Splendid Seniors - Adler, Jack
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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." So said W. Somerset Maugham, one of the 52 people whose achievements after age 65 are featured in Splendid Seniors: Great Lives, Great Deeds. The inspiring ensemble includes Mary Baker Eddy, who was 86 when she founded the Christian Science Monitor; Alexander Graham Bell, who received a patent for his work on a hydrofoil boat at age 75; Benjamin Disraeli, who became prime minister of England for the second time when he was 70; and Susan B. Anthony, who was past 80 when she founded…mehr

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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." So said W. Somerset Maugham, one of the 52 people whose achievements after age 65 are featured in Splendid Seniors: Great Lives, Great Deeds. The inspiring ensemble includes Mary Baker Eddy, who was 86 when she founded the Christian Science Monitor; Alexander Graham Bell, who received a patent for his work on a hydrofoil boat at age 75; Benjamin Disraeli, who became prime minister of England for the second time when he was 70; and Susan B. Anthony, who was past 80 when she founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Splendid Seniors reminds us that creativity, intelligence, passion & influence can not only flower in later years, but bear delicious fruit.
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Jack was raised in Brooklyn. When he was 14 years old, one of his uncles took him to Aqueduct Race Track and thus commenced Jack's lifelong love affair with the Sport of Kings. Searching for winners has been Jack's white whale. Jack graduated college in '66. Summers, in college, he worked as a hot walker at Belmont. After receiving his Master's in Cultural Anthropology, Jack spent the next few years abroad, studying for his Ph.D. at a British University. Two of those four years were spent doing field work in Ste. Luce, a fishing village on Martinique's North East coast. Eventually, Jack became disenchanted with academia, whereupon he migrated to Wall Street, where he found that his grandmother was correct when she told him, "Rich or poor, it's good to have money." He retired in '98. Jack lives in a gated community in New Jersey. He spends his time golfing, reading, hanging out at the racetrack, and enjoying time with his family: his lovely wife of 54 years, his three children, their spouses, and what to date are his five grandchildren.