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VOLUME TWENTY FOUR, NUMBER SIX

JUNE 2010

2010 finds Beaumont financially strong

By Mary Graff Comforting financial news was high on the agenda of Beaumont’s 23d annual meeting May 10, with a bottomline increase of $385,715 in operations revenue over expenses, before depreciation, and an increase of more than $1 million in the combined capital and medical reserve funds.

Bruce Mainwaring, chairman of the Finance Committee, presented the figures, pronouncing our nonprofit retirement community “$1 million stronger than last year”:

Members of the Beaumont Retirement Community Inc. Board of Directors, from left to right: Richard A. Tilghman, Carolyn P. Langfitt, Jeanne Cortner, newly elected chairman Mary H. Schnabel, Jane Lillie, and the board’s newest member, Dick Maass.

Not pictured: Dr. Jay MacMoran.

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Photo by Louise Hughes

From a rocky start to one of the very best

By Dick Maass With our 23d annual membership meeting last month came reassurance that despite challenges, Beaumont’s financial position remains strong. In preparation for this issue, the Beaumont News asked Joseph H. Fortenbaugh III, our president almost from the beginning, for his thoughts about Beaumont’s past, present and future–financial and otherwise.

BN: From a financial standpoint, how does Beaumont compare to the other retirement communities we see proliferating around us?

JF: We have always compiled data on our fellow

INSIDE: On security patrol, Part 2, Page 3 The power of Hello, Page 7 Hearty welcome for new residents, Page 7

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs), as they do on us. One of the most striking differences is that Beaumont’s apartments and villas are larger than our competitors’ while at the same time our monthly fees are significantly less. We held to a 2 percent increase for 2010 while other nearby CCRCs had to increase theirs by 4 to 4.5 percent.

This is partly because many of the local CCRCs have debt of $25 to $100 million dollars, while Beaumont’s debt as of Dec. 31, 2009, was $825,000, less than $1 million. That means our monthly fees do not have to support a large interest expense. We are the only retirement community I know of that is resident owned, self governed, internally managed, and with negligible debt.

BN: I’ve heard you say that there appear to be more continued on page 2

One of the best . . .

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CCRCs per capita in the Delaware Valley than anyplace else in the country.

What is Beaumont doing about this competition?

JF: In the early 2000s we developed a marketing committee composed of residents and management staff.We significantly increased our advertising budgets.

And we continue to remind our residents that they are our best advertising.

We are exploring the uses of social networking. Already our website (www.beaumontretirement.com), which includes current and back issues of The Beaumont News, provides not only useful, practical information but a ringside seat from which to see for oneself what Dick Maass, left, and Joe Fortenbaugh in the Liseter Garden. life at Beaumont is like. In the pages of Photo by Louise Hughes The Beaumont News is proof that our advertising catch phrase, “Live well, Live long, Live and 74 for ladies. We are fortunate that we still have here,” embodies–perhaps uniquely–not only the letter about 30 of our original residents. Our residents now range in age from 60-something to over 100. They but the spirit of the truth-in-advertising laws.

BN: What can you tell us about changes at continue to come mostly from the Main Line and surrounding areas.

Beaumont?

BN: What do you remember most about your first JF: CCRCs have changed significantly over the past years here?

40-plus years. For example, the term used to be “life care” JF: When I arrived here in April, 1989, I was the third communities, and they promoted health care, security, CEO in Beaumont’s first year of operation. Beaumont dining and housekeeping. We excel at providing better health care, food and dining options, and the other was experiencing many of the all too familiar startup basics, but today the enlightened CCRCs are about challenges: the budget was not balanced, some “lifestyle,” about how a resident wants to live his or her life. managers were not experienced in upscale senior living Having said that, technology is and will be a major facilities, the Health Center census was low, there were factor. For example, we are working to have a wireless unresolved contractor’s punch-list items, some residents system in place before the end of the year. Residents, had complaints that were not being addressed, and the their children, grandchildren, guests and employees staff was not properly trained, much less up to will be able to use their laptop computers anywhere on maintaining the family atmosphere between residents the campus except in Wheeler Woods (and we have and staff that we pride ourselves on now.

