Lebanon County 50plus Senior News March 2014

Priscilla Kaufhold, program director for The Iris Club, on the club’s grand staircase. Over hershoulder is a portrait of Alice Nevin, who founded the women’s club in 1895.

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By Megan Joyce

Our 21st-century dance styles would likely leave the ragtime-dancing,Edwardian-era female founders of The Iris Club confused at best.

But those progressive-for-their-time ladies would be pleased by theirmodern club’s continuing dedication to community service, women’sempowerment, and artistic and enlightened entertainment—spearheaded byits current program director, Priscilla Kaufhold.

“She is always full of great ideas,” said Carol Szutowicz, The Iris Club’sfirst vice president. “While many people have that talent, the difference isPriscilla works to make those ideas happen and sees projects through to theend.”

The Iris Club formed in 1895 when Alice Nevin, daughter of Franklin &Marshall College President John Williamson Nevin, invited 70 women to herhome to initiate a club to encourage women’s socialization and communityinvolvement.

The club’s downtown building was purchased in 1898 and still hosts theclub’s twice-monthly meetings, where members enjoy lunch, entertainment,friendship, and high tea. In October 2013, the club celebrated its 115th

Women’s Club Benefits from ProgramDirector’s Arts Pedigree

Dedication andDance through

the Ages

please see DANCE page 14

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Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates Remain Low

About one in three adults aged 50 to75 years have not been tested forcolorectal cancer as recommended by theUnited States Preventive Services TaskForce (USPSTF), according to a newVital Signs report from the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention.

Despite research that shows colorectalcancer screening tests save lives, screeningrates remain too low.

“There are more than 20 millionadults in this country who haven’t hadany recommended screening forcolorectal cancer and who may thereforeget cancer and die from a preventabletragedy,” said CDC Director TomFrieden, M.D., M.P.H.

“Screening for colorectal cancer iseffective and can save your life.”

Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cancer killer among men andwomen in the United States, after lungcancer. Screening tests can prevent canceror detect it at an early stage, whentreatment can be highly effective.

Adults aged 50 years and older shouldget tested with one or a combination ofthese screening tests:

• Fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or fecal

immunochemical test (FIT) done athome every year

• Flexiblesigmoidoscopy,done every fiveyears, withFOBT/FITdone everythree years

• Colonoscopydone every 10years

A colon-oscopy candetect cancerearly, and it canfind precancer-ous polyps sothey can beremoved beforethey turn into cancer.

An FOBT/FIT is a simple at-hometest that can detect cancer early byidentifying blood in the stool, a possiblesign of cancer.

People are not always offered a choiceof colorectal cancer tests, but studies

have shown that people who are able tochoose the test they prefer are more likelyto get the test done.

CDCresearchersreviewedcolorectalcancerscreening datafrom CDC’s2012Behavioral RiskFactorSurveillanceSystem toestimate thepercentage ofpeople aged 50to 75 years whoreported gettingscreened asrecommendedby type of test.

Major findings:

• Among adults who were screened asrecommended, colonoscopy was by farthe most common screening test (62percent). Use of the other USPSTF-recommended tests was much lower:

fecal occult blood test, 10 percent, andflexible sigmoidoscopy in combinationwith FOBT/FIT, less than 1 percent.

• The highest percentage of adults whowere up to date with colorectal cancerscreening was in Massachusetts (76percent).

• Blacks and whites had similar screeningrates, but a higher percentage of blacksacross all income and education levelsused FOBT.

The authors noted that increasing useof all tests may increase screening rates.Furthermore, research shows that morepeople may get tested if healthcareproviders use an organized approach toidentify people who need to be screened;contact them at their home orcommunity setting; advise them of eachtest; and carefully monitor to make surethey complete their test.

For more information aboutpreventing colorectal cancer, please visitwww.cdc.gov/cancer/colorectal.

Source: Centers for Disease Control andPrevention

March is NationalColorectal CancerAwareness Month

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Food Stamps(800) 692-7462

Hope/Christian Ministries(717) 272-4400

Lebanon County Area Agency on AgingMeals on Wheels(717) 273-9262

Salvation Army(717) 273-2655

Alzheimer’s Association(717) 651-5020

American Cancer Society(717) 231-4582

American Diabetes Association(717) 657-4310

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association(717) 207-4265

American Lung Association(717) 541-5864

Arthritis Foundation(717) 274-0754

Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services(717) 787-7500

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Kidney Foundation(717) 652-8123

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society(717) 652-6520

Lupus Foundation(888) 215-8787

Melnick, Moffitt, and Mesaros927 Russell Drive, Lebanon(717) 274-9775

Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hardof Hearing(800) 233-3008 V/TTY

Good Samaritan Hospital252 S. Fourth St., Lebanon(717) 270-7500

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PA Crime Stoppers(800) 472-8477

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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs(800) 827-1000

Hope (Helping Our People inEmergencies)(717) 272-4400

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Lebanon County Housing &Redevelopment Authorities(717) 274-1401

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When Richard Lawrencegraduated from highschool in 1967, he had

already heard a lot about theMarines.

