Page 6 The Retirees' Newsletter
The Faculty and Librarian Retirees' Association, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Vol VII, Issue No.2 -- April, 1997
A REGULAR FEATURE
THE LETTER BOX
A SAD NOTE FROM TIM SUTTOR IN SPAIN
EDITOR'S NOTE: Three years ago, Tim Suttor wrote a wonderful note to The Newsletter describing his retirement in Spain. (No. 8, June, 1994). On March 2ND this year, in response to a greeting from me on his February copy of The Newsletter, he wrote:
Dear Bill,
Kind of you to remember me. No news has been bad news, I have to tell you: a terminal cancer with too much weakness and pain for chatty correspondence. I am waiting for my time, glad and surprised, after palliative surgery in December, to find I can once more sit at a typewriter and write a few farewell notes. Believe me, these have been good years, rich in companionship and the time to put my thoughts together into what I believe to be a powerful and useful argument, after a generation in which so much religious writing has been flimsy. I am content.
P.S. Thanks for the close attention you give pension matters- and for that matter, congratulations on your exactness. Yours, Tim Suttor (Relig.St.'85).
EDITOR'S NOTE: Tim, All of your colleagues send heartfelt good wishes; we admire your exemplary courage! I personally would be happy to see some of your writings.
EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER FROM BOB AND TERRI DOYLE
...We have decided to live in Tucson at least until April or so. The climate is superb... I like the Indian/Hispanic culture, the incredible art scene, great sports stuff and performances, and so on. Good restaurants! A huge University and a Community College too...(After all the festivities of Christmas) the family "forced" me across the street into the emergency dept. of the local hospital. Ordinarily there is a wait. But I quickly got their attention by throwing up and they popped me into Int. Care with "acute keto-acidosis" (or diabetes). Tubes and monitors and needles and such for 2 days and then 2 more in Intermediate Care. Out in the cold on Jan 2...
Great care! Good physicians! Good follow-up! And I'm feeling better each day! I got superb hospital care, marvelous and very compassionate physicians, excellent physiotherapy, etc. It is veryexpensive, so thank God for our top-notch medical coverage.
We are in love with Tucson. We've stumbled on a very compatible "colony" (a kind of resort-apartment complex) with weight room, hot tub and pool, along with numerous "activities", sponsored by management or occupants.
Since arriving this year we've had some interesting events. A neighbor invited us to attend a Tucson Comm. Symphony concert. He plays 1st fiddle and celebrated his 80th birthday that day. Later he sold Terri his driver because he's decided not to golf this summer!
...We've noted that, in many ways, the cost of living here is not all that high. First they have only a 5% sales tax. Secondly prices are often very low. We recently bought the following small appliances for less that $10 U.S.: a juicer, a rice cooker, a hand mixer, a tea kettle, a bathroom scale... Bob Doyle (Biol. '92)
CHANGES/CORRECTIONS TO ADDRESSES/ PHONES
(Check the list on pp.
of Newsletter 21. The online list has been updated and E-mail address links have been added.)
CHATTERJEE, P. KUMAR, 3465 Avondale.
DORRELL, ROBERT E, 973-7795.
GALASSO, PAT (as of April):
23 Millwood Dr., Kingston ON. K7M 8Z2.
HORNSEY, R. 2559 Grand Marais West.
QUERBACH, CARL W. N9L 3Z1
OTHER CORRESPONDENCE
We have received an interesting letter from Tom and Barbara Carney living in B.C. and hope to include excerpts in the June issue. Also an item in a letter received from Blake Gertz in Florida contained a comment about a 25% tax deduction made by the Canadian Government. This seems to work both ways and has been in the news here recently. If you could give me a little more information on it, Blake, from your side, I might be able to help with reciprocal info from the Canadian side.
The Newsletter
The Retirees' Newsletter is published by the Faculty and Librarian Retirees' Association of the University of Windsor, five times per year: -- in February, April, June, October and December.
Its main purpose is to inform retirees on matters of direct interest to them such as their pensions, benefits, association activities, etc.,
and to provide a means for retirees to communicate with each other and with outside groups, including the Faculty Association and the University.
The Newsletter welcomes from readers comments, arguments, contributions and creative work of all kinds.
Editor Bill Phillips
Assoc. Editor Joan Hackett
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Bill Phillips,
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