Fred Binning:  

Life Like most of the ’53 graduates I had made some plans for college but hadn’t really thought very far into the future, especially entering the world of the working. I had planned in high school to go on to Pharmacy School but really hadn’t made up my mind if I wanted to attend Wayne State, Ferris or Detroit Institute of Technology. The first Monday following graduation I was at the main office of Cunningham Drugs applying for a job and possibly a scholarship. As fate would have it, I was working the following day at their store on the corner of Grand River and Southfield. Come September, I enrolled at Wayne State only to switch immediately to D.I.T. Plus, I never missed a day between jobs since then. After a couple of years working every Saturday, Sunday and Holiday and going to school it became evident to me that being a pharmacist wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. Marriage was in the near future and I soon began working for McKesson & Robbins in Highland Park. At the end of 1957 they opened a new facility in Lansing, Michigan and I was asked to be part of the start-up team. Shortly after moving to Lansing moved into a management-training program and became warehouse supervisor. In 1968, the next move was into sales for what was to be another short training period before moving to another posit...Expand for more