NEWSLETTER Winter 2020 Friends of Dennis Senior Citizens BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert P. Mahoney, President Leonard F. Morley, Vice President Mark Romboli, Treasurer Dolores Kennedy, Asst. Treasurer Louis Daniele, Secretary Jan Bogardus Henry Bowen Joseph Dinnan Vernon Ellars James E. France Carol Lawrence Susan Putonen Heidi Schadt Jack Seaver Walter A. vonHone Happy Whitman Nancy Wolf Marie Jainchill Executive Director Betty Jane White Events Volunteer Welcome to the Friends of Dennis Senior Citizens Newsletter. We hope you enjoy our news. Please visit us for more news and events at www.friendsofdennisseniors.com Winter Quote “One kind word can warm three winter months.” (Japanese Proverb) PRESIDENT’S LETTER We concluded 40 years of service in 2019 with the 34th Annual Christmas Giving Program. 130 Town of Dennis residents received a large shopping bag of gift-wrapped presents. Despite the snow and poor travel conditions, The Big Wrap went on with 46 volunteers who wrapped over 2,000 presents. The large, white shopping bags were colorfully decorated by children of the Dennis Union Church and the bags were kindly distributed by members of the Volunteers in Police Service of the Dennis Police Dept. on Saturday, December 7th. We held our first Winter Fair Fundraiser on February 9th, the weekend before Valentine’s Day. Artists & crafters set up their booths with a steady stream of people from the community stopping by. The funds raised helped with our annual giving. Our annual spring event called Daffodil Day happened in March when we distributed 400 daffodils to meals-on-wheels clients through Elder Services, helped by the very dependable route drivers. A word of special thanks to Blossoms of Cape Cod (in Dennis Village) for the donation of flowers. The Friends again sponsored two Red Cross Blood Drives at the Senior Center and a total of 75 units of blood were collected from the March and October efforts. The Jazz in June concert and luncheon, which has become an annual event, sold out once again with nearly 100 people in attendance. In the spirit of friendship, good food and jazz music, everyone left saying, “we so look foward to this all year.” The annual spring George DeShaw Golf Tournament was held on June 10 at the Highlands course. A special thanks to the players and sponsors who keep supporting our major fundraiser for the year. We gave a monetary donation to the Brown Bag for Christmas treats of real coffee and butter while continuing to support the Golden Age classes by paying tuition for seniors in need. We wrote checks to benefit individual seniors as well. The Friends continue the yearly Planned Giving to local organizations which touch the lives of many Town of Dennis seniors. In 2019, we gave to: Sight Loss of Cape Cod, Visiting Nurse Association and Compass Adult Day Health Center . The Friends donated 34,000 square feet of our owned land (nearest to Setucket Road) to accommodate drainage, septic digestion and parking for the new expansion of the senior center. Bob Mahoney, President
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NEWSLETTERWinter 2020
Friends of Dennis Senior Citizens
BOARD OF DIRECTORSRobert P. Mahoney, President
Leonard F. Morley, Vice PresidentMark Romboli, Treasurer
James E. FranceCarol LawrenceSusan PutonenHeidi SchadtJack Seaver
Walter A. vonHoneHappy Whitman
Nancy Wolf
Marie JainchillExecutive Director
Betty Jane WhiteEvents Volunteer
Welcome to the Friends of Dennis Senior Citizens Newsletter. We hope you enjoy our news.Please visit us for more news and events at www.friendsofdennisseniors.com
Winter Quote“One kind word can warm
three winter months.”(Japanese Proverb)
PRESIDENT’S LETTERWe concluded 40 years of service in 2019 with the 34th Annual Christmas Giving Program. 130 Town of Dennis residents received a large shopping bag of gift-wrapped presents. Despite the snow and poor travel conditions, The Big Wrap went on with 46 volunteers who wrapped over 2,000 presents. The large, white shopping bags were colorfully decorated by children of the Dennis Union Church and the bags were kindly distributed by members of the Volunteers in Police Service of the Dennis Police Dept. on Saturday, December 7th.
We held our first Winter Fair Fundraiser on February 9th, the weekend before Valentine’s Day. Artists & crafters set up their booths with a steady stream of people from the community stopping by. The funds raised helped with our annual giving.
Our annual spring event called Daffodil Day happened in March when we distributed 400 daffodils to meals-on-wheels clients through Elder Services, helped by the very dependable route drivers. A word of special thanks to Blossoms of Cape Cod (in Dennis Village) for the donation of flowers.
The Friends again sponsored two Red Cross Blood Drives at the Senior Center and a total of 75 units of blood were collected from the March and October efforts.
The Jazz in June concert and luncheon, which has become an annual event, sold out once again with nearly 100 people in attendance. In the spirit of friendship, good food and jazz music, everyone left saying, “we so look foward to this all year.”
The annual spring George DeShaw Golf Tournament was held on June 10 at the Highlands course. A special thanks to the players and sponsors who keep supporting our major fundraiser for the year.
