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Complimentary | Chester County Edition | January 2016 • Vol. 13 No. 1

Where Poland and Pennsylvania Meet

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Buying Tips for New Year’s Travelers page 5

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter page 8

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Why Jan. 1? Ask Julius Caesar You can’t exactly blame Julius Caesar for any failed New Year’s resolutions, but the idea of beginning the year on Jan. 1 originated in his time.

The Roman emperor designated that day as the New Year in 153 B.C. to mark the naming of Rome’s two ruling consuls.

The so-called Julian calendar remained in standard use throughout the Middle Ages, although many European countries chose to start their calendar year on different days to commemorate various Christian holidays, such as Christmas or Easter.

By the 16th century, many people and nations agreed that the Julian calendar ought to be reformed. Pope Gregory XIII chose a calendar devised by Italian astronomer and philosopher Aloysius Lilius in 1582.

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The Way I See It

Keeping it Light Mike Clark

I went to the store a day after the New Year to get cheese and lunchmeat. My final order, after the low-sodium American cheese and high-sodium olive loaf, was for a high-end, very thinly sliced rotisserie chicken; looking at it in the glass case made my mouth water.

I could almost see a masterpiece sandwich piled high with savory

chicken, creamy cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on a light, crusty roll. I don’t eat raw tomatoes, so you’ll never find them on one of my sandwiches.

A cold, kosher dill pickle always accompanies my creations.

The sandwich fantasy heightened the good mood that I was already in.

Yes, food, and the very thought of it, can pep me up.

I chuckled when I asked for a half pound of the juicy chicken, and told the lady behind the deli counter that I was tired of baked ham and dry, flavorless turkey, which was often set before me throughout the holiday.

I thought she would commiserate and smile, knowingly. She glared at me as if to say, “Just order the meat and keep it to yourself, bub.” Talk

about your post-holiday lunchmeat traumatic stress disorder. Geesh.

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New Year’s Resolutions

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January 2016

Every year I make several New Year’s resolutions, and every year I fall way short of accomplishing them.

Maybe I set my goals a little too high.

For example, these are some of my failed resolutions from last year: I will read Moby Dick and Ulysses. I will clean out the garage.

I will become a more honorable person. Who can do these things?

And so this year, I decided my goals would still be lofty, but I wouldn’t set the bar quite as high. And maybe, just maybe, I can accomplish them with the right amount of determination.

Here are my resolutions for 2016:

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4. I will go to my 50th high school reunion and stretch the truth about my accomplishments.

I realize it’s deceitful and I should be happy with my true accomplishments, but I think I can overcome these feelings. I will rent a limo and tell my former classmates that I’m a billionaire and I invented suitcases with little wheels on them.

3. I will go to the bathroom at least four times every night. I’m pretty sure I can accomplish this goal because I have had plenty of practice.

this New Year’s resolution. Some people are so dumb that I have to repeat myself in order to make sure that they understood me the first time.

8. I will eat something bad for me at least twice a week. I may have to go to different restaurants to find the creamiest piece of cheesecake or the fattiest pastrami sandwich, but I will be diligent in my search and in making this resolution a reality.

9. I will not go to the opera or the ballet with my wife. I may have to make up numerous excuses, but I think with the right determination and creative thinking, I can do it.

1. Even though I am already overweight, I will somehow manage to gain 5 pounds this year. I was going to say 10 pounds, but I don’t want to shoot too high.

2. I will brag about my 2-yearold granddaughter incessantly.

I will find any excuse I can to talk about her. And I will do it even if my transitions aren’t that graceful. For example, if someone says, “It’s a nice day out,” I will reply, “Speaking of nice days, did I mention that my granddaughter is brilliant?”

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5. I will watch at least three hours of television a day. It will be hard to find enough good programs to watch, but I will search them out and be relentless in my goal.

6. I will only say that I am seven years younger than I actually am.

Saying I am any younger than that would be dishonest.

7. I will occasionally repeat myself. I know this will be met by some eye rolls and annoyance, but I will not be deterred in achieving

10. I will take credit for things I haven’t actually done. This can be anything from fixing a leaky faucet to cleaning out my closet.

