How to become Geriactive! (And not Geriatric.)


What our alumni are doing—starting young—to ensure that they go from very active to geriactive


By Jane Johnson Vottero G’10, Publications Director


Downhill skis. Cross-Country skis. kayak. PaDDles. Golf Clubs. snowshoes. tennis raCket. shuttleCoCk anD baDminton raCket. snorkel anD fliPPers. biCyCle. tent. iCe skates. sounD like the Contents of your neiGhbor’s GaraGe? not at all. These are just a few of the toys owned by retired field hockey coach and Distin- guished Springfield Professor of Humanics Dottie Potter Zenaty ’65. Zenaty and a growing majority of Springfield College alumni “of a certain age” are as active as they ever were—reminding us of the signifi- cance of living life as a whole person, in spirit, mind, and body. In a society that reveres youth and beauty and


fitness, Springfield College folks are doing what it takes to retain all the vigor and vitality that set them apart from the general population when they were in their teens and twenties. A seemingly difficult topic to discuss in an ageist society such as ours, but the alum- ni we interviewed are living proof that age represents one thing and one thing only: chronology. Springfield College offers numerous programs in


the health sciences and, while many of our students are studying the ways in which to prolong life, many of our alumni are already busy doing the very thing for which our students work and hope: enjoying healthy living long after their twenties and thirties, and well in to their fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties. Yes, nineties.


On Not Sailing into the Sunset


David Ward ’38 was born in 1915 as World War I raged and the transcontinental (New York to San Francisco) telephone service was inaugurated. Fast forward to 2007, when Ward was a triple gold medal- ist in cycling at the Louisville, Ky., Senior Olympics at


Mark Chrusz (back) with running partner Dennis Crandall 8 TRIANGLE 1 Vol . 82, No. 1


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