100th Anniversary

Saturday, July 13, 2019 - Grovertown, IN

April 19, 2019, was the 100th Anniversary of Standard Motor Products.  They are having celebrations at every area they have operations and tonight is the celebration for the Mishawaka plant.  They held it at the Armory Kitchen in South Bend.  This is the old National Guard Armory building that has been fixed up as an event center and they did a great job fixing it up.  

The video they did was a great history of the organization.  I truly enjoyed it.  When SMP first started manufacturing they shipped the ignition parts in bulk and the parts were stored by installers in glass jars.  Each employee that came was given a commemorative glass jar with mints in it.  :)

I did get pictures of Gerry and Rob up giving their speeches.  Eric and Larry Sills (CEO and COB) were also there and gave speeches.

They are very proud, as they should be, of the tenure of most of their employees.  They had everyone with 10 or more years stand up for a picture.

At first Mike was not going to get up there since he did not have 10 consecutive years, but soon a couple of people convinced him to get up there.  :)

Mike did spend a lot of time catching up with a lot of people he hadn't seen in a long time.  A great time was had by all.

It was another wonderful day!