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Marking a half-century on the job

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Philadelphia Inquirer

For the last 50 years, Dominic Galante has worked in the registrar's office at La Salle. He started as an administrative assistant on Nov. 5, 1962. Now he is the registrar. He supervises a department of nine and is responsible for rostering classes and maintaining records for 6,600 students, plus alumni. In this time of layoffs, it can be a challenge for someone to keep a job for 50 weeks, let alone 50 years. "It is unusual," said Kate Nelson, a human resources instructor at Temple's Fox School of Business. "I think it is generational."