Idylease Heliport

IDYLEASE: SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1902

Idylease Helistop/Heliport. FAA Identifier: 1NJ6.

The heliport is utilized by the Emergency Services Departments for West Milford and Jefferson Townships. The New Jersey State Police regularly utilize the landing field when critical patients require transport to the nearest trauma center. Idylease Helistop was established in 1973 by Dr. Arthur Zampella, a prominent physician, public servant and FAA Flight Examiner whose practice was located in West Milford, New Jersey. Licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, the facility is privately owned and operated by Richard Zampella. Visit our website at: https://njhelistop.com

Idylease: It’s Role in Tourism at the Turn of the Century in West Milford, NJ. A Multimedia Presentation at The West Milford Township Public Library on March 12, 2020 at 7PM

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, West Milford township was a major resort destination in New Jersey. At its height, the area had over forty hotels and boarding houses that catered to the tourists that flocked to the area for its magnificent scenery and healthful climate. Since the turn-of-the-century, West Milford also attracted visitors for its rustic beauty and natural resources. It’s approximately eighty square miles of mountains and lakes have delighted visitors for more than a century. In the mid-1800s, renowned Hudson River School painter Jasper F. Cropsey, captured many West Milford landscapes in their autumnal splendor. He married West Milford resident Maria Cooley at the WM Presbyterian Church in 1847.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many resorts opened in the township and railroads brought wealthy vacationers from New York City to enjoy the countryside. The transportation revolution of the mid 1920’s, caused tourism to decline in this part of New Jersey, with other, more distant locations rising in popularity. Around the turn of the century, the City of Newark, NJ systematically acquired large parcels of land until it owned close to a third of West Milford. The City’s Master Plan called for the razing of buildings that were on the watershed preserve, including most of the hotels and resorts. It was their goal to ensure there would be no development or contamination of the many reservoirs in the area that supply the drinking water for resident of the city.

Of all the hotels that once graced the region, only one, the resort hotel know as Idylease remains standing as proof of a once thriving tourism industry. Opened on New Years’s Day in 1903, Idylease thrived during the Ragtime Era. The inn was a short trip from the Newfoundland Train station on the way to tourist-filled Greenwood Lake. Promoted as a health retreat, it sits amid pastoral country in the foot hills of the Kittatinny Mountains in the Highlands Region of NJ.

Idylease, with its prominent central gable, was opened in 1902 by Brooklyn doctor Edgar Arthur Day who billed the Inn as “a modern health resort, delightful in autumn.” Visitors described it as a “haven of rest” whose “masseuses are among the best in the country” and where fine meals were served in the 46 room hotel’s main dining room. Idylease attracted a variety of prominent guests, including Thomas Edison. Based in West Orange, Edison opened a self-named mine near Sussex County’s Franklin-Ogdensburg mining district in 1889. When making the trip across North Jersey, Idylease marked the half-way point to the mine from his lab in the Oranges. Edison would have his car serviced at a local garage and spend the night at Idylease before continuing onto the mine the following morning. His plan was to harvest a previously overlooked pocket of lower-quality ore on Sparta Mountain, break up the rock on conveyor belts and suck out the iron with electromagnets.

Other noted guests include: Joseph French Johnson, Dean of New York University’s School of Commerce, who hoped to salve his ill health but died there on January 19, 1925. Sports writer William B. Hanna, Civil War correspondent David Banks Sickels, and Grace Abbott, the head of the United States Children’s Bureau from 1921 to 1934. The Inn’s guestbook reveals the names of famous politicians, including New Jersey’s first female congresswoman, Mary T. Norton.

At the peak of the once thriving tourism industry in West Milford, NJ, tourists could board a ferry at Debrosses Street in New York City and catch a train from Hackensack to Newfoundland to escape the confines of the city. As Early as 1857, tourists accessed the area by stagecoach when Browns Hotel in Newfoundland instituted coach service to from Paterson with a stop in Newfoundland. The Paterson and Deckertown stage got off to an auspicious start and operated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Agent John P. Brown advertised “Good coaches, fine horses and careful drivers”. The approximately 40-mile trip from Paterson to Deckertown was a bumpy ride along the old Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike. Individuals who wanted to make the trip left Paterson about 10 a.m. Nearly four hours later, they reached Brown’s Hotel in Newfoundland. An untold number of North Jersey residents considered a trip from the Highlands to Paterson something equivalent to a trip across the continent.

