During the Coronavirus quarantine, I was sent footage to edit a video web series that discussed the history of Kettering/GMI in Flint, MI. I completed this task through Adobe Premiere and also created all graphics in Adobe Illustrator/InDesign. Below is a sample of videos from the series.
Episode #01: Bess Sobey – The Unsung Hero
Bess Penoyar Sobey is remembered as Major Al Sobey’s wife. Many people don’t realize that in the early 1920s she was a head of a school in her own right, and a professional of equal, if not initially greater standing than her husband. And as one-half of what Major Sobey called “Team Sobey” her contributions to the growth of GMI were huge, even if they do not appear in the official record.
Episode #02: The Power of a Degree – Part I
Today’s graduates take a degree for granted. Why go to college and not get a degree? But in the early days, GMI made a point of not awarding degrees, and it took a world war to change the policy.
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Episode #02: The Power of a Degree – Part II
Episode #03: The Contraction of ’75 – Part I
The date “1982” is the watershed mark in GMI’s history, the year it was spun off from General Motors. But it almost happened seven years before.
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Episode #03: The Contraction of ’75 – Part II
Episode #04: The Three Wise Men – Part I
Major Al Sobey is correctly considered the father of GMI. But he didn’t do it alone. In the early days, three men named Bassett, Kettering and Sloan underwrote GMI’s birth and success.
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Episode #04: The Three Wise Men – Part II
Episode #05: GMI’s First Women Students
Many people assume that the first female students at GMI came in the 1960s, but that is not the case. In fact, the hallways and classrooms at GMI were filled with women 20 years before that.