One of the quirks of my personality is that I tend to be very self-conscious about photographs taken of me.  There are few that I would care to have widely distributed.  This one is the exception. According to Joseph Galamb and Charles Sorenson, both early employees of the Ford Motor Company, during the winter of 1906-07 Henry Ford gave instructions to have a room walled off in the northeast corner of the third floor of the Piquette Avenue Plant.  In this room he had Galamb install a blackboard and his drafting table.  Together with C. Harold Wills, C. J. Smith, John Wandersee, Joseph Galamb, Charles Sorenson and Henry Ford created the intial designs for the famous Model T.  Henry Ford brought in a rocking chair so that he could sit and watch the designs as they were first made on the blackboard as they developed before being redrawn on paper.    This portrait of me sitting in a rocking chair was taken in the northeast corner on the 3rd floor of the Piquette Avenue Plant on September 27, 1998.  That is, it was taken at the Birthplace of the Model T on precisely the 90th anniversary of the assembly of Model T #1.