July 29, 2021
Recipient Spotlight: Trevor Andis
Trevor Andis says his first challenge as an engineering student at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) was to design an AC generator wind turbine on a budget of $10. Bragging rights went to anyone who could build a transformer that produced more than 32 volts, the class record. “Mine produced 166 volts,” he remembers. “I…
July 7, 2017
Recipient Spotlight: Jerry Smith
Jerry Smith was raised on a farm in eastern Colorado, where he grew up hearing his father’s stories of street racing in the 1950s. The pair restored a 1956 Ford F-100 together, though young Jerry already had an eye for early Mustangs. “I started working for pay on the farm at 12, and I saved…
May 17, 2017
Recipient Spotlight: Ryan Levesque
The goal of the RPM Foundation (formerly the Hagerty Education Program at America’s Car Museum) has always been to get young people interested and involved in the old cars we love through education and first-hand experience. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Keith Flickinger’s shop, Precision Motor Cars, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Flickinger is chief…
December 7, 2016
Recipient Spotlight: Vanessa Mathurin
Vanessa Mathurin didn’t inherit her interest in cars. “My parents weren’t into cars. No one I knew was into cars, until I got to high school.” Then she started attending car shows and learning about classics, but it wasn’t until she toured Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport that she set her sights on a…
June 2, 2016
Recipient Spotlight – Gig Harbor BoatShop
The RPM Board of Directors made a site visit to the Gig Harbor BoatShop, spending time with key shop staff and meeting intern Megan Winther, a Gig Harbor resident who will be attending the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock this fall. The first project of the Boat Shop’s Maritime Mentorship Program will provide an intensive one-on-one mentor/intern environment where local…
