MONTGOMERY MESSENGER

RESIDENTS’ COUNCIL ELECTION

I t is time for the annual election for the Residents’ Council. The Council

consists of twelve members, elected to two-year terms. Every year the term of six members of the Council expires, requiring the election of replacements to fill those vacancies. All Independent Living residents are Residents’ Association members and are entitled to participate in the nomination and election of six Council members, who are elected to two-year terms, and two alternates, who are elected to one-year terms. Nominees must have resided at Montgomery Place for at least three months. Council members whose terms are expiring are eligible for renomination. You may nominate yourself. A nominator must seek the nominee’s consent in advance and the nominee must sign the nomination form. To nominate one or more persons for Council membership, enter your name and theirs on a nomination form (use a separate form for each nominee) and have them sign the agreement to “serve if

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The Newsletter of the Residents of Montgomery Place Retirement Community 5550 South Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60637

May 2018, Vol. 28, No. 5 www.montgomeryplace.org/category/news/messenger/

RUMMAGE TO BOOKS

R ummage sale money has been turned into books! The Residents’ Council voted at its

last meeting to donate money for classroom libraries to Bret Harte School. I contacted the school principal, Charles Bright, and arranged the program with him. A check for $1,600 has been given to 57th Street Books, and in the coming weeks eight teachers from the school will go to the store and select recreational reading books for their classrooms. We expect to continue this program as more money becomes available. The staff of Bret Harte has expressed their deep gratitude to our residents. This book program is a continuation of the relationship we started with the school two years ago when many of their students came here to meet with their Montgomery Place neighbors after receiving money from us for their trip to Springfield.

Muriel Rogers

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elected.” Place all signed forms in the ballot box at the Front Desk. The deadline for turning in nominations is Monday, May 21. The Election Committee will compile a list of candidates and distribute the election ballots on June 1. The deadline for returning the ballots (box at the Front Desk) is June 14. The six candidates receiving the most votes will fill the six Council vacancies and the next two will be seated as the first and second alternates. The Election Committee, comprised of the continuing members of the Council, will count the votes and post the results on the bulletin board by the US mailboxes on June 20. The new Council members will take office at the c lose of the meet ing of the Residents’ Association on June 21, 2018.

Alex Veliko, Chair, Election Committee

CINCO DE MAYO

T he first Saturday in May 2018 will be a Chicago-area celebration of the Mexican

holiday Cinco de Mayo. Even though May 5 is touted in a big way in the US in our newspapers, in restaurants, and on radio and TV, it is actually a minor holiday in Mexico. Mexico had declared its independence on September 16, 1810, when it declared war against Spain and the conflict ended that country’s rule. But by 1860, President Juarez announced that Mexico was having difficulty paying its debts. The French took this as an opportunity to invade Mexico with plans to make it one of their colonies. The Mexican army—ragtag as it was—resisted the French efforts and defeated France at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 (Cinco de Mayo in Spanish). President Juarez was restored to power, and the victorious Mexican soldiers went on to inspire the American Union troops in their Civil War up north. The United States appreciated Mexico’s independent spirit, and we celebrate Cinco de Mayo to this day, especially in our Hispanic neighborhoods. The weekend of May 4-6 in Chicago will feature Mexican food and drink in restaurants and bars, Mexican arts and crafts exhibits, live mariachi music , Cinco de Mayo cruises on Lake Michigan, a Wrigleyville pub crawl, Spanish standup comedy at the Laugh Factory, salsa and other folk dances, Zumba fitness exercises, and even a Mexican cooking class, all culminating in the Cinco de Mayo Parade in Little Village at noon on Sunday, May 6. All theses activities are available to the general public. If you’re feeling celebratory on May 5, why not call your favorite Mexican restaurant and order in! Olé!

Barbara Wilson

Spring

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OUT AND ABOUT

Editor: Paula Givan

Contributors: Bernice Auslander, Laurieann

Chutis, Phil Hefner, Ruthie Herman, Ed

Krentz, Marion Krentz, Evi Levin, Stan Moore,

Muriel Rogers, Dorothy Scheff, Monica

Schwartz, Bernard Strauss, Alex Veliko, Chuck

West, Barbara Wilson, Anne Zeidman

Staff Contributors: Deborah Hart,

Chaplain Laura Gottardi-Littel

Artwork: Nate Kalichman

Layout: Carolyn Allen

Production: Creshanna Henry

Calendars: Barbara Wilson

Editor Next Month: Kyoko Inoue

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interesting art exhibits on view. The Dame Myra Hess Concert, featuring Alicia Choi, violin, and Futaba Niekawa, piano, runs from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p .m . O r yo u m a y t a k e a f r e e 4 5 -minute building tour at 1:15 p.m. The tour departs from the first floor Randolph Street lobby. Reservations are not required, but the 20 available slots book up fast. Free. ♦ Thursday, May 10, 1 p.m. All-Chicago Encore Chorale concert at Fourth Presbyterian Church. See page 7 for more details about Encore Chorale choirs and concerts. Free. ♦ Friday, May 11, 9:30 a.m. Home Depot Garden Store. This is the first of three trips in May for the purpose of collecting plants and accessories. It will be of special interest to those who are tending a bit of our garden this summer, but these trips are also fun for anyone who loves plants. Free. ♦ Wednesday, May 16, 1 p.m. Steppenwolf Theatre, The Doppelgänger. In the back channels of international resource politics, a wealthy British businessman suffers an untimely accident just before a critical African copper deal is signed. When his unwitting (and witless) Amer ican doppe lgänge r i s t h ru s t i n to negotiations to avert intercontinental disaster, chaos erupts, leaving us wondering: whose side we are supposed to be on . . . and who will save Africa? This is a timely look at the backroom deals that shape our world and the unlikely cast of characters who make them. Tickets required. ♦ Thursday, May 17, 7 p.m. Court Theatre, The Originalist. John Strand’s new work shows just how much passion for the law and risk it takes to defend one’s version of the truth. When a Harvard Law School graduate takes a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of America’s most brilliant and controversial figures, she discovers in him an infuriating opponent and an unexpected mentor. Their relationship faces the ultimate test as they confront one of the most polarizing cases to reach the nation’s highest court. Tickets required. ♦ Friday, May 18, 9:30 a.m. Hyde Park Garden Fair. This is the second plant-buying trip, and a

CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE

H ere is the list of bus outings for May. Don’t forget to sign up in the Trip Book for any

event you want to attend, and arrive promptly for the bus. Times listed are when the bus leaves. “Ticke t s requi red” means tha t you are responsible for getting your own ticket. Ask the concierge if you need help. ♦ Tuesday, May 1, 11:50 a.m. LSTC organ recital. Program to be announced. Free. ♦ Friday, May 4, noon. Lunch outing to The Bagel. Established in 1950, the Bagel is dedicated to serving delicious traditional Jewish cooking. The founders brought with them from the Old World a lifetime of prized traditional recipes and family secrets. Enjoy! ♦ Sunday, May 6, 1:30 p.m. Congregation Rodfei Zedek, Encore Chorale Hyde Park spring concert. For more information, see page 7. Free. ♦ Wednesday, May 9, 11 a.m. Loop trip. The bus will drop you off at the Chicago Cultural Center or Water Tower Place, and pick you up at the same location at a time agreed upon by the participants. The Cultural Center has several

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wonderful opportunity to meet your neighbors and acquire locally grown plants. Free. ♦ Friday, May 18, 12:30 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Series B. Mahler’s final completed work before his tragic death at the age of 50, the Ninth Symphony is fearlessly introspective, containing some of his most devastatingly beautiful music. Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in this profound work. Tickets required. ♦ Sunday, May 20, 1 p.m. TimeLine Theatre, To Catch a Fish. Inspired by true events, this new play examines how the pursuit of justice, however well-intentioned, can devastate a community. In a low-income residential neighborhood of Milwaukee, Terry Kilburn has just begun a new job handing out flyers for a discount warehouse. When his bosses start asking more of him, his loved ones begin to question what is really going on. As higher stakes are revealed and relationships tested, the question of whom to trust and what to believe becomes increasingly murky. Tickets required. ♦ Wednesday, May 23, 9:30 a.m. Gethsemane Garden Center. This is the final plant-buying trip, and the ultimate garden store. It has everything you might imagine and more—indoor and outdoor plants and accessories of every description. Free. ♦ Thursday, May 24, 1 p.m. Goodman Theatre, Having Our Say is adapted from a memoir by Sarah L. Delany and Elizabeth Delany (with Amy Hill Hearth). Trailblazers, activists, and best friends, the Delany sisters—103-year-old Sadie and Bessie, age 101—take us on a journey of triumphs over prejudice in times of social unrest. Celebrate the story of a century in this funny and heartfelt family saga. Tickets required. ♦ Friday, May 25, 12:30 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Series A. Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program that pairs Brahms’s captivating Variations on a Theme by Haydn with Schoenberg’s hauntingly beaut i ful Transfigured Night and Bartók’s serene and expressive Third Piano Concerto, featuring Mitsuko Uchida. Tickets required.

♦ Thursday, May 31, 1 p.m. Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. We will visit the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven and the bird house, featuring a blue-headed macaw and an ivory-billed aracari. The Chicago Academy of Sciences was founded in 1857 by nature aficionados and amateur scientists seeking a space where they could study and share the specimens they collected. It was citizen science in action before the term was even invented! In addition to being Chicago’s f i r s t p r i v a t e s c i e n t i f i c m u s e um , t h e Academy became Chicago’s first public museum when it opened its doors to all visitors in 1869. Thursdays are free, but “suggested donation days,” for Illinois residents.

Bernice Auslander

MAY BIRTHDAYS

5/2 Grace Newman

5/5 Monica Schwartz

5/10 Max Katz

5/10 Marilyn Weigensberg

5/11 Joan Bernstein

5/11 Ruthie Herman

5/14 Alex Elwyn

5/22 Yvette Moloney

5/22 Anne Seiden

5/25 Donna Graham

5/26 James Ratcliffe

5/27 Ed Krentz

5/29 David Lubell

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MEET PAUL ZAPPOLI

W e welcome Paul Zappoli, our new Director of Dining Services. His position at

Montgomery Place is to oversee all food operations, hire staff members, and uphold the high quality of food and service. Paul was born in Brooklyn and raised in New Jersey. He is the eldest of three children, part of a large extended family with Italian and Jewish roots. His parents owned a toy store for 35 years and he and his siblings worked at the store and learned about running a family business. His brother, who is one year younger, had jobs cooking in a variety of restaurants. There were many fami ly ga ther ings wi th eve ryone contributing to the cooking experience. After working in restaurants in every capacity in both New York and the California wine country, Paul teamed up with his brother in 2008 to open an Italian restaurant called Tre Amici in New Jersey. They ran it successfully for seven years. The y l e a r n ed a l o t a bou t owne r sh i p , management, and service. Paul married Rebecca the year he bought the restaurant. They have enjoyed a lasting relationship for ten years. Their daughter Rikki was born in 2009 and their son Jacob in 2011. Rebecca was raised in Buffalo Grove, and in 2017 the family relocated to Glenview to be near her family of origin. During his initial stay in Chicago, Paul worked at Mercat a la Planxa, a fine Spanish restaurant in the Blackstone Hotel. He en joyed h i s ex tens ive management experiences there, and he is looking forward eagerly to applying his skills to our Montgomery Place dining. Paul is enthusiastic about our CEO’s vision for our beautiful Dining Room to become the best restaurant in Hyde Park, one that only our residents and their invited guests can enjoy. Welcome, Paul.

Monica Schwartz

HONORS

C ongratulations to new resident Gene Parker, who was awarded the 2018 Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research by the American Physical Society, the world’s second-largest organization of physicists. The medal w a s e s t a b l i s h e d “ t o r e c o g n i z e contributions of the highest level that a d v a n c e o u r k n o w l e d g e a n d understanding of the physical universe in all its facets. It is intended to celebrate scientific inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge.” Gene was cited for his “many fundamental contributions to space physics, plasma physics, solar physics, and astrophysics during the past 60 plus years.”

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

T he League of Women Voters will meet on Thursday, May 17, at 1:30 p.m. in the East

Room. The subject w i l l b e w a t e r management in the City of Chicago. What is the quality of the water coming into our homes? Is our water safe? Which agency is equipped to oversee the situation and act to make changes, if needed? The Environmental Committee is seeking to partner with other groups working on this issue. Together we can monitor the situation and work to correct problems in our system. Please join us. Everyone is welcome.

