Warren Ilchman writes: “Though a widower and retired since 2011, I can say my best work was my last work. For 13 years, I had the pleasure of awarding annually graduate scholarships to immigrants and the children of immigrants. In that responsibility, I awarded 450 Soros Fellowships. From that, alas, I am now retired. Now, like many of my classmates, I have to develop my own purpose. I live in Bronxville, New York, and can walk to my doctors, dentist, bookstore, coffee house, pharmacy, and grocery. I am in two book groups, one focusing on classics and the other on contemporary fiction. I also attend a discussion group on public affairs issues once a month. I am a member of my Vestry and an active member of an aging-in-place organization. One of the joys of where I am living is that I am five minutes from the train station and then only 27 minutes to Grand Central Station. I get into the City two or three times a week. Among other activities, I take an eight-week course in art history twice a year at the Metropolitan Museum. I also have the privilege of seeing, at least monthly, several ’55 classmates: Ken Peterson and his wife, Joe Blumberg and his wife, and John Monaghan. Usually in New York, but also in New Haven and Boston, we go to museums, have lunch, and share life experiences. But there are occasional unexpected encounters with classmates. My son, an art curator in Boston, gave a lecture after which a man introduced himself. It was Walter Goldfarb, our classmate. Walter is a distinguished surgeon in Portland, Maine, and a collector of art. We will meet in New York soon. The 50th and 60th reunions were high points in my life, and I look forward to our 65th.”
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