A tourists account of his visit to West Milford was recorded by E. Hewitt, an English traveler from London in 1819. It tells of his visit to Brown’s Hotel, two years after its completion:

“This afternoon, completely drenched with rain, we stayed at a tavern newly erected, in a village called Newfoundland. Here we procured a small private room and a good fire, dried our clothes, and got tea very comfortably. Our landlord, a very intelligent man, spent the evening with us, and related several interesting anecdotes of General Washington, with whom he was personally acquainted. I observed he was always addressed with the title of Squire, being a magistrate.

Bears, deer, and wolves are very numerous in this neighborhood in the fall. A barn not exceeding 60 feet by 30 costs here about $125.00; shingles or wood tiles,15 to 20 dollars per thousand. The whip-poor-will we heard for the first time at this place, repeating its plaintive notes through the whole night.

Our accommodations at this place were very comfortable. and our charge, including hay, one peck of Indian corn, our room, fuel, liquor, one pound of butter, what milk we chose and tar and tallow for our wagon, three quarters of a dollar. I gave our kind host one dollar, which he accepted with reluctance; and at our setting off, he prepared us a quantity of egg-nog, a mixture of apple spirits, eggs and milk. Terrible roads still, and the bridges over the small streams nothing more than poles laid across”.

Although many brave tourists did access the the natural resources of West Milford by coach, by the turn of the century, the railroad became the preferred method to frequent the many resorts that adorned the area. Destinations such as Brown’s Hotel, Idylease, The Hotel Bel Air and the Green Pond Hotel catered to the burgeoning tourists that flocked to the area for its scenic beauty and healthy climate. The 1920’s also marked the height of passenger service provided by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway to the Newfoundland Station. Thirteen passenger trains in each direction stopped at Newfoundland Station on a daily basis. The Great depression struck in October 1929 and lasted well into the late 1930’s and the growth of tourism began to decline. In 1937, the NYS&W declared bankruptcy and shortly thereafter was spun off from its parent, the Erie Railroad, which had controlled it since 1898. Also, the mass production of the automobile by Henry Ford in the 1930s rendered the passenger railroad obsolete, making more distant locales such as the Poconos and the Adirondack accessible by car. Passenger service ceased completely by 1966.

The great lawns at the Idylease, once a place where bonneted ladies and jacketed gentlemen relaxed and played croquet, now serves as a landing pad for medivac helicopters under the supervision of the West Milford Office of Emergency Management. Idylease was the first property named on West Milford Township’s list of historic sites, and the last of more than a dozen similar facilities that stood in town during the tourism heyday of the early-20th century.

Idylease was initially advertised in 1908 as a modern health resort, offering “All Forms of Hydro-Therapy and Massage.” Idylease was a “quiet, homelike place for Semi-Invalids, Convalescents, Neurasthenics, and Mild Cases of Cardiac, Nephritic and Stomachic Troubles, and for those desiring change of environment. No Tubercular or Objectionable Cases.” The resident physician and superintendent from 1906 until 1943 was Dr. D.E. Drake. A brochure published in about 1930 stressed the round-the-clock availability of staff physicians, Norwegian-trained massage therapists, and the “most approved scientific apparatus for administering baths, sprays, and douches.” Potential guests, in the accepted social order of the day, were reassured by the policy boldly stated on the first page of the brochure: “Hebrew Patronage Not Solicited.”

By the late 1930s Dr. Drake understood that declining tourism required the facility to adapt to advances in medical science in order to ensure the future of Idylease. Idylease’s initial prohibition of tubercular cases reflected modern understanding of tuberculosis as a transmissible infection caused by bacteria. Robert Koch in Germany first isolated the tubercle bacillus in 1882, although it took some years for the medical community to fully accept the infectious nature of the disease.

