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Membership Information - Dave
Gynn, Membership Chair
04-01-15 The PCRTA membership committee is making preparations to contact this year’s class of Portage County retirees beginning with a Preretirement Workshop intended to introduce retiring teachers to our local and state associations. This event will be held from 5 – 7 p.m. on April 17 at the Channel 45/49 facilities in Kent and is being planned by Mary Ann and Richard Brockett. It will serve as our first formal approach to the newly retired; however, personal contact also produces promising results. If you are personally acquainted with a retiring teacher, or one who is already retired and not a member of PCRTA, please consider approaching him or her and sharing this information along with the reasons for your membership. A few of those reasons might be: Opportunities to protect and improve teacher retirement benefits through our ORTA representation in Columbus and Washington DC and at STRS - because our numbers matter. Opportunities for lifelong learning that comes from the excellent programs that are offered at our six bi-monthly meetings. Opportunities to continue to serve and make a difference as participants in our many service projects where there is something for everyone to offer. Our numbers matter. If you have renewed your 2014 memberships, "Thank you." There is still time to renew if you haven't. Let us hear from you soon.
Welcome
new members: (Dec 2013) Marilyn Sorrick 2010 KSU and Kent City, Sunshine Delaluz 2013 Trumbull Bd. DD, Wendy Cooley 2008 Southeast, Nancy L Smith 2013 Southeast, Leonard Suzelis 2013 Southeast, Carol Weigand 2012 Southeast Bill Wilen 2004 KSU, Denise Craig 2013 Kent City, Jeri Thompson 2013 Southeast A BIG THANK YOU to Martha Hatcher who so graciously invited some Southeast schools retirees to the November meeting. WELCOME TO THE RETIREMENT CLASS OF 2013! October Wow! What a huge retirement class this year! The schools were cooperative about giving us the names of retirees
this year, but not their addresses. PCRTA retirement packets have been sent to those retirees whose addresses we were able
to get. New retirees are offered a first-time free luncheon so they can come and see what we are about. If you know someone
on this list, give him or her a call and invite them to come to a luncheon or to join ORTA and PCRTA - who else is looking
out for the benefits for STRS members? No one!
If you know of someone who should be on this list of 2013 retirees or if you school
is having a picnic or an event for retirees and you would be willing to pass out some PCRTA brochures, please call our Membership
Chair, Dave Gynn at 330-678-8423 or send him an email at mailto:davegynn@aol.com. August-September 2013 Say Hello
to our Newest Member:
Diana Kenterner retired from Ravenna Schools in 2011. Nancy Bubenzer retired from Kent City Schools in 2013. August-September 2013 Say Hello to our Newest Member:
Julie Molitoris, who retired from Crestwood Schools. June-July 2013 Say Hello to our
Newest Members:
Elaine Lumley retired from Akron Public Schools in 2006. Kathy Wilen retired from Kent City Schools in 2001. June-July 2013 Hey, Who Asked You?
Your membership in ORTA, the professional retired teachers' organization, is now more important than ever before. But some retirees don't "get" the significance of uniting to protect and improve our pensions and health care benefits. So-who asked you to join? Who invited you to attend a luncheon meeting? Who urged you to participate in a PCRTA project? Many members remember that it was a personal contact from a member or friend that encouraged them to join. This year we expect a large number of retirees (perhaps due to the recent pension legislation). As usual, PCRTA will send or deliver an invitation letter, a membership brochure and ticket for a free lunch to each retiree. The rest is up to YOU-to contact retirees and urge them to join us. Some retirees decided to take a year or two off before joining any organization. Now is the time to again contact those retirees from the last few years who have not yet joined, and remind them that their future benefits depend upon the strength of our organization. Why don't you share Dan McCombs' legislative news with them (see page 3). Remember who asked you. Be the person that other members will remember because you asked them to join. We need you and you need us! 4-25-13 Curious
people want to know!
