By Laura Farnish As an artist for more than four decades, Barbara Warfel’s talent has inspired the young and old alike. “I’ve been bringing art to people ranging in age from 5 to 95 on and off for 40 years,” said Warfel. A gifted painter, Warfel began her career as a high-school art instructor, but her artistic passion is now focused on the opposite end of the generational spectrum. Warfel has been at the forefront of a movement that recognizes the cognitive benefits of art instruction for seniors, especially those with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. “My current path is a product of necessity and bringing together three activities I most enjoy,” explained Warfel. “The necessity was to find meaningful employment. The three activities: teaching art, doing art, and enjoying the company of older people.” Thus, Warfel decided to offer art activities for senior citizens residing in assisted living communities. Her first class, which took place in 1998, was at an assisted living facility in Mechanicsburg. “I really enjoyed working with the seniors there, and they responded very positively to art activities,” said Warfel. These activities ranged from holding a pencil properly to drawing lines and writing names on their canvas. The basics, as Warfel described them, remain the key component in her lessons. “I really work hard on starting with very basic processes—literally, how to hold a pencil correctly,” said Warfel. “It’s important they are not working on Art Through the Ages In addition to her work with seniors, Barbara Warfel produces fine art such as Sierra, which she recently completed. Leaving Your Legacy page 9 How to Choose a Home Blood Pressure Monitor page 18 please see ART page 16 Inside: York County Edition February 2012 Vol. 13 No. 2
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By Laura Farnish
As an artist for more than four decades, Barbara Warfel’s talent has
inspired the young and old alike.
“I’ve been bringing art to people ranging in age from 5 to 95 on and off
for 40 years,” said Warfel.
A gifted painter, Warfel began her career as a high-school art instructor,
but her artistic passion is now focused on the opposite end of the
generational spectrum.
Warfel has been at the forefront of a movement that recognizes the
cognitive benefits of art instruction for seniors, especially those with
dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
“My current path is a product of necessity and bringing together three
activities I most enjoy,” explained Warfel. “The necessity was to find
meaningful employment. The three activities: teaching art, doing art, and
enjoying the company of older people.”
Thus, Warfel decided to offer art activities for senior citizens residing in
assisted living communities. Her first class, which took place in 1998, was at
an assisted living facility in Mechanicsburg.
“I really enjoyed working with the seniors there, and they responded very
positively to art activities,” said Warfel.
These activities ranged from holding a pencil properly to drawing lines
and writing names on their canvas. The basics, as Warfel described them,
remain the key component in her lessons.
“I really work hard on starting with very basic processes—literally, how to
hold a pencil correctly,” said Warfel. “It’s important they are not working on
Art Through
the Ages
In addition to her work with seniors, Barbara Warfel produces fine art such as Sierra,
which she recently completed.
Leaving Your
Legacy
page 9
How to Choose a Home
Blood Pressure Monitor
page 18
please see ART page 16
Inside:
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In 1935, when Nevin (Ned)
Schlichting graduated from high
school in Philadelphia, he faced a
problem of most young men of those
days.
It was the depth of the Depression,
and his family had no money to send
him to college. Being able to get a good
job at all was iffy at best. Then he was
told that the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
was looking for apprentices in various
trades.
He decided to apply and soon found
he had plenty of competition. Some 600
applicants took an entry test, and only
those who scored 100 (out of a possible
100) were even considered. Schlichting
scored 100, and he finished the test a lot
sooner than most. So, he was No. 43 of
the 50 who were picked.
He was selected to be a shipwright,
which required a four-year
apprenticeship, during which he would
spend one day a
week in class and the
other four and a half
days learning on the
job, as he worked
with experienced
shipwrights. It was
intended that he
learn everything
there was to know
about the
construction and
repair of naval
vessels.
When the vast
hull of the USS
Washington, the
battleship he was
working on, neared
completion, the
master woodworker
asked him if he would like to ride the
ship as it slid down the greased
launching ways.
That sounded great
to him, so he
quickly said, “Yes,
sir!”
Only later did he
learn that it was to
mean that he had to
slow the ship’s
momentum as soon
as it left the ways, if
that became
necessary. To do
that, a temporary
16x16-inch wooden
beam was secured
on the starboard
side of the main
deck. It extended
beyond the side of
the ship, and a
special anchor was held by a sturdy
hawser draped over the beam.
