March 2011 Volume 18 Number 2 A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE Residets, Associates, Families & Frieds www.asburymethodistvillage.org By Hal Gaut, Trott What do a Captai s table, a Chef s table, the little clear plastic boxes at the diig room podiums, ad the author have i commo? FOOD! (FREE food!) There is somethig about sharig a commo deomiator of food that brigs people together. Whether it s a State dier, tradig Twikies i the luch room, or aythig i betwee, breakig bread together is a traditio that levels the playig field. Last year our Diig Services departmet iitiated what they call a Captai s Table, desiged to brig residets ad maagemet together i just such a settig i the Park View diig room. About 8 or 10 residets were picked by lot ad ivited to share a table with a equal umber of AMV Seior Staff. We had free ru of the a la carte meu ad service was impeccable. I do t thik ayoe there ca view their dier parters i the same light as they did before they sat dow. Ad these Captai s Tables cotiue to occur o a bi-mothly basis, rotatig aroud the campus to Chef/Captai s Table Photo: Hal Gaut the various diig veues. Buildig o the success of that evet, Diig services ow also hosts a Chefs Table. Due to logistical costraits it is always held dowstairs i the Crawford kitche ext to Parker Hall. Typically 12 residets are selected, agai Cotiued o page 15 Architect s rederig of The House for Betty. A House for Betty By Jeae North, Trott I a bold, forward-lookig move, Asbury Methodist Village is spotlightig oe of today s most pressig health issues a progressive, debilitatig, life-chagig disease that attacks the brai, evetually leavig its victim prey to memory loss, cogitive declie ad death Alzheimer s disease. Age seems clearly to be the major risk factor i gettig Alzheimer s: while oly 5 percet of Americas over 65 have the disease, that percet icreases to early 50 percet i those 85 years ad older. How to accommodate the disabled elderly i our midst, limited as they are i the ability to perform the most mudae tasks of daily life for themselves? At a Tow Hall Meetig held i the Rosborough Theatre o February 9, AMV Executive Director David Deto, joied by a pael that icluded Ke Noree, Chief Strategy Officer, Asbury Commuities, Ic. ad Presidet, The Asbury Group; Mike Reyolds, Vice Presidet, Project Developmet, The Asbury Group; ad Gary Steier, Parter, Perkis Eastma, preseted the outlies of a project aimed at solvig that riddle. With support from the Natioal Cotiued o page 2 by lot, ad they are joied by four staff members (other tha Chefs), to ejoy a eveig of uforgettable cuisie. Why o Chefs? Well these folks are busy workig over a hot stove preparig our diers. Havig heard about this evet from frieds o campus who had participated, I almost swallowed the phoe whe I got a call from Mark Whale tellig us that our ames had bee draw ad equirig as to whether Marily ad I would be available oe day last fall. Let me see if I ca summarize without droolig all over my computer. At about 5:00 p.m. the dier guests gathered i the Parker Hall lobby. Soo we were ushered by our Maître de, Carlos Castillo, ito the kitche where two large roud tables had bee set up ad decorated i a maer befittig a restaurat of a level I could ever afford. Just beyod the table, preparig the five courses we would be eatig, were Chef Gus ad Chef Mark (yes, Mark really is a fie chef whe he is t buried by paper work). The major dif What is Alzheimer s disease? a progressive, degeerative, irreversible brai disease that over time destroys memory ad thikig skills, ultimately iterferig with the simplest of tasks of daily livig Who gets it? Mostly people over 60. More wome tha me, because wome live loger. Oe survey says that half the people over 85 have Alzheimer s. How may Americas have the disease today? Estimates vary, but oe survey says at least 5.1 millio. What are the risk factors? Primarily, age. Also, geetics seem to play a role. What are the symptoms? Memory loss, misplacig objects, becomig lost i familiar eighborhoods, repeatig the same stories over ad over agai; i a later stage, patiets get more ad more cofused The Basics ad disorieted, uable to lear ew thigs or carry out complicated tasks such as gettig dressed, brushig their teeth or combig their hair; fially, they may ot recogize family members, may ot thik they are i their real home. At some poit, the perso will eed 24-hour care, someoe to offer help with eatig, toiletig, bathig, groomig, dressig ad to moitor all other activities. Is there a cure? Not at the preset, though some medicatios may be able to slow the process of degeeratio ad treat behavioral symptoms such as sleeplessess, axiety, agitatio, ager or depressio. Research is ogoig. For more iformatio, cosult your physicia ad/or the Alzheimer s Foudatio, the Alzheimer s Associatio, the Natioal Istitute o Agig or the America Academy of Neurology.
Letter to the Editor As Asbury Methodist Village Moves to Preserve its Pastoral Character VILLAGE LIFE While it has certaily bee commedable to see Asbury Methodist Village seek to preserve its remaiig ope space through its recet partership with the Wildlife Habitat Coucil, I m certai may of our residets have bee active supporters of such evirometal edeavors for may years. Log-time residets Avis ad Bill Moore of the villas have certaily bee at the forefrot of such importat iitiatives. Avis Moore presetly serves o the Board of Potomac Riverkeepers, Ic., ad Bill s so-i-law, Mr. Ed Merrifield, is the Potomac Riverkeeper ad Presidet. This orgaizatio has built a reputatio for stoppig pollutio ad protectig our water supply, ad was recetly amed oe of the best oprofits i the Greater Washigto, DC area. Avis Moore also served as a member of the Board of Directors, Frieds of the Earth, a orgaizatio with the missio of defedig the eviromet ad champios for a healthy ad just world. She also previously served o Asbury s Future Projects PAC. With Asbury Methodist Village also workig with The Natioal Seior Coservatio Corps i its evirometal stewardship, I thik our residets ca gai some assurace that the pastoral beauty of our campus will be preserved ad carefully balaced agaist ay further campus developmet. It has bee this ope space quality that has made the campus of Asbury Methodist village such a distictive attractio while also demostratig the importace of preservig atural resources. Joe Feiberg, Villas Editor Lida Williams Aber Director of Commuicatios Asbury Methodist Village 201 Russell Aveue Gaithersburg, MD 20877 laber@asbury.org Geeral iformatio: 301-330-3000 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 Oops! I the story o the 85th aiversary of Asbury Methodist Village i the Jauary/February issue of Village Life, we should have said that the dairy farm called Rollig Acres, ow site of AMV, beloged earlier to Walter (ot William) Magruder. I the photo accompayig the article Sewig Up A Storm i the same issue, the perso idetified as Jeae Jarvis was i fact Rose Melto of Park View. Our apologies! Help Wated, Kidley Residet Staff Wallace: Keith Steele ad Mary Waldro. Diamod: Harry Lowery, BETTY Cotiued from page 1 Architect s rederig of The House for Betty. Alma Stewart Mac McCullough, Edith Isacke, ad Ja Garma. Edwards-Fisher: Joa Dulop, Rosemary Pasek, Luella LeVee. Architect s rederig of The House for Betty. Alzheimer s Associatio alog with a ecouragig push from LeadigAge, a atioal oprofit orgaizatio represetig ot-for-profit cotiuig care retiremet commuities, AMV has bee workig diligetly o a ew project: A House for Betty, a model home (actually, three homes) dedicated to be a refuge where a perso with Alzheimer s could live idepedetly, safely ad comfortably, with a family member ad/or caregiver. The homes are to be located at the southeast corer of Asbury property, at Russell Aveue ad Lee Streets, across the street from Gaithersburg s Historic District. Though early o some residets of the District voiced objectios to the project at a public hearig i City Coucil Chamber, may of the issues raised seem to have bee resolved. With cottage-like appeal but every moder coveiece, the House for Betty provides eclosed garde space that allows outdoor ejoymet but ihibits waderig; laudry space is cotaied i such a way as to ihibit etrace by the residet; the primary bedroom is large eough to allow for two beds if ecessary, while separate livig quarters give a caregiver the space ecessary to rest ad refuel. For AMV CEO David Deto, the plus side of the House for Betty project is readily apparet: For AMV ad the greater commuity of older adults we serve, he says. The expectatio is that the igeuity ad thoughtful evirometal desig ad techological cosideratios icorporated ito these homes will become recogized for their merits i accommodatig the eeds ad wats of the growig umber of idividuals affected by Alzheimer s disease. Is there a dowside to udertakig this project? Says Deto: We are aticipatig there will be tremedous local ad atioal iterest i this project. The immediate dowside is that demad will far exceed supply o our campus. The target date of October set for completio of oe home, also the moth of the Aual Meetig of LeadigAge i Washigto, D.C., would allow the House for Betty to be a attractio for visitors from afar to explore this ew model. Is it really possible to fiish oe model home by October? Says Mike Reyolds, Vice Presidet of Project Developmet: It s possible, assumig all ecessary permits are secured ad exteral factors such as weather alig with our plas. We are optimistic about fiishig i October, ad at the same time, must always factor i cotigecies whe udertakig ay sigificat project such as this. Ad may the March wids blow a kiss to Betty Goe i Florida! Mud: Gil Syder, Do Starkweather, A 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 Rempe @ Electroic Ik Pritig: Chesapeake Publishig Corp. 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