By 1940, Drake conceded to accept guests suffering from Tuberculosis. With this change, Idylease would established itself as one of the most prominent Tubercular Sanitoriums on the East Coast. With the subsequent development of the TB vaccine around 1927, Dr Drake treated patient that had already been infected prior to the vaccine. Throughout the 1940s the number of tubercular patients slowly began to decline and Idylease would face an uncertain future.

Dr. Drake would shutter Idylease in 1943 and he would pass away in 1951. Idylease would sit vacant for a period of thirteen years with the windows boarded up and its plumbing shattered.

Dr Arthur Zampella had graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1943. He had always had an interest in geriatric care and the elderly. It was his wish to find a facility where he could practice medicine and serve the needs of an aging population. As a lifelong scholar, Zampella’s interest in this area were reflected in his authorship of many published medical articles, chapters and books on various aspects of aging, care of the elderly, as well as ethical, socio-economic and philosophic discussion in these fields. In an article entitled, “Sampling of the Attitudes of the Aged,” Zampella explored the dilemma of the aging process whereby the elderly are striped of their social identities after being admitted to a nursing home. He felt that a sterile environment, devoid of a homelike atmosphere reduced life expectancy. For many years Zampella had searched for a facility suitable to realize his vision for extended geriatric care and in 1954, he was introduced to Idylease. Dr. Zampella purchased Idylease from the Estate of Dr. Daniel Drake and and converted Idylease into a Nursing Home. The renovated facility maintained a staff of 11 doctors and employed 65 people. Idylease Nursing home closed in 1972. #westmilford #history #tourism #public #library

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Idylease Facebook Retrospective

April of 2019 marked the three year anniversary since Richard Zampella assumed management of Idylease: A Historic Landmark in Newfoundland, NJ. He produced this 3 minute retrospective from media created for the Inns Facebook page. http://www.idylease.org #idylease #historic #landmark #westmilford

Idylease Helistop and Jungle Habitat

Idylease Helistop is Located in the Newfoundland Section of West Milford, NJ

In 1972, executives from Warner Brother’s had a problem with one of the most popular attractions at Jungle Junction. The reptile house had an hourly show that featured highly poisonous snakes. The issue was that the handler was allergic to the anti-venom if he was bitten. Park management needed a find a method to quickly transport the handler to a medical treatment facility.

Warner Brothers contacted local physician Dr. Arthur Zampella and together, application was made to the Federal Aviation Administration for a heliport at Idylease. In the off possibility of a snake bite, the handler would be transported to Idylease and then flown by air to a trauma center where he would be treated by alternative methods.

The Idylease Helistop is a remnant of Jungle Habitat from 40 years ago and still maintains the FAA license. The heliport is currently used by the NJ State Police if major accidents occur in the area. Patients are transported to Idylease and flown to the nearest trauma center from the landing field.

For more information visit the Idylease Helistop Website at: http://njhelistop.com

Idylease Christmas 2018

Season's Greeting from Idylease: A Historic Landmark located in Newfoundland, NJ -- Wishing you all the best this holiday season and throughout the coming year. Celebrating our 115th Christmas Season #historic #landmark #idylease #christmas #greetings #video #christmascard

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Dr Arthur Zampella 1917-1992

Dr Arthur Zampella May 15, 1917 - January 9, 1992

January 9, 1992  was a rainy and cold day. I was living in a railroad flat in Jersey City, NJ. I was living a few blocks from the place that my father had been born in 1917.  It had been many years since my father had a series of heart attacks, and  coronary by-pass surgery. Most of his brothers had all died and I remember him being saddened that most of his friends were also gone.

Growing up, I knew he was not always in the best health, but on that fateful day, I still lament January 9th as his final goodbye. I was twenty four when he died. I am fifty-one now. I carry his memory with me each and every day. His wedding ring on my finger as a daily companion. Once while playing softball in Central Park I thought I had lost his ring. I sat in the grass devastated that I had lost yet another link to him. The ring was recovered. I have his watch and some other personal possessions of his. He was a man of humility with few items collected throughout a lifetime.