His father had been a Marine inWorld War II, and his older brotherwas a Marine corporal. So he hadheard many war stories centered onwhat it meant to be a Marine.

He could hardly wait to share insome of that glory himself,so, as soon as he graduatedfrom high school, he enlistedin the Marine Corps andheaded for boot camp atParris Island, S.C. He soonfound that grindingtoughness was fundamentalin becoming a Marine.

Then it was to CampLejeune, N.C., to learn allthere was to know aboutfiring rifles, machine guns,and rockets. That wasfollowed by a flight to CampPendleton, Calif., fortraining specific to warfare inVietnam.

Ready for combat, inDecember 1967 he was flownto Da Nang, Vietnam, which was thesite of the main U.S. airbase inVietnam, with U.S. Army, Air Force,Navy, and Marine units.

What was it like to find yourselfin Vietnam?

With a thin grin, he says, “It toldus it was going to be rough, since thebase was under rocket attack as wearrived. I remember that a singlerocket killed everyone in two squadsof Marines in one of the barracksthat night.”

He was assigned to HeadquartersCompany, Service Battalion, 1st

Marine Division. And the job of hisunit was to provide protection formilitary vehicles moving back andforth on Highway One, south of DaNang.

Was that dangerous work? “Well,” he says, “it got pretty close

to me when one night I wasn’t ableto pull my duty of guarding the maingate of our camp, and the guy thatreplaced me got killed.”

Then his unit was moved north tohelp recapture Hue, the major citythat was once the capital of Vietnam.

“The city was a shambles, andthere was nothing but the mostbrutal, house-to-house fighting,”Lawrence says.

He later was transferred to HCompany, 2nd Battalion, 3rd MarineDivision for frontline fighting as arifleman.

“We had a ton of equipment,” hesays, “and you had to carry it all.Ammo for your rifle and for amachine gun, one mortar round, c-rations, plastic poncho and liner, gasmask, and four canteens of water.Believe me, it was a load!

“I headed a five-man fire teamthat once got gassed. I don’t know

what the gas was, but I rememberhaving seizures. Fortunately, I wasable to get an atropine shot, and thatprobably saved my life.

“Just about everybody got junglerot, an infection that came from theinevitable scratches we got. It waseasy to get cut up by the elephantgrass that was just as sharp as a razorblade. And there were bugseverywhere. Believe it or not, there

were centipedes that were afoot long.

“During the monsoonmonths, the rain and the heatwould rot the clothes right offyou. So we had to get themreplaced all the time.”

In January of 1969,Lawrence got hepatitis and wasmed evacuated by C-141 fromSaigon to Alaska and then to ahospital in Fort Dix, N.J.From there, he spent twomonths in the PhiladelphiaNaval Hospital.

When he recovered, hereturned to Parris Island,where he worked in the brig.Then he was transferred to thePhilippines, where he served

for 18 months as a platoon sergeantwith the responsibility of helping tosecure the base.

There, the rebel Huks would tryto steal anything in sight. One night,he broke the arm and a leg of a Hukwho was trying to steal copper wire.

Then his hitch was up, and hewas flown to a hospital in TreasureIsland, San Francisco, where he wastreated for cluster warts that were theresult of an infection he got whileserving in Vietnam. After twomonths, he was discharged from thehospital and from the Marine Corps.

He returned to CentralPennsylvania and worked inconstruction for a while, but he wassuffering from post-traumatic stressand was having recurring nightmares.He received treatment at theHarrisburg Outpatient Center andthen for four years at the LebanonVA Medical Center, where he wasdeemed to have a 100 percentdisability.

He Has a Bullet from the Rifle ofthe First Man He Killed in Combat

Robert D. Wilcox

Salute to a Veteran

Sgt. Richard G. Lawrence with South Vietnamesesoldier and captured enemy flag.

Richard Lawrence recuperatingin Philadelphia Naval Hospital in

January 1969.

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It was then he turned to his lifelonginterest in art. As a teenager, he had wona Gold Key in the Scholastic Art Show inhigh school. And even during his days inVietnam, he had continued sketching, ashe had time.

Now he was able to pursue his art inearnest, and he became an establishedartist, with 20 of his pieces exhibited inthe National Vietnam Veterans ArtMuseum in Chicago.

His work has been displayed at the art

museums of several states, and he alsoprovided the art for the book, Soldier’sHeart, which told the story of survivors’views of combat trauma.

He says that his time in Vietnam hasled to the use of the very strong colors heuses in his artwork. So those years, asdifficult as they were at the time, are verymuch with him today.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber inEurope in World War II.

