Adapted from Wikipedia: Raymond Loewy (November 5, 1893 - July 14, 1986) was an industrial designer, and the first to be featured on the cover of Time magazine, on October 31, 1949. Born in France, he spent most of his professional career in the United States.

Notable works of his, besides the "man on the tractor" logo, of course, include the slenderized Coca-Cola bottle, the streamlined Greyhound bus, the John F. Kennedy postage stamp, the Lucky Strike cigarette package, locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the interiors of NASA's Saturn I, Saturn V, and Skylab, the Sears Coldspot refrigerator, Schick electric razors, several Studebaker models (including the amazing Avanti), and the logos of Chubb Corp., Exxon, Greyhound, Nabisco, Shell, and the U.S. Postal Service.

Loewy retired at the age of 87 in 1980 and returned to his native France. He died in his Monte Carlo residence in 1986. He was survived by his second wife Viola and their daughter Laurence. In 1992 Viola Loewy and British American Tobacco established the Raymond Loewy Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. The foundation was established to promote the discipline of industrial design internationally and preserve the memory of Raymond Loewy. An annual award of €50,000 is granted to outstanding designers in recognition of their lifetime achievements. In 1998, Laurence Loewy established Loewy Design in Atlanta, Georgia to manage her father's continued interests in the United States. Laurence died on October 15, 2008 and is survived by her husband David Hagerman and their son Jacque Loewy. David Hagerman currently manages Loewy Design and the Loewy Estate.

I still need to install a heater and insulation, but I finally have workbenches, tools and electricity available to me!

As you recall, at the last place we built a garage and epoxied the floor. Even though it was new concrete, I noticed when we were packing to leave that the epoxy was peeling ina few spots, which concerned me quite a bit. So I'm considering trying something new here - PVC mats for the floors.

I'll post a link when I get closer to a decision.

In the meantime, here are a couple photos of the house and the shop - by next summer we should ACTUALLY see progress on the truck itself!!

So it has been pretty hectic.  The mazing thing is we sold our home in one week.  BUT, the new buyers wanted the garage finished, so Susan and I have been drywalling (with the help of a contractor on that one), painting and completing the electrical in the garage.  We closed a couple of weeks ago and construction on the new house started on May 1.

Cornelia's new home will be in a beautiful edge-of-town neighborhood with a larger garage that will be set up for heat and electrical by the builder.

More to come!

All of a sudden, on September 16, the painkillers no longer helped with the pain.  I knew something was drastically wrong and I asked Susan to take me in to the E.R.  They confirmed that I had a bad appendix and said they could remove it laparoscopically.  No big deal.  I would be out in a day. Things took a serious downturn from there.  The "bad" appendix had actually already burst, so after the laporoscopic procedure, they had to open everything up for surgery.  I was OK for a very short while after that, except the healing process didn't seem to be going right... I developed some severe complications, they had to go in again, and for a week I was in an induced coma.  Things were not looking good for a while, and believe it or not, I think the whole process was a lot harder on my Susan than it was on me.  Somehow I lost a month.

I'm home now and slowly recovering.  I lost a lot of weight (a good thing, but I wouldn't write a book about it!) and can't get around very well yet. It's a struggle just to walk, and it's going to take the entire winter, a lot of work and a lot of exercise just to get my movement and conditioning back.

I apologize if I've missed any of your notes, but I think I've caught up with everyone at this point.  Needless to say, work on Cornelia is likely put off until Spring.  Nonetheless, check back in because I will still post news and stories about IHC trucks and events as I come across them, and I'm also back at work at OldIHC (a big thank you to Jim Hadfield for coming out of retirement and holding the fort at OldIHC in my absence!). ~ John

I took a little time out and reproduced it, word for word, for your benefit as part of the IHC history documentation here.  Be sure to check it out as it is a very interesting read.

In other news, Jim Hadfield, the (former) owner of OldIHC has retired and I have now taken over the site.  THAT has kept me plenty busy as well.  A GOOD busy though, as it is a great bunch of guys, and I consider it the BEST resource on the Internet for old International trucks!  Be sure to sign up as a member and avail yourself to the forums - the people there will surely help you out no matter how obscure you think your difficulty is!

Finally, I am VERY happy to report that through OldIHC and Classic Truck Posters, we have raised over $1,700 for Matt's Truck!  Even though we've surpassed the original goal of $700 (which was only to get the truck paid off and get it home) let's continue to help them out and make Matt's world a brighter one!  You can find out how to donate HERE.

We started a funding campaign at OldIHC and at Classic Truck Posters, and managed to raise almost $800.00 in just the past four weeks, which will allow Matt's family to finish paying off the truck for Matt, get it home and start working on it for him - a very wonderful thing :-)

We're going to keep the fundraiser going for a while yet since the contributions are still coming in at a steady pace.  A purchase of the special poster we made for Matt (pictured to the right) will also see a contribution go to the family as well.

Susan and I, as well as Matt's family, are all overwhelmed by the generosity we've seen.

I've been driving Petes, KW, Macks etc. for my Boss who owns a construction co.  But I just bought my handicapped kid an old 1960 IH Single axle dumptruck, I found laying in a field. Even if my kid Matthew is 26 yrs old, he only has mind of bout a 7 yr old.

You would think this kid hit the lottery "his own real dump truck"  What your gona see as junk...it's pure Gold in this kids eyes, even though he knows he cant drive it,

But, soon as I get the $700 left owed on it? Then I'll just pray I get it restored before Matt passes on. He has many other health issues. He's a Truck boy since the day he was born! NASCAR second lol. And Im a proud Dad sending you this pic to post. Hope none make fun of it, but I wont let the kid see anything bad. What a blessing for his mother and I, to see the smiles and joy, we've been seeing ever since we showed t to him out in that field!

Thank you for letting us share this wonderful time in our lives,

God Bless,

Mark

Mark and Matt - I don't see junk here at all - I too see pure gold.