Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2008/11

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] After Drucker
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:09:50 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Brash [mailto:brash@-----.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:52 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] After Drucker
>
> I don't have a reference in front of me - but I'm sure someone on the
> list has the details. My recollection is that mandatory retirement
> and age discrimination were abolished by law in the mid 1960s?
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Forest Aten wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I hope we realize there was a time when 65 *was* the mandatory
> >> retirement age for orchestral players in this country.
> >
> > Where do you come up with this stuff?
> >
> >
> >

Whew....good thing! We sure don't want to go back to "mandatory retirement
and age discrimination"......

Alexander...

Each orchestra have policies, committees and decide within the
organization...who stays and who leaves...and for what reasons.
You can vote with your ticket purchase/donation...or not....

Forest Aten

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