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October 24 - 30, 2014 Webster-Kirkwood Times 13-A
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A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR OLDER ADULTS
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by Jennifer Grotpeter
T
his year, the Oasis Intergener-
ational Tutoring Program cele-
brates 25 years of bringing se-
niors and students together. To mark
the occasion, Oasis hopes to recruit
2,500 new tutors for St. Louis area
children.
The Kirkwood School District was
one of two districts to pilot the tutoring
program in 1989. Now, Oasis tutors
visit more than 30 districts and pri-
vate schools in St. Louis city and coun-
ty, Jefferson and St. Charles counties,
and Alton, Ill. In fact, the program has
been so successful that it has been ad-
opted in more than a dozen states.
While the focus of the program has
been on improving students’ reading
skills, tutors fnd their lives enriched
as well.
Good Neighbor To Robinson
Sister Barbara Volk CSJ of Kirk-
wood, an educator for over 50 years
when she retired, stays active teaching
PSR (Parish School of Religion), volun-
teering at Nazareth Living Center, as
a docent for the St. Louis Art Muse-
um, and as an Oasis tutor at Robinson
Elementary School in the Kirkwood
School District.
She began volunteering with Oasis
a few years ago after moving across
the street from Robinson.
“I watched all the students, all the
buses, and I thought, I’m a retired
teacher, so I went over to volunteer,”
she said. She completed the Oasis
training and began working with indi-
vidual students.
“I love going over there; everyone is
so happy! It’s a joy to work with these
children and watch their growth,” she
said.
Sister Barbara currently tutors a
second grader one-on-one. Together,
they read and work on vocabulary
skills and critical thinking. She hopes
her students develop a life-long love of
reading.
“A book is a silent friend,” she said.
“If you have a book, you have good
company.”
A Friend & A Tutor
After Don Dempsey retired from
the printing business, he looked into
Oasis and discovered the tutoring pro-
gram. He has been an Oasis tutor for
15 years now, and is currently at Sap-
pington Elementary School in Lind-
bergh Schools.
“It’s something different every
Bringing Together Seniors
& Students For 25 Years
Oasis volunteer Helen Quick gets a big hug from Paige Warfeld, the second-
grader she tutors at North Glendale Elementary School.
photo by Diana Linsley
cont. p. 16A
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As a kid, Willie Akins would go
with his father to listen to band groups
around town. His father loved music.
When Akins became old enough, he
would sit in with music groups and his
father would go listen and watch him.
“He saw what kind of interest I
had,” Akins said.
When the Douglass High School
band director told Akins’ father that
he would put Akins in the high school
band, if he had his own instrument,
his dad made that happen.
He bought Akins an alto saxophone.
Whether it be the alto or tenor,
Akins has never taken a break from
blowing his horn.
Fast forward 60 years, and the Web-
ster Groves resident is still keeping in
tune with his favorite jazz pieces and
passing on his notes to younger musi-
cians at Webster University as a music
instructor.
In the Beginning
Born in 1939, Akins grew up in a
different time of Webster Groves’ his-
tory.
Segregation forced Akins to attend
Douglass High School, an all-black
high school in his neighborhood, un-
til his senior year, when he attended
Webster Groves High School and grad-
uated in 1959.
Three weeks after graduation,
Akins moved to where he thought the
“capital of the jazz world” was located
— New York.
“At that time everybody was going
to New York. Everybody who could
play was moving there. So, that be-
came the process in my mind,” Akins
said. “Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins
— all of the cats. Everybody who was
into something lived in New York,
more or less. So that’s where I head-
ed.”
And just as he did with his dad,
Akins asked to sit in with the musi-
cians up East: Jack McDuff, Johnny
Coles and George Coleman and others.
“I thought I could play until I got up
there and got turned around. I got my
behind kicked a little bit,” Akins said.
“If you go up and you’re not playing
well enough, they’d just ask you, ‘Why
don’t you just sit down?’ Meaning,
‘Just go back and listen.”
Some well-known names would
give Akins pointers, but not too many
tricks of the trade.
“They didn’t give out much,” Akins
said.
But it was musical knowledge that
Akins soaked up on the East Coast.