Walk to Cure ArthritisLet’s walk to find a cure for arthritis

this spring by participating in theArthritis Foundation Central PA Office’s2014 Central Pennsylvania ArthritisWalk on Saturday, May 17. The walkwill be held at the U.S. Army andHeritage Education Center, 950 SoldiersDrive, Carlisle.

The Walk to Cure Arthritis is a non-competitive, 5-kilometer (3.1-mile), or 1-mile coursewith varyingdistanceoptions toaccommodateall levels offitness. Come out with your friends,family members, coworkers, and evenyour dog.

Individual walkers and teams areencouraged to walk in honor of a lovedone with arthritis, while men, women,and children living with arthritis leadthe way, wearing special blue honoreehats to signify their action in takingcontrol of their condition.

Individuals who raise $100 or morewill receive a t-shirt. There will be a VIPand team tailgate party new this year.Any individual who raises $500 or morewill be invited to the VIP area. Anyteam raising $1,000 or more will beinvited to the team tailgate party.

Arthritis affects more people thanyou might imagine. There are 52million men and women in the United

States with doctor-diagnosed arthritis. Children are also affected.

Nationwide, there are more than300,000 children who suffer from aform of juvenile arthritis, 11,500 ofwhom live in Pennsylvania.

Funds raised from the Walk to CureArthritis support hundreds of programsto help people prevent and control

arthritis. Italso fundspromisingarthritisresearch thatis critical tofinding newtherapies,treatments,

and eventually a cure for arthritis. The Arthritis Foundation is the only

nationwide, nonprofit healthorganization helping people take greatercontrol of arthritis by leading efforts toprevent, control, and cure arthritis andrelated diseases. The ArthritisFoundation also provides a largenumber of community-based serviceslocated nationwide to make life witharthritis easier and less painful.

You may register online atwww.arthritiswalkcentralpa.kintera.org.For more information on the Walk toCure Arthritis, please contact DouglasKnepp at [email protected] or (717)884-7525.

Together we can change lives, and welook forward to seeing you at the Walkto Cure Arthritis in May.

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CelebratesSeniors The method of using glass jars to

preserve food came about whenNapoleon Bonaparte's French

military sponsored a contest. The French military offered a cash

prize of 12,000 francs to the person whodevised a method to preserve food forlong periods of time. French inventorNicolas Appert was responsible forintroducing the heat-seal process ofcanning in theearly 1800s. Hewon the prize!

Later, glass jarscame of age. Inthe late 1850s—1858 to beexact—when theMason fruit jarwas patented bytin smith JohnMason, everythingchanged in theworld of canning.The Mason jarsolved the food-preservationproblem with theuse of a lid andrubber seal.Mason’s patentwas for the machine that cut tin intothreads, making it easy to manufacture ajar with a reusable screw-top lid. Mason’ssealing mechanism, comprised of a glasscontainer with a thread-molded top anda zinc lid with a rubber-seal ring, waspatented on Nov. 30, 1858.

Bacteria were killed by heating the jarsin hot water and sealing the jar while stillhot. The heat-seal process gave glass jarsan important place in the collectiblesrealm.

Today, collectors look for glasscanning jars, also called fruit jars, forcanning and for kitchen decoration inthe antiques market.

If you think one canning jar is nodifferent from another canning jar, then,think again …

Clamped Glass JarsIn 1882, Henry Putnam of

Bennington, Vt., invented a glasscanning jar that used a glass lid and ametal-clamp closure.

Called lightning jars because they

could be opened in a flash, the glass lidswere popular because they did notpresent as many contamination problemsas did the common zinc lids. Manycompanies produced glass canning jars:Lustre, Climax, Atlas, Swayzee, Samco,etc.

The Buffalo, N.Y., family named Ball(the Ball jar), headed by William CharlesBall and his five brothers, produced

paint-and-oilstorage cans. Froma new factory inMuncie, Ind.,following a fire attheir Buffalofacility, the BallCompany beganproducing glassstorage jars.

Like Mason jars,soon Ball jarsbecame a householdname. While themajority of glasscanning jars sell inthe $10 to $75range, a BallPerfection half-pint

glass fruit-canningjar sold recently for

$600 at auction. While both Mason and Ball took great

strides in the arena of glass canning jars,Alexander Kerr made canning easier forthose working in the kitchen with hisintroduction of wide-mouth/easy-to-fillself-sealing canning jars.

His jars allowed a threaded metal ringto stay in place during the heatingprocess. These jars could be quickly filledand reused, too.

When it comes to valuable glasscanning jars, look for embossed patterndecoration and lettering advertising theorigin and maker of the jar, clearcondition, no cracks or chips, and theoriginal accessory lid, seal ring, or clamp.

Happy canning and collecting!

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A 19th-century half-pint glassfruit-canning jar worth $60.


