The Retirees' Newsletter
Faculty and Librarian Retirees' Association, University of Windsor

June, 1995, Issue #13

THIRTEEN FACULTY MEMBERS RETIRING THIS YEAR

Thirteen faculty members are retiring during the current year. They are: Thoms F Carney, Communication Studies; P. Kumar Chatterjee, Social Work; Olga L. Crocker, Business Administration; Eric W. Channen, Computer Science; Sek P. Chee, Civil and Environment Engineering; Krishan Duggal, Mathematics; Roland S. Englehart, Psychology; Charles E. Fantazzi, Classical and Modern Languages; Gino M. Fracas, Kinesiology; Nigel E. Hedgecock, Physics; Witold T. Kierkus; Mechanical and Materials Engineering; Eugene J. McNamara, English; Edward A. Watson, English.

The Association is contacting each of the new retirees with a warm invitation to join. The Faculty and Librarian Retirees' Association is your best, possibly your only, direct link to the University during your retirement years, and an excellent way of keeping in touch with former colleagues.

NEWS FROM UNICOM

STUART NEASE has advised The Newsletter of continuing developments in UNI-COM, the organization on campus whose primary object is:

to provide for retired persons an organizational structure within a University environment to allow access to resources for research and scholarly activity so that such persons may continue their professional, research and community related activities during retirement.

UNI-COM recently moved its office from Assumption University to 360 Sunset Ave., third floor. Its telephone is the same: 253-4232, Ext. 3430.

DURING THE PAST YEAR, UNI-COM has continued its speakers program. In summer 1994 it arranged the first appearance of Elderhostel in Windsor. It was very successful. Some 20 people spent July 16th to 20th on campus, living in Cartier Hall and eating at the CAW Student Centre. A second Elderhostel Program is planned for this summer.

Project C.A.R.E., funded by Health Canada, is going ahead under the guidance of John LaGaipa, Linda Long, Gabe Seguin, Bill McRaw, Ezio Marzotto and Larry Foley.

Nease issued a reminder that ALL RETIREES ARE INVITED TO JOIN and to talk with the program committee about their ideas and interests. Dues are $25. per year payable directly to UNI-COM, or $35. payable to the University. In the latter case, a receipt is issued by the University for income tax purposes.

This book is a description of an interesting, but little known, series of events that took place in Russia during and just after the First World War. They were an important part of the struggle of the Czechs to escape the domination of Austria, and presaged the formation of the state of Czechoslovakia-that existed between the two World Wars. During the period covered by the book a relatively large army was built up in Russia, consisting of Czechs already domiciled there, and of others captured from the Austrian Army. It was created largely through the efforts, and was under the command, of General Jaroslav Cervinka, a Czech who had been an officer in the Russian army for some time. By the end of the war it consisted of two devisions, one of which had fought successfully alongside the Russians - in fact, by 1917 it was probably the most effective military unit in Russia. At the end of the war an attempt was made to transfer this army to France by moving it to Vladivostok via the Trans-Siberian railway, although this book does not describe the operation in great detail.

The authors treat mostly the difficulties faced by General Cervinka, first in obtaining authority from the Russians to form a distinct Czech army (rather like the Free French Army in World War II), and later in dealing with the various Czech leaders in exile, including T.G. Masaryk, later president of Czechoslovakia.

The authors deal with an involved series of events in a lucid manner, basing their arguments on source documents that are not widely available. They attempt to address the complexities by structuring the work in a series of chapters, each of which is an essay dealing with the topics from a different viewpoint. While this is effective to some degree, it leads to some repetition. Nevertheless, the book presents a fascinating study of the intricate relationships that develop between political and military factions among expatriate nationals seeking to free their homeland.

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