GE Donates $3,500 to Virginia Museum of Transportation
March 27, 2015
To Thank the Employees of GE, the Virginia Museum of Transportation is Declaring Saturday, March 28 as “GE Day”
ROANOKE, Va. — March 27, 2015 — GE (NYSE: GE) is donating $3,500 to the Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc., in Roanoke, Virginia, to support the organization’s educational outreach and development of future exhibits.
GE’s donation is being made on behalf of its 750 employees located at the company’s Salem, Virginia, facility, where industrial controls are designed and manufactured. A cross-functional group including leadership, engineers and production employees from the plant selected the museum for the donation.
Overall, GE’s contribution will help the museum achieve its mission of celebrating and preserving the hard work and ingenuity of the Norfolk & Western and Virginian Railways. The museum also showcases the Commonwealth of Virginia’s automobile and aviation industries. The museum is the official transportation museum for the commonwealth of Virginia, but does not receive state funding.
“GE is proud of our century-long heritage in the transportation industry, so we especially appreciate the museum’s efforts in preserving this history,” said Steven Roy, Industrial Solutions global supplier quality leader and former plant manager of GE’s Salem site. “Today, GE continues its transportation legacy as a global technology leader and supplier in the aviation and rail industries.”
To thank GE employees, the museum is declaring Saturday, March 28 as GE Day. All GE employees and their families are invited to visit the museum free of charge on GE Day.
“We are honored that GE employees chose to support the museum, and we look forward to seeing hundreds of smiling faces on GE Day,” said Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, Jr., executive director of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. “GE’s contribution will help us tell important stories that no other museum in the Roanoke Valley can showcase and celebrate how Virginia moved through their lives.”
About the Virginia Museum of Transportation
Experience the only remaining examples of the Norfolk & Western’s legendary success at the Virginia Museum of Transportation: the Class A 1218 and the Class J 611™. (The 611 is currently under restoration at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina.) In our Rail Yard, explore historic steam and diesel engines, cabooses and other rail equipment as modern trains rumble past. Inside the Museum, enjoy model trains, hands-on exhibits, and stroll among our antique automobiles, and truck and bus exhibits. Learn about the history of flight and Virginia’s aviation heroes in the Wings Over Virginia Aviation Gallery. The Virginia Museum of Transportation will spark your imagination and kindle your curiosity.
About GE’s Industrial Solutions Business
Industrial Solutions empowers smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software and services to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. The business provides customers, across various industries, with end-to-end product and service solutions that help ensure the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure. Industrial Solutions’ product and service solutions add to GE’s broader portfolio of leading technology solutions for the delivery, management, conversion and optimization of electrical power for customers across multiple energy-intensive industries.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) imagines things others don’t, builds things others can’t and delivers outcomes that make the world work better. GE brings together the physical and digital worlds in ways no other company can. In its labs and factories and on the ground with customers, GE is inventing the next industrial era to move, power, build and cure the world. www.ge.com
For more information, contact:
Peg McGuire
Virginia Museum of Transportation
+1 540 339 2753
Gia Oei
GE
Industrial Solutions
+1 860 747 7626
Photo Caption: VMT Director of Development Fran Ferguson, Industrial Solutions Global Supplier Quality Leader and Former Manager of GE’s Salem Site Steven Roy, VMT Executive Director Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, Jr. and GE Engineer and Volunteer Fred Boettner stand in front of a Norfolk & Western 1218 steam locomotive at the Museum upon delivery of the donation on Thursday, March 19.
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