FLORHAM PARK SENIOR CITIZENS CLUB
NEWSLETTER
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2014
FLORHAM PARK SENIOR CITIZENS CLUB
Senior Citizens Center
111 Ridgedale Ave.
Florham Park, NJ 07932
Phone Numbers
Senior Center Main No. 973-520-8984
Senior Center Office
973-520-8983
President’s Message
Elective Officers
President:
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Treasurer:
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President’s Message
Happy New Year to all! Thanks to the hard work of Rosalie Coll and her committee, and the
entertainment Olga arranged, we had a wonderful Holiday Luncheon. The singing of the Hanover Park Chamber
Singers lifted our spirits to greet the end-of-year holidays and to get through the upcoming winter weather. Don’t
forget to come to our warm and cozy Senior Center to exercise, watch TV or a movie, and play bingo and board
games with your guests and fellow seniors. Bring your lunch and enjoy coffee and dessert before our regular
meetings of January 8th, 22nd, February 12th (with a special Valentine treat), and the 26th. Hopefully, we will not
need to cancel any meeting due to bad weather, but if we do, call 973-520-8983 at the Senior Center Office for a
message.
We have several members who are unable to get out much (particularly in cold weather) and I’m sure they
would appreciate having a friendly face drop by for a short visit to show they haven’t been forgotten. If you
know of someone and can’t visit yourself, please let me know and we’ll see if we can put together a list of
volunteer visitors. This Club is “special” because our members care about each other and volunteer because they
want to do something for others.
Sincerely,
Charlene
Standing Committees
Activities
Volunteers needed
Programs
Olga Petrilak
Hospitality
Eileen Cerrato – JoAnne O’Brien Co-Chair
Attendance
Rosalie Coll
Good & Welfare Rosalie Coll
Membership
Publicity
Newsletter
MCCoOPO
Past President
Marie Anzalone
Winifred Schurek
Philip Beischer
Marge Obremski
Dennis Callahan
Hospitality Committee
Tables 5 and 6 will be responsible for clean-up for January and February (there are no meetings in
December). Thank you tables 3 and 4.
The Hospitality Committee will assume the following responsibilities:
1. Set up the room
2. Make the coffee and distribute to the tables
3. Distribute any refreshments available for the meeting
The assigned tables will only be responsible for the clean-up as follows:
1. Collect coffee carafes and creamers and table numbers
2. Use large containers to collect garbage from tables
3. Collect and return any items to the kitchen and store in area provided
4. Wash and dry creamers, carafes, large urns and put them away
Once again these duties are not new and we will expect the cooperation that we have always had in the
past.
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Membership Committee
Name
Lakeland, Kathleen
Thomas, Arthur
Welcome New Members
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250 Ridgedale Ave., Florham Pk., NJ
Reinstate
12/11
58 Brooklake Rd., Florham Pk., NJ
Address Change
Iantosca, Eileen
139 Brandywyne Dr., Florham Pk., NJ
Membership Committee
ATTENTION SENIORS
Your 2014 dues are payable Jan. 1st, 2014. The dues are $10.00. Please make checks payable to
Florham Park Seniors and send before April 1 to:
Marie Anzalone
224 Brooklake Rd.
Florham Park, NJ 07932
IMPORTANT: Note that according to our Club By-laws any member who fails to pay their dues
by April 1st, is classified as “delinquent” and will automatically be removed from the Membership List
and lose all privileges. A delinquent member will not receive the newsletter, or notices and will not be
able to attend trips, parties or other club-sponsored activities. The By-laws provide for reinstatement and
states as follows: After April 1st an additional late fee of $15.00 will be added to the $ 10.00 for that year’s
membership.
Also please note; We request that members with cell phones and e-mail addresses provide that
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Telephone Tree
The Telephone Tree is used primarily for notification of the death of a club member or the member’s
immediate family. This is done so that we can individually extend our condolences and attend local services.
We also call in the event of the cancellation of a meeting, or some type of emergency heat or cold situation.
