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\←L\-R\/'7;\+R\→.May 29 1977

Mr. H. John Geisler
Milewood Road
Verbank, New York  12585

Dear John:

So you are retiring?  It is quite impossible for me to think that you have reached
that age.  You must be retiring early.  In any event I can not let this opportunity
go by without wishing you well.

Complete retirement is a bad thing unless dictated by health considerations, in my
opinion, and it should be abolished.  In my case, retirement simply meant going from
one job to another, with a refreshing change in environment.  I hope that you are
able to keep active in some way, perhaps with somewhat less presure than at IBM but
still with something worth doing.

I continue to work full time at Stanford, although I have begun to be very choosy
about the number and type of consulting jobs that I will accept.  I spend a lot of
time programming and I even have a display terminal in my study at home.

Bernice and I continue in good health.  We moved into a retirement home, or really
community, a couple of years ago where I have less home maintenence to do and where
Bernice does not have to cook, but otherwise our lives continue much the same.  I
highly recommend this sort of living.

The Sequoias, where we are, is a rather unusual place, and I am actually closer to
my office than I was when I had a home on the Stanford campus.  Some 325 people live
in their own apartments in one storied buildings scattered around on a campus-like
plot of land with a central dining room.  We get complete medical care with our own
hospital on the grounds.  We have a wood-working shop, an electronics shop, ceramics
and lapidary shops etc. as well as bowling-on-the-green , shuffle board, and croquet
grounds.  About the only thing we lack is a swimming pool.  Actually it is a very
busy place, with many things going on all the time.  We are more active socially
than we have ever been before.

So here's to a highly successful retirement for you and yours.

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Sincerely,



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p.s. This letter was done on the computer, letter head and all.  It is so much easier
to make corrections that I practically never use my IBM typewriter any more.  ALS