The Diversity Council would like celebrate Seniors during the month of August.

Here are some interesting facts about Senior accomplishments:

On the day of his death, at the age of 78, Galileo was said to be planning a new kind of clock that would tell time—in minutes and seconds, not just hours—using a pendulum swing instead of movement of water or sand.

Sir Isaac Newton, better known for his scientific achievements, became a scourge of counterfeiters as the Warden of the Royal Mint, a position he held until his death in his mid 80s.

Benjamin Franklin only retired from public service when he was 82.

Susan B. Anthony was past 80 when she formed the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

Alexander Graham Bell was 75 when he received a patent for his work on a hydrofoil boat.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was reading Plato in Greek when he was 92.

George Bernard Shaw was working on his last play, Why She Would Not, when he was 94.

Grandma Moses received her last commission as an artist when she was 99.