Interns@AutoCom

Hey AutoComers, You may be wondering who I am, why I’m at AutoCom, and why I’ll disappear before I get to really know any of you. I’m a senior at Country Day and my school has a program they call Senior Project. The basic idea is to get the seniors officially out of the school so they no longer have to deal with our senioritis. Thus, we spend the month of May and early June engaged in a project of our choice. The seniors can pick any field, in any place they want. People do projects as diverse as writing books, creating artwork, serving as a teacher’s assistant, shadowing doctors, and working for magazines. The only requirements are that we work thirty hours a week and turn in a brief paper at the end so that we can graduate. So why am I at AutoCom? It may seem like a strange place for a girl whose main interest is in history and politics and who dreams of working overseas for a non-profit organization, but it really isn’t. The skills AutoCom uses in public relations apply not only to ...

Hello to the AutoCom Team I loved reading all your postings on interns@autocom. For someone who does not know you yet it seems like you are all one big family. I like that. Why am I writing on this blog? I want to become an intern at AutoCom. I just arrived in Michigan two months ago. My hometown in Germany is Heilbronn next to Stuttgart, but the last six years I studied in Konstanz, which is really in the south of Germany, directly at the border to Switzerland (at the swabian sea). I am 27 and my stay in Michigan will be my second US stay. I studied one year in Oregon, which made me love the US and convinced me to come back. Why Michigan? Because Markus, my husband, works in the automotive business…and well, you know that Metro Detroit is an automotive paradise…so to speak. Some of the things former interns wrote seem already familiar to me. I know about the beautiful downtown area in Royal Oak, where it is a lot of fun to go out at night and where –very surprisingly- you meet a lot ...

May 10: It was a sunny day during a week full of rain. Christina and I met with Jack in Bloomfield Hills. He was so kind to give us a ride so we could enjoy the landscape. On our way to Port Huron, we picked up Jan who became the car DJ. Jack has satellite radio and so we could choose between the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, Bluegrass, Country, Jazz, Hip Hop, R’n’B, Rock, Blues, etc. I like the 60s and 70s, Jan the 90s, Jack Bluegrass and Christina Rock. As you can imagine DJ Jan had a tough ride… As we were in Port Huron one hour to early, we decided to have a little “wedding appetizer” at Wendy’s. After some fries, sandwiches and milk shakes we drove to the church where we met Larry Weis and Kathi McCarroll, Don Habarek and Nancy Arnold, Joe and Mary Cabadas, Jim Meloche and the other AutoCom girls. The celebration was in the St. Joseph Catholic Church. It’s a beautiful old church and Marty and Ruth had it decorated lovely. Marty’s youngest son Justin opened the service with the so...

In its 7th year, the SAE Media Dinner at Coach Insignia was a huge success thanks to the participation by all of our clients and the significant media attendance. Coach Insignia was the perfect setting for an evening that included fantastic cuisine, an unparalleled view of Detroit and unique networking opportunities for all. The attendee list included senior executives from Behr, Coherix, Eberspaecher, GKN Driveline, Hella, InterRegs, MANN+HUMMEL, Trubiquity and Wallonia as well as 45 of the industry’s top automotive editors and reporters. Other activities included an InterRegs press conference, the annual MANN+HUMMEL media briefing along with Hella’s press luncheon. All three events were successful and generated positive exposure for the companies involoved. Hella Luncheon Mann+Hummel luncheon A big thank you goes out to all who participated and we look forward to next years SAE World Congress!