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The CARES Community Aging and Retirement Services, Inc.) Board of Directors recognized and honored Marc J. Yacht, M.D. for his many achievements and elected him an Honorary Member of the CARES Board. Yacht volunteered as a member of the Board seventeen years serving, at various times, as Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary. When the CARES Senior Health Clinic opened in 1992, Yacht became the clinic’s Medical Director and served in that capacity for several years. Today he is still a member of the Senior Health Clinic’s Advisory Committee and volunteers his professional services at the clinic. He, also, has served on the Professional Advisory Committee for the CARES Home Health Agency.
Yacht, the retired Director of the Pasco County Health Department, is a renaissance man of many talents. He is a creative and prolific author and has written numerous articles and poems. Of special mention is his Elizabethan sonnet entitled “Caring” written as a gift to CARES. He, also, is a gifted photographer and has taken several intergeneration photographs which hang in the CARES Administrative Offices. Yacht successfully emceed the first two BrightHouse Bright Star Senior Talent Shows benefiting CARES and served as a judge for subsequent shows.
As a Board Member, Yacht was involved in a number of CARES projects two of which required a considerable amount of effort, time and dedication – the CARES Living History and the CARES Pasco Living History projects which were directed by Yacht.
For the Living History project, students in the video production class at Schwettman Education Center in New Port Richey (an alternative high school) under the supervision of their Instructor interviewed and videotaped members of the “Greatest Generation” to record their unique experiences and memories of the past. The subsequent Pasco Living History project focused on members of Pasco County’s pioneer families. The students benefited from Yacht’s presence and involvement. The videos of the various interviews were shown at a number of CARES Annual Benefit Dinners. These intergenerational collaborative projects were recognized in 2006 as a special project of value by the District School Board of Pasco County.
CARES is proud to have Dr. Yacht as an Honorary Member of the CARES Board.
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