The History of the Friends Boarding Home/Quaker Heights Community Care Center in Waynesville, Ohio

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RESEARCH
THE HISTORY OF
SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND GIFTS
& BEQUESTS AND LEGACIES
TO THE
1905 FRIENDS BOARDING HOME &
THE QUAKER HEIGHTS CARE COMMUNITY,
FORMALLY NAMED
THE FRIENDS HOME OF THE OHIO VALLEY
YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY
OF FRIENDS, INCORPORATED
CLIENT’S REPORT
September 2009
Karen S. Campbell, Genealogist
1700 Penbrooke Trail
Dayton, Ohio 45459
Quaker Hill ~ Waynesville, Ohio ~ Quaker Historical District, NHR
1811 White Brick Meetinghouse (Left) & the new 1905 Friends Boarding Home (Right)
© Quaker Heights Care Community, 2009

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Old Medical
Building
Two more
“Cottages,” Duplex
99 Edwards &
39 Edwards
QH ~ Assisted
Living
1905 Friends
Boarding Home
McMillan
House
QH ~ Main White Brick Friends
Entrance Meetinghouse
QH ~ Health
Care Old 1898 Union
Schoolhouse
Quaker Heights ~
South Entrance
Red Brick Friends
Meetinghouse
Quaker Heights Care Community Campus
Quaker Heights~ Main Entrance ~ 2009

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ABBREVIATIONS:
o N.H.R. (National Historical Register)
o I.Y.M. (Indiana Yearly Meeting)
o O.V.Y.M. (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting)
o F.G.C. (Friends General Conference)
o M.M. (Monthly Meeting)
o Q.M. (Quarterly Meeting)
o Y.M. (Yearly Meeting)
o M.M.M. (Miami Monthly Meeting)
o F.B.H. (Friends Boarding Home)
o F.H.I. (Friends Home, Inc.)
o F. H. C. (Friends Home Corporation)
o M.K.M. (Maple Knoll Management, Inc.)
o L. M. V. (Little Miami Valley Plan)
o Fm.H.A. (Farmers Home Administration)
o F. H. F. (Friends Home Foundation)
o Q.H. (Quaker Heights)
o Q.H.C.C. (Quaker Heights Care Community)
o I.L.U. (Independent Living Units)
o A. L. (Assisted Living)
o A.C.O.M. (Adult Care Options Management, Inc.)
o W.A.H.C.C. (Waynesville Area Heritage & Cultural
Center)
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INDEX:
The Quaker Heights Care Community Campus: 2
Abbreviations: 3
Index: 4
Dedication: 5
Thank You: 6
Introduction: 7
Origins of the Friends Boarding Home in Waynesville, Ohio: 7
Finances: 21
The Role of Treasurer: 37
Types of Donations ~ Gifts/Contributions & Bequests/Legacies: 42
Purchases & Investments: 51
Sources: 53
Chronological List of the Names of Donors ~ Based on information from
Raymond Braddock, Board Minutes & FHF Reports: 55
Detailed Information about Donations & Donors ~ Taken from
Minutes of The Friends Boarding Home Board & Other Sources: 61
Appendix: 217
Photographs: 217
Sale of 7% Debentures ~ List of Purchasers: 224
Endnotes: 234

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DEDICATION:
To the “noble individuals” who through the donation of their
time, talent, & treasure made this ministry possible.
“What lesson from our past should we try to draw from? For myself I
have always appreciated and have been encouraged by the example of
many far-sighted hardworking men and women connected with Friends
Home. I cannot name all the Friends who have made an important
contribution to Friends Home. But I will speak of a few. Some I did not
know and some I knew and loved. Martha Welch and Robert Dean. Sara
and Raymond Braddock, Margaret Hadley, and Louis Neumann. Most of
these people were within my time. Their efforts, their work their
dedication to work hard on the present with their eyes on the future
helped to bring us here today. They were an example.
As my great-grandfather said in his address, ‘We live but for the moment;
one hundred years from now only the greatest of us will remain as fading
memories . . . thus it has ever been and thus it shall ever be with the
human race; men come and go and are not; but though the worker
disappears and is forgotten the work lives on. Our fathers labored and we
have entered into their labors. Let us see to it that preserving in its
essential line that which has come to us, and adding to it in our day and
generation as strength is given to us, we may leave for the coming century
good work and true . . .’”
~Horatio Wood IV, MD
Presiding Clerk
97th Annual Meeting 2001
April 21st, 2001

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THANK YOU TO:
Wendy Waters-Connell, Executive Director of Quaker Heights
Staff & Volunteers of the 1905 Friends Boarding Home Museum
Patti Kinsinger, Watson Library, Wilmington College
Staff of the Warren County Genealogical Society
Staffs of the Warren County Probate Court & Probate Court
Archive
Staff of the Green County Public Library, Xenia, Ohio
Natalie Fritz, Curatorial Assistant, Clark County Historical
Society, Springfield, Ohio
Jenny Ball, Reference Librarian, McClung Historical Collection,
Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, Tennessee
Byron Branson, Tom Hill, Seth E. Furnas, Jr., Fred Furnas,
Christine Hadley Snyder
Tom Hamm, Archivist of the Quaker Collection & History
Professor, Earlham College

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ORIGINS OF THE FRIENDS BOARDING HOME
IN WAYNESVILLE, OHIO
The idea of constructing and maintaining Friends Boarding Homes for elderly Friends
in the mid-west first came to light at Green Plain Monthly Meeting (Hicksite-FGC) in
Selma, Clark County, Ohio. 1 Reuben Matlack Roberts was an eastern Friend from
Chester Monthly Meeting in Moorestown, New Jersey who had moved west in 1886 to
marry Susan M. Merritt, a daughter of Edward Merritt of Green Plain Monthly Meeting,
Selma, Ohio. Reuben and Susan were married in her father’s home on 9th mo. 16th,
1886. They settled in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio where Reuben became a
successful farmer. Their son was named after Susan’s father, Edward Merritt Roberts.
While living in the east Reuben had visited Friends Boarding Homes in Philadelphia
and in New Jersey and had been impressed by the services provided. He would
encourage Indian Yearly Meeting (Hicksite-FGC) to also develop Friends Boarding
Homes for the elderly and the infirmed within its territory. He devoted a considerable
amount of his time and treasure to its accomplishment. In his obituary he is described
as a strong leader with the martial and political abilities to persevere in any project
aimed at the good of the Meeting:
“. . . Not the soldier of military maneuvers,
but the soldier of dauntless courage and
valor, ever striving to think for the good of
the meeting. Not the statesman of political
government, but the government of our
meetings; well acquainted with the
discipline and all forms of procedure in
business. . . Though often he stood alone in
his views, many times they were indicative
of clear judgment and prophetic vision . . .
He was the moving spirit in the
establishment of the Friends’ Home at
Waynesville, Ohio. He devoted his time
with tireless energy to its promotion till it
became a reality; that was one instance of
his prophetic vision. He helped to keep
alive the agitation for several years of a
Friends’ Home at Richmond, Indiana, and
thought it did not materialize according to
his vision, in the end a Home was
established.” 2
Three Brothers ~ Edward, Reuben, and John H.
Roberts (ancestry.com, Parry Family Tree)
The obituary seems to imply that there was some opposition to the FBH project for
Richmond, Indiana and possibly for the first FBH in Waynesville. If this was the case,
we will probably never know the details of the opposition. None-the-less, Reuben M.
Roberts with the support of “weighty Friends” in both Miami and Whitewater
Quarterly Meetings would persevere and bring his vision to reality.
Since 1877, when the first Friends Boarding Home had been built in Philadelphia, this
model of care-giving had become very popular among Friends. By the 1890s the various

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Quarterly meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) decided to establish
"Friends Boarding Homes" for the senior members of each quarter. One of the first was
the present day "Hickman", formerly known as the "Friends Boarding Home of
Concord Quarterly Meeting" in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
The Friends Boarding Home in West Chester was the first in a series of similar
institutions established by Friends in the Philadelphia area in the 1890s and
early 1900's. The Barclay was established in 1894 and the Greenleaf in 1896. In
the following year boarding homes were established in Bucks Quarterly
Meeting and by Salem Quarterly Meeting in southern New Jersey. Two more
followed in 1898: one in Burlington Quarterly Meeting and the Kennett Square
Home in Western Quarter. Stapeley Hall in Germantown followed in 1904.
Quakers in the Philadelphia area thus were pioneers in developing these simple
and inexpensive boarding homes for the care of elderly and infirmed persons.
Most of them were sponsored by and under the care of their respective
quarterly meetings, a pattern which soon became the norm in the Hicksite or
Race Street branch of Friends.
The movement toward the establishment of boarding homes was given impetus
by the gifts and benefactions of Anna T. Jeanes, a wealthy Quaker woman in
Philadelphia who set up several funds to assist in their support. (She also
instrumental in the founding of the Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia.) One
of these fund could be used to assist individual Friends whose resources were
insufficient to support them in the boarding homes. Another was designed to
encourage the development of infirmaries in the Quarterly meeting homes.
When the need for an infirmary was felt in the West Chester Home, several
rooms in the Annex were set aside for this purpose and a new elevator installed.
