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50 Years of Caring
Senior Services, Inc., and its Meals-on-Wheels program are celebrating 50 years of caring this year. Founded in 1962, this daily food program has now served more than 4.6 million meals in our local community. Thanks to the help of thousands of volunteers and your generous donations, Meals-on-Wheels of Senior Services continues to grow and respond to the needs of an expanding senior population.
A recent campaign to recruit 100 new Meals-on-Wheels volunteers in 100 days resulted in 112 new drivers taking food to people in need. Even though more volunteers are needed, we send our sincere thanks to all who responded. With the help of a caring community, Meals-on-Wheels will continue to be here for the frail elderly long past the next 50 years.
In 1962, just one year after the Winston-Salem Sentinel’s front-page headline sounded the alarm “Malnutrition Hurting Aged,” the Meal-on-Wheels program of Senior Services, Inc., was born. Thanks to the leadership and backing of two men, philanthropist Charles H. Babcock and Mayor Marshall Kurfees, Winston-Salem’s Meals-on-Wheels began delivering hot meals to homebound seniors five days a week, becoming one of the first three such programs in the country. The Rev. J. Glenn Blackburn, pastor of Wake Forest Baptist Church, whose church was the first in town to help implement the program, enlisted volunteers Hellen Prichard and Thomasine Hayes to head up delivery efforts. With the recruitment of Juanita Gordon, a dynamic team was in place.
Hellen Prichard, upon learning of the need for more volunteers, recently returned to delivering meals again after a 24-year hiatus. In a 2004 interview Hellen talked about the beginnings of the program. “We felt we needed to involve as many people in helping,” she said, “so we could deliver to more people, so I went to the various churches all over Winston. As soon as I finished my presentation they all said, ‘I’ll give; I’ll give.’ And I said, ‘No… no… I don’t want money. I want your hands and feet. I need helpers.’ And with that, they came through,” and the Meals-on-Wheels volunteers corps, now nearly more than 1,650 strong, was launched.
It is often said that the food delivered by Meals-on-Wheels volunteers nourishes the body and that the visits of the volunteers nourish the soul. As Hellen pointed out, “Oftentimes the people would be waiting at the doors for you. They just couldn’t wait for you to get there. They would put the meals down and then they’d say, ‘Talk to me.’ They really wanted contact with people. And after all, that’s one of the most important things.”
That is something that hasn’t changed in 50 years. In responding to customer satisfaction survey questions, meal recipients always emphasize the importance of the volunteers’ visits. For example, comments prompted by the 2011 survey include these:
- Your volunteers bring sunshine to my day.
- Everyone is just so kind and courteous. When they bring the meals, they are really demonstrating what it is to serve one another with gladness —thanks so much and God bless you all!
- Meals-on-Wheels is a blessing to us since my husband and I cannot get around. Helps us to get through the day. Also, it helps knowing someone actually sees us every day. God Bless!!
- I also enjoy having the companionship of meeting such nice people who, even though they do not really know you, they care.
And that’s the heart of Meals-on-Wheels. It’s all about caring. Congratulations to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County community—volunteers and donors alike— for making this first 50 years of caring possible.
Previous Spotlight Stories
Be Inspired!
Hellen Prichard, one of three women who started Meals-on-Wheels in Winston-Salem in 1962, is back delivering meals after a 24-year hiatus. As a co-founder of Meals-on-Wheels with friends Thomasine Hayes and Juanita Gordon, Hellen delivered meals for 25 years as a volunteer for Senior Services. But when she recently read about the program’s need for “100 Volunteers in 100 Days,” she answered the call and volunteered again. Now in her eighties, she doesn’t get around as well as she used to, but with the help of her driver, Antonio, she’s back delivering meals to 12 homebound seniors one Friday a month. Senior Services extends a warm thanks to Hellen Prichard for all she has done to help seniors in our community.
Read the recent story on Hellen and her return to Meals-on-Wheels in the Winston-Salem Journal, and be inspired!
Senior Stocking Drive Under Way
Thinking about the holidays yet? Senior Services is, as we begin our annual Senior Stocking drive with help from Piedmont Federal Savings Bank, our Senior Stocking corporate sponsor.
