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Show Grand Opening as a Lucile Hutchings, you, are an ususual woman. Besides being attractive, talented, THANKSGIVING DAY 1971 Lucile delivers Dinners a good organizer, personable with a warm heart, energetic and enthusiastic, you also love to serve others, especially the senior citizens of your community. Bom to William and Vea Arnold in Emery County, Utah, you were the only child until after you were married.. Your full life included marriage to a handsome man, named Dexter A. Collard, and you became the mother of two fine sons, who now reside in Dallas and Phoenix. During World War II, you built a home in Richmond, Calif., where you worked as Womens Counselor at Kaiser Cargo, while your husband was employed at a nearby ship yard. But tragedy struck and your husband, seriously injured in an accident, ill for 9 years and bedridden for the last 2 years, passed away, leaving you to be mother and father to your two little boys. You were employed by Remington Rand, first as office manager at Salt Lake City and as Senior Supervisor or utilities specialist, at San Francisco. The job brought you much joy, taking you all over the country. You stayed at all of the first class hotels, and ate at the finest restau- rants. This ideal job came to an end when you accepted a position with a firm in Salt Lake City and went to work for Payless Builders Supply as Office Manager and Comptroller. Community service and the opportunity to help others seemed to be apart of you and you reached out to aid in the Girl Scout program and supervised the office staff, setting up and operating a new bookkeeping sys- FNG TROPHIES AWARDED 3rd Anniversary..Aug. 5th 11 by Senior Citizens tem. Through your many associations you met a wonderful man, Virgil Hutchings, who changed your life. It was a great change for him too, marrying into a family of boys, as he had five daughters, but both families fit together beautifully, and now you and Virgil have 13 grandchildren. Womans Walls Came Tumbling Down April 29, 1971 OF THE YEAH Your next opportunity for service comes community when you become the Executive Director of Metropolitan Salt Lake Services for the Aging in 1967. Your first day was quite A truck backed up to the small dining room and carted away all of the tables and chairs, etc., and to top if off you were handed a negative evaluation report and told it was now your job to do whatever was necessary to be accepted by the community. Now the midnight oil began to burn. You set up new office procedures, daily functions, committee duties, personnel and practices, policies statistical reports, all forms of daily reports, and most of all the eligibility reports and requirements for the MEAL ON WHEELS.. The task, as you said,, "darned near killed you off. The first challenge was to enlarge the MEALS ON WHEELS program and reach out to the many Senior Citizens who really needed this service. Starting an extensive letter writing campaign you con- tacted Drs., Dentists, nursing homes, hospitals, clinics, informing them of the services available to senior citizens in the community. newsThe news media who a such played papers, prominent part, TV, radio, church publications, community throw away papers, were all requested to help in the promotions to give information to their readers about MEALS ON - WHEELS program. You did a remarkable work your first year. In January of 1967 merely 12 meals were being delivered each day. By Dec. of the same year 1,358 meals were de-- a month. This increase con- tinued. In Dec. of 1968, 2,409 meals. Dec. 1969, 2,898; 1970 saw 4,480 meals a month being delivered, and by the end of 1971 you were pleased to report that a grand total of 7,697 meals a month went into the homes of our senior citizens. With the increase ;each year a little more of your dream seemed to be coming true, making you a little happier each time. But it was not easy. There was so much opposition as is the case with any pioneer- -- i it it ing project. The rapid growth made so many changes necessary. The old van which was donated had to be replaced. Now 7 vans move out each day delivering s teaming hot meals to senior citizens. Each van has a meals on wheels unit, which has a heating and cooling unit to keep the food appetizing and tasty. At the beginning the drivers were all senior citizen volunteers. MEALS ON WHEELS CREW Only you could know what a problem this turned out to be. Many a time you and your kitchen supervisor, Nora Hunt, would each drive a van on your errand of mercy to homebound folks. But the joy of seeing lonely faces light up when you called bringing a hot meal is a memory you will hold dear. Many a one never had any callers but you or another driver for M. on W. Next in line came the Physical Fitness classes. Mrs. Annie Mnlcock Donates With the theme dont Most of us WEAR out, we RUST camS the incentive Bingo Board out, for the present Physical that has grown in popularity by leaps Fitness class and bounds. Beginning in 1969 with volunteers from the University of Utah Re, creation Department, it has matured so mych that the senior citizens who have completed the cycle of ex- ercises act as instructors for the classes. In addition, and take they plan charge of the graduation party and give out certificates to those completing the course. You were able to do this without any additional funding of any kind. To acquaint the group with each other, the METRO NEWSLETTER came into being. Your personal visits and calls to hospitals and nur- sing homes pointed out the need for the ' SICK COMof the 7 Meal on Wheel Vans. MITTEE to be formed. Continued on page 14 (Col 1) L |