VOLUME TWENTY SEVEN, NUMBER 1
JANUARY 2013
Above, because grandchildren are the brightest stars of the holiday season, we bring you Maggie Elizabeth Hall, 21 months, and her grandfather Kent Hall, Maintenance. To our readers, all the children who visit us, and the parents who bring them: HAPPY NEW YEAR, with love. At right, the publisher (left) and the editor of the Beaumont News at Louise Hughes’ Christmas Social. For more Christmas pictures, see Pages 4 and 5. For another granddaughter, see Page 7. Photo above by Janice Hall, Maggie’s mother; photo at right by Kim Norrett.
CEO offers lessons in methods, rewards of going green By Isaac H. (Quartie) Clothier IV
In November Beaumont had the opportunity to see and hear a PowerPoint presentation by Douglas Tweddale, CEO of Foulkeways (Joe Fortenbaugh’s counterpart) on “The Path to Going Green at Foulkeways.” On that day Foulkeways—a leader in the greening of retirement communities—was celebrating its 45th anniversary, so we were most fortunate that Doug agreed to share his time with us. The Green Path, he said, began at Foulkeways with its residents, many of whom are Quakers. Alarmed by the statistics warning of growing energy consumption worldwide and the dwindling of existing energy sources that cannot be renewed, residents prompted
and pushed the Foulkeways Board until it came up with a strategic plan. It empowered a special committee, similar to our Green Committee, to make recommendations to the Board. The first step was to hire an engineer specialized in energy conservation to make energy audits of Foulkeways’ existing greenhouse gas emissions, and then suggest ways of reducing and even eliminating wasted energy so as to become energy neutral. To achieve this goal, the Foulkeways Going Green leaders have worked on educating the entire continued on page 8