I spoke to Irv Sager and Ed Reich, who is now 100 years old, and they are both still hanging in there. As for myself, quite a few parties are being organized to celebrate my 100th, which is wonderful. Ask me what you have to do to reach that age? My answer is keep breathing in and out and be one of the luckiest people on the planet.


I still worry about what kind of a world we are leaving for the next generations. Our present culture does not help us to learn how to live together and we seem to be unwilling to learn how. We had many great leaders, philosophers and religious figures who have pointed the way. Robert Frost chose to “take the path less traveled.” I think there is a better way. Learn the way to go by really making the effort to learn how to make the right choices. I still study every day because it opens up new worlds to me, and what could be greater? What a tragedy that we burden our children, grandchildren and future generations with this horrendous burden of debt. We who decide to wage two wars without paying for them and leaving this huge burden of debt on future generations. Yes, we are all guilty because we elected officials who legislated these cowardly acts. Worse, there is no elected official out there who stands up and says enough is enough.


If you did not vote or if you voted for someone who did not stand up and say loud and clear, “I will stop what is going on, no matter the cost,” then you voted to continue this path to disaster. Desperate people, who have nowhere to turn, are turning to radical religions. Look at yourself! Do you like what you see? I don’t, but I am trying to make my voice heard. What is Dartmouth doing about it?


Despite my harping on what I consider vital issues, I am always proud to say I am a Dartmouth alum and I feel Dartmouth is No. 1.


Many thanks to all of you who phone and write me to tell me to keep on saying and doing what I am doing.


—Edward Gerson, 2400 Mariposa West 3A, Laguna Woods, CA 92653; (949) 829-8400; ejgerson@webtv.net