Ten Chicagoans master the art of growing older

The men and women featured in these interviews are lifelong Chicagoans in two significant ways. They are alumni of the University, and they have spent most of their 90--plus years living and working in the city of Chicago. Approaching their own century marks, they sat down with the Magazine to talk about what has mattered most.

Alexander Coutts, 95	Leon Despres, 91, and Marian Alschuler Despres, 90	Catherine L. Dobson, 91
Hortense Friedman, 98	Ferdinand Kramer, 98	Madeline Stratton Morris, 93
Wallace Rusterholtz, 90	Helen Palmer Sonderby, 94, and Max E. Sonderby, 90