Mary Photo: Celia Natha We residets o Kidley s fifth floor are lucky to have Mary Kig Sleema as a residet o our floor. O Saturday, Feb. 12, four getleme appeared ad gave Mary a red rose ad a valetie. They sag You are My Valetie ad Heart of My Heart. Mary Crismod said what a privilege to have the Red Robi Barbershop Quartet sig for Mary. Ke Sleema is Mary s so. Virgiia Offutt, Kidley reporter Chess Moves By Jack Briley, Mud The Asbury chess aficioados were at it agai with their mothly meetig o February 12 i their ew veue i the Mud Leisure Art Ceter o the groud floor. The Asbury residets were Jack Briley, Duae McKea, Rex Naylor, Do Starkweather, Bob Tedesco, ad Dave Webster. There were three guests: Charles Mustafa, Bob Ulchak ad Dave Starkweather. There were five boards i play. The activity was too much for this reporter to attempt a aalysis of the games, but the white pieces seemed to have a slight edge, wiig three games to two for black with o draw. The victors showed o mercy ad the vaquished wet dow fightig. Eve though there were hard-fought battles o the chess boards, the afteroo eded o a amicable ote. Do s graddaughter, Mallory, provided emolliece to the players i the form of heart-shaped Valetie cookies. Our ext meetig will be Saturday March 12 from oe to five p.m. i the Mud Leisure Arts Ceter. We welcome ay players from Wallace, Diamod, Park View ad the Villas Call Jack Briley (x5926) or Do Starkweather (x5832) for more iformatio. A Traditio Cotiues By Mary Astead, Villas Five years ago, six couples gathered together i the Guild Chapel to reew their marriage vows i celebratio of Valetie s Day. Each subsequet year several couples have celebrated together i February for dier. This year was o exceptio as agai five couples met for dier i Park View diig room. Celebratig together were Mike ad Phyllis Skiba, George ad Jea Aubrey, Charlie ad Evely Kiser, Jack ad Jae Kruth, ad Bob ad Mary Astead. With the elegat ambiece of Park View ad the careful attetio by the staff, we ejoyed a cotiuig traditio. Edwards-Fisher Night at the Crawford Diig Room By Le Jakubczak, Edwards-Fisher Piaists ad sigers from the Edwards-Fisher apartmet buildig ad Asbury maagemet kidled the holiday spirits of the diers at the Crawford Diig Room o Saturday, December 4, 2010. From 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Jaice Rex, Alma Rhodes ad Roy Wampler, all Edwards-Fisher residets, took turs playig short reditios of traditioal Christmas tues, thus complemetig the bright ad colorful holiday decoratios scattered aroud Asbury Methodist Village. Also, the diig room maager, Da Keiper, added spice to the eveig by a surprise, impromptu piao reditio of some big bad era tues. At 6 p.m., as a short fiale, sevetee Magificet Me of Edwards- Fisher rose from their tables, sigig Glory, Glory Halleluiah, ad joiig Roy Wampler at the piao. After dedicatig their sigig to Ralph Wilbur, Edwards-Fisher s abset musical director, ad to all the wome of Asbury Methodist Village, the me sag adaptatios of Stout Hearted Me, You Are My [Our] Sushie, ad fially Jigle Bells, as they retured to their tables, ad the diers joied i. The first of its kid, this holiday performace had bee coceived ad orgaized by Edwards-Fisher s ow Rev. Ralph ad Ruth Spoor as a cotributio to the holiday spirit of Asbury Methodist Village at-large. The associates of the Crawford Diig room had ethusiastically welcomed the cocept ad cheerfully joied i its preparatio ad implemetatio. The Magificet Me of Edwards-Fisher have traditioally hoored the wome of Edwards-Fisher, who outumber the me approximately two-to-oe, at the buildig s aual Christmas parties. The me ow wated to share their ethusiasm ad vocal aspiratios i a larger veue. Noe, however, is plaig to quit his day job! By Mary Mehrig, Villas Soo the commo grackle will be arrivig i our eighborhood. These large birds, about the size of a blue jay, come orth i late witer to est ad raise their youg. They are dark purple to black, have iridescet feathers of blue, gree, ad broze, ad a bright yellow eye. They desced i large flocks o our feeders ad empty them i oe day. A loud, icessat screech aouces their arrival ad cotiues util their departure i mid-august. While we dread the migratio orth of the commo grackle we rejoice as the male orther cardial begis to aticipate sprig by callig ad whistlig high up o a tree brach. All fall ad witer the beautiful male cardial has chased the females away from our suflower seeds ad peauts. Now, i late witer, he is chasig other males away ad courteously permittig the female to feed udisturbed. Soo he will be feedig a female of his choice, or more likely a male of her choice, a suflower meal. Bird Bits Babies, with their black bills, will be etertaiig us as sprig ad summer arrive. I a prior article I wrote about our purple marti coloy o the shore or the Chesapeake Bay. Last year we fledged eighty-oe youg martis from our four alumium houses. We had oe sad icidet. A large black sake, that we had see i the area, wet aroud a metal pole guard iteded to prevet predators, ad o up the metal pole to oe of our houses. The sake killed three almost fully grow babies. There were still two uharmed babies i the rear compartmet of the double room. I the literature it has bee reported that martis will ot retur to a house that has bee raided by a sake. We wodered what would become of the two remaiig babies. Happily, the parets retured to feed both babies ad they fledged i aother week. We look forward to the retur of our purple martis i early April. Birds, i geeral, are fasciatig ad we lear somethig ew about their care ad feedig every year. Village Life March 2011 3
A Luch Group That Really Clicks By Rod Mills, Mud This writer has bee a member, almost sice its iceptio i 1997, of a luch group that meets i a Washigto restaurat. The members of the group are all retirees of the Iteratioal Fiace Divisio of the Federal Reserve Board i Washigto. We meet at oo every Thursday except Thaksgivig, other Thursday holidays, ad Christmas Eve. Sice the group has bee meetig uiterruptedly for 14 years ad has grow steadily i size from a iitial two persos to the preset cout of 12 (although we rarely have so may all at oe time), the idea of gettig together this way would have to be judged quite a success. Oe reaso for this is the fact that our luches require o orgaizatioal effort whatsoever o oe i our group eeds to fid out how may persos will show up o ay give Thursday, ad there is o eed to make ay reservatio at the restaurat. Cosequetly, you ca show up or ot, as your schedule allows, ad it will make o differece except that if you do t come your compay will be missed. How this ca be will become clear below. We have bee meetig all these years at Listrai s Restaurat o MacArthur Boulevard i D.C., a block south of the itersectio with Arizoa Ave. Besides havig good food (almost all Italia) alog with reasoable prices, Listrai s has a extraordiary flexibility i the accommodatio of its patros. All the tables are square tables for four that ca be easily pushed together to seat however may guests there are i the party. It does help that whe we come dribblig i, oe by oe, at oo time, the restaurat is cosiderably less full tha it becomes soo afterwards. But eve whe we have a uusually big group o a particular day, if ecessary Listrai s ca seat the later arrivals by merely addig o more square tables as eeded. Admittedly, a log table is ot as satisfactory for coversatioal purposes as a roud table, but Listrai s has o roud tables i ay evet. We usually have aroud six to ie persos at a time. I additio to the seatig flexibility there is aother feature of the restaurat that makes for a smooth-ruig meal. We all like Listrai s, where for 14 years a group of frieds have bee meetig, eatig, ad talkig. Italia food, ad usually each perso chooses oe of their lucheo specials, typically soup or salad followed by either a submarie sadwich (of which there is a great variety), or a paii, or pizza, or a bowl of pasta. The prices of the various specials are idetical or early so. Almost all of us have ice tea, brought to us i pitchers with ulimited refills, ad o oe wats beer or wie at midday. So whe the total bill comes we just divide it by however may there are of us to get each perso s share o hagglig over who had what. We all pay cash to whichever member of the group is settlig the bill, ad he leaves a geerous tip i recogitio of the excellet service we always get. Parkig for luch is ot a problem. We park o a residetial street that rus parallel to ad just west of MacArthur Boulevard, where durig the day there are always eough spaces. Our group has mushroomed because retirees from the Iteratioal Fiace Divisio have joied up as they retired the word havig filtered back that our luches are fu while at the same time we have lost oly two members, oe to death ad oe to a move to Califoria. At preset our group cosists of eight me ad four wome. Almost all are ecoomists who did postgraduate work i ecoomics before joiig the Fed. But while the similarities i educatio ad career do help to brig about a feelig of togetheress ad collegiality, by o meas do ecoomic subjects domiate our coversatio. Whe some matter i the fiacial or other field of ecoomics is i the ews headlies, of course we are very likely to talk about it, especially if it ivolves the Federal Reserve. But much more of the time is spet talkig about other thigs. Ispiratio Poit Life While you may ot be able to do aythig about the legth of your life, you ca do somethig about its width ad its depth. If you are t happy with the life you are livig, it s up to you to do somethig about it. Several of us are lifelog baseball fas, ad love to talk about what is happeig i baseball or remiisce about iterestig momets i the past. (Beig the oldest i the group, I ejoy tellig aecdotes from the 1930s that the rest are too youg to kow about.) A few members have a great iterest i literature ad the Eglish laguage geerally, ad we like to talk about the chages goig o i our laguage. Almost everyoe i the group is heavily ito the Iteret, the mai exceptio beig me, ad there is a lot of discussio of this, most of which is beyod my comprehesio. Nearly all of us have doe cosiderable foreig travel, ad travel abroad ad foreig cultures are a frequet topic of our coversatio. Beig the ages we are, there is a lot of talk about health care ad medicie. As to domestic politics, our group icludes liberals, archcoservatives, ad cetrists, ad while some partisa remarks are ofte heard there is ot much of what you would call two-way coversatio i this area. I imagie that, over a period of time, our coversatio does t differ much from that of most retired professioals. I ay case, beig part of the group, eve if oly for 1-1/2 hours a week, is a lot of fu, ofte very iformative, ad a ice break from my usual routie of everyday livig. Ad we have to thak Listrai s for makig it so easy to get together this way. Martha A. Brow, Director of Pastoral Care 4 March 2011 Village Life
