The Quadrangle Celebrates
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Written and Produced By Residents of The Quadrangle
Selections From The Print Edition of the Quadrangle Times Newsletter
FEBRUARY 2016
Calvary Baptist Church Choir
Dr. Tracey Huck, (right, above) Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College
Susan Furst, (left, above) Director of the Ardmore Food Pantry
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THE QUADRANGLE CELEBRATES MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR. DAY
The Auditorium was packed on Monday afternoon, January 18, for our
fifth annual observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, with Executive Director Denise Miller presiding.
Dr. Tracey Huck, (right, above) Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson
College delivered the principal address, especially relevant for these times
— ”Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black Lives Matter.”
Susan Furst, (left, above) Director of the Ardmore Food Pantry, enthusiastically thanked us for our support, through both our donations of food
and the volunteer work of our management teams. One morning every
month, a Quadrangle team has been helping to stock the Food Pantry’s
shelves and do whatever else is needed.
Other highlights of the afternoon program: the stirring singing of the
Calvary Baptist Church Choir, Barbara Gadegbeku’s beautiful rendition of
“Lift Every Voice,” and the reading of Dr. King’s moving “I Have a Dream”
speech by Damani Green, a dining room server. Delicious refreshments
were served after the program ended.
Thanks to the MLK Committee — Mark Ball, Chair, and members Harriet Ball (center, above), Minna Duchovnay, Ceil Frey, Barbara Gadegbeku,
Madelyn and Marcel Gutwirth, Sonya Manson, Denise Miller, Susan Phelps,
Don Verrier, and Joan Wallick — for a memorable celebration of the life
and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is full
of magical things
patiently waiting
for our senses
to grow sharper.
W. B. Yeats
DECEMBER 31, 2015: CHERRY TREES IN BLOOM
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BLOSSOMS IN DECEMBER:
WHAT WILL IT MEAN FOR SPRING?
Our wandering photographer has been taking pictures of cherry trees
and forsythia. Even some iris and tulips are showing their green leaves;
some are even in bloom.
Nature is resilient and complex, writes one of my sources. We have
had warm winters before. Usually if frost comes a bit late, most plants will
survive and bloom again. This December was unusually warm, but we hope
we will still have a good show in spring, and that trees won’t suffer too
much. It was nice to get an extra burst of color.
But now it is February, time to wake up and begin to anticipate the
first signs of spring. Plants and animals are soon to stir beneath the surface of our landscape. Nature asks us to be better observers and to spend
some time looking for new buds and signs of change. Bundle up and go
for frequent walks when we have sunny days and clear paths.
—Judy Koltun
LIBRARY
NEWS
Happy New Year! Let’s
make a resolution that before
February ends we will return all
the overdue books that are missing from the library shelves. It is
easy to read and enjoy a book
and set it down with the full intention of returning it. Life moves on, and
we somehow forget to return it. Now is the time! Please, EVERYONE
CHECK YOUR SHELVES and look for spine labels. If you find a book and return it, it will make you feel good, and we at the Library will feel even better.
On January 13th we held a very successful orientation meeting in the
Library. Eleven new residents were in attendance, and four library volunteers were there to show people around. If you missed the orientation, the
next one will be in April, and there will be ample notice beforehand.
The New Books (including New Large Print) and New DVDs are on the
shelves to the left as you enter the Library. You will be amazed at how up
to date our Library is. Of special interest to those who may have vision
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problems is our regular Large Print section, which is to the right as you enter the Library. A further aid to these readers is a Large Print Reader, a
machine that magnifies the pages of the book.
The number and quality of the books in our Library should be a source
of pride to all of us. We are truly fortunate that those who came before us
built one of the finest libraries of any CCRC. Come and sample the delights!
— Mary-Ann Reiss and Charlotte Thurschwell
Co-Chairs of the Library
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEGISLATOR
GREG VITALI AT THE QUADRANGLE
Presented by the Committee on Government Affairs (COGA) on February 19 at 3:00 p.m. in the Auditorium
As part of our series of visits by local and state legislators, we are
happy to present our State Representative, Greg Vitali.
