Jefferson Award nominee stays busy in retirement, helps others socialize

Dick King's date book is full.

"I've been retired for 15 years and it doesn't even seem like I retired," King said. "I'm so busy."

The Mount Pleasant retiree arranges Wednesday meetings for others just like him, inviting speakers to attend monthly groups for at least the last decade. King calls on area leaders and other interesting people to speak at Mount Pleasant Men's Coffee Club at Alhambra Hall every fourth Wednesday of the month and also at the Christ Our King Senior Center on the second Wednesday.

On the third Wednesday, he meets in the Mount Pleasant Regional Library to discuss books with others in King's Book Club.

Phil Siegrist, who sends out monthly invitations for the Alhambra Hall men's coffee, said he and others benefit from the camaraderie they find in the social groups.

"It's called get out of the house," Siegrist said. "Very few things are 100 percent positive; this is one of them."

King, Siegrist and two other men created the men's coffee group about 10 years ago, but King has always organized the meetings.

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