Robin Spiess:
CLASS OF 1968
Washington High SchoolClass of 1968
Kansas city, KS
General Motors Institute Engineering & ManagementClass of 1973
Flint, MI
Robin's Story
After graduation, I attended General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan. Graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1973. While in Flint, I met a gorgeous little nursing student, Carol, from Gaylord, Michigan. I made her my wife in 1971. We will just celebrated 42 years of marriage last month..
After graduation from GMI, I went to work for GM-Leeds in KCMO as an Industrial Engineer. I transferred to GM-Fairfax in 1976. I held several positions there from Industrial Engineer to Tooling Engineer. In 1985 I got the opportunity to work on the task force designing the new Fairfax plant. Like my boss said, "this is the only opportunity that you will ever have to spend $1 billion. This required traveling back and forth to Detroit every week for 18 months. After we got the plant running, I went ba...Expand for more
ck on the road working on future products. I did this until 1996. After I came back to KC full-time, I went into the Body Shop Maintenance organization as a General Supervisor in charge of Body Shop Maintenance. I retired from this job in 2000 on disability. Presently living in the country south of Basehor with Carol and my youngest son.
We have four sons and two grandchildren. My oldest son, Kevin, lives in Milwaukee. My second son graduated from Emporia and UMKC and is an executive with Citi Group in Tampa, Florida. He is married and has a gorgeous little daughter and handsome son. My third son, Eric graduated from K-State and is living in Manhattan.. Our fourth son, Chris, graduated from KCKCC and is a computer repairman. He starts back to school this month to work on a degree in Firefighting/EMT.
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