I figure if I say it enough times, people will actually believe me (it works for politicians).

11. I will pretend to have read Moby Dick and Ulysses. This resolution will be difficult to achieve, but I will get the CliffsNotes and study them for days so I can convince people that I have actually read these books.

Yes, this may take more time than actually reading the novels, but I think it’s worth it.

12. My column will not be longer than 600 words because that—

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Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori

Buying Tips for New Year’s Travelers Lori Verderame

As the new year commences, many of us find ourselves taking to the skies or roads on trips for business and pleasure.

When I travel—and I travel a lot—I often meet people who ask me what is a good buy or how to spot a bargain.

When collectors travel to various parts of the world, here are some of the collectible items that you may want to shop for in some famed yet fabulous far-off locales: • Australia: coral jewelry • Caribbean islands: giant seashells, woven handbags • China: paintings • Costa Rica: coffee, handmade wooden crafts • Denmark: handmade wood objects • Finland: wool clothing • Germany: contemporary art, knives • Greece: pottery • Guatemala: santos sculptures • Italy: leather goods and fashion accessories • Japan: knives and swords • Mexico: silver, terracotta pottery • Middle East: gemstones • New Zealand: wool sweaters • Panama: hats • Turkey: linens, tiles • Puerto Rico: mahogany furniture

• Russia: matryoshkas or nesting dolls • South Pacific islands: basketry, black pearls • Spain: Lladro figurines Of course, this list is not all inclusive, but it gives travelers a good starting point about what types of objects may be good buys in certain places.

While the unique qualities of objects found in far-off lands are interesting, be prepared to shop wisely while on vacation or traveling.

Negotiate with cash when you can, be knowledgeable about exchange rates, and be sure to fully understand the shipping and return policies.

Remember that in many tourist areas and big cities, the prices are inflated in an effort to attract buyers.

Stick to your budget and compare prices from shop to shop whenever you can.

No matter where you travel, remember that quality equals value.

Wherever you shop—at home or abroad—negotiate politely and consider the artisan and the locale

when shopping for handmade items.

The allure of handmade items is the fact that they demonstrate a particular talent and help you to recall a special trip as a keepsake or souvenir.

Some of my most favored collectibles from my travels are those handmade items that I bought directly from the artisan or those objects that I bought after an exchange with a shop owner or other local resident.

I remember clearly the time I

watched as a talented Romanian woman crocheted a tablecloth in Bucharest that I now use in my sunroom; how I tried to break the language barrier with a nun at the Vatican gift shop while I shopped for silver rosary beads blessed by the Pope for my mother; and I remember when a local man drew me a map of the local roads so I could find the sculpture studio of a santos carver in Guatemala.

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Salute to a Veteran

He Flew 173 Missions in the Berlin Airlift Robert D. Wilcox

John Schuppert grew up on a farm in New Freedom, Pa. As a youngster, he often saw barnstorming pilots flying overhead.

And in 1931, when he was only 12, he had a chance to get a ride with one of them. That sealed his ambition to one day become a daring pilot himself.

That day was pretty far in the future, however, and in the meantime, he finished high school, and then went on to earn a BA in social sciences at Loyola College in Baltimore.

In 1941, he was drafted into the Army Engineers, where he helped build runways and revetments at air bases used by our World War II fliers.

Then a chance came along to try for the Aviation Cadet program. So he quickly grabbed it.

He aced the test and went through

German children watch a C-54 land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift.

Maj. John E. Schuppert with the Air Medal he got for flying his first 100 missions of the Berlin Airlift.

the flight program, emerging with his pilot’s wings and the gold bars of a

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second lieutenant.

His first assignment was to a base in Great Falls, Mont., where he flew A-20 and B-25 bombers to Alaska.

There, Soviet pilots picked them up and flew them to the Soviet Union, which, at that time, was our ally in the

war in Europe.

His next assignment was to be in a situation that shocked the world.

