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Cherishing Our Elders

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To the Editor:

As a former academic now nearing the end of my legal career, I can empathize with Morris Freedman [“Retirement Blues,” April]. If he has managed to illuminate one small speck of human endeavor by kindling the spark of learning in a single student (as was obviously done with him by his teachers), or in his writings, he has greatly succeeded.

It is, indeed, a sad commentary that the wealth of knowledge and experience of retired persons is not put to full use in our communities.



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