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Why older adults may go ‘back to school’ BY MAUREEN PRATT C AT H O L I C N E WS S E RV I C E
As children are cringing that their summer vacations are over, I imagine that more than a few adults are thinking, “I wish I could go back to school!” Why can’t they? At various times in my own life, I’ve embarked on learning journeys. Each time, my efforts were met with challenges. But each endeavor was worth it for the knowledge, satisfaction and self-confidence that resulted when I moved into unknown territory. First, I had to deal with three things that can impede “going back to school:” fear, finances and fatigue. Whenever we start something new, it’s natural to feel some apprehension. Perhaps the fear stems from the possibility of failing. Perhaps it is because, as the oldest person in a class, feeling out of place will happen. Fear of doing something new might be tied to an unpleasant experience. I remember my second-grade teacher trying doggedly to get me to roll the letter “r” in Spanish (which I couldn’t do), much to the glee of the rest of the class. I still hear my classmates’ laughter. It wasn’t until 20 years later, when I was studying abroad in Spain, that I finally overcame my fear of being ridiculed. Adults have an excellent weapon against fear: their life’s experience. They have already conquered many fears. Being a parent or grandparent, for example, takes great courage and strength. Meeting unexpected challenges in life in general brings courage, too. That courage translates into the ability to meet other fears headon — even the fear of going back
to school. Even a lack of money does not need prevent anyone from learning a new skill or subject: • Abraham Lincoln studied law by reading every moment he could while working as a surveyor (among other things). • Ray Bradbury, the celebrated author, learned how to write books by sitting in the library and reading everything he could. • Church-sponsored book clubs and discussion groups are inexpensive, excellent ways to learn and share that knowledge in a group. • The internet is an endless source of learning. Community colleges, artist studios, high schools and local museums are among the places offering adult education. Many organizations, including some universities, have embraced “distance learning,” offering online classes that can be taken at a person’s own pace. Some institutions even offer financial aid and scholarships for adults who want to further their education. It never hurts to explore what’s available! It can seem overwhelming to fight fatigue in order to go back to school. But with a little creativity, flexibility and willpower, the time to learn can be folded into one’s daily schedule. And as soon as the learning begins again, the exhilaration that comes with meeting a particular challenge is energizing! One of the first people that I worked for when I was in college told me, “Get as much education as you can. Once you learn something, no one can take it away from you. It’s yours for life.” Going back to school can occur at any time and in any way in our world today. We’ve only just begun to learn!
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Retired priest pens new book BY ANTOINETTE BOSCO
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Albany Diocesan Cemeteries assumed responsibility for Our Lady of Angels Cemetery upon the closure of Holy Family Church in Albany in October 2010. We have invested in new equipment, fertilized and treated the turf, and implemented other improvements. Diocesan regulations concerning memorials and grave decorations are now in effect. Like other Diocesan Cemeteries, a general cleanup will be conducted on or about Nov. 1. At this time, all decorations are removed and discarded. Lot owners should remove any decorations they wish to save before Nov. 1. In addition, plantings in violation of the new regulations such as perennial flowers, hosta plants, edging around plantings and the like will also be removed. Please contact the cemetery office at 463-0134 for more information.
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Most Catholics who have been around awhile would be familiar with the Catholic books published as “the Joshua series.” I always knew when a new one was coming out, because my older sister Rosemary ordered every one. Rosemary, who never left our hometown of Albany, would tell me that the author, Rev. Joseph Girzone, lived just outside of Albany; that made him “a neighbor.” After the worst tragedy in my life — the murders of my son, John, and his wife, Nancy, in 1993 — Rosemary called excitedly to tell me that Father Girzone was offering a two-day retreat in the Adirondack Mountains. We took the trip together. I did a lot of crying, and I will
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never forget the kindness that Father Girzone extended when I told him how I was inconsolable because of the murder of my loved ones. Now, Father Girzone has created a new and inspiring character — an archbishop named Carlo — who embarks on an extraordinary journey to try to understand why Jesus so loved the poor and disadvantaged. Titled “The Homeless Bishop” and released by Orbis Books, Father Girzone’s new book jumps in where many fear to tread. A retired priest of the Albany Diocese, Father Girzone is troubled by many Americans’ attitudes toward the poor — attitudes out of sync with Jesus’ love and concern for the poor. He said he out to explore this question: “Why is Jesus so obsessed with the poor?” His central character is Vatican Archbishop Carlo, who gets permission from the pope to leave Rome to experience what it means to be a homeless person in America. Ragged, poor, hungry and homeless, Archbishop Carlo endures the same sad, sometimes tragic days that have always been the lot of the very poor. He sees how they are — and always have been — social outcasts who often get ignored, ridiculed and more. This book raises questions that we Catholics must not shy away from: How did Jesus’ message of helping and loving the poor get so misrepresented? If we call ourselves Catholics — that is, followers of Jesus — do we honestly try, as Archbishop Carlo does in this book, to understand and accept Jesus’ authentic messages? After the archbishop returns to Rome, he resumes his high position and is named a cardinal. He uses his “power” to help the homeless in Italy, and for this he is respected. When the pope dies, Cardinal Carlo succeeds him. Novels are best when they have happy endings; so, as a reader, I approved. Father Girzone has spent years dedicated to sharing a greater understanding of Jesus with the world, the publisher points out. I can’t think of a better motivation for all Catholic writers! (Antoinette Bosco is an author and a native of the Albany Diocese. To order Father Girzone’s book, go to www.orbis books.com or call 1-800-2585838.)
