Commun ty Matters Wichita Presbyterian Manor
May 2018
Artists enjoying the reception in their honor.
Art is Ageless® winners announced Wichita Presbyterian Manor recently hosted a reception for the winning artists in the annual Art is Ageless® juried competition. “We are honored to exhibit artwork by seniors,” said Amy Watson, life enrichment director. “Art is Ageless is unique in featuring only the works of artists age 65 and older. Our artists prove that art, in any form, is an ageless ambition.” Winners in the Wichita Presbyterian Manor Art is Ageless juried competition were: Best of Show (professional): Skip Kreibach, “Late Night Reading” Best of Show (amateur): Robert Mayle, “On Bantry Peninsula” People’s Choice: Katy Bevill, “Sugar” Christmas (professional): Maria Ctibor, “Gabbie Sue Christmas” ART continued on page 2
Marjorie Baugher, Melody Dodge’s mother, preparing one of her fabulous meals.
Celebrating our mothers Ever since Mother’s Day became an official U.S. holiday in 1914, we’ve celebrated our mothers with a day dedicated just for them—the second Sunday in May. Here are some special memories staff and residents have shared about their moms and grandmothers. “My mom always came to my high school cross country meets to cheer for me and my teammates. She also baked us cookies and other goodies for pretty much every meet. Needless to say, she was pretty popular with my teammates! I love that she was (and still is) always supportive of me, and also my friends.” Kim Tuhro, life enrichment coordinator “My mother has always had an eye for decorating and for creating beautiful things, especially on a budget. I have bragged about her my whole life telling others that her home could be ‘in the magazines.’ She seems to always be ahead of the trends and it shows in all the ways she brings out beauty within the walls of her home. She is the type of person who truly makes a house a home by creating the most welcoming of environments, MOTHER, continued on page 3
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Christmas (amateur): Midori Melton, “Mr. Cardinal” Drawing (professional): Carol Davis, “Rose Garden” Mixed Media/Crafts (professional0: Nancy Wiechman, “God’s Paintbrush” Mixed Media/Crafts (amateur): Brenda Robertson, “Jewelry Pendant” Painting (professional): Therese Cabell, “Chimborazo Mountain” Painting (amateur): Kathleen McVey, “Red Bird” Photography (professional):
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Paulette Mattingly, “Tobacco Hornworm” Photography (amateur): Gary Stahl, “Prelude to Spring” Quilting (professional): Paulette Mattingly, “Quilted Placemat-Fall” Quilting (amateur): Nancy Kreibach, “Friendship Flower Garden” Sculpture/3-D (amateur): Brenda Robertson, “My Beagle” Local competition winners will join winners from 16 other Presbyterian Manors of MidAmerica communities to be judged at the masterpiece level. Winning entries at the masterpiece level are selected for publication in PMMA’s annual Art is Ageless calendar and note cards.
Residents enjoy the Art is Ageless reception.
Art is Ageless is a copyrighted program of Presbyterian Manors of
Mid-America. For the competition, works must have been completed in the past five years. Started in 1980, Art is Ageless is an extension of Presbyterian Manors of MidAmerica’s wellness programs, which focus on mental, physical, social and spiritual health.
Robert Mayle’s “On Bantry Peninsula” was named Best of Show (amateur)..
Midori Melton’s “Mr. Cardinal” took first place in Christmas (amateur.).
is published monthly for residents and friends of Wichita Presbyterian Manor by Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at PresbyterianManors.org. Courtney Wolfe, executive director Melody Dodge, marketing director To submit or suggest articles for this publication, contact Amy Watson, life enrichment director, awatson@pmma.org. Telephone: 316-942-7456 Fax: 316-941-3806 Address: 4700 W. 13th St., Wichita, KS 67212-5575 Our mission: We provide quality senior services guided by Christian values. WichitaPresbyterianManor.org
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not only with the décor but also with her hospitality.” Meggin Nicolas, life enrichment coordinator
company over and she always made sure they had plenty to eat.” Melody Dodge, director of marketing and sales
“Growing up in Boone County, “One of my fondest memories of my outside the city of Harrison, Ark., mother, Marjorie Baugher, is the fact I had many childhood adventures. Many adventures happened playing that she was such a fantastic baker and cook. She doesn’t cook or bake in the creek bed and in the 10 acre woods located just behind my much anymore, but our memories of those family dinners and holidays house. And many more adventures make me smile. She baked the most happened when I was with my grandmother. She lived just a holler delicious pies, cookies and cakes, away and I spent a majority of my all made from scratch. She even time with ‘Granny Harmon.’ I made her pie crust from scratch! would work with her in the garden (I take the lazy way out and buy and the flower beds, and help her the readymade crust.) Holidays, birthdays and gatherings were always with the chickens by gathering eggs and feeding the new baby chicks. special with her fabulous food. And I helped her pick grapes from the when summer arrived, they were grapevine garden. She had wooden made even better with homemade posts in the ground that connected ice cream. Everyone was welcome to make a square with fencing wire in our home—family, friends and neighbors. My mother loved having on the top, and the grapes would grow up the post on the wire and hang down.
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“I came across this photo just before Easter this year. It made me think back to when we would hunt eggs and Granny Harmon got the most joy from hunting and finding eggs. We shared the photo at my family’s dinner and if felt like she was right there with us.” — Angela Page
12 years old, I was asked to be a caddy at a bridge tournament. The job included picking up scores, running errands for the director and putting cards away after the games. I loved it! Plus, I earned $5 each session, which was a lot of money “There are other fond memories for a 12-year-old to be making. I of quilting with her, on the large loom that was on hooks attached to headed off to college and started to spend my free afternoons playing. In her living room ceiling. It could be the summer, I returned home and pulled down, and the quilt could told mother that I wanted to take be rolled up from two sides as the lessons, so she quickly found a class. quilting work was completed. I learned the game and got to play “Occasionally, she would light up a few times with my grandmother, her large, cast iron, wood burning who had become an American cook stove and make a delicious Contract Bridge League Life Master, meal just like in the good ole days.” just as my mother had become a few Angela Page, life enrichment coordinator years before. As an adult, I returned to Wichita and have been lucky “My favorite memories of my enough to tutor under my mother mother, Ginny Rockhill, and grandmother, Brucie Gargis, revolve and become a Life Master also. The two of us play two to three times around the game of bridge. When a week. I have all three of our Life I was young, I remember the two Master cards framed together and of them leaving for games once it is a piece I cherish.” Juhree Ring, or twice a week and I wanted to be a part of it. When I was around daughter of resident Ginny Rockhill Wichita Presbyterian Manor
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Celebrating Life’s Stories Week May 14-18 May 14 to 18 is Celebrating Life’s Stories Week, so we will have five themed days of fun with music, memories, food and activities. The week will include performances, a sing-along, a car show, a sock hop and a variety of special foods and snacks. Monday: Places you’ve been Tuesday: Memories in music
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Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday Thursday: Rockin’ around the clock Friday: Go team!
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