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YALE  NEWS

Yale School of Music President
Robert Blocker
Presents YALE Award to
His Majesty
 King Bhumibol of Thailand at
the Bangkok Royal Palace.
 

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Robert's International Concert Schedule
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You know, it's a wonderful thing

as time goes by...

to be with someone who

looks in your face when

 you've gotten old -

and still sees - what you  

 think you look like.

Willa and Kenny in the 1964 PELICAN and in the center - a photo from this Spring 2009.

From the pens of Willa and Kenny Burdette...

See you at the 45 and Roll with the Rocks!!
 

Pamela Tovey Quattlebaum & Bonnie at home in Charleston.

THE POST & COURIER
Stem cell future

Those touched by diseases place hopes in research

Editor's Note: This is one in an occasional series of articles devoted to medical ethics. In it, the significance of President Barack Obama's March 9 executive order concerning stem cell research funding is considered by two prominent bioethicists and others concerned with the issue.

Maybe Pamela Quattlebaum's Parkinson's disease was triggered by a concussion she suffered after falling from a horse during a long-ago fox hunt.

She's got good reason to think so. A 2003 study published by the American Academy of Neurology found that those who have experienced a head injury are four times more likely to develop the disease than those who have never had a head injury. The risk increases eightfold for people who have required hospitalization for head trauma, and it increases 11-fold for patients who've been injured severely.

Quattlebaum, 62, was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1985 when she was only 38. The disease has progressed slowly but inexorably. Early on, she avoided thinking about it and avoided others with the disease.

"The less I did about it, the happier I was," she says.

But she feels differently now. Accustomed to the degenerative nature of her condition, and fresh from her second battle with breast cancer, serious disease isn't a scarlet letter. It's pervasive.

For Quattlebaum and millions of others struggling with disease and injury, stem cells might contain a key that unlocks a medical future of successful therapies and cures.

But if other medical research is any indication, it will take many years of careful study and experimentation before useful treatments are developed.

And then there are the ethical considerations.

The advantage of using adult stem cells is that the source is an individual with whom the genetic composition of the cells is compatible, according to the National Institutes of Health. Since the adult stem cell is derived from a living person, often for use by that person, research and therapies that rely on them are not considered controversial.

Embryonic stem cells, cultivated at the five-day-old blastocyst stage, are more abundant, more flexible and develop faster in the laboratory. They require less manipulation than adult stem cells, and they are more likely to cure genetic disorders. But to get at the cells, the embryos are destroyed.

On March 9, President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research that had been imposed by former President George W. Bush in 2001. Quattlebaum said the policy change comes as a relief. So long as clear research guidelines are in place, she has no qualms about the ethics involved; stem cells offer great promise, and people who struggle with disease should be the priority, she said.

"There are people already alive who can use them and who desperately want them," Quattlebaum said. "It's probably too late for me."

FEMALE VOCAL ARTISTS OF THE YEAR
Class of '64

We have been wondering what ever 
happened to Perry White.........

Now finally........... Heeeerrrrrreeee's  PERRY!  And best of all, he is doing just fine!   

He and his prize setter Sadie (pictured) welcome Classmate's  calls or email at any time. 

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HITS and ARTISTS
Class of '64

BILLBOARD TOP-40 HITS - 1964

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MALE VOCAL ARTISTS OF THE YEAR
CLASS OF '64

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EIGHTY IS THE NEW FIFTY
by Daniel Gross
NW
June 16, 2008

 Have you noticed that CNBC is dominated by frisky septuagenarians? Last Wednesday, Carl Icahn, the 72-year-old corporate raider turned hedge-fund manager/shareholder activist, was terrorizing the whippersnappers at Yahoo, accusing the executive team of foolishly torpedoing a merger with Microsoft. The day before, the network aired testimony of legendary trader George Soros 77, who was lecturing Congress on the oil spike. Earlier in the month, Warren Buffett's annual Berkshire Hathaway meeting, known as Woodstock for Capitalists—with Buffett, 77, strumming a ukulele rather than Jimi Hendrix wailing the national anthem—received blanket coverage. Kirk Kerkorian, 91, who amassed big stakes in Chrysler and General Motors and agitated for change, is amassing a large stake in Ford.

