General Motors executives and Art Center Industrial Design Department gathered around a clay car model. Front (L-R): Joseph Thompson, Paul Gillan (eventually Executive Chief Designer), Ned Nickles (GM Buick), Edward Glowacke (Executive in charge, Automotive Design), Howard O'Leary (Director of Styling Section), John Coleman, George Jergenson, Tom Christiansen (Manager, Styling Staff Activities), Clare Mackichan (Executive in Charge Advanced Automotive Design and Engineering), and Bill Lang.
General Motors executives (L-R) Howard O'Leary, Bill Lang, Paul Gillan (?), Ned Nickles, Tom Christiansen, Clare Mackichan, and Edward Glowacke speaking to students in an Industrial Design class. Joseph Thompson pictured far right.
General Motors executives and Art Center Industrial Design Department gathered around a clay car model. Front (L-R): Bill Lang, Joseph Thompson, Paul Gillan (eventually Executive Chief Designer), Edward Glowacke (Executive in charge, Automotive Design), Howard O'Leary (Director of Styling Section), John Coleman, George Jergenson, Tom Christiansen (Manager, Styling Staff Activities), Clare Mackichan (Executive in Charge Advanced Automotive Design and Engineering). Ned Nickles (GM, Buick) is partially seen behind Joseph Thompson.
(L-R): Eugene Fleury, Strother MacMinn, Harley Earl Jr., Joseph Thompson, General Motors Bill Mitchell, and George Jergenson looking at a clay model of an automobile.
KTLA filming in an Industrial Design class. A reporter is interviewing George Jergenson. Joseph Thompson speaks to a student in the background.
General Motors executives and Art Center Industrial Design Department gathered around a clay car model. Front (L-R): Joseph Thompson, Paul Gillan (eventually Executive Chief Designer), Ned Nickles (GM Buick), Edward Glowacke (Executive in charge, Automotive Design), Howard O'Leary (Director of Styling Section), John Coleman, George Jergenson, Tom Christiansen (Manager, Styling Staff Activities), Clare Mackichan (Executive in Charge Advanced Automotive Design and Engineering), and Bill Lang.
Strother MacMinn, Joseph Thompson, George Jergenson and General Motors Chief of Styling/Design Harley Earl looking at a full-scale automobile model.
Unidentified visitors visiting a Transportation class with William Brewer and Joseph Thompson.
Shigeo Hattori (PROD 1957), Mitsuhiko Tera (PROD 1957), Joseph Thompson, unidentified visitor from Japan, and unidentified student with clay car model in the model shop.