Happy Birthday to Lois

Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area gather every three months to practice, share news and stories of their classes and upcoming events, and enjoy light refreshments. In June, we gathered in Wendy Helms’ lovely garden, and celebrated the birthday of Lois Mahaney with a cake made by Wendy. For those who are recent additions to the T’ai Chi Chih community and do not know Lois, she served the community for many years as the publisher of the Vital Force Journal. A retired teacher, Lois taught T’ai Chi Chih classes for many years through Adult Education, and conducted free practices in a park every Sunday morning. She started and maintained the first database of teachers, (before many of us even knew what the word meant), supervised printing of the Journal, and organized a “mailing party” to prepare the issues for mailing. A few years ago, a large group of teachers, including Justin and Carmen who came from Albuquerque for the occasion, celebrated her tremendous contributions on her 80th birthday. Lois, we all are grateful for all you have done for the T’ai Chi Chih community, and for initiating our quarterly meetings – Happy Birthday!