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After years of raising a family, working as a psychotherapist and caring for rescued animals on her farm, Sallyann Jennings found a new kind of freedom at Friends House. For much of her life, Sallyann Jennings had plenty […]
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I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up until I was 30! My first aspiration was to be an airline stewardess, then a French teacher and, finally, an interpreter. In college, I had a […]
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In the early 1990s, a passion for shuffleboard inspired resident Roger B. Farquhar (father of current resident Judy Farquhar) to promote construction of an outdoor cement court at Friends House. Scoring lines were painted, cues and biscuits (shuffleboard […]
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The person who had the greatest impact on my life was Stephen Ailes. I was 21 when I went to work at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, where he was a senior partner. I was quick […]
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I was walking down the long 8th floor corridor from the elevator to the condo unit I had called home for 25 years. It was April of 2025. The hallway was a neutral color, nothing but numbers distinguishing […]
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Who knew that retirement could be a time for transformation? And that one badly needed to make a shift in one’s life? Somehow I had missed America’s Civil Rights movement. But when I landed here at Friends House, […]
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When Byron and I considered where we would live after retirement, we soon agreed on Friends House. We were familiar with the campus from visiting our friends Myra and Roger Wolcott and by service on various Baltimore Yearly […]
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We planned to retire in Friends House fifty years ago. We often visited my mother-in-law when she was here. She loved it. I have not been a bit disappointed in anything. The Lodge is totally comfortable in that […]
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I wasn’t ready to move! I loved my house on a quiet street in NW DC with a deck, a large wisteria tree, beautifully landscaped yard anda fish pond. So what was the problem? The bedroom and the […]
