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| Bob Auerbach ... is 79, divorced, and has two adult children. He is a retired librarian & has a Master of Library Science Degree. Bob came from New York City, and collects stamps and campaign buttons (several hundred non-duplicates). Politics: democratic left (Green, Socialist). Religion: liberal religious. His birthday is Dec. 14. He is looking forward to cooperative living with like-minded people. | |
| Dennis Cannon...was born July 5, 1943 (the same year as Mick Jagger) in Los Angeles. He is widowed, and has no children. He is a transportation engineer, with a Bachelors Degree in physics. In LA, he formed a consulting firm specializing in helping transit agencies design public transportation systems accessible to people with disabilities. Tired of the erratic cash flow of self employment, he moved to Washington in 1981 to become a "card-carrying bureaucrat" for the U. S. Access Board. He develops accessibility guidelines & standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act, et al. Hobbies include reading and writing science fiction, and collecting art and crafts. Dennis is a wheelchair user. | |
| Mary Jane Cavallo... Came from Colorado to work in a big library. The important things in life include: enjoying rocks, leaves, old literature, living in the past, and her mother's spaghetti sauce. Lolling in natural hot springs, lolling on the beach and lolling in mountainous places round out her existance. MJ chose cohousing for caring neighbors, buying cooperatively, mad experiments in the CH kitchen and mining the collective IQ at TVC, which is very high indeed. | |
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Mark Headings...I'm 32, single, politically progressive, agnostic, and vegetarian. I come from a very small family in Pittsburgh with a younger brother, older stepsister, and divorced parents. Other tidbits: I enjoy bike riding and tossing a frisbee; I've been a co-president of a National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter, and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya. In August 1999, I finished grad school, moved into an apartment near the TVC site, and started a managerial position with the National Institutes of Health. While I have very little experience with intentional communities, I hope to expand my sense of family and integrate personal growth, sustainable living, community service, and progressive politics in my life. |
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Steve Hilmy... was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and, from the age of 7 and a wee bit, raised in a British boarding school where he learned that cold showers, morning runs, and periodic beatings with a stick on the butt were character building, and that one must wear a tie and have very short hair if one was to go anywhere in this life. Steve has been on
the faculty of The George Washington University Music Department since
1992 where he is the Director of the Electronic and Computer Music Studio.
He has received millions of composing awards, none of which make much
difference, all of which have interesting acronyms. Quotes from his audiences
include: "wow", "awesome, dude", "huh?",
"Let's get out of here honey, my EARS hurt", "eeeew, what
flatulent garbage", and "mmfgh". |
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| Kathryn
and Lily Grace Johnson... Originally from New
England, Kathryn (47) lived on Capitol Hill for ten years before moving
to TVC. Originally from China, Kathryn's adopted daughter Lily Grace (7)
is in the second grade. As director of a church-related non-profit (Methodist
Federation for Social Action) Kathryn's work involves organizing and rabble-rousing
with progressive United Methodists. Lily is the best hoola-hooper. Some favorite mother/daughter pass times include: ice skating, skipping, singing silly songs and reading. Kathryn's preferred mode of living is "in community" and Lily Grace doesn't know there is anything else. |
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| Sandra Leibowitz......28, originally from NY, Tried to escape cities before landing in DC for "The Job." Now in a different Job (doing architecture at EDG), she is a "green building" specialist. In other places (Penn, Mass, Oregon) she loved singing in the folk/spiritual choirs and is looking to do that here. She can't wait to share resources, good times and challenges with fellow TVC residents...and to help Washington lighten up a little for everone's sake. | |
| Eric Mendelsohn...30 yrs. old, married with one son. From NY and Chicago. Career seeking - energy and environment. Looking forward to playing board games, fussing with the fire, and movie night. Want to learn to use a drill press. Want to study relationship between weather and energy use in the community. | |
| Dennis Murphy... I am single, 42, and have lived in NY, Vermont and Takoma Park. I am a computer network administrator, who is self-employed half-time, and employed by a large business half- time. I'm looking forward to living in a neighborhood where I know everyone's first names and to playing with everyone's pets. My interests include playing roller hockey, listening to music, and building speakers. I also enjoy wines and cooking. | |
| Bernadette Odyniec...I am the 40 year old child of Catholic disipline and duty; the 15-year old daughter of Pagan playfulness and love of nature; and the 6 year-old godchild of the Quaker search for that of God in everyone (thanks to Drew for the idea of putting it this way). I am married to Herb. Images of co-housing which I relish: singing and gabbing with others while we cook and clean; relaxing before a fire and in our hot tub; and living a life which is greener and simpler than our current one. I like to jog, read books, play with other people’s children, watch old movies, swing dance, laugh at silly nonsense, and pet other people’s short-haired dogs. Currently, I am also trying to figure out what aspects of the organizational development work I do really are “my bliss” (as Joseph Campbell names it), so I can set new directions for the second half of my life. | |
| Carol Savage...I am an Oregonian who has been living in Charleston SC for a number of years. I love the international and cosmopolitan flavor of Washington and the community of Takoma Village. I am working as a special educator, counselor and program developer, and have worked in medical schools and university settings. In Washington I hope to spend more time with my art - making jewelry from the beads and found objects I have collected from my travels around the world. I also love traditional irish music and contra dancing. | |
| Sharon
Villines......age 57, very happily single, artist and writer,
escaped university professor of 25 years, formerly based in Manhattan. Two grown children (systems analyst with Price- Waterhouse-Coopers and a police officer in rural upstate New York) I'm very task oriented, usually doing two things at once and thinking about six others, so I need a community of people around to socialize with in the course of living my life–at dinner, the mailbox, or in the hallway. People who are there when it's important, but otherwise live their own lives–while enriching mine. Context-dependent, like a family. |
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| Lowell Ungar...I grew up in suburban California. What community I found was in my large nuclear family and in a Unitarian church. Since then I have lived in two suburbs and five large cities (four of them with Dana), spent thirteen years at four universities and five years in Washington, DC, and found the greatest community among the residents of a Quaker Meetinghouse and in multi-racial, middle-class, urban neighborhoods. Trained as a theoretical chemist, I now work as a legislative aide to a Senator. I dream of travel to India and learning sign language, but rarely find time even to read or clean house. | |
| Jacqie Wallen... has been fantasizing about living in a cohousing community since before there even was such a thing. She used to live in Takoma Park, Maryland and is a big fan of the Takoma Park area. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, and has a private practice of psychotherapy which she will move to her home in Takoma Village when she settles into her townhouse there. She has two grown children who live in the immediate area and she will add significantly to the cat population of Takoma Village by bringing her three cats. | |
| Ann Zabaldo...lives in a group house (not a half-way house!) with housemates Tina, Martie and Noah, the standard schnauzer. Tina will move to TVC & Martie to Liberty Village Cohousing. Ann is passionate about the consensus process as the bridge in moving our society from a competive base to a cooperative base. She looks forward to cohousing being fun! fun! fun! | |
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Takoma
Village Cohousing
6827 4th Street NW, Washngton, DC 20012-1901 October 25, 2007 |
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