Life of a Band Piper By Al Tholen, Park View

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1 April 2011 Volume 18 Number 3 A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE Residets, Associates, Families & Frieds Life of a Bad Piper By Al Thole, Park View This Moth i the Gallery Sweet souds the Gaelic bagpipe O er the moutai, gle, ad glade, But the sweetest of all music Are the pipes at Park View played. Variatio from Joh Greeleaf Whittier O the eveig of March 16th, Park View s Jim Voldal delighted a capacity audiece with his reditio of Tues of Glory. Followig a 35 year career with IBM, Jim decided that he wated to apply himself to somethig other tha golf. Lookig to the past, Jim recalled a pleasat memory of playig clariet i a bad i Glasgow, Motaa. It so happeed that the members of this bad wore kilts. Thus, i about 1992, the idea of learig to play the bagpipes itrigued him. He foud a teacher who, otig Jim s advaced years, was reluctat to take him o. But he did, ad Jim pluged i masterig this uusual istrumet. After several moths, he was advaced eough to feel secure i buyig his ow bagpipes. With a cofidece i his ewfoud The Rosborough Cultural Arts ad Welless Ceter is home to a ever-chagig gallery of arts ad hadiwork created by our residets. Stop by ad see what s ew. With 12 display cases to look at, there s somethig for everyoe to ejoy. Here s this moth s samplig of art. Photo: Tom McIlrath Cotiued o page 17 Asbury Methodist Village Celebrates 85 years Strog By Alma Stewart, Diamod SAVE THE DATE! Friday, May 6 from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. is Asbury Guild Day, a part of our 85 th Aiversary Celebratio. We are all ivited to be guests of Asbury Village at the cook-out. There will be hot dogs ad hamburgers, ad all the delicious fixigs to go with them served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. I the morig, Jim Voldal s bagpipes will call us to the wide gree law of the Admiistratio Buildig. There we will fid a umber of booths ad activities to keep us busy ad etertaied. The Bargai Mart will have a promiet 85 Years Strog display. Ladies from the Williamsburg Clothes Closet will also be o had. The Garde Club is sposorig a table ad hopes to sell daffodils ad early sprig vegetables ad potted plats it all depeds o the weather util the. There will be a bake sale, too, ad you may brig oe of your favorites to sell, as well as fid a treat you would like to take home. Ad be sure to stop at the Asbury Guild table to get the latest iformatio about the Guild. May chages have occurred i the last 85 years. The cetral part of the Admiistratio Buildig was built i 1926 as the Asbury Home. Epworth Hall was built beside it i 1928, ad it will be ope all day. Geevieve Steele will show you the historical exhibit, ad tell you a bit about our early days. A old-fashioed trolley car will take you o a historical tour of the campus. Keith Steele will be your guide ad tell you the history of Cotiued o page 8 Joh Eberhard, Park View Pe ad ik, watercolor, model buildig Do Aderso, Park View Ship Model buildig

2 Dear Editor, I am overwhelmed today by the hoest gesture of oe of the electrical serviceme who was workig i our foyer today. I had goe to pick up my mail, foud two magazies I did ot wat, ad threw them i the trash ca. Later that day I received a call from the receptioist at our desk, sayig I had a importat piece of mail which oe of the electrical me had foud o the floor i the mailroom. It was my large Letter to the Editor tax refud check from the U.S. govermet! I do ot kow the youg ma s ame but I am overcome with thaks for his kidess i turig my check i. Aother idicatio of the woderful associates we have workig at Asbury. Eleaor Cuigham, Edwards-Fisher Editor s ote: A little ivestigative reportig revealed that it was Vito Bellafiore who did the good deed! Ivitatio To Photographers To Submit Etries For Possible Iclusio I The Asbury Wildlife Habitat Project s 2012 Wildlife Caledar Ad Note Cards, A New Fud-Raisig Effort DETAILS for Note Card Submissios: Submissio Date: Ogoig util Jue 30, To: Maroly Hatch, Villa 596 Subject Matter: AMV residet-geerated art i ay form (Ex. quilts, paitigs, sculpture, pottery, etc.) Subject should be suitable for pritig o 5 X 7 stock, vertical or horizotal, color or black ad white. Submissio Format: Submit a 4 X 6 photo of the etire work or a iterestig elemet of the work with your ame, address ad phoe umber o the back. (Copies ca be made at veues such as CVS, CostCo or Sam s Club.) No photos will be retured. Oly etrats of selected works will be otified ad asked to submit their photo(s) electroically. Support is available from the Smithy Computer Ceter i Rosborough. Selected etries will be credited to the artist, but there will be o compesatio for the use of the material. Material will be used oly for the ote cards. DETAILS for Caledar Submissios: Submissio Date: Ogoig util July 30, 2011 To: Maroly Hatch, Villa 596 Russell Ave., Gaithersburg, MD Subject Matter: AMV flora, faua, habitat ad campus. Subject should be suitable for up to 8 1/2 X 11 horizotal display. Subject focus does ot have to be horizotal, but should at least have iterestig backgroud detail suitable for horizotal display. Photographers should have some coectio with Asbury Methodist Village (Ex. residets, relatives, Associates, AMV visitors, Gaithersburg Camera Club.) Submissio Format: Submit a 4 X 6 photo with your ame, address ad phoe umber o the back. (Copies ca be made at veues such as CVS, CostCo or Sam s Club.) No photos will be retured. Oly etrats of selected photos will be otified ad asked to submit their photo(s) electroically. Support is available from the Smithy Computer Ceter i Rosborough. Selected etries will be credited to the artist, but there will be o compesatio for the use of the material. Material will be used oly for the caledar uless additioal permissio is obtaied from the photographer. Profits from these two projects will go to the Beevolet Care Fud ad the Asbury Wildlife Habitat Project. VILLAGE LIFE Editor Lida Williams Aber Director of Commuicatios Asbury Methodist Village 201 Russell Aveue Gaithersburg, MD laber@asbury.org Geeral iformatio: Residet Editors Rod Mills, Mud, Reporter ad Copy Editor Marily Gaut, Trott Norma Barr, Diamod Bob Berero, Wallace Gladys Sillcox, Edwards-Fisher Al Thole, Park View Help Wated, Kidley Residet Staff Wallace: Keith Steele ad Mary Waldro. Diamod: Harry Lowery, Alma Stewart Mac McCullough, Edith Isacke, ad Ja Garma. Edwards-Fisher: Joa Dulop, Rosemary Pasek, Luella LeVee. Ad may the March wids blow a kiss to Betty Goe i Florida! Mud: Gil Syder, Jack Briley, Ae Porter ad Jim Porter Trott: Jeae North, Hal Gaut, Joa Brubaker, Dr. Bob Hartma ad Marjorie Brugger Park View: Duae McKea, Aita Taylor, Joh Eberhard ad Tom McIlrath. Villas: Reg Westlake, Carol Deis, Mary Astead, Da Muller, Jea Hubbell ad Maroly Hatch Desig/Layout: Mia Electroic Ik Pritig: Chesapeake Publishig Corp. AMV 16 TH RESIDENTS ORIGINAL ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW April 29 - May 31 Hefer Auditorium WHAT ARE YOU ENTERING THIS YEAR? This is YOUR show, ad we eed your cotributios. If you pait, make collages, are ito photography, eedlework, quiltig, crochet or kittig; if you make pottery, woodwork, models, jewelry, or somethig else, please led us your work for the moth of May. WORK FOR THE SHOW IS NOT JUDGED; everyoe s etry will be welcomed. The work does ot have to be recet, but must be READY for hagig or displayig. The APPLICATION FORMS ad directios have already bee placed i residet boxes. Please mail applicatios to Carol Watkis, Diamod #1004, o later tha March 31st. Agai this year we are hoorig all the cotributig artists at the OPENING DAY CEREMONY, 1:30 p.m., APRIL 29 th AT THE UPPER CIRCLE IN HEFNER. Joi us for a opportuity to meet the artists ad crafters ad view their work. David Deto will speak, ad REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED. The missio of Village Life is to provide timely, iterestig ad etertaiig ews about the lives, cocers ad activities of the people who reside, work ad voluteer at Asbury Methodist Village. Village Life is published by Asbury Methodist Village Commuicatios Departmet 2 March 2011 Village Life

3 Take 10 By Mac McCullough,Diamod The BlackRock Ceter for the Arts moolith. By Jaet Garma, Diamod Photo: Hal Garma Arts For Life Ad Livig Ope House Sprig is the seaso of ew life, a chace to step out of the dull routies of witer ad to ope ourselves to ew possibilities ad to try ew thigs. How would you like the opportuity to step ito the spotlight as you sig, dace ad stage classic sogs from the golde age of Broadway, sogs from such shows as Oklahoma, South Pacific, Kiss Me Kate or My Fair Lady? Maybe you would rather participate i creative movemet ad storytellig exercises at your ow level. Or how about creatig iterestig characters through improvisatioal games from such plays as Steel Magolias, I Remember Mama or Lost i Yokers? You could also try your had at wet-ito-wet watercolor paitig, a method that ofte produces surprisig results for both seasoed ad ovice paiters. These workshops will be offered to Asbury Residets as part of a excitig ope house at the BlackRock Ceter for the Arts i Germatow o Wedesday, April 13 from 10 AM to 2 PM. Asbury will ru a bus to the evet ad for $10 you will be provided with luch ad a samplig of what BlackRock has to offer. Besides the workshops that day, Asbury Residets will be treated to a performace by the Clacy- Works Dace Compay, a esemble of performig artists ad oe of Motgomery Couty s most dyamic youth arts orgaizatios. The Washigto Post has described the Compay s fouder, Adriee Clacy as a wizard of ivetio, ad her choreography as a tour de force of upredictable parterig. Betwee the workshops, participats ca ejoy a catered luch while viewig stuig photography featured i the beautiful Black- Rock Gallery. The artists will be o had to give a gallery talk about their work. The ope house provides a chace to itroduce Asbury residets ad other seiors i the commuity to the beautiful BlackRock Ceter for the Arts i Germatow ad all that it offers. As readers may recall from a article i the Jauary/February issue of Village Life, BlackRock is oe of the ceters Asbury is parterig with as part of its missio to reach out ito the greater commuity as well as to provide ehaced opportuities for AMV residets to participate i the arts. Asbury s Director of Commuicatios, Lida Aber, alog with AMV residets, Margot Dibble, Natalie O Reilly ad Heddy Taima cotiue to serve o a task force with BlackRock. Watch your mailbox for more details. I the meatime, save the date of April 13. There are 1,440 miutes i each day. Let s say we sleep 8 hours. That still leaves us 16 hours, or 960 miutes of wakig time. Are t you willig to take 10 of those miutes, or just about 1%, of them to keep you iformed about what is happeig at Asbury? What I hear all the time is I did t kow that activity was goig to happe last ight, or Why did t someoe tell me about that meetig I wated to atted? There is a simple solutio to these problems - Take 10. That s the average legth of time it takes to look at the AVTV Scroll o Chaels 95, 950 or 955, depedig o your set. But every time I tur it o there s some kid of travelogue or documetary or a lecture about health. That may be true but there are ways to avoid that: Tur o your TV betwee 4:00 ad 6:00 PM ay day ad you ll oly get the scroll. After doig your stretchig exercises at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 AM or at 6:30 PM, leave the TV o ad you will get a uiterrupted scroll. Or, if you have low visio or you re busy doig somethig else, tur it o at 10 AM or 12:30 PM ad you ca have the scroll read to you whe they do a voice over. But there is a lot of stuff o the scroll that I m ot iterested i. Yes, but what about the other stuff: A otice of a meetig you wated to atted, but either forgot or were t available. A example of this would be the Tow Hall meetig held at Rosborough to explai about the three houses to be built behid the Admiistratio Buildig as a demostratio of what could be doe for Alzheimer s patiets. A musical offerig such as Norm Heim puts o or Shememe Williams arrages. A Keese School lecture that you had siged up for but had forgotte. Meus to help you decide whether you wat to go to luch or dier. I kow that we are bombarded with iformatio. Bulleti Board, posters, our mail boxes, ad aoucemets made i the diig rooms, but oe is as comprehesive as the scroll. Everyoe does ot have a computer, but almost everyoe ows a TV. I thik of Asbury as a huge cruise ship with lots goig o. I do t wat to miss aythig. The scroll aswers my eed. Do yourself a favor, Take 10 ad give the scroll a chace to make your life at Asbury easier ad more ejoyable. What do you have to lose? Overheard.at a Mud sig-alog ot log ago, sog leader Ruthie Swai told the followig: A lady wet to her first-ever exercise class, ad whe she got back she told her fried about it. She said, I wet there ad I stretched ad pulled ad twisted ad shimmied ad shook. But by the time I got my leotards o the class was over! Village Life March

