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Part 1: Luke Chennel - John Bond (1912-1989) and his wife Elaine bought the faltering magazine Road & Track in 1949. Over the course of his ownership and editorship, Bond built the magazine into a major cultural force. This presentation examines the dimensions that Bond engaged with his editorial viewpoint from a wholistic cultural lens. Bond built a durable version of car culture, the practices and values of which remain in many forms today, though under challenge from old and new trends in the automotive industry.  Bond's version of car enthusiasm stemmed directly from two sources: his education at the General Motors Institute and his enthusiasm for European racing. Road & Track's coverage of the foreign motorsports scene for some time was the only widely available source material for an American audience. Luke argues that Bond's two decade editorship (1951-1972) of Road & Track created the foundational dimensions of traditional “car guy” culture, with its familiar and clubby atmosphere familiar to those “in the know,” but also acted in an exclusionary way to women, casual automobile and racing enthusiasts, and those who might have appreciated automobiles from other dimensions than their mechanical design or performance on certain tests. Finally, the presentation examines Bond's version of car culture in a contemporary light, considering the roles of the changing nature of racing and its relationship to road vehicles, the renaissance in electric vehicles, and debates about mobility in the contemporary climate. Part 2: Kristie Sojka - will explore the progression of gender representation within the time that John Bond owned and edited Road & Track magazine. It will examine all aspects of the publication between the years of 1951-1972, including cover art, article content, photographs, and advertising. The presentation will compare and contrast the first ten years of Bond's editorship with the last ten years to identify any potential changes in female representation. With the historical perspective of developing gender politics of the time period, the presentation will consider whether these societal shifts had any impact on women's representation within the pages of the publication. Part 3: Ken Yohn - will explore car culture from an anthropological perspective, as a complex whole combining both behavior and the material objects integral to the behavior. This formulation of culture thus includes material artifacts, rituals, customs, language, beliefs, institutions, and techniques, among other elements. This presentation will address two main questions. As presented in Road & Track, what are the essential elements (behavior and artifacts) of car culture? Second, can we learn anything, or draw non-obvious conclusions about car culture by adopting this type of anthropological perspective? ===== (Oo---x---oO) ===== 00:00 Introduction and Overview 00:26 John Bond and the Rise of Road & Track 02:24 Luke Chennel's Personal Journey 03:51 John Bond's Influence on Car Culture 07:13 Bond's Vision for American Sports Cars 10:19 The Role of Racing in Car Development 15:07 Kristie Sojka on Gender Representation 23:56 Advertising and Gender in Road & Track 31:56 Disappointment in Female Representation 32:41 Dedication to John and Elaine 33:01 Ken Yon's Anthropological Perspective on Car Culture 34:12 Exploring Car Culture Through Different Lenses 37:01 Defining and Undefining Car Culture 43:11 Intergenerational Transfer in Car Culture 50:58 Q&A Session and Final Thoughts 57:34 Sponsors and Closing Remarks ==================== The Motoring Podcast Network : Years of racing, wrenching and Motorsports experience brings together a top notch collection of knowledge, stories and information. #everyonehasastory #gtmbreakfix - motoringpodcast.net More Information: https://www.motoringpodcast.net/ Become a VIP at: https://www.patreon.com/ Online Magazine: https://www.gtmotorsports.org/ This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.

Mary Barra grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, aka: the heart of the auto industry. Her father worked at General Motors for 40 years, and Mary became a second generation GM'er. She worked her way up the company, studying at the General Motors Institute (yes, it was a thing) to eventually becoming the CEO in 2014. Mary claimed GOAT status in the auto industry for steering the company through several crises – and for being a mentor to other women in the biz.  In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Mary shares:  Who would make the cut on her cross-country road trip roster Why she's never blinked twice at the rarity of being a woman in the auto industry The most difficult crisis she had to navigate a CEO Advice to her daughter and other women on when it's time to leave a job Why she views herself as a caretaker to General Motors and what that responsibility means 

