Chester County 50plus Senior News January 2013

Kidney transplant recipient Carole Fair is now an author as well as an activeorgan-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.

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Chronic kidney disease affects one in nine Americans, and millions moreare at risk. More than 105,000 people are on the National Kidney TransplantList in the United States.

“Every day, 18 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ,such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or bone marrow,” said CaroleFair, an organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of CentralPennsylvania for nearly two years.

Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidneypatients, 1,506 liver patients, 371 heart patients, and 234 lung patients diedin 2008 while waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, Fair noted.

“I’m hoping that with more awareness of transplantation and thegenerosity of others, these numbers could certainly decline,” said Fair, whorecently spoke at events at Holy Spirit Hospital and Hershey Antique AutoAssociation.

Fair is a circuit speaker at civic clubs, women’s organizations, andchurches. She helps people become aware of transplantation, clears upmisconceptions, and promotes organ donation in general.

“I get asked the most basic questions, like, ‘Where is my kidney located?’and ‘Is the old kidney removed during a transplant?’” said Fair, who also is a

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From the earliest days of the UnitedStates of America, citizenship wasan important status for its

residents, allowing individuals thefreedom to live and work in the country,to enter and leave as desired, and to voteand hold public office. My next twocolumns will discuss citizenship andnaturalization, and how informationregarding that status can help ingenealogical research.

When the 13 colonies became theUnited States, under Article IV of thenew Constitution, the existing citizens ofeach colony (state) automatically wereentitled to all privileges and immunitiesof the citizens of every other state,including citizenship in the UnitedStates. After the Constitution was ratifiedin 1788, persons born within theterritorial limits of the United Statesqualified as citizens. This is known as

citizenship by birthright. In 1788, however, in accordance with

the laws of most colony/states, onlywhites were citizens, and only white malelandowners could vote. After the CivilWar, freeblacks andformerslaves weregranted thevote, stillwithheldfromwomenand fromindigenouspeopleswho maintained tribal affiliations.

A valued characteristic of our greatnation is that citizenship has also beenavailable, under varying circumstances, topersons born in other countries, who

wish to become Americans; that is, togain citizenship by naturalization.

The first federal law defining aprocedure for naturalization as a UnitedStates citizen was passed in 1790. It

explicitlystated thatonly “freewhite”immigrantscouldbecomenaturalizedcitizens. By1870,immigrantblacks were

permitted to become naturalized. In1882, Chinese were explicitly excludedfrom being naturalized.

In 1890, a law was passed requiringNative Americans to “apply” for

citizenship, similar to naturalization ofimmigrants. I can’t let this pass withoutcommenting on the injustice of the factthat indigenous peoples, born in the landof their ancestors, could not be citizensof the United States until 14 years afterthe Revolution.

In 1920, women, already citizens inevery other capacity, were granted theright to vote. In 1922 and 1923, firstJapanese and then immigrants from Indiawere prohibited from being naturalized.

Then the Immigration Act of 1924limited the annual number ofimmigrants from any country to 2percent of the number of people fromthat country who were living in the U.S.in 1890. This essentially reduced to atrickle the immigration from southernand eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, etc.),while 86 percent of those admitted werefrom northern European countries like

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Germany, Britain, and Ireland. Needless to say, if people couldn’t

immigrate, neither could they benaturalized. These quotas remained inplace until 1965.

Various laws were passed over theyears to allow Filipinos, NativeAmericans, and other immigrants to gainnaturalization or ease citizenshiprequirements for those who served in theU.S. military. In 1947, barriers to theNative American vote were removed, and

in 1952, the McCarran-Walter Actgranted all people of Asian ancestry theright to become citizens.

In 1965, the Hart-Celler Actabolished the national origins quotasystem that was established in 1924,replacing it with a preference system thatfocused on immigrants’ skills and familyrelationships with U.S. citizens orresidents.

How do these facts about citizenshipand naturalization impact genealogical

research? In many cases, the impact isnegative; that is, it precludes findingcertain information about someancestors. For example, voter registrationlists exist for many communities andjurisdictions; however, before you spendtime searching such lists for an ancestor,be sure he or she held the right to voteduring the period you’re researching.

