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Age Is Just A Number When Serving Others
At 80 Sister Mary Ann Eultgen will be honored Nov. 10 by St. Andrews Resources as a “Remarkable St. Louisan”
by Jennifer Grotpeter
Octogenarian Sister Mary Ann Eultgen has had many jobs over the almost 65 years she’s been a Sister of Christian Charity. She’s served as an elementary school teacher, a principal, a charitable board member, and now a chaplain three days a week for St. Anthony’s Medical Center in South St. Louis County. For her many years of service to the community she is now being recognized by St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System as an Ageless-Remarkable St. Louisan. She is among 19 exceptional performers, athletes and community leaders over the age of 75 who have made outstanding contributions to the community. They will honored at the awards gala on Nov. 10 at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis. “I’ve had all kinds of jobs in my life; now I’m a chaplain. But I loved them all!” Sister Mary Ann said. “I work in the heart unit at St. Anthony’s. I visit people before they have surgery, stay with their relatives during the procedure, and meet with them all afterward. We visit in the hospital until they go to step-down. “I bond easily with the families and the patients, especially when they stay awhile,” said Sister Mary Ann. On Sundays, she is the only member of the Pastoral Care staff on-call in a substantially sized medical center. “One of the doctors was kind enough to buy me a scooter to get from one end of the hospital to the other; it’s very convenient,” she said. She may traverse the hospital halls in a scooter, but she is indefatigable in her efforts to help the poor

Sister Mary Ann Eultgen traverses the halls of St. Anthony’s Medical Center in a scooter during her rounds as a chaplain. and disadvantaged, as Ashley Turigliatto of St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System can attest. “I worked with her on the board for St. Vincent Home for Children; that’s how I got to know her,” Turigliatto said. “She’s a dynamo! She was on my gala committee and brought in a truckload of auction donations. “She would walk the streets of the Central West End and just go into places and ask them for donations,” she continued. “She went into a newly-opened tax service office and they told her they were so new, they had nothing to offer her. She spied a brand new vacuum cleaner, still in the box, and said, ‘What about that?’ They gave her the vacuum.” “Once,” added Turigliatto, “she ran into (former St. Louis Cardinal) Al Hrabosky at a private event, and she asked him if he would play in our charity golf tournament. He gave her his number, and she stalked him until he agreed to come and play. “He told me, ‘I can’t say no to a nun!’ Sister Mary

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Guided Autography Captures Life’s Stories
Gerontologist Lori Jurgiel teaches how to write a narrative of one’s life
by David Baugher
For those who didn’t live through them, the old days are easily forgotten, especially when a life well-lived isn’t shared with loved ones. “It’s all about capturing the stories,” said Lori Jurgiel, a local gerontologist. “People usually know the facts, like mom and dad and grandma lived over here. Then they moved in this year. But they may not know why the family moved. That’s the story we’re trying to capture. It’s the stuff that would be lost if grandma were no longer here.” Jurgiel captures those stories through a process called “guided autobiography” which she learned in Southern California after meeting the technique’s creator, Dr. James Birren, and became certified to give classes on the topic. Now her two-hour sessions are offered at Shepherd’s Center at Lockwood Avenue and Berry Road in Glendale. The present eight-week term will end next month and Jurgiel plans to eventually offer new signups for the spring. “It’s kind of a new trend here,” she said. “It’s been on the West Coast, the Pacific Rim and on the East Coast for 20 or 30 years. It’s basically a format to help one document his or her life story a few pages at a time painlessly and easily.” Jurgiel notes that people often feel overwhelmed when trying to construct a narrative of their life, but the techniques she assists with can make the process of preserving one’s legacy much easier. Participants are guided through various topics including their life’s work, family, money and spirituality. Helped by pre-prepared questions, they are finally able to organize their personal history and preserve it for others. Sometimes, others aren’t the only ones who benefit. Participants also learn about themselves.

“People usually know the facts, like mom and dad and grandma lived over here. Then they moved in this year. But they may not know why the family moved. That’s the story we’re trying to capture.”
– Lori Jurgiel Gerontologist
photo by Ursula Ruhl “They discover a lot about things they’ve accomplished, things they’ve lived through,” she said. “They share their stories. We write one week on a theme and they share the following week what they wrote on the prior week.” Jurgiel herself is impressed by the tales her pupils tell. “I learned about someone last week where I had no idea some of the volunteer stuff she’d done,” she said. “It was amazing.” Some of the work focuses on defining so-called “branching points” in the lives of the students. “Some branching points are obvious and some are not,” she said. “A lot of special prompting questions go into helping to stimulate people remembering things they might have forgotten.” The first half of each class is usually focused on activities to promote a student’s creativity and memory. “Everyone who takes the class usually tells me they love the exercises,” she said. “The second half of the class is where they share what they’ve written from the prior week. We have them break out into groups and they have an hour to share what they’ve written on.” At the end of the process, students can take home a collection of pages that will convey their timeline to future generations. Jurgiel began organizing the unique sessions in 2011. Her thesis work had focused on the positive benefits of building a life review. “I thought, ‘No one in Missouri is doing this and I’m one of the few gerontologists here who is even aware of this great opportunity so that’s what started it,” she said. Jurgiel notes that often it is not participants cont. p. 14

