Get Ready For HealthAbilityyouravtv.com/vl/0904.pdfIndependence, Vitality And Joy” With few exceptions, I believe that Asbury residents would want to take part in a wellness pro

April 2009Volume 16 Number 3

Residents, Associates, Families & Friends www.asburymethodistvillage.org

A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE

By Linda Aber, Editor

Grab your clubs and your cleats! Asbury Methodist Village is partnering with the Montgom-

ery Village Golf Club, and that means AMV residents and Priority Program members are in for a great golfing deal! Enjoy country club amenities with no initiation fee and a 25% discount on membership opportunities. In addition, golfing members receive discounts on fine dining at The Willow Tree Inn.

This privately owned, well-maintained golf course with 18 challenging holes for members and their guests, practice green and bunker, a double-tiered heat-

ed enclosed driving range for all seasons,

Continued on page 13 The 9th hole at Montgomery Village Golf Club.

By Al Tholen, Park View

It would seem that all rational people would want to enjoy good health and broad abil-

ity. It would also seem to make sense that maintenance of good health can provide the basis for increasing ability and, conversely, that increasing ability provides the potential for better health. What if we conjoined those two very positive words together into a new word that promises betterment of our health and our abil-ity — HEALTHABIL-ITY?

Amy Ostrolenk (Director of Health and Wellness) and Shememe Williams (Director of Program-ming, RL) more fully described the upcoming program to me includ-ing its components, the advantages over the existing program, and the planned schedule for the intro-duction to the Asbury residents. HEALTHABILITY is a comprehen-sive program that will embody and broaden our current Wellness Model. It is a personalized pro-gram that can benefit every resi-

dent regardless of current health, lifestyle habits or ability. The first event in the schedule will be a

series of meetings with residents on April 6, 7, 8,

and 9 in four locations across the Campus. Please watch for an announcement of the locations so that you can be SURE to mark

your calendar. At the early April “rollout” of the

program, you will be given a brochure entitled “My Wellness Journal”. In the brochure, the pro-gram is introduced as”

“Wellness With A Purpose: Independence, Vitality

And Joy”With few exceptions, I believe

that Asbury residents would want to take part in a wellness pro-gram with such a positive pur-

Fore! Golf Club Privileges Coming YOUR Way!

It’s Your MoveBy Duane McKenna, Park View

Chess is arguably the world’s oldest surviving game. Earliest records suggest that it was first played in northern India almost 1000 years ago. Although

alive and well today, chess is having a hard time finding a following at Asbury.

About a year ago, chess master Rex Naylor, hungry for a game, began to advertise for opponents. However they found little joy or encouragement in repeated losses to the wizard and his invitation posted opposite the fitness gym goes unanswered.

Photo: Hal Gaut

Chess mates come out for a day

Continued on page 13

Get Ready For HealthAbility


2 April 2009 Village life

VILLAGELIFE

Editor

Linda Williams Aber

Director of Communications

Asbury Methodist Village

201 Russell Avenue

Gaithersburg, MD 20877

[email protected]

General information: 301-330-3000

Resident Editors

Rod Mills, Mund, Copy Editor

Marilyn Gaut, Trott

Norma Barr, Diamond

Position Open, Wallace

Position Open, Edwards-Fisher

Al Tholen, Park View

Homé Reitwiesner, Kindley

Resident Staff

Wallace: Keith Steele, Bob Bernero,

Mary Waldron and Mike Hua.

Diamond: Ed Caffery, Martin Moon,

Marshall Grotenhuis, Harry Lowery

and Edith Isacke

Edwards-Fisher: Joan Dunlop,

Eleanor Cunningham, Paula Strain,

Martha Hunt, Rosemary Pasek,

and hello to Florida correspondent,

Betty Goen.

Mund: Jim Porter, Bettina Curtis,

Gil Snyder and Judy Weaver

Trott: Jeanne North, and Hal Gaut

Park View: Duane McKenna

and Tom McIlrath.

Villas: Reg Westlake, Marj McGuire,

Mary Anstead, Dan Muller,

Jean Hubbell, Bob Hoff and Bob Yount

Design/Layout:

Mina Rempe @ Electronic Ink

Printing:

Chesapeake Publishing Corp.

Village Life is published by Asbury Methodist Village

Communications Department

“The mission of Village Life is to provide timely, interesting and entertaining news about the lives, concerns and activities of the peo-ple who reside, work and volunteer at Asbury Methodist Village.”

Part 2 in a Series

“Funeral Industry Mischief

A Costly (and Grave) Matter!”

Nancy J. Herin, Trott resident

will present—in part 2—more on outrageous fees and

industry ploys.

Be an educated consumer—know your rights!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

2:00 p.m.

Rosborough Community Rooms A and B

Sponsored by the Pastoral Care Department

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Autographs, Anyone? Joon Kim’s the StarAVTV Station Manager, Joon Kim, at right, made his Asbury film debut and filled the Rosborough Theatre at the Monday March 9th Afternoon at the Movies. The Source caught him shyly hiding in the control room.

Swing and SwayJames Warner and Doreen Sexton, upper far right, kick up their heels at the Ice Cream Social in the Commu-nity Rooms at Rosborough. Danc-ing with the Stars has nothing on Asbury’s dancing stars!

Bargains Galore: Ned Hopper in his Kingdom, the Bargain MartAt right, all the proceeds go to Benevolent Care. Stop by the Mund Leisure and Art Room on the sec-ond Friday of each month from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Treasures (and NED!) await you!

It’s Ba-a-a-ack: Tax TimeAlice Smith gets help on her taxes from Ward Park at far right. In the rear, John Clouse lends his expertise to Joe Feinberg.

Bigwigs: The Mayor, the City Manager and the DeanAt right, Gaithersburg’s Mayor Sid-ney Katz, City Manager Angel Jones, and Dean of the Keese School Floyd Mauer gather for a Keese School lecture about Goings On in Gaithers-burg.

HONK if you Love the Montgomery PlayhouseScott Brewer, Super Booster of Montgomery Playhouse, with Play-house’s HONK Producer Donna Dangle, at the reception preceding the opening of “Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure.” The fundrais-ing goal of $4000 was reached and exceeded!

Happy birthday, Auguste Schilling, Mund A is for Auguste and A is for Amaz-ing! Auguste celebrated her 105th birthday on Wednesday, March 25 in the Parker Hall.

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Idle ThoughtsBy Reg Westlake, Villas

In this spot you shall find a variety of ponderings from a man who hails from the other side of the “pond.”

We’re glad he’s on this side of the pond now!

Time and the Hour

The musical work comes to an end followed by a few words from the announcer, and then we hear the news report. All very smooth, with the music never overrunning into the news slot. We

take all this for granted, but just how do they manage it time after time? Let us guess.

The classical music station’s vast repertoire is no doubt indexed and cross-indexed into composers, symphonies, concertos, quartets, quintets, solos, trios and so on, to provide the building blocks for a program hour

or half-hour. Then comes the tricky part. Inevitably there is a brief time to fill at the end — say from 5 down to 2 minutes or even 1 minute. So there has to be a second-ary classification of short pieces listing the duration of each. So if there are, say, 3 minutes to be filled in before the news the presenter can select something from the 3-minute column and the

program smoothly comes to its end at exactly the right time. It may sound prosaic to chop music up in this way but it is all in the good cause of giving listeners a well- presented program of good music.

In a totally different sphere something similar has to go on where the confine is not time but space. It is the daily newspaper. The multitude of news items, writers’ columns, letters, photos, advertisements etc., in many different sizes, have to be selected so that they fit exactly into a vertical rectangle with a bottom line, a fixed number of columns of a precise width, and a marginal boundary at each side of the page. Unlike music, however, words can be hyphenated and carried over into the next line, but just like the music program, there are inflexible outer limits into which all the many-sized items have to fit. And time does come into it, although in a different way. The publication of a newspaper is ruled by deadlines which mean fitting all the bits and pieces together while under enormous pressure.

