#HenryFord January 18

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For January 2024 several of us will be participating in the “30-Day 6 Degrees of Separation Coach4aday Challenge”-today we learn about HENRY FORD and his great-granddaughter Sheila Ford Hamp.

On Sunday January 21, 2024 the Detroit Lions will host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Ford Field in Detroit. Ford Field got its name because the Ford Motor Company purchased the naming rights for 20 years. The Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1901.

The Ford Family has owned the Detroit Lions since 1963. Today the team is run by Ford’s great-granddaughter Sheila Ford Hamp. She happens to also be the great-granddaughter of Harvey Firestone.

Firestone and Ford were great friends with Thomas Edison, Dr Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh. There was a book written about the five of them called Uncommon Friends. From that book Uncommon Friends Foundation was formed in South Florida.

One of my close friends is Eric Dent who is the Uncommon Friends Endowed Chair at Florida Gulf Coast University

Henry Ford

Rules of the Challenge

Many people have heard of this concept. The notion of six degrees of separation grew out of work conducted by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. It then became a 1993 film named appropriately “Six Degrees of Separation.”

Organizing a six degrees of separation challenge involves creating a chain of people, each connected to the next by a mutual acquaintance. The goal is to demonstrate that any two people in the world can be connected through a chain of six or fewer personal connections.

How to Participate

Here is how to participate:

1. Identify the First and Last Person in the Chain.
2. Go thru the connections with a brief explanation.
3. Do this daily for 30 Days posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge

Day 18-Henry Ford-Shiela Ford Hamp

Five Degrees of Separation-Henry Ford-Edsel Ford-William Clay Ford Sr-Martha Firestone-Shiela Ford Hamp

1. Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company and is associated with the popularity of the assembly line concept in manufacturing. He married Clare Jane Bryant and had one son Edsel Ford.
2. Edsel Ford was the only child of Henry Ford and married Eleanor Lowthian Clay and had 4 children the youngest being William Clay Ford.
3. William Clay Ford owned the Detroit Lions and married Martha Firestone.
4. Martha Firestone Ford was the granddaughter of the Harvey Firestone who founded Firestone Rubber Company. She became the owner of the Detroit Lions when her husband William Clay Ford died. She and William had four children including Sheila Firestone Ford.
5. Sheila Ford Hamp took over principal ownership of the Detroit Lions from her mom. She married Steve Hamp and have three children.

Sheila Ford Hamp Interview at end of the 2022 Season-talking about sticking to a plan-patience is a hard virtue but the Lions have done that over the past 4 years