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The beat goes on for 95-year-old drummer BY ANGELA CAVE
STA F F W R I T E R
While most of his eight-yearold peers used their odd-job earnings to see movies in the 1920s, Fred Randall chose to attend vaudeville variety acts — mostly to stare, wide-eyed, at the drummers. The boy graduated from shoveling sidewalks and mowing lawns for nickels to selling newspapers for $1. He started taking weekly drum lessons, marching in his first parade at age nine and playing in a high school orchestra by 10. Today, at a self-described “95and-a-half ” years old, Mr. Randall still hasn’t shaken his fascination with percussion. He rehearses with a 15-piece dance band and a 40-piece concert orchestra in Schenectady, performing several times a year. He only stopped playing in parades after surviving a stroke in 2003. “Every once in a while, I get a paid gig,” he told The Evangelist. He’s played in symphony and
concert orchestras, German and Italian bands and more: “You name it, I’ve played it.” Mr. Randall is the oldest member of the dance band, made up of men over age 60. “I promised them a party when I’m 100,” he said, laughing. Drumming, he said, keeps him active; he also uses a stationary bicycle daily. A parishioner of St. John the Evangelist Church in Schenectady, Mr. Randall recently led his 16th Flag Day ceremony at Schaffer Heights senior apartment homes in Schenectady, where he’s lived for the same number of years. A life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, his National Guard career has stuck with him. “I go out and salute my flag every morning,” he said, pointing to his terrace. Mr. Randall was born in Schenectady on New Year’s Day, 1916. His father lost his job four years later, forcing the family to
move into a house without electricity or running water. Mr. Randall’s father died on the eve of the Great Depression, making the seven-year-old’s contributions to the family finances necessary. At 12, Mr. Randall joined a junior brigade of the National Guard, which he compares to the Boy Scouts. He camped out of an Army truck in the Adirondack Mountains, learning to sleep in the snow, read a compass and cook in the woods. After high school, he joined the National Guard, got married and finished a General Electric Co. toolmaker apprenticeship. He was drafted in 1944 as a sergeant in World War II and stationed in Germany. In his travels, Mr. Randall once accompanied a chaplain to visit Theresa Neumann, a wellknown German Catholic mystic and stigmatic. For decades, she allegedly consumed no food or water other than the Eucharist. To Mr. Randall, seeing her was
“breathtaking. It has stayed with me. I have sat here and talked for hours about it.” Back home in 1946, Mr. Randall worked as the New York State military photographer for 28 years. Photography is his next favorite hobby after drumming; he built a darkroom in his old basement and once processed a glass negative of his father. Mr. Randall has survived his wife, Marion, and two children, but hasn’t lost his positive outlook — perhaps thanks to his Catholic faith. “It’s quiet like a man’s faith is quiet,” said Rev. David Lupo, SSCC. After Father Lupo’s parents died, Mr. Randall “adopted” the priest, whose father he’d worked with at GE. Father Lupo remarked that Mr. Randall “has a very deep, abiding love of God, despite all of the tragedy in his life. I think he knows that he’s been richly blessed in his life.” The priest recounted several
MR. RANDALL of those adventures: Mr. Randall met singer and dancer Sammy Davis Jr. in his prime and listened to Kate Smith sing “God Bless America” before it became her signature song. Mr. Randall, for his part, recalled a lifetime of volunteerism with his wife. The couple spent Sunday afternoons visiting shut-ins after Mass; he volunteered at a tool shop at Ellis Hospital and sold medical alert devices for 10 years. “No moss grows under his feet,” Father Lupo declared. “He’s as outgoing as a 95-year-old can be. He just can’t sit still.”