Just routine, the people who handle the music and the daily paper would say, but worth a thought perhaps by those of us for whom they do it.

Looking back on a life lived a little bit on the wild side, Bob Yount shares his stories with

you in this new column…

WCTU

I recall living with my grandparents when Franklin D. was first running for president in 1931. The fact the he might do away

with prohibition was a big discussion topic. I’ve never been convinced that my grandmoth-er wasn’t a founding member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and this with my grandfather’s support. The prominent book in the house was John Barleycorn, which detailed the sins of drinking. My grandparents were good hard-shelled Southern Baptists and not going to both Sunday school and Church

was justification for a good tanning. I remember getting one when I went fishing with my father one Sunday.

My father did construction work all over the

east coast, so he didn’t live with us all of the time. Whenever he was with us it was a treat for me because he was a long way from straight- laced. In fact, unknown to my grandparents, he even made beer in the basement during prohi-bition, but that’s another story.

Well, FDR was elected, prohibition was repealed, my grandparents weren’t happy but my father was.

The WCTU thing came up again in 1940 when I was trying to make a few bucks working at a local drug store. Back in those days, Sealtest had an ice-cream flavor of the month; it was Decem-ber and I sent a quart home to my grandmother. She ran hot water into the ice-cream and ran a whole quart of eggnog (flavored) ice-cream down the kitchen drain.

Boy, I heard about that when I got home.

Wasted on the YoungBy Bob Yount, Villas

Asbury Pianos And OrgansBy Norman Heim, Mund, Co-Chair, Spiritual Life PAC

Asbury Methodist Village has approximately 20 operational pianos and organs on campus, many of which have great value. The Pastoral

Care Department is responsible for the maintenance and care of these instruments, with the assistance of the Spiritual Life PAC. Asbury is under contract for our pianos with a reputable Maryland firm that does our tuning, repair and rebuilding. The tuning is done periodically, depending on the use and care we give the instruments. In order to hold the tuning we try to keep the piano keyboard closed, the lid of the piano closed, and if available, we protect the piano with a fitted cover. In addition, many of our pianos have humidifiers in order to keep the pins tight and help hold the pitch. Pianos with humidifiers need periodic water replen-ishment and electrical current at all times. All of these activities and equipment help keep the pianos in tune and maintain a constant environment. The pianos stay in best shape with only limited moving; however, with the many activities in Hefner Auditorium, Parker Hall and Rosborough Theater, the pianos are moved quite often and require several tunings each year.

The administration of Asbury Methodist Village has been very supportive of our efforts to maintain the pianos, including three major renovations. Since all of these instruments have special value, special care is needed. Residents are encouraged to help those of us involved with the instruments by noticing if our instruments are receiving good care. If you notice any problems please call Pastoral Care at X4093.

Recently there was damage to the organ and piano in Parker Hall. Even though the piano company had to be called, we were able to do the repairs ourselves here on campus. Over the past two years the Rosborough piano has been damaged four times--the music rack was broken. We repaired it three times, but on the fourth we recommended special parts from the piano com-pany (costing $190).

The care of our instruments has been a quiet affair, but perhaps if residents know of our past problems, the future will prove more successful and less expensive.


By Jeanne North, Trott

Asbury residents turned out en masse for the twelfth lecture of the Rosborough

Distinguished Speaker Series, pre-sented on Tuesday, March 17 by Gene Cohen, M.D. and Ph.D., Direc-tor of George Washington Univer-sity’s Center on Aging, Health & Humanities. The provocative title: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall—What Is Aging After All?”

Indeed, what is aging? We here at Asbury should know: we’re smack dab in the middle of the process. But I was in for a surprise.

I had expected a lecture full of the usual admonitions on how to live better in our later years: exercise regularly, eat well —green leafy vegetables, whole grains, fish, etc.—stay active, don’t smoke, drink alcohol only in moderation, banish stress.

My assumptions were in error. The lecture was much more than a To-Do List for Seniors, including all of the above. But more than just encouragement to take up danc-ing or art, play board games or learn a musical instrument, it was an insightful, inspiring reexamina-tion of the phases of life, going far beyond the teachings of eminent scientific figures Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget and Erik Erickson, all of whom gave short shrift to the later years. “Watch your assumptions,” cautioned Dr. Cohen in his lecture, citing research showing the error

of long-held beliefs that in mature adults “the brain cannot grow new brain cells, that older adults can’t learn as well as young people.”

A practicing psychiatrist with a distinguished record of achieve-ments in his field, Dr. Cohen bases his conclusions on his work over three and a half decades with thou-sands of adults from mid-life to past 100. Neurogenesis is real. Research shows that when challenged, our brains can grow entirely new brain cells. “Our growth does not stop at ‘adulthood,’” he writes in his lat-est book, The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain, “but can continue throughout our lives.”

In contrast to earlier views of aging as a period of decline, Dr.

Cohen takes a different view. He describes four distinct but some-times overlapping phases of the second half of life: mid-life reeval-uation, the liberation phase, sum-ming up, and encore:

• mid-life reevaluation: from roughly 40 to 65, people tend to ask themselves, where have I been, where am I now, where am I going?

• in the liberation phase, the catch phrase If not now, when? symbolizes the individual’s desire to try something new, soar to new

fields of endeavor;• in the summing up phase, from

the late sixties through seventies and eighties, there is a powerful desire to recapitulate, to give back, leading people to write memoirs, to volunteer, to become involved in philanthropy;

• The fourth stage, the encore stage, “is not a swan song,” writes Cohen, but “a variation on ....the desire to go on, even in the face of adversity or loss.”

Throughout his talk and his book, The Mature Mind, Dr. Cohen cites examples and amusing anecdotes that illuminate and inspire. Wheth-er all of us lead the exemplary lives he describes seems doubtful. But the positive outlook that flows from his findings and his words is a strong current that can carry a willing elder along to the next phase, to make the most of what’s around the corner, and live life to the fullest.

The lecture was fully funded by the James and Norma Jean Rosbor-ough Foundation. A reception fol-lowed the lectures, in the Communi-ty Rooms of the Rosborough Center. While Dr. Cohen signed copies of his book, members of the audience enjoyed delectable goodies.

There was a little boy with a bad temper whose father gave him a bag of nails and

told him to hammer out his frus-trations on the back fence. Every time the little boy lost control of himself, he would hammer a nail into the fence.

The first day he drove 53 nails into the fence. The second day it was 49. The third day, 35. Each day the number of nails dwindled down and the little boy discovered that it was easier to hold his tem-per than to drive the nails into the fence.

Finally, the day came when he did not lose his temper at all. His father suggested that he now pull out each nail, one by one, each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and then came the day when the little boy told his father that all the nails were gone. They went to the fence together and the father said, “My son, you have done well.”

They looked at the fence togeth-

er and the father continued, “When you say things in anger, your words leave a scar just like these nail holes. Your words can be a knife in a person, and even though you say you are sorry, the wound is still there… just like these nail holes in the fence.”

Verbal wounds hurt no less than the physical ones.

Martha A. Brown, Director of Pastoral Care

Inspiration PointHammering an Idea Home

Mac and Zil

Dr. Gene Cohen Lecture: More Than a To-Do List for SeniorsPhoto: Jeanne North

Dr. Gene Cohen, author of The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain


“Do all the good you can,By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can,To all the people you can,As long as you can.”

