Harriet Barnett Honored

Harriet Barnett is a familiar, warm and smiling figure at Kendal on Hudson.  She is a former Chair of the Residents Council, the long-term head of the Local Charities Committee, and represents CCRCs in Albany.

Teaching has been Harriet’s forte.  Over her lifetime, she taught in public schools and then became a teacher of teachers at Manhattanville College. She continues to conduct workshops for B.O.C.E.S. teachers.  
At Kendal, Harriet teaches English to Spanish-speaking staff, and Spanish to English-speaking residents and staff.

On October 22, Harriet Barnett received the prestigious Dorothy S. Ludwig Memorial Award given annually to a member of the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers who has provided outstanding service to the world language teaching profession.

Congratulations, Harriet, on this well-deserved recognition of your lifetime of service as a foreign language teacher and mentor. And we at Kendal honor you also for outstanding service to the Kendal community

Philanthropy Forum Nov. 10

There will be a program about the longstanding culture of philanthropy throughout the Kendal system, benefiting staff, residents, and the broader community, on Wednesday, November 10, from 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm, in the Gathering Room.

Participants include Howard Smith, Chair of the Kendal on Hudson Board of Trustees; Beverly Grove of the Kendal Corporation at Kennett Square; members of the KoH Philanthropy Committee; and other resource people.

All residents are encouraged to attend.

Free Market

“Free Market” doesn’t have much to do with Stop & Shop or C-Town where nothing is free. Rather, it has to do with the world economy.

Kendal is about to hear an interesting lecture on the subject. In his book Samuelson Friedman, Battle of the Free Market, Nicholas Wapshott brings “narrative verve and puckish charm” to the story of two giants of modern economics: Paul Samuelson, who revolutionized macroeconomics; and Milton Friedman, who wrote the seminal books The Great Contraction, and A Monetary History of the United States.

British-born, now living in the U.S., Nicholas Wapshott has had an illustrious career as an editor, writer, and broadcaster.   His biographies of Peter O’Toole, Margaret Thatcher, Carol Reed, and Rex Harrison display his dual interest in both the cinema and political economy.

He returns for his third Kendal talk on Monday, November 1 at 7:30 pm on Zoom.

November Course Reminder

This is to remind you that on the five Tuesdays in November, from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm in the Gathering Room, Professor Marjorie Miller will present a series, “What Must We Know about China Now?”

Tuition is $60 for all five sessions or $15 for an individual class. 

To enroll, contact Fran Kelly,

Trips & Excursions

TRIPS News

Starting in November, the Trips Committee has planned Thursday trips for destinations that are not open on Wednesdays but do operate on Thursdays.

Space Available

Thursday, November 4, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers

Wait Listed

Wednesday, November 10, NYC Do Your Own Thing, with drop-off at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan.

Thursday, November 18, Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

Volunteers Needed

The Medical staff is looking for evening volunteers to do courtyard, healing garden visits after dinner. Other volunteer opportunities could include transport to/from concerts, and friendly interactions in Clearwater.

Please contact Cynthia Berenguer, Therapeutic Recreation Director.

This is a great opportunity to perform important neighborly tasks for those in Clearwater.

Saturday Opera

On October 30 at 1:00 pm in the Gathering Room, the next presentation in Kendal’s Saturday Opera program will be an operetta Die Csárdásfűrstin/The Csárdás Princess (also translated as The Gypsy Princess) by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán.

The story takes place in Budapest and Vienna just before the First World War and explores the love affair between an aristocratic gentleman and a sultry cabaret singer.

The main roles are sung by Anna Moffo, René Kollo, Dagmar Koller, and Karl Schönböck, with an otherwise Hungarian cast. This is a film version of the Budapest Opera production.

All are invited to attend and view this exciting production.

Presentation: Falls and Balance

There will be an in-person Health Education session on Wednesday, October 27, at 10 am in the Transitional dining area of the Bistro.

Joe Sullivan, Director of Rehabilitation, will discuss FALLS AND BALANCE: Common warning signals of falls and how to reduce the risk.

Free balance screening will follow.

”College in Prison” Panel Discussion

On Monday, October 25, at 7:30 pm Kendal will host a program ”College in Prison” Panel Discussion on reforming the American criminal justice system which is much in the news today.

Providing opportunities for education to people convicted of serious felonies and serving long prison sentences has been proven to be a sure way to promote successful employment among the formerly incarcerated. That helps to reduce high rates of return to prison and offers “returning citizens” a chance at individually satisfying and socially responsible lives.

Ellen Lagemann, formerly the Distinguished Fellow at the Bard Prison Initiative, will moderate a panel featuring four of her former students, all of whom earned BA degrees from Bard. They are: Alex Hall co-owner of one of NYC’s largest barbell gyms and a leader in work to provide transitional housing for men and women returning home from prison; Jule Hall, Senior Manager of Diversity for Talent and Acquisition at Amazon, Inc.; Hancy Maxis, a Project Manager in the Department of Pathology at Montefiore Medical Center; Joseph Williams, a Psychiatric Social Worker at Mt. Sinai, and the Program Coordinator for the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative at Martin Van Buren High School.

All are invited to join us in the Gathering Room on October 25 to hear about the college experiences of these four men and to learn what they have done since returning to New York City after long years of incarceration.

Booster Vaccine Information

Thursday, October 14, 2021

COVID Update from Administration and
COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Clinic Information

The CDC recommends that the following groups should receive a booster dose of Pfizer- BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least six months after completing their Pfizer-BioNTech primary vaccine series:

• People aged 65 years and older

• Residents aged 18 and older in long-term care settings

• People aged 50-64 years old with underlying medical conditions

Booster clinics will be held for all residents at Kendal on the following dates:

Thursday, October 28
Wednesday, November 3
Thursday, November 4

• Vaccines will be administered by a pharmacist from Hudson Pharmacy.

• Vaccines are available to those who have completed the Pfizer (not Moderna or J&J)
vaccination series.

• Clearwater, Adirondack and Sunnyside residents will be scheduled for the morning of
Thursday, October 28. This will be coordinated by the care team of each
neighborhood.

• Independent Living residents will be scheduled for the afternoon of Thursday,
October 28 and on the November dates listed above.

• Independent Living residents will receive a call in the next week from Kendal’s Resident Services Department to ask if they wish to be placed on the list for a Booster.

• Clinic dates and times will be assigned to Independent Living residents. They will receive information in their cubbies regarding their specific time/date/location prior to the clinic date. Please bring your COVID vaccination card to your appointment.

• Residents who go elsewhere for their Booster are asked to bring an updated copy of their vaccination cards to the Resident Care Center so that we may retain a copy in their records.