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DR. LONNSTROM. TWO OF his books delve into the history of golf in the Capital Region; a third combined his love of flying with his research skills to explain John F. Kennedy Jr.’s fateful plane crash in 1999. Dr. Lonnstrom had flown himself that day and attests to the heavy mist blanketing the skies: “It was just like flying in soup.� But his four-seater Cessna Skyhawk featured instruments to let him fly through clouds. Mr. Kennedy lacked the training and skills to use such instruments — one of 32 mistakes Dr. Lonnstrom cites in his book. Dr. Lonnstrom’s fourth book will explore the highest- and lowest-rated consecutive U.S. presidents.
Half a dozen jobs are about right for Siena prof BY ANGELA CAVE STA F F W R I T E R
At 74, Doug Lonnstrom has taken some work responsibilities off his plate in recent years — but he has no plans to retire. A founding director of the Siena Research Institute at Siena College in Loudonville, Dr. Lonnstrom still keeps tabs on six distinct jobs: teaching quantitative business analysis at Siena, managing the research group’s monthly consumer confidence index poll, writing books, penning articles on politics and flying, hosting a television show about golf and managing family trusts. He sometimes includes piloting and boating on the list, as well, and he seems to treat golf as another career. “One of the great days you can have is to fly your plane to a golf course,� Dr. Lonnstrom remarked. He recently sold his first plane because he lacked the time required to maintain the instrument rating required for pilots; however, he’s hoping to eventually buy another. Dr. Lonnstrom seems to thrive
on the variety of his work and enjoys relaxing with his wife, Cristine, and his dog, Driver. “I feel good,� he declared. “Every day, it’s different. I work a lot of hours, but there’s great control of [my] schedule. I feel like I’m doing something good for society.� Dr. Lonnstrom’s top priority remains teaching. He says his charges at Siena are “the best and the brightest in the country.� Dr. Lonnstrom’s 60-hour work week begins in his Siena office at 6:30 a.m. on weekdays. He refrains from lunch breaks in favor of a banana at his desk and stays until 4 or 5 p.m. Some days are filled with research and polling work; others, three-hour lectures. Each time the institute’s monthly consumer poll is released, he’s swamped with 30 or 40 media interviews. Once home in Guilderland, Dr. Lonnstrom grades papers, works on his books and prepares his half-hour television show, “Tee Time,� which airs on Time Warner Cable channel 3
during summers. He films a dozen episodes a year at area golf courses, interviewing famous golfers and sharing golf history. In three years, Tee Time has amassed a viewership of 1.5 million and expanded into the Syracuse market. “He’s not a workaholic, but he just has such enthusiasm,� said Cristine Lonnstrom, his wife of 29 years and a retired teacher. Mrs. Lonnstrom thinks her husband’s energy was instilled in him by hard-working parents. Dr. Lonnstrom recalled his father’s dedication as a state engineer. Raised a Protestant in New Salem, N.Y., Dr. Lonnstrom remembers the day World War II ended; before that happy day, he’d lived through years of air raids and blackouts, food
rationing and victory gardens. In 1958, Dr. Lonnstrom graduated from Drew University in Madison, N.J., with a degree in math and economics. He worked for an economic consulting firm in Albany before earning his master’s degree in business administration from Siena. Then he taught night classes at Siena, did a stint in Houston and returned to Albany to spend 10 years managing a corporation that bought and flipped rundown businesses. In 1979, he started at the math department of Siena’s business school full-time. Then he began researching presidential ratings. “I love statistics and I love history,� explained the teacher, who attracted national attention with a mathematically-based questionnaire of political science and history professors in 1981. Today, the Siena Research Institute uses hundreds of volunteer researchers to take the pulse of the public on politics,
social topics and more. Many books cite its findings on presidents and first ladies; representatives of politicos often call the institute for information. Results from Siena’s monthly consumer confidence poll of New Yorkers are also used by government and business leaders and the New York State Department of Labor. Dr. Lonnstrom, who became the first Protestant dean to serve at Siena when he served as dean of its School of Business from 1985 to 1992, said he enjoys the college’s Catholic environment. “The priests here are just absolutely spectacular,� he said. Mrs. Lonnstrom, a Catholic, called her husband a spiritual man who “does so much good for other people,� from mentoring students to helping with scholarships. “He puts 100 percent into everything he does,� she said. “It seems like he wants to go on forever.�
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September 15, 2011
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A STATUE FROM St. Anna’s Church in Summit, which closed in 2009, has been transported to St. Joseph’s parish in Worcester. The more than 1,000-pound statue of St. Anna and the Blessed Mother was rededicated recently in its new home near St. Joseph’s “Life Garden,” according to Rev. Ronald Lee Green, MM, administrator, shown blessing the statue during the ceremony. (Nate Whitchurch photos)
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