December 13, 2019 PENNSWOOD BULLETIN Page 2 Quakerism Fireside Chat Flea Market Dante Study Group Page 3 Clay Space Concert Holiday Double Next Week! German Table Check out Sarah's Corner on page four for more information Sing-A-Long regarding next week's Holiday Double issue of the Bulletin. Fiddle Concert Holiday Tea Page 4 Square Dancing Congratulations, Dr. Saidi! Passmore Gallery Birthday Night On Monday Sarah's Corner evening, December Page 5 Resident Biography 9, 2019, Pennswood Page 6 Holiday Celebration Village's Medical Chanukah Celebration Director, Dr. Firas Holiday Shipping Deadlines Saidi, was honored Save the Date by the Eastern Friday Friends Pennsylvania Page 7 Directory Update Geriatric Society with Village Salon the Barbara Bell, MD Notary Services award as outstanding Book Club geriatrician. Page 8 Shiraz is Coming The ceremony was held at the Union League in Page 9 Sunday at the Opera Philadelphia. Several of Pennswood's leadership staff Page 10-11 Library Additions Page 11 Gift Shop attended the event in support of Dr. Saidi. Congratulations Birthdays to Dr. Saidi and thank you for your service to our Page 12 Name Tag community. Passmore News Tom Atkins, COO Worship Page 13 Think You're Drowsy Now? Page 14 Care Partners Bereavement Group PENNSWOOD BULLETIN 1 ARTICLES AND NOTICES THIS WEEKS' EVENTS The Quakerism Committee Presents Claire Hannapel Dan Murray’s Fireside Sunday, December 15 at Chats In Penn Hall Lounge 7:00 p.m. in Game Room Tuesday, December 17 at 3:30 p.m. “Quaker Voluntary Service: Sally Marrington Community & Transformation” Sr. Administration Coordinator Claire Hannapel currently serves Flea Market Sale as Outreach & Wednesday, December 18 Development from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Coordinator in the Activities Center for Quaker • Used clothing & items Voluntary • Jewelry table Service (QVS). • Holiday items 1/2 price In this role she sustains Cash & checks ONLY! relationships Please - No donations Sunday through Sale with Friends and supporters invested in the young adult Fellows participating Dante Study Group in QVS. Claire brings to this role insight and stories from her experience as a Next Meeting: 2016-17 Fellow in Atlanta. During that year, Claire built intentional community Thursday, December 19 with seven other young adults, worked at 3:00 p.m. at the Georgia Law Center for the in the Game Room Homeless, and was supported by Friends in the local Quaker community We will read Inferno, in Atlanta. Claire grew up a Quaker in Cantos 31-34 North Carolina where she attended (with a focus on Cantos Durham Friends Meeting. 31, 33, and 34) Marguerite Submitted by Nancy Quakerism Committee 2 PENNSWOOD BULLETIN 12-13-19 ARTICLES AND NOTICES THIS WEEKS' EVENTS Clay Space Holiday Sing-A-Long with • Monday, December 16 Friday Friends • 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Friday, December 20 from 10:15 a.m. - • Wednesday, December 18 11:15 a.m. in the Enrichment Center • 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. Help us to celebrate the • Thursday, December 19 • 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. holiday season with song. • Friday, December 20 Newtown Friends sixth • 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. graders will be gathering to sing holiday songs with our friends in Elaine, Clay Space the Woolman Enrichment Center. Come spread some holiday cheer and enrich the Concert lives of those in our community. Everybody Thursday, December 19 is welcome. at 4:00 p.m. in the Enrichment Center Pam Reifsneider, NFS Liaison North Voice Chamber Choir Holiday Concert (Council Rock High School) Fiddle Concert All residents and staff are invited! Tuesday, December 17 at 11:00 a.m. in the Louise\, Concerts Committee Enrichment Center Come join us to hear Jim playing the fiddle. Einladung zum TJ Tignor, Activities Manager “Deutschen Tisch” If you would like to converse in German Woolman while eating dinner, please join us at the German Table in the Main Dining Room Holiday Tea at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, December 20. If Wednesday, December 18 you plan to come, please put your name at 2:00 p.m. in the Enrichment Center on the sign-up sheet on the bulletin board Please join us for our Annual Holiday Tea across from Penn Hall. Party! Enjoy great food and drinks and If you have any questions, please then hear the Penn Ultimates sing our contact me. favorite holiday songs at 2:30 p.m. Hans, German Table TJ Tignor, Activities Manager 12-13-19 PENNSWOOD BULLETIN 3 ARTICLES AND NOTICES THIS WEEKS' EVENTS SQUARE DANCING FUN Wednesday, December 18 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in Penn Hall QUILTS No previous You are invited to the Opening Reception experience needed, of the Passmore Gallery Committee