In mid-April, we checked in with our Facebook group to find out who was wearing a face mask and what it looked like. It didn’t take long to get some answers! Ruth Ryan led things off, sending a picture and explaining “I hauled out my mother’s WWII era Singer sewing machine and made masks for us to wear to Costco, our weekly outing. Or I could take up a new career of bank robbing….” Shirley Bauer Varney wears a beautiful mask made by her sister, and the mask that Stoy Dulgeroff’s wife, Nancy, made for him is ingenious. (You can also see her own mask, a pink tribute to the UM.) Don Collier and Donald Hagen went with the classics but Donald pointed out, “ya can’t jog too long or ya run out of air!”, a feeling we all know too well.
The handiwork of some classmates was shared. Joe Steinbock told us how he and a group of neighbors made masks to raise money for food banks and neighborhood emergency medical personnel. Peg Tappe made a very cute mask for herself using fabric with Peanuts characters, and several more for people she knows who work on the ER front lines in Ann Arbor. Pamela Conn Hyde made 8 masks for her family with Harry Potter and Marvel Comics themes, along with animal prints to match her ever-stylish outfits.
Nancy Evaldson Mirshah found a way to cover her face and stay warm at the same time during an unusually cold Michigan spring, and Ginger Hannah struck a playful pose to show off her mask. Kate Brown’s mask has a bold black and white print and in her picture she’s wearing it outdoors on a beautiful New Mexico spring day. Monique Scanio Doherty spoofed The Red Bandana by the late Richard Walton, an important figure in the folk music coffee house scene.
Duane Brown sent pictures of two of his masks—one that would make you smile if you saw it heading your way at the grocery store, and the other perfectly coordinated with a painting at home. This group is nothing if not creative!
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