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My Corvette story began about 55 years ago – you see, I was born a few months after the Corvette in 1953! About 23 years ago, I found myself single with two adorable little girls, and began working for EDS at the General Motors Assembly Center in Wentzville, Missouri. There, we built Park Avenues, Oldsmobile 88/98s and later the Pontiac Bonneville (they now build the full-size Chevy and GMC Vans). As soon as I was eligible, I started putting away money so I could buy a 50th Anniversary Corvette. I didn't know if there would be one, nor did I care what it would look like. I felt this was the ONLY way to celebrate my second ...
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I was there…
When I first saw the button on this site labeled PRESS ROOM, I thought not about press releases but flashed back to the first time I entered the press room of the newly opened Fisher Body plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. More than forty years have passed since then, but to me and thousands of other "stampers" around the Midwest, the term "press room" will always conjure up the sights, sounds, and memories of the arena in which we spent much of our working lives. As I stood in line at the main crib on that first day to get my tongs and gloves, I watched an employee using both trolleys of an overhead bridge crane to turn over...
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On this month
1943 – February
A wartime shortage of men and women to fill jobs led to the enactment of a “buddy” shift. The first business in Dayton, Ohio to adopt the new buddy shift was Inland Manufacturing. In February 1943, Inland hired a number of high school boys to work at Inland after school until 7 p.m., at which time men and women who had full time jobs during the day would take over and work until 10 p.m. More >
1966 – February – 17
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., former President and CEO of General Motors died on in New York City at the age 90. In the 1920s, Sloan organized GM according to his principle of “decentralized operations with coordinated control.” A revolutionary concept at the time, it became – and remains – the standard organizational model for large enterprises worldwide. More >
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