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Jack - 26 Page 2 Performance HAPPY Scarf Lovers Brenda - 26 BIRTHDAY Jim McCloskey Harriet - 28 Page 3 New Residents Melissa Cornick Jean - 28 Correction Iseli - 29 Page 4 Opera Page 5 Story On Bob - 29 Holiday Bereavement Page 6 Tree Trim Holiday Fund Page 7 Community Meeting Hank Martin’s Ben’s Meetings When Voices Meet White Board Christmas Concert Page 8 New Resident Page 9 Shakespeare Marketing Event To My Friends Page 10 Spirit of Giving French Table Passmore News Page 11 Friday Friends Death Cafe Page 12 Gift Giving Tech Help Page 13 Library Additions Worship Schedule Page 14 Way to Go Hallway Furnishings Page 15 What Can You Do?
Page 16 Weekly Dish Pennswood Village © 2010 Antibiotics Page 17 Holiday Packages “Then, after the first Thanksgiving dinner, Page 18 Mercer Street Friends the guest of honor, Chief Massasoit, joined Miles Page 19 Catering Standish, William Bradford, Squanto, John Alden Bereavement and others in a lively game of touch football.” Page 20 Book Club Book Chat Page 21 & 22 Movies PENNSWOOD BULLETIN 1 Articles and Notices
Freeing the Wrongly Convicted Thursday, November 30 7:00 p.m. in Penn Hall Hear Jim McCloskey, founder of Centurion, speak on Thursday, November 30. Jim’s organization was the first organization in the world dedicated to the vindication of the wrongly convicted. Since 1980, they have freed 54 men and women who were serving life or death sentences for crimes they did not commit. (That’s over 1100 years of life lost.) Centurion takes on the hard cases, the ones others leave behind. They are a “boots to the ground” group, uncovering lost evidence, finding new evidence, convincing a coerced witness to come forward with the truth, overturning false confessions, and sometimes even Scarf Lovers! finding the real criminal. As Centurion moves into its fourth It’s time for another demonstration! decade of work, they look forward to securing justice and redemption for Scarf tying for the holidays! others who were wrongly convicted. Be at the Game Room at 10:00 a.m. on Hear Jim tell about his work in Tuesday, November 28. Penn Hall at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Bring your favorite scarves -- we will have November 30. fun! Peace & Social Justice Committee See you there, Rhoda and Jay
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SAVE THIS DATE Welcome Melissa Cornick: Professor, communications strategist, New Residents former investigative journalist for 20/20, 60 Claire Speciner Minutes and Dateline Move in: November 28, 2017 What: Flint, Michigan, Sara Environmental Move in: November 28, 2017 Justice & the Suburban Middle Class Helena Move in: November 28, 2017 When: Wednesday, November 29 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Where: Game Room Melissa Cornick has produced widely-recognized award- winning original investigative reports for 60 Minutes, CORRECTION Dateline, 20/20 and Nightline. She teaches Marketing Meet Your New Neighbors dinner and Branding for the Public Interest at Fordham The correct date for the next University and Strategic Communications in Community Meet Your New Neighbors dinner service for the Levemore Global Scholars at Adelphi is Tuesday, December 12, as University. indicated on the sign-up sheet, Cornick received her M.S. in Strategic Communications not Tuesday December 19, as at Columbia University and is a member of the Fordham indicated in the November 10 College at Lincoln Center Board of Advisors. She Bulletin. My apologies for the creates innovative communications for the public mix-up. good. In 2012, she was instrumental in framing strategic messaging to help successfully postpone the Frances, Chair, Pennsylvania Voter I.D. Law. Meet You New Neighbors dinners This interactive conversation will focus on Flint, Michigan’s water system and the environmental justice aspects of the crisis. Please sign up on the Peace & Social Justice Bulletin board to assure a spot. Marguerite for the Quakerism Committee and the Peace & Social Justice Committee 11-24-17 PENNSWOOD BULLETIN 3 Articles and Notices
