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April 2013
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A Different Kind of Paycheck Retired Businessman Uses Skills to Benefit Area Nonprofit By Megan Joyce Robert Grossman wasn’t thrilled at the prospect of retiring. A successful business owner and consultant, Grossman said if his last employer hadn’t had a policy in place suggesting retirement at age 65, he would have happily kept working. And he has, in a sense. Several years later, Grossman is still using his business acumen, his people skills, and his fundraising savvy—but he’s transferred his talents to the nonprofit sector: to Aaron’s Acres. For the last 15 years, Aaron’s Acres has provided children ages 5 to 21 who have developmental disabilities with year-round social and recreational programs that teach appropriate communication and socialization skills. Perhaps more importantly, though, Aaron’s Acres’ summer camps and school-year programs give special-needs kids the chance to participate in some of the fun activities of childhood that they might otherwise miss out on. But, of course, these programs—so life-changing for the kids and their families alike—cost money. And that’s where Grossman, who moved to Central Pennsylvania from New York in the mid-’70s, comes in. “There’s a lot to growing an organization, and money always factors in. I guess that’s my major role,” he said. please see PAYCHECK page 15 Robert Grossman's fundraising expertise has helped Aaron's Acres to expand its programs, such as this school-year series for adolescents on Friday nights. Standing, from left, Briahna Sherid and Grossman. Seated, from left, Paul Emert and Lance Holsler.
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Pool Sharks from History Dr. Lori The sport of billiards, as we know it, Morgan in the early 20th century, originated in the 15th century with the collectors continue to seek out antique ruling classes of Europe. The game billiard tables, cue racks, and vintage quickly attracted court members and billiard balls. commoners alike. The strong market for period billiard Billiards has long been a game that tables made of maple, walnut, and has blurred socioeconomic lines. The rosewood entices collectors to pay age-old game now enjoys a revival in the upwards of $25,000 and $100,000 for world of antiques collecting. some fine Victorian tables. The earliest Some of the version of our most popular contemporary Brunswick pool game of pool was tables were the originally called Union League, ground billiards. the Nonpareil, It was a game and the played outdoors Monarch lines. on grass, like Often, these croquet. Over large-scale and time, the game impressive was moved billiard tables indoors and were intended played with cues for a home’s Elvis Presley’s circa 1970s-era pool table from Graceland (photo credit: on a green, overtly www.DrLoriV.com). fabric-covered masculine game table to recall the room, reviving color of the the Classical grassy lawn. decorating style of the late 19th century. In America, the majority of pool While the French kings were the first tables were produced by Brunswickto own billiard tables, circa 1470, many Balke-Collender. In the Victorian age of history’s most famous figures played (circa 1837-1901), pool-table designs billiards. featured solid hardwoods, inlaid ivory Some historic pool sharks included diamond sights, marquetry work, Mary, Queen of Scots; William Roman-style leaf motifs, and/or Shakespeare; Mozart; Napoleon; King geometric Greek key patterns borrowed Louis XIV; King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; General Lafayette; Presidents from the architecture of the ancient world. George Washington, John Quincy It is not uncommon for a collection Adams, and Abraham Lincoln; Mark of antique billiard objects—including a Twain; Charles Dickens; Queen table, cue rack, cue sticks, and Victoria; Cornelius Vanderbilt; and handmade leather pockets—to have an H.G. Wells, to name a few. insurance value exceeding $125,000. Today, many people are partaking in Whether or not you play the game, the revival of pool, collecting pool don’t disregard that really heavy pool memorabilia and decorating game table in your grandmother’s rooms with vintage and antique pool basement—odds are, it is quite tables, racks, and accessories. Stars have valuable. also enjoyed the trend: Ozzy Osbourne had an antique pool table in his Malibu, Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, and Calif., home, and Elvis revived interest in the game with a table in his basement award-winning TV personality, Dr. Lori presents antique appraisal events den at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. nationwide. Dr. Lori is the expert appraiser Game rooms featuring billiard tables on the hit TV show Auction Kings on and bars recall the golden age of billiard Discovery channel, which airs Wednesdays salons. Following the gaming tastes of at 10 p.m. Visit www.DrLoriV.com, America’s businessmen and robber www.Facebook.com/DoctorLori, or call barons like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. (888) 431-1010. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
Book Review
Up From Corinth By J. Arthur Moore
Duane Kinkade is 11 years old when he enters the Civil War as a Confederate drummer boy in search of his father, a Confederate soldier. His father’s last letter spoke of action in western Tennessee, so it is that Duane enters the war in April 1862 at a place called Pittsburg Landing, near a church called Shiloh. Up From Corinth is the story of that battle, where Duane falls wounded and ends up in the care of a Union doctor and his teenage ward. In the months that follow, through the summer and fall of 1862, the Army of the Ohio moves
bloody battle at Stones River, Duane is able to begin his trek back to the Confederate Army. Up From Corinth is available at Legacy Used Books and Collectibles, New Holland; Aaron’s Books, Lititz; Treasure Hill Antiques, Morgantown; the Chester County Historical Society and West Chester University, both in West Chester; and online at Amazon.com.