Vaity: Blessig or Curse? By Jeae North, Trott The best thig is to always tell the truth. I really did t wat to tell people that I was havig a ew lower bridge put i my mouth (there, I do t eve like to write those words!) ad would t be able to eat or talk very well for perhaps a week (or wheever the ew bridge came back from the lab). But whe I fially had to explai to Lida just why I was t comig to dier, she exclaimed, Oh I heard you hurt yourself!!! So there I was, havig to explai the real reaso ad put speculatio, rumor ad wrog assumptios to rest. It s all because of the curse or the blessig of vaity. Does t every woma wat to look her best? The blessig of vaity is that you make a effort to put o the best face possible, literally. Eve at the ripe old age of 84 a woma ca hie herself to the beauty shop for a weekly shampoo ad blow dry, decide suddely that eye shadow ad mascara ad rouge (or do they call it blush these days?) will ehace oe s looks. Why does it matter? Just because it does. Makes oe feel good, that s why. Does this make me guilty of the si of vaity? Not likely; I m hardly oe of those Reaissace wome depicted i paitigs lougig provocatively o a couch, comb ad mirror i had, jewels ad gold cois all about, represetig self-adulatio ad pride ad egoism. Still, it was all because of the curse of vaity that I spet the better part of a week mostly i my apartmet, watig to put a bag over my head ad ot see a soul. Okay, so I did fially seak out to go to the fitess ceter, tryig to avoid the busiest times so I did t have to talk to ayoe. Goig to the diig room was poitless, sice I was subsistig mostly o soup, yogurt ad applesauce. By Thursday I had discovered that facig people I did t kow was far less itimidatig tha talkig with my Asbury frieds, so I took myself to the post office. Guess what: the post office clerk did t stare or ask what happeed to you or ru off i fright, ad the bus driver was more iterested i buggig me for the Metro card I did t have tha i examiig my mouth. Suddely, it all sak i: my so-called problem was t as importat as I thought. Lesso leared: tell the truth, keep thigs i perspective (after all, this was ot oe of life s Major Crises), ad keep it light. It will all come out i the wash. 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 From Goldsmith to Google Ad still they gazed ad still the woder grew That oe small head could carry all he kew --Oliver Goldsmith A charmig picture of 18th cetury village Eglad. The he was the village schoolmaster/parso, the villagers source of iformatio ad repository of kowledge. Nowadays the schoolmaster s ame is Google, or Wikipedia or some other source ame for iformatio. No more trudgig to the local school. Today s searcher for iformatio merely has to tur to a small accessory or computer ad tap i the word Google, or whatever, ad he is flooded with iformatio. It has become so routie that his state of woder is log past. Could there be aother Goldsmith who has writte verse to describe today s search after kowledge? Ask Google! Meet Sadra Pollack, Director of Developmet Asbury Foudatio By Maroly Hatch, Villas Welcome to Sadra Pollack, the Foudatio s ew Director of Developmet. She has bee a o-profit professioal for almost 30 years. Startig out doig special evets with a atioal, volutary, health agecy, Ms. Pollack has built her career o assistig others i brigig their philathropic dreams to life. Durig her time i both local ad atioal agecies, such as the Muscular Dystrophy Associatio, Multiple Sclerosis Society, America Lug Associatio, March of Dimes ad Epilepsy Foudatio, Ms. Pollack has built a prove track record i associatio maagemet, program developmet, reveue geeratio ad voluteer ad staff developmet. Over the last 25 years, she has also preseted ad writte for atioal orgaizatios several articles o oprofit maagemet topics ad is committed to buildig a culture of philathropy where she serves. Most recetly, Ms. Pollack spet more tha seve years workig for Washigto Couty Hospital as Executive Director of the Atietam Healthcare Foudatio. There she built the Foudatio s capacity ad led a successful $16-millio capital ad edowmet campaig. She states that the completio of the Asbury Foudatio $5-millio campaig speaks to the expertise of Foudatio staff ad leadership; the commitmet of residet leaders who took o this challege; ad the may doors, mostly residets ad associates, who cared eough to make a commitmet to the campaig to create a better commuity for all. Ms. Pollack says that the success of the recet campaig demostrates that eve i a ucertai ecoomy, people still fid ways to help those Photo: Hal Gaut i eed. She fids it upliftig to see how may people share what they have for the bettermet of those aroud them. The curret, soft ecoomy clearly demostrates the cotiuig eed for establishig ad fudig the edowmet for beevolet care. The Foudatio offers may ways to help idividuals make doatios to this importat effort while simultaeously givig them opportuities to meet their ow fiacial eeds as well. As she begis her employmet at Asbury, Ms. Pollack hopes to build o the past successes of the Foudatio. Over the ext 3-6 moths, her short-term pla icludes three mai areas: Hearig from residets about how they thik the Foudatio ca assist the commuity as a whole ad them idividually. Ms. Pollack says, As the Foudatio begis strategic plaig for the future, this will be a great opportuity for me to lear about the culture at AMV ad the eeds of those who live here ; Creatig more opportuities for doors to see their cotributios at work. She will be lookig for various ways to commuicate this importat iformatio; ad fially Explorig other ways for doors to get ivolved i philathropy. Village Life March 2011 5
By Maroly Hatch, Villas Outwitted by Edwi Markham: They drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thig to flout. But love ad I had the wit to wi We drew a circle that took them i. The poem writte i 1913 is ot Markham s most memorable yet it has stayed with me for over 40 years. Ad while i my lifetime, the America revolutio of the 1960s better mirrors the tesio betwee a rigid social, religious, ad political eviromet tha does today s America culture, it speaks to me still. Our recet politics have bee agry efforts to exile thikers with whom we do t agree. Pro-choice vs. Pro- Life. Christia vs. Muslim. Wealthy vs. poor. Youth vs. Aged. Me vs. you. Followers vs. leaders. Newspapers are bettig their lives o their belief that the public thrives o cofrotatio, suspicio ad iuedo. Thus they give egotiatio, collaboratio ad peace short shrift. How is it that the more mature we become the more we wat to The Elastic Mid circle the wagos to protect our ideas or thoughts? What is it we fear i hearig both sides of a issue? Why do we feel a loss of cotrol i differece? Remember whe the Beetles were cosidered subversive? Whe Elvis was thought immoral? Well, what do you thik ow of Madoa or Lady Gaga? Okay, that was a hard ball. I do t thik very highly of them either, although I have to admit that by moetary stadards, both are successful etertaiers. For good or bad they have fudametally chaged our culture. I have two small gold pis that my mother used to esure that her uderwear straps ever became public. My graddaughters sped cosiderable time purchasig uderwear garmets that coordiate with their outerwear. I wear a chemise for warmth; they wear them i the summer ucovered to be cool, i both seses of the word. While I ve oly see oe me s Speedo at the Rosborough pool, they certaily were popular a few years ago. Ad who would have thought that the plumber s low riders would shape the fashio of our youg wome. Times chage ad while I do t advocate that ay of us adopt the style of Lady Gaga or Mark Spitz, I also hope we will ot become metal diosaurs. To this ed I propose a revisio of Markham s poem. I drew a circle to keep them away But love ad humor my scor did sway. Now I circle them with ope arms Ad look upo their idiosycrasies as silly charms. A Traditio Of Reuse By Mary Astead, Villas Now that we have RENEWed our resolutios to care for our eviromet, we ca focus o the REUSE of may commo, ad ot so commo, items. The essece from prepared vegetables ca be collected i a jar i the freezer ad REUSEd as the basis of the broth for homemade soup. The left-over hamburgers ca be cut up for REUSE i that spaghetti sauce. The waxed sacks i the cereal boxes ca be REUSEd for sadwich bags o trips ad picics or opeed to roll a pie crust. Speakig about sacks ad bags, o February 5 th i Parker Hall, Nacy Jo Leachma, daughter of Jim ad Erma Lordema, Trott, preseted a very etertaiig ad iformative talk o millig history, marketig, advertisig art ad politics cetered o a piece of cloth. Dozes of Kasas flour sacks were projected o the scree ad discussed with etertaiig atidotes. Durig a famie i Belgium, the Commissio for Relief i Belgium (CRB) shipped seve millio pouds of flour packaged i cotto bags from America mills. The bags were REUSEd to fashio decorative as well as fuctioal items. I the Herbert Hoover Library-Museum there is a large collectio of WWI flour sacks. Eve NacyJo s sister, A, modeled a dress made out of flour sacks. Before ad after the talk, several residets shared their depressio-era experieces REUSig flour ad feed sacks. Harlee Buchaa, Park View, lived i easter Kasas, south of Topeka durig the period 1933-1943. She recalls the produce wago comig 1-2 times a week to pick up their fresh produce ad drop off 100-poud sacks of chickefeed. Durig this period her pataloos, petticoats, ad dresses were fashioed from the bags (two for a dress). Some sacks were fie eough for baby clothes. Four to five sacks made a good bed sheet. She eve has a patchwork quilt made from REUSEd sacks. Whe she wated to buy a bicycle i 1943, she collected the sacks ad sold them to people for 10 cets each. Fivead te-poud sugar sacks were REUSEd for makig cottage cheese. Bobbye Kudzma, Trott, recalls the REUSE of flour sacks to store dried fruit for the witer. She still has a table cloth made from cor meal sacks. She recalls that the millers wives made the sacks, the millers filled the sacks, ad their customers REUSEd them. Nothig wet to waste. Floyd Mauer, Villas, also experieced the REUSE of flour/feed sacks i Delaware Couty, New York i the 1930s. The sturdy white cloths were prized for towels, table cloths, ad eve sheets. To remove the colored logos, his aut spread lard o them, let them lie overight, ad scrubbed the b jeebers out of the bags. Thikig REUSE i a big way, his mother decided to make sofa covers. She eeded eight to te matchig feed bags i a crimso o white toile patter. Amog the sacks stacked four to five deep at the mill, it was his job to fid those sacks of feed that met his mom s requiremets for color ad desig! Ca you imagie movig 100-poud sacks to satisfy a lad s desire for matchig slip covers? Our parets did it! We ca too! REUSE, REUSE, REUSE! 6 March 2011 Village Life
