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[Henrietta Naughton]

Last June, former Domino Media Group CEO Nathan Coyle was named CEO of Pride Media, Inc., the largest publisher of LGBTQ content in the U.S. with titles including Out, The Advocate, Out Traveler, Plus, CHILL and Pride. Now, less than a year later, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively that Coyle will step down Thursday to helm the famed Ford Modeling Agency.

Katie Ford, daughter of Eileen and Jerry, took over from her parents in 1995 and served as CEO of Ford Modeling Agency until 2007, when the company was sold to Stone Tower Equity Partners. She is the founder and CEO of the non-profit Freedom for All, which focuses on fighting sex trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor and child labor.

This helmet, and others in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, were designed by Bashford Dean between 1917 and 1918. Model No. 8 has a visor to provide maximum protection to the face while still allowing good visibility and movement. Model No. 5 gave more coverage to the back and sides of the head than the regulation helmet then worn by American and British troops. The Sentinel's Helmet, Model No. 7, was meant for limited use in forward positions, where heavy fire was expected. Its construction was based directly on a type of Italian helmet that was popular in the fifteenth century.

The Ford Motor Company Model 8 Helmet is an experimental military helmet produced for the US Government in 1918. Ford only manufactured about 1300 of this scarce experimental military helmet. The helmet carries a rather unique appearance, having a moving metal visor which would cover the face. The interior of the helmet featured a three pad liner system.

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In local unions representing all faculty, there has been a recent trend of the membership electing a part-time faculty member to lead the union, with significant support from the full-timers. There is perhaps no better example of this, though he might be reluctant himself to say so, than Keith Ford.

Just a few years back, Ford was an adjunct English instructor teaching at multiple campuses and still having to rely on food stamps to help feed his family of three children. Today he is the president of one of the larger community college union locals in California, the State Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1533. It was a position he was elected to with the overwhelming support of both part- and full-time faculty, earning over twice the vote of his nearest opponent.

Ford comes from a strong union background. Not only was his mother the president of a classified employee union with the Teamsters, but he himself had been a member and trustee of a UAW local as a graduate student.

The State Center Federation represents about 1,800 faculty who work at Fresno City College, Reedley College, Clovis Community College, and community college centers in Madera and Oakhurst. The bulk of Local 1533 members are adjuncts.

Presently, the State Center Federation is facing a challenge in that the cost of member healthcare premiums has jumped sharply, and the administrators are resistant to covering the additional costs. Ford has been insistent that the district bargain on the matter. Notably, when speaking to this issue, Ford also expressed concern for classified employees, as Ortiz noted, demonstrating his realization that the local is also part of a larger labor community.

"An ex-girlfriend convinced me to get a car that's a non-Ford," Tracy said with regret in his voice. "I'm crazy about the new Bronco. I'm going to try and get a four-door. I'm all-in on Ford. I'm just waiting for the maestro to tell me what to do."

Tracy doesn't know much about cars, and he likes to point out he's a "stay-in-your-lane kinda guy" but he did take a few minutes this week to talk with the Free Press after being tracked down on Twitter to discuss what it's like to see Farley take the helm of an iconic multibillion company that's part of the fabric of Detroit.

Tracy, 46, a four-year hockey goalie at Harvard University, was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers and later signed with the Hartford Whalers. For the past two decades, he has been the radio and TV color commentator for the Carolina Hurricanes, a Stanley Cup championship winner in 2006.

"I do what Mickey Redmond (does) for the Red Wings," Tracy said, having grown up watching hockey at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit before graduating from the University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe Woods. "My first year playing pro, we got eliminated in (the) AHL semifinals and I came right home to see the Wings win the cup in '97."

Emmet Eugene "Tripp" Tracy III of Raleigh, North Carolina, has returned home to Grosse Pointe Farms to spend time with his mom, a widow, now that hockey playoffs are finished. Tracy and his mom look forward to seeing the man that family calls "Jimmy."

