United Presbyterian Home

Mary Meeker, Brad Goff and Margaret Stangohr each celebrated birthdays in the Town Center recently. They provided the treats to share with residents, family and friends as they gathered for coffee and a time of comradery.

Residents took advantage of the fall weather recently to get outside for wheelchair rides and to view the fall colors. Several Maple trees on campus display their brilliant transformation as the cool temperatures and dampness make for bold color. Unfortunately, the wind is making for a short viewing season.

Charlane Tanner enjoyed a special visit from family last week. Daughters, Jody Tanner and Sally Tranberg along with grandsons, Timothy Tranberg and Tommy Tranberg and three great-grandchildren helped Charlane to celebrate her 91st birthday. Sally and her son, Tommy and family arrived from Tennessee and Timothy's family traveled from Georgia. Charlane reports that she was well entertained by the great-grandchildren and loved every minute of their visit.

Ted Stewart went to New Jersey for eight days recently. He stayed with his adopted son Herbert, who is studying accounting at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He had a nice visit with his daughter-in-law, Patricia, and grandson, Theo. He was also able to see many of the friends he'd made during the thirty-three years he lived in New Jersey before he retired. A highlight of his trip was attending a performance of Gershwin's Porgy and

Bess at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Edward and Pauline Jarrard celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary Wednesday. Their daughter, Carol Enfield had a special lunch delivered in for them as they marked the special day.

Donna Pile enjoyed lunch with her daughters, Cindy Simmering of Ainsworth, Iowa; Deb Pumphery of Ottumwa, Iowa and Melissa Larson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The girls were all in town at the same time for a get together.

Classics Et Cetera for October 24, 2019 included a prelude to 'The Divine Husband” by Franz Lehár; 'Tritsch-Tratsch Polka” by Johann Strauss, Jr.; 'Ballade” by Friedrick Burgmüller; 'Habanera” from 'Carmen” by Georges Bizet; 'Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 by Sir Edward Elgar; 'Nola” by Felix Arndt, performed by Jonathan Edwards; 1st Movement of Clarinet Concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; 'Burr's Triumphant” by Russell Alexander.

Franz von Suppé (1819-1895) was a popular composer of operettas and other light musical stage works in Vienna, rivaling Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), also in Vienna, and Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) in Paris. Suppé's stage works are now forgotten, but many of his operetta overtures are still in the orchestral repertoire. Among the most popular of these is 'Light Cavalry” which features two 'William Tell”-like gallops, presumably cavalry charges, one unsuccessful, another successful. Now, we are told, in the operetta, there is a group of overweight dancers who are often referred to jokingly as the 'light cavalry – the operetta's humor being not far from Gilbert and Sullivan.