It s A Guy Thig To Shovel or ot to Shovel By Da Muller, Villas As I write this, it has sowed a couple of times. From my frot widow I ote that the street i frot of my villa has bee plowed ad I thak our Buildig ad Grouds persoel for beig so diliget. I trust that all residets feel that eve uder difficult circumstaces, our access roads o the campus are cleared of sow as soo as it is reasoably possible. Now the tough part. From the frot widow, I ca see what appears to be a big pile of sow where I parked the car i the driveway the day before. Somewhere udereath all of that sow is the car. Now my guyess comes ito play. I say to myself that I really should clear the sow from aroud the car just i case I have a eed to go somewhere. A little voice metios that at some poit i the ext day or so someoe from Asbury will do the job. I reject that little voice that says, do sow boots, a warm jacket, gloves, ad head for the car with a shovel. I feel a defiite eed to be i cotrol of my destiy. I retrospect, after about 24 hours i the house watchig it sow, it felt really good to be out ad doig somethig productive, eve as mudae as shovelig sow. After a half hour or so, Joa called to me to be sure I was t overdoig it ad headig for a heart attack or somethig. I assured her that I was OK. Later, as I looked outside ad saw the car ready to go, I thought to myself, as a guy, I am still able to take care of myself ad Joa. Date Evet Cotact 4/8, 5/20, 6/3 Natioal Symphoy- Keedy Ceter (S) Otto x5299 3/24 Frederick, Marylad Tour Sexto x5768 4/28 Hagley Museum--Delaware Sexto x5768 5/20 Hillwood Museum Washigto Sexto x5768 5/25-6/5 Cruise Charlesto, SC to Baltimore, MD Otto x5299 6/15 Harrisburg, PA Trai, Cruise Tour Sexto x5768 7/23-30 Maie Coast Otto x5299 9/12-15 Figer Lakes, NY Otto x5299 (S) Subscriptio Series Theater ad Travel Committee Day Trips & Tours 2011 Ed-of-Life Issues Plaig Ahead April 16 - Natioal Healthcare Decisios Day, remids us of the eed to review ad update at least aually the ed-of-life decisios we have made. Care Maagemet requests that we provide to them ay chages we make. Ask Dr. Bob CHECK LIST FOR PLANNING AHEAD Lear availability of ed-of-life services: hospice, palliative care, etc. Discuss with your family your thoughts, cocers ad choices Discuss possible choices with your doctor Establish/review medical power of attorey ad livig will Talk with your healthcare agets, family, doctor ad clergy about your choices Pla to discuss your choices wheever your medical coditio chages Keep your completed advace directives ad Marylad EMS form uder your LifeLie phoe as well as i a accessible place Provide copies of origial directives to healthcare aget, alterative agets, doctor, family, clergy Assess your fiacial situatio, create a fiacial ivetory ad decide what ed-of-life goals you wat that ivolve moey Lear about cost of ed-of-life care, how medical bills ad expeses will be paid Review/update your will Appoit/chage a durable power of attorey to maage your affairs if you are uable to do so Pla your fueral/memorial service Update the medical iformatio o your wallet card every time a chage is made ad sed the chages to Care Maagemet. http://www.hpco.org/ (Natioal Hospice ad Palliative Care Orgaizatio) Bob Hartma, M.D. Retired Family Physicia ad Geriatrics Specialist A Cautioary Tale About LTC Isurace By Jea Hubbell, Villas Log term care isurace is somethig we probably all have as a precautioary measure ad I had it too, ever thikig it would be eeded so soo after my arrival o campus. However, as may kow, I came dow with a mysterious illess that ecessitated roud-the-clock care for a cosiderable period of time ad fortuately my childre remembered that I did ideed have a LTC policy ad got i touch with the agecy to iitiate a claim. Now comes the cautioary part of this tale. My policies were with a wellkow reputable firm but it took early a year before ay reimbursemet showed up. After that, it came regularly BUT there were may errors i either determiig whe the elimiatio period started or i the amout paid for a particular moth. The errors were all reported to the compay ad the amout due was paid. By the time the claim was cocluded ad all the errors corrected, the amout I would have lost had I ot bee able to moitor the paymet requests ad follow up o all the paper work came to about $10,000, ot a isigificat sum. I was fortuate to have help from my fiacial advisor ad his assistat who spet hours with me goig over the papers ad iitiatig coferece calls to the isurace compay. The moral of this tale is that oe should ever take for grated that all claim settlemets will go smoothly ad without error, although may do. It is importat to read your policy ad uderstad how paymets are calculated ad to have someoe who will go over the paymets ad records each moth if you are ot able to do it yourself. I feel sure the errors made i my case were ot itetioal, but oetheless they would ot have bee corrected without double checkig the records each moth. Village Life March 2011 7
This Moth i the Gallery 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. Natalie O Reilly, Wallace Watercolors Betsey Olsso, Diamod Oils The Paama Caal Ad Beyod By Mary Astead, Villas Those of you who took the time to watch AVTV recetly leared much about the Paama Caal. There is life beyod the Caal for those who choose to go o a lad tour ad ret a car or perhaps bicycle. As you have leared, as far back as 1880 the Frech tried to build the caal, havig successfully completed the Suez Caal. It is said that over 22,000 people died i the veture. They abadoed the effort, ad i 1903 Paama gave permissio to the US to build a caal with the agreemet that it was to be tured over to Paama i 1964. That agreemet was rescided. But o the 31 st of December 1999, the caal was formally trasferred to Paama. The Uited States maitais the right to protect the caal. Curretly aother caal is beig built alogside of the preset oe to hadle the ever-larger ships. As early as 1939 plas were beig made to build this parallel caal eve before a referedum was held for its approval. No mules, small trais which guide the ships, will be used i the ew caal, oly tugs. A dam ad reservoir are uder costructio for recyclig the fresh water i the caal. This will prevet the large fish kill at the eds of the caal where the fresh water meets the ocea water. Flyig ito the airport i Photo credit: Mary ad Bob Astead Is it a corkscrew or a skyscraper? No, it s both! Paama City oe is struck by the skylie. There are over 100 skyscrapers, with over 150 more curretly uder costructio. May people have chose to retire there as its tax structure is very geerous to residets. It is said that whe oe sigs to purchase a codo with a ocea view, by settlemet date, there may be aother skyscraper built that blocks your ocea view. Buyer beware! The architecture is moder eve to the eclectic oe buildig suggests a corkscrew! I keepig with this eclecticism, Frak Ghery has a buildig uder costructio which at this poit suggested coservatio of destructive remais! There are seve idigeous peoples i Paama. The Emberas, who origiated i Colombia, ihabit the raiforests alog the Chagres River which flows ito Girls of Paama Photo credit: Mary ad Bob Astead The Paama skylie is a strikig sight as oe flies toward the Paama City airport. Photo credit: Mary ad Bob Astead the Gatu Lake area of the Caal. They wear a miimum of clothig ad they pait themselves with a dye made from the Jagua fruit. The wome wear a paruma a colorfully dyed wrap-aroud skirt ; the me wear a loicloth called taparabo. The villagers are famous for their tightly wove baskets ad itricate carvigs from the cocobolo tree. Their diet is maily platai, cocout ad fish. To the orth of the caal, there is a extict volcao which, whe it was last active, erupted ito itself. A picturesque tow, El Valle, has bee built withi. Though the trip there is difficult, the sights alog the way are very iterestig. Cashew trees lie much of the roadway. The ext time you eat a hadful of the uts, remember that oe tree produces 100 uts. The golde frog, a edagered species ative to Paama, is o view at a frog museum at the zoo i this village. Alog the Camio Real, large eighborhoods of affordable housig are beig costructed. A residet ca obtai a 30-year loa payig about $50 per moth toward future owership. Health care, taxes, ad educatio make Paama a ivitig place to live ad work. Next time you are tired of the cold ad the sow is piled too high, thik Paama! By Carol Deis, Villas Whe I told you about the Alaska Cruise, I metioed a visit to Victoria, B.C., ad said it was a story for aother day. Well, this is the day! Last October, my husbad, Jerry, ad I were i Seattle after our cruise