Summary: Prelude to the Prelude: 136 measures of undulating E-flat Major chord evoke primeval creation and flow of the Rhine River.Scene 1: Rhine Maidens, guarding Rhine Gold of the Gods, play in the river. Ugly dwarf Alberich woos them, they reject him, he steals the gold, which can be made into a magic ring to rule the world, but only by someone who renounces love. Scene 2: Head God Wotan’s castle Valhalla has just been built by giants Fasolt and Fafner, whose payment is to be Freia, goddess of youth, beauty, and feminine love, a deal no one wants. Wotan’s “treaties” (really just deals) are supposed to be enforceable by his spear of authority. Reality proves otherwise. When the giants demand instant payment, Loge, demigod of fire, suggests substituting for Freia’s love Alberich’s stolen Rhine Gold (from which, having renounced love, Alberich has made the all-powerful ring). The giants reluctantly agree. Wotan and Loge set off for Nibelheim (the underworld) to steal the gold back. Interlude: Descent to Nibelheim, including 18 precisely tuned anvils, suggesting Nibelung slaves pounding out the golden ring. Scene 3: In Nibelheim, Alberich shows off to Wotan and Loge the all-powerful ring plus the magic helmet (tarnhelm) he has made, which allows him to change size and disappear at will. When asked to demonstrate, Alberich turns himself into a toad. Wotan and Loge instantly seize him, tie him up, and carry him back to the mountaintop (to the descent music “in reverse”). Scene 4: Wotan and Loge force Alberich to give up all the gold, including tarnhelm and ring. Furious but overpowered, Alberich places a curse on the ring (distinct musical theme): Those who don’t have it will desire it; those who have it will be killed by the next one to acquire it. Fasolt and Fafner return with Freia to claim their gold, including ring and tarnhelm. Wotan resists, but earth goddess Erda warns of the coming end of the Gods and their power. When Fafner kills Fasolt and takes the ring for himself, Wotan realizes that the power of Alberich’s curse is real, confirming the end of the Gods, since Wotan himself has possessed the ring. Wotan invites the Gods to enter Valhalla, accompanied by a thunderstorm and a rainbow bridge. The Rhine Maidens and Loge, left outside, lament the loss of the gold and the coming end of4 the PENNSWOOD power of the BULLETIN Gods. 11-24-17 ARTICLES AND NOTICES
Reminder: The Monthly Caregiver Group will meet again on Monday, November 27 at 1:30 p.m. in the Barclay Terrace Room. If you have any questions, please email Stephanie Vassallo, LCSW at [email protected] Holiday “Story On” Bereavement What is there to do on a Sunday night in Session Pennswood Village? Come to "Story On" and see. Wednesday, November 29 Sunday, November 26 at 7:15 p.m. at 10:00 a.m. in the in the Barclay Terrace Room Barclay Terrace Room. It's an informal gathering of anyone Losing a loved one is never easy, and the here who wants to tell a story or listen to the holidays can be a challenging time for those stories that others tell. who are hurting. For many of you, this Among us we've lived a lot of years and have had a multitude of experiences. may be the first time you will be spending In those experiences are stories waiting to the holidays without your loved ones. This be told. " Story On" gives us the chance to session will be a special time to share our share them. feelings & support for one another. Join us There are no rules other than that the as we complete a craft activity to remember story must be true. It doesn't have to have your loved one who died. All are welcome happened to the person who tells it, but it to attend. should really have happened. No sign-up Registration is required. necessary. Just come. Meetings are at 7:15 p.m. on the Please contact Amy Keiper-Shaw at 215- last Sunday of every month in the Barclay 504-1148 or [email protected]. Terrace Room. Madeline and Betty
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You are Invited to Our Annual Trim a Tree Party Please join us on Monday, December 4, at 11:00 a.m. to welcome Santa to Pennswood. We will be joined by the Pre-Kindergarten class at Newtown Friends School who will be helping us trim the tree. This will take place in the main lobby where we will be entertained by Jack and his accordion. Jack and Don will lead us in singing the Christmas Carols. We would love to see everyone there in the lobby.
