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The Bulletin Friday, December 4, 2020 WE CAN’T MASK OUR Holiday Visitors at Pennswood Village Thanks Two holiday visitors are currently in Appreciation & quarantine on the marble table by the Reception Desk and are awaiting their Gratitude Community Building debut on Monday, December 7. They go by Elvis, the Elf on a Shelf, and Mac, the Maccabee on the Mantle. TO RESIDENTS FOR THE Please welcome them when you see them. That is, if you can find them. They GENEROUS HOLIDAY GIFT! cause quite a lot of mischief once they are out and about. FROM ALL THE STAFF Submitted by Administration Channel 1970 Concert Sunday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m. on Channel 1970 Cynthia Raim and David Allen Wehr, Duo-pianists Travel restrictions have required the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society to substitute the eminent local musical artists Cynthia Raim and David Allen Wehr for the artists who were originally scheduled. Their concert will be broadcast on Pennswood's own television Channel 1970 at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 6. It will also be accessible on the internet at: https://www.pcmsconcerts.org. Cynthia Raim is joined by her longtime piano partner, David Allen Wehr, for a rarely-heard, two-piano four-hands all-Rachmaninov program. The program includes two of Rachmaninov's suites and a selection of duets. A native of Detroit, where she studied with Mischa Kottler, Ms. Raim studied with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees. David Allen Wehr is Dean and holds the Jack W. Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair at Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music. Lionel, Concerts Committee Yannick Nezet-Seguin Conducting: Yefim Bronfman, piano: Mazzoli- Ecstatic Science, Beethoven-Coriolan Overture, Piano Concerto No. 3 Friday, December 11 2:00 p.m. on Channel 1970 The New York Times hails Grammy- nominated Missy Mazzoli, “one of the consistently Virtual Wine Tasting inventive, surprising Friday, December 11 composers now 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. via Zoom working in New York,” and Ecstatic Science Join us as we learn about exemplifies her wine making. innovative style. We will sample She explains that red, white, and in Ecstatic Science, “melodies are flipped a holiday spice upside-down and fracture into the smallest wine while on possible element. The horizonal becomes a Zoom vertical and the vertical stretches session with systematically into a twisting melody. The Buckingham Valley Vineyards, a local ‘science’ behind the notes provides a frame vineyard. for a persistent, bubbling energy, a scaffold for the ecstatic gestures that eventually consume If you are interested in attending, please everything else.” keep a look out in your open mailbox for Complementing Ecstatic Science, world a form that needs to be filled out. Once renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman will interpret the form is completed, please return in Amy Keiper-Shaw in Resident Life. Beethoven’s dynamic Piano Concerto No. 3. Sponsored by the PVRA Amy Keiper-Shaw, Director of Resident Life 2 Laura Neitzel, Columbia University Senior Fellow “Why the U.S. Election Matters to the World” Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m.Channel 1970 and via Zoom* for the Q & A Laura Neitzel is Senior Fellow in Global Thought at the Committee on Global Thought at Co- lumbia University. She is a historian of modern Japan and the author of The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan (MerwinAsia 2016). Her 24 year teaching career has focused on East Asian and world history. She is also the daughter of resident Jan. Throughout the Covid pandemic, she has engaged a group of 30 or more Pennswood residents in a weekly, interactive, Zoom class- room that has left us begging for more! A brilliant historian and lecturer, she most recently focused on China, Japan and Korea and their histori- cal relationship with one another before, during and after WW II. At Columbia, she teaches courses on the ways our lives and communities are shaped by global interconnectivity. *If you wish to participate in the live Q&A following her program, the “live” Zoom link is avail- able at RBShreve.com/PVRA-Zoom/ (password: quaker) or Join Zoom. Meeting ID: 867 8035 8689 Passcode: 157108 Marguerite , Forum Committee The NY Times Science—Virtual Discussion Group Thursday, December 10 at 11:00 a.m. Our moderated meetings are suspended from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day. However, those interested in these discussions will still be able to join an open meeting as follows: Email or call Marcia to join by telephone. If you have a paper copy of Tuesday’s Science Section, you might like to retain it for reference during the Zoom meeting. Helen , Moderator REQUEST FOR TUESDAY’S NY TIMES