Career
Crim is also a trustee emeritus of Michigan State University, having served on the board in 1983 and 1984. Bobby Crim, then speaker of the state house, started the Crim in Flint as a 10-mile race in 1977. In 2007, Crim appeared on Michigan Public Television"s "Office the Record" program and expressed his opposition to term-limit provisions in Michigan"s Constitution.
On August 21, 2014, a bronze statue of Crim was dedicated in downtown Flint near the starting line of the Crim Festival of Races.