April 2014 Volume 21 Number 3

A NEWSPAPER FOR ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE Residents, Associates, Families & Friends www.asburymethodistvillage.org

By Phyllis W. Zeno, Wallace “There are 13 more here now.” ...nor gloom of night stays these No question about it, our little couriers from the swift completion Neither snow nor team would be there! We raced of their task... down to Hefner auditorium, and as No, I’m not talking about the post- we walked in the door, the gang of al service...in fact, all of the above rain nor heat ... 15 were singing the opening cho- kept them from their task on that rus and dancing the steps devised fateful snow day at Asbury. But not for them by choreographers Aurora the intrepid cast members of “Vil- Sevilla and Doreen Sexton. lage Life: The Musical!” What dedication and what enthu- Who in their right mind would siasm! And 30 chorus members have come out in the cold and the snow been showing up regularly every to attend a show rehearsal when Thursday morning at Hefner audi- nothing was plowed yet? torium or Rosborough Theatre for At 10 a.m. Sylva, Gail and I were rehearsals of “Village Life: The Musi- huddled in my Wallace apartment, cal.” How do we know who was going over details of the show, when there? Gail Flanagan, Production the phone jangled and interrupted Assistant, keeps tabs on all the cast our meeting. members on an extensive data base It was Bob Wood. “Where’s every- Photo: Joon Kim she’s set up to keep them advised of body? We’re here at Hefner ready rehearsal times and locations. for rehearsal!” “Who’s we?” “Well, that’s pretty disappointing!” Don’t be surprised if you hear the “Didn’t you get the message on “Artha Jean Snyder from Diamond “I’ll tell you what. Hang around solo voices of individual performers ATV and at the Gatehouse and the and Donna Schramm from Trott and for ten minutes and if anyone else like Tony Barnard, Artha Jean Sny- Hefner Front Desk?” me from the Villas!” shows up, give me a call.” der, Lydia Page and Mary Waldron “No. We’re here and we’re raring “I’m sorry, but we can’t come to a Ten minutes later the phone rang coming from music director Sylva to go!” rehearsal for three people!” again. Continued on page 4

This Takes the Cake! By Trudy Meissner, Edwards-Fisher ow many of us have been able to achieve our career goals by doing the work we most love to do? Hear now the Hstory of George Snowden, Wallace resident, who has truly accom- city-bred artists. However, before plished this. he could launch his career, along George began to draw what he came Pearl Harbor. observed around himself almost as George and his brother imme- soon as he could hold a pencil. In diately enlisted in the Navy, with his Parkersburg, West Virginia year- basic training in Norfolk. There, book, his detailed linoleum block George volunteered for guard prints gained him a full duty, and through a series of scholarship to amazing coinci- the Pennsyl- dences, he was vania Academy soon assigned to

of Fine Arts in Photo: Dorothy Harris a group of artists/ Philadelphia. He illustrators drafted Above, George Snowden at work soon discovered from the Disney in his art studio! that this “ole coun- Studios and work- try boy” could keep ing at the Navy Yard Cakes are just one of the mediums up with the best of in Washington, D.C. in which artist George Snowden those sophisticated works. Here are some samples! Continued on page 10 The Gaithersburg Book Festival: VILLAGE “In Celebration of the Written Word” LIFE

By Jeanne North, Trott Festival drew nearly 18,000 visitors, overarching vision of a Councilman Asbury Methodist Village ith unbridled enthusi- nearly tripling the number of visi- dedicated to promoting a Book Fes- 201 Russell Avenue Gaithersburg, MD 20877 asm, Gaithersburg City tors since its founding, and marking tival along with the works of estab- the emergence of the Gaithersburg lished authors and new lights on the [email protected] Council member Jud General information: 301-330-3000 W Book Festival, says Ashman, as a cul- literary scene, is claiming the Festi- Ashman, businessman/politician/ Website: www.asburymethodistvillage.org tural phenomenon. val’s status as “one of the nation’s promoter and devotee of books, This year, on Saturday, May 17, the top literary events.” Village Life brought to you in part by appeared at a Keese School lecture grounds of Gaithersburg City Hall Saturday, May 17, 2014, in late March to present his story in the City’s Olde Towne will once 10 am - 6 pm of the growth of the City’s Book again be transformed into a magical Attendance free Festival from a local effort in 2010 land of fantasy, fiction, non-fiction On the web: Editor to a regional presence; in 2013, the and literary craftsmanship. But the gaithersburgbookfestival.org Linda Williams Aber Director of Communications 301-216-4106 [email protected] CORRECTIONS Resident Editors Photos and captions of (1) Anne Porter, Mund Doris Jakubczak and (2) an Marilyn Gaut, Trott unnamed player of the Chi- Mac McCullough, Diamond nese violin were incorrectly Mercer Cross, Wallace associated with the article Gladys Silcox, Edwards-Fisher Al Tholen, Park View "The Dream Goes On: Fourth Maria E. Roberts, Courtyard Homes Annual Edwards-Fisher Night Bill Brown, Villas at Crawford " (Village Life, POSITION OPEN, Kindley March 2014, Volume 21, Num- ber 2, page 4). The former Resident Staff Courtyard Homes: Peter Cascio photo had been associated with "Edwards-Fisher Apart- Diamond: Mac McCullough, Jan Garman and Hal Garman ments' Christmas Party" (Janu- ary/February 2014, Volume 21 Edwards-Fisher: Joan Dunlop, Dorothy Harris, Luella LeVee Number 1, pages 10-11), and and happy spring to Betty Goen! the latter photo should have Photo: Rhoda MacKenzie been. Mund: Gil Snyder, Jack Brinley, April 1st Blossoms & Buggies Open House Welcomed Many! Anne Porter and Bob Tedesco Park View: Duane McKenna, Anita Taylor, John Eberhard and Tom McIlrath. Bluebirds of Happiness Trott: Bettie Donley, Copy Editor; Jeanne North, Hal Gaut, By Bill Brown, Villas of habitat and nesting sites. How- Joan Brubaker, Becky Ratliff, orry, Vera Lynn, but there will ever, in recent decades, their num- Jack Hutchings and Dr. Bob Hartman not be bluebirds over the bers have rebounded thanks, in part, white cliffs of Dover. The to the placement of nesting boxes, Villas: Carol Dennis, Dan Muller, S often in bluebird trails, including Jean Hubbell, Jay Hatch, song may be terrific, but bluebirds and Bill Brown. are found only in North America. twelve here at Asbury. Since 2007, Thanks to the determined, sustained we have multiple bluebird nesting Wallace: Keith Steele, Phyllis W. Zeno efforts of Asbury residents, these boxes around the campus, where Design/Layout: symbols of happiness can be found Wildlife Habitat Project Team volun- Mina Rempe @ Electronic Ink on our campus. teers feed nesting pairs mealworms Printing: Chesapeake Publishing Corp.. Eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) are daily in elegant, mounted blue and native to the United States east of the white teacups. Last summer, Lydia Rocky Mountains. Year-round resi- Photo: John Villforth Page saw three generations of blue- dents in every county in Maryland, birds feeding at the same teacup at they are most commonly found in of Ornithology website has pictures, one time. While we do not know open country with scattered trees, videos, and recordings. how many young have actually on farms, and along roadsides. Blue- Bluebirds eat insects and berries. fledged, we do know that several birds are easily recognized by the While they do forage on the ground, of the houses have consistently had brilliant royal blue on their heads they often hover to pick up insects active nests. Those nesting boxes and backs. The warm red-brown on or catch them in midair. They nest are also sought out by tree swal- their breasts extends up onto the as early as mid-March and as late as lows, as well as the occasional wren, early September, laying up to seven and the ever-present sparrows. “The mission of Village Life is throat and around the ears. They are to provide timely, interesting and about 7 inches long with a 13-inch eggs, having up to three broods a The Wildlife Habitat Team wel- entertaining news about the lives, wingspread. Female coloring is sim- year. Both parents and older sib- comes any volunteers who would concerns and activities of the peo- ilar but duller. Juveniles are spotted, lings feed nestlings. Young blue- like to help in monitoring and/or ple who reside, work and volunteer at Asbury Methodist Village.” but sport at least some of the blue birds fledge in about 18 to 19 days feeding our bluebird residents. If after hatching. you might be interested, please con- coloring. Their call is a relatively Village Life is published by short, low-pitched warble with a Bluebirds had suffered a serious tact Lydia Page, ext. 3134, or Anita Asbury Methodist Village few scratchy notes. The Cornell Lab population decline due to the loss Taylor, ext. 3101. Communications Department

2 April 2014 Village Life By Marolyn Hatch, Villas Adventist Home Health (301-592-4470). [Source: elieving that sometimes something needs The C.O.I.K. Linda Wooge (AMV at Home), Dr. Jack Hutchings] to be said more than once and in more (Clear Only If Known) Factor And Who Was that Man in the White Mask, I B than one way, I hope to clarify the dif- mean coat. Familiarity is a great balm in times ference between the various support services of stress so it is with understandable trepidation By Marolyn Hatch,Villas provided through AMV. To start, completely clear that many of us look up from our hospital bed your memory bank of any ideas of what used to to a completely unknown face. Who is this man be Care Management. If you need support to “Who’s on First” in solemnly peering down at us and holding a clip remain in your home, you now have two options: board? He may well be a member of the recent, Asbury Methodist Village at Home Services is a Providing Health Services? medical field innovation, the Hospitalist. licensed, not-for-profit Residential Service Agency tion is available at x4275 or on the web at www. Considering the number of offices and patients providing basic support to help you remain inde- AsburyMethodistVillageatHome.org. that our internists may have, it is understandable pendent in your home. Concierge-style services When you require skilled nursing care that that our doctor may not have enough hours in available include meal preparation, housekeep- is ordered by your physician, you can contract the day to visit each of his or her patients in ing, transportation, companions, personal care with a Home Health Agency. There are a num- the several area hospitals in which they may be. and medical management services that are often ber of these off-campus services. Such servic- Enter the Hospitalist. Unlike your specialist who provided in an assisted living setting. All services es include physical, occupational and speech focuses on a particular part of you (and some- operate under a state license and are performed by therapy, skilled nursing care and some social times even a particular part of a particular part), trained and certified aides, nurses and care team work visits. (Note that physical therapy is avail- the Hospitalist specializes in managing what goes members, all cleared through background checks. able through the campus-based, but independent Because these do not require skilled nursing on where you are being treated as an inpatient. care, they are not paid for by Medicare; but they Rehab 1st.) Skilled nursing services ordered by The Hospitalist is the “orchestra leader” of the may be covered by your long-term health insur- a physician may be billed to Medicare and your many professionals involved with your hospital ance policy. Advantages for us in using Asbury private health insurance company. Always dis- stay. These care providers may rotate, but each Methodist Village at Home include its proximity cuss coverage with your provider before signing is familiar with your care and able to quickly and the fact that one is able to order just the a contract and with your insurance company to respond to your medical needs and questions. amount of service one needs, even if that is only clarify your responsibility for co-pays. Ask about [Source: Internet] a half hour. Off-campus Home Care agencies background checks. Three providers that AMV Do you have questions about life at AMV that require a varying number of minimum hours, refers residents to are: Home Therapy Services you would like clarified? Send them to Villa 596 some as many as four or eight. More informa- (301-829-6770); Home Call (1-800-918-0297); and for consideration in this column. The AAUW Book Bash By Jeanne North, Trott started in the late 1970’s, says Book or a while now, even before Sale Chair Liz Hessel in a written the advent of the Amazon statement. The first sale, organized by one-time Trott resident Eleanor Kindle in 2007 and Apple’s From l. to F Jones and Villa resident Cathy Man- iPad in 2010, people have been say- r. Louis ning, was held on the steps of the ing the book is on the way out. Eberhard, Administration Building and raised Bookstores are closing: according Dorothy over $300. Continues Liz: “Over the to one report, in the U.S. between Camara, years the sale built community sup- 2000 and 2007, more than 1,000 Maria port, grew and moved to other sites bookstores closed and since then, Roberts before returning to Asbury about hundreds more, including 600 Bor- and Anne 12 years ago.” Among current AMV ders stores, have shuttered their Kay keep residents who are active in the Book doors. Why spend $26.95 for a sin- the books Sale are AAUW members [and sup- gle hard-cover book that is heavy sorted porters] Dorothy Camara, Jane Car- to lug around, so the theory goes, and ready roll, Jean and Dave Kosow, Cathy when digital copies of thousands of to sell. Manning, Vivian Otto, Maria Roberts, books are at your fingertips on your Aurora Sevilla and Anita Taylor. Kindle or iPad? AAUW branch now holds its annual from $3 for hardbacks, $2 for large Proceeds from the Book Sale fund All well and good, but tell that to book sale at Asbury, and last year, paperbacks, 4” x 7” paperbacks $1, scholarships for female students the folks who flock to the annual says Liz Hessel, chair of the event, children’s books 4 for $1, children studying a major “where women book bash sponsored by the Gaith- more than 850 customers attended. and youth books $0.50 to $1, rare have traditionally been under-repre- ersburg AAUW chapter, which For each of the past three years total books priced as marked. sented,” says Liz. In addition, extend- again this year will put on a book sales exceeded $13,000. The sale is widely known for ing its mission of education to the extravaganza with the promise of This year’s event will open on being well sorted. You can browse community, the AAUW Book Sale pleasurable reading to its customers Wednesday, April 30 to AMV resi- the aisles and find dozens of clear- offers books remaining after the at modest prices, and the ultimate dents and associates only and be ly labeled categories ranging from sale to local nonprofits. Last year goals of raising scholarship funds open to the public on May 1, 2 and Antiques to Women’s Studies and more than 3,000 free books (100 for women and girls. 3. On Thursday the deluge of book everything in between. Last year boxes) were given to schools, librar- For many of the 1000 branches of dealers is expected to descend on more than 200 volunteers, includ- ies, prison facilities, social service the American Association of Univer- the Rosborough Community Rooms ing Asbury residents and more than organizations, the Literacy Council, sity Women, a national organization to scoop up treasures of their choice. 140 students, logged over 1500 and the Gaithersburg Book Festival. whose mission is to promote equi- The sale extends through Saturday, hours assisting with the sale that So no, books are not dead. They ty and education for women and a day when you can get a brown had collected 1,200 boxes of donat- are very much alive and well — in girls, the used book sale is a popular paper shopping bag full of books ed books. the very places where they are most annual fund raiser. The Gaithersburg for just $10. Regular prices range The AAUW Gaithersburg Book Sale enjoyed, and needed.

Village Life April 2014 3 Getting To Know You

By All Tholen, Park View falo despite the tremendous physical limitations he faced having been struck by polio early in his Getting to know you, career. Getting to know all about you. Building Banter Getting to like you, These programs have continued to the pres- Getting to hope you like me.* ent time, chaired by Marion Tholen. The most recent one featured Gene Rasmusson’s program hen Park View opened eight years “Weather and Climate: Present During the Mak- ago, most of the approximately 90 ing of Science”. His career paralleled the rapid residents moved in within the first development of the technical tools (including W computers) in the understanding and prediction few months. Several new residents made state- ments like “It feels like our first days after moving of weather and climate. Plans are being made into a college dorm and meeting many others for his lecture to be recorded for presentation whom we never knew before.” Joanna Davis, the on AVTV. Park View Administrator for Residential Living at Future presentations are being planned, espe- the time, worked closely with us to organize our cially to “get to know” more of the recent resident Council and encourage us to become involved move-ins. These programs are very popular with each other’s and in campus-wide activities. and draw large audiences. Not only do we get to know each other better, but we learn a lot about Soon, three of our residents, Judy Bankson, Lois “Barrows Star in Premier.” Sam and Peggy Bar- subjects like research, education, technology, and Eberhard, and Marion Tholen, got together and row presented the evolution of the Asbury first organized a committee with the title “An Evening climate from the personal experiences and view- “Home” (now the Administration Building) and With”; the purpose was, yes, getting to know points of the presenters. To paraphrase: the second Asbury “Home” (now Park View). This each other more thoroughly. Blanche Ingram “Have you noticed we’re so bright and easy? joined the Committee later. meeting gave us a solid background of our new Because of all the beautiful and new things An Evening With program was scheduled home (Park View). The second An Evening With An Evening With told us about you monthly (except during the Summer) on the featured Vince O’Leary, who presented the story Month - by - Month.* third Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the Park of his progress professionally to becoming the *From “The King and I” View Club Room. The first program was titled President of the University of New York at Buf- by Rogers and Hammerstein

Music will be ringing from the MUSICAL rafters of Rosborough Auditorium Continued from page 1 as we rehearse there Wednesday and Thursday mornings throughout McCulloh’s or my apartments as we April. rehearse their specialty numbers. Plan to celebrate part of Mother’s And Gordon and Jan Forbes have Day weekend watching your neigh- turned small rehearsals into party bors and friends performing origi- entertainment in their apartment. Vivian Otto has formed her own nal songs like “The Bag Ladies of entourage of travelers into a sketch Asbury,” “SARA,” “The Asbury Bach- participating in a “Night Crawler’s elor,” and “I Think Young!” for your Tour of the Jungle.” Lots of fun! enjoyment. The show is free for resi- And professional clown Jean Hef- dents and families on Friday night, ner will be doing her own famous May 9, and Saturday night, May 10 in clown bit in the show. Rosborough Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Photo: Marilyn Gaut Trott’s Got Game! By Marilyn Gaut, Trott Ratliff, and the residents’ comments. The panel of Cary Foley, Hal Gaut, rott residents are ready for some fun on the second and Betty Prestemon questioned the Tuesday of the month. They mystery guests, but usually could T not name them. Don Benson, Susan gather in their Harold Lanman parlor Veras, Dory Lippert, Donna Schramm, for a game. It is often Trivial Pursuit, Jeanne Nelson and Susan Andrews but in March it was “Who am I?” The stumped them. Can you tell who fun comes from our emcee, Rob Roy Susan Veras is in the picture?

Arts and Crafts Show Entries Due! There’s still time to enter your works in the art—paintings, drawings, photographs, needle- tions should be sent to Jeanne Noel, Villa 388. 19th Annual Arts and Crafts Exhibition to be work, quilts, afghans, crochet, knitting, carv- Don’t miss the deadline of April 17th. Call Mia held in Hefner Auditorium for the entire month ings, sculptures, pottery, woodwork, models, Schulman (x5546) or Ruth Simpson (x6656) of May. You may enter up to three pieces of collage, mixed media, etc. Completed applica- for more information.

