society snapshots
Tennessee campus The Good Samaritan Society is
preparing to open a new campus in Tennessee.
The Good Samaritan Society – Fairfield Glade is located on a 23-acre wooded site and includes a 30-bed skilled nursing center, a 24-bed assisted living center, 42 senior housing with services apartments, cottage units and a non-medical home care program.
A community task force formed in 2004 to begin planning for a continuing care retirement community in Fairfield Glade, and the Good Samaritan Society committed to the project in 2007.
“Fairfield Glade is one of the newest campuses in the Good Samaritan Society,” says Anne Harrington, the campus administrator. “It is exciting to be involved in the start of this wonderful senior living community.”
Jeffersontown TN KY Fairfield Glade
Christmas card artist Artwork created by a Good Samaritan Society resident in Jeffersontown, Ky., has
been selected to illustrate the cover of the organization’s 2011 Christmas card.
Mary Lou Davis, a resident of Gaslight Court on the campus of Good Samaritan Society – Jeffersontown, created the painting of Mary and baby Jesus using acrylics on hot press illustration board.
Davis says she’s always loved to draw and paint. “I was born with a pencil in my hand,” she says. A native of New York, Davis lived in Florida for nearly 40 years where she married and raised a family. She has lived at Gaslight Court for about two years.
Right: Mary Lou Davis holds her artwork which was chosen for the Good Samaritan Society’s 2011 Christmas card.
Trash to treasure A resident at Good Samaritan
Society – Moscow Village in Moscow, Idaho, has mastered the art of turning trash into treasure. George Pressnall creates dioramas and other items from unused items found around the campus and gives his creations to staff members and others as gifts.
Moscow
George Pressnall in a hat he made.
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“I created a toy plane for a little boy whose parents couldn’t afford to get him a birthday present,” says Pressnall. “The smile on the boy’s face made me
happy. That’s why I create — to make others happy.”
When he was 23, Pressnall was injured in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Making artwork and searching for items has kept him busy ever since, says Pressnall.
“I like to work with natural materials,” Pressnall says. “I have always enjoyed making things out of nothing, and I surprise myself once it’s done!”
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