Please take a look at our wish list, which you can print out and carry with you in the weeks ahead and refer to as you begin shopping for holiday gifts. At that time, won’t you please remember our community’s elderly in need and purchase a few of these items to take either to Senior Services or a Piedmont Federal Savings branch on or before December 20, in time for holiday delivery to our program participants?
Your generosity and kindness will let some local seniors who might otherwise be forgotten at this time of year know that someone thinks they’re special. And they are. ’Tis the season!
Meals-on-Wheels Volunteer's Story Being Broadcast on Christmas Day
Don’t miss the vivid stories of long-term Meals on-Wheels volunteer Jim Hancock next week on StoryLine. Jim, retired president of Frank L. Blum Construction Company, was interviewed last summer by Sally McLeod, former Senior Services volunteer coordinator, for the StoryLine project, which collects and shares the stories of everyday people in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County. Excerpts from their conversation, aired originally in October, will be the StoryLine Feature the week of December 25. You can listen on the Storyline website. It will also be featured on Storyline's Facebook page.
Jim’s story will also be aired in both English and Spanish by StoryLine’s radio partners. Below you can find the days and times when StoryLine stories can be heard:
- QuePasa: Thursdays at 9:53 A.M. in Greensboro/Winston-Salem on 1470/1380 AM and in Raleigh/Durham on 1000 AM and 1530 AM
- WFDD: 88.5 FM Sundays at 8:34 A.M.
- WSJS: 600 – on1200 AM Sundays at 9:30 A.M.
- WSNC: 90.5 FM Mondays at 10:30; Wednesdays at 10:30 & 2:30; Fridays at 2:30; Saturdays at 1:30 & 6:30; and Sundays at 9:30 & 6:30.
The StoryLine project “was initiated by Winston-Salem's ECHO Council to honor the rich diversity of voices throughout our community and to celebrate our history, hopes and common humanity.”
 100 Days, 100 Volunteers. . . ALMOST THERE!
Senior Services' Meals-on-Wheels program can all but declare victory in its campaign to recruit 100 volunteers in 100 days. With 98 new volunteers signed up (and perhaps a few more on the verge of calling in), Volunteer Coordinator Leslie Smith is, no doubt, pleased with the community's response. She is still aiming for her goal, though, and even at 100, the need for volunteers will continue.
As with any project relying for its success on a large volunteer component, regular attrition steadily calls for replacements to fill the shoes of departing volunteers. So even though this particular volunteer recruitment drive is winding down, the need for new volunteers will remain.
Please give Leslie a call at 721-6910 if you can spare an hour and a half, one day a week or one day a month, to deliver hot nutritious meals to the homebound elderly. There are some seniors out there just waiting for a visit from you! We're on a roll. Let's not stop!
House of Plants to Benefit Senior Services on October 1
Buy your fall flowers this Saturday, October 1, and help our community's seniors. House of Plants, located at 507 Harvey Street, will be donating 15% of all sales this Saturday to Senior Services. To get to House of Plants, turn onto Executive Park Boulevard from Stratford Road and take the first right onto Harvey Street. Happy shopping (and planting)!
ARTSfest 2011 Honoring Senior Services
Senior Services, Inc., has been named the first-ever Honorary Title Sponsor for ARTSfest, the juried fine arts and crafts fair held every two years in Historic West End's Grace Court. This year's event, which will be held Saturday, September 24 from 10:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. (rain date is Sunday, September 25), will feature more than 60 artists from North Carolina, Virginia, New York, Florida and Ireland, working in jewelry, paint, ceramics, photography, fiber, wood, metal, sculpture and glass.
Event organizers recommend, “Experience the arts amid the artistry of nature.
Experience ARTSfest!" While visiting ARTSfest 2011, don’t forget to stop by the Senior Services table and say hello. Click here for more information.
"A Dream Volunteer"
Volunteer Agnete Mansori is a Danish dynamo at Senior Services. A retired health care manager and physical therapist, Agnete first came to the United States from Denmark through a college student exchange program. Her career and travels were well suited for a born “people person” like Agnete.
