MICHIGAN MAN RECEIVES CONGRATULATORY TELEGRAM 50 YEARS LATER

A man who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1969 has inally received a congratulatory telegram from family friends that was sent more than 50 years ago. Robert Fink received the Western Union telegram this year. Western Union ended its telegram business in 2006. The telegram originally arrived in 1969 at an Ann Arbor apartment Fink shared with three classmates a day after he had left to attend graduate school in New York. Christina Zaske rediscovered the telegram in December after removing the bottom drawer of an old iling cabinet now owned by Ann Arbor-based digital marketing agency ICON Interactive to retrieve a piece of paper that had fallen inside. “I looked inside, mostly because I was curious to see an actual telegram,” Zaske said. Zaske saw Fink’s name on the paper and used the internet to ind him and return the note. Fink is now a professor at Oakland University in Rochester, a Detroit suburb that’s about 60kms northeast of Ann Arbor.