MEMBERS WILL RECALL that, a year or so ago, the Association issued membership identity cards to all paid-up members. Many members had pointed out that they frequently needed some way of identifying themselves as retirees of the University of Windsor. Most appear to have been happy with the cards.
The Association plans to issue such cards again in the current year. It is expected that the cards will be ready to distribute with the December issue of The Newsletter.
Following our usual practice, the $10 dues for the 1996-1997 year will become payable as of the October 1996 Annual General Meeting, or as soon as possible thereafter.
THUS, IF YOU WISH to receive an identity card, you should ensure that your dues of $10. for the 1996-1997 year are paid either at the October meeting or shortly thereafter, certainly by mid-November at the latest.
A FEW MONTHS AGO, in Issue #16, we quoted from the University of Calgary publication Life After Retirement, Fall, 1995.
THE CALGARY ARTICLE described plans under way at Calgary, to use the Internet worldwide web to fulfill most of the functions of a national federation of retirees' associations across Canada. It said, in part:
"When the Calgary site is fully functional it will...include instructions on how to set up your own association, 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".
WOW! THAT SOUNDED GREAT! And all of this was to be discussed in a report to be presented at a meeting at Brock University in May, at the meetings of the Learned Societies!
NOW THE DOWNSIDE. As far as we could tell in the months that followed, the promised web page never did appear on the web. Nor was anything heard by us about the proposed meeting at Brock University until we ourselves checked out the schedule of the "Learneds" and discovered such a meeting was indeed on the list.
By that time it was too late to find anyone who could attend it and so we missed it by default. We would indeed like some info on what occurred at the meeting.
Perhaps we should try the WEB?
THE COMPUTER USERS' INTEREST GROUP, formation of which was decided at the March meeting, held its first meeting on April 18th.
The meeting was held at the home of Bob and Jean Whitehurst on Riverside Drive East and was attended by some ten members whose knowledge of computers ranged from novice to relatively sophisticated.
A second meeting was scheduled for May 29th but had to be postponed to a later date for medical reasons. (See below, p.10 ).
Interest in computers among members of the Association has been increasing since 1993 when the University gave official approval to access by faculty and librarian retirees to the University's computer services.
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