Bill Perry Retires

Bill Perry, The Objectivist Center's director of community relations, is retiring and returning to Arizona.

After a career as a prosecutor in Arizona, where his family lives, and after trips to our Summer Seminars, Bill retired not to a life of leisure but, rather, to Poughkeepsie, New York to work for us for a while. He started with us in March 2004 and when the Center moved to D.C., Bill agreed to serve another year before really retiring.

He has been a great help in the transition and in creating a well-organized system for fundraising and keeping in touch with our members. For example, Bill produced the Logbooks that are sent out ten times a year and organized the sponsors' dinner at the Summer Seminars. He even found time to do a fine seminar talk in 2005 on Ortega y Gasset, the Spanish philosopher on whom Ayn Rand in part modeled Dr. Hugh Akston in Atlas Shrugged.

He has bought a home near Tucson and late this week will be trekking by car across the country. After a year in Washington, D.C., the belly of the beast, Bill wants to re-connect with the real world. You still might be able to catch him at meetings of the Arizona Objectivists, which he helped found.

We thank Bill Perry for all he's done for us and wish him the best!