Having served our district for 14 years, Representative Vitali is wellknown to many residents. Newcomers to The Quadrangle will now have
the opportunity to meet him. He has truly represented us when we have
needed help or advice.
Be ready with your questions. He has experience in so many areas of
state government that he will be able to address your concerns.
Put the date on your calendar: Friday, February 19th, at 3:00 p.m. in
the Auditorium.
— Barbara Blum
READERS GROUP TO PRESENT ARTHUR KOESTLER
CLASSIC
On February 9, the Readers Group will discuss the second in its 2016 series on Politics in Literature. Mary-Ann
Reiss will present Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler.
Originally published in 1941, this novel provided a grim insight into the Communist “show trials” of 1930’s Stalinist
Russia.
— Julie Stern
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SATURDAY NIGHT PROGRAMS
COMMITTEE
Our February schedule starts with a lecture on
the 20th by Haverford College Professor Richard
Freedman, which he has titled “Scherzo.”
On the 27th the Trio Cleonice — Ari IsaacmanBeck, violin; Gwen Krosnick, cello; and Emely
Phelps, piano — will return for another visit and
give us a wonderful, fervent hour of music.
— Kurt Reiss, Co-Chair
Saturday Night Programs Committee
QUADRANGLE WRITERS READ THEIR WRITINGS
On Saturday, February 13, members of the Quadrangle Writers Group
will again present another of their always popular programs of Readings
From Our Writings. As
usual, the program will
showcase the variety
of forms in which our
members write —
prose and poetry, fact
and fiction — with
memoirs once again
predominating.
Readings draw on the
diversity of members’
backgrounds and
experiences, from
long ago childhood
experiences in a
Philadelphia Automat, at
a farm in rural New Hampshire, and in a family-run fabric store in the
Bronx, to a memorable adult ski trip. The animal kingdom is not neglected:
a memoir describes decades of living with cats and kittens, and a longtime Quadrangle resident offers a humorous tongue-in-cheek solution to
Quadrangle’s goose problem.
Usually our authors read their own works, each giving voice to the words
they have put on paper. However, there will be an unexpected difference
in this month’s program. Two of the authors who were scheduled to read
died after this program was planned — Dickie Miller, on December 4, and
Mel Heller, on January 11. Both were prolific writers and active participants in the Writers Group. Dickie had not seen herself as a writer, but
once she joined the group, memoirs streamed from her computer, not a
chronology but vivid portrayals of episodes of her childhood and family.
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Marvin Macnow, who was Dickie’s friend and who has a similar background, will read one of her memoirs. Mel Heller, who had begun writing
his memoirs before he joined our group, was appreciative of our help in
completing them. In fact, Mel actually published those memoirs in two volumes during 2015, the second volume coming out only months ago. Both
books, Volumes 1 and 2, take their title from one of his mother’s favorite
sayings, ”Every Knock Is A
Boost.” I will not forget what
We want to thank the Quadpride and pleasure Mel took
rangle staff who saw us through
in the accomplishment of
the weekend blizzard of January
having published that com22-23. We appreciate their dedplete chronological memoir
ication and good humor during
at age 93. He was looking
an unusually heavy demand on
forward to reading from it at
their time. Thank you for doing a
this program, and when he
great job!
realized that he would not
live to do so, hoped that a
member of his family would take his place. We are pleased that a member
of his family will indeed read a selection from Mel’s published memoirs,
joining those reading from their own works: Rosalie August, Terry Kieserman, Vivianne Nachmias, Robin Post, Letta Schatz and Lee Sharpe.
— Letta Schatz
WELCOME NEW RESIDENTS
WELCOME NEW RESIDENT JANET MACGAFFEY
When Janet told me that she had written books about “unrecorded
transborder trade” that focused on the Congo (once Zaire), I didn’t realize
at first that she was talking about smuggling! But then she explained that
she had spent a year in the Congo, documenting the enormous enterprise
of smuggling gold, diamonds, and coffee, among other items, that created
a trading link between Central Africa and Europe. Because this activity was
undocumented, the per capita figures and other economic factors for the
Congo were totally wrong.