SCIENCE SECTION If you are getting the New York Times delivered, we’d greatly appreciate your saving Tuesday’s Science Section for our virtual Zoom discussions. Please place the Science Section on the top shelf of the Library’s newspaper rack. 3 200 “Trees of Pennswood” Dining Services News Calendars left—FREE for Pennswood Farm Stand to Resume Prospective Residents Back by popular demand, the Pennswood Do you have friends, family members or Farm Stand has resumed every THURSDAY former neighbors you’d from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Main like to introduce to Dining Room (please take note of the new Pennswood? You provide day). In addition to produce, selected protein the mailing envelope items such as lobster tails, chicken breasts, (available from the Mail ground sirloin and salmon filets will be Room for a small fee) and available. We look forward to seeing you! $2 postage, we provide the calendar(s). First Miracle Lettuce come, first served—as many as you like until they’re gone. Calendars are FREE if At the end of November, the you mail them to prospective residents Pennswood before Thursday, December 31. Share a kitchen was the year’s worth of beauty and inspiration! This recipient of is a gift that keeps on giving. beautiful fresh cut If interested, contact Marguerite. greens harvested from the Pennswood Submitted by Marguerite Community garden. These beauties were hand-picked late in November by Carolyn and James. Despite the below freezing overnight temperatures, several Rebroadcast batches of greens were delivered to the kitchen in pristine condition and added to the of the tossed salads prepared daily for our residents. Many thanks to the Michener's for Thanksgiving their generosity. Eve Special Mary Cooley, Director of Dining Services Program Tuesday, December 8 Are You Wearing Your Name Tag? at 10:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. Wear your name tag to help others and Tuesday, December 10 encourage your fellow residents to wear it as well! This will especially help us while wear- at 10:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. ing masks. Thank you! Lori Heading, Communications Manager Linda Krause, Executive Liaison 4 Coping with Grief Hanukkah Celebration During the Friday, December 11 Holidays • Soups: With Chaplain Susan Sciarratta • Tomato Rice and Mushroom Barley & Amy Keiper-Shaw • Salad: Thursday, December 10 • Boston Bib Lettuce Salad with Fruit, driz- zled with a Honey Vinaigrette at 10:00 a.m. via Zoom • Regular Tossed Salad with Choice of Dressing Join us as we share tips of how to • Bread: not only get through, but enjoy, the holidays despite your grief! • Challah Knot Rolls • Entrees: https://zoom.us/j/8620236037 • Baked Fresh Jail Island Salmon Meeting ID: 862 023 6037 • Roasted Herb Encrusted Game Hen Phone: 1 929 2056099 (Apricot Sauce) GF • Vegetable, Noodle Kugel Amy Keiper-Shaw, • Vegetables: Director of Resident Life • Roast Sweet Potatoes, Honey Glazed Carrots, and Fresh Green Beans • Desserts: Newcomers – Upcoming • Jewish Apple Cake, Apricot Linzer Cookie Bar, and a No Sugar Added Dessert Zoom Meetings! The Newcomers’ Club will be meet- ing on Zoom on Wednesday, December 9 at 1:00 p.m. and again Double Bulletin on Wednesday, December 16 also at 1:00 p.m. Newcomers, please Christmas—The Friday, December 18 Bulletin will mark your calendars. cover the time period Sunday, December 20 to Sat- Newcomers will receive an invitation urday, January 2. Please have articles for that issue for each Zoom meeting via email the submitted by Monday, December 14. The Bulletin day before the meeting. Click on the for Friday, January 1 will be distributed on Thurs- link to join the meeting at 1:00 p.m. day, December 31. The Friday, January 8 Bulletin on those Wednesdays. Hope to see will return us to the regular weekly cycle with a you there. deadline of Monday, January 4 at noon. The New Pennswood Newcomers Linda Krause, Executive Liaison Committee 5 A Gift Giving Idea There may be those among us who need to find a gift for someone who seems to have Beth —6 everything. The Pennswood Village Founda- Lynne —6 tion can help. Just gift an amount to the Foundation in the Lee —8 name of the person you want to honor, and Jack —10 we'll send an acknowledgement of the gift to the honoree. You can choose which among Uta —10 the Foundation Funds you want to designate. Jim —11 There are various ways to turn this idea into Deidre —12 reality—pick up a donor envelope on the Foundation Bulletin Board in Penn hallway or donate online at www.pennswood.org and click on “Giving”, or contact Sally Marrington PENNSWOOD VILLAGE in the Development Department at 267-759- NOMINATING 1068. Happy Holidays! COMMITTEE From the Friends of the Foundation 2020-2021 Chair: Jane Bulletin Submissions Members: Rosemarie David Articles for the Bulletin must be submitted by noon on Monday for the week Gail of publication.