For an announcement about the Breakfast Club March 12 on the “Effects of Sleep on Heart and Brain Health” click here. RSVP needed soon.
For the March Vitality Calendar of talks and programs, click here.
For details on the March Program, “A Matter of Balance,” click here. There are eight sessions designed to improve strength, balance, and flexibility.
The Art Committee’s new show is called “Awakening.” It will open on April 21 and close on October 16.
The show will be displayed on the Rue des Artistes. Residents and staff are invited to a reception from 4:00 to 5:30 pm on April 21.
The show’s curators are Lynn Brady, Ann Holloway, and Judy Baker. Residents and staff are encouraged to enter their artworks for the exhibit. Details will appear in the future. Contact the curators for any further information.
Since 2007, Kendal residents have had unlimited summer access to a wonderful clay tennis court at Phelps Hospital which is open to Kendal residents.
Players at all levels of ability have enjoyed the use of the court. However, the number of players from last summer is not enough to continue the program.
We need to sign a contract for this year shortly. So if you are interested in playing relaxed, social tennis this summer and seeing the program continue, please contact Wayne Richter for further information as soon as possible.
On Thursdays, March 5, 12, 19, 26, and April 2 and 16, from 10 am to noon in the Art Room, noted artist and teacher Paul Jeffries will conduct his workshop on “How to express what you see and what you feel while learning techniques to capture them with paint”.
To participate, make out a check to KoH Residents Association for $80, write “Paul Jeffries” in the memo line, and place the check in Ann Holloway’s cubby.
For questions, contact Ann.
On Tuesday, March 10 at 2 pm in the PDR, Dr. Jessica LaCorte, AUD, Coordinator of Audiology Services at the Donald R. Reed Speech and Hearing Center at Phelps Hospital, will make a presentation geared towards people who do not wear hearing aids and want to learn more about the impact of hearing loss on the geriatric population, how to diagnose hearing loss, and what to do about it.
In addition to providing direct clinical audiology services at Phelps, Dr. LaCorte oversees the Phelps Balance Center. Her focus is on pediatric and adult audiological evaluations, vestibular (balance) evaluations, treatment of patients suffering from tinnitus, and hearing aid dispensing.
Dr. LaCorte, a licensed audiologist and hearing aid dispenser in New York State, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and has a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology. Dr. LaCorte obtained her BA degree at the University of Maryland and her Doctor of Audiology from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She worked at Columbia University Medical Center during her residency and interned at The Ear Institute at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and Weill Cornell Medical College. She also aided in research studies at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
All residents, even those who already have hearing aids, are invited.
Kendal’s Computer Committee volunteers and a Hackley School student will be available on Saturday, March 7, from 2 - 4 pm to offer help with your smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Residents who are having problems should bring their charged smartphone, tablet, or laptop, power cord, and password to a free Computer Committee Digital Help Session at the Residents Association Office on C Level near Clermont Bridge OR request a Hackley School Student and Computer Committee Volunteer to come to your apartment to help you with your computer.
Space is limited. Sign up in the Activities Alcove opposite the Computer Room. For further information, contact Peter Bermas
On Monday, February 24 at 7:30 pm, the Education Committee will present a lecture by Dr. Belinda Miles on “The State of Higher Education in the U.S.: Valued, Vital, Visionary, and Vulnerable.”
Almost daily, media reports feature some sort of challenge facing higher education today such as return on investment, rising costs, student success and completion, employment and earnings, meeting the demands of increasingly diverse student populations, an ever-evolving economy, and multiple complex policies.
Through interactive discussion, Dr. Belinda Miles, president of Westchester Community College, will discuss such challenges as well as innovative opportunities to close skills gaps, continue broad access to learning, and create strategic private-public partnerships to meet the needs of the 21st century workforce.
Since Dr. Miles became WCC president in 2015, the College has experienced increased graduation rates, new academic and workforce development programs, and unprecedented growth in grant and gift attainment to support scholarships and transformational student success programming.
Dr. Miles, a highly regarded speaker on community college advocacy, student success, and leadership development, earned master’s and doctorate degrees from Columbia Teachers College and a BA from York College CUNY.
All residents are invited.
The always energetic Trips Committee announced a new “Do Your Own Thing” trip to New York City on Wednesday, April 1, with drop-off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Participants can, or course, view the many wonders at the Met. However, they are free to wander elsewhere as long as they show up at the van by departure time to be driven back to Kendal.
The Committee wants you to know that there are short wait lists for the following trips:
Wednesday, March 4, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase
Wednesday, March 11, The Frick Collection, New York
Wednesday, March 18, Bruce Museum, Greenwich
Sign-up for all trips is in the Trips Book located in the Activities Alcove across from the Computer Room.
Please do not sign up for a trip unless you are committed to going on it. If you are unable to attend a trip and have already signed up, please draw one line through your name.
On Monday evening, February 17, resident Nathan H. “Nat” Brandt, veteran journalist, news writer, and author, will present a special program: Mrs. Stowe’s Legacy - Two Slave Rescues.
Nat will tell the story of two rescues in the antebellum period -- that of a slave named Jane Johnson and her two children in Philadelphia, and that of John Price, a runaway slave from Kentucky found by bounty hunters hiding out in Oberlin, Ohio.
These stories epitomize the lengths to which ordinary citizens would go to help slaves become free in violation of federal law. The two rescues, like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, illustrate what became the most powerful social force in the North influencing public response to the issue of slavery.
Gail Collins, renowned author and New York Times columnist, will speak in the Gathering Room Thursday, February 20 at 11 am.
Ms. Collins will discuss her new book, No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America, and will answer questions from residents. She has agreed to be guest of honor at a Marketing Department luncheon with prospective KoH residents after her talk.
Ms. Collins’ book, which has been reviewed as “exhilarating, accessible, and inspiring,” mentions Kendal on Hudson, as a result of her 2018 visit here as a guest of resident Muriel Fox. Muriel, who is a co-founder of the National Organization for Women, describes the Gail Collins’ book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present as “the best book ever written about the modern women’s movement.” NOTE: Both books are available from Amazon.com and on Kindle.
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