Lebanon County

Calendar of EventsSenior Center Activities

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Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796200 S. White Oak St., AnnvilleMarch 5, 11:45 a.m. – Program on Volunteer OpportunitiesMarch 17, 11 a.m. – St. Patrick’s Day Party March 26, 2 p.m. – Free Health Steps and Fall Prevention for Older

Americans

Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048710 Maple St., LebanonMarch 5, 10:30 a.m. – First Monthly Pinochle Card GameMarch 7, 10 a.m. – Game DayMarch 26, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Bus Trip: Boutique Shopping and Breakfast

Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-678651 W. Stoever Ave., MyerstownMarch 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Bus Trip: Hollywood CasinoMarch 21, 8:30 p.m. – Breakfast, Elco High School Musical, LunchMarch 28, 11:15 a.m. – 40th Anniversary Party at Prescott Banquet Hall

Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237101 S. Railroad St., PalmyraMarch 17, 10:30 a.m. – Irish Tea Social and Best Irish Accent ContestMarch 21, 10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Bus Trip: Shady Maple and Good’s StoreMarch 31, 10:30 a.m. – Bus Trip Fair

Please contact your local center for scheduled activities.

Lebanon County Department of Parks and Recreation

Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public

March 4, 1:15 to 2:15 p.m.Free Digital Planetarium Program for SeniorCitizens: Black Holes Full Dome ShowCedar Crest High School 115 E. Evergreen Road, LebanonReservations at (717) 272-2033, ext. 5412

March 9, 2 p.m.One Book, One Community Celebration of ReadersLebanon Valley CollegeZimmerman Recital Hall101 N. College Ave., AnnvilleRSVP to (717) 867-6976 [email protected]

March 12, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m., March 20,1:15 to 2:15 p.m. Free Digital Planetarium Program for SeniorCitizens: History of the TelescopeCedar Crest High School 115 E. Evergreen Road, LebanonReservations at (717) 272-2033, ext. 5412

March 26, 6 to 7 p.m.Personal Care Family Support GroupLinden Village100 Tuck Court, Lebanon(717) 274-7400

All events held at the Park at Governor Dick unless noted.March 2, 1 to 4 p.m. – Music by the Fireplace: Bluegrass and Country Music JamMarch 23, 11 a.m. to noon – Orienteering for Beginners

Medicare Manuals Updated to Rule OutSuspected ‘Improvement Standard’

The Center for Medicare Advocacyrecently announced that the Medicarepolicy manuals have been revised as aresult of December’s Jimmo vs. Sebeliussettlement.

Published by the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) inDecember, the manual revisions clarifythat improvement is not required toobtain Medicare coverage for skillednursing facilities (SNF), home healthcare(HH), or outpatient therapies (OPT).

The manual revisions also improvecoverage for people who require intenserehabilitation in inpatient rehabilitationfacilities (IRF).

Medicare determinations for skillednursing facilities, home health, andoutpatient therapy turn on the need forskilled care—not on the ability of anindividual to improve.

For patients in inpatient rehabilitationfacilities, the manual revisions and CMSeducation campaign clarify that coverage

should never be denied because a patientcannot be expected to achieve completeindependence in self-care or to return tohis/her prior level of functioning.

“As with allcomponents ofsettlementagreements, theJimmo revisions arenot perfect,” saysJudith Stein,executive director ofthe Center forMedicare Advocacy.

“But they domake it absolutelyclear that skilledcare is covered byMedicare for therapy and nursing tomaintain a patient’s condition or slowdecline—not just for improvement.”

The Jimmo case was brought in 2011by the Center for Medicare Advocacyand Vermont Legal Aid on behalf of a

nationwide class of Medicarebeneficiaries who were denied Medicarecoverage and access to necessaryhealthcare or therapy because they did

not have sufficientpotential forimprovement.

As a result of theJimmo settlement,Medicare cannot bedenied in a nursinghome, home care,or outpatienttherapy settingbased on an“improvementstandard.”

As CMS states inthe transmittal announcing the Jimmomanual revisions:

No “improvement standard” is to beapplied in determining Medicare coveragefor maintenance claims that require skilled

care. Medicare has long recognized thateven in situations where no improvement ispossible, skilled care may nevertheless beneeded for maintenance purposes (i.e., toprevent or slow a decline in condition).

The Center for Medicare Advocacyencourages people to appeal if they aretold Medicare is not available for skilled-maintenance nursing or therapy becausethey are not improving. Information andself-help material are available on thecenter’s website (www.medicareadvocacy.org).

Patients can also contact the Centerfor Medicare Advocacy or its website toobtain a card with key provisions fromthe new Medicare manuals to show theirhealthcare providers.

More information is available on thecenter’s website (www.medicareadvocacy.org/medicare-info/improvement-standard)or by calling their national office at (860)456-7790.