I am most grateful that each and every day I can walk the very grounds at Idylease that he did. If it snows, I can remember him pulling me on a sled with his rubber galoshes. Everywhere I look, I can remember a story or a spot of him being there.  I am grateful that he equipped me to carry on. I belong here. I have so many people amongst the living that have made this possible. They know who they are and I am eternally indebted to them.

I often feel his presence with me at milestones in my life since he is gone. I know he would be saddened by my setbacks and elated by my successes.

When I was twenty-four, I thought my father’s death would teach me about dying. At fifty-one, I think it has taught me mostly about living; that life is short but meaningful; that even though time is measured, there is some time, if you pay attention; and that everything that matters in life is in the here and now.

I miss you Dad.

-Richard Zampella
January 9, 2018

Happy New Year from Idylease

Happy New Year from Idylease. It’s our 115th Birthday.

Idylease first opened her doors to the public on New Year’s Day in 1903. We are celebrating 115 years as West Milford’s most noted Historic Landmark. Here’s wishing you all the joy of the season. Have a Happy New Year!

Idylease: Christmas 2017

Season’s Greetings from Idylease: A Historic Landmark in Newfoundland, NJ. Hoping your holiday season is filled with joy and laughter through the New Year. >>Watch Video

Animation in Adobe After Effects by Richard Zampella at Idylease

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Idylease Internet Short

Watch this interent short film about the history of Idylease in Newfoundland, NJ.
Cinematography & Editing by Richard Zampella.
Shot at Idylease with:

Sony PXW‑X70 4K Camera
Dracast LED Light Panels
Chimera Softboxes

Edited with Adobe After Effects and Avid Media Composer
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A.D. Zampella, M.D

''Arthur Dante Louis Zampella''' (May 15, 1917 – January 9, 1992) was a prominent physician, public servant and medical educator. He maintained a private medical practice with a concentration in geriatric care in the State of New Jersey from 1947 to 1992.  Mayor Thomas Parisi called Zampella "A township father who helped to shape the township of West Milford, New Jersey.'' 

Zampella was the Executive Medical Director of  Idylease Nursing & Convalescent Home and Director of Idylease Clinical Laboratory from 1954-1972; both located in Newfoundland, New Jersey. He also served as Medical Director for the National Institute for Rehabilitation Engineering (NIRE) from 1970-1992 and Executive Director of The West Milford Day Center and Medical Director of the Idylease Guidance Center from 1975-1992.

==Early life==

Arthur Dante Louis Zampella was a general practitioner who owned and operated Idylease Nursing Home in the Newfoundland section of West Milford Township, New Jersey from 1954-1992. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Italian American immigrants Erminio and Filomena Zampella who were from Santomenna in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. He was one of Five brother that included: Peter Zampella, Nunzi Zampella, Municipal Judge Edward F. Zampella and Alfred E. Zampella. The youngest son Alfred had Public School No. 27 re-named in his honor by the Jersey City Public Schools in 1996.

==Medical career==

Zampella received his Bachelor of Arts|BA degree from Columbia University in New York City in 1938 where he served as Managing Editor of the Columbia Review from 1937-1938. In 1943, he received his M.D. degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed post graduate training at Graduate Medical School of New York University with a course study in bacteriology and biochemistry. Zampella served as the Senior Ship surgeon for American President Lines and Port Surgeon for Grace Lines in 1947.

In 1949, he attended the former United States Naval Medical School in Bethesda, Maryland, now know as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with a course of study in medical radioactive isotopes. Further studies in medicine were completed at the Naval Research Center in Washington, D.C. with a study in nuclear physics completed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Zampella served as a Research Analyst with Armstrong Engineering fro 1961-1970 where he studied the factors involved with reducing the vulnerability of humans to radiation in order to maintain aviation preparedness and ancillary studies related to the suppression and reversal of the ageing process. Zampella served as a Project Officer authoring; Naval Implications of Nuclear Warfare and the Biological Effects of Radiation.

Zampella maintained hospital affiliations with the Jersey City Medical Center and Christ Hospital (Jersey City, New Jersey); St Clares/Riverside Hospital in Denville, New Jersey; The  US Naval Hospital , St Albans in Long Island, NY and Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. He also maintained his private practice at Idylease until his death on January 9, 1992.