—John Wesley

This John Wesley quote serves to set the stage for recognition of the approxi-

mately ninety Asbury Methodist Vil-lage Residents who are currently doing what they can by serving in the way they can on the nine Partnership Advisory Committees (PACs). In the March issue of Vil-lage Life we described the basic roles of the PACs in general and the stated PURPOSE of each individual PAC. Below, we list the names of the members of these PACs who give generously of their time and tal-ent to represent the interests of all residents in a collaborative fashion with the Asbury Administration.

Buildings and GroundsSidney Mintz (Resident Co-

Chair), Elsa Tutwiler (Resident Vice Co-Chair), Lenny Hines (Associate

Co-Chair), Dan McMurdo (Associ-ate Co-Chair), Hugh Andrew, Carol Brewer, Allen Coale, Kenneth Hall, Wallace Jobusch, Marjorie McGuire, Eleanor Shlaretzki, Anita Taylor, and Betty Thorne.

CommunicationsRichard Patterson (Resident Co-

Chair), Linda Aber (Associate Co-Chair), Joon Kim (Associate Co-Chair), Henry M. Cox, Harold Gaut, Phyllis Laumaillet, Duane McKenna, Don Starkweather, Albert Tholen, and Mary Waldron.

Dining & NutritionWhitney Coe (Resident Co-

Chair), Doris Jakubczak (Resi-dent Vice Co-Chair), Mark Whalen (Associate Co-Chair), Joanne Coe, Mary Ann Dimond, Ellen McCro-rie, David Moore, Lois Odle, Reba Oheim, Ruth Paul, Keith Steele, Mary Trundle, and Arlene Walsh.

FoundationEmily Womach (Resident Co-

Chair), Dick Hall, (Resident Vice Co-Chair), Doug Myers (Associate Co-Chair), Lee Bachrach, Fran Blen-dermann, John Bartholow, Scott Brewer, Tom Lewis, David Lingrell, Tom McIlrath, Richard Patterson, and Edith Wilkerson.

Future ProjectsNorma Barr (Resident Co-Chair),

David Lingrell (Resident Vice Co-Chair), David Denton (Associate Co-Chair), Judy Bankson (Secretary), Dick Evans, Wallace Jobusch, Mac McCullough, Dan Muller, Ralph Spoor, Virginia Wollin, Joan Yamamoto.

Health & WellnessBob Hartman (Resident Co-Chair),

George Karras (Resident Vice Co-Chair), Amy Ostrolenk (Associate Co-Chair), Robert Berrien, Edith Isacke, Phyllis Laumaillet, Annabel

Liebelt, and Betty Lowe.

MarketingEarl Kragnes (Resident Co-Chair),

Murray Schulman (Resident Vice Co-Chair), Andrew Morgan (Associate Co-Chair), Dorothy Feinberg, Alice M. Gardner, Vera J. Green, Eleanor Halstead, Janet LaFleur, Phyllis Lau-maillet, Janet Lingrell, Marty Roney, Ruth S. Smith, Ann Utterback.

Security, Reception & Transportation

Gil Snyder (Resident Co-Chair), Jeanne Noel (Resident Vice Co-Chair), Walt Albright (Associate Co-Chair), John Bankson, Jody Bell, Frank Gardner, Nishan Karakashian, Joe Maloney, Dan Poole, William Seebold, Shirley Wildman.

Spiritual LifeDr. Norman Heim (Resident Co-

Chair), Marty Blendermann (Resi-dent Vice Co-Chair), Dr. Martha Brown (Associate Co-Chair), Louise Elliott, Martha Grimm, Catherine Heim, Gordia Lanman, May Lou Luff, Sandra Matthews, Helen Pod-olsky, Anne Porter, and Janis Rex.

It’s A Guy Thing

Peek the PACsatBy Al Tholen, Park View

Wife in the Fast Lane

Two events happened in my life recently, one highly anticipated and thoroughly enjoyed, and the other, something I hope will never again occur. In each instance, although I was the star of

the show, Joan was the producer, director, and otherwise most important person.

Upon reflecting on these two events, although I’ve known it all along, each served as an illustration of how fortunate I am to have such a won-derful, thoughtful, supportive, cheerful, loving wife who dutifully does crosswords while I do Su-Doku puzzles.

The first event was my birthday party, important because it was for a decade, or as my sister exclaimed, pronounce it as “decayed”. We had a wonderful celebration in the Community Rooms in Rosborough. Some 80 family members, old friends from my previous lives, and newer friends from Asbury celebrated with me. There was lots of talk, refreshments, remember when’s, a roast, and laughs. Joan was responsible for insisting on the celebration of my decade of life, and I sincerely thank her for it.

The second event was not quite as pleasant. While enjoying an evening dinner at a restaurant celebrating Joan’s birthday, some food (a big bite of steak) got caught in my throat. It would neither go down nor up. I had no trouble breathing but could not swallow. After a few hours with no improvement, we went to the Shady Grove Hospital Emergency Room and spent the rest of the evening and most of the early hours of the next morning waiting for something to happen. Fortunately, the food passed on its own and in an instant, I was better. Now the important part, Joan was there with me through the entire event with words of sympathy, support, and encouragement, and no complaints, even though it was her birthday.

I hope each of you guys has the equivalent of a Joan, and be sure to tell her how lucky you are.

By Bob Hoff, Villas

Iam the junior member of the Villas component of the Vil-lage Life staff. At a recent staff

meeting the editor went around the table asking each of us if we had anything for the next issue. My response was that I had something in mind but that it would not be ready for the next issue because I have IRS Writer’s Block

When I sat down to write, all that came to mind was that April 15th is the deadline for filing my 2008 income tax return, and I have yet to prepare it. The block result-ed from my anticipation of the work required and I haven’t started yet.

One has three choices for preparing a return. You can pay an accountant to do it; you can do it yourself or you can do a Marion Barry and hope that you can claim an infirmity that will be a convincing to a jury.

The first option will cost you money and you still have to do a lot of the work to organize your income elements and your deduc-tions, at which point you might as

well do it yourself unless there are arcane elements that must be cov-ered by a professional

The second option of doing it yourself is my choice, unless you have an editor who wants material

to meet a deadline.The third option is not recom-

mended. I hear that the food in prison is not what a nice Texas boy was brought up on.

You too can claim IRS ----------- Block until you finish your tax return, if there is a task that you have been asked to complete before April 15th. You fill in the blank.

IRS Writer’s Block


The name “Chit Chatter” comes from Asbury’s first newspaper, “Chit Chat”. We

have copies of most editions of that publication starting with the June 1956 issue. In fact, on occa-sion, in this column, we may quote some articles from those early edi-tions.

The Historical Society was offi-cially recognized as a committee under CCAV on November 21, 2006. Its name at that time was, “Williamsburg Lane Preservation Committee.” Recognizing that many Williamsburg Lane items, over the course of years, had been moved to other buildings, the name of the committee underwent changes until it became, as it is now known, “The AMV Historical Society.”

Working with the AMV Historical Society can be exciting at times. One of those times was when we started cleaning out a small room on the Lobby floor of the Adminis-

tration Building. We have been call-ing this “Marshall’s Room.” When Marshall Grotenhuis was collect-ing material for his two books he was allowed to use this room. By the way I hope you have read his books on the history of Asbury Methodist Village. It seems that everyone who had something they didn’t know what to do with put it in this room.

It is quite an experience to enter this room. As mentioned earlier cop-ies of the newspaper, Chit-Chat are found there. In fact there are copies of 42 years of this newspaper that had neatly been placed in folders. There are also copies of another newsletter called the Newsletter of the Asbury Methodist Village Apartments, which was published in the years 1972 to 1994. Approxi-

mately 3000 slides are there, many of them made from pictures taken before slides were in use. We are currently in the process of digitiz-ing them.

There are framed portraits of some of the early officers of Asbury and even one of an officer of the now defunct Westminster Home. There are some brass plates used to iden-tify rooms in the original Home.

