Executive Committee Meeting 10-15-24

President's Report

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EXPLORE DETROIT

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Ford Academy , a free, high-quality educational institution where children are admitted by lottery. Along the village streets, whether walking or aboard an authentic Model T Ford, you’ll get to discover buildings whose history intermingles with that of some great men, starting with the Ford family farm . Several places are related to Ford’s great friend, Thomas Edison :

at work several times a day (glass, pottery, weaving, etc.). The ideal educational village according to Henry Ford, Greenfield brings together nearly 90 buildings from all over the country, and even from England. The estate, which spans almost 200 acres, also includes two active farms , whose facilities are open to visitors, and the Henry

Faster, Faster, Faster The man who revolutionized factory manufacturing was born in 1863 into a family of eight children, of Irish descent. His father was a farmer in Greenfield, Michigan. At the age of 16, Henry Ford quit school and became an apprentice machinist in Detroit. Three years later, he returned to live with his parents, tinkering with engines and occasionally working at the Westinghouse Engine Company. He married Clara Bryant in 1888 and moved to the city as chief engineer at the Detroit Edison Company factory. In 1895, his first “horseless carriage” was completed and, four years later, backed by sponsors, the Detroit Automobile Company was born. In 1903, he founded the Ford Motor Company, whose Model T , developed in the Piquette Avenue factory ( T p. 52) , was a roaring success upon its 1908 launch. Henry Ford, keen to boost the company’s profits by selling “a motor car for the masses”, introduced a production line way of working in 1913 in a bid to drastically speed up manufacturing and reduce costs. Profiting from the abundance of labor, and offering wages almost twice as high as the norm ($5/day in 1914), Ford floored the accelerator and drove the change in society spurred by the emergence of mass auto production: for the first time, the workers had the means to buy the cars they were making. With fierce efficiency, the man who demonstrated his appreciation of fairness in paying his Black workers the same wage as White workers in equivalent positions, did not hesitate to resort to “strong arm” tactics to intimidate the unionists, nor to dally with Nazi Germany. After his death in 1947, his only son, Edsel Bryant Ford, succeeded him, followed by his grandson, Henry Ford II, son of Edsel, who died in 1987. In the 21st century, Ford remains a family business. William Clay Ford Jr, great-grandson, and Henry Ford III, great-great-grandson of the founder, sit on the board, while Elena Anne Ford-Niarchos, his great-great-granddaughter, also plays a key role in the company’s management.

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his grandparents’ home in Canada (supporters of the British cause, they had had to cross the border after the War of Independence); Smiths Creek Station on Lake Huron, where Edison sold newspapers as a child; his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey; and the Edison Illuminating Company, where Ford started out. You can still see the house in which the Wright brothers were born; the workshop in Dayton (Ohio) where they built the plane that made the first flight

in history; Logan County Court House where Lincoln began his career as a lawyer; the oldest mill in the country (Cape Cod, 17th century); as well as a rare brick house where slaves from Georgia lived in the early 19th century. Among the places in Detroit , Dr Howard’s office (1840) and Mrs Cohen’s hat shop (1880) can be visited. Ford Rouge Factory Tour aa Mon-Sat. 9:30am-5pm (last visit 3pm) - complimentary shuttle from Henry

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