Group Launches Annual
Search
For 'America's Oldest Worker'
Spectrum staff
Experience Works, a non-profit organization which specializes in helping seniors
train for and find new jobs, has launched its annual search for "America's
Oldest Worker."
To be considered for the honor, applicants must work a minimum of 20 hours a
week in paid employment. Applicants or the person nominating them must submit
an application by June 2. The worker with the earliest birth date who meets
the criteria will be honored as America's Oldest Worker.
"The Experience Works Prime Time Awards is a year-long effort to honor
mature workers as outstanding role models for a nation whose workforce is rapidly
aging and whose businesses are facing a shortage of skilled, reliable employees,"
Experience Works president Andrea J. Wooten said. "Older workers exemplify
the positive work ethic, experience, loyalty, and dependability necessary for
the long-term health and vitality of our nation, and they are the fastest growing
population in the United States."
For a nomination form, go to the organization's Web site at www.experienceworks.org.
To receive a nomination form by mail, send a post card or note to Prime Time
Awards, Experience Works, 2200 Clarendon Blvd. Suite 1000, Arlington, VA 22201,
or call toll free, 1-800-901-7965. Workers may enter themselves or can be nominated
by an employer, family, or friends.
The winner of the 2003 title will be announced in Washington, D.C, in late September.
Fifty-two other outstanding older workers from every state, the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico, and top employers of senior workers also will be recognized
at the awards ceremony.
Dr. Ray H. Crist, a 102-year-old professor of environmental science at Messiah
College, was named the 2002 America's Oldest Worker. Crist is believed to be
the oldest, full-time working chemist in the country.
All of the past America's Oldest Worker award winners have been over 100 years
old and working almost full-time at their professions. They include a 100-year-old
architect, a 102-year-old mechanical engineer, a 100-year-old doctor and a 102-year-old
manufacturer."
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