So come one and come all, enjoy cookies and punch and help those darling youngsters decorate the tree and tell Santa their Christmas dreams. It will be a fun morning! Betty for the Trim the Tree Party
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Sunday, December 3 \Ben Hoyle’s Resident Movie About South Africa’s Meetings Struggle in Penn Hall Lounge “When Voices Meet” • Monday, November 27 at 3:30 p.m. will be shown in Penn Hall on • Wednesday, December 20 at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, December 3 at 7 p.m. • Thursday, January 11 at 8:30 a.m. The movie shows how Sharon Katz started a 500-member multi-racial children’s choir, took it on tour, and helped Nelson Mandela end Christmas Apartheid. Sharon continues to spread the message of peace and reconciliation. Concert Sharon Katz was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. As a young teenager during The Spirit Rejoices the terrible Apartheid era, she snuck out to the “Blacks Only” townships by hiding under Cantus Novus Choir blankets in the back seat of a friend’s car. That was the beginning of her lifelong mission Tuesday, December 5 of using music to help break down the country’s artificially imposed racial barriers. in Penn Hall at 7:15 p.m. These days she continues her humanitarian work in underdeveloped areas of South Africa Please mark your calendars, and around the world. Lionel for the Concerts Committee You may have heard Sharon speak here earlier this fall. Now you can see the one- hour movie showing how she formed South Africa’s first-ever, 500-member, multi-cultural January Community and multi-lingual performing group. Start the Meeting Change holiday season with this uplifting movie. The January Community Meeting will be Co-sponsored by the Peace & Social Justice held on Committee and the Quakerism Committee Tuesday, January 9, 2018.
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Welcome New Resident of night classes she earned a BA in Art with a Teaching Certificate. She worked at Runnels Hospital in Berkeley Heights as Director of Eileen Activities Therapy, a program that ranged from music therapy to gardening, painting, “Why did you decide to come to weaving and more. Eileen says she “hated Pennswood?” asked the interviewer. To being a boss,” though she did stay in the job which Eileen replied: “Because, several for twelve years. years ago, I heard a woman in Princeton Eileen and Jim’s children are doers as whom I trusted and admired say, ’when I well. Peter works in the field of low-income have to sell my house there is only one place public housing. Patricia, with a doctorate in I would go.’” Whether that woman has found Forestry, works mainly in Brazil while her her way here is not known, but Eileen moved husband, also a forester, works in Indonesia. here in early October, having looked at a few They manage their field teams from their other CCRCs and discovered that the woman home in Princeton in between several trips was right. a year to do hands-on work abroad. Their Eileen grew up in Bala Cynwyd, PA and daughter is starting the college search this Summit, NJ. After she married, they moved fall. to a house on the Passaic River in Berkeley Eileen is a reader, and a painter in water Heights, NJ where, as things turned out, she colors. She particularly recalls a sketching lived for 60 years. She married young and trip to England, when she was learning this had three children. Her husband, Jim, who skill, with a group of 14 fellow students. served in England and France during WW II, Later there were painting excursions became a structural iron worker and worked to Ireland and Greece. A visitor to her union jobs all over northern, NJ. She fondly apartment will see several lovely examples remembers a family camping trip in a 2-door of her work. Chevy pulling a pop-up camper, a trip the family repeated five years later. They visited the big American sights out West and Eileen Alice Crozier and Tish Plum for the cooked on a 3-burner Coleman stove. Biographies Committee Eileen attended Drake Secretarial College in Elizabeth, NJ as a young woman. When the children were teenagers, she went back to school at Kean University and after ten years
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To my Pennswood family Shakespeare and friends, In Act 2, Scene 4, of 1 Henry IV, when the A basket filled with many thanks and hugs for Sheriff bursts into the Tavern seeking to arrest your kindness during my recuperation from Falstaff, we watched how resourcefully Hal hip surgery. cleared the scene, with Doll Tearsheet on his lap. The Sheriff’s appearance marked the The many telephone calls, wishes, various beginning of the end of Hal’s tavern life. As cards from gentle ones, to very fun-filled Hal tells his companions, “We must all to the poems, to absolutely “wicked ones” brought wars.” smiles, laughter, and made me realize that my Pennswood family members also have a King Henry’s former friends, now the rebels, strong sense of humor! threaten the very lifeblood that Henry sought Again, thank you dear friends, as well as the blood bond between the king Wilma and his eldest son. Both Hal and Falstaff know that Hal must reunite with his father. In the royal confrontation scene, Act 3, Scene 2, Hal endures a dressing down from his Marketing Event father, responding with platitudes until Henry Meet Members of Pennswood’s Priority mentions Hotspur, the rebel leader. Then Reservation List