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Dear Savvy Senior,What are the eligibility requirements to

get Medicaid coverage for nursing-homecare?– Looking Ahead

Dear Looking,The rules and requirements for

Medicaid eligibility for nursing-homecare are somewhat complicated and willvary according to the state you live in.

With that said, here’s a general,simplified rundown of what it takes toqualify, along with some resources youcan turn to for help.

Medicaid Rules Medicaid, the federal and state joint

program that covers healthcare for thepoor, is also the largest single payer ofAmerica’s nursing-home bills for seniorswho don’t have the resources to pay fortheir own care.

Most people who enter nursing homesdon’t qualify for Medicaid at first but payfor care either through long-term careinsurance or out of pocket until theydeplete their savings and become eligiblefor Medicaid.

To qualify for Medicaid, your incomeand assets will need to be under a certainlevel that’s determined by your state.Most states require that a person have nomore than about $2,000 in countableassets that include cash, savings,

investments, or otherfinancial resourcesthat can be turnedinto cash.

Assets that aren’tcounted foreligibility includeyour home if it’svalued under$543,000 (this limitis higher—up to$814,000—in somestates), your personalpossessions andhousehold goods,one vehicle, prepaidfuneral plans, and asmall amount of lifeinsurance.

But be aware thatwhile your home isnot considered a countable asset todetermine your eligibility, if you can’treturn to your home, Medicaid can goafter the proceeds of your house to helpreimburse your nursing-home costs,unless your spouse or other dependentrelative lives there. (There are some otherexceptions to this rule.)

After qualifying, all sources of yourincome, such as Social Security andpension checks, must be turned over toMedicaid to pay for your care, except fora small personal-needs allowance—usually between $30 and $90.

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So if, for example, you live in a statewhere the average monthly nursing-homecost is $5,000 and you gave away cash orother assets worth $100,000, you wouldbe ineligible for benefits for 20 months($100,000 divided by $5,000 = 20).

Spousal ProtectionMedicaid also has special rules for

married couples when one spouse entersa nursing home and the other spouseremains at home. In these cases, the

healthy spouse can keep one half of thecouple’s assets up to $117,240 (thisamount varies by state), the family home,all the furniture and household goods,and one automobile.

The healthy spouse is also entitled tokeep a portion of the couple’s monthlyincome—between $1,938 and $2,931.Any income above that goes toward thecost of the nursing-home recipient’s care.

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program for seniors 65 and older andsome younger people with disabilities,does not pay for long-term care. It onlyhelps pay up to 100 days of“rehabilitative” nursing-home care, whichmust occur after a hospital stay.

Get HelpAgain, Medicaid rules are complicated

and vary by state, so contact the localMedicaid office (call (800) 633-4227 forcontact information) for eligibilitydetails.

You can also get help from your StateHealth Insurance Assistance Program(SHIP), which provides free counselingon all Medicare and Medicaid issues. Tofind a local SHIP counselor, visitwww.shiptalk.org or call (800) 677-1116.

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to theNBC Today show and author of The SavvySenior Book. www.savvysenior.org

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It’s been called one of the mostinfluential programs in the history oftelevision drama. The Twilight Zone,

an anthology series that aired in the early1960s, was created by Rod Serling (1924-1975), a veteran of radio and World WarII. Both influenced his career as a writer.

“When he returned from war in thePhilippines, he went to college and wrotefor the campus radio station,” daughterAnne Serling recently recalled to me. “Helater wrote plays for commercial radio,then television. He said writing was a wayto get the war trauma ‘out of his gut.’”

During the show’s five-year run,Serling was executive producer and chiefwriter, penning more than half theapproximately 150 episodes. But he isbest remembered as the program’s stone-faced host, whose foreboding narrationsintroduced the show each week.

In biographies after his death, themaster storyteller of chilling sci-fi and

fantasy tales was often described as darkand depressed, inaccuracies that led Anne“to set the record straight” in her ownbook about her father.

“He was described as a tortured soul,but that wasn’t my father at all,” saidAnne, who published As I Knew Him:My Dad, Rod Serling in 2013.

“Although the war left scars, he wasalso a very positive, fun, down-to-earthperson. My friends adored him, and anyapprehension they had about meetinghim would instantly dissolve because hecould make anyone feel at ease. He wasbrilliantly funny at home, a greatpractical joker, and was always at thedinner table each night.”

As a child, Anne had little knowledgeof her father’s career.

“I knew he was a writer but didn’tknow what he wrote about until I wasabout 7. Some mean boy on the school

The Real Rod Serling

Tinseltown Talks

Nick Thomas

Serling and theTwilight Zone icon.

Photo courtesy of Anne Serling

Anne Serling with her father,Rod Serling, in the early 1970s.

Photo courtesy of Jerry Sroka

Mariette Hartley and Robert Lansing inthe Twilight Zone episode,

“The Long Morrow.”

please see SERLING page 12

By John Johnston

If you’ve recently begun receivingSocial Security benefits or plan toapply in the near future, you may be

wondering this tax season: Are SocialSecurity benefitstaxable?

