Bill Parks

In the 1960 Olympics, Bill Parks skippered Shrew II with Bob Halperin, a fellow member of the Chicago YC, as his crew. Parks graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology and took up engineering as a career. In the late 50s, however, he returned to school, earning an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He became a corporate executive with Vapor Corporation, the Chicago transportation engineering firm and later served on the editorial board of the magazine, One Design Yachtsman. Parks served in World War II in the Philippines with a Navy construction battalion. Later in his life he also raced in ice-boat competitions.