The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Michigan Accomplishments: Performed as a backup defensive end on Michigan's 1964 Big Ten and Rose Bowl championship squad … Played in 10 games in 1965, making three receptions for 32 yards at tight end … Played in 10 games as a senior tight end in 1966, securing eight catches for 136 yards and one touchdown … Lettered all three years … Won the John F. Maulbetsch Award (given annually to the freshman foot- ball candidate, after spring practice, based on desire, character, capacity for leadership, and anticipated future success on and off the field), the Dr. Arthur D. Robinson Scholarship Award (given annually to the leading senior scholar on the football team) and the Fielding H. Yost Award (given to athletes judged outstanding in scholarship and leadership). Michigan Memory: "That's easy. About 8:30 a.m. in late May, 1967, I was stretched out on a swimming pool lounge chair at one of the student apartments in Ann Arbor. I was still in my GM Security uniform, having finished a graveyard shift at the hydromatic plant in Yp- silanti — a summer before I started my MBA at the Business School. "A girl I occasionally dated was nice enough to let me borrow a key. I was grateful and kept myself in a corner away from the entry gate. On this day, a few minutes behind me, came a pretty and resolute-looking girl with, I found out soon thereafter, an electric smile and lots of brainpower, studying classical piano in the Music School. "While no match for her, I was smart enough to marry her 44 years ago. Thank you, Michigan!" Professional Achievements: Pursued a communications and marketing career which spanned more than four decades, serving clients such as BMW, Anheuser Busch, Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Colgate and M&M Mars … Spent 15 years running advertising agencies in such capacities as chairman, president, CEO and COO … Executive with in-house agencies during the Presi- dential campaigns of Gerald R. Ford and George H.W. Bush. Education: Earned Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in politi- cal science, 1967 … Earned MBA from Michigan, 1969. Family: Married to the former Ann Douglass. The Clayton Wilhite File Currently, Wilhite is chairman of the board of Carrols Corporation, Burger King's largest franchisee with 550 stores in the eastern United States. PHOTO COURTESY CLAYTON WILHITE