According to our friends at the National Corvette Museum, Mrs. Aileene Jarema came to the museum on November 22, 2011, to donate pictures, memos, newspaper articles, drawings and other items going back to Corvette’s beginnings in Flint Michigan.  

 Her late husband, Carl Jarema, was the Product Engineer for the 1953 Corvette and saved everything that he could from those days.  In 1954 they moved from Flint to St. Louis where he continued to work on the Corvette, collecting pictures and documents while he was there as well. Among the treasures were photographs of people on the line along with their names, keeping their contribution from being lost to history. 

“Carl knew from the beginning that the Corvette was going to be important,” Mrs. Jarema said as she looked at the Museum around her. “He was a smart man as all of this confirms.” Former Flint Michigan plant worker, Robert Wilson also showed up with Mrs. Jarema to provide valuable insight behind the artifacts she brought.

For more details, visit the National Corvette Musuem at www.corvettemuseum.com.