When the war in Europe ended in May 1945, the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union each was given a part of Germany as an occupation zone. The German capital, Berlin, was well within the Soviet zone, and it, too, was divided between the four powers.

Matters between the Soviets and the three Western powers rapidly deteriorated, however. And on June 24, 1948, the Soviets blockaded rail, road, and water access to western Berlin.

Fortunately, air corridors had been agreed upon for reaching Berlin, and they now became the only way the West had for supplying the some 2 million Germans residing in western Berlin.

Each corridor was 20 miles wide,

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and it was quickly decided that they were to be used to bring to Berliners the essentials they needed to stay alive.

There were 102 C-47 transports and only two C-54s in Europe, so they were all flown to Wiesbaden and Rhein-Main to use the corridor to Templehof Airport and to Celle and Fassberg to use the corridor to Gatow Airport.

The C-47 could haul 3 tons of cargo, while the C-54 could carry 10 tons. On June 26, 1948, the first day of what became the Berlin Airlift, C-47s made 32 fights with 80 tons of mainly powdered milk, flour, and medicine.

But it became clear that C-54s were urgently needed, and in two weeks they began arriving from the U.S. to replace the C-47s.

Schuppert arrived in Celle in November 1948 and soon started flying C-54 missions to Gatow Airport in Berlin.

When asked what that was like, Schuppert says, “Well, the weather in winter was pretty bad, with fog, clouds, rain, and ice. In clear weather, we had often been flying at threeminute intervals, 24 hours a day, but we had to extend that some with the bad winter weather.”

How about the Soviets? Did they try to jam the flights?

“Not really,” he says. “Their fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners occasionally opened fire near the corridors, but they didn’t come into the corridors after us.”

So that wasn’t a problem?

“Well, yes and no. On one mission, a bullet had passed cleanly through one of our props, but we didn’t even realize it until we found the hole later, when we were on the ground.”

The airlift worked so well that the

Soviets lifted the blockade on May 12, 1949, but just to be sure that the land access would endure, we kept the lift going until Sept. 30.

By then, 2.3 million tons of cargo had been flown to Berlin, about 75 percent of which came in American planes. We flew 189,000 flights, totaling nearly 600,000 flying hours and exceeding 92 million miles.

The biggest single day was Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949, with 13,000 tons of cargo, including the equivalent of 600 railroad cars of coal.

Schuppert flew his last Berlin Airlift mission in May 1949 and flew back to Westover Field in Massachusetts, where he was separated from the Air Force.

He was recalled for Korea in 1951, completing survival school in Nevada and then going to San Antonio, where he was checked out in B-29s.

Then it was to Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas, where he flew the all-jet B-47 bomber. That led to his being an instructor pilot in the B-47 for two years before retiring from the Air Force for the last time in 1955.

Back in Central Pennsylvania, he joined Hamilton Technology as a contract administrator. He then worked for Fulton Bank, heading their credit card division.

As a person who needed to keep himself busy, he worked at a surprising number of other jobs before coming to a comfortable retirement home, where he and his wife, Cynthia, reside today.

He can look back at an unusually diverse Air Force career, while his important days of flying the Berlin Airlift stand out as some of the most rewarding.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.

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The Bookworm Sez

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter Terri Schlichenmeyer

The king has spoken.

And in pretty much every fairytale, that’s all it takes for a happy (or notso-happy) ending: he decrees, and it is so.

And in the new book Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson, you’ll see how that affected the oldest girl in what many say was America’s royal family.

When Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy went into labor on the Sept. 13, 1918, she figured her third baby’s birth would be as uneventful as that of her first two children.

Alas, the doctor was delayed in caring for Boston’s Spanish flu victims so the nurse, unauthorized to deliver the child, held the baby in place in the birth canal for two excruciating hours.

By the time little Rosemary

Kennedy was would never a year old, it be a roughand-tumble was obvious Kennedy. As that something younger siblings was amiss.

