Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-31
SECURITY FOR YOU
Retirement 7
Need Not
Be Boring

One thing is sure about re-
tirement: You're not going 70
find 1t pleasant II you're bored.
You're going TO be bored II
you don't have things 70 occupy
your mind and hands.
| This was reconflrmed for me
recently on q trip 20 Chicago.
Detroit and Cleveland 70 inter-
view q number Of older people
whore made q success Of re-
ltlrement.
Take the 75-year-old former
psychology teacher In Detroit.
she didn't really quit working
until about q year ago when
she had q mild heart attack
and later broke her hip In q
fan.
/ Because she no longer had
the physical stamina to be as
active as she'd like, she turned
to writing fiction-something
shed never tried before.
! Now, she's IS happy Is any
budding author, looking forward
70 selling her work and has
$4,000 words toward Q book
length mystery.
Another Detroiter ! talked 70
was O purchasing director for q
large manufacturer. When he
was forced TO retire at 20. he
turned to a Lutheran charity
Organization since he'd been ac-
tive in his own Lutheran church
for years.
work Il Salvation
Now, at u. he's the admins
trative assistant TO the direc-
tor Of the organization and says
he wouldn't last six months
II I didn't have this work"
In Chicago, o former presi-
dent Of q large perfume COM
pany has found an outlet for
keeping busy by running the
financial end Of q non-profit
business called Senior Achieve
lment, Inc. set up to give hum
dreds Of people IS or over q
little extra money and a sense
Of accomplishment.
At SO. he tried doing nothing
in retirement for about q year.
This was after he'd sold his
perfume company to another
firm because he felt the pres
sure was too great. He found
quiet retirement so boring that
he started hunting for some
sort Of worthwhile activity.
Being treasurer Of Senior
Achievement turned out to be
lit.
Now, at 81, he's got almost as
many pressures and worries as
he ever had. And. he loves 1t.
Nearly all the older people
doing the assembling and pack
laging done for Chicago firms
by Senior Achievement are good
Examples Of why O person
should plan on being active In
retirement.
The man In charge Of keep
ling 1t going. DR.. David Son.
Iquist. is one.
He'd probably never admit
liz, but his work Is really q re-
tirement project for him.
He's 81 and, until 1855. when
Senior Achievement went into
operation, he'd been a profess
sor Of sociology at a number
of colleges around the country.
Labor Of Love
Now, as a labor Of love. he's
the plant manager Of q going
business--something he never
thought he'd be involved In, let
alone running.
In Cleveland, I talked with a
78-year-old man who'd been
q maintenance man for a large
| manufacturer until 1850 when
Buergher's disease forced the
amputation of his left leg and
shriveled up the other.
Now. with his wife, he spends
his time writing. reading and
attending poetry classes at the
Cleveland Golden Age Center
Navigating with the help OF
two canes or a wheel chair, he's
managed to stay as busy as a
bee and would fight anyone
who told him he'd have Ia
quit.
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