eastward. Skirmishes with elements of cavalry, outbreaks of illness, and the hardships of life in an army on the move culminate in full battle at Perryville. Finally, in the winter of 18621863, in the aftermath of a bitterly cold and
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For further information, visit www.upfromcorinth.com. About the Author J. Arthur Moore is an educator with over 41 years’ experience in public, private, and independent settings. He is also an amateur photographer and has illustrated his works with his own photographs. In addition to Up From Corinth, Moore has written a series called Journey Into Darkness, a novel titled Summer of Two Worlds, and a number of short pieces and short stories. He lives in Narvon, Pa.
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When Raymond Wallace volunteered for the Army right out of high school, he had no idea how, one day, he’d be risking his life. Upon enlisting in 1942, he was sent to Camp Wheeler in Macon, Ga., for basic training. One evening, he and a buddy went to a movie that told of life as ski troopers and paratroopers. For both kinds of troopers, the Army took only volunteers. Wallace was an experienced skier, so the ski troops sounded good to him. But he found that openings for ski troops had closed, so he volunteered to be a paratrooper. For that, he was sent to Fort Benning, Ga., where he qualified as a paratrooper after the required five training jumps. He explains, “If you changed your mind any time before the fifth jump, you could leave the program, but after the fifth qualifying jump, you were in the Airborne.” The training jumps were from increasingly high towers, with a freefall from a 250-foot tower for the fourth jump. The fifth and qualifying jump was from a troopcarrier plane. What was it like to actually jump out of the plane that first time? Chuckling, he says, “Believe it or not, you had more stress in those jumps on the ground, because being connected to the ground gave you more of a feeling of height than you had from high in the air.” After training, his unit, Company B, 507th Regiment, 82nd Airborne, shipped from New York to Belfast, Ireland, in January 1944. On the way, they hit a major storm. “Everybody got sick,” he says, “but the upside was that the foul quarters caused me to give up smoking.” After more weeks of training and living in tents in Nottingham, England, he boarded a C-47 troopcarrier plane with other troopers at 1:30 on the morning of D-Day and was flown to a drop zone to clear the
way for the invasion. Slowly wagging his head, he says, “By the time we got to where we were to be dropped, it was like the Fourth of July, with flak bursting
PFC Raymond C. Wallace and his son, Kevin, also a paratrooper, in 2012.
Raymond Wallace being honored in a Columbia parade in 2010.