About Aditi Sharma: Aditi Sharma is the co-founder of Grow Commerce. Aditi started her career as a chip designer, did her MBA, and joined McKinsey. Then, she chose to join Grab. When Aditi joined Grab, not only was she expecting her first child, but Grab was in overdrive to enter and grow across South East Asian markets while competing against formidable competitors such as Uber and gojek. It would have been a super caustic high-pressure environment to drive and deliver consistently. Eventually, Grab acquired Uber's South East Asian business in 2018. So Aditi took a leap of faith by not joining Google, but Grab, which at the time did not even have maternity coverage insurance. That was a bold move, especially for an expecting mother. Women often hesitate to take such steps because they feel unsure about managing their personal and professional lives. Therefore, Aditi's journey matters to all who must make bold moves and walk the unchartered path. I recently listened to an interview by Ginni Rometty about her journey to becoming IBM's first female CEO in 2012. She is another corporate leader who exemplifies bold and strategic decision-making. She was born in 1957 in Chicago. Ginni grew up in a family that struggled financially, but through her perseverance, she attended Northwestern University and earned a degree in computer science and electrical engineering in 1979. After graduation, she started her career as a systems engineer at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University). In 1981, Ginni joined IBM as a systems engineer. She quickly rose through the ranks and held several leadership positions in IBM's consulting, services, and sales organizations. In 2009, she was named senior vice president and group executive for IBM's sales, marketing, and strategy division. In 2012, Ginni was appointed CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to lead the company. She oversaw IBM's transformation from a hardware-focused company to services and software-focused company. Ginni stepped down as the CEO of IBM in April 2020 and was succeeded by Arvind Krishna. Today, she serves on the board of directors of several companies, including JPMorgan Chase and the Mayo Clinic. I recommend reading her latest book, Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World. Key Take Aways & Transcript: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/TOP_Career_Aditi Follow & Subscribe: WhatsApp:⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_WA2⁠⁠ YouTube:⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_Youtube⁠⁠ LinkedIn:⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_LinkedIn⁠⁠ Twitter:⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_Twitter1⁠⁠ Instagram:⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_Insta

To those well familiar with the career milestones that typically mark the path to the CFO office, Lou Arcudi's resume at first may appear to be upside down. Or at least it could be said that the same operational projects and roles that frequently populate the tops of the resumes of aspiring CFOs are instead found at the bottom of Arcudi's. To put it another way: Arcudi acquired his operations experience early. Arcudi spent his college summers working at a General Motors chemical plant in Framingham, Mass., where he was encouraged to apply to a training program offered by the General Motors Institute of Technology (now Kettering University). The school accepted Arcudi's application, and after 6 months of training, the young recruit was offered a position at one GM's many plants.      “It was kind of like the military, where you usually get to choose your posting and specialty, so I picked the Framingham plant and manufacturing accounting and inventory control as my discipline,” recalls Arcudi, whose GM experience soon helped to advance him into a divisional controllership role at chemical company Millipore. At the time, Arcudi was responsible for consolidating the financials for two chemical plants within the United States and two others in Japan and Ireland. “The role helped me to understand what really happens out in the field—it wasn't about keeping a balance sheet but about being P&L-driven, and it became foundational for my career,” observes Arcudi, as he flags the origins of an operations mind-set that would help to propel him upward and accompany him as he served in a subsequent succession of CFO roles. –Jack Sweeney