The cost was largely covered by the Joseph Jeanes Fund which Anna T. Jeanes
had set up in memory of her father. 3
Another successful farmer and “weighty Friend” of Selma, Ohio was Samuel Reeder
Battin (b. March 3rd, 1829 in Hanoverton, Columbiana Ohio ~ d. February 2nd, 1916 in
Selma, Clark County, Ohio). Along with Reuben M. Roberts, Samuel would work
tirelessly for the development of Friends Homes in the mid-west. Samuel R. Battin
would serve as the president of the Board of the FBH in Waynesville from 1905 till his
death on February 2nd, 1916. Miami Quarterly Meeting eulogized him thusly:
“Again we gathered under the cloud of sorrow and bereavement for
another one of our faithful Friends has been called home, Samuel R.
Battin, who has sat at the head of the meeting for so many years, is gone
from among us, and his presence and counsel will be sadly missed,
though he felt for some time that he was ‘Only waiting till the
shadows/Were a little longer grown’” (Friends Intelligencer, 3rd Mo. 4th,
1916, p. 156).
In 1874 Samuel R. Battin, his second wife Emily Tomlinson Battin, and their children
had moved from Salem Monthly Meeting in Columbiana County, Ohio to Green Plain
Monthly Meeting in Selma.
Two more Selma (Green Plain M.M.) names intimately associated with the Friends
Boarding Home in Waynesville were Howell and Emma Warner Pierce. Together they
would become the Matron and Superintendent of the FBH from 1915 to 1925 and once

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again from July 1933 to September 17th, 1935. Howell Pierce was born February 6th,
1856 in South Charleston, Ohio and died September 17th, 1935 in the Friends Boarding
Home of a heart attack. On his death certificate (located in the FBH Museum) it is stated
that he was 79 year, 7 months, and 11 days old at the time of his death. His death
certificate is signed by Dr. Mary. L. Cook.
Howell Pierce would take upon himself the duties of superintendent twice; first after the
death of the first superintendent Aaron B. Chandler, and, secondly, after the tragic death
of Superintendent Alonzo Curl.
On April 24th, 1878 Howell Pierce was married to Emma Warner (1858-1951), a
daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth M. Warner, also of Clark County and a member of
Green Plain M.M., Ohio. They had three sons and one daughter. They would celebrate
their 50th wedding in 1928 along with Emma’s two other sisters and their husbands at
Glenwilde, the old Warner place in Clark County near South Charleston. The Columbus
Dispatch dated Sunday, April 8th, 1928 ran a story of this family event, “Triple Wedding
of Half Century Ago to Be Celebrated at South Charleston” (see photos below). Fifty
years earlier three Warner sisters had wed their beaus in the parlor of their parent’s
home: Emma Warner married Howell Pierce, Mary Warner married Charles Dugdale,
and Laura Warner married Fred Wilson. The wedding was a traditional Quaker
wedding with the exception of the presence of the Justice of the Peace.
One more Green Plain M. M. Quaker that dedicated many years to the Friends
Boarding Home was Thomas Lawrence Calvert, one of the early Trustees that lived to
the ripe age of 83. Like Samuel Battin and Reuben Roberts, he moved to the area of
Selma, Ohio from the east having been born in Georgetown, Maryland on December
20th, 1858. He moved to the area of Selma with a brother when he was twelve. Three
years later he went to Newtown, Pa. to go to Friends Select School. Two years later he
clerked in a General Store in Bryn Maur, Pa. He returned to Selma and clerked in the
Hollingsworth Store there. Eventually Thomas and his brother bought out

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Hollingsworth, which included the store, a grain elevator, and a coal yard. Thomas
Calvert married another daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Warner, Elta, in 1888. In
1892 he returned to farming. 4 He became a leading agriculturalist in Ohio. Calvert
became the 10th Secretary of Agriculture for the State of Ohio and head of the Ohio
State Board of Agriculture. In 1916 he became the head of Ohio’s Drug and Food
Department. 5 His story is told in the Centennial History of Columbus & Franklin
County, Ohio by William Alexander Taylor, Illustrated, Vol. I & II (Chicago-Columbus;
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,), 1909, pp. 613-614:
THOMAS LAWRENCE CALVERT.
Ability, enterprise, ambition and genuine worth never fail to leave an
impress upon the activities of the community, in which they are manifest.
Possessing these qualities Thomas L. Calvert through gradual stages of
advancement has reached the responsible position of secretary of the
Ohio State Board of Agriculture, in which connection he is doing splendid
work to further the farming interests of Ohio. Practical experience
acquainted him with the actual work of the farm in his boyhood days. He
was born at Georgetown, Maryland, December 20, 1858, a son of
Thomas L. and Elizabeth Calvert, who had formerly been residents of
Delaware county, Pennsylvania, except during a single year that
included the date of their son's nativity, that year being passed in
Maryland. Returning to Pennsylvania, they again established their home
upon a farm. As the name indicates the Calvert’s are of Scotch lineage
and there is also a Quaker strain in the blood.
While still in his youthful days Thomas L. Calvert, Jr., came to Ohio and
in this state entered the public schools, where he pursued his education
save for a year or two which he spent in the Friends School at Newton,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, one of the excellent educational
institutions of learning in that day and one which had a great influence
in molding and fashioning for good the characters of its students. During
the entire period of his youth Mr. Calvert was associated with the farm
and its work, dividing his time between the duties of the field and the
work of the schoolroom with an occasional hour for play and recreation.
In his early manhood he secured a clerkship in a general store at Selma,
Ohio, and later, thinking to find the profession of telegraphy profitable
and congenial. he began learning the business. He was mistaken,
however, in thinking to find it a pleasant pursuit for it proved irksome
and monotonous to an active, robust youth and the indoor life was also
detrimental to his health. Therefore he turned his attention to clerking
and after a year in partnership with his brother. R. G. Calvert, he bought
out his employer and they conducted a successful and growing enterprise
until 1892, when Thomas L. Calvert disposed of his interests to his
brother and returned to the farm near Selma, devoting his energies to its
substantial development and cultivation until he was chosen to his
present position as secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture on
the 1st of May, 1906. He still maintains his home on the farm where his
family spends the heated months of summer. The only other office which
Mr. Calvert has ever filled is that of trustee of Madison Township. Clark

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County. Ohio, which position he filled from 1879 until 1906, when he
resigned to enter upon his present duties.
On the 14th of June, 1888, in Selma, Ohio, Mr. Calvert was united in
marriage to Miss Elta F. Warner, a daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth
Warner, of that village. Her father was also connected with farming
pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. Calvert have three living children: Leland S.,
thirteen years of age; J. Donald, eleven years of age; and Helen E., a
maiden of nine summers. They have also lost three children.
In his political views Mr. Calvert has always been an earnest Republican
since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. Since 1891 he has
been a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Selma and he is
connected with the Patrons of Industry. His characteristics are those of
an alert, enterprising business man and, with thorough and practical
knowledge of farming and a somewhat comprehensive understanding of
the work from the scientific standpoint as well; he is doing excellent
service to further the interests for which his office .stands.
The following is Calvert’s obituary found in the Friends Intelligencer, 1st
mo. 24th, 1942, p. 61:
“CALVERT ~ On his 83rd birthday, 12th mo. 20th, 1941, Thomas L. Calvert,
husband of Elta T. Warner Calvert. In addition to his wife he is survived
by two sons and one daughter. He was a native of Bryn Maur, Pa., and
came to the vicinity of Selma, Clark Co., Ohio, in 1870. A member of
Green Plain Monthly Meeting of Friends, he was for many years Trustee
of the Friends Home at Waynesville, Ohio. He was always active in the
civic and political affairs of his community and state, and was twice
elected to the Ohio State Legislature. His agricultural interests led to his
becoming a member and secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and
also State Dairy and Food Inspector.
Perhaps Thomas Calvert’s outstanding characteristic was his love of
people. He got acquainted early and retained his friendships. Formality
had little place in his life and work. He was a useful citizen, always
found on the side of right and righteousness.”
When Howell and Emma Pierce were Matron and Superintendent of the FBH, the
Calvert’s often traveled from Selma, Ohio to visit Elta’s sister Emma. Emma would
reciprocate with her visits to them. The following are examples of the Miami-Gazette
weekly newspaper of Waynesville which printed a “Friends Home” column:
“Mr. and Mrs. Tom Calvert and daughter, Miss Helen Calvert of Selma,
were dinner guests of Mrs. Pierce, on Sunday. . . “(January 13th, 1938)
“Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Calvert and daught3er Helen of Selma visited
their sister Mrs. Pierce on Sunday. . .” (April 28th, 1938)

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“Mrs. Emma Pierce attended a family reunion at Marion, last Sunday,
and spent the week end with her nephew and niece, Walter and Mabel
Wilson at Selma. . .” (May 26th, 1938)
Thomas’ daughter, Helen E. Calvert, a graduate of Earlham College and a teacher,
would become the treasurer of Green Plain Monthly Meeting and would also for many
years be a Trustee of the Friends Boarding Home. On January 7th, 1971 Helen Calvert
will purchase $10,000.00 worth of Bonds to support the building of Quaker Heights
Nursing Home(Bonds #168-187). Helen’s brother and his wife, Donald and Mildred
Calvert, purchased one $500.00 bond.