everywhere. You could feel it hitting the airplane. “Then, with our right engine enveloped in flames, we jumped. When my parachute popped, the abrupt snap pulled my helmet over my eyes, a bullet shot the heel off my boot, and I was on the ground. We were supposed to jump from 500 feet. But I found out later that it was actually 250 feet. “Fourteen of us used our ‘crickets’ to find each other. The ‘crickets’ were a brass-and-steel version of the tin prize from a 1930s Cracker Jack box, but the sound they made worked great in helping us find each other. “Our other four men didn’t show up, and we assumed they were too
low to jump at all. At daybreak, we were able to talk to some French peasants and learn that we had been dropped 20 miles from where we were supposed to be.” Traveling by night, they linked up with other Americans as they walked toward their intended landing area. Soon, they arrived at a fairly large town, but so had the Germans, who surrounded the town and virtually leveled it with artillery fire. Wallace says they held off the Germans until they ran out of ammunition and were overrun. Taken prisoner, they were taken to Stalag 12A, one of the first German POW camps, and later transferred to the stalag at Altenburg, Germany. The Germans put them to work, digging light pole holes. All POW life was miserable, but Wallace says, “The worst part was the food. There was a cup of ersatz coffee in the morning and a meal of potatoes and beets later in the day with a slice of black bread. I weighed 175 pounds when I was captured and 98 pounds when the American troops liberated the camp. I was lucky, though, because of the 110 men in my company, only 45 survived Normandy.” After being freed, the men were trucked to Le Havre, France, where they took a troop ship to New York. Wallace was discharged in Fort Indiantown Gap and returned to his home in Clearfield County, where he worked in construction for 22 years. In 1969, he came to Central Pennsylvania to attend the wedding of a niece. He liked it so well, he decided to stay, working in security, a job he holds today at age 84. There’s a twinkle in his eye as he explains, “It gets me out of the house.” In 2009 he made news when Rep. Joe Pitts presented him with the several medals he had earned so many years ago. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.
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Employment Resources for Older Job Seekers Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, What resources can you recommend to help older job seekers? I’m 62 and have been out of work for nearly a year now and need some help. – Looking For Work Dear Looking, While the U.S. job market has improved slightly over the past year or so, challenges persist for many older job seekers. Fortunately, there are a number of free online tools and in-person training centers scattered across the country today that can help you find employment. Here’s what you should know. Online Resources If you have Internet access, there are a number of 50-and-older online
employment networks that can help you connect with companies that are interested in hiring older workers. Two of the best are Work Reimagined (www.workreimagined.org), a resource developed by AARP that combines career advice, job listings, and online discussion tied to LinkedIn’s professional networking platform. RetirementJobs.com offers a job search engine that lists thousands of jobs nationwide from companies that are actively seeking workers over the age of 50. It also provides job-seeking tips and advice, helps with resume writing, and allows
you to post your resume online for companies to find you. Some other good 50plus job-seeking sites to try are Workforce50.com, Retired Brains (www.retiredbrains.com), RetireeWorkforce.com, and Encore.org, a resource that helps older workers find meaningful work in the second half of life. In-Person Help Another good place to get help finding a job is at a Career One-Stop center. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, these are free job resource centers that can help you
explore career options, search for jobs, find training, write a resume, prepare for an interview, and much more. There are around 3,000 of these centers located throughout the country. To find one near you, call (877) 3480502 or go to www.careeronestop.org. Depending on your financial situation, another program that may help is the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP). Also sponsored by the Department of Labor, SCSEP offers access to training and part-time job placements in a wide variety of community service positions such as daycare centers, senior centers, governmental agencies, schools, hospitals, libraries, and landscaping centers. To qualify, participants must be over 55, unemployed, and have poor employment prospects. To learn more or please see EMPLOYMENT page 7
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Coatesville Area Senior Center – (610) 383-6900 22 N. Fifth Ave., Coatesville – www.cascweb.org
April 12, 8 to 9:30 p.m. – Night Sky Astronomy Program, Springton Manor Farm April 27, 9 to 11 a.m. – Spring Plant Swap, Hibernia County Park April 27, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Sheep and Wool Day, Springton Manor Farm
Support Groups Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Wellness Community of Philadelphia: Support Group for People with Cancer The Cancer Center at Paoli Hospital 255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli (215) 879-7733 April 2, 2 p.m. Grief Support Group Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 327-7216 April 2, 16, 30, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Bereavement Support Group Main Line Unitarian Church 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon (610) 585-6604 phoenixbereavement@yahoo.com Nondenominational; all are welcome.
