ings and facilities.

Tokyo: The Tokyo YMCA has

been sending their staff to the

affected areas and helping

them plan rescue activities.

The Y’s Men’s Club is helping

to deliver emergency sup-

plies.

Kanagawa: The Yokohama

YMCA has been sending

their staff to the affected ar-

eas.

To date donations to the Ja-

pan YMCA Relief Fund total

more than $135,000. You can

send a check payable to

YMCA World Service (with

Japan YMCA Relief Fund

noted in the memo line).

101 North Wacker Drive,

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Thank You,

Phyllis

JAPAN YMCA UPDATE

Mr. Shigeru Shimada, Na-

tional General Secretary of

the National Council of

YMCAs of Japan, reports that

the Y is making progress in

several hard-hit areas. Na-

tionally, the Japan YMCA has

deployed Y staff and volun-

teers to conduct needs as-

sessments, support the im-

mediate relief efforts and

begin preparation for the long

-term rehabilitation of im-

pacted communities. The

following is an excerpt from

Mr. Shimada’s update from

March 22.

Iwate: The Morioka YMCA

has been sending staff and

volunteers in Miyako city, one

of the severely damaged cit-

ies. They are working closely

with the churches in the area.

Miyagi: The Sendai YMCA

started to help people in the

community by offering them a

place to stay and offering

food to the victims immedi-

ately after the Earthquake.

Ibaragi: The Tsukuba YMCA

is helping refugees from Fu-

kushima Nuclear Reactor

threat area by offering child

care and recreation pro-

grams.

Tochigi: Offering elderly pro-

grams in eastern area of Ut-

sunomiya and Haga area,

which has damages in many

houses. The YMCA had

some damages in its build-

FROM OUR PRESIDENT LYON CHAPTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Phyllis Murphy (909) 967-2003 phyllisamurphy@yahoo.com Vice President Bob Golay (562-) 928-4108 rob7522@gmail.com Secretary Betty Paieda (310) 325-3976 vbjpaieda@aol.com Treasurer Beverly See (805) 499-6175 Seeco3@aol.com Membership/Newsletter Ed. Jack Tillman (626) 797-4070 tillman7@pacbell.net World Service Harry Brunger (909) 624-6774 Hbrunger@aol.com Rizek Abusharr (909) 621-7502 abusharr@verizon.net Mary Golay (562) 928-4108 golay@ca.rr.com Quin Gustason (951) 676-4345 Quin.gustason@yahoo.com Victor Paieda (310) 325-3976 vbjpaieda@aol.com Pat Scott (760) 633-3177 nanscott4@aol.com Walt Worrill (626) 398-0908 wfworrill@sbcglobal.net Ex-Officio / EAF Chair Dale Ventres (909) 793-7347 DVentres@aol.com

SPRING ISSUE

LYON LINKS D. Willard Lyon Chapter

“Linking The Past With The Future”

REMEMBER JOHN DENVER?

One of the highlights of our upcoming Reunion will be “Cowboy” Brad Fitch. Brad is devoted to keeping the music, message and memory of John Denver alive and has performed Denver’s songs for audiences of up to 30,000. He has toured the country performing songs from his ten albums. People often plan their vacations around Brad’s summer concert schedule in his hometown of Es-tes Park, Colorado. He has received awards for his writing and performance. He has played for the President of the United States. Brad says his purpose in performing music is to bring joy into the lives of those who hear him. Brad was an em-ployee of the Y of the Rockies for 13 years…..how’s that for a small world?

