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NEW FRONTIERS NEWSVolume 28, Issue 4 March-April 2020NEW FRONTIERS CALENDARFor additional information go to the NF websiteunder Members, Calendar.TRIP TO SAN XAVIER & TUMACACORIThursday, March 12, 2020OUT-TO-LUNCH BUNCHFriday, March 13, 2020 11:30 AM – 1:00 PMCharleston’s Restaurant,1623 S Stapley Dr, Mesa, AZ 85204Please call or email your reservation toSissy Riley on or before March 12 at480-892-3542 or email: rriley18@cox.netSKYDIVE AZ-Eloy AZFriday, March 20, 2020 @ 10:00 AM4900 N. Taylor St Eloy, AZ 85131Please contact by March 16thPeggy Schulz 480-962-9593or email: mschulz291@yahoo.comSPRING MEMBERSHIP MEETINGFriday, March 27, 2020 1:00 PM – 3:00 PMMCC Red Mtn.ANNUAL SPRING PICNICThursday, April 2, 2020 11:30 AM – 2:30 PMDesert Breeze Park,660 North Desert Breeze Blvd E,Chandler, AZ 85226NFLL VOLUNTEER LUNCHFriday, April 17, 2020 11:30 AM - 1:00 PMEast Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT),1601 W Main St, Mesa AZ 85201Front & back parking.Valentine’s Day Lunch at Rancho de Tia Rosa with Mary Kay OwenA big success: thirty-eight members attended!Greetings from Dan Taylor, PresidentNew Frontiers for Lifelong Learning is having a record year with a great varietyof classes, dedicated volunteers and a supportive MCC staff. The success of NewFrontiers is truly due to our dedicated corps of over 100 volunteers that planprograms, teach and facilitate classes, etc. If you are interested in volunteering inany capacity just contact the office at 480.461.7497 or email:newfrontiers@mesacc.edu.On January 24th we held our open house at Red Mountain Community College.Over 200 persons attended and 96 persons registered to become members. Thisbrings our total to 477 members which is a 6% increase over last year. The dayour class registration opened, there were several classes that filled quickly. Keyvolunteers have been working with the instructors and facilities to reduce thenumber on the waiting lists and have been very successful; please be patient. Ifyou are one of those on the waiting list for a class, there is a good chance you willbe able to attend. A reminder email was recently sent out by Roland Tanner, VicePresident, regarding our survey. If you have not already done so, please fill it outand submit. This information provides New Frontiers with ways to improve yourexperience with us.We have our Spring General Membership Meeting on Friday, March 27th at 1:00p.m. at Red Mountain Community College. Our presenter will be Mesa PublicSchools Deputy Superintendent Andi Fourlis. The topic will be, “The Portrait of aGraduate”, this is a path that Mesa Public Schools have been developing over thepast year. In addition, we will get updates from our committees and elect officersand at-large members for this next year. Mark your calendar to attend this event.

OPEN HOUSEThank you to the MCC Red Mountain students who provided popcorn to the Open House.Franck Rickey & Larry MorrowLarry Merrill, Ruth Brooks, Karen Wartick2Cindi Holt & John Overdorff

ANNUAL SPRING PICNIC, Thursday APRIL 2, 2020Desert Breeze Park660 N. Desert Breeze Boulevard ChandlerMesquite Pavilion11:30 AM check- inCost 12.00 /Members, 15.00 for Non-MembersDeadline for reservations is March 23, 2020We suggest attendees to wear some Hawaiian clothing.Registration is by check made out to Mesa Community College (MCC). On the check “memo” line write NFLL picnic.Mail your check to Lois Schaffer, 2051 E. Laguna Dr., Tempe, AZ 85282Directions to Desert Breeze from MCC Dobson: Route 101 (Price Freeway) south; exit on Chandler Blvd. and drive west;turn north on Desert Breeze Blvd. The park is on the east side of the road. We have reserved a three large pavilion withrestrooms nearby.You will be asked to sign Risk Form #1 (outdoor activities). Various (non strenuous) outdoor games and BINGO will beavailable for anyone interested. To take part in our annual book exchange we suggest members bring only one or twogently used books. Each book you bring will entitle you to take a book. Any not chosen after the exchange will bedonated. Please no puzzles this year. We will again be doing a white elephant gift giving. Bring a gift in a sealed brownpaper bag. We will be giving out these gifts by raffle after eating. Bring one get one.Lunch is served around noon. We invite everyone to take this opportunity to socialize with your fellow NFLL members,have some fun and make this a fabulous day.MenuLUAU BUFFET ENTREES: Cantonese Pepper Steak Beef top sirloin steak sliced thin, then coated in a savory sauce and stirfried with fresh green & red bell peppers, mushrooms and onions. Teriyaki Chicken Broiled marinated chicken breasttopped with teriyaki glaze. SIDES: Tossed Garden Salad with Mandarin Oranges and Crispy Wontons. Stir Fry VegetablesBroccoli, snow peas, carrots, green beans, red bell peppers, onions. Fried Rice, watermelon and bakery fresh rolls andbutter. For dessert cookies, mini lemon and brownie bites. We will have water and lemonade.3

ACTIVITIESWalk in the ParkJane Severin & Lois HalversonKim BakerRon Schueman & Gregory Master4Camp Creek Fall