Compared were born and quickly to her older overtook her brothers, both physically “Rosie” was and mentally, delayed in all it became milestones, Author photo courtesy of David Carmack apparent that which her Rosemary: mother blamed she was going to The Hidden Kennedy Daughter need more than on “gender and

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Still, hoping $27 / $35 Canada Doctors her daughter 302 pages would catch up, diagnosed her as “mentally retarded”; she might also Rose vowed to spend more time with Rosemary. have suffered from epilepsy. Inwardly, she struggled; outwardly, she was No matter how much parental attention she had, however, Rosemary charming and fun-loving. Many

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Desperate for a cure that would never come, Joseph and Rose Kennedy sent Rosemary to a succession of schools until, in 1938, a good fit was found in Great Britain but World War II intervened.

Nineteen-year-old Rosemary was pulled from that school for her safety, and her stateside return sent her into a tailspin.

By 1941, Joseph Kennedy was searching for new methods of treatment for his daughter and had considered lobotomy (a radical brain surgery).

Family members recommended against it, but he’d been “assured” it would work and so, sometime in early November 1941, without telling his wife or children, he authorized the surgery …

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Stunned. Absolutely stunned. That was me, as I read this sit-still book.

Yes, I was aware that Rosemary lived until relatively recently, tucked away in small-town Wisconsin, but the rest?

I had no idea.

That story, however, isn’t all that lies inside Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter. Author Kate Clifford Larson also lays out plenty of history, both of the family as a whole and of the world.

She reaches back to the earliest Kennedy years and, as she pulls us forward, she puts into context each phase of Rosemary’s life, plunging us into the way things were early in the last century.

Then, believe it or not, in Larson’s hands, this tragic tale culminates in an oddly happy ending.

I couldn’t get enough of this astounding book and, especially if you like a splash of historical biography in your scandal, you’ll love it, too.

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter is a book I can’t speak enough about.

The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer.

Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 14,000 books.

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Tinseltown Talks

Betty Lynn: Keeping Mayberry Alive Nick Thomas

It’s just after noon on the third Friday of the month, and 89-year-old Betty Lynn is preparing to take her seat behind a small brown table in the main room of the Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, N.C. Visitors are already beginning to flood into the 2,500-square-foot building to meet the actress best known to ’60s TV fans as Barney Fife’s girlfriend, Thelma Lou, from The Andy Griffith Show, set in the fictional town of Mayberry.

“Over 500 people come through,” says Lynn of a typical afternoon at the museum, where she greets fans once a month.

They come from all over the world to meet a former cast member of the popular show and to see the large collection of Andy Griffith memorabilia, assembled by Griffith’s lifelong friend Emmett Forrest (see www.andygriffithmuseum.com).

In 2007, after being twice robbed in her Los Angeles home, Lynn left Hollywood for the quiet, secure life in Mount Airy, which was also Andy Griffith’s hometown.

“I’d been coming here for the Mayberry Days festival for ages, so

Davis, who got everyone to call me Boo, after one of my characters, so it wouldn’t be confusing when they called ‘Betty’ on the set!’

She also worked, at one time or another, with almost all the cast of Gilligan’s Island.

“Alan Hale Jr. was on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show and played a mountain man looking for a wife,” Betty Lynn at the Andy Griffth Don Knotts and Betty Lynn in a screen explained Lynn. “Recently, I saw the episode again, where he picked me Museum in 2013. Photo credit: shot from The Andy Griffith Show. way up in the air twice. I laughed Hobart Jones, Surry Arts Council. because I looked like a rag doll.” it seemed like the perfect place to “I enjoyed Westerns, but filming As she does on each of her visits to settle,” she said. “Everyone has been in the hot Californian summers the museum, Lynn braces for a long so kind since I moved here. It didn’t wearing long dresses and petticoats afternoon as enthusiastic fans are take long for me to feel like a local was rough,” she said. “During one already forming the meet-and-greet rather than a visitor.” show—I think it was ‘Texas John line.

