. The Retirees' Newsletter

The Retirees's Association ( Faculty, Librarian, Administrator), University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont. Canada

Vol X , No. 2, April 2000

Comparision of Minimum Guarantee Benefit for Queens, Carleton and Windsor

Assumptions:

• Earnings $ 100,000 at retirement
• Salary progression 5%

Greenshield Premium Rates

Increase by 10% May 1, 2000

Retirees have been notified by the Mr. Jim Skinner, Manager, Records, Benefits, Department of Human Resources that effective May 1, 2000 the Green Shield rates for all threes options in the health plan are to increase by about 10 percent. Individual letters have sent to the 120 subscribers presently on the plan.

Premium rates will continue to rise each year from now on, as more and more retirees join the group and the usage increases significantly because of the aging population. It is with this aspect in mind that WURA met with the representatives of Green Shield and the University to develop a package that will give us the maximum benefit and yet keep the costs down.

Very shortly, the revised Proposal to Reduce Green Shield Premium Rates will be sent to all retirees (with modifications suggested during the discussion at the Spring General Meeting on March 28, 2000). We urge you to review it carefully and strongly support it by completing the survey. Once we have the majority support, then we will discuss the details with the University and Green Shield.

Calgary University and Alberta Retired Teachers Association (ARTA)

The ARTA has benefits program kit available for Universities Academic Pension Plan Retirees. If you have access to the Internet, please visit ARTA's Website - www.teachers.ab.ca/links/artabenefits/html. At present, the University of Calgary has a plan with ARTA.

ARTA Benefits Program Monthly Rates are as follows:

Guaranteed Call 1-800-46`-4597 for rates - No medical questions asked)

Term Life Call 1-800-461-4597 for rates

Hospital Care Single $ 14.00 Couple $ 28.00 Family $ 33.2

Extended Health Care Single $ 28.50 Couple $ 57.00 Family $ 68.00

Dental Care Single $ 38.00 Couple $ 76.00 Family $ 91,00

Supplemental Plan(Travel) Call 1-8--461-4597

Home & Auto Insurance Call 1-888-656-9600 for quotation

Can the University of Windsor Retirees have similar plan with Ontario Teachers Federation and have health benefits at a reasonable rates? WURA is looking into such possibilities. Members will be notified of the progress.

Members News

Jim Parr

The university community was saddened by the news of the passing of the second Dean of Applied Science, Dr. Jim Parr on April 5. Dr. Parr was educated in Britain and taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta before coming to Windsor to lead the engineering faculty in 1964. While at Windsor, he was named to the Royal Society of Canada. Later in his career be became Deputy Minister for the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, Chairman and CEO of TV Ontario and Director General of the Ontario Science Centre.

In the early part of his career, he wrote books on steel and just two years ago returned to his academic roots to publish a third edition of An Introduction to Stainless Steel with Jonathan Beddoes. He also wrote more than 70 technical papers, mostly on martenistic transformations. He was a contributor to The World Book Encyclopedia and produced many popular media articles and talks.

Dr. Parr's daughter, Kate Parr, teaches in the University of Windsor philosophy program.

Physics Professor Emeritus Dr. Mordechay Schlesinger has just signed a contract with Wiley for his third book entitled "Electro-Optical Materials." Electro-Optical materials are of key importance to our ongoing telecommunications revolution. They are playing an increasingly important role because of their ability to control and manipulate beams of laser light by the application of electrical signals. He plans to complete it by the summer of 2001. His two previous books are "Fundamentals of Electrochemical Deposition," (Wiley, New York, 1998), and "Modern Electroplating" (Wiley, New York, 2000). All copies of the first book have now been sold, making it a best seller in the field of technical literature.

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