MONTGOMERY MESSENGER

The Newsletter of the Residents of Montgomery Place Retirement Community

5550 South Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60637 December 2017, Vol. 27, No. 12

www.montgomeryplace.org/category/news/messenger/

F ive months ago I made the move…the move I had dreaded for many months. I

made the move from my cherished English Tudor bungalow that had provided safety and solace for 45 years. I did not want to leave it—the expansive lawn with the shrubs, roses, and seasonal flowers I had fussed over and loved, or the neighbors who became friends and who could be depended on if needed. But in my reasonable moments and in the interest of continued marital harmony, I realized the time had come. In addition, the role reversal that often occurs with adult children was in full swing, and in that role my children determined that the move was in my best interest. In the waning days I wandered about and let the memories wash over me: the sponge paint job I was so proud of, the homemade sandbox with sand pilfered from Lake Michigan beachfront, my gallant attempt at a vegetable garden until the family pleaded, “Please, no more zucchini!”, my delight at watching the fat earthworms scurry away from the light as I dug among the flowers. As we closed on the house, I had but one request of the new owner: please take care of the flowers.

HOLIDAY FUND

C ongratulations! Montgomery Place residents come through

again! You did it! $87,000, the h ighest t o ta l eve r , has been contributed for the Holiday Fund. Checks will be distributed to hourly-wage employees at the staff holiday party on December 7. Thank You! one and all. Your generosity is much appreciated. You’ve engineered smiles on many faces and brightened holiday festivities while saying Thank You! to these many helpers on staff.

Jan Moore, Treasurer, Residents’ Association

Since the move to Montgomery Place, I find myself continually pleased and surprised with the warmth, acceptance, and outreach of the residents and staff and the great variety of stimulating experiences. Finally and most importantly, I’m told I may get the chance to plant some marigolds and perhaps encounter some fat earthworms.

Ida Watanabe

“DON’T LET THE MARIGOLDS DIE”: MY TRANSITION TO MONTGOMERY PLACE

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BOOKLOVERS GROUP

O ur book for December is Messenger of Truth b y J a c q u e l i n e

Winspear. This is the fourth in the historical mystery series involving Maisie Dobbs, a detective who uses meditation and psychology to solve her cases. This story leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent and into the sinister underbelly of the city’s art world. Publishers Weekly states, “An insightful look a t c la ss d iv i s ion and dangerous political undercurrents of homegrown fascism in early 1930s Britain…fans of quality period fiction will be well satisfied.” Winspear, who was born in Kent, England, created Maisie out of the two million British woman of marriageable age, who, as the result of the Great War, would never marry or have children. She states, “They were an extraordinary generation and I believe an archetype was born at that time—a very independent, opinionated, capable, and spirited woman.” When you are finished with the book, please return it to me, so that I may share it with our growing group of Booklovers. Our book selection is available on audio! If you have a visual or physical handicap (too difficult to hold a book), the Talking Book Center will provide an audio machine, books, and magazines through the mail. Call me at 4638 if you are interested in applying for this service or want to get our featured book. Our next meeting, to discuss this book and get the next book, will be on Monday, December 18, at 3:30 p.m. in the LLLC. Anne Zeidman will be the discussion leader. All are welcome!

Laurieann Chutis, Chair, Booklovers Group

FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKERS

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

for one hour. Everyone is invited to attend the programs. Audience questions and discussion follow each presentation. The schedule for December includes a Montgomery Place resident as well as a literature scholar and a business consultant. ♦ December 1 , Roger Fe r lo , Engl i sh Literature. “Biography as Memoir: Finding a Form for a Work in Progress.” Introduced by Laura Gottardi-Littell. ♦ December 8, Matthew Krentz, Boston Consulting Group. “Diversity Dollars: Closing the Gender Gap in Corporate America.” Introduced by Ed Krentz. ♦ December 15, Richard Miller, U of C astrophysics, resident. “What Is a Neutron Star?” Introduced by Alex Elwyn. ♦ December 22 and 29, TBA.

Phil Hefner, for the Friday Night Speakers Committee

DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS

12/1 David Zesmer

12/10 Phil Hefner

12/13 Susan Hamburger

12/13 Lois Livezey

12/18 Anna Mary Wallace

12/22 Nina Dicken

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Editor: Paula Givan

Contributors: Laurieann Chutis, Nancy Harlan,

Neva Hefner, Phil Hefner, Kyoko Inoue, Marion

Krentz, Evi Levin, Jan Moore, Stan Moore, Muriel

Rogers, Dorothy Scheff, Bernard Strauss, Alex

Veliko, Ida Watanabe, Marilyn Weigensberg,

Chuck West, Mary Williams, Barbara Wilson,

Anne Zeidman

Staff Contributors: Lorri Colbert, Deborah

Hart, Chaplain Laura Gottardi-Littell

Artwork: Nate Kalichman, Stan Moore

Layout: Carolyn Allen

Production: Lorri Colbert

Calendars: Barbara Wilson

Editor Next Month: Barbara Wilson

♦ Tuesday, December 5, 11:50 a.m. Go to the o rgan rec i t a l a t LSTC t o hea r Wa l t e r Whitehouse, local liturgical organist, who was associate Rockefeller Chapel organist for 20 years. Free. ♦ Friday, December 8, noon. Our monthly lunch outing is at the Grand Lux Cafe on the Michigan Avenue Magnificent Mile. There may also be time for last-minute shopping if desired. ♦ Sunday, December 10, 3:30 p.m. Our bus takes us to First Unitarian Church where Chicago a cappella will present a concert of holiday songs, ranging from solemn and holy to merry and bright, for your musical pleasure. Tickets required. ♦ Friday, December 15, 12:30 p.m. The CSO Series B concert features Jaap van Zweden conduc t ing a Wagne r Pre lude and the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony. Famed Russian p ian i s t Den i s Kozhukhin wi l l pe r fo rm Rachmaninov’s tower ing Second Piano Concerto. Tickets required. ♦ Tuesday, December 19, 6 p.m. Join in the singing at the Do-It-Yourself Messiah in the Harris Theatre, complete with full orchestra and chorus of volunteers—the 42nd year of this holiday tradition. Tickets required (from the Harris Theatre box office). ♦ Wednesday, December 20, 1 p.m. Take our bus to Steppenwolf Theatre to see the premiere of Tracy Letts’s new play The Minutes. It’s a scathing comedy about small-town politics and real-world power—how timely, not to be missed! Tickets required. ♦ Friday, December 22, 12:30 p.m. The CSO Series A concert features Nikolai Znaider in his debut as conductor and as solo violinist in Beethoven’s lyrical violin concerto. He will also conduct the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. Tickets required.