Dorothy Scheff, Chair, League of Women Voters

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MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS

M y children are protective of their mother and want to decide which movies she should be

allowed to see (sort of a reverse PG13). While super-violent action movies leave her cold, or rather asleep, Netflix has a whole variety of films, often foreign language, that do keep us awake and strangely enough meet the children’s requirements. Many films seem to be simply made—maybe a low budget is an advantage. I’d particularly like to mention two Israeli films, The Matchmaker and The Band’s Visit; a 1947 Japanese film, One Wonderful Sunday; a Lebanese movie, Caramel—how often does a movie have Hebrew, Arabic, and English used about equally?; a Belgian movie, The Unknown Girl; and a quintessential French movie, Potiche, starring a

MAY FILMS

S everal extraordinary films are i n c l ud ed i n t h i s mon t h ’ s

viewing. A Russian film takes us through the art and history of the Hermitage Museum, while the d o c um e n t a r y s h ow s u s t h e remarkable modernist architecture of Columbus, Indiana. In the Lounge and on TV channel 4 at 7:15 p.m. Popcorn and lemonade are available in the Lounge on Monday evenings. Monday Films: ♦ May 7, The Grifters. 1990. American neo-noir crime drama produced by Martin Scorsese, and starring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening. A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play. Four Oscar nominations. 1 hour 50 minutes. Presented by Anne Cifu. ♦ May 14, Good Morning, Vietnam. 1987. American comedy-drama war film. In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake things up, to the consternation of senior officers, when he is assigned to the US Armed Services radio station in Vietnam. Starring Robin Williams, who received an Oscar nomination, with Forrest Whittaker. 2 hours. Presented by Evi Levin. ♦ May 21, Taxi Driver. 1976. American film directed by Martin Scorsese. The film stars Robert De Niro as a lonely war veteran who takes a job as a New York taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia. The film also features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks. Some critics say it is the greatest film of all time. 1 hour 54 minutes. Presented by Leah Kadden. ♦ May 28, Dead Man Walking. 1995. A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim’s families. Based on the life of Sister Helen Prejean, who fought tirelessly against the death penalty. Sarandon won the Oscar for best actress. 2 hours 2 minutes. Presented by Phil Hefner.

Thursday Documentary:

♦ May 3, Columbus. 2017. A quasi-documentary about the architecture of Columbus, Indiana. Major late-twentieth century architects designed buildings for the city. Through the eyes of a visiting couple, personal reactions to the designs are also explored. 1 hour 44 minutes . Presented by Shantha Monippallil. Thursday Foreign Language Films: ♦ May 17, Nine Queens. 2000. Argentine crime drama. Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the “nine queens”). Considered a classic of Argentine filmmaking. 1 hour 54 minutes. Presented by Phil Hefner. ♦ May 24, Russian Ark. 2002. Experimental historical drama directed by Alexander Sokurov. A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. It was filmed entirely in the Winter Palace of t h e Ru s s i a n S t a t e He rm i t a g e Mu s e um . 1 hour 39 minutes. Presented by Nina Dicken.

Movie Fan for the Film Discussion Committee

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middle-aged and still spectacular Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. All of these have subtitles, which is fine; I’ve come to rely on subtitles even for American movies. The Matchmaker is an Israeli who gives clients “what they need, not what they want.” But then there is an illegal card game and smuggling in the plot. In Israel? Who knew? I understand that The Band’s Visit has been remade as a Broadway musical; this film about an Egyptian police band on its way to play at an Arab cultural center somewhere in Israel and marooned at an isolated bus stop is sweet without bring saccharine, and is even hopeful. In One Wonderful Sunday, an engaged couple in immediate postwar Japan is so poor they are restricted to meeting once a week until they can save enough to be married. They have the paltry sum of 35 yen to get through the day. Caramel was made in 2007 before the Israeli invasion, and shows a warm and inviting Beirut. The title comes from a mixture of cooked sugar, water, and lemon juice used in the beauty parlor run by six Lebanese women, all with different stories. It’s an intriguing Lebanese soap opera. In the Belgian detective story The Unknown Girl, a physician closes her clinic after a long, tiring day. There is a knock after hours but she decides not to answer. Later the person who knocked is found dead. Who is she? The physician, feeling responsible in some way, decides to find out. Not necessarily my favorite, but certainly fun to watch, is Potiche, more or less translated as “trophy wife.” Catherine Deneuve is the wife of a politically Neanderthal umbrella manufacturer. The workers are planning a strike. Gerard Depardieu is the Marxist leader. The husband has a heart attack (he survives). The wife has to take over. Oh yes, there is a little history in the past of Catherine and Gerard. It’s all perfectly frivolous but based on a tense time in France. And as Roger Ebert pointed out, one can hardly tell that the two main characters are acting.

t h e Ru s s i a n S t a t e He rm i t a g e Mu s e um .

Netflix keeps records—I have been sent 1,269 movies since I began subscribing! Lots of them are films I just discovered by browsing (and then checking Roger Ebert or the New Yorker.) And most of them don’t have any dripping blood.

Bernard Strauss

ENCORE CHORALE CONCERTS

E ncore Chicago presents two concerts in May. The local Encore Hyde Park spring concert

will be at Congregation Rodfei Zedek, 5200 S. Hyde Park Boulevard, at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 6. The All Encore spring concert, including the seven Chicago-area choirs, will be at 2 p.m., Thursday, May 10, at Fourth Presbyterian Church in the main sanctuary, 126 E. Chestnut Street. We have outgrown Buchanan Hall and expect more than 200 singers to perform. The program (identical at both sites) includes American folk songs such as “At the River,” “Poor Wayfaring Stranger,” and a Montgomery Place favorite, “Goodnight, Irene.” All Encore concerts are free and open to the public. Montgomery Place bus service to both concerts will be provided. For the past two years the Encore Chorale Chicago team has provided choral singing opportunities for older adults (55+) in the Chicago a rea unde r the d i rec t ion o f a professional artist. No auditions are required. Singing with Encore is fun, challenging, and rewarding. When the fall season is scheduled, we will inform Montgomery Place residents.

Marion Krentz

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today will help us as these and other concepts arise in the future. Our management team focuses on programs and cha l l enges o f today and we engage in conve r sa t ions abou t the fu t u re . The se conversations keep us challenged and engaged in planning our service to residents.