Q - Who is eligible for PCRTA/ORTA membership? A - ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP is open to any retired teacher or administrator or any spouse who becomes a benefit recipient of STRS and any person in Ohio interested in education and the issues of retirees. Q - Can active teachers join PCRTA/ORTA? A - Certainly. Active teachers should be concerned about retirement benefits because they may be retired longer than they taught. Q - Can someone be an associate member? A - Since any person interested in education and retirees can join, there is not a need for associate membership. Spouses and non-retiree friends are always welcome at meetings. Current associate memberships have been grandfathered. Q - Can I join just Portage County and not ORTA? A - Only dual membership in ORTA and PCRTA is available. It is very important that our county organization supports the state organization and requests services from the state. Q - What if an older member cannot afford to belong? A - A long-time member may be considered for honorary membership status, if found to be in need due to personal circumstances. A family member or PCRTA member can nominate someone for this status. Membership is subject to approval by the Executive Board. Q - When is the membership year? A - January to December. When a new member joins, the rest of that year is free. New members who join in June are paid through December of the next year. If the code on your newsletter label says (life) or (ann) 2013, your dues are up to date. Q - How much are the annual membership dues? A - $40 a year (11 cents a day). $30 goes to ORTA and PCRTA retains $10 each year. Q - What about life membership dues? A - $650 (ORTA $500, PCRTA $150). Do the math. Life membership will pay for about 16 years at the current rate. Life members are paid up when dues increase. They never have to send the annual dues, and they demonstrate a commitment to the organization. Q - How many members do we have in Portage County? 02-01-13 Membership Matters!
Membership Matters. Membership should be everyone's concern. Membership matters to the Ohio legislature. The recent pension reform legislation guarantees that we will continue to receive our defined benefits-- for now. Legislators listened to the ORTA members who contacted them with personal stories of the importance of this pension reform. They listened, and they responded in a bipartisan way. ORTA will continue to monitor proposed changes to insure our pension benefits remain. Membership matters at ORTA. Only the ten chapters with the highest membership can appoint trustees to the ORTA Executive Board. We have always had a trustee and must increase our membership to retain a trustee. Our trustee helps form ORTA policies and activities. Membership matters in Portage County. PCRTA members volunteer a huge number of hours for local organizations,
as well as provide support through community service projects to local agencies. The value of our volunteerism increases as
our membership increases. 02-01-13 Say Hello to our Newest Members:
Alberta Caetta Richard (Dick) Mitchell 1997 Hocking College Virginia Kuyon Rootstown 2012 Shirley Dubetz Friend of education and wife of a deceased educator 10-15-12 Say Hello to our Newest Member:
Ruth Seton retired from Ravenna Schools in 2012 10-15-2012 PCRTA Membership Report The new changes in our pension plan have been in the works since 2009, when our representatives and others realized
that, due to the investment market downturn and demographic factors such as members living longer and the recession, the STRS
pension plan could not remain solvent without some change. More detail about the process and changes can be found at www.strsoh.org/legislation/legislation.html. 08-15-12 Invite Possible New Members!
If you know of someone who should be on this list of 2012 Retirees or if your school is having a picnic or an event for retirees and you would be willing to pass out some PCRTA brochures, please call Membership Chair, Helena Parry at 330-673-0577 or send her an email at www.hmparry@att.net. Personal contact is the best way to invite new members. If you know one or two of these retirees, give them a call and invite them to come to the next luncheon. If they say yes, pick them up and bring them along. Welcome to our newest members!
