Normally, retirement would not make news headlines, but Bob Vollmer’s story is anything to normal. Bob punched out yesterday for the last time as an employee of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources after 57-years. The 102-year-old Vollmer started with the agency as a project engineer in 1963. In fact, he’s actually older than the organization itself. The DNR turns 101 this year. When asked what he planned to do, the World War II veteran responded, “I don’t have a reverse gear in my transmission. You don’t want to quit. When you do, you’re confined to the rocking chair, and that’s where you die. When I go down, I want to go down swinging.”