Downingtown Senior Center – (610) 269-3939 983 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown– http://home.ccil.org/~dasc
Free and open to the public April 3, 6 p.m. Memory Loss and Dementia Support Group Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli 324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern (610) 251-9994 April 8 and 22, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Adult Care of Chester County 201 Sharp Lane, Exton (610) 363-8044
April 16, 6 p.m. Family Caregiver Support Group Sunrise of Westtown 501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester (610) 399-4464 April 17, 6:30 p.m. Homestead Memory Care Support Group Topic: Caregiver Guilt and Resentment The Residences at Chestnut Ridge 2700 Chestnut Parkway, Chester (610) 447-0710
April 10, noon Family Caregiver Support Group Sarah Care 425 Technology Drive, Suite 200, Malvern (610) 251-0801
Free and open to the public April 6 and 20, 5 to 10 p.m. Bingo Nights Marine Corps League Detachment 430 Chestnut St., Downingtown (610) 431-2234
April 25, 5 to 7 p.m. Medicare 101 Presentation Surrey Services 28 Bridge Ave., Berwyn (610) 647-6404
April 2, 12:10 p.m. Roe V. Wade: The Verdict and Its Impact Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Widener University Exton Campus 825 Springdale Drive West Whiteland Township (484) 713-0088 www.widener.edu/olli
April 9, 11 a.m. New Century Club Meeting (Women’s Charity Club) Days Hotel 943 S. High St., West Chester (610) 436-9158 eichhornb@verizon.net
April 25, 6 to 8 p.m. Medicare 101 Presentation Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 935-1515
April 9, 6 to 8 p.m. Medicare 101 Presentation West Chester Senior Center 530 E. Union St., West Chester (610) 431-4242
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Oxford Senior Center – (610) 932-5244 12 E. Locust St., Oxford – www.oxfordseniors.org Phoenixville Area Senior Center – (610) 935-1515 153 Church St., Phoenixville www.phoenixvilleseniorcenter.org West Chester Area Senior Center – (610) 431-4242 530 E. Union St., West Chester – www.wcseniors.org
April 2, 11:30 a.m. West Chester University Retirees Luncheon For restaurant location, please email darsie@verizon.net
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Kennett Area Senior Center – (610) 444-4819 427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Square– www.kennettseniorcenter.org April 11, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Free Blood Pressure Screening April 16, 2:30 to 4 p.m. – Tea Party: “Bunny Hop” April 24, 12:30 p.m. – Book Talk: Life with Flavor: A Personal History of Herr’s by Bruce Mowday
Please call or visit the centers’ websites for additional activities.
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April 5, 1 p.m. Poverty and Housing in Chester County Tel Hai Retirement Community Garrett Community Center – Gathering Room 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook (610) 273-9333
Great Valley Senior Center – (610) 889-2121 47 Church Road, Malvern
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Chester County Library Programs Atglen Library, 413 Valley Ave., Atglen (610) 593-6848 Avon Grove Library, 117 Rose Hill Ave., West Grove, (610) 869-2004 Bayard Taylor Library, 216 E. State St., Kennett Square, (610) 444-2702 Chester County Library, 450 Exton Square Parkway, Exton, (610) 280-2615 Chester Springs Library, 1685-A Art School Road, Chester Springs, (610) 827-9212 Downingtown Library, 330 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, (610) 269-2741 April 9, 6:30 p.m. – Film Forum April 25, 1 p.m. – Senior Book Club Paoli Library, 18 Darby Road, Paoli, (610) 296-7996 Mystery Book Club – Call for dates/times West Chester Library, 415 N. Church St., West Chester, (610) 696-1721 www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
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locate a program in your area, visit www.doleta.gov/seniors or call (877) 872-5627. Work at Home If you’re interested in working at home, there are many opportunities depending on your skills, but be careful of rampant work-at-home scams that offer big paydays without much effort. Some of the more popular work-athome jobs include “customer service agents” who field calls from their employers’ customers and prospective customers—you don’t place telemarketing calls. Agents earn an average of $8 to $15 an hour and many also receive incentives and commission, too. To find these jobs, see Arise (www.arise.com), Alpine Access (www.alpineaccess.com), LiveOps (www.liveops.com), and Working Solutions (www.workingsolutions.com). If you have good typing skills, there are “transcriptionist” jobs that pay around $10 per hour for typing verbatim accounts of board meetings, presentations, conference calls, etc. Companies that hire transcriptionists
are Tigerfish (www.tigerfish.com), Ubiqus (www.ubiqus.com), and Cambridge Transcriptions (www.ctran.com). And if you have a college degree, online “tutoring” or “proofreading” jobs are always available. See Tutor.com to find tutoring opportunities that pay between $10 and $15 per hour. Or, if you have some writing or editing experience, proofreading pays $12 to $20 per hour. See FirstEditing.com and Cactus (www.cactusglobal.com) to look for proofreading jobs. For more work-at-home ideas and resources, see Retired Brains (www.retiredbrains.com) and click on the “Work from Home” tab on the left side of the page. Start a Business If you’re interested in starting a small business but could use some help getting started, the U.S. Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov) offers tips, tools, and free online courses that you can access online. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org.
