GM & Make A Wish Foundation Team Up for Brooklyn Youth

16 Year Old wants to be “Boss for a Day” at GM
 

Brooklyn, N.Y.  – April 8^th, 2003 - Alex, 16, from Brooklyn, N.Y. - who battles a rare form of bone cancer - has an all-consuming passion for automobiles, spending countless hours reading about them - even creating his own designs for the "cars of tomorrow."

When the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York asked him to choose a wish, Alex - a particular aficionado of General Motors (GM) vehicles - wished to be "Boss for a Day" at GM and to share his designs with the company’s executives and designers.

Alex’s adventure - with support from the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources (CHR) and the General Motors Corporation - will begin April 15 in his own hometown as a special guest of GM, receiving a VIP tour of GM exhibits at the New York International Auto Show (open to the public April 18-27) at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and attend GM special events scheduled during the show.

Here’s Alex’s itinerary:

·         April 15^th – attends GM’s Luxury Group Reception for the world-wide introduction of the Cadillac CTS V-Series and the North American reveal of the 9-3 Convertible.

·         April 16^th - attends the GM Diversity media reception at City Hall restaurant in Tribeca

·         April 17^th - attends the Chevy Malibu Maxx press conference reception at the Javits Convention Center, where he will get his first glimpse of Chevrolet’s newest sport vehicle.

·         April 25^th - he will visit GM’s corporate headquarters, tour the GM World exhibit of current and historical GM cars and trucks, meet GM executives and assume his duties as "Honorary Boss for the Day."

·         Later that day, Alex will receive a private tour of the nearby Warren Tech Center, which is headquarters for the GM Design department’s 200 creative designers and 250 sculptors, who create new vehicle designs for Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC, HUMMER and Saturn. There, he will present his own car design to the design team, which will demonstrate how creative designs become vehicles, utilizing a combination of high-tech computer tools and traditional craftsmanship (like clay modeling).

The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. It is the largest wish-granting organization in the world, with 77 chapters in the United States and its territories and 27 international affiliates on five continents. With the help of generous donors and more than 25,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has granted more than 100,000 wishes to children around the world since 1980.