Kendal will hold its ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE for the 25 friends and neighbors who passed away in the last year on Monday, February 7 at 7:30 pm.
The Loss Committee will conduct the Service in a Zoom Meeting, so please watch your email for the invitation. It will be recorded and replayed later on Channel 970.
A Play-Reading Group is forming.
If you are interested in getting together regularly to read a variety of plays, here’s your chance.
We’re planning NON-productions (i.e. seated around a table) in the Riverview Conference Room in the evenings after dinner. If you’d like to participate, please contact Jon Masters or Sharry Lukach.
This should be a lot of fun. Close your eyes and you’ll feel as if you’re on Broadway.
The Residents’ Website promises you top-flight, 5-star reviews.
February and March Trips have been announced by Trips Committee Chair Jan Myers.
Thursday, February 3: Jewish Museum, Manhattan
Saturday, February 19: Frick Madison, Manhattan (Trip 1)
Thursday, February 24: Frick Madison, Manhattan (Trip 2)
Wednesday, March 2: Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Saturday, March 12: Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Met Opera HD Live, White Plains
Wednesday, March 16: Orchid Show, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
Please note that the Trips Book is now on the desk at the front entrance.
The Computer Committee, in response to your requests, is announcing several Zoom Workshops, each about 30 minutes long.
February 4, 2 pm: IPHONES & IPADS: HOW & WHY TO ADD BOOKMARKS. Do you use an IPad or IPhone? Do you have a favorite websites? Want to get to those websites quickly and easily? This workshop will be taught by Jeff O’Donnell.
You will receive a Zoom Invitation from Stan Amberg by February 3 and a reminder February 4. (If you do not receive it and want to attend, contact Stan.)
Other Zoom Workshops, dates and times to be determined:
iPHONES: how to share photos in emails and text mesages;
CELLPHONES (NON-iPHONES): how and why to add bookmarks.
We encourage you to request workshops on other subjects.
Contact Joe Bruno.
The Education Committee announced its March Course: “The American Musical and the Pulitzer Prize.”
Only 10 musicals have won the prestigious Pulitzer for Drama. What made these musicals “drama” and worthy of exceptional notice? On Tuesday, March 1, 8, 15 and 22, award-winning stage actor Meg Bussert will give an overview of these remarkable shows and provide an in-depth look at three: Of Thee I Sing, South Pacific, and Fiorello.
Sign-up sheets will be distributed in early February.
The course leader Meg Bussert is a recently retired Associate Professor of Acting and Music Theatre Studies at NYU Steinhardt’s Vocal Performance Program.
Questions? See Fran Kelly.
On Monday, January 31, at 7:30 pm, via Zoom, Tracy Brown will talk about “Restoring a Living River.”
For over half a century, the environmental organization Riverkeeper has been protecting and restoring the Hudson River from source to sea. What began as a small group of fishermen has grown into one of the region’s leading voices for clean water.
In the fall of 2021, Tracy Brown took the helm as Riverkeeper’s new President bringing her scientifically grounded and community-driven approach to bear in meeting the challenges of pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. In this talk she will share stories, lessons learned, and information about Riverkeeper’s current priorities, and how you can get involved to support the cause of clean water.
Residents are invited to join in for this talk on January 31. A Zoom invitation will be sent to all.
Life Goes On
All of us here are well aware of the fact that we are living in a difficult time. Though it requires disruptions of normal living patterns, life at Kendal goes on as normally as possible. Actually, we’re doing fine.
Though, for our own good, we're not yet back to dining with one another (maybe next week we are told), the high quality of our meals has remained constant our residents report.
The apartments continue to get cleaned and the linens changed. Our residents are promised the yearly full-service cleaning for those who have not had it done in the last 12 months.
The Residents Council continues its meetings and has even formed a mixed group of residents and staff to discuss the quality of the relationship between the two groups.
We've had our first couple of small snowstorms. The snow removal company that takes care of the roads and paths has kept us pretty mobile for those that want to brave the chilly winds.
The staff at the Fitness Center is doing their utmost to see that residents get their exercise. Cold weather keeps people indoors.
There is lots more to report, but the message is that life goes on at Kendal in as normal a fashion as possible. We're doing fine. Hope the same applies to you.
One of the most important pieces of information residents should have is what to do in case of a fire. Kendal is built to lessen the possibility of fires and fire damage, but one never knows. In the recent disastrous Bronx fire where 19 people died, all the deaths actually came from smoke poisoning and not fire itself.
Kendal will hold a Forum on Fire Safety via Zoom on Monday at 1:00 pm.
We are fortunate in having on hand our Director of Facilities Bob Michael, who is well-trained in this matter, to address the group and answer questions.
All residents are strongly encouraged to attend the session.
The arrival of February’s Give & Take Table is almost upon us.
Kendal’s popular recycling venue will be “up and running” again from Tuesday, February 1, until and including Monday, February 8.
Please bring your new and gently used household items, tchotchkes, books, CDs, and jewelry, but no clothing, no shoes, no sharp objects, no broken stuff, to the Terrace level between the Residents Care Center and the PT/OT room.
Continuing our pilot project to turn clean and rinsed redeemable bottles and cans into cash, a box will be provided to collect them. The Environmental Sustainability Committee will try to find a solution to avoid having to keep empties in apartments for as long as a month.
A second trip has been added by the Trips Committee to the Frick Madison, New York City. It will take place on Thursday, February 24, departing at 9:30 am.
This second visit has been added to see the Frick’s Old Master paintings in new surroundings. For the first time, all art works are arranged chronologically and by region in separate galleries, including paintings by Bellini, Fragonard, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vermeer, and Whistler.
French decorative arts, porcelain, Indian Mughal carpets, Limoges enamels, and clocks owned by Henry Clay Frick are also on display.
The Frick Madison is the former Met Breuer and the temporary home of the Frick Collection while the mansion on Fifth Avenue is being renovated and expanded.
A Note from the Trips Committee
A Message from the Trips Committee. The blue Trips Book has disappeared from the Activities Alcove. It contains sign-up sheets and documentation on venues to be visited, which is important for the orientation of residents interested in any of the trips.
The committee requests that the book be returned to the alcove without delay.
© Kendal on Hudson Residents Association 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 all rights reserved. Please do not reproduce without permission.
Photographs of life at Kendal on Hudson are by residents.