Barbara Wilson

CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE

D ecember is our busiest time of the year with in-house holiday parties, special programs,

and seasonal musical performances, but there’s still time for a few trips. Sign up in the Trip Book for those you like. “Tickets required” means you are responsible for obtaining your own ticket. Lorri Colbert can help get tickets if needed. Times listed are when the bus leaves. ♦ Friday, December 1, 12:30 p.m. See the art of resident Pauline Silberman and others at the Spertus Institute. Pauline will be our guide for the exhibit Outside Inside: Exploring Boundaries and Otherness. Free. ♦ Saturday, December 2, 1 p.m. Our bus takes us to the Auditorium Theatre to see the Joffrey Ballet’s reimagined Nutcracker ballet set in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Enjoy a new vision of this timeless holiday classic. Tickets required.

OUT AND ABOUT

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SOUTH SIDE PIE CHALLENGE

O n Saturday afternoon, November 4, the gymnasium of the Hyde Park Neighborhood

Club was filled with a horde of would-be pie eaters in search of the perfect piece of pie. On a center rectangular table rested entries in the four categories: nut pies, pumpkin/sweet potato pies, cream pies, and fruit pies. The onlookers were divided into two (nonexclusive) main categories: pie eaters and pie bakers and their fans. Observation suggests that the first category was represented in large part by student types in search of a taste of home at $3 per slice (bargain rate: four slices for $10). They tended to fill take-away boxes of the type familiar to Montgomery Place residents and to disappear when filled. The South Side Pie Challenge is an annual event started in 2012 by Julie and Kate with proceeds to go to the Hyde Park and Kenwood Hunger Programs. Each entrant provides two pies, one for judging and one for slicing and sale. The judges are professionals, mostly from local restaurants. (Hint: decoration is important). Tension mounted among the pie bakers and their fans as the time approached for the winners to be announced. Judging is done by noon, and the pies are put out by 2 p.m., with winners announced at 3:30. “Finalist” pies are labeled with ribbons, and I can report squeals of delight as certain pie bakers recognized their finalist status. Two awards (a ribbon and a cookbook of pie recipes) are given in each category, along with a grand prize. I got a photo showing ten winners, including two males (who may have just been eaters). I am pleased to report Leslie Travis (aka my daughter) was a second-place winner in the pumpkin/sweet potato pie category. The hall was mostly empty by 4. Empty pie pans were scattered about the table, here and there a lonely piece of pie remaining. The pie-eating audience of all ages seemed pretty well satisfied, as did the bakers. A final note: anyone can enter and next year is coming.

Bernard Strauss

END OF THE WAITING LIST!

O ne of the most popular aspects of life at Montgomery Place is our rich program of

resident-planned activities and door-to-door transportation to get to them. Although many of us no longer drive, groups go to theaters,

concerts, lectures, museums, and many other venues in the Montgomery Place vehicles. Once in a while, an activity is very popular and more than 14

people (the capacity of the Raspberry Bus) sign up. In rare cases, there has been no transportation available for those on the waiting list. Well, that's a thing of the past! Effective immediately, if more than 14 people sign up and turn up for transportation to a scheduled outing, the transportation department will call Kaizen Health and arrange for one or two cars to transport the residents who remain after the bus is full. The Kaizen transportation is round-trip, arranged by Montgomery Place, at no charge to the residents. You can sign up for a trip (and buy a ticket for the event, if necessary) without worrying about whether the waiting list for the bus will clear. The fine print: This accommodation does not apply to Monday and Thursday shopping trips that have multiple departures. If you're not one of the first 14, just wait half an hour. And it doesn’t apply to trips for which the demand is so great that two Kaizen cars aren’t enough. In such a case, the Activities Committee will work with management in advance to find a solution. It is still important that you sign up in the trip

book and remove your name if you decide not to

go, so the transportation department will know

how many people are going on each trip.

Paula Givan

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Caroline Herzenberg moved into apartment 506 (phone 4029) on June 29, 2017. She is a retired physicist and a longtime Hyde Parker. Caroline was born in East Orange, New Jersey. When she was three years old, the family moved to Oklahoma City in the aftermath of the Depression. After completing high school there, she entered MIT and earned a BS in physics in 1953. She then enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Chicago, earning an MS and then a PhD in physics in 1958. She says she chose to study physics, which was and still is a rather unusual discipline for a woman, because she had always been interested in the fundamentals of the universe. She thought that physics would give her some answers. She was particularly interested in nuclear physics. She worked on applications of radiat ion and developed techniques that she applied to the analysis of lunar samples from the Apollo flights. Caroline taught and did research at Illinois Institute of Technology and then at the Medical Center at the University of Illinois. After a stint at the University of California, Fresno, she accepted a position at the Argonne National Laboratory, from which she retired in 2001. She has published more than 100 research papers, two books, and several articles in books by other scholars in experimental nuclear physics. She has been a member of various professional organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Caroline is a physicist, first and foremost. She also has strong interests in issues of peace, social justice, and women’s rights. She loves Hyde Park and has lived here since she came as a graduate s t uden t . She ha s pa r t i c i pa t ed i n many neighborhood activities, from marches and demonstrations to some leadership positions. During graduate school, Caroline met her husband, Leonardo Herzenberg, while swimming in Lake Michigan at the Point. Leo was born in Bolivia and had come to the United States with

his parents when he was 15; he also studied physics at U of C and became an engineer. Caroline and Leo had two daughters: Karen Ann Herzenberg, who lives in Albuquerque, NM, and works as a forest ranger and a naturalist, and Catherine Stuart Larson, a nurse who works at Rush University Medical School. Welcome to Montgomery Place, Caroline!