Also, early censuses may have listedsolely white male landowners by name,giving only a simple count of women,

children, or slaves in a household. Afuture column will discuss ways of usingcensus data about naturalization tofurther genealogical research.

Angelo Coniglio encourages readers tocontact him by writing to 438 MaynardDrive, Amherst, N.Y. 14226; by email [email protected]; or by visitingwww.conigliofamily.com/ConiglioGenealogyTips.htm. His new historical fiction novel,The Lady of the Wheel, is available throughAmazon.com.


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Canton, Ohio,was chosen as thesite for the Hall ofFame for manyreasons. However,we focus onfootball’s legacythere as opposedto some otherlocale because ofthe NativeAmerican athletenamed JimThorpe, whosigned a footballcontract there. Thorpe, the star ofthe 1912 Olympic Games, signedhis first contract to play footballwith the Canton Bulldogs in 1915.

While the vintage building isgood looking, the museum is in themidst of completing a majorconstruction/expansion project to host morefootball fans. The completion of themuseum expansion will coincidewith the Hall of Fame’s 50th

anniversary in 2013. The newfacilities will not only host a worldof football fans, but they will alsooffer the Ralph Wilson Jr. FootballResearch and Preservation Center,the researchers’ reading room, anevent center, and a meeting room.

In addition, there will beexhibition galleries focusing on thehistory of the game dating back tothe early 1900s, state-of-the-art

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While the Super Bowl ringdisplay was one of my favorites(who doesn’t like all thosediamonds?), the Hall of Famegallery speaks to the core of the Hall

of Fame. The gallery housesinteractive displays and animpressive assemblage of fine-artbronze portrait busts of the Hall ofFame inductees through the years.The bronze busts are the work ofUtah sculptor Blair Buswell andthey capture the likeness of eachfootball great. As a display, thegallery is awe inspiring as visitorssearch for their favorite Hall ofFamer.

At the Pro Football Hall of Fame,exhibits trace the history ofprofessional football with uniqueobjects like the Baltimore Coltsmarching band’s bass drum, presswood posters announcing the 1962AFL championship game betweenthe Houston Oilers and the DallasTexans, and early helmets worn byvarious players.

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uniforms from the Pro Bowl as wellas equipment and apparel worn byWalter Payton, Joe Namath, andDan Marino, among others. Theexhibits also focus on the impact ofstars like O.J. Simpson and theBuffalo Bills’ Electric Company.

Some displays show a player’slove of the game by focusing ongreat plays made by Chicago Bearsrunning back Brian Piccolo orDallas Cowboy Troy Aikman. And,who could forget the famous

Immaculate Receptionmade by PittsburghSteelers fullback FrancoHarris (a fellow PennStater) on Dec. 23,1972? The museum,through its diverseexhibits, shows visitorsthe heart of the gameof football.

I discovered one lastinteresting thing aboutsports museums duringmy visit to the ProFootball Hall of Fame.No matter how muchinformation is availableto a visitor in a sportsmuseum, fans alwayssearch for more. I

noticed many visitors standing infront of very good, informativedisplays—even interactivedisplays—who were still searchingfor additional stats on their cellphones. I even found myself doingit.

As a former museum curator anddirector, I bet you think I’d beappalled by this but, in fact, I thinkwhen a museum’s displays promptvisitors to find out more, that’s apretty cool and quite interactivemuseum. Plan a visit.

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In his skit, Carlin said: “A house is aplace to keep your stuff while you go outand get more stuff.” It’s true. We do keepadding to our stuff. That may helpexplain why the average house in ournation is larger than the average threedecades ago, while the number ofdwellers per average household declinedslightly.

The median square footage perhousehold increased from 1,488 in 1980

to 1,769in 2007,accordingto theU.S.CensusBureau. Atthe sametime themeanaverage ofpersonsperhousehold fell from 2.76 to 2.56.

Bigger homes have not solved ourstorage needs. The Self-StorageAssociation, which represents 46,500self-storage facilities, claims that 10percent of U.S. households rent a self-storage unit, up from 6 percent in 1995.These units, at December 2009, had acombined space of 2.22 billion squarefeet, seven times as much as existed at

the end of1995. Forcomparison,the squarefootage ofthe island ofManhattanis only 20percent aslarge.

