Creative Seniors Leadership Program

The Program - Section 7

Useful Tools

The Name Game
Dance Card

The Name Game
This is a game which can be used as an ice-breaker during orientation to facilitate members getting to know each other.

Using the original application forms determine a unique description of each participant's skills and interests. Make a list of these descriptions with a space for entry of the persons name. Have the participants complete the form by interviewing each other. The aim is for each person to speak with everyone else.

Sample Form

Leadership Asheville Seniors XI

September 17, 1997

Here's the Answer

1. _____________________ Writes books on adult education and collects toy
boats

2. _____________________ Knows about music, quilting and family therapy

3. _____________________ Former university administrator interested in
genealogy and photography

4. _____________________ Former speech pathologist who enjoys the arts

5. _____________________ Ask this former teacher about computers or team
building

6. _____________________ Involved with land use planning and Council on Aging

7. _____________________ Currently designing and drafting a new house, also
square dances

8. _____________________ This YMCA consultant knows about fun raising and
theater

9. _____________________ Attended UNCA's Retirement Weekend and can help
with community building

10. _____________________ Raises miniature horses and blueberries; serves on jail
task force

11. _____________________ Ask her about AAUW, the Arboretum or land use
planning

12. _____________________ This retired physician writes fiction

13. _____________________ Former speech pathologist has taught/consulted in
eastern Europe

14. _____________________ Volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and knows
computers

15. _____________________ This Buncombe County native is concerned about
quality day care for the young and old

16. _____________________ Volunteers as chaplain at St. Joseph's and enjoys
sports

17. _____________________ Lived in Europe and Asia, met Mother Theresa, is a
community activist

18. _____________________ Retired teacher who put a roof on a church this
summer

19. _____________________ Reads on the radio for the visually impaired; likes to
walk

20. _____________________ Does consumer credit counseling; likes music and
history

21. _____________________ This very new resident is involved with children's
theater

22. _____________________ This WRATT volunteer enjoys photography and
writing

23. _____________________ She's involved with the symphony and doll collecting

24. _____________________ Publishes medieval and Renaissance studies and
enjoys theater and music

25. _____________________ Currently working in health care, she's concerned
about billboards and cell towers

26. _____________________ Former human resource director who's involved with
RiverLink

27. _____________________ Just back from Vermont, she's a food coop volunteer

28. _____________________ Likes hiking and condominium landscaping

29. _____________________ Ask her about Opportunity Cooperation and the
Transit Board

30. _____________________ This community development consultant is a new
resident

31. _____________________ Former nurse; likes walking; moved here after
attending UNCA's Retirement Weekend

32. _____________________ Contacted the Center about tutoring elementary kids
before he moved here; plays tennis

33. _____________________ Former teacher and principal who is concerned about
good government

34. _____________________ This management consultant knows computers and
cameras

35. _____________________ Board member of UNCA's Center for Jewish Studies;
former librarian

36. _____________________ Builds clocks and knows accounting

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