In order to do the work of finding out how, when, and where the
smuggling was done, it was most important that Janet gain the trust of the
smugglers or traders. In this she was successful, resulting in three books
that deal with this very significant informal economy. The World Bank was
very much interested in her work.
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Janet’s special interest is, unsurprisingly, economic anthropology.
Her undergraduate work at Cambridge University and graduate work leading to a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College was in anthropology and archeology. She came to the U.S. from the U.K. in 1958 and raised three children
before returning to academia to earn her Ph.D.
Thirty years after coming to the U.S., in 1988, Janet began teaching
anthropology at Bucknell University. She taught for the University’s London program four times during those years. Retiring in 2001, she spent
time helping to get out the vote for Obama. In addition, Janet enjoys traveling, reading, gardening, and walking, and especially spending time with
her six grandchildren.
— Jim Lee
WELCOME NEW RESIDENT GEORGE GERSTEIN
George’s family managed to leave Berlin for the U.S. in 1938 since
his father was part of a Latvian quota that had been established. After attending elementary and secondary schools in NYC, George earned his B.S.
and Ph.D. from Harvard in physics. In 1964, he joined the Neuroscience
Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught neuroscience and physiology for just short of 40 years in both the undergraduate
college and the medical school.
As George explained his work to this layman, he and other faculty in
the neuroscience department studied the sociology of brain cells: How do
they get together? What do they do once together? What is the mechanism by which they cooperate? Of special interest was the representation
of information in auditory and visual systems. It is work that brings together biology and mathematics. His research interests resulted in a large
number of published papers.
George took as many sabbaticals as possible, spending exciting
years in Eastern Europe “behind the wall,” especially in Russia and Poland,
where he continued his research. He tried to live as the “natives” did,
avoiding, for example, embassy stores.
George’s research continued for another 10 years after he retired in
2003, ending finally due to his own visual and mobility problems. He has a
son and a daughter and enjoys his four grandchildren, in addition to reading and travel.
— Jim Lee
WELCOME NEW RESIDENT SELMA MARGULIES
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After a short hospital stay, Selma realized the time had come to
move to The Quadrangle. She had lived in nearby Lower Merion Township
and also had friends living here.
Selma grew up in Wynnefield, where she attended Sulzberger Middle School and Overbrook High School. After high school, during World
War II, she worked for a year as a secretary at the Navy Yard and married a
short time later.
While her husband was in the service, Selma lived with her parents.
When he returned, the couple lived in Bryn Mawr; then they bought a
house in Narberth so that the children could attend Lower Merion schools.
Years later, when the couple separated, Selma moved to the Thomas
Wynne apartments, where she lived until moving to The Quadrangle.
Selma has worked as a sales person and as a secretary for a manufacturer’s representative. She has volunteered with the sisterhood of her
synagogue. Traveling with a friend, she has been to Europe and Egypt.
Selma has already begun to enjoy our library. She has two daughters — one in Boston and the other in Arizona — and four grandchildren.
— Doris Rosenman
WELCOME NEW RESIDENT MARY C. LEWIS
Mary Lewis thought of her 28 years of teaching elementary school
as “teaching future adults the skills and values they need,” and she enjoyed her career. She taught in East Whiteland Township (Malvern area) in
the Great Valley District.
Mary was born in Pittsburgh and earned a B.S. degree in education
from the University of Pittsburgh. She met her first husband in college, and
they were divorced after 13 years of marriage. They had three children, a
son who lives here and is chairman of the Dilworth Paxson law firm, a geologist son who owns his own oil company in Houston, and a daughter
who is a chemist in Fairfax, Virginia, and is Chief Operating Officer of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In 1968, Mary married Edwin Lewis, Jr., who worked for Nice Ball
Bearing Company in Philadelphia. He was a ham radio operator and built a
tall radio tower on their large property in Malvern. He died in 1981, and
Mary moved to a townhouse in Exton. She then worked as a tutor for 19
years at the Markley Elementary School in Malvern, and also volunteered
for her church parish.
