Wendy’s Advice

If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?

It would be wonderful to have the energy of youth and still have the wisdom gained by experience.

As you approach the later stages of your life and look back on it, what things were most important to you?

God, family and the fact of being a servant of God and to these near.

Grandma Kim’s Advice

“Listen to your parents so you don’t have to go through the difficult things that we already went through. Cherish everyday.” -Grandma Kim

Silvia’s Advice

If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?

I would teach children at a young age to RESPECT the elderly. Be polite to everyone but mainly be respectful. Talk to people at their level. Try to understand new trends so you can communicate with teens.

As you approach the later stages of your life and look back on it, what things were most important to you?

Family and values. What I was taught at a young are are the core of me.

Joan’s Advice

If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?

I have no regrets.

As you approach the later stages of your life and look back on it, what things were most important to you?

A secure and happy childhood in the 1920s, my first real job in my field of social work. I worked for 10 years with disturbed adolescent teenage boys in Michigain in a privately funded school. Also, a late in life marriage and the adoption of three children.

Bill’s Advice

If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?

My relationship with my mother and father, especially my mother.

As you approach the later stages of your life and look back on it, what things were most important to you?

In order of happening and not necessarily importance: Graduating from college, marriage to my present wife of 62 years, my promotion to oil field production foreman, moving to Bakersfield, CA as a petroleum engineer, employment with Kern County Land Co, foreign work in Ethiopia and the Netherlands, moving back to Bakersfield, CA.