The Horticulture Committee will reconvene on Friday, Oct. 5 at 2:00 p.m. in the Conference Room on C Level.
The Committee is pleased that Gower Lane, director of operations, will join the meeting.
New residents and others are invited to attend. The Horticulture Committee is chaired by Anna Mae O’Leary. If there are any questions, please direct them to Anna Mae.
Kendal Chess Club
Did you know that Kendal has a chess club?
It began about four years ago and meets every Wednesday from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Residents—even those who haven’t played chess for years and feel rusty—are welcome. Several chess sets are on hand. Feel free to join us if you’d like to try your hand and brain at this fascinating game!
Want to join up? Get in touch with Don Eder.
Fascinating Lecture: Megawatts and Magnanimity: A Sociologist Visits Iceland
Resident Caroline Persell has always wanted to see the Northern Lights, so last March from the 15th through the 19th, when her alma mater Swarthmore College sponsored a short trip to Iceland, she and her sister decided to go. When they arrived, they learned it had been cloudy every night for two months, so they might not see any Northern Lights! However, they ended up finding the country fascinating geologically, socially, and artistically.
After the first two days, they felt like they had been there two weeks because they packed so much in and had such good guides, as well as a college faculty member who lectured on the sources of the Northern Lights. In her October l talk and slide show, Caroline will share some of what she saw and learned about Iceland’s vibrant geology, history, society, and arts from the visit and relevant readings.
Caroline Hodges Persell is professor emerita of sociology at NYU. She received her B.A. in English literature from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University.
Caroline’s presentation will be held in the Gathering Room, Monday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 pm
Phelps October Vitality Events
Click here for the October Vitality Calendar
Click here for Breakfast Club on “Cognition: How to Stay Sharp” flyer.
Click here for the flyer on the Senior Debate on U.S. Constitution.
Click here for the flyer on Tai Chi: Easy
Coffee Klatch
Please note the change of meeting place of Coffee Klatch on Wednesday, September 26. Coffee Klatch will meet at 10:00 am in the Private Dining Room.
Coffee Klatch is an informal meeting with Chris Appel, Director of Nursing and/or Lisa Wacht, Health Services Administrator. Refreshments are served, and we get to know each other better. Residents have a chance to raise concerns related to health care and they inform us what they may currently be working on.
All are welcome.
Questions? See Dot Bone
New Class Fridays, Aqua Ease: Gentle Balance and Core
Class Description: The class uses the freedom of the water to improve range of motion, flexibility, and overall strength, while learning to challenge our stability. This gentle exercise helps participants decrease pain and stiffness, improve or maintain joint flexibility, muscle strength, balance and coordination. Water walking will be used to improve cardiovascular endurance, core strength, and balance. Proper breathing techniques are incorporated as well.
Instructor: Andrea Sarayli
AEA Arthritis Foundation Certified For further information, Contact Cathy DiSomma
Paul Jefferies Painting Class
“How to express what you see and what you feel while learning techniques to capture them with paint”
THURSDAYS IN ART ROOM
10:00-12:00 noon
OCT. 11, 18, 25, NOV. 1, 8, 15
Make check for $80 payable to KOH Resident Association, with Jefferies class on the memo line.
Questions? Speak to Ann Holloway
Verdi's Aida: No Wait List
The Trips Committee announced that due to cancellations, no wait list exists for the Kendal trip Oct. 6 to Verdi’s Aida, one of the most popular operas. Superstar Anna Netrebko will sing the title role, her first Aida at the Met. Two vans will take residents to the Saturday matinee transmission at City Center Cinema in White Plains.
New residents and those who have been away for the summer: wait lists are open until the day of departure for four operas: the Oct. 6 Aida, the Oct. 17 Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, the Dec. 15 Verdi’s La Traviata (also two vans) and the May 11 Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites.
The opera sign-up sheets are in the back of the Trips Book in the Activities Alcove. Anyone who needs to cancel any performance should do so as soon as possible.
Urban Renewal Presentation
Kyle deCamp, daughter of resident Leni deCamp, will show her 63-minute documentary, Urban Renewal, in the Gathering Room at 3:00 pm Sunday, October 7. Following the showing, she will engage in an informal conversation with the audience.
Urban Renewal is a live, multimedia solo performance on perception, public policy, and the significance of the buildings we live in, from a child's point of view. It maps an experience of growing up in Chicago in the chaotic 60s, caught in the crosshairs of power and history. The performance animates childhood on a block razed by the last demolition of urban renewal in Hyde Park and the devastating aftermath.
An interdisciplinary writer, designer, director and performer, Ms. deCamp is a 2017 Rome Prize Fellow in Design, American Academy in Rome; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow; and “Bessie” and Hermes Foundation “New Settings” award winner. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA Fellowship in Electronic Arts from RPI. In 2016, she was the Andrew T. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Drew University. She is on the faculty at Barnard College/Columbia University.
New Trip
The never-sleeping Trips Committee recently announced a new trip for Wednesday, October 17. This is another in the series of DYOT (Do Your Own Thing) excursions which will leave from Kendal and wind up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Participants are not required in any way to actually go into the Met; therefore you will be free to DYOT.
In addition the Committee announced that there is space available for the tour of Sleepy Hollow with Mayor Ken Wray on Oct. 10.
There is a short wait list for the Oct. 3 trip to Ever Rest, home of the Hudson River School landscape artist Jasper Cropsey (1823-1900), and the Gallery of Art, Hastings-on-Hudson.
The Committee requests that you do not sign up for a trip unless you are willing to avoid making conflicting plans; if you do need to cancel, please cross your name off the list or wait list. The Trips Book is in the Activities Alcove across from the Computer Room.