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David and Sandy on the island of Ischia, in the Bay of Napes, Italy.

I keep reading about old classmates who are now retired. I guess I should probably let any of you who may be interested in knowing that I am not retired and don’t really plan to for some time. I’m having much too much fun in my job. In the summer of 2006 I was hired as Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association, this after 31 years of teaching philosophy at colleges in Iowa, Texas, and Pennsylvania. My new job carried me to Newark, Delaware. Delaware is a pretty small place. I tend to think of it as the state “where everybody knows your name.”

Since I’ve moved to Delaware I’ve had a bit of contact with a couple of classmates. I visited Wally Snesrud when he was in Las Vegas (before his wife, Peg, passed away last year). Wally and Peg were also both classmates of mine at St. Olaf. I also had a really enjoyable afternoon visit with Carol Christian James in DC. That’s about a two hour trip for me, and is where Carol does her work. Of course, my closest class contact is my cousin, Mary Albers Auge, whom I first met when we were in the nursery of the Northfield Hospital as she was born just a couple of days after I was.

In any case, my work gives me all sorts of wonderful opportunities to travel. Last summer I had a week-long meeting in Madrid, Spain, and then about three weeks of meetings in China and Korea. In Korea I was elected to the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. That gives me even more terrific travel opportunities. This past week I attended a meeting on the island of Ischia, in the Bay of Napes, Italy. The wine was great, the food even better, and our daughter and her husband (whose grew up in Italy) flew from London to spend a couple of days with us enjoying the thermal springs that pop up along the island’s coastline. This fall I’ll be going to a meeting in Moscow. There’s also a good bit of US travel as well. Anyway, I figure if I have a job that pays for me to go to all of these really fun places I’m going to stick with it for awhile. I’ve heard it said that “work is the curse of the drinking class.” Fortunately, my work just gives me opportunities to drink better stuff than I could afford at my local liquor store.

I hope you’re all doing well and, retired or unretired, having almost as much fun as I am.

Posted by  David Schrader

Edited by n. larsen

Tags: American Philosophical Association, Delaware, Ischia, Madrid, Moscow, newark delaware, Pennsylvania

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