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Collectors acquire a category of items,such as Barbie dolls, old beer cans, orbaseball cards. Comedian Jay Lenoreportedly has a collection ofapproximately 200 automobiles. Shouldthis be regarded as an example of anormal collector or of a private-museum

curator? His automobile-insurancepremiums alone must cost a fortune.

Sigmund Freud was a collector ofantiquities—items older than mereantiques—cluttering his office with anoverabundance of them.

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kidney transplant recipient. Fair said hernew kidney is in the right lower quadrantof her stomach, attached to the artery inthe leg and bladder.

“If you have uncontrollablehypertension, they will remove the (old)kidney, but I only had mild hypertension,so mine wasn’t removed,” she said.

She also gets asked how it feels to havesomeone else’s kidney. But Fair doesn’tthink of it that way, she said. She onlythinks about how good it is to no longerbe on dialysis, 10 hours every night, sevendays a week.

“I’m so glad to be rid of it because ofthe donation,” Fair said. “Many think of itas their new birth date. Mine was Feb. 21,2011. It’s a new life.”

Organ transplants are based on supplyand demand and, currently, the demand isfar greater than the available supply, Fairsaid. When there were no airbags in carsand fewer people were saved fromaccidents, there were more cadaversavailable. But because airbags are savinglives, those cadavers are no longer anoption for transplantations.

Therefore, organ donors are neededmore than ever before. In 1987, those inneed of a kidney transplant only had towait seven months after first being placedon the transplant list, Fair said.

But by 2012, the wait had lengthenedto four to six years.

Twelve thousand people meet thecriteria for needing a kidney transplant,but fewer than half get donors.

“That statistic really struck home,” Fairsaid.

Transplant recipients are looking moreand more to living donors since people canlive with only one of their two kidneys. AtHarrisburg Hospital, more than 50 percentof kidney transplants are due to livingdonors, Fair said, quoting Dr. HaroldYang, a hospital surgeon who helped saveher life.

While kidney disease can be fromhypertension, diabetes, or polycystickidney disease, Fair’s kidney problemstemmed from a birth defect in hersphincter muscle.

“There was a surgery that could bedone by age 5,” she said, but her diagnosisat age 21 put her well beyond that point,and her kidneys slowly deteriorated overthe years.

Fair began journaling about herexperiences with kidney disease inSeptember 2007. By the fall of 2010, sheneeded to go on dialysis, and shecontinued writing.

“I had no idea if I would even receive akidney, and if I did, how would I getthrough the surgery? The recovery period?Would there be a happy ending? All these

questions remained unanswered,” Fairsaid.

“Although I had excellent medical care... I could not have gotten through thistime in my life without my faith,” Fairsaid. “Faith is a choice—it comes from theheart. You either want to believe or youdon’t. I so believed in God and knew thathe would see me through this mostdifficult time. After all, (God) is thephysician of all physicians.”

Fair’s earlier kindness to a young girlreaped benefits to not only herself, butanother kidney transplant recipient as well.

Because Fair had sponsored Janette“Jay” Diaz into Milton Hershey School,Diaz wanted to repay her kindness bydonating her kidney to Fair. But aftertesting, the two weren’t a match.

Instead, they were put on the PairedDonor List for a live match. Diaz matcheda woman in Pittsburgh, and that woman’sfriend, Marlane, matched Fair for a four-way swap.

“So exciting!” Fair said.On Feb. 21, 2011, Marlane’s kidney

was flown from the Thomas E. StarzlTransplant Institute of the University ofPittsburgh Medical Center to HarrisburgHospital, where Fair was waiting for thelifesaving surgery.

After an excellent recovery, Fair decidedto compile her journal entries and craftthem into a book, Transplanted to BetterHealth.

“I wanted to offer hope andencouragement to patients who weresuffering from kidney failure, or anyonesuffering from a serious illness in general,”Fair said.

In her memoir, Fair describes the goodand bad days, the ups and downs ofdialysis treatment, waiting for a lifesavingkidney transplant, and the road torecovery.