on Tuesday, December 5 Hal’s dander is roused, and he promises his for Holiday Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres. father to redeem his life “on Percy’s head.” The Marketing Department has invited Father and son are reconciled, with Henry members of Pennswood’s Wait List to join affirming, “Thou shalt have charge and us for holiday cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, sovereign trust herein” -- important words. Act dinner, and our holiday concert featuring 3, Scene 2 encompasses the most moving Cantus Novus on Tuesday, December 5 scene of the play so far, and you are all beginning at 4:00 p.m. invited to see it, next Tuesday, November 28, Please join us as we welcome our soon-to- 3:30 p.m. in The Game Room. Everyone is be neighbors to our community! If anyone welcome, especially if you have ever had Doll would like to host members of our wait list Tearsheet on your lap. for dinner that evening at 5:30 p.m., please John for Pennswood Shakespeare let Lisa Dutter in the Marketing Department know. Jennifer Doone, Marketing Director
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La Table Française French spoken here Residents who have some conversational ability in French and wish to improve their fluency are encouraged to join us at 5:15 PM on Thursday, December 7 for dinner in the Main Dining Room. A sign-up sheet will be posted on the main bulletin board. Ella for the French Table
The Spirit of Giving Each holiday season the Pennswood Village community donates newly purchased gifts for the Bucks County Emergency Homeless Shelter (administered by the Family Service Association) located in Levittown, PA. The shelter is home to many men, women and children from the Lower Bucks County area. A container is placed in the lobby for your donations.
Please have all your donations in by Monday, December 4. You can help by donating new, unwrapped gifts for people of all ages. Family Services displays the items you donate and invites men and women who are actively participating in their programs to come and “shop” for each member of their family.
Gift ideas include toys, personal care items, clothes,household items, baby goods, music CDs and movies. Gift cards to local stores and supermarkets can also be donated. No food items please. The list of gift ideas will be at the reception desk.
On behalf of Family Services Association, thank you. Lori Heading, Communications Manager
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Holiday Ornaments & Cards: Friday, December 8 at 11:00 a.m. in the Enrichment Center Join us to create holiday ornaments and cards for your loved ones. Newtown Friends sixth graders will be making ornaments for residents in Barclay and Woolman to spread some holiday cheer. All materials will be provided, just bring your holiday spirit!
Pam Reifsneider, NFS Liaison Death Café
“As our days get shorter, so do our futures.“ The only certainty facing us is death. Would you like to hold a comfortable conversation about death and making the most of our lives? Join us as we explore these end of life discussions.
Death Cafes are a part of an international movement to create relaxed and comfortable settings where people can talk about death over tea, coffee, & pastries. Death Cafes are not therapy; they are not intended to educate or instruct. Facilitators make sure the discussions remain comfortable for everyone, and offer limited structure, yet each meeting belongs to the participants. You can expect open, authentic, and meaningful conversations.
Please join Amy Keiper-Shaw on Friday, December 1 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Barclay Terrace Room, as we hold interesting conversations and enjoy delicious refreshments. Everyone is welcome. Please contact Amy Keiper-Shaw at 215-504-1148 or keiper- [email protected] to hold your spot.
We are all just walking each other home.” Ram Dass
Amy Keiper-Shaw, Resident Life Director
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GIFT GIVING REMINDER—Resident Gifts to Staff I want to remind you that it is a Pennswood Village Policy which prohibits all staff and service contractors who work for Pennswood to accept any money or gifts from residents or families and friends of residents. No staff is permitted to receive a gift from you, although we do permit gifts of food or snacks for a whole department or large group of staff, but not directly to specific individuals. Those associated with Pennswood are knowledgeable of this policy and understand that if you offer a gift or money, they must decline. This is sometimes awkward and difficult for our staff. I ask that you please remember this policy, not only during the holiday season, but all year long. As a group we are expected to avoid engaging in any conduct which could create an actual or potential conflict of interest. I appreciate your cooperation and again note the great appreciation that we have for each of you! Benjamin Hoyle,CEO
Friday Friends at Pennswood Tech Help is on the Way! Friday, December 1, 11:00 a.m. in the Activities Center Now is the time to... Get INDIVIDUAL help from our imported Tech Experts. (That's the 6th graders from Newtown Friends School.) Sign up NOW! Sign-up sheets are on the Newtown Friends School bulletin board in Penn hallway. Be there on Friday, December 1 at 11:00 a.m. in the Activities Center Bring your portable Tech Device (iPad, iPhone, Kindle, PC or Mac or any device you can bring with you).
