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Article: REST NOT ON EATON'S BUSY RETIREMENT AGENDA.
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
- Article date:
- September 20, 1999
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Henry Eaton isn't planning to twiddle his thumbs after retiring as chairman of Dix & Eaton Inc., the Cleveland-based public relations firm he co-founded 48 years ago.
Like so many retirees, Mr. Eaton will be taking on a few other jobs upon leaving the firm at the end of December. Mr. Eaton, 73, simply can't imagine sitting still.
``It's terribly important for me to stay busy," he said. "And I want to be challenged."
Understandably so.
Mr. Eaton spent nearly five decades steering the growth of Dix & Eaton into the largest PR firm between New York City and Chicago. About four years ago, he started relinquishing responsibilities to ...