Midwest Connections & Icons
Labor Day 2016
Tues.,
8/30:
Early in the summer John Delamater, my
dissertation advisor at Wisconsin, sent a “save the date” e-mail about his
upcoming retirement and dinner to mark the occasion. We initially sent regrets
that we would not be able to attend. But John’s reply ̶
noting that I had been only his 3rd doctoral student (we both
arrived at UW in 1969) and one of his most accomplished (very nice of him to
say!) ̶
made me feel quite the ungrateful wretch. Plus: John has been a good
friend as long as Marjorie and I have been married; and he seemed somewhat at
odds about retiring, maybe needing some counseling from a social gerontologist
who has been retired now for a year. So we refigured our schedule, cashed in
United flyer miles, and arranged to combine John’s bash with visits to family
& friends.