Schlichting was to straddle the beam,
ready to chop through the hawser with
his razor-sharp broad axe, should the
river pilot, who was in charge of the
launching, signal him to do so. That
would drop the anchor with its
accompanying chain and slow the
monster ship until the six waiting
tugboats could fasten lines to control the
ship’s movement.
Fortunately, that wasn’t needed, and
Schlichting says, “I couldn’t stop
sweating.” The tugs carefully attached
their lines, and the hull was tugged to the
finishing dock to have the superstructure
and other work completed.
A major concern came when our
government decided to provide the
British with 50 of our aging World War I
destroyers. All of those ships had been in
“mothballs,” and the job was to bring
them up to par, to enable the British to
use them to lob depth charges at the
He Had Only His Axe to Slow Down theNew 35,000-Ton Battleship
Robert D. Wilcox
Salute to a Veteran
Seaman, 1st Class
Nevin E. Schlichting in 1945.
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deadly German U-boats.
One major question was whether their
90-foot wooden masts could be used, or
whether they would need to be replaced.
Inspecting them while suspended from
bos’n chairs became a job for Schlichting
and other shipwright workers.
Eventually, Schlichting was promoted
to the Central Planning and Estimating
Division of the shipyard. There he found
that he had some free time, and he
joined the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve to
do security service in the Port of
Philadelphia at night and on weekends
when he was not working in the
shipyard. That service continued until
disenrollment in October 1945.
Schlichting still had the urge to serve
in the active military, but despite his
knowledge of ships, he couldn’t be
accepted by the Navy because of a
deferment from the Philadelphia
Shipyard. However, he learned from his
draft board
that he could
accept
voluntary
induction in
the Army. So
he signed up
at Fort Dix,
N.J., and was
soon off to
Camp Polk,
La., for basic
training.
From there
it was to San
Antonio,
where, near Fort Sam Houston, he trained
with the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID). And that led to tours
at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.,
and to New York City, where he did
investigative work with the New York
City police force.
He retired
from the Army
in 1947 and
returned to the
Philadelphia
Naval
Shipyard,
where he was
assigned to
advance
planning on
diesel electric
submarines.
At the same
time, he
decided to go
to night school at Temple University,
where he studied marine architecture.
And later the shipyard sent him to the
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton
School to study finance and
management.
Upon his return to the shipyard, his
planning assignments included large
surface craft such as cruisers and carriers,
and he was promoted to control branch
head, with a staff of some 80 persons. He
retired in 1973 with 37 years of federal
service.
The next 20 years were spent in
Florida. Then he and his wife came to
Central Pennsylvania to visit friends, and
that led to a permanent move in 1988 to
live at a local retirement community.
There, he spends much of his time in the
woodshop, where he does woodcarving
among other chores to help residents
with minor repairs.
“Quite a change,” he notes quietly,
“from the time I spent perched on the
side of that battleship with my broad axe,
ready to slow that huge ship down if that
became necessary.”
Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in
Europe in WWII.
The USS Washington, being launched in 1940.
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Not a Love Story: The St. Valentine’s Day MassacreOn Feb. 14, we remember our
sweethearts, our loved ones, and of
course … the St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre of 1929, in which seven
Chicago mobsters were lured to a garage
on the north side of the city and gunned
down by killers hired by notorious
gangster Al Capone.
The killings erupted from a conflict
between Capone and a rival gang led by
George “Bugs” Moran, who was the
primary target of the massacre.
According to one account, Capone hired
members of Detroit’s infamous Purple
Gang to carry out the hit.
They promised Moran’s crew a
shipment of bootleg whiskey in order to
get them to a warehouse on Clark Street.
Moran was late for the delivery, and the
killers may have mistaken one of the
gang leader’s men for Moran himself.
Two of the four gunmen wore
uniforms of the Chicago Police
Department and drove a stolen police
car. When they entered the warehouse,
the gangsters inside initially believed they
were being arrested. They allowed
themselves to be disarmed and lined up
against the wall before realizing they were
about to be murdered.
After the gunshots died out, the two
uniformed killers and their two
accomplices left the building, with
bystanders assuming the police had
carried out an arrest. A barking dog
prompted neighbors to investigate, and
they quickly discovered the gruesome
scene and summoned the real police.
