James Hindman, 1957 Morningside College graduate and founder of the Jiffy Lube franchise, will present a lecture “Was Blind, But Now I See” at 6 p.m. Sept. 2 in UPS Auditorium in the Lincoln Center, 3627 Peters Ave., on the Morningside campus.

James Hindman, 1957 Morningside College graduate and founder of the Jiffy Lube franchise, will present a lecture “Was Blind, But Now I See” at 6 p.m. Sept. 2 in UPS Auditorium in the Lincoln Center, 3627 Peters Ave., on the Morningside campus.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be based on Hindman’s 2014 book “Was Blind, But Now I See,” which detailed his battle against macular degeneration that blinded him by age 77. Hindman eventually underwent an innovative procedure that surgically implanted a miniature telescope behind the iris of his left eye. While not a cure, the procedure allowed Hindman to see again.

A Sioux City native, Hindman describes his life as a rags-to-riches story that took him from being a court-ordered orphan at the age of 10 to becoming a self-made millionaire by 35.