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Play Pickleball In Crestwood Sister Mary Ann Eultgen
Pickleball is the fastest growing sport around, especially in retirement communities. It is easy to learn, fun to play and a good way to make new friends. SAJE Senior Ministry will be offering drop-in play and a clinic to learn to play on Mondays in the St. Elizabeth of Hungary gym, at 1420 S. Sappington Road in Crestwood. Beginning Nov. 4, the clinic will run from 9 to 9:30 a.m. with drop-in play from 9 a.m. to noon. Two courts are available for play. The cost is $3 per session. Pickleball is played on a small court, divided by a net. The paddles look like oversized ping-pong paddles and the ball is similar to a wiffle ball. A normal game lasts about 10 to 15 minutes, and is played as doubles. It is fairly low impact, so not so hard on one’s joints, which is why active seniors find it so appealing. For more information, call Beverly 487-5345.

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Ann is really spiritual, and she’s a really hard worker,” Turigliatto said. In addition to her work at St. Anthony’s and on the board of St. Vincent Home for Children, she’s also traveled to Costa Rica three times in recent years to help establish medical clinics in impoverished areas. When she is not working, Sister Mary Ann resides with the Sisters of Loretto on Lockwood Avenue in Webster Groves. Sister Mary Ann’s order, Sisters of Christian Charity, has shrunk over the years, and their closest residence is in Wilmette, Ill. “My vocation started with my mother,” explained Sister Mary Ann. “She raised all five of us children, and she would pray, ‘Mary, help me get through this day!’ “She would talk to the Blessed Mother, and I think she wanted to be a nun, so two of her daughters did,” Sister Mary Ann said, noting her older

Autobiographer
themselves who are moved to take the class but rather loved ones who want to know more about a parent or grandparent. “They often come in and either someone else has signed them up or someone has pushed them and said, ‘I want you to do this,’” she said. “Sometimes it is a relative, even a distant relative, and sometimes they actually pay for the class.” In some instances, students, who have ranged as young as 45 and as old as 92, come with their own set of fascinating – and occasionally touching – surprises. One even brought a collection of items to class including a jar of colored marbles. “Apparently he’d been collecting them all his life and they were all meaningful to him,” recalled Jurgiel. Bringing objects may be unusual but bringing photos into class is not. “That’s one thing I always recommend, especially candid pictures,” she said. “Posed pictures are good but the candid pictures can sometimes give you more visual clues

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sister, Carolyn, now lives at the Wilmette Province home. On Nov. 10, Sister Mary Ann will be honored for her volunteerism and dedication to service. “St. Anthony’s bought me a table of ten for my family and friends,” Sister Eultgen said. The public is welcome to attend the gala and enjoy videos, a gallery of photos, and a three-course dinner. Tickets are $175 each and available by calling St. Andrew’s at 726-0111 or www.standrews1.com. This week, however, Sister Mary Ann plans to watch baseball. “I went to school at St. Augustine’s school in North St. Louis, close to Sportsman’s Park,” she said. “We would get free passes, the Knothole Gang passes, for all the weekday games. “That’s why I say, ‘Go Cards! Go all the way!’” Sister Mary Ann added, “We live here with a Sister from Boston. We are going to have fun!”