4 April 2014 Village Life Hard Work and Optimism Pay Off By Marolyn Hatch, Villas building muscles that won him sev- of a good trainer. AMV was look- mericans are noted for their eral competitions and confidence. ing for someone, and PJ was highly optimism, and that might be But competitive lifting comes with recommended. It was not lost on A why PJ (Americanized ver- a high degree of risk, and a serious PJ, who is 5’3” that Shememe, who sion of Pedja, which is the nickname spinal injury almost ended most of is 6’, appeared a bit skeptical. But for his full name Predrag) Petkovic PJ’s plans. But again, with help his the connection was made; PJ was looked to America in 2007 for his optimism and incredible determina- hired as a 3-month contractor. Still new home. Like the best of us, he tion resulted in his regaining his in his twenties then, PJ admits that has a positive outlook, makes clear- ability to function normally. These he initially missed the camaraderie headed assessments, and is commit- years of strength development and of age mates at his commercial gym. ted to goals. his love for the sport would eventu- But when he was offered a perma- As an AMV Fitness Trainer, PJ won ally lead to his working in US fitness nent job at AMV, he realized that the the hearts of those he worked with. centers as a trainer. people with whom he worked have Upbeat, patient and professional, PJ How, you may ask, does someone goals that touch on the six dimen- has helped many of us reach per- with limited English accomplish sions of wellness that he lives by. sonal milestones whether relearn- this? For one thing, such training Physical exercise supports a jour- ing to walk or “buffing” up our aging doesn’t require a high degree of flu- ney toward total wellness that tran- bodies. If you have missed seeing Photo: Linda Aber ency. But more to the point, PJ scends all ages. And so he became him at Rosborough, it is because he Predrag “PJ” Petkovic—a familisr knew that if he were to make his life one of the AMV family. has joined AMV’s Marketing Depart- face in Wellness moves to in America, he had to become more When the opportunity arose to ment and within his first few weeks Marketing! than just competent in its language. continue to be part of that family closed 3 residential living contracts. Many immigrants turn to TV to learn but also to grow professionally by This isn’t surprising if you know any make matters much worse, PJ spoke English and American culture. PJ using his education in business and of PJ’s back story. no English. He knew a few words made an important discovery and marketing, PJ applied for an open At the comparatively youthful age but wasn’t sure of what the airline avoided the mindless Days of Our position with the Marketing Depart- of 21, PJ arrived in the US from was trying to reassure him. He Lives mis-education. He watched ment. PJ credits Brent Bayes, Mar- the former Yugoslavia, now Serbia. just wanted his bag that contained cartoons. Who hasn’t admired Ses- keting Director, with helping him With a college degree in Business everything he owned! But when ame Street, a program developed make the transition from the world and Marketing, PJ had entered a US they gave him $100 to tide him over for early language learners? Simple of “sweats” to that of tie and jacket. Embassy lottery to earn an American for a day, he said that he knew Amer- English, spoken clearly and without He says that both of his AMV jobs green card and luck was with him. ica was going to be a good place! slang or obscenities, cartoons are require the same primary skill: the These cards, which allow someone But he needed a job; and with lim- developed to build language skills, ability to listen carefully to what a to work in the US, are usually given ited language skills, business wasn’t and PJ is a quick learner. person says and to develop a plan to a non-citizen who has been hired initially going to be it. PJ’s connection with AMV was built on what the person’s goals are. by a US firm. They are most coveted. PJ also had earlier developed an another stroke of luck for him. In a very short time, PJ has made But PJ entered the US without a interest and high degree of skill in Shememe Williams, a former AMV his mark in reaching the American job and also without his luggage. weight lifting. The first to admit Associate, was working out at one dream. We can all see ourselves in We can all relate to the feeling of that his short stature had disadvan- of the gyms that PJ was working for his efforts, and we wish him contin- loss when our bags fail to appear. To tages, he made up for it by carefully and asked the manager if he knew ued success and the best of luck.

Beloved Community Initiative (BCI) Vignettes

By Jan Garman, Diamond become better acquainted with the conference room on the first and newest member of the mentoring third Wednesdays of each month Mentoring Returns after Hiatus team, Wesley intern Katie Monfortte from 10:00-11:30 while school is in Snowstorms and teacher meet- (pictured above). Hal Garman has session. Likewise, residents who ings had canceled both February already cleared the calendar for would like an opportunity to talk mentoring sessions, so mentors the next school year with Principal with Gaithersburg High School stu- were really looking forward to Stephanie Brant, to ensure that men- dents can come to SHARE in Conley reconnecting with their students toring days will not land on so many Hall the second Wednesday of each on March 14. The students must school breaks. There are no guaran- month at 2:30 to discuss topics of have been looking forward to it also tees against snowstorms, however! interest. as attendance was very good. After In the meantime, the BCI has sched- Save the Date: being escorted on the Asbury bus uled an extra mentoring day this May 15 - 7:00-8:30 by John Travis and Don Woodward May in order to give students and and greeting their mentors, some mentors more time together and to Once again, the BCI will celebrate of the braver students joined many attend the AAUW book sale. another successful year with a pro- of the mentors in line dancing led gram of music, dance, food and Wesley intern Katie Monfortte is Drop-Ins Always Welcome at by AMV’s James Warner. Everybody, other surprises. Emceed by Carolyn the newest member of the English Conversation Group including some guests from Pastoral Camacho of Identity, the first part mentoring team. and SHARE Counseling, dined together in the of the program will be held in the Crawford dining room, read togeth- Just a reminder that AMV resi- Rosborogh Theatre with the finale er and participated in a discussion they had made or not so happy that dents are always welcome to join in the Community Rooms. Back by about decisions that the children they had made. The session also mothers wishing to practice their popular demand are the Honduran and the adults were happy that afforded the students a chance to English in the Russell Avenue Cafe Dancers, who performed last year.

Village Life April 2014 5 By Jean Hubbell, Villas of the Foundation. Kay wanted to ave you enjoyed seeing the see the dolls when she moved here dolls on display in the Gal- and, working with Patrick, arrange- H lery at Rosborough Cen- ments were made for the Sugarland ter? Did you know there are a lot Searchers Doll Club of Maryland to more to see - perhaps as many as have access and work at preserv- 2,500 to 3,000 or maybe even more ing and restoring the doll collection. than that? The Luta Ferrell doll col- They are working one or two days a lection is housed on Williamsburg week using the Guild Office across Lane, the lower level of the Admin- the hall from the collection. istration Building. The dolls are The dolls had been more or less currently being inventoried, photo- out of sight for some time and most of the Doll Club mem- bers do not live on cam- pus, hence Photo: Jean Hubbell the need for ly have the collection available for sponges, newspaper, starfish and help from tours on a regular basis with docent more. Many dolls have human hair, the Founda- present. They are very enthusiastic including some of Luta Ferrell’s. tion and a and can point out the special fea- The oldest doll dates back to 1772- resident to tures and interesting materials used. 1775. Some of the dresses were gain access Meanwhile, to learn the histo- beyond repair so volunteers worked “Saving The Dollsto the dolls.Committee” ry of the doll collection, Chapter Aton making Workclothes and other jobs. The Club 14 of Marshall Grotenhuis’ book I was interested to note that Victo- members I on Asbury Methodist Village, pub- ria Kalantar in our branch of Sandy encountered lished by the Gaithersburg Histori- Spring Bank was one of those vol- on my visit Photo: Jean Hubbell cal Association,Ltd., makes fascinat- unteers. She researched fashions were Elea- ing reading. Luta Ferrell moved to and made clothing based on designs Doll club members Florie Hirsch, Sharon Mathis and nor Champi- Asbury in 1952 with an agreement from old photos and helped repair Eleanor champion. on, Chair of with Asbury to provide space for broken dolls. Some of the dolls are the commit- her large doll collection. She passed shown engaging in various activi- graphed and catalogued thanks to tee, Florie Hirsch and Sharon Mathis. away in 1968. It was l980 when ties such as an old man with a fish- the interest of Kay Rogers of Court- There are others who come other Margery Hughes moved to Asbury ing pole, a washer woman and a tub, yard Homes and Patrick O’Toole days. The ladies hope to ultimate- and noticed the dolls were in need a spinner and others. Some repre- of refurbishing and repair. She was sent historical figures such as Kai- well acquainted with the collection, ser Wilhelm and Queen Elizabeth II, being a close friend of Luta Ferrell. many of our presidents and others. Margery was asked to take over the Marshall reports many more details Dear Mary care of the dolls, which was a monu- in his chapter. There is also a pho- mental task. tograph of Luta Ferrell and some of By Mary Ebinger, Mund According to Marshall’s book, the her dolls in the book. His book can Mary R. Ebinger, a Pastoral Counselor and National Certi- Ferrell Collection was said to be be found in building libraries. fied Counselor, is the author of A Guide to Visitation - I one of the largest privately owned It is an amazing collection, quite Was Sick and You Visited Me and a chapter in When a doll collections at that time and in out of the ordinary. Thanks are due Friend is Dying: A Family Deals with Grief. this area. It is amazing in its vari- to the Sugarland Searchers Doll Club eties from dressed fleas (truly - I for taking on this massive task and Dear Mary: saw them), to all sorts of baby dolls, to Kay Rogers and the Foundation Here I am a lonely person. I live in a wonderful place with many people historical figures, and dolls made for getting it going. Let’s look for- and have been with persons all over the world. At dinner at any table there of unusual materials such as food ward to the time when the dolls can is laughter and I join in. I share some of my experiences, too. items - walnuts, peanuts, apples, once again be available for tours. What should I do differently? I would appreciate any of your ideas. seeds - and redwood fibers, lily pods, Tom Tom: Volunteer Recognition Even in a busy place with many people, someone or anyone may feel lonely. You would be surprised how many feel the way you do. The annual recognition of the many, many volunteers on our Asbury First, don’t avoid people. Try to remember some may be as lonely as you campus will be held Friday, April 18, in the Community Rooms of Ros- are. It is good to share experiences as you do. Just remember to be inter- borough at 2:00 p.m. ested in what someone says to you or what they say in different places. Do Some of the best things about Asbury Methodist Village are due to you ask questions? That shows you want to hear what they say. the work of our volunteers and this is our chance to honor them— Are you relatively new? Sometimes it takes a long time to feel comfort- and you, because you are probably a volunteer as well. able in a new place with a person who has different life stories than you This year the volunteer of the year will be two volunteers. We have do. Just remember it will be easier and you will feel less lonely the longer so many wonderful volunteers we could not stop at just one. Please you are there. Hang in there! circle April 18 on your calendar and join us for the big event. Mary --Marilyn Gaut, Trott

6 April 2014 Village Life Computer Corner News from the Computer Club and the Apple Corps By Jeanne North, Trott Next month, on May 14, we’ll hear an Introduc- wo thousand fourteen has brought more tion to the New Gaithersburg Regional Branch than snow to the Asbury campus: with Library, by Leonah Arroyo, Outreach Specialist of T the help of the Computer Club, the year the Montgomery County Library System has so far captivated the fancies of AMV geeks And on Wednesday, June 11, the last program of and lay people alike with a tantalizing array of the season will be on “3D Printing (of Real Prod- second-Wednesday evening programs in the Ros- ucts) — Hype or Reality?,” presented by John borough Theatre, drawing both PC and Apple Slotwinski of NIST. users to learn some of the latest tools and tricks Ken Rogers, Program Chair of the Comput- of the trade. er Club and Assistant Chair of the Apple Corps Take, for example, the January 8 show by the arranged for all these programs, which are regu- Courtyard Homes’ own Carroll Saussy, who daz- lar events (except in snow emergencies) on the zled at least one member of the audience with second Wednesday evening of the month in the her imaginative art work on her Mac. February Rosborough Theatre. 12? Okay, so the show was canceled. But do Meanwhile, the Apple Corps has added a new you remember the weather that day? The area member to its Leadership Team. Barbara Briggs struggled under a Winter Weather Advisory, with of Wallace will take on the duties of Assistant 5 - 10 inches expected. It was messy. Administrator, a new post. Barbara is a former ele- On March 12, Biff Gaut of Amazon Web Ser- mentary school teacher who moved to Asbury vices explained how cloud computing works. in November 1999. She is known for her work (Biff is the son of Trott’s Hal and Marilyn Gaut.) decorating the halls of Wallace and is a dedicated As an AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, Biff “helps member of the Dining Pac. companies realize the benefits of Cloud Comput- When asked to join the Apple team, Barbara ing to reduce their costs, increase innovation and innocently asked, “Why me?” I can tell her now get more sleep.” Barbara Briggs it was not only because of her smile, pleasant Ever want to trace your Uncle Harry? or Aunt manner and willingness to help, but because she Gertrude? found an error on the Apple Corps website’s list- Now you can do it from home — in your paja- brought to our attention by Jeff Miller of Jewish ing of member names. Now there’s someone I mas. Just check out one of the many websites Genealogical Society of Greater Washington. would like looking over my shoulder!

By Keith Steele, Wallace tech that it takes all year to make a sufficient t all started about six months before I retired quantity of them for the Christmas sale sea- from the Department of Agriculture. They son. Christmas seasons came and went before I I put a computer on my desk and told me to thought about it. This year my son, who manages use it. All I ever did with it was to type drafts of a CVS, called me after Christmas and said he had letters to give to my secretary. After retirement I two left and did I still want one. I said yes and kind of missed it. MY PATH that is what I received from him for my recent Genevieve bought me my first computer and a printer that made an awful lot of noise. The birthday. The “Clapper” has its advantages and computer we bought at Radio Shack. It was a TO disadvantages. When I go into the dark bedroom, Tandy that had no hard drive but ran on floppy I clap my hands and lo there is light. Once I get discs that I had to continually insert and remove. in bed I can clap the lights off. However, my wife I didn’t know until later why they were called HIGH-TECH doesn’t seem to be able to clap correctly and it floppies. won’t work for Next I was introduced to hard drives and pur- her. One night chased, or rather my wife, purchased a new Tandy I coughed with a hard drive. I am not sure how many PC’s I had after that. At one point I believe Genevieve rather loudly wished I would stop going to the Computer Club and there was meetings here at Asbury. Every time Bob Nesbit bright light, gave a lecture on a new computer, a new operat- enough to On Thanksgiving Day 2012 I had an epiphany. ing system or new program, I came home saying startle both I was at my son’s home and they had purchased I wanted that. of us. an Apple IMac. I played around with it for a while At one point my son gave me a GPS thing for After read- the car. On my first trip out I did something and decided I wanted one and ever since then I ing this you wrong and it kept trying to bring me back home have been an Apple person. I now have an IMac may want to once I passed the Asbury gatehouse. Next I found and an I pad. that my car had no cigarette lighter and I could Yet there was one more high tech device I get one but you will probably have to wait until only charge it at home. The Buick people wanted wanted, “The Clapper.” As you may be aware, next Christmas. However, if you are able to pay 3 or 4 hundred dollars to install a lighter so forget these and Chia pets are only sold at Christmas the right price, I know where there just might that. time. That is probably because they are so high be one.

Village Life April 2014 7 Everybody Out of the Pool

ell, darn! Just when I was getting when he hands it to me, I can grab his wrist and up my nerve to go in the Asbury pull myself up. But what if I pull him in? Then he swimming pool, they’re draining it! Z-Notes could get under me and push. Wouldn’t you know! For one who wants to remain inconspicuous in WI don’t know about you, but my favorite time to her bathing suit, yelling help from the bottom of appear publicly in a bathing suit is on a moonless the pool doesn’t cut it. night on a secluded beach on a remote island. Now I’m in a real panic. As I hang by my I didn’t always feel like that...say, 50 years ago... fingertips from the edge of the pool, dragging but now my cellulite is more like cellu-heavy, and myself from one side to the other, I stub my the last Fonda workout I did was with Henry not toe on a ledge that goes behind the ladder and Jane. the aluminum rails. I wedge my foot behind the But last month, after a few days on the Wind- By Phyllis W. Zeno, Wallace rails and grasp one rail with both hands. Then, star, a glorious four-masted sailing vessel, I realize with the burst of super-human strength that that the strenuous athletes are windsurfing off comes at times of life or death emergencies, I the sports platform in the back of the ship, and through my hands. pull myself up to the bottom step of the pool deck is totally deserted. Even the bar- Think about it. When was the last time you the ladder and am almost jet tender is snoozing in his chair around the corner raised your foot as high as your chest? propelled as I mount the and out of sight. Now the horror of it all begins remaining steps and Completely swathed in a towel, I creep to the to settle in. I am at the lurch out on the nearest deck chair. So far, so good. bottom of a very deep The pool brings a new dimension to Olympic pool, and I can’t deck. No one has measurements get out. What are seen me. --10 by 10 by 10...10 feet deep that is. Tossing my options? Suddenly, all caution to the winds, I throw aside the towel, During the a small boy descend the ladder and slip into the refreshing night, they’ll appears on water below. I do my backstroke, my breast- fill the pool, the edge of the stroke, my sidestroke; then, rather than risk a real and I can pool, and with stroke, I decide I am shriveled enough, and it is float to the casual insouciance, time to get out. top. drops a toy boat into the I swim up to the ladder, and for the first time Or they water. He looks at me and says I realize the pool is only half full because of the could drain plaintively, “Will you get my boat out morning scuba class, and the first step of the lad- the pool, and I’ll of the pool?” der is chest high. No problem. I’ll simply grab the never get out. Or I look at him coldly. “Kiss your boat hand rails and pull myself up, right? Wrong! I can order a drink goodbye, sonny. You’ve heard of the Ber- I grab the rails and immediately they slip from the bartender, and muda Triangle? Your boat just sailed into it!”

Mac and Zil

On Thursday, March 27, Olivier Serot Almeras, Counsul General of France in Washington, DC, bestowed the Legion of Honor on 14 U.S. veterans for their WWII efforts. Asbury resident Hugh Andrew was one of them!

8 April 2014 Village Life ASBURY METHODIST VILLAGE 2013 Report of Gifts

We extend our sincere appreciation to the donors who have made gifts during 2013 to enhance the Asbury Methodist Village community. All donors listed on the following pages represent gifts and pledge payments made to Asbury Foundation, Inc. to benefit Asbury Methodist Village for the 2013 calendar year. Gifts were directed to the Asbury Methodist Village Benevolent Care Fund, the Benevolent Care Endowment Fund, a Specific Purpose Fund or the Capital Fund. Thank you! Your gifts truly make a difference!

Donor Roll of Honor Gifts between $5,000 Freestate Electrical Service Co. Mrs. Gwen G. Sellers and $9,999 Rev. & Mrs. Harold Garman Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas J. Serenyi Ms. Susan Gaus Mr. Pemberton Smith Gifts of $500,000 and above Anonymous (1) Hal and Marilyn Gaut Mrs. Dorothy R. Smithey Mrs. Edith F. Brewer Ms. Eleanor Galemore Mrs. Ellen M. Goitia Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Spoor CliftonLarsonAllen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Hefner Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Gray Steve and Carolyn Stamatakis Estate of Thomas & Mary Horsey Mr. Ben H. & Rev. Jessie L. Genevieve & Keith Steele Estate of Hamilton A. Hall Jr. Griffith Mr. William L. Steen Gifts between $250,000 Estate of Catherine B. Hugh Dr. Robert T. Hartman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Stein and $499,000 Mrs. Helen W. Hatton Miss Virginia E. Hawke TAD Relocation Clark Gates Diamond Charitable Ms. Allison Lewis HealthMEDX Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Haruhiko Taima Remainder Unitrust Rockefeller & Co. Henry W. Miller Jr. Fund Mr. & Mrs. Merritt N. Techter Mrs. Agatha W. Sigmond Mr. & Mrs. Terry Herndon The Asbury Group Mrs. Artha Jean Snyder Gifts between $100,000 Mrs. Margaret Hickerson Mr. & Mrs. Albert D. Tholen Sodexo Inc. and $249,000 i3solutions Ms. Diana S. Thompson The Brickman Group Mr. & Mrs. Hunter Jones Jr. Mr. Richard D. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. John W. Locke THW Design Kaiser Permanente Wagman Construction Inc.