4 Flash! Great New Bus to BWI By Bob McDoough,, Trott O March 1, a ew bus route opeed (with ew buses), from Gaithersburg to Baltimore airport (BWI)! It s MTA Route 201, ad it rus from a free Park ad Ride lot ear Asbury, express to the Southwest Airlies sectio of BWI. The ruig time is a bit over oe hour, ad the cost is $3.20 (cash oly) for us seiors. (I cotrast, parkig at BWI is $8 per day. A taxi is over $100, plus tip.) Details: The bus starts from the Park ad Ride lot o Quice Orchard Road, ear the Diamod Square shoppig ceter. The lot has over 500 spaces, ad it s free. To get there, drive west o Motgomery Village Ave., which becomes Quice Orchard as you cross Frederick Road. Go uder the Route 270 freeway, ad tur left at the first light. You re there. The route uses the ew Iter- Couty Coector road as far as it goes. The some local roads util pickig up Route 29 at Burtosville, ad thece via freeways to BWI. The oly stops are at Shady Grove Metro, ad the Norbeck ad Burtosville Park ad Ride lots. There are two stops at BWI: Oe at the Southwest termial lower level, ad the other at the iteratioal termial. (The route cotiues to the BWI Amtrak/MARC trai statio. The iteratioal termial also allows easy trasfer to the Baltimore trolley ito tow.) The schedule is: Leave Gaithersburg every hour o the hour from 4 AM to 5 PM. Leave Southwest termial every hour at five miutes past the hour, from 9 AM to 10 PM. The bus is good equipmet of the Eyre type. Restroom i the back, (small) luggage racks, ad lots of room dow below for baggage. Curret problems: The parkig lot o Quice Orchard has a posted limit of 48 hours. That does t work if you re goig to BWI to fly somewhere. (Which is presumably the poit of the whole thig.) However, our driver believed that will chage. I m curretly tryig to get a update of that situatio from MTA. The Quice Orchard lot is t particularly easy to get to uless you drive ad leave your car there. Taxi fare is aroud $8. Two RideO buses (Routes 56 ad 61) go there from Lakeforest, with frequet service. But their stop o Quice Orchard is a block or so from the parkig lot. A better route, if you do t use your car, is to take the RideO 55 bus from Lakeforest (across from our gate house) to Shady Grove Metro. (Seior fare 75 cets, free 9:30-3:00 weekdays, bus leaves every 15 miutes.) The BWI bus leaves Shady Grove hourly from 4:08 AM util 5:08 PM. The bus leaves from the side of the Metro statio which is opposite to the side at which the 55 bus leaves you off. (That s the side with the big parkig garages.) The stop is the shelter farthest from the Metro etrace. Comig back from BWI, tell the driver you re goig to Shady Grove. If we use the service eough, the MTA might exted the route to the Lakeforest depot. I m lookig ito that possibility. NOTE: To use the seior fare o the BWI bus, you may be asked to show oe of: A valid MTA Seior photo ID card Ay valid govermet issued photo ID showig date of birth (age 65+) A Medicare card ad ay valid govermet issued photo ID. What s special about BWI: Aside from beig a large airport with lots of service, BWI is a cetral poit for Southwest Airlies. Southwest offers seior fares at about 30% discout from their full coach fares. The seior fare, like the full coach fare, is fully chageable ad refudable, without pealty fees. To qualify, you must register by cotactig Southwest ad sedig them proof of age. (Sixty-five ad up.) However, it s worth otig that BWI has very limited iteratioal service. For that, we still eed Dulles. Foudatio Campaig Is A Success Exceeds $5 Millio Goal By Sadra Pollack, Director of Developmet The For Love of Neighbor Beevolet Care Edowmet Campaig exceeded its goal with more tha $5,000,000 i commitmets. I late March, with a remaiig $37,000 left to go i the campaig, the Foudatio received a writte commitmet from a AMV couple who wated to put the campaig over the top. Tough ecoomic times combied with loger life spas ad higher costs of health care mea more people may outlive their resources. Asbury Methodist Village eeded to stregthe the Edowmet to help fud future Beevolet Care eeds for our residets who have outlived their resources. The Edowmet Campaig was lauched i 2008 ad after the lauch all sigs i the ecoomy were egative. I fact, the Dow Joes Idustrial Average sak as low as Therefore, the eed to grow the Edowmet for Asbury Methodist Village was more urget tha ever. So while may charities put off campaigs, Campaig leaders at AMV moved forward. Followig a quiet phase where Board members ad close frieds pledged their advace support, the campaig was publicly lauched i 2009 o Valetie s Day. What better way to express love tha to help a eighbor i eed? The success of this campaig, uder the leadership of Campaig Co-chairs Nick Sereyi ad Lee Bachrach ad more tha 20 voluteer leaders, was made possible because of early 400 doors who made gifts to the Edowmet to esure the future of the Beevolet Care program at Asbury Methodist Village. Asbury Foudatio is eterally grateful to our voluteer leaders ad doors who dedicated their eergy ad fiacial support to the success of the campaig, said Doug Myers, Presidet ad CEO, Asbury Foudatio. A lot of good people worked hard to make this campaig a success, our thaks ad admiratio to each ad every oe of them. 4 March 2011 Village Life

5 By Luella LeVee, Edwards-Fisher I additio to the friedly spirits of Asbury residets ad associates, there are plety of other thigs to cause us to smile these days. Oe of the reasos to smile is the delightful reovatio of the Hefer Diig Room. Whe Bobbie Carr, Diamod, ivited me to luch there recetly, I was impressed to view the vibrat richess of the room ad its furishigs. The red ad gold i the carpetig is carried out i gold walls, red ad gold draperies, ad gold polyurethae o the stylish ew chairs. The red was chose because it ehaces the appetite, commeted Austi Bowe, Hefer Diig Room Maager. Austi, the charmig youg ma who bega his Asbury career i 2001 as a server, expressed his satisfactio that the work was all doe i a three-four moth period while the diig room remaied ope for service. He gives all credit to a committee of drivers made up of residets ad associates. * * * * Virgiia Wright, Mud, poited me to aother smile-iducer the display called Wit ad Whimsy ad Pus i the breakfrot i the Mud Lobby. It is the braichild of Ruthie Swai, Mud, who decided, I the witer, we eed somethig ew to smile about. With the aid of her committee (Betty Nigro ad Jue Wright), Ruthie set the word aroud about what they were doig, the bega to collect uusual dolls ad stuffed aimals to carry out a weddig, beauty pageat ad ie other themes. The display, represetig 24 Muderful cotributors, will remai util the middle of April. * * * * Aother tip of the hat goes to the Mud team of Cathie Heim ad Ruthie Swai who produced the recet Mud ad Kidley sigalog, The Secod Best Thig You Ca Do With Your Lips is Smile. All the sogs o the program featured smiles. * * * * I ever stop beig surprised at some of the amazig circumstaces that evoke smiles. There was a geial group of us gathered aroud a table i Crawford Dr. Bob Hartma, Trott, Phyllis Laumaillet, Trott, Virgiia Phillips, Dave Webster, Alma Rhodes, ad your reporter, all Edwards-Fisher whe Alma told about her recet visit to the Frech Embassy to hear her daughter Nacy speak o the Frech laguage i America classes. The speech wet well ad Alma was ejoyig the elegat ambiece ad rich foods that followed whe her daughter received a text message o her cell phoe. Mother, she said, It s your housekeeper. There s a mouse i your kitche! * * * * Ad there are the hudreds of smiles of those of us who feel blessed to be at Asbury. Oe of these is Jim West, Kidley. Jim moved here i December ad says, I smile a lot because I am so blessed. As soo as the decisio was made for me to come to Asbury, I bega to get used to the idea ad I felt I was home for Christmas. I m so pleased with the way the staff looks after me. They are very friedly ad smile a lot. Wesley Semiary Presidet Preaches at Asbury Guild Memorial Chapel Ispiratio Poit By Jeae North, Trott To hear Mildred Reyolds tell it, the ivitatio to preach to Uitaria Uiversalists at the Asbury Guild Chapel came at a lucheo atteded by her ad the Wesley Semiary Presidet himself: the Rev. Dr. David McAllister- Wilso. I ll come ad speak to your Uitarias, he offered, addig later, Now, do t forget! Thrilled, ad hardly oe to forget, Dr. Mildred Reyolds, herself a graduate of Wesley Semiary, leader of the UUs o campus ad a advocate of iterfaith dialogue, Reyolds set the wheels i motio for the evet, scheduled for Thursday, March 17 at 11 a.m. She was iterviewed o AVTV by Mary Waldro, former Asbury Guild Presidet ad regular commetator o the Asbury ews chael; arragemets for the Uitaria service were made ad programs prited. Ivitatios wet out to special guests to assure their iclusio. Titled The Church ad Social Resposibility, Dr. McAllister-Wilso s sermo was less a sermo tha a coversatio with frieds, i which he recouted his childhood experieces of the place of his father i his home ad what it meat to him ad his sisters. Not Photo: Hal Gaut experieces of fear, but rather of forgiveess ad the expectatio of somethig good. This is also the case, Dr. McAllister-Wilso wet o, of what it is for us as Methodists, ayway, to have God be a part of our lives. We all stad today, McAllister- Wilso cotiued, o the precipice of history. Ad whether the call is to brig relief to disaster victims, or to be ivolved i developmet, or...to help those who have falle ito the gap i our ow coutry, it requires somethig more tha good itetios; it requires somethig like a cospiracy of goodess. For the assembled listeers, McAllister-Wilso s words brought ot oly a measure of ispiratio, but a sese of the itersectig facets of the two faith traditios, particularly i the strog traditios of social service. I the lightig of the chalice, the recitatio of the Uitaria doxology, the sigig of favorite Uitaria hyms, the reditio of Amazig Grace by Cadace Ridigto of the River Road Uitaria Church, the playig of the prelude ad postlude by Alma Rhodes, residet of AMV, Methodists preset could glimpse the traditios of what oce might have bee ufamiliar but oce see, ot seem so alie as previously believed. The service was dedicated to the late Rev. Dr. James T. Clemos, Professor at Wesley Theological Semiary ad a AMV residet. Amog guests i the pews were a umber of past Wesley professors, ad Dr. Norma Heim, Residet Co-Chair of the AMV Spiritual Life Partership Advisory Committee. The Rev. Dr. Martha Brow of Asbury s Pastoral Care Departmet, ad Associate Co-Chair of the AMV Spiritual Life PAC also participated i the service. Martha A. Brow, Director of Pastoral Care Five youg childre were asked What does love mea? Out of the mouths of babes Whe someoe loves you, the way they say your ame is differet. You kow that your ame is safe i their mouth. (Billy, age four) Love is what makes you smile whe you re tired. (Terri, age four) If you wat to lear to love better, you should start with a fried that you hate. (Nikki, age six) Love is like a little old woma ad a little old ma who are still frieds eve after they kow each other so well. (Tommy, age six) You really should t say I love you uless you mea it. But if you mea it, you should say it a lot. People forget. (Jessica, age eight) Village Life March

