In the recent days, Grinnell’s Mayflower Community has hosted a Grinnell College volunteer leading an art project and numerous musicians….including some with dogs. Gracie Song is a student at Grinnell College who comes periodically to the Mayflower campus to guide residents in original art projects. Recent musical performers included David Gray and his therapy dog…
It was a close contest! The nursing staff in Mayflower’s Beebe Assisted Living placed 1st in the Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest with their gnome entry. The Community Life department’s hungry caterpillar placed 2nd. The other three finalists split the remaining votes. All the entries were fabulous! First-place prize for the Beebe staff? A Mayflower pizza…
They did it again! Another group of Grinnell College student volunteers spent last Saturday afternoon in The Mayflower Community working with residents to make Fall Leaf Lanterns. The simple, but beautiful pieces are displayed in these photos. — Bob Mann, Mayflower Sales & Marketing Director (641-236-6151)
On Saturday, September 23rd, Grinnell College student volunteers spent time with residents of The Mayflower Community doing rock painting. They divided up and engaged in the Health Center, Beebe Assisted Living, and on the Buckley Patio with independent living residents. When Grinnell College students volunteer their time at Mayflower, residents are enriched by not only…
On Friday and Sunday, July 7th and 9th, Mayflower had enjoyable visitors. On Friday, the Grinnell Might Golden Clovers 4H Club was represented by numerous members who brought their projects and talents for a “trial run” before this week’s Poweshiek County Fair and hopefully, August’s State Fair. This is an annual event as this talented…
During the month of May, the Mayflower Residents Association Lyceum Committee hosted four different performance events. These were the last programs of the season, as Lyceum now is on hiatus until September. The Lyceum Committee hosts various types of entertainment on Thursday evenings for residents and their guests in the Carman Center. The recent groups…
On March 31st, Grinnell College associate professor Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, the Louise R. Noun Chair in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, brought a number of her students to The Mayflower Community. With residents Harriet Adelberg, Sue Ahrens, Nancy Cadmus, and Dorothy Noer, the group discussed work and education between the ages of 18 and 22. They…
On Tuesday, October 26th, Grinnell College students from Professor Alexander McClean’s Social Enterprise and Social Justice Class shared a “Jeffersonian Meal” with residents of The Mayflower Community in Mayflower’s Buckley Dining Room. Professor McClean is the 2020 winner of the Grinnell Innovator for Social Justice Prize and is the visiting assistant professor of Sociology at…
On Saturday, June 25th, two Grinnell College students volunteered to spend time with residents in The Mayflower Community’s Health Center. Mayflower’s Community Life and Wellness Coordinator, Jessica Hasenyager, was connected to the young women because they are both Grinnell College tennis players coached by her husband Zack Hasenyager, the Head Men’s and Women’s coach. Sabrina…
In what The Mayflower Community calls a “Meet & Greet,” a Grinnell College student recently spent time with Health Center residents leading their participation in artistic drawing. Aubrie Torhorst, a Wisconsin native and Art major and golfer for the College, led the event. Given the many meal options in the Rosenfield ’25 Center Marketplace Dining…