ABSTRACT
Our preoccupation with youthfulness has tended to undermine the importance and wealth of experience offered by our senior members. Indeed, Golda Meir became prime minister at age seventy-one. The New York Mets hired Casey Stengel as their manager when he was seventy five. Not to be forgotten are Benjamin Franklin who worked on the U.S. Constitution at eighty-one, and Milton Petrie, who at ninety, still presides over Petrie Stores.