After college graduation, Agnete returned to America to take a health care position in Iowa, and followed career and marriage to Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, where she finished rearing her three children, a son and two daughters. She met her husband, a doctor from Pakistan, at the mailbox in the apartment building where they both were living -- and-with their marriage, she said, her view of life and the world opened up. Theirs was a multi-cultural home, as she described it, and she believes that for her children, as well as herself, it provided a “bigger world view.” At their core “people everywhere are all the same,” she said.
It was board member and Meals-on-Wheels volunteer Dell James who introduced Agnete to Senior Services, shortly after Agnete had moved to Winston-Salem in 2004. Dell and Agnete are “co-inlaws,” so to speak. Dell is the mother-in-law of one of Agnete’s daughters, and Agnete, the mother-in-law of Dell’s son.
Because of Dell’s encouragement, Agnete volunteered to help in the Development Office at Senior Services in April of this year. She has gamely tackled every assignment sent her way, from addressing envelopes to organizing several years’ worth of news clippings to looking up addresses to working on detailed Excel spreadsheets.
“She’s a dream volunteer,” says Patty Mead, the director of Senior Services’ Annual Fund and special events. “For the longest time we had been hoping for someone like her but didn’t imagine she existed.”
Her genuine openness and love of people, along with her top-notch organizational skills and willingness to work hard, have quickly endeared this volunteer to her Development “teammates” and make her a very valuable Senior Services asset.
Senior Services is lucky to have been able to tap Agnete’s many talents and skills. She said completing the tasks that come her way really does give her a sense of accomplishment, and she is enjoying stepping outside the health care field and doing something different.
Nick Bragg's "Reflections!"
A retrospective exhibit of more than 20 paintings by Nick Bragg is now open for public viewing at Senior Services. The exhibit covers more than 30 years of work reflecting the people and places that have had a profound impact on the artist’s life. The exhibit is open to the public Monday-Friday 8:30 A.M.–4:00 P.M. at Senior Services, 2895 Shorefair Drive. A reception honoring the artist will be held at the Senior Services Friday, August 26 from 5:00 until 7:00 P.M.
According to Nick Bragg, artist and former executive director of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, he does not paint “pictures.” Rather, he paints “reflections—my point of view,” he says, on “thoughts, ideas, feelings and places.”
Bragg, a volunteer curator for the Senior Services Center gallery, included a wide range of work in the retrospective exhibit. The show includes portraits of his friends, acquaintances and mentors, along with several mural studies and paintings by his son, Kevin Bragg, and his granddaughter, Taylor Bragg, representing the second and third generations of Bragg artists.
Regarding his work Bragg states, “I am not trying to be literal, or realistic. I try to communicate my concern with the world we come from, the world in which we live today, and the world we are passing to our children and grandchildren, hopefully, for a reasonable future.”
Local Seniors Respond Generously!
The spirit of Christmas in July is alive and well in the middle of this hot summer. Despite the heat volunteers generously contributed hundreds of hours collecting needed items for local seniors. Sponsored by Piedmont Federal Savings Bank, the program brought groups together like the Winston-Salem Elks Lodge #449, which championed the cause and collected dozens of bags of supplies.
Pictured (left to right) are Randy Zigmund, Elks Event Chairman; Patricia Mead, Director of Annual Funds & Special Events for Senior Services; Pat Stanley, past Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler; and Cathy Stanley, current Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler.
In addition to the remarkable work of the Elks Lodge, we thank all the many groups and individuals who contributed to the Christmas in July drive this year, including Beck’s Baptist Church, College Park Baptist Church, Hawthorne Pharmacy, New Philadelphia Moravian Church, the Old Salem Sertoma Club, Piedmont Medical Research LLC, Targacept, Whitaker Elementary School, Zion Memorial Baptist Church, Union Cross Baptist Church and New Bethel Baptist Church. Families also contributed large amounts of supplies. A special thanks to the Beeson family of Kernersville.
All together, 59 individuals, families, churches, businesses and civic group brought their items to Senior Services, while hundreds more placed their goods in collection boxes at the branches of Piedmont Federal Savings Bank. Items collected included adult diapers, disposable bed pads, shampoo, shaving cream, hand sanitizer, detergent, paper towels, toilet paper and dishwashing liquid, in addition to food items, which are a year-round wish list need.
The Christmas in July donations make all the difference to seniors trying to stretch fixed income dollars to cover food, housing, medical bills and prescription costs. Once again our caring community has extended a helping hand. On behalf of all the recipients of this holiday bounty, many thanks for caring and sharing!