Recently when cleaning off a table, which takes up a large amount of the space in the room, two silk scarves were discovered. One of them commemorated the capture of Manila on August 13, 1898. The other one apparently was for the presidential campaign of Benjamin Harrison who was President from 1889 to 1893. It shows a patent-ed date of June 28, 1888 and it is in very good condition. We are exploring the best way to preserve the two scarves.

—Keith Steele, Wallace

By Jeanne North, Trott

Attention new residents! Do you know where Williams-burg Lane is? Do you know

where the Guild Chapel is? Have you seen the fountains and Iona Island in the Pond? Do you know where the statue of Francis Asbury

is, who he was and why we have a statue of him on campus? Do you know who each of the buildings is named after, and what roles they played in the history of Asbury Methodist Village?

The Asbury Foundation is plan-

ning to reveal these campus mys-teries to new residents in a New Resident Welcome Bus tour at some soon-to-be-announced future date. For now, the Pac members will themselves take a trial run of the tour on Tuesday, April 14, start-ing at Park View at 10 a.m.

Featured on the April 14 trial run: a visit to the Guild Chapel and a stop at the Williamsburg Lane showrooms of the Asbury Historical Soci-ety, where Genevieve and Keith Steele and Harriet Reni son will be on hand to explain and talk about some of the treasures hidden there. Refreshments will be served.

The tour will con-tinue to other spots on campus, ending at Park View, where residents will enjoy a lunch.

“We have a lot of new residents moving in [to Asbury],” says Foun-

dation President and CEO Doug Myers, “and we thought [such a tour] could be a service the Foun-dation could provide to introduce them to the campus.”

For information about future tours, call Cassandra Hoye at 4009.

Chit ChatterFrom the AMV Historical Society

Campus History Mysteries Revealed

By Mary Anstead, Villas

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or

do without.” Accolades for Betsey Hudson!

In the January COR report, Betsey shared her reflections on her school lunches and wrote how ‘styles never change’. As a student “I took my lunch in the same paper sack that I had used the week before (I folded it and brought it back home)...I took my sandwich in

a sandwich bag that had been washed out and dried…milk in a thermos…. I am eating my lunch at my desk – yes, a sandwich from ham salad left from Christmas [ham], cookies left over from the

same event and all of it packed in a plastic grocery bag that I will take home and reuse

tomorrow…. Frugality and conscious use of what

we have been blessed with…never go out of style.”

Keith and Genevieve Steele, and Harriet Reni-son await the trial tour of Williamsburg Lane.

Green Bein’sReflections on a ‘Green Bein’!

Betsey Hudson receives a bouquet of green beans for bein’ so green!


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Through the generous contribution of Artha Jean Snyder and her late husband Grant, the 10th floor hall of the Diamond Building has been beauti-

fied with eight fine art prints depicting the first eight lines of “America the Beautiful.”

Eight contemporary American landscape artists were selected by The Franklin Mint Gallery of American Art to submit a painting interpreting one line of the poem written by Katharine Lee Bates. They were specifically commissioned to honor the 1976 bi- centennial. These limited edition prints were collected by the Snyder’s and were recently framed and given to Asbury for dis-play.

The prints in the “America the Beautiful” portfolio represent a new chapter in the history of printmaking and were created using the advanced Franklin Gravures process. This process, also known as intaglio, brings a new level of brilliance to the printmaking method. It captures the exact colors and subtle details the artist has so carefully blended to create a distinctive work of art.

These paintings display a spiritual beauty that reminds us all that America is truly beautiful and that God has indeed “shed his Grace on Thee”.

Carol Barry Dennis, Villas

Watercolor

Anne Connery, Edwards-Fisher

Quilting

The Rosborough Cultur-al Arts and Wellness Center

is home to an ever-changing gallery of arts and handiwork

created by our residents. Stop by and see what’s new.

With 12 display cases to look at, there’s something for

everyone to enjoy. Here’s this month’s sampling of art.

This Month in the Gallery

By Jean Hubbell, Villas, Guild Reporter

75th Anniversaries don’t come along every day, and when the Asbury Methodist Village Guild’s 75th Anni-versary comes along, you can be sure the celebration is going to be grand! It’s all happening at the Hefner Audi-torium on Tuesday, April 14, at noon. With a theme of “Asbury Methodist Guild Springs Forward with Hope,” a luncheon will be served and along with it a whole host of entertainment.

In addition to a musical interlude with Sterling Wilde, flute; Norman Heim, Clarinet, and Cathy Heim, piano, there will be a guest appearance by Asbury’s own Toe Tapping Tootsies, a costume parade of women repre-senting the past 75 years, a speech by Guild President, Mary Ebinger, Mary Waldron being honored for her past Presidency, and there will be an address given by the keynote speaker, Bishop Peggy Johnson, on “Hope.”

Joining the Guild is as easy as sending your yearly dues of $5.00 (or whatever you can afford) to Debi

Peeks in the Administration building. Your dues help to support Guild projects. For all the services the Guild has provided over the past 75 years, the community they work so tirelessly to support gives thanks every member past, present, and future.

When Reg Westlake, Villas was a little boy back in the 1920’s he

used to go with his father to the soccer matches of Plymouth Argyle. They are to Plymouth, England what the Redskins are to Washington but have a much longer history, going back to 1903 and are now more than 100 years old. Even now, in his 90’s, Reg can remember the names of the players and some of the goals that they scored. Recently, when going through his collection of books he came across the club’s Diamond Jubilee book ‘All About Argyle 1903-1963, 60 years of Histo- ry and Records’ and he wrote to the

club to ask them if they would like

it for their archives. They were delighted to accept and asked Reg to accompany it with a pho-tograph and to write something for their match program. So he wrote an article of some 650 words and it appeared in full as “Letter from America,” with his photograph, in the club’s match program for their game on March 3. There will be few people left to share Reg’s early memories but the knowledge that there is a Plymothian over in the U.S.A. who followed the club more than 80 years ago will no doubt give today’s spec-

tators something to talk about.

By Norman Heim, Mund

The Asbury Garden Club had a successful growing season in 2008. Many of our flowers

and surplus vegetables were placed in the various independent living build-ings for residents to take. Donations received from our surplus help to maintain our machinery and tools. In

addition, at the Club’s fall meeting, we voted to give the Asbury Benevolent Care Fund $1,000. We are looking forward to having another successful growing season in 2009.

The Asbury Garden Club will have an open house on Saturday, April 25, 2:00-4:00 P.M. come and enjoy the sight of our spring flowers.

By Mary Moehring, Villas

This small, perky, many-shades-of-brown bird is a year-round resident here at Asbury. On the

coldest day, when few birds are sing-ing, he will whistle a loud cheerful song and she will answer with a quiet chuckle. As spring approaches, the male birds will call back and forth announc-ing territories. A smart bird, too, who will take a peanut half from the feeder, place it in a small square opening in our rubber door mat, peck it to bits and not lose a single piece of nut meat. With a diet of bugs, spiders, weevils and some small fruits, plus a taste for peanut butter and peanut splits, the Carolina wren is a welcome daily visi-tor to our villa.

Our martin friends will soon be arriv-ing from Brazil to spend the spring and summer at our houses. They are friendly and communal nesting birds that like to be near people and come north to the states and Canada to nest and raise their young. Martins depend on man to provide nesting houses and gourds.

Recently, there has been interest on campus in providing purple martin and bluebird houses. Jim and I provide alu-minum houses and plastic gourds on our property facing the Chesapeake Bay, and, as such, we are known as mar-tin landlords.

Purple martins are soaring flyers that

catch their food in the air. They are the largest swallow and have a superb navi-gational system that often returns them to the same house year after year.

