C4 Embracing the Second Half of Life: Journey into Leadership

Abstract

I first came to know Dr. Betty Sue Brewster as a student in 1992 when I took her language learning class.  As a mid–career student who had never done well in language classes, I was scared stiff about this required class—to learn a language from your community in five weeks??? You have to be kidding! But I dove in, wore the “spots” off my practice tapes trying to memorize the guiding questions in Mandarin and then trying it out on the local exercise class that met every morning in the neighborhood park. I survived the course and gained a friend.