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New Audio Visual Materials in Pennswood Library November 2017
Audio Books Grisham, John The Rooster Bar Issacson, Walter Leonardo DaVinci Walls, Jeanette Half Broken Horses
DVDs Bertie and Elizabeth Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories The Marx Brothers
Resident Usher Friends Meeting for Interdenominational Schedule Worship Worship Service
Resident ushers Sunday, November 26 Sunday, November 26 scheduled for Penn Hall 10:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. in Penn Hall evening programs for the Barclay Terrace Room Dr. Richard Armstrong week starting: Everyone is welcome. Martha Davidson, Organist Sunday, November 26 All are welcome! Marjorie, Chair, Team #3 Friends Meeting for Claire, Carlo, Sue, Eadie Ruth for the Worship Interdenominational Philip, Chair, Congregation Resident Ushers
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Hallway Furnishings In 2003, Pennswood Village issued Way to go, Susan! guidelines for hallway furnishings and artwork Susan Abtouche, our Director of (revised in 2014 and 2016). Periodically, Development, has earned her CFRE. the House Advisory Committee will review The CFRE (Certified Fund Raising various aspects of these guidelines in the Executive) professional certification does weekly Bulletin — starting with a look at the not teach individuals how to fundraise. use of hallway spaces. Rather, it is “an assessment process that is designed to measure an individual’s Six feet of unimpeded clearance is required knowledge and skills in best practices in by Pennswood’s Safety Code, and nothing ethical philanthropic fundraising” (CFRE may be placed in any corridor which reduces web-site). The certification process the passage’s width to less than six feet. includes completing a lengthy application Please note the guiding principle stated in the documenting experience in three categories: Guidelines: education, professional practice, and Personal items that may be placed on the professional performance. The CFRE hallway floors shall be limited to a single item governing body reviews the application per apartment. Only a small chair, small before an individual can be approved bench, or an electric cart/motorized chair in to take the exam. The four-hour exam, current use (C, D, E, G, J, K and L buildings consisting of 200 multiple-choice questions, only) are permitted. assesses a fundraiser’s mastery of the Artwork placed on shelves outside apartment body of knowledge required for performing doors should be stable (unlikely to fall), fundraising tasks. The exam consists with due consideration for the safety and of 6 core knowledge areas including: security of all such items. The corridors of current and prospective donor research; Pennswood’s two-story buildings feature securing the gift; relationship building; wide chair-rails often used by residents as volunteer involvement; leadership and a type of hand-rail, and are not designed management; and ethics, accountability, for placement of small items. Nothing and professionalism. Congratulations to (regardless of size) may be displayed on Susan for earning her CFRE. We are so these hallway railings. fortunate to have Susan and her talents at
Pennswood. John for the PVRA House Advisory Committee Ben Hoyle, CEO and Nancy, Clerk of the Stewardship Committee
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What Can You Do? If you heard Danny and Shannon Falkner speak last week (or even if you didn’t!), here are the resources they encouraged us to check out as a way to support Al Gore’s work to solve the climate problems that are plaguing our planet.
•Penn Future (www.pennfuture.org) •Citizens Climate Lobby (https:// citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/PA_Bucks- Mont/) •GreenFaith (www.greenfaith.org) The Housekeeping Department’s Annual •Ask your state representatives to put Turkey Bowling Contest took place on pressure on ending fossil fuel subsidies November 23 in the Activities Center. It •A proposed Shell petrochemical refinery was a smashing success! (ethane cracker) in Beaver County Pennsylvania is in line for $1.6 billion in state subsidy, according to a deal struck in 2012 when the company made an annual profit of $26.8 billion!! •Ask your local leaders to move your town to 100% renewable energy sources. See (https://www.climaterealityproject.org/ initiative/100-committed) for tools on how to do that. •Remind your legislators that the Pennsylvania Medical Society recommends a moratorium on fracking.
