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To: rdkflorida2 who wrote (4725)	4/11/2017 3:32:43 PM
From: robert b furman	2 Recommendations Recommended By Ken Adams Kirk © Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26993

My 5 years at GMI were 6 weeks of work and 6 weeks of school 48 weeks of the year the other 3 weeks I washed cars at the company garage. In those first 3 years I stamped out valve covers in Flint, poured v-8 engine blocks at Saganaw foundry and tested steering gears at Sagainaw manufacturing.I even assembled and tore down automatic transmissions in Toledo and worked at the old St Louis Corvette plant. All of it paid as if I was a UAW worker (big bucks to me in those days. My 5th year I wrote a thesis in record time and got to be a service rep in the Chicago zone - where I had worked my junior and senior year in the Chicago Zone. It was a perfect back ground for a Chevy loving gear head to be a service rep. I still owe much to Chevrolet and GM for having made that wonderful opportunity available to this young country kid who grew up in rural Wisconsin - which offered very little to me except the ability to drink beer rather well.LOL Internships are a great way to go and they avoid big debt and you don't get the liberal BS force fed down your throat from a bunch of never did anything but studied and wrote books professors. At the time it was tough and I really wanted to go to Madison where they even had girls and of course beer - heck I already had that degree. I will always be owing to that GMI program and to date I have personally sponsored two fine young men through that same school now called Kettering - I have tried to return the good deed and still feel owing. There WILL NO DOUBT BE A PORTION OF MY ESTATE - that will go to Kettering so they can advance the opportunity I was given to many others. HANDS ON WORKS and I always knew I was chasing a job I dreamed of having - that helped in enduring the loneliness and impoverished conditions I dealt with at the age of 19. Bob