1. Basketball and Breakfast
How playing basketball led us to Cereal City, USA

2. Since I was very young my parents told me how we used to work at Kelloggs, but I never knew how we got there. It wasn’t until I interviewed my grandpa that I realized how we came from a small town to the big city from an unconventional way of moving in the mid 1900s.
Thesis: Beginning in a small town in Kansas, my ancestors came north and eventually worked their way through the ranks at Kelloggs. If Kelloggs wasn’t there, I would still be a farmer in Kansas.

3. Dinsmoor house in Lucas
Claude Dinsmoor
Born in Lucas Kansas
Small town
Many Dinsmoors
4 Brothers
Enjoyed to play basketball
Dinsmoor house in Lucas

4. A few fun facts about Lucas…
Home of the Garden of Eden, made by SP Dinsmoor. A national historic landmark
It is an entire house made on concrete. Including concrete sculptures
Current population is 436 people
15 Dinsmoors have died in Lucas

5. The Great Migration
Came up with his 4 brothers from Kansas to play basketball for WK Kellogg professionally in Battle Creek, MI
Claude played basketball and baseball for WK for a total of 14 years
Became an apprentice at Kelloggs because you must be an apprentice to play sports

6. The Great Migration (cont.)
Total of 4 apprenticeships
Machinist
Tool and die
Brothers left after their basketball careers were over
Claude stayed in Battle Creek

7. Charlie Dinsmoor Son of Claude
Started working at Kelloggs during high school
Joined air force during war, and stayed some time after
After retiring from Air Force, worked at Kelloggs for 33 years

8. Involvement with Kelloggs
The Dinsmoor family has worked at Kelloggs for a combined total of over 100 years working there
3 generations of Dinsmoors, and more than 10 family members have worked there over the years
Most recent, is my dad who worked there in high school

9. Claude Dinsmoor (Living)
Son of Charlie
Worked at Kelloggs during early high school
Found work at museum
Kingman Museum
Natural History
Kingman Museum

10. Claude Dinsmoor (Living) (cont.)
Had to pay for college on own
Full ride scholarship to Oakland University

11. A different look at the box
When I was young, and eating a box of raisin bran cereal, my dad would tell me how he used to scoop the two scoops into each box
He would always try to be perfect with those two scoops, because he knew that putting too many or too little raisins in a box would make even himself upset.
Sometimes the raisins would stick, making his job harder to do.
This taught me to always do my best, even when doing it may require extra work on my part. And if I do my best I will get the perfect cereal box.

12. Painting of1970’s box… Groovy
The Heirloom of Sorts
Choose Raisin Bran box because it was the story about Kelloggs I remember from my childhood. And at my age, this was what my dad’s job was to make.
Painting of1970’s box… Groovy

13. How it all worked out
Parents met at Oakland University, in the engineering school
My father went there on a scholarship and my mother went there because it was close
Both got almost identical degrees (electrical engineers) and looked for jobs together
Went to grad school together at University of Virginia
Applied at Texas Instruments
Jobs at multiple locations
Both in Texas
Applied at IBM
Applied (and worked/works at) Fanuc Robotics

14. How it all worked out (cont.)
Choose Michigan to live in
Liked people
Could choose many places
England
Texas
Virginia
North Carolina
Today my father still works at Fanuc, and my mom now works at Oakland University. They are very happy together even though they broke two family traditions of working in the cereal/auto industries.