Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying, “An Army marches on its stomach.” The residents at Kendal don’t do much marching, but what goes into their stomachs is of considerable importance.
So, the Dining Advisory Committee, under the leadership of Margo Berger, will have an open meeting on Friday, Nov 12, at 3:00 pm in the Gathering Room. Members of the culinary staff will also be on hand.
All residents invited!
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
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” 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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