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Fran Atkins was recently named Tel Hai Retirement Community’s Volunteer in the Spotlight. It was an interesting opportunity to turn the tables on the woman who usually crafts profiles of volunteers honored for their contributions by making her the subject of this month’s award. Atkins’ contributions on campus extend beyond her writing skills. She assists in Lakeview Personal Care, helping residents with varied tasks and activities—from the everyday to wrapping Christmas gifts. As a driver, she provided transportation to a funeral as well as to the Goshen Fair
to offer a Meadows Health Care resident the opportunity to enjoy his blue ribbon tomatoes on display. She also actively supports the marketing department with special events and serves on the Peer to Peer group as a community ambassador. In the greater community, Atkins writes a newsletter for her church as well as the Honey Brook Community Library. Fran and her husband, Harold, live on Tel Hai’s campus next door to their daughter-in-laws’ parents. The grandparents are great friends and happily share their triplet 13-year-old grandchildren between them.
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Home Care Services & Hospice Providers Agency Name Telephone/Website
Alliance Home Help (800) 444-4598 (toll-free) www.alliancehomehelp.com
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Central Penn Nursing Care, Inc. (717) 569-0451 www.cpnc.com
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Garden Spot Village (717) 355-6000 www.gardenspotvillage.org
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Hospice & Community Care Founded as Hospice of Lancaster County
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Keystone In-Home Care, Inc. (717) 898-2825 (866) 857-4601 (toll-free) www.keystoneinhomecare.com
Live-In Care of Pennsylvania (717) 519-6860 (888) 327-7477 (toll-free) www.liveincareofpa.com
Safe Haven Skilled Services (717) 238-1111; (717) 582-4110; (717) 582-9977 www.safehavenqualitycare.com
Visiting Angels (717) 393-3450; (717) 737-8899 (717) 751-2488; (717) 630-0067 (717) 652-8899; (800) 365-4189 www.visitingangels.com
VNA Community Care Services (717) 544-2195; (888) 290-2195 (toll-free) www.lancastergeneral.org/content/ VNA_Community_Care.htm
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for that cold or cough that just won’t go away. But COPD can be a dangerous health hazard. If left untreated, it can have debilitating effects on everyday activities. Affecting one in five adults in the U.S. over the age of 45 and an estimated 24 million Americans, as many as half remain undiagnosed. In people who have COPD, the airway tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs are partially blocked, making it hard to breathe. The disease develops slowly and usually worsens over time. So don’t ignore the first signs of COPD, which include a chronic cough, hacking, wheezing, and shortness of breath.
