Parker, William C. (William Covington)

William C. Parker was a corporate public relations executive, journalist, and graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (A.B., 1949).

William Covington Parker graduated from high school in Albermarle, N.C., and entered the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1944 at the age of 16. He joined the Navy Air Corps in late 1945 and returned to Chapel Hill in September 1946. He graduated with a degree in English in 1949. After working as a journalist in New York for two years, Parker was a corporate public relations executive for 40 years, serving as head of corporate public relations for the Campbell Soup Company, FMC Corporation, and CPC International Inc. (renamed Bestfoods in 1998).