VETERAN JOURNALIST DANIEL SCHORR HONORED AT U-M GERIATRICS
CENTER CELEBRATION
Daniel Schorr and Jeffrey
Halter |
Over 800 patients, friends and supporters of Turner Geriatric
Clinic attended the U-M Geriatrics Center’s celebration
in recognition of the 1999 United Nations International Year
of Older Persons last October at Rackham Auditorium.
The event featured a keynote address by Daniel Schorr, senior
news analyst for National Public Radio, who began his career
as a foreign correspondent in 1946, writing from postwar Europe
for The Christian Science Monitor and later The New York Times.
Schorr advised his audience, many of them, like him, in their
80s or older: “What you like to do, do. The people here
could have chosen to retire. Instead they do things for other
people. I’m being honored, but the honor is to me.”
Schorr received the U-M Geriatrics Center Outstanding Lifetime
Achievement Award at a celebration that acknowledged the lifetime
contributions of older adults and their vital role in community
life.
Eight other community members received Turner Geriatric Clinic
Community Lifetime Achievement Awards.
University of Michigan Music School faculty members William
Bolcom and Joan Morris, the husband-and-wife performers noted
nationally for their accomplished renditions of popular music
from the 1920s and 1930s (he is a ragtime and jazz pianist and
composer, she is a mezzo soprano cabaret singer) provided entertainment
for the event. Their performance was in tribute to Katherine
Morris, Joan’s mother and a former patient of Turner Geriatric
Clinic. The celebration also served to mark the end of the first
year of a campaign to raise funds for Turner Geriatric Clinic
programs that benefit senior citizens and their families throughout
southeastern Michigan.
ALSO PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM WERE GILBERT S. OMENN, EXECUTIVE
VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEDICAL AFFAIRS; JEFFREY B. HALTER, DIRECTOR
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GERIATRICS CENTER; AND RUTH CAMPBELL,
THE GERIATRICS CENTER’S ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WORK
AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.
Also:
Will
You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I’m a Hundred
and Twenty-Four?
FUNDING
FOR AGING RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
THE
STEPS TO AGILITY IN OLD AGE: “GAIT GUY” NEIL ALEXANDER
IS WORKING TO FIND THEM
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