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2003 Senior Physiologists Committee Report
With the increasing life time of US population, in 2002
the sum of the 80- and 90-years old APS members passed the number of the
70-years old members. To a certain extent this made the work of the Senior
Physiologists Committee easier. The main job of the Committee is to collect
letters for The Physiologist and thereby decreasing the gap between younger
and older physiologists. A survey by members of the Senior Physiologists
Committee at their own Institution showed that graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows, and assistant professors read the letters of Senior
Physiologists extensively; also established scientists find pleasure in
reading these letters because of the interesting stories they contain. One
would expect that everybody in the 70 - 90 years group would be glad to
submit letters, but this is not so. The 70-years old members frequently pull
out from writing letters, because their age is their “personal business.” I
spent several hours to convince these members (many of them are my friends)
that it is their moral duty to support this unique drive of APS, but failed.
Accordingly, the Senior Physiologists Committee depends more and more on the
services of the 80-90 old generation and we are glad to hear their statement
“aging makes me wiser.”
The Committee greets the 70-, 80-, and 90-year old
members by using either APS format letters on APS letterheads and envelopes,
or using personal letters, or the special artistic cards of APS. In 2002,
194 letters were sent out and 28 answers were received. Thus, four to five
letters from Senior Physiologists were published per issue of The
Physiologist.
The Senior Physiologists Committee also reviews
applications for the Senior Physiologists Award (G. Edgar Folk Jr. Senior
Physiologist grant), $500, mainly supporting research or meeting attendance.
One application was received and approved.
Michael Bárány, Chair
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