Memorials
In 1998, GMI Engineering and Management Institute (formerly General Motors Institute), of Flint, Michigan, changed its name to Kettering University in honor of Kettering. His ideals, prowess, and belief in co-operative education continue there. Kettering is also remembered through the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a cancer research and treatment center in New York City, and through the Kettering Health Network, which includes several hospitals and medical center campuses as well as the Kettering College of Medical Arts in Kettering, Ohio.
The city of Kettering, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton, was named after him when it was incorporated in 1955.
The former U.S. Army Air Service testing field, McCook Field, is now a Dayton park called Kettering Field.
Several U.S. public schools are named after him:
- Charles F. Kettering Sr. High School in Waterford, Michigan
- Charles F. Kettering Elementary School in Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Charles F. Kettering Elementary School in Long Beach, California
- Kettering Fairmont High School in Kettering, Ohio
- Charles F. Kettering Sr. High School in Detroit, Michigan
- The Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati is housed in the Kettering Lab
- The engineering building at the University of Dayton is called Kettering Lab
The endowed Olive Williams Kettering Chair of The College of Wooster Department of Music is named in honor of his wife.
The Kettering Science center on the Ashland University campus in Ohio is named for him.
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