awaitig the begiig of his coferece, so we took a day to visit Victoria, B.C. We rose early o a suy day to arrive i plety of time for our sail o a large catamara. Would you believe we had aother bout of high seas; catamaras love to bouce o the waves! Upo arrival, we passed through customs, orieted ourselves ad strolled to the Empress Hotel for a leisurely high tea. (It really was our luch, By Maroly Hatch, Villas The evelope came i the mail. Thi ad forebodig. I spite of excellet letters of recommedatio, a persoal iterview that demostrated creativity ad curiosity, a shelf i her bedroom with trophies i equie competitios ad soccer, Carrie had bee rejected by the school to which she had applied. Eve the ecoomy which should have made competitio lighter at a school that charges $30,000 a year did t help. Ad Carrie was oly four years old, applyig to a city pre-school. All those hours at the poy school, the tiy tot soccer games. All for othig. Ad this was oly the begiig; there would be private school ad college applicatios. Of course, our fictioal Carrie is a educatioal extreme. But the pressure to get i to schools ca begi at birth or sometimes eve coceptio if the family has a college legacy to maitai. Livig i Richmod i the late 50s, I was advised whe just pregat to be sure to register immediately at St Christopher s ad St Catherie s elemetary day schools or my child might ot, heave forbid, get i. Times do t seem to have chaged much. Let s follow today s public school fictioal kids. Meg ad Seth reach 9 th grade where they have just three years to make themselves somethig special, ot just to Mom ad Dad but to the college admissios officers. That term cojures authority ad exclusivity. But, i fact, they are really a much stressed cadre of istructors, former graduates, spouses of such ad paid reviewers whose coffee ad Red Bull cosumptio keep the admissios process hummig. Story For Aother Day but for such elegat diig, high tea will do.) Followig that pleasat iterlude ad the purchase of some tea i their shop that just happeed to be across from the diig room, we bega our quest. We had see paitigs of Emily Carr, the oted Caadia artist, several years earlier i a show that featured her, Georgia O Keefe ad Freda Kahlo. Emily Carr lived from 1871 to 1945 mostly i Victoria i a house ot far from the harbor. We walked several blocks past lovely old homes util we came upo her charmig yellow house. Ufortuately, although we could explore her garde, visits to her house had eded just two days earlier. After waderig i the garde ad readig posted quotes from her writigs, we walked back to dowtow ejoyig the delightful weather ad plaig further study of Carr s works. Sice we read James Micheer s Alaska i preparatio for our cruise, we thought a visit to the Royal B.C. Museum would give us ew isights ito lives of the First Natios ad later settlers of the Northwest. We leared a great deal School Daze By 10 th grade, Meg ad Seth will cease thikig of school as more social tha educatioal, more about sports ad fashio tha Advaced Placemet (AP) courses. It will become the competitive begiig of their ucertai future. At 15 they will begi the prelimiary testig process o which will hige their adult lives. If they aspire to a competitive college, by 11 th grade they will be expected to have take three or four AP courses ad passed those tests; three or four years of a foreig laguage ad that does t iclude Twitter Speak, two or three years of advaced sciece ad math, ad oh yes, Eglish (their real foreig laguage) ad history which seems to bear little likeess to reality lately. Time seems to be their eemy ad sleep a distat tease. Juior year adds state-required Drivers Ed which o loger is you ad your girlfried testig your Dad s Olds o a back road. I some states parets ad kids have to take 10+ hours of joit drivig istructio. Ad oe state requires 50 hours of practicum followig 20 hours of professioal traiig. (The latter I m all for, havig spet some ervewrackig though hilarious hours teachig my ow three tees how to drive.) That is o top of most schools requiremet of hours of commuity service. There are also the SAT prep classes that lead to pre-tests that cause serious agst amog parets about the local flower ad faua as well as the friedliess of the museum docets. The museum has a delightful hads-o approach with a early Idia village complete with totem poles ad a gold-rush tow mai street for strollig ad widow shoppig. We the meadered i the late afteroo sushie surrouded by beautiful foliage ad admired the buildigs represetig Victoria s Eglish heritage before returig to Seattle o calm seas, dozig ad dreamig of sowy lads, gold ad high adveture. Next came our Seattle advetures. ad tees. These are followed i juior year by the SATs that brad Meg ad Seth as acceptable or ot to colleges rated by Newsweek (sometimes cosidered the studet beer/peer review) ad the Priceto Review. Thik back to your ow college admissio process. You probably were t oe of 27,000 applicats to your chose school that would accept 1,700. You probably got by with a GPA of 3.0 ot 5.0. Ad playig o the high school sports team rather tha the curret travelig teams that literally crisscross the US was sufficiet. Oe could eve get a letter that couted by beig the team water boy. College graduatio up util the 1980s was t a lesso i debt maagemet ad assured oe a job with a future. Today s graduates icur the debt that we associated with home owership. But saddest of all is the itese effort that these ad future graduates put ito educatio with o guaratee of a job. They have a very differet youth experiece. So whe your graddaughter shows up i skiy jeas with a lot of flesh showig or visitig your gradkids ivolves your beig o the road at daw to atted yet aother lacrosse or soccer match 50 miles or more from home, cut them some slack as they say. This geeratio has compressed ito their youg lives twice the educatio ad skill traiig that we had at the same time. They are more aware of the world ad its problems. Pry oe away from a relaxig (to them) video game or a vampire ovel ad probe that well-hoed mid. It will make you swell with pride ad better yet, you might lear somethig. 8 March 2011 Village Life Village Life March 2011 9
Asbury Author Pes Portraits i Poetry By Ja Garma, Diamod Afrighteed child startig school i a brad ew coutry, a elderly blid woma softly sigig, a tiy schoolhouse slated for demolitio, the memories of a school pricipal facig retiremet ad sulight streamig through a staied glass widow are just a few of the images i Portraits i Poetry, the most recet publicatio of Edwards-Fisher author ad poet, Eleaor Cuigham. Eleaor has draw from the experieces of her life i Motgomery Couty, attedig that little school, raisig her family, visitig her blid fried i the ursig home, voluteerig at her church ad servig as a school secretary. Eleaor will be doig a poetry readig ad a book sigig at the Gaithersburg Seior Ceter, 80A Bureau Drive, off Clopper Road, ext to the Diamod Square Shoppig Ceter, at 12:45 o March 2. Growig up i her ative Rockville, Eleaor ever thought of herself as a poet. She elected ot to take the route of her idetical twi sister, who became a teacher. Istead she wet to Temple Secretarial School i Washigto ad worked first as a file clerk for the F.B.I. ad the for two other compaies before marryig ad raisig her three childre. Durig the early years of her marriage, however, she became close to a female pastor who was very ifluetial i her spiritual growth ad she started to write some poetry that expressed her deepeig faith. Whe her childre grew older, Eleaor resumed her secretarial career with the Motgomery Couty School System ad evetually eded up at New Hampshire Estates School, the first school i the couty to ejoy a large iflux of refugee childre from may differet coutries. I her itroductio to Portraits i Poetry, she writes that It was a school easy to love, ad there I was ispired to write several poems about the staff ad the childre. Portraits i Poetry is ot the first of Eleaor s works to be published, however. I 1999 she wrote Motrose School,The First Niety Years for Peerless Rockville Historic Preservatio, Ltd. That tiy schoolhouse ever was demolished after all. It still stads o Radolph Road i Rockville, preserved through the efforts of Peerless Rockville ad may voluteers. Eleaor s book tells the story of its restoratio as well as its earlier history as a public school. She also wrote a book about the experieces of her mother, Ethel Applebee, who traveled to Ketucky through the auspices of the America Missioary Society i 1920-1921 to teach Africa America childre who had o schools at that time. Titled Miss Apple, Letters of a Maie Teacher i Ketucky, it was writte after Eleaor discovered letters from her mother i a cedar box. Her research for the book also icluded two trips to Maie prior to the book s publicatio i 2002. A residet of Asbury sice 2003, Eleaor has three childre whose career choices reflect their mother s deep religious faith as well as her iterest i writig. Her so, Floyd, eared a PhD from Johs Hopkis ad is the presidet of the Asia-Pacific Nazaree Theological Semiary i Maila i the Philippies. He has writte a history of the Church of the Nazaree. Oe of her daughters, Diae, eared a PhD from Drew Uiversity ad is a ordaied miister, a writer ad a professor at Northwest Nazaree Uiversity i Idaho. She has writte a college text about Wesleya-Holiess theology. Her other daughter, Jaice lives i Hagerstow ad is a customer service maager for a Catholic publisher, The Word Amog Us. By Gil Syder, Mud I a previous colum I wrote that I always like to be early for most appoitmets, meetigs, air travel, et al; i fact, some might say I m obsessed. I do have a related obsessio i that I hate to have to wait for thigs ot uder my direct cotrol. My first memory of this issue was havig to wait as a yougster i a barber shop; there was a exceptio to this as I would be frequetly offered a dime to give up my place i the queue. Later, I discovered that oe might make a appoitmet ad thereby reduce, if ot elimiate, the time that oe might have to wait. Registerig for classes at