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DAVID WILLARD LYON 1870 - 1949

Have you ever wondered who D. Willard Lyon was? I have every since I joined our AYR Lyon Chapter. Well Thanks to my good friend Dale Ventres I now know who Mr. Lyon was and his impact on the YMCA movement in China, Korea and the Philippines. D. Willard Lyon was born on a houseboat in China. He was the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He graduated from the college of Wooster, Ohio and McCormick Theological Seminary. He also worked with John R. Mott. In 1895, his first year back in China, he founded Tientsin (Tianjin) the first student YMCA. In 1930, after 34 years of continuous service as a YMCA secretary, he was honored by the speaker at a farewell dinner in Shanghai, who commented, “The „Y‟ movement in China stands as a perpetual monument of Dr. Lyon‟s life work”. Halfway through his first term, the Boxer troubles forced Lyon and his wife to seek refuge in Korea, where they founded the Korea YMCA movement. In later years he helped start the YMCA in the Philippines. In 1928 he gave an address at the Jerusalem meeting of the International Missionary Council. During his later years of service in China, Lyon gave major attention to training Chinese YMCA secretaries and to developing literature for students. Various centers were organized where leadership train-ing class were held. A loan library and publications department, precursors of the Association Press, were started under his leader-ship. He began a college student newspaper that became a widely read student magazine, The Chinese intercollegian (later called China‟s Young Men). Always an advocate of indigenous leadership, he enlisted an eminent scholar, Zia Hong-lai, to develop the lit-erature of the student movement. A gifted linguist, Lyon helped organize language schools and worked on the Mandarin Romaniza-tion Committee of the Chinese Christian Educational Association. He wrote the Christian Equivalent of War (1915) and edited for pub-lication Motts China Addresses. In his final years, he translated Tang Dynasty poetry into English. In 1949, on his last visit to China, Mott committed Lyon‟s “sacred dust...to the deep at the mouth of the Yangtze”.

David Willard Lyon

David Willard Lyon & Family

WE REMEMBER JUANITA “GERTIE” UPTON 1927 - 2010

Juanita Upton was the wife of Chuck Upton. Chuck was at the North Hollywood YMCA in the late 50‟s. Al Fenn, Ed Andresen and Wyatt Seal were all youth directors. Ed at Sun Valley, Wyatt at La Crescenta. All worked out of North Hollywood. Juanita was born March 1, 1927 in Fairbury, Nebraska. She is a George Williams College graduate, completing her courses in 1951. She married Chuck Upton the same year. They moved to California where their two daughters and one son were born. She joined the Presbyterian Church in 1954 and had served as an Elder and a Deacon in the church. Juanita also worked as a secretary at the Twin Fall YM / YWCA. If you knew Chuck, he still lives in Twin Falls Idaho and would love to hear from you. You can reach him at: 819 Monroe Street Twin Falls. ID 83301 (208) 734-2280

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2ND QUARTER BIRTHDAYS

MAY

Alice Abusharr (2nd) Nancy Scott (2nd)

Agnes “Chickie” McIntosh (15th) Marty Chandler (20th) Adela Ferrand (20th)

Mary Golay (20th) Boris Kazimiroff (20th)

Dolly Ogata (25th) Pete Woll (27th) Bob Golay (31st)

2ND QUARTER ANNIVERSARIES

APRIL

Dale & Jodie Ventres (1949) Ron & Janet Evans (1964)

Howard & Janet Brooks (1989) Marty & Tereza Chandler (1996)

Paul Vener & Sharon Harvey (1994)

MAY

Ivan & Barbara Price (1987) Jack & Nancy Tillman (1987)

Bob & Judy Sparanese (1995)

JUNE

Jim & Mikey Havlick (1964)

APRIL

Betty Paieda (3rd) Dorothy Stroh (10th)

Mary Andresen (29th) Fred Pahl (30th)

JUNE

Judy Sparanese (2nd) Paul Vener (8th)

Ray Hansen (15th) Ivan Price (24th)

ON THE MOVE...

Rizek Abusharr reports that Selma Zaidi, Vice President of International at Y-USA, will be moving to the World Alliance of YMCA‟s in Geneva, Switzerland as Senior Executive Secretary for Movement Strengthening and Resource Mobilization. Lynda Gonzales-Chaves has been appointed Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. As of now no replacement has been named for Selma.

MEMBER UPDATE...