Kyoko Inoue

Ida and Don Watanabe moved in to apartment 804 (phone 4376) on June 22, 2017. Ida was born on a farm outside Talladega, Alabama, the county seat. Her grandfather had acquired the land after being exploited as a sharecropper for many years. At seven months old, Ida was left by her mother with her grandparents and the two youngest of their nine children. She lived with her grandparents until she graduated from college. This was the era of Jim Crow segregation, which for Ida meant going to a poorly equipped segregated school with separate eating, drinking, and recreational facilities. Ida wanted to get away as soon as possible, but that was impossible for a black young person trying to get an education: her goal for a productive life. Ida graduated from high school in 1957 and entered Talladega College, a historically black college. After graduating with a degree in psychology, she immediately got a job as a social-work intern with the Illinois Department of Mental Health. Ida continued her studies in Chicago and earned a master’s degree in social work from Loyola University in 1966; it was there that she met Donald Watanabe. The two were married and are the parents of two children: Susan, who lives in Los Angeles, unfortunately not well and hospitalized; and Scott, a librarian working downtown in Chicago’s Public Library.

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New Arrivals from p. 5

Don was born in Chicago, the second of two boys born to Faye Watanabe, an unmarried mother. She was of Japanese descent. The children had different fathers, and neither child lived a day of his life with either biological parent. Faye’s main claim to notoriety was that she hung out with members of the Al Capone crowd during the 1930s while her sons were young children. (The source of the Capone-related information was an FBI report that Don ob ta ined i n 2013 unde r a Freedom o f Information Act request.) Don lived with surrogate parents from age three days until his fifteenth birthday. At age five, on Pearl Harbor Day and the entry of the United States into World War II, Don first learned that he was Japanese, unleashing a period of personal turmoil. “Before this date,” Don says, “racial or ethnic identity was a personal identification factor unknown to me.” His surrogate parents were Caucasian people of western European descent, who treated Don as their own. They did not identify him as different from them. After December 7, 1941, Don had to deal with being treated by many others as an object of hatred and enmity throughout his childhood. Four months after completing high school in a town with a population of 1500, one hundred miles south of Chicago, Don volunteered to join the United States Air Force. He had just turned 17. After four years in the military, Don used veterans’ educational benefits to enter college in January 1958, graduating in 1963. He was then employed by various social service agencies and, among other positions, became a community organizer. Ida was a social worker for various organizations in addition to raising their two children. After several years of retirement, Ida and Don decided to move to Montgomery Place, where they enjoy the activities Montgomery Place has to offer.

Evi Levin

MUSIC IN THE EAST ROOM

C elebrate the holidays with some special musical groups!

♦ Saturday, December 2, 2 p.m. Roosevelt University string quartet. ♦ Sunday, December 3, 2:30 p.m. Chicago Children’s Choir, Mollie Stone, director. ♦ Monday, December 4, 4 p.m. Lab School Bel Canto Carolers, Katy Sinclair, director. ♦ T ue sd ay , De cembe r 5 , 7 : 15 p .m . Montgomery Singers singalong. ♦ Saturday, December 9, 2 p.m. Music Teachers of Hyde Park piano recital. ♦ Tuesday, December 12 to Tuesday December 19, 4:30 p.m. Hanukkah candle lighting and singing. ♦ Wednesday December 13, 1 p.m. U of C Service League holiday program, choral group “Le Cantanti.” ♦ Thursday December 14, 1 p.m. Bret Harte School Chorus. ♦ Thursday, December 14, 4:30 p.m. Hanukkah candle lighting and singing with C a n t o r R a c h e l Ro s e n b e r g a n d t h e Congregation Rodfei Zedek Children’s Choir. ♦ Monday, December 18, 11 a.m. Hyde Park Encore Chorale holiday concert. ♦ Sunday, December 24, 7:15 p.m. Christmas Eve service/music program. ♦ Wednesday, December 27, 7:15 p.m. Sara Su Jones, violinist, and Dennis Moore pianist, in concert.

Muriel Rogers and Anne Zeidman,

Co-chairs, Music Committee

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THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TURNS 70

H uman Rights Day is observed on December 10. This is the day the United Nations

General Assembly, in 1948, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2017 December 10 kicks off the 70th anniversary of the declaration’s creation. This milestone document proclaimed the inalienable rights to which everyone is entitled as a human being, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status. It is the most translated document in the world, available in 500 languages. Drafted by representatives of diverse legal and cultural backgrounds (Eleanor Roosevelt being one) from all the regions of the world, the Declaration sets out universal values and a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. Through the Declaration, and the member nations’ commitment to its principles, the dignity of millions has been uplifted and the foundation for a more just world has been laid. While much work is still required to fulfill its promise, the fact that it has endured for this long is a testament to its fundamental values of preserving and extending equality, justice, and dignity around the globe.

Excerpt from a speech by Eleanor Roosevelt: “Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home. So close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Unless these rights have any meaning

DONATIONS NEEDED

W e are planning a rummage sale in January and we ask your help in December to make

it the best sale ever! We need your treasures, gadgets, and items that are getting to be too much for your apartment. Now is the time to go on your anti-clutter campaign and look through your drawers, closets, and rooms to see what you can donate for the sale. Apartment 408 is available for storage of small and medium-size objects. We ask that you hold on to large furniture until the day before the sale and call Abel at 4090 to have it moved to the East Room. Our rummage sales over the years have proved to be a wonderful win-win for everybody. Residents find more space in their apartments after they donate items, staff and other residents buy great treasures at reasonable prices, and the proceeds go to the Residents’ Council to be used by the committees at Montgomery Place for their functions, such as bus rental and equipment purchases. We have also made donations to a local school and helped decorate the employees’ lounge. Call me at 4638 if you have any questions. Let’s fill up apartment 408!

Laurieann Chutis, Chair, Rummage Sales

there, then they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” The Declaration empowers us all, and its principles are as relevant today as they were in 1948. We need to continue to stand up for our rights and those of others. Our shared humanity is rooted in these values. Equality, justice, and freedom prevent violence and sustain the peace.