“My story will be familiar for anyonewho has been down the road with kidneyfailure, and will uplift and empower thosewho are just setting foot on that path,” shesaid. “My book is like one patient talkingto another patient.”

But what sets Fair’s book apart fromothers is the details in her journals thatonly a person with a medical backgroundwould include. Fair is a medical technicianwho worked in a doctor’s office.

A signed copy of Fair’s book may bepurchased from Fair by emailing her [email protected] or throughAmazon.com as a book or an e-book. Toreceive a signed copy, send a check payableto Fair Book Publishing for $18, whichincludes shipping, to: FBP, 1522Collingdale Circle, Mechanicsburg, PA17050. To engage Fair as a speaker, contacther at the above email address.

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“There it is!” The child who isstanding next to me jumps up anddown, accompanying each jump withan ear-splitting shriek. I look in thedirection he is pointing. It is indeed ascream-worthy sight.

There, sailing toward us, in a slowbut steady manner, is a giant pirateship, with masts that pierce the skyand bright flags that wave in thebreeze. The name of the ship isemblazoned on its side: JoséGasparilla.

The deck is crowded withhundreds of men, some with blacktriangular hats adorned with a skull-and crossbones insignia, others withcolorful rag-wrapped turbans. Themen blast cannons, brandish swords,and whoop and holler as the ship,surrounded by a flotilla of smallboats, prepares to invade the city ofTampa.

The ship docks and the pirate

captain disembarks and approaches themayor, demanding the key to the city ofTampa. The mayor complies; the partycan begin.

Tampa’s annual pirate fest, which willtake place this year on Jan. 26, honorsJosé Gaspar, the bold buccaneer who, inthe late 1700s and early 1800s,captured hundreds of ships off the coastof Florida.

Today the Gasparilla Festival hasbecome a major event, and the stolentreasure is being returned in the form oftourist dollars.

Gasparilla combines the legend ofGaspar with the magic of Mardi Gras.Following their successful takeover ofthe city, the merry pirates (a.k.a., civicleaders who are members of Ye MysticKrewe of Gasparilla) strut throughdowntown in true swashbuckling style,accompanied by more than 100 floatsand marching bands.

At the same time, merrymakers fillthe streets, where there’s nonstop

Pirates and More in Tampa

The pirate ship JoséGasparilla approaches

the city of Tampa.

Tampa residents get intothe spirit of Gasparilla.

After the invasion, thepirates parade throughtown, tossing treasures tothe waiting crowd.

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Columbia Restaurant, established in1905, is Florida’s oldest restaurant.

Hand-rolled cigars are stillmade in Ybor City.

Ybor City is a NationalHistoric District thatcommemorates the city’sLatin heritage.

entertainment and an abundance of foodstands. The partying continues until 10p.m., at which time the victorious piratesretreat, letting Tampa return to the 21st

century.Of course, Tampa is more than pirates.

Its attractions include great beaches(nearby St. Pete Beach was voted No. 1by TripAdvisor), a temperate climate(average summer temps are in the low80s; average winter ones are in the low60s), and a historic district that reflectsthe city’s Latin heritage.

We start our exploration in Ybor City(pronounced EE-bore), the historicneighborhood named after the Cubancigar manufacturer who made the regiona mecca for hardworking immigrants.Less than 100 years after Gaspar pillagedthe region, workers from Cuba werejoined by workers of other nationalities,and together they producedapproximately 700 million hand-rolledcigars a year.

Today the area is filled with eclecticshops and trendy nightclubs, but traces ofthe past remain. Old, red-brick buildingswith wrought-iron grillwork line streetsbordered with spindly palms; master cigarrollers continue to practice their craft;and the Columbia Restaurant, Florida’soldest and the world’s largest Spanishrestaurant, features a full array of Cubanfood, as well as the “original Cubansandwich” (a long loaf of soft, whitebread filled with layers of ham, roastpork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard).

Walking through the restaurant isalmost as interesting as tasting its food.Amidst the wrought iron and bright tiles,

there’s a royal dining room, a Spanishcourtyard, and a flamenco nightclub.

The Tampa Bay History Center, a60,000-square-foot facility that opened inJanuary 2009, tells us more about YborCity and the entire Tampa Bay region.Various exhibits highlight people fromthe Seminole Indians and Spanishconquistadors to the “cowmen andcrackers” who were part of Florida’scattle-ranching past.