Deborah Hart, CEO/Executive Director

GREAT COURTROOM DRAMAS

O n April 27 we began our Friday morning DVD lecture series, “The Great Trials of

World History and the Lessons They Teach Us.” The lecturer for this series is Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri Law School. The 24-week series starts with the trial of

S o c r a t e s i n a n c i e n t Athens, and includes the A b r a h a m L i n c o l n consp i racy t r ia l , t he murder trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb (both Hyde Park residents), the Scopes Monkey Trial (Clarence Darrow, also a Hyde Parker, defended Scopes), the Nuremberg World

War II Trials, and the trial of the Chicago Eight (who f i gu r ed i n t he 1968 Democ ra t i c convention). The series ends with the trial of O. J. Simpson. You will enjoy this series! Courtroom trials are intriguing and full of surprises. They are also rich in history and culture. The series is shown on Fridays at 10 a.m. in the Lounge and on TV channel 4. We welcome feedback and volunteers for the committee that selects the lectures. Contact Stephanie Butler or Phil Hefner.

Phil Hefner for the DVD Lecture Committee

I n April, many members of our management team attended the Leading Age Illinois annual

confe rence . Leading Age i s a na t iona l association of nonprofit providers of senior living services. Our team members participated in learning sessions on strategic planning, workforce management, financial strategies, regulatory changes, and activities programming. Presenters shared ideas and discussed concepts other companies have incorporated to improve their services to residents. We came to understand just how many of today’s leading ideas we have already incorporated into our workplace strategies. One e xamp l e i s r e l a t e d t o wo rk fo r c e enhancements. We heard recommendations to invest in staff to engage them in more than just the tasks of their jobs. Employees who feel empowered to suggest improvements and participate in implementation of new ideas feel more engaged in their jobs. Our team has been promoting conversation between managers and staff to explore new methods of service delivery. We understand that those closest to the delivery point often have ideas for improvement, and we are listening! Another intriguing session explored ideas on future concepts of senior living. How will delivery systems look in ten years? Will we have robots performing more service functions? Will we need parking garages if we have self-driving cars? How will individuals who, through medical advances, live well past 100 years, be able to afford their lifestyle? In sessions such as these, no answers are available. However, exploration of these topics

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Kazakh students are currently studying in the United States. In 2017, Kazakhstan hosted a major conference on world religions. The regime is changing the written Kazakh alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin. Afterwards, one of the ambassador’s entourage sprang to take the picture we requested. I thanked the ambassador for hosting us for a month teaching English at Ablai Khan University in 2005 after a longer stint in Kyrgyzstan. I said our only disappointment was in not visiting Dostoevsky’s second place of exile in Semipalatinsk in remote northeast Kazakhstan. “Oh,” he said, “I’m from there.” So Dias has his picture of the ambassador. And we can say we visited Dostoevsky vicariously, thanks to the ambassador’s place of birth.

Stan Moore

A FEW WORDS WITH THE AMBASSADOR

R ecently, three people from Saint Louis visited us: my former student Dr. Miriam

Rodin, her adopted Kazakh son Dias, and her brother Jared, who occasionally plays trombone at the CSO. A few days later we attended a talk by Erzhan Kazykhanov, the Kazakh ambassador to the United States. We had watched Dias, now fluent in both English and Russian, grow from babyhood into a handsome high school sophomore, more than six feet tall. He was much intrigued: would we shake the ambassador’s hand and even get his picture? Dias was studying the history of his native land. Expecting a large crowd and a distant figure at a podium, we were pleased to find only 25 of us in a seminar room around an oblong table. The ambassador sat opposite me and addressed me ninety percent of the time in his talk. Kazakhstan is moving toward democracy, he said, even though unmentioned was the presidency of Nurzultan Nazarbayev, which has lasted since independence from Russia in 1991. Oil, one of the nation’s richest and most abundant resources, is piped to the Caspian port of Baku and thence to Europe. A new Silk Road is expanding its network under the aegis of a Belt and Road Initiative, with China becoming a newly-important partner, modeling its New Economic Zone. A thousand

Jan and Stan Moore with Erzhan Kazykhanov,

Kazakh ambassador to the United States

MUSIC IN THE EAST ROOM ♦ Tuesday, May 1, 7:15 p.m. Montgomery Singers singalong. ♦ Saturday, May 5, 2 p.m. Donna Lee Fackenthal’s piano students in their high school senior recital. ♦ Sunday, May 6, 2 p.m. Frank Showers, pianist, performing a “Hymn Sing in Jazz Style.” ♦ Sunday, May 20, 2 p.m. “Senior Moments,” musical entertainment from Broadway musicals, presented by Ray Kasman. ♦ Sunday, May 20, 7 p.m. Students of the Music Teachers of Hyde Park present a student recital. ♦ Sunday, May 27, 2 p.m. The Chen Family String Quartet returns to the East Room. We will have the opportunity to personally congratulate Beatrice Chen, who won first prize ($10,000) in the viola division of the 2018 Johansen International Competition for Young String Players! She was the youngest winner at 14 years old. The Krentz family will host the reception in celebration of Ed Krentz’s 90th birthday.

Muriel Rogers and Anne Zeidman,

Co-chairs, Music Committee

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tank’s vitals, such as water chemistry and temperature, and to perform any needed cleaning. As the aquarium stabilizes he will add larger, more exotic examples to the community from time to time and rearrange the rock nooks and caves for variety. Please visit your new neighbors in the Lounge, particularly at feeding times, when they become quite agitated. Spend just a few minutes at any other time watching the leisurely activity and you’ll understand why the aquarium is named “Serenity.”