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Making Exercise Fun At Any Age
Water Volleyball Team at Aberdeen Heights in Kirkwood has grown from 8 to 22 members since it began in 2012
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Senior citizens on the water volleyball team at Aberdeen Heights are proof that exercising while aging can be fun. That’s why the team members keep showing up for practice twice a week at the pool in their Kirkwood senior living community. “We have a lot of fun,” team leader Jerry Alpert, 78, said during a recent practice. Making exercise fun is key in getting people to do it, said Alpert, who was a psychotherapist who studied how to motivate senior citizens to exercise before he retired. “It’s really important to remain active at our age, but how do we make exercise enjoyable?” he said. Alpert found a way to mix fun and exercise when he began Aberdeen’s water volleyball team in March 2012. The team started with eight people and grew to 22 members by the time Aberdeen Heights took two water volleyball teams to the Senior Olympics in the spring of 2013. The youngest team member is 68 years old and the oldest is 92 – and she’s the feistiest, according to Zoe Taylor, the lifestyles coordinator at Aberdeen Heights. “Maryann (Hamlin) gets very competitive,” Taylor said. Even though group members like to keep score and win competitions against teams from other senior living communities, they still keep it fun. The members have a great time without even realizing they’re getting a great workout, said Alpert, who also walks a mile in the pool and five miles on the treadmill every day to stay fit. Water volleyball helps seniors work on skills such as balance, hand-eyecoordination, strength, cardiovascular fitness and more without subjecting their bodies to a grueling workout, Taylor said. “Water exercise is one of the best ways for senior citizens to stay active because they can do things in the pool – like run and jump – that they can’t do on land,” she said. “It’s so good for them and the camaraderie is also great. They’re always laughing and cheering each other on and helping each other. “Socializing like this is so important because it helps them make friends,” she continued. “It’s also really nice because if someone is missing from practice the other members will go check on them and make sure they’re OK.” Bill Hoskins, 84, said the camaraderie with others is what the team is all about. “It’s 100 percent friendship,” said Hoskins, who is a team leader with Alpert. “We don’t try to pretend we’re any good, but it’s good exercise.” Hoskins has played several sports throughout his life – football, basketball, baseball, track and field, and more. He’s left those sports behind, but has enjoyed taking up water volleyball. “I don’t care to walk or run any more, but this is fun and it keeps me going,” Hoskins said. The same goes for the team’s youngest member, 68-year-old Claire Anderson, who has always been active. “I used to do just about everything – running, hiking, basketball, racquetball,” said Anderson, who volunteers at Powder Valley Nature Center in Kirkwood. “I never learned to swim, which is ironic because now I’m playing water volleyball. This is the most fun of any game and so many

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The 93-year-old performer will hold a one-woman show at Manor Grove on Oct. 29, 2 p.m.
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Bea Bumbicka: Always A Singer

Sitting in a colorful gown complete with yellow tulle shawl and jeweled cap, baubles dangling, 93-year-old Bea Bumbicka looks every inch the entertainer. And entertain is what she plans to do when she puts on a one-woman musical review on Oct. 29 at Manor Grove, 711 S. Kirkwood Road, where she lives. The show begins at 2 p.m. and is open to the public. Born in London, England, Bumbicka has been singing all her life. “My family are hams, all of them, and we all sang,” she said. “My two sisters, Anne and Anita, were in show business, and I wanted to be an opera singer, but then World War II happened and shortened my career.” Before the war, she had sung at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, which is the equivalent of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. After the war began, she worked in “patrol” where she sent out fire crews during bombing raids. “It was quite fun,” she said. “Back then when you’re young, it didn’t matter.” During that time she met and married Lt. Col. Joseph Trottman of the

Bea Bumbicka, a resident of Manor Grove in Kirkwood, has an array of costumes from previous performance which she designed herself. photo by Ursula Ruhl Army Air Corps, and a bombardier on B-24s. The couple moved to the United States in 1946 to Carlsbad, N.M., where Joseph, after being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, went to work with a coaxial cable company. But that did not stop her singing. “My sisters lived in Toronto, Canada, and I would go there where we would do our act,” she said. “We would also go to Florida and perform.” When she moved to St. Louis, she participated in a talent show at the Windsor Grade School where she performed in a program called “Show Me,” in which she played Margaret Truman. Some of the members of the group who took part in the show had such a good time that they formed a musical group called The Footliters. It consisting of Bumbicka, Henry Laslo, Betty cont. p. 20

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Home & Community Based Services Home and Community Based Services Adult Day Club at Bethesda Dilworth 314-446-2103 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Adult Day Care at and Charless Village Bethesda Rehab Therapy Center in Oakland & South County Bethesda Rehab & Therapy Center in Oakland, South in County, & South City Bethesda Senior Therapy – Outpatient Therapy Webster Groves Bethesda Senior Therapy Center – Outpatient St. Andrews and Bethesda Home Health Therapy in Webster Groves & South City Bethesda Senior Support Solutions & Bethesda Home Health St. Andrews Bethesda Hospice Care Bethesda Private Duty Adult Day Care at Bethesda Dilworth Bethesda Hospice Adult Day Care atCare Charless Village 314-606-9891 314-800-1911 314-277-9959 314-218-2610 314-218-2600 314-218-2610 314-963-2200 314-218-2600 314-446-0623 314-446-0700 314-446-2103 314-446-0623 314-606-9891