One of the victims, still hanging onto
life, reportedly told the police, “Nobody
shot me,” despite the bullet holes
riddling his body. He died at the hospital
three hours after the shooting.
Police identified the shooters, but they
were never actually prosecuted for the
killing (although one did go to jail for
shooting a police officer in an unrelated
incident). Still, the outcry over the
killings marked the beginning of the end
of the Capone gang’s power in Chicago,
and it captured the imagination of the
public for years afterward.
Why Listen to a Groundhog?Most of us know the tradition of
Groundhog Day. On Feb. 2, the legend
goes, a groundhog that comes up out of
its burrow to check the weather will go
back inside if it sees its shadow, and
winter will continue for six more weeks.
But if the sky is cloudy and it casts no
shadow, the harsh winter weather is over.
Punxsutawney, Pa., hosts the best-
known Groundhog Day event, featuring
“Punxsutawney Phil” (who gained fame
in the 1993 film Groundhog Day), but
other towns in
Pennsylvania
and Maryland
hold similar
celebrations.
Where does
the legend
come from? It
may have
origins in
ancient
European
beliefs
involving a
badger or a
bear as a
weather
forecaster, as
well as the
pagan festival
Imbolc, whose
traditions
point to a bear
or a serpent as
a herald of good or bad weather.
In the United States, Groundhog Day
can be traced back to 1841, when a
Pennsylvania shopkeeper wrote in his
diary that Candlemas Day (Feb. 2) was
the day on which, “according to the
Germans, the Groundhog peeps out of
his winter quarters and if he sees his
shadow he peeps back for another six
weeks’ nap, but if the day be cloudy he
remains out, as the weather is to be
moderate.”
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A Farm Pond in Late February
The Beauty in Nature
Clyde McMillan-Gamber
On the morning of Feb. 27, 2011,
I drove past a 2-acre pond along
Cocalico Creek in Lancaster
County farmland, as I have done many
times before.
But that morning I had to stop and
scan that human-made impoundment
with binoculars because scores of ring-
billed gulls were flying over it and
dropping to its surface to catch unwary,
small fish. Meanwhile, other ring-bills
were sitting with a gathering of Canada
geese on a grassy meadow near the
impoundment.
As I watched the gulls, I saw a great
blue heron stalking fish along the shore
and several each of common merganser
ducks and hooded merganser ducks
swimming in separate groups on the
impoundment’s surface. The ducks took
turns diving under water to catch small
fish.
I never
saw so
many ring-
bills around
this pond
before. And
I never saw
mergansers
on it at all
until that
day. The
heron,
ring-bills,
and
mergansers
were
migrants
that
stopped at the pond to eat fish before
continuing on. And it was the sudden
appearance of so many water birds at
that body of water at once that made
me stop for a
look.
There
must be
many fish in
that pond to
have attracted
all those fish-
eating birds.
Many local
ponds are
stocked with
bluegill
sunfish and
large-
mouthed
bass. Both
species spawn
in them, resulting in multitudes of fish
of all sizes, including small ones that
gulls and mergansers catch and larger
ones that great blues eat.
These fish-eating birds capture their
prey in different ways and in different
levels of water. Gulls drop from the air to
take fish from the water’s surface with
their beaks. Mergansers dive under water
from the surface to snare scaly victims
deeper in the water with their bills.
Herons wade in shallow water along the
shores and use their long necks and beaks
to catch fish.
Other local, human-made
impoundments benefit these birds and
ospreys, bald eagles, grebes, various kinds
of herons, mink, and other fish-eating
animals at some point each year. And
those interesting creatures are
entertaining to us who like to experience
nature.
Check local bodies of water when out
in February and March. Many of them
harbor intriguing, fish-eating creatures,
at least part of the year.
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Are You Prepared to Leave a Legacy?You box toys and shoes for
disadvantaged children, collect canned
goods, and donate to your favorite
charity every year—but have you
considered leaving a permanent legacy to
help support your cause?
Bequeathing money to a charity in
your will is one of the best ways to act as
a philanthropist through your lifetime
and beyond. Many charities rely on
legacies to run their programs—some
receive as much as 40 percent of their
income from bequests.
