Membership News

Dr. Sheila Cameron, Mrs Sandra Aversa and
Mr. Jim Skinner. The committee first met in February of
2000 and has met on numerous occasions since to
address these issues. This report is the culmination of
those meetings and is supported by all members of the
committee.

University of Windsor Pension Plan for Faculty and
Certain Others

The committee examined the adequacy of the pension
plan by comparing the major components with that of
Queen's and Carleton Universities and focused on the
following issues

1. The adequacy of entitlement at retirement.
2. The various methodologies used in the calculation of
indexing.
3. Non-Reduction Reserve
4. Contribution Holiday
5. Pension Plan Funding Position
6. Plan Improvements
7. Post retirement Benefits

This report is now submitted to the University and the
Faculty Association. Once we have the approval from the
Faculty Association to release the report, it will be
distributed to all members of WURA.

The WURA Executive Committee received six applications
from the Director, Awards Office. The Committee members
individually ranked all the six applicants and the results
were compiled by Dr. Wilf Innerd, Chair Bursary Fund
Committee. The names of the following three winners were
forwarded to the Awards Office.

1. Xun Lou
2. Dana Lezau
3. Jing Lei

Bob Whitehurst is planning carpooling to Greenfield Village
on March 9th for the 10 a.m. Imax film showing of the
history of flight. The new Imax theatre is next to the
clocktower at Greenfield village. He will provide directions
later if interested.

The ticket price is $6.50 US for seniors for admission to the
film only. We would likely find somewhere to have lunch
together after the movie. There are many good restaurants
in the area and could choose from good ol southern soul
food to mid eastern to more exotic choices.

Anyone out there? also, do mark on your calendar the
annual St.Clair retirees dinner on April 6th. More info will be
in newsletter. For further information, please contact Bob
Whitehurst - rwhite@uwindsor.ca

Effectively immediately, the minutes of the WURA
Executive Committee meetings will be published in the
Newsletter. The minutes of the Fall and Spring General
meetings are already being published in the Newsletter.

At the earliest opportunity, previous minutes of the
Executive Committee meetings, beginning October 1997
will be available on the WURA WEB page.

Minutes of a Meeting of the Executive Committee of the
Retirees' Association held on Thursday, February 8th,
2001 at 2.00 in the Biology Building Room 225.

Present: , Stan Cunningham (Chair), Kumar Chatterjee,
Gino Fracas, Wilf Innerd, Jerry Malone, Alan Metcalfe,. and
Datta Pillay ( Secretary)
Absent with Regrets:, Don Briggs, John Meyer and Phyllis
Nolan

1. Minutes of the meeting of December 7th, 2000 - On
the motion of Wilf Innerd and seconded by Alan Metcalfe,
it was resolved that the minutes of the Executive Committee
meeting of December 7th, 2000 be approved, with the
correction to minutes that Gino Fracas was not in
attendance at that meeting.

2. Business arising from the minutes - None
3. Announcements -
Executive Meeting - March 8, 2001
Spring General Meeting - March 15, 2001
U of W Retirees Dinner Dance - March 30, 2001
Annual Retirees Dinner - April 6, 2001

4. Correspondence - a) Email from Ms Helen Moore
requesting access to University Email system - It was
agreed by the Committee that since Faculty, Spouses and
Children are eligible for tuition remission, Human Kinetics
facilities, and Library services at the University, that they
should also have access to university email. The Secretary
was directed to send a letter to the IT Services requesting