After a life in politics and manufacturing begun in small-town Michigan, he is ready to retire and let his wife set the pace Steve Larkin’s career has had two constants. “My whole professional life I’ve been around manufacturing and politics. That’s basically what I’ve done,” Larkin told CEO Update. Larkin It’s a life that took him from small-town southwestern Michigan—the “twin cities” of St. Joseph-Benton Harbor, as he quips—to the Reagan administration, and finally 26 years in the trade association business. The 13-year leader of the $6 million-revenue Aluminum Association has announced he would retire at year’s end, an occasion that found him reminiscing.… Read More