Theresa (Terri) Thomas retired in 2010 from Crestwood Schools. Alan Balog retired from Ravenna Schools. Cathy Steele retired in 1999 from Rootstown Schools. Connie Leidel retired in 2005 from Ravenna City Schools. June-July 2012 Membership News
Sixty-nine letters of invitation to join the PCRTA along with a free lunch ticket and a PCRTA brochure went out to recent retirees from the schools in Portage County. Mike Hardy hand delivered 15 to the Kent City Schools while most of the other schools permitted us to send the information through the Portage County Educational Service Center mail to various schools. Thanks to the superintendents and their secretaries who distributed our information, free tickets and brochures to their retirees. April-May 2012 Membership Committee
REady to Gear up for new 2012 Retirees
In November, we completed our letter campaign inviting teachers who were listed by STRS as having retired from Portage County Schools within the past two years to join the PCRTA. During the next few months, we made phone calls to those who had received letters in November. Next we gave handouts at the Retired Field Teachers and Rootstown Retired Teachers luncheons. Last we handed out letters of invitation and our membership brochure to the thirty some teachers who attended the recent Pre-Retirement Workshop. So now, it is time again to get ready to get membership information out to those teachers who will be retiring this year from the Portage County Schools. If you are from the northern part of the county, I need people from the Crestwood and Garfield areas to help get a list of upcoming retirees. Please contact me at 330-673-0577 or at hmparry@att.net if you know of people who are retiring from any Portage County school. Our recruiting efforts have brought in a few members in the past few months. This is a good thing, but we still need everyone to continue to think of at least one retired teacher you know who is not yet a member of the PCRTA and give them a call. If there is someone who wants our new brochure, please let me know. January-March 2012 Membership Committee Hard at Work
The task of recruiting and retaining membership is a huge project. We appreciate members who are willing to call teachers who have retired and not yet joined PCRTA, or who are willing to invite a new retiree who has not yet joined PCRTA to one of our luncheons, or invite them to check out our website at http://www.pcrta.net/. This past November, Ron Snowberger, Adele and William Fussner, and I addressed 175 letters to prospective retirees for membership. Now we have several members making personal phone calls as a follow -up to those mailings. Those helping with the phoning include Dave and Pat Gynn, Ron Snowberger, Marlene Strebler, Adele Fussner, Nancy Granville, Kay Wise, Mike Hardy, Darlene Fetterhoff, Jan Zimmerman, Betty Davis and myself. Betty Davis, membership committee member, is meeting with retired teachers from Rootstown in March at an informal luncheon where she will distribute brochures, letters, and offer a personal invitation to join PCRTA . Lifetime PCRTA Members, Barb Bryner and Judy Hendershot are also willing to recruit at the informal luncheons of the Field Local Retirees. This plan seems to be a good idea, so if some of you meet with former retirees on a social level, please let me know if you need materials to hand out. Membership forms are posted on the web site as well. Contact me at hmparry@att.net or at 330-30-673-0577 with questions or suggestions for the Membership Committee. Welcome to our new members who have joined us since November, 2011 Jerry B. Clavner retired in 2010 from Cuyahoga Community College. Norma Jackman retired in 2010 from Green Local Schools. Linda Little retired in 2011 from Ravenna City Schools. Theresa Schoettler retired in 2011 from Cleveland Metropolitan Schools. Debra L. Thompson retired in 2011 from Waterloo Schools. Barbara Watkins retired in 2011 from Green Local Schools. Patricia Yountz retired in 2011 from Southeast Schools. June-July 2011 Help Us Find New 2011 Retirees!
As always we need everyone helping us to recruit new members.
