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Wilma Wilson retired from the junior choir directorship and Elyse Hensley and Marcia Harlow took the reins for a short time. Millie Cary was invaluable in leading the way for the clothing projects, and was a sweetheart to be around, especially when she brought lunches from Plehn’s! The Lenten Recital Series gathered steam and we produced $1322 to buy food for our growing food ministry. I was always adamant that the free will offerings should not go to US but to the poor or to some outreach project like helping David duPlantier’s Cathedral in New Orleans after Katrina. After 2012, the music program took it all for themselves, but thankfully we are now back on track giving proceeds to outreach again. I think I already said Shawn asked me to head the cooking part up, probably because I make sure all food is donated (lots by me), and he even often lets me play a recital on the series. Do I detect a bit of sarcasm?
And there was more JELLY! Dorothy Jones went nuts in 1996, so much so that I want to reprint what was written in the annual report for 1996:
Over the last few years, the sale of homemade jellies, jams, and fresh breads has provided much for the betterment of Calvary. It all started back in 1992, when we decided that raspberries could be made into jelly and then sold to benefit a particular outreach project. First came a triple door freezer and a double door refrigerator to house all the perishable items for the Food Closet. Then, the proceeds bought a new refrigerator and microwave for the kitchen, new carpet for the side aisles in the nave, a dividing wall for the new church school room, and needlepoint supplies for the chancel chair kneelers. In 1996, proceeds from the jelly sales were used exclusively for the purchase of food to hand out to our clients. $5,187.06 was raised and spent, a fantastic tribute to those who made those wonderful items. 2,303 jars were sold, and add to that, ten loaves of bread a week. Bill Garnar made the bread, and Dorothy Jones made all of those jellies and jams. We may never again see people like that, and I am eternally grateful to both of them, and to Sam Rosenberg as well, who lugged it all around and donated thousands of Kizuto (Sp?) cookies on his own.
Melvin turned 60 on June 9, 1996 and it was a perfect time for celebration. We had made many trips back to Germany over the years, some even with kids, some on concert tours, and always some to
Melvin. That took lots of secret planning. Michael Eisenmann had arranged to have the Verdienstkreuz awarded to Melvin and that was a fantastic surprise. That is a medal awarded to people who have made outstanding contributions to cultural life in Germany and beyond, and echoes the Fulbright concept of furthering relationships between peoples
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including the Walchas up until their deaths (Ursula joining Helmut in 1991, something she had wanted ever since he died). The birthday itself was celebrated in Amsterdam with German friends Hoffmanns and Eisenmanns, as well as Rudwells and others, all as a surprise for
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