    This isn't America's business channel. It's "Cocoon."

    Our culture relentlessly celebrates youth. But in the corporate world, 80 is the new 50. The exploits of these Sunshine Boys and advances in medicine make the retirement age of 65 seem like a relic. And in fact, it is. When Otto Von Bismarck established Germany's—and the world's—first social-welfare system in the 1880s, "he had to pick an age at which people were so enfeebled and disabled, they couldn't work," says Ken Dychtwald, chief executive officer of the consulting firm AGEWAVE, which specializes in aging and the workplace. Bismarck chose 70. "At the time, the average life expectancy in Europe was about 45." In 1916, Germany reduced the age to 65.

    Since then, this arbitrary cutoff date has calcified into a thick gray line. Until recently, aging big-shot executives were generally happy to play golf, become ambassadors or just fade away. Today, not so much. Like a stage mother, Jack Welch, 72, nearly seven years removed from the top post at General Electric, is lecturing successor Jeffrey Immelt from the wings. The rise of private-equity firms and hedge funds has effectively created a sort of seniors tour for successful managers. "This is just not a cohort that's all that excited about stepping into the world of 24/7 recreation," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor who founded the Chief Executive Leadership Institute.

    Most Type-A M.B.A.s could probably outpace these guys in a 10K. (Self-proclaimed workout stud Sumner Redstone, the 85-year-old chairman of both Viacom and CBS, might give the youngsters a run for their money.) But these are marathon men, not the sprinters who thrive during bubbles. In recent months, fiftysomething CEOs of Wall Street firms and large banks have been decimated by the credit crunch, just as twentysomething tech stars were crushed in the 2001 NASDAQ crash. Unlike their younger counterparts, today's headline-making grandparents have experience managing through the last serious oil shock and prolonged period of financial pain in the 1970s. Kirk Kerkorian began his career during the Great Depression. These rock stars have also proved willing to learn a repertoire beyond their greatest hits. Rupert Murdoch, 77, beat younger moguls in the race for MySpace and is now busily remaking The Wall Street Journal. Carl Icahn has a blog (though it doesn't contain any content). Former oilman T. Boone Pickens, 80, who runs a $4 billion hedge fund, is the lead investor in a $10 billion wind farm in Texas. Oh, and he has just penned his debut book: "The First Billion Is the Hardest."

    These business guitar heroes may be taking their cues from real-life rockers, like Neil Diamond, 67, Mick Jagger, 64, and Tina Turner, 68, who are still filling arenas. In both instances, markets are recognizing and rewarding continued excellence, even if the performers' gaits have slowed. But for non-rock stars—i.e., people who don't own their own companies or don't have enough cash to start a hedge fund—barriers to staying active late in life remain. "There is still enormous resistance and unwillingness to consider older people for job hires," says AgeWave's Dychtwald. As one executive recruiter told me, boards frequently look askance at older candidates because "somebody in their mid-60s isn't going to take an 18-hour-a-day job." That attitude may be changing. CT Partners, the executive search firm, recently conducted an unscientific poll on its Web site, asking managers whether they'd hire a 72-year-old CEO (which is what the Republican Party is asking the country to do). The answer was yes, by a margin of 55-45 percent.

    For leadership guru Warren Bennis, who at 83 teaches full time at the University of Southern California's business school, such ambivalence is a key issue facing the economy. "Organizations have to learn how to manage the people who keep growing and learning even as they get older," he says. Bennis still detects plenty of signs of ageism in corporate America.

    In time, it's likely that prejudices toward older workers will be eroded less by the exploits of eternally youthful financiers, and more from a longstanding demographic trend. As they've moved through life, the baby boomers have altered societal attitudes on everything from smoking marijuana to Botox. As boomers coast into their golden years, it's likely the acceptance of older workers at every rung of the corporate ladder will grow. In the 1960s, the boomers' mantra was: don't trust anyone over 30. In the 2010s, it'll probably be: don't trust anyone under 70.

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