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The Retirees' Newsletter
The Faculty and Librarian Retirees' Association, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Issue # 20 -- December, 1996
THE LETTER BOX
JOHN McCORQUODALE WRITES FROM NEW ORLEANS
John sent along his new address (home and university) and added,"I also hope to spend some time at the University of Windsor working with the GLIER (Great Lakes Institute) and the Department of Civil Engineering during the next several years". His new addresses are:
Dr. J.A. McCorquodale,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of New Orleans,
New Orleans LA 70148. USA
email: JAMCE@UNO.edu
telephone: (509)286-6074
Home Address:
6237 Paris Avenue,
New Orleans,
Louisiana 70122
USA.
HARRY MORROW WRITES FROM TORONTO
(Harry Morrow was first Director of the School of Social Work).
I really appreciate the Retirees' Newsletter. Living outside of Windsor, it keeps me in touch with life at the U. and former colleagues...
I keep busy with little chores. The cottage in the Kawartha Highlands tests my skills for simple manual tasks. This fall I replaced the deck. The carpenter worried about the technical things. I was allowed to nail the pre-cut boards and to act as flunky.
My family are all employed in the human service area: my older son as a social work manager with the government in the Kingston area, my daughter as a planner with Metro Toronto, and my younger son teaches at George Brown College.
After 15 years of retirement I am happy to see others carrying the load, though occasionally I do make a short foray into an issue but withdraw just as quickly. Harry Morrow
WALT ROMANOW ON THE ROMANOWS' ACTIVITIES IN ALBERTA
We enjoy reading The Newsletter. During nearly 30 years in Windsor we made many friendships and The Newsletter allows us to keep in touch with a number of them.
...Yvonna and I keep busy. She volunteers at the University hospital three days a week...Whatever you might read or hear about Alberta's hard-nosed approach to balancing the budget, seniors are certainly well looked after in terms of activities, facilities and recreational resources!
I manage to stay busy with bits and pieces of writing. This summer Jake Soderlund and I brought out a second edition of an earlier text; and along with co-editors Jake Soderlund and Stan Cunningham, we've completed an edition of papers for UBC Press (Political Advertising and Communication: The Attack Mode... Walt Romanow
VAL CERVIN ON FUZZY MATHEMATICS
My European trip was quite productive. I attended the Padua meeting of European mathematical psychologists, where I presented a paper in which I again advocated the use in applied psychology of fuzzy mathematics, but unlike in previous papers written at the conceptual level, this time I analyzed specific cases from my practice. Val Cervin
After Jan 8th, 1997.
Temporary address:
285 Vanguard Court,
Kingston, ON. K74 8P9
Tel: (613)544-7739. Fax: (613) 544-7076
Permanent address (early in April):
723 Millwood Drive,
Kingston, ON. K7M 8Z2 (No phone yet)
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW OUR PENSIONS AND BENEFITS PLANS WORK?
JUDGING FROM INFORMAL FEEDBACK, a lot of members have such questions. Why do I stay on Minimum Guarantee? Why not on Money Purchase? What is our pension fund invested in? Who makes such decisions? As a member of the Plan, do I have any say in these decisions, any input at all? When I hear that the fund has a surplus, what exactly does that mean surplus over what? What, in fact, are the procedures under our Pension Plan? For example, from the day $1 is collected from a faculty member's pay, until the day it is paid out in someone's pension, how many hands does it pass through, and how long is it held at each stage? Etc.etc.etc. (One need only scan the financial pages today to see how vital such questions can be: most often (sadly) when it is too late).
If you have questions, we'll be glad to try to get answers and publish them. Let us know.
You must sign your letters but we'll withhold your name if you wish.
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 pensions, benefits, association activities, etc.
The Newsletter welcomes contributions from readers observations, arguments, and creative work of all kinds.
Editor Bill Phillips
Assoc. Editor Joan Hackett
Send items for publication to
Bill Phillips,
1186 Grand Marais Rd., West,
Windsor, N9E 1C7.
or use his email address:
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