There is nothing more powerful and inviting than to receive from a friend or acquaintance a personal invitation to
join a group. To date our committee has sent out or has delivered 45 invitations to those we know of who are retiring from the Portage County Schools this year. The envelope the retirees received included:
Ten additional PCRTA brochures were sent out
at the suggestion of Kathleen Eldridge, a committee representative from
Rootstown, to teachers who had retired from Rootstown Schools at an earlier time. April-May 2011 The Value of
Personal Contact
Dave Gynn, Ron Snowberger, and I met to look over some of the best practices in recruiting and retaining membership. Much of what was done in the past by the PCRTA Membership Committee has proved to be very successful. We are looking to continue many of the procedures and practices; however, the best method mentioned in recruiting new members is to make a personal contact. If you know of someone who is retiring, or who retired earlier but who has not yet joined the PCRTA, let them know about our websites www.pcrta.net, and www.orta.org. Let them know that it is important to keep our local voices heard at the state level, which is dependent upon our local membership. We are also working to find more people who are willing to help get names of retirees from the various county schools. Thus far, Kay Wise is handling Ravenna City Schools, Marge Conroy is taking care of Field Local Schools, Saroj Sutaria will handle Kent State University, Kathleen Eldridge and Betty Davis will contact Rootstown Schools, Mike Hardy will cover Kent City Schools, Carol Rudlosky will take care of Southeast Schools, and Earl Kilchenman will handle Waterloo Schools. A few other former committee members have not yet replied to my request for them to continue helping to get name lists. If you still have contacts from your school who could help, please contact me, Helena Parry, at hmparry@att.net or call 330-673-0577. The committee will soon be launching a membership drive sending or handing out a packet with our PCRTA brochure, the ORTA brochure, a letter of congratulations to newly retired teachers, and one free luncheon ticket for the PCRTA luncheon of their choice if they cannot come in September. Therefore, you see, the membership committee needs your involvement for it to be successful. WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!
January-March 2011 Membership Status
Many thanks go to Art Fesemyer who has been the past membership chairman and has worked hard to build up the number of our members. He devised the attractive membership brochure that we now use. He also built up his committee by involving one person to represent each school district. Many thanks to you, Art, for your dedicated work. Welcome to Helena Parry who will be our new Membership Chair for 2011-2012. We all need to work with her to increase our chapter membership. The future of satisfactory retirement is in the hands of our Ohio legislature. PCRTA and ORTA membership have always been an important influence on retirement legislation. A recent change in our bylaws provides that only dual membership in ORTA and PCRTA are available to new members. Current PCRTA memberships will be grandfathered. If you are a PCRTA/ORTA Life Member, thank you for your continued support. If you are a PCRTA-only Life Member, you may continue to renew your annual ORTA membership or join ORTA as a life member. If you are an annual ORTA and PCRTA Member, you may continue to renew your memberships annually for as long as you like. If you are an annual PCRTA-only Member, you may continue to renew your membership annually before December for the following year. You are encouraged to add ORTA to your membership as we are a stronger organization when we are united. If you are an Associate Member, you may continue to renew your membership by paying annual dues. Spouses or non-educators may attend luncheons as guests and do not need to become associate members or they may join PCRTA/ORTA. Say Hello to Our Newest Members!
November-December 2010 Recruiting,
Retaining, and Reclaiming Members
A big thank-you is extended to the people who served on the Membership Committee this year. The last count I received from Darlene is that we have had 50 retirees join us this year, and that we now have 469 members in PCRTA. The members of this years committee are Tom Campana, Adele Fussner, Kay Wise, Saroj Sutaria, Carol Rudlosky, Merrilu Ritz, Jane Bridge, Pat Eichler, and Earl Kilchenmann. We also received powerful assistance from David Gynn. The person who helped us the most and without whom we could not have had such a good recruiting year is our Treasurer Darlene Fetterhoff. All of Darlene's efforts and the help of the committee members are truly appreciated. Membership falls into three main areas: Recruiting new members, Retaining current members, and Reclaiming former members. We learned this year that recruiting will be increasingly difficult as it depends so much on getting the names and addresses of those teachers who are planning to retire. School secretaries are very much aware of the privacy laws and cannot cooperate fully with our organization no matter how much they might want to help. This means that our pre-retirement workshops are going to be much more important now than they have been in the past. In other years we received a list of all the school retirees who currently receive retirement checks and who reside in Portage County. We checked off the retirees who were already members of ORTA and PCRTA and then sent letters to the retired educators who had not joined. We did not get a master list this year; and it is doubtful that will get lists in the future, making it more difficult to recruit new members. The most important part of retaining members is to show them that what we do is relevant and important. It has been written often that "perception is reality" which means to me that we have to let present members know what we are accomplishing, and that they are part of it. Members can take great pride in our scholarship program, our volunteer efforts, our collecting books and purchasing writing materials for students, the monitoring tests at NEOUCOM and supporting legislative efforts; but it also means having really good meetings where important issues are discussed, with stimulating programs, and where there is time for socializing. Reclaiming members who have let their memberships expire is important. First, Darlene mails postcards to these people as a reminder, and if there is no response, the committee members start phoning. Most people do not mind being called, but with so many phone calls being made requesting funds these days, we sometimes are met with hostility. We
want to give credit to the county school delivery system, as administered by the Educational Service Center in Ravenna.
