Don E. Flow, president and CEO of Flow Motor Companies, urged WSSU students to remain in Winston-Salem after graduation and help the city flourish.
Flow spoke last month before a group of about 50 students and faculty members gathered in the R.J. Reynolds building as part of the Joseph N. Patterson Lyceum Cultural Events Series.
“We live in a society where we are free to choose a career, spouse, future and place to live,” Flow said, adding that students must decide what type of futures they want to create for their own lives. “If you cannot imagine it, you cannot create your future,” he said.
For the city to flourish, Flow said each generation should “invest in capitals.” These capitals are: social (“the good”), intellectual (“truth”), aesthetic (“beauty”), economic (“plenty”) and political (“order”).
“Those who serve the needs of the community will be rewarded, and their life would be renewed,” he said.