The shortanswer is:sometimes.

Some peoplehave to payfederal incometaxes on theirSocial Securitybenefits. Thisusually happensonly if you haveother substantialincome (such aswages, self-employment,interest, dividends, and other taxableincome that must be reported on yourtax return) in addition to your SocialSecurity benefits.

There is never a case when a personpays tax on more than 85 percent of hisor her Social Security benefits, based onInternal Revenue Service (IRS) rules.Now, let’s get down to the numbers.

• If you file a federal tax return as anindividual and your income is between

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benefits may betaxable.

• If you aremarried and youfile a joint return,and you and yourspouse have acombined incomethat is between$32,000 and$44,000, you mayhave to payincome tax on upto 50 percent ofyour benefits.

• If your combined income is morethan $44,000, then up to 85 percent ofyour benefits may be taxable.

Note that your “income” for thepurpose of determining whether youmust pay taxes on some of your SocialSecurity benefits includes your adjustedgross income, your nontaxable interest,and one-half of your Social Securitybenefits.

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Social Security benefit statement showingthe amount of benefits you received lastyear. You can use this statement, or SSA-1099, when completing your federalincome tax return to find out whethersome of your benefits are subject tofederal income tax.

If you didn’t receive yours, you canrequest one at www.socialsecurity.gov/1099.

So, are your Social Security benefitstaxable? Maybe. To learn more, read page14 of our booklet, Retirement Benefits,available at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs orvisit www.irs.gov to obtain more detailedinformation on the subject.

John Johnston is a Social Security publicaffairs specialist.

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playground asked if I was ‘something outof The Twilight Zone,’ but I had no ideawhat that meant because I wasn’t allowedto watch much TV during the week—my mother’s rule!

“A few years later, we watched‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet’ together, theepisode where William Shatner sees agremlin on an airplane wing. Iremember looking at my father andthinking, ‘This is what you write?’ It wasa bit scary.”

Praised for his original fiction writing,Serling was also highly respected forraising social issues in some episodes,although controversial topics weresubject to the censors’ whim. So hefrequently concealed his intent in fantasy.

“He famously once said he could havealiens say things that Democrats andRepublicans couldn’t,” Anne recalled.

Several Twilight Zone actors alsoshared vivid memories of Serling.

Theodore Bikel is well known to fansof My Fair Lady as Henry Higgins’ rivallinguist, the nosey Zoltan Karpathy.

In July 1960, Austrian-born Bikelappeared on a Hollywood TV talk show,Caucus with Backus, and was verballyassailed by fellow guests: glamoroussilent-film actress Corinne Griffith andbeloved character-actor Adolphe Menjou.

“We were talking politics and theysaid I had no right to open my mouthbecause I wasn’t born in this country,”recalled Bikel.

Appalled, Serling appeared on a laterprogram defending Bikel’s right tofreedom of speech.

“I will never forget how Rod came tomy defense. I later appeared in The

Twilight Zone episode ‘Four O’Clock’ in1962.”

Ann Jillian and Mariette Hartley wereteenagers when they first met Serling.

“I was 13 when I starred in theepisode ‘Mute,’” Jillian recalled. “I wasvery excited about doing the popularshow. Mr. Serling made me feel at easeand didn’t talk down to me.”

And after seeing him on TV, a gutsy14-year-old Mariette Hartley telephonedSerling and asked him to speak to herConnecticut high school drama club.

“He said he would be delighted, and Ican still see him sitting in the teacher’sdesk at the front of the classroom talkingto us,” Hartley said.

“Years later, when I started working inHollywood, I met him again when hislimousine pulled up as I was walking outthe studio. He remembered coming tomy class. I told him I was looking forwork, and within a couple of months hegave me the wonderful gift of working in‘The Long Morrow’ episode.”

Today, Serling continues to inspireother moviemakers. J.J. Abrams, directorof the new Star Trek films, has called TheTwilight Zone a big influence on hiscareer and reportedly has secured therights to adapt Serling’s last, never-produced script, The Stops Along the Way.

Until then, Rod Serling’s work is stillavailable for your viewing pleasure,almost nightly, on classic TV cablechannels … in The Twilight Zone.

Thomas’ features and columns have appearedin more than 300 magazines and newspapers,and he is the author of Raised by the Stars,published by McFarland. He can be reachedat his blog: http://getnickt.blogspot.com

The cover of Anne Serling’s book,As I Knew Him, which she wroteto set the record straight abouther father.

Rod Serling chats with Charlton Hestonon the set of Planet of the Apes with

director Franklin Schaffner.

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anniversary at the same location, greaterthan any other club in the state.