There are many ways to leave a
bequest to the charity or charities of
your choice. You can donate all or part
of your retirement plan, IRA, 401(k),
life insurance plan, stock portfolio, or
estate.
You can even ask a charity to put your
money toward a specific cause or
program. For example, those bequeathing
funds to Running Strong for American
Indian Youth (www.indianyouth.org), a
nonprofit organization that helps
American Indians meet their immediate
survival needs while creating programs
that promote self-sufficiency and self-
esteem, can ask that their money support
Running Strong’s community garden
program or youth programs.
If you do not specify how you want
your money to be used, the charity will
most likely add the money to their
endowment, where it can be used to
support any number of worthy causes.
Many charities offer legacy programs
to help potential benefactors give.
Americans Helping Americans
(www.helpingamericans.org), a nonprofit
that helps improve the lives of
impoverished people living in
Appalachia, created its Americans
Helping Americans Legacy Society to
recognize those who wish to include the
charity in their will.
More than 80 percent of Americans
give to charities. But a 2007 survey
conducted by Indiana University’s Center
on Philanthropy found that only 8
percent of all Americans include legacies
in their wills. Considering the rocky
economic climate since then, that
percentage has surely dropped.
Many Americans worry that, by
leaving a charitable bequest, they may
put their heirs at a disadvantage. But
leaving a legacy in your will could reduce
the estate taxes that the will’s other
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Traveltizers Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
By Andrea Gross
One minute I’m standing in front
of eight 4-foot wide, 12-foot tall
sections of the Berlin Wall. A
few minutes later, I’m watching videos of
the moon landing, Princess Diana’s
wedding, JFK’s assassination, 9/11 …
As I walk through the Newseum,
Washington, D.C.’s 250,000-square-foot
paean to journalism, I’m reminded of the
old adage: Yesterday’s news is today’s
history.
The museum, which is located on
Pennsylvania Avenue just blocks from the
National Mall, contains more than
35,000 newspapers, including one from
1718 that heralds the death of
Blackbeard, the notorious British pirate,
and one started by the brother of
Benjamin Franklin.
It’s filled with journalistically relevant
artifacts, like the microphone used by
Edward R. Murrow for his radio
broadcasts during the Blitz and the
notebook used by the Newsweek reporter
who broke the Monica Lewinsky story.
In addition, the Newseum houses
hundreds of videos. In fact, a person
could spend hours just watching
videos—from an eight-minute overview
of major events narrated by Charles
Osgood to a 25-minute look at the
history of sports reporting.
I hesitate before walking into the
Comcast 9/11 Gallery. Do I really want
to relive that horrible day? But of course
I go in and sit spellbound as journalists
who were there tell what they did to
bring the story to the rest of us. The
audience is transfixed; the room is
completely silent. I feel as if I’m in a
church.
All told, the Newseum houses 15
theaters and 14 main exhibits. My
personal favorite is The Pulitzer Prize
Gallery, a collection of photographs that
deliver a gut-punch to the soul. There’s
the horrified girl who saw her fellow
student shot at Kent State, the napalm-
burned child running down a street in
Vietnam, the flag being raised on Iwo
Headlines of History: Washington, D.C.’s Newseum
JAMES P. BLAIR/NEWSEUM
The Newseum
complex, just
blocks from the
National Mall, is
deserving of a
banner headline.
SAM KITTNER
The Pulitzer Prize
Photographs
Gallery is filled
with pictures that
have burned
themselves into
the national
consciousness.
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A replica of Tim
Russert’s office as it
looked on the day of
his death is on display
through 2012.
SCOTT HENRICHSEN
The Capitol is visible
from the museum
terrace.
Jima. Video interviews with the
photographers give the story behind the
story.
In addition, there are a number of
temporary exhibits that will only run
until the end of this year. One of the
most popular and poignant, “Inside Tim
Russert’s Office,” shows the famous
newsman’s desk arranged exactly as it was
on the day of his death.
Another, titled “First Dogs,” features
nearly two dozen pets that have provided
our presidents with apolitical
companionship. These include Coolidge’s
white collie, which was photographed
wearing an Easter bonnet; George H.W.