And he brought it back to Webster
Groves with him.
“They’d call out tunes and some-
times I didn’t know them. At that time,
I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to play
on something that I didn’t know,”
Akins said. “I thought that I could play
on stuff just from hearing it. You can’t
do that. You make yourself look bad. It
Willie Akins: Passing On The Love Of Music
While known for
playing jazz on
his saxophone,
Willie Akins tries
out a tune on his
keyboard in his
Webster Groves
home.
photo by
Diana Linsley
The Webster Groves
saxophonist who
has spent a lifetime
playing jazz now
teaches the next
generation
cont. p. 17A
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year,” he said. “Mostly I work with
frst graders, but last year I had a
third grader.”
This student was at grade level for
reading and vocabulary, but “needed
focus on math and follow-up on home-
work,” he said. “It was not so much
tutoring as being a friend and keeping
him interested in school.
“You get a positive feeling when you
tutor kids,” Dempsey added.
From Student To Tutor
Helen Quick was once a student at
North Glendale Elementary, and is
now an Oasis tutor there. After gradu-
ating from Kirkwood High School, she
attended Washington University and
began a career in commercial art.
She left the workplace after the ar-
rival of her sons, only to fnd a new ca-
reer later. When she heard about an
opening at Missouri Baptist College
(now University) for an art teacher,
Quick thought it might be a good ft.
“I taught there for 30 years, part
time, two days a week,” she said.
That arrangement left her time for
volunteering, both as an artist and il-
lustrator, and as a tutor for the past 20
years. Her grandparents encouraged
her talents in art, and her reading.
“I’ve always enjoyed reading to my
own children; my grandparents al-
ways read to me,” she said. As her own
grandkids are a few states north of
here, “tutoring replaces grandchildren
to read to.”
Quick fnds that she gets as much
as she gives with her tutoring.
“The children thrive with one-on-
one tutoring, and you become a friend,
an ally,” she said.
She recalled an instance where art
and literacy came together to help one
student.
“I had a little girl who was supposed
to tell something in class, but she was
so teary and shaky, she just couldn’t
do it,” said Quick. “It was right be-
fore Halloween, so I started drawing
a pumpkin and a witch, and she was
so interested in the drawings that she
calmed down. She was so fascinated
that she forgot how upset she was, and
she could do it.”
Quick also tutored a young man
whose issues were more social than
literary. Since he was a strong read-
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together, “The Phantom Tollbooth” by
Norton Juster. The children’s classic
novel, with its word play and use of
idioms, intrigued him so much that a
classmate picked up the book, too. His
teacher even brought in a video ver-
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Quick’s current student is in Kim
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“The important thing about Oa-
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“And often a teacher is presenting ma-
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and can pick something that a student
is personally interested in, to ensure
their success.”
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and satisfaction to the volunteers.
“As long as I am sharing with oth-
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Oasis tutor Don
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frst-grader
Keishon Ellis.
photo by
Diana Linsley
from page 13A
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was a learning (experience) up there.
Being there was like a school.”
Back In The Swing
Akins’ time in New York was short-
lived. His father passed away in the
early 1960s and Akins, an only child,
moved back home to help his mother.
“If I didn’t come back, my mom was
going to lose the house. She wasn’t
able to pay all of the bills,” Akins said.
“I came back and tried to get a (mu-
sic) group together and play gigs and
work.”
Akins began playing with a guitar
player. The duo would work the clubs
in St. Louis, making $20 a night. But
Akins knew there was more money in
playing the blues.
“The blues cats were making more
money than us,” Akins said. “We
broadened ourselves to (make more
money).”
His duo partner began teaching
at Webster University and when he
moved to New Orleans, Akins got the
teaching gig.
Keeping Time
Akins began teaching a music com-
bo course at Webster University near-
ly 11 years ago.
“I had to tighten up my (music)
reading and ability to read changes,”
Akins said. “It was stuff that I hadn’t
done before. Because I had just been
used to getting a phone call to play.”
Although, nowadays, Akins does not
jam and sit-in with groups as much as
he used to, he still takes his saxophone
to class — and he wails on it.