From 1994 to the present, Mary has volunteered with the American Cancer
Society and was co-director of the Reach to Recovery program in Chester
County.
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Mary likes the Current Events discussions here and hopes to get
into a reading group. She also enjoys walking and baking. She has found
Quadrangle residents to be friendly and welcoming.
— Janet Graff
WELCOME NEW RESIDENT FLORENCE HERMAN
Florence grew up in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. She attended Overbrook High School and is a graduate of Temple University,
where she majored in psychology. With her elementary school teaching
certificate, she began to teach reading and became a substitute teacher in
a government-subsidized program in the Philadelphia parochial schools.
On the beach at Atlantic City, Florence met her future husband, who
had just been discharged from service with the U.S. Army after World War
II. After their marriage, they moved to an apartment in Wynnefield. Florence continued to teach until their boys were born and the family moved
to a home in Penn Valley. Florence has three sons and five grandchildren,
with a great-grandchild on the way
As the children grew older, Florence began a second career as the
owner, with her husband, of three Whitman Book Shops in center city Philadelphia. As Borders became a larger presence in the city, the shops were
forced out of business.
Florence began a third career as a realtor with Prudential (now
Berkshire Hathaway) in their Bryn Mawr office. After 15 years she retired,
but she did not stop working. She became a volunteer in the children’s
room at Ludington Library, working five days a week; she’s now there two
days each week.
Among her friends, Florence is known as “The Candy
Lady.” She is always giving candy away. — Doris Rosenman
WELCOME NEW RESIDENT NANCY WOLF
Nancy Wolf was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and later lived
for 24 years in Kingston, just across the Susquehanna River from WilkesBarre. She attended a private high school in Kingston and then received a
B.A. degree from Russell Sage College in Troy, New York.
After graduation in 1950, Nancy worked for four years for New
York Life Insurance Company as a researcher. She then returned to WilkesBarre and worked for her uncle’s insurance company, Bloch and Bloch,
which he had owned with Nancy’s father.
In 1953, she married Leonard Wolf, and he too went to work for
Bloch and Bloch. The couple had four children, one who now lives in Narberth, one in New Hope, and two nearby in New Jersey. In 1968, they
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bought a house on Long Beach Island, New Jersey, and the family spent
summers there until 2014. Her daughters now own the cottage.
The Wolf’s moved to Marco Island, Florida, in 1978 and Nancy lived
there until her children convinced her to move back north near them.
They found The Quadrangle for her. In Florida, Nancy and Leonard both
sold real estate, she for two years, he until his retirement. He died in 2003.
Nancy used to sail, ski, and play golf and tennis. Now she enjoys reading
and playing bridge with her neighbors. She also plans to join some groups
here. She has 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
— Janet Graff
LOOKING FOR SWEET STUFF
Dedicated, with affection and admiration, to Philip Wallick
Sweets are dear to Quadrangle residents, to which the 42 gallons
of mint-chocolate- chip ice cream served them monthly amply attests.
Thus, when Phil Wallick, who helps make this publication strong, asked
us to investigate neighborhood pastry shops, it seemed an excellent
idea, and not just for Phil’s sweet tooth.
We visited six shops: two in Wayne, one in Narberth, and three
scattered a little closer to home. Le Petit Mitron, kitty-corner from
the station in Narberth, offered delicious fare and was a tie for favorite.
The major drawback was finding it. It took us an hour to figure out
how to get to Narberth from The Quadrangle. Who would have
thought there were so many one-way streets in such a small area?
Once we mastered the traffic pattern, we found the family-owned
shop, which opened in 2001, wonderfully appealing with its splendid
array of tarts and cakes of every size and for all occasions. The bakery
features in-house-baked goods and many chocolate products, including Vintage Plantation chocolate bars from Africa with eye grabbing
wrappers. On weekends, shoppers can enjoy coffee (La Colombe) and
pastries at small tables placed in front of the counter. Breads are imported from France.
