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Each school year, Serving Our Seniors arranges for
Erie County residents, age 60+ to be part of Perkins
and Sandusky High Schools’ sociology curriculum,
as the students study older Americans. Topics
include:
E-mail Pals, Being 90+, Living through
the Civil Rights Movement, Inter-generational
Games
(euchre, poker, checkers, chess, Scrabble),
“What’s My Line”
(an exercise in stereo-typing),
and
Dancing.
We are recruiting people age 60
and better – NOW – to be part of sociology for fall
semester 2014/2015 school year. Call Serving Our
Seniors if you would like to know how you can be
part of the Gerontology Practical Experience, 419-
624-1856 or 800-564-1856.
70 senior citizens e-mailed PHS
sociology students as “pen pals”.
They met for an “E-mail Pal
Breakfast” at PHS in April.
Pictured are: Pat, 90+,
Sandusky; Jim C., 90+,
Sandusky; Milt O.,
90+, Perkins Twp. and
Angelina V., age 89,
Huron, to help sociology
students learn what it
really means to be of
older age.
Top: City Commissioner, Wes Pool
and Helen S, both of Sandusky, sit
with students and teach them how
to play euchre. Below: Rosemarie
and Barbara challenge two SHS
students to a game of Scrabble.