The Faculty and Librarian Retirees' Association at Windsor was formed in 1990: to give a unified voice to retirees; to provide a channel of communication between them and the University; to facilitate social and professional contact among retirees; and to keep open doors though which retirees could continue to contribute to the University of Windsor.
The Association operates under a Constitution as adopted in October, 1991, and amended in April, 1993. The Constitution is designed to provide as much informality as is possible in the Association's activities, in keeping with the retired status of the membership.
There are two meetings of the full membership per year: spring and fall. An informal social committee arranges several other events per year dinners, plays, picnics and the like, all on a pay-as-you-go basis. The Association encourages smaller special interest groups to form as occasion and their interests warrant. Because of great economy of operation, dues have been kept at the level of $10 per year, which includes five issues of The Retirees' Newsletter.
Officers are elected annually at the Fall Meeting. They include a president, a secretary-treasurer and members of an Executive Committee as provided by the Constitution. Currently, the officers of the Association are the following:
President: Edwin Habib.
Sec'ty-Treas: William Libby.
Elected Members of the Executive
Committee: David Booth and Robert
Whitehurst.
Ex Officio Members: Norm Shklov and
Bill Phillips.
The address is: Faculty/Librarian Retirees' Assoc'n, Univ. of Windsor Post Office, Windsor, ON., N9B 3P4. E-mail address: philli3@uwindsor.ca
Yes. But the emphasis has shifted toward using the Internet World Wide Web. Members will recall that in earlier issues we reported the steps initiated at the University of Calgary to start a federation of retirees' associations in Canada. The initiative appears to be still alive, but with a new emphasis. From the fall 1995 issue of Life After Retirement, published by the association at the University of Calgary: A WEB SITE AT http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/emeritus/ (By Gordon Hodgson, editor, Life After Retirement, University of Calgary) ...Our home page is just barely functional yet, but you can look at the spring issue of the LAR newsletter in full text! Wow!
The intent behind all of this is a wish to explore the possibility of using the Internet worldwide web capability for fulfilling most of the functions of a national federation of (retirees') associations in Canada. When the Calgary site is fully functional it will offer potential users a wide variety of documents and services.
This will include instructions on how to set up your own [retirees'] association (wherever you might be), documents on work underway by retired university people across the country, reports of studies by retired people in university settings, association newsletters, upcoming events across the country, contact persons and links into (retirees') groupings around the world.
The task force enquiring into the possibility of forming a federation reported to an open meeting at the "Learneds" in Montreal in June. Thirty persons heard an account of ... the work of the task force during its year of office.
The meeting decided that, on balance, the idea of a federation was sufficiently supported to warrant the appointment of a new committee with a new mandate to recommend, and as far as possible, to lay the foundation for such a federation.
The meeting developed two possible courses of action. As the main purpose of a federation would be to facilitate an exchange of information, one course was to establish a web site on the Internet and our Calgary association has already done this! To follow the second course would involve establishing a central office with all its attendant difficulties. Where, for whom, with what purposes, and how would it be paid for? However, the committee will doubtless do its best, and will report again at the "Learneds" in Brock University on 30th May 1996.
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