This issue:
Remarkable Centenarians
Forget Superman and Beckman. Choose remarkable centenarians
as role models.
Here are four who recently made the news:
Why
At 104 R. Waldo McBurney maintains a downtown office in
Quinter Kansas
where he sells honey from his 199 colony of bee hives. He still competes in
several track events in the Senior Olympics. In 2004 he came out with his first
book,
My First 100 Years.
The mysterious decline in bee populations is causing an agricultural crisis.
Bees not only produce honey, they pollinate flowers and plants.
Diagnosing the problem may come from a young scientist. Or it may come from
101-year-old beekeeper Wendell Cummings. He has kept bees since he was
a child. Several years ago he downsized his honey business.
He still does a lot
of observing and
thinking about bees. He believes he the mysterious decline
in the bee populations is due to a new strain of beetles from South America.
Scientists are seriously studying
his theory.
Centenarian Kathryn Davis could have spent her millions
self-indulgently.
Instead she donated $20 million for clean up and conservation along the
Hudson River where she still loves to kayak. Her “1000 Projects for Peace”
scholarships awarded $10,000 scholarships to undergraduates who develop
and implement grassroots ideas for peace. She also has funded several projects
to study Russian language and culture.
Jose “El Nino” Temprana was a Cuban sponge diver and
lobster fisherman.
He left Cuba in 1994 after spending thirty years in a Cuban prison for opposing
F
idel Castro. At 105 he achieved a dream he has had since prison He became
an American citizen. He still enjoys gardening and socializing with lots of
friends.
Quotes
We don’t get to choose our parents, but we select our lifestyles.
~ R. Waldo McBurney, 104 year old beekeeper and fitness advocate,
I love the thought of people enjoying the river, sailing, kayaking, hiking.
~Kathryn Wasserman Davis, philanthropist
Humor
I was always taught to respect my
elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
~George Burns
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
~George Burns
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