In tracing the generational arc through my recent op-eds in these columns namely "Generation X" (February 28, 2025), "Gen X and Gen Z in Conversation" (March 18, 2025), "Generational Continuum" (March 31, 2025), "Millennial Journey" (April 22, 2025) and "Generation Beta: The Next Leap" (May 6, 2025) , I have explored the lives and futures of those who came after me. But in doing so, I have overlooked those who came before. The mentors, teachers and elders who not only taught us but often carried the weight of institutions on their shoulders. Many of them, in recent conversations, have reminded me with warmth, wit, and just a hint of reproach that their generation has yet to be acknowledged in my series. This is my humble attempt to correct that.

The generation I write about loosely spanning the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers, born between the 1930s and early 1960s, shaped the very soil from which we, their students and successors, have........

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