{"id":4465,"date":"2015-03-28T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2015-03-28T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T22:44:13","slug":"kerrys-new-york-times-column-rotary-and-peace-corps-find-relevance-with-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Kerry’s New York Times Column: Rotary and Peace Corps Find Relevance With Retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-new-york-times<\/a>THREE years ago, Douglas Crumley sold his financial planning practice in Fair Oaks, Calif., and he and his wife, Ann, left the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intention was to live in Ecuador and travel through South America doing the retirement thing,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, I became absolutely bored. I don\u2019t speak Spanish well enough to assimilate and walking up and down the beaches seemed unproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n

So seven months after setting up stakes abroad, Mr. Crumley, now 69, and his wife, Ann, 53, moved back to the United States and settled in Tampa, Fla. She headed into the work force selling residential real estate, but Mr. Crumley was not certain what to do with himself.<\/p>\n

At his wife\u2019s suggestion, he joined a nearby Rotary Cub. \u201c\u00a0\u2018It will make you feel like you\u2019re doing more than taking up space,\u2019 she told me,\u201d Mr. Crumley said.<\/p>\n