Our Telephone Tree starts out with three people: Sis Badcock, Eileen Cerrato and myself. Each of us
calls nine people and those nine call approximately six others so that we cover our entire membership. We are
all volunteers doing a service for our members.
If you are not being called or do not want to be called, please let me know so you can be added or
removed from the list.
In case of the death of a club member or someone in the member’s immediate family, please call Charlene
Sozansky at 973-822-3145. If she is not available, please advise Eileen Cerrato at 973-822-2296.
Thanks.
Charlene
Seniors Helping Seniors
Recently we received a request from Family Service, renamed “Cornerstone,” for four Florham Park
residents in need of assistance. As requested two articles of clothing and four $50.00 gift cards were purchased
and given to Cornerstone to be distributed by their case workers. Unlike last year there were only four Florham
Park residents being served at this time.
The committee has suggested remembering all our senior shut-ins with a small gift and card this holiday
season. If anyone knows of a Florham Park friend or neighbor that is pretty much home bound, we would like to
know.
Joelyn Hoferer
Virginia Arnold
BINGO
Join us for Bingo at the Senior Center on Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. on 1/14, 1/28**, 2/11, and 2/18.
** 1//28 Bingo will start at 12 noon as Juniper Village will be serving a light lunch to all Bingo players. Sign up
required by 1/20/14. Any questions call Nancy Sigler at 973-377-4931.
Senior Exercise Class
The next 10-weeks of exercise classes will be on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 through Thurs., Mar. 20, 2014
for a fee of $10.00. Classes will be held two times per week: MONDAY from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m., and
THURSDAY, from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. If you would like to attend, complete the sign-up sheet for this period
and either mail it to me with your check, or bring it completed with a check to the first class.
Thank you for your continued interest in this program.
Ruth Moolin
4 Cory Road
Florham Park, NJ 07932
973-822-2272
In Memoriam
Let us take a few moments of reflection for the following members who have departed during the
past year so that although they may be gone they may not be forgotten:
Robert Filler
Cecilia Jones
Alphonse Mirable
Ann Prokop
Grace Turbett
Irving Gralnick
Bill Knott
Andrew Picone
Helen Santillo
Ann Wallendjack
Marguerite Hupsey
Walter Malita
Joseph Pladis
Marco Tartaglia
Beverly White
Bickford Theatre
I am considering a theatre event to either of the following shows at the Bickford:
Say Goodnight Gracie – a tender, funny, life-affirming love story . . . a personal guided tour in the company of
George Burns on Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. This show won the 2004 National Broadway Theatre
Award for BEST PLAY.
Or
Forever Plaid – an affectionate homage to the close-harmony guy groups of the 50s and 60s with some of your
old favorites “Three Coins in a Fountain,” “Moments to Remember,” “Perfidia,” “Shangri-La,” and “Love is a
Many Splendored Thing” on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.
The cost would be $33.00 a ticket and transportation is on your own, although if someone needs a ride it can be
arranged. Please let me know your interest.
Charlene
By-laws Amendment
At our last Board meeting, it was recommended that we add a new section to our By-laws under Article III
–Membership as follows:
Section 6: Once a member attains the age of 100 years he or she shall not be required to pay dues to
participate in this Club.
Other Announcements
Programs at the Florham Park Library
Movie Night
The Florham Park Library will be showing movies on the last Tuesday of each month. Movies will begin
at 6:30 p.m. and end about 8:45 p.m.
Second Sunday Series at 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 12
Sunday, Feb. 9
Traveling Stage Company presents Coretta Scott King
Jazz Duo – Grover Kemble and Mickey Freeman
Other Programs
Sunday, Jan. 19
Sunday, Feb. 2
Adventures in Digital Photography
Introduction to the iPad for beginners
Senior Rides
Senior Rides offers free transportation service for senior citizens in the local area.
They also now assist seniors with meal deliveries, blood pressure checks by certified EMTs and
paramedics, and have volunteer crews to clean roof gutters, plow driveways, and shovel sidewalks.