Lynne, for The Peace & Social Justice Committee
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The Weekly Dish on Dining Services By Jim Thoma, Dining Services Manager
• A gentle reminder that residents and customers are expected to bus their own trays in the Village Café. If you need assistance with either getting your tray to your table or removing your tray and dished after your meal, please ask on of the Café servers who are happy to assist. Thank you for your cooperation. • Holiday Catering: Due to the numerous holiday events scheduled throughout the Pennswood Community, Catering Services will not be available during the following periods. o November 20 through November 27 o December 22 through January 2. Thank you for your understanding during these busy holiday periods.
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Respond to Scrooge with Mercer Street Friends Friday, December 8 at 10:00 a.m. Private Dining Room
Fill empty bellies, nourish young minds. Come to hear a compelling speaker, Armstead Johnson, tell us about the work that Mercer Street Friends (MSF) does to combat hunger, bureaucracy, and inadequate schools in Trenton, New Jersey, just across the Delaware from one of the richest counties in the United States. Bob Appelbaum, a resident of Pennswood, was among MSF's founders and it has long been an inspiring and satisfying connection. Every Friday, for example, Trenton children attending MSF's preschool and the community schools partnering with MSF go home with a backpack containing food to see them through the weekend. They come back to school on Monday with full bellies and minds ready to be nourished. This is only one of the ways MSF responds to the Scrooges of the world. Come hear about more of them. Meet Armstead in the private dining room on December 8 at 10 a.m. for a short film, questions and answers, and refreshments.
Bob Anderson, Chuck, Yoma, Bruce for Mercer Street Friends
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Catering Blackout As we enter the most demanding time of the year, we have identified multiple dates below that Dining Services will not be able to accommodate additional requests for catered affairs. There are many community events over the next two months to which we have already committed. These events, in unison with other events that have already been scheduled, push the Dining Services team beyond our capabilities to adequately provide the service excellence we pride ourselves on. We apologize for any inconvenience this may create, and we want to give everyone adequate time to find alternative options for any upcoming events they are planning. Catering Services will not be available during the following time periods: December 2 through December 14 December 20 through January 2 We are happy to assist and/or guide you in identifying a local caterer in order to meet your holiday season needs. Thank you for your understanding and flexibility during these busy periods. Michael Schuckert, Front of the House Manager of Dining Services
Bereavement Group You’ve lost someone beloved to you. Your grief is very personal. Whether this loss was recent, or many years ago, you have the right to grieve in your own way and in your own time. Our hope is that our bereavement group will be the sanctuary where you can find support during this difficult period of your life. Our goal is not to help you “get over” the loss, but rather find healthy ways of honoring and incorporating your loss into your life. Give yourself the gift of time and space to share with others who understand your loss.
Join us in the Barclay Terrace Room on the second Wednesday of each month from 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. beginning Wednesday, December 13. Amy Keiper-Shaw, Resident Life Director
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PENNSWOOD BOOK CLUB Book Chat PLEASE JOIN OUR LIVELY GROUP In Sargent’s Women Donna Lucey READING BOTH FICTION describes in colorful detail the lives behind AND NONFICTION— four of John Singer Sargent’s most famous SECOND TUESDAY EVERY OTHER portraits. MONTH AT 10:30 a.m. Virginia for the Library Committee RESIDENT ART GALLERY- CONFERENCE ROOM. WHEN YOU ATTEND, PLEASE BRING Medicare Part D open A BOOK, TITLE/AUTHOR, THAT YOU enrollment period is WOULD LIKE TO READ, AND BE ABLE October 15, 2017 TO SHARE A BIT ABOUT YOUR READING INTERESTS. through December 7, 2017. DECEMBER 12: FORTY AUTUMNS - COLD WAR - (NF) WILLNER If you are interested in evaluating your current Medicare Part D plan and any FEBRUARY 13: TEA GIRL OF formulary changes for 2018 please HUMMINGBIRD LANE - (F) SEE contact Mary Yeager, Contract Pharmacy Services (CPS) Billing Manager at 267- APRIL 10: THE PRESIDENT’S 487-8953. Mary will schedule your DAUGHTER (RE: Jefferson) (NF) DRAY & appointment to meet with a Contract KAMOIE Pharmacy Services Pharmacist, here at TONI AND GINI FOR THE BOOK GROUP Pennswood. Charles Whitlock, Health Services Director
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AT THE MOVIES: Penn Hall — 7:00 p.m. The Film Committee
