What’s on Our Mind

Dean and Marlene Stine met as schoolchildren in Edna, Kan. The sweethearts began dating in high school and married in 1952. They’re still together 67 years later.Their wedding took place while Dean was on leave from the Navy.   Read More...

Jim and Gayle Roose met at the University of Sioux Falls, where they were both students. “I spotted her sitting with a bunch of girls, and went right up and talked to them,” Jim said.Gayle’s girlfriends discouraged her from seeing Jim, but a few days later he was out driving when he spotted the young woman who had caught his eye.“I stopped and asked if she wanted to go to church,” Jim said. “And that did it for her.” He jokes that his red and white ’56 Chevy might have also been a contributing f...  Read More...

When Denise Wright moved back to Wichita, she worked briefly for a nursing agency. That’s how she discovered she enjoyed working in skilled nursing communities.“You have different types of relationships (in skilled nursing),” Denise said. “It’s not like you get to know someone, and they’re gone right away.”In her role as a registered nurse for the PATH program, she values the opportunity to “form relationships with people and see them progress.”The Michigan native first lived in Wichita when she...  Read More...

Wichita Presbyterian Manor has issued a call for entries for the Art is Ageless® juried exhibit to be held March 13 – 27, 2020. Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or older to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 40th anniversary Art is Ageless calendar in 2021.Artists may choose to enter the exhibit only. For the competition, works are to have been completed in the past five years (since January 2015).   Read More...

Wichita Presbyterian Manor received a certificate of recognition from PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America) for reaching goals in fiscal year 2019, covering the months of July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, at a banquet November 13 in Wichita.The recognition came through PMMA’s Emerald Awards Program, designed to encourage its 16 locations to achieve high levels of resident and employee satisfaction, meet financial goals, build philanthropic support for the organization’s missio...  Read More...