The Andy Griffith Show ran for Slaughter’ for Disneyland—we sat “It’s a little tiring by the end of the eight seasons, throughout most of the down to lunch and these huge bugs day, but it’s the least I can do since 1960s. It won six Emmys, including swarmed all around us. We were told people may stand for hours to take a five for Don Knotts. to just ignore them and eat around picture and get an autograph and a “Andy was fun and a bit of a tease them.” hug,” she says. “There’s a lot of love off-camera, while Don was sweet but Throughout her career, Lynn coming my way.” very quiet and nothing like his Barney worked with some Hollywood greats.

Fife character. But that just illustrates “My first film, Sitting Pretty, and Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn what a good actor he was.” then later Cheaper by the Dozen, were University at Montgomery, Ala., and has Lynn also appeared in some 20 with Clifton Webb, a sweet man with written features, columns, and interviews films and more than 40 other TV a good sense of humor,” she recalled. for more than 600 magazines and shows, including many Westerns.

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LIGHT from page 3 After all, the great demand for deli products during the holiday season can be overwhelming for those who have to cut, slice, chop, roll, and neatly layer for party trays and festive boxes. All this, on top of the crushing throngs milling about the deli case drawing numbers and impatiently waiting for individual orders, can quickly wither a positive mood.

Being the patient and compassionate man that I am, I shuffled away and allowed her to wallow in her gloominess. I understood, but I still think, given a little more time, I could have made her smile.

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was rational, unlike the teenagers I ribbed and cajoled at our earlymorning family breakfasts many years ago. My jocular performances did nothing but enrage the little monsters.

They seldom smiled anyway, so I didn’t blame myself for the failure to lighten their moods.

A couple of days later, a cashier at another store tallied my order and said, “Nineteen-fifteen.” I told her that 1915 was a very good year; it was the year I was born.

OK, I know that was weak. I was looking for a smile that implied she knew better, especially since she was looking right at me. Her blank gaze implied, instead, that she thought it was actually possible that I could be

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Come on, I’ve got my hard-earned wrinkles, but this lady couldn’t distinguish slight wrinkles from deep, 100-year-old ridges and folds. Either that or she just didn’t think I was funny. I didn’t, either.

Being funny wasn’t my intent; I wanted to make the transaction more personal, a little lighter. I mean, where did all the holiday cheer go?

Sometimes when I’m being serious, I find my wife laughing at me. When I’m trying to be funny, she often stares and raises an eyebrow. This leads me to wonder if I should be more serious with my approach to lightening people’s moods. My attempts to be stern can be very funny.

It would take a lot of radical change and practice to curb my instinct to draw people out with my silliness. I don’t think I’ll even consider it.

It has been said (by whom, I do not know) that the smile that lights the face will also warm the heart. Trying to warm hearts seems like a worthy pursuit.

Mike Clark writes a regular column for The Globe Leader newspaper in New Wilmington, Pa. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in organizational behavior/applied psychology from Albright College. Mike lives outside Columbia, Pa., and can be contacted at mikemac429@aol.com.

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Solutions for all puzzles can be found on page 12 SUDOKU

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Famous Athletes of the’50s and’60s Find the last names of famous athletes of the ’50s or ’60s hiding in each sentence.

Here’s an example: HE MAY SING OUT OF TUNE AT TIMES Answer: Mays Reason: HE MAY SING OUT OF TUNE AT TIMES

1. THE FARMER BOUGHT A HOG AND A LAMB 2. I DON’T KNOW IF ORDERLIES WORK HERE 3. I’LL MAKE A DO LIST ONE DAY 4. I’D LIKE TO SEE JACK PAAR ON TV TONIGHT 5. WHEN I SHOP IN PARAMUS I ALWAYS BUY SOMETHING 6. A VOTING MEMBER RAISED AN ISSUE 7. SHE STILL HAS HER HIGH SCHOOL PICTURE 8. HE NEVER GAVE VIETNAM A THOUGHT 9. MOONSHINING IS ILLEGAL IN THIS STATE 10. THIS CHORUS SELLS MANY CHRISTMAS ALBUMS Popular Dances of the ’50s and ’60s Find the names of these dances that were popular in the ’50s and ’60s.