Chuck West

OUR NEW AQUATIC RESIDENTS

I n ear ly Apri l we parted company with the saltwater

aquarium in the Lounge as our seven oceanic friends transferred to a new home. A few days later a new tank, twice the size of the old one, was instal led and prepared for occupancy by two dozen freshwater fish. The decor in the tank now features gravel, rocks, and plants usually found in rivers, lakes, and streams, instead of the previous sand and corals from the oceans. The new residents are members of the cichlid family. While they were born and raised in the US, their distant ancestors came out of Africa, as indeed did all of ours. Specifically, their forebears were inhabitants of the African Great Lakes: Victoria, Tanganyika, Edward, and Malawi. The cichlid family boasts more than 1650 different species, ranging from one inch to more than three feet. Ours are small now and will grow as they mature (but not, one hopes, into the three-foot variety). Our previous aquarium required daily attention from our staff, while the new tank pretty much takes care of itself, with an automatic feeder dispensing morning and evening meals to the inhabitants at around 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Cichlids are vegetarians, so any algae that forms in the tank provides a salad bar for between-meal snacks. As denizens of shallow-water lakes and streams, cichlids like to hang out among the hidey-holes provided by the rocks in our tank, particularly when they are ready to reproduce. Some varieties deposit their eggs on the roofs of the rock overhangs, while others are mouth-brooders, incubating the eggs in their mouths and sheltering the small fry there until the babies are ready to fend for themselves. Once a month a technician from our supplier, Serenity Aquarium Services, visits to check the

PLAYREADERS

P layreaders will read to you on Tuesday, May 8, at 7:15 p.m. in the East Room. There are

several possibilities under consideration. Apologies for the ambiguous message about the April Playreaders. People thought “postponed till further notice” meant no more Playreaders at all until further notice. What happened was, no sooner did enough people agree to take part than readers got sick one after another. Photograph 51 is a challenging work, so we’ll let Court Theatre take a stab at it next winter before we go back to it. Seriously, it will be fun to do at a future time.

Anne Zeidman, Chair, Playreaders

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IN THE GREENHOUSE

A t the April meeting of the Environmental Services Committee, Chuck West

announced that Laurieann Chutis and Ruthie Herman have volunteered to oversee all matters relating to plants in the Greenhouse, including clarification of guidelines to be followed by residents. All infrastructure matters, such as heating and lighting of the Greenhouse, remain with Chuck, and Laurieann wil l cont inue to keep the committee updated. When Ruthie moved to Montgomery Place in May 2017, she missed her garden. Strolling around the outdoor plots and pots that were being cared for by residents was very enjoyable. When the cooler weather came,

placing her many orchid p l a n t s i n t h e

G r e e n h o u s e h e l p e d

t h e m thrive.

F o r t h e 2018 summer season, she has taken

responsibility for the care of all orchids that were left in the Greenhouse when residents moved or could no longer take care of them. Laurieann has kept several large beautiful geranium plants in the garden for several seasons and has wintered them in the Greenhouse, to the enjoyment of all. She is a lifetime lover of plants, and having the Greenhouse has enabled her to continue her previous successes when she had a solarium full of trees and unusual plants. As a bonus, Laurieann finds the Greenhouse a wonderful place for meditation. This article is intended to help new residents understand the Greenhouse and remind all residents of the purpose and guidelines in place.

First the Do’s: ♦ Enjoy coming to the Greenhouse at all times. ♦ If you have a plant that you can’t keep in your apartment, bring it to the Greenhouse with your name on it. You will be responsible for watering and all care. Clearly label your tools or other items with your name; otherwise, anyone may use them. ♦ The lower level workstation has been designated for any work (such as pruning and repotting) you want to do on your own plants, including plants you keep in your apartment. ♦ Please do clean up after yourself! Now the Don’ts: ♦ Do not water, trim, or do any other work on any plant that is not yours, no matter how tempting. ♦ Do not just drop off a plant; you must care for your plants. There is no maintenance staff to take care of plants. Only you know what particular care your plant requires. Sadly, if this rule is not followed, the plant may have to be discarded. The Greenhouse is a wonderful place. Your help is needed to keep it so. Any questions or ideas about plants can be directed to Laurieann at 4638 and Ruthie at 4017.

Ruthie Herman and Laurieann Chutis,

Co-managers of Greenhouse Plants

NEWS OF THE ART COMMITTEE

T h e A r t Commi t t e e h a s b e e n reconstituted and is ready to go to

work. The new regular meeting time is the third Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. in the Studio. The next meeting will take place on Thursday, May 17. All are welcome.

Bernice Auslander, Chair, Art Committee

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IN MEMORIAM

method of cowardice. It does resist. It is not a method of stagnant passivity and deadening complacency. The nonviolent resister is just as opposed to the evil that he is standing against as the violent resister but he resists without violence. This method is nonaggressive physically but strongly aggressive spiritually.” He set forth clearly a spiritual basis for his movement: “To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.” He enumerates six traits that the nonviolent resister must internalize. ♦ First, the nonviolent justice resister is spiritually aggressive, because “his mind and emotions are always active, constantly seeking to persuade his opponent that he is wrong.” ♦ Second, militant nonviolence “does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent but to win his friendship and understanding. The end is redemption and reconciliation.” ♦ Third, the attack is directed against forces of evil, not persons. “We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.” ♦ Fourth, willingness to accept suffering without retaliation. “Things of fundamental

MARTIN LUTHER KING: APOSTLE OF MILITANT NONVIOLENCE

L ast month, we marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in

Memphis. King’s impact on our society was through actions of militant nonviolent resistance on behalf of marginalized groups. He said his movement was an expression of Jesus’s love, specifically as it was stated in the Sermon on the Mount, while the method of this love was provided by Gandhi. Interestingly, all three of these leaders—Jesus, Gandhi, and King—evoked sharp disagreement among their followers over their strategies of nonviolence. All three were killed by their opposition, Jesus and King before they reached 40 years of age. Nonviolence rests on the audacious belief in a “double conversion”—(1) the conversion of the militant nonviolent confronters to a trust in the persons they are confronting. They take the risk that the opponents, the oppressors, will in turn (2) undergo a conversion that will enable them to respond with a reciprocal trust. The nonviolent activists are converted to a desire to elicit the best from the ones they are confronting, while their opponents are converted to respond in ways that express their own best selves. King said that he wanted his opponents to be able to say after the confrontation, “I did what was right and good.” “Double conversion” is a risky proposition. It can fail. From the very beginning, the philosophy of nonviolent resistance undergirded the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955-56. There was always the problem of getting this method across because it didn’t make sense to most of the people in the beginning. King wrote, “We had to explain nonviolence to a community of people who had never heard of the philosophy and in many instances were not sympathetic with it. We had to make it clear that nonviolent resistance is not a

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importance to people are not secured by reason alone, but have to be purchased with their suffering.” ♦ Fifth, internal violence of the spirit must be avoided as much as external physical violence. ♦ Sixth, nonviolent resistance is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice. Barack Obama frequently says, “The arc of history bends toward justice.” The discussion goes on today—is nonviolence the most viable strategy for overcoming oppression, injustice, and discrimination? Does the arc of history actually bend toward justice? Or will we meet hate with hate, violence with violence, and thereby intensify the evil?