6 The Easter Baskets of Log Ago By Leoard F. Jakubczak, Edwards-Fisher A typical Polish Easter basket. Each Holy Saturday morig, whe I observe families eterig St. Marti of Tours Roma Catholic Church i Gaithersburg to have their colorful baskets, full of special foods, blessed by the pastor, I recall the Easter baskets of my childhood i Buffalo, New York. Durig those late Thirties ad early Forties, my family ad I lived i a part of Buffalo where oe could have spet oe s etire life ever havig to speak Eglish. Parets, gradparets, ucles, auts ad eighbors spoke Polish i their daily lives, i the eighborhood, at least, as did their parish priests. The parishioers practiced their faith ad raised their childre. Easter was a special feast surrouded by may traditios from Polad. To me our Easter basket was special because it was fu preparig it ad fu eatig its cotets o Easter morig. Our home was a mom-ad-pop bakery o Sycamore Street betwee Ruhlad ad Oberli Streets. I the frot of the clapboard house was the store where the baked good were sold, while i the rear was the bakery where my parets ad bakers prepared for Easter by bakig bread with crosses o it, baraki (lambs made of cake dough, eve cakes shaped like eggs.) Betwee the store ad the bakery was the kitche, where each Good Friday eveig my sister, cousis, auts ad I boiled dozes of eggs, colored them, ad put faciful desigs o them. These eggs would be placed i the Easter basket, as well as shared with members of the exteded family, ad eve customers. Early morig o Holy Saturday, my mother gathered the best of the colored eggs, the still-warm roud rye break with a cross o it from the bakery, a small lamb made from butter by the parish s Felicia us, freshly groud horseradish, fresh ad smoked sausages, salt, ad, as a cocessio to my sweet-tooth, a chocolate rabbit. She placed these i a had basket that was reserved oly for this occasio, ad covered it with a embroidered lie towel. At te miutes to the hour, ay hour, she gave the basket to my sister ad me to carry to St. Luke s Roma Catholic Church, just a block away o Sycamore Street. There the food was blessed every hour o the hour throughout the morig ad early afteroo. The smell of sausages ad other spiced foods permeated the church, ot oly throughout Holy Saturday, but also ofte i the early Masses o Easter Suday. My sister ad I made sure that we sat close to the ceter aisle so that the holy water, liberally dispesed by the passig priest, fell o our basket. The we retured home ad placed the basket i the staircase where it was cool. It remaied there util breakfast o Easter Suday, whe we broke the fast with the blessed food, ad wished each other a Wesolego Alleluja, a Happy Easter. I this spot you shall fid a variety of poderigs from a ma who hails from the other side of the pod. We re glad he s o this side of the pod ow! Idle Thoughts By Reg Westlake, Villas Buttos Time was whe buttos were used just for doig up boots ad shoes ad fasteig ad decoratig garmets. A buttohook was ofte used to pull the butto through the buttohole. Nowadays, whe figers age ad grow less strog ad supple a buttohook would still be useful, if you ca fid your old oe somewhere i the back of a drawer of odds ad eds. Buttos today have become much more powerful. They serve to operate elevators ad electric switches. Ad they are the essetial elemet i operatig the moder IPhoes or IPads or whatever such electroic gadgets are called owadays. They eable people to coverse, sed letters ad text messages, take ad sed pictures, access a world of iformatio, go shoppig, advertise themselves, liste to a world of music, read books, play games, gamble - all by pressig the right butto out of the rows of them o the istrumet. All that is eeded are a figer ad thumb supple eough to press the right butto. A buttohook is o use here. But there is oe butto that has aother vital fuctio. That irritatig TV program, the taletless siger, the ucogeial music o the radio - oe touch o the butto ad they are goe. Truly, the butto is a great weapo of self-defese. It s A Guy Thig Sometimes Guys Are Serious This is a ote to all of the loyal readers of the Guy Thig that I ve writte over the years. I have writte them with a togue-icheek attitude. Now for the first time, dear readers, I m takig my togue out of my cheek ad beig serious. By ow, I m sure, you ve all heard about the earthquake ad tsuami i Japa that have doe extesive damage ad have cost may lives. As you also probably kow, these evets have resulted i damage to four uits at the Fukushima uclear power plat. As I write this, there is ucertaity about the level of damage to the reactors ad the amout ad type of radioactive material that is beig released. The impact of this evolvig evet will ot be kow for some time. Sice about 20% of the electric power used i the Uited States is ow geerated by uclear plats, there are may questios beig asked about the safety ad viability of our uclear geeratig capacity. If you have such questios, I suggest that you read a article that appeared i the Outlook sectio of the Suday, March 20 issue of the Washigto Post. It s titled 5 Myths about Nuclear Eergy. This article provides, i my opiio, a excellet ad balaced overview of the safety of the uclear plats i the Uited States, the costs associated with uclear power plats, ad why uclear power is importat. If you would like to read this article, please call me at x5271, me at darm29@comcast.et, or come by ad see me at Villa 554. I will have copies of the article available. A quick ed ote so you kow that I kow what I m talkig about. I spet most of my professioal career with the Nuclear Regulatory Commissio. I was resposible for maagig the licesig of uclear power plats based o a comprehesive evaluatio of their safety ad evirometal impact, ad overseeig their safe operatio. 6 March 2011 Village Life

7 What to Toss, What to Treasure By Jeae North, Trott It s that time of year. Sprigtime meas flowers poppig up i gardes ad bursts of eergy as good housewives look aroud at piles of uwated clutter ad declare I just have to do somethig about this mess! That s all very well, but how do you kow what to toss ad what to treasure? Covetioal wisdom says if you have t used it i a year, you do t eed it, so get rid of it, right? It s actually pretty simple. Just take the basket full of old eyeglasses sittig o my kitche table. All I have to do is try them all o to make sure that they re really o loger good for me; the decide if I ca really part with those hadsome glasses cases; the walk them over to the Fitess Ceter where there s a Lios Club drop box for discarded eyeglasses. Doe! Now that was t so hard, was it? Movig alog: clothes, books, papers, kitche parapheralia, bric-a-brac, odds ad eds of stuff. Ad do t forget photos ad photo albums. Clothes I o loger wear go to the Clothes Closet; if you re quick you ca still doate books to the AAUW Book Sale, set for early April; papers, ah yes, papers are my dowfall: clea out old files regularly the shredder i Rosborough is a lifesaver ad is gettig a good workout; bric-a-brac ad collectios of all kids, for example, little dolls or mii cups ad saucers or teddy bears, may be super hard to part with. Certaily my Gradmother s chia is stayig i my chia cabiet util the bitter ed. Someoe else will have to figure out what to do with it, I just ca t part with it. Hardest of all to let go of are the treasured photos ad photo albums. I m oly hopig that my daughter Yvoe will help me decide which are essetial for her family history project. The rest? Are they destied for Rady s attic? Or where? How to keep a ucluttered house or apartmet is somethig of a art, I have come to realize. A few rules: 1) Have a place for everythig ad put everythig i its place. This meas puttig thigs away right away ad ot lettig them sit aroud. The eyeglasses did t eed to repose o the kitche table for a week before I figured out what to do with them. 2) If a pe does t work, toss it. Now. 3) You do t have to keep catalogs, eve if lookig through them is a favorite pastime. There ll always be aother oe i the mail. Now all of that said, does ayoe kow what to do with old Christmas cards ad greetig cards? They re so pretty I ca t bear to throw them away! How I Almost Became a Buddhist By Felicia Stokely, Mud Sice the Keese School is givig a twelve-week course o Buddhism ad I am erolled i the class, I thought would tell my story. Whe I was four years old, the Methodist church was celebratig its Ceteial of World Missios. This celebratio was held i the fairgrouds i Columbus, Ohio. Sice my father was a Methodist miister, we atteded each day. Each day my mother took me to a large feced i ad supervised playgroud where I played with childre from all over the world, red ad yellow, black ad white. O the way to this playgroud, we had to pass the Chiese pavilio. I frot of this pavilio was a absolutely eormous gold Buddha. O our first morig, there it sat glisteig i the beautiful sulight. Whe I saw it I stopped dead i my tracks ad said, What s that? My mother said offhadedly, Oh, it s a heathe god. The word heathe meat absolutely othig to me, but the word God was a familiar cocept. I stood there starig so log that my mother had to grab me by the arm ad say, Come o, we have to go. O the way home that ight, I stopped i frot of the Buddha ad said very reveretly, There s God. Each morig ad eveig I stopped ad paid my homage to God. My mother grew very alarmed. She fially foud aother way to the playgroud. She told her frieds, I was afraid that I was raisig a Buddhist. COME, LET US MAKE YOU BEAUTIFUL! Our team of experieced hairdressers, Pat Bosse, Kathlee Daiels, Esther Mi ad Diaa Steveso, alog with our maicurist Carme Kupersai, would like to remid our residets, wome ad me, that we are here to serve you. Most of our hairdressers have bee here for 31 years, a testamet to our experiece, our professioalism ad loyalty to Asbury. We re located o the lower level of the Mud Buildig ad ca be reached o campus at extesio We are ope Tuesday through Friday. Our prices are competitive ad the atmosphere is truly a happy place to be, just ask our existig cliets. For most Asbury residets there are o cocers about trasportatio, gasolie costs or weather coditios. How coveiet! Please call or stop by for a list of our services ad prices. Sicerely, THE MUND BEAUTY SHOP TEAM Village Life March