Bush’s English Springer Spaniel, which
was credited with writing a bestselling
book; and Warren Harding’s Airedale,
which attended Cabinet meetings with
his master. (One can only wonder what
scandals would have been adverted if the
dog had barked a few words of caution
into the president’s ear.)
On a more serious note, the “G-Men
and Journalists” exhibit provides insight
into the tension between law
enforcement and the press, showing how
the press prevents abuses of power but
also makes the work of the special agents
more difficult.
More than 200 artifacts complement
the photos and newspapers, including the
cabin used by the Unabomber and the
electric chair that ended the life of Bruno
Hauptmann, who steadfastly denied that
he was the person who kidnapped the
Lindbergh baby.
Later, after a quick lunch in the
Wolfgang Puck café on the lower level, I
explore some of the interactive galleries,
which are among the museum’s most
popular. In one, reporter-wannabes try
reading a news report from a
Teleprompter and writing a story on
deadline.
In another, they confront ethical
problems. When is it OK to quote
anonymous sources? Is it more important
to photograph a dying child who’s about
to be eaten by a vulture, and thus alert
the world to the plight of the Sudanese,
or is it better to drop the camera and try
to save the child?*
I wander out on the terrace, where a
guide tells me that the Newseum was
built on the site of the old National
Hotel.
“That’s the hotel where John Wilkes
Booth stayed when he plotted the murder
of Abraham Lincoln,” he says. Inside I see
the newspaper announcing the
assassination of the president as well as
ones telling of the hunt for Booth.
For contemporary events, there’s the
broadcast studio where ABC News films
its Sunday morning program, This Week.
Behind the desk where George
Stephanopoulos interviews the week’s
newsmakers is the famous view of the
Capitol.
But even more interesting is the daily
display of the front pages of 80
newspapers from across the United States
and around the world, posted every
morning at 6 a.m. Washington time.
They are a stark reminder that while we
in the United States may be absorbed
with the presidential primaries, the
people in New Zealand are focused on
something else entirely.
www.newseum.org
Story by Andrea Gross. andreagross.com
*Note: Faced with this dilemma, Kevin
Carter opted to snap the award-winning
photo. Afterward he chased the vulture
away, but haunted by the scene and by
his own priorities, he committed suicide
a few months later.
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Calendar of EventsDelta Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 456-5753
Eastern Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 252-1641
Golden Visions Senior Community Center(717) 633-5072
Heritage Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 292-7471
Northeastern Senior Community Center(717) 266-1400
Red Land Senior Citizen Center – (717) 938-4649
South Central Senior Community Center(717) 235-6060
Monday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. –Wii Games
Tuesdays, 9:15 a.m. – Watercolor Art Classes
Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. – Dancersize Class
Stewartstown Senior Center – (717) 993-3488
Feb. 2, 12:30 p.m. – Bible Study
Feb. 14, 10:30 a.m. – Valentine Party
Feb. 20, 6 a.m. – Make Fasnachts
Susquehanna Senior Center – (717) 244-0340
White Rose Senior Center – (717) 843-9704,www.whiteroseseniorcenter.org
Windy Hill Senior Center – (717) 225-0733
Feb. 1, 11 a.m. to noon – Weekly “Healthy Steps in
Motion” Exercise Program
Yorktown Senior Center – (717) 854-0693
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York County Library Programs
York County Department of Parks and Recreation
Pre-registration is required for these programs. To register or find out more about these activities or anyadditional scheduled activities, call (717) 428-1961.
Feb. 11, 2 to 4 p.m. – “Beekeeping: Is It for You?”, Nixon Park
Feb. 14, 7 to 9 p.m. – Sweetheart Hike, Rocky Ridge Park
Feb. 19, 2:45 to 4 p.m. – Family Bird Walk, Nixon Park
Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public
Feb. 7, 7 p.m.Surviving Spouse Socials of York County
Faith United Church of Christ
509 Pacific Ave., York
(717) 266-2784
Feb. 9, noonYCAAA Family Caregiver Support GroupCodorus Valley Corporate Center – Community Room
105 Leader Heights Road, York
(717) 771-9058
Feb. 9, 7 to 9 p.m.Sweethearts Dance
Senior Commons at Powder Mill
1775 Powder Mill Road, York
(717) 741-0961
Feb. 14 and 28, 7 to 8:30 p.m.Women with Depression/Mood Disorders Support Group
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