1. L _ _ _ y 2. B _ _ _ _ H _ _ 3. T _ _ _ t 4. Ma _ _ _ on 5. H _ _ _ J _ _ _ 6. S _ _ _ ll 7. M _ _ _ _ d P _ _ _ _ _ 8. M _ _ _ o 9. W _ _ _ _ i 10. L _ _ b _ 100 Written by Alan Stillson. Please see http://stillsonworks.com

1. Cheese ingredient 6. Lance 11. Sayonara 14. Musical drama 15. Flexible joint 16. Quarrel 17. Shylock 19. Wrath 20. Insects 21. Cervid 22. Zealous 24. Croat 26. Prejudice 28. Byways (abbr.)

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1. Med. condition 2. Abreast of 3. Hire 4. Apparel 5. Articulate 6. Cancel 7. Light shade of red 8. Cease 9. Epoch 10. Peruse again 11. Penal facility 12. Time past 13. Pitcher 18. Vault

31. Obvious solution 36. Ways of life 38. Mine feature 39. Scintilla 40. Venezuela copper center 41. Pomeranian 43. Hearts, for example 44. Novelist Morrison, for one 45. Fleur-de-___ 46. Passage 47. Stamped, as an actor 51. Always (poet.)

52. Section (abbr.)

53. Emulators 55. Engine 58. Couple 59. Roman statesman 63. Garden resident 64. Burning with emotion 68. Scurried 69. Fr. river 70. Monotone 71. Golfer Ernie 72. Pulls hard 73. Transmits

23. Birthplace of St. Francis 25. Definite article (Sp.) 26. Football’s Starr 27. Texas town 28. Squabbles 29. Fortune telling card 30. Gem 32. Loud 33. Abode 34. Helpful 35. Spud, to some 37. Coiffure 41. Splatter 42. Actor Brad

46. Beverage 48. Spookily 49. Lulls 50. Verse form 54. Sports stat 55. Bare 56. Egg-shaped 57. Decades 58. Sinister 60. Soon 61. Take care of 62. Lyric poems 65. Ratite bird 66. Rowlock 67. Egos

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Cover Story

Lifelong Teacher Brings American Culture to Poland

By Pete Wisniewski

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When most people go on vacation they have the intention of leaving their work at home, not bringing more work home with them. But that’s what happened to Bill Minsker when he traveled to Poland: He came back with a lifelong passion.

It began in July 1987 when Minsker embarked upon a two-week musical singing tour of Poland with colleagues from his community chorus.

“During that tour, I met [Polish] students from the economic university who encouraged me to return to teach,” Minsker said.

Motivated by their supportive words, in 1989 Minsker returned to Wroclaw, Poland, for a year as a volunteer instructor, teaching a free course in Conversational English at Wroclaw (pronounced “VROTZwav”) University of Economics.

And in 1992, he founded Pennsylvania Partnerships Abroad, Ltd. (PPA). He also decided to leave his 25-year political science teaching position at a local high school and continue his Polish activities as a fulltime effort.

“PPA, Ltd., currently concentrates on educational, humanitarian, business development, and touristic activities primarily between Poland and Pennsylvania,” Minsker said.

“PPA aims to help responsible Poles develop themselves into dynamic, modern-world individuals, and to help Pennsylvanians first

understand and small but think then become tall’ philosophy,” involved in what Minsker said. is developing in There are the amazing and now nearly 100 dynamic country educational of Poland.” institutions One of the receiving central focuses shipments of Bill Minsker, volunteer instructor, of PPA is its teaching Conversational English at educational educational the Wroclaw University of Economics material partnerships. The shipments from in Poland. student exchange Pennsylvania. program between Almost 300 Pennsylvania Polish students and Poland serve as fouroperates every month interns academic year for with Central a one-semester Pennsylvania exchange. businesses and Minsker organizations, himself makes and 19 Polish the trip to and seven Four Polish students currently Poland twice Shippensburg attending Minsker’s one-semester a year. For a University student exchange program with Shippensburg University. From left, students few weeks in Maciek Wilczynski, Bart Zielinski, Kuba participate in November, Strozyk, Rafal Winslaw, and Minsker. a one-semester Minsker interviews study exchange hundreds of students interested program. in participating in the exchange Plus, almost 50 American teachers programs. are employed as native speakers in Then, from February through Polish high schools and universities, June, he teaches a semester of English and hundreds of Polish students have at the university. worked and traveled in the USA PPA’s international educational for the past 12 years in the national efforts continue to expand as its Work & Travel Program. programs grow and diversify.