8 NARFE Gaithersburg Chapter 581 By Keith Steele, Wallace NARFE CHAPTER 581 meets here at Asbury. The Chapter was actually formed o October 24, 1956 with 14 charter members; the charter for the chapter was issued December 12, The ame of the atioal orgaizatio at that time was the Natioal Associatio of Retired Civil Employees (NARC E). The ame was chaged to NARFE (Natioal Associatio of Retired Federal Employees) i 1970; the orgaizatio s ame was agai chaged i 2004 to the Natioal Active ad Retired Federal Employees Associatio (retaiig the NARFE acroym). I the 1970s chapter meetigs were held at the Gaithersburg Civil Ceter. Some meetigs were held at Casey s Bar. I September, 1979, the Chapter meetig was held for the first time at Asbury Methodist Village. It has bee Mac ad Zil meetig here ever sice. Meetigs were first held i Coley Hall. I the 80s they bega meetig i Parker Hall. More recetly the meetigs have bee moved to the Commuity Rooms i the Rosborough Ceter. There are quite a few members livig here at Asbury. I fact there are three Past Chapter Presidets residig here. The Chapter makes yearly cotributios to the Asbury Methodist Village Beevolet Fud. The Chapter would like to ivite all retired Federal employees here at Asbury to come to its meetigs ad cosider joiig if ot already a member. If you are a member of aother Chapter you may wat to cosider trasferrig to Chapter 581 which is oe of the largest i the State. The meetig time is o the fourth Tuesday of every moth at 10:00 AM i the Rosborough Ceter. Gettig to Kow You By Giy Hawke, Edwards-Fisher Six of us have gathered at a table i the Crawford Diig room o Friday eveigs for over two years. We have laughed together, bee serious sometimes, ad geuiely ejoyed each other s compay. BUT, what did we really kow about each other? O several differet Fridays, we aswered some questios which were the tallied. Ad as the weeks progressed, we became more ivolved i gettig acquaited. We bega with, Where were you bor? Ad we foud out the followig: Oly three states were atal states: two from Ohio, two from Marylad ad two from the District of Columbia. The home tows for Ohio were Akro ad Moroe. For Marylad, Oxford ad Uiversity Park, ad for the District, the district! Next questio was, I how may other states have you lived? The total was twelve. The states amed were Washigto, Marylad (of course), Idiaa, Oklahoma, Virgiia, Califoria, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Pesylvaia, North Carolia, Coecticut, ad the District which ought to be a state. Some of us seemed to have bee omads. Askig what these folks had bee up to before Asbury, we discovered a cacer researcher, a public health urse, a libraria who later moved to persoel, a teacher tured pricipal, a professor of Health ad Physical Educatio, ad a employee of NOAA, the Natioal Oceaic Atmospheric Admiistratio (Departmet of Commerce). These professioals had acquired their expertise at thirtee uiversities ad istitutios of higher learig: America, George Washigto, Virgiia, Catholic, Mary Washigto, Temple Busiess School, Marylad, Juiata, Lock Have, Ohio State, Califoria, New York, ad North Carolia. Ad fially, we foud out that added together, we had lived at Asbury for 112 years! Gettig to kow all about you is fu. Try it, you ll like it! 85 YEARS Cotiued from page 1 the buildigs o campus. He will help you appreciate the thought ad care that have goe ito the developmet of this special place where we live. Ms. Whimsy ad several of the Asbury Clows will help to make your time more ejoyable. The committee has ordered a suy sprig day o May 6. But i case of rai, just come iside the Admiistratio Buildig. All the rooms will be ope, ad we will celebrate idoors istead. Rai or shie, the buses will be ruig, ad you ca easily joi i all the fu. Jo Hopper is the Guild chairma for this evet. Her committee icludes Mary Ebiger, Sady Matthews, Jaet Ligrell, Alma Stewart, Debi Peeks ad Elaie Kielma. 8 March 2011 Village Life

9 By Rod Mills, Mud Moday, March 7, was the day to say goodbye to Asbury s Washigto oak, a red oak located by the Huma Resources wig of the Admiistratio Buildig. The tree had bee there sice 1932 (i.e. for 79 years), apparetly a gift of the Neighborhood Garde Club o the occasio of celebratios of George Washigto s 200 th birthday (Feb. 22). (The plaque has bee salvaged ad will be re-istalled whe a replacemet tree is plated.) May limbs of the tree had died i recet years, ad i fact Da McMurdo, our Ladscapig Supervisor, estimates that, at the ed, about 75 percet of the tree was dead. It had produced o acors last year. It was time for the tree to be take dow, ad a crew from the Rock Hill Law ad Ladscapig Compay came ad did the job. We ca t be sure of the of the tree s age whe it reached its ed, or whether it was trasplated to its site as a saplig or had just grow there as a voluteer. Da McMurdo believes, however, that it was probably trasplated there as a very youg saplig ad that its age whe take dow was ot much more tha the 79 years it stood at its site here i Asbury. At groud level the tree truk was i a well. Da thiks it quite possible that whe the wig of the Admiistratio Buildig that ow houses the Huma Resources Divisio was built, soil was added to the area where the tree stood i order to raise the level of the law, hece the eed for a well. He also suspects that if soil ideed was added, this may ot have bee good Goodbye to a Asbury Residet Photos:Hal Gaut Above, the Washigto (Red) Oak tree s last day. At right, The origial plaque provided by the Garde Club i for the tree s roots ad so may have hasteed its demise. A youg ew tree to replace our departed fried is plaed. It may be a white oak. However, fidig just what you wat i the way of a tree to be trasplated ca be very time-cosumig, ad it will probably be a while before the replacemet is here. A arborist for Rock Hill Law ad Ladscapig, Mr. Scott Margroum, who is also a expert woodworker, has bee asked by Asbury to make a bech from wood of the old tree, to be placed ear where the old tree stood, to serve as a memorial. This too will take a while, if oly because the old tree, whe take dow, was foud to be full of water as a cosequece of its largely dead coditio. That wood has to dry out thoroughly before it ca be used to make the bech. Aita Taylor, Residet Co-chair (with Lydia Page) of the Asbury Wildlife Habitat Project, iterviewed Margroum at poits i the tree removal process, may parts of which were filmed by Eric Thorett of AVTV. Combied with the rededicatio of a ew Washigto Oak, the process will become oe of the forthcomig AVTV Wildlife at Asbury programs that are show o the secod ad fourth Modays of every moth. A Gaiful Employee The ad Now By Mary Astead, Villas We ve ofte heard that job-seekig is all about whom you kow! Back i 1979 ad 1980, a Mr. McMurdo, who worked here at AMV i maiteace, especially the boilers, sought to keep his teeage so gaifully employed over the summer. That so is our ow hadsome Da McMurdo, ladscapig supervisor. Da s title back the was summer seasoal grouds employee. There were four seasoal grouds employees who joied four permaet grouds keepers. At that time the Admiistratio Buildig was the Asbury Home. Behid the Home there was a rectagular plot of about a acre, give or take, which was dedicated as a kitche garde for the Home. Cabbage, gree beas, tomatoes ad potatoes were the maistay of the garde. The produce was carried to the kitche to be prepared for the residets of the Home. The Da McMurdo, Supervisor of Ladscapig ext time you park your car to go to the Clothes Closet, imagie Da carryig armfuls of produce through that door ow marked IT that was the kitche. Now that is the etrace to bytes; the it was bites! Da recalled that o hot afteroos the summer weather has t chaged while weedig or harvestig i the garde, he would ofte look dow the row to aticipate the ed of the row ad a time to rest i the shade. The ed as it appeared from his vatage poit was the crest of the koll alog the row. That crest was owhere ear the ed of the row! More weeds, more pickig, ad more hot su! The potatoes were stored i bis i the bar for use throughout the witer. That bar, i a differet locatio, is ow his office. The ext time that you drive past the rear of the Admiistratio Buildig o the way to Park View or the Guild Chapel, remember you are drivig o harrowed groud. Village Life March

10 By Maroly Hatch, Villas To echo a commo disclaimer, I ote that the opiios i this article do ot ecessarily reflect those of the Village Life staff. Although my guess is that we are pretty close to agreemet. The subject is the Caada Goose, that pompous, teacious, bi-ped whose umbers seem to equal those of Asbury residets ad who cost us aually thousads of dollars i mapower, grass reclamatio ad path hygiee. Roughly 18 pouds of walkig appetite, the vegetaria goose, who occasioally oshes o isects ad small fish, is a homey creature: moogamous util the ed, great family orietatio, ad prolific beyod belief. A pair ca aually produce up to 10 gosligs over their sheltered life Photo Tom McIlrath The Geese Police provide a ma, a dog, ad a missio deter the geese from estig. spas of 20 years. That s 200 geese per pair! Or i Asbury s case, the potetial of a aual icrease of 50 to 100 birdbrais o campus. Ad I wo t do the math o the two pouds per capita productio of goose poop. But we might thik of settig up a subsidiary fertilizer operatio. Protected by the US Fish ad Wildlife Service uder the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 ad the Migratory Bird Coservatio Act of 1929, the goose is livig a fie life. A simple foul with a purpose, the goose has adapted from beig a migratory bird to a full-time residet of may A Goose i the Had is Worth Two i the Bush The geese take flight.have a ice trip. Photo Tom McIlrath mild-witer states. What is t to like about a golf course, baseball ifield, or the Asbury s teder grass diet? Who would t skip all that flyig whe the best salad is right uder oe s feet? Ad what are a few AMV fox predators agaist a 100-gaggle goose patrol? Add to all that the luxury of aerated pods ad dierbowl-clea grouds that really ca t be beate. So how does AMV cotrol a decidedly domesticated goose populatio? It has tried addlig their eggs, destroyig their ests, ad eve settig up eerie uderwater lights i the pods all to o avail. But fear ot those of you who would like to walk barefooted through the grass or picic o the slopes. The Geese Police have arrived. No, this is ot a joke. There is a most professioal orgaizatio by that ame. I fact, you may have see their highly traied employees doig their job recetly by the pods. I m talkig about border collies, those wolf-like stalkers, whose very glace seds shivers up the timbers of the otherwise defiat goose. Well fed, the dogs have o iterest i pâté de foie gras. They just like to herd ad the bigger the buch the more fu to roud it up. Of course, havig bird brais ad little experiece with these dogs, the geese take to the air ad after several weeks of repeated ecouters move to aother eighborhood. But what if this too fails to deter the feathered uisace? Well, we could arm the residet militia ad take advatage of the five-per-day bag limit of the Marylad goose hutig seaso. Ad just i case Mark Whale does t have his ow recipe, I offer this oe from Allrecipes.com: Oe (10-poud) fresh goose, 1 1/2 cups wild rice, 5 cups cold water, 1 tablespoo butter, 1 oio, chopped, 2 1/2 cups fresh sliced shiitake mushrooms, 1 egg, 1 tablespoo poultry seasoig, salt ad freshly groud black pepper to taste, 2/3 cup dry sherry, ad 2 cups giblet gravy. Bo Appetit! Ad fod adieu to the goose ad its goo. Art Show Of The Keese School Watercolor Class By Carol Deis, Villas What does Asbury share with J. M. W. Turer, Joh Siger Sarget ad Wislow Homer? A talet for watercolor! I March, may of you saw o the back wall of the etrace to the Hefer Auditorium the beautiful results of four years with Susa Herro teachig i the Keese School Watercolor Class. Each year the class gets better ad better. Approximately 20 ladies ad oe getlema, about half from Fraces Stickley poses with her artwork. Frot row from left to right: Selma Robey (A), Susa Herro (Istructor), Ruth Lotz(A), Luella LaVee(A), Jae Farber(A), Catherie Flemig. Back row from left to right: Natalie O Reilly(A), Fraces Stickles(A), Marcie?, Ruth Bauer(A), Carol Deis(A), Charles Stewart(A), Gloria? Charles Stewart is a artist of may talets. Asbury ad half from the surroudig commuity, meet o Tuesday morigs for two eight-week sessios of classes. I additio there are workshops to explore acrylics, pastels, collage ad other art media. Susa ispires, cajoles ad ecourages with her pleasat persoality, teachig skills ad talet as we take o more ad more difficult projects. The results tell the story. Susa says she is cotiually delighted ad ispired by the Cotiued o page 19 Natalie O Reilly is a paiter of whom we re proud. The Case at Mud is Closed, But Ope to Visitors Photos: Hal Gaut Jerry goes hog wild over Pike s Place Market! Suy Seattle By Carol Deis, Villas Suy Seattle? Well relatively speakig! Mout Raiier was visible more days tha ot. After the Alaska cruise ad Victoria, B.C., visit, it was time to ejoy October i Seattle. My husbad, Jerry, ad I made a plaed visit to Whidbey Islad to see music colleague Lee Beaudoi ad her husbad who had moved from earby Clarksburg. We luched o their suy deck overlookig Skagit Bay. Although the drive up was spectacular, the retur trip o dark coutry roads was more excitig tha we wished! O Sudays, Jerry ad I atteded mass at St. James Cathedral that was walkig distace from the hotel if you like walkig uphill! We etered this spledid buildig to the soud of a magificet pipe orga beig played by a excellet orgaist. The liturgies were beautiful with a welltraied childre/youth choir sigig the etire mass. Jerry ad I rode the bus to Daiel Smith s Art Supply Store whose ads ivite customers to visit whe i Seattle. Not metioed is that their store is tucked amog warehouses ad busiess suppliers ad requires a good healthy walk. Fortuately, the weather was suy, the help pleasat, ad my ew supplies could be shipped home. While Jerry worked, I met with my lady frieds. We explored Pike s Place Market, visited the origial Starbuck s, ad rode the moorail to asced the Space Needle. For a uique adveture, we braved a raiy day to fid the Nordic Heritage Museum. After a bus ride, a logish walk, a few wrog turs ad a short taxi ride, we arrived at our destiatio. It was well worth the trip. The museum traces Scadiavia immigratio i the Northwest. I Nordic fashio, there was plety of coffee available but ufortuately o café. However, we came upo a Italia restaurat ear the bus stop. Some hot miestroe, tasty gelato ad cappuccio made all right with the world. For museum treats, Jerry ad I ejoyed the sublime Asia aex of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) ad Takoma ative so Dale Chihuley s Museum of Glass. There was also my fatastic visit to SAM for a extesive travelig Picasso exhibit from Paris that is ow i Richmod, Virgiia. After two weeks i Seattle, we were ready to retur home. The weather had tured raiy ad cold, but we cherish our suy memories of a warm-hearted people ad a deeper appreciatio of our Pacific Northwest. Jerry Deis poses i frot of the Chihuley Bridge of Glass. 10 March 2011 Village Life Village Life March

