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Creative

Sage-ing

Award

The Creative Sageing Award is given each June in recognition of outstanding service and creativity in pursuing new ventures after retirement and building on one's experience in creative ways.

This might involve, for example, mentoring, public service, fostering spiritual growth, writing/publishing, creating/participating in community and denominational service projects and organizations.

All UURMaPA members are eligible.  The winner receives a $500 honorarium.

Nominate

that deserving person today!

Contact Dick Fewkes at:

57 Sachem Drive

Sagamore Beach, MA  02562

or

dick_ellie@comcast.net

Winners in past years include:  Lex Crane in 2008;

Bill Murry in 2009;

Eleanor and Peter Richardson in 2010;

and Med Anderson in 2011.

. . . so let us know what you are up to

by contacting Elderberries editor, Chris Lilly Backus:

chrisbackus@msn.com

Dick Gilbert gave the 50-year speech at Ministry Day 2011

in Charlotte, NC.  Download the text of his talk: click here!

Nancy Doughty introduced the speaker.

Download her text: click here!

Carl Bretz weaves at the Appalachian Arts Crafts Center in Norris, Tennessee.

He has found weaving a great stress reliever and it has become a part of his

religious practice.  He has been inspired by his experience teaching weaving to recovering hospital patients (as part of their occupational therapy).

Barbara Murry won a gold medal at the US Figure Skating Adult Championships for her freestyle program in the group for ladies 61 and above.  The group has printed a tee-shirt with a skater pictured doing an arabesque and a legend that reads: "Can Your Grandmother Do This?"

Emily Morse Palmer shared her Odyssey about entering ministry in midlife at the UURMaPA Pan-South Conference in Ft. Myers, FL.

Kenneth Torquil MacLean gave the 50-year speech at Ministry Days 2010 in Minneapolis, MN.  Download the text of his talk: click here!

Kim Beach with his granddaughter, Libby, in his vineyard, Campicello,

in Madison County, VA, where he enjoys perfecting his cabernet.

Andy Backus designed the set for the musical, "Guys & Dolls" at Bellingham Theatre Guild. He is shown here adjusting a cityscape painted on muslin.  You may recognize the Chrysler Building in New York City.

Dick Fewkes has brought Theodore Parker to life preaching in churches in Massachusetts and at the UURMaPA Northeast Conference in Attleboro.

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