To see a bit of Tampa’s natural history,we go to the 240-acre Lettuce Lake Park,so named because the surroundinggreenery reminded folks of a lunchtimesalad. Rather than renting a canoe orkayak, we pick up a map and brochure atthe visitors center and explore on foot.There are 3,500 feet of boardwalk, morethan a mile of paved pathways, and anabundance of well-maintained naturetrails that lead us though groves ofcypress and ferns and past two alligators,a few turtles, and an untold number ofbirds.

That evening we arrive early for ourflight home and are relaxing at the mojitobar when a gentleman tells us that thebest place to see a Florida sunset is fromthe top of the airport parking garage. Wetake the elevator to the top floor andthere, against a red sky, we can almost seea fully rigged pirate ship sailing into thebay.

With a smile and a toast to JoséGaspar, we go down to catch our plane. www.visittampabay.com

Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross(www.andreagross.com).

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From left, Diane Witman, Jan Creitz, and Linda Jacobsof Tel Hai’s health care centerrecently took part in WreathsAcross America, an event thathonors fallen soldiers.

Honoring Our Veterans at the Holidays

From left, Tom Hoele, Assisted Senior Program member; Grace Cantera,ASP aide; Mary Anderson, ASP coordinator; Aleida Diaz;

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The Kennett Area Senior Centerrecently sponsored a drive to secure toysfor needy children through the “Toysfor the Hood” program.

The House of Original Dreams (TheHood) is located at 530 E. UnionStreet, Suite 3, in West Chester, Pa. Its

mission is to facilitate a workforcedevelopment system designed to provideyouth with access to opportunities forenrichment and career exploration.

The toy drive was designed to helpsingle-parent youths give the gift ofChristmas to their children ages 1-6.

Toy Drive a Success

The annual Wreaths Across Americaevent was observed at veterans’cemeteries nationwide in December. AtIndiantown Gap National Cemetery inAnnville, Pa., more than 5,500 wreathswere placed on the graves of soldiers.

Tel Hai health care center staffmember Linda Jacobs and her husband,Roger—acting as part of the 11-member nonprofit organization Iron

Horse Helpers—raised funds topurchase 20 percent of the wreaths usedto decorate the graves this year. Jacobswas joined by fellow Tel Hai staffers JanCreitz and Diane Witman for the event.

The American Legion ofMorgantown purchased the wreaths andsponsored a bus trip to allow membersto participate in the wreath-layingevent.


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of the bathroom and living room,substantial cash was kept in pots andpans, and stock certificates weresquirreled away in her bed.

Clutter is a common indulgence. Itoccurs when items “prevent any part ofthe inside or outside of a dwelling tobe used for its intended purpose,”according to the Department of Healthand Human Services in MontgomeryCounty, Md. (Fibber McGee’s stuffedcloset is an example.)

Beethoven cluttered his livingquarters to the point he could be saidto have lived slovenly. Keeping a neathousehold, while writing some of theworld’s greatest music, apparently weremutually exclusive capabilities for thisgenius.

Will Cuppy, a writer of articles forthe New Yorker magazine and author ofseveral zany books, including his best-known work, The Decline and Fall ofPractically Everybody, can be regarded asa collector who severely cluttered, not ahoarder. His apartment was filled withbooks stored for his research. Any spacein the bathroom, kitchen, even therefrigerator, was subject to bookstorage. The collection represented areadily accessible research resource, nota pathological compulsion.

When he died, they found morethan 15,000 note cards comprising hisreference file. He differs from thehoarding compulsion of Ida MayfieldWood, who used the cash she storedonly to maintain her impoverishedlifestyle.

Herb Block, the famed politicalcartoonist for the Washington Postwho went by the penname “Herblock,”had an office that an assistant oncedescribed as “an organized disaster.” Hewas not considered a slob but, rather,“an information hoarder” (WashingtonPost, Oct. 19, 2011).

Hoarders take collections past the

threshold of eccentricity and into therealm of psychosis. Susan Hoskins,executive director of the Princeton(N.J.) Senior Resource Center and itshoarding task force, was quoted in theAARP Bulletin (Feb. 4, 2011) stating:“As a therapist I have found very fewthings that are as difficult to treat, andso hard for people to give up.”