==Military service==

Arthur Zampella enlisted in the United States Navy during World War Two and began his military service as a Naval Interne completing his medical studies at St. Albans Naval Hospital. He was briefly assigned to the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C. before being deployed as Medical Officer onboard the USS Samuel Chase which arrived at the 111th, United States Naval Construction Battalion at Calicoan Island, Philippines in 1945. He later traveled on as Medical Officer to U.S. Naval Base Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea. After the war, Zampella returned to Weill Cornell Medical College from 1949 until 1954 to serve as Project Officer for a study on the biological effects of radiation entitled: Naval Implications of Nuclear Warfare. Zampella was honorably discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

He was Awarded the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with (2) two stars, The Philippine Liberation Medal with (1) one star and the World War II Victory Medal.

==Public service==

Zampella settled in Newfoundland, New Jersey in 1954 and purchased the former Idylease Inn in which he owned and served as Executive Medical Director of Idylease Nursing and Convalescent Home. Zampella served as physician for West Milford Township Public Schools and was police and fire surgeon. He was Board of Health president, director of the West Milford Day Care Center for Senior Citizens, served on the township’s youth and advisory board, was on the Boy Scouts executive board, and was on the West Milford Youth and Family Counseling Board. He belonged to the West Milford Rotary International and served as Crop Walk chair for West Milford and Jefferson Townships. He was named Citizen of the Year in 1990 and also received the West Milford Police Benevolent Association Community Service Award.

==Lakecrest Hospital==

One of the guiding lights to the founding of the hospital in 1963 was Dr. Arthur Zampella who saw the need to construct a local hospital in the West Milford Township, New Jersey Zampella offered to donate property for a facility next to the former Idylease Inn located on Union Valley Road in Newfoundland, New Jersey. Dedication ceremonies were held on Saturday, May 11, 1963 at the 12-acre site of the proposed hospital. The event was the first public step in the construction of the proposed 100-bed, $2 million hospital. Zampella had earmarked governmental funds that were being applied for to cover one-third of the $2 million cost. The rest of the money was to be raised through private contributors and the towns that were to be serviced by the proposed hospital. Fundraising efforts were also planned in Rockaway Township, New Jersey,  Jefferson Township, New Jersey, Butler, New Jersey, Bloomingdale, New Jersey, Ringwood, New Jersey, and Franklin, New Jersey. The hospital was to serve the 60,000 people who lived in the area. The West Milford site was chosen, according to Zampella, because of its centralized location. Some of the other determining factors, he said, were the transportation facilities, terrain and especially weather.

Lakecrest Hospital fate was sealed when Federal Government Funding was cut which ended the possibility of realization of the hospital. Lakecrest board chairman Peter Thornton called the federal fund termination "somewhat catastrophic." Leonard Dileo, the state head of the federal hospital funding program, said that even with a documented need in the upper Passaic County area for a medical facility, approval by his agency, and incorporation into the state master plan as a priority need, the chances were slim that Lakecrest would get any federal funds.

Many dedicated people worked on that project with Dr Arthur Zampella but obstacles kept it from happening. The township today remains without Lakecrest Hospital ever having been built.

==Health issues==

Zampella suffered from coronary heart disease in mid life and had his first myocardial infarction in 1972. In 1978, Zampella suffered a second myocardial infarction and underwent coronary artery bypass surgery at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. He intermittently suffered from varying degrees of angina up until his fatal cardiac arrest in 1992.

===Death===

On Jan 9, 1992, Arthur Dante Louis Zampella, M.D. was stricken with a heart attack while caring for the patients in his medical office in the Newfoundland section of the Township of West Milford. Zampella was transported to and died at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey at age 74; the cause of death Cardiac arrest. Zampella was survived by his wife, Alice Christine Seely who died  in 2013 and by three children and two step children.  A service in celebration of Zampella’s life was held at the United Methodist Church of Newfoundland. Burial was at the Newfoundland Cemetery on Route 23. The Rev. Frank Fowler officiated at the service  including the Father Mychal Judge who was subsequently killed in the September 11 attacks in New York City. All speakers stressed Zampella’s dedication to help others. Fowler recalled that, ''People who were ill and could not afford to pay a doctor were treated by the physician anyway.''

