Comments on: Success Knows No Age http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/ Where the written word lives on... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:08:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Christina http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15410 Christina Thu, 28 May 2009 19:54:11 +0000 http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15410 Age knows no bounds. A friend of mine passed away almost a month ago. He was 95. Up until almost the very end traveled the world teaching swing dancing and had been one of the early innovators of the dance back in the 1930s. After WWII he became a postal worker and it wasn't until he was in his 70s that young dancers found him and begged him to teach them the lindy hop after seeing him dancing in old movies. He was one of the most incredible and inspiring men I have ever met. He often said that dancing kept him young and he often could pass for decades younger than his true age. Age knows no bounds. A friend of mine passed away almost a month ago. He was 95. Up until almost the very end traveled the world teaching swing dancing and had been one of the early innovators of the dance back in the 1930s. After WWII he became a postal worker and it wasn’t until he was in his 70s that young dancers found him and begged him to teach them the lindy hop after seeing him dancing in old movies.

He was one of the most incredible and inspiring men I have ever met. He often said that dancing kept him young and he often could pass for decades younger than his true age.

]]> By: Samara http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15413 Samara Thu, 28 May 2009 20:32:38 +0000 http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15413 Now THAT’s my kinda man. What a great story! Thanks for sharing Christina. I couldn’t agree more. My grandfather couldn’t afford to go to college after high school so he went into the army. After the army he got married / had seven children / worked for Chrysler / then worked for IBM until he retired. After all that, with his children grown and surrounded by umpteen grandchildren he said to himself, “Well I can finally afford to go to college.” And he did! He graduated with a Bachelors in English from John Neumann College at the age of 63. Now THAT’s my kinda man. What a great story! Thanks for sharing Christina. I couldn’t agree more.

My grandfather couldn’t afford to go to college after high school so he went into the army. After the army he got married / had seven children / worked for Chrysler / then worked for IBM until he retired. After all that, with his children grown and surrounded by umpteen grandchildren he said to himself, “Well I can finally afford to go to college.” And he did! He graduated with a Bachelors in English from John Neumann College at the age of 63.

]]> By: Christina http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15414 Christina Thu, 28 May 2009 20:46:15 +0000 http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15414 Good for your grandfather! If you ever need a book to read - you should pick up Frankie Manning's autobiography - amazing story of growing up in Harlem and creating a national dance. He would have turned 95 this past Monday - some 2000 dancers came from all over the world to celebrate his birthday in Manhattan and have a memorial for him. There's a beautiful NY Times article about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/nyregion/23lindy.html with links to his dancing. We in turn created this for him with some of his own choreography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTFh_Ty6YcE Good for your grandfather!

If you ever need a book to read - you should pick up Frankie Manning’s autobiography - amazing story of growing up in Harlem and creating a national dance.

He would have turned 95 this past Monday - some 2000 dancers came from all over the world to celebrate his birthday in Manhattan and have a memorial for him. There’s a beautiful NY Times article about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/nyregion/23lindy.html with links to his dancing.

We in turn created this for him with some of his own choreography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTFh_Ty6YcE

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15453 Stephanie Fri, 29 May 2009 10:33:34 +0000 http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15453 That makes me feel better about myself! Thanks for sharing. That makes me feel better about myself! Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Maggie http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15681 Maggie Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:38:04 +0000 http://www.letterlover.net/2009/05/28/success-knows-no-age/#comment-15681 Thank you for that reminder! Thank you for that reminder!

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