The Down East Seniors Club held their May 28 meeting at the Blind Center of NC in Washington. President John Tunstall led the meeting. Ed Sample led the singing of “God Bless America” and Durwood Cratch gave the invocation. Dick Robinson provided humor.

Bob Diefendorf gave his personal profile. He was born in Pierre, SD in 1931. When he was seven the family moved to a rural area of South Dakota. As he got older he worked summers on farms, at a movie theater, and publishing a weekly newspaper with a friend. He attended the University of South Dakota and left in his junior year to join the US Army. He was sent to Korea in 1953 where he was made editor of a divisional newspaper. After the Army, he worked at the First National Bank in Chicago. Later he worked with a credit union outside Chicago and a bank in Rochester, NH. He and a friend set up a company that would provide trust department services for banks that didn’t have them. Upon retirement in 1995 he and his wife located here in Washington.

Program Chairman Mark Eakes introduced his wife, Dr. Gene Eakes, Director of Clinical Education at ECU. Dr. Eakes concentrates on end of life issues in her work. She divided the members into two groups. The first group she asked to write out the things they would do if they knew they had exactly six monthe to live. The second group was asked to list what they would do if they knew they had 24 hours to live. Obviously business affairs should be put in order. The most important thing in either case is to connect with famly and friends and say I forgive you, please forgive me, thank you, and I love you.

Hutch Stage won the 50/50 drawing.