Alex Veliko

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’TIS THE SEASON!

E verybody’s looking forward to the special Montgomery Place parties for the holiday

season! First comes the residents’ holiday party from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 6, in the Dining Room. Come have fun with your neighbors as you enjoy the Doug Bistrow band, the dance floor, the open bar, and a fabulous buffet in the Private Dining Room, with shrimp cocktail, loaded potato skins, and a carving station, to mention just a few. Assorted desserts will be served in the Lounge. You may use meal credits for guests. N e x t , o n T h u r s d a y , December 7, the younger folks take over at the s t a f f p a r t y i n the Dining Room from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The food will be catered and there will be a disc jockey, dancing, karaoke, games, prizes, and the ever-popular distribution of the Holiday Fund checks. Then on Sunday, December 31, from 7 to 10 p.m., the New Year is upon us once again! Let’s reflect on the old and bring in the new with vigor. There will be dining, dancing, the Doug Bistrow band, an open bar, noisemakers, ha ts , and camarader ie . There wi l l be Champagne—what’s New Year’s Eve without Champagne? Delicious hors d’oeuvres, wonderful entrées, and assorted desserts served in the Lounge. You are welcome to bring guests and use your meal credits. Come dressed to impress and let’s be entertained. This will be a pleasurable experience for all to enjoy.

Lorri Colbert

NEW YORKER READERS

T he New Yorker Readers will meet on Saturday, December 16 at 2 p.m. in

the LLLC. The article to be d i s c u s s e d i s Atul Gawande’s “Is Health Care a Right?” from the October 2 i s s u e o f t h e m a g a z i n e . Copies of the article will be available in the Library. Mariel Stitziel will lead the discussion. If you have any questions, please call me at 4647.

Dorothy Scheff, Chair, New Yorker Readers MILESTONE RECOGNITION

A t the staff party on December 7, Montgomery Place will recognize

team members who celebrate milestone service anniversaries this year. ♦ Five years: Kayla Campbell Yashone Holt, Janeen Mitchell Joy Ousley Veselka Rajic ♦ Ten years: Constance Brandt Leroy Butler DaShaun Warfield ♦ Twenty years (!): Wendy Nicholson ♦ Twenty-five years (Wow!!): Susie Ann Wiggins

Lorri Colbert

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CHICAGO HOMECOMING

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and spent spare moments exploring every nook

and cranny of the city. Then I lived in California for 45 years before returning to my hometown. Upon arrival, I eagerly revisited familiar haunts. Yep, there were the Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building—except now they were dwarfed by lofty skyscrapers. And Soldier Field was right where I left it—but a flying saucer had somehow landed on top of it. And across the street was my beloved Museum of Science and Industry—but its parking lot had disappeared and the big bronze entrance doors were locked. Evidently I’d need to “learn” my city all over again. Fortunately, I discovered that the Montgomery Place Library houses an entire shelf of books devoted to Chicago, which I eagerly devoured. If you’re new in town or just want to refresh your knowledge I highly recommend City of the Century, which covers Chicago history from its founding up to the 1893 World’s Fair. Another compendium covers the period from 1673 to the election of Barack Obama—its title is simply Chicago. For history of your neighborhood you can’t do better than Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park. Give ’em a try and see how much fun it can be learning a lot more about this extraordinary city we live in.

Chuck West, for the Library Committee

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT DISCUSSION GROUP

T he last scene in Crime and Punishment is in S ibe r i a , a scene

D o s t o e v s k y k n e w intimately. When the writer first entered hard labor prison in Omsk, he was appal led by the bruta l i ty o f peasant inmates. But a recovered childhood memory of fleeing a distant wolf i n t o t h e a rm s o f a compassionate car t -driving peasant reversed his repulsion and led to a late short story, The Peasant Marey. He transferred his disdain to degraded aristocrats who served as models for his first great novel. He gradually acclimatized to his surroundings, leading festive Christmas playreadings as described in his memoir, Notes from the House of the Dead. A Dostoevsky group discussing the first four chapters of Crime and Punishment will assemble at 10 a.m. on January 10 in the LLLC to begin a romp through the novel. Any edition of Crime and Punishment wil l do, but especial ly recommended is the Bantam Dell paperback (Random House), New York 2003, available from Amazon.com for as little as $4.00.

Stan Moore, Convener

HYDE PARK ENCORE CHORALE

T he Hyde Park Encore Chorale under the direction of Jonathan Miller will perform a holiday concert on Monday, December 18, the East Room at 11 a.m. The Chorale is a non-auditioned group of older

adults, mostly 55 and up, pursuing musical excellence in a relaxed setting. Two of our residents, Marion Krentz and Yvette Moloney, are members of the Chorale for this performance. Montgomery Place has been a supporter of the Encore Chorale from its beginning in April 2016, by providing space for rehearsals and performances, and having more than 20 of our residents participate as members of the chorus. The Chorale now rehearses at Congregation Rodfei Zedek to accommodate its need for more parking space. Add this concert to your calendar now!

Laurieann Chutis

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EARTHWORMS

T his month we celebrate the earthworm, beginning with

a song sung to a tune from Fiddler on the Roof: Who day and night must eat dirt for a living, Be both male and female Produce both eggs and sperm And who do you know Who has no lungs to breathe with But happily makes the earth his home The earthworm (dumdedumdedums) The earthworm (more dumdedums) And with that, I return to prose. There are more than 6000 species of worms on Earth. The one gardeners are most familiar with is commonly known as the night crawler or angleworm. They are popular bait for fishing. We also call them “rain worms” because we see them leaving waterlogged soil to save themselves from drowning. The adults are both male and female but cannot mate with themselves (which is what I thought as a child; I also thought erroneously that if they were cut in two by our shovels they would form into two worms). They mate above ground, pressing their bodies together and exchanging sperm (modest people may turn their heads and walk away). Later, the clitellum, a ringlike collar, forms around the worm’s body. As the worm crawls out of the ring, it fills the ring with eggs and sperm. The ring drops off, seals shut at the ends, and becomes a cocoon for developing eggs. The lemon-shaped cocoon is home until the fully developed baby worms crawl out. They grow sex organs within the first two or three months and are full-grown in about one year. The length varies from less that one-half inch to ten feet. The monster ten-foot earthworms are found only in the tropics. Our homegrown versions top out around 14 inches.