The behavior of hoarders is sobizarre it is frequently detailed in thepress. The two most publicized types ofhoarders are the reclusive wealthy andanimal hoarders. The former have beenfound in mansions filled with debriswhile the latter have an insatiablecompulsion to keep dozens of cats ordogs.

The Collyer brothers, Homer andLangley, lived in a New York Citymansion filled with 136 tons of junkand trash. In 1947 Langley was fatallycrushed as one of the piles collapsed.Homer, trapped by the fall and unableto move, died of starvation. Thehoarded items included 10 grandpianos, kept because the brothersbelieved “they all have such differenttonal effects.”

In 1971 Jackie Kennedy’s aunt EdithBeale, and Edith’s daughter Edie, werefound living in a 28-room mansionfilled with junk and debris. Kennedycame to their rescue, paying $32,000to remove more than 1,000 bags ofgarbage, clean with 40 gallons ofgermicide, and install a new furnaceand plumbing. There seems to be alesson here to not patronize all relativesresiding in mansions.

Walt Sonneville, a retired market-researchanalyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth:The Higher-Valued Opinion of a SeniorCitizen and A Musing Moment: MeditativeEssays on Life and Learning, books ofpersonal-opinion essays, free of partisan andsectarian viewpoints. Contact him [email protected].

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200 words or fewer and photos are encouraged. Email preferred to [email protected] or mailnominations to 50plus Senior News, Volunteer Spotlight, 3912 Abel Drive, Columbia, PA 17512.

Bill and Carol Morling were recentlyrecognized as noteworthy volunteers byKeeli Looper, director of volunteerservices on Tel Hai’s campus.

Raised and educated in Illinois, Bill’scareer as computer center director atseveral public and private universitiestook them across the country throughthe years. Their travels included Ohio,Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and Virginia.

Carol, a nurse, easily foundemployment as they moved about thecountry. A family friend who was a TelHai resident introduced them to thecommunity; they made the move in2010 from Richmond, Va.

Since that time they have becomedeeply involved in a variety of volunteerroles.

“Volunteering has always been the

route we tookwhen gettingto know a newcommunity,”Carol said.

They assistthe marketingdepartmentthroughspecial eventsand tours andact as aresource tovisiting seniorsthrough thePeer to Peercommittee.

Bill servesas the lifeenrichment committee chairman and is a

member ofthetechnologycommittee,offering basicandadvancedcomputereducation toresidents. Healso assumesresponsibilityforpresentationson site andsupportsresidentcelebrationsby

formatting program content—and even

drives the campus shuttle.Carol volunteers at the reception desk

in the community center and maintainsthe new resident photo album. She alsoassists with many computer-basedprojects for the information technologydepartment, plays flute during chapelservices and for special events, and assistswith fundraisers and periodiccoffeehouses on site.

Their keen interests in people andservice are also expressed in theirparticipation in the Buddy System,welcoming new residents to campus; thedisaster assistance team; and CaninePartners for Life.

Bill and Carol Morling have beenacknowledged as fine examples ofheartfelt service to others with thiscitation for their efforts at Tel Hai.

Carol and Bill Morling, Tel Hai residents since 2010,have been recognized by the Volunteer Services

Department for their dedication and cheerful serviceto others on campus.

Couple Contributes to Community Life

As he grew up in Corning, N.Y.,Bill Landis saw a future forhimself as an electrical engineer.

So after he graduated from high schoolin 1967, he went to work at a CentralPennsylvania RCA plant, working onjobs as technically complex as creatingthe camera used on the Apollo missionsto the moon.

He had a low number in the militarydraft, however, and he knew that hewould soon be called into the military.So he decided to join the Navy, where hecould hope to be part of the Navy’sprogram of rapidly converting to nuclearpropulsion for its submarines. He didn’tknow at the time how difficult thatwould be. But he was soon to find out.

Upon enlisting, he was called to activeduty in 1970 and took boot camp atGreat Lakes Training Center. He thenlearned of the rigid requirements of thosewho were selected for submarine service.They were all volunteers. No one couldbe taller than 6 feet, and they must haveperfect color vision and perfect physicalcondition, including sound teeth.