COPD occurs most often in people age 40 and over with a history of smoking, affecting both current and former smokers. However, as many as one out of six people with COPD have never smoked. Other risk factors include long-term exposure to secondhand smoke, certain chemicals, and dust or fumes in the workplace. In some people, COPD can be caused by a genetic condition known as alpha-1 antitrypsin, or AAT, deficiency. “While there is no cure for COPD, early diagnosis and treatment can help people with the disease improve their symptoms and get back to the things
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There’s Nothing to Fear in Fear Itself Saralee Perel ost people think I’m normal. I’m not. Usually, I’m in overdrive on the nervouswreck meter, such as when I recently held a book signing at a bookshop. I’m reliving the panic in my dreams. This has resulted in a severe sleep disorder … for my husband. “Bob!” I screamed, as I pounded on his head last night while he was asleep. “I’m having a nightmare.” Our startled dog jumped on the bed and tore the quilt to death. The cats joined the terror party by leaping onto Bob’s face and yowling at higher notes than Mariah Carey could reach if she smashed her thumb with a sledgehammer. “Sweetheart,” I whispered. “Are you awake?” “Saralee, I’m begging you. Please don’t tell me another nightmare.” “I was at my signing when a woman
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came over dressed like a zombie. She hissed, ‘You’re a rotten writer. Everybody hates your book. And you put on 30 pounds.’ Bob! It wasn’t a costume. It was my mother!” “Oh no!” He covered his ears. Most of us have anxiety. Maybe it’s a dread of dentist appointments, airplanes, spiders, or social situations. Oh, there are a billion examples. Although I was a psychotherapist for 22 years, I’ve learned more about anxiety from my own shtick. Struggling to cover up nervousness actually makes it worse. How do we tame it? By not trying to hide it or stop it. Saying, “I’m so nervous that my hands are shaking,” or, “My neck is beet red,” or commenting on whatever our outward signs of anxiety are will take away their power. If there are people who think less of me for being scared, that’s their
shortcoming. My sister-in-law was at my signing. She lives far away from me and never reads my columns, so she won’t see this. When she does her superior know-it-all thing, I respond like the mature, wise woman I’m known to be: I make faces behind her back. Two seconds before entering the bookstore, she said, “Are you nervous?” “Yes.” The sabotage began. “What’s wrong with you? You shouldn’t be nervous.” “Well, I’m excited too.” “You should be.” I stomped my feet. “I just said I am!” Bob gave me a knowing look that meant, “You’re never going to win. Give it up.” Naturally, he was right. While signing books, my hands trembled. While connecting with readers whose words touched my heart deeply,
my head shook. While thanking so many wonderful souls for coming to meet me, well, I stuttered through tears. Did it matter that I was nervous? Of course not. Three things mattered: 1. The fact that I had a wondrous time in spite of being scared. 2. The beautiful words I heard from readers along with the overwhelming love I received. 3. And that my sister-in-law saw every single bit of it. Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist. Her new book is Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance. To find out more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email sperel@saraleeperel.com.
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from page 1 running a for-profit organization: You seemingly simple experience had had on have people that you hire and who report the boy’s overall comfort and happiness, to you.” and he was soon meeting with Aaron’s This is quite a feat for someone who, Acres’ executive director, Risa Paskoff, to until four years ago, “had never done see how he could continue spreading those volunteer work” in his life. Grossman smiles locally. started out as a stockbroker and then “These are kids that never did this kind worked doing “very mundane business” in of stuff. Their life is changed, and when New York City until 1971, when he heard you see that and the smiles on their faces, that the Maryland and Pennsylvania it’s great,” he said. Railroad Company—a 38-mile, short-line The effects of Grossman’s involvement freight railroad are clearly evident. running between York, Initially, Aaron’s Acres Pa., and Whiteford, was only able to offer I have a fulltime Md.