We love our earthworms; they till the soil and eat mostly fallen leaves and soil, which they return to the earth as potassium and nitrogen. As they burrow through the earth they loosen the soil and allow air through their burrows. Though we i n t he Midwes t va l ue ou r earthworms, they are worm nongrata in our northern states where forests developed after Ice Age glaciers disappeared. Those forests require duf f , which i s a deep l aye r o f s lowly decomposing leaves and other organic matter that overlays the soil. Earthworms quickly consume the duff, making nutrients less available to young, growing plants, and the soil, instead of aerating and loosening, becomes more compact. Trees such as sugar maple, forest herbs, and understory plants are destroyed. In some areas, oak forests have been overrun by buckthorn, and in others the presence of earthworms has allowed the invasion of Japanese barberry. As duff disappears, so do insects and other small creatures that depend on it for survival, with the result that animals such as salamanders lose a key food source and are in decline. Earthworm burrows speed the passage of water through the soil. This benefits farmland or a garden with compacted soil, but is a negative in a northern forest. It is virtually impossible to eradicate earthworms in areas they have already invaded, and we are called on to protect yet uninvaded ecosystems. Those who live near forest that has not been hit by earthworms can help by dropping use of the worm. If you fish using earthworms for bait, don’t dump leftover worms onto the soil. Remove them from the site. The balance of nature is constantly under attack by human beings who do not have a clue. So it falls to us to be protectors of nature and pass the word on to any fisherman/woman we may know. Have a restful winter.

Marilyn Weigensberg

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NOAM CHOMSKY

N oam Chomsky is perhaps best known

today for his radical political ideas critical of American foreign policy. But in the scholarly world, he is known as a linguist who not only revolutionized the study of language, but also spurred a vast expansion of knowledge about language. As one who was trained in Chomskyan linguistics, I will try to explain why he is so important. Chomsky was born in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928. He received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and began teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been ever since. In 1957, he published a small book, barely a hundred pages, called Syntactic Structures. In this and subsequent works, he developed a l i n g u i s t i c t h e o r y c a l l e d g e n e r a t i v e transformational grammar. How was it that Chomsky revolutionized linguistics? Linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century was called descriptive or structuralist linguistics. Linguists, particularly American linguists, focused on studying exotic American Indian languages that no one had studied before. They learned to speak the languages, relying on t h e i r i n f o rm a n t s a n d s t u d y i n g t h em systematically, starting from the smallest unit of every language, sounds. Then they studied sequences of sounds, formation of words and phrases, and finally, combinations of words in sentences. Linguistics was a science that gave its students methods and procedures on how to analyze languages. Linguists also believed that each of the world’s languages—somewhere between 3000 and 8000 of them—was distinct, different from every other language. Each had a different grammar. Linguistics of this period was weak in semantics

because linguists, trying to write grammars of unfamiliar languages, often could not obtain the precise meanings of words and sentences from informants who did not know the linguists’ languages.

Noam Chomsky had a very different perspective on language and language study. He pointed out that most human beings learn their native languages early on, naturally and easily. Speakers are extremely creative in that they understand and speak sentences that they have never heard or uttered before. Chomsky speculated that human brains are equipped with a device that enables them to learn languages. To put it in another way, while languages differ in their grammars on the surface, there must be underlying principles that unify all languages, making it possible for humans to learn them. Chomsky called these principles language universals. That is what linguists must discover and describe. American linguists from the early 1960s worked very hard to discern what they knew about their native language—mostly American English—and how they knew it. Likewise, linguists who spoke other native languages studied their respective languages, which they knew best. While Chomsky’s early language study was limited to sentences, other linguists realized how enormously complex human use of languages can be and began to study much broader ranges of linguistic communication, including gestures and their relationship to spoken language. Linguists have yet to reach consensus about language universals, but Chomsky’s ideas have influenced philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, specialists in artificial intelligence, and more. This is what makes Chomsky such an important intellectual figure in our time.

Kyoko Inoue

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DECEMBER FILMS

T h i s m o n t h ’ s m o v i e s include a classic Tennessee

Wi l l i ams d rama , Char l i e Chaplin, Indian and French dramas, a documentary that won a man’s freedom, and a John Grisham thriller. In the Lounge and on TV Channel 4, 7:15 p.m. Popcorn and lemonade on Mondays. Monday Films:

♦ December 4, Courage Under Fire. 1996. American war film starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. Set in the Gulf War, it examines both wartime heroism and deceit. 1 hour 56 minutes. Presenter: Phil Hefner. ♦ December 11, Modern Times. 1936. This silent comedic masterpiece finds the Little Tramp employed at a state-of-the-art factory where the inescapable machinery completely overwhelms him, and where various mishaps keep getting him sent to prison. Starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard. 1 hour 29 minutes. Presenter: Shantha Monippallil. ♦ December 18, The Firm. 1993. Legal thriller directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook, and David Strathairn. Two Oscar nominations. 2 hours 34 minutes. Presenter: Rhoda Harvey. ♦ December 25, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1958. American drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. One of the top-ten box office hits of 1958, the film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives. Nominated for six Oscars. 1 hour 47 minutes. Presenter: Evi Levin. Thursday Documentary Film:

♦ December 7, The Thin Blue Line. 1988. American documentary film by Errol Morris

depicting the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted and sentenced to death for a murder in Dallas he did not commit. Adams’s case was reviewed and he was released from prison approximately a year after the film’s release. 1 hour 43 minutes. Presenter: Alex Elwyn. Thursday Foreign Language Films:

♦ December 14, Stavisky. French. 1974. Crime drama based on the life of the financier and embezz le r A lexandre S t avi sky and t he circumstances leading to his mysterious death in 1934. This gave rise to a political scandal. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anny Duperey, and Charles Boyer. Musical score by Stephen Sondheim. 2 hours. Presenter: Phil Hefner. ♦ December 28 , Guzaar i sh (Hind i fo r “request”). 2010. Indian drama. The film narrates the story of a paralyzed magician-turned-radio-disc-jockey who files a petition in court seeking permission to end his life. The film was released in 2010 to positive reviews. 1 hour 56 minutes. Presenter: Shantha Monippallil.