The people there cooperated fully with PCRTA. Information to the local and city schools was delivered without cost in
a timely and efficient manner, and their help is gratefully acknowledged.
September-October 2010 Help Welcome the New Retirees to PCRTA The Membership Committee is planning to invite the 62 Portage County educators who retired this year to the September meeting. We decided to send personal invitations using their home addresses. All the names are listed in this newsletter. Members who know these retirees should phone them and extend personal invitations. The new retirees will need members to greet them and make them feel welcome at our September meeting. The very attractive color brochure that the committee is using for membership was designed by Jeff Kirby, the son of a PCRTA active member, Becky Kirby. When Jeff was in Portage County this past summer for a visit, he agreed to revise the brochure to include the increase in ORTA dues. Even though there was some question about including the Associate Member payment of $5, we decided to retain it. Now it looks as though the organization may vote to eliminate this. The Ravenna Community Guide for 2010-11 arrived with the Record Courier. Listed on the cover is the price ($2.00) and the web address. Our guide was free since it was included along with the newspaper. Just about every active organization in the city is described in the booklet. It disappointed me that PCRTA was not listed. We thought that possibly this was because PCRTA is a county organization, but there are other county organizations that are listed. Next year, the Membership Committee would like to have a PCRTA descriptive paragraph in the Community Guide. Can you picture what we could include for PCRTA? We could stress that we have nearly 400 members and that meetings are held six times a year. The members are actively involved with community activities, award scholarships, enjoy fellowship, proctor tests at NEOUCOM, provide volunteer services, influence legislation, and so much more. Would this help to maintain or increase the number of members we have? It may or may not, but at least the readers would know that PCRTA exists and is very active. Philip Dusenberry wrote, "I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes..." When we set PCRTA goals for 2011, I think we should seriously consider advertising PCRTA by being included in the Community Guides. June-August 2010 Keep
Our Membership Numbers Climbing!