It would be representatives of Green Plain Monthly Meeting that proposed and
promoted the establishment of a Friends Home at the Miami Quarterly Meeting held in
Waynesville in 1898. Miami Quarter was made up of members of Green Plain and
Miami Monthly Meetings and their subordinate meetings. Miami Quarter approved
the idea and sent a letter to the Philanthropic Committee of the Indian Yearly Meeting
(Hicksite-FGC) requesting consideration and action on the proposal. The Philanthropic
Committee met in Waynesville with members of Miami Quarterly Meeting on May 14,
1900. They reported to Indiana Yearly Meeting during the annual meeting on August
22, 1900. The proposal was referred to “The Committee on the Establishment of a
Friends Boarding Home.” This committee was made up of twelve Friends, six each
from Miami and Whitewater Quarters of Indiana Yearly Meeting (Hicksite-FGC).
During the next annual meeting of I. Y. M. (Hicksite), it was reported that “We have
offers in the way of money and real estate to an amount which we feel safe in saying
will reach $13,000.00, with some conditions.” (August 19, 1901).
One condition of this generous gift was that the proposed Friends Boarding Home be
built in Waynesville, Ohio. The $13,000.00 was given by wealthy Friend Joseph F.
Schofield of Knoxville, Tennessee. He was a member and had been a minister at Fall
Creek Monthly Meeting at Pendleton, Indiana (Whitewater Quarter) for many years
before moving south in the late 1870s. Even though he moved to the south, he
maintained his membership in I.Y.M. (Hicksite-FGC) his entire life. He owned a great
deal of property in both Indiana and in and around Knoxville, Tennessee. During the
early 1870s, Joseph F. Schofield had also been a big supporter of the Hicksite Quaker
School, Miami Valley Institute (College) in Springboro, Ohio. He owned two shares of
stock in the Institute/College, initially worth $100.00. 6 Joseph Schofield also had an
emotional connection with Miami Quarter of I.Y.M. (Hicksite-FGC). He had married
the clerk of Green Plain Monthly Meeting, Sarah E. Warner, his second wife, on 8th mo.
18th, 1898. She was another daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth M. Warner (mentioned
above).
One might ask why Waynesville, a small town along the Little Miami River in Warren
County, would be a desirable site of the Friends Boarding Home. Waynesville had a
strong “Friendly” presence and a distinguished Quaker history. Miami Monthly
Meeting, established in 1803 in Waynesville, was the center of the Friends migration
into the newly opened Ohio territory in the early 1800s. In 1811 the plans for the White
Brick Meetinghouse were expanded to be able to accommodate the crowds for Quarterly
Meeting (Miami Quarterly Meeting). Miami M. M. became the mother of many other
meetings in southern Ohio that were “set off” from her. In the late 19th century the
Yearly Meeting of I. Y. M. (Hicksite-FGC) was alternately held at Miami Meeting in

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Waynesville, Ohio, Whitewater Meeting in Richmond, Indiana, and Fall Creek M. M. in
Pendleton, Indiana. Indeed, it was during a stressful meeting of Miami Quarterly
Meeting in 1828 in Waynesville that Indiana Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) had come into
existence during the unfortunate Hicksite Separation. The historical significance of
Miami Monthly Meeting was going to be commemorated by Friends in 1903 with a big
Centennial celebration.
Above: Orthodox & Hicksite Friends join to celebrate the Centennial of Miami Monthly Meeting in 1903.
Besides these historical connections,
1. Waynesville was centrally located in the area covered by Miami
Quarter, which ranged from Cincinnati, Hamilton County, up to
Zanesfield, Logan County, Ohio.
2. Cincinnati Monthly Meeting (Hicksite-FGC) had been recently laid
down and its membership transferred to Miami Monthly Meeting.
3. Waynesville was a substantial town sitting on a railroad line and Miami
Monthly Meeting was the largest monthly meeting in Miami Quarter.
Miami Quarter was made up of four meetings, two monthly, and two
“executive.” In 1900 Miami Monthly Meeting had a population of 117
members, Green Plain Monthly Meeting had a population of 49
members, and both Springboro Executive Meeting (15 members) and
Clearcreek Executive Meeting (24 members) were subordinate to
Miami Monthly Meeting. 7 Selma was a small village and Samantha,
the location of Clearcreek Meeting, was tiny. Springboro was a smaller
farmer’s town than Waynesville and isolated from rail transportation.
4. The village of Waynesville was thriving and Waynesville High School
and the town will invite the alumni and everyone who had once lived in
Waynesville to celebrate a week long ‘Homecoming” in 1906.
Ironically, there were three strong but now extinct meetings that were instrumental in
the establishment of the Friends Boarding Home in 1905 and later in its transition into
the Quaker Heights Nursing Home during the late 1960s and 1970s. The “Cincinnati
Fund,” which had been established with the money gained in the sale of the Cincinnati

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Meetinghouse and property in 1897, was an indispensable contribution from Miami
Quarter to the building fund for the FBH.
Green Plain Monthly Meeting near Selma, Ohio had been, during the antebellum
period, a radical anti-slavery meeting that had not only split into Hicksite and Orthodox
divisions but also a third group, the Progressive Friends of Selma, Ohio. The present
silent and empty meetinghouse belies its active and radical past.
Hopewell Preparative Meeting in Roachester, Ohio (near Morrow) had been an active
subordinate meeting of Miami Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in a booming railroad town.
It was also the home meeting of Martha Welch who would in the 20th century provide
the FBH with the funds to transform it into a modern long-term nursing and assisted
living facility.
Hopewell Preparative Meeting in Roachester, Ohio
A preparative meeting of Miami Monthly Meeting
3rd mo. 20, 1817- 2nd mo. 10, 1866
There are no pictures of the old Cincinnati Hicksite
Meetinghouse.
Green Plain Monthly Meeting (Hicksite-FGC) Miami Monthly Meeting (Hicksite-FGC)
Est. 1821 ~ near Selma, Ohio Est. 1803 ~ Waynesville, Ohio
Another influence that inspired the founding of the FBH was the establishment of the
national level Friends organization, Friends General Conference (FGC), in 1900, which
was made up generally of Hicksite Quaker Yearly Meetings in the U.S.A. A new energy
was traveling through the Hicksite meetings. During the first meeting of FGC on
August 21st, 1900, William W. Birdsall in his address emphasized the importance of
“noble individualism.”
This is not a selfish egoism. Noble individualism is a disciplined individuality, an
individualism nurtured to a spiritual maturity that seeks the common good and cares
deeply about others. It is an individualism rooted in healthy self-esteem. It was not a
compatible idea with the growing competitiveness and harshness of American culture
and the business world of the late 19th century. Individualism is not an excuse to be
greedy, self-centered or narrow. The “noble individual” was ennobled, as Quakers
believe, through the infusion of the “Light of Christ.” What makes the individual so
centrally important is this indwelling of “that of God” in every single person. But, with
this great universal blessing comes great responsibility. One’s internal struggle to rise to
a higher moral life is to be reflected in a very practical way in one’s social intercourse. A
Friend will participate in society’s struggle to rise to a higher morality.

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Local Friends during the Centennial Celebration of Miami Monthly Meeting in 1903
were well aware that Noble individualism was threatened by the growing corporate
mentality in the country. Wilson S. Doan made it quite clear in his presentation during
the 1903 Centennial that the business Trusts were ignoring the rights of the individual.
The following is an eloquent defense of the human rights of the individual. It sounds
remarkably contemporary and appropriate for the 21st century:
“All the battles for freedom have not yet been won. There are certain
inalienable rights that are inherent. Among these are the rights to follow
any lawful line of trade and commerce and upon the other side the
inalienable right to labor. We live in an age of combination when there is
too much danger of individuality being lost. The business man has
formed a partnership, and the partnership has formed a corporation,
and the corporation has formed a Trust; and every step has moved us
farther from the individual and in too many cases by this removal we get
away from the human conscience and from the sympathy of the human
heart and cheapen the value of human life and make man a machine
whose only value is the number of nails he can drive in a day or the
number of bolts he can make at the forge.
These organizations are but the natural outgrowth of our industries.
They are part of the evolution of society and they will remain, and should
remain; but they must be taught their proper place. Let the Church, let
the Society of Friends teach the corporation and teach the Trust the true
law, “whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to
them” (William S. Doan, “Has Quakerism a Vital Message for the World
Today?,” Friends ~ Miami Monthly Meeting ~ Centennial ~ Waynesville,
Ohio, 1803-1903).
Friends supported the Progressive emphasis on regulatory legislation but also stressed
that healthy character development was what implemented social change. If an
individual rises to a higher moral level, the whole world is uplifted. A Friend models the
ideals of progressive reform in his behavi9r because he strives to live up to the Light that
he/she has received. A friend has a healthy belief in his/her own ability to change for
the better and, consequently, a belief in the world’s potential to become the Kingdom of
God.
Friends General Conference embraced the new theological Liberalism or Modernism as
it was often called. The Liberalism of the turn of the century was not an insipid kind of
liberalism that allowed freedom for pleasure. Being liberal and non-creedal did not
mean lack of beliefs or moral fiber. This was a theological Liberalism that embraced
traditional Quaker beliefs and then re-stated them in modern more scientific terms.
These ideas were prominent in the private Quaker school system, too. Again, during
the Centennial Celebration of Miami Monthly Meeting in 1903, Dr. Joseph S. Walton of
the George School, a Quaker high school in Philadelphia, made the following remarks:
“I would call attention to the fact that Quakerism has stood for the
freedom of the individual. For the idea of individualism, for the setting
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might be within him. One of the cardinal principles of Quakerism is the
freedom of the individual. It was upon this western continent that
individualism was born. The world had not discovered its existence until
it was revealed in this republic. . . You must free the individual, but you
must always recognize that the individual has a duty to the society, to the
state and to the community, and he must meet the demands of the society,
the state and the community. . . Quakerism has stood for a two-fold idea,
the individual free, but at work in society to secure the best results. These
two doctrines have always been held by Friends. We are a unit on the
point that individuals have a responsibility for the condition of the
community in which they live.”