Farley, 58, officially becomes Ford CEO on Thursday with the retirement of Jim Hackett, 65, whose three-year tenure has been marked by disappointing earnings, product launch problems and surging warranty costs. Ford announced the change in August.

Now, after an industry shutdown caused by COVID-19, Farley is overseeing the high-profile launches of the revived Ford Bronco, 2021 Ford F-150 and all-electric Mustang Mach-E. Meanwhile, the company is navigating an uncertain economy and a more dramatic pivot to electrification amid essential cost reductions.

By the time Farley was 5 years old, he was being groomed by his grandfather, Emmet Tracy, an early employee of company founder Henry Ford. Tracy went on to run an auto parts business and a car dealership in Grosse Pointe.

While other grandparents read Dr. Seuss, Tracy sat down with issues of Automotive News when his grandson visited during Christmas and summer breaks. The two would drive past automotive landmarks, including the Packard Plant, Ford's Piquette Street Plant and the Ford Rouge Plant where Tracy had worked. He died in 1998 at age 98, never having seen his boy work at Ford.

Farley talks of his grandfather arriving at Ford's Highland Park factory with his lunch pail as one of the nameless, faceless workers who built Model T vehicles that transformed America and helped create a middle class workforce.

"When Pope John Paul II came to Detroit (in 1987), he had a private meeting with Tom Monaghan, who owned the Detroit Tigers, Mr. and Mrs. (Mike) Ilitch and my grandmother and grandfather," Tracy said. "Archbishop (Edmund) Szoka introduced my grandfather to the pope as the most generous man in Detroit."

Jim Farley and his uncle would write long emails to each other about cars and the auto industry and the past and the future, Tracy recalled. Emmet Tracy Jr. initially practiced law with partner Bob Nederlander; Tracy returned to the family auto parts business while Nederlander went off to New York to transform Broadway and become managing general partner of the New York Yankees.

"They're throwing a party in the sky," Tracy said, mentioning Farley's beloved mother and father, grandmother and grandfather, and cousin Chris Farley, the accomplished comedian, actor and star of "Saturday Night Live," who died Dec. 18, 1997, at the age of 33.

Still, Jim Farley remains focused, as were his father and mother. Jim Farley Sr. had been president of Citibank at one point, living in Connecticut and traveling internationally. Mary Kay Farley was so good at golf that few people wanted to challenge her. She won club championships at some of the best golf clubs in America.

It is that level of intensity and concentration that she passed to her children, Tracy said. "My Aunt Mary Kay is the kind of woman who could have been president. She had hard-core focus and unbelievable mental toughness."

Jim Farley has qualities in common with Scotty Bowman, Tracy said. As a head NHL coach, Bowman won nine championships with three teams including the Red Wings. Tracy considers Bowman the greatest coach of all time.

"Scott and I are very close friends. He's also a mentor," Tracy said. "We talk a couple times a week. ... He asks so many questions. Just like Jimmy, who now asks so many questions. My Aunt Mary Kay was exactly the same way. You're gathering information and it makes everybody feel important. Yet it's sincere. The more information you gather, the better the decisions you're going to make."

So many memories are tied to Farley's Uncle Emmet, who sponsored AAA hockey in Detroit that produced 30 NHL players including Stanley Cup-winning captain Derian Hatcher, a defenseman for the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, the Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers. Hatcher now coaches the Sarnia Sting in Ontario.

Farley came to Ford after establishing himself as a rising star at Toyota, recruited to help then-CEO Alan Mullaly strengthen Ford just before the Great Recession. More than 10 years have passed, and Farley has held different roles at the company, widely considered the heir apparent by early 2020 when he was named chief operating officer.

"He is loyal to the ends of the Earth," Tracy said. "He is innovative and he is able to see the future before it happens. If we were talking hockey, I would hope I could do the same. When you achieve what Jimmy has, you have to have focus."

Want to change the world? The President of the United States has a good shot at it. So, too, do the chief executive officers of IBM and Bank of America. The president of the Ford Foundation would be on anybody's list of world-changers, as well.

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