Phil Hefner

BOOKLOVERS

L ucky Girl, our May selection, is a memoir by Mei-Ling Hopgood. Adopted as a baby, the

author was never really curious about her Asian roots. Then one day, when she was in her twenties, her birth family came calling—on the phone, on the computer, in a language she didn't

unders tand . The Wangs wanted her to re tu rn home . D e l v i n g i n t o Chinese culture and tradition, the author tells a very human t a l e abou t s e l f -ident i ty and the complex concept of family. Mei-Ling Hopgood i s a n a w a r d -winning journalist who has written for the Detroit Free

Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, National Geographic Traveler, and the Miami Herald. A newspaper feature she wrote for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the reunion with her birth family won a national award from the Asian American Journalists Association. She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina with her husband and their two daughters. When you are finished with the book, please return it to me so that I may share it with our growing group of Booklovers. This month’s selection is not available on audio. Residents have volunteered to read the book to others who have trouble reading, so call me at 4638 and I will work on getting you connected! Our next meeting to discuss Lucky Girl and get the next book will be on Monday May 21 at 3:30 p.m. in the LLLC. Elizabeth Deegan-Rojo will be the discussion leader. All are welcome!

Laurieann Chutis, Chair, Booklovers Group

ADAGES A book in the hand is worth two on the shelf. I read that somewhere. It may be generally true, but Wouldn’t it depend upon the book? Two murder mysteries are not equal To one great Greek tragedy, the Bacchae, say. Adages are generally true, But may be specifically false. A rolling stone gathers no moss! Who wants moss anyway? A stitch is time saves nine. But are the pants worth saving? Beat swords into ploughshares. Isaiah has it generically right! But shouldn’t one fight evil? Ed Krentz

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FOOTPRINTS

“You leave no footprints. No one is watching you, but you’re part of history.” Lt. Bill Lee, Marine guard at JFK grave at Arlington Cemetery. City streets, throngs walking— some with canes, joggers, soldiers in military stride, shuffling homeless, stylish gal, stiletto heels, button down suit, uniformed nurses and nuns. Step by step, each one puts a foot down. Track those footsteps, count them— beyond counting, naming them even more unlikely. But those who passed were there, their steps as real as if they were cast in bronze. They pass by caught for a moment then gone— but each one knows they were there, however history unfolds, is written down, or explained. They hear the word: “You are that history.”

Phil Hefner

HEWSON SWIFT CONCERTS

T he five Wednesdays in May will be filled with concerts on CD.

♦ May 2, I will speak about a l i t t l e - k n own c omp o s e r , Alexander Zemlinsky, whose widow Walter and I met in New York. We became friends and she p resen ted a l l roya l t i e s o f he r husband’s string quartets to the University of Cincinnati, where the LaSalle Quartet was in residence. I will play recordings of Zemlinsky’s second and third string quartets played by Walter Levin and his LaSalle Quartet. ♦ May 9, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, whose final movement is the famous chorale, “Ode to Joy,” was performed after the liberation of East Germany as the “Ode to Freedom,” Leonard Bernstein conducting. Leah Kadden will play and speak about her recording of this work. ♦ May 16, Lucille Wolf will present her recording of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 played by the Vienna Symphony conducted by Zubin Mehta, with the soprano solo sung by Ileana Cotrubas. ♦ May 23, Ed Krentz will play his “only CD of Big Bands You Will Ever Want to Hear.” ♦ May 30, The voice of res ident Elsa Charlston, a professional singer, will be heard in a recording of songs by Schubert and pieces by 20th-century composers Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. Elsa will present her own CD. Please join us in the Lounge each Wednesday to listen to these CD concerts starting at 7:15 p.m.

Evi Levin, Chair, Hewson Swift Concerts

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ARCHEOLOGICAL TREMORS

A youngster asks his parents “Where did I come from?” They are reduced

to the birds and the bees. “No! No!” the youngster says. “I know all that! I meant where did I come from? Cincinnati or Cleveland?” Modern genetics may have a way of answering, and it prompted an editorial in the March 29 issue of the journal Nature : “Use and Abuse of Ancient DNA.” What’s that all about? First, it’s about some discoveries of the past decade. We decay. “Dust to dust” is pretty accurate. It turns out that our bones contain a mineral made of calcium phosphate and that DNA adheres to this mineral very tightly. So tightly that sections of DNA are protected from natural degradation for tens of thousands of years. The DNA can be extracted and analyzed (full disclosure: I own stock in a company that has perfected a popular method for the analysis). The extracted DNA is contaminated by DNA from bacteria and fungi, but mostly from modern humans. Teaming up with expert stat ist icians, the geneticists can identify the ancient DNA and fit together the ancient sections to construct a DNA sequence of the human from whom the bones came (second full disclosure and a disturbing one: I don’t fully understand these methods and have to accept the results on faith in the scientists). In 2010 Svante Pääbo and his collaborators sequenced a Neanderthal and then showed that many modern humans conta ined a smal l percentage of Neanderthal DNA sequences, indicating some interbreeding. Since 2010 DNA sequencing has gotten faster (and cheaper), and more than 1300 ancient DNA remains have been sequenced. So, what’s the problem? A new book by David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here, summarizes the difficulty. (Reich captured the Science pages of the NY Times in an interview on Tuesday March 20 and an

article in the Sunday Review on March 25.) Given all these remains, we can start to trace the

migrations of people. People who are related have DNA sequences that are r e l a t e d , a n d t h e c l o s e r t h e relationship, the more similar the sequences. It turns out that humans h a v e m o v e d a b o u t a l o t . Archeologists and linguists have also studied the movement of people by tracing the relationships of language and of artifacts, such as pots, left

behind. An example is the Bell Beaker Pots deposited in numerous gravesites in Europe. Did one group just copy what its neighbors were doing, or did a biologically related group displace its neighbors and substitute its own cultural practices? The answer from genetics seems to depend on the locality. In Iberia, there seems to have been cultural copying, but the remains in Northern Europe indicate that by 4,000 years ago the people who built Stonehenge had been displaced by the Bell Beaker people. Overall, the sequences suggest that much of the world is not populated by the original inhabitants. Here’s the point of the “Use and Abuse” in the Nature editorial. Who owns what land is a political problem and questions of ancestry quickly take on political tones. How much weight should be given to analysis of the surviving DNA samples compared to the archeological and linguistic evidence? A common archeological view is that migrations are only one of several possible explanations. The finding of DNA from the plague bacillus in some ancient DNA samples suggests one explanation based on the resistance of a population to disease. Geneticists have not often been noted for their modesty in comparing the importance of their approach to that of other disciplines. Nature’s editors suggest credit ing complementary disciplines and being quick to refute statements that “misconstrue what your insights actually reveal.”