The Hicksite Friends of Indiana Yearly Meeting took up the challenge of “noble
individualism” and accepted the responsibility of providing a safe and affordable home
for elderly Quakers and their sympathetic friends in the community. The first
superintendent of the FBH was Aaron B. Chandler of Waynesville. In 1911, Aaron B.
gave a speech about spirituality and character building during a local Grange #13
meeting in Waynesville. His friends had it reprinted in the Miami-Gazette newspaper,
March 22nd, 1911 and March 29th, 1911).
What do we believe to be the real object of life? To be happy and
successful? That is the idea of many; meanwhile others (judging from
their actions and appearance) believe that object of this life is to be
miserable and full of sorrow, that they may wear a crown of glory
thereafter.
Would it be better that we realize that the main object in life is the
building of character. He who starts in early youth with that ambition
and purpose, and keeps to it, will not only attain his object, but he will
too, attain happiness and true success, for there is no such thing as
failure for the man or woman of true character. We sometimes call a
man successful, who has accumulated a fortune, or achieved fame and a
position by doubtful means. Character is the result of the cultivation of
the highest and noblest qualities in human nature and putting those
qualities to practical use. There are men of brains, wealth and position
who are failures, and there are men of limited abilities and in humble
places, who are yet successful, because they make the utmost of
themselves and their opportunities. It makes no difference how lowly our
sphere in life may be, no matter how limited our environment, we can
build our character if we will. We need no outlay of money, no assistance
from those in power. Then build character, be happy and successful. It
has been said: “The infallible recipe for happiness is to do good and the
infallible recipe for doing good is to abide with our spiritual life.” To be
happy oneself is not the noblest aim of life. It is rather to make happy the
place where one lives. It is a great gift to learn to enjoy the present, to
get all there is out of it and think of today as a piece of eternity. If we
have not been doing it all these years, let us begin now to teach ourselves
this great art. To be able to enjoy Heaven, one must be able to enjoy
earth. We will find, in the effort to reach a higher spirituality in our daily
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the greater ones. Home life, like business life, is composed of an
accumulation of trifles.
The FBH Committee of I.Y.M. (Hicksite-FGC) continued to labor in 1901-1902 to find
ways to establish a Friends Home. At the same time another committee was established
by Miami Quarter to work with the I.Y.M. committee (November 9, 1901). This
committee was made of five people three of whom were Quaker minister Matilda J.
Underwood, her husband, Elihu Underwood, and Sidney J. Chandler, the wife of Edwin
Chandler, all members for Miami Monthly Meeting.
The suggestion of the Miami Quarterly committee was that $5,000.00 be taken from
the fund of money, which had been conferred to Miami Quarter when Cincinnati
Monthly Meeting (Hicksite-FGC) was “laid down” and the meetinghouse sold in 1897,
and be used toward the establishment of a Friends Boarding Home. The money had
been invested in U. S. bonds which were sold to provide money for the FBH. The
committee pledged to collect at least $5,000.00 worth of subscriptions from members
of Miami Monthly Meeting (which was now a combination of the members of the laid
down Cincinnati Monthly Meeting and Miami Monthly Meeting) and Green Plain
Monthly Meeting and their subordinate meetings with the understanding that all
subscriptions would be upon condition that the amount of $15,000.00 be subscribed.
Quaker minister Matilda Jane Underwood, her second husband Elihu, her daughter
Ruth Anna Tomlinson 8 and her husband Curtis Tomlinson were all involved in the
establishment and continuance of the Friends Boarding Home in Waynesville. Thirty
years earlier in 1870, Matilda and some other members of Miami Quarterly Meeting
had objected to, but did not stand in the way of, the establishment of the Miami Valley
Institute, a Hicksite College in Springboro, Ohio. At that time, they were suspicious of
“liberal thought” and feared higher education as too “worldly.” Matilda also felt that
the school would not survive (The college did closed in 1883). Even so, there were other
members of Miami Quarter who were very supportive of the Hicksite college, for
example: Samuel R. Battin of Selma and Edward Merritt of South Charleston who were
both on the Board of Trustees of Miami Valley Institute/College. 9 This generation of
Friends, who were ready for retirement at the turn of the 20th century, were, however,
“in unity” concerning the Friends Boarding Home. A sizeable number of these seniors
were willing and able to substantially make donations themselves and were willing to
canvas for other Friends’ subscriptions for the building of the Home and its
maintenance.
Other factors influencing the giving of large contributions to the FBH project were
marital status (single or widow) and childlessness for married couples (i.e. Mark and
Edna McMillan in the 20th century). Many single and widowed women worked on
committees to establish and sustain the Home and often bequeathed substantial
amounts of money to the FBH. Frequently the last of their families, they were
contributing to their future security and nurturing a boarding home “family” for
themselves. Indeed, the first bequest came from a single woman of Morrow, Ohio,
“Minnie” Lownes, in 1911. Another interesting phenomenon is the number of single
sisters that lived together in the Home throughout the years and made substantial
contributions and bequests. 10 Examples of widowed and single women and men who
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Julia Underwood (widow) Emma Raphun (single)
Edith Butterworth (widow) Clara Lile (single)
Paulina Butterworth (single) Ruth and Elizabeth Chandler (single)
Elizabeth B. Moore (single) Dr. Emma Holloway (single)
Miriam “Minnie” Lownes (single) Minnie Catharine Dodson (single)
Anna M. Schofield (single) Clara Lile (single)
Anna and Hannah Kelley (single) Miss Ada Austin (single)
Adeline and Frances Alden (single) Martha Welch (single)
Katherine L. Hall (single) Miss Julia Easton (single)
Mame and Anne Brown (single) Robert McKenzie Dean (single)
Effie Hempleman (single) Christine Marie Sweetman (single)
Long time residents of the Friends Boarding Home or QH were inclined to leave
bequests. For example:
Edith Butterworth Frances and Adeline Alden
Julia Underwood Clara Lile
Jennie M. Whitely Anna & Mame Brown
Rachel Ann Faulk (Foulke) Emma Raphum
Hannah & Anna Kelly Dr. Emma Holloway
Alfaretta Lancaster Olive Williams
Mary Emma McLaughlin Minnie Catharine Dodson
Effie Hempleman (died while on the Mrs. Mae Harrison
waiting list) Miss Ada Austin
Katherine L. Hall Miss Julia Easton
Anna B. Moodie
Another reason leading to the initial success of the 1905 Friends Boarding Home was
the unity found among strong leaders of the Quaker community on the local monthly
meeting level and at yearly meeting during the early stages of planning and
implementation of the FBH. Powerful leadership provided by Miami Quarterly
Meeting was the glue that brought everything together. The support of leaders such as
Reuben M. Roberts, Samuel R. Battin, Edward Merritt, Matilda and Elihu Underwood,
Elizabeth B. Moore, and the two brothers Aaron B. and Edwin Chandler of Miami
Quarter and John L. Thomas and Joseph F. Schofield of Whitewater Quarter, made the
Friends Boarding Home possible. All the “movers and shakers” of the FBH, knew each
other from years of networking through Quarterly and Yearly Meetings.
Another factor for success was the enthusiasm of the local merchants of Waynesville
who saw the new institution as a source of good business for the village. Many
donations were collected from businessmen and local citizens. Later, when
contemplating the establishment of a nursing home in the mid 1960s, FHI would seek to
network with various social/service clubs and businesses of Waynesville. They would be
enthusiastically supported during the expansion by the village. Eventually, Friends
Home, Incorporated will open its membership to non-Quakers, encouraging local
Waynesvillians and others to share their giftedness and abilities on the Board of
Trustees.
All this cooperative work on the local level to gather subscriptions and promote the
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The Committee on the Establishment of a Friends
Boarding Home then requested that I.Y.M.
(Hicksite-FGC) donate the Alban Faucett
Fund ($2,000.00) to the construction of
the Friends Boarding Home. When the yearly
meeting committee made its final report at annual
meeting on August 22, 1904, their total
subscriptions amounted to $15,353.00. Therefore,
The Elizabeth B. Moore House ~ also all the collected subscriptions were declared valid.
known as the Wooten House and then In the long run, the Friends Boarding Home in
the Chandler House
Waynesville would return $1,000.00 of the Alban Faucett Fund to the Yearly Meeting,
hoping that it would be used to establish a second FBH in Richmond, Indiana.
Since enough subscriptions had been collected to begin
building, the Articles of Incorporation of a not-for-profit
corporation were taken out on June 20, 1904 (recorded in
Volume 102, page 149, of the Records of Incorporation in the
office of the Secretary of State). The early meetings of the
Board of the Friends Boarding Home first met during
construction of the FBH in the home of Elizabeth B. Moore,
which was located one block away from the building site on
the southwest corner of High and 3rd Streets.
The FBH would be opened on November 9th, 1905. 11 Three
hundred people came to support the endeavor. Another local
noted woman Quaker minister who attended was the 73 year 1831-1913
old Bethia Furnas (right), the widow of Quaker minister Dr.