FRIDAY EVENING FILM with his life, Larry enrolls in college, where he becomes part of a community of misfits who Friday, November 24 are all trying to carve out a better future. The Racing Extinction (2015) possibility of romance enters the picture when Rating: NR Larry meets Mercedes Tainot, an instructor Length 1 hour, 30 minutes who has lost her passion for both teaching and Staring: Elon Musk, Heather Dawn Rally, her marriage. Faced by the probability of mixed Louie Psihoyos, Joel Sartore reviews Hanks said of Larry Crowne that he hoped the film would strike ticket buyers as an Produced for the Discovery Channel, this optimistic take on a relatable subject. film moves from a brief summary of past extinctions to an intimate look at the many MONDAY EVENING FILM ways humans are fishing, hunting, and Monday, November 27 poaching species around the world into oblivion. While the camera captures Keep On, Keepin’ On (2014) Rating: R disturbing scenes of sharks having their Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes fins hacked off or manta rays with their gills Staring: Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, torn out, the film also includes a healthy Quincy Jones dose of optimism. Viewers are asked to join activists, who in some cases are risking This film is a striking documentary on Clark their lives, to stop the devastating practices. Terry and Justin Kauflin’s unlikely jazz Alongside the ecological destruction, this film connection. It relates the development of captures many stories of success. the bond between the musicians, the fragile health of the then octogenarian jazz legend SATURDAY EVENING FILM and the crippling stage fright that has stricken Saturday, November 25 his young protege. In the documentary a 23-year-old, blind prodigy, Justin Kauflin, who Larry Crowne (2011) suffers terrible stage fright, finds his way to Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and jazz legend and teacher Clark Terry. Over the some sexual content course of the filming, Terry begins to lose his Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes sight as the unlikely bond begins to take hold. Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah When Justin is invited to compete in an elite Mahoney, Bryan Cranston international competition, Clark’s health takes Once well-respected at his company, Larry a turn for the worst. As clocks tick, we are Crowne finds himself on the employment witness to two friends tackling the toughest line after a wave of corporate downsizing. challenges of their interwoven lives. Terry was Quincy Jones’ first teacher, and mentor to Drowning22 PENNSWOOD in debt BULLETIN and unsure of what to do Miles Davis. ARTICLES AND NOTICES
Upcoming Movies FRIDAY EVENING FILM Friday, December 1 Maudie (2017) Newtown Friends School Rating: PG-13 for some thematic content Ensemble and brief sexuality Length: 1 hour, 50 minutes Wednesday, December 13 at Starring: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, 4:00 p.m. in the Woolman Enrichment Kari Matchett, Gabrielle Rose, Center Zachary Bennett Pam Reifsneider, NFS Liaison SATURDAY EVENING FILM Saturday, December 2 The Miracle of the White Stallions (1963) Rating: G Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes Staring: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert Holiday Sing-a-Long MONDAY EVENING FILM with Jack Monday, December 4 Help us celebrate the holiday season My Cousin Rachel (2017) with song. On Friday, December 15 Rating: PG-13 for some sexuality and brief at 11:15 a.m., Newtown Friends sixth strong language grade will be gathering to sing holiday songs with Jack and our friends in Length: 1 hour, 45 minutes the Woolman Enrichment Center. Staring: Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Everybody is welcome! Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen Pam Reifsneider, Newtown Friends School
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PENNSWOOD VILLAGE PENNSWOOD VILLAGE Transportation Schedule: November 26, 2017 thru December 2, 2017 All trips on this schedule will depart from the MAIN Door. NOTE: In order to be added to any trips listed here you must contact the Transportation Office at 215-504-1149
Sunday, November 26, 2017 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m...Travel to Newtown & Langhorne for Worship (requires prior sign-up in the Transportation office) 1:00 p.m…Rider University; Lawrenceville, NJ (sign-up closed)
Monday, November 27, 2017 (No Shopping Scheduled)
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 10:15 a.m…Summit Shopping Center & Newtown (return 12:00 p.m.) 6:50 p.m…..David Library; Washington’s Crossing; PA (sign-up closed)
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 9:30 a.m…..Special Shopping to Target; Langhorne, PA (return 12:00 p.m.) 1:00 p.m…..Shopping to Giant & Liquor Store at Flower’s Mill (Langhorne Library trip is every 2nd and 4th Wednesday); return 2:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m….The Raven Restaurant; New Hope, PA (sign-up closed)
Thursday, November 30, 2017 9:00 a.m…..Philadelphia Museum of Art; Phila., PA (sign-up closed) 12:30 p.m…Farmer’s Market and Newtown; (return 2:15 p.m.)
