McClintic-Marshall Company, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was chosen for the project, which launched in May 1927 and finished ahead of schedule. Thus, the handshake between two friendly nations was complete.
Source: Burton Historical Collection (2015) Centennial Booklet.
Despite a shortage of meat due to the ongoing World War II, residence halls and the Michigan League guaranteed that they would not run out of meat because they contracted their supplies.
But Purchasing Agent F.C. Kuenzel discovered that meat cuts ordered by the Michigan Union could not be sent.
“In some instances the meat has been loaded ready for shipment, the government cosigns it for the Army and all we received was the billing,” he said. “Our bacon order has been cut fom last year’s 96 pounds per week to 24. We never know from week to week which particular cut will not be available.”
Source : “This week in Daily history“, Michigan Daily, Novemer 19, 2003