BB&T Lighthouse Team Shines!
Volunteers from BB&T Insurance recently contributed 119 hours to the Williams Adult Day Center through BB&T’s national Lighthouse Project. The team, led by Pam Davis, chose the Williams Center for its project because of the great work they do in Winston-Salem, said Pam. This was the third annual Lighthouse Project, a BB&T effort to assist nonprofits.
The team of volunteers constructed four elevated garden beds and installed a basketball goal to encourage outdoor recreation for the Williams Center’s participants. The team also donated basketball jerseys and balls, along with a storage credenza. In addition, it arranged for shutters to be installed to close off the kitchen from the program areas.
One of the highlights of the team’s involvement was a fashion show of crazy hats, which brought laughter to the participants and staff of the Williams Center.
The volunteers followed up their fashion show with refreshments, music and dancing.
During the three years of the Lighthouse Project, BB&T employees have donated nearly 100,000 hours to help improve the lives of more that three million people in 25 states. Employees voted overwhelmingly to bring back the initiative this year, and the staff and participants at the Williams Center couldn’t have been happier. Thank you, BB&T!
Flower Power
Volunteers come together in the Meals-on-Wheels pick-up room at least twice a month, toting buckets of flowers and masses of greenery, to assemble arrangements and nosegays for participants in Senior Services’ Home Care, Living-at-Home and Meals-on-Wheels programs. The colorful and aromatic blooms may come from their own gardens, a neighbor’s back yard, the grocery store floral department or someone’s wedding reception. Whatever the source of the flowers, the talented volunteers combine them in creative ways that have delighted hundreds of homebound seniors.
Several local garden clubs have come on board, joining the core group of volunteers who launched the program in 2007, and from September through May they also contribute volunteers, materials and often financial support to make sure a fresh supply of flower arrangements is available for delivery.
The idea for Gifts from Gran’s Garden was brought to Senior Services by Lila Jenkins Cruikshank, who has shepherded the program since its inception. She explained her inspiration, “This program is a memorial in honor of my mother, Lila Womble Jenkins, who treasured the ability to stay in her home until her death in August 2006, who loved people almost more than life itself, and who loved flowers as an expression of beauty, joy, and shared them abundantly from her garden as gifts of love.”
The elderly individuals on the receiving end of these “gifts of love” have expressed their appreciation many times over and in many ways. One recipient phoned, saying, “I couldn’t wait another day to call and tell you how much those flowers mean to me. To think that someone went to the trouble of making the bouquets for us! You made my week!”
An intern with the Living-at-Home program observed, “Every client I have been able to bring the flowers to has been so appreciative. I doubt many of them receive flowers anymore unless they are hospitalized, so having someone bring them flowers ‘just because’ seems to help them realize that they are loved and thought of.” She concluded (and no one would disagree), “This is a wonderful program!”
Piedmont Natural Gas Sponsoring Senior Nutrition Series
Thanks to Piedmont Natural Gas, the second in a series of workshops for senior nutrition providers in 16 North Carolina counties will be held June 24. The workshop begins at 12:00 noon at the Senior Services Center, 2895 Shorefair Drive.
The series is designed to share best practices and enhance and improve nutrition programs in the state. Workshops also provide an opportunity for agencies operating senior nutrition programs to network and share ideas, challenges and successes. Participants at each workshop help craft the topics for subsequent sessions.
The topics chosen for the June workshop include volunteer recruitment and retention, fundraising and marketing, and risk management. The agenda also includes a presentation by Mike Durham, community relations manager for Legislative and Community Affairs in PNG’s western NC Region. He will be speaking about this innovative PNG-sponsored community enrichment initiative.
The main topic of the first workshop, held in April, was “Program Enhancements –More than a Meal.” The featured speaker was Dr. Jamehl Demons, assistant professor at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Section on Gerontology and Geriatrics at the J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging, who addressed the topic “Fall Prevention: Identifying Risk Factors.” Topics and speakers for the remaining workshops in the series are to be announced.
At Least a Week Before More Fans Available; Call Before Coming to Pick One Up!
