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Letter to Julio Cruz Eugene M. Renkin writes: “Many thanks for your greeting on my 80th birthday. Your greeting arrived in proper time, but, alas, I procrastinated for three months before facing up to replying and providing the requested update on the progress of my retirement. In the interim, my wife, Libby and I have enjoyed three birthday parties: the first, on my birthday, a private celebration at home, the second at my former Department’s annual Holiday party, with a surprise cake, and the third over the New Year in Denver with our children and grandchildren. “I looked up my 70th birthday letter in the archive of The Physiologist (Vol. 40:1). It appears that I followed my predictions of that time fairly closely. I stopped contributing to Medical School teaching five years ago, and gave up refereeing manuscripts for APS journals two years ago (I didn’t think it fair to review MSS I couldn’t fully understand). I still keep in touch with my old department, and enjoy following the development of the young physiologists who have been recruited to its faculty. “I was more successful in widening my knowledge of areas of science outside physiology, physics, geology and biology, mostly by reading; but in the case of invertebrate biology also by direct microscopic observation of populations of plants and animals in ponds and puddles. Alas, the vow I made never to serve on another committee proved impossible to maintain. My term on the Senior Physiologists Committee doesn’t count – besides, I enjoyed receiving the letters from my co-retirees. But I agreed to serve a term on my University’s Emeriti Committee, and I have been continually on one committee or another of our synagogue and of the retirement community which my wife and I joined seven years ago. “Libby and I still enjoy listening to music at home and going to concerts, plays, operas, and an occasional movie. We greatly enjoy traveling to see our children and relatives widely spread around the US (and sometimes abroad), and we look forward to doing lots of these things in the 10 years before our next report.” Letter to Harvey Sparks Allan Walker writes: “Currently, I am functioning in the same capacity that I have been for the last 25 years at Harvard Medical School. I have a combined responsibility of teaching medical students, residents and postdoctoral fellows, occasionally seeing complex patients, running a large mucosal immunology laboratory with extensive funding from NIH. As long as my health holds out and I continue to obtain funding I plan to continue to function in this same capacity.” |
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