Senior Magazine

You hear his voice most weeknights calmly reporting events or describing issues in the day’s news. Perhaps you watched him moderate the presidential debates. Maybe you’re among those who have been listening to him from the very earliest days in 1975 when he joined PBS’s The Robert MacNeil Report as the Washington correspondent, or the following year as the program expanded, renamed The MacNeil-Lehrer Report and went national. In 1983 it became the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, eventually changing its name once more during 1995-96 season when Robert MacNeil retired. Since then that calm visage and voice are seen and heard on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer televised by PBS stations everywhere. Today Jim’s official title is Executive Editor and Anchor.

She sings. She dances. Of course, she’s an accomplished actress and performer, truly an all-around entertainer. But Florence Henderson also skypes, and e-mails messages and photographs to family and friends, and surfs the net. Florence is very much a testament to the wisdom of remaining engaged and active—mentally and physically—for she too is “one of us”.

For Tommy Lee Jones, his induction into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in January 2009 was huge. “This might be the first time that I’ve taken an award personally,” Jones remarked to those assembled at the induction ceremony.

Volumes have been written about him—and he’s written volumes himself—27 at last count with his 28th, Embrace the Struggle, just released in October. Along the way he’s helped so many others clarify their thinking about themselves, in matters related to both business and personal life.

“There’s only one place, first place,” say Al and Bobby Unser, two brothers who are just as incredible off the racetrack as their legendary days on it.

Although each rode and mastered quite different types of steeds, it can truly be said that the lives of brothers Darrell and Buster Welch have—and continue to be—undeniably the stuff of legend.

Their words, “Age is just a number,” truly describe the adventurous spirit and outlook of Barry and Fran Lazarus. Prior to relocating to Summit County, Colorado, Barry and Fran lived an active, involved life on the east coast in West Hartford, Connecticut.