Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Success comes with old age. Take it from these famous people

Success comes with old age. 
Take it from these famous people 
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - GS Lewis

Organized and compiled by Abe V Rotor


1. Michelangelo designed St. Peter's Cupola when he was 83 and remained active until he was 89. PHOTO

2. Benjamin Franklin was past 80 when he helped draft the constitution.

3. Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was in his 80's when he wrote some of his classic legal opinions and he served well into his 90's.

4. Artist Pablo Picasso as well as cellist Pablo Casals were active into their 90s.

5. Moses led his people from Egypt, and lived to a very ripe age. He became suddenly mature and old when he brought the 1
0 commandments from Sinai. 

Dr Fe del Mundo

6. Victor Fankl, after second world war, and released from the Nazi camp, founded logotherapy, and a book A Search for Meaning. in his old age.

7. Greek shipping magnate Onassis was already very old when he married the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy

8. Charles Darwin published his masterpiece in his old age, more than 20 years since he started his research. He was a late bloomer, did not pursue medicine but became a naturalist.

9. Tandang Sora is called with such respect because of her age coupled by high quality of leadership – trust and confidence.

10. Sister Mamerta Rocero SPC went back to school for her PhD in her sixties, became one of the few Filipino ethno botanists, died at the age 94.


11. Dr Fe del Mundo, past her 90s continued to inspire doctors and those in the health profession.



12. Dr. Dioscorro Umali until his death at the age of 73, was IRRI’s visiting scientist to China; he held the highest position as regional director of UN-FAO.

13. I am fortunate to have studied under these famous professors in their old age. It is indeed a rare honor and privilege.

• Dr. Deogracias Villadolid Stanford Fishery expert, introduced tilapia

   in the Philippines
• Dr. Nemesio Mendiola, Luther Burbank of the Philippines
• Dr. Gerardo Ocfemia, formost plant pathologist
• Dr. Velasquez, foremost Filipino phycologist
• Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing, author of the most popular reference 

   on medicinal plants.

 

• Prof. Leopoldo Karganilla, entomologist
• Prof. Emiliano Roldan, plant pathologist

• Dr. Juan Aquino, soil scientist
• Dr. Eugenio Cruz, agricultural engineer, invented the evaporator 
   air-con.
• Dr Rufino Gapuz, animal husbandry expert
• Dr. Francisco Fronda, father of the poultry industry of Thailand.
• Prof. Domingo Paguirigan, horticulturist
. Dr Salvador Araneta, President of Araneta University
. Dean Jose Adeva, Lyceum of the Philippines dean

14. Marlon Brando came back to the screen when he was in his seventies appeared as The Godfather and won a second academy award.

15. Spencer Tracy was the old man of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

16. Anthony Quinn was Zorba the Greek and appeared as the old man 
in Harry Potter series.

17. Oliver Cromwell retired on the farm, then fought for the rights of England in his old age, deposed the kind – but restored the monarchy after.

18. Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and looked at his characters as himself. – Fagin and Ebenezer Scrooge.

19. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow PHOTO became the most respected professor in Cambridge in his old age – yet experimented on new style of poetry. Translated Dante’s Divine Comedy , Song of Hiawatha (Finnish meter), Evangeline (hexameter only for Latin and Greek Iliad) died at 75 very old in his day’s standard

20. Ludwig Beethoven experimented on the Sonata – Moonlight Sonata
in his old age.

21. Handel wrote Alleluia when he was already old.

22. Wise Kings – King Solomon, King David; the Three Kings, pictured as old men in the promotion of Christianity among old people, and the rich and powerful – although they were not made saints.

23. Confucius and other ancient Chinese philosophers are pictured as old men - dignified, wise and humble.

24. Ronald Reagan PHOTO was the oldest US president when he was elected, and became one of the best contemporary presidents of America. 


25. Goethe, philosopher; Matisse, modern painter; Keats, poet; Mao Tse-tung (Photo), Chinese communist leader - these, and thousands of old people of their kind, make our world a wholesome and promising one. ~

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