Martin houses and gourds of wood, plastic or aluminum should always be placed on a pole that can be raised and lowered by a rope or winch system. This is to permit weekly inspection of the nests and babies and to remove the nests of English house sparrows and starlings.

Martins are unique in that they per-mit humans to handle their eggs and babies, inspect them for mites, replace the nests if infested and gently care for their young. After a nest inspection, the parents will return to the nest, feed their young and remove fecal sacks.

Martin predators include owls, snakes, hawks and two non-native birds, the English house sparrow and the starling. The aggressive sparrow and starling will peck holes in martin eggs, kill the young, build a nest on top of a martin nest and drive martins from the house.

Martins, for the most part, are peace-ful birds. They talk amongst themselves in lilting voices and the males wake us each day with their distinct morning song. We are eagerly looking forward to their arrival.

By Mary Waldron, Wallace

I’ve often heard it said that there’s nothing to compare to the excitement of young

love; others say love shouldn’t be wasted on the young, they don’t even know what it is. Some folks think nothing can take the place of the thrill of that very first love, while others say love is better the second time around. I’d like to know what you think, and while you mull it over, I’m going to tell you what I have discovered about the subject of love during these past several years.

My friend Dr. Sondra Wheeler, professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary, recently wrote a book entitled, What We Were Made For. In it she explores the various types of love we usually experience during out lives, including the obvious: love for spouses, chil-dren and grandchildren; for friends and neighbors and over all, our love for our heavenly father who, Sondra reasons, cre-ated us to love each other.

As I write this, I’m “head-over-heels” in love with my hus-band, Billy. It’s now been three years since we discovered we had (without searching for it) been blessed with a gift beyond price in this love we had for each other. Of course we dearly loved our spouses, who both died several years ago after long marriages; we love our children, grandchildren (and in Billy’s case, his great-grandchildren);

and we dearly love our friends. But this love Billy and I have discovered is different from anything we’ve experience before—a mixture of the inten-sity and emotion of young love and the deeper and quieter joy of simply being together. Maybe it’s so different because at this point in our lives we know the time we have ahead is limited; we don’t want to waste one minute of it in pettiness, mis-understandings or anything we know will detract from the joy in each other’s lives. Each day we have together is so full of possibilities, even though we are well aware that heartaches and losses are inevitable in our time ahead, however long it may be. But, we are here to comfort and encourage one another. After all, this is What We Were Made For, as my friend Sondra says.

Billy and I have talked about this perceived uniqueness of our particular love for each other with a number of our friends—couples who have also found each other in these latter years. And, guess what? Much to our chagrin, we’ve found we aren’t unique at all! Each cou-ple we’ve talked with knows for certain they are the lucki-est two people in the world to have found each other, and they too have been completely taken by surprise in the wonder of it all—they too, have found a joy in their new relationship they never before even guessed existed. Just like us!

Love in These Latter Years

Wedding bells for Mary Waldron and Billy Ball. Reverend Randy-Lord Wilkinson presided over the ceremony.

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“America the Beautiful” Comes to Asbury

A Letter from America and Reg!

Reg Weslake

Artha Jean Snyder stands by one of eight prints donated to Diamond.


This column will appear on no particular schedule. The articles in the column will be one man’s reflections, thoughts, observa-tions, and beliefs and un-beliefs as he has traveled down the proverbial “road of life.” While there will be no intent to offend anyone, I expect that a few may be offended by some content.

Ihave met many a man throughout my life who has said they do not like to shop.

I do expect that there are many men who might say they do like to shop. I fall into the category of one who does not like to shop.

Now there have been times when I have given the impres-sion, no doubt, that I like to like to shop; one of those times that come to mind is when I was try-ing to impress a lady whom I had just met. I’m sure that I gave this impression while I was courting and probably even early on into marriage. This whole idea of not caring to shop was recently stood

on “its head.”Each September I travel to San

Diego to visit my oldest son when his youngest children, Madeline and Colin, celebrate their birth-days. As they have aged I have found it harder and harder to buy gifts that they would like or even more important, gifts that their Mother might deem appropriate. This past September I thought that I had found the solution to this dilemma by taking each shop-ping.

Madeline, who was ten, had spe-cific shops in mind: Kohl’s, Claire’s and Target. We went to Kohl’s first and we headed directly to the young misses department and sur-prisingly to the sale area. She had a good idea of what she wanted and if she didn’t see it, she did not

hesitate to find a clerk to help her (this is something that I rarely do). After purchasing several items of clothing we headed up the road to another shopping mall and Claire’s, a shop best described to adults as a store offering some-thing more than junk, but then jewelry of any sort is treasure to

a ten-year-old young lady. We left with several pairs of earrings and a lapel watch that had to be returned the following day. Madeline, then, without coach-ing on my part, decided that we had spent enough and that we should end our spree without a

visit to Target.On the following day, Colin, who

was eight, also had specific shops in mind, namely Best Buy and Tar-get. At Best Buy he headed right to the computer game section, where after a few moments of consideration, he decided on a game. Upon arriving at Target, he went to the toy section where he pondered over what to buy (I successfully steered him away from items that might be consid-ered items of violence) and final-ly decided to add to his “super heroes” collection.

All in all, I must admit that I found these ventures to be enjoy-able. The icing on the cake was that neither parent took any great exception to the purchases.

Grins and GrimacesBy Gil Snyder, Mund

SHOPPING

By Rod Mills, Mund

Asbury is a place where there is a lot going on and where residents like to see how TV presents the campus news.

Asbury’s own TV station, AVTV, brings viewers a look at what’s happening, but it takes skilled people to shoot the action and to edit the tape for public presentation. For “Asbury NEWS,” a segment on Asbury View, that scene-shooter and editor is Dan Muller, videographer extraor-dinaire and resident of the Villas together with his wife Joan. Yes, that’s the same Dan Muller who also brings us the chuckle-producing col-umn “It’s a Guy Thing” in Village Life.

How he developed his interest and skills in videography is the first question I asked Dan, and his answer was indeed interesting. About 20 years ago he had the foresight to realize that in coming years he would undoubtedly want to ask his parents a lot of questions about fam-ily history, and that it would also be smart to get the information as soon as possible. So Dan bought a video camera, videotape, and a VCR, learned how to use them, set his parents down before the camera, and had them tell the story of their lives and what they knew about their relatives. This way he had all his family informa-tion at his fingertips whenever he wanted to make use of it. Over subsequent years he had a growing interest in videography and in develop-ing his expertise in this medium.

Dan’s activities at AVTV began soon after he and Joan arrived at Asbury from their former home in Comus, Maryland. His first job was operating one of the three cameras in the AVTV studio that are used for shooting interviews.

(Three cameras, each providing a continuous image of the interviewer, guest(s), or all of them together, respectively, give the editor three views to choose from at any moment of time.) Cur-rently, Dan’s assignments are in the news area, as typified by the coverage of recent events on campus on Asbury View, a program that airs at 9:00 A.M. and again at 1:00, 7:00, and 10:00 P.M. Monday through Friday, with new stories each week. In addition to Dan, other camera opera-tors now are Barbara Marrs (Edwards-Fisher), Dick Patterson (Villas), and backup Woody Sch-neider (Wallace), along with Station Manager Joon Kim and Assistant Manager Eric Thornett.

Making a TV program is an extremely time-consuming procedure, and Dan gives a great deal of his time to AVTV. His rule of thumb in estimating how long it will take to do a particular program is to assume that, counting both shooting and editing, it will take an hour

for each minute that the program will be “on the air.” The time needed for shooting does, of course, vary a lot depending on how many places he has to go to and how far away they are. Although a story may be centered on the Asbury campus, it may be much more interest-ing to watch if scenes of off-campus activities are also included on the TV screen. Editing the footage shot is a lengthy process requiring an expert’s touch. For editing Dan uses his own equipment in the lower level of his villa, which is a great convenience to AVTV. The editing makes use of a big computer that takes the tape, a very large monitor, and specialized software made for editing, and the computer “burns” the edited footage onto a DVD. The finished prod-uct can then be shown on his DVD player and the studio’s player used for the broadcast.

