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Volume 39, No. 16 |
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News Briefs |
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June Longevity Awards announced |
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New hospital C.E.O. named |
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Saying goodbye |
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Fitness East expansion completed |
Take it easy? No way
In the past year, 235 University employees have officially retired. Dictionary
definitions claim that the word “retire” means to “conclude
one’s working or professional career” and to “retreat”
or “recede” or “withdraw”.
Upon hearing the plans of many Iowa retirees, including the four profiled
in this issue, one might decide Webster needs to tweak those definitions.
Retiring these days has little to do with kicking back, rocking in the
easy chair, or escaping from society. It involves volunteering, traveling,
taking up new hobbies and professions, charitable work, and even continuing
to do the same work as before because it’s just too darned hard to
quit cold turkey a job you love.