Peggy Noonan | 06/30/2008 12:00 am

Peggy Noonan's Gauge of Age

In response to: At work, was there a time when you realized, not only were you not the youngest person in the room, but you were the oldest?

I haven’t had quite that moment. But I remember when an astronaut was finally younger than me, and it’s quite possible the next president will be younger than me, which has never happened before. They’ve always been older.

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Peggy, I was teaching ninth graders in Brunswick,Georgia in 1962 when John Glenn circled the earth three orbits. The students and I “heard” about Glenn’s fate over the intercom system during class. When Glenn traveled to outer space the second time during the ’90s, my students and I “watched” John Glenn make space history again. I really felt like a “senior citizen” after that day.

By Alice Pugh on 07/01/2008 11:07 am