February, 2010
Dear Fellow Retired Teachers,
It is a privilege and an honor to serve another term as your president. Please mark the four meetings on your calendars. We are attempting to notify all of you of the meetings, but if you don’t get a call or an email, please understand that you are welcome. We only ask that you call for a reservation so that we have enough food. Spouses and teacher friends are always welcome as well.
We also want to invite all of our active colleagues to our July meeting. We will try and inform them through an announcement before school ends, and we will have information on the WEB site. However a personal invitation is the best! Retired educator, David Speas, is going to speak at the July meeting. His talk is about wolves and their relationship to domestic dogs. He has a puppy that he will bring along. This talk comes highly recommended by other groups who have heard it.
We have three other excellent programs lined up. One will be about travel including the new airport rules. Another is on crime prevention. And finally, a music program by one of our schools.
Much is happening at our retirement headquarters in Columbus and we will keep you well informed about all of this. Carol Bertholf, Legislative Chair, travels to Columbus to observe STRS-Ohio board meetings nearly every month, and will have a first hand report at each meeting. She is also our WEB master and has placed lots of information on the site. Check it out at , or go to the ORTA WEB site and click on the Richland County link.
Last year our meetings were well attended, and we hope to do even better this year. Be sure to make your reservations as we look forward to seeing you.
Mary Thomas, President 2010-2012