Quilt come with or Exhibit on Sunday, December 15 from 3:00 without a partner. p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Passmore Lounge. Ginny Reaske will You are welcome to bring family and call things that all friends to this display of beautiful quilts. can follow. You can Refreshments will be served. dance or watch. Sue, Passmore Gallery If you get tired let us know and December we will help find a replacement. No demos, dancing the Birthday Night Thursday, December 19 at 4:30 p.m. whole time. in Penn Hall Lounge Photo of Jim, Carolyn, Jim Snyder, retired caller. This month's theme is “Wishing You a Happy Holiday Season". Submitted by Carolyn SARAH'S CORNER Next Week is a Double Bulletin for the Holiday! The Bulletin that will be distributed on Friday, December 20 will cover events and notices from Sunday, December 22 through Saturday, January 4. Articles are due Tuesday, December 17 by 4:00 p.m. Menus, movies, activities schedule, and the transportation schedule for the week of Sunday, December 22 can also be found in this Bulletin. On Friday, December 27, the menus, movies, activities schedule, and transportation schedule for the week of Sunday, December 29 will be distributed via e-mail and paper copies that will be in front of the Mail Room. The next “regular” Bulletin will be printed on Friday, January 3 and the deadline for articles to be included is 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 31. Sarah Karl, Bulletin Editor 4 PENNSWOOD BULLETIN 12-13-19 ARTICLES AND NOTICES RESIDENTS' BIOGRAPHY Linda school for an MLS from the Rutgers School of Library and Information Science. The Arrived at Pennswood: October 2019 information science background led her into Born in Elizabeth, NJ, Linda moved with marketing which occasioned her move, 13 her family to Cranford, NJ where she grew years later, from Research and Development up. She shared that her parents had no to Marketing. One of her initiatives was to aspirations for their four daughters; the start a call center to answer questions from expectation was that they would marry, have patients and health care professionals. children and stay home- no college. Linda By the time she retired, Linda was a Vice became a secretary right out of high school, President in Marketing. but after her first marriage, she broke the Linda’s two children, Annie (now mold and did go to college, first at Tulane deceased) and Michael, were born in the in New Orleans for two years, when her early eighties. Since Annie’s death, Linda husband went there, then at Rutgers for has been interested in a form of counselling her last two years when he wanted to move called “Grief Recovery Method.” Michael North. lives in New Jersey and works for Philips van After completing a B.A. in Sociology at Heusen. Following an early retirement, Linda Rutgers, Linda went to work at Janssen has been busy with volunteer work, including Pharmaceutica, a small drug company cooking and serving lunch for five years at the owned by Johnson & Johnson with Methodist Community Kitchen in Lambertville, headquarters in Beerse, Belgium, a NJ. She continues the grief counselling. small town near Antwerp. Linda was a Linda calls herself “a life-long social activist.” Clinical Research Assistant working on Turning to travel, Linda and a friend covered investigational drugs, which were drugs much of the Far West (Wyoming, Colorado, that were being studied, tested in clinical South Dakota and elsewhere) on a Harley. trials, and prepared for FDA approval. As She returned to the West with the kids to stay soon as she got into this work, she began for two weeks every year in Cody, Wyoming. taking classes at night at the Rutgers Nowadays, she rents a place for two weeks School of Pharmacy. She loved learning in the summer in Cape May, NJ. She loves the new material and she loved the job. film, the Lambertville Riverside Symphonia, Based in Brunswick, NJ where J&J had their and meals at Pennswood. Linda’s dog is a headquarters, she moved up quickly in the “Chiweenie,” a Chihuahua/Dachshund mix company (Janssen), which was developing by the name of Mimi, reputedly a very special new drugs at a prolific rate. Five years after little animal. she started at Janssen, Linda went back to The Biographies Committee 12-13-19 PENNSWOOD BULLETIN 5 ARTICLES AND NOTICES STAFF AND RESIDENT NOTICES ’Twas the Night Before Holiday Shipping Christmas... Deadlines Tuesday, December 24 Recommended send-by dates for at 7:00 p.m. in Penn Hall expected delivery before You — and your friends and family — are December 25: invited to a special Christmas Eve/ Holiday • USPS Retail Ground® Celebration! • Saturday, December 14 • First-Class Mail® Service Your fellow Pennswoodians will be sharing • Friday, December 20 stories, reading poems and telling glad tidings.