Johnny Khuu, The Mayflower Community’s Resident Intern, will end this engagement on Friday, June 28th. A desert reception will be held for him in the Buckley Dining Room from 12:50 to 1:30pm. Johnny moved into a Mayflower apartment and began volunteer work with a local not-for-profit organization and The Mayflower Community in May of 2018.…
Last night (March 26th), Mayflower residents had the opportunity to see and discuss a PBS video in our beautiful and comfortable Kiesel Theatre. The movie was “Children of Syria: One Family’s Journey to a New Life.” In the absence of Mayflower resident and retired English professor, Harley Henry, the discussion was led by Johnny Khuu,…
On Thursday, January 17th, the monthly themed meal in The Mayflower Community (Grinnell, Iowa) drew 98 diners for Vietnamese food. The event was sponsored by the Mayflower Residents Association Social Committee and hosted by George and JoAnn Britton. Mayflower’s Director of Food Services, Scott Gruhn, worked with Mayflower’s Resident Intern, Johnny Khuu to develop the…
Johnny Khuu (rhymes with “cool” said quickly) has been serving as Resident Intern in the Mayflower Community since last summer. He is the second post-graduate student to engage at Mayflower. Ariel Lepito, a 2017 Grinnell College graduate, lived and worked with us from June 2017 to June 2018. As a part of the program, the…
48 Mayflower Community residents participated in one of our periodic “Story Circles” presented by the Independent Living Activities department and hosted by resident Harriet Adelberg. On Tuesday evening, October 23rd, residents gathered for Mayflower homemade pizza. Then, the “Jobs I Have Held” stories started flowing. Dorothy Williams told of her rise in the publishing world,…