These were all fixable issues. By December 1989 not ruled that area out either). The brain fitness training program, which did not even exist five years ago, is in we had balanced the budget. By June of 1990 we had place here now, and an electronic medical records replaced a few of the managers with more system and smart med carts in the Health Center and experienced people and had introduced a training and educational program for all employees which has Assisted Living are planned for the very near future.

Many baby boomers are spoiled (yes, I am one of developed nicely over the years. The resident-owned them) and will want more ease of lifestyle. Activities and self-governed concepts developed and today are like mowing lawns, shoveling snow, taking care of a two of our main strengths. Some marketing experts house, just don’t turn them on. What they want is freedom say our equity and ownership model especially will from responsibilities and the leisure to travel, to take work to our benefit in attracting baby boomers.

BN: What about your service here has given you the courses and volunteer in interesting ways, to finally find time for fitness workouts–in other words, to live greatest satisfaction?

JF: Being part of an effort of having residents and well and live longer.

Not all boomers will be in a financial position to do employees develop together over 21 years, resulting in this, but the sheer number of boomers will present Beaumont’s being nationally recognized as a quality retirement community. There are many good CCRCs CCRCs with a larger pool of potential applicants.

BN: How would you compare today’s Beaumont in the country and we are one of them. We have a good board, good committees and staff, and our population to the population when you started here?

JF: CCRC residents tend to “age in place.” In 1988- programs and services are second to none.

But, as they say, we have to earn it every day.

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Upstairs, downstairs, security around the clock touched on this tour: in the kitchen, in the laundry, on the loading dock, and especially in one big, dark room which holds all the sprinkling systems for Beaumont’s public areas.

I left the patrol when its routines became repetitive, but there is more to tell: We are all aware of the screen at the main desk which shows live pictures of twenty (20) different sites on our campus, including the swimming pool. Did you know that those pictures are recorded and can be brought up to review in case of a problem? Did you know that they have helped, on a couple of occasions, to solve small pilfering problems right here at Beaumont?

Did you know that a few years ago, our detectives set up a sting operation to catch a thief who was stealing from patients and staff in the Health Center? That culprit was led away in handcuffs! See? Cloak and dagger.

I asked Joe Gunn and Charlie Koch about some of their other experiences as brave detectives here at Beaumont. Joe told me of the time a very distraught woman appeared at the desk. “I have been trying to get the lid off this bottle of pills for an hour . . . can you please help?” Thanks to Joe the lid came off, she was able to take her pills that night, and is still alive and happy.

Charlie recalls the night when he was called to an apartment by a lady who said she needed help. An anxious Charlie arrived to find that she needed him because she couldn’t get the cork out of her wine bottle.

So go the ups and downs of the Security Department at Beaumont.

Correction: Part 1 of this story misrepresented Maintenance Department hours, which are 8 to 6:30 weekdays and 8 to 4:30 Saturday and Sunday. There is someone on call 24/7.

Part 2 of 2, continued from the May issue

By Mary Schnabel In the May issue, Mrs. Schnabel reported on the first of two evenings spent on patrol with Charlie Koch, head of the 16-man Security Department at Beaumont. As she put it, she had seized on this assignment as “my chance to write a real cloak and dagger story about . . . these fearless fellows.” Her account continues: My second night, at 8, Charlie and I left Joe Gunn in charge of any problems at the desk or on the phone, and took off to patrol Assisted Living, the Health Center, and the kitchen, laundry, and loading dock areas.

In Assisted Living and the Health Center there is little need to worry about the patients’ rooms because the nursing staff is always on duty to monitor them. I was, however, impressed to see how carefully patients are monitored outside their rooms. In the Health Center, for example, patients who are inclined to wander are tracked unobtrusively by clever little devices attached to their persons, their walkers or their wheelchairs.

We checked and locked, with a key, all outside doors in the Health Center area. The system allows egress from the building by the main door, for the staff and in case of fire, but doors are locked so that no one can come in from the outside.