Movie Fan, for the Film Discussion Committee

THANKSGIVING FOOD SHARE

H ea r ty thanks to our r e s ident s fo r responding so generously! This year we

were able to deliver 28 bags of food plus $2375 to the Midwest Workers Association for holiday food baskets. We are grateful to all who helped. Thanks to Grayson for loading all the groceries into the Prius and to Ed Krentz for driving and delivering our gifts to the Midwest Workers’ Halsted address.

Nancy Harlan, Neva Hefner,

Marion Krentz, Mary Williams

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Q & A HEWSON SWIFT CONCERTS

D ecember 2017 has four Wednesdays. On the

last Wednesday of the year, December 27, our Hewson Swift evening will be not on CD, not on DVD, but a live concert in the East Room. We shall have the privilege and the pleasure of listening to two artists who have made previous appearances here: Dennis Moore, whom many of us know from classical radio station WFMT, will play a recital for us with violinist Sara Su Jones. ♦ December 6: This would have been resident Walter Levin’s 93rd birthday. His easy-to-remember birth occurred in Berlin on the 6th day of the 12th month of the year 1924: 6-12-24. In his honor, Evi Levin will present Schubert’s great quartet in D minor in a DVD recording by the Austrian Hagen String Quartet. The quartet consists of three siblings, Lukas, Veronika, and Clemens Hagen, plus second violinist Rainer Schmidt. All were students of Walter Levin. ♦ December 13: Stan Moore will conclude his p r e s e n t a t i o n o f Mu s s o r g s k y ’ s o p e r a Khovanschina with a DVD of the last act as performed in Barcelona’s Licieu theater under the direction of Michael Boder. ♦ December 20: Pre-Christmas music on CD is presented by Ed Krentz: J . S. Bach’s Magnificat in D major, Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir in B flat major, and the Gloria in D major interpreted by Gächinger Kantorei and the Bach Collegium, Stuttgart, conducted by Helmut Rilling. ♦ December 27: Live concert at 7:15 p.m. in the East Room with Dennis Moore, piano and Sara Su Jones, violinist. All residents are invited to these Wednesday evening concerts, all in the Lounge except the live concert on December 27 in the East Room, all starting at 7:15 p.m.

Evi Levin, Chair, Hewson Swift Concerts

Residents are invited to submit questions for this

column to Box 704 of the inhouse mailboxes. Q: Why are sections of the Library newspapers

missing? Sometimes the whole issue is gone. I

thought the Library newspapers were supposed

to stay there.

A: The newspapers stamped “Do Not Remove from Library” located in the Library (not the Café) are to stay in the Library until they are recycled, meaning for at least 24 hours or even longer for special issues. The papers are for all residents to use. If a resident would like to have a section saved, they should write their name and apartment number on the desired section, and the section will be put in that resident’s inhouse mailbox at the time of recycling. The newspaper subscript ions are provided from a fund bequeathed by a former resident, Dr. John H. Rust, in memory of his wife and for the enjoyment of all residents. The schedule for keeping newspapers available and recycling them is as follows: ♦ Daily: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times,

Wall Street Journal (except weekend). ♦ Every Two Days: New York Times, Weekend

Wall Street Journal.

♦ Weekly: New York Times Book Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York

Times Science Section, New York Times

Sunday Review, Hyde Park Herald.

♦ Upon Receipt of the Next Issue: New York Times Large Print Weekly.

The unstamped newspapers in the Café/Library are discarded daily, and resident-donated magazines there are discarded after three months. Please be considerate of your fellow residents.

Barbara Wilson

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Miriam Banks

Marie Therese McDermott

IN MEMORIAM

REFLECTIONS ON THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

M y only personal experience with the CIA (possibly) was in 1965. I was scheduled to

go to Czechoslovakia for the Mendel Centennial and to give a paper in Prague. A gentleman came to see me and carefully closed the door to my office. He said (in my memory it’s always in muted tones) our government was interested in the organization of the Czech Academy of Sciences and since I was going there anyway could I bring back some information. This request scared me silly and I told him it would really upset me too much. I was reminded of the request (and the thinking behind it) when, as part of the materials of the Prague symposium, I was handed a pamphlet on the organization of the Czech Academy of Sciences published by the Academy itself for general distribution! Perhaps as a result, I am a fan of CIA movies. The 2006 movie The Good Shepherd with Matt Damon is based loosely on the history of the organization,

but the 1975 Three Days of the Condor with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, shown as our October 23 Monday night film, was more fun. There is a suspenseful plot based on an unlikely (or is it so unlikely?) conspiracy with a great villain (Max von Sydow) as a hired CIA contractor. The female lead (Faye Dunaway) decides the main character is not paranoid, as the Roger Ebert review explains, “because of something about him (perhaps his uncanny resemblance to Robert Redford).” (Ebert liked the movie!) The film was made partly in New York City, and there are great shots of and from the Twin Towers as though the filmmakers knew in advance we would need reminding. Since the film was made in 1975, we have an ambiguous rather than an absolutely happy ending. A key part of the ending is a shot of the New York Times building and printing plant indicating the likelihood that the Times would print the “Condor” story, an important part of his hope for safety. Sound familiar? (Just a reminder. The Pentagon Papers were published by the Times in 1971.) On the same day we saw the movie (Monday, October 23, 2017) the New York Times had on its front page, “CIA to Expand its Covert Role in Afghanistan” . . . “sending small teams of highly experienced officers and contractors . . . to hunt and kill Taliban militants . . .” Life imitating fiction once again.

Bernard Strauss

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

T he League of Women Voters will not have its monthly meeting in

December. We will meet again on January 18, 2018 to d i scuss the c u r r e n t s t a t u s o f healthcare in Illinois. So many changes have been proposed, and the current budget bill pending in the Senate threatens what is left of the Affordable Care Act. Without the mandate to require individuals to purchase insurance and to provide subsidies for families in need, thousands will be left without affordable healthcare. Please have a happy holiday while you work for better healthcare for our citizens.