Gary Hertzler currently lives in Mesa Arizona but grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended college at the General Motors Institute of Technology earning his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree in 1966. Following graduation he had a short stint with McDonnell-Douglas doing design work on the F4 Phantom. While at McDonnell-Douglas he obtained his private pilot's license. In 1967 the Vietnam war was raging on in Southeast Asia. The U.S. military draft was in effect. Gary was facing the draft or join the US Air Force. He served 4 years in the Air Force as a project officer at Kirtland AFB, in Albuquerque, NM. While in the Air Force he joined the base aero club and obtained his instrument and commercial ratings. Gary started work for Garrett AiReseach jet engine company immediately following his discharge in 1971. He hired on as a designer in the engine valve group, but quickly moved up to the TFE731 turbofan jet engine project. From there he was promoted to Project Design Manager for two different engine projects, the military TFE1042 jet engine and the CFE738 commercial engine. Gary finished his career as Master Design Manager for the 907 jet engine with the company known then as Honeywell in the year 2000. Back in 1976 after being shown an article in Popular Mechanics on the Burt Rutan VariEze his interest in building his own airplane was renewed. (He had previously started a Mustang II project that he ultimately sold.) Following completion of his VariEze in 1980 efficiency became his obsession. This included achieving two non-refueled distance worlds records as well as several wins at the CAFÉ 400 competition. Gary is the present holder of the CAFÉ Challenge award. His record is 169.3 mph achieving 48 Miles Per Gallon while hauling a 400 lb. payload flown in his VariEze, November 99 Victor Echo. Following retirement in 2000, Gary started his own business manufacturing propellers for homebuilt airplanes and has produced nearly 600 propellers primarily for canard aircraft. Besides building and flying his own airplane for the last 41 years he has accumulated over 48 hundred flight hours and has even restored a 1917 Buick touring car and a 1929 Buick coupe. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rutancoba/support

BULLDOG DIARIES: Historian and author Tim Troupe Noonan relates the little-known story of the vital role Major Al Sobey's wife, Bess Penoyar Sobey, who was also an educator, played in shaping the early General Motors Institute.

Walter Donald "Don" Drover was born in Oklahoma and is a self proclaimed "Baby Boomer".   He studied at General Motors Institute on their 5 year engineering program and then went on to get his MBA at Indiana University.  He has many great qualities including making everyone feel welcome, liked, and appreciated.  After a long career in business and as a business owner, Don retired and kept busy.  He currently volunteers as AARP tax aid, a station captain and regular at the local Sleep in Heavenly Peace chapter, and helping those in need.  We really enjoyed the stories of camping, road trips, almost running out of gas, and more.  Listen in to learn more to Don's story. 

Benedito cursà estudis de Dret a la Universitat de Barcelona i completà els seus estudis amb la realització, als Estats Units d'Amèrica, del Curs de Gestió de Concessionaris al General Motors Institute de Michigan i el Màster en Direcció d'Àrees Funcionals i Finances de l'Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses de Barcelona.[1] Benedito s'incorporà a l'empresa familiar el 1986 i el 1992 ocupà el càrrec de director general del grup d'automoció Benedito, una xarxa de concessionaris i tallers d'automòbil amb més de 50.000 clients.[1] Posteriorment la família Benedito vengué part de les empreses i des d'aleshores es dedica a la gestió del patrimoni i a l'assessorament d'empreses de capital familiar.

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On Time for Success - Business Owner Moms Edition This week we are interviewing Molly Nesham founder of PersnickeTea Company Get to know Molly Molly Nesham, co-founder of the St. Peters Chess Club, has been teaching and tutoring for more than 30 years. She graduated from General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering University, with a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering in 1981 and worked as an engineer for several years, implementing robots and automation systems and training people to use them; her accomplishments include: inventing a sprue-picker robot for unloading injection molding machines, a robot that makes Nerf balls for Parker Brothers, and an automation system to make Lunchables at Oscar Mayer. In 2006, Molly and her husband opened a Mathnasium Learning Center but left the franchise in 2008 to expand the offerings and form BEST Tutoring, helping more than 200 students to understand Math. Molly has taught high school Math and Science, Logic, Geography and Chess classes, as an advocate for the “Thomas Jefferson” model of classical education for the raising up of leaders and lifelong learners Molly started blending tea for health reasons and organized PersnickeTea to help others deal with similar issues. You can purchase her “Made in Missouri” organic and known-source tea blends at Not Jaded Boutique and Ellbee’s General Store in Wentzville, Sugar Cubed and Kickin It with Kava in St Charles, Farm Table in O’Fallon, and online atPersnickeTea.com and on our Tea Cupboard app. Currently, Molly teaches Math and Personal Finance at Trinity Christian Academy, where she is also the Chess Coach. She is also a Substitute Teacher in the Ft Zumwalt School District. She has fun teaching Tea-ography, Number Sense, and other classes for Homeschooler Link, when she is not writing, designing software, tutoring Math, inventing something, memorizing poetry, or creating new blends of tea. Her plans include hosting more tea tastings and opening a tea processing facility here in Missouri.