11 Ray Paczyk: Helpig Humaity Aroud the Globe By Rod Mills, Mud Ray Paczyk (proouced Pazik forget the c ) has lived ad worked i, or has traveled to, sixty-oe coutries of the world, mostly i order to help people i oe way or aother or to show them how to better their ow lives. Eve though retired ow, through his activities with Rotary he cotiues to help people abroad. Ad he ad his wife Betsy, residets of the Diamod Apartmets, cotiue to travel, although for their ow pleasure. Today, here o the Asbury campus, you might well become aware of Ray s presece with us through his photography. This iterest bega durig a phase of his life that you will probably be surprised to lear about. For five years, i the late 1950s ad early 60s, Ray was a jet fighter pilot i the U.S. Air Force, doig the active duty required by his membership i the Air Force ROTC durig college. I some of that time Ray ad his fellow squadro pilots flew the F-100, the first operatioal sigle-egie jet fighter to fly faster tha the speed of soud i straight ad level flight. Most of that time was spet i Eglad (at bases i East Aglia), ad he made frequet flights, maily for traiig purposes, to other U.S. air bases i Wester Europe ad North Africa, activity that also allowed time for a lot of sightseeig ad picture-takig. There has bee a exhibit of some of Ray s photographs i the Residets Art Gallery i the Rosborough Buildig, those photos beig largely of people ad places ecoutered durig his travels to Russia ad to exotic places i Asia. Aother of Ray s talets is piao playig. As a boy he took lessos for a umber of years, ad he has cotiued to play. Wife Betsy is a flute player, ad Ray is her accompaist. His direct coectio with Rotary is through the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rotary Club. His activities there iclude fud-raisig ad seeig that fuds are well spet. Some fuds are chaeled through Rotary Iteratioal for projects abroad such as the well-kow program to eradicate polio all aroud the world. Rotary does this i partership with the World Bak, the World Health Orgaizatio, UNI- CEF, the U.S. ad foreig govermets, ad private groups such as the Bill ad Melida Gates Foudatio. Ray s ivolvemet i Rotary projects like this is a atural outgrowth of what he did durig his career, ad stems from the motivatio he feels to help i, as he puts it, buildig tomorrow today. Ray is a New Yorker who grew up i the borough of Quees. He graduated from Mahatta College s Sciece School with a BS i Psychology while also takig busiess courses. He was able to postpoe active duty i the Air Force so that he could go to Fordham Uiversity ad ear a MS i Psychology ad Statistics. The five years with the Air Force esued. Well over oe-half of Ray s career-- 23 years, i fact was spet workig for Catholic Relief Services i Africa. The great variety of projects that he was ivolved i icluded, i particular, field operatios i health (icludig immuizatios), utritio, safe water supply, ad rural developmet i geeral. Early o he became a coutry director, a heavy resposibility that meat maagig all of the operatios i the coutry where he was statioed. He worked i may Africa coutries, both Frech-speakig (coutries formerly a part of Frech West Africa or Frech Equatorial Africa) ad Eglish-speakig (i easter ad souther Africa). As you might imagie, Ray s Frech is very good. I 1984 Ray wet to work for UNICEF (Uited Natios Iteratioal Childre s Emergecy Fud) i Guiea (i former Frech West Africa) as their coutry director there, ad held dow that post for four years. The work was similar to what he had bee doig before but o a larger scale ad with more moey. This postig was followed by five years i a seior maagemet positio with the Peace Corps i Washigto. As Director of Program Support, Ray together with his staff had to make decisios as to what jobs the Peace Corps voluteers would do i a particular coutry ad to evaluate their work. His career eded with three years at a iteratioal cosultig firm doig plaig ad evaluatio to provide quality assurace cocerig projects by orgaizatios workig i the health field i developig coutries. Betsy ad Ray came to the Diamod Apartmets i December 2009 from their Bethesda home i the Bradley Hills eighborhood. They have bee married for 21 years ad have six childre, three each from a previous marriage. Have Bag, Will Travel By Mary Astead, Villas Whether oe is departig from ay of our three airports, gettig there could be a major decisio. Without a doubt the easiest way would be by taxi right at your door, right to the airport, o schleppig bags. With coveiece comes cost, of course! Shared vas pick you up right at the door ad leave you at the airport without bag hadlig but ofte there are other pickups o the way. Your wallet is a little less hurt! To Reaga Natioal, the metro is pretty coveiet, providig you ca get a ride to Shady Grove Metro. Of course, your bags are your resposibility the whole way which icludes a trasfer to the Yellow lie i tow. To Dulles, takig the metro also requires a trasfer to the Orage lie ad the a trasfer to the Dulles bus at Falls Church with a additioal fare. BWI ca be reached by Metro to Uio Statio, Marc trai to the BWI/Amtrak statio, ad the the coector bus to the airport. With the opeig of Route 200 (ICC) aother route to BWI is available. From the Park ad Ride lot at 270 ad 124 (Shady Grove also) busses ru o the hour from 4 am to 5 pm. If you get a ride to the lot the you sit back ad ejoy the sceery util you arrive at the Iteratioal Termial or the Southwest Termial. Best of all for budget-mided seiors, the fare is $3.20 per trip! The retur trip leaves BWI every hour from 9 am util 10 pm. Take your cell phoe to alert your kid eighbor to pick you up at the termius. For more iformatio o this ew service, go to ad click o route 201. Asbury Garde Club Still Growig By Gladys Sillcox, Edwards-Fisher Yes, it is sprigtime agai ad we gardeers are startig seeds i our apartmets. As always, we plat too may just to be certai that eough germiate for our eeds. This year, you ca recycle those uwated seedligs by doatig them for Gree Day. The platigs will be shared or give for door prizes to those who atted. As part of the Asbury 85 th Aiversary celebratio, our Gree Day evet will be held o Wedesday, April 20 th from 10 a.m. to oo i the Commuity Rooms i the Rosborough buildig. The seedligs ca be replated i small cups, such as yogurt cups or disposable drikig cups such as those foud at the water foutais. Those who are separatig established plats ca also repot them i larger pots ad doate the ew plats to our gree Day celebratio. Mary Astead, who lives i Villa 508, will be happy to collect or receive your seedligs by April 17 th. She ca be reached by phoe at extesio A visit to the gardes o March 5 th revealed that most bulbs are already up about five iches. The weather has ot bee i our favor, but that s okay because we kow a little warmth will brig may multicolored blossoms for you to ejoy it really is a show. Watch the bulleti boards i your buildig or the hallways for the date of the first ope house i April. If the blossoms come early just ask ay gardeer to go with you to ulock the gate ad both of you ca ejoy a walk through the blossoms. 12 March 2011 Village Life

12 From The to Now o Aiversary Day with Asbury Guild I By Jea Hubbell, Villas t was l934. The Guild had just bee orgaized to iclude almost all Methodist churches i Marylad. Oe early activity was celebratig Aiversary Day o the last Saturday of April every year. Thus i l935 the first Aiversary Tea was held with the Guild providig homemade cookies ad ecouragig visitors from local churches to visit ad meet the family at Asbury. The Guild assumed more ad more resposibilities as the years passed ad eeded to have various ways of earig moey to pay for such thigs as Williamsburg Lae, which coverted the basemet of the origial home ito a woderful hub of activity icludig shops, post office, ad much more maaged by family members. To pay for all this meat the Guild eeded to raise more moey tha i previous edeavors. Oe idea was to have a ham dier, so the l966 Aiversary Day featured a special ham dier icludig seasoed gree beas ad special Bosto cream pie for dessert. The ext year of l967 was the first bazaar ad the bazaars cotiued util l996 ad helped the Guild pay its various pledges as well as brigig busloads of visitors to the campus. Orgaizig Guild bazaars was o small udertakig. Each of the te districts of Methodist Churches were resposible for a particular sales evet. There were the cady table, baked goods, jewelry, hadicrafts, AAUW book sale, Home family arts ad crafts, coutry store, plat tet ad the very popular Attic Treasures. Local churches helped by providig buses i the early days ad the early bazaars were held i the Davis Louge (ow the home of Outpatiet Physical Therapy) ad the full legth of Williamsburg Lae. The popular ham dier was served i the Home diig room with log lies of ticket holders waitig their tur to be seated. I l976, the Guild added a tea ad a gift of a pik dogwood tree i hoor or log-time admiistrator Dr. Herma Wilso ad Mrs. Lillia Wilso s 50th weddig aiversary, the same year as Asbury s 50th aiversary. The bazaars proved to be a huge drawig card to the campus ad provided activity ad excitemet for the Home family as well as all the Guilders ad visitors from far ad ear. I may cases members of the Home family helped their home district i whatever its edeavor was. It was a matter of pride to compare otes o how well each table or shop had doe.the year l984 Village Life more ad more. Parker Hall was the locatio of a sack bar plus the sales tables that were formerly i the Home social hall. The AAUW book sale was i Williamsburg Lae. The plat tet remaied located outside the frot etrace to the Home. Cady ad other homemade goodies were available to the Home family o Friday afteroo at the Home sack bar to accommodate family members. O Saturday, Bazaar Day, arragemets were made for shuttle service betwee all the buildigs.the there was etertaimet. The Marylad Kite Society festival was held o the law where our gardes are ow. Tours of Williamsburg Lae Collectios were available, clows roamed the campus ad face paitig for childre was provided. Oe year the Peary Pipers (bagpipers from Peary High School) performed ad the wail of the bagpipes resoated across the campus. By l994 there was a Asbury yard sale, a Above, Peary Pipers. ceramics shop, the Coley Clocks table, cotto At left, Rockville H.S. bad. cady, Edy s Ice Cream Cart ad the Health Care Below, Mary Waldro Ceter Gift Shop as well as the Home Shop. (ceter) is flaked by Joh Lucheo was o loger the ham dier. Box Hubbell o the left ad luches were available at some poit but i l994 Sam ad Peggy Barrow o a lucheo buffet at the Apartmet Ceter feathe right. tured a hot dog bar, sadwich bar, healthy salad alterative, potato salad, ad a beverage bar Bottom, the Plat Sale tet was a moey-makig with ticket prices $5.00. The bazaar was truly ow campus-wide ad maps were give out affair for the guild. showig which buildig or area housed which activity. By this time the Williamsburg Lae Clothes Closet had replaced the former Fair Exchage ad was ow operated by residets of the campus istead of the Guild. Tours of campus facilities were also available, icludig a Villa Model. By l995 Aiversary Day icluded a Walk for All the Ages co-hosted by Asbury Methodist Village ad the City of Gaithersburg. The Guild s Aiversary Day celebratio had expaded to iclude may Asbury-sposored activities, ad by the mid-l990 s, may more retiremet commuities had bee established aroud the state ad church workers were called o to help the more close-to-home sites. So the bazaars came to a ed. I l997 the Guild, made a appreciatio ad thak-you gift to the Asbury Campus of a book Asbury Poets icludig origial poems by well-kow Asbury residets Norma Trott, Hoover Rupert, Barbara Masfield, Bobbye Kudzma, Jessie Griffith, Paul Coley, ad Mario Beasley to ame oly a few. I recet years Aiversary Day has bee celebrated by the Guild with a service i the Guild Memorial Chapel featurig a ispiratioal/iformative speaker. This year Asbury has a theme of saw chages as the old Home was closed ad From The to Now ad it will be fu to see the ew Home ow Park View Apts. was the site of the bazaar.the dier was served i both what the plaig committee has i store.aithe regular diig room ad i the social hall. versary Day observaces have come a log way Home family members were welcome to eat from that first tea i l936. with their family members ad frieds at either locatio. By l988 the bazaar was spreadig out March

