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choosing corporate...

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choosing corporate....     I was in law school for one year when I was offered a full-time job with Brown and Williamson Tobacco  in 1975, Sherry Spence said.     Brown and Williamson Tobacco is a subsidiary of British American Tobacco Company and is located in Louisville, Kentucky.   HUH?  What's up with that?   Sherry is now retired, but she has a couple  Encore Performances going on in her life.  She works a couple days a week as a Human Resources Director for a family-owned business in Louisville and she  spends a lot of time with her grandchildren.     Let's start with your college days.  Where did you go and when did you graduate?   I went to UK (University of Kentucky) for two years, then transferred to U of L (University of Louisville) and graduated in '73,  she said.   I went to U of L Law School for one year.     You sandwiched in a short teaching career after graduating colleg...

encore performances #6...

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  encore performances #6...    This is the sixth post featuring special  People Over Sixty (POS) who have retired and make an effort to keep relevant by finding activities and exercise that suits their personalities, needs, and capabilities.   Most of us find being older to be challenging in different ways than life presented at a younger time.  Chief among those changes are health issues that seem to crop up out of nowhere.  There doesn't seem to be a handbook or other guide at Barnes and Noble  or anywhere else on growing old gracefully.  It's an individual effort, but many seem to share the same discomforts and they are as common as losing one's car keys.  Still, the joys life brings are many and looking to the future and being a functional part of society can and should be exciting.        Day to day life unfolds and is presented in such a manner that we never know what tomorrow will bring each of us no matter our...