There are 60 little round security buttons located throughout Beaumont. When touched with a special electronic “wand,” these buttons transmit information that eventually is downloaded from the wand to Charlie’s computer, enabling him to track performance on each of the three nightly patrols.

A few of those security buttons needed to be

Plants with a past

Photos by Louise Hughes

Plants often have untold stories, and there are three of them right at Beaumont’s front door. Catherine Ogden is standing beside a palm plant given to Beaumont by her niece, Linda Falcone, of Mount Laurel, NJ. It had started as a cutting given Mrs. Falcone by her grandmother. She cared for it for nearly 40 years, when it became too big for her family’s living room and the pointy, sawtooth-edged leaves became a danger to small grandchildren running around. Doris Mohn and Dean Snyder are holding up one of two fern plants now bracketing the front door. They have been flourishing in Dr. Snyder’s care since Mrs. Mohn entrusted him with two tiny offspring from her own mother fern three years ago.

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Don’t mock the mockingbird!

Meat-eater with a mission

By Dr. Dean Snyder If man were to behave in a manner similar to that of the mockingbird I recently studied, he would be branded a lazy bum, a bully, an interloper and a retrosexual in feathers.

The study began as my attention was drawn to a mockingbird perched high in the top of a still naked ash tree. Loud and clear were the songs of several familiar songbirds which he was unabashedly mimicking. He had my attention. Suddenly the singing stopped and he left his perch to divebomb another mockingbird.

Subsequently the two of them flew with reckless abandon in and out of bushes, through trees, back and forth in close proximity to a huge holly tree from which a third mockingbird (which I now know was a female hoping to hook up with a sure-fire winner) would emerge and then quickly dive back into the tree.

Finally on the third day I noticed a lone mockingbird, apparently the loser, walking on the grass feeding on insects but always watching the holly tree. Then without notice the winner would interrupt his courtship, emerge from the tree and divebomb the loser one more time.

One week later all was calm. The Mister of the nest in the holly appeared relaxed and proud of his new spouse.

Presumably this is repeated every spring with a different lady, which by manspeak makes him a retrosexual, but thank goodness the mockingbird is not being confused by public opinion because even the slightest change of behavior could quickly threaten the entire species.

Territorial exclusiveness, for example, assures an abundant nearby food supply, thus allowing for one parent to be constantly in charge of the nest. Nesting behavior is critical. Two hatches of four young each should assure replacement of the parental population and this does not vary. Luckily there are no public opinion advocates telling them otherwise because the hazards of raising their young are numerous: the weather, forest fires, the perils of migration and predators such as reptiles, furry creatures and feathered assassins.

Unfortunately for man there are public opinion polls, peer pressures, economic considerations and governments all acting to influence the replacement rate of different societies of mankind.

We see lower than average birth rates in densely populated housing conditions. Gender genocide is the law in China. Higher birth rates occur in areas of high infant mortality or in polygamous cultures. Present replacement rates of Caucasian societies (except for certain religious sects) are not great enough to assure survival. Bird-brained or not it appears that the mockingbird is one up on us primarily because he is not plagued by trendsetting or emotionally driven behavior.

Survival alone drives the mockingbird. Even his singing is a pronouncement: “This territory is mine, try me!”

Photo by Ann Louise Strong An immature hawk, thought to be a red-tail, has been hanging around the pond, apparently with hungry eyes fixed on a red-winged blackbirds’ nest nearby. Ann Louise Strong, who lives in Villa 17, has been watching adult blackbirds swoop around the hawk in unavailing efforts to scare the big bird off. “One of them actually gave it a slight poke in the rear end,” she said, “but the hawk didn’t move.”

Beaumont financial . . . .

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■ Operations revenue over expenses, before depreciation, was $185,237 in 2008; $570,952 in 2009.

■ The combined balance in the capital and medical reserve funds was $6,167,615 in 2008; $7,205,811 in 2009.

In other good news, Jeanne Cortner, vice chairman of the Beaumont Retirement Community Inc. board, reported: ■

“While other local retirement communities had to increase their monthly fees by 4 to 4.5 percent in 2010, we were able to develop a realistic and attainable budget with a 2 percent increase . . .