Pe State i the 1950s could mea stadig i lie for exteded periods. Eve though a puched IBM card was the medium through which oe registered, the time of registratio was based upo the begiig letter of the last ame Gris ad Grimaces WAITING: NOT FOR GODOT ad this varied further i that to be fairer, the alphabetical sequece varied from semester to semester. Prior to direct electroic deposits, I always hated to stad i lie to deposit my pay check ad certaily hated to stad i lie to withdraw fuds prior to ATMs. I must admit that I was at first reluctat to sig up for direct deposit because I fully uderstood the problems of esurig fuds were deposited i the correct accout whe the iformatio was read from a pritout supplied to the fiacial etity; these pritouts were read by idividuals ad were thus subject to error. Now fuds are directly deposited electroically i idividual accouts without huma itervetio ad therefore early errorless. Today, oe of my biggest areas of cotetio is whe I m grocery shoppig. Eve with self-checkout lies, checkout ca take more time tha I wish to sped to get a few groceries. I get aroud this by tryig to do my shoppig whe the crowds are likely to be smaller, early i the morig or late at ight. Should the weather forecast call for sow or freezig rai ad ice, FORGET IT, I ll do without. Lies for restaurats also preset a issue to me. Of course oe ca always make a reservatio, but some of my favorite restaurats do t accept reservatios; the aswer here is to suck it up ad accept the wait or to arrive whe the crowds are most likely to be smaller. The arrivig whe crowds are likely to be smaller also applies to attedig movies ad goig through airport security. A issue I have livig here i Mud is that oe of our elevators takes a uusual amout of time to ope ad close doors (by some claims, six to seve secods is required for each actio). These six to seve secods meas that I, goig to the first floor from the groud floor ad returig, ca take 36 to 42 secods each time I get the slower of the two elevators. At just oe trip a day, I could be spedig over four hours per year waitig. I just might cosider gettig my Operatio Research texts out ad doig a colum o the time that Mud residets waste i waitig o this elevator. 10 March 2011 Village Life
By Keith Steele, Wallace O November 13, 1974 oe hudred ad te persos stood i a agle at the Herma M. Wilso Health Care Ceter s southeast corer for the layig of the corerstoe. There were 17 documets deposited with the corerstoe o that day. I thought this would be iterestig sice a time capsule is to be buried durig the moth log celebratio of Asbury Methodist Village s 85 th aiversary this sprig. Of particular iterest is umber 14. Those thigs deposited i 1974 icluded the followig; (1) A brochure, City of Gaithersburg, (2) A copy of the Gaithersburg Gazette (3) Copy of letter o exemptio of Asbury Village from sewer mora torium by Couty Executive James Gleaso (4) A New Testamet, by Asbury Methodist Home chaplai Herma M. Wilso (5) List of hoorary ad emeritus trustees (6) Miutes of 1974 aual meetig of trustees (7) Brochure, Herma M. Wilso Health Care Ceter (8) Brochure, Four Dimesios of Ser vice, (9) Health Care Ceter progress report o buildig costructio, gifts, ad charter supportig fud doors Chit Chatter From the AMV Historical Society Corerstoe of WHCC Photo: Keith Steele The corerstoe of Wilso Health Care Ceter holds secrets to the past. (10) List of supportig fud doors. (11) Asbury Village News (12) ACT COM ewspaper featurig pictures of Asbury (For the past few moths we have bee tryig to fid iformatio o this ewspaper to o avail. If ayoe ca help us let me kow.) (13) List of officers ad district presidets of Asbury Home Guild. (14) Copy of receipt for $135,000 give to Herma M. Wilso Health Care Ceter by Asbury Home Guild, as part paymet o $300,000 pledge, by Mrs. Margery Hughes, (15) Cois ad stamps of 1973-1974 (16) Busiess cards of the E.A. Baker Co. Builder (17) Busiess cards of Architects Accordig to the Chit-Chat, egraved i the corerstoe are the words of Jesus, iasmuch, i a moder versio: Whatsoever you did for the humblest of my people, you did for me. Rockig for Welless By Alma Stewart, Diamod Lord works i mysterious ad woderful ways. The offi- The cers of the Asbury Guild were remided of this old maxim at their meetig o February 15. A Giaquito, Residet Services Director at Kidley Assisted Livig, told them of a iovative ew program the staff there would like to iitiate. They have studied the results of research at several respected medical ceters that show that rockig chairs have special beefits for the elderly. The getle rockig motio ca improve the mood ad reduce pai, thus improvig the wellbeig of persos with early or mid-oset demetia. Rockig ca also help to reduce arthritis pai ad ca dramatically speed healig i severely ill patiets. The staff at Kidley would like to purchase 16 ew Provice Missio Rockig Chairs for use throughout the buildig. The cost of the Rockig for Welless program is $3500, ad A asked the Asbury Guild for their help. By Alma Stewart, Diamod Our mothers were diliget i teachig us the social skills, especially whe it came to writig thak-you otes. The residets of Wilso ad Kidley have remembered their mother s lessos well, as the Asbury Guild has received some lovely otes from them. These letters are read at the mothly meetigs of Guild officers, ad are much appreciated. Here is just a sample of some recet oes. Kidley residet Margaret Robey ejoyed her Guild- sposored outig. She wrote, May thaks to the Guild for a fu day viewig the cherry blossoms ad a Happy Meal at McDoald s. Virgiia Offutt, aother Kidley residet, wrote, Thaks so much for the birthday presets. I have just the place for the flowers ad perfect use for the towels. There have bee may otes about Elves Day. Giie Boyer of Kidley wrote, My curiosity got the better of me, ad, like a child, I opeed your lovely Christmas bag. Wow! All the goodies I foud! I am grateful for your thoughtfuless ad love. Thak you. It makes beig Thaks to the Asbury Guild, fiftee of these Provice Missio rockig chairs will be rockig i Kidley! Ned Hopper spoke up ad asked to make his report. He excitedly aouced that at the last Bargai Mart, held oly a few days earlier, the profits were $3529.40! Everyoe gasped! Immediately, a motio was made, secoded, ad approved that the Asbury Guild fud the etire project. The Guild officers wet home that day bemused, elated, ad grateful as they imagied Kidley residets rockig their way to better health. Thak You Dear Guild away from home better! Harry Pearre, a former Wilso residet who has retured to his home i Germatow, wrote, Dear Asbury Guild Elves, I ca t thak you eough for the beautiful Gift Bag you gave to me. The gifts were just perfect. They met my eeds ad tastes....your love ad kidess has reached out to so may of us. Mary Fischer is a residet of Wilso. Her so, David, visits her every day ad has writte a log letter of appreciatio. David writes, Wow! I am really impressed with the great job the Asbury Guild Elves did last moth!... Residets i the Wilso Ceter received a large colorful shoppig bag with a big stuffed toy ad 7 (SEVEN) wrapped gifts!... I our ever chagig world, it is ideed a positive ad comfortig sig that such a display of givig is still ogoig...i ca oly imagie what such a bag of gifts meas to those residets who have little or o family or frieds to brig them gifts. Just experiecig the childhood joy of opeig a wrapped gift ca brig back happy memories. Village Life March 2011 11
New Laws for 2011 There was a lot of attetio paid to the 2010 Tax Reform Act passed i December by the lame-duck sessio of Cogress. May people woder how that law ad others will affect them i 2011. Federal Icome Tax Laws: The 2010 Tax Reform Act exteded all of the major provisios of the existig icome tax laws. Expect o chage o your icome taxes for 2011 ad 2012. This law susets December 31, 2012. It is expected that there will be a major ew tax bill before the. Federal Estate Tax Laws: The 2010 Tax Reform Act reistated the federal estate tax. However, it reduced the tax rate to 35% o the taxable portio of the estate ad icreased the tax-free amout (the exemptio) to $5,000,000 per perso. Ay amout left to a charity or U.S. citize spouse remais free of the estate tax. Also, the law adds a provisio that allows the estate of the secod spouse to die to use ay uused portio of the first deceased spouse s $5,000,000 exemptio to shelter eve more of the estate from estate taxes. How the Tax Reform Act Might Affect Your Will or Trust: No chages to your Will or Revocable Livig Trust should be ecessary sice the exemptio from federal estate taxes was icreased to $5,000,000 uless your situatio is described below. Chages might be eeded if: Your Will/Trust provides for your spouse ad your spouse is still alive Your Will/Trust provides somethig for childre of a prior marriage before providig for your spouse Your Will/Trust was writte last cetury ad has ot bee updated The New Marylad Statutory Form Power of Attorey: The Power of Attorey documet allows the Aget you ame to take care of your persoal busiess affairs if you get sick or hurt or otherwise eed help. I 2010 the Marylad Geeral Assembly passed a ew law creatig the Statutory Form Power of Attorey, with ew provisios ad ew requiremets o how it is to be siged ad witessed. If your existig Power of Attorey is more tha a few years old, you should get a ew Statutory Form Power of Attorey i 2011. If you have ay questios, it would be wise to have a attorey review your documets. This iformatio is provided by Gerald K. Gimmel, the Seior Parter at Gimmel, Weima, Ersek, Blomberg & Lewis, P.A., who has bee providig legal services to residets at Asbury for more tha 30 years. Mr. Gimmel ca be reached at 301-840-8565 or by email at ggimmel@gweblaw.com The Seior Coectio, a Silver Sprig-based orgaizatio, is expadig its services for seiors ito upper Motgomery Couty ad this could be helpful to Asbury Methodist Village Residets. It will also provide opportuities for voluteerism. With a goal of helpig older adults age i commuity, the oprofit group schedules voluteers