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The 93-year-old performer will hold a one-woman show at Manor Grove on Oct. 29, 2 p.m.
by Linda Jarrett
Sitting in a colorful gown complete with yellow tulle shawl and jeweled cap, baubles dangling, 93-year-old Bea Bumbicka looks every inch the entertainer. And entertain is what she plans to do when she puts on a one-woman musical review on Oct. 29 at Manor Grove, 711 S. Kirkwood Road, where she lives. The show begins at 2 p.m. and is open to the public. Born in London, England, Bumbicka has been singing all her life. My family are hams, all of them, and we all sang, she said. My two sisters, Anne and Anita, were in show business, and I wanted to be an opera singer, but then World War II happened and shortened my career. Before the war, she had sung at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, which is the equivalent of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. After the war began, she worked in patrol where she sent out fire crews during bombing raids. It was quite fun, she said. Back then when youre young, it didnt matter. During that time she met and married Lt. Col. Joseph Trottman of the Army Air Corps, and a bombardier on
Bea Bumbicka, a resident of Manor Grove in Kirkwood, has an array of costumes from previous performance which she designed herself. photo by Ursula Ruhl B-24s. The couple moved to the United States in 1946 to Carlsbad, N.M., where Joseph, after being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, went to work with a coaxial cable company. But that did not stop her singing. My sisters lived in Toronto, Canada, and I would go there where we would do our act, she said. We would also go to Florida and perform. When she moved to St. Louis, she participated in a talent show at the Windsor Grade School where she performed in a program called Show Me, in which she played Margaret Truman. Some of the members of the group who took part in the show had such a good time that they formed a musical group called The Footliters. It consisting of Bumbicka, Henry Laslo, Betty Stichling, Jan Laslo, Jackie Sears and cont. p. 18A
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People usually know the facts, like mom and dad and grandma lived over here. Then they moved in this year. But they may not know why the family moved. Thats the story were trying to capture.
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Don Vaisvil, director of the senior community service employee program administered by MERSGoodwill, left, presents Harold Salmon with the 2013 Missouri Outstanding Older Worker Award.
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St. Louis Community College counselor Harold Salmon is the St. Louis regional winner of the 2013 Missouri Outstanding Older Worker Award. Salmon, professor in counseling at the Meramec campus in Kirkwood, is one of only 10 workers over age 65 in Missouri to receive the award. Don Vaisvil, director of the senior community service employee program administered by MERS-Goodwill, surprised Salmon at a division meeting to present him with the award. I felt extremely honored and exhilarated upon hearing that I won the regional award, said Salmon, who has been with St. Louis Community College for 29 years. MERS-Goodwill and other cosponsoring agencies throughout the state are to be commended for drawing attention to the not uncommon high value of the work of older persons. Salmons colleague in the counseling department, Mysha Clincy, nominated him for the award. The best part of the award is knowing a colleague valued my work enough to take the time and exert the effort to nominate me, said Salmon. Counseling department chair Donna Zumwinkel has high praise for Salmon. Harold exemplifies the finest traits that anyone could hope to have in a colleague or in a counselor, she said. He is caring, committed and compassionate, and works as hard as anyone Ive ever known. St. Louis Community College and our students are very fortunate to benefit from his presence and his work on the Meramec campus. Even with the strong endorsement from Zumwinkel, Salmon has a humble attitude. I am absolutely certain that I am no more dedicated and no more competent than dozens (maybe hundreds) of my colleagues, many of whom will never be singled out for any special recognition, Salmon said. I am incredibly blessed to be a counselor at Meramec.
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Sister Mary Ann Eultgen traverses the halls of St. Anthonys Medical Center in a scooter during her rounds as a chaplain.
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started it, she said. Jurgiel notes that often it is not participants themselves who are moved to take the class but rather loved ones who want to know more about a parent or grandparent. They often come in and either someone else has signed them up or someone has pushed them and said, I want you to do this, she said. Sometimes it is a relative, even a distant relative, and sometimes they actually pay for the class. In some instances, students, who have ranged as young as 45 and as old as 92, come with their own set of fascinating and occasionally touching surprises. One even brought a collection of items to class including a jar of colored marbles. Apparently hed been collecting them all his life and they were all meaningful to him, recalled Jurgiel. Bringing objects may be unusual but bringing photos into class is not. Thats one thing I always recommend, especially candid pictures, she said. Posed pictures are good but the candid pictures can
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Above: Mitchell Beuke, general manager at Bethesda Gardens, looks under the hood of a Model A. Right: Bethesda Gardens resident Bill Nelson, left, talks to Jim Van Rhein, owner of the Model A and member of the Model A Club, while resident Betty Shepherd strolls between two of the cars. Helen Hedderig, a resident of Bethesda Gardens, and her son, Charles Hedderig, check out a Model A delivery truck owned by Fred Burk.
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