Dorothy Scheff, Chair, League of Women Voters

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WHEN DOES THE WAR END? Remembering a cousin Short and stocky, He bounced when he walked. Forearms as big as Dempsey’s, Whose twelve-inch punch Could crush a man’s skull. “You ought to be a boxer,” His uncles urged. Guadalcanal in November Nineteen-forty-two Changed things. The bow of his ship, The New Orleans, Blown apart in the Battle of Tessofaronga—sweet-sounding Name of the burial waters Where hundreds of boys— Navy men—lie sleeping. A miracle, the doctors Told him. “Your life’s been Spared.” The shrapnel that Crashed into his eye Never reached his brain. But it left a hole.

PLAYREADERS

P layreaders will take place on Tuesday, December 19. Please note the change of date from the regularly

scheduled second Tuesday to the third Tuesday of the month. It will be, as usual, in the East Room at 7:15 p.m. Come hear your fellow residents read the famous 1939 CBS radio classic, originated by Lionel Barrymore and Orson Welles, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

Anne Zeidman, Chair, Playreaders

That wasn’t the end of Johnny’s war. He never sailed a battle cruiser Again, but his war Went on and on. On Armistice Day, back home, Parades celebrated, on Colfax Avenue And on every Main Street in America. Mayors and senators and the President And generals and admirals declared “Peace is here, War is over.” We cheered and waved our hands Holding American flags. Johnny’s war continued. He fought the ghosts that haunted His days and nights. Searched for Love he never found. At the end, runaway cancer cells Found him. With ninety-proof meds His daily portion, He fought for fifty years. His war never ended. He stopped fighting.

Phil Hefner

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I was watching huge flakes of snow falling and found myself mesmerized. It is so easy

to become absorbed in the peace and quiet that snow brings. The snows this early in the season allow us to appreciate the beauty without the challenges of shoveling, salting, and sloshing through puddles. Those elements of winter will come all too soon! As we head into December, we are preparing for snowy weather, festive holiday parties, and a few transitions with staff. As we have announced, John Williams will be joining us December 4 as the new Director of Resident Engagement. He is eager to meet all of you and looking forward to working with you. We will also be saying goodbye to Fred Saviano on December 8 and to Mary Domino on December 15. Their contributions to Montgomery Place over the last several years will leave a lasting impression. We will miss them, and we extend our best wishes to them as Fred finds a better work/life balance and Mary finds a shorter commute. May the holiday parties, events, and traditions bring you joy and happiness. As the seasons change and bring us snow, and staff changes bring new faces to Montgomery Place, let’s celebrate our traditions and share enjoyment. And when it next snows, let’s all watch in wonder the beauty, and lose ourselves for a few minutes in the peace and quiet of snow!

Deborah Hart, CEO/Executive Director

OPENING THE PRESENT

D ear Montgomery Place residents and staff, For many years now, I have felt happy at the

holidays. I’m kind of a holiday junkie. However, I remember not always feeling this way. Holidays are not a joyful time for everyone. When I worked as a hospital chaplain, I wrote the meditation below for the hospital’s December newsletter. I hope it speaks to you, whether you are having a blissful or a blue holiday season (or some of both). “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” the carol says. And so it is! The human race seems at its best. Whether we celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or winter solstice, we rejoice in the light that breaks through the darkness. Yet holidays can be difficult. Sun and shadow intertwine in every life. Sometimes we wonder where on earth peace is. We experience loss or illness. We struggle with an uncertain future or a painful past. Life is a present. But sometimes we don’t get the gift we were expecting. Few of us are prepared for how our lives unfold. God’s grace moves through our days, abundant but sometimes strange. Who knew the oil would last eight days? Who foresaw the Messiah would come to us in a manger? As we encounter life’s joys and adversities, we can be open to the present. The openness of a woman giving birth; of a shepherd who has come a long way to see a baby born in poverty; of a child with nothing but the whole world in his hands. Perhaps our lives are not unfolding as we’d expected. But God is present. We find God by being in the present. May these holidays remind us of God’s great gifts to us: unfailing love and unfathomable grace.

The Rev. Laura Gottardi-Littell, M.Div.

Snow fal l ing

soundlessly in

the middle of

the night will

always fill my

h e a r t w i t h

sweet clarity.

Novala Takemoto

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SPECIAL EVENTS IN DECEMBER FRIDAY 1 12:30 PM BUS TRIP SPERTUS INSTITUTE PAULINE SILBERMAN EXHIBIT (P. 3)

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER ~ ROGER FERLO (P. 2)

SATURDAY 2 1:00 PM BUS TRIP JOFFREY BALLET THE NUTCRACKER (P. 3)

2:00 PM EAST ROOM ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY STRING QUARTET (P. 6)

SUNDAY 3 11:00 AM CHAPEL FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT, HOLY COMMUNION

2:30 PM EAST ROOM CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR (P, 6)

MONDAY 4 4:00 PM EAST ROOM LAB SCHOOL BEL CANTO CAROLERS (P. 6)

TUESDAY 5 11:50 AM BUS TRIP ORGAN RECITAL AT LSTC (P. 3)

WEDNESDAY 6 4:00-7:00 PM DINING ROOM RESIDENTS’ HOLIDAY PARTY (P. 8)

THURSDAY 7 11:30AM-3:00 PM DINING ROOM STAFF HOLIDAY PARTY (PP. 1, 8)

FRIDAY 8 NOON BUS TRIP GRAND LUX CAFE (P. 3)

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER ~ MATTHEW KRENTZ (P. 2)

SATURDAY 9 2:00 PM EAST ROOM MTHP STUDENT PIANO RECITAL (P. 6)

SUNDAY 10 11:00 AM CHAPEL SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT, HOLY COMMUNION

3:30 PM BUS TRIP CHICAGO A CAPPELLA CONCERT (P. 3)

TUESDAY 12 4:30 PM EAST ROOM BEGIN HANUKKAH CANDLE LIGHTING; REPEATS DAILY

THROUGH TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19

WEDNESDAY 13 1:30 PM EAST ROOM U OF C SERVICE LEAGUE HOLIDAY MUSIC PROGRAM (P. 6)