With so many 90-plus-degree days already in the books for 2011, it’s easy to imagine what a steamy summer season lies before us. The fan distribution program, a multi-year partnership funded by Duke Energy in partnership with the Northwest Piedmont Area Agency on Aging and Senior Services, is now under way to help Forsyth County seniors deal with the dangerous high temperatures.
Heat stroke, heat cramps and heat exhaustion, each a major health problem, are real possibilities when the thermometer climbs into the 90s, and the health of the elderly is especially at risk. See the “Stay Cool” fact sheet, which offers recommendations for dealing with the heat and the life-threatening situations it can precipitate.
Since May 16, there have been 758 fans given out to Forsyth County seniors in need of home-cooling assistance, depleting the original stock, and an order has been placed for 350 more. The delivery of these fans is not expected any earlier than June 24. Please call 725-0907 to be sure that fans are available before making a trip to pick one up.
To be eligible to receive a fan, individuals must be 60 years of age or older, reside in Forsyth County and be faced with a home situation that presents a threat to their health and well-being owing to the lack of adequate cooling. The number to call for general information regarding the fan program is also 725-0907. 
Catch the Spirit Early!
Piedmont Federal Savings Bank continues its partnership with Senior Services, sponsoring our 2011 Christmas in July celebration. Together we invite you or your faith or civic group to jump on our holiday bandwagon and purchase some of the items on our wish list for delivery to older adults in our community who are in need of the basics.
Please take a look at our wish list, which you can print out and carry with you in the weeks ahead and refer to during the course of your regular shopping trips. Won’t you please remember our community’s elderly in need and purchase a few of these items to bring either to Senior Services or to a Piedmont Federal Savings Bank branch on or before July 30?
Thank you so much! Your kindness and generosity will send the message that someone cares. 
Volunteers Become Our Role Models
We recently sent out a request on our FACEBOOK page for people to tell us about seniors who are role models for them. This response from Ellen Murphy of Winston-Salem made us smile and we wanted to share it with everyone.
I met Eunice and Harry Heilig on the Board of the Friends of Reynolda Manor Library where they have served for many years. I quickly learned that the Reynolda Manor Library is but one of many organizations that Eunice and Harry serve, selflessly. In fact, they deliver Meals-on-Wheels each month. They also serve, or have volunteered at Family Services, the Reynolda House Museum of Art, and the Wake Forest University Baptist Church, to name but a few.
But volunteer work is not the only way Eunice and Harry serve our community. They have a full calendar of cultural activities attending four out of five of the arts, literary, and academic events in Winston-Salem. They support our non-profits, universities, public school, and community providers, as well as our artists, authors, scholars, and community advocates. They share their time, money, and energy, in every way, selflessly and with an eagerness and enthusiasm that is unmatched, at any age.
All of us in Winston-Salem are lucky to have Eunice and Harry in our community. I am fortunate to have Eunice and Harry as role models and as friends.
A Very Big THANK YOU. . .
to the artists who donated their work and the hundreds who came out on Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20, to see and purchase their paintings, pottery, jewelry, art glass, woodcarvings and more, thereby supporting Meals-on-Wheels. The event was a tremendous success, and preliminary results indicate that at least 22 seniors will receive hot, nutritious meals for a full year thanks to the portion of the proceeds donated by the not only very talented but also very generous artists.
ART SHOW AND SALE
Benefiting Meals-on-Wheels
Make sure you don't miss one of the best art shows of the year! Local artists will be coming together on March 19 and 20 to help feed those in need. A portion of the sale proceeds will go to Meals-on-Wheels.
Nearly 40 top-flight artists from the Piedmont area will be displaying and selling their works. There will be a wide variety of media, styles, sizes and prices.
Event is free and open to the public. Remember to mark your calendars and join us 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. on Saturday the 19th or 2:00-4:00 P.M. on Sunday the 20th at the Senior Services Center, 2895 Shorefair Drive.
