How the Automobile Shaped Our Lives.
A Six-Week Live Webinar Series from McPherson College
Brought to you by the only college in America with a bachelor’s degree in Automotive Restoration, join McPherson College for a 6-week summer experience as we learn about the people, 创新, and art of the automotive industry. 的 series will blend together fascinating topics from the advent of the automobile to the car’s impact on war and globalization to how automotive styling drove art for the people. Join our automotive experts along with surprise car-world celebrities, all from the comfort of your living room! 的 only thing you won’t be able to do is smell the oil (but we’re working on that!).
Summer Experience
June 25: Four Epic Road Trips that Upended the World – Bertha Benz, Ransom Olds, Horatio Nelson Jackson, & 爱丽丝拉姆齐.
Guest: Kyle Smith ‘13 – associate editor, 哈格蒂
7月2日: Paving the Way for the Automobile – Roads, steam omni-busses, bicycles, and the entrepreneurs behind them.
Guest: Andrew Beckman, archivist, Studebaker Museum
July 9: Thar be Giants in 的m Thar Hills! – Henry Ford, Billy Durant, and the megacorporation.
Guest: Bob Casey, retired curator of transportation, Henry Ford Museum
July 16: 的 Road to Perdition – How the automobile liberated women and captivated teenagers
Guests: Abbey Paulsen – high school junior restoring (and driving) a Model T
Tabetha Hammer ‘09 – director of Greenwich Concours
July 23: 的 Great War – Industrial pacifism, mobilization, and mechanization.
Guest: Casey Maxon, heritage specialist with the Historic Vehicle Association
July 30: Art for the People – How Harley Earl and automotive styling democratized beauty.
Guest: Donald Osborne, CEO of Automotive Valuation Services and CEO of Audrain Automobile Museum/Concours
All webinars will begin at 12:00 noon CDT.
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MC Professor 肯Yohn
肯Yohn
Dr. 肯Yohn is a professor and chair of McPherson’s Department of History and Politics. For the past 21 years, Professor Yohn has taught about philosophy, 地理位置, political science, and automobiles. 的 Illinois native has traveled the world, teaching courses on cars and castles in Europe; hiking in the Japanese Alps, 安第斯山脉, the Polish Carpathians, the Black Forest, and the Swiss Alps; and serving as a visiting professor at some of the top schools in France and East Asia.
Outside of the classroom, Professor Yohn has a love for restoring and building vintage racing and touring bicycles. He is currently restoring a 1974 Raleigh International. He is an avid online gamer, and especially enjoys EverQuest. His skills as a professor and a gamer are not to be outdone by his mastery in the kitchen.
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的 Automotive Restoration Program
的 McPherson College Automotive Restoration program began in 1976 and has evolved into the only award-winning four-year bachelor’s degree program for restoration technology in the country. 的 program offers student experience outside of the classroom at some of the most prestigious car events in the United States, like Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where the program was featured in a spotlight on Fox Business. 的 college also has a growing alumni base who work in all facets of the car collecting world including 哈格蒂, Mercedes-Benz Classic Center, Historic Vehicle Association, RM Sotheby’s, in their own shops, 博物馆, and private collections.
McPherson College
Established in 1887, McPherson College is a four-year liberal arts college founded by the Church of the Brethren. 的 beautiful 27-acre campus is set in McPherson, 堪萨斯, a town of 13,000 that is one of the top 100 small towns in the U.S., with a strong diversified economic base, located in central 堪萨斯 50 miles north of Wichita. McPherson College offers over 30 areas of study including pre-professional programs and the unique option to create a student-designed major which allows students to combine select courses throughout the curriculum to meet their specific personal and professional goals.