These documents represent the academic and career accomplishments of Beatrice Welzel who worked for the Central Foundry Division of the General Motors Corporation.

Bea Munson was born in 1910 in Flushing, Michigan. She graduated from Flushing High School in 1927. She began working at the General Motors Corporation the same year. According to census records, she married George Welzel, a salesman in the hardware industry. Their son, George P. Welzel, was born in October of 1949. The family resided in Saginaw. She celebrated 25 years at General Motors in 1952. She died in 2008.

The collection includes letters from the General Manager J.H. Smith, a history of the Central Foundry Division written by the Public Affairs office, a certificate of achievement and a booklet explaining employee benefits document life as a General Motors employee in the Central Foundry Division-Financial Department. The collection also features pamphlets, photographs, souvenir programs, seating charts for the Annual Quarter Century Banquet, buttons, a souvenir coin, a ruler and a GM branded Table of Frequently Used Units card.

The collection, like others donated from the Genesee County Historical Society, covers a wide range of topics. It appears that staff and volunteers of GCHS combined many unrelated records into a single accession. Of the more significant are business ledgers used by George W. Hill throughout the 1840s to 1870s, several diaries and maps, including a map of the Crapo farm, election pamphlets from the 1860s to 1930s, correspondence of the Wesson family, personal records of Harry C. Hill, and court records from dozens of cases and suits. Records exist from the Ladies’ Library Associations from Flint and Atlas Township, though more from the latter. Publications include several issued by Durant Motors.