Day One – Monday, April 30, 2007
7:15 a.m.
Depart Ann Arbor for Detroit
Watch Video about Focus Hope
8:15 a.m.
Tour Focus Hope
Eleanor Josaitis, Co-Founder
10:00 a.m.
Depart Focus Hope
10:15 a.m.
Arrive at The Bing Group Campus
10:20 a.m.
Northend Initiative
Dave Bing, Chairman, The Bing Group
Community Tour
12:00 p.m.
Depart for Martin Luther King High Schools
Detroit Public School
12:20 p.m.
Arrive Martin Luther King High School
Paul Gray, Principal
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 p.m.
Tour Martin Luther King High School
Dialogue with Educators
3:30 p.m.
Depart for Flint Holiday Inn Tour
5:00 p.m.
Tour Flint Campus
5:15 p.m.
Arrive / Check into hotel
Day Two – Tuesday, May 1, 2007
6:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfat: 6 am-7am
7:15 a.m.
Depart for GM Truck & Bus
7:30 a.m.
GM Truck & Bus visit/tour
9:45 a.m.
Depart for Jackson
11:20 a.m.
Arrive Jackson Armory
Art Gallery, 634 Mechanic St. Jackson, MI
11:30 a.m.
Lunch/Presentation & Tour
Jane Robinson, Director of Creative Industries, Jackson Enterprise Group
1:30 p.m.
Depart for Lansing
2:10 p.m.
Arrive at Capitol
2:20 p.m.
Tour Capitol
3:00 p.m.
Dialogue with Legislators
4:10 p.m.
Depart for Grand Rapids
5:15 p.m.
Arrive/Check in at Days Inn
6:15 p.m.
Depart for Pen Club
2nd Floor
6:30 p.m.
Alumni Scholarship Reception/Dinner
Peninsula Club
9:00 p.m.
Return to Hotel
Day Three – Wednesday, May 2, 2007
6:00 a.m.
Breakfast: 6 am-7:15 am (Sully’s Restaurant)
7:30 a.m.
Depart Hotel
7:35 a.m.
Gerald R. Ford Museum
James R. Kratsas, Deputy Director
Barbara McGregor, Educational Specialist
8:50 a.m.
Betz Industries
Gregg Betz, Vice President
10:00 a.m.
Van Andel Institute
Joseph P. Gavan, Vice President, Communications & Development
11:00 a.m.
Community Tour with Rick Chapla
11:30 a.m.
Lunch at Frederik Meijer Gardens
12:00 p.m.
Tour of Inside Gardens
12:30 p.m.
Tour of Outside Gardens
1:00 p.m.
Depart for Traverse City
3:30 p.m.
Arrive at Traverse City
(Hotel, for Check-In)
4:30 p.m.
Depart for Black Star Farms
5:15 p.m.
Arrive Black Star Farms
Don Coe, Managing Partner
Lee Lutes, The Wine Maker
9:00 p.m.
Return to Hotel
Day Four – Thursday, May 3, 2007
6:15 a.m.
Breakfast: 6-7:15 a.m.
(Minerva’s Restaurant)
8:00 a.m.
Forum: The Economics of Grand Traverse Bay
Traverse Bay Economic Development Corporation of the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce
9:00 a.m.
Bus tour and highlights of Traverse Bay
9:00am-10:00am
10:15 a.m.
Depart for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
10:55 a.m.
Arrival Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Visiting Center
12:30 p.m.
Depart for Reservation GTB Ottawa Chippewa Tribe
Robert Kewaygoshkum, Tribal Chairman
2:45 p.m.
Depart for Sault Ste. Marie Hotel
Ramada Plaza Hotel Ojibway
6:30 p.m.
Dinner Reception
Freighters Restaurant, Ramada Plaza Hotel
7:00 p.m.
Dinner
Freighters Restaurant
Day Five – Friday, May 4, 2007
6:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Freighters Restaurant
7:45 a.m.
Depart for Ferry-Dock #1
Soo Locks Boat Tours
8:15 a.m.
Soo Locks Boat Tour
Professor Susan Schacher of Lake Superior State University
10:20 a.m.
Depart for Mackinac Straits Fish Company
11:20 a.m.
Arrive in St. Ignace
11:30 a.m.
Presentation and Tour-Jill Bentgen, Founder
Mackinac Straights Fish Company
11:30 am-12:10 pm
12:15 p.m.
Depart for lunch
12:20 p.m.
Lunch Forum: Upper Peninsula Perspectives
Village Inn Restaurant
Dennis West, President, Northern Initiatives
Jill Bentgent, Mackinac Straits Fish Company
1:30 p.m.
Depart for Hartwick Pines State Park
2:55 p.m.
Arrive Hartwick Pines State Park
Greg Kasmer, Site Historian
Robert Burg, Park Interpreter
3:45 p.m.
Depart for Ann Arbor
6:45 p.m.
Arrive in Ann Arbor