One of the very nice things that happened to the Membership Committee lately was to have Adele Fussner join the group. The first task Adele undertook was to phone some of the latest PCRTA members and welcome them into the association. It is so important that new members feel welcome. No one else is better suited for doing this than Adele. We want to thank Adele for volunteering to help. The most important news from ORTA is that ORTA annual dues will increase from $20 to $30 after DECEMBER 1, and life membership will increase from $300 to $500 after SEPTEMBER 1. Talk about change! This is a large increase in ORTA's dues; however, it is the first increase in ten years. We were reminded of Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, when he wrote "nothing endures but change." Or even my wife's favorite Robert Burns' quotation from To a Mouse: "The best laid schemes of mice and men aft go agley." Our original committee plan, in addition to contacting the 62 teachers who retired this year, was to concentrate our efforts on retaining our present members and to contact teachers who reside in Portage County and have not yet joined the PCRTA and to ask them to consider membership. The sudden news from ORTA about the increase in dues meant that we had to drastically revise our plans. There was not enough time to assemble the entire committee, so Helena Parry, President David Gynn, and I met and made plans for making the changes. The 62 new retirees had already received invitations to join the associations, but none were notified that there would be an increase in dues. We decided that we needed a new package of materials to be distributed to every school in the county BEFORE the start of summer vacation. In the packet for each school, we planned to include our "Ohio Major Newspapers Put Public Pensions Under Attack" collage, a copy of the latest ORTA quarterly, and posters for the bulletin boards that listed the changes in dues. We also included a letter from David Gynn with the title "Preparation for Retirement" and some of our current applications, where our current dues are listed. We also added a notice for the upcoming Pre-Retirement Workshop scheduled for October 19 at the United Methodist Church in Kent. Thanks to the cooperation of the staff at the Educational Service Center in Ravenna all the packets were delivered through their inter-school service. One has to hope that the efforts of the committee will help to maintain and even increase our membership. Art April-May 2010 The
Membership Committee and the Three R's In the mailing from PCRTA to potential members this year, we used a one-page collage containing parts of headlines and articles that have recently appeared in Ohio newspapers regarding Ohio pensions. We borrowed this idea from a mailing that went out state-wide from PERS and seemed to be effective. The headline at the top of the sheet we used screams: "Ohio Major Newspapers Put Public Pensions Under Attack." Below this headline the collage featured excerpts from The Akron Beacon Journal, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Record-Courier, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Toledo Blade, The Columbus Dispatch, The Canton Repository, and The Dayton Daily News. The message we tried to get across to potential PCRTA members is that while our pension plan is being closely examined all over Ohio, you should seriously think about joining the only organizations that represent you where it counts - in the legislative bodies. In addition to the collage, a color PCRTA membership brochure was included that emphasizes the theme: "We Need You....You Need Us." A list of services that are provided locally to members followed. This year we received some colored brochures from ORTA that answer the questions of "Why, What, Where, and When" that people ask about the organizations. President David Gynn wrote a letter that is part of the mailing too, and it begins: "Welcome to retirement and the next chapter in your life." He points out that PCRTA and ORTA are the only organizations formed to preserve and improve benefits for retired teachers. In the package of materials that we will provide for this year's retirees, we also included a copy of the most recent PCRTA newsletter. The goal of the Membership Committee is still the 3 R's: to Reclaim former members; to Retain present members; and to Recruit new members while we strive to protect and improve our STRS pensions. The members of the Committee hope that the materials we prepared this year will help to convince educators who are receiving STRS pensions that we need them and they definitely need us. Say Hello to Our Newest Members: Lynn Garver Cuyahoga Falls Schools Jerry May
Southeast Schools David Moulton
Maplewood Career Center Maryann Ray
Akron City Schools MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE GEARING UP FOR 2010 January
- March 2010 The PCRTA Membership Committee is gearing up for another year. I want to thank Jane Bridge, Tom Campana, Pat Eichler, Earl Kilchenman, Merrielu Ritz, Carol Rudlosky, Saroj Sutaria and Kay Wise for serving on the committee this year. It is really an uplifting experience when people accept this responsibility. After all, it is a voluntary position with no compensation except the feeling that you will be helping your colleagues who have retired or who will retire to a future that is secure and, hopefully, comfortable. We also have an "ex officio" member without whom we could not possibly be successful. That, of course, is our treasurer Darlene Fetterhoff. If ever there was a year when we really need to increase our membership, this is the year. All of us who benefit from the retirement system we now have should join together to show the public and the legislators that our present system is working well. It really is. We
read in our newspapers statements such as "some taxpayers are irked as they watch the guaranteed benefits of government
employees" and "government employees' pensions are guaranteed." Tom Ash, the lobbyist for the Buckeye Association
of School Administrators, claims that in private meetings legislators are seriously talking about converting our Defined Benefits
Retirement Plan to the 401K-type system. Somehow, we
have to convince the non-members who are retired and living in Portage County and drawing pensions that our strength comes
from unity, and we need them to help by joining the 388 PCRTA AND ORTA members we now have. The committee will appreciate anything you can do to convince non-members to join us
and let them know how dependent we are on legislative processes. All of us should be involved with keeping our retirement
system strong.
