Volunteers needed! Please read this!
Several members of our community are unable to read the notices distributed to their apartments. At times they don’t even know they are delivered.
If you have the time and inclination to phone someone and read the notices to them, please contact Amelia Augustus.
If you want to know what you can do to help others during the difficult time we are going through, this is an easy and valuable service.
Far be it for a website editor to make any kind of a scientific proclamation, but I think that many of our residents feel that the quality of life at Kendal adds to its longevity. If you have doubts, read on.
Kendal’s Group of Centenarians grew this past week when Myron Gordon turned 100, joining Marjorie O’Brien, Clara Eldridge, Betty Russell, Jean MacIntosh, and Bill Rakower. We congratulate them all and look forward to adding Una Olaksen to the list in June.
Myron Gordon on the great day wrote, “One Hundred Years and Beyond.” On April 12, 2020 I reached the summit of this hill of years. At this height it almost seems fictional. The most recent five years were spent on the life-giving path of Kendal. At this stage I can stop counting the steps and days but rather view each one as a bonus. The birthday celebration started in the morning when I heard people cheering and clanging pots from adjacent balconies. During the day I received messages including emails, greeting cards and phone calls of all sorts. I deeply thank all of you at Kendal who contacted me, and hope we can soon be together after this imposed isolation. Love and regards from Jetta who successfully got through this storm of affection. Myron Gordon, K.C. (Kendal Centenarian).
All of us at Kendal wish Myron many more years of health and friendship.
Photo by Maria Harris
After several days of severe winds, there was considerable tree damage in Rockwood Park, as you can see in Maria’s photo above.
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
Professor Yoel Magid, who was planning to give a four-session Shakespeare course in our Gathering Room in April, has offered to give a one-hour lecture via Zoom starting at 2 pm on Thursday, April 30.
His talk will be about acting, role playing, faking in everyday life, and some psychological speculations on why we like actors/acting/theater.
Information on How to Participate:
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020
Time: 2 to 3 pm
Registration Limit: 20 residents, first come, first served
What you will need:
A computer, tablet, or smartphone
Ability to use the Internet
Some familiarity with Zoom (you can visit Zoom.us for a tutorial or ask for assistance by telephone from our IT intern Anthony Bradford. Anthony is available Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:30 am to 5 pm. His phone number is: 914-236-8553.
Process and Schedule:
No later than April 25, advise Fran Kelly via email of your interest.
The first 20 residents will be put on the class list.
On Wednesday, April 29, each participant will receive an email invitation to join the class. SAVE THAT EMAIL; YOU WILL NEED IT ON THURSDAY TO SIGN IN.
About 10 minutes before 2 pm on Thursday, April 30, click on the invitation; that will start the process of launching you in.
Professor Magid will ask each participant first to click the “mute” button on his/her computer screen. After 45 minutes, Professor Magid will open the session to participants’ questions.
The lecture will end at 3 pm.
If this experiment works, we will consider scheduling additional lectures on other subjects until the COVID-19 quarantine is lifted.
The curators ask for submission of photographs of your artworks, that is, works made by residents. They may include paintings, collage, fiber arts, assemblage, and photographs.
ONE Submission MAXIMUM
Email a high resolution photograph of your artwork to:
Deadline: Friday, April 24.
Include your name and type of medium.
Questions: Contact Lynn Brady.
With dinners being delivered to the Independent Living apartments at Kendal, there are a great many plastic and aluminum containers accompanying the food. All this material can be recycled.
Ursula Hahn, Chair of the Recycling Committee, reminds us:
Continue to rinse recyclable plastic food containers and cut the two halves apart for tight nesting.
Rinse foil trays and nest them.
Use plastic produce bags for small amounts of trash and knot them for proper disposal.
Questions? ask Ursula. She’ll be glad to help.
If you are confused about the New York State elections, so is everyone.
The dates have been shifted because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of you have already received absentee ballots for the Democratic Presidential primary to be held in June. The Board of Elections printed them before most of the candidates dropped out, so you will see a list of names including Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders etc. in column 1 on the right-hand side. If you vote for a candidate who has already dropped out, you are wasting your vote.
As of this date, only Biden is in the race. In columns 2 through 8 are the names of delegates to the National Democratic Convention (this is not the same as the Electoral College). They are pledged to the candidate preceding them in column 1. You can vote for any seven of them. It makes sense to vote only for the seven pledged to your candidate.
You still have plenty of time to vote before the June 23 deadline, but do vote. If the above doesn’t clarify things, you can call Martin Smolin or Annette Leyden .
Peter Limburg, Chair of the Horticulture Committee, announced that there is space available in three (possibly four) planters on the Terrace this season. This is a good outdoor activity as long as the gardeners don’t stand too close to each other (at least a rake and a half away).
If you’re interested, please apply to Peter who tells us that the cutoff date is Friday, April 24.
The residents at Kendal were witnesses to two meaningful parades in the last week. Yes, parades!
At the end of the week, the staff at Kendal paraded around the campus to the cheers of the residents. It was wonderful to see and show appreciation to those who are charged with caring for us. The relationship between staff and residents deserves a place in the book of loving labor relations.
As if that wasn’t enough, a parade of vehicles used by first responders started at Phelps Hospital, came down the hill and then circled the Kendal campus. There were police, fire, EMS vehicles, and ambulances numbering 40 or more. Again, it gave our residents the opportunity to wave and cheer the people who keep us safe. Don’t miss Arthur Brady’s video of it on the Home page of this website.
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