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Back to the Past (Part 2)
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
As a teenager, John DeLorean had two passions: music (jazz specifically) and engineering. Somehow his parents managed to scrounge up enough money for saxophone lessons. It was music that opened the door to a new life. While attending Detroit’s CassTechHigh School, DeLorean won a music scholarship to Lawrence Institute of Technology, a well-respected auto-design school.
His professors remembered DeLorean as a gifted student and hard worker, well-liked by teachers and his peers. Hurst Wulf, DeLorean’s former engineering instructor at Lawrence, said DeLorean “was probably the best student I ever had, and the nicest guy.”
Even when DeLorean bolted through the ranks and began making enemies among his fellow executives, Wulf always had good things to say about him. “Even as a big shot, he would run into me at an auto show or a restaurant and he would always have the time to say hello and chat,” he said.
DeLorean’s studies were interrupted by World War ll; he was drafted into the Army in 1943. He served three years and returned to Lawrence to get his B.A. in industrial engineering in 1948. Later, he attended the Chrysler Institute of Engineering at night, where he earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. He also got a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan. …
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