The biggest videographic problem facing Dan and AVTV is that equipment is so expensive. Dan’s two cameras are now seven or eight years old and probably will have to be replaced soon. Presumably the new ones will be high-defini-tion cameras, which will add to the cost.

Dan has created promotional videos for non-profit organizations and a variety of videos for Grace United Methodist Church in Gaithers-burg, where he and Joan are members. In addi-tion to his video work, he has developed and worked on several outreach programs for Grace UMC, including the Lord’s Table (Gaithersburg’s community soup kitchen), the Appalachian Ser-vice Project (repairing homes for low-income homeowners in Appalachia), and Rebuilding Together, a home-repair mission active in Mont-gomery County.

Photo: Joon Kim

Dan Muller at work in the AVTV studio.

Life behind the TV Camera


CARING FOR YOURSELFWEAR your Lifeline pendant/bracelet at all times

while in your apartment.IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY PUSH THE BUTTON! If you

don’t know whether or not it is an emergency, press the but-ton! Care Management can help you decide your best course

of action and offer support.

KEEP AVAILABLE the following fresh first aid supplies:n “Band Aid” type dressingsn Non-aspirin pain relievern Digestive disordersn Anti-diarrhea (Imodium)n Anti-histamine of choice (like Benadryl)n Antibiotic ointmentn Antacid

DO IT YOURSELF FIRST AID – Cuts and abrasionsCLEANSE with soap and water if the skin is broken.CONTROL BLEEDING by applying direct pressure to wound, ele-

vate higher than the heart. If bleeding cannot be controlled within 10 minutes, call Care Management or press your Lifeline button.

APPLY antibiotic ointment and a “Band Aid” type dressing to broken skin area. Wash skin; apply ointment and a dressing at least once daily until healed.

(For those with low vision, if you need help applying a bandage or evaluating a wound, call Care Management (X4275); identify yourself as having impaired vision and request wound care for a reduced fee)

Sprains and strains and small burns without blisteringREST the affected partAPPLY cold pack (ice cubes in a plastic bag, wrapped with a thin

towel)ELEVATE the part above heart level.

If you believe physician evaluation is necessary call your physician. If you wish, seek care at one of the facilities listed below:

When Away From Your ApartmentCARRY a Medical Information Card at all times listing:

n Prescription and non-prescriptions medication names and dos-ages

n Medications/foods, etc. to which you are allergicn Date of most recent tetanus shotn Physician’s office and after hours telephone numbersn Carry your medical insurance information and picture ID with

you

AREA URGENT CARE AND EMERGENCY FACILITIESSecure Care, 803 Russell Ave #1, Gaithersburg MD (301) 869-0700Service Hours daily, 8:00 AM-8:00 PM

Shady Grove Adventist Hospital 9901 Medical Center DriveRockville, MD 20850 (301) 279-6000 Service Hours 24 hours daily

Shady Grove Adventist Emergency Center 19731 Germantown RoadGermantown, MD 20874 (301) 444-8000 Service Hours 24 hours daily

If possible, have a family member or friend (if they are willing to act as your medical advocate) accompany you to such a facility. Care Man-agement (X4275) or the gatehouse (Dial 0) can assist you in obtaining transportation to these facilities if you have no family members avail-able. For transportation back home from one of these facilities after Transportation has stopped running for the day (4:00 p.m.), call the Gatehouse at 301-330-3000 or 301-216-4001 and ask them to send a taxi for you. AMV has an account with Barwell Cab Company and you will not need cash on hand to pay for a cab.

Reliable URL’s for medical information:http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.htmlhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.htmlhttp://medlineplus.gov/

Dr. Bob Hartman, retired Family Physician and Geriatrics Specialist

Ask Dr. Bob

QUILTS! QUILTS! QUILTS! Do you have any old quilts?

Any new quilts? Any borrowed or blue quilts?

Any quilts not previously shown on campus?

Bring your quilts and join other quilt appreciators ! !

Quilt “Show and Tell”

Wednesday, April 22, 1:00 pmPark View Club Room

Call if you can join us: Marjorie Mills ext.5866Sponsor: Asbury Historical Society

Outrageous WindsHow come you blow so hard you wear me outDoes some huge finger stir you up so you can wail aboutWhy don’t you waft instead of roarWe don’t want to hear you anymoreWe need some peaceFind yourself a distant cover and blow yourself to sleepPLEASE CEASE

—Laura Winter, Diamond

Laura Winter is the author of Laura’s Songs, Laura’s Touches, Laura’s Laugh, Laura’s Lines, Laura’s Lines and more; A Double Whammy, and Snippets

If you don’t like the idea of reusing that little plastic sandwich bag, con-sider saving the waxed paper lining in cereal boxes for your sandwich when you go on a Keese School trip. Use the plastic wrapper in which

your bread is marketed instead of a paper bag; or use it to wrap a left-over to put in the freezer.

When you dine in the Asbury res-taurants, take only what you can eat and join the ‘clean plate club’. Take only one towel, when you shower after a swim. Turn off the light when you leave a room.

We’ve saved for our grandchildren,

but little may be left. At least we can contribute to saving the environ-ment for them!

Now that the crocus plants are starting to show themselves, per-haps we green bein’s can think of planting some green beans. Take a milk carton — the pint ones are the easiest to use, but you can recycle a quart or half-gallon carton by cutting

it down to the half size. Put some pebbles in the bottom for drainage, some planting soil, and a couple of green bean seeds. Place the ‘plant’ in a sunny area and water as needed. When the beans sprout, transfer to your garden plot or a balcony con-tainer and by summer you ‘green bein’s’ can enjoy those green beans.

GREEN BEIN’SContinued from page 7


By Lois Odle, Mund

In recent months two groups of Asbury residents who have mild to moderate hearing loss-

es have participated in a course in “Speechreading” sponsored by the Health & Wellness PAC and presented by a team from the U. of MD Hearing & Speech Clinic. This course may be repeated in the future as the need arises.

Such classes in Speechreading (formerly called Lip-reading) train hearing-impaired persons to look directly at the speaker, studying lip and mouth movements and other body clues as aids to under-stand-ing the words being spoken. Stu-dents also learn to make choices in seating and environmental factors in an effort to enhance their ability to hear and understand. They are also informed about various alert-ing and communication devices to use in their own residences, how to improve use of the telephone, and how to access Captioned TV programs, if needed.

As the population ages, we know that the percentage of seniors with hearing impairment reaches high figures. However, it is difficult to recognize members of this group because hearing loss, along with low vision must be classified as an “Invisible Disability.”

Now that hearing aids have become so small and inconspicu-ous, it is not easy to determine at a glance if someone is wearing one. One may be surprised to discover, only after a period of time, that a friend or frequent companion is indeed a hearing-aid user. How-ever, as we become more aware of the possibility of hearing losses and familiar with the condition, we will begin to notice some important signs. One is that certain individu-als in a dining group or commit-tee meeting seldom participate in discussions and some never offer a topic of conversation. If we find ourselves in the dining room or in other social situations where con-versation is difficult due to poor

communication, there are certain actions that an informed person with normal hearing can take.