Featured artists as of March 3, 2011, include Nick Bragg, Charlie Buchanan, Melrose Buchanan, Steve Childs, Sandra Cieszewski, Becky Connelly, Joyce Corns, Bonnie Dempster, Karen Evans, Bill Gramley, Louis Guidetti, Alix Hitchcock, Dell James, Justine Linville, Barbara Lister-Sink, Shirley Gobble Marriott, Mary Martha McKinley, Gail Morris, Warren Moyer, Trish Putnam, Brook Reynolds, Bobby Roebuck, Fowler Ruffin, John Schultz, Anne Kessler Shields, Bruce Smith, Gerrii Spach, Charles Stott, Peggy Taylor, Marsha Thrift, Carol Willis, Mona Wu, Jim Yarbrough, and Jody Danner Walker.
Senior Services Elects
New Board Officers and Members
The Senior Services, Inc., Board of Trustees and the Senior Services Foundation, Inc., board have elected new board officers and members for 2011. Philip R. S. Waugh, Jr., is heading up the board of trustees as chairman, and Marian M. Douglas is chairing the foundation board.
New members elected to the Board of Trustees of Senior Services, Inc., are Brian Lantz, vice president of Investor Relations for Hanesbrands, Inc.; Susan Mann, community volunteer; Tommy J. Payne, president of Niconovum USA, Inc.; and David R. Smelcer, senior vice president and head of lending, Piedmont Federal Savings Bank.
Other officers of the board of trustees elected for 2011 are Betsy Hoppe, secretary; Robert A. Emken, Jr., treasurer, and Charles H. Hauser, immediate past board chair.
Elected to three-year terms on the board of the Senior Services Foundation, Inc., a supporting organization of Senior Services, Inc., were Veronica C. Black, retired R. J. Reynolds senior vice president/group executive; John B. Brady, retired owner of Brady Furniture Company; Jeffrey C. Howland, attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC; Kayce King, director of Client Management, Wells Fargo Family Wealth; Elizabeth L. Quick, attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC; Eric Sadler, D.D.S.; Sally H. Sutton, community volunteer; and David G. Townsend, managing partner, BB&T Capital Partners. Joining them on the 2011 foundation board as an appointee will be Senior Services, Inc., Board of Trustees Chair Philip R. S. Waugh, Jr.
Senior Services Foundation board officers, in addition to Mrs. Douglas, are Victor I. Flow, Jr., chair-elect; Aurelia G. Eller, secretary; and Richard N. Davis, treasurer.
Fabled, Fabulous and Family!
Volunteers are the heart of Senior Services, it is often said, and at the heart of the Senior Services’ volunteer corps are three fantastic ladies—Katherine Davis, Chris Adams and June Crummett—who have been volunteering with Senior Services for many years. Anyone dropping in at the Senior Services Center on a given day could see one, two or all three of them hard at work and wouldn’t be able to distinguish them from the paid staff. Their dedication to the agency, the hours they put in and the fine work they do has endeared them to every staff member at Senior Services.
Katherine Davis began volunteering for Senior Services at the old Tobacco Square offices more than 12 years ago as a member of the Pilot Club, a community service group. She has remained a part of Senior Services ever since, dedicating countless hours to the Help Line program, with other programs benefiting from her involvement as well. And it was she who recruited the balance of the team that has come to be known as “The Three Musketeers.” When asked what led her to make such a long-term and time-consuming commitment to Senior Services, Katherine stated, “I really admire what they do for the community, and the staff has always been so helpful. I truly praise their leadership.”
Retired from Integon, volunteer Christine Adams, after being introduced to Senior Services by her dear friend Katherine, took on a key role in the direct mail annual fund drive. The Development team relies on her sharp eye and attention to detail in their other projects, as well. Chris, as she prefers to be called, said that one of her fondest memories as a volunteer was the time President and CEO Richard Gottlieb rang the “gong,” signaling all the staff to gather ’round. Chris arrived in the lobby to see what the big news was, only to find that he and the staff wanted to wish her a happy 89th birthday. “They always make me feel so good here,” she smiled.
The third member of the trio, June Crummett, after losing her husband in 2005, was looking for a way to “give back” to the community by volunteering with an organization where she could make a difference. Soon after Katherine had suggested that she check out Senior Services, June found herself in the midst of the annual fund campaign. Since then she has continued working with the Development staff and taking on varied administrative projects as well. When asked what keeps her coming back, she explained, “I really enjoy working with the staff at Senior Services. They make you feel like you are part of their family.”
Without doubt, Katherine, Chris and June ARE a part—and personify the heart—of the Senior Services family!