Robert F. Furnas (1830-1901). Dr. Furnas was a brother of Davis Furnas, many years
the clerk of Miami M. M. and one of the signers of the Friends Boarding Home Charter
(see Appendix).
Thus began the Friends Home. The founding Friends saw the Home as just that; a
“home,” an intimate community. The residents, the daily staff (matron and
superintendent as well as the cook, the dining room girl, and the laundress), and the
Trustees all thought of themselves as a caring family. This emphasis on “family” can
also be seen in a brochure entitled “Rules of Friends Boarding Home, Waynesville,
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The challenge for each generation is “to operate the Home as nearly like a private
family as the circumstances will permit.” (The brochure probably dates from the late
1940s to the early 1950s).
This vision of Quaker Service was one of meeting the needs of people whose needs might
not be otherwise met by providing affordable alternatives for seniors. A statement of
principles dating from 1994 proclaims these Quaker values embraced by the
organization throughout its existence:
o In word and in action we treat all persons with dignity, respecting their
autonomy, valuing the diversity they represent.
o We resist involvement in programs based on artificial distinctions such as race,
class, or wealth.
o We attempt to create an environment in which all persons have an opportunity
to learn, to grow, and to become a source of change and improvement.
o We take time to care, and to promote love and understanding.
o We act to develop consensus and cooperation. We attempt to resolve conflict in
an open and forthright manner, cultivating goodwill and mutual
understanding.
o Simplicity is essential in applying our principles to our speech, our plans, and
our actions. We reject disguises of rank and position.
o We oppose violence in all of its forms, and encourage development of a sense of
inner peace.
o We protect the vulnerable and defenseless.
o We try to be fiscally responsible in order to provide needed services, respond to
community needs, and control our destiny. Money is a tool with which to fulfill
our values, never an end in itself.
o We lead by example, our words and deed guided by our basic beliefs. Our
commitment is to serve the community with humility, integrity and loving
compassion.
Quaker values define the character of Friends Home,
Inc. Throughout its many transformations from a
boarding home into an expanding medical facility,
which continually responds to the contemporary
needs of the day, and its navigation through the
many crises and difficulties that come with this
ministry, the positive values associated with a
“caring family” have always been maintained. In a
brochure published during the tenure of
administrator Andy Janovsky (1987-1998), these
Andy Janovsky
same values are emphasized:
“The residents of Quaker Heights are special. Walk our halls, visit with
our residents, and you will feel a difference, a warmth ~ a feeling that is
unique.”
“There is a closeness, a bond, between our staff and our residents that is
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“Our residents are not just cared for, they are cared about. They are not
numbers, they are not ‘clients.’ They are friends, they are family, they
are dear to us.”
“Our facility provides the finest Nursing Home care available. The
reason? People. People who truly care.”
Today the mission of the Quaker Heights Care Community is summarized thusly:
Our philosophy honors that of God within. In doing so, Quaker Heights is
a place where love is made visible by service.
A final service of love that a family can conduct is a memorial service or funeral service
for a member of the family that has died. Many funerals of boarders that died in the
FBH were conducted in the Home. Many were conducted in the White Brick
Meetinghouse next door. One of the earliest funerals in the Home was that of Mrs. Ann
Hatton Kelly, the widow of Moses Kelly:
“DEATH OF MRS. ANN KELLY ~ At 3 o’clock in the afternoon of Seventh
Day, Fifth Month 1906 the gentle spirit of Ann Kelly took its flight to
Paradise, after a valiant warfare against trials and temptations for
almost 87 years, having been bon September 1, 1819, near Harveysburg,
Ohio. She was married to Moses Kelly in the year 1849, and to them one
son, Levi, was born who together with his father, preceded her to his
reward; her husband passing away July 1879.
Out of a family of ten brothers and sisters of the deceased, but five
remain: Jervis and George Hatton and Debora Dakin of Harveysburg,
Levi Hatton of Lincoln, Illinois, and Mary L. Fever of Chicago. Mrs. Kelly
firmly believed and practiced the doctrines of the Hicksite Friends and
her funeral was conducted in accordance with their customs. Having
been a member of the family at the Friends Home for several months, her
funeral took place there Monday afternoon and was quite largely
attended. Liberty was given any who wished to speak, and Rev. J. F.
Cadwallader, Thomas Thorpe of Selma and Bethia Furnas gave
expression to their feelings of love, admiration and reverence for the
departed one in appropriate remarks. Her body was laid away in Miami
Cemetery” (Miami-Gazette, May 30th, 1906).
Today memorial services continue to be held for residents who have died in the Quaker
Heights Care Community.
FINANCES
As all homes and families must do, Friends Home, Inc. has had to be a responsible
steward of finances. The ethical investment of assets and the dispersal of funds for the
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Trustees. There were four sources of income to finance The 1905 Friends Boarding
Home:
1. An active endowment was begun with the funds that remained after the Home
was built; funds which had been subscribed from members of Miami Quarter
and Whitewater Quarter of Indiana Yearly Meeting (Hicksite ~ FGC). It was
made up of monetary contributions both large and small. Some of the larger
“corporate” contributions came from Quaker monthly/quarterly/yearly
meetings. Even the local Orthodox Quaker meeting made contributions.
Other sources for large donations were wealthy Friends who were in the
railroad, banking, and pork packing industries. Other contributions included
the following:
a. From the very beginning, The Friends Boarding Home expected
donations from the general public. On Wednesday, November 8th,
1905, the Miami-Gazette published the following invitation to the
village of Waynesville and to all other interested parties:
“FRIENDS HOME OPENING TOMORROW: As has been
previously announced the Friends Boarding Home will hold its
formal opening tomorrow, Thursday, and the institution will
be thrown open to the public all day long. The general public is
invited to come and bring with them donations of anything
that can be used by the Home. Dinner will be served to visitors
in the dining room at 25 cents. Oysters will be served in the
evening at the same price.”
On that crisp Thursday in November it seemed like all of Waynesville and
parts of Corwin, Harveysburg, Centerville, and Lebanon were climbing the
eight steps that lead up to the stately porch of the FBH. Friends from
Richmond, Indiana; Xenia, Ohio; Selma, Morrow, Wilmington, Dayton,
and Cincinnati came to lend their encouragement and support.
Representatives from all over Indiana Y. M. (Hicksite) were present. One
guest came from as far away as Chicago, Illinois and another from
Washington, D. C. The first person to enter the Home was Paulina
Butterworth who brought with her two cans of fruit as well as turnips and
cabbages. The donation table was filled with gifts: loaves of bread,
bushels of turnips, gallons of milk and cream, cakes, pies, and bottles of
pickles. Other donations were: two-dozen mangoes, various cans of fruit
and vegetables, a #6 bottle of honey, and a large jar of jellybeans. The
chickens that were donated went directly out back to the chicken coop.
The guests had also brought household items: pillows, a bedspread,
porcelain “bric a brac,” and lace curtains. The guests who arrived on that
opening day would also give donations of money, a dollar here, three
dollars there, and quite often a five-dollar bill.
b. Throughout the history of the Friends Boarding Home, smaller
contributions of personal property continued to take the form of
donations of groceries, prepared food, wood, coal, home decorations
and furniture for the public areas, linen, books, magazines, clocks,
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as self-sufficient as possible and originally had a large pasture and barn
with a cow for milk, raised chickens in a chicken house, and
maintained their own vegetable garden and often would sell their extra
produce to make a little money. Just taking a look at the receipts of
FBH during the 1920s and 1930s indicates that they sold eggs and
chickens; beans, sweet corn, and fruit. With a cow they could make
cottage cheese, which they would also sell. They also charged a rental
fee for keeping horses in their barn.
c. A permanent resident could bring his/her own furniture for their small
room. For example, the following is what Dr. Emma G. Holloway had
to say about her accommodations: “I brought with me from home, my
rug, two rocking chairs, a large chest of drawers and a smaller one, a
small square stand, my bookcase for a few choice books, and a desk.
Nearly all of these have been in the family a long while, but altogether
make my small room seem more home-like. My desk is an heirloom,
descended, as it happens from both my grandfathers, each having
owned it. My large window opens towards sunlight and a lovely view
of the White Brick 133 year old Quaker meetinghouse on the next lot
surrounded by tall trees. It is quite hilly here, so there are many
beautiful views in driving over the country and from within and near
town” (Letter dated January 11th, 1945). Often the furniture of a
resident who passed away was kept by the FBH which they could reuse
for a new boarder or store in the attic. Before 1994, the attic of the
FBH was filled with antique furniture. 13
Boarder’s Room in 1905 Friends Boarding Home, 1959
2. Money was collected for room rent from both permanent and transient
residents as well as payment for board, which would cover the cost of three
meals a day. The kitchen of the FBH also could provide lunch to people in the
village who signed up and paid for “food board” on a weekly or monthly basis.
It was hoped that the room and board fees would cover most of the day-to-day
expenses faced by the Matron and Superintendent. The boarders also paid for
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of the telephone, extra washing and ironing, envelopes, postage, and
postcards, taxi services, and extra electricity. The Matron and Superintendent
had their own account books (Cash Books) separate from the “endowment”
account book of the Treasurer of the FBH Board.