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October 25 - 31, 2013

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Singer Bumbicka from page 18
Stichling, Jan Laslo, playing the piaJackie Sears and piano. Bumbicka sat nist Esther Ferry, down to listen to who played with the him, and started Russ David Orchessinging. tra. They performed Bumbicka reall over town in nurscalled as she ing homes, banquets, laughed: “He said, VFW halls, and Mool‘You can sing!’ and ah Shrine meetings I said, ‘You can for years. play the piano!’ So Jackie Trottman, he said, ‘Let’s put Bumbicka’s daughon a show.’” ter, said that Laslo During next often said the group week’s show, “started on Broadway, Bumbicka will be “My family are hams, all accompanied by South Broadway!” Bumbicka said she Hackbarth. She of them, got her first laugh will sing about and we all sang.” while singing for the seven songs, each – Bea Bumbicka Shriners. one requiring a “I was doing ‘I Love costume change to Laugh.’ It’s hard to complete with sing because you have to make people wigs. She has an abundance of coslaugh,” she said. “All of a sudden, tumes, which she has designed herself, someone in the audience said, ‘You from her past performances. remind me of my mother,’ and I said, “When I see something I like,” she ‘You idiot, I am your mother,’ and I got said, “I make it into a costume.” a standing ovation.” Bumbicka plans to keep performing, When Bumbicka was 90, Trottman and has another performance planned asked her mother to do a show at First for Christmas at Manor Grove. Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood for From London to St. Louis by way of friends and relatives. It turned into a New Mexico, Bumbicka has kept singfundraiser for the church choir. ing and entertaining. However, she “Bill (Musical Director Bill Stein) wishes she could have gone to Califorsuggested she do a song, “To Keep My nia and Paris. Love Alive” as the opening act and she “I always wanted to see Paris,” she brought the house down,” Trottman said, her voice turning a bit wistful. said. “But there was a war going on, you Six months later, Bumbicka broke know.” her leg, which brought a halt to her For now, Bumbicka will have to performing days. be content entertaining family and After moving into Manor Grove, she friends, which is a blessing for all conheard activity aide Joel Hackbarth cerned.

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Don Vaisvil, director of the senior community service employee program administered by MERSGoodwill, left, presents Harold Salmon with the 2013 Missouri Outstanding Older Worker Award.

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Harold Salmon Named Outstanding Older Worker For St. Louis Region
A professor at Meramec, he is one of 10 workers over age 65 in state to receive award
St. Louis Community College counselor Harold Salmon is the St. Louis regional winner of the 2013 Missouri Outstanding Older Worker Award. Salmon, professor in counseling at the Meramec campus in Kirkwood, is one of only 10 workers over age 65 in Missouri to receive the award. Don Vaisvil, director of the senior community service employee program administered by MERS-Goodwill, surprised Salmon at a division meeting to present him with the award. “I felt extremely honored and exhilarated upon hearing that I won the regional award,” said Salmon, who has been with St. Louis Community College for 29 years. “MERS-Goodwill and other cosponsoring agencies throughout the state are to be commended for drawing attention to the not uncommon high value of the work of older persons.” Salmon’s colleague in the counseling department, Mysha Clincy, nominated him for the award. “The best part of the award is knowing a colleague valued my work enough to take the time and exert the effort to nominate me,” said Salmon. Counseling department chair Donna Zumwinkel has high praise for Salmon. “Harold exemplifies the finest traits that anyone could hope to have in a colleague or in a counselor,” she said. “He is caring, committed and compassionate, and works as hard as anyone I’ve ever known. St. Louis Community College and our students are very fortunate to benefit from his presence and his work on the Meramec campus.” Even with the strong endorsement from Zumwinkel, Salmon has a humble attitude. “I am absolutely certain that I am no more dedicated and no more competent than dozens (maybe hundreds) of my colleagues, many of whom will never be singled out for any special recognition,” Salmon said. “I am incredibly blessed to be a counselor at Meramec.”

The Mary Culver Home for the Visually Impaired is a small specialty nursing home where “small” translates into highly personalized service for elderly women with vision loss. Everybody – even the administrator – knows your name and your story. They know your likes and dislikes and bend over backwards to honor your preferences. The Mary Culver Home offers: • Twenty-seven private rooms • One nursing caregiver for every six residents • Activities that don’t require sight • A layout that maximizes independence • An all-inclusive monthly fee; no hidden costs • Not-for-profit life care; you won’t have to leave if your health status declines

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October 25 - 31, 2013

Remembering The Model A
Members of the Model A Club stop by Bethesda Gardens in Kirkwood on Oct. 8 as part of the senior living community’s Resident Appreciation Week.

Above: Mitchell Beuke, general manager at Bethesda Gardens, looks under the hood of a Model A. Right: Bethesda Gardens resident Bill Nelson, left, talks to Jim Van Rhein, owner of the Model A and member of the Model A Club, while resident Betty Shepherd strolls between two of the cars. Helen Hedderig, a resident of Bethesda Gardens, and her son, Charles Hedderig, check out a Model A delivery truck owned by Fred Burk.

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