HAPPY THIRD!!!
from the staff of The Complement
This is issue #36 of The Complement, which means that our dedicated band of volunteer journalists has been putting out a monthly issue for three whole years. Happy Anniversary to us, and especially to you, our readers.
With our accumulated experience and some welcome additions to our staff, we are planning some upgrades and modifications to The Complement. Two of them are making an initial appearance as prototypes in this issue.
left to right — back: Robert Mumby, Reina Lopez, Tom Conger, Connie Kent, George Yates; front: Joni Johnson, Bob Buddemeier, Diane Friedlander.
The event calendar is being reformatted to improve appearance and readability. The first application is to the list of events submitted by Sarah Karnatz, Director of Community engagement (click here to view). Once we get this worked out, we’ll move to the Entertainment Committee’s program list — and as we work through this, we will be linking available programs, event descriptions, and performer bios to the listings.
We are going to be presenting somewhat longer and more thorough articles on topics of potential interest — some relevant to RVM, and others of more general interest. Initially we will identify these with the label “ESSAY.” The first of these will be George Yates’s article on a musical instrument that few have heard of, but almost everyone has heard — “The Theremin and the Birth of Electronic Music.”
We urge you to join us in our 3-year upgrade. Please get in touch if you can contribute an article, feature, or review, (or if you have any interest in joining our companionable and productive staff!) and let us know if you have comments on our past and present, or suggestions for the future. Feel free to contact any of the Complement team:
Bob Buddemeier, Tom Conger, Diane Friedlander, Joni Johnson, Connie Kent, Reina Lopez, Robert Mumby, and George Yates.
And thank you for your attention and encouragement
Dear The Complement team:
First, heartfelt congratulations on the third anniversary of The Complement.
It would be ungrateful to not acknowledge with gratitude the warm welcome Anita and I have received upon our “return to the RVM”. Our nine months sojourn in Geneva, Switzerland proved to be disappointing — the mildest and the politest way to put it. The one lesson we learned again is “appearances can be deceptive”. What’s universally talked about Switzerland is that it is a paradise.Yes perhaps for well-off tourists but we wouldn’t recommend it for permanent residence, particularly for people of our age.
In closing we also wish to say that we are more than satisfied with our decision to return to RVM. It is not perfect but then which CCRC in the U.S. is perfect
Russy Sumariwalla