We gave a monetary donation to the Brown Bag for Christmas treats of real coffee and butter while continuing to support the Golden Age classes by paying tuition for seniors in need. We wrote checks to benefit individual seniors as well.
The Friends continue the yearly Planned Giving to local organizations which touch the lives of many Town of Dennis seniors. In 2019, we gave to: Sight Loss of Cape Cod, Visiting Nurse Association and Compass Adult Day Health Center.
The Friends donated 34,000 square feet of our owned land (nearest to Setucket Road) to accommodate drainage, septic digestion and parking for the new expansion of the senior center.
Bob Mahoney, President
What’s Up in 2020?
Our Winter Fair Fundraiser kicks off this year, on Saturday, February 8th, from 10-3pm in Howell Hall at the Dennis Senior Center. We went from imagining an artful festival in this gathering place we built so many years ago, to making it a winter happening that brought people of every age in the community under our roof. We will have raffles and a silent auction featuring 4 Red Sox game tickets, choc-olates and bouquets of flowers, demonstrations, baked goods, art, jewelry, crafts and more. See our colorful flyer and pass on to a friend. Join us for this celebration of love the weekend before Valentine’s Day.Daffodil Day on March 16th is when we give 400 daffodils to Meals on Wheels recipients to bring the hope of an early spring.Red Cross Blood Drives occur in the spring and fall. Our first drive will be on Saturday, April 18th.Jazz in June, now in its 7th season, is our way of welcoming summer with a banquet of catered, gourmet food and the music of the great, American Songbook--jazz for all ages. Saturday, June 6, from 12-2pm.Annual Golf Tournament will be held in early June at the Dennis Pines. Our date has yet to be determined.
“Love Actually” at the Big Wrap on December 4th Look at all the Smiles of Friends Helping Friends
The Big Heart of the Big WrapWe share this Christmas tradition with you on our 40th anniversary. We give thanks to the volunteers who come, year after year, to wrap over 2,000 presents for 130 seniors who live alone or are in need. This year, they braved the snow and sleet, bringing their scissors and filling every corner of Howell Hall to wrap all afternoon. Without their commitment and your donations, the Christmas Giving Program would not have endured--now in its 34th year. A big hug goes to Art and Elizabeth McCormack who do-nated 130 tins of butter cookies. We also thank the VIP drivers who delivered the Christmas bags on Saturday morning, December 7th.
2019 Volunteers Marianne Miles Judy Daley Len Morley Mary Morley Linda Morley Ed France Susan Norton Ginny Gifford Art McCormack Linda Waite Elizabeth McCormack Judy Nelson Jan Bogardus Bob McKenney Lou Daniele Judy Johnson Lisa Hunter Bill Thomas Elaine Allard Pamela Brimmer Eleanor Parsons Joe Dinnan Betty Jane White Bob Mahoney Pat Dolan Barbara Clark Sandi O’Donnell Mark Romboli Bev Hall Susan Putonen Hank Bowen Marilyn Bowen Gail Fleischer Sharon Murphy Jack Seaver Lynne Hannon Ann Hamilton Ginny McCabe Pam Kukla Tom O’Hearn Heather Johnson Carol Lawrence Mary Daniele Karen Wieland Nancy Wolf Marie Jainchill
THE VETERANS’ COLUMNby Vern Ellars, Director
So many of you loved the following article we published in the fall of 2018, I am reprinting it in 2020 in honor of the fighter pilots of World War II.In Air & Space Magazine, the story of squadron command-er, J. Hunter Reinburg, is recounted. Reinburg was con-cerned about the morale of his pilots on a “tropical island with no fresh food and no refrigeration,” so he hatched a plan.mHe had his maintenance crew “pour a mixture of canned milk and cocoa powder” into an old, waterproof can that stored .50-caliber bullets orginally. The can was mounted to the side of the plane with wires, inside “an old belly-mounted drop tank.” The trick was to fly high enough (over 33,000 feet) to get the mixture cold. The first try failed. The ice cream tasted good but was not frozen. After another unsuccessful attempt, Reinburg decided to add propellers to the ammo cans and “the wind turned the propellers, which drove a screw inside the can, churning the mixture.” It worked! His men tasted at last-- real choc-olate ice cream.
In his autobiography, Combat Aerial Escapades,” Rein-burg said the ice cream flights soon became known as “Operation Freeze.” All went well until his boss, Colonel Caleb Bailey, got wind of the scheme and said “...you guys aren’t fooling me...I’ve got spies. You tell [Reinburg] I’m coming over there tomorrow and get my ration.”It seems Reinburg wasn’t alone in his ice cream making venture during the war. In Europe other pilots on B-17s made their own flavors; “according to a 1943 New York Times article...at least one unit used its P-47s to create a real delicacy, vanilla ice cream mixed with canned fruit.” Just another way they survived the war.
Red Cross Blood DriveOn Saturday, April 18, 2020
9:00 am-2:00 pmHowell Hall, The Dennis Senior Center
Please join us this springin giving the precious gift of blood.
Support Our Cause for SeniorsAnnual Appeal 2019-2020
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