Mrs. Evelyn Kiser Mrs. Mary Waldron Ball Gifts between $50,000 Gifts between $1,000 and $99,999 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kolb Mrs. Joyce Waugh and $4,999 Miss F. E. Krider Mr. Russell E. Weber Estate of Carrie M. Young Anonymous (2) Dr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Lafleur Jr. Gary & Patsy Wienken Estate of Charles F. Sisson Adelbert W. Mears Trust Dr. & Mrs. John R. Lehmann Mrs. Sheila C. Wilkerson Mrs. Gloria Varrieur Dr. & Mrs. Gordon Allen Mr. & Mrs. David A. Lingrell Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. Wood Ms. Pamela J. Allison Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Lundholm Mrs. Vivian S. Woods Gifts between $25,000 Mr. Hugh S. Andrew Mr. Larry Machlan Woodside United Methodist and $49,999 Drs. Clifford & Leona Bachrach MARSH Church

Estate of Frank L. Stoner Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Barrow Jr. Mrs. Isabelle Z. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Donald Woodward James F. & Norma Jean Mr. & Mrs. Allen Beach Maryland Branch, Shut-In Mrs. Keith E. Woodward Rosborough Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Benjamin Society of Baltimore City, Inc. Mr. Ricardo Wooten Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Bishop Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Rev. Dennis E. Yocum and Gifts between $10,000 BlueRun Ventures McCullough Rev. Carol C. Yocum Mr. & Mrs. Heinz Bondy Dr. William E. McGarvey York County Community and $24,999 Mrs. Meredith S. Boyle McKesson Medical Surgical Foundation Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Brewer Mr. James Miers Mrs. Nancy M. Youden Mrs. Carol Aubrey Mr. Raymond N. Brown Mrs. Mildred Bland Miller Ziegler Mr. & Mrs. George A. Aubrey Mr. Francis X. Burns Mr. Henry R. Moehring Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Burt Mr. & Mrs. David A. Byars Ms. Betty J. Mullendore Gifts between $500 Flagship Rehabilitation Services Care Capital Management - Mr. Daniel R. Muller and $999 Mr. Walter Leginski The Medicine Shoppe LTC Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Myers Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. James E. Lordeman Division Nardi Construction, Inc. American Association of Mrs. Teresa Ma Coordinating Council of Mrs. Lois M. Odle University Women Mr. & Mrs. Leon Snead Asbury Methodist Village Omnicare Gaithersburg Branch The Asbury Guild Damascus United Methodist Mr. Raymond Panczyk and Mr. Donald D. Anderson The Community Foundation Church Harwood House Mrs. Betsy Monks Asbury Methodist Village Spiritual for the National Capital Thrift Shop Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pettigrew III Life and Counseling PAC Region Ms. Amey DeSoto Ms. Laura Pusateri Edwin C. Thomas, III and Ms. Anna Maria DiGiulian Mrs. Margaret R. Pyles Karen M. Thomas Jonathan and Mary Louise Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP All donations designated Carol A. Watkins Ebinger Mr. & Mrs. Michael Brad Reynolds Mrs. Edith C. Wilkerson Mrs. Mary R. Ebinger Mr. James P. Ruth for Asbury Methodist Williamsburg Clothes Closet Estate of Bessie D. Massey Mrs. Esther C. Saito Village benefit only Estate of Mary W. Sollenberger Mrs. Ruth Salinger Asbury Methodist Village. Estate of Nancy Ruth Howard Mr. Wesley R. Sandell

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Asbury Stamp Program Mr. & Mrs. Julian Reitman Woodside United Methodist Mr. & Mrs. Leonard F. Asbury Villas Resident Council Mrs. Alma K. Rhodes Women Jakubczak Mr. & Mrs. John P. Bankson Jr. Rotary Club of Montgomery Ms. Muriel A. Wright Mrs. Margaret W. Johnson Mr. James P. Bass Village Mr. Lee F. Jones Mr. Frederick S. Beckner Sandy Spring Bank Gifts between $250 Mrs. Katherine Koeln Mr. & Mrs. Martin Blendermann Mrs. Eleanor C. Schlaretzki and $499 Mr. & Mrs. Julius Lauderdale Ms. Kathryn Bradley Schutjer Bogar LLC Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Lawrence Rev. Dr. Martha A. Brown Mr. William A. Seebold Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. Severine G. Leoffler Jr. Brown Advisory Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Sexton Mrs. Linda W. Aber Let's Move Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Snyder Jr. Ms. Janet C. Adami Mr. Ken Lewis Dr. Robert E. Burke Stewart Agency Mr. Robert Adams Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Arthur A. Maryott Mr. Peter B. Cascio and Mr. Robert Allen Floyd Mauer Ms. Barbara Ellis Asbury Mund Resident Council Ms. Esther S. McCraw Ms. Rachel D. Cavanaugh Benevolent Care is the Ms. Oriyomi Banire Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. McIlrath Mrs. Roberta Chase primary focus of our Mr. Walter Bank Dr. David Mehlman Chevy Chase United Methodist charitable efforts. In 2013, Mrs. Norma M. Barr Ms. Anne E. Mehu Mr. John Bauer Women $860,959 in Benevolent Care Nalco an Ecolab Company Mr. & Mrs. William Coney Mrs. Dorothy S. Bready Patricia Hart Neuman Sc.D was provided to 20 Mrs. Ann J. Brickfield Mrs. Sarah A. Corbett Residential Living and Mrs. Jean C. Newman Mrs. Catherine S. Crim Mrs. Kathryn L. Broderick Mrs. Jeanne F. Noel Assisted Living residents at Mr. Levin B. Broughton Mrs. Judith S. Curtis Asbury Methodist Village. OBA Bank Sue and Randy DaCamara Burgeon Legal Group Ltd. Co. Ms. Barbara T. Olson

Rev. & Mrs. Wayne A. DeHart Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Cantrel Pat and Maria O’Toole Ms. Murvell T. Delpino Additionally, 149 residents of Mrs. Jane Carroll Mrs. Barbara B. Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Victor K. Der Wilson Health Care Center Catholic Community of Asbury Mrs. Deborah J Peeks Mr. Bob Duggan were recipients of Medicaid, Methodist Village Mr. & Mrs. Frank Poiani Duggan & Associates which does not fully cover the Donna Chandler Dr. & Mrs. David E. Purdy Mrs. Mary D. Elliott cost of providing the Asbury Mrs. Shirley Clapham Ms. Nancy Rasavage Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Couchman Estate of John & Katherine quality of care. Benevolent Mrs. Lucile D. Rawcliffe Davis Harrison Dion Cheatham Care ensures that residents Mrs. Louise Ray Rev. & Mrs. Harry Deffley ExxonMobil Foundation at all levels of care receive the Rehab First, Inc Eyre Bus Service, Inc. Rev. Mark Derby Mr. Michael L. Reynolds support they deserve— Mrs. Chloe J. Devine Mrs. Irene M. Fiege regardless of their financial Mrs. Doris G. Robbins Mrs. Mary Jane Gartner Mr. & Mrs. Gordon K. Dibble Robert A. Pumphrey Funeral situation. Ms. Joanne C. Genevish Mr. Arthur C. Elgin Jr. Homes Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Louis F. Grammes Rev. Anne M. Ellestad Rockville Fuel & Feed Co. Inc. Mrs. Eleanor R. Halstead Mrs. Louise B. Elliott Mr. & Mrs. Leslie W. Ross Mr. Dean E. Helm Roger and Carol Faber Mr. & Mrs. Amado J. Sandoval Mrs. Betty R. Herfurth Mrs. Helene T. Farrell SB&A and Brooks Adams Ms. Luisa Dias-Ibghi Mr. & Mrs. Samuel J. Finlay Research Intellitec Solutions LLC Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Flinn Jr. Ms. Julia B. Schwarz Mrs. Jane F. Ippolito Ms. Helena M. Ford Mr. & Mrs. Harry Seeback Mrs. Dorothy M. Johnson Ms. Marjorie Fuller Mr. & Mrs. Eduardo Sevilla Paul & Peggy Kaplan Gaithersburg Elementary Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Skiba Mr. George T. Karras School Mrs. Alice D. Smith Mrs. Fern G. Kauffman Ms. Andrea Giaquinto Dr. & Mrs. Gordon A. Smith Krause Decorating Company Mr. & Mrs. John Gill Jr. Mr. Gregory W. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lapanne Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek & Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Smith Jr. Ms. Karen M. Lawless Blomberg Mr. Gilbert L. Snyder Mrs. Mary M. Matzen Mrs. Nancy A. Stout Good Shepherd United Mr. & Mrs. Colin Southall Ms. Jean E. Mayer Mrs. Virginia W. Stowe Methodist Women Ms. Louise A. Stewart Mrs. Ellen S. McCrorie Mrs. Shirley M. Stuntz Mr. Jeffrey Griffiths Sugarland Searchers Doll Club Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. McCulloh The Graham Group Mr. Brian Grotenhuis of Maryland Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald The Principal Financial Group Mrs. Marilynn Grotenhuis Mr. & Mrs. Earl W. Sulmonetti Mr. & Mrs. Carl Melzer The United Church Mrs. Elizabeth O. Harvill Mrs. Ruth F. Sylvester Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly Trademark Design and Build LLC Mr. & Mrs. John D. Hatch Dr. Anita Taylor Ms. Emalee Murphy Travel & Theater Committee Mr. & Mrs. Fred J. Hecklinger Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tedesco NARFE Chapter 581 Dr. Arturo Valenzuela Heise Jorgensen & Stefanelli P.A. Ms. Mary E. Trundle National Philanthropic Trust Mr. & Mrs. Lowell A. Van Billiard Ms. Lisa Hickman Wood Mr. James & Dr. Ann Utterback Mrs. Phyllis Naylor Vanguard Charitable Endowment Mrs. Patricia M. Hilmoe Ms. Paula T. Valad Post & Schell Program Mr. William Hook Mrs. Mary F. Walker Potomac Financial Services Inc. Miss Marilyn L. Watson Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Hughes Winfield Tile Inc. PSA Insurance & Financial Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Miss Martha B. Hunt Mr. Joseph J. Wolczyk Mr. & Mrs. George R. Huson Services Mr. Gerald Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Rob Roy Ratliff Mrs. Emily H. Womach Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Jackson

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Gifts between $100 Dr. & Mrs. Gordon M. Cragg Mrs. Jean N. Hubbell and $249 Mrs. Beatrice Crawford Thanks to our Mr. Arthur G. Hughes Mr. Edward Crockett Mr. & Mrs. G. Ronald Hurley Anonymous (1) Mr. Ronald Crockett amazing volunteers Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hyatt Mr. & Mrs. Cornell P. Abod Mrs. Betty Crosby Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ikari Mr. & Mrs. Robert Adams Mr. & Mrs. Mercer Cross III who make life Mrs. Blanche L. Ingram Mr. & Mrs. Arthur G. Albertson Miss Rosie B. Crouch better for all at Mr. & Mrs. James D. Isbister Mrs. Betty Lou Allen Ms. Mary A. Culkin Mr. Ernest Jackman Mr. & Mrs. Walter O. Allen Jr. Mrs. Patricia J. Cunningham AMV! Mrs. Mildred A. Jenkins AmericaGives Mrs. Ruth Curley Mrs. Geraldine D. Jennings Mr. Eric C. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Curtis  Williamsburg Mr. Peter Jobusch Mr. Brad M. Andrus Mr. & Mrs. Harold C. Curtis Jr. Clothes Closet Mr. Wallace E. Jobusch Mrs. Christy A. Andrus Ms. Barbara Cutter Mrs. Beverly J. Johnson Mr. Robert J. Anstead Mrs. Mary W. Daniel Hine  Foundation PAC Ms. Delores Jones Asbury 419 Wallace Building Mrs. Mary Jean Davidge Ms. Marilyn D. Jones Council Ms. Edith Davis  Music for the Mr. & Mrs. Karl F. Jorss Jr. Asbury Edwards-Fisher Ms. Linda Dawkins Mission Committee Mr. & Mrs. Donald Judson Residents Council Ms. Debra L. Deem Dr. Kazuyoshi Kawata Mr. & Mrs. William Backer Mrs. Doris Diamond  Asbury Guild Mr. William J. Keery Mrs. Shirley P. Bagley Diamond/Wallace Bridge Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Kelly Mrs. Marilyn Balcombe Marathon - Bargain Mart Ms. Barbara Kelsky R.N. Ms. Martha Ball Mr. & Mrs. James H. Dinwiddie Ms. Beatrice Kikawa Mrs. Martha Bartholow Mr. & Mrs. Milton Donaldson - Gift Shop Mrs. Ramarion W. King Mrs. Mary Baskett Mr. & Mrs. James Doyle Mr. Linus L. Klitsch Mr. Brent Bayes Mr. Dennis D. Driscoll - Elves Day Mr. & Mrs. David P. Kosow Ms. Erika B. Baylor Dublin United Methodist Church Anna & Earl Kragnes Mrs. Ruby S. Belk Mrs. Nancy Dunckel Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Gilliat Mrs. Winanne Kreger Dr. & Mrs. Stanley B. Benjamin Mr. Alfred P. Duncker and Mr. Reinhard Glang Mrs. Bobbye C. Kudzma Mr. Robert M. Bernero Ms. Ann S. Lindley Mrs. Catherine B. Gleason Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Kuehnle Mrs. Carol E. Blair Ms. Janet Dykstra Glen Todd & Company P.C. Ms. Nancy C. Kuhn Estate Mr. & Mrs. Alan Blandamer Mr. & Mrs. John P. Eberhard Ms. Ruth G. Gochnour Mr. Felix Kwankam Mr. James E. Bleadingheiser Mr. Jack Edwards Ms. Sheen W. Goldberg Dr. Ellis Larsen Susan Boettger RN Mrs. Bernice B. Egbert Mrs. Mary V. Goodwin Mrs. Alberta C. Lasham Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Bonn Mrs. Jean H. Emery Mrs. Kristine Gorka Mrs. Ann Laskodi Mr. Henderson D. Booth Ms. Mahlet Engida Goshen Mills Chapter NSDAR Ms. Marilee F. Lawrence Mr. Joseph J. Borkoski Sr. Mr. & Ms. Peter B. Erickson Mr. Richard D. Goyne Mrs. Peg Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Boteler Jr. Mrs. Amy Ericson Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Graves Mrs. Jackie Lee Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Boyer Ms. Leota Ester Mr. & Mrs. James E. Green Ms. Virginia Lenz Mr. Shannon J. Braddock Mr. & Mrs. Richard Evans Mrs. Julia E. Greenwood Mr. & Mrs. John Lillibridge Mr. Alvin Briggs Mr. William Fairley Mr. Daniel Griffith Mrs. Shirley H. Lipp Mrs. Hazel M. Bunker Mr. & Mrs. Abram Fajer Rev. Dr. Mearle L. Griffith Capt. & Mrs. Frederick Lippert Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Buscemi Ms. Jane Farber Mrs. Martha E. Grimm Mr. N. S. Lockard Mr. & Mrs. Richard Butler Mr. John F. Fenton Mrs. Nancy Grissom Mrs. Kathleen Lohman Ms. Virginia S. Butts Mrs. Sharon Ferrante Ms. Susan Grotenhuis Ms. Jane Lordeman Mrs. Mukadder Buyukunsal Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Ferrell Mrs. Sarah Gruner Ms. Leta Loring Cabin John United Methodist Mr. Tom Fessenden Mrs. Melissa Hadley Mrs. Ruth E. Lotz Church Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund - Mr. Kenneth D. Hall Mrs. Betty D. Lowe Dr. Carol B. Cade Maria and Larry Roberts Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Hambrecht Dale A. & Charlotte J. Lowry Mr. Richard Carelli Fisher Lumber Ms. Janet L. Hargett Mr. & Mrs. James J. MacKenzie Mrs. Roberta S. Carr Mr. & Mrs. William Flanagan Mr. & Mrs. Gary G. Harman Ms. April Majka Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carr Mr. & Mrs. Stephan R. Fleener Dr. & Mrs. Norman M. Heim Mr. Donald M. Malone Ms. Britta Chambers Ms. Annette Fletchall Mrs. Karen E. Hendershot Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Malone Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Chambers Rev. & Mrs. Gordon Forbes Ms. April Herbert Mrs. Helen T. Manning Cintas Corporation Mr. Brian Ford Mr. & Mrs. Christopher H. Heslin Mrs. Margaret E. Marsh Ms. Lynnell Clarke William B. and Joan H. Ford Ms. Hazel N. Hestand Mr. Michael R. Marsh Linda and Harley Cleveland Ms. Kathleen A. Ford Mrs. Mary Daniel Hine Mrs. Mildred S. Martin Mrs. Deane C. Cody Fork United Methodist Women Mrs. Hildegard Hirschfeld Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Mason Mr. & Mrs. L. Dayton Coe II Mr. & Mrs. Gareth Frank Mr. David Hoang Mrs. Elaine R. Mata Mr. & Mrs. James P. Collins Mrs. Linda K. Frey Mrs. Mary E. Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Theodore E. Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Connell Mr. & Mrs. Toshio Fujikura Ms. Carol Hood Mathison Conner & Winters Mrs. Stelle Gadek Mrs. Mary F. Hoover Ms. Sandra S. Matthews Kathleen and Sam Coriell Mrs. Edith L. Gamble Mr. & Mrs. Frank Hopkins Ms. Helen C. Maus Mrs. Jane S. Coughlin Mr. Bernard C. Garrison Mr. & Mrs. James R. Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. F. Gordon Maxson Dr. & Mrs. Charles Coulter Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Gawler Ms. & Mrs. Marion R. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Frank Mayer Mr. Randall P. Crabtree Ms. Ann E. Gillespie Miss Charlotte R. Hoyle