—was for sale. its summer camp And his company programs for half days. job—not for bought it. Now, thanks to the pay, but for Grossman became a funds generated by the successful, 40-year golf tournament and satisfaction. businessman in the other fundraisers, railroad industry, camp sessions in all which included raising three locations— money to fix up old freight cars in order Lancaster, Berks, and Dauphin counties— to lease them out. run for full days, five days a week. He sold his railroad company, which “Having Robert as a board member has owned five railroads at that time, in 2002, been a true blessing to everyone involved and then worked six years for the with Aaron’s Acres,” Paskoff said. “The company that bought it. He also took his amount of time and energy he puts forth railroad expertise down to Washington, to spread the word about who we are and DC, and to state governments to meet what we do is remarkable. We joke that with and persuade legislators to help fund wherever he goes, he ends up talking railroad-track upgrades and modify about Aaron’s Acres.” railroad regulations. In 2012, 280 special-needs children After he retired in 2008, Grossman and benefited from a summer camp his family were participating in an event experience, which includes swimming, in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor where boat crafts, dancing, dog visits, and even owners (including Grossman) took horseback riding. families and their special-needs children “Before [participating], these kids don’t out for boat rides. have friends; they don’t talk to lots of Grossman took a 13-year-old autistic different people. And then they come to boy and his family on a two-hour ride camp and they make friends, and they end around Baltimore harbor. The photo of up doing activities that they really enjoy,” the boy before the ride shows his anxious, Grossman said. “And then the parents get contorted face. But the “after” shot? some respite while the kids are at camp, “At the end of the trip, he was sitting and we have programs for the parents, back in the seat, smiling and laughing,” too.” Grossman remembered. During the school year, kids ages 13 to Grossman marveled at the effect this 21 can participate in community activities
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such as movies, bowling, and baseball games on Friday evenings. On Saturday afternoons, children ages 5 to 12 can gather to enjoy recreational activities that include group games, sports, and music therapy. Grossman has gotten his whole family involved in his new mission. His grandson served as a “volunteer buddy” last summer, one of many middle- and high-school students who are paired with a specialneeds child to act as a positive role model and to aid Aaron’s Acres staff. Grossman’s work on Aaron’s Acres’ behalf isn’t limited to just the golf tournament. In addition to serving as a member of its board and continuously seeking and contacting new donors, Grossman facilitates Aaron’s Acres Days at a couple of area restaurants each year, where a percentage of the restaurant’s sales for that day are donated to Aaron’s Acres. In 2012, Aaron’s Acres was approved as an eligible nonprofit organization under Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, which provides forprofit businesses a 75 percent tax credit for the amount of their donations to eligible nonprofits. Just as he had with the golf tournament, Grossman used his fundraising know-how to secure a sizeable business donor for this program. Although his role at Aaron’s Acres is multifaceted, it’s the annual golf tournament that requires most of Grossman’s focus, which he gladly gives. “The big thing is the golf tournament; it takes six months out of my life. It’s a lot of work,” Grossman said. “This year, the goal is $50,000. That’s 10 percent of Aaron’s Acres’ budget. “I have a fulltime job—not for pay, but for satisfaction.” For more information on Aaron’s Acres or their golf tournament on May 20, call Grossman’s cell at (717) 940-1941, email him at robert.grossman1@gmail.com, or visit www.aaronsacres.org.
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In 2009, Grossman joined the Aaron’s Acres board. The following year, however, he began taking over the production of what would become his signature achievement: the organization’s annual golf tournament, now a major fundraiser. Grossman set to work, embarking on what would become another fulltime job in which he is paid in passion versus pennies. He worked out an agreement with Bent Creek Country Club, of which he is a member, to host the tournament on its golf course (though he himself is not a golfer, he said). Grossman also placed scores of phone calls and emails to benevolent persons in the community, as well as good, oldfashioned face-to-face communication with anyone who crossed his path. “I became so passionate about Aaron’s Acres. It’s an easy sell when you sit down and talk to somebody. These are kids with developmental disabilities, including physical disabilities, autism, and Down’s syndrome. … “If I go out to a restaurant, I’d talk to the person sitting next to me,” Grossman explained. “Everybody that worked on my house—the air conditioning guy, the plumber—I’d call them and say, ‘I’m a customer of yours, and I want to talk to you about Aaron’s Acres.’” In this friendly, down-to-earth way, Grossman signed on numerous tournament sponsors and 100 participating golfers for the 2011 and 2012 tournaments. And the event, organized and energized by Grossman, went from raising a few thousand dollars in 2010—when run by an outside person in a different venue—to a staggering $44,000 in 2011. The 2012 tournament beat even that, with a grand total of $46,000. “Aaron’s Acres is a young organization, and I’m able to give some input from a business sense,” Grossman said. “Running a nonprofit is not that different from
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