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7 LANSDOWNE NEWS, AUTUMN 2020

Happy Birthday

We wish the following residents
a very Happy Birthday:

March

5 March Adele M.

6 March Betty R.

Gweneth B. &
8 March
John W.
16 March Noel L.
Meet Jasmine Green
19 March Warwick D.

20 March Koula D.
As a child, Jasmine didn’t run away and join the circus. Instead,
21 March Joan L. Ashton’s circus took her on tour as a member of their children’s star
dance troupe. Jasmine was thirteen years old when she travelled with
24 March Kenneth C. the show to many parts of Australia and performed under the famous
big top. It was an exhilarating reward for her dedication to ballet and
April
callisthenics from the time she was very young.
1 April Philip T.
Back in her hometown of Melbourne, Jasmine, over the next few years
4 April Mary N.
began to teach dance and physical education at a number of high
Shirley W. &
8 April schools. As often as not, her students were older than herself! During
Margaret McC. this time she also developed a passion for choreography. From her
9 April Wai L. mid‐teens through to her early twenties, Jasmine created numerous
routines for marching bands, pantomime acts, high school
10 April Dawn S. performances and recreational productions.
13 April Lorna H. Then the time came when Jasmine attended a social function, little
realising that it would be a life‐changing occasion. It was at this event
17 April Gwendoline L. that she met her future husband, Trevor, who was visiting from
Sydney. It was a classic case of love at first sight. Following a whirlwind
25 April Joan H.
romance, Trevor asked Jasmine to marry him exactly one week after
May they first met. After a short engagement, they were married in
Melbourne on the second last day of the autumn of 1964.
2 May Blanche W.
Jasmine then relocated to Sydney, where she thrived as a full‐time
6 May Rhoda Mc.
wife and homemaker. Parenthood followed, and the immeasurable
12 May Marie B. extent of Jasmine’s loving devotion to her two sons, Brad and Dan,
was obvious to all who knew her. Meanwhile, assisted by Jasmine’s
Beverley G. &
13 May unlimited encouragement and support, her husband, Trevor, pursued
Shirley F.
his entrepreneurial ambitions and branched out from his job as a
21 May Margaret R. pharmacy store manager to establish a successful business of his own,
manufacturing and distributing proprietary pharmaceutical products.
24 May Alison G.
Jasmine Green is an enormously proud and devoted mother, and a
Gregory M. &
26 May naturally gifted teacher. Above all she has always been renowned for
Jennifer W.
her generosity and kind‐heartedness, invariably at the ready with a
special present for her friends or the warmest of long, caring hugs for
27 May Maxwell C.
any visitor.
28 May Glory B.

30 May Margaret L.