13 By Keith Steele, Wallace The Cogressma for our Cogressioal District, Chris Va Holle, spoke at the March 18, 2011 meetig of the Asbury Democratic Club. Everybody is always ivited to our meetigs. Of course Chris Va Holle represets all of us i the district regardless of our political party affiliatios. Of the 80-plus attedees there were a couple of persos from off campus ad a few who were ot Democrats as is usually the case. I a uusually cadid talk, Mr. Va Holle stated that the positio of Democratic Cogressme i the House of Represetatives is a very difficult oe. He ackowledged that Speaker Boeher is facig issues, also, with Tea Partiers ad others i his party, whose goal, it appears, is essetially to shut dow the govermet as we kow it. Tryig to work with the coservatives i the House is like playig football with Charlie Brow, accordig to the Cogressma. They refuse adamatly to accept Democratic proposals for compromise o aythig. Presidet Obama s iitial high hopes for cociliatio ad compromise have bee dashed by Republica oppositio. The recet threeweek budget extesio passed by the Cogress will expire i April, ad the govermet will shut dow if o support is forthcomig i the House. Cogressma Va Holle stated that the America people must be urgetly otified of the deadly issues facig the coutry by Presidet Obama. He declared, Oly the Presidet has the bully pulpit to get the hearig of the America people. He oted that the ecoomy was i egative free-fall whe Presidet Obama took office, facig Photo: Keith Steele Chris Va Holle was the key speaker at a recet meetig of the Asbury Democratic Club. Cogressma Va Holle Visits Asbury a $1.3-trillio deficit. The Obama Admiistratio saved the ecoomy ad stopped the free fall, but the ievitable fallout of the abrupt turabout caused high uemploymet ad ecoomic slowdow. The political result has bee the shellackig of the party i 2010 as tea partyers ad disaffected voters took vegeace o the Democrats who were i office. Our Club had writte the Cogressma i regards to his positio o gu cotrol. The Cogressma discussed this ad voiced his frustratio with NRA oppositio to gu cotrol measures to protect iocet people from those who should ot be i possessio of firearms. While Marylad has oe of the best systems of gu registratio i the coutry, Cogress has bee deadlocked agaist virtually all registratio proposals, icludig gu show sales. After beig questioed he spoke a little about the dager that exists for elected officials ad their staffs especially whe away from Washigto ad i their home districts. He did metio that he felt very safe here at Asbury. The Cogressma is a excellet speaker ad seemed to ejoy aswerig our questios. Our meetigs usually last but oe hour. This oe did ru over but the attedees were more tha willig to stay loger tha usual. Cogressma Va Holle spoke highly of the Asbury residets i that they are iterested i ad egaged i the political processes of our govermet. Editor s Note: The opiios expressed i this article belog to the author ad do ot ecessarily reflect the opiios of Village Life ad Asbury Methodist Village. Help Yourself ad your Doctor Keep lists ad carry them with you at all times Ask Dr. Bob Medical history: diagoses, hospitalizatios, surgery Medicies: prescribed-(take by mouth or applied exterally), OTC, complemetary, vitamis Allergies ad immuizatios Primary physicia telephoe umbers Emergecy otificatio Write dow ad ask questios Problems you wat to talk about; limit to o more tha three per office visit Prioritize, with most importat o top Ask to make them a part of your medical record Get test results Do t assume o ews is good ews Call for results if you do t receive them Kow what happeed durig tests ad surgery; ask for details Keep a symptom diary Type, oset, duratio, locatio, quality Relievig, aggravatig factors Offer feedback to the physicia Results are ot as you expected Problems with medicatios, treatmets Purpose of proposed tests, treatmets Other therapies possible? Cosequeces if o therapies used? Robert T. Hartma M.D. retired Family Physicia ad Geriatrics Specialist I Memoriam Residet Facility Date of Death Joseph Murphy WHCC Katherie Hubley WHCC/Kidley Beatrice Bee C. Powell WHCC/Diamod Rev. Dr. Arthur Hall Villas Robert Eato WHCC Waye Smithey Villas Edith Joseph WHCC Clare Armstrog WHCC/Wallace Fraces Lawrece Edwards-Fisher Alla Gleo Edwards-Fisher Mary Gooki WHCC Myrtis Greee WHCC Eloise Wager Kidley/Mud March 2011 Village Life

14 By Keith Steele, Wallace No, there are ot ay bodies buried here o the Campus at least ot that we kow of. However, i readig some old reports, we did fid somethig we thought quite iterestig. I kow that most of you have passed the cemetery o Frederick Ave. North (355). It is o the right had side past the tur for the Golde Bull. Its ame is Forest Oaks Cemetery. At oe time there was a Forest Oaks Methodist Church ext to it. It used to be marked with a wrought-iro sig over the gate, which read Forest Oak Cemetery. Durig the 1960s, the etrace to the cemetery was elarged ad the arched sig could ot fit over it aymore. Forest Oak has remaied umarked sice that time, with mostly local residets kowig its ame. Over 100 graves were omitted whe N. Frederick Ave. was wideed i The locatio of those itermets is ot kow. Forest Oak was origially affiliated with Forest Oak Methodist Church, which was o the site of the existig cemetery. The church o loger exists. Forest Oak was also affiliated with Grace Methodist Church, but that affiliatio was severed durig or shortly after the Civil War. Today it is operated by the idepedet Forest Oak Cemetery Associatio. Asbury Methodist Village back i the 1930s owed a lot i the cemetery with a umber of Chit Chatter From the AMV Historical Society Asbury ad Grave Sites burial plots. They were obtaied with the thought that there might be occasios whe a residet might pass o ad there was o family ad place for their bodies to Photos: Keith Steele Above, Grave stoes just a stoe s throw away. At left, a closer look at oe of the older stoes. be iterred. This did happe so we decided to look for those lots. Origially there was a lot with eight burial plots. We foud these ad they are all filled. I September of 1933 Dr. Herma Wilso wrote i his report the followig; The local Church has give us a ew burial lot i the cemetery. This was much eeded as we have oly oe grave left i our old lot. Buryig groud i Gaithersburg is eve harder to get tha moey. With the help of Mr. Ralph Offutt we located this secod lot. It has space for 54 graves. All but eight are filled. There are three rows of headstoes ad all are alike except of course for the ames ad year of birth ad death. The secretary/ treasurer of the associatio, Mr. Ralph Offutt, believes that, accordig to his records, they still belog to Asbury. (Aybody iterested?) From other thigs we have read, there was at oe time a Mr. Briggs who sold Asbury the stoes but did the egravig ad placemet of the stoes as a free service. The oldest stoe i the oldest lot is for Karl Lag I the secod lot the oldest is Aa Corelius The ewest is for Grace Grat (bor 1900 ad died 1978). I a October 1931 report the followig appeared, Oe death: Mrs. Aa Beavers, Bluemot, VA. Mrs. Beavers was buried i the Home lot i Gaithersburg at her ow request. The relatives were otified but ot oe of them came to the fueral. (How sad). By fidig her stoe is how we foud the locatio of the origial lot. We foud some iformatio that idicates that the wome i the Home raised flowers ad used some of them to decorate the graves i the Home lot. Ad fially a quote from the Jue 1962 Chit-Chat. Decoratio Day was observed by hagig our beautiful America flag from the peak of the roof of the mai porch, ad of [sic] distributig flowers o the graves of departed guests i our Forest Oak Cemetery. TO METRIC OR NOT TO BRITISH Submitted by Bob Yout, Villas It s a high tech world full of iches ad cetimeters, but is oe system better tha the other? We iherited our system from the British so let me ask you several questios? How may hads are i a foot? How may stoes i a to? How may fathoms i a furlog? How may liks i a chai? There is a quatified aswer to each of these which will be told later. Look at the followig ad see if you thik the metric system has a advatage? Microphoes = 1 Megaphoe 10 6 Bicycles = 1 Megacycle 500 Miliaries = I Semiary 2000 Mockigbirds Two kilomockigbirds 10 Cards = 1 Decacards Pis = 1 Terrapi 10-2 Spider = 1 Milliweber Piccolos = 1 Gigolo 10 Ratios = 1 Decoratio 2 Moograms = 1 Diagram 8 Nickles = 2 Paradigms 2 Sake eyes = 1 Paradise 2 Wharves = 1 Paradox 6 Locatios = 3 Parasites The aswers are: 1.A - The horsey set kows that there are 3 hads i a foot. 2.A - A stoe is 14 pouds so there are stoe i a to. 3.A.- A fathom is a liear measuremet usually associated with water depth ad is six feet. Therefore there are 110 fathoms i a furlog, aother liear measuremet that is associated with horse racig. 4.A There are two chais used for measurig, the egieers chai ad the surveyor s chai but they are the same. Each has 100 liks of 0.66 feet resultig i a chai legth of 66 feet. Carryig thigs to the extreme, there are graham crackers i a poud cake. You are t cofused are you? Village Life March

