Professor Ann Ellis, PhD brought 13 Grinnell College students back to The Mayflower Community on Monday, December 9th to again participate in small group discussions with Mayflower residents. They previously worked with residents last October. As an assignment for Professor Ellis’ Adult Development class, the students gathered information about social and family changes in the
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In preparation for Christmas, residents of The Mayflower Community’s Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living have made traditional gingerbread houses. Mayflower Activities Director, Chery Nelson has been leading this activity at Mayflower since 2008. Dating back almost 15 years prior to that, Chery first started making gingerbread houses with local first-graders in her native northwest
Grinnell, Iowa’s Mayflower Community is senior engagement living for residents 55-years of age and older. With 285 residents living in independent living patio homes and apartments and receiving care in assisted living and in the Health Center, it is time to honor this season of celebration and new beginnings. The photos attached show some of
On Thursday, December 5th, The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA) presented the annual “Prelude to Christmas” dinner. The event featured the delicious food for which Mayflower is known plus resident and guest congeniality. In addition, the event was buoyed by the striking holiday décor in the Buckley Dining Room and outside, through the tall patio windows
In The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA), many volunteer residents working as part of the Mayflower Residents Association (MRA) handle the welcoming and acclimating of new independent living residents to the community. “Hosts” and “Guides” were feted at a brunch on Monday, December 2nd. MRA President-Elect, Gene Wubbels, who will assume the presidency in January, thanked
The poets: Front row (left to right) – Gene Rohr, Pasha Buck, Sue Drake. Back row (left to right) – Lynn Cavanaugh and Warren Reinecke. Five Grinnell poets have had their pieces chosen for publication in “Lyrical Iowa 2019.” This
Residents and their guests were treated today (November 28th) to The Mayflower Community’s annual Thanksgiving Dinner. As usual, the menu was outstanding: Turkey or Ham; Mashed Potatoes & Gravy; Corn, Squash, and Apples; Dinner Roll; Cranberry Salad; Fruit Salad; Pumpkin or Fruit Pie. The food prepared and served at Mayflower under the direction of Director
Steven Langerud has now served since August 1, 2018 as the Executive Director of The Mayflower Community in Grinnell, Iowa. (Pronounced as if the “e” were at the end…“Lang’ rude”) Steve and his wife Karen Veerhusen-Langerud, who is the Director of the Grinnell College Laboratory Preschool, have lived in Grinnell since 1986. After serving as
The Mayflower Residents Association Mini-Gift-Shop Holiday Open House drew a number of lookers and shoppers today (November 22nd). The small shop was beautiful, with “Christmas in the Air!” — Bob Mann, Sales & Marketing Director
On Saturday, November 16th, six residents of Grinnell College’s Food House prepared a meal in the MultiCulture House and in their Food House. The students then delivered and served the free buffet dinner to a group of 25 Mayflower Community residents, after which the students joined the Mayflower folk to eat and talk. The evening’s