Residents in The Mayflower Community have been busy making origami paper cranes to celebrate the inauguration of Grinnell College President, Anne Harris. The ceremony will be held on Kington Plaza on Saturday, May 7th, at 10:30am. The College has invited the community to be a part of an art project as part of the reception…
Recently, the aroma of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls wafted through The Mayflower Community’s Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living homes. Grinnell College student volunteer, Sarah Wilts, helped Mayflower’s Community Life and Wellness Coordinator, Jessica Hasenyager with the baking. The event was hosted by the Community Life and Wellness department. The cinnamon buns and cream cheese icing…
A feature of The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, the “City of Hope” display was unveiled on Wednesday, April 13th in The Mayflower Community’s Buckley Dining Room. The two posters and seven banners, made available by Grinnell College’s partnership with the Smithsonian, will be on display through the end of the month. It was introduced…
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…
Kayley Rönnkvist (she/her) is a third-year student at Grinnell College originally from St. Peter, Minnesota, a town of about 10,000 people in south central Minnesota. She is majoring in French and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Kayley began volunteering at Mayflower in 2019 when she helped coordinate the Adopt-A-Grandparent program between healthcare residents and Grinnell…
On Tuesday, November 30th, four different Grinnell College student ensembles presented an hour of chamber music at Mayflower. They performed under the direction of Alan Henson, Applied Music Associate and the Director of Chamber Ensembles at Grinnell College. Leslie Jaworski, Director of Community Life and Wellness at Mayflower coordinated the event in Mayflower’s Buckley Dining…
On August 23rd, Grinnell College student, Carolina Klauck Novaes, shared information about her home country Brazil with The Mayflower Community residents in Beebe Assisted Living and Health Center. The accompanying photos are courtesy of Community Life and Wellness Coordinator, Tracy Woolfolk, who organized the program. Carolina’s home is Porto Alegre, shown in the map in…
Mercedes Varela, a May 2021 Grinnell College graduate, has been volunteering at Mayflower in the Health Center as a conversation companion to resident Sallie Verrette. The two women have been speaking French and Spanish with each other since Mercedes started “visiting” weekly via Zoom in February 2021. Once visitations were allowed by state and federal…
“Rootstalk: A Prairie Journal of Culture, Science, and the Arts,” is a multimedia, interdisciplinary journal published by Grinnell College’s Center for Prairie Studies. The glossy-paged publication full of photos was first produced in the spring of 2015. The mission of the journal is “…to foster a forum for creative expression, commentary, and scholarship that will…
Joanne Bunge passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 5th in Costa Mesa, CA. She is survived by her two sons, Brad Fisher and Steven Fisher, their wives, and four grandchildren. A native of Redwood Falls, Minnesota, Joanne graduated Grinnell College in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts major in music and a minor in speech.…