Friday, December 1, 2017 10:15 a.m…Summit Shopping Center & Newtown (return 12:00 p.m.)
Saturday, December 2, 2017 10:15 a.m…Shopping at Neshaminy Mall, Bensalem, PA (return 12:30 p.m.) Please sign up on “Request for Transportation” sheet posted on the Transportation Bulletin Board outside Penn Hall for all trips except Sunday worship. Sunday worship requires sign up in the Transportation office.
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Sunday, November 26
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Transportation to area churches and Newtown Friends Meeting 10:30 a.m. Friends Meeting For Worship—Barclay Terrace Room 11:00 a.m. Interdenominational Worship Service—Penn Hall
Monday, November 27
8:45 a.m. ABC’S Class Aerobics, Balance, Coordination, Strength—Aerobics Room 9:00 a.m. Aqua Blend—Both Pools 10:00 a.m. Ai Chi—Warm Pool 2:00 p.m. B & B Class: Balance and Bands Kick Start (testing required)– Aerobics Room 2:45 a.m. B & B Class: Balance and Bands Progressive (testing required)– Aerobics Room 7:00 p.m. Movie—Keep on Keepin’ On—Penn Hall
Tuesday, November 28
9:00 a.m. Aqua Blend—Both Pools 10:00 a.m. Strong Core Healthy Backs—Warm Exercise Pool 1:30 p.m. Sit and Stretch—Barclay Terrace Room 2:30 p.m. Restorative Yoga November Session (sign-up required) —Aerobics Room 7:00 p.m. Claudia Pellegrini Performance—Penn Hall
Wednesday, November 29
8:45 a.m. ABC’S Class Aerobics, Balance, Coordination, Strength—Aerobics Room 9:00 a.m. Aqua Blend—Both Pools 10:00 a.m. PiYoChi—Warm Exercise Pool 10:15 a.m. B & B Class: Balance and Bands Progressive (testing required)– Aerobics Room 11:15 a.m. Tai Chi—Passmore Aerobics Room 1:15 p.m. Volleyball—Lap Pool 1:30 p.m. Chair Yoga—Aerobics Room 3:00 p.m. B & B Class: Balance and Bands Kick Start (testing required) – Aerobics Room 3:00 p.m. Melissa Cornick Presentation—Game Room
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Thursday, November 30
9:00 a.m. Aqua Blend—Both Pools 10:00 a.m. Strong Core Healthy Backs—Warm Exercise Pool 10:00 a.m. Dance—Aerobics Room 10:00 a.m. BCCC Class, U.S. Constitution—Penn Hall 11:00 a.m. Pilates Practice —Aerobics Room 1:30 p.m. Pilates Intro for Beginners (sign-up required) —Aerobics Room 2:30 p.m. Pelvic Floor— Aerobics Room 2:30 p.m. Employee Holiday Check Distribution Reception—Passmore Lounge 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Apple Help—Tech Center in Activities Center 5:00 p.m. Single Men’s Table—Main Dining Room 7:00 p.m. Jim McCloskey Presentation—Penn Hall
Friday, December 1
8:45 a.m. ABC’S Class, Aerobics, Balance, Coordination, Strength—Aerobics Room 9:00 a.m. Aqua Blend—Both Pools 10:00 a.m. Strong Core Healthy Backs—Warm Exercise Pool 11:00 a.m. Friday Friends, Tech Tutoring—Activities Center (sign-up required) 1:30 p.m. Read the Bulletin Aloud—Barclay Kitchenette 1:30 p.m. Joyful Hearts—Barclay Terrace Room 1:30 p.m. Chair Chi—Aerobics Room 2:30 p.m. Yoga—Aerobics Room 7:00 p.m. Movie—Maudie—Penn Hall
Saturday, December 2
9:00 a.m. Aqua Blend—Both Pools 9:30 a.m. Zumba Gold—Aerobics Room 10:00 a.m. Volleyball—Lap Pool 11:15 a.m. Strong Core - Healthy Back—Warm Pool 7:00 p.m. Movie—The Miracle of the White Stallions—Penn Hall
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