Craig Parr, SBA’65, has always been a forward thinker when it comes to business. After all, he was involved with recycling and biodiesel fuel plants long before they became the eco-catch words of the decade. But these days, the 65-year-old lifetime Flint resident is thinking about his own future.
“I tell my kids when I’m 95 and in a rocking chair on the front porch, I’ll want a shawl when it’s 100 degrees out. I might not be able to talk, but they’ll be able to tell by the smile or smirk on my face that I’m thinking about something in the past,” says Parr.
And he’ll easily summon a grin recalling his drives to Oakland University in his red and white Pontiac convertible where he took the business courses that would shape his next half century.
This article is excerpted from the Fall 2008 issue of OU Magazine. Read the full story here
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