■ “We had zero deficiencies in our November 2009 Department of Health annual inspection . . .

■ “Despite a severely depressed housing market . . . we were able to sell 15 apartments and villas and welcomed 19 new residents to Beaumont.”

In elections: Mary Hyatt Schnabel, who retired last year as vice chairman of the BRCI board, was returned to the board for two years to complete the unexpired term of the late John A. Philbrick. At a subsequent board meeting the same day, the board elected her chairman, replacing John A. (Jack) Miller, whose term ended this year. Richard (Dick) Maass was elected a new member of the board, and Mrs. Cortner and Jane Lillie were elected to second three-year terms.

New committee chairmen whose appointments were announced: Marsha (Tuppie) Solmssen, Health Care, replacing Dr. Pauline Foster; Joan Roberts, Dining Services, replacing Mrs. Schnabel, and Marian Lockett-Egan, House, replacing Susan Dahme Woolford. The retirement of John A. Baird as Safety and Security Committee chairman was announced, but no replacement was named.

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If hours and minutes were dollars and cents . . .

By Alvan Markle III

multiple of 30 or more as they do with their money. Two no-doc junk minutes would make a solid hour which they could securitize to market world-wide as AAA rated time-bonds. (“No-doc” is parlance for undocumented mortgages. Why not no-doc minutes?)

The possibilities boggle the imagination. Their bonuses would have to be measured in light-years. But, regrettably, this is not available quite yet.

The Commercial Banks will lend only on ample security, but the precious time we have left is short and dwindling. We have no collateral and no credit on which to borrow time, even if the banks had any to spare. TARP gave them billions, but they took their time to lend. We must look elsewhere.

We expect nothing from the Credit Card Companies. Timewise, we are close to being maxed out. It is all we can do to meet their minimums each month. Our clocks tick on inexorably while their exorbitant fees, charges and penalties compound.

They will show us no mercy. Their business plan is to keep their victims in bondage for all eternity.

Corporations now offer to lease their products with no money down, no interest, and no payments until far in the future; but they do not offer a New Lease on Life.

How, then, can we get more quality time for ourselves? The answer is right under our noses. JUST ASK JOE, Joseph H. Fortenbaugh III, the nearly infallible President of Beaumont. He has all the answers. He, and Beaumont’s dedicated staff, will help us live longer, happier and healthier lives. JUST ASK JOE!

I have heard that there are people living on Borrowed Time. This really got my attention because life here at Beaumont is so pleasant that, when my time runs out, I think I might like to borrow some more.

Others share this hope, but we don’t know what to do about it and wonder how we could ever repay such a debt. Would we have to pay interest? No one could in good conscience ask such a favor from family or friends. So where do we look?

We all know that the Government is the lender of last resort, and it can certainly do wonders. Not long ago it resurrected Fannie, Freddie, and a rotten Iggy (aka AIG) from the dead, and now they are more chipper than ever—living on borrowed time, as well as the billions borrowed from future generations of taxpayers.

Yes, candidates for public office will promise anything; but once elected, amnesia usually sets in and earmarks are routinely allocated to re-election. It takes so long to pass a budget that Congress has no time to spare for the rest of us.

Our physicians would be glad to write prescriptions to extend our time on this earth; but, if the pharmacists could read them, they would have to warn us of sideeffects including insomnia, lower back pain, acidosis, allergies, palsy, ulcers, gout, constipation, halitosis, jaundice, bursitis, leukemia, fatigue, colitis, diabetes, obesity, flatulence, impotence, freckles, and so on.

Investment Bankers are very well rewarded for thinking creatively. Perhaps they could come up with a time derivative which they could leverage with a

Attention Travelers: Bedbugs are back (though not here)

By Dr. Herb Diamond

excrement or rust-colored stains on a bottom sheet.

Historically, bedbugs have been associated with poor housing, shelters, and fleabag hotels. Increasingly, however, infestations are being found in upscale quarters, including resorts and cruise ships, wherever people sleep. They hide in mattress cords, box springs, cushion seams, headboards, furniture joints, cracks and loosened wallpaper–always near an actively used bedroom. They spread widely through cracks in walls and floors; also with the help of people who transport them in clothing, suitcases, boxes and packages.