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert In 2013, 1,261 donors made Ms. Khunrine N. Singh Mr. & Mrs. Vernon A. Yeager McDonough gifts to benefit Asbury Mr. Donald R. Skinner Fran & Charles Yost Dr. & Mrs. Bruce D. McDowell Methodist Village. Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Smith Jr. Ms. Sarah C. Young Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. McInnes Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Calvin O. Yowell Mr. & Mrs. Duane A. McKenna Incredibly, 56% of our 2013 Mrs. Ruth S. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Eugene C. Zamboni Mr. & Mrs. Stephen McKenna donors were non-residents. Mr. & Mrs. William H. Snape Mr. & Mrs. Karl F. Ziehl Ms. Deborah McKenzie We are proud to have 100% Ms. Jean S. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. James D. Mehring Board member participation. Mrs. Martha Jane Sorrows Gifts to $99 Ms. Ellen M. Mehu Mr. & Mrs. Julian H. Sparrow Pictured below is Asbury Anonymous (1) Messiah United Methodist Mr. & Mrs. William Stahr Foundation Board Member 419 Wallace Resident Council Women Status Solutions LLC Jonathan Ebinger with his Ms. Diane Albertini Mrs. Virginia A. Michael Mrs. Mary M. Stavish mother, AMV resident Mary Mr. Masood Ali Mrs. Emma B. Michaels Mrs. Betty L. Steele Ebinger. Mr. & Mrs. David W. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Milberg Dr. & Mrs. Charles W. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. B. Warren Allin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Miller Mr. & Mrs. Milton Stickles Ms. Genevieve Allison Mrs. Carole Miller Ms. Patricia Stone Ms. Linda Amissah Mr. James F. Miller Mr. Marlin Strand Ms. Agnes V. Andoh Rev. & Mrs. William C. Miller Jr. Mrs. Donna Strauss Ms. Kofi Ankrah Mr. John E. Minton Mr. & Mrs. Richard Strindmo Ms. Claudia Arce Wendell and Jo Ann Mohr Mrs. Irene S. Stuart Ms. Mary E. Armstrong Mr. John R. Monroe Mrs. Jane Stutsman Ms. Ayesha Arora-Sharma Ms. Carol Bryden Moore Ms. Mary Ann Sures Ms. Susan Austen Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Moore Mrs. Betty L. Tarbell Mrs. Gertrude Axilrod Mrs. Betty Jean Morgan Ms. Susan Tatterson Ms. Beatrice Ayuk-Takem Ms. Audrey Morris Mrs. Barbara Tenenbaum Ms. Shannon Babb Ms. Barbara J. Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Howard Thomas Ms. Frances Badman Mr. & Mrs. Hubert Morsink Mr. & Mrs. L. Gilbert Thompson Mr. David Baker Moyer & Sons, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Tietze Mrs. Lois Baker Mr. & Mrs. Robert Neidecker Dr. & Mrs. Russell M. Tilley Jr. Ms. Freni Bankwalla Ms. Elinor Newton Ms. Tommie S. Tralka Ms. Nancy Barbano Mrs. Emily S. Noto Dr. Mildred M. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Trautvetter Ms. Louise G. Barnett Mrs. Eleanore S. Olson Mr. Rick Rice Ms. Beth Truebell Mrs. Marie Barone Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson Ms. Sylvia E. Riley Mr. Robert N. Tyson Mr. & Mrs. Joel H. Barton Orems United Methodist Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ritzman Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Unglesbee Mrs. Marie S. Battista Women Mr. & Mrs. Larry S. Roberts United Methodist Women - Mr. & Mrs. John E. Baublitz Mrs. Alice Ostberg Rockville Gaithersburg Stamp Mount Tabor United Ms. Rebecca L. Baxley Ms. Catherine Owen Club Methodist Church Ms. Gloria L. Baxter Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Peabody Mrs. Joyce R. Rohmiller Mr. & Mrs. Byron E. Unsworth Ms. Helen Bebout Mr. James B. Pearson & Mr. & Mrs. William T. Rooker Jr. USDA/National Agricultural Ms. Phyllis Bediako Mrs. Linda W. Pickle Mr. Douglas R. Ross and Statistics Svc./Research & Ms. Dorothy C. Beltz Ms. Anna W. Perry Ms. Jerilynn Radcliffe Development Division Ms. Sharon Bennett Mrs. Evelyn M. Peterson Mr. Glen M. Ross and Mr. Jon Van Winkle Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Benson Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Peterson Ms. Patricia M. Shea Varsity Branding Mrs. Geraldine Bernard Mrs. Irene M. Petrick Mr. & Mrs. Evan T. Sage Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Volz Mr. & Mrs. Jag Bhargava Mr. & Mrs. Richard Phillips Mrs. Ruth A. Salb Mr. & Mrs. Robert VonMoss Ms. Lisa Birrell Mr. William C. Pickhardt Salem United Methodist Mrs. Lela Wagner Mrs. Dorothy M. Blakeslee Ms. Mary Lou Pijar Women, Brookville, MD Mrs. Mary Waldron Ball Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Blecki Matthew G. Poffenroth MD, MBA Salem United Methodist Milton and Julia Walker Mr. & Mrs. David S. Blessley Mrs. Anne R. Porter Women, Hampstead, MD Mr. James P. Warner Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Ernest E. Bortner Jr. Ms. Michele R. Potter Mr. Robert Samworth Ms. Roberta A. Warner Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Bosely Ms. Jessica Potts Mrs. Hildegard Santorini Ms. Mary Wiehl Mr. & Mrs. Paul Botting Mrs. Elizabeth F. Prestemon Mrs. Sandy L. Scheele Ms. Mildred S. Wiehl Mrs. Cleda Boulton Mr. & Mrs. Clinton E. Provenza Mrs. Joyce B. Schmitt Mrs. H. Louise Wilberger Rev. & Mrs. Bruce M. Bowen Providence-Fort Washington Mr. & Mrs. Frank Schreyer Mr. Anthony W. Wilk and Mrs. Vicki E. Bowen United Methodist Women Mr. & Mrs. Murray Schulman Ms. Chantal J. Astore Mrs. Kristina T. Bozoarth Mrs. Barbary Purdy Mrs. Phyllis Schwegler Mrs. Bernice G. Wilkinson Dr. William Braisted Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Ms. Mary L. Searing Mrs. Phyllis S. Willette Mrs. Donna M. Branthover Rabenhorst Mr. Gregory H. Sears Ms. Amy J. Williams Mrs. Mary Brecheen Mr. Sanjay Rajvanshi Ms. Jane Seebold Ms. Antonie E. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Jason P. Brennan Mr. & Mrs. Frederico Ramos Dr. & Mrs. Jan V. Sengers Mrs. Sue M. Wilson Ms. Anne Brensike Ms. Joan Read Mrs. Doreen L. Sexton Winco Window Co. Mrs. Barbara H. Briggs Mr. Carter D. Reardon Mr. & Mrs. Harry D. Seybert Ms. Jean Winkler Ms. Julie Brill Ms. Nancy Reed Ms. Debra D. Short Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Woodruff Ms. Lydia Brittle Mr. Marc Reitman Ms. Nancy Shulman Mrs. Hazel Wright Ms. Diane D. Broadhurst Ms. Rosa Reyes Mrs. Ruth Simpson Dr. & Mrs. William E. Wright

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Ms. Patience Brobbey Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence deLormier Ms. Wendi Gordon Ms. Vonessa Isom Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. Brodine Ms. Carol A. Dennis Mr. Robert E. Gradle Mrs. Carolyn F. Iverson Ms. Joan Brosnan Ms. Meredith B. Deutsch Mr. & Mrs. P. Lance Graef Ms. Lijoy Jacob Mrs. Ferne I. Brostrom Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Dhyse Ms. Gloria J. Grant Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Jarrell Ms. Cindy N. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Jerry W. Dingess Mrs. Mildred J. Greece Ms. Sarah Jenkins Mr. Crawford Brown Mr. & Mrs. George Dixon Ms. Sherry Greene Ms. Elizabeth B. Jewell Mr. Erskine J. Brown Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Doggett Mrs. Anne C. Gregory Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Brown Mrs. Elizabeth Donley Mrs. Elaine Greif Mr. & Mrs. Craig P. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. William Brown Mrs. Lucile E. Doyle Ms. Katherine C. Gugulis Mrs. Frances Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Earle L. Browning Mr. David O. Duncan Mrs. Peggy Hardin Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Johnston Mrs. Marjorie R. Brugger Ms. Carol Dundon Mr. Kent Harding Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Joseph Ms. Madeleine Bryant Miss Paula A. Dundon Mr. Stephen Hardy Mrs. Margery Josephson Dr. & Mrs. George W. Buchanan Col. Raymond E. Dunn and Mrs. Edna V. Hargrove Mrs. Marjorie Jovanovic-Johnson Mr. David C. Bulla Ms. Susan D. Dunn Mrs. Dorothy Harris Mr. James W. Jump Mr. & Mrs. Donald Burgard Mr. John E. Duvall Mrs. Stefanie L. Harris Mrs. Fujiko Kakefuda Ms. Lauren M. Burns Mr. & Mrs. Lee Easton Ms. E. Ann Harrison Miss Dolores Ann Kalo Mrs. Mary Burton Mrs. Mary H. Eaton Mrs. June Harry Mr. Nishan Karakashian Mr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Bussan Mr. John Eberhard and Mrs. Lila Harvey Mrs. Lillian T. Kashihara Ms. Evelyn M. Butterwei Ms. Michelle Ferketic Mrs. Pauline Hawkins Ms. Ruth Kauffman Mrs. Elizabeth K. Campbell Eberhard Ms. Debbie Hedges Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Kaylor Ms. Cathy Canning Edelman Financial Services Mrs. Carol Henley Ms. Kishma Kelly Mr. Nelson Capurata Ms. Kim Ehrenfried Mr. & Mrs. Henry K. Higgins Mr. Wayne Kendrick Mrs. Muriel Carson Ms. Janet Englehart Mrs. Suzanne Hildebrand Mrs. Susan Kenyon Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Alden English Mr. & Mrs. George Hill Mr. Joon Kim Ms. Diane H. Carvey Mr. & Mrs. Carl Erickson Mr. Philip Hill Mrs. Dora C. King Katherine Cary Mrs. Elinor B. Etienne Mr. Lenny Hines Ms. Jeanne M. King Mr. & Mrs. Carmine Castellano Mrs. Carol A. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hinkle Mr. & Ms. George Kinney Ms. Susan Chaney Mr. Richard J. Evans Dr. Britta Hoffmann-Millack Mr. Richard H. Kirklin Mrs. Nancy Chapman Ms. Wilda Evans Ms. Nancy Holder Mr. & Mrs. George M. Klein Chapter Z, P.E.O. Sisterhood Family & Nursing Care Miss Jessie O. Hollenberry Mrs. Mary T. Klepek Ms. Caroline Chepkwony Mrs. Elsie M. Fansler Mrs. Dorothy E. Howe Mr. & Mrs. James Kline Ms. Audrey Chereskin Ms. Jane Farfan Ms. Eleanor L. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose Klotz Mr. John Cho Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Feinberg Mr. Donald L. Hunston Mr. & Mrs. James P. Knowles Mr. Anthony Cinotti Mr. & Mrs. Eugene J. Fellin Mr. John J. Hutchings Miss Rose A. Koerber Mr. Peter A. Clarke and Mrs. Karen Filippone IBM Corporation - Matching Ms. Anita Kowalski Mrs. Carole W. Clarke-Avrick First Baptist Church of Grants Program Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Kunz Rev. & Mrs. Albert L. Clipp Gaithersburg Ms. Brenda Ibutu Ms. Jeanne Lacerte Mrs. Judith K. Cole Mrs. Charlotte F. Fischer Ms. Juliana Isibor Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lambert Mr. & Mrs. Stuart E. Colvin Mrs. Betty H. Fiske Ms. Frances D. Conger Ms. Mary F. Fletcher Mr. & Mrs. David Conley Ms. Kathleen L. Flowers Mr. John D. Connell Mr. & Mrs. John C. Flynn Mrs. Mary Jane Cook Mrs. Cary H. Foley Mr. & Mrs. John J. Coonts Ms. Bailay Fomba Mrs. Geraldine Corn Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Forrest Miss Sally A. Cornell Mrs. Patricia N. Fowle Ms. Erin Coursey Fox Chapel Elementary School Mrs. Phyllis Crafton Mr. Russel R. Freese Mrs. Jeanette B. Crockett Mr. Robert C. Frey Mrs. Marolyn Crosswhite Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gaffney Mrs. Elaine W. Crowe Ms. Paula Galliani Ms. Eleanor W. Cunningham Mr. James Gammon Mrs. Domenica A. Cuozzi Rev. & Mrs. Frank W. Gardner Mr. Henry Curtis Ms. Olga M. Gazda Ms. Joan M. Davenport Dr. Ruth I. Geran Mrs. Carolyn B. Davis Ms. Carole B. Gerber Ms. Nana Yaa Davis Ms. Terry L. Germon Rev. & Mrs. Richard S. Davis Mrs. Ruth M. Gibson The Rosborough Distinguished Speaker Series is just Keith and Marion Davy Mr. & Mrs. George D. Gilbreath Mrs. Madelyn V. de Voest Ms. Amanda M. Gill one example of efforts funded through Specific Purpose Ms. Irene Degbe Ms. Jessica L. Ginsburg Gifts received in 2013. Columnist Amy Dickinson was Ms. Elsie M. DeHaven Mr. Anthony Glaser the 17th Distinguished Speaker brought to campus Mr. John Del Vecchio Mrs. Diane Gleason through the generosity of the James F. & Norma Jean Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Mr. John R. Glennie DeLong Ms. Marguerite Goldman Rosborough Foundation.

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Mr. Edward J. Lamberton Mr. & Mrs. Henry A. Lucas Mr. George B. Lane Mrs. Mary Lou C. Luff Mrs. Mildred W. Lang Ms. Jean Lyle Ms. Karen Langland Mrs. Mildred D. Mader Lansdowne United Methodist Ms. Margaret J. Madert Women Mrs. Anna Mahon Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Lantz Mr. Alfred J. Maier Mrs. Virginia K. Lastner Ms. Natalie Maitland Ms. Jean Lauderdale Mrs. Donna M. Marino Ms. Sharon Lea Mrs. Louella B. Marlin Mr. H. E. Lefevre Ms. Joan Maroulis Mr. & Mrs. Douglas W. Leidig Mr. Peter Maroulis Mr. Harvey A. Lerner Ms. Margie Martin Mrs. Luella N. LeVee Mrs. Catherine E. Matthews Mrs. Bernice Lewis Mrs. Elaine J. Mazzi Dr. & Mrs. Edgar V. Leyendecker Ms. June L. McCalla Mrs. Margaret Liffiton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas McCallum Ms. Arlene A. Lilly Ms. Marie McCoy nd Ms. Barbara Lindstadt Mr. & Mrs. Rodman L. McCoy The 2 Annual Music for the Mission Big Band Concert was just one Mrs. Rebecca T. Little Ms. Sharon McCracken of the ways AMV got creative with its fundraising in 2013. Other Ms. Carol J. Long Ms. Tara McDaniel examples included the Two-Piano Recital, Easter Dog Parade, and Mr. John Loop Mr. & Mrs. Bernard W. the Caring Classic Golf Tournament. These events also offer Ms. Ann Lordeman McDonald opportunities for our corporate partners to support the mission, as Ms. Betty Loud Mr. Ben P. McGee you will see them recognized throughout this list. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Lowe Mr. Scott G. McGinnis Mr. Rob McMonagle Mrs. Mary. M. Olson Mrs. Cathleen M. Richards Mr. Harvey Meltzer and Ms. Karolyne H. Oosterhous Mrs. Jean H. Richards Mrs. Phyllis Zeno Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Opiela Ms. Augustine Richardson Ms. Rebecca Merritt Mrs. Natalie O'Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ris Mr. & Mrs. John A. Messina Ms. Karla Orellana Mr. Robert Robey Jr. Mrs. Barbara L. Metz Ms. Joy L. Oriole Mrs. Selma R. Robey Mrs. Elinor Meyers Mrs. Vivian W. Otto Mr. Elimael Rodriguez Ms. Merkeb Michael Mrs. Lydia E. Page Mr. & Mrs. Peter Roman Ms. Linda Mihovic Mr. Thomas A. Page Mr. & Mrs. David Ronis Ms. Janet Miller Mr. & Mrs. John Papadakis Mrs. Elizabeth K. Rosenbaum Ms. Joanne Miller Mr. F. Javier Paparizos Ms. Irene Rudyj Norm and Cheryl Minekime Mr. & Mrs. Enver C. Park Mrs. Marjorie Rynas Ms. Raji Mishra Mr. Albert J. Parlett Ms. Stephanie Sabine Mr. Daniel Moore Mrs. Thelma Parrish Saint James' Episcopal Church Mrs. Shirley Moore Mrs. Rosemary H. Pasek James M. and Emilie S. Sanborn Mrs. Barbara B. Morris Ms. Cheryl Patterson Ms. Elizabeth B. Sandwick Mount Olive United Methodist Ms. Olivia Perrelli Mrs. Helen M. Sawai

Women Ms. Grace Persaud-Pearson Ms. Maryln L. Saxman The AMV Benevolent Ms. Lucinda M. Mullally Mrs. Ann Philbin Mr. Luther B. Saxon Care Endowment Mr. & Mrs. Neil E. Munch Ms. Virginia Phillips Mr. Robert Scheno Fund, which is Mr. Linden Munroe Mr. William Posner Ms. Phyllis Schmitz invested in perpetuity Ms. Jane Murphy Mrs. Julia L. Pramschufer Mrs. Charlotte Schmuff Ms. Pia Natoli Mr. V. K. Prasad Ms. Donna Schramm to secure the future of Mrs. Phyllis M. Nester Mr. Joseph Pratt Ms. Patricia T. Schriver support for residents Ms. Jean R. Neumeyer Ms. Jane Pucello Mrs. Barbara S. Schuler in need, now stands at Ms. Joyce Newcomb Ms. Maima Quermarllue Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Schwab Mr. & Mrs. William C. Ragsdale Mr. & Mrs. Charles Schwarz over $13.3 million. Mr. Kha T. Nguyen Ms. Loc T. Nguyen Dr. & Mrs. William L. Raker Ms. Denise Scott Mr. & Mrs. James M. Nichols Ms. Kristin Ramsay Dr. & Mrs. Edgar F. Seagle Endowment gifts in Ms. Marcia Nizzari Mrs. Anne Rankin Mr. Robert & Mrs. E. Anne 2013 included a final Mr. John H. Nolan Mr. & Mrs. Erik Rasmussen Seeger distribution from the Mrs. Jeanne-Marie North Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Rasmusson Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Seiler Mr. & Mrs. Hugh E. Northup Mrs. Ardelle Ratliff Mrs. Judi S. Shapiro Diamond Family Trust Ms. Faustina Nyameama Mr. John G. Ray Mrs. & Mr. Minetta S. Shearer and a gift of real estate Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Carl D. Reed Ms. Kathleen Shields from residents Tom Mrs. Margaret O'Connell Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Reilly Mr. Terry T. Shima and Jean Hefner, Ms. Alanna Oden Ms. Marie S. Rentz J. D. and Tanya Shuman Mrs. Cinderella O'Higgins Ms. Bernadette Reyes Ms. Maryhelen Simmons pictured above. Ms. Eugenia Okattah-Asare Ms. Janet Rhoads Mr. & Mrs. John Slavcoff Ms. Judith A. Olivey Mr. Morris Rice Mrs. Yvonne P. Slygh