HOW TO GET NEW MEMBERS November-December 2009 After distributing packets of membership information to this year's retirees, the committee mailed an additional 210 letters and brochures to retirees who reside in Portage County and receive STRS pension checks. We hope that some of these will choose to join our retirement organizations. National Public Radio has a weekly program named appropriately "Science Friday." The award-winning host of the program is Ira Flatow, who keeps his listeners informed about the latest developments in science. Frequently when a guest is getting ready to leave, Flatow asks a question such as, "If you were granted unlimited funds, what would you use the money for to improve the research you are now doing?" So we have been thinking, as they say, "outside the box" for what the Membership Committee could do to increase our membership if we had a blank check. Immediately we thought about using television commercials and purchasing full-page ads in the local paper. We could hire a professional organization to phone the more than 1000 retires who reside in Portage County but are not members and invite them to join. Of course, with unlimited funds we could provide gifts and free meals, too. But realistically, we know we have to work with our budget. Merrielu Ritz, a committee member, sent me an e-mail that perhaps illustrates the most effective way to increase our membership. She wrote, "I may have found another new member, Marjorie Evans. She said she doesn't know why she never joined; perhaps no one ever asked her. She doesn't remember being asked. So I asked her and sent her an application. We'll see how this works." In this the last newsletter of the year, I want to express my thanks and appreciation to this year's committee: Jane Bridge, Tom Campana, Merrielu Ritz, Carol Rudlosky, Saroj Sutaria, and Kay Wise for their efforts. Additionally all of us are grateful for the help we received this year from our treasurer, Darlene Fetterhoff. Even though it is a little depressing to realize how many potential members reside in Portage County and haven't chosen to join the retirement organizations, we still have to live with hope and will keep trying. Welcome New Members! Judy Bills Ravenna
City Schools
Joe Huber Streetsboro City Schools Joseph Kocian Shaker Heights Schools Bonnie Oliver Maplewwod Career Center Orlando Reyes Associate Member Rose Mary Reyes Carolyn Scherer Associate Member Welcome to the Retiring Class of 2009
AURORA
CITY SCHOOLS- Linda Arnold, Becky Bell, Renee Caninoti, Sarah Hillyer, Deborah Rogers All new 2009 teacher retirees are invited to attend the September luncheon as our guests! They all received letters, brochures, and a copy of the last newsletter, but they won't get a copy of this newsletter...so how will they know? Personal contact is the best way to enlist new members. If you know one or two of these people, give them a call and invite them to come to the luncheon. If they say yes, include them on your reservation form, pick them up and bring them along. Like Ray says, if everyone just does a little part, we can really grow our association. You don't have to be on the membership committee to be on the PCRTA membership team...we're all on the same team! So...pick up your phone and give someone a call! June-July 2009 We
are always looking for reasons to induce new retirees to join our organizations. There is one reason that does not apply
to all retired teachers, but it does affect a sizable number, more than we had suspected. We have had complaints
not only from STRS members but also from PERS retirees who also worked under the social security program. They feel
that the legislation that reduces their Social Security payments just because they are part of a public retirement system
is grossly unfair. April-May 2009
Many thanks to the following members who have volunteered to be on the Membership Committee this year: Jane
Bridge, Tom Campana, Adele Fussner, Merrielu Ritz, Carol Rudlosky, Saroj Sutaria, Gordon Weber, and Kay Wise. We are always looking for reasons to induce new retirees to join our organizations. There
is one reason that does not apply to all retired teachers, but it does affect a sizable number, more than we had
suspected. We have had complaints not only from STRS members but also from PERS retirees who also worked under the social
security program. They feel that the legislation that reduces their Social Security payments just because they are part
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