For information call 973-747-4356 or email seniorrides@yahoo.com.
Florham Park Boro Website
For members with access to the Internet, you can go to the website http://www.florhamparkboro.net to
read the current news about our Borough and also sign up for the Newsletter which would be delivered to your
email and contains important upcoming events in Florham Park as well as a letter from the Mayor.
Florham Park Recreation Department
Bus trip to see “Aladdin” on Broadway
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2014
Price: $99.00 per person
Includes: Orchestra seat, chaperone, round-trip coach bus transportation
Time: Bus leaves Community Center parking lot at 10:30 a.m. and returns after the conclusion of the
2:00 p.m. show (approx. 6:30 p.m.)
Tickets go on sale in January. Pick up registration forms at the Recreation Department or Senior Center.
Call (973) 410-5390 for more details.
SENIOR CALENDAR
Thur., Jan. 2
Executive Board Meeting
Fri., Jan. 3
Movie Matinee. Wife Versus Secretary (1936, 87 minutes) with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow,
and Myrna Loy
Wed., Jan. 8
Regular meeting at Community Center at 10:45 a.m. Meeting starts promptly at 11:15 a.m.
Program – Bill Garfinkle presents “Tributes to the Great Entertainers” – saluting
celebrities with music, visual aids, and comedy a la Henny Youngman.
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Fri., Jan. 10
Time - 10:00 a.m. at the Senior Center
Movie Matinee. The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968, 162 minutes) with Anthony Quinn,
David Janssen, Sir John Gielgud, and Sir Laurence Olivier – 2 Oscar nominations
Tue., Jan. 14
BINGO
Time - 1:00 p.m. at the Senior Center
Fri., Jan. 17
Movie Matinee. Marnie (1964, 131 minutes) with Tippi Hedron and Sean Connery
Wed., Jan. 22
Regular meeting at Community Center at 10:45 a.m. Meeting starts promptly at 11:15 a.m.
Program –.Volunteer human visitor with a Seeing Eye trained dog will explain
the Seeing Eye Story.
Fri., Jan. 24
Movie Matinee. Driving Miss Daisy (1989, 99 minutes) with Morgan Freeman, Jessica
Tandy, and Dan Aykroyd – 2 Oscars, 9 nominations
Tue., Jan. 28
BINGO
Time – Noon at the Senior Center. Light lunch to be provided by Juniper
Village. Sign up by 1/20/14.
Fri., Jan. 31
Movie Matinee. Mister Roberts (1955, 122 minutes) with Henry Fonda, James Cagney,
William Powell, and Jack Lemmon, who won an Oscar
Wed., Feb. 5
Executive Board Meeting
Fri., Feb. 7
Movie Matinee. The Wind and the Lion (1975, 119 minutes) with Sean Connery, Candice
Bergen, Brian Keith, and John Huston
Tue., Feb 11
BINGO
Wed., Feb. 12
Regular meeting at Community Center at 10:45 a.m. Meeting starts promptly at 11:15 a.m.
Program – Enjoy assortment of musical entertainment by Don Anthony.
Fri., Feb. 14
Movie Matinee. How Green was my Valley (1941, 118 minutes) with Walter Pidgeon,
Maureen O’Hara, and Anna Lee – 5 Oscars including Best Picture
Fri., Feb. 21
Movie Matinee. A Shot in the Dark (1964, 102 minutes) with Peter Sellers and Elke
Sommer
Tue., Feb.18
BINGO
Tue., Feb. 25
Bus trip to “The Brownstone,” Paterson. “Mardi Gras” theme
Bus leaves Pool parking lot at 9:45 a.m. sharp and returns approx. 4:00 p.m.
Activity Leader – Joan Metro
973-377-8655
Time - 10:00 a.m. at the Senior Center
Time – 1:00 p.m. at the Senior Center
Time – 1:00 p.m. at the Senior Center
Wed., Feb. 26
Regular meeting at Community Center at 10:45 a.m. Meeting starts promptly at 11:15 a.m.
