Resident Spotlight: Meet Carol! Carol is one of the most active and amazing residents we have at Windsor Park! She moved here 12 years ago for “friends, food, and fellowship.” That’s her way of saying she got tired of eating TV dinners and watching Wheel of Fortune. Carol loves to have dinner and stimulating conversations with friends, go on Windsor Park bus trips to places she wouldn’t go alone, and attend lectures, concerts, and programs right here on campus. Carol spends her time with great purpose: she serves on the Resident Council for the Bristol Building, leads a book discussion group, sits on the Dining Committee, volunteers to assist at campus events such as our COVID vaccination days, organizes residents for her church bus on Sunday mornings, and when it is allowed, she will resume going with Windsor residents to cook dinner for families staying at the CDH Ronald McDonald House. If there is anything happening on this campus, she is there to participate, like the Senior Olympics where Carol won two gold medals and one silver. Carol graduated from Wheaton College in 1951 with a degree in Botany, and taught Science and U.S. History for 32 years at Franklin Middle School. When she retired from teaching full time, she began filling in as a substitute teacher at Monroe Middle School where her daughter taught Science until she retired this year. Now Carol only subs for teacher aides. She loves to travel, especially to visit her daughter, grandsons, and great-grands in Washington and Montana. Carol loves to read, walk, hike, attend concerts and plays, and crafts. She volunteers at the Morton Arboretum Herbarium every week. Carol says living at Windsor Park has freed her from housekeeping and yardwork which allows her more time to work and volunteer and participate in interests old and new. She treasures living here and having fellowship with friends of like values. Carol, you are an inspiration, and we are blessed to have you here! ... See moreSee less