15 Evirometally Healthy Housekeepig By Mary Astead, Villas For the New Year you were ecouraged to reew your resolutio to help the eviromet. Last moth several suggestios were made o how to reuse what you have. Fially, the third R remids us to recycle. Did you kow that it is possible that for every 15,000 tos of solid waste recycled, ie people ca be actively employed? Similarly, compostig 15,000 tos of yard waste ca cotribute seve additioal workers to the tax base. Recyclig oe to of paper keeps 17 trees growig ad saves 7000 gallos of water. Here at Asbury, we do a good job of recyclig our ewspapers, bottles ad plastic. Cotiue your commitmet to reuse ad recycle. The evelope your mothly bills come i ca be reused to sed a message i iter campus mail. Reuse the myriad flyers we get by pritig o the back. Would t it be grad if we could collect the rai water to water our gardes! I fact, Asbury is leadig the way i recyclig ad other evirometally soud projects. As a example, Bria Trotter, Director of Housekeepig ad Laudry, shared with me some of the ways we cotribute to bei gree. A program is i place to moitor water cosumptio i the laudry facilities for WHCC ad Kidley. By makig a effort to make use of a full load each time, less eergy is cosumed, reducig utility bills, ad less overall waste water is set ito the sewer systems. Persoal laudry ad geeral laudry of ecessity are separated. No study of the cleaig agets themselves has bee completed. Campus-wide recyclig of lightig is doe through Lamp Tracker. Compact ad fluorescet bulbs are collected across the campus i special boxes. The filled boxes are set to a special water maagemet facility for safe disposal. These boxes ca be foud i trash rooms for persoal idividual bulbs or give to Housekeepig to take them to the boxes. Te percet of the paper used by housekeepig is recycled paper. This icludes toilet paper i campus bathrooms ad paper towels. Departmetally, associates are ecouraged to miimize the use of paper ad to commuicate electroically. Remember those cleaig cloths give out at the Sodexo housewarmig a few years ago? They are micro- fiber. Their use cuts dow o paper costs i cleaig. A tip o how to effectively use them like the pros do fold the cloth i half; spray your [evirometally friedly] cleaer o oe side of the half; fold that half agai ad spray that quarter; keep turig the folds as you clea util you have exposed the whole cloth to various surfaces. The duster you see beig used is also microfiber ad ca be washed as well. Eve the bathroom cleaer, a o-acidic product, cotributes to assurig a evirometally healthy campus. I the future, the beches aroud campus, made of recycled plastic milk bottles, will grace our campus. By Gil Syder, Mud Afew moths ago i perusig a local book store, I oticed a book titled My Readig Life by Pat Coroy, a favorite moder author of mie. I thought I should get it ad read it but the remembered that I had plas to write a article o the subject; so here goes: I do t recall beig read to i my toddler years but I expect that my mother read to me as most likely did my materal gradfather who I was quite close to. The small city I grew up i did ot have kidergarte so it was i the first grade where I was first taught to read; the texts used were of the Dick ad Jae variety. By the time I got to the sixth grade I was a prodigious reader of most books i the small library at the elemetary school as well as the appropriate books i the city library. Oe book that stads out i my memory was Guadalcaal Diary which is o my must reread list; also at some time i elemetary school, I recall Mary Poppis beig read to the class. I must ot forget all the comic books I read durig this period; my favorites were the Classic Series. Had I had a crystal ball, I could Gris ad Grimaces have most likely put my two sos through college based o the value that comic books took o i the 1980 s ad 90 s The oly thig that stads out i my memory i Juior High School is havig to read a lot of Lati, especially Caesar s READING Gallic Wars. Movig o to high school, I cotiued to do a lot of readig. Two books stad out i my memory: Brave New World ad 1984, both of which were o a recommeded list. Brave New World became somewhat otorious i that the owers of the local paper questioed whether it was proper for high school; the family had a Germa exchage studet livig with them ad probably would ot have bee aware of the recommeded list otherwise. The book was ot removed from the recommeded list. I college, beig i a egieerig curriculum, I had little opportuity to read other tha the requiremets i the six Eglish credits required for graduatio. I must admit that I read Lady Chatterley s Lover ad Peyto Place, which seemed to be a rite of passage i the 1950s. After college, I was able to pursue my readig except whe I atteded ight school i graduate studies. I read a lot of fictio ad history with my favorite fictio authors beig Aldous Huxley, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Athoy Trollope, ad the like. I joied Book of the Moth Club ad took most offerigs; oe of the first free offerigs I took was the Will ad Ariel Durat s Civilizatio Series of which I plodded through oe book per year, beig relieved as I fiished each oe ad was able to get ito other readigs. I the 1990s my oldest so gave me a Soy Walkma ad I discovered recorded books that I was able to liste to i my some three hours per day i commutig to ad from work via walkig, the bus, ad the subway. I listeed to both fictio ad o-fictio. Today, I still do as much readig as I ca. I recetly purchased a Kidle with my itetio of readig a lot of the classics that I ve missed over the years. The first book I dowloaded was Mark Twai s Life o the Mississippi. Iroically, oe of the first books my yougest so dowloaded was the same; I do t kow what this might idicate, but we ll have to discuss this. Fially, havig fiished this article, I ow feel free to read My Readig Life. 16 March 2011 Village Life

16 Healthy Brais, Visioaries, Pamperigs Ad Romace To Be Featured At Active Agig Expo By Jaet Garma, Diamod Did you kow that Motgomery Couty raked first o a 2008 list of logest life expectacy i the U.S.A. accordig to a 2008 survey accordig to Moey Magazie? This iformatio comes from oe of the orgaizers of the third aual Gaithersburg Active Agig Expo etitled Your Ecore Performace. The Expo takes place i the Activity Ceter at Bohrer Park, 506 South Frederick Aveue ext to Gaithersburg High School o Moday, May 2 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The evet is free ad o advace reservatios are ecessary. However, AMV residets who wish to take advatage of the bus trasportatio beig arraged by Shememe Williams, Director of Residetial Programmig, eed to call her office at 4113 or her at swilliams@asbury.org. As Asbury residets well kow, keys to successful agig iclude keepig active ad egaged, learig ew thigs ad participatig i ew activities. The Expo will be filled with educatioal talks, iteractive demostratios ad prevetative screeigs. Pamperigs will iclude facials ad massages. There will be a talk by Abigail Reiecker from the Alzheimer s Associatio o The Healthy Brai. Alliso Silberberg will speak about Visioaries i Our Midst: Ordiary People Who Are Makig a Differece, which is the title of her highly acclaimed 2009 book. The Jewish Social Service Agecy will lead a discussio o relatioships ad romace. William Schlosseberg, from the Uiversities at Shady Grove, will talk about re-ivetig ourselves at ay age. Guy Goodeough from the City of Gaithersburg will brig people up-to-date o iteret scams. A pael of artists will talk about their ow ecore experieces with music, paitig ad dace. Brai games, tai chi, creative movemet, ballroom dacig ad chair pilates with Nacy Brouillette of Asbury ad NB Fitess will also be offered to Expo participats. Also puttig i a appearace will be Chari, who at the age of 85, is the oldest balleria i the Guiess Book of Records ad whom some Asbury residets saw perform at the Hefer auditorium this past witer. There will also be free screeigs by Advetist Healthcare ad Suburba Hospital. This is oly a partial listig of the speakers ad activities that participats ca ejoy. At last year s Expo there were over 70 tables from oprofits ad busiesses who offer service ad products for seiors. This year s orgaizers are expectig eve more. The Expo is a partership betwee the City of Gaithersburg, the Motgomery Village Foudatio, Motgomery Couty Housig Opportuities Commissio ad Asbury Methodist Village. Shememe Williams ad Ja Garma serve as Asbury s represetatives o the plaig committee. More iformatio is available at or at Watch Asbury s bulleti boards ad poster boards as May 2 draws earer ad pla to atted! PIPER Cotiued from page 1 talet, Jim joied a bad i Alexadria. I 1999, he chaged membership to the Chesapeake Caledoia Pipe ad Drums i Aapolis. Jim fasciated us with aecdotes of his experieces with these bads. Next, we were treated to a lecture o the compoets of his bagpipe. Jim described the physiology of the istrumet so that we would uderstad how this collectio of parts ca produce the stirrig souds that it does. Of course, the most obvious compoet is the bag which is iflated by the piper with air that is eeded to power the rest of the istrumet. The piper cotiually keeps the air pressure i the bag up, usig the blowstick, so that the music does t go flat. The air flows from the bag through a double reed ito the chater. The chater remided this reviewer of a miiflute. This is where the piper plays the actual music that we hear. Accordig to Jim the chater has eight holes which ca produce ie otes; but o sharps or flats. May variatios of the otes played ca be created icludig what are termed doubligs (2 grace otes precedig a melody ote), grips (a embellishmet betwee otes), throws (similar to grip), ad birls (two fast taps o a particular ote). The air from the bag also passes through the droes, those log cylidrical tubes extedig upward (Jim s bagpipe has three). All three droes produce a steady oe toe soud while the piper is playig the chater. The pitch ca be adjusted. As Jim was puttig all these pieces back together, the reed got detached from the chater ad disappeared ito the bag. Jim proceeded to ope up the bag, reach deeply iside ad recouped the reed which he the reattached to the chater. At least oe i the audiece thought that Jim s searchig i the bag looked like someoe rummagig aroud iside a aimal. This audiece member called out do you eed to kill the thig before you ca play it? This led some of us to imagie, after Jim had the bagpipe i positio to play, that it looked as though he had his left arm aroud the body of a peacock (the bag), with his right had holdig its head dow (the chater), ad its tail feathers splayed upward (the droes). Several times durig his presetatio, Jim favored us by playig selected tues o his bagpipe. The room was set up with the audiece seated at the opposite ed from the stage, while Jim played from a positio just i frot of the stage. This set-up was i cosideratio of the listeers ear drums. Amog the selectios were Day Boy, The Blue Bells of Scotlad, ad Edearig Youg Charms. Savig the best for the last, Jim closed the program playig that marvelous sog, Amazig Grace. Now that we kow more about this uique istrumet, our ejoymet whe hearig it played i the future will be greatly ehaced. Date Evet Cotact 4/8, 5/20, 6/3/11 Natioal Symphoy- Keedy Ceter (S) Otto x5299 4/28/11 Hagley Museum Delaware Sexto x5768 5/20/11 Hillwood Museum Washigto Sexto x5768 5/25-6/5/11 Cruise Charlesto, SC to Baltimore, MD Otto x5299 6/15/11 Harrisburg, PA Trai, Cruise Tour Sexto x5768 9/12-15/11 Figer Lakes, NY Otto x5299 (S) Subscriptio Series Theater ad Travel Committee Day Trips & Tours 2011 Village Life March

