Pauline Corn – Carolina Village

Partial Transcript: Pauline Corn introduces herself and talks a little about herself.

Keywords: Resident

Subjects: Pauline Corn

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about where she was before she became a resident of Carolina Village. She worked for Industrial Maintenance Overflow Corporation for 43 years.

Keywords: Industrial Maintenance Corporation.

Subjects: before coming to Carolina Village

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about seeing a lot about Carolina Village in the paper before she decided to become a resident. When she made a visit she was impressed and decided to move in.

Keywords: impressed

Subjects: Hearing about Carolina Village

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about what impressed her about Carolina Village. The life care impresses everyone. She was impressed by the nursing staff, the residents, and the ability to vote on-site. The many activities available also impressed her.

Keywords: many activities; life care

Subjects: Making a decision

Partial Transcript: Pauline reveals that her most fun thing to do is being the treasurer of the Carolina Village Resident Association. Pauline talks about the employee appreciation fund how it has grown and the effect it has on the employees.

Keywords: employee appreciation fund; Carolina Village Resident Association

Subjects: employee appreciation fund; Treasurer

Partial Transcript: Pauline describes the Employee Appreciation Fund and the powerful effect it has on the lives of the employees.

Keywords: Employee Appreciation Fund

Subjects: Employee Appreciation Fund

Partial Transcript: Pauline talked about why the Employee Appreciation Fund began.
The no-tipping policy brought about the start of the fund.

Keywords: no-tipping policy

Subjects: Why start the Fund?

Partial Transcript: Pauline shares some of the employee feedback regarding the Employee Appreciation fund.

Keywords: Feedback

Subjects: Employee feedback

Partial Transcript: Pauline recounts some of the early history of the Village. She has done research on Carolina Village. She talks about the early conditions in Carolina Village, it was rough. She talks about the residents putting up a flag and then signing up to take turns raising the flag each day before sunrise.

Keywords: raising the flag; Early history

Subjects: Early conditions

Partial Transcript: Pauline tells the frog story. At one time there were many, many frogs, they were everywhere. The early residents suffered through the frogs and mice.

Keywords: frogs and mice.

Subjects: frogs and mice.

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about what makes Carolina Village so special. The feeling of a close-knit community helps to make Carolina Village special.

Keywords: Special

Subjects: close-knit community

Partial Transcript: Pauline shares her most meaningful experience at Carolina Village. Many of the residents made her feel welcome before she even moved in.

Keywords: meaningful experience

Subjects: meaningful experience

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about what gives Carolina Village its special feel and makes it different.

Keywords: special feel

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about how she spends her days and what she enjoys. Life is so convenient; everything she needs is at Carolina Village. She would never consider leaving.

Keywords: everything she needs

Subjects: How she spends her days

Partial Transcript: Pauline describes what she thinks is the essence of Carolina Village. She feels it is life care and nursing care followed by camaraderie, activities, voting, and entertainment.

Keywords: camaraderie; nursing care; life care

Subjects: the essence of Carolina

Partial Transcript: Pauline shares funny stories about the village. One story was about a lady who had a snake in her apartment. There have been many funny stories and weddings of people over 100. Pauline talks about the lady who was a professor of Greek Mythology and her poor table manners. Every day is a fun day.

Keywords: professor; weddings; snake

Subjects: Funny stories

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about why it is important to remember the history of Carolina Village. Pauline feels the history of Carolina Village is really the history of the residents. It is important to remember the early residents and the hard times they had in the beginning.

Keywords: history; important to remember

Subjects: Why it is important to remember

Partial Transcript: Pauline talks about how Carolina Village supports the outside community. She lists the organizations that Carolina Village supports both financially, and physically. The fact that Carolina Village employs over 300 people from the surrounding area has a big impact on the community.

Keywords: impact on community

Subjects: Supporting the community