to provide trasportatio to medical appoitmets ad other support services. As log as a voluteer is available, the services are available for ayoe over 62 years of age ad always offered free of charge. Two other well-established local oprofit groups, Gaithersburg HELP ad Germatow HELP, are workig i partership with The Seior Coectio to aid the couty s eediest residets. All three orgaizatios work with small budgets ad low overhead, ad rely heavily o voluteers, but their focus differs. The HELP groups address the etire age spectrum, Creatig a Partership to Serve More Seiors i Gaithersburg ad Germatow supplyig food, ifat supplies, prescriptio fudig assistace, ad some trasportatio, while The Seior Coectio cocetrates o seior eeds, especially trasportatio. Our greatest resource is ot fiacial but our voluteers, says The Seior Coectio s Executive Director ad co-fouder Susa Dollis, ad how much we accomplish will deped o our success i recruitig ew voluteers. The Seior Coectio has served lower Motgomery Couty sice 2003, whe two existig groups already servig the commuity sice the early 1990s merged. About 160 voluteers trasport elders to medical appoitmets, serve as friedly visitors for shutis, provide telephoe reassurace, ad assist with shoppig, paperwork, ad other eeds. Both Gaithersburg HELP ad Germatow HELP stock a food patry, arrage food pickups, respod to requests for diapers ad ifat formula, ad offer temporary fiacial service for essetial eeds such as prescriptio medicatios. Gaithersburg HELP offers limited assistace for trasportatio, but Germatow HELP does ot provide trasportatio ad will begi referrig callers to The Seior Coectio. A wide group of idividuals ad cogregatios carry out the HELP missio, but the Gaithersburg group s Executive Director Steve Garvey sees umet eeds ad welcomes more resources. The Seior Coectio s experiece offers a great opportuity to reach seiors i eed, particularly with trasportatio eeds beyod HELP s capacity. Dollis does t take her group s wider missio lightly. Comig ito a area with icreasig eed ad a growig populatio is challegig, she says. Before decidig to expad, staff met with several area govermetal ad o-govermetal service orgaizatios ad faith commuity represetatives to determie if The Seior Coectio s services were eeded i Gaithersburg ad Germatow ad how her group could work most effectively with other orgaizatios to meet that eed. Voluteers ca be a huge help to the commuity s seiors by givig just a few hours a moth, Dollis says. Ad we provide liability protectio for those willig to help. Each orgaizatio depeds o voluteers. So, whether you are willig to assist i food/diaper delivery, escortig a older adult to a medical appoitmet, or goig to the grocery store for someoe who is isolated ad homeboud, there is a voluteer opportuity waitig for you. Statistics show that people who are egaged ad ivolved i helpig others live loger ad healthier lives. Call ow! For more iformatio or to voluteer: The Seior Coectio at www. seiorcoectiomc.org. or 301-962-0820 Gaithersburg HELP at www. GaithersburgHELP.org or 301-216- 2510 12 March 2011 Village Life
Thomas ad Jea Hefer Diamod 602, x4617 Hardly stragers to Asbury Methodist Village, Thomas ad Jea Hefer moved ito their Diamod apartmet o February 4, 2011. For 28 years, Thomas served o various Asbury Boards of Trustees ad Directors, icludig beig Chair of the Asbury Methodist Homes, Ic. Board from 1988-1990 durig the costructio of the Diamod buildig. From 1990-1995 he served o the Advaced ad Leadership Gifts Committee for the costructio of the Rosborough Ceter. He also worked o the edowmet campaig for Beevolet Care which raised eight millio dollars durig a five year period ad i 1994 he was awarded the Fracis Asbury Beevolet Care Award. The Hefer Auditorium is amed i hoor of the couple s geerosity ad service to Asbury. The plaque i the auditorium cites Thomas getle humor, devoted marriage, deep Christia commitmet ad compassioate carig. It also cites Jea s service as presidet of the Woodside Uited Methodist Wome, Wesley Semiary Guild, Sibley Hospital Guild, Church Wome Uited of Easter Motgomery Couty, ad Wome s Club of Silver Sprig ad her service o the Board of Trustees of Sibley Hospital. A ative of Roaoke, Virgiia, Jea grew up i West Virgiia ad graduated from Marshall Uiversity where she majored i history with a mior i art. Her formal educatio bega, however, before kidergarte with elocutio classes! Durig her high school years i World War II, she worked as a les ispector for bombsights ad periscopes. Her ext job was as a telephoe operator. She has also worked with W.B. Hibbs Stock Brokers. Active i her Uited Methodist Church, Jea has voluteered as a clow at the Special Olympics ad i ursig homes, hospitals (icludig the Childre s I at the Natioal Istitutes of Health), at schools ad at White House Easter Egg Rolls. She has also served o the Board of Directors of the Motgomery Couty Y.W.C.A. Jea ejoys travelig, kittig clothes, beadig, collectig hats ad readig both regular books ad books o her Kidle. Thomas was bor i Akro, Ohio. Like Jea, Welcome New Residets however, he grew up i West Virgiia ad has a B.S. from Marshall College. He is also a Fellow of the Life Maagemet Istitute. He served i the U.S. Army Air Force from 1944-1946 ad was a office equipmet salesma, ad a life isurace salesma before he bega a 30-year career with the Govermet Employees Life Isurace Compay, retirig as Presidet ad C.E.O. I additio to his voluteer work at Asbury, he has served o the Executive Coucil of the Natioal Capital Area of the Boy Scouts of America ad as Chairma of the Woodside Uited Methodist Church Permaet Edowmet Fud Committee ad various other church committees. Jaet Garma, Diamod reporter Eleaor Chew Diamod 917, x 5207 Camera shy After livig i Potomac for 38 years with her husbad, who passed away earlier i the year, Eleaor Chew moved ito Asbury o December 14, 2010. The trasitio betwee Potomac ad Asbury icluded a stay at Suburba Hospital ad rehabilitatio i Wilso Health Care Ceter for a broke hip. Whe she left Wilso, she foud her Diamod apartmet furished ad waitig for her thaks to a movei service recommeded by Asbury. Before livig i Potomac, Eleaor ad her husbad lived i Iglewood, Califoria for 25 years where they were ot far from the Pacific Ocea ad where they ejoyed beach activities very much. Eleaor has a RN from the hospital i Williamsport, PA, where she grew up, ad was a urse there for six years util she married her husbad. After marryig, she left ursig professioally, but foud herself the eighborhood urse i Califoria, receivig calls i the middle of the ight from axious eighbors who wated her advice. A job opportuity for her husbad ad his elderly mother who eeded care brought the couple back east to Potomac. Eleaor made the log jourey with a 18 year-old black cat sittig o her lap! Eleaor ad her husbad ejoyed travelig. They drove to all of the lower 48 states except for oe. They ejoyed campig with frieds, the old-fashioed way i a 9 x12 tet. A favorite destiatio for iteratioal trips was Europe where her husbad had relatives, but they also traveled to Egypt ad Mexico. Eleaor was active i wome s clubs that raised moey for charitable causes. She also ejoys playig bridge ad bowlig. Jaet Garma, Diamod reporter Shirley Mallory Diamod 414, x5481 Whe Shirley Mallory would visit her daughter ad family i Gaithersburg, her so-i-law would flippatly remark as they passed Asbury, This is where you are goig to live someday. Well, that day came o February 1, 2011. After researchig several optios, Shirley decided that Asbury did ideed best fit her eeds. A ative of Peoria, Shirley graduated from Maual High School ad cotiued her educatio at Illiois Cetral College, where she received certificates i secretarial studies ad i COBOL programmig ad where she worked toward a degree i busiess admiistratio. Shirley retired i 1999, after 31 years of employmet with Caterpillar Ic. While workig at Caterpillar, she met her husbad, Carter. They ejoyed 32 years of happiess before his fatal heart attack i 2007. I additio to her daughter, Rhoda i Gaithersburg, she has a so Steve livig i Peoria. She has five gradchildre, oe brother ad a host of ieces ad ephews livig i the Peoria area. Voluteer activities iclude teachig good ews club i the elemetary schools, workig i the church office ad servig o the board of Child Evagelism Fellowship. Her greatest satisfactio came i seeig some of her studets voluteerig to help others. Carter ad Shirley ejoyed travelig to Aruba ad Alaska. I the past two years, Shirley has also traveled to Chia ad Egypt ad cruised the Mediterraea Sea. She also ejoys gardeig, sigig, ad cookig dishes that are both utritious ad tasty. Aother iterest is physical fitess ad she is already ejoyig Asbury s fitess programs. Jaet Garma, Diamod reporter Hele Pollard Edwards-Fisher 614, x5711 With sow o the groud ad parkas, boots ad hats essetial outdoors apparel, it s with logig that the suy, crisp days of October come to mid. It was o October 9 th of 2010 that Hele Pollard moved ito apartmet Photo: Rosemary Pasek 614 i the Edwards- Fisher Buildig. Bor i Calais, Maie where the family sum- Cotiued o page 14 Village Life March 2011 13