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Mr. David Smith and United Methodist Women of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Richard & Mary Burington Ms. Patricia Van Sant Memorial United Methodist Mrs. Marguerite Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Earl W. Sulmonetti Mr. & Mrs. Dennis A. Smith Church Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Wilson Ms. Jennifer Smith United Methodist Women of Mrs. & Mrs. Richard A. Wilson Darnell Burton Mrs. Joan C. Smith First United Methodist David and Jane Winfrey Mr. & Mrs. John P. Bankson Jr. Mr. John F. Smith Church Ms. Shirley Wolf Ms. Julia P. Smith Ms. Ila B. Vaidya Mr. Harold F. Wollin Zelah H. Conley Mr. & Mrs. Dennis A. Smith Mrs. Mariette Vanderhaegen Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kolb Mr. & Mrs. George W. Snowden Mrs. Carolyn VanHoosen Ms. Mary M. Wykes Ms. Charlotte Spencer Mr. Ronald L. Vaughan Jr. Ms. Lisa Yaw Edward Crockett Ms. Flavia Ssemanda Mrs. Harriette Veirs Mrs. Jean S. Young Mrs. Norma M. Barr Mr. Charles J. Stahl III Mr. & Mrs. Richard Vert Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Yount Mr. James P. Bass Ms. Elizabeth Stanford Villas Bridge Group Mr. & Mrs. Jay Zeffiro Dr. Carol B. Cade Mrs. Rosamond Steere Mr. & Mrs. Hugh F. Vivian Mr. Rick Zeigler Mrs. Roberta S. Carr Dr. & Mrs. Brown H. Stegall Mr. & Mrs. James Vogelsong Ms. Maria Zichy Mr. Ronald Crockett Mr. & Mrs. Earl R. Sterlock Ms. Joanna E. Voight Ms. Mary A. Culkin Ms. Ann W. Stolt Ms. Tetiahon Carine Vouzon Mrs. Mary W. Daniel Hine Mrs. Betty Strubel Mr. & Mrs. Allan Walter Commemorative Gifts Ms. Jane Farber Ms. Irish Suarez Mr. Roy H. Wampler Mrs. Thelma Sundick Ms. Yen Wang A commemorative gift is a Mrs. Peg Lawrence Mrs. Lydia E. Page Mrs. Reba C. Swain Mrs. Suzanne Ward meaningful way to honor Mrs. Lucile D. Rawcliffe Mr. Eric Sye Mrs. Mary W. Wasik friends and loved ones. It is a Ms. Julie Takai Mr. Donald C. Waters Dr. & Mrs. Gordon A. Smith Major & Mrs. Philip B. Tarbell Dr. & Mrs. Donald L. Weaver way to express gratitude for Mr. & Mrs. Ernest K. Steele Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Taylor Mrs. Michele L. Weikert acts of kindness, recognize Dr. & Mrs. Charles W. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Kermit L. Taylor Ms. Nancy Weintraub joyous occasions such as Mrs. Virginia W. Stowe Ms. Rhonda Teranto Mrs. Patricia Weisberg birthdays and anniversaries, Ms. Sarah C. Young Mrs. Lorraine Therriault Mrs. Joan B. Weissleader or express condolences to the Mr. & Mrs. Earl Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Wellington Mary Culkin Ms. Juliana Thomas Wesley United Methodist family of a deceased relative, Ms. Phyllis Schmitz Ms. Stephanie M. Thomas Women friend or acquaintance. Ms. Mildred H. Thompson Mr. Wesley E. West Merv Delpino Ms. Lucinda K. Thorpe Reg and Isabel Westlake Catholic Community of AMV Rev. Andrea & Mr. Dean Mr. Kenneth W. White IN HONOR OF Titcomb Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Whitmore Parker Dorman Mrs. Yai Chi Tong Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Wilkerson Jr. Asbury Diamond Workshop 419 Wallace Resident Council Ms. Margaret Topping Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Willats Mrs. Margaret W. Johnson Trinity United Methodist Mr. & Mrs. Mark Willen John P. Eberhard Church William Watters Memorial Asbury Singers John Eberhard and Ms. Ms. Barbara S. Turnbull United Methodist Women Mr. & Mrs. John P. Eberhard Michelle Ferketic Eberhard

Mrs. Josephine Turner Mrs. Melva R. Williams Mrs. Elsa M. Tutwiler Ms. Norma P. Williams The Associates at Kindley Bernice B. Egbert Mrs. Mary C. Unglesbee Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Williams Assisted Living Mr. Alvin Briggs

Mrs. Doris Williamson Ms. Amanda M. Gill Linda Frey Mrs. Bobbye C. Kudzma Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. In addition to the hard work they put in every day Drs. Leona & Clifford Bachrach McCullough

for residents, many AMV associates make gifts to Mr. & Mrs. William Coney Ben & Jessie Griffith support our community’s charitable mission. In Ned Hopper, Al Benson and Mr. Daniel Griffith 2013, all members of the Marketing and Human Resources departments were donors! workers at the Bargain Mart Eleanor Halstead Ms. Esther S. McCraw Mrs. Elaine R. Mata

Leonard Bonn Mrs. Anne R. Porter

Mrs. Norma M. Barr Norman & Catherine Heim Doris Brown Mr. Marlin Strand

Mr. & Mrs. Enver C. Park Carolyn Henningsen Rev. Dr. Martha Brown Ms. Jane Pucello

Dr. & Mrs. Norman M. Heim Attila Karaosmanoglu Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mrs. Mukadder Buyukunsal McCullough

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Ramarion King – for his 90th Ethel Truebell Martha G. Baptie Catalina H. Byars Birthday Ms. Beth Truebell Mr. & Mrs. John Papadakis Mr. & Mrs. David A. Byars Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly Mary C. Unglesbee John Barone James Cahoon David P. Kosow Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Unglesbee Mrs. Marie Barone Asbury Villas Resident Council Mrs. Betty Lou Allen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Feinberg Margaret & Charles Volz John Bartholow Mrs. Jean S. Young Jean Kritzer Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Hambrecht Mrs. Martha Bartholow Drs. Clifford & Leona Bachrach James R. Callen Harold E. Wells Bernice Bass Mrs. Evelyn M. Peterson Gerry Leginski Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Ferrell Mr. James P. Bass Mr. Walter Leginski Mildred Cannon Anne L. Wilson Melvin T. Benjamin Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. McInnes Evelyn Lohr Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Wilson Dr. & Mrs. Stanley B. Benjamin Mr. & Mrs. Jerry W. Dingess Mildred A. Chapman Dr. & Mrs. Robert Wilson Alline Berney Mrs. Betty Lou Allen James E. Lordeman Mrs. Sue M. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Donald Judson Mrs. Betty H. Fiske Ms. Jane Lordeman Patricia K. Booth Wilson L. & Laura H. Clagett Arthur Maryott IN MEMORY OF Mr. Henderson D. Booth Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Dhyse Mrs. Mary Waldron Ball Mary Ann Adams Janet A. Braddock Raymond David Cleaver, Jr. Ann Mr. Robert Adams Jr. Mr. Shannon J. Braddock Mrs. Mukadder Buyukunsal Mr. & Mrs. Martin Blendermann Amy & David Allen Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mrs. Mary E Hoffman Ted Branthover McCullough Ila Dean & Richard Olson Mr. & Mrs. John A. Messina Donna M. Branthover Mr. Douglas R. Ross & Ms. The Milberg Family: Ron, Allen Coale Jerilynn Radcliffe Robbie, Debra, Jeff, Their Dale N. Brostrom Mr. & Mrs. Hugh F. Vivian Mr. Glen M. Ross & Spouses and Grandchild Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly

Ms. Patricia M. Shea Mr. & Mrs. Richard Phillips Hebert S. Corn Kathryn Brown Mr. Sanjay Rajvanshi Mrs. Geraldine Corn Margaret Pyles Carol J. Long Ms. Amy J. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Bussan Robert & Claire Crenshaw Monica Brown Mrs. Elaine R. Mata Richard Andrews Fox Chapel Elementary School Asbury 419 Wallace Building Mrs. Ellanora B. Holtzople Asbury Mund Resident Council Council Frieda & Julian Reitman

Mr. Marc Reitman Mary “Ginger” Crismond Mary K. Anstead My Beloved Parents Madie & Kent Harding Mr. Robert J. Anstead Ms. Madeleine Bryant Clare & Marie – from their Ms. Judith A. Olivey mother Norman W. Arnold Jacob P. Busch Mrs. Ruth A. Salb Arlene Crumley Mr. James P. Bass Asbury Mund Resident Council Mrs. Chloe J. Devine Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Mrs. Audrey (Bonnie) Schneider Arlie Baker Mrs. Ellanora B. Holtzople Delong Ms. Britta Chambers Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Dr. Kazuyoshi Kawata Mr. Larry Machlan McCullough Ms. Margie Martin Ann Seebold Ms. Betty J. Mullendore Mrs. Jean S. Young Mr. & Mrs. Jason P. Brennan William “Billy” Ball Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Rabenhorst Ms. Jane Seebold Asbury 419 Wallace Building Mary Katharine Curd Council Mrs. Alice D. Smith Miss Charlotte R. Hoyle Bob Seymour Mr. James P. Bass Mrs. Barbara Tenenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James J. MacKenzie Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Benson Bettina J. Curtis Mrs. Mukadder Buyukunsal Virginia S. Butts Asbury Mund Resident Council Artha Jean Snyder Dr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Lafleur Jr. Ms. Jane Farfan Ms. Betty J. Mullendore Mr. & Mrs. Earl W. Sulmonetti Ms. Susan Gaus Mrs. Louella B. Marlin Mrs. Jean N. Hubbell Robert L. Curtis Louise Stewart Dr. & Mrs. Arthur A. Maryott Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Kelly Mrs. Judith S. Curtis Saint James’ Episcopal Church Ms. Anita Kowalski McCullough Mrs. Margaret E. Marsh Mera Cyr Irene Stuart– her 90th birthday Mr. & Mrs. Duane A. McKenna Mr. Daniel R. Muller Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mrs. Barbara Tenenbaum Bob, Charlotte, Harry, Beverly, Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson McCullough Austin & Talon Chambers Nadine DeHart Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Ms. Joy L. Oriole The Asbury Guild Rev. & Mrs. Wayne A. DeHart Robert Tedesco Rabenhorst

Rev. & Mrs. Harry Deffley Mr. & Mrs. David Ronis

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Chloe J. Devine Dr. & Mrs. Norman M. Heim Fred Eden Dottie Gathright Anonymous (1) Ms. Hazel N. Hestand Asbury Edwards-Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Mrs. Margaret Hickerson Residents Council Rabenhorst Francis J. Devlin Mrs. Ellanora B. Holtzople Mr. & Mrs. Erik Rasmussen Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson The Hood Family, George, Mr. & Mrs. E. H. Elam Mr. Ronald L. Vaughan Jr. Carol & Robyn Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Yount Parker Dorman Mrs. Jean N. Hubbell Walter Gibson Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson Mr. Arthur G. Hughes Richard Elder Mr. & Mrs. Henry K. Higgins Mrs. Mary Waldron Ball Asbury 419 Wallace Building Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hyatt Mr. Philip Hill Council Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Jarrell Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson Nan G. & Wade S. Gindlesperger Betty Driscoll Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Kaylor Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Graves Mr. Dennis D. Driscoll Rev. & Mrs. Earl N. Kragnes Denton Elliot Dr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Lafleur Jr. M. Virginia & Fred L. Earl Mrs. Louise B. Elliot George L. Gleason Mrs. Mary Jane Cook Mr. & Mrs. David A. Lingrell Mrs. Diane Gleason Mrs. Betty D. Lowe Kenneth G. Emery David Eaton Mr. Larry Machlan Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Reilly Agnes Gourlay Mrs. Mary H. Eaton Ms. Margaret J. Madert Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Volz Mr. & Mrs. Theodore E. Amory Ericson Rev. Dr. Warren R. Ebinger Mathison Mrs. Amy Ericson Richard J. Goyne Ms. Diane Albertini Mr. & Mrs. Rodman L. McCoy Mrs. Donna Strauss Mr. Richard D. Goyne Asbury Mund Resident Council Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Drs. Clifford & Leona Bachrach McCullough Mary Ewell Marie S. Greene Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Barrow Jr. Mr. Scott G. McGinnis Mr. & Mrs. L. Gilbert Thompson Ms. Frances Badman

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Baublitz Mr. & Mrs. Duane A. McKenna Elsie M. Fansler Ronald Reichel Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Mrs. Barbary Purdy Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly Mrs. Virginia A. Michael Benjamin Dr. & Mrs. David E. Purdy Mr. James F. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Benson Mr. Joseph J. Wolczyk Cheryl Ann Starke Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Blecki Mr. Douglas C. Myers Mrs. Sarah Gruner Mr. & Mrs. Martin Blendermann Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson John Farrell BlueRun Ventures Mrs. Anne R. Porter Mrs. Helene T. Farrell Wayne Gruner Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Bosely Mrs. Julia L. Pramschufer Mrs. Sarah Gruner Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Boyer Mr. & Mrs. Clinton E. Provenza Dorothy (Boo) Federline Ms. Kathryn Bradley Dr. & Mrs. William L. Raker Ms. Evelyn M. Butterwei Alvin Guttag Mrs. Mary Brecheen Mr. & Mrs. Carl D. Reed Ms. Lynnell Clarke Mrs. Chloe J. Devine Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Brewer Ms. Sylvia E. Riley Ms. Debra L. Deem Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Burgard Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ritzman Edelman Financial Services Hamilton “Dick” Hall Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Schwab Ms. Mary F. Fletcher Ms. Virginia S. Butts Mrs. Jane J. Sorrows Cabin John United Methodist Mrs. Alice D. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Gareth Frank Church Mr. & Mrs. Julian H. Sparrow Anna "Bunny" Perry & Family Laura B. Hamilton Ms. Diane H. Carvey Ms. Elizabeth Stanford Ms. Mary L. Searing Asbury Mund Resident Council Mr. John Cho The Asbury Guild Ms. Julie Takai Mrs. Evelyn M. Peterson Mr. Peter A. Clarke and Ms. Lucinda K. Thorpe Mr. & Mrs. Allan Walter Mrs. Carole W. Clarke-Avrick Rev. Andrea & Mr. Dean Paul F. Herfurth Mr. & Mrs. Stuart E. Colvin Titcomb Ceora C. Fessenden Mrs. Betty R. Herfurth Ms. Frances D. Conger USDA/National Agricultural Mr. Tom Fessenden

Mrs. Marolyn Crosswhite Statistics Service/Research Martha S. Hickman Helen L. Fink Rev. & Mrs. Richard S. Davis and Development Division Ms. Lisa Hickman Wood Mr. Harold F. Wollin Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Whitmore Leland D. Hine DeLong Carl and Violet Flowers Mrs. Mary R. Ebinger Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Williams Mrs. Mary Daniel Hine Ms. Kathleen L. Flowers Mr. & Mrs. Alden English Ms. Antonie E. Wilson Ms. Muriel A. Wright Sylvia Hollander Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Erickson Margaret M. Friend Mrs. Kristine Gorka Mr. & Mrs. Karl F. & Ms. Leota Ester Mrs. Norma M. Barr Ms. Sharon Lea Mrs. Carol A. Evans Patricia Ziehl Ms. Mary A. Culkin Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Malone Mr. & Mrs. Eugene J. Fellin Anne Eckert Ms. Lisa Yaw Ms. Ruth G. Gochnour Jean R. Fuller Asbury Mund Resident Council Ms. Marjorie Fuller Ms. Sheen W. Goldberg Donald & Helen Horton

Mrs. Marilynn Grotenhuis Nancy Eckert William B. & Joan H. Ford Ms. E. Ann Harrison Doris G. Gammon Ms. Ayesha Arora– Sharma Mr. James Gammon Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Hefner Catherine B. Hugh Ms. Pia Natoli Mrs. Jeanne F. Noel

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Charles T. Jacobs Mrs. Alice D. Smith Mildred & Richard Martin Grace Marano Mrs. Ann Laskodi Mrs. Mary Waldron Ball Mr. & Mrs. Marion R. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. O’Brien

Henry Jalette Ruth L. Lane Sandra Bready Mathis Howard Morris Asbury 419 Wallace Building Mr. & Mrs. Hugh E. Northup Mrs. Dorothy S. Bready Ms. Audrey Morris Council Dr. & Mrs. Arthur A. Maryott Charles R. Lasham Mildred B. Matthews Marjorie Moseman Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson Mrs. Alberta C. Lasham Ms. Sandra S. Matthews Asbury Mund Resident Council

Mrs. Mariette Vanderhaegen Mrs. Cleda Boulton Frances M. Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Chester McCall Mrs. Ellanora B. Holtzople Kenneth Jenkins Ms. Marilee F. Lawrence Ms. Mary E. Armstrong Ms. Jeanne M. King

Mrs. Mildred A. Jenkins Miss Rose A. Koerber Frances Lee Edward J. McCann Carol C. Jensen Asbury Mund Resident Council Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Joan Muller Asbury Edwards– Fisher Ms. Betty J. Mullendore Delong Mr. & Mrs. Arthur G. Albertson

Residents Council Mr. & Mrs. James H. Dinwiddie Asbury Villas Resident Council Geraldine Leginski Drs. Clifford & Leona Bachrach Mr. Walter Leginski Mac’s Brother, Minette’s Brother & Ann M. Johnson Mrs. Norma M. Barr in honor of Richard McCullough Mrs. Carol Henley Mr. & Mrs. Martin Blendermann Clara G. Lerner Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose Klotz Mr. & Mrs. William Brown Evelyn G. Judson Mr. Harvey A. Lerner Mrs. Chloe J. Devine Mr. & Mrs. Donald Judson Neil McDonald Betty & Tom Lewis Mrs. Elisabeth McDonald Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Feinberg Mead S. Karras Mr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Mrs. Marilynn Grotenhuis Mr. & Mrs. Hunter Jones Jr. Mr. Ken Lewis Janet McGuire Mrs. Ellanora B. Holtzople Mr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Hughes Mrs. Jean N. Hubbell Marion J. Kawata Mrs. Mary T. Klepek Mrs. Evelyn Kiser Dr. Kazuyoshi Kawata Gwendolyn L. Lewis Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. McCulloh Mr. N. S. Lockard Ms. Edith Davis Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mr. Daniel R. Muller Dr. Mark Kenyon Mr. & Mrs. Frank Mayer McCullough Mrs. Barbara B. Patterson

Mrs. Susan Kenyon Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. John E. Lewis, Sr. Rabenhorst Rabenhorst Mrs. Bernice Lewis Kathryn Kerr Mrs. Artha Jean Snyder Mrs. Jane J. Sorrows Mrs. Elizabeth K. Rosenbaum Miss Carol A. Watkins Mrs. Nancy A. Stout Henriette Linder Charles Kiser Asbury Edwards-Fisher Mr. Russell E. Weber Mr. James & Dr. Ann Utterback

Asbury Villas Resident Council Residents Council Mrs. Bernice G. Wilkinson Catharina Mehlman Drs. Clifford & Leona Bachrach Mrs. Gertrude Axilrod Mrs. Jean S. Young Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Feinberg Mrs. Lila Harvey McCullough Mildred L. Mulvin Mrs. Jean N. Hubbell Mr. David Mehlman Dr. & Mrs. Conrad Link Ms. Lucinda M. Mullally Ms. Jean R. Neumeyer Mrs. Bernice G. Wilkinson Mrs. Carolyn B. Davis My Parents Stanwood Cobb Myers Winco Window Co. Ms. Ellen M. Mehu Walter H. Magruder Drs. Clifford & Leona Bachrach Mr. & Mrs. Vernon A. Yeager Mr. James P. Bass Mrs. Debi Peeks Mrs. Jean S. Young Beatrice Miles Mr. & Mrs. James E Green Mrs. Evelyn M. Peterson Mabel C. Nolan Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Evelyn Klitsch Mr. & Mrs. Dennis A. Smith Mr. John H. Nolan Asbury Edwards-Fisher McCulloh

Residents Council Joyce Miller Hamilton Nunnally Audrey L. Mahder Mr. Linus L. Klitsch Mr. James F. Miller Mrs. Barbara Tenenbaum Goshen Mills Chapter NSDAR Harold E. Koeln Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly Rodney & Marjorie Mills Wm. C. “Bill” Olson

Mrs. Katherine Koeln Mr. & Mrs. Gordon K. Dibble Mr. James P. Bass Donald Mansius The Hodges-Herbert Family Mrs. Mary M. Olson Else Kroner & Heins Kroner Asbury Mund Resident Council Mr. & Mrs. Abram Fajer Mrs. Ellanora B. Holtzople Lorraine Moody Thomas B. & Rosemary S.