They do not spread disease, although the bites can itch and multiple bites in some cases can be painful. Most lesions are treatable with an anti-itch preparation, antihistamine or topical corticosteroid. Clothing, bed linens and towels can be treated with machine washing and drying on a hot setting. Large infestations, however, require professional extermination and can be expensive.

Computer-savvy travelers can check at BedbugRegistry.com for bedbug sightings at hotels.

Bedbugs have been with mankind since the beginning of time. However, the biggest buildup of these pests since WWII has recently gained national attention. According to an article in the Feb. 1 New Yorker, “a survey by the National Pest Management Association found that, prior to 2001, American pest professionals received one or two calls a year about bedbugs. Now they get 10 to 50 a week.”

Brock Nichols, Beaumont’s Director of Housekeeping and Laundry, says that to his knowledge, there are no bedbugs at Beaumont. Elsewhere there have been major infestations. A college in Manhattan had to shut down an entire building in September for extermination treatment.

These small, blood-sucking parasites are not easy to find, even when they enlarge after feeding, because they hide during the day. About the size of a watermelon seed, they are reddish brown with a pyramid-shaped head and chest. Evidence of their presence might be found in the morning in the form of tiny black spots of 5

New brochure showcases greening of Beaumont Photos by Louise Hughes “Beaumont has become ever greener since its founding,” our newest brochure proclaims, and the color pictures in its 18 glossy pages offer ample proof of this. Now being distributed to our waitlist and available at the front office, the booklet was the work of Ann Louise Strong, chairman of the Green Committee, with committee members Anne Godfrey and Joan Thayer; Grounds Director Mark Hritz, and our multitalented Housekeeping director, Brock Nichols, who did the design and layout.

A ducky story: Rescue and reunion on Pond Lane

By Tunia Hyland

network of drains below the road.

“Oh, just ducky,” I said to myself. (Really.) “Now what?” I waited a few minutes to see if the ducklings would return to their group formation, which much to my relief they did. Mom handed me a cardboard box and down the ladder I went. As I got to the bottom, some of the ducklings scattered. I stood quietly, however, hoping they would return, and they did. I was able to scoop up each one into the box and then it was up the ladder with my precious cargo.

Now the big question was what to do with them since their mother had still not come back. We decided to take them down to the pond and release them in hopes that Mrs. Mallard would eventually return.

Happily, there was another mallard mama in the pond with her own large brood, and as “our” little babies plopped into the water like cotton balls she made a beeline for them and literally took them under her wing.

Off she went, with all the ducklings in tow.

Very soon there was a hullabaloo of quacking and flapping of wings as Mrs. Mallard came swooping over the pond and made a huge splash, landing about 20 feet away from her ducklings. They immediately left their adopted mother and swam to their own mom. It almost brought a tear to the eye to see such a happy reunion of quacks and peeps. The onlookers cheered!

With the arrival of spring this year I was reminded of an incident several years ago while my mother, Jeanne Hill, was a Beaumont resident living on Pond Lane.

She called one morning to say that some newly hatched mallard ducklings had fallen through a storm drain on Pond Lane and that the mother duck was quacking frantically to her babies, 10 feet below the road. Mom called me because I was then a volunteer at the wildlife rehab at the Schuylkill Center and she was sure I would know what to do.

Well, one thing I had learned was that newly hatched ducklings stay together in a tight group for safety for about 48 hours after hatching; later, however, they scatter for the same reason.

When I arrived at Beaumont, the mother duck had taken off and was nowhere to be seen. Peering down into the dark recesses of the drain, I saw 12 little ducklings huddled together. This was good news.

Mom called Beaumont’s office and asked for help lifting the large, heavy grate so that someone (you know who!) could climb down.

Within minutes two big, muscular Beaumont fellows arrived with a crowbar and ladder. When I looked down, the ducklings were still nicely lumped together.