There was a lot of maintenance associated with the FBH. There were
continual repairs and many replacements of the furnace. The roof and
outbuildings always had to be repaired. The trim of the Home, the front
porch, the garage and the brooder house had to be scrapped and painted. The
car had to be maintained, the cow had to be fed, the fence repaired to keep the
cow in her field, the bill for the Pocahontas coal had to be paid, and also the
insurance on the Home and the outbuildings, especially the barn. Alfalfa seed
had to be bought from the Waynesville Farmers Exchange. The plowing,
disking, hauling manure, and sowing beans had to be paid for. The tractor,
plow, disk, harrow and cultivating tools had to be cared for.
It is almost impossible to determine how many times boarders’ rooms and the
common areas were re-decorated over the years. The kitchen went through
multiple transformations. Many checks over the years were written to buy
new rugs and curtains, paint for the hallways, the refinishing of furniture, and
the instillation and maintenance of the awnings on the many windows.
The Matron and Superintendent, usually a married couple, were direct
employees of the corporation and to save expenses, they usually lived in the
FBH. There were a few other employees whom they supervised: a cook,
cleaning women, laundry women, and farm laborers usually called
“caretakers.” The Matron was in charge of the Home itself. The
Superintendent was in charge of the entire property (Home, barn, garage,
outbuildings, fields and fences, and farm animals and produce).
a. The boarders at the FBH were not always elderly, nor were they
exclusively Quaker. For example, school teachers, who taught in the
public school across the street or were attending the Warren County
Normal School in the same building (1915-1926), often boarded at the
Home along side the senior citizens. In the early days, Waynesville
was a railroad town. Transients often stayed at the Home if any rooms
were vacant. This often happened in the summer, when some of the
permanent residents would vacation or when they would make holiday
visits to relatives staying for a long length of time. During their
absence, their rooms could be rented. To give one example, it was
reported in the Miami-Gazette newspaper on January 1st, 1948 that
“Miss Minnie Dodson left on Wednesday, for Indianapolis to spend
Christmas at the home of her brother, Mr. Joe Dodson and Family.”
Dr. Mary L. Cook, the founder of the Wayne Township Library in 1917,
later re-named in her honor, traveled extensively to visit relatives in
her retirement. She often, when home in Waynesville, would stay a
short time at the FBH as a transient boarder or at the Allison House,
the old S. S. & Eliza F. Haines home on 3rd Street which had been
transformed into a retirement home, instead of going to the time and
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Some transient boarders were seasonal. In her old age, Lydia Conard
Chandler, who had been the first Matron of the FBH, would stay at the
Home in the winter. The rest of the time she lived in New Vienna, Ohio
with her family. Another example of this custom involves Mrs. Anna
Cadwallader and her niece Miss Clara Lile who lived across the street
from the FBH but stayed their in the winter:
“Mrs. Anna Cadwallader and Miss Clara Lile, who have
been spending the winter at the Friends Home, have
returned to their own home for the summer” (Miami-
Gazette, date unknown)
One of the important jobs of the Matron and Superintendent was to
keep the rooms filled with paying boarders. A quick perusal of the
account books of the matron/superintendent shows that a stream of
transient boarders made a large contribution to the receipts of the
Home.
The Friends Boarding Home was a bustling place! The
people of Waynesville thought of the FBH as not only a
senior residence but also a cultural center. So many of
the boarders were retired teachers or were still teaching.
Other boarder had been successful professionals in their
fields. These people not only traveled when they could,
but their friends came to visit them. They belonged to
associations and social groups that would often meet in
the Friends Boarding Home. Dr. Mary L. Cook (left)
was one of the Waynesville doctors that made house
calls and also stayed periodically at the Home as she
grew older. Another connection with Dr. Mary was the
public library that she founded, which was directly
across the street from the FBH on the first level of the
old 1898 Union Schoolhouse from 1954 to 1988.
Elizabeth Chandler, who had library experienced,
worked at the public library in the evening during the
1950s & 60s. Her sister Ruth Chandler was on the
Dr. Mary Leah Cook, ca. 1920
(The Mary L. Cook Public Library) library board for years.
The Miami-Gazette newspaper of Waynesville loved to print the
doings and travels of the residents of the Home. Events of the Home
were published weekly, for example, this column from May 12th, 1938:
“NEWS FROM FRIENDS HOME ~ Friends held their May
Quarterly meeting on Sunday (at the White Brick
Meetinghouse) among those calling here were Tom Calvert
and wife and daughter, Helen, Ralph Howell and wife,
Selma, Mrs. Downing of Xenia, Dr. Richard Michener of
Lebanon. Foster Heacock and Margaretta of Bedford,
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Mrs. C. H. Deatherage who has been spending two weeks
with her daughters, Mrs. Perry Davis of Carrollton and
Mrs. Freeman Baberton of Gent, Kentucky, returned on
Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Pierce, Mrs. Ann Tomlinson, and Mrs. Martha
Henderson, Miss Frances Alden, and Donald Hadley were
in Cincinnati on Thursday last.
Miss Ruth Chandler of Cedarville (where she was teaching in
elementary school) spent the week end here.
Miss Sarah Hartsock spent the week end with her
grandmother and other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Hartsock and daughter Helen were Mother’s Day callers on
their mother, Mrs. Lena Hartsock.”
Another good example of the guests that visited the Home comes from
June 21st, 1934:
“Misses Anna and Mame Brown had as dinner guests at the
friends Home Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sellers of
Lebanon, Miss Mary R. Brady of New York City, of the
Harmon Home, and Rev. and Mrs. John Schaeffer of
Dayton. Miss Brady is an unusually gifted woman and the
members of the Friends’ Home enjoyed her presence with
them very much.”
The soundness and simplicity of the Matron/Superintendent system of
administration came to an end with the building of the Quaker Heights
Nursing Home. The old roles of Matron/Hostess and Superintendent
were replaced by salaried staff of the nursing home; the first being
Thomas and Mildred Cooper who became the Directors of the FBH in
1968 and a few years later became the Directors of the Quaker Heights
Nursing & Care Center. By the 1980s the old 1905 FBH was in debt
every year. In 1987 the operations at FBH resulted in over $40,000.00
of loss. For a long time the FHI Trustees agreed to fund up to 10% of
the operating expense of the FBH. But, this kind of debt could no
longer be tolerated. Consequently, it was suggested that:
“We develop a plan for substituting live-in managers for the present
arrangement of a salaried staff. Such a change substantially reduces
personnel costs, the highest proportion by far of total operating costs,
ensures that services continue, and relieves the facility from the
absolute necessity of staying full in order to even enjoy the possibility
of breaking even. On a purely financial bases, a change from current
operating standards to a live-in management situation would enable
the organization to break even at a much lower average daily census,
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It was decided that the FHI engage independent contractors to be
managers of the FBH, in effect, re-instating a form of the old
Matron/Superintendent model. However, these “managers” were not
to be employees of FHI. They were responsible for paying their own
self-employment taxes, and for any workers compensation protection
for themselves or the employees they would hire to run the FBH. In
1989, the FHI trustees entered into a management agreement with
Ernest Wilson Lawson and his wife Helen Susan Lawson, who would
be the “managers” of the FBH. The following year the contract was
with Adult Care Options Management, Inc. (ACOM), the president of
which was Ernest Wilson Lawson. Unfortunately, this arrangement
did not result in the break-even in expenses as was hoped.
Matron’s Office in the FBH in 1959. A portrait of Aaron B. Chandler
is hanging on the left. Ruth Chandler was the Matron/Hostess when
this photograph was taken.
b. It was understood from the beginning in 1905 that the FBH could not
provide skilled nursing services. The boarders would have to provide
and pay for their own private nursing care if they required it, whether
skilled or practical. Many boarders over the years did just that and
their nurses would live in adjoining rooms which the boarders paid for
as well as their nursing services. It was not until the early 1930s that
Lena C. Hartsock 15 would be available as a practical nurse in the
Home. 16 Ill residents had to be moved to a hospital or a nursing home
to receive long term skilled nursing care services. Remarkably, the
Friends Boarding Home would still be renting rooms up until 1989
even though there was a growing trend for ambulatory senior citizens
to choose to remain in their private homes with support services.
Because of this phenomenon, increasing governmental regulations, and
the greater physical, emotional, and mental needs of the FBH boarders,
greater supervision, skilled nursing care and support were needed for
the FBH residents. 17 The physical limitations of the building and the
greater infirmity of the cliental created a situation where the FBH
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keep the building open as a traditional boarding home. In 1989 the
building was leased to Adult Care Options Management, Inc. (ACOM).
ACOM opened the FBH as a group home for men suffering from
mental retardation and/or mental illness. The Home would be used for
this purpose up until March of 2000 but it continued to be a struggle to
remain solvent. FHI was hoping to reach out to the community in
other ways and this new role for the FBH was accepted and sanctioned
by the Board. On August 10th, 1995 the Friends Boarding Home
Annual Report (ACOM) was given at the FHI Annual Meeting:
“The profile of the residents of the FBH has changed in the last nine
years and more so in the last five. As economic conditions have
changed and the expense of operating a group home have risen
substantially many of those who could have entered Friends Home
now qualify for Medicaid or Medicare and go to Rest Homes or
nursing homes resulting in a large number of empty rooms at the
Friends Home. Friends Home, while still serving the elderly now
provides care for those who fall between the cracks in our society. By
providing care and housing to the mentally disabled we are providing
a vital service to the community. We are serving both elderly and
young adult mentally disabled. These are people who are shunned or
ignored. These are people who would otherwise be homeless, people
who just need someone to care for them and help with decent housing
and good and to have an opportunity to be part of the community and
not a burden to the community.”