United Methodist Women– Owen Shirley Marino Jenny Landon Mount Tabor Methodist Church Ms. Catherine Owen Mrs. Joan C. Smith Ms. Ellen M. Mehu

William H. Moore Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Parker Raymond F. Marsh George B. Lane Asbury Villas Resident Council Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Peterson Asbury Mund Resident Council Mr. Michael R. Marsh Mrs. Jane J. Sorrows

Ms. Anne E. Mehu Mrs. Jean S. Young

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Muriel Patterson M. Lysle Sexton Paul J. & Hattie W. Toltesy Guy & Alvira Wilkinson Asbury Mund Resident Council Mrs. Doreen L. Sexton Ms. Paula T. Valad Mr. & Mrs. James D. Isbister Nutrient Data Laboratory Harmon & Marianne Shaw Natalie Tortis Beverly Williams Richard M. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Joel H. Barton Asbury 419 Wallace Building Mrs. Barbara Tenenbaum Asbury Villas Resident Council Council Mrs. Jean S. Young Betty F. Shima Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Olson Helen B. Williams Mr. Terry T. Shima Mrs. Marjorie R. Brugger Bernice “Bee” C. Powell Mary Unglesbee Mr. & Mrs. Evan T. Sage Dr. I. Shulman Ruth & Dennis Unglesbee James Williamson Ms. Janet C. Adami Ms. Nancy Shulman Mrs. Doris Williamson Mrs. Elsie Utterback Helen Purnell Dudley G. Skinker Mrs. Elsie M. Fansler J. Randolph Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Gary G. Harman Dr. & Mrs. Donald L. Weaver Dr. & Mrs. David E. Purdy Mrs. Sue M. Wilson

Helen & Vincent Pusateri Emma Jean Smith Dorothy Valenzuela Martha Jean Wilson Ms. Laura Pusateri Mrs. Jean N. Hubbell Dr. Arturo Valenzuela Gerald Wilson

Robert Rathbone Roberta & Nehemiah Smith, M.D. John & Elizabeth Vance Virginia Winborne Mrs. Betty L. Tarbell Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Smith Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter Roman Ms. Julie Brill

Richard C. Reardon Selene Smith Julia McNeely Vance, MD George Wolcott Mr. Carter D. Reardon Ms. Betty J. Mullendore Ms. Marguerite Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Alan Blandamer Mrs. Judi S. Shapiro Frances Olivia Reeder Mrs. Barbara Tenenbaum Thomas M. Veirs, Jr. Edith C. Woodruff Asbury Mund Resident Council Mr. & Mrs. Mark Willen Mrs. Harriette Veirs Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Woodruff Ms. Betty J. Mullendore Ethel R. Snyder Ernest Wagner Marshall D. Woods John L. Renehan Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Snyder Jr. Mrs. Lela Wagner Ms. Ann Lordeman Rev. & Mrs. Frank W. Gardner Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly Claire K. Spangler Richard V. Waldron & Harry Yeide Asbury Villas Residents Thelma Ball Mrs. Elizabeth Yeide

Thomas D. Rexroad Mrs. Evelyn M. Peterson Mrs. Mary Waldron Ball Mr. & Mrs. Bernard W. Georgia E. Young McDonald Lois J. Spencer Mrs. Gail Waters Ms. Gloria L. Baxter

Asbury Villas Resident Council Miss Charlotte R. Hoyle William W. Rhodes Grace I. Yowell Mrs. Alma K. Rhodes Donald Stewart Judy Weaver Mr. & Mrs. Calvin O. Yowell Ms. Mary A. Culkin Asbury Mund Resident Council Mary Ella Richmond Mr. & Mrs. Rodman L. McCoy Mrs. Julia E. Greenwood Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kolb Ms. Betty J. Mullendore GIFT IN-KIND James R. Strubel Ms. Elizabeth B. Sandwick DONORS James A. Robertson Mrs. Betty Strubel Mrs. Barbara Tenenbaum

Mr. Brian Ford Robert B. Stuart Isabel Westlake Mr. Erick C. Anderson Frank & Katie Saxon Mrs. Irene S. Stuart Asbury Villas Resident Council Ms. Cindy N. Brown

Mr. Luther B. Saxon Mrs. Bernice G. Wilkinson Ms. Leslie N. Christopher

Calvin F. Stuntz Davis Harrison Dion Albert & Gladys Schreck Mrs. Shirley M. Stuntz Reginald Westlake Ms. Andrea Giaquinto

Mrs. Phyllis S. Willette Mrs. Mathilde I. Westlake Ms. Cynthia Giaquinto Matilda R. Sugg Ms. Dorothy D. Jones Edna Schwartz Mr. Alfred P. Duncker & Elizabeth Wethman Mr. Wayne Kendrick Mr. Robert & Mrs. E. Anne Seeger Ms. Ann S. Lindley Asbury Mund Resident Council Mrs. Phyllis Laumaillet Mr. Donald G. Mansius John W. Schwegler L. Clifford Swain Ethel White Ms. Marguerite Nexzelnetski Mrs. Phyllis Schwegler Mrs. Blanche P. Messerly Asbury Edwards-Fisher Putnam Family Trust Resident Council Ann Seebold Lawrence Sween Mrs. Barbara L. Ruppert Mr. & Mrs. Jason P. Brennan Mrs. Anne R. Porter John Krantz Wilkerson Mr. Victor a. Schingo

Family & Nursing Care Ms. Barbara Smith Josephine Seelig Donald Therriault Dr. Britta Hoffmann-Millack Ms. Selene Smith Mrs. Catherine B. Gleason Mrs. Lorraine Therriault Ms. Patricia T. Schriver Mrs. Barbara K. Stathis Ms. Virginia Lenz Ms. Elinor Newton Dr. & Mrs. Brown H. Stegall Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Wilkerson Jr.

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Mrs. Zelah H. Conley Mr. & Mrs. J. Laurence Kent Mrs. Nancy R. Sauer Charitable bequests leave a Miss Verla R. Cook Anna & Earl Kragnes Mrs. Sally Schramm lasting legacy for residents Mrs. Sarah A. Corbett Mrs. Mildred W. Lang Mrs. Carolyn D. Scotton in need through the Mrs. Judith S. Curtis Mr. Victor V. Lehtoranto Mrs. Gwen G. Sellers Benevolent Care Fund. Ms. Dorothea M. Davis Mrs. Lucy S. Libby Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Sexton Please consider making Mr. & Mrs. Jerome E. Dennis Mrs. Marion M. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shaw Asbury Methodist Village a Ms. Anna Maria DiGiulian Mr. & Mrs. John W. Locke Mr. Granville Shumaker beneficiary of your will, Dr. & Mrs. Carroll A. Doggett Jr. Mr. Harry M. C. Lowery Mrs. Agatha W. Sigmond trust, life insurance, or Mr. & Mrs. Frederick D. Doggett Mr. & Mrs. Doug Lyons Mrs. Alice D. Smith refundable entry fee. Dr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Doggett Mrs. Teresa Ma Mrs. Ruth S. Smith Mr. William H. Doggett Mrs. Monique B. Marbury Mr. William H. Smith Mrs. Frances M. DuBois Ms. Ellie M. Martin Mrs. Dorothy R. Smithy HERITAGE Mr. & Mrs. John P. Eberhard Mrs. Jane C. Martin Dr. Jeanne E. Snodgrass Mrs. Mary R. Ebinger Mrs. Mildred S. Martin Mrs. Artha Jean Snyder SOCIETY Mrs. Bernice B. Egbert Mrs. Mary M. Matzen Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Spoor Mrs. Nina Elder Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. McCulloh Steve & Carolyn Stamatakis Anonymous (1) Mrs. Polly C. Ewald Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Genevieve & Keith Steele Mrs. Betty Lou Allen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Feinberg McCullough Rev. & Mrs. Richard E. Stetler Mr. & Mrs. George A. Aubrey Mr. & Mrs. Delbert T. Foster Mrs. Janet E. McGrew Dr. & Mrs. Charles W. Stewart Drs. Clifford & Leona Bachrach Ms. Eleanor Galemore Mrs. Marjory G. McGuire Mr. William R. Stewart Mr. Robert L. Bains Mr. James E. F. Gammon Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. McIlrath Mrs. Dorothy M. Sunderland Mr. & Mrs. William Baker Rev. & Mrs. Frank W. Gardner Mrs. Blanch P. Messerly Mr. & Mrs. Haruhiko Taima Mr. & Mrs. John P. Bankson Jr. Hal & Marilyn Gaut Mr. & Mrs. William Meushaw Mrs. Betty L. Tarbell Ms. Louise G. Barnett Dr. Ruth I. Geran Mr. & Mrs. George A. Miller Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Julian A. Mrs. Norma M. Barr Mrs. Betty R. Goen Mr. & Mrs. Martin Moon Jr. Tavenner Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Barrow Jr. Mr. Charles N. Graham Jr. Ms. Betty J. Mullendore Dr. Anita Taylor Ms. Dorothy C. Beltz Mr. & Mrs. Herbert B. Groh Mr. Daniel R. Muller Mr. & Mrs. Albert D. Tholen Mr. & Mrs. Wesly Bishop Ms. Alice M. Growden Mr. & Mrs. William D. Mullinix Edwin C. Thomas III and Mr. & Mrs. Martin Blendermann Ms. Susan G. Harrington Mrs. Jean C. Newman Karen M. Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Ernest E. Bortner Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Hefner Mrs. Emily S. Noto Mr. & Mrs. Paul Thran Dr. Marie J. Bourgeois Mrs. Betty R. Herfurth Mrs. Virginia M. Odor Mrs. Anna M. Unglesbee Mrs. Eleanor Boyce Mrs. Patricia M. Hilmoe Mrs. Vivian W. Otto Mr. James & Dr. Ann Utterback Mrs. Jane A. Elliott Braucher Mrs. VirGinia T. Holmes Mrs. Lydia E. Page Mrs. Janice E. Vogt Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Brewer Mrs. Dorothy E. Howe Mrs. Barbara B. Patterson Mrs. Mary Waldron Ball Ms. Lydia Brittle Miss Charlotte R. Hoyle Miss Ruth U. Paul Carol A. Watkins Mrs. Kathryn B. Brooke Mr. & Mrs. Hsichun M. Hua Mrs. Treeva W. Pippen Mrs. Jean S. West Mrs. Ferne I. Brostrom Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Hummel Mrs. Elizabeth F. Prestemon Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Wilbur Mrs. Bernard S. Browning Miss Martha B. Hunt Mrs. Margaret R. Pyles Mrs. Edith C. Wilkerson Mr. & Mrs. Vernon F. Brumbaugh Mrs. Estella M. Hussong Mrs. Louise E. Redding Mrs. Bernice G. Wilkinson Mrs. Charlotte L. Butler Mrs. Frances Johnson Dr. Mildred M. Reynolds Mrs. Melva R. Williams Mrs. Mukadder Buyukunsal Mrs. Wilma D. Johnston Rev. & Mrs. Raymond L. Mrs. Emily H. Womach Dr. Carol B. Cade Rev. & Mrs. Kenneth S. Jones Roderick Mrs. John F. Wooden Jr. Miss F. Lucille Cady Mr. George T. Karras Dr. & Mrs. James F. Fran & Charles Yost Ms. Dorothy Camara Dr. Kazuyoshi Kawata Rosborough Jr. Ms. Sarah C. Young Katherine Cary Mr. J. D. Keisling Mrs. Joyce G. Ross Mr. & Mrs. L. Dayton Coe II Mrs. Irma E. Kelley Mr. James P. Ruth

Patrick O’Toole We have made every effort to ensure accuracy in Phone: 301-216-4050 Director of Development recognizing our 2013 donors who had made gifts Fax: 301-216-4197 301-216-4052 and pledge payments to benefit Asbury Methodist [email protected] www.TheAsburyFoundation.org Village. We apologize for any errors or omissions.

Douglas C. Myers Debi Peeks President & CEO Planned Giving Manager Please inform the Foundation office of any 301-987-6069 301-216-4051 inaccuracies or if you would like your name [email protected] [email protected] recognized differently in the future. Thank you.

J.D. Shuman Leta Loring Sr. Director of Development Executive Assistant We appreciate your faithful support! 301-216-4053 301-216-4050 [email protected] [email protected]

B12 April 2014 Village Life This Month in the Gallery Jellybeans, Bunnies, and Peeps Oh My! — The Rosborough Cultural Arts and Wellness Center is A Shocking Discovery at a Delicate Age home to an ever-changing gal- lery of arts and handiwork By Linda Aber, Editor burned and tears filled my eyes, created by our residents. Stop ’m a believer and blurring my vision as I ran from by and see what’s new. With 12 always have the room to my own room. I display cases to look at, there’s something for everyone been. And why closed my door, threw myself on my bed and cried into to enjoy. Here’s this month’s wouldn’t I sampling of art. be? As a little the pillow. I squeezed my kid, teeth would fall eyes tightly closed I and hoped the out and dimes would appear under my pillow. new knowledge The Tooth Fairy left no foot- I’d uncovered prints or telltale signs. Just a dime would go back for a bit of my bite. to being cov- Christmas tested my beliefs ered, unknown, each year. Some years the fam- and my innocence ily was flush and Santa believed in it all! returned. Finally Claus was flusher. And the Easter Bunny. Well, sleep came, with me Other years, due of course I believed in him! Bear- wishing for forgiveness to some cir- er of hard-cooked colored eggs, from the Easter Bunny, whose cumstance or marshmallow peeps, diorama very existence my curiosity had other, my sister, sugar eggs with happy scenes of called into question. my brother and I chicks and bunnies at play, and Easter came, my brother, sister would be warned jelly beans by the basket- and I found everything “the o n our approach to San- ful—the Easter Bunny Easter Bunny” had hidden, ta’s lap not to ask for too much. delivered big time! and I feigned surprise And that made us all suspicious. And then one day and delight when But as a believer I didn’t listen. “I’d when I was about my giant solid milk like a doll! And a dollhouse! And a seven and Easter chocolate bunny beautiful heart locket! And…” And was approaching, peeked out from hard as it was to fall asleep on I found myself under a cushion Photo: Dorothy Harris Christmas Eve, I’d finally succumb upstairs in our on the couch. house with curi- We made egg Leonard Bonn, Diamond and wake up to discover a doll, a Enamel dollhouse, a beautiful heart osity tugging at salad from the locket and more and my sleeve when colored eggs and more and more. It had I walked past left some Peeps out to be Santa because my parents’ bed- to be improved by stale- I’d been forewarned room. There was a laun- ness. Everything was the same as by my parents! dry basket in a corner always, but one thing was differ- I clapped hard to under the window and ent. I was. save Tinkerbell when it was filled with bags. I never told anyone about that she drank the poison to Not bags of laundry, but sad and sorry time in my young save Peter Pan. I wished upon what? Feeling slightly sneaky life. In fact, when my mother stars and birthday cake candles. I I tiptoed in and got closer and reads this today she’ll be very sur- threw coins in fountains, salt over closer to the basket. And then I prised. Or maybe she’ll be grateful! my shoulder, and blew eyelash- saw something horrifying! Eas- Grateful to me for keeping this es away with wishes attached. I ter grass! And packages of yellow secret all these years and allowing Peeps, bags of jelly beans, egg dye- her to keep hiding eggs all over ing kits and three giant the house all the way through my solid milk chocolate college years. Happy Easter Mom! bunnies—the giant And to the Tooth Fairy and very special and Santa Claus kind of choco- and the Easter late bunnies that Bunny…thank only the Easter you all for being Bunny can get! who you are. My cheeks Photo: Dorothy Harris Carol Dennis,Villas Watercolor