Kaufhold has an extensive career indance, theater, and performancedirection. She runs the MillersvilleCostume Shop, where she began workingshortly after graduating from AmericanUniversity in 1984 with a degree inperformance/dance.

She earned a graduate degree in danceand design at George WashingtonUniversity while starting her family andcontinued to manage the costume shopduring the 15 years she worked asprofessional company director ofKinetics Dance Theatre in Ellicott City,Md.

“The Costume Shop combines all ofmy interests in crafts, sewing, design,theater, dance, etc.,” Kaufhold said.

In 2013, Kaufhold expanded hercreative foothold further when shestarted the Barefoot Dance Company,which includes dancers ranging in agefrom 13 to 55.

Born in Boulder, Colo., with achildhood spent in Williamstown, Mass.,Kaufhold’s family moved to CentralPennsylvania in 1968 when her fatheraccepted a geography-professor positionat Millersville University.

Kaufhold’s artistic genes comehonestly. Her mother directed andchoreographed high-school musicals,operas, Girl Scout jamborees, and showsat the Fulton Opera House. She alsotaught modern dance at the YMCA andas a dance professor at Franklin &Marshall College.

“I grew up going to my mom’s showswith my brothers and father to supportmy mother’s work,” Kaufhold said. “Thishas shaped my goal to create dances andshows that are entertaining—not just topeople who want to attend, but theirbrothers, fathers, sisters, and otherrelations who come to shows becausethey have to.”

Kaufhold connected with The Iris

Club four yearsago when amember invitedKaufhold toperform one ofher dance shows,“Dancingthrough theDecades,” at aclub luncheon.

Originally herwritten thesisproject thatcomparedwomen’s fashionwith concurrentdance stylesthrough the firsthalf of the 20th

century, the showhas since beenexpanded toinclude additionaldecades andrenamed “Fashionand Dancethrough theAges.”

“It’s turned outto be anentertaininghistory lessonthrough music,dance, andcostumes,” saidKaufhold, also atalentedseamstress. “[Theshow] is popularat retirement villages as well as schools.”

After her first Iris Club performance,Kaufhold said she was flattered to beasked to become a member. (Unlike acentury ago, however, membership is nolonger by invitation only.) Since then,the highly popular show returned inspring 2013 as an Iris Club fundraiser.

“The people are great, the building isa lovely mansion, and I really enjoy

meeting otherartists throughtheir programsand events,” shesaid.

At its heightin the ’50s, theclub had about600 members.Today, thenumber is closerto 90, but it isstill a dedicatedand productivegroup of women.

“It makes mefeel good to havethe chance towork with ladieswho care abouttheir communityand give back tothe community,”said Kaufhold.“They haveknowledge that Ican grow from.”

Now in hersecond year asprogramdirector,Kaufhold’s mainduty is to findand scheduleinterestingartists, poets,craftspeople,musicians,historians, and

dancers for the club, which offers itsmembers opportunities for communityservice by promoting educationalpursuits and creativity.

In addition to its internalprogramming, which Kaufholdcoordinates, The Iris Club hosts eventsand fundraisers open to the local public.

“I also help plan special weekendevents throughout the year, such as

Pancakes with Santa, Pancakes with theEaster Bunny, the Fairytale Ball, themeddinners, and dance concert fundraisers,”Kaufhold said.

Kaufhold is also a board member ofThe Iris Club and promotes the arts andvolunteerism through partnerships withother community organizations.

In 2012, while teaching at the localschool of ballet, Kaufhold learned thatthe tenants of the old armory building,which included the ballet school, wouldhave to relocate as the building wasgoing up for sale.

“I knew The Iris Club had lovelywooden floors, and the club was lookingfor rental income,” she said. “I thoughtthe ballet company and The Iris Clubwould be a great fit and benefitmutually.”

The ballet company now splits itsclass time between its nearby studio andThe Iris Club.

Kaufhold is grateful for the supportof her husband, Jeffrey, and their threechildren, who have followed in theirmother’s volunteer path.

“All three have helped out withcostumes backstage, crafts with camps,and Pancakes with Santa and the EasterBunny over the years,” said Kaufhold.“Other children love them, and I justlike having my kids around while I’mworking on a show or project.”

She also enjoys being around theother members of The Iris Club and isthankful that the women have entrustedher with bringing in entertaining andeducational programming.

“Their energy seems endless, and Irealize I can’t complain around them,”she laughed. “I’m constantly in awe ofthese ladies. I’d be happy to accomplishhalf of what most of these Iris Clubladies have accomplished in their life!”

For more information, contact TheIris Club at (717) 394-7811 or visitwww.irisclublancasterpa.com.

DANCE from page 1

The polyester and disco dance feverof the 1970s

Two dancers truckin’ in the 1940s

Feathered and fringed flappers from the 1920s

Scenes from“Fashion and Dance through the Ages”:


Traveltizers Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel

By Andrea Gross

I’m perched atop a bench of hay,which in turn is sitting atop a flatbedwagon.

