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Maryland Institute, Baltimore, where he majored in design and mechanical drawing. In
1934, he left Baltimore for Detroit were he began his career as a designer for the Chrysler
Corporation, serving initially as an apprentice and eventually working up to duties
equivalent to those of a “senior designer”; in 1940 he left Chrysler for the position of
Senior Designer at the Hudson Motor Car Company, where he worked primarily at the
drawing board making “quick-idea” sketches, color renderings in a variety of media
(including catalog-quality air-brush work), accurate scale and full-size layouts, and rough
sketching in three-dimensional clay models; at Hudson Motor he was also assigned to war
work that consisted of making accurate perspective drawings of airplane assemblies and
subassemblies from blueprints, and air-brush retouching of photographs (that were later
used in an instruction manual prepared for the armed services) of mechanical parts of an
anti-aircraft gun. From 1944-1947 he was Senior Designer for Briggs Manufacturing
Company; 1947-1950, Assistant Head of Ford Studio, Ford Motor Car Company; 1950-
1952, Senior Designer, Chrysler Exterior Studio, Chrysler Corporation; and 1952-1955,
Senior Designer, Raymond Loewy Associates, assigned to the Studebaker Account,
designing automobile and truck interiors and exteriors. In 1955 he moved with his family
to South Bend, Indiana, where he became Head of the Studebaker President Exterior
Studio, Studebaker Packard Corporation; from 1956-1958, he was Assistant Head Truck
Exterior Studio at Studebaker, in charge of two designers and a clay modeler, assigning
and supervising their work in the absence of the studio head, and acting as a liaison
between the styling and engineering departments. In 1958 he became Account Manager
for Dave Chapman, Incorporated, an industrial design firm located in Chicago;
commuting weekly between South Bend and Chicago, he was responsible for the design
account for a department of Montgomery Ward and Company; the account included the
design of water heaters, water softeners, water pumps, furnaces, air-conditioners,
incinerators, and ventilating fans; he also did considerable work on the design of boats,
outboard motors, and radios. In 1959 he became Manager of Exterior Styling at the
Studebaker Packard Corporation. Married, 24 June 1938, at Detroit, Michigan, Louise
Mary Shamlian, born 1 December 1914 at Watertown, Massachusetts, died 15 January
1987, at Seal Beach, California; first residence, a two-room attic apartment in the house
of Mrs. Howard, 1229 Tyler Street, Highland Park, Michigan; later built a house (total
cost $6,000) at 2219 Lynwood Avenue, Royal Oak, Michigan, and moved in by Easter
1942; three children (see Shamlian Family Genealogy).
Children of Theodore Wells Pietsch, Jr., and Louise Mary Shamlian:
i. Priscilla Esther (Peppy, later Pat) Pietsch, born 22 December 1941 at Detroit, attended
Indiana University, Bloomington (1960), and Wayne State University, Detroit; an
occupational therapist; as of 2009, living at 18425 111th Place SE, Snohomish,
Washington; one child.
Child of Priscilla Esther Pietsch
i. Renée Brooke Pietsch, born 2 April 1981.
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