After recovering from an illness, I was a wheel chair patient for a couple of years, with all sorts of prosthetic devices, but I got around. Part of my regimen which gives me a good sense of well - being, is that I'm allowed to walk by this office and be part of the college. Students come in here to interview me. For example, very recently someone came from the CAS department, in a speech class in which they are writing a theatrical performance of the history of Calvin College, which will be given as the concluding item of this January Series. Every year someone comes to interview me for the history of Calvin College.
People drop in for a variety of reasons.
I have a number of students come in just to talk. I enjoy that very much. And I go to chapel very frequently, I meet many friends in chapel, I go there at least two or three times a week. Students will sit down next to me, and I always ask them about the courses and careers, how they like Calvin College and all of that. It is pretty nice to be able to grow old gracefully when you are surrounded by young kids.