Whew! But as the feet of the ladder touched the bottom of the drain, the ducklings scattered into the vast 6

A hearty welcome New residents Leonard and Estelle Siegel sample hors d’oeuvres offered by waiter Justin McLaughlin at the New Residents Welcome Dinner last month.

Photo by Louise Hughes

The power of Hello

By Ann Robb Smith It was quite a surprise when Kaighn and I moved into Beaumont last year to be greeted with a cheery “Hello” or “Hi” and a big smile from everybody! By people we didn’t know! From people we had never even seen before! In the halls, on the lanes, in the elevators, at the mailbox–everyone smiled, nodded and said, “Good morning.”

The biggest surprise came from the staff. The people at the Front Desk, at the Outpatient office, the waiters and waitresses and the maintenance men in their neat uniforms–they all knew our names! Later we discovered it was not because they had mental telepathy, but because of careful, thoughtful training and memorizing the names of newcomers from our photographs.

All this friendliness made us feel warm and fuzzy, and we began to say “Hello” whenever we saw someone coming toward us.

Imagine how shocked I was one morning as I walked on the sidewalk toward the Bryn Mawr post office and greeted a gentleman walking toward me in my (by now usual) Beaumont manner.

“Hello! What a nice morning!”

The man’s jaw dropped in disbelief as he looked at me in total confusion, and then hurried quickly by.

I fled into the post office. I was abruptly back in the real world where people pass with blank faces, avoiding eye contact at all cost. Of course, on a crowded city street you simply could not say “Hello” to all passers-by. Think of the traffic jam! Probably some

All this friendliness made us feel warm and fuzzy, and we began to say “Hello” whenever we saw someone coming toward us. kindly policeman would take me gently by the arm.

“Yes, Ma’am, it is a lovely day. Let’s just take a quiet little walk together . . . ” Ah, Beaumont! You are a “Secret Garden,” and we are glad when we come through your garden gate!

Have a nice day!

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I told my brother I had been kissed and he told me that only a certain kind of kiss counted. This one didn’t–but it came close.

—Margie Manlove

Dear Editor: I enjoyed reading about Betty Miller’s and Ann Louise Strong’s experiences leading groups of teenaged girls in Europe. It took me back to my experience, not as a leader but as one of four girls and four boys on a 1937 Experiment in International Living trip to France. We had two leaders. Mr. Coan was 40-something, quite homely and unmarried. His assistant, Miss Halleck, was 60-ish.

After we arrived in Auch, in southwestern France, for our four-week home stays, it became apparent that Miss Halleck could not only not speak French, but was not able to do much of anything. She was supposed to look after the girls on the bicycling and camping trip to follow, but was left behind.

In addition to managing our group very well without Miss Halleck, Mr. Coan was charged with filming the group’s activities for a promotional film which was used for several years. I seemed to be the star of the film, and the small Experiment staff jokingly called it Margie’s movie.

When saying goodbye at the end of the summer, after disembarking in New York, Mr. Coan kissed me.

Dear Editor: When I read the May issue of The Beaumont News, I was especially interested in the article about Charles Koch.

It served to remind me of the telephone problem Bob and I experienced in March of this year. We had two telephone calls received on our home phone registering from Villanova University. Each time, a young woman, giving her name, wanted to discuss our credit cards. She assured me that our credit was fine. Before going any further with her call, I terminated the conversation.

Charlie came to see me about this. He advised me to sign with the Federal Registry to prevent additional calls, to take notes hereafter and to use our shredder.

—Anne Trout

IN MEMORIAM Mrs. Phyllis Hollmann – May 2, 2010 • Mrs. Margaret Butler – May 8, 2010 • Mrs. Elizabeth Beatty – May 13, 2010 Members of the Beaumont Community extend deepest sympathy to their families and friends.

The deadline for the July 2010 issue, our last before October, is June 10. Please sign your story (or letter to the editor) and either turn it in at the front desk or e-mail it directly to Mary Graff at both graffs@msn.com and mgraff@beaumontretirement.com. Contributions are enthusiastically encouraged, so long as they are original with the sender (not off the Internet or out of another publication, please).

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