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Right up there with Le Petit Mitron for deliciousness was Aux Petit
Delices on East Lancaster
Avenue in Wayne. Everything, including a wide
variety of baked goods,
fancy wedding cakes, and
breakfast pastries, is
crafted in house; limited
eating facilities encourage tea-like meals. In
short, elegant and expensive. Down the road a piece from Aux Petit Delices is Spring Mill
Bread Company, a Washington, D.C., group, newly located here. Its
offerings are more modest than its neighbor, but it does feature
home-made pop tarts and daily specials. Again, everything is baked
on the premises.
Closer to home are Viking Pastries on Cricket Avenue, and Panera
and The Bakery House on opposite ends of Lancaster Avenue.
On Ardmore’s Cricket Avenue, opposite a municipal parking lot,
you’ll find Viking Pastries, a neighborhood favorite since 1957. Family-owned, it presents a modest display of in-house-baked pastries,
including breakfast muffins and cakes of varying sizes, with special attention to large wedding cakes. You can snack there, too.
Also in Ardmore on East Lancaster Avenue, actually centered inside
the strip mall that includes an Acme and a Rite-Aid, is Panera Bread,
a branch of a North American chain of bakery-café fast, casual restaurants. Neither pastries nor breads are notable, but luncheon meals are
available for consumption at booths in the store, and the place was
full. On-line ordering is a feature.
Finally, on West Lancaster Avenue, conveniently located just across
from the Bryn Mawr Acme, there’s The Bakery House. It’s not as elegant as some of its sisters, but, like most of them, it bakes everything
in house and offers a full range of baked goods, including round and
sheet cakes. Birthday cakes are a specialty. Ground La Colombe coffee is for sale in one pound packages.
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The investigators have much more information on all six pastry
shops, collected systematically in tabular form. You have only to ask.
— Marion Malakoff and Jane Unkefer
THURSDAY NIGHT LECTURES
TURKEY IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT:
IMPLICATIONS FOR FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY
By James Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, February 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium
Over the past two years Turkey has played an increasingly large
role in the ongoing conflict in Syria. Ryan will take a look at Turkey's
evolving foreign policy, as it has reignited an armed conflict with its
Kurdish population, suffered attacks at the hands of ISIS, and touched
off a dormant rivalry with Russia. He will also look at the effects of the
conflict on Turkey's domestic policy in a year where three major elections occurred, resulting in consolidated power for Turkey's first popularly elected President, Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan. This lecture aims to
explain the parameters of Turkey's involvement in regional politics,
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and their relationship with the global superpowers of Russia and the
United States.
Ryan is a specialist in the history of the Modern Middle East, Late
Ottoman Empire, and the Turkish Republic. He has spent extended
periods of time studying, teaching, and researching in Turkey since
2006.
-- Joan Wallick, Co-Chair
Thursday Night Lectures Committee
WHAT’S TRENDING IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW?
By Alan Garfield, Professor at Widener University Delaware Law
School
Thursday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium
Alan Garfield, son of resident Bernice Garfield, will discuss some of
the hottest issues in constitutional law. How did the Supreme Court
manage to find a right to same-sex marriage in the Constitution?
What should happen when religious objectors refuse to serve samesex couples? What is the issue in the affirmative action case currently
before the Court? And why did the Court find a private right to bear
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arms in the Second Amendment, and what does that mean for the
future of gun regulation?
Alan Garfield is a Professor at Widener University Delaware Law
School, where he teaches constitutional law and copyright. He writes
a monthly column on the Supreme Court for the Delaware News Journal, which won the Delaware Press Association’s first place award for
a personal opinion column in each of the past four years. He is also
the President of the ACLU of Delaware’s Board of Directors.
-- Joan Wallick, Co-Chair
Thursday Night Lectures Committee
SCIENCE LECTURE --- VOLCANOES
Resident Maria Luisa Crawford, Ph.D, Professor Emerita of Geology
at Bryn Mawr College, will present a lecture, “Volcanoes,” on Tuesday,
February 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium.
