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OF MARYLAND If Spring Comes, New Golf Pro Comes to Leisure World Leisure World News www.lwmc.com March 17, 2017 • Published Twice a Month OF MARYLAND New Golf Pro Comes Bach Over Beatles to Leisure World Course Resident Shares Her Passion for the Organ by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News with Chapelgoers ichard Rosenthal, a PGA golf professional R with more than 26 years of experience in golf operations, joins the team at Leisure World as head golf professional on March 27. Rosenthal is the former interim head PGA professional at Manor Country Club in Richard Rosenthal. Photo by Rockville. He has been a PGA Leisure World News of America member for nearly 20 years, and has experience to be a fun place where people running MISGA senior events. of all skill levels can feel free to To become a member of enjoy themselves. the PGA, Rosenthal had to “Golf, to me, is a lifestyle, not Holly Oberle plays organ music at The Inter-Faith Chapel March 8. Photo by complete classes, a playing just a job. I like to be out there Stacy Smith ability test and employment talking to people and listening and internship requirements. to what they have to say,” by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News an enthusiastic “yes.” He said he takes a hands-on he said, adding, “If I wanted Oberle says she gets to choose approach to his job and wants olly Oberle has always which pieces she plays, opting for ➤ the golf course at Leisure World to page 40 marched to a different a French 19th century composer Hmusical drumbeat. this week, with works by Mozart The 69-year old organist, who and Bach to follow. Her natural If Spring Comes, is currently giving 15-minute affinity for the organ began when recitals of meditative music she was just 12 years old. Can Winter Be Far Behind? before Wednesday Lenten “I was taking piano lessons, services at The Inter-Faith and I got kind of bored,” she says. Chapel, was never much “So my piano teacher suggested interested in the rock ‘n’ roll of that I try organ, and I was her peers. hooked.” “When everybody else was Oberle says playing the organ listening to The Beatles, I was is more enjoyable than playing listening to Bach,” she says. piano because it has more Oberle moved to Leisure keyboards and pedals, and takes World a little more than a year more of your body to play it. ago, and was pleased to find that “And you can play really loud, the Chapel had an organ that she which is what appealed to my was allowed to use for practice. 12-year-old sense,” she says, with The Chapel’s regular organist a laugh. In a topsy-turvy season, temperatures often rose into the 70s in and director of music, Kevin By age 13, she was playing the February and early March, leading to blossoming trees along Leisure Clemens, heard her playing one organ for parishioners at a Meth- World Boulevard South on March 13 (left). The next day, snow, sleet day and asked if she would use odist church in Bethesda. Within and frigid temperatures had plunged the area into a heretofore-elusive her talents to fill in during some a couple years, she was substi- winter (right). Photos by Maureen Freeman, Leisure World News worship services, which garnered ➤ to page 4 Governance & Information .... 8 Sports, Games & Residents’ Forum ................ 12 Scoreboards ........................ 40 Cable Bill Events & Entertainment ...... 14 Classes & Seminars ............ 46 Movie Schedule ................... 18 Calendar of Events .............. 49 Update Health & Fitness ................. 20 Governance Meeting Schedules ............................ 49 INSIDE Clubs, Groups & Some residents could see Organizations ...................... 22 Classifieds ........................... 52 adjustments to their cable television bills. See page 6. Club Trips Listing................. 36 From Shopper to Manager, Supporting Children and Students by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News small task; every day the store receives pounds of donated nside an old house that items that must be sorted, sits adjacent to MedStar tagged, priced and displayed. I Montgomery Medical “We get wonderful, high-end Center and that once served as clothing,” she said. “We have the hospital’s nurse’s quarters, a whole attic that is filled with rows and rows of donated clothes.” clothes, shoes, books, toys, Casey is particularly housewares and antiques are keen on what she calls “the on display throughout two Christmas room,” where packed floors. miniature snowmen, Santa The house serves as the Clauses and other holiday thriving MedStar Montgomery decorations peek out from Medical Center Thrift Shop, all directions. She explains and is the place where resi- that the trinkets would have dent Judith Casey has found normally been stowed away renewed purpose since retiring by now, but the shop had a Volunteer manager Judith Casey adjusts jewelry on a rack at the MedStar after more than 40 years run on Christmas-themed Montgomery Medical Center Thrift Shop Feb. 24. Photo by Stacy Smith, teaching kindergarten in Mont- donations. Leisure World News gomery County public schools. All proceeds from the For six days a week, Casey Thrift Shop support Women’s and sound for the Fun and through her life. The outfits serves as volunteer manager of Board pledges made to Fancy Theatre Group during she bought for her first two the store’s second floor, where MedStar Montgomery certain productions, and was foster children, twin girls who she oversees its day-to-day Medical Center and their one of the original members of she eventually adopted, were operations. scholarship program, for the Baby Boomer Club. just $1 apiece. “I make sure that the clothes students pursuing a degree in She also has a garden plot, “The first picture I have of are down, everything is priced healthcare. but said she gives what she them is in that outfit that I [and] everything is picked up,” The Thrift Shop isn’t the grows to her coworkers at the bought the day before,” she said. she said. only hobby that keeps Casey shop. Giving seems to come The MedStar Montgomery The volunteer job is no busy. She manages the lights naturally to Casey; over the Medical Center Thrift Shop is past 25 years she has moth- located at the corner of Prince CORRECTION ered 27 foster children and Philip Drive and Route 108 in nine exchange students. Olney, and is open Monday Because of a production error, the last line of the page 1 She said that before she through Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 article, “Board Nixes Proposal for Building Study” was cut off worked in a thrift store, she p.m. Donations are accepted mid-sentence. The final sentence should have read: “For many spent years shopping in them Monday through Friday of us, that includes going to residents in our mutuals, and to clothe and care for all the from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., and getting their perspectives on these kinds of things.” children that have passed Saturday from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Leisure World News ASPEN HILL OF MARYLAND An official publication of the Leisure World Community Corporation, EXXON Auto Care Leisure World News is published twice monthly by Leisure World Staff in collaboration with the Leisure World News Advisory Committee 301-871-6777 Leisure World News is published for the benefit of Leisure World residents. 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Maryland State Inspection Station 2 | Leisure World News March 17, 2017 Did You Know… A Silent Landmark in Silver Spring magazine feature article, “The Gentle Storm Center,” and CBS newscaster Eric Sevareid filmed an interview with her in the home’s study for a CBS Reports TV program. The interview appeared in a nationwide 1963 broadcast as “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson.” Located less than 8 miles from Leisure World, the house on Berwick Road was custom built to Carson’s specifications Biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote her groundbreaking book while living in this Silver Spring home 60 years in 1957, and she occupied it until ago. Wiki Commons photo, left; photo, right, courtesy the Rachel Carson Landmark Alliance her death from cancer in 1964 at age 56. The home is currently by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News Serialized in three parts in The since 1991? The house is not only the headquarters of Rachel he highly acclaimed 1962 New Yorker, it became an instant where Carson wrote, but also Carson Landmark Alliance.
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