“I still play (out) when I can. It’s get-
ting less and less,” Akins said. “What
I do (in class) is bring sheets of mu-
sic — three or four tunes. I teach them
how to play it or teach them what to
do. Then we bring it down for the solo.
And I usually play with them.”
Even after suffering from a heart
attack in the early 2000s, Akins keeps
his heart beating with the up-and-
coming talent.
“It helps them and it helps me, too.
It helps both of us,” Akins said. “That
part makes me (feel good).”
from page 14A
In Tune With Willie Akins
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plus, who are proving that retirement doesn’t have
to be synonymous with slowing down. These indi-
viduals will be honored by St. Andrew’s Resources
for Seniors at the 12th annual Ageless Remarkable
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to celebrating their amazing lives on Nov. 9.”
Among those to be honored are:
Paul Greenlaw
Paul Greenlaw, 90, of Kirkwood is a World War II
veteran and retired salesman who volunteers with
Meals on Wheels, delivering warm meals and com-
panionship to homebound seniors each Monday.
Each Friday, Greenlaw also puts his musical
skills on display, playing the piano at Manor Grove
long-term care facility in Kirkwood, where his reper-
toire of more than 500 songs gets the toes of senior
residents tapping.
Joe Shaughnessy
Webster Groves resident, Joe Shaughnessy, 78, is
the chairman of St. Louis-based BSI Constructors.
As head of the 42-year-old company, he has over-
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With his sons now handling BSI’s day-to-day op-
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hours a day, while also providing philanthropic sup-
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director of the Girl Scouts and her role as associate
national director of the YWCA.
Since retiring in 2000, Towater devotes much of
her time and energy to the Junior League. As a long-
time Junior League volunteer, Towater was co-found-
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her work with the Junior League, Towater also sup-
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the St. Louis Art Museum, the St. Louis Symphony
and the National Women’s History Museum.
The Gala
The 2014 Ageless gala festivities begin at 6 p.m.
on Nov. 9 and will include a cocktail hour with the
honorees, showcasing unique black and white pho-
tographs taken by photographer Jerry Naunheim.
There also will be a special video tribute to honorees
and a three-course dinner.
Tickets are $175 per person, and may be pur-
chased through St. Andrew’s by calling 726-0111.
Past honorees may purchase tickets for half price. To
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Joe Shaughnessy Jane Towater
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Shrewsbury resident Lynne Rapp,
age 74, on Sunday fnished her fourth
half marathon at the annual Rock ‘n’
Roll Marathon in downtown St. Louis.
“She was a runner in her 40s and
ran a lot of shorter races during that
decade – 5K and 10K races – but had
never tackled longer distances,” ac-
cording to her daughter Kathryn Rapp.
In 2011, Lynne Rapp decided to do
her frst half marathon.
“I suggested it to her rather casu-
ally, not thinking she’d take me all
that seriously,” said Kathryn Rapp.
“She was initially a little hesitant, but
I think the idea of participating in a
large-scale event like the Rock ‘n’ Roll
– especially in the inaugural year –
held some appeal, so one day she just
signed up.
“There wasn’t necessarily any
magic in her deciding to start after
the age of 70, except that she wanted
to prove that she could do it,” her
daughter said, noting since she was
also doing her frst half marathon, it
was a mother-daughter event.
Due to arthritis, Lynne Rapp walks
these days rather than runs, although
when she races, she usually jogs for at
least part of the race, Kathryn Rapp
said.
“This year, she actually ran up the
fnal hill leading up to the fnish line,”
her daughter said.
The day after the race, Lynne Rapp
chaperoned her grandson’s class at a
feld trip walking around the St. Louis
Zoo. She said the kids were more tired
than she was, Kathryn Rapp said.
Lynne Rapp is already planning
next year’s race.
“I have fve grandchildren, so I
guess I’d better do at least fve half
marathons,” said Lynne Rapp, who
will turn 75 on Oct. 31.
At 74, Runner Completes 4th Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon
Lynne Rapp of
Shrewsbury ran first
half marathon in 2011
“I have five
grandchildren, so
I guess I’d better
do at least five half
marathons.”
- Lynne Rapp
Shrewsbury resident

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