Residents of The Mayflower Community were treated to the mixed genre of instrumental and vocal music by Fred Buck and the County Line Band on Thursday, February 2nd. The presentation was the regular Tuesday Lyceum offering of the Mayflower Residents Association Events Committee. The Mayflower Lyceum is an entertainment program in the spacious, acoustically-enriched Carman…
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Want to know what is one of the keys to successful aging? Easy. Spend as much time as you can with young people. Grinnell Middle School Counselor, Paula Simon, has made this happen for Mayflower Community Health Center residents during this school year. Recently, she brought another group of Middle Schoolers to spend time playing…
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On Wednesday, January 18th, the Beebe Assisted Living Book Club dined on Paul Newman’s favorite recipes and foods as they celebrated the completion of the reading of Newman’s memoir. “The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man” was read and discussed in hourly Wednesday and Thursday resident sessions over several weeks. According to the New York…
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On Thursday, January 12th, Mayflower residents were entered during a weekly “Lyceum” event by Mayflower resident, John Landkamer, on the piano and Ryan Gruman on the French horn. Bob Mann, Mayflower Sales & Marketing Director (641-236-6151)
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An activity that had to be suspended during the pandemic is back at Mayflower. The independent living “Neighborhood Luncheons” combine groupings of residents for four different Mondays each month. The residents for each luncheon live in traditional apartments, Watertower Square apartments, and Harwich Terrace patio homes. In the accompanying photo, compliments of Bonnie Lipton, residents…
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Grinnell native, Alana Ferguson, is serving as an intern this semester at The Mayflower Community. She will be experiencing the business and operations side of senior living and long-term care. A second-year student at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, Alana graduated from Grinnell High school in June of 2020. At St. Olaf, she is majoring…
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On Friday, January 6th, residents of The Mayflower Community’s Health Center enjoyed candies delivered in snowmen-decorated containers. The craftwork was compliments of FANS, Friends and Neighbors of Mayflower, and much appreciated. Then, under the tutelage of Mayflower Housekeeper, Susie Ford, Health Center residents decorated colorful bags with buttons brought by Susie. She is a seamstress…
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On Friday, December 30th, Steve O’Connor retired as an employee of The Mayflower Community’s Foodservices department. A professional photographer who operated his own studio for many years in Grinnell, Steve picked up the face mask and hair net and went to work three years ago at Mayflower to provide support during a difficult time of…
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The Mayflower Community Board of Trustees and Steve Langerud, Executive Director, are pleased to announce that effective February 1, 2023, Grinnell native, Scott Gruhn, will become Mayflower’s Director of Facilities and Operations. In this role, Scott will be responsible for all of Mayflower’s Facilities, Foodservice, Housekeeping, and Laundry operations. He says, “I am pleased to…
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While living and working in Cairo, Egypt from 1980 to 1982, Gene Rohr purchased a silk embroidered wedding shawl. A Grinnell native, Gene is a resident in Mayflower’s Beebe Assisted Living. He shares that he bought the shawl and other textiles from an itinerate merchant named Amerigo who was originally from Colombia, South America and…
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