The adaptation could not be made. After ACOM exited the Home on
December 1st, 1999 owing the Board of Trustees $19,200.00 in back
rent, the board considered leasing the building to a proprietor of a
“Sober House” for recovering alcoholics, to an organization that would
provide Respite Care, or to another that would establish another long-
term housing facility for adults with disabilities. Opening the Home as
a Bed & Breakfast was considered, too. However, a local group
interested in the history of The Society of Friends, of Waynesville, and
of the surrounding area proposed to open the FBH as a local history
museum. The building now houses the Waynesville Area Heritage &
Cultural Center (WAHCC).
c. In 1952, the Board of the FBH took $10,000.00 from the endowment
to remodel the un-used 1836 Red Brick Meeting-house 18 into two
apartments and a large social hall for Miami M. M. The apartments
were then rented. This indicates that the FBH Board was becoming
aware of the need to provide larger apartments rather than the tiny
single or small double rooms of the Home (most rooms are 12’ X 14’).
This realization hints at the future Quaker Heights’ “Cottage Program”
and eventually the Assisted Living and Independent Living Programs
(I.L.U.). Indeed, in the future (March 28th, 1984) the Board of the
Friends Home, Inc. would include the two apartments in the Red Brick
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3. Gifts from the living and bequests and legacies from wills consisting of real
estate, stocks, bonds and personal property will be given to Friends Home,
Inc. This would also be the case with the Quaker Heights Nursing Home.
4. Investments of assets will be made in real estate, stocks, bonds, and first
mortgages and loans to increase the principal of The Endowment. Socially
responsible and ethical investments have always been the concern of the
corporation.
An important role of the Board of the Friends Boarding Home as stated in the Charter
was to “acquire and hold suitable real estate on which to erect all necessary buildings
for use in caring for elderly Friends or members of other religious denominations.”
Another role was to “receive all property, real and personal, by gift, grant, devises or
purchase, and to hold, use, invest and expend the same in order that it may be used to
benefit members of the Friends Home.” 19 The initial “suitable real estate” for the
physical plant was a gift from Miami Monthly Meeting in Waynesville (Miami M.M.
deeded property over to FBH on December 12, 1905) as well as the purchase of
adjoining property so that the Home could have its own garden, pasture for a cow and a
chicken house. During the transition to a nursing facility, Quaker Heights (Friends
Home, Inc.) would purchase adjoining properties to develop the “Cottage Program.”
And, throughout the years, many gifts, grants, devises or purchases of property were
added to the assets of the Friends Home, Inc.
The sizes of the bequests drastically increased in the mid-1960s. Treasurer, Raymond
Braddock in his “The Quaker Heights Story” states:
“Between 1905 and 1965 Friends and others had given a total of over
$40,000.00 to the Home. In the latter 60’s we had received over
$207,000.00 from the Welch estate, and in 1972 the Riley bequest
amounted to over $105,000.00. At about the same time two other gifts
amounted to $7,000.00. At this writing (1980) the Corporation is in the
process of receiving another substantial bequest in excess of $150,000.00
from the estate of Mark and Edna McMillan.”
The amount of these gifts would allow Friends to expand their ministry to the elderly
and disabled by providing an extended care facility. Unlike the Friends Boarding
Homes in greater Philadelphia, the 1905 FBH in Waynesville had neither developed the
necessary funding for the establishment of an infirmary (clinic) on the FBH property
nor a separate fund to help needy boarders struggling to pay their room and board.
These needs would become much more demanding when the nursing home became a
reality. From the inception of the nursing home, the twin financial difficulties of
providing the best of medical and nursing skills in the long-term care context, and, of
dealing with delinquent payment for services would challenge this benevolent
organization. The transition from the relative simplicity of the boarding home with
simple rules and regulation to a nursing home would often prove difficult.
The first crisis over the future of the FBH happened in the early 1960s during a meeting
of the Trustees in the Friends Boarding Home. The president had decided to sell the
pasture land that the FBH owned and had even made arrangements with a local realtor
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plots to Tom Florence for $10,000.00.” Raymond Braddock asked the president on
what authority he had sold the land, since only the Board of Trustees could approve
such a move. Consequently, the sale was not binding without the approval of the FBH
Board. The president thought it a good idea to sell the land since the FBH no longer had
a cow and the field cost the corporation money to keep it mowed. When asked what he
wanted the land for, Raymond Braddock first broached the idea of using the land for a
nursing home and retirement community. The Trustees decided at that time to keep the
land although there was no immediate discussion concerning a possible nursing home.
Mr. Braddock realized that without some younger blood on the Board and some
substantial money, his dream of a nursing facility could not become reality. Then in
1965, a substantial bequest “opened the way” to the possibility of a nursing facility.
Raymond Braddock explains:
“Seeing that we would eventually receive a substantial
bequest, I asked for and the Board approved the sending
of a letter to each Meeting in the Yearly Meeting asking
whether or not there was any interest in having the
Friends Home develop a health care center. As might
have been expected, there was not a single response to
this letter. Then at the business session of the Yearly
meeting held at Waynesville in 1966, I presented the
possibility of our building a new facility for the care of
elderly and incapacitated Friends and others. One
member from Indianapolis said flatly that he would not
be interested in coming to Waynesville. Why
Waynesville? Mervin Palmer from Cincinnati suggested
Raymond Braddock
that we should consider placing the facility in a city near an art museum,
or theatres or the ball park. However, the will (the Martha Welch
Bequest) stated specifically that the bequest was for the benefit of the
Friends Home at Waynesville. Furthermore, it would not seem to be a
mark of wisdom to place such a facility in Cincinnati or Indianapolis
with all the noise and smog encountered there. The Board, I believe,
never once considered the possibility of building any place but
Waynesville” (“The Quaker Heights Story” by Raymond Braddock).
Like his predecessor, Reuben Matlack Roberts of Green Plain M. M., Raymond
Braddock of Miami M. M. was a “soldier of dauntless courage and valor,” who often
“stood alone in his views, (but) many times they were indicative of clear judgment and
prophetic vision.” Many Friends feared the complicated professional responsibilities of
a nursing home, which included moving from a budget less than $100.000.00 a year to
a much larger and complicated budget, moving from just a few employees to a much
larger trained and professional staff, and moving from the maintenance of a single
structure and its out-buildings (barn and garage) to expanding the complex through the
construction of a modern medical building. The concurrent expansion of the
regulations of federal, state and local regulatory agencies between 1970 and the present
time also added to the administrative and financial complexities. The constant need to
revise and change procedures, as well as the financial need to find enough funding for
compliance, added to the administrative pressures. Greater sophistication was needed
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None-the-less, the choice in 1967 up until 1972 (when QH Nursing Home was
dedicated) was to either adapt the ministry to the needs of the people and the realities of
the industry, or, to close the 1905 Friends Boarding Home and end the ministry. The
journey would be one from the small 1905 Friends Boarding Home to a 30 bed Assisted
Living, four Independent Living Units, and a 98 bed Medicare and Medicaid certified
facility.
The negative element wanted to limit the new facility to only 30 beds. Instead of that
possibility, some wanted to add on to the existing 1905 Friends Boarding Home which
would have limited the number of new beds even more. The feasibility study indicated
that there was a need in the area for a nursing home with 100 beds. Advisors also
believed that a 100 bed facility could be administered more efficiently than a smaller
facility. However, as Raymond Braddock explains:
“Fear of failure was one of the biggest problems we had to deal with from
the beginning of our planning for Quaker Heights, and this worked
against our being able to have a facility large enough to be operated at
optimum efficiency. . . Fear of failure led to the compromise of 58 beds
with the provision that the building should be constructed in such a way
that a 40-bed addition could be made without change to the original
structure, should it ever be deemed advisable” (“The Quaker Heights
Story” by Raymond Braddock).
Five years later, the matter of expanding Quaker Heights’ services and the number of
beds to 98 was also plagued by the “fear of failure.” During the Annual Board meeting
in 1977 the members agreed to proceed with plans to expand Quaker Heights. In May of
1978, the Board learned that they would be able to get a Farmers Home Administration
(FmHA) loan at 5%. Five of the nine Trustees, however, feared that “the job was too big
for us.” They called for a vote at a special meeting of the Board and they voted down the
expansion. Raymond Braddock then decided to take the issue to a special meeting of
the Annual Board. He wrote to all the annual board members expressing his opinion.
“In my letter I explained that there had been no change in the reasons to
expand. 1) There was still the basic need for 40 additional beds; 2) A
100-bed facility could be operated more economically; #3 The kitchen,
dining room, and laundry had been planned for this size home; and 4)
since our last meeting we had discovered that we could finance the
construction at 5% interest, the cost we had thought possible at the outset.
The only adverse reason given the Board was that, ‘It’s just too big a job
for us.’”
After a long discussion and hearing all the arguments, the Annual Board once more
approved the expansion of Quaker Heights. Construction began the fall of 1978 and was
completed in July 1978.
Another project that was dear to the heart of Raymond Braddock was the “Cottage
Program.” Mark and Edna McMillan, who had returned from the southwest to
Waynesville to retire, inquired about living independently in a home and in 1973 the
property across the street from QH was bought for the McMillan’s (see page ). Shortly
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and 66 Edwards. At the same time the property along with the old 1811 Quaker
Schoolhouse (now a private residence) across High Street from QH was put up for sale.