Dan Hollifield was born in November of 1957 at almost the same moment that Sputnik II was launched. However, the two events are not, in fact, related. His father was a machinist, graduating from the General Motors Institute in the mid 1950s. After fleeing the harsh Michigan winters for a return to the families ancestral home, Dan's father began working in Oak Ridge, TN making toys for the physicists to play with. Dan's mother is an artist specializing in oils, china painting, glass painting, and multimedia home-crafts. David Ulnar Slew Author and Editor Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cheapjack Pulp Magazine Plank owner in the Illiterati Writer's Collective Flash Fiction Editor Emeritus of Aphelion-The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy Editor at Large of Aphelion-The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy  

Dan Hollifield was born in November of 1957 at almost the same moment that Sputnik II was launched. However, the two events are not, in fact, related. His father was a machinist, graduating from the General Motors Institute in the mid 1950s. After fleeing the harsh Michigan winters for a return to the families ancestral home, Dan's father began working in Oak Ridge, TN making toys for the physicists to play with. Dan's mother is an artist specializing in oils, china painting, glass painting, and multimedia home-crafts.  Few can claim the varied background of Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery. Veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs, she worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Her space experience also includes Spacelab and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons effects.Her travels have taken her to the top of Pikes Peak, across the world’s highest suspension bridge, down gold mines, in the footsteps of dinosaurs, through groves of giant Sequoias, and even to the volcanoes of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest, where she was present for several phreatic eruptions of Mount St. Helens.Now retired from space work, Stephanie has trained her sights on writing   The Mystery continues.

Dan Hollifield was born in November of 1957 at almost the same moment that Sputnik II was launched. However, the two events are not, in fact, related. His father was a machinist, graduating from the General Motors Institute in the mid 1950s. After fleeing the harsh Michigan winters for a return to the families ancestral home, Dan's father began working in Oak Ridge, TN making toys for the physicists to play with. Dan's mother is an artist specializing in oils, china painting, glass painting, and multimedia home-crafts.   When the Standardized Aptitude Tests were introduced in Tennessee elementary schools, Dan was revealed to have the reading level of a tenth grade student. Unfortunately, he was only in the third grade at the time. In the fourth grade he was allowed to go to the school library for the first time, where he checked out two books. Jules Verne's Journey To The Center Of The Earth and An H G Wells Omnibus which contained five of Wells' most famous novels. One more Standardized Test occurred later that year, and fourth grader Dan had risen to a twelfth grade reading level, with a timed reading speed of 400 words per minute. However, he has never been good at any sports, other than dodgeball. Even later than that, his family moved yet again, this time to Athens, GA. He has lived in or near Athens for the remainder of his life.

My guest for podcast #175 is Mike Taubitz of the firm Sustainable Lean and FDR Safety. Mike is a retired GM employee (including a stint as Global Safety Director) and we met at the Michigan Lean Consortium conference in 2011. We quickly discovered our shared interest in Dr. Deming, Lean, and, most importantly, safety improvement. I hope you enjoy our chat about his background and lessons from his career, the integration of Lean practices and safety improvement, lessons from Paul O'Neill and other great topics. Like my dad, Mike is a graduate of the then General Motors Institute (now Kettering University). To point others to this, use the simple URL: www.leanblog.org/175. You can find links to posts related to this podcast there, as well. Please leave a comment and join the discussion about the podcast episode. For earlier episodes of the Lean Blog Podcast, visit the main Podcast page at www.leanpodcast.org, which includes information on how to subscribe via RSS or via Apple iTunes. You can also listen to streaming episodes of the podcast via Stitcher: http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=leanblog If you have feedback on the podcast, or any questions for me or my guests, you can email me at leanpodcast@gmail.com or you can call and leave a voicemail by calling the "Lean Line" at (817) 776-LEAN (817-776-5326) or contact me via Skype id "mgraban". Please give your location and your first name. Any comments (email or voicemail) might be used in follow ups to the podcast.