Weecha has performed significant service to numerous committees of the National Science Foundation, the Geological Society of
America, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the National Academy of Sciences. She has also served in editorial positions, including
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associate editor for the Geological Society of America Bulletin, and editorial board member for Geology and Computers and Geosciences.
—Bea Blackman
SAVOYARD PLAYERS AT
THE QUADRANGLE
Mark your calendar. The Savoyard Players will perform hilarious
patter songs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the Quadrangle
Auditorium on Sunday, February 21, at 2:30 p.m. Performers will include one male and one female singer and a piano accompanist. This
will be the first appearance here of the Savoyard Players. The group is
famous for its perennial appearances at Longwood Gardens, among
other venues. In February, it will offer The Pirates of Penzance at the
Suzanne Roberts Theater in Philadelphia.
The Savoy Company of Philadelphia was formed in 1901 and remains the oldest amateur theater company in the world dedicated to
performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, which include blockbusters like H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and The Pirates of Penzance.
— Donald Middleman
WATERCISE IN OUR SALT WATER POOL
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Many of us know that if you talk to our Fitness Director, Wil Meredith, about the advantages of exercising in our salt water pool, he
will tell you that it is one of the best ways that you can become and
stay fit. All parts of the body can be strengthened without joint stress
or potential injury. Yet knowing this and acting on it can be two very
different things, as we know from observing that far too few residents
take advantage of the watercise classes taught by instructor Lynne.
Classes are offered every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in the
pool from 10:30 a.m. to approximately 11:30 a.m. If less than an hour
is best for you, especially when you begin, you can limit your exercise
to a shorter period of time.
A pool workout can be great fun; it is not a strenuous or difficult
activity. You’ll find the exercise “noodles,” “floats,” and water “weights”
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easy to use. Water exercisers enjoy being with others in small groups
with a supportive and encouraging instructor.
Towels, lockers, and a shower are provided. So wade in, warm up,
and work out with Lynne in our wonderful salt water pool!
Call Wil Meredith at extension 130 if you have questions.
— Jim Lee
POETRY PROGRAM
“In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
love,” said Tennyson. In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Poetry Committee will be reading poems of love, both requited and unrequited, a
month before spring arrives. Please join us on Tuesday, February 23, in
the Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. to hear our choices.
— Ceil Frey Co-Chair, Poetry Committee
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A CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT
By Cilly Goos
It has been brought to our attention that many residents of
Buildings 1, 2, and 3 have never been to the Residents’ Lounge in
Building 7, in part because they don’t know how to get there! In
fact, there are people in the afore-mentioned low-digit residences
who have never even seen the Pond!
WHY? Because they are stumped by the vagaries of Building 4
and its mysterious elevators. Why, they ask, if they took the Commons elevator down to the first floor, are they suddenly confronted
with more elevators in Building 4? What are they supposed to do
with them? Which one are they supposed to use? Where will it take
them? What if they get lost? How will they ever get home?
Similarly, when new residents move into 5, 6, and 7, they often
start to get panicky, fearful that they will never find the dining room
or the health center or the Grill. Many of them wander pitifully like
the Flying Dutchman until some kindly member of the housekeeping staff takes them by the hand and guides them.
SO the QT is announcing a CONTEST to design clear, brief, intelligible SIGNAGE, which can be posted both inside and outside
the Building 4 elevators, explaining what to do in order to get to
where you hope to go. Entries should be sent to the QT by February
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DID YOU KNOW?
…That the little saucers on the salad bar are called Monkey Dishes?
Many years ago royalty would place food in these saucers and feed it
to their pet monkeys, to test that it was free of poison! We use them
to tempt your appetite with mini portions.
…That when a request appeared in the comment book at the Grill for
the replacement of ketchup and mustard on the tables, both reappeared the next day?
. . .That the menus with their caloric values are in a book in our Library
and can also be found online in the Quadrangle website?
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…That the Holly building has its own kitchen? Food for Oak, the Grill,
the Main Dining Room, and the Employees Dining Room is prepared
in our main kitchen.
