The Broadmead Residents Association

The BRA is governed by its own constitution with several specified committees, and a Board of Directors. The officers of the BRA make up its Executive Committee.

Executive Committee

President

First Vice President

Second Vice President

Secretary

Associate Secretary

Treasurer

Associate Treasurer

Clusters Representative

and two resident representatives to the

Broadmead Board of Trustees

Standing Committees

Budget and Finance

Buildings and Grounds

Food Services

Health Care

Housekeeping

Committees Required by the Constitution

Auditing for BRA and the Country Store

Nominating

We maintain a “buddy system”. The broadmead apartments are organized in groups called clusters. Each cluster houses 10 to 20 residents. The buddy system is an informal voluntary pairing of residents within a cluster. The purpose of this pairing is to make sure your “buddy” is in good health each morning and needs no help. Each “buddy” pair decides how they will contract or signal each other daily that all is well. The result of this program is a sense of security and knowledge that both you and your “buddy” are ready for the joys of the day.

We maintain the Broadmead Emergency Telephone System (BETS). BETS is setup for the purpose of rapidly relaying emergency messages to all residents. The administration decides when such a message is needed. Then the resident BETS chair is notified, each cluster representative is contacted and the message is delivered to each resident through a telephone-tree calling system.

We organized tours and provide transportation to residents to cultural events throughout the Baltimore - Washington, DC area. Broadmead provides the buses and drivers. The BRA then will reimburse Broadmead for the cost of each bus trip. Recent tours have been to the White House, Phillips Gallery, National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art,  and the Gettysburg battlefield. Transportation is routinely provided to the Baltimore Symphony, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Center Stage, Lyric Opera, Everyman Theater and the Shriver Hall Concert Series at the Johns Hopkins University.

We maintain a monthly newsletter called The Voice of the Residents.

We maintain an office with a copier machine. The BRA office contains a large number of VCR tapes and DVD movies and operas which residents can borrow. We also own and maintain a copier machine in the our office.

The BRA has an archivist whose job is to store relevant records such as agendas, minutes, annual & financial reports, copies of BRA & CCRC newsletters, bios of current and former residents and other items of interest.

The BRA maintains a “Broadmead welcomes” program. A team of current residents will interview all new residents, take their picture and will write a story about them which appears in the Voice of the Residents.

We maintain an Open Forum where prominent speakers come to Broadmead, make a presentation and interact with our residents. Recent speakers have been Sanford J. Ungar, President of Goucher College; Dr. Stan Becker, Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Jay Hancock, financial columnist at the Baltimore Sun; Wendy Sherman, ambassador and advisor to President Clinton and Madeleine Albright; Taylor Branch, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history; Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Governor of Maryland; Steven Sharfstein, MD, President & CEO of the Sheppard Pratt Health Care System; Barbara Mikulski, United States Senator from state of Maryland.

We maintain an “Adventures in Learning” Program which is mini lecture series conducted by both experts from outside as well as from inside (our own residents).

We have weekly Vespers. Religious services are held on Sunday afternoons once a month with leaders of various religious denominations.

We have art and ceramic classes.

We maintain art exhibits.

We have a camera club.

We have a discussion group.

We have a writer’s group.

We have play readers.

We present movies on a regular basis

We dance and sing.

We have a New Year’s Eve Party.

We have a men’s social hour.

We have a regular concert series.

We exercise.

We play bridge, bingo and scrabble.

We arrange flowers and plants.

We display our art.

We have an astronomy club.

We solve jig saw puzzles.

We have an extensive wood shop.

We play cards.

We have a computer lab.

Our volunteers help others.

We maintain nature related activities.

We maintain a greenhouse.

We maintain a vegetable garden and a rose garden.

We bless our pets.

We have a sculpture garden.

We raise funds with a barn sale, the Country Store, the wood shop and by sewing.

We make this web page.

As you can see, the residents do a lot at Broadmead, including this web site.

Recreational Activities

Art Classes

Audio/visual

Bingo, bridge and scrabble

Bird and Nature groups

Blessing of the pets.

Camera Club

Ceramics Class

Computer Lab

Know Your Neighbors Albums

Let’s Dance and sing

Men’s Saturday Social Hour

Movies

New Year’s Eve party

Play Readers

Tours

Vegetable Gardens

Vespers

Writer’s Group