Molly KrmpotichPeggy StraussPeggy StraussPeggy is stepping down as secretary of the Social Committee. She has held the position for nine years.Peggy spent her childhood in Brooklyn. She was raised in aconservative Jewish family. She was very busy as a little girl,spending the afternoons, three times a week after schoolhours, at the Hebrew school. Each summer, the family tookthe train to the Catskills for vacation. Peggy graduated fromBrooklyn College with a major in European literature.After graduation, Peggy and a friend spent two summersin California where she finally moved. She first worked for afirm that bought steel from Japan (learned from them howto use chopsticks!). Later, she worked in the accountingdepartment of Bullock’s, a department store whichoperated then in California, Arizona and Nevada.Peggy got married in Oakland. Two sons were born. Thecouple opened a restaurant for one year. Peggy was doingthe bookkeeping and occasionally the Sunday brunch. It isonly when her children were teenagers that Peggy started aprofessional career that she will enjoy for twenty-five yearsuntil retirement. After completing a course in MedicalTechnology at Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley,she worked in medical transcription for several neurologists. She loved the job, the people she worked with, andwhen, in 2005, she moved to Arizona to follow her sons(students at ASU), she missed her work a lot.I met Molly when she first joined New Frontiers just a fewyears after the organization started. I got to know her wellwhen I needed a partner to help lead the New Frontierstravel program. The New Frontiers travel program started in1998 and alternated cruises with land vacations. Despite thefact that, at that time, she didn’t own a computer and didn’thave email, she was a wonderful partner. She kept in touchwith all our travellers while I made the arrangements.Molly planned local trips for New Frontiers members formany years. Unfortunately, on the day of her last trip tothe Jerome area in 2018, she had a very bad fall at her ownhome that ultimately led to her death in February 2020.Molly lived in Tempe where she had many friends and was amember of Resurrection Church. She particularly liked to goto local Symphony Concerts in the area. If you wanted togo somewhere and wanted a companion, Molly was theone to call.She had a second home in Jerome and many New Frontiersmembers visited her there. She was always a great hostess--particularly in serving us the pies she baked from thefruits in her own garden. She was an avid gardener—in factthat was her major hobby when she summered in Jerome.She was friends with the owners of Nelly Bly’s Kaleidoscopesand helped the Jerome Humane Society with their AnnualBrunch.By profession she was a skilled nurse including the yearsshe had 3 young children. After she retired she donated herservices to a program that sent doctors and nurses to SouthAmerican countries. Molly was always helping others without any fanfare and she will be sorely missed.Rose FrankfurtMolly KrmpotichPeggy was introduced to NF by a friend who invited herto the Tuesday games at the Church of the Resurrection inTempe. Peggy has been a NF member since 2009. She isnow a happy retiree with her family in Arizona: two sonsand two grandchildren, a nine year old grandson and athirteen year old granddaughter. Peggy is busy with NF,and as a usher at the Mesa Art Center. She has travelled toAlaska, Panama. She loves mysteries and puzzle books.Thank you, Peggy for all the work you have done for NF!Marie-France Ganansia5

VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDTwo volunteers are needed.WHEN? On Saturday March 29, at 8:00 AM and 3:00 PMWHERE? Falcon Field Airport, MesaWHY? To help Caroline Cline and Dan Scarpone put up a canopy and a table for the Falcon Field Open House. NF will have aspot displaying information.Bronze casting process, Soleri Bell Foundry TourSOLERI BELL FOUNDRY TOURIf willing to help, please contact Caroline Cline at ccline4@mindspring.com, 602-818-7557, or Dan Scarpone atdanscarpone@gmail.com, 480-663-3384.Twenty-six members attended the visit of Paolo Soleri’sThank you.Cosanti, an Arizona Historic site located in Paradise Valley.The group followed a very informative tour of the bronze bellfoundry, of the ceramic studio and of the site which used tobe Soleri’s residence.The visitors watched the dramatic bronze casting process ofthe wind bells using an 8,000 year old technique where thebronze is heated in a crucible to 2,150F and poured into sandmolds. Then the group strolled along a bio-climatic environment created by Soleri, with experimental earth-formedstructures, some located underground, naturally insulatedstructures, other, the apses, oriented to be passive energycollectors. A big thank you to Helen Dodds, our facilitator.Marie-France GanansiaNEW MEMBER COFFEEWe had a very successful New Member Coffee with a recordnumber of forty-four new members attending. As of Monday, we had seventy-three new members and twenty-tworenewing members. Mary Ellen and I hope everyonebecomes involved in NFLL and enjoys the group as muchas we do.We want to extend our best wishes to our Greeters: PhyllisJohnson, who broke her hip at the gym and Marcie Wooten,who had a heart attack Friday afternoon. Phyllis is in rehaband Marcie is at home resting. We look forward to seeingyour smiling faces at the next Open House.Mary Bohlen6Free Food Distribution @Red Mountain CampusVolunteers are needed March 4th and April 1st, SaguaroMall, MCC Red Mountain, 12:00 PM.Hello,On behalf of the students at Mesa Community College, wewould like to thank you for your generous food and hygieneproduct donations to the Mesa Market, MCC’s food pantryon campus. We’ve recently remodeled the Mesa Market, andbecause of your kindness, we were able to make sure thatour new space was stocked and ready for the students tobegin classes this week. We look forward to continuing ourpartnership with New Frontiers, and we hope you all have awonderful new year!Thank you again!Beth Ann Wright Mesa Community CollegeProgram Advisor/ Student Life & Leadership