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Powerball winners, consider volunteering
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Jun. 28, 2012 12:19 pm
About the 11 Quaker Powerball jackpot winners who plan to quit their jobs: I hope they will become volunteers.
After I retired from teaching 39 years, I spent nine years as a volunteer teaching in Africa and Papua New Guinea. I had a wonderful time, and my work benefitted by my students and myself.
Second, I hope one of your reporters will investigate and report the effect of sudden wealth on lottery winners. I remember a study that found slightly more than half of the winners were not as happy as they had been before sudden wealth.
Theodore C. Stewart
Washington
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