Join us for dinner and guest Dr. Tom Cole, “What is a Good Old Age for Men? Notes from the Field".

No matter our age, we can learn a lot from those who have gone before us. This talk will discuss the lessons learned in Tom Cole’s book, Old Man Country: My Search for Meaning among the Elders. The book is based on Cole’s conversations with 12 accomplished and famous men in their 80s and above, and includes sections on Tom’s own experience of growing up and growing older.  The talk will revolve around and ask the audience to think about four questions:  “Am I Still a Man?” “Do I Still Matter?” “What is the Meaning of My Life?” and “Am I Still Loved?” 

Find out more or register for the 2021-22 100 Jewish Men Program.  Program price includes 8 speakers with the option of joining for a pre-speaker meal.

More about our December speaker:

Thomas R. Cole is the McGovern Chair and Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. His work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and PBS. Cole has served as an advisor to the President's Council on Bioethics and the United Nations NGO Committee on Ageing. His book The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is Senior Editor of The Oxford Book of Aging, which the New Yorker cited as one of the most memorable books of the year. Cole's book No Color Is My Kind: the Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston (1997) was adapted into the film, The Strange Demise of Jim Crow, which was broadcast nationally on over 60 PBS stations. In 2007, he co-produced Stroke: Conversations and Explanations, a prize-winning film about the invisible world of stroke survivors.