…That the servers are rewarded for the comments that are written
about them in the book at the entrance to the Main Dining Room?
Fairness states that you do not write endlessly about one server, but
try to name others who are doing their best to please you.
— Marge Fener
Chair, Food and Beverage Committee
GREEN Q-TIPS
Ways to help Quadrangle become “greener” —
 Confidential materials may be deposited in the locked box near the
Mail Room or the one near the copy machine for secure shredding
by a commercial firm.
 This Valentine’s Day, do something nice for someone you know, or
donate to your favorite charity.
—The Environment Committee
THE ART OF CINEMA
On February 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium, The Jazz Singer, the
first “talkie” produced in 1927 and starring Al Jolson, will be introduced by Andrew J. Douglas, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s Director
of Education.
The Jazz Singer is the moving story of a
young man raised in a devoutly Jewish family,
who must choose between his family, faith, and
tradition, and his dreams of musical success.
Sponsored by the Art of Cinema Committee,
the film is an interesting mélange of the tropes and techniques of silent-era filmmaking, stage-based musical performance, and the nascent technology of synchronized-sound cinema.
—Bea Blackman, Co-Chair
COMPOSER’S FORUM
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During February, the DVD presentation, “Stravinsky – His Life and
Music (1882-1971)” by Dr. Robert Greenberg, Teaching Company lecturer, music historian and composer, will continue in the Club Room
at 4 p.m. on Thursdays.
Following World War I, Stravinsky turned to Neoclassicism, creating music for a ballet based on the works of Pergolesi. During the
1920s, he felt that compositions should be governed by formal considerations. With the beginning of World War II, Stravinsky and his
wife settled in Los Angeles, where he was exposed to 12-tone music.
Thus, in his early 70s, his compositional language changed, and he
entered an entirely new musical world.
—Sara Zallman
POLITICAL FILM FESTIVAL
Now that the John Sayles film festival is over, we will be using the
Saturday afternoon 1:30 time slot on the second and fourth Tuesdays
of the month to show
movies with a political
theme. Knowing that
residents are avidly
following this year’s
presidential race, and
while the Readers’
Group is focusing on
politics in literature,
we plan to show an
assortment of films
dealing with election
campaigns and the
machinery of government, both proper and improper.
These will include classics such as All the King’s Men, A Face in the
Crowd, and The Candidate; satires such as Being There, Dr. Strangelove,
and Wag the Dog; biopics such as Lincoln and Charlie Wilson’s War;
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and thrillers such as Enemy of the State. The movies will be shown in
the Club Room, and all residents are welcome.
If you have any questions, call the Sterns.
— Pete and Julie Stern
TRIPS -- SAVE THE DATES
Sunday, Feb. 14 - Villanova Theater
Tuesday, Feb. 23 - British Tea Lunch
Thursday, March 10 - Perelman Building - Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Bruce Mau: “Rethinking Design”
Sunday, April 3 - Lower Merion Symphony Concert, Strauss, Elgar,
Shostakovich
Thursday, April 7 - Barnes Museum special exhibition of 1912
to 1924 Picasso paintings
Sunday, April 17 - Villanova Theater
Thursday, May 12 - New Whitney Museum*
Tuesday, May 24 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Tuesday, June 7 - Chanticleer Gardens Walking Tour
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CREDITS
The Quadrangle Times is published ten times a year (September to June) by the
Residents of The Quadrangle, a Sunrise Senior Living Community, 3300 Darby
Road, Haverford, PA 19041. The purpose of the Quadrangle Times is to present
news of the Quadrangle community in a factual, unbiased fashion. It is not intended as a vehicle for personal communication. Letters and articles concerning
partisan politics and religion are not appropriate for QT publication. Selection of
story materials rests with the editor. Ideas should be cleared with the editor before they are pursued.
Editor: Helen Gindele
Production & Photographs: Phil Wallick
Distribution: Joe Hocky. Advisory Board: Joe Hocky, Betty Johnston, Bernie Levinson, Joan May, Ruth Rothman, Letta Schatz
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