How Can Someone With Normal Hearing Be Helpful?When there seems to be an obvi-

ous lack of communication, here are some guidelines to be used by any normal-hearing person who is seeking to communicate with hear-ing-impaired residents:

1. Make An Effort To Face The Hearing-Impaired Person

2. Be Sure Not To Cover Any Part Of Your Face With A Hand

3. Avoid Speaking With Any Food In Your Mouth

4. Speak More Loudly And Distinctly That Normally

5. Try To Use Short Sentences

6. Rephrase Remarks If the Person Fails To Understand

In planning events involving hearing-impaired persons, keep-ing the number somewhat small is important. Four to six persons at dinner is a reasonable number. However, some groups have floor dinners involving 12 to 16 per-sons. This is a difficult situation for any hearing-impaired resident, and there is no easy answer.

Another factor is the noisy envi-

ronment prevalent in most dining rooms at times. In such circum-stances it may be best to shorten conversations. However, in some situations where some essential information is being conveyed by someone at a microphone, it may be necessary to write a brief note conveying that message to the hearing-impaired person.

Our discussion has been focused mostly on dining room (or social) situations.

There are, of course, meetings, lectures, classes, etc. that may involve a large number of resi-dents. Here the sound systems in meeting rooms are of major impor-tance. There has been a noticeable improvement in most of these rooms, with microphones available as needed. We hope these systems will continue to be monitored and kept in good condition.

The purpose of these remarks is to help us, as residents, become aware that not all disabilities are visible, and there may be various reasons that certain residents can-not participate fully in group situ-ations. Since hearing-impairment affects a very high percentage of seniors, this information may help us become more sensitive to the needs of this group, making com-munication a little easier for all.

Date Event Contact

4/23/09 Lancaster “Behold the Lamb” Otto x5299

4/25/09 Olney Theatre Allen x6660 “Call of the Wild” - Musical

4/26/09 Strathmore Klepek x5743 National Philharmonic

5/4-8/09 Branson, MO Otto x5299

5/15/09 Kennedy Center Otto x5299 National Philharmonic


5/21/09 Baltimore Harbor Luncheon Cruise Roney x3134


6/20/09 Olney Theatre Allen x6660 “The Millionaires”

Travel Committee Day Trips and

Tours 2009

Have You Heard Of Ways To Improve Communication at Asbury?


Tutors NeededThe Asbury Lit-eracy Program has students (associates) waiting for help with English. We need residents to respond. Training and materials are provided by the Literacy Council of Montgomery County.Call Marilyn Gaut, x5215

JAGOE’S Brain JoggersBy Armiger Jagoe, author of You Are Next in Line, Everyone’s Guide for Writing your Autobiography

1. In a1946 movie, Judy Garland sang about a railroad and it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Can you name that song?

2. Who was the bandleader who had his own TV show from 1951-82; he called his songs “Champagne Music”, and with his slightly German accent, he constantly said “Wun-nerful, wunnerful!”

3. In 1938, who was the pilot who (by mistake?) flew his single-engine plane from NYC to Ireland?

4. In the popular TV show What’s My Line, John Daly was the host. Name five participants.

5. What was the name of the Italian ocean liner which sank off Nantucket in 1956 after colliding with Swedish liner, Stockholm?

Answers

1. The Atcheson, Topeka and the Santa Fe; 2 Lawrence Welk; 3. Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan; 4. Clifton Fadiman, Ben-nett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis. Steve Allen; 5. Andrea Doria.

diversified inter-club competi-tions, and well-stocked Pro Shop is located just two miles from the Asbury gates. PGA golf profession-als are on the premises and les-sons are available. In addition to many events for professionals and amateurs, the Club is the host site of several USGA qualifiers includ-ing the MAPGA Titelist tour event, USGA Mid-Amateur qualifier, and Kemper Open (Booz-Allen) quali-fier.

The Club’s very active Senior Men’s and Ladies’ golfing groups provide an ideal opportunity for

Asbury residents. Whether you are a beginner or have been playing for years, there is something for every-one at the Club. Golf and then enjoy lunch in the Grille Room or outside dining on the deck over-looking the golf course.

Even if you don’t play the game, enjoy the privileges of the Club. Fine dining is offered at The Wil-low Tree Inn on the Club’s grounds. Dinner is served Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays opening at 5:00 p.m.

Asbury welcomes our new part-nership with The Montgomery Vil-lage Golf Club, and they welcome Asbury. So, tee up and say, “See you at the Club!”

GOLFContinued from page 1

pose. Aspects of the program, as explained in the Brochure include: n A discussion of how wellness is

defined, n Development of an individual

wellness profile, n Personal wellness goal setting,n A section for your personal

wellness goal setting, n Access to a HealthAbility WEB

site, andn A section to keep notes of your

activities and progress.One of the first steps in the new

program will be completing a “Quality of Lifestyle questionnaire”, rating your answers to the follow-ing statements on a scale of 1 to 4, where 1 = Rarely, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Usually, and 4 = Always.

I feel younger than my age

I feel energetic.

I feel mentally alert and stimulated.

I feel connected and engaged in life.

I eat fruits, vegetables

and whole grains.

I have purpose and meaning in my life.

I have hope for the future.

I laugh at least once a day.

Asburians, get your pencil and calendar ready to block out the April date that best suits you, and make a belated New Years’ resolu-tion to pay more attention to your Health & Ability. The brochure that you will be given contains an Emily Dickinson quote:

“THE SOUL SHOULD ALWAYS STAY AJAR, READY TO WELCOME THE ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE”

Once you get the facts and the opportunities it offers to impact the way you age, we suspect you’ll want to participate in the HEALTHABILITY program– but the choice is yours to make!

HEALTHABILITYContinued from page 1

Enter Don Starkweather, chess enthusiast and tireless communica-tor to champion the cause. Don’s passion for the game earned him an interview with Village Life edi-tor, Linda Aber on AVTV where he extolled the benefits of chess for Asbury residents. Starkweather has compiled a working list of every-one who knows the difference between chess and checkers and calls them repeatedly to arrange games.

On Saturday March 14, he pro-moted simultaneous play for 10 people on five boards. He must have made 50 phone calls in the effort, which brought them to

the Mund parlor that afternoon. Included were residents Tom Lowery, Duane McKenna, Auguste Schilling, Dave Webster, Jean Wal-ters and of course Rex Naylor. To fill the remaining slots, associates Charles Mustafa and Bijan Salari were recruited, and Don’s son Bob Starkweather was pressed into ser-vice. Play started at 2 and for those playing a second match continued until 5. Mund chess could become a monthly event.

It would be wonderful if chess could become part of Asbury’s social life. It offers a stimulating sort of mental challenge, which is helpful to the aging brain. Per-haps chess 101 could be offered in the fall curriculum of the Keese School. After eight easy lessons the ancient game would have found a fine new home at Asbury

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Photo: Hal Gaut

Carl Marca Trott 815, x5496

Carl Marca, Trott #815, is our newest resident, moving in during February 2009. His wife of 65 years died in 2008. One of his two sons, a Bethesda resident, urged Carl to relocate to Asbury to be closer to his family. His other son, daughter-in-law and children live in Arlington,

TX. Carl divested himself of his collections of firearms, straight razors (1000+!) and stamps, as well as his wife’s collections before moving here.

Carl was born in Sheffield, PA. His family moved to Endicott, NY, in 1923, where he lived most of his life except during World War II. He attended LSU studying accounting, graduated in 1941 and began his lifelong employment with IBM. He was drafted in 1942 and graduated from U.S. Army Officer Candidate Military Intel-ligence School in 1943. He was assigned to duty in the Western Pacific Theater in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines. Following release from active duty he continued in the U.S. Army Reserves, retiring as a colonel in 1975.

After World War II he returned to IBM, where he was trained as an industrial engineer. His responsibilities included manpower, space occupancy and standards. He retired from IBM in 1975.

Following retirement, he traveled to Europe and had an extended visit to Australia, without the company of his wife who preferred not to fly. During retirement they were active in senior citizen activities, family visits and short travel trips.