The Board thought the property could be utilized in the “cottage” program; possibly a
site for apartments for seniors sitting high up on the bluff overlooking Camp Creek
which runs into the Little Miami River. Raymond Braddock met 18 times to negotiate
with the owner but no deal was made. In 1980 Byron Branson and Grace Hockett
Prendergast tried twice or more, but to no avail. There were no further attempts to
purchase the land.
Plans continued, however, to build a duplex next to the Medical Building on North
Street, which would provide two more apartments/units of the “cottage” or
Independent Living project. In March of 1979 Martha and Robert Dean, brother and
sister, applied for one of the units in the duplex. Martha Dean was quite frail with a
heart problem, but Robert Dean was very healthy for his age. Robert Dean would
become a great benefactor of Quaker Heights.
The “Duplex” directly east (left) of the old “Medical Building” on North Street.
Since the initial building of the nursing home, the board of
trustees had wanted to encourage physicians to move to
Waynesville. They bought the adjoining three acres with
the house that was built in the 1940s by Dr. Alfred Stout
(June 18th, 1906 – February 15th, 1952) to be his home and
his office (see below). The property was bought and the
building remodeled. QH offered the space rent free for a
year to a physician who would settle in Waynesville.
Eventually, a dentist, Dr. Becker who had just graduated
from a school of dentistry, showed interest. Three years
later Dr. Murphy, D. O., set up practice in the other half of
the building. A few years later he became the medical
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The old medical office building, 581 North Street, is now (2009) part of the ILU program
and houses three Independent Living Units designed with seniors in mind.
Unfortunately, by the mid-1980s, Friends Home, Inc. was in financial trouble and in an
administrative malaise. A Columbus, Ohio company, Share, Inc.: Specialized Health
Administration Resources Enterprises, Inc., was engaged to take administrative control
March 10th, 1987. The QH administrator, Michael Burns, had resigned after being in
office for only a short time, the facility was over staffed, and over-spending was
rampant. There was no strong leadership and the employees, who wanted to unionize,
seemed to be the ones in control. The organization was suffering from excessive
operational expenses and no expenditure controls. Although the quality of care of the
patients remained satisfactory, there was great disorganization with the inflated staff.
Resources and supplies were used ineffectively.
Cultural changes were making funding more difficult, too. There were fewer and fewer
large bequests and gifts. The expansion of health care regulation and accelerating costs
and the heightened requirements for professional training and the unionization of the
employees generated many challenges for the organization. The old Friends Boarding
Home was becoming more and more archaic and unable to provide a modern
environment and space for long-term services. The “boarders” were requiring more
direct nursing services. The administrator, Andy Janovsky, in 1989 reported to the Mid-
Year Meeting of Friends Home Corporation:
“Funding, a tightening labor market, increasingly stringent government
regulations, and a more knowledgeable and demanding public combine
to demand both our current attention and a farsighted sense of vision to
address the future. . .
1988 saw the advent of, and confusion over, constantly changing
government regulations. In 1987, Congress passed the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act (OBRA). A substantial portion of that legislation
applied to Nursing Homes nationwide, and has been called the most
sweeping reform of that industry since the initial passage of the Medicaid
program. New conditions of participation have been/ are being/will be
formulated. Trying to keep pace with the new regulations, with rumors
about the new regulations, and what state surveyors said the new
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The government now promises to enforce what they consider more
stringent regulations, with monetary penalties for failure to comply.
More staff training is required; in some instances higher levels of staffing
are required. . .
Long-term care, for the first time, began to respond to the shortage (of
nursing professionals) by competing ~ that is by paying hospital wages
for professional personnel. Quaker Heights was no exception, and over
the course of the year, we raised professional wages between twenty and
thirty percent. . .
We will soon be entering negotiations for our second Union contract . . .
We have come to a point where we have attained a measure of
understanding with the Union. There exists a working relationship based
on the recognition that the success for both parties depends on each
other. . .
Friends Boarding Home ended 1988 with a loss of $45,000 (unaudited).
Low census was principally responsible for this, despite a relatively
extensive attempt to advertise. Many of the residents recently and
currently at the facility are borderline candidates for this level of service;
several could well be in a nursing home, appropriately. Alternative,
modern forms of more modern environment are rapidly becoming
available. As mentioned elsewhere, the future course of this organization
in that arena will demand much of our time and attention in the months
and years to come.
One of the roles of the Public Relations & Development Committee of Friends Home,
Inc., in 1989 was to “develop a plan for fund-raising to supplement the revenues from
operations so that we may better meet the future needs of the elderly and chronically
ill of our community.”
The crisis continued for two years. By 1990 major changes for the good had occurred:
o All nursing assistants underwent 80 hours of training in an approved
course. By 1990 all nursing assistants on staff had completed the
required training.
o The establishment of a Nursing Home Patient Bill of Rights.
o Implementation of a Quality Assurance Program.
o The core administration and nursing staffs of Quaker Heights are
now considered “seasoned.” This lends stability to the institution.
o Benefit improvements and increase in wages.
o The use of Nursing Pool personnel, which is expensive, is drastically
reduced.
o The Public Relations & Development Committee had:
o Implementation of the Hallway Quaker Art Works Project
o Established a Quaker literature rack and library
o Development of the Foster Friends Program, a program to
encourage Friends of O.V.Y.M, especially Annual Board
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o The formulation of statements on Death and Dying and the
Living Will.
By May of 1993 the Executive Meeting of FHI was considering expansion once more. In
response to their deliberation, Andy Janovsky wrote a document entitled “Trends”
which was a proposal; a plan for the year 2001. Janovosky, being another “soldier of
dauntless courage and valor” in the Friends Home experience, challenged the Trustees.
He wrote:
“Our Mission statement is not necessarily an impediment to growth, but
neither is it a whole hearted endorsement of an organizational desire to
grow. Closely related to this is the issue of organizational commitment.
One of the terms that the Executive Committee used to describe how they
would like the organization perceived as ‘risk-taking.’ This has not
traditionally been a risk-taking organization. Will that change? How
and why?”
By July 1st, 1995 Janovosky hoped to have a clear model for the further expansion of
Friends Home, Inc. The Quaker Heights skilled nursing facility would be the base for
certified Home Health Services provided for Warren, Clinton, Montgomery and Greene
Counties. These services would include a licensed adult day care and a licensed
childcare center. Community outreach and services would be the key to the
development. The services they hoped to develop included:
Adult Day Care Case Management
Child Care Counseling
Congregate Meals Friendly Visitation
Health Maintenance Home Health Care
Homemaker/Chore Service Hospice
Info & Referral Meals on Wheels
Outpatient Health Care Personal Care
Recreational/Social Activities Religious Services
A Senior Center Transportation/Escort
The vision also included buying or building more nursing homes wherever there were
“certificates of need” in small town/rural areas. This was in keeping with the QH goal of
proving affordable long-term health care for those with moderate incomes. These
projected extensions of the QH community would be financed by tax-exempt bonds.
The expansion would, of course, necessitate an expanded management model or
structure, too.
This vision coalesced into the Little Miami Valley Community Model with the help and
advice of Maple Knoll Management (MKM) of Cincinnati. MKM was a subsidiary of
Maple Knoll Village, Inc., an 800-unit senior living complex with an excellent
reputation. In December of 1995 MKM was engaged to examine QH and make
recommendations concerning a long range plan which included a business strategy for
the facility. The discovery of the Stephanie Stackhouse embezzlement earlier in the year
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The QH administration had drifted away from the sound basics of business practices.
Operational controls had to be tightened and business policies and procedures revised
and implemented. Internal communication would need to be improved and a upgraded
computer network would be needed. Job descriptions and wages would need to be re-
examined.
In May of 1996, MKM representative, Bill Ciferri, held a retreat with ten members of the
administration and the staff. After the retreat, nine board sessions were dedicated to
the following topics: Communications, Facilities, Information Management, Personnel,
Board Responsibilities, Networking, Finance, Range of Services Provided, and
Infrastructure.
The corporation began to seek an interim Executive Director, undertook an extensive
reorganization which facilitated communication, and began planning for greater
outreach to the local community in the Miami Valley. Larry Douglas became the
advocate of this LMV program and he was invited to apply for the position of Interim
Executive Director. He was hired full time in this position which officially began July 1,
1998.
The LMV plan called for three levels of Care:
o Complete Independence ~ A LMV Senior Community Center located in the
remodeled 1898 Waynesville Schoolhouse would house the Friends Home, Inc.
Corporate Office and would provide the following services:
• Resource Counseling
• Community Volunteers
• Seniors Training Classes
• Entertainment
• Exhibition (Quaker History)
• Archives
• Meeting Rooms
• Congregate Meals
• Transportation ~ Activities
o Assisted Living ~ An Assistance Care Center would provide:
• Adult Day Care
• Child Day Care
• Meals on Wheels
• Home Care
• Transportation ~ Escort
• Apartments (full fee and subsidized)
• Short term Respite Care
o Full Care ~ Quaker Heights Sub-Acute Care:
• Long Term Care
• Rehabilitation
• Alzheimer Unites
• Hospice
Today Quaker Heights provides health care services (semi-private rooms, semi-private
deluxe rooms, and private rooms, as well as, two special care rooms in Dementia/
Alzheimer’s units. Short term respite care rooms are offered to the loved-ones of care
givers who need a respite from the stresses of care-giving. Assisted Living offers both