Program –.Danny S. brings us “Songs with the longest titles in the world” and much more.
Fri., Feb. 28
Movie Matinee. Enemy of the State (1998, 132 minutes) with Will Smith and Gene
Hackman
Activities
And Reservation Slips
Chairperson:
Volunteers needed
Note: All payments should be made by check payable to: Florham Park Seniors. Unless indicated otherwise,
refunds will be given only to those who cancel 24 hours prior to the activity date.
Guests needing assistance with walking, dining, or other personal needs must be accompanied by an able
companion who will assist them.
Key to amount of walking: w = walking, sw = some walking, nw = no walking
Please Note
The Florham Park Police Department has requested that all members who park at the Pool Parking Lot
while on bus trips provide the following information:
Name, Phone Number
Car Make, Model, License Plate No., and Color
Phone No. of person with spare key to your car in case of emergency.
Note: This is an optional request deemed necessary by the Police Department to facilitate auto
movement in the event of a civil emergency.
----------------------------------------Mardi Gras Festival at The Brownstone in Paterson, NJ (nw)
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Cost: Member $49.00
Nonmember: $59.00
Activity: Party with the “GB’s” as they do in the BIG EASY. Great food, fun, music, and join the exciting
“Saint’s Parade.”
Food: Two complementary drinks, Salad, Chicken Gumbo Soup, Stuffed Loin of Pork, BBQ Chicken,
Vegetable,Rice Pilaf, Dessert – Coffee, Tea and Soda.
Bus leaves Pool parking lot at 9:45 a.m. sharp and returns approximately 4:00 p.m.
Return this reservation slip with your name and full payment with check made out to Florham Park Seniors
by Fri., Feb. 7, 2014, to:
Joan Metro, 11 Harvale Dr., Florham Park, NJ 07932
973-377-8655
Nonmembers invited after Tue., Jan. 21, 2014.
Name (s) ________________________________________________Phone No.___________________
Car Make___________ Model___________ Color_______________ License Plate No. ____________
Phone No. of person with key to your car in case of emergency_________________________________
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The Rest of I Owe My Mother...
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION .
"Stop acting like your father!"
15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING .
"You are going to get it when you get home!"
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."
19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"
20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT .
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"
24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."
25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you !"
FLORHAM PARK SENIOR EXERCISE CLASS
Taught by Florham Park resident and Jazzercise instructor, Stephanie Akers
The class will consist of light aerobic exercises and stretching to improve balance and fitness for Florham Park
residents who are aged 62 and older.
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WHEN: Mondays from 1:00-1:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 10:00-10:30 a.m.
WHERE: Florham Park Senior Center.
FEE: $10 per person (covers the 2 classes per week for 10 weeks – starting Jan. 6, 2014 through Mar. 20, 2014.
Please make checks payable to “The Florham Park Senior Citizens Club.”
BRING: A rubber exercise band which is long and strong enough to fit under your feet and not break while
stretching. You are encouraged to bring a water bottle.
WHO: Classes are for senior citizens who are residents of Florham Park. Beginners are welcome!
HOW: Complete the form below and return with payment.
QUESTIONS: Contact Ruth Moolin – 973-822-2272 – 4 Cory Road, Florham Park
Name __________________________________________________________________
Street address_____________________________________________ Florham Park, NJ
Phone #_________________________
Emergency Contact Name: _________________________Phone # _________________
I agree that the Florham Park Senior Citizens Club, its officials and volunteers, or its exercise program and
instructor; the Florham Park Recreation Department, or its employees and volunteers; or the Borough of Florham
Park, or its elected or appointed officials, officers, employees, volunteers, or agents, will not be held responsible
for any accident or injury sustained by the named participant during the course of this program or activity.
Signature of Participant ________________________________ Date _______________
Florham Park Senior Citizens
Borough of Florham Park
111 Ridgedale Ave.
Florham Park, NJ 07932