Those meeting those requirementsthen faced a number of mental andpsychological tests, from which onlythose in the top 10 percent had anychance of being selected.

Having passed all those hurdles,Landis was sent to the Navy’s MareIsland Nuclear Power School inCalifornia, and then to Idaho at anoperating atomic reactor for six months.There, he studied math, chemistry,metallurgy, and nuclear physics. A specialboard was sent from Washington, D.C.,to grade the tests faced by those whocompleted those jam-packed months oftraining.

Landis and the others who hadqualified were sent to assignments in thefleet. Landis was sent to Pearl Harbor,where he was assigned to the Puffer, anSSN-652 nuclear attack submarine.

The mission of the Puffer was to findand destroy enemy submarines andsurface vessels, using its torpedoes andthe Tomahawk cruise missiles it carriedaboard. The sub also was able to carryNavy Seals and offload them underwaterto perform a mission, and then recoverthem after the mission, without anenemy’s knowing from where they came

or where they went aftercompleting the mission.

An important asset ofthe Puffer was its abilityto descend to great depthsat sea. Where previousdiesel-powered subs hadbeen able to go as deep as500 feet, the nuclear-powered subs like thePuffer were able to divefar deeper.

The sub itself wasabout the length of afootball field … andcarried all the food thecrew of some 120 men would need on atypical patrol of two months. It had itsown water-purification and waste-disposal systems, and the nuclear powerplant would propel the vessel indefinitely.Where diesel-powered subs had beenessentially surface craft that couldsubmerge, nuclear-powered subs like thePuffer were truly underwater craft thatneeded to come to land only at the endof a mission.

What was life like aboard the sub? “Well,” Landis says, “they fed us four

times a day, and the food wasoutstanding. And they kept us so busythat there was little time to think of thediversions we might be missing. Mealswere served continuously, so you had tofit them in between your other duties.There were only four tables in theenlisted mess, so meals took someplanning. But every man aboard—eventhe cooks—were submarine qualified toknow all the sub’s basic systems.

“Big as the Puffer was, every inch ofspace was used to carry essential foodand gear. It was so crowded that you hadvirtually no privacy. Since water was atsuch a premium, you had a ‘Navyshower’ once a week. You turned thewater on to get yourself wet, thenturned it off to get soaped up, and thenturned it back on to rinse off. If the guyafter you thought you were taking aminute more than necessary, he simplyturned the faucet to cold, and youhopped out in a hurry. There were onlytwo shower stalls for the 100 or soenlisted men aboard, and each was sosmall that you couldn’t turn around.

“The Puffer often did escort duty,

where we shadowed ourcarriers, for example, andprotected them fromenemy subs. We usedpassive sonar that listenedfor the electronic imprintof enemy subs, butwouldn’t lead them to us.Our torpedoes could besteered from our sub togo exactly where wewanted them to go.”

Other jobs of thePuffer were to participatein war games, where theygave surface ships a

chance to try to locate threatening subs.Also, to keep tabs on Soviet subs, oftentrailing them for days, reporting on theirmovements and recording noisesignatures.

An interesting sidelight was that priorto the filming of The Hunt for RedOctober, Sean Connery was on board the

Puffer preparing for his role as Capt.Marko Ramius. He was given the statusof a commander and was allowed (whilethe captain was next to him) to giveorders while the boat was underway.

Just after Christmas in 1976, Landiswas discharged from the Navy at PearlHarbor as an E-5 2nd class petty officer.He returned to Central Pennsylvania toagain work for RCA in engineering,gaining several patents for his work infiber optics. At the same time, heattended Franklin & Marshall College, inthe evening division, and earned anassociate degree in businessadministration.

Landis retired in 2009 and nowspends much of his time talking withgroups and individuals about his havingserved for so many years under the seasin the Pacific.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber inEurope in World War II.

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He Spent Many 2-Month Tours Under the Sea

Robert D. Wilcox

Salute to a Veteran

William C. Landis, aboard theattack submarine Puffer, withhis submarine qualification

certificate.