Peter Gieseke wrote to inform us that his dad Carl is living in a nursing home in Fresno, but his roots are in Southern California as he was at the Crescenta-Canada Y for 18 years. Carl has dementia but remembers the “good olde days” and people from then. You can contact Carl through Peter at: Peter Gieseke, 2 School Way, Watsonville, CA 95076.

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SPRING OUTING “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN” - CANDLELIGHT PAVILION - CLAREMONT, CALIF.

Good Friends, Good Fellowship, Good Food,

And A Wonderful Performance!

Lyon chapter members spent a warm Sunday, May 1, 2011 afternoon enjoying the classic musical “Singin’ in the Rain”.

EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND

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What a great fundraising year we had for EAF. All chapters saw increased number of donors and more dollars raised. See results below.

2009 2010 CHAPTERS # OF GIFTS # OF $ # OF GIFTS # OF $ CHAPTER EAF REP. Allen-Stone 19 3,160 40 4,310 Scotty Washburn Brandenburg 10 1,045 19 1,445 Bonnie Litz Central Atlantic 21 2,660 35 3,175 Winifred Reuschle Chambers 44 5,325 61 6,710 Jack Doughty Ellenwood 12 868 20 1,171 Joe McCranels Grand Canyon 24 2,425 38 3,150 Peg Andrews Greater Ozark 20 2,490 28 3,500 Ted Hawking Harbison 3 95 4 170 Karen Geary Hoosier-Buell 50 3,955 56 4,799 L. Drexler/N. Allen Lyon 23 3,210 37 4,009 Quin Gustason Marston 11 830 14 1,051 Bill Parkhurst McBurney-Morse 11 2,065 28 2,840 Bob Pilgrim McCoy 21 2,670 34 3,987 Pearl Carpenter Messer 20 1,880 32 3,005 Thomas Scott Mott 4 160 13 2,070 Chuck Pletke New England 26 2,285 68 6,830 B. & N. Hoffman Schreiner 25 3,025 40 3,675 Bill Ellisor Upper Midwest 18 2,395 35 3,110 John Traver Weatherford 39 6,120 69 8,060 C. & J. Mitchell Willis 23 3,298 56 5,130 Jeri Cushman Non-Designated 80 7,942 223 17,624 Chapter Totals: 424 49,961 727 72,199

GRAND TOTAL: 504 57,903 950 89,821

We also have District Reps: bobby Stivers in Hawaii and Norma Hansen in Weidensall. Thanks for a job well done by our National EAF Chair Dale Ventres.

Because we care so much about each other!

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SENIOR TIPS

SCAMS TRAP OLDER ADULTS BECAUSE OF MEMORY LOSS, LONELINESS, TRUST.

ARTICLE RE-PRINTED FROM A RECENT AARP BULLETIN

Folks over age 65 make up only an eighth of the U.S. Population but as many as a third of all scams. There are three common expla-nations for this disproportionate vulnerability: memory loss, loneliness and a supposedly more trusting nature. So what explains all those older folks who don‟t fit these descriptions but still get scammed? Research suggests answers that go be-yond the three main explanations: The natural aging process can cause subtle shifts in mind and mind-set that open the way for scammers in unexpected ways: Memory Loss Starting in our 30s, our brains begin to shrink, says Virginia Templeton, director of MemoryCare, an Asheville, N.C. facility that treats people with memory disorders. With normal aging, the pace of processing information slows, becoming more noticeable in our 60s. “In people with early memory loss, even before it‟s clear that there may be a problem, judgment, reasoning ability and decision-making skills may change,” she says. “And in many scams — telemarketing, fake lotteries — you have to ‟act now!‟” These de-mands for speed, of course, are there for a reason. “Unless you‟re patient enough to give yourself more time to process everything, you can be more vulnerable,” says Templeton. Research also finds that other changes that are frequently shrugged off as memory loss become more common after age 65. For instance, if they‟re repeated enough, you might believe false statements such as “You forgot to pay me!” or “We agreed on this price.” Your defense is to write everything down. And ability to grasp details such as contract terms can start to wane daily at around 2 p.m. Scammers often call late in the day.