==Honors==

*Senate Resolution: Dr Arthur Zampella by Senator Leanna Brown
*Diplomate: National Board of Medical Examiners
*Licentiate: New Jersey and New York State Medical Boards
*Member: AMA, NJMS, AMS, AAAS, HCMS, MCMS
*Federal Aviation Administration: Aviation Medical Examiner
*American Association of Medical Administrators
*Knights of Malta
*Allied Heath Steering Committee, Passaic County Community College
*New Jersey Public Health Association
*State of New Jersey Public Health Association
*State of New Jersey Licensed Clinical Laboratory Director
*American Academy of Family Physicians
*Fellow: American Academy of Family Medicine
*Fellow: American College of Sports Medicine
*President: West Milford Board of Health
*Chairman: Boy Scouts of American, Three Rivers District
*President: Shoestring Productions
*Member: New Jersey Heritage and Cultural Council
*Sports Physician: West Milford Public Schools
*Police and Fire Surgeon: West Milford Township, New Jersey
*Vice President: West Milford Youth & Family Counseling Board
*Trustee: The Newfoundland School
* Member: New Jersey Academy of Sciece, Aerospace Medical Society, Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
*Lecturer: St Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey
*Consultant: New Jersey Civil Defense Council
*Executive Board: YMCA, Boy Scouts of America, American Red Cross
*Chairman: Crop Walk for Hunger, West Milford and Jefferson Township, New Jersey
*Member: The West Milford Rotary Club

==Awards==

*Citizen of the Year for 1990: West Milford Republican Club
*WM. L. Dickinson High School Hall of Fame
*Silver Beaver Award, Award of Good Merit, Good Scout Award: Boy Scouts of America
*West Milford Police Athletic League Honors
*Kings Crown Award: Columbia University
*AMA Physicians Recognition Award
*West Milford Police Benevolent Association Community Service Award

==Publications==

As a lifelong scholar, Zampella's writings are reflected in his authorship of many published medical articles, chapters and books on various aspects of aging, geriatric care and care of the elderly, as well as ethical, socio-economic and philosophic discussion in these fields. Many of these are now considered classics. In addition to his scholarly writings, Arthur Zampella wrote the preface and made medical revisions for the best selling book: The Stork Didn't Bring you in 1964 for author Lois Pemberton.  Some of the references:

A.D. Zampella, M.D., "General Principles of Administration". Nursing Homes, 1968

A.D. Zampella, M.D., "We Can Defend Ourselves". New Jersey Civil Defense Department, 1954

A.D. Zampella, M.D., "Sampling of the Attitudes of the Aged". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1969

A.D. Zampella, M.D., "Accreditation and it's Adjuvant Effects on Day to Day Convalescent Home Operation". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1964

A.D. Zampella, M.D., "General principals of Team Approach to the Care of the Elderly". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1964

A.D. Zampella, M.D., "General Preparedness Plan". A Manual for Hospitals in the Event of an Emergency, 1964

A.D. Zampella, M.D., "Organization of a Friendly Visitors Program". Nursing Homes, 1972

-Compiled & Edited by Richard Zampella
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West Milford had a great loss on this date in 1992

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014
BY  ANN GENADER
CORRESPONDENT
AIM WEST MILFORD

It was 22 years ago today on Jan. 9, 1992 that Arthur Dante Louis Zampella, M.D. was stricken with a heart attack while caring for the patients in his Idylease medical office in the Newfoundland section of the Township of West Milford.

Zampella’s accomplishments in serving the municipality and its people were already notable. At the time of his death he had proposed and planned to do so much more. But this was not to be.

The winter weather was bitterly cold on Jan. 9, 1992. It was a typical day at Idylease with a waiting room full of patients in the doctor’s office. As usual Zampella was taking time with each one – never tiring of listening to what they had to say and offering fatherly advice along with administering needed medical care to them.

The nursing home in the main building was operating smoothly and the patients were being tended to by the caring staff chosen by Zampella. As Idylease staff public relations person I was in the business office preparing advertising copy for the facility with Business Administrator Neil Malloy.

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