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CELEBRATING THE FAIRFAX'S  20^th ANNIVERSARY!

By Lt Gen Frank A. Camm

 What a joy it is to celebrate The Fairfax’s 20^th Anniversary! Many good things have happened in these past 20 years! Since it opened, The Fairfax has provided gracious living to well over 1,500 different residents – with its delightful living quarters; spacious campus, level Lake paths leading to a charming gazebo and to wild geese, blue heron, rabbits and turtles. 

With its numerous activities and thriving, dynamic community, The Fairfax truly qualifies as five-star resort, exceeding the fondest dreams of the early founders of The Fairfax, fifteen of whose families have lived here. Those still living here include Arlene and me – and Nim Collins, Isabel Clarke, Dan and Barbara Raymond, Darrie and Pat Richards, Ginny Carter, Jim Connell and Bob Loe, all of whom I’m especially proud to salute! 

Our environment has continued to improve since the first residents entered the Jefferson and the Madison twenty years ago. Since then, we began accepting a broad range of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard, Foreign Service, CIA and other civil servant families – and even one from the Royal Air Force! All have enriched our thriving community of patriots with shared lives of devoted service, values and comradery.  

The Fairfax also enlarged its Health Care Center to provide more Assisted Living and care for Reminiscence patients. And meanwhile, the environs have continued to add to our gracious living. To our south, the Prince William Parkway has opened new shopping malls and routes to Manassas and the west. To our north, the Fairfax County Parkway will soon complete quick access to Dulles Airport.

Cultural centers are also burgeoning around us. Mount Vernon has expanded to include a beautiful museum. The Lorton Prison area has converted into cultural art center. And the US Army Museum will soon be built close by. Our location next to Fort Belvoir provides excellent support with a new  Commissary, a better Post Exchange and a new larger hospital under construction to replace Walter Reed Hospital when it closes. We can envision no better location for a military retirement community!

With happy prospects for continued improvement in The Fairfax and it environs, let us raise our glasses in a toast to The Fairfax!

MEMORIAL TREE PROGRAM

Together with the Rotarians at The Fairfax, the Foundation has established a tree planting program in memory of a resident. The family can pick from a variety of trees and choose the location to plant the tree. The Foundation will also assist in purchasing a plaque to memorialize the resident.

Contact Marti Martray, the office administrator for specific information at 703/781-2460 or by email.

Generous Donation to the Army Foundation

At the March 22, 2007 Board of Directors meeting, Dr. Florence St. John, a resident of The Fairfax, presented Board President LTG Spence A. Armstrong with a letter containing a generous donation. It was a bequest in the amount of $50,000 from her late husband, Major General Adrian St. John II, USA, Retired. In her letter, Dr. St. John added that Adrian returned from his last assignment as the Senior US Military Representative on the Conventional Arms negotiations team, Vienna. Austria and made plans immediately to move into The Fairfax. LTG Frank Camm and Adrian were classmates at West Point in the historic class of January 1943.

Adrian became a resident February 1993. He and I married in 1998 and our life together at The Fairfax has been bountiful, beautiful and the ideal way to live well - well cared for, our needs taken care of and we'll never have to live with our children!!!

The members of the Board of Directors are gratefully thankful for this generous donation.

Garden House Dedication Ceremony