Rod Alberts, president of the Detroit Auto Dealers Association which puts on the North American International Auto Show, was a professional arm wrestler. This photo was taken at the 1979 WPAA Nationals. (credit: Rod Alberts)
Tony Earley
Former Executive Chairman of DTE Energy Tony Earley spent time in the Navy on a submarine. (credit: Tony Earley)
Tony Earley
Former Executive Chairman of DTE Energy Tony Earley spent time in the Navy on a submarine. (credit: Tony Earley)
Tony Earley
Former Executive Chairman of DTE Energy Tony Earley spent time in the Navy on a submarine. (credit: Tony Earley)
Mary Sue Coleman
University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman (front row in the hat) at the White House with former President John F. Kennedy as a star science student. (credit: Kennedy Library)
Peter Secchia
Grand Rapids businessman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Peter Secchia, as a young Marine. This is the front of a postcard sent to my folks from Athens. PFS is on the left during a liberty visit in 1956. World War ll was only 10 years in the past and Greece was in a civil war. The enemy was everywhere and destruction filled the city. (credit: Peter Secchia)
Peter Secchia
Grand Rapids businessman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Peter Secchia, as a young Marine. On maneuvers with NATO forces in the mountains of northern Greece. (credit: Peter Secchia)
Peter Secchia
Grand Rapids businessman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Peter Secchia, as a young Marine. This is aboard a navy APA the USS Fremont. This was one of the World War ll ships used at Normandy. I was in the Mediterranean in the fall of 1956. It was the first time I saw Italy...... Also visited Sardegna, Spain, Tunisia, et al (credit: Peter Secchia)
Peter Secchia
Grand Rapids businessman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Peter Secchia, as a young Marine. At 19 this photo is of a proud but very young PFS. This was taken in June of 1956 directly out of Parris Island boot camp. (credit: Peter Secchia)