Our wonderful Rosie Virginia Basler joined the centenarian club, and the whole town it seemed came out to help her celebrate!

We helped the women at the Ford Woodhaven Plant celebrate Women’s Month by including three of our Rosies to feature in their exhibit.

We partnered with several Michigan manufacturing councils to organize the first ever Rosie Day at the Capitol in Lansing, drawing a crowd of over 700 people to celebrate the modern women in the manufacturing sphere – from the factory floor to the C-suite – along with the real WWII Rosie the Riveters who opened the doors for women!

We were so proud to partner with the Automotive Hall of Fame to feature Rosie the Riveter Clara Doutly in their new exhibit titles “Achievement: African Americans in Automotive.” The exhibit will be on display throughout 2023. The exhibit will be on display throughout 2023, and will be made available as a traveling display thereafter.

We partnered with the historic Newton of Ypsilanti to co-host a Fireside Chat Tea With Rosie event.

When Rosie can’t come to us, we go to Rosie with tokens of gratitude and affection in the form of our Rosie the Riveter Teddy Bears!

Tea With Rosie at the elegant Newton of Ypsilanti was a great success! Chef Allison Anastasio partnered with us to bring our WWII Rosies and Veterans together with the Ypsilanti community.

Our group’s Jeannette Gutierrez was a featured guest on the Commemorative Air Force’s Warbird Tube Channel. Host Steve Buss interviewed her about Rosie the Riveter and Rosie’s legacy.

Rosie the Riveter Clara Doutly, 100, was interviewed against the backdrop of the Arsenal of Democracy exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum…

Our group’s Jeannette Gutierrez participated in the festivities surrounding the 100th birthday of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, WWII Tuskegee Airman. She was honored to be among those invited to the Press Reception and Rededication Ceremony for Jefferson Field in Detroit.

Jeannette Gutierrez made a longtime dream of hers come true when she organized and event to reunite the B-24 Liberator bomber Diamond Lil with the women who built her, the men who flew her, and the brave Tuskegee Airmen who escorted her on missions. The wonderful folks at the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) who keep Diamond Lil flying shared the dream, and worked with Jeannette to make it happen!

Not one but several crews from National Geographic visited Ypsilanti and Detroit to film, photograph and interview our Chapter’s Rosies!