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Jon Hassler's Remarks Upon Turning Seventy I have a confession to make. I have been seventy for nearly two months. The reason we're celebrating today is that I have become such a snowbird that I didn't want to come north from Florida in March. And speaking of seventy, I recall a year or so ago I was standing with a group of men who were about to turn this age and we were discussing our disabilities. One of the men -- I think it was Rick who has MS -- said "Old age certainly has nothing to recommend it." Along with the others I nodded my agreement, even though I thought he must be wrong. Surely, I thought, there must be an element of old age that's good. I thought perhaps it was wisdom. One hears about the wisdom of age, but that's not true in my case. I'm no wiser today than I was a fifty, or thirty. It was while putting this party together that I discovered what it was. A definite pleasure of old age is looking back at all the good people one has known and called friends. And it's a special pleasure to have a hundred of them in the same room. I want to thank each of you for being here. And for being my friend. -- Jon Hassler May 2003 |
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