Later Years and Honors
Grant graduated from Michigan with a business degree in 1950 and worked for 37 years for General Motors, retiring in 1987 as comptroller of the Warren Division of Hydra-Matic. He continued to follow Michigan Wolverines hockey and was the vice president of the Dekers Blue Line Club — a Michigan hockey booster organization. He and wife raised three children in the Ann Arbor area. In 2007, Grant and his wife endowed the Mickey and Wally Grant Scholarship for Hockey at the University of Michigan.
Grant was inducted in the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1987, and the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 1994.
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