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13-527: The FIM is also home for the annual William C. Byrd Young Artists Competition. The Community Music Association was founded by J. Dallas Dort in 1917. The United Way in the 1920s underwrote the chorus and symphony. Dort's home was acquire by the Flint College & Cultural Development Committee of Sponsors in 1958 for the Flint Board of Education 's Flint Community College for the music needs of

26-706: A capital campaign for a new music school building then the school with a community service division. In 1969, construction began on the Dort Music Center, which was to be an addition to the Dort home instead the home burned in a fire. The music center was completed in 1971. William C. Byrd was appointed FIM director and conductor of the Flint Symphony Orchestra in 1966. In 1971, he began the Young Artist Competition. In 1971

39-446: A new brand of automobile, Chevrolet . Dort was president of Chevrolet but the following year, in 1915, he left and founded Dort Motor Car Company . By 1920 Dort was the country's 13th largest automobile producer but in 1924 Dort decided to retire and liquidated Dort Motor Car Company. He sold the factory building to AC Spark Plug . Dort had many involvements outside his business interests. Music institutions ( Flint Institute of Music

52-450: A public hospital to the city of Flint. Hurley Hospital opened on December 19, 1908, as a 40-bed hospital with 8 nurses. Josiah Dallas Dort was also involved in its early business. Many victims of the Flint water crisis were treated at Hurley. A study performed there determined that children were being poisoned by lead. Proceeds from Tegan Marie 's single "Lucky Me" were used to benefit

65-542: A round of golf on May 17, 1925, aged 64. Dort was interred at in Glenwood Cemetery . Hurley Medical Center Hurley Medical Center is a teaching hospital serving Genesee , Lapeer , and Shiawassee counties in eastern Michigan since December 19, 1908. Situated in Flint, Michigan , it is a 457-bed public non-profit hospital . The emergency department is an ACS verified Level I Trauma Center and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center. Hurley also has

78-622: A “Signature Series” with titles to be announced at the Rep’s season announcement party on August 22. Josiah Dallas Dort Josiah Dallas Dort (February 27, 1861 – May 17, 1925) was an American engineer and automobile pioneer of the United States automobile industry. He was born in Inkster, Michigan on February 27, 1861. His father was a well-to-do country squire and merchant, well connected politically, who died in 1871 when Josiah

91-710: Is built on the site of his home and its main offices are in the Dort Music Centre), a mutual benefit association for his employees which paid their medical bills, the local Shakespeare club, Knights Templar of the Masonic Order, Flint YMCA, Flint's first hospital—now Hurley Medical Center . Flint area trunkline Dort Highway (M-54) is named in his honor. Dort married Nellie M. Bates on January 12, 1887, and they had two children. She died in 1900, and he remarried to Marcia Webb on May 8, 1907. They had three children. He died due to heart disease while playing

104-670: The Community Music Association of Flint along with several other musical organizations, including Musical Performing Arts Association, merged to the newly formed Flint Institute of Music. Also, Mott College's music classes and community music programs moved in 1971. In 1974, Byrd died while conducting a pops concert on a hot summer evening in Wilson Park. That year the Young Artist Competition was renamed in his honor. An Ireland concert tour took place in April 2014 by

117-519: The Flint Youth Symphony Orchestra. In August 2016 Rodney Lontine was appointed as the new CEO of Flint Institute of Music. In 2017, Flint Youth Theatre held its first New Works Festival. On August 13, 2018, Flint Youth Theatre was expanded into Flint Repertory Theatre, or “The Rep”, a professional nonprofit regional theatre. Flint Youth Theatre would continue as a program of its education department. The Rep will begin offering

130-602: The community. An all in one music building that would start with College-preparatory school students work up to a degree was being developed. Flint Youth Theatre was founded in 1957 as the program of the Bower Theatre, completed in 1958 as a part of the Flint Cultural Center plans. Organizers drew up article of incorporation for the Flint Institute of Music in 1966 with its first purpose of

143-477: The region's only Children's Hospital, Burn Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. James J. Hurley, an English immigrant, arrived in Flint penniless and worked his way up from a hotel porter to making a fortune from sawmills and soap. Remembering his early days of poverty when his wife struggled through a serious illness, Hurley donated $ 55,000 and land for

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156-507: Was 10. Dort left school at age 15 to help his mother in business and to work at a crockery firm. He moved to Flint, Michigan in 1879. In 1881, he began working at a Flint hardware store, and within a few years opened his own hardware store. He made a $ 1,000 investment in 1886 (equivalent to $ 30,000 in 2023 ) to become a partner with William C. Durant in a new carriage business called the Flint Road-Cart Company . Durant

169-511: Was the salesman and Dort the partnership's administrator, running the factories. Together they made Durant-Dort one of the world's largest carriage producers. Dort and Durant invested in a controlling interest in Buick in 1904 when the new owner ran short of capital. Durant's marketing ability was an overwhelming success, and they formed General Motors in 1908. Durant lost control of GM to bankers in 1911 and they re-established themselves by creating

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