OF MARYLAND Veteran Who Navigated Germany’S Airspace to Speak at July 4 Celebration by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News
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Leisure World News June 16, 2017 • Published Twice a Month • residents.lwmc.com/lwnews OF MARYLAND Veteran Who Navigated Germany’s Airspace to Speak at July 4 Celebration by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News ed Borek, a 94-year-old veteran of World War II T whose B-17 airplane had to make an emergency landing when two of its four engines were destroyed by The Inter-Faith Chapel celebrates Pentecost Sunday on June 4 with a Scrip- enemy fire, delivers the ture reading in several languages. From left to right, Bernice Williams, Chie keynote address during the Colvis, Mercedes Bautista and Claudette Warner-Milne. Photo by Jon Fife community’s July 4 festivities. For more details about the service, see page 5. Borek enlisted in the military at age 19 and, after combat training and working Parade keynote speaker, Ted Borek. as a cryptographer encoding Photo by Leisure World News Golf Pro Shop Gets a and decoding allied messages, became a navigator with the Eighth Air Force of the U.S Fresh, New Look Army Air Corps. by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News The store now carries top of Just a few days after the line athletic brands, like reporting to his assign- cattered throughout Under Armour and Cutter & ment with the 305th Bomb a mid-size room, Buck, and has added more Group, 365th Squadron in Smannequins display women’s clothing to their Chelveston, England, he the latest in golf and athletic racks, with prices as good as, suddenly found himself wear. Rows of titanium or better than, retail. fighting in what would turn clubs shine in the sunlight Rosenthal, who owned out to be one of the major air of a corner window, and a pro shop in Montgomery battles of the war. buckets of bright yellow golf Village for five years before “I was having breakfast balls greet customers at the joining the Leisure World with the crew and the opera- checkout counter. staff in March, is sticking tions officer came to me and The Golf Pro Shop recently with conservative styles in said, ‘Ted, you’ll be flying Borek pictured in 1942 as an aviation stocked its floor with new basic colors until he’s able to today. A navigator from cadet. Courtesy photo inventory, and the man at the see which items sell well, and another crew called in sick; helm of sales and marketing, then will adjust his buying you’ll be taking his place.’” jolt when some flak, or golf pro Richard Rosenthal, habits to match consumer The Eighth Air Force anti-aircraft fire, tore through says his hope is that residents trends. led a maximum effort over the fuselage, causing no real who have never set foot in the “People’s tastes have Germany on May 12, 1944, damage. It was child’s play store will come in and check changed; styles have that included 800 B-17 compared to what was soon it out. changed,” he said, adding bomber planes and 200 to come. Just around 2 p.m., “Maybe we’ll even get some that where once golfers looked fighter planes. dozens of German Luftwaffe new members,” he said. ➤ to page 4 Borek’s plane got its first ➤ to page 9 Governance & Information .... 6 Sports, Games & Thoughts & Opinions ........... 10 Scoreboards ........................ 34 Events & Entertainment ...... 12 Classes & Seminars ............ 38 For details about the Movie Schedule ................... 15 Calendar of Events .............. 41 Community’s 4th of July Health & Fitness ................. 18 Governance Meeting Schedules ............................ 41 parade, see page 3. INSIDE Clubs, Groups & Organizations ...................... 20 Classifieds ........................... 44 Club Trips Listing................. 30 ■ Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL) July 13: What Makes a Book Jewish? by Arthur N. Popper book inherently Jewish is a topic served, and Cooper will remain Discussion questions include: that has long fascinated Marilyn after the lecture to answer • What makes a book Jewish? f you visit (www.amazon. Cooper, the culture editor of questions. • Must a Jewish book be com) and enter “Jewish Moment Magazine (www. During the program, Cooper written by a Jewish author? I novels” into its search momentmag.com), uses a series of ques- • What books most influenced engine, you find many dozens where she is also tions to stimulate your Jewish identity? of pages of titles. And the same manager of the book and lead a discussion happens if you look up Jewish section and a frequent about Jewish books Marilyn Cooper is a Washing- romance novels, Jewish war contributor. and the focus of ton-based writer and poet. She novels, and most anything else. Cooper shares her her 2016 article for formerly worked at the National And while many of these interest in this ques- Moment Magazine Aeronautics and Space Adminis- same books would be found in tion with residents in on famous Jewish tration (NASA) as a public histo- non-secular searches, what is it a lecture and discus- writers and the rian and has been a consultant about these thousands of books sion sponsored by the books that shaped for a variety of non-profits in the that makes them appear in the Center for Lifelong Marilyn Cooper, courtesy them. Washington, D.C. area. She was a results of a search that includes Learning (CLL) on photo She shares stories Fulbright scholar in Venice, Italy, the word Jewish? Thursday, July 13, at about her interviews an inter-university scholar at the In many cases, it is the actual 2 p.m. in Clubhouse I. with authors – such as Carl Hebrew University of Jerusalem, title or a distinctly Jewish The lecture is free, but tickets Bernstein, Cynthia Ozick and and a fellow at the Balkan Studies subject, or the author may be are required and available at the Joyce Carol Oates – featured Institute in Thessaloniki, Greece. Jewish but, in other cases, the E&R office in Clubhouse I begin- in the article found at (goo.gl/ For more information about relationship is less obvious. ning at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, HVqfBS). all CLL courses and lectures, see The question of what makes a June 20. Refreshments are (www.cllmd.com). Credit Union to Hold Information Sessions by Leisure World News series of “meet and the opportunity to consult with July 13, 20 and 27, between 2-4 and still retain his or her Signal greet” events in July are staff on becoming members of p.m. in Clubhouse I. Financial FCU membership. A planned by the credit the credit union and setting up All residents are eligible to join Signal Financial FCU provides union preparing to move into the accounts. Signal Financial FCU through the same variety of financial Administration Building. Residents are invited to enjoy their affiliation with Leisure services that customers would Signal Financial Federal Credit refreshments and meet branch World. A member’s close relative, find at a bank, including checking, Union (FCU), which expects to officers and staff on Tuesday, July whether living in the same house- savings and money market open a branch in Leisure World 11, 18 and 25, between 2-4 p.m. in hold or not, is also eligible for accounts; certificates of deposit; by August, hosts three events Clubhouse I. Signal membership. personal and auto loans; credit aimed to introduce residents to Staff will return to help resi- Once a resident joins, he or she cards; mortgages; investment Signal’s staff and services, and dents with membership and is a member for life. A resident products and advice; and online three more to provide residents account paperwork on Thursday, may move out of the community and mobile banking. 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