And on this early day, Edgar Martinez was a wise senior presence to a player who had bounced from three teams back to Seattle.
"What they have all got is experienced, wise, senior managers who stay close to their frontline, are fired up by professional values and confidence, and create the context and culture to do good social work.
When I think of mentors, I picture wise, senior colleagues providing sage career advice.
Hector Elizondo plays Marty Constable, an older, wiser senior partner in tonight's new CBS series "Century City," a legal drama set in the not-so-distant future; he alone seems immune to the vanity that drives most of his ilk to age-reversing specialists and plastic surgeons.
From inexperienced graduate students and struggling postdocs to exultant new faculty members and worldly-wise senior investigators, competing for grants occurs at all stages of academic research careers.
According to Zeitz, "Roosevelt's accidental ascendance to the presidency made John Hay an essential anachronism ... the wise elder statesman and senior member of the cabinet, he was indispensable to TR, who even today remains the youngest president ever".
WISE involves seniors' doing an internship or taking part in a project for some of their senior year.
Irvin M. Wise, the senior rabbi at Adath Israel, was asked about his former student Wednesday and responded in an e-mail: "As you can imagine, he is quite the 'man' in Cincinnati in general and especially in our Jewish community".
"There was a growing sense that making Olson our first big stand was not a wise move," one senior Democratic staff aide said.
There was every prospect of the current wise and experienced senior managers breaking out of the city's cycle of disruption.