Bernard Strauss

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DEAR RESIDENTS AND STAFF,

O ver the past several months, Montgomery Place has experienced mo r e t h a n ou r u su a l number of resident deaths. (I am told this is also true of several other local retirement communities). Some of our staff have experienced losses as well. While these deaths have been due to natural causes and most were expected, a few have been sudden: the person appeared to be doing well, even if there may have been underlying health concerns. In those cases, we have felt not just loss but shock. I write to assure you that in response to our hard season, feelings of distress are natural. Some residents have expressed to me, “Trees are falling.” “Who’s next?” and, “I feel oppressed by all these deaths.” There is a huge upside to living in community; this is the downside. Sorrow and loss are inevitable when you dare to form a real connection with another mortal. Giving expression to grief doesn’t worsen the grief. “It’s like removing a splinter or lancing a boil,” says resident and therapist Laurieann Chutis. Something inside us needs to come out so we can function optimally. Some suggestions: talk with each other, your chaplains, family, and friends. Journal, paint, draw. Attend memorial services to gain closure and catharsis. Try out the bereavement support group for comfort and companionship. Continue relationships and activities that you find nourishing. Spend time in nature. Please contact me whenever you wish at my email address, lgottardi-littell@montplace.com, or by calling the office at 773-753-4118. As the warmer weather arrives, I hope it will be a lighter and healthier season for us all. Take care, Laura

Rev. Laura Gottardi-Littell, M.Div.

Chaplain and Director of Pastoral Care

FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKERS

T he Friday Night Speakers programs start at 7:15 p.m. in the East Room, and usually last

for about one hour. Everyone is invited to attend the programs. Audience questions and discussion follow each presentation. The schedule for May includes three Montgomery Place residents. ♦ May 4, Raise the Roof, a documentary film about the rebuilding of 18th-century Polish synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazis. Introduced by Alex Veliko. ♦ May 11, Bernard Strauss, genetics, U of C, resident. “Pots, People, and Genomes.” (See “Archaeological Tremors” on page 15.) Introduced by Phil Hefner. ♦ May 18, Phil Hefner, theology, resident. “Hyde Park: Its History of People, Politics, and Ideas.” Introduced by Bernard Strauss. ♦ May 25, Ed Krentz, classics, resident. Topic TBA. Introduced by Alex Elwyn.

Phil Hefner for the Friday Night Speakers Committee

NEW YORKER READERS

T he New Yorker Readers will meet

on Saturday, May 19, at 2 p.m. in LLLC. T he a r t i c l e t o b e discussed is “Water and the Wall—A Trip along the Rio Grande” by Nick Paumgarten in the April 23 issue. Copies of the article will be available in the Library. If you have any questions, please call me at 4647.

Dorothy Scheff, Chair, New Yorker Readers

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SPECIAL EVENTS IN MAY

TUESDAY 1 11:50 AM BUS TRIP ORGAN RECITAL AT LSTC (P. 3)

FRIDAY 4 12:00 PM BUS TRIP THE BAGEL RESTAURANT (P. 3)

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT DOCUMENTARY RAISE THE ROOF (P. 16)

SATURDAY 5 2:00 PM EAST ROOM DONNA LEE FACKENTHAL STUDENT RECITAL (P. 9)

SUNDAY 6 1:30 PM BUS TRIP HYDE PARK ENCORE CHORALE AT RODFEI ZEDEK (PP. 3, 7)

2:00 PM EAST ROOM FRANK SHOWERS, PIANO (P. 9)

WEDNESDAY 9 11:00 AM BUS TRIP LOOP TRIP (P. 3)

THURSDAY 10 1:00 PM BUS TRIP ALL-CHICAGO ENCORE CHORALE CONCERT

FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PP. 3, 7)

FRIDAY 11 9:30 AM BUS TRIP HOME DEPOT GARDEN TRIP (P. 3)

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER—BERNARD STRAUSS (P. 16)

SUNDAY 13 NOON-3:30 PM DINING ROOM MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH

WEDNESDAY 16 1:00 PM BUS TRIP STEPPENWOLF THEATRE, THE DOPPELGÄNGER (P. 3)

THURSDAY 17 7:00 PM BUS TRIP COURT THEATRE, THE ORIGINALIST (P. 3)

FRIDAY 18 9:30 AM BUS TRIP HYDE PARK GARDEN FAIR (P. 3)

12:30 PM BUS TRIP CSO SERIES B, MAHLER (P. 4)

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER—PHIL HEFNER (P. 16)

SUNDAY 20 1:00 PM BUS TRIP TIMELINE THEATRE, TO CATCH A FISH (P. 4)

2:00 PM EAST ROOM “SENIOR MOMENTS” MUSICAL WITH RAY KASMAN (P. 9)

7:00 PM EAST ROOM MTHP STUDENT RECITAL (P. 9)

WEDNESDAY 23 9:30 AM BUS TRIP GETHSEMANE GARDEN CENTER TRIP (P. 4)

THURSDAY 24 1:00 PM BUS TRIP GOODMAN THEATRE, HAVING OUR SAY (P. 4)

FRIDAY 25 12:30 PM BUS TRIP CSO SERIES A, SALONEN (P. 4)

7:15-8:15 EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER—ED KRENTZ (P. 16)

SUNDAY 27 2:00 PM EAST ROOM CHEN FAMILY QUARTET (P. 9)

3:15 PM LOUNGE RECEPTION FOR ED KRENTZ’S 90TH BIRTHDAY (P. 9)

MONDAY 28 NOON-3:30 PM DINING ROOM MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC

THURSDAY 31 1:00 PM BUS TRIP PEGGY NOTEBAERT MUSEUM (P. 4)

MONDAY 21 LAST DAY FOR RESIDENTS’ COUNCIL NOMINATIONS (P. 2)

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REGULAR EVENTS IN MAY

MONDAY

7, 14, 21 8:00-9:00 AM BUS TRIP FITNESS WALK, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY

7, 14. 21 9:30-10:30 AM THERAPY ROOM WELLNESS CLINIC WITH WELLNESS STAFF

14 9:30 AM BUS TRIP MARIANO’S GROCERY STORE

21 9:30 AM BUS TRIP HYDE PARK PRODUCE

10:15-11:15 AM LLLC POETRY GROUP

7, 14, 21 11:30 AM-NOON EAST ROOM PHYSICAL FITNESS

7, 14, 21 1:00 & 1:30 PM BUS TRIP LIBRARY & ERRANDS

14 1:30-3:00 PM STUDIO ELECTRONIC GADGETS Q&A

21 2:15-3:15 PM LLLC DINING COMMITTEE

14 3:00-4:00 PM EAST ROOM TOWN MEETING

21 3:30-4:30 PM LLLC BOOKLOVERS GROUP (P. 13)

7 5:20 PM PRIVATE DR FRENCH SPEAKERS’ DINNER TABLE

14 5:20 PM PRIVATE DR GERMAN SPEAKERS’ DINNER TABLE

21 5:20 PM PRIVATE DR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS’ DINNER TABLE

7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 FILM DISCUSSION GROUP MOVIE (P. 7)

TUESDAY

9:30-10:00 AM LOUNGE TAI CHI

1 10:00-11:00 AM STUDIO ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE

10:15 AM-NOON GAME ROOM HYDE PARK BANK

10:45 AM-NOON EAST ROOM MEDITATION

12:15-1:00PM EAST ROOM CARPET BOWLING

1 1:00 PM BUS TRIP FIRST TUESDAY WALGREENS 20% SENIOR DISCOUNT

15 1:00 PM BUS TRIP TRADER JOE’S

22 1:00–3:00 PM THERAPY ROOM AUDIOLOGIST DR LATA JAIN

1:30-2:00 PM POOL WATER AEROBICS WITH KELLY

2:00-3:00 PM EAST ROOM CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP

3:30-5:00 PM CAFÉ WINE AND CHEESE

1 7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM MONTGOMERY SINGERS SINGALONG (P. 9)

8 7:15 PM EAST ROOM PLAYREADERS (P. 10)

15 7:15-8:15 PM LLLC RESIDENTS’ COUNCIL – NOTE CHANGE OF DATE

22 7:15-8:15 PM LLLC SHORT STORY DISCUSSION GROUP

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PLEASE NOTE: Any event listed without a specific date or dates occurs

on that day of the week every week.

Events listed with specific dates occur on those dates only.

WEDNESDAY

8:00-9:00 AM BUS TRIP FITNESS WALK, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY

9 10:30-11:30 AM LIBRARY LIBRARY COMMITTEE

11:00-11:45 AM CHAPEL MIDWEEK EUCHARIST

11:30 AM-NOON EAST ROOM PHYSICAL FITNESS

2, 16 1:00-2:00 PM LOUNGE HEALTHPRO BALANCE CLASS

23 1:00-2:00 PM LOUNGE HEALTHPRO LECTURE

9, 23 1:00-2:00 PM LLLC RACE RELATIONS DISCUSSION GROUP

16 1:30-2:30 PM GAME ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKERS COMMITTEE

1:30-2:30 PM THERAPY ROOM WELLNESS CLINIC WITH WELLNESS STAFF

1:30-2:30 PM STUDIO KNIT AND CROCHET GROUP

3:00-4:15 PM SM. CONF. ROOM BEREAVEMENT GROUP (P. 16)

7:15-8:15 PM LOUNGE HEWSON SWIFT MUSIC SERIES (P. 14)

THURSDAY

9:30-10:00 AM LOUNGE TAI CHI

9:30 &10:00 AM BUS TRIP TREASURE ISLAND/WALGREENS

17 10:00-11:00 AM STUDIO ART COMMITTEE (P. 11)

3 11:00 AM-NOON LLLC MONTGOMERY MESSENGER MEETING

24 NOON-1:00 PM DINING ROOM MAY RESIDENTS’ BIRTHDAY LUNCH

1:30-2:00 PM POOL WATER AEROBICS WITH KELLY

17 1:30-2:30 PM EAST ROOM LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS (P. 5)

2:00-3:00 PM CHAPEL ROMAN CATHOLIC COMMUNION

3 2:30-3:30 PM STUDIO FILM DISCUSSION COMMITTEE

10 2:30-3:30 PM LLLC ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES COMMITTEE

10 3:30-5:00 PM EAST ROOM HAPPY HOUR

3 7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 DOCUMENTARY FILM (P. 7)

10, 31 7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 EVENING MOVIE

17, 24 7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (P. 7)

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REGULAR EVENTS IN MAY

FRIDAY

8:00-9:00 AM BUS TRIP FITNESS WALK, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY

9:00-9:30 AM STUDIO SETUP FOR DRAWING AND PAINTING CLASS

9:30-11:00 AM STUDIO DRAWING AND PAINTING CLASS

9:30-10:30 AM THERAPY ROOM WELLNESS CLINIC WITH WELLNESS STAFF

10:00-11:00 AM LLLC RESIDENTS’ SUPPORT GROUP

10:00-11:00 AM LOUNGE/CH 4 DVD SERIES: GREAT TRIALS OF WORLD HISTORY (P. 8)

4 11:00 AM-3:45 PM THERAPY ROOM PODIATRIST JOANNE DAVIS

11:30 AM-NOON EAST ROOM PHYSICAL FITNESS

1:00-4:00 PM STUDIO OPEN STUDIO

4:45-5:30 PM CHAPEL SHABBAT SERVICE

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKERS (P. 16)

SATURDAY

8:45-NOON BUS TRIP SYNAGOGUE TRANSPORTATION

12, 19, 26 9:30-10:30 BUS TRIP 61ST STREET FARMERS MARKET–EXPERIMENTAL STATION

10:00-11:00 AM LOUNGE SATURDAY ROUND TABLE

19 2:00-3:00 PM LLLC NEW YORKER READERS (P. 16)

7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 WEEKEND MOVIE

SUNDAY

9:00 AM-1:00 PM BUS TRIP CHURCH/SYNAGOGUE TRANSPORTATION

10:45 AM-1:00 PM BUS TRIP ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL

11:00 AM-NOON CHAPEL SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION

7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 WEEKEND MOVIE/ENCORE PRESENTATION