PPA has also helped develop “PPA has never been static. My community-service initiatives in major programs continue to grow Poland, such as Lions and Kiwanis at a slow but steady pace—the ‘start clubs.

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Minsker’s nonprofit has worked to provide medicine to the Red Cross; to develop citizen-involvement activities with the police; to send materials to the fire service; and to arrange for political and business activities between Polish and Pennsylvanian interests.

Minsker’s connection to Poland is one he feels not only through the students he’s taught, but also through the gravity of the country’s history.

“Being in Poland in the year [1989] when it disassociated itself from the Soviet Union, seeing this quest for freedom and individual opportunity grow in immensity there and then spread across Europe, and working with the most dynamic students easily developed this interest in me,” he said.

Minsker has completed 47 years of teaching out of a goal of 51. The payoff for him, however, extends beyond any personal career goals.

“It’s seeing the further development of my university students into intensive, dynamic, creative, and morally ethical Polish citizens and businesspersons,” he said.

“All of my students know the ‘Bill Minsker students are the best’ expression and expectation.

My students are part of the ‘First Generation of a New Poland’—and I stress this unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to them.”

For more information on Pennsylvania Partnerships Abroad, Ltd., visit www.ppa-ltd.org.

Famous Athletes of the’50s and’60s 1. HOG AND 2. IF ORDERLIES 3. LIST ONE 4. PAAR ON 5. PARAMUS I ALWAYS

6. MEMBER RAISED 7. HAS HER 8. VIETNAM A THOUGHT 9. ILLEGAL IN 10. CHORUS SELLS

Popular Dances of the ’50s and ’60s 1. Lindy 2. Bunny Hop 3. Twist 4. Madison 5. Hand Jive

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The Beauty in Nature

Clyde McMillan-Gamber

Decorative Winter Buds

At least a few kinds of decorative and rodents by the end of the month. buds are on common deciduous But the flower buds will remain until shrubs and trees through winter, they open late in April the next year. adding subtle beauties and colors Dogwood buds are tightly closed to that harsh sepals that protect season. the tiny, real Those woody blossoms inside plants include through winter. pussy willows, But late in April flowering they grow and dogwoods, open like petals. red maples, Red-maple and American buds in winter beeches. All are small but red, these shrubs making them and trees are easily visible. planted on There is always lawns, and something red all but pussy about red maples, Pussy willow flowers and buds. willows are making them native to beautiful through the eastern each year. They United States, have red buds including in winter; red southeastern flowers in spring Pennsylvania. that make the Planted canopies of some pussy-willow bottomland shrubs are woods red; red males that grew seeds in summer; from cuttings and mostly red placed in water, leaves in autumn. where those American Famartin shoots grow beech trees have Male red maple flowers and buds. roots under long, thin, and water and pointed buds leaves above it. I wonder how those in winter. Some people use twigs buds know whether they are above or of beech buds in decorative dried below water? arrangements. Those buds are amber Later, the sprouts can be planted in winter but become greener when in sunny spots and watered to start they get larger toward the end of them.

April.

Buds of pussy willows in winter Buds of red maples, beeches, and are tapered and reddish-orange. They other types of trees are eaten by are particularly attractive in sunlight. several kinds of mammals in winter Late in February, in this area, those when other foods are scarce. They are handsome buds open, revealing the ingested by white-tailed deer, whitepopular furry, gray catkins that were footed mice, cottontail rabbits, and protected by their buds all winter. other species.

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Don’t Listen to the Critics If you worry that your work is unappreciated, consider that even knowledgeable critics make mistakes.

