I received a call last week from a gal who lives here in my retirement community. I used to sing with her in an ensemble that entertained annually in our community “Follies,” an amateur talent show I helped to initiate seventeen years ago. As singers, we weren’t that great, but we had a wonderful time together and were welcome entertainers at local church dinners and nursing homes.
In the September/October issue of the Purdue Alumnus magazine, I read a profile of Emily Smith, a Purdue graduate who is Chief of Staff for Family Planning 2020, a global partnership hosted by the United Nations. This group supports the rights of women around the world to decide for themselves whether, when, and how many children they want to have.
Ms. Smith is the product of a family with long associations with Purdue University, which happens to be the school…..
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