THURSDAY 14 1:00 PM EAST ROOM BRET HARTE SCHOOL CHORUS (P. 6)

4:30 PM EAST ROOM RODFEI ZEDEK CHILDREN’S CHOIR (P. 6)

FRIDAY 15 12:30 PM BUS TRIP CSO SERIES B: RACHMANINOV (P. 3)

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER ~ RICHARD MILLER (P. 2)

SUNDAY 17 11:00 AM CHAPEL THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT, HOLY COMMUNION

MONDAY 18 11:00 AM EAST ROOM HYDE PARK ENCORE CHORALE CONCERT (PP. 6, 9)

TUESDAY 19 6:00 PM BUS TRIP DIY MESSIAH AT HARRIS THEATRE (P. 3)

WEDNESDAY 20 1:00 PM BUS TRIP STEPPENWOLF THEATRE: THE MINUTES (P. 3)

THURSDAY 21 7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY MEETING

FRIDAY 22 12:30 PM BUS TRIP CSO SERIES A: SHOSTAKOVICH (P. 3)

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKER TBA

SUNDAY 24 11:00 AM CHAPEL FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT, HOLY COMMUNION

7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM CHRISTMAS EVE MUSIC PROGRAM (P. 6)

MONDAY 25 11:00 AM CHAPEL SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION

NOON-3:30 PM DINING ROOM CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY BUFFET WEDNESDAY 27 7:15-8:15 EAST ROOM SARA SU JONES AND DENNIS MOORE (PP. 6, 13)

SUNDAY 31 7:00-10:30 PM DINING ROOM NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY (P. 8)

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REGULAR EVENTS IN DECEMBER

MONDAY

4, 11,18 8:00-9:00 AM BUS TRIP FITNESS WALK, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

4, 11, 18 9:30-10:30 AM THERAPY ROOM WELLNESS CLINIC WITH WELLNESS STAFF

11 9:30 AM BUS TRIP MARIANO’S GROCERY STORE

18 9:30 AM BUS TRIP HYDE PARK PRODUCE

4, 11, 18 10:15-11:15 AM LLLC POETRY GROUP

4, 11, 18 11:30 AM-NOON EAST ROOM PHYSICAL FITNESS

4, 11, 18 1:00 & 1:30 PM BUS TRIP LIBRARY AND ERRANDS

4 2:15-3:15 PM LLLC DINING COMMITTEE

11 3:00-4:00 PM EAST ROOM TOWN MEETING

18 3:30-4:30 PM LLLC BOOKLOVERS GROUP (P. 2)

4 5:20 PM PRIVATE DR FRENCH SPEAKERS’ DINNER TABLE

11 5:20 PM PRIVATE DR GERMAN SPEAKERS’ DINNER TABLE

18 5:20 PM PRIVATE DR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS’ DINNER TABLE

7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 FILM DISCUSSION GROUP MOVIE (P. 12)

TUESDAY

5 10:00-11:00 AM STUDIO ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE

10:15 AM-NOON GAME ROOM HYDE PARK BANK

NOTE TIME CHANGE

10:45 AM-NOON EAST ROOM MEDITATION

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

5 1:00 PM BUS TRIP FIRST TUESDAY WALGREENS 20% SENIOR DISCOUNT

19 1:00 PM BUS TRIP TRADER JOE’S

26 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

3:30–5:00 PM CAFÉ/LOUNGE WINE AND CHEESE SOCIAL

5 7:15-8:15 PM EAST ROOM MONTGOMERY SINGERS SINGALONG (P. 6)

19 NOTE DATE CHANGE

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

26 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.

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

20 8:00-9:00 AM EAST ROOM EAST HYDE PARK COMMITTEE

9:30-10:00 AM LOUNGE TAI CHI

13 10:00-11:00 AM LLLC RACE RELATIONS DISCUSSION

10:30-11:30 AM LIBRARY LIBRARY COMMITTEE

11:00-11:45 AM CHAPEL MIDWEEK EUCHARIST

11:30 AM-NOON EAST ROOM PHYSICAL FITNESS

20 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

3:00-4:00 PM LLSCR BEREAVEMENT GROUP

7:15-8:15 PM LOUNGE HEWSON SWIFT MUSIC SERIES (P. 13)

THURSDAY

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

14 9:30-10:30 AM STUDIO ART COMMITTEE

7 11:00 AM-NOON LLLC MESSENGER MEETING

28 NOON-1:00 PM DINING ROOM DECEMBER RESIDENTS’ BIRTHDAY LUNCH

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

CANCELED IN DECEMBER EAST ROOM LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS (P. 14)

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

7 2:30-3:30 PM EAST ROOM FILM DISCUSSION COMMITTEE

14 2:30-3:30 PM LLLC ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES COMMITTEE

28 3:00-4:00 PM LOUNGE PHYSICAL THERAPY HEALTH PRO LECTURE

21 3:30-5:00 PM EAST ROOM HAPPY HOUR

21 7:15 PM EAST ROOM RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

7 7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 DOCUMENTARY FILM (P. 12)

14, 28 7:15 PM LOUNGE/CH 4 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (P. 12)

WEDNESDAY

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REGULAR EVENTS IN DECEMBER

FRIDAY

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

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

1, 8, 15 9:30-11:00 AM STUDIO DRAWING AND PAINTING CLASS

10:00-11:00 AM GAME ROOM RESIDENTS’ SUPPORT GROUP

10:00-11:00 AM LOUNGE/CH 4 DVD SERIES: THE GREAT IDEAS OF PHILOSOPHY

1 11:00 AM-3:45 PM THERAPY ROOM PODIATRIST JOANNE DAVIS

11:30-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. 2)

SATURDAY

8:45 AM-NOON BUS TRIP SYNAGOGUE TRANSPORTATION

2, 9, 16 9:30-10:30 AM BUS TRIP 61 ST FARMERS MARKET–EXPERIMENTAL STATION

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

16 2:00-3:00 PM LLLC NEW YORKER READERS (P. 8)

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