United Presbyterian Home News

Baker Michelle Williams baked dozens of sugar cookies and presented to residents to creatively decorate for their sweethearts or just to eat. Red, white and pink frostings along with valentine sprinkles and ample pastry bags awaited the decorators. Some delicious looking sweets were taken home to loved ones and maybe some eaten along the way. Ella May Ruppert decorated a special Valentine cookie for her husband, Bob.

A Valentine Dance was held on Friday afternoon and a large crowd of residents, dressed in shades of red, gathered to enjoy the music of Ned Francis and his one-man band. Everyone from able bodied dancers to toe tappers moved to the beat of the music. Sweet treats and other hors d? oeuvres were available for valentines to enjoy, compliments of the dietary staff.

Valentine deliveries of flowers, roses and chocolates arrived for residents beginning on Thursday and continued through the big day on Sunday. Marge Overett receives chocolate deliveries on a regular basis, compliments of her family members.

Dave Brown celebrated his weekend birthday with friends in the Town Center on Monday morning. Dave brought treats to share with the hungry group. Dave reports that he was celebrating the 40th anniversary of his 20th birthday. Leave it to Dave to come up with that one!

Newcomers to the United Presbyterian Home gathered in the Main Dining Room for some cheesecake and chatter on Tuesday afternoon. This was an opportunity for new residents to meet staff, ask questions and get to know other new people while enjoying cheesecake. Edonna Gamon, Max See, Ying and Gwen Ying, Duretta Niemeyer, Raymond Swailes, Dave Brown, Dorothy Winchip and Betty Flynn were some of the guests attending. Everyone seemed to have the same message as they introduced themselves. They all report procrastinating about moving to the UPH, and now wish that they would have moved sooner. Edonna Gamon compares the United Presbyterian Home to a hotel resort. We welcome them all to our UPH family.

Wayne Brock brought in his latest painting. It is a brightly colored fall barn scene. Beautiful fall colors of red and golden yellows in the leaves left on the trees. Intricate details are visible in the two dogs drinking water from a pond and a cat at the front door of a farm house. Wayne surely has a steady hand.

The February birthday party was held in the Health Center on Wednesday afternoon. Maxine Martin and Betty Beenblossom baked cakes for the occasion and Julia Gamon played a number of tunes on the piano. Those celebrating a February birthday include Marjorie Kyle, Easy Jones, Sally Hubbard, Cal Wolf and Sharon Evans.

Classics Et Cetera for Feb. 18, included the overture to ?Ariadne on Naxos? by Richard Strauss; Waltzes Nos. 6-12 from Op. 18, by Franz Schubert; ?Zadok the Priest? by George Frideric Handel; Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; ?Jazz Pizzicato?Jazz Legato? by Leroy Anderson; 2nd Movement of Symphony No. 6 (?Pathetique?) by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; ?Rustle of Spring? by Christian Sinding; ?Under the Double Eagle,? march by Josef Franz Wagner

Of the many hundreds of works, large and small, of Franz Schubert (1797-1828), only a few were published in his lifetime. He and his music were beloved, however, by his admirers, who would gather informally, numbering from a few to over one hundred, in private homes in and around Vienna for the famous Schubertiades (Schubert Evenings), where he and others would play his music. The Schubertiades continued even after the composer?s untimely death.