17 Doald ad Eve Burkhardt Edwards-Fisher 5G, x5837 With New Year s resolutios firmly i place, Doald ad Eve Burkhardt moved ito Edwards- Fisher Apartmet 5G o Jauary 4, Eve was bor i Viea, Austria ad received her BA from Corell Uiversity, her MA from Bak Street College ad her PhD from Columbia Uiversity. Bor i Buffalo, New York, Doald eared his bachelor s degree from the Uiversity of Buffalo, specializig i biology ad chemistry, receivig his master s i microbiology. Eve has bee a elemetary school teacher ad was Director of the Westchester Family Istitute, Ic. A psychologist-psychotherapist, she has writte books o psychotherapy ad paretig ad has bee iterviewed o umerous ABC News Broadcasts about her paretig philosophy ad other psychological issues. Doald has served as a director of both a Microbiology Laboratory ad a Quality Cotrol Laboratory. He also was a Director of Regulatory Affairs i a pharmacological compay. After retiremet, Doald worked as Director of the Westchester Family Istitute ad its Director of Photography. Eve ad Doald have a large family circle with Eve s two childre plus eight gradchildre ad Doald s four sos ad four gradchildre. Ca you imagie the excitemet of that family reuio? Doald ejoys gardeig, playig pig pog ad doig puzzles while Eve is a bridge ad mah-jogg player ad fids relaxatio i readig books. Her voluteer work has cetered o her field of expertise by providig paretig workshops throughout Westchester Couty, New York, for more tha thirty years, ably assisted by her husbad. Doald is affiliated with the Uited Church of Christ while Eve is a Methodist. With Eve s childre livig overseas it was importat to choose a retiremet locatio ear a iteratioal airport ad after hearig firsthad about Asbury Methodist Village through a curret residet ad thoroughly evaluatig other commuities, Doald ad Eve selected Asbury as their retiremet home. Her ew Asbury frieds ad eighbors have ethusiastically put out the welcome mat. Joa Dulop, Edwards-Fisher Reporter Welcome New Residets Bill ad Mary Hicks Mud 503, x4614 Photo: Ae Porter Whe William ( Bill ) ad Mary Hicks moved ito their Mud apartmet i early February 2011, it seems very likely that this was a first for Asbury. Bill is probably the first residet i Asbury s 85 years to have spet all of his mai career i the U.S. Navy s Submarie Service. He grew up o a dairy farm ear Altooa, Pesylvaia, ad wet to Pe State o a Navy NROTC scholarship, graduatig i His major there, Agricultural Egieerig, helped him a lot i his later work. To get the scholarship, Bill committed himself to four or five years of duty i the Navy, ad he chose the Submarie Service. Reflectig the dyamic, iovative leadership of Hyma Rickover, who rose to be a Admiral, by that time the ew submaries beig added to the fleet were all uclear-powered. New officers were traied from the start i a uclear propulsio program, cosistig of six moths at a uclear power school, six moths of learig how to operate a prototype uclear reactor at oe of three reactor sites, ad six moths at the Submarie School i New Lodo, Coecticut. After this traiig, his first two assigmets were o a submarie i the Wester Pacific ad as a istructor at the uclear power school i Vallejo, Califoria. By the Bill had chose the Navy as his career. For uclear-powered submaries, the crews were assiged to them early i costructio rather tha at commissioig, sice the crew s expertise was eeded i the buildig process. Now a full Lieuteat, Bill was assiged as a egieerig officer o the USS Sufish, uder costructio by the Electric Boat Co. i Quicy, Massachusetts ad was with her for over two years. He was ext the Egieerig Officer (i.e., chief egieer) o the USS Dace, i the Atlatic ad the Mediterraea; was attached for three years to a squadro based i New Lodo; ad became Executive Officer (secod-i-commad) o the USS Philadelphia. Promoted to Lieuteat Commader ad the Commader, Bill became Commadig Officer of the USS William H. Bates, based i Sa Diego. After further promotio to the rak of Captai, Bill was successively Deputy Squadro Commader at Norfolk, Virgiia; seior member of the uclear propulsio examiig board; ad Commader of Squadro 11 i Sa Diego. There followed a two-year tour of duty at the Petago before Bill retired from the Navy i The Hickses had settled i Burke, Virgiia whe Bill s Petago postig bega, ad after he left the Navy he worked for the Dept. of Eergy for 15 years i the areas of assembly ad disassembly of uclear weapos ad disposal of uclear waste. He later voluteered i the AARP program of helpig citizes with icome tax preparatio. Mary hails from Milwaukee ad eared a BS i Social Work from the Uiversity of Wiscosi. She was a field ad camp director with the Girl Scouts, ad the was a full-time or parttime teacher i school or preschool at various times; she was also a full-time mother for much of the time whe her childre were growig. She met Bill o a visit to Vallejo, Califoria whe he was statioed there. Their older so, Michael, is a Professor of Computer Sciece at the Uiversity of Marylad ad lives i Burtosville. Their youger so, Patrick, likewise with a Ph.D. degree i Computer Sciece, is a priest ad mok at St. Vicet Moastery i Latrobe, Pesylvaia. Rod Mills, Mud Reporter Louise Ray Trott 106, x6687 Photo: Hal Gaut It was a lovely, suy afteroo whe I visited Louise Ray i her apartmet o the first floor of Trott. Her parlor was bright ad welcomig. She had recetly moved i, but there was o sig of upacked boxes; everythig was i order. Louise made me feel right at home. There were may framed photographs of frieds ad family which she shared with me. It was obvious that they were special to her. Louise was bor i Gaithersburg, to a family of three boys ad oe girl. Her father farmed, did carpetry work ad, like so may me of that time, aythig else that eeded to be doe. She also lived i Rockville ad graduated from Rockville High School. After her mother died, Louise shared a home i Germatow with her brother Tommy ad his wife. Whe her sister-i-law suffered a major stroke, she ad her brother lovigly cared for her for three years at home. After he was widowed, her brother moved ito a Surise facility i Frederick. O the advice ad ecouragemet of close frieds, she moved to Asbury, joiig her sister Isabel 18 March 2011 Village Life

18 Powell, who resides i Wilso Health Ceter. Louise had a remarkable career -- she worked for People s Drug Stores for 50+ years always i the Rockville store. Whe she retired she was maager of the Cosmetic Departmet. She said Peoples was a good place to work, ad she ejoyed her years there. At this time Louise is sufferig from some eye problems, but hopes to get some good ews whe she sees a eye specialist ext moth. She s also hopig to atted Suday Services at the Chapel soo. Whe we bega our visit, Louise said I do t kow how you ll be able to write about me. I m just a coutry girl ad am very shy. I ve always liked coutry girls ad foud Louise to be very friedly. If you see her please say, Hi ad welcome. You ll have made a ew fried. Joa Brubaker, Trott Reporter Marily Lowell Bu Mud 608, x5419 Photo: Ae Porter Although bor i Kasas, Marily grew up ear Greeley, Colorado o a farm, which became etirely a dairy farm. She was a oly child, atteded progressive schools, ad ejoyed horseback ridig ad may pets. She atteded the Uiversity of Colorado at Boulder, graduatig i 1947 with a double major i Ecoomics ad Philosophy. Racial justice became a pricipal iterest. Marily came to Washigto, DC ad first worked for a church-related orgaizatio arragig semiars for clergyme ad studets. She met her future husbad, David Bu, who was a Navy vetera from Texas, whe he came to Washigto. They were married i 1949 ad moved to Colorado where David received a M.A. i Public Admiistratio from the Uiversity of Dever. Thereafter David worked for the Goveror of Colorado ad Marily i the Educatio Dept. of the Natioal Farmers Uio. They both became heavily ivolved i Democratic Party politics ad worked i the campaigs of Democratic office-seekers icludig Adlai Steveso; David maaged the campaig of a U.S. Seate cadidate. The Bus three childre were bor i Colorado. Whe Joh F. Keedy became Presidet David occupied a high-level job i the Post Office Dept., the a White House post whe Lydo Johso became Presidet. Marily orgaized cofereces ad worked part-time for members of the Marylad State Geeral Assembly. They lived i the Baockbur area of Bethesda. Welcome New Residets After the Nixo-Humphrey electio it was back to Colorado, where David cotiued to work for the Post Office. But they retured to this area, David became a executive for several trade associatios, ad Marily worked parttime for her husbad. Evetually they bega to split their time betwee Bethesda ad a codomiium commuity i Sarasota, Florida. David died i Marily came to Asbury i September Marily speds a lot of time maagig property she ows i Colorado. She has bee a avid traveler, ad has bee to Eglad, Frace, Germay, Greece, Italy, the Netherlads, Spai, the Czech Republic, Hugary, Turkey, Chia, Japa, Hog Kog, Sigapore, Idia, Idoesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, ad South Africa. She has also studied ad traveled i Mexico. The Bus were amog the fouders of River Road Uitaria Church i Bethesda. Marily s youger so lives i Califoria, her older so i earby Emory Grove, ad her daughter i Germatow. Rod Mills, Mud Reporter Betty M. Crosby Diamod 919, x4716 Betty Crosby moved to Asbury o Jauary 12, 2011 from her home i Bethesda. Bor ad raised i Northwest Washigto, D.C., she graduated from Wester High School ad worked for the Ratioig Board durig the Secod World War. After her first marriage i 1944, she raised her three childre ad the worked for her husbad, Gle Koepeick, i his hardware store ad later i his real estate office. Gle passed away at age 49 ad she married Ted Crosby, who passed away last October. Betty has frieds who live i Park View, so she was familiar with Asbury but checked out other facilities before movig to Asbury. Betty is the proud mother of three childre ad has te gradchildre ad five great gradchildre. She also has four stepchildre, te step-gradchildre ad two step-great gradchildre. She ejoys cocerts ad the theater ad also ejoys playig cards although she is ot a bridge player. I the past, she has traveled extesively icludig trips to Australia, may Europea ad South America coutries, as well as Japa ad Sigapore. She loved golf ad bowlig util leg surgery preveted her from participatig i these sports. --Jaet Garma, Diamod Reporter Ae (Nacy) Eckert Mud 806, x6183 Nacy joied our Mud family i mid-november, She moved here from Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, to be ear her daughter Margie ad soi-law Gary, who she says, treat her like a quee. Nacy was Photo: Ae Porter bor at home i Melrose Park, a suburb of Philadelphia. She was sixth i a family of eleve childre. Her father, whom she describes as lovig ad carig, iterested all the childre i sports. Nacy became proficiet i field hockey, teis ad ice skatig. She was i the Ardmore Skatig Club ad Philadelphia Skatig Club. Her father also isisted that all the childre lear a trade. So after her graduatio from Chelteham High School i Melrose Park, Nacy atteded Pierce Busiess School. The, after workig i several offices, she took a job i the Abigto Savigs Bak. There she was bookkeeper ad steographer for eight years. At the bak she met her future husbad Joseph, who was her boss s eighbor. They were married i 1949 ad had 47 happy years together. Nacy has four livig childre: two girls ad two boys, ad three gradchildre. All good kids! Nacy s religious affiliatio is Roma Catholic. We welcome Nacy ad her sweet smile. Ruthie Swai, Mud Reporter WATERCOLORS Cotiued from page 18 level of skill displayed i the class. As Ruth Lotz, a prize-wiig artist who lives i the Diamod Buildig, says, Susa Herro is perfect for Asbury! Ad Asbury is the perfect place for hoig your paitig skills. Whe classes are ot i sessio, we ca still get together to pait o Tuesday ad Thursday morigs i the same Diamod Arts ad Crafts room where the classes are held. It is the Ope Studio you see listed weekly o the AVTV scroll. Artists of all levels are welcome to come, pait ad share the camaraderie ad support of, amog others, professioals like Ruth ad eophytes like me. Who kows whe we will spot the ext Turer, Sarget or Homer. Could it be you? Village Life March

19 A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE No-Profit Orgaizatio U. S. Postage PAID Rockville, MD Permit No Asbury Methodist Village Commuicatios Departmet 201 Russell Aveue Gaithersburg, MD VILLAGE LIFE: A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE Photo: Hal Gaut Hal Gaut caught the moo at its biggest ad brightest full moo sice Accordig to Mother Nature Network, the full moo of March was 221,565 miles (356,575 kilometers) away o Saturday, March 19 just 50 miutes after it hit its full phase. The supermoo pheomeo occurred because the moo was i its full phase ad just 50 miutes past perigee the poit of its orbit that brigs it closer to Earth. 20 March 2011 Village Life