Village Life April 2014 9 Meeting And Greeting With The Guild

By Jean Hubbell, Guild Reporter tial financial gift toward the sensory Ask Dr. Bob arch 5 afternoon was garden at the back of Wilson Health a happy event for the Care — rocking chairs for the Kind- Asbury Guild members, ley Assisted Living deck — refur- M bishing the balcony off the WHCC who enjoyed talking to all those New FDA Acetaminophen Dosage who came to the Community first floor dining room — large screen TV for Kindley — the entire © Rooms in the Rosborough Center Changes Recommended to see what the Guild is all about. cost of the third floor of Wilson — Each of the Guild’s areas of endeav- extension of the original Home din- New Acetaminophen Guidelines – ors was represented with a display ing room with its big window “wall” Be wary of possible overdoses! — birthday gifts for Kindley and looking over the campus (now the Wilson residents, Elves’ Day prepa- Board Room at the Admin. Building) FDA recommended in January 2011 that companies and health ration for Christmas gifts for Kind- — a $500,000 gift to help start the care professionals discontinue marketing, prescribing and dispensing ley and Wilson, Bargain Mart, Gift Benevolent Care Endowment Fund prescription combination drug products that contain more than 325 Shop, Sewing Room, and Member- — and more recently two resident mg of acetaminophen per tablet, capsule or other dosage unit. Most ship. Refreshments were served, of laundry rooms and two “bistros” for companies have complied with these recommendations by January, course, and enjoyed while listen- Health Care Center residents. 2014. Some prescription combination products containing more ing to Foundation President Doug Many of these gifts serve all resi- than 325 mg of acetaminophen per dose are still available. Limiting Myers talk about the work of the dents, not just those at Kindley and the amount of acetaminophen per dosage unit will reduce risk of Foundation and how much it means Wilson facilities although those are liver injury from inadvertent acetaminophen overdose, which can to have the Benevolent Care Fund the Guild’s primary focus. Every year the Guild gives a substantial lead to liver failure, liver transplant, and death. for ongoing current needs plus an Endowment Fund to ensure care monetary gift to the Foundation for Benevolent Care. All of this is • Patients should use only those products containing 325 mg for the future. Doug also expressed appreciation to the Guild for its con- possible through income from the or less of acetaminophen per unit dosage. A two tablet or two tributions and continuing work. Gift Shop, the Bargain Mart, and the capsule dose may still be used if appropriate. Some visitors signed up to help Guild’s major membership drive in • Read instructions before taking all pain medications. in the Guild activities. One new February. The Guild is very thankful • Be sure your doctor knows what OTC pain medications you Asbury resident spent considerable to all who support its activities and are taking time learning about all the projects who choose to contribute the $5.00 • Do not take acetaminophen more days than recommended of the past that the Guild had pro- membership — and in many cases • Take no more than one drug product containing acetamino- vided for Asbury residents — the additional donations. These income phen at the same time Guild Memorial Chapel — conver- sources over the years have enabled • Taking more will not provide more relief sion of the basement of the origi- the Guild to do all that it does. Who first said that it takes a village? That • Do not consume alcoholic drinks while taking acetaminophen, nal Home (now Admin. Building) to is certainly true of Asbury Village containing drugs. an elegant corridor with bank, post residents and staff. A big THANK • Prescription drugs containing acetaminophen may not be office, ice cream parlor and more YOU to all from the Guild. labeled with that information on the druggist label — the first Asbury bus — a substan- • Painkillers are the major cause of poisoning deaths when taken in excess • If you take Coumadin (warfarin) consult with your doctor each of these cakes as a canvas and before taking acetaminophen-containing medicines GEORGE icing as the decorating medium, Liver Damage Continued from page 1 George would create an intricate picture, which he then carefully • Your liver helps break down and remove drugs that enter your With air brushes in hand, these art- photographed. Each of these cre- body ists produced acetate cels show- ative masterpieces was then totally • Too much acetaminophen overloads the liver’s capacity for ing animated ship movements and consumed! drug removal maneuvers in the Pacific Theater. At that point, an ingenious idea • If more of the breakdown product is produced than the body After the war, George was offered a came to him; why not draw the full can easily eliminate, serious damage to the liver may result full-time position with the Disney design on an acetate cel sheet, then • Acetaminophen is responsible for nearly half of all acute liver Studios in California. Next coinci- lay it on top of the cake, take the failure cases in the U.S. dence—having just met the “girl picture, then preserve the cel sheet? of his dreams” Rhea—they opted Through the years, the cake to stay in the East to pursue their designs have become more and Signs of Liver Disease—Seek immediate medical dreams together. more complex, with easily recog- After marriage, and a stint with nized portraits and detailed activi- attention if any of these symptoms appear Creative Art Studio, George launched ties. George estimates that they have • Abnormally yellow skin and eyes his own business, Snowden Asso- made more than 120 such cakes. • Dark urine, light-colored stools ciates. He added to his successful The best part about coming to • Nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite business an equally successful mar- Asbury is that George has never • Signs can be similar to flu symptoms and may be overlooked riage. George and Rhea raised two actually had to retire. Here at Wal- • Serious cases of liver disease may lead to mental confusion, very wonderful children, followed lace, he has recreated his former stu- coma and death by four loving grandchildren. dio, scaled down to fit in his second Next coincidence—Rhea was a bedroom, all necessary equipment very accomplished cook. She began intact. www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/ucm381644.htm© making exceptional birthday cakes Now who says, “You can’t have Bob Hartman, M.D. Retired Family Physician/Geriatrics Specialist for their burgeoning family. Using your cake and eat it too??!”

10 April 2014 Village Life By Anita Taylor, Park View not since these tracks do not show arch opens with wind, an encounter resulting in hasty exit snow and February style by a deer. We could posit such an M cold; then the wind dies. Tales in the Tracks event downstream. After a near record night of near 3 We can compose narratives of degrees, the sun greets an uncloud- these animal travels, but no story ed sky and begins to warm a snowy intrigues more than when the expanse of land. By mid-afternoon, tracks show ingress to a source of the lawns and wildlife habitat of water followed by abruptly ended Asbury reveal a saga of hungry, movement away. The tracks end thirsty animals seeking food and suddenly. Look closely. See telltale unfrozen water. wing prints in the snow, just beside Along the streambed, tracks where the tracks end. Prints that reveal where deer wandered across show at least a two-foot wingspan. the space after the slightest hint Some creature, hard to tell what, of exposed greenery. Hours after became a meal for a good-sized bird the deer have moved on, the meet- of prey--a hawk perhaps or large ing and crossing of their footprints owl. Foolish creature, one thinks, record their purposeful movements. Photo: Anita Taylor to venture across open snow far Elsewhere, smaller tracks show tiny from cover to a sand sink many feet birds in the feeding station area, on perature. they are purposeful. No lounging away. Now that the observer is edges of the stream, and in terraces But the others? That one maybe of signs of sniffing nearby the foot- alert, another, cleaner snatch shows where withered remnants of warm- a single squirrel; let your mind see prints. Most likely a dog with head- up clearly. This smaller creature, a er season growth stand. the bounding animal in these oddly strong alpha owner walking rapidly vole maybe, took a cold air transport So too do we see other creatures’ spaced prints. This one perhaps a along the path; still the canine prints to a nearby tree where it became a prints. Easy to identify the geese raccoon with narrow feet and hint don’t display the often exuberant tasty meal. when they arrive. Their distinctive of dragging tail. There a canine moves of a domestic canine. Maybe On a brilliantly sunny, cold winter feet with their three pronged pads print with no human shoeprints a coyote? They are usually solitary day, spring still three weeks away, mark snow while melting almost nearby. Too large to have been left hunters. Was an eastern member lessons about the role of predators none, these feet that may measure by a fox. A large dog off leash per- of the trickster clan in search of in life’s balance come flooding in, just above freezing even as that fat haps?? The prints seem not to stick deer weakened by low food sup- illustrated in the tales told by tracks body maintains a 104 degree tem- to or even near the sidewalk; but ply? Without a carcass, we’ll think in the snow. Bumble Bees Welcome At Asbury

By Peter Cascio, disruptions such as fire, tillage, mowing, Courtyard Homes grazing and planting. Their preferred and use changes made over the habitat of open meadow-like expanses years to increase agricultural is also enhanced by the disturbances of L spreads, expand grazing lands and fire, mowing and grazing but only if done manicure urban and suburban landscapes infrequently and treatment of a small have had a profound effect on our bum- piece at a time. Rules of thumb include ble bee populations. Transforming some not treating the entire area at one time of this lost acreage back into meaningful and not treating more than one third of wildlife habitat could be done and should the area per year. Additionally, the burn- be done both quickly and painlessly with ings of the field should be three to six careful planning. The following manage- years apart and only done during Octo- ment practices need not increase the ber to February. By understanding the dedication of either money or time but habitat needs and the life cycle of bumble rather request a higher level of aware- bees, landowners can better manage the ness and attention to the requirements form of flower that is native (heirloom), requirements for pollination and reduc- of bumble bees. purple, blue or yellow, and a perennial as tion of hazards to these pollinators. The basic needs of our bumble bees are opposed to an annual. Asbury plants on campus and being three: flowers, a place to nest and a place Next in our hierarchy of needs are nest- planted for bumble bees by the Wildlife for the queen to overwinter. ing and overwintering habitats. Most nests Flowers provide the pollen and nec- Habitat Team and donated by the Asbury tar that the bumble bee colony needs to are found underground in original homes Garden Club and other residents are: Wil- sustain its existence for the year (March of rodents. Some species do find homes low (Salix nigra), Rhododendron spp., through September). When it comes to above ground in grass tussocks, hollow Redbud (Cercis spp.), Penstemon spp., diet, our bumble bees are not finicky. They logs, dead trees, under rocks, in compost Beebalm (Monarda spp.), Butterflyweed will go for most any flower that isn’t red piles or unused bird nests and bird houses. (Asclepias tuberosa), Catnip (Nepeta spp.), (to which color they are blind), doesn’t Queens most often choose to overwinter Coneflower (Echinacea spp.), Lupine have a corolla tube that is deeper than in small cavities just below ground level (Lupinus spp.), Rosemary spp., Oregano the length of their tongues and the corolla but may also choose woodpiles, rock walls spp., Sunflower (Helianthus annus), Lav- tube isn’t obscured by an excess of showy or outbuildings. ender spp., Tall blazing star (Liatris aspera), petals as in overdeveloped hybrids or cul- Hazards to both nesting and overwin- Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) and tivars. Those factors point to a desired tering sites are surface and sub-surface Goldenrod (Solidago spp.).

Village Life April 2014 11 2014 Golden Sneaker Award Categories - Nominees 2014 Honorees 16. Functional Strength Training John Bankson, Ann Brickfield, Ferne Brostrom, Levin 1. Early Bird (Barney) Broughton, Ida Harlene Buchanan, Joanne Coe, L. Dayton Coe, Marion Corddry, Martha Diamond, Jim Allison, Jag Bhargava, Walter Bank , Anthony Wilk, Lois Eberhard, Ruth Gibson, Jeanne Jarvis, David Lin- Chantal Astore, Wes Bishop, Bill Root, Bob Tedesco grell, Janet Lingrell, Duane McKenna, Blanche Mes- 2. Pool Shark serly, Eugene Rasmusson, Georgene Rasmusson, Joan Shih, James Voldal, Phyllis Voldal, Jay Zeffiro Joan Dunlop, Merritt Techter, Bob Gilliat, Paul Thran, George Huson, Fern Kauffman, Minette McCullough, 17. Better Balance Dee Dee Thompson, Bill Hicks, Richard Christin , Rob Allen Beach, Martha Beach, Sandy Bhargava, Fran- Roy Ratliff, Fran Benson, George Stosur, Mary Espe, ces (Fran) Blendermann, Cathy Brown, Jane Carroll, Duane and Elizabeth McKenna, Chuck Taylor, Lihua Sarah Corbett, Astrid Erickson, Carl Erickson, Marian O’Leary, Wes Bishop Fritsch, Patricia (Pat) Gray, Marilynn Grotenhuis, John 3. Can’t Keep a Good Man Down (Jay) Hatch, Betty Herfurth, Mary Hoff, Frank Hop- kins, Catherine Johnston, Louisa “Perry” Jorss, Peg Richard Christin, John Leebrick, John Gill, Stephen Lawrence, Cathy Manning, Jean McKinney, William McKenna, John Locke, Carl Frandsen, Fred Lippert, McKinney, Emma Michaels, Daniel Muller, Larry Rob- George Karras, David Lingrell erts, Maria Roberts, Frank Schreyer, Marion Schreyer, Jody Schwarz, Johanna “Anneke” Sengers, Dorothy 4. Can’t Keep a Good Woman Smithey, Paul Thran, Ruth Anne Thran, Ila Trautvetter, Down Robert “Bob” Trautvetter, Carolyn Van Hoosen, Mary Lihua O’Leary, Betty Yeide, Beverly Johnson, Marge Waldron O’Connell, Carol Clark, Jean Heffner, Margaret Robey AMSTERDAM 18. Total Body Tune Up 5. Superman Adeline “Susie” Altman, Landy Altman, Martha Ball, By Gil Snyder, Mund great breakfast served each morning Syd Smith, Stephen McKenna, Harry Duffley, Mike Harry Balukjian, Anthony Barnard, Ann Blandamer, more than made up for any inconve- Skiba Frances (Fran) Blendermann, Martin “Marty” Blend- irline schedules allowed the ermann, Henderson “Hank” Booth, Donna Branthover, support engineering and niences. 6. Superwoman Mukadder “Katie” Buyukunsal, Jane Carroll, Sarah logistics personnel from The Each day of business the various Libby Wilson, Shirley Moore, Dottie Mattes, Ann Lind- Corbett, Beatice “Bea” Crawford, Mary Culkin, Barbara A ley, Lihua O’Leary Dedrick, Alice Devlin, Ann Doyle, Richard Evans, Jane Naval Ordnance Station, Louisville, NATO delegations were picked by Farber, Samuel Finlay, W. Jeane Finlay, Gail Flannigan, KY to fly out of Dulles Airport with a Royal Netherlands Navy Launch 7. Mr. Smiles & Mrs. Smiles William “Bill” Flannigan, Mary Fong, James Fong Sr., and taken to a naval installation for Bob Tilkemeier, Henry Lucas, Peggy Hardin, Shirley Gordon Forbes, Jan Forbes, Janet Garman, Mildred me to Amsterdam. This was some- (Midge) Greece, Marilynn Grotenhuis, Helen Hansen, the meeting. This short trip provid- Delmage, Alice Oxenford, Irene Stuart, Stella Batista, thing that usually didn’t happen Chuck Taylor, Nancy Shulman, Mary Espe Bill Hook, Edith Isacke, Alexine Jackson, Geraldine on trips to NATO Conferences on ed the visitors an opportunity to (Gerry) Jennings, Pat Johnson, Peg Lawrence, Ching- take in some of the waterside sights. 8. Gym Nut Ye Lee, Frances Locke, Ruth Lotz, Rhoda MacKenzie, the 76 mm Oto Molera Gun Mount Shirley Mallory, Cathy Manning, Sylva McCulloh, Bar- Dot Mattes, Syd Smith, Mia Schulman, Mary Anna The meetings, although quite inten- bara Melzer, Ann Mitchell, Hallock Mohler, Jane Offer- because DOD travel regulations Culkin, Joe Wolczyk, Peter Cascio, Bob Anstead, Bob man, Rosemary Pasek, Ann Philbin, Frieda Reitman, sive, did allow several hours after- and Nancy Tilkemeier, Bill Hicks, George Stousor, Leon- based routing on city of travel origi- Julian Reitman, Larry Roberts, Maria Roberts, Selma wards to visit some of the sights ard Jakubczak, Jim Allison, Joe Bunker, Deanie Boteler, Robey, Rosemary Ross, Agatha Sigmond, Ruth Simp- nation. Mary Herndon We arrived at Schiphol Airport since Amsterdam during our visit son, Artha Jean Snyder, Frances Stickles, Lena ‘Lee’ had over 16 hours of daylight. 9. Light & Easy Exercise Storm, Juanita Sulmonetti, Betty Tarbell, Earl Thomas, early in the morning and took the Howard Thomas, Robert “Bob” Trautvetter, Carolyn Van Edith Isacke, Marjorie Johnson, Fern Kauffman, Duane Sightseeing included two boat Hoosen, Mary Walker, Carol Watkins, Joyce Waugh , train into Amsterdam. We deter- McKenna, Elizabeth McKenna, Alice Smith, Ruth Anne trips, one sponsored by the Royal David Webster, Donald Woodward mined that since we were just a Thran, Joyce Waugh, Barb Woodward, Betty Tarbell, Navy, through the many canals that short distance to our accommo- Artha Jean Snyder , Ray Brown 19. On Your Seat Amsterdam is famous for. Visits to dations we would walk to stretch 10. Balance and Core Jim Bleadingheiser, Gerry Corn, Eleanor Cunningham, the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijks- Amy Ericson, Carl Frandsen, Betty Haller, Peggy Hardin, Clare Bonn, Eloise Johnson, Marjorie Johnson, Ching our legs after the long flight. We Mary Heneghan, Pat Kouchoukos, Audrey Lillibridge, museum; the first is self –explana- Yee Lee, Mac McCullough, Margaret Topping, Barb were to be staying at the Amstel Lois Lord, Jim Lordeman, Betty Loud, Ellen McCrorie, Woodward, Fern Brostrom, Fern Kauffman, Del and tory while the second is a Dutch Elizabeth McDonald, Mimie Meltzer, Ellie Meyers, Alli Botel, a boat on the River IJ. During Jim Kline national museum dedicated to the Rudzinski, Nancy Sauer, Bonnie Schneider, Lorraine check-in, an individual approached arts and history of the Netherlands. 11. Pace Yourself Therriault, Barbara Trewhitt, Doris & Jim Vogelsong, the desk and got the clerk and us Libby Wilson Both venues provided great displays Dorothy Feinberg, Hal and Jan Garman, Jean Hubbell, in a discussion while in the mean- but time allowed us to see only a Frank Molony, Carroll Saussy, Elaine White, Mary Wood, 20. Walking 4 Fitness Pat Bird, Catherine Johnston, Jean Lauderdale, Rob Roy time an accomplice ran out with Frances (Fran) Blendermann, Martin “Marty” Blender- very small part of each. Ratliff, Janet Rhoads, Charles Stewart, Ester Saito mann, Henderson “Hank” Booth, Jane Carroll, Beatice the briefcase of one in my party; The wife of one of my compan- 12. Wet Yet Water Exercise “Bea” Crawford, Jane Farber, Gail Flannigan, William pursuit by an employee was to no ions joined us in our trip a few days “Bill” Flannigan, Mary Fong, Yuka Fujikura, Hildegard avail. The briefcase did not include Cathy Brown, Jerry & Carol Dennis, Barbara Ellis, Jean Hirschfeld, Bill Hook, Edith Isacke, Dolores Kalo, David after we arrived. She was put in Hubbell, Mary Sutton, Elaine White, Mary Wood, Dory any important documents but it Lingrell, Janet Lingrell, Frances Locke, Ruth Lotz, charge of selecting the restaurants Lippert, Ann Utterback, Pat Huson, Robert “Bob” Trautvetter, Carolyn Van Hoosen, Carol did include a great many American that we would visit when there Watkins, Barbara “Barb” Woodward, Donald Woodward Express travel checks which were 13. Line Dancing were no official plans. One restau- Hugh Andrew, Phyllis Bloomberg, Virginia “Ginny” replaced the following morning by 21. Water Walking rant she chose was the d’Vijff Vlieg- Bupp, M. “Pauline” Conley, Barbara Dedrick, Leonard Walter Bank, John Bankson, Wesley “Wes” Bishop, American Express. The briefcase han, which translates to the Five Jakubczak, Marge Locke, Alice Oxenford, Anne Porter, Roberta “Bobbbie” Chase, Beatice “Bea” Crawford, Doreen Sexton, Nancy Shulman, Alice Smith, Susan was found in the trash later that Flies; the food here was outstanding. Marolyn Crosswhite, Harold (Hal) Gaut, Marilyn Gaut, Veras, Joyce Waugh John Gill, Hildegard Hirschfeld, Margaret Liffiton, day and on our way to pick it up And, oh yes, McDonalds was very Douglas McCallum, Margaret “Marge” O’Connell, How- at the police station, we had to go much on the scene; in fact there 14. Stretch & Tone ard Ortmeyer, Jane Ortmeyer, Rob Roy Ratliff, Carroll through the infamous red-light dis- Betty Lou Allen, Annette Fletchall, Ben Griffith, Virginia Saussy, Donna Schramm, Julia Sessions, Robert Ses- was one of the largest I’ve run into Holmes, Dot Howe, Bobbye Kudzma, Waneka Macki- sions, Carol Watkins, Elaine White trict of Amsterdam. in the very center of the city. son, Val McIlrath, Lenore & Bill Mulroney, Verna Opiela, The rooms at the Botel were I had to forego a Royal Navy Don Ritnour, Sidney Rosendorf, Melodie Sackett, Edith 22. Circuit Weights Sim, Ruth Smith, Mary Unglesbee, Doris Wall, Bill Wal- rather Spartan; one of the individu- Joe Bunker, Betty Crosby, Barbara and Harry Def- sponsored trip through tulip coun- lenmeyer fley, Doris Diamond, Li Harvey, Frank Hopkins, Sylvia als traveling with me was about 6 try and a visit to the Hague as I Hughes, Jim Lordeman, Carl Marca, June McCalla, Ken 15. Stand Up Get Fit feet 4 inches and weighed over 250 had to return to the States to attend McCulloh, Ruth Mollen, Eleanor Olson, Bob Scheno, Jag Bhargava, Allen and Martha Beach, Jane Carroll, Barbara Schuler, Irene Stuart, Rita & Frank Tietze, pounds. A sign indicated that he had my oldest son’s graduation from Jim and Ann Doyle, Carol and Astrid Erickson, Pat Gray, Barbara Trewhitt, Susan Veras, Betty Yeide, Jo Yount to get out of the shower and re- the University of Maryland Medical Mary Hoff, Frank Hopkins, Ann Lindley, Cathy Manning, enter to ensure that he got both Dan Muller, Larry and Marie Roberts, Paul Thran, Jo School in Baltimore, a joyous occa- Yount, Melva Williams front and back and each side. The sion for all the family. Continued on page 13

