When Renate Chernoff was in her forties and her children were all in school, she decided to reinvent herself. The family was living in in Knoxville, Tenn., and Renate enrolled in a master’s program at the University of Tennessee.
When Marketa Ebert retired from her career as a clinical psychologist, her husband David bought her a camera with hopes it would inspire her to travel with him more frequently.
Robert Davis first discovered tennis as a high school student in Oklahoma. He was taking a biology class that he didn’t enjoy, so he dropped it and enrolled in a tennis class. He really liked the game, started playing after school with classmates, and went on to letter in tennis for two years.
After a stint as an accountant that left him feeling uninspired, Ed Gehres spent 35 years in ministry, both at a parish and as a regional administrator. In those roles, he learned firsthand that “volunteers are the lifeblood of an institution.”