Dear Savvy Senior, Does Medicare cover eye care? I had

excellent vision insurance through myemployer for many years but lost it when Iretired, and now I am confused as to whatMedicare actually covers. What can you tellme?

— Living on a Budget

Dear Living,Many retirees are confused with what

Medicare will and won’t cover when itcomes to eye care. Here’s a breakdown ofhow Medicare handles different types ofvision care services, along with someadditional tips that can help you getaffordable care when needed.

Medicare Coverage If you have original Medicare (Part A

and B), it’s important to know that“routine” vision care like eye exams, eyerefractions, eyeglasses, or contact lenses

are generally not covered. But, “medicallynecessary” eye care usually is. Here’s a listof what is covered:

• Eye surgeries: any surgical procedurethat helps repair the function of the eyelike cataract removal, cornea transplant,glaucoma surgery, etc.

• Eyeglasses or contacts: only if you’vehad cataract surgery.

• Medical eye exams: only if you’rehaving vision problems that indicate aserious eye condition like maculardegeneration, retinopathy, glaucoma, ordry eye syndrome.

• Glaucoma screenings: annual screeningsfor those at high risk (diabetics, thosewith a family history of glaucoma, orthose who are African-American orHispanic).

• Diabeticeye exams: ifyou havediabetes,yearly examsfor diabeticretinopathy.

• Maculardegeneration:certaintreatmentsare covered.

You alsoneed to beaware that ofthe eye careservices thatare coveredby Medicare,you’re stillresponsiblefor 20percent ofthe cost—Medicarepays theother 80percent.

To help withthis out-of-pocket expense, someMedigap supplemental policies providegap coverage. Or, if you have MedicareAdvantage, some plans provide eye carebenefits. Be sure you check with yourplan administrator.

Ways to SaveIf you find your eye care needs aren’t

covered, or you can’t afford the 20percent out-of-pocket that Medicaredoesn’t cover, there are other ways tosave.

For starters, if you need a refractiveeye exam or a new pair of eyeglasses,many optometrists and eyeglass dealersoffer discounts—usually between 10 and30 percent—to seniors who request it.Memberships in groups like AAA andAARP can also provide lower rates.

Another way to get low-cost eye careis at an optometry school. Many offeraffordable care provided by students thatare overseen by their professors. Seewww.opted.org for a directory of schoolsand their contact information.

AssistanceProgramsDepending

on where youlive, there mayalso be somelocal clinics orcharitableorganizationsthat providefree ordiscounted eyecare oreyeglasses.

Put in a callto your localLions Club tosee what’savailable inyour area. Toreach your localclub, visitwww.directory.lionsclubs.orgor call (800)747-4448 toget the numberto your stateLions Cluboffice, which

can refer you toyour community representative.

Or, if you need medical eye care,check into EyeCare America. This is anational program that providescomprehensive medical eye examinationsto seniors age 65 and older and up toone year of treatment at no cost. Theyaccept Medicare or other insurance asfull payment. And if you don’t haveinsurance, care is free. To learn more orto find out if you qualify, visitwww.eyecareamerica.org.

If you’re under age 65, some otherservices that can help include MissionCataract USA (www.missioncataractusa.org), which provides free cataractsurgery to low-income people who don’thave insurance. And Vision USA(www.optometryscharity.org/vision-usa,(800) 766-4466) provides free vision careto uninsured and low-income workersand their families.

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to theNBC Today show and author of The SavvySenior Book. www.savvysenior.org.

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Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.The Wellness Community of Philadelphia: SupportGroup for People with CancerThe Cancer Center atPaoli Hospital255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli(215) 879-7733

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It’s the premier event for baby boomers, caregivers,and seniors in Chester County

•Face-to-face interaction with 1,500+ attendees

•Strengthen brand recognition/launch new products

June 6, 20139 a.m. – 2 p.m.Church Farm School

1001 East Lincoln Highway, Exton

Why Participate?

Does Your MarketingReach Active, AffluentBoomers & Seniors?

Exhibitors

Health Screenings

Door Prizes

For sponsorship and exhibitor information: (610) 675-6240

Chester County 50plus Senior News January 2013

Documents

Transcript of Chester County 50plus Senior News January 2013