I did my Ph.D. at USC under Vern L. Bengtson, Lamar Empey, and Alan Acock. One of the Andrus Center's faculty members, Ruth Weg, funded a membership in the GSA for all of the graduate students affiliated with the Andrus Center. That was in 1974. I have been a GSA member on and off (mostly on) since then. My early work was on sociological theory applied to older people. My first project, Socialization to Old Age, was funded by the Administration on Aging. It was a survey project and very quantitative. Since then, my work has been based on qualitative interviews. Two of these later projects were a study of U.S. Army generals who came on active duty as young officers during the Vietnam War and who remained in the Army through the 1990s. More recently, I have just completed interviewing a group of 61 older runners (aged 50-81) about their running and their motivation for their participation in this form of exercise.