Our guide, Chris Bunn, owner of TheFarm, hitches a tractor to the wagon, andwe begin our ride along dirt roadsbordered by fields of romaine lettuce onone side and rows of strawberries on theother.

This is the fertile landscape of centralCalifornia’s Salinas Valley.

In this area, just two hours south ofSan Francisco, farmers grow the majorityof the nation’s greens, including 80percent of the lettuce and most of thespinach, broccoli, and artichokes.

Over the next several days, as wewander through the fields, roadsidestands, and farmers markets, I salivateover gargantuan heads of lettuce, delicatebunches of broccolini, and artichokesthat range from 1-pound jumbos to 2-ounce minis.

Per acre, Salinas Valley has the mostvaluable agricultural land on the planet.

Evan Oakes takes us on an Ag VentureTour, which helps us understand howthis produce gets to market. At one largefarm we watch men and women cleansethe produce for packaging.

A few miles down the road, we seethem crate the packages for distribution.They move quickly, as the greens mustreach their destination before the lettucewilts or the artichoke leaves brown.

Oakes explains that the Salinas Valleyis lucky. Much of the Salinas River,which runs north-northwest through thevalley, flows underground, thus providingabundant water to an area that gets lessthan an inch of rainfall between May andSeptember.

The river empties into a spot nearMonterey Bay, a few miles north ofSalinas, and it’s here, where the freshwater of the river meets the salt water ofthe bay, that we begin our ride throughElkhorn Slough.

Captain Yohn Gideon greets us as weboard the 27-foot pontoon and explainsthat we’re about to embark on a dualmission. First, we’re going to enjoyourselves (no problem!), and second,we’re going to collect data for theCalifornia Department of Fish andWildlife, the Audubon Society, and otherrespected institutions.

He hands out counters and asks me to

keep track of otters and other passengersto count sea lions, seals, and a variety ofbirds. We’ve been out less than fiveminutes when Laura, the on-boardnaturalist, spies an otter. Click.

A minute later we see an entire raft ofthe creatures lounging on a rock. Click,click, click, click.

At the end of our tour, he reads ourtotals. In less than two hours, we’ve seen

68 otters, 24 sea lions, 181 harbor seals,and hundreds of birds, including loons,herons, pelicans, cormorants, andshorebirds galore.

“Good job,” says Gideon, and I puffwith pride. Now I can add “researchscientist” to my resume.

We’re equally fortunate the next daywhen we go on a whale-watchingexpedition. By the time our 45-foot boatis 10 miles from shore, we’resurrounded—literally surrounded—bywhales that are as long as, or even longerthan, our boat.

We see the blow, the tail, and thebreach—all at close range. One whalebreaks off from its buddies and divesdeep on the left side of our boat, only tosurface a minute later on the right. He’sso close I can see the sheen of his skin,which is marred by scars and has a patchcovered with barnacles.

Finally, back on dry land, we delveinto the history of Salinas Valley, a placethat’s been well documented, albeit in a“novel” way, by renowned author JohnSteinbeck.

Steinbeck, who was born and grew upin the area, told a friend that his goal was“to write the story of this whole valley, ofall the little towns and all the farms andthe ranches in the wilder hills … I wouldlike to do it so that it would be the valleyof the world.”

To see how Steinbeck achieved hisgoal, we visit the National SteinbeckCenter, where a variety of exhibitsexplore the relationship between theauthor’s life and writings.

One of his books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Grapes of Wrath, depicts theplight of migrant farmers who, like thegrandparents of many of today’s mostsuccessful producers, came to Californiain the ’30s.

Another, East of Eden, was written forhis sons, partly to teach them about goodand evil but also to show them the landin which their father grew up. It is, hesaid, “a sort of autobiography of theSalinas Valley.”

The Valley has come a long way sinceSteinbeck’s time. But as he wished, itcan, at least agriculturally speaking, becalled “The Valley of the World.”

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Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted;story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).

Agritourism and Adventure in ‘The Valley of the World’

Artichokes with thorns are tastier thanthe thornless variety.

Ana Melissa, owner of The Bakery Station,makes it a point to buy strawberries and

other produce from local farmers.

A sea otter plays with a clamshellin Elkhorn Slough, one ofCalifornia’s largest areas ofundisturbed wetlands.

Whale watching is a favorite activity inMonterey Bay, where folks can spot

humpback whales, gray whales, bluewhales, and sometimes even killer whales.

More than 300 species of birds, 400 speciesof invertebrates, and 100 species of fishhave been spotted in Elkhorn Slough.

Produce is crated and shipped todestinations throughout the

United States.

The National Steinbeck Center features alarge display on East of Eden, one ofPulitzer Prize-winning author John

Steinbeck’s most renowned books. Thebook is set in Salinas Valley, where the

author was born and grew up.


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