12 April 2014 Village Life Picking Up The Pieces By Al Tholen, Park View to read a sign posted over the table cle in Wikipedia, she explains hortly after moving to Asbury, that read “Exercise your Brain”. I sat that “jigsaw puzzles engage the I was encouraged to use the down next to my friend and proceed- brain to retain information on exercise facilities in Rosbor- ed to do as the sign advised. shapes and colors and require S This episode was the beginning of one’s brain to memorize what ough. So I sauntered down from Park View, strolled up to the exercise room several years of working jigsaw puz- each piece looks like or should planning to go in. Just then a friend zles as a prelude to physical exercis- look like”. She asserts that “the called to me. She was sitting at a table ing on the treadmill and machines brain is being worked in both working on a jigsaw puzzle. I said inside. In fact, I became such a fig- hemispheres, thus making con- something like “is that how you exer- ure at the “brain exercise” table that I nections between the sides as cise by sitting there?” I was directed was recognized at the 2007 Sneakers well as between brain cells. Award Ceremony with a “Brain Fit- The connections enhance the ness Award” plaque (figure 1). My fas- ability to learn, understand and cination with jigsaw puzzles has con- remember.” When you realize tinued, although not with the same that most of the puzzles at Ros- intensity. Since starting this impor- borough have a thousand piec- tant exercise routine, I have noticed es, you surely would agree that that many residents in the several completing one puzzle trans- Fig. 2 - Brain Exercise in Waiting buildings are also dedicated to brain lates into significant brain exer- exercise. There is adequate material cise. Just imagine the amount in terms of stacks of jigsaw puzzle of exercise the brain invests getting time on occasion and, consequently, boxes scattered throughout the build- all the pieces assembled in the cor- have run out of time to do physical ings (figure 2) to insure a continuing rect location. If the puzzler inserts exercise on the treadmill and other source of inspiration for many years one piece a minute, it would take 16 machines. In fact, I have needed to to come. hours and 40 minutes to complete a explain to my wife why I have come I have convinced myself that this thousand-piece puzzle. Of course, no back to Park View late for lunch. But sideline is, indeed, good brain exer- one I have run into has kept a record just imagine how much wonderful cise. An authority in this regard is one of the time spent at the table. I do exercise my brain is getting; almost Monica Dennis. According to her arti- know that I have spent too much breath-taking when I think about it! Fig. 1 - Brain Fitness Award

“Lou” Marcotte, Dorothy McCutcheon, Valerie “Val” McIlrath, Dorothy Millon-Ladd, Janice Moon, Lenore Inspiration Point AWARDS Mulroney, William Mulroney, Jean Newman, Verna Continued from page 12 Opiela, Melodie Sackett, Wesley Sandell, Marguerite hen Charles Wilson was Wilson, Marie Zichy president of General 23. Strength and Mobility 29. MD Senior Olympics Electric, he was asked Kathryn “Kay” Bradley, Joseph “Joe” Bunker, Virginia Bob Wood, Earl Sulmonetti, Ed Crockett, George Huson, W “Ginny” Bupp, Carol Cade, Britta Chambers, Marolyn how his experience as head of a Peg Lawrence, Lydia Page, Carey Foley, David Crum, Crosswhite, Margaret “Mimi” Cummings, John Del James Kline, Carmine major company could apply to the Vecchio, Sara, “Sally” Duncan, Janet Englehart, president of a small company. Abram Fajer, Yuka Fujikura, Patricia (Pat) Gray, Wal- 30. Snow Tubing lace Jobusch, Beatrice (Bea) Kikawa, Mary Kolb, Pat Wilson answered by detailing a Joan Maroulis, Virginia Dixon, Virginia Phillips, Shir- Kouchoukos, John Locke, James “Jim” Lordeman, ley Moore, Betty Loud, Margaret Topping, Janet LaF- job he had when he was a kid. He Betty Loud , Jeanne North, Rosemary Pasek, Louise leur, Ann Lindley, Barbara Ellis, Fern Kauffman, Joyce Ray, Alma Rhodes, Margaret Robey, Sally Stoneman, worked for a dairy, and his job was Waugh, John Minton, Karl Jorss, Margaret Hoyle, Phyl- Margaret Topping, Barbara Trewhitt, Josephine “Jo” lis Bloomberg, Emily Robinson, Dan Muller, Gail Flana- to fill milk bottles. The bottles were Turner, Doris Williamson different sizes. Some were pint, some gan, Teresa Ma, Margaret Hartwell 24. Yoga half-gallon, and others were gallon. 31. Fitness Assessment Star: Barbara Barnard, Jane Carroll, Beatice “Bea” Craw- Two Minute Step They all had different sized necks. ford, Sarah Gruner, Betty (Sarah) Halls, Geraldine On his way home from a 10-hour (Gerry) Jennings, Ann Lindley, Shirley Mallory, Duane Jay Hatch, Robinson Emily (133) workday, he asked himself what he McKenna, Avis Moore, Jeanne Noel, Rebecca “Becky” Ratliff, Donna Schramm, Johanna “Anneke” Sengers, 32. Fitness Assessment Star: was learning. The answer was that Lena ‘Lee’ Storm, Betty Thomas, Carolyn Van Hoosen, Eight Foot Up & Go: no matter what size the bottle, the Carol Watkins, Eleanor Wright, Walter Bank Martha A. Brown, Carroll Jane (3), Jakubczak Leonard cream always came to the top. Director of Pastoral Care 25. Wii Bowling 33. Fitness Assessment Star: Reba Swain, Regina Curtis and Jane Coughlin Arm Curl: Allison Jim, Thompson Jim, Hirschfeld Hildegard 26. Brain Waves • Summer 2013 Cathy Brown, Ray Brown, Jane Carroll, Marilyn Gaut, 34. Fitness Assessment Star: Stefanie Greene, Jeff Griffiths, Marilynn Grotenhuis, Chair Stand: In Memoriam Hildegard Hirschfeld, Fred Lippert, Betty Loud, Joan Brown Raymond (23), Bloomberg Phyllis (22) Maroulis, Natalie OÕReilly, Joan Read, Harry Taima, June Wright Resident Residence(s) Date of Death 35. Health Ability Success Award 27. Brain Waves • Fall 1&2 2013 Ralph Wilbur, Mary Espe, Irene Stuart Joseph F. Dodd WHCC/Mund 02-19-2014 Bobbie Chase, Don Couchman, Mary Jean Davidge, 36. Rookie Award Elizabeth Ryan WHCC 03-04-2014 Janet Englehart, Jeff Griffiths, Jay Hatch, Alexine Jack- son, Ching Ye Lee, David Lingrell, Janet Lingrell, Cathy Ann Lindley, Margaret Liffiton, Carolyn VanHoosen Eduardo Sevilla Courtyards 03-08-2014 Manning, Else McInnes, Hal Mohler, Dan Muller, Anne 37. Inspiration Point Award Anne Swain Park View 03-08-2014 Porter, Dorothy Smithey, Tommie Tralka, honorable mention Bonnie Fansler Richard Christin, John Leebrick, John Gill, Kenneth Richard Strindmo WHCC/Park View 03-09-2014 McCulloh, Ralph Wilbur, Mary Hoff 28. Kindley Fitness for You (Gym) Elizabeth Murphy WHCC 03-10-2014 38. Longevity Award Robert Bains, Lillian Beroz, Don Blount, Nancy Chalker, Judy Coffmen, Ruth Curley, Helen DeSoto, Nina Elder, Agatha Sigmond, Carl Marca Ben Griffith, Virginia Holmes, Waneka Mackison, Betty

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Their January 2014 relocation DC; helping the ministry select the to Asbury was the 19th move for first Lithuanian cadets to attend Tiiu Kera and Norm Wolfe. During US military academies; and estab- their US Air Force careers Norm lishing the precedent of foreign was an attorney and procurement attachés, together with their Lithu- officer and Tiiu, an Intelligence anian counterparts, honoring their officer. Among their assignments countries’ POWs imprisoned at were Germany, Thailand, Turkey, German and Soviet concentration Korea, and Lithuania. Their favor- camps in occupied Lithuania. With ite posting was in Lithuania, where Vilnius just a day’s drive from Tal- Tiiu served from 1993-95 as the linn, Estonia, Tiiu and Norm were first US Defense Attaché. Norm by also able to visit several times a then was retired and served as the year. Near the end of her tour, Tiiu military spouse at the other end learned she had been promoted to of Tiiu’s phone calls asking, “Seven Brigadier General, and the couple for dinner tonight, please, Dear?” moved to Offutt AFB NE. While Fortunately, Norm is a great cook there, she was promoted to Major so all was well. General and retired in 2002 in the Norm and Tiiu are an all-Ameri- DC area. They lived on Capitol Hill can family. Norm’s ancestors date until January. As Tiiu says, “What a from colonial times (one was country! A refugee can come to the British Wolfe who fought the the USA as a child and grow up to French Montcalm in the Battle of be a major general!” Quebec). Norm, a graduate of Den- Tiiu Kera and Norm Wolfe Norm’s passions are playing rac- ison and Ohio State Universities, Villa 556, x 4842 quetball, woodworking, and sail- fully intended to return to Mans- ing with the Shallow Water Sail- field OH, after fulfilling his military a decade later. sian forces, which had tried earlier ors who enjoy the Chesapeake obligation, but the interesting vari- After Tiiu graduated from Nation- to roll back the disintegration of estuaries and other coastal/inland ety of Air Force legal work enticed al War College, Norm retired to the Soviet Union by besieging the waters. During their annual vaca- him to stay on. Tiiu’s parents fled freelance and enjoy with Tiiu the Vilnius parliament and media and tion in Estonia, Norm participates the second Soviet occupation of adventures to come in the post- attacking a border post, killing 17 in a regatta in the Finnish Archi- Estonia in World War II, and she Soviet era. Together they attended Lithuanians. As it turned out, the was born in a refugee camp where Attaché training and moved to Vil- gathering was to announce the pelago National Park. Tiiu enjoys they waited 5 years to immigrate nius, Lithuania, while the Russian midnight departure of the last embroidery, calligraphy, paper arts to the US, settling in Rochester, military was still in the country. Russian unit from Lithuanian terri- and Baltic folk art. NY. After graduating from Valpara- A month into her embassy assign- tory. The diplomats were called to After visiting 16 retirement com- iso and Indiana Universities, Tiiu ment, all foreign diplomats were witness the event and then join a munities, they chose Asbury for its joined the Air Force because it was summoned to the Lithuanian par- jubilant celebration. location in the greater DC area, a way to repay the USA for giv- liament. Since the Russians had It was a thrilling day, but not its robust continuing care services ing her family a new start in life; been dragging their feet on return- the last exciting event in the two- and for their villa that accommo- women in the military received ing their troops to Russia and year assignment. Other highlights dates Norm’s workshop and Tiiu’s the same pay in the same jobs as there was no explanation offered included formalizing defense rela- studio. Their siblings, nieces, and men; and it was an opportunity to for the gathering, Tiiu worried she tionships between the US and nephews are scattered across the live and work globally. Norm and might be in the third generation Lithuania; accompanying the Lith- country, so their Asbury relation- Tiiu were colleagues early in their of her Estonian family to be mur- uanian Defense Minister on the ships are all the more important. careers, reconnected and married dered or taken to Siberia by Rus- first official visit to Washington, — Tiiu Kera, Villa resident

Nancy E. Holder with a granddaughter and a great grandson she delights in seeing her offspring become Edwards-Fisher 802, x5199 part of her heritage. Born with a green A new month had us checking our appoint- thumb, gardening was an avocation that ments and our “to do” list when Nancy Hold- occupied a great deal of her spare time. She er moved into apartment 802 on July 1, 2013. loves to sew and has always enjoyed knitting. Native to the area, born in Washington, DC, Nancy’s circle of friends included several she fondly remembers her days at Western who live in many of the different residential High School. venues at Asbury Methodist Village. On their The medical profession attracted Nancy recommendation Nancy visited Asbury and and so she started working at Suburban Hos- was encouraged to make a permanent move pital in Bethesda, Maryland. She began in the Radiology Department, specifically the film here. Now we Edwards-Fisher friends and room, and later moved to the hub of infor- neighbors are doing our best to reinforce mation, Medical Records. Nancy has both a the Asbury tradition of contented retirement Baptist and Methodist background. living. A family of two daughters and a son kept —Joan Dunlop, Photo: Dorothy Harris: Nancy busy for many rewarding years. Now Edwards-Fisher reporter

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Roald and Pat have one of the After Pat retired, a friend got her expanded apartments in Mund and interested in fabric art. She took art when I visited them it was easy classes with a private teacher and to see why they wanted the extra began to make her beautiful fab- space. The walls are covered with ric pictures. She also makes lovely art works—some Pat’s work and quilts. Pat enjoys reading, tutoring some of it Roald’s father’s, who was and the theater. She used to act a painter by profession. herself. Roald was born in Ft. Meade, FL Roald’s interests are wide-ranging: but grew up in Indiana and New photography, pastel drawing, com- York, where he received his elemen- puters, election analysis and civic tary and high school education. He involvement. was drafted into the army at the Both Pat and Roald are very civic- end of WWII and served 18 months. minded and have worked for sev- He graduated with a BS in Physics eral worthy organizations: Roald for from UCLA in 1949, was hired at the Community Ministries of Rockville, Bureau of Standards, but went back Rockville Senior Center Comput- to earn his Master’s in 1950 and er Lab, Amnesty International and then moved to Maryland to work at the League of Women Voters. Pat the Bureau. “While working there Photo: Bob Tedesco belongs to two women’s groups and he earned his PhD in Physics at U. is an advocate for the Southern Pov- of Maryland. Roald Amundsen Schrack erty Law Center. At the Bureau he worked on and Patricia (Pat) Wilson Roald and Pat both attended the Radio Frequency Power Standards, Rockville Unitarian Church, where Mass Spectroscopy, Neutron Inter- Mund 714, x5632 their families met. When Roald had actions and X-ray production. He Pat was born in Roanoke, VA. She earned a MA in Education. She been widowed several years and used accelerators at NIST, Oak Ridge attended Hollins College in Virginia taught children in grades three and Pat had been divorced they mar- National Lab, Duke University and for two years, and Northwestern Uni- four at Green Acres School (private) ried nineteen years ago. Roald has Los Alamos National Lab and greatly versity in Illinois where she earned for five years and another five years a son, Alan, and a daughter, Bonnie. enjoyed doing the research. All told, her B.A. Later, after she was married in Montgomery County schools. Pat has three sons—Scott, Mark and he worked at NIST for 46 years and and had three sons, she attended She also taught Sunday school at Reid. still has an office there. George Washington University and Rockville Unitarian Church. —Anne Porter, Mund reporter

Marguerite and Victor in electrical engineering at MIT and also did postdoctoral work there. In 1976, Victor’s 37- Nedzelnitsky year career with the National Bureau of Stan- 323 Fellowship Circle, dards (later NIST) began in his field of specializa- Courtyard Homes tion, electroacoustical measurements. He par- ticipated in the development of domestic and x 6919 international standards in this field. His work Victor was employed at NIST and Marguerite with other agencies included research and con- was working on Capitol Hill when they met at sulting in support of the Department of Veterans a Georgetown party one evening. They quick- Affairs Audiology and Speech Pathology Program, ly discovered many mutual interests, including which develops ways to rehabilitate veterans Shakespeare plays and classical music, and their whose speech and hearing were damaged in courtship ensued. After their marriage they lived combat. Victor received a special commendation in Germantown and moved to their AMV Court- from the VA for his contributions to these efforts. yard Home last December. Victor is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of Born and raised in DC, Marguerite majored in America, and he was recognized by the Inter- English and Education at St. Joseph College in national Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for Emmitsburg, MD; then she earned her master’s outstanding contributions to the development degree in English Literature at Catholic Universi- of its international standards. He served as Tech- ty of America. She embarked on a career in edu- nical Advisor to the US National Committee of cation, teaching grade levels from two to twelve Photo: Maria Roberts the IEC for electroacoustics, chaired the Acousti- in five different states. Doing her part for the cal Society of America (ASA) Technical Advisory future of her profession, she advised beginning Group for Electroacoustics, and served as an ex teachers and taught demonstration lessons in mittees of the Judiciary Committee and in a officio member of the ASA Committee on Stan- conjunction with Youngstown University (Ohio). Congressional office. She also worked nine years dards. She also served on a secondary schools evalua- for the Hewlett-Packard Company in Rockville. In retirement, Victor and Marguerite look for- tion team for the Virginia State Department of Returning to education, she taught at St. John’s ward to enjoying concerts and Shakespeare The- Education, and on curriculum planning and text- College High School in DC and at Mary of Naza- ater. Marguerite continues her volunteer work: book selection committees for the Archdiocese reth School in Darnestown; after retirement she biweekly service as Lector for Sunday Mass at of Baltimore. served on the Board of Directors at the latter Mother Seton Parish, and presenting the patient’s Taking a break from teaching because her par- school. perspective at Shady Grove Hospital’s pre-op ents needed her help, Marguerite worked in the Victor was born and raised in New Haven, CT. classes for joint replacement patients. US House of Representatives for two subcom- He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees —Maria Roberts, Courtyard Homes reporter

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