Follow Us on Facebook
Senior Services invites you to get prompt access to our news through Facebook. Just visit the LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR WEBPAGES for quick access. If you have your own Facebook account, you can become a ‘fan’ of the Senior Services page and get regular updates. Thanks for joining us on Facebook!
The Perfect Gift
Let Senior Services take care of your holiday gift list this year. Make a gift in honor of your loved ones and support Senior Services at the same time. Just call Tom Dawson at (336) 725-0907 to make your gifts in honor or in memory of your special friends.
Here are two ways to honor friends and family with gifts to Senior Services:
You can purchase special gift enclosure cards at the Senior Services Center. The cost is $5.00 per enclosure card or six cards for $20.00.
Or you can arrange to have personalized holiday honorarium messages printed on Senior Services’ embossed note cards and mailed for you. Each holiday message includes your name and that of the person or persons you are honoring. A minimum donation for this customized service is $25.00 per card.
Honor the special people in your life with a gift to Senior Services, or to any of its programs. What a wonderful tribute to the people close to you!
Dr. Doug Maynard Prescribes Giving Generously
“The annual fund is the lifeblood of this organization,” said Dr. Doug Maynard, chairman of Senior Services’ annual fund campaign. “The yearly generous support of thousands of individuals, companies and religious groups is what lets Senior Services help so many older adults,” he said on the eve of the launch of the fall annual fund reminder campaign. Thousands of letters have been mailed, asking past donors to renew their support and help the organization move forward robustly into the new year.
Dr. Maynard serves as a member of the Board of Trustees and an enthusiastic volunteer member of the fundraising team. As head of the board’s Development Committee, he takes a keen interest in how the campaign is progressing, knowing how important the community donations are to Senior Services’ ability to maintain its services to local seniors.
“I personally identify with Senior Services’ programs that help older seniors live at home as long as possible,” he commented. Dr. Maynard’s commitment to the organization and its programs shows in the amount of time he spends making phone calls on behalf of Senior Services’ funding drive and in the countless letters he has signed to prospective donors, many of whom have received personal notes from him with thanks for past support and encouragement for continued and increased support.
A nationally and internationally known author and speaker in the field of radiology, Dr. Maynard is Professor Emeritus of Radiology for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, of which he is a graduate (then the Bowman Gray School of Medicine). He served in many leadership positions there, including Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology, Acting Dean of the Medical School and Special Advisor to the President of WFU Health Sciences. A diplomate of the American Board of Radiology and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Maynard is the recipient of many awards, including the Medallion of Merit, the highest honor bestowed by Wake Forest University, where he also did his undergraduate work.
Very active in the community, Dr. Maynard is a member of Leadership Winston-Salem and serves on the board of Piedmont Triad Research Park, in addition to that of Senior Services. His previous board service includes Forsyth Technical Community College, the Forsyth Technical Community College Foundation, the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Development Corporation, and Winston-Salem Business, Inc.
He and his wife, Mary Anne, are the proud parents of three children and the devoted grandparents of nine grandchildren.
Williams Center: Best in US!
The Elizabeth and Tab Williams Adult Day Center of Senior Services, Inc., has been recognized as the nation’s top adult day center by the National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA). The Williams Center was lauded for its “expertise, experience, innovation, creativity, kindness and compassion.” The award was formally announced and presented in Raleigh on August 21 with Jean Small, vice president of Senior Services’ Adult Day Services, accepting the award on behalf of Senior Services.
“We are pleased to accept this award and recognition,” Jean said. “We fully understand that this award belongs to everyone at Senior Services and to the Board and to this wonderful community,” she added.
This is the first win for a North Carolina program; past winners were located in Illinois, Wisconsin, Louisiana and Arizona. The criteria used in selecting the winning program included the areas of creative programming, specialized and personalized services, exceptional programs and services, and unique or well-established community partnerships. The national award recognizes the Williams Center as a model for “best practices,” from which other centers can learn.
The Elizabeth and Tab Williams Day Center was opened in May 2000. It is located at 231 Melrose Street in Winston-Salem, NC. The center provides support, supervision and health care monitoring to 250 persons with memory loss annually. See WGHP FOX 8 video to get a glimpse of the Williams Center program "live."
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