Loneliness It‟s loneliness or feeling undervalued that boosts a senior‟s risk of falling for scams by 30 percent, suggests new research by Peter A. Lichtenberg of Wayne State University‟s Institute of Gerontology. Both states of mind, he says, “fall under the need of having status in society and those needs not being met. It comes down to feeling socially isolated.” Even if lots of family, friends and coworkers are around, a thoughtless remark, a rude store clerk or private worries can cause a sense of being unappreciated or unnoticed to take root. Scammers step in to provide fake emotional support - while taking your money. More Trusting It‟s often said that seniors tend to take people at their word. But studies find that many older people are in fact better at detecting lies than younger folks. Still, older people “tend to be more patriotic and more religious, “says neuropsychologist Stacy Wood of Scripps College, traits which the bad guys can sometimes exploit. Patriotism can open the door to scam-mers who pretend to be from a government agency or a veterans group. Being religious, meanwhile, can make people vulnerable to cons involving fake charities or other supposed good causes. Finally, studies show that age can dull the abil-ity to spot warning signs that are obvious to younger people. A possible explanation for that: “Compared to other age groups,” Wood says, “older adults tend to have a more positive outlook.”

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

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PING PONG My friend is engaged in a major custody battle. His wife doesn‟t want him and his mother won‟t take him back. QUICK STUDY A mathematician and a farmer are traveling by train. They pass a flock of sheep in a meadow and the mathema-tician says, “there are 1,248 sheep out there”. The farmer replies, “amazing. By chance, I know the owner, and that figure is absolutely correct. How did you count them so quickly?” The mathematician replies, “Easy, I just counted the number of legs and divided by four. LATEST ON MENTAL HEALTH Did you hear about the paranoid man with low esteem? He thought no one important was out to get him. I used to be schizophrenic, but we‟re all right now. My inferiority complex isn‟t as good as yours. Henry tried to kill himself with an overdose of aspirin, but after he‟d had two he started feeling a lot better.

LEGAL REPRESENTATION The Godfather, accompanied by his attorney, meets with his accountant. The Godfather says to his accountant, “Where‟s the three million bucks you embezzled from me?” The accountant doesn‟t answer. The Godfather pulls out a gun and says “if you don‟t tell where it is I‟ll shoot you in the head and splatter your brains against the wall.” The attorney interrupts, “Sir the man is a deaf-mute, but I can interpret for you.” The attorney, using sign language, asks the accountant where the three million dollars is. The ac-countant signs back, “the money is hidden in a suitcase behind the shed in my backyard.” “Well what did he say?” asks the Godfather. The attorney replies, “He doesn‟t think you have the guts to pull the trigger.”

THE AGES OF MAN - THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE 1. You believe in Santa Claus 2. You don‟t believe in Santa Claus 3. You become Santa Claus 4. You look like Santa Claus

WITHIN THE LAW A policeman spots a man driving very erratically. He pulls the man over and asks him if he‟s been drinking. “Yeah,” replies the man. “Me and my friends stopped by this bar where I had six or seven beers. Then we went to a bar where they serve great margaritas so I had four of those. Then I stopped on the way home, got a bottle of whisky, and drank that too.” The policeman says, “Sir, you need to step out of the car and take a breathalyzer test.” Indig-nantly, the man replies, “Why? Don‟t you believe me?”. HELP A guy phones the local hospital and yells, “You‟ve gotta send help. My wife‟s in labor”. The nurse says, “Calm down. Is this her first child? He replies, “No. This is her husband.” THEY GOT A BIT OF THE HUMERUS Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, “Does this taste funny to you”.

DOGGONE SMART Two women are arguing about which has the smarter dog. The first women says, “My dog‟s so smart, every morning he runs to the newsstand with money in his mouth, buys a paper, runs back, lets himself into the house, and brings it to me in bed”. The second women replies, “I know.” “How could you know?”. Asks the first women. The second women replies “My dog told me”. DIETER‟S PRAYER Lord, if you can‟t make me skinny, please make all my friends fat.

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