From Rotten Reviews: A Literary Companion, edited by Bill Henderson (Penguin Books), come these examples of reviewers who missed the mark when evaluating various “failures”:

for an 1892 review in the Atlantic Monthly, Thomas Bailey Aldrich noted his belief that “an eccentric, half-educated recluse in an out-ofthe-way New England village—or anywhere else—cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravitation and grammar.”

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Caregiver Support Group Coatesville Area Senior Center 22 N. Fifth Ave., Coatesville (610) 383-6900

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Bereavement Support Group Jennersville Hospital Conference Room B 1015 W. Baltimore Pike West Grove (610) 998-1700, ext. 226

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Living with Cancer Support Group Paoli Hospital Cancer Center 255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli (484) 565-1253

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Bingo Night Marine Corps League Detachment 430 Chestnut St., Downingtown (610) 429-8174 Jan. 5, 11:30 a.m.

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Charles Dickens. And in 1859, the Saturday Review made this bold prediction of Charles Dickens, author of Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist: “We do not believe in the permanence of his reputation.”

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Grief Support Group Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 327-7216

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Spring Course Open House Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Widener University Exton Campus 825 Springdale Drive, Exton (484) 713-0088 www.widener.edu/OLLI

West Chester Area Senior Center – (610) 431-4242 530 E. Union St., West Chester – www.wcseniors.org

Jan. 19, noon AARP Valley Forge Chapter Meeting St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church 203 N. Valley Forge Road, Devon (610) 688-5733

Jan. 1, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. – New Year’s Day Hike, Nottingham County Park Jan. 9, 11 a.m. to 1 p .m. – Weird Wildlife, Warwick County Park Jan. 16, 9 to 10 a.m. – Paws on the Path, Nottingham County Park

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3 Foods to Avoid if You Snore

Do you know someone who snores all night? Don’t let snoring ruin your relationship or cause sleep deprivation.

Snoring may be controllable.

What about your sweet grandchild?

How many earaches has he or she been medicated for?

I sadly wonder how many children have undergone tonsillectomies due to repeated infections.

Maybe those kids could have kept their tonsils and just went off foods that are known to trigger the problem, as well as earaches, respiratory infections, and asthma.

Studies point to food allergies or sensitivities as one underlying cause of snoring and a common complication of earaches for children.

Researchers have tested the theory of food allergies causing something called “adenotonsillar hypertrophy” or ATH. That is the medical term for enlarged adenoids, and adenoids are patches of lymph tissue near the tonsils in the upper airway.

Adenoids and tonsils are part of the immune system and protect against germs that we swallow or breathe in.

From birth to age 6, these tissues grow as the immune system develops.

They slowly shrink unless there are problems. Instead of shrinking, adenoids swell up in response to food allergies, the top three offenders being milk, eggs, and cod.

Complications of ATH include chronic ear infections, ear pain, stuffy nose, swollen glands in the neck, snoring, and respiratory infections.

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food allergens, or they lack a positive culture.

ATH may be behind the snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. Recent research found allergic inflammation within the glands and tonsils are provoking the swollen tissue. The allergic inflammation was IgG or Type III, which is a delayed response to foods.

Basically, the “delayed” immune complexes show up after about three hours but could take up to two weeks to develop the full allergic response!

Can you test for IgG, IgE, or IgA immunoglobulins?

Yes, you can. It’s pretty easy, and I will share these special tests in the longer version of this article—just sign up for my free newsletter at www.suzycohen.com.

This is a big deal. The current method of testing can give you false negatives, a false sense of comfort, and worse, a negative result when you are truly positive.

Food intolerances must be identified properly and eliminated to fully relieve the allergic inflammation and swollen tissue. If you deal with chronic snoring, sleep apnea, swollen tonsils, or enlarged adenoids, you need to tease out the underlying cause.

Immune-boosting supplements can be helpful; however, nothing you take negates the damage done by food sensitivities. The offending foods have to be removed. The intestinal permeability has to be repaired.

The adenoids and tonsils will eventually shrink and your breathing will improve, both day and night.

This information is not intended to diagnose, prevent, or treat your disease.

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