mer home is located, Hele decided o a career i govermet ad moved to Philadelphia to work for the Social Security Admiistratio. With a goal of wartime service, she decided to work for the Navy i Marylad. Hele took up residece i a boardig house ru by a close fried ad it was there that she met her husbad who was a civilia employee of the Navy. She became a admiistrative assistat i the hydro mechaics lab. Hele is the proud mother of a so ad a daughter who have give her six gradchildre. With her retiremet came a move to Melboure, Florida, located ear Cape Caaveral. It became Hele s habit to watch the space lauches from her back yard ad she remembers with shock ad horror the explosio of the ill-fated space shuttle. A former square dacer, Hele ow plays bridge, loves to bowl ad ejoys readig good historical ovels. Her Methodist Church was the focal poit for most of her voluteer activities. This area was Hele s favorite stoppig place o her seasoal commute from Florida to Maie, so it seemed fittig that Asbury Methodist Village would be the perfect locatio for her retiremet home ad ow she does feel right at home. Joa Dulop, Edwards-Fisher reporter Photo: Hal Gautk Yuka ad Toshio Fujikura Trott 513, x5159 Yuka was bor i Hood River, Orego ad spet her early years there. I 1942, with oly three moths otice, her family was evacuated to a itermet camp. They could oly take what they could carry. Yuka was first itered i Piedale, Califoria ad the Tule Lake, CA. Yuka left itermet camp to eter high school i Dever. She was the yougest of seve ad had to go off to school aloe as her father was take by the FBI as a potetial eemy alie. Her parets were deied citizeship util after the war. After graduatio from high school Yuka atteded the Uiversity of Orego, receivig a BA degree. She received a Master of Nursig from Yale Uiversity ad a Master of Public Health from the Uiversity of Pittsburg. She worked i the OR at Grace New Have Hospital ad later at the Visitig Nurses Associatio i New Have. As a Fulbright Scholar to Japa Yuka studied ad worked i Demography at the Istitute of Public Health where field studies were doe i Welcome New Residets rice growig, coal ad fishig. Yuka is married to Toshio Fujikura who was bor i Tokyo ad is a U.S. citize. He is a pathologist ad is still workig i Japa. He commutes several times a year for family visits. They have lived i Hiroshima ad Nagasaki whe Toshio was with Radiatio Effects Research Foudatio. They were married i Tokyo ad have four childre ad three gradchildre. For 34 years Yuka voluteered at Plaed Parethood. She ejoys gardeig, cookig, Japaese embroidery, sigig ad travelig. Yuka was itroduced to Asbury by a eighbor. We are delighted she that she joied our campus October 2010. --Boie Scheider, Trott reporter Photo: Rosemary Pasek M. Lorraie ad Doald G. Therriault Edwards-Fisher 516, X4639 Imagie movig i o December first (2010) ad tryig to remember which box cotaied the Christmas decoratios? I m sure that questio crossed the mid of Do ad Lorraie Therriault as they moved ito Edwards-Fisher Apartmet 516. Do was bor i Claremot, New Hampshire ad received his B.S. from Ottawa Uiversity. After earig a Masters from the Uiversity of New Hampshire he was awarded his doctorate i biochemistry from the Uiversity of Louisville i Ketucky. Lorraie s birthplace is Machester, New Hampshire ad she received her R.N. from Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital i Machester. For thirty years Lorraie did ursig i obstetrics, gyecology, primary care, surgical doctors offices ad ursig homes i Idiaa, Ketucky, Massachusetts ad Marylad. Do bega as a research assistat i Bloomigto, Idiaa, movig o to Chief at the Itermediary Metabolism Lab i Massachusetts. He became biochemistry professor ad associate of the graduate faculty at Rutgers Uiversity. At the Natioal Istitutes of Health special program brach, Do was Assistat Admiistrator i Huma Nutritio. He was a part of the Huma Nutritio Research Ceter o Agig at Tufts Uiversity. Married for fifty-ie years, Lorraie ad Do have four childre ad five gradchildre. They have traveled extesively ad while Do loved golfig, Lorraie favored exercise classes. He ejoyed wood workig, buildig model cars from kits ad makig stai glass widows, but readig is her favorite pastime. Do ad Lorraie were active voluteers at the Elks Lodge ad the Rockville Seior Ceter. They are Roma Catholics. Asbury Methodist Village seemed to them to be the aswer to all their retiremet eeds so they made the move to Edwards-Fisher s welcomig eviromet. Joa Dulop, Edwards-Fisher reporter Patricia Stoe Mud 704, x5789 Pat moved to Asbury from her home i Bethesda i late December, 2010. She hails from Waco, Texas ad eared her B.A. from the Uiversity of Texas at Austi with a double major i Laguages ad Athropology. She joied the Photo:Jim Porter Foreig Service, servig i Madrid ad Paris, where she met her husbad, Robert, who was also i the Foreig Service. After her marriage, she resiged to become a wife ad mother. Subsequetly, she ad Bob lived i La Paz, Bolivia; Lisbo, Portugal; Recife ad Rio de Jaeiro, Brazil; Taipei, Taiwa; ad a fial assigmet i Lisbo, where Pat took up the study of Portuguese eedlework rugs. Pat is a woma of may iterests ad talets. As she studied the Portuguese rugs, she foud someoe to teach her how to make them ad proceeded to make a lovely rug which graces her livig room here at Asbury. Evetually she bega to teach the techique to other wome, begiig i Portugal ad cotiuig i the states after her retur. Her book, The Time Hoored Art of Arraioles Rugs (EPm Publicatios), was published i 1981 ad gives ot oly the history ad techiques ivolved, but icludes istructios ad charted patters for reproducig a choice of rugs ad pillows. Durig her first tour i Portugal, Pat was fasciated by the baroque architecture there, ad wated to reproduce the orametal features i paitig o cavas. Durig their time i Brazil, she discovered a paitig techique, which combied collage ad sculpture ad reproduced the three-dimesioal effect she wated. The walls of her apartmet are covered with these lovely pieces of art. Alog the way, she ad Bob had a so, Roger, who is married to Roxae ad lives i Gaithersburg. Pat ofte babysits for her graddaughter, Megha. Pat has voluteered as a reader for The Washigto Ear, a orgaizatio which offers a dialup service of readig the etire Washigto Post, Time ad Newsweek ad other publicatios for the visually impaired. Welcome to Asbury, Pat. Ae Porter, Mud reporter 14 March 2011 Village Life
ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST ASBURY BUS TABLE Cotiued from page 1 ferece betwee this evet ad a 5-star restaurat was the fact that we were ivited to roam aroud the kitche, take pictures, ask questios, ad i oe case, eve help a chef with a mior procedure. Each time a course was ready, we retured to our seats ad Chef Gus gave us a delightful tutorial o what we were about to experiece, how the compoets related, why certai varieties of food were selected, ad how the dish was prepared. I oe case Chef Gus had bee reducig a sauce for two days prior to our arrival. The meu varies from dier to dier ad seaso to seaso but just to give you a idea, our starter was zucchii soup with basil ad butter, poached Chesapeake oysters, double crème ad fried basil. That Photo: Hal Gaut Chef Mark ad Chef Gus have good reaso to smile. Their Chefs' Table meal was delicious! was followed with cor ad saffro risotto topped with a broiled cold water lobster tail ad creamy butter cor sauce. The salad course was baby romaie with grilled persimmos ad roasted figs served with a gorgozola ad balsamic fig viaigrette. Ad our etrée was grilled loi of New Zealad veiso with pa- roasted baby carrots, celery root-apple puree with a black garlic ad wild mushroom demi-glace. Ad to top it all off, for dessert they had prepared pumpki dots de crème with caramel whipped cream. If this article has a puch (ooh, o food pu iteded) lie, it would be this: The ext time you walk by the little plastic boxes at your diig room podium, fill out the little slip with your ame ad umber (I would prefer you used mie, but that would be bad form), ad thik good thoughts about havig your ame draw for the ext evet. By Jea Hubbell, Guild Historia It was l987 ad the Asbury Guild had bee busy that sprig as usual with sprig rallies - meetigs that took place i various churches aroud the state ad ivolved a performace of some sort by members of the Asbury Home Family. These trips were a highlight for the family members who wet ad for the Guild members at each of the meetigs. But how did the family get to the meetigs? Asbury did ot have a bus so Guild members provided the trasportatio. The time came whe we saw a great eed for Asbury to have a bus of its ow to help with all these outigs ad other evets for both members of the Home family ad those who lived i the Wilso Health Care Ceter. So it was that Susie Moore (ow Susie Altma ad a residet at Wallace), the director of the Voluteer Office was approached oe day by the the Guild Presidet about the possibility of the Guild providig the fudig for purchase of a bus. Susie was thrilled as she had see the eed herself ad eve had plas for a bus ad where to order oe, but there were o fuds for such a veture at that time. So she suggested the Guild Presidet approach ewly arrived Mac ad Zil Ed Thomas, Executive Director of Asbury Village the, about the idea of orderig a bus with the uderstadig that the Guild would have the moey to pay for it by the ed of September, the ed of the Guild s fiscal year. Mr. Thomas had had o experiece with the Guild ad its reliability at that poit ad was uderstadably hesitat to go forward o faith aloe. But by the ed of September, the $40,000 eeded was available as promised ad the bus was ordered. The day the bus arrived i frot of Asbury Home (ow Park View) was a major occasio. The Home family members poured out of the frot door to see the bus ad check it out. Oe whom this writer especially recalls is Rev. Berie Fogle who, as may will recall, was of cosiderable size. With his great sese of humor, he got o board ad headed for the very back seat which stretched across the width of the bus ad would ormally be for five persos. He chuckled as he sat i the middle ad said he thought it would be just fie. Rev. Fogle made may trips thereafter o that bus ad helped with the performaces at a umber of the Guild meetigs. Now whe we see all the fleet of buses operated by Asbury, it is hard to imagie a time whe there was oe at all. I Memoriam Residet Facility Date of Death Joseph Murphy WHCC 01-21-2011 Katherie Hubley WHCC/Kidley 01-23-2011 Beatrice Bee C. Powell WHCC/Diamod 01-24-2011 Rev. Dr. Arthur Hall Villas 01-29-2011 Robert Eato WHCC 02-05-2011 Waye Smithey Villas 02-06-2011 Edith Joseph WHCC 02-08-2011 Clare Armstrog WHCC/Wallace 02-12-2011 Fraces Lawrece Edwards-Fisher 02-12-2011 Alla Gleo Edwards-Fisher 02-12-2011 Mary Gooki WHCC 02-14-2011 Myrtis Greee WHCC 02-14-2011 Eloise Wager Kidley/Mud 02-16-2011 Village Life March 2011 15
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