Since moving into Trott, Carl plans to partici-pate in fitness center programs, join the Com-puter Club, take computer courses and enjoy using the Internet. In his opinion, Trott is a very

friendly building, a part of a well- organized operation. He looks forward to making many new friends here as well as enjoying frequent visits in Bethesda with his son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons.

—Bob Hartman,Trott

Photo: Rosemary Pasek

Elizabeth Andersen Edwards-Fisher 511, x5442

Elizabeth, Kim as she prefers to be called, Andersen moved into Edwards-Fisher’s apart-ment 511 on June 26, 2008. Talk about a day late and a dollar short, this reporter is nine months late and hopes to be included in the current stimulus package. Kim was born in Utica, New York and has held a number of sales and secretarial positions.

A widow with one son and five grandchildren, she experienced her most satisfying job work-ing in the personnel department at Glen Cove Hospital in Long Island. This second career was one she had been exposed to while working as a Cheery Cherry Lady (as mature candy stripers were called) back in her volunteer days. She was also active in the PTA and was instrumental in bringing one of the first Hootenannies to her local high school.

An Episcopalian by affiliation, she was an active golfer and enjoyed doing crewel work. Kim was known for her dinner parties and loved to entertain. She was a world traveler and spent time in England and Denmark where her relative did interviews with Danish royalty. Sin-gapore, Bangkok and Japan were also favorite travel destinations.

Kim chose Asbury because of the ease of apartment living and minimal cooking. With so many activities there is always something going on and having her son nearby is a big plus. While her interview has been a long time coming, her acceptance into the Edwards-Fisher family moved quickly from the start.

—Joan Dunlop, Edwards-Fisher

Welcome New Residents

Evalyn Chessman Mund 804, x5203

Evalyn was born in Bedford, Indiana. She went to country schools and then graduated from Bloomington High School. Her family moved to California, but she came back to Indiana for a year to use the scholarship she had at Indiana University. After three semes-ters at Indiana, Evalyn joined her parents in California, studied at Berkley, and got a job teaching third grade in California.

At the USO she met Edward Langley, a sail-

or who soon was urging her to come to Bal-timore to meet his parents. In 1946 Edward was released from the Navy and they were married. Their first home was in the Twin-brook development in Silver Spring.

Eddie became an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, but could not become a full professor without a graduate degree. Eddie, Evalyn and their first daugh-ter (of three) moved to New York City for a year where he worked on a graduate degree at Columbia University. They moved back to Silver Spring and Evalyn finished her degree work at the University of Maryland and became a high school English teacher in Montgomery County. After seven years of teaching, she took a sabbatical leave, fin-ished work on a master’s degree in Educa-tion, and began teaching in Gaithersburg, where she remained for 21 years until she retired in 1986.

Eddie and Evalyn divorced after 31 years. In 1979 she met Lieutenant Colonel Thom-as Chessman, a WWII veteran from the Air Force, who had had a career in show busi-ness. After they were married, they had two homes; one in Germantown and one in Flor-ida. They traveled to Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries. Evalyn and Tom spent many hours on the tennis court. Tom died in February 2007, but Evalyn still plays tennis whenever she can.

—Judy Weaver, Mund

Photo: Jim Porter


Photo: Jim Porter

George Lane Mund 814, x6537

George was born and grew up in San Antonio, Texas near the Mexican border. He therefore chose International Relations as his graduate field of study because of his deep interest in Latin America. He graduated from Trinity Uni-

versity in history, did postgraduate study in political science at University of Wisconsin and American University, receiving a Ph.D. in 1962.

Near the end of the Korean War, the U.S. Air Force sent George to Yale University to learn Mandarin Chinese, and he served for three years as an Intelligence Officer in Taiwan and at the National Security Agency. He also served in the U.S. Departments of HEW and Education for more than 20 years. On loan to George Washington Univer-sity, he directed the Educational Staff Sem-inar. After retirement, George and his first wife lived in Guate-mala and Mexico for more than four years.

The father of two sons and a daughter, George also has three grandchildren in Maryland. His wife of 42 years and his sec-ond wife of 7 ½ years both died of cancer. He moved into his apartment from his home in Bethesda in late November 2008.

George has studied

voice for 15 years and sings tenor in his church choir, with occasional solos. He also teaches Bible studies. He moonlighted in managing a private real estate investment business while in Federal service. Since retirement, he has volun-teered with former Congressman Mike Barnes and Common Cause. He attends Forcey Memo-rial Church in Silver Spring.

Mrs. Arlene Richey Diamond 912, x5324

Arlene moved to Asbury on January 13, 2009. She decided to move into this retire-ment village after fall-ing and breaking her shoulder. Arlene is a widow with three children, nine grand-children and seven great grandchildren.

Arlene was born in Toledo, Washington and after high school attended Program-mer School which ultimately led to a job with the Federal Government as a programmer and ana-lyst. She has traveled

extensively with trips to China, Great Britain, Spain and Portugal. She enjoys camping trips and has traveled to the West Coast and North American Parks.

Hobbies and interests include reading, senior trips, e-mailing friends, computer games and using the exercise room. She has done volunteer work with AARP helping seniors with their income tax, and has worked in the Rockville and Maryland voting polls. She is a member of the Rockville First Baptist Church.

—Edith Isacke, Diamond

Welcome New ResidentsGertrude D. Axilrod

Edwards-Fisher 705, x5329While February may be

famous for presidents’ birth-days, February 27, 2009 will be remembered here as the day Gertrude, Trudy as she prefers, Axilrod moved into Edwards-Fisher apart-ment 705. Born in Berlin, Trudy’s Jewish faith made it imperative that she escape Nazi Germany and as a refu-gee she entered the United States in 1943.

Trudy has taught math-ematics and finished her business career working as a chemist at the National Institutes of Health. She enjoys travel and photogra-phy and is keenly interested in political affairs. Widowed after fifty-five years of mar-

ried life, she has three daughters, seven grandchildren (five grandsons and two granddaughters) and a great grandson.

Trudy’s sister, Henriette Linder, lives on the eighth floor of Edwards-Fisher and this is what first attracted Trudy to Asbury. Swimming is her favorite form of exercise so when Trudy saw our pool it made her deci-sion to move here a sure thing. She is also delighted with the multitude of campus-wide activities and with the welcoming friendship she has found here.

—Joan Dunlop, Edwards-Fisher

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Resident Facility Date of Death

Melva Lahey Kindley 2-19-09Ruth Burdick Trott 2-20-09Elizabeth Oley Diamond 2-25-09Mary Louisa Green WHCC/Kindley/ Edwards-Fisher 2-26-09Helen Anzalone WHCC 3-4-09Eleanor Karakashian Kindley/Edwards-Fisher 3-5-09Maurine Bess WHCC/Kindley/Mund 3-7-09Dorthy Watson WHCC 3-8-09Frances Hiser WHCC/Diamond 3-10-09Alice Hardin WHCC/Diamond 3-13-09Henrietta Lutes Mund 3-19-09

In Memoriam


Asbury Methodist VillageCommunications Department201 Russell AvenueGaithersburg, MD 20877-2801

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Permit No. 4297A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE

VILLAGE LIFE: A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE

I sit upon our balconyAnd gaze upon the sceneryWhere grass is green and skies are

blue,Enjoying all the things I view—The creek, the birds, the geese, and

deer—And dreams of days of yesteryear

when hopes were high and life was new

when we were young and eager too—

when nights were short and days were long

but filled with work and play and song.

I wonder where the days have gone.The night has followed every dawn,But not all joys have gone away.The best of life is here to stay.

The beauty of the world is hereLife is good and friends are dear.We live today with those who careTomorrow is the dream we shareWith all our family and friends.Of this good life there is no end.

-—George Wesley Buchanan, Park View

Illustration: Duane McKenna

Dreaming

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