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July 2022

*President's Message
2022 Virtual Summit

*UCLA & USC: Football Rivals,
Retirement Collaborators

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*Tell Us Your Story
*About AROHE

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Since 2002, AROHE has supported campus–based retirement organizations because we know that these organizations increase retirees' value to their schools, communities, and professions.

As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we will recognize and honor many who played vital roles in AROHE's development and who continue to make significant contributions to the organization and to retirees across North America.

This 20^th anniversary issue of AROHE Matters showcases the USC Emeriti Center, the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, and the Clemson University Emeriti Center, three of the early AROHE member organizations that helped to develop AROHE and to share their successful practices with retirement organizations across the United States. This issue also highlights some of the innovative programs of five other AROHE member organizations: the Skidmore College Retiree Initiative Group, the Winona State University Retiree Center, the Kwantlan Polytechnic University Retirees Association, the University of Minnesota Retirees Association, and the Georgetown University Association of Retired Faculty and Staff.

In the next two months, we will be highlighting other retirement organizations and people that played important roles in AROHE’s early years and who have continued to make significant contributions to the organization and to retirees in academia.

AROHE will celebrate its 20th Anniversary with a virtual summit, “CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF INNOVATION IN RETIREMENT ORGANIZATIONS.” Please take two minutes to watch my personal video invitation to participate on September 22, 2022.

Best Wishes,

Bill Verdini

AROHE Virtual Summit & 20th Anniversary Celebration

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EDT

As we celebrate AROHE’s 20th anniversary and recognize its founders and milestones, the AROHE Virtual Summit 2022 will explore innovative ways that retirement organizations can promote the wisdom and experience of retired faculty and staff. The summit will kick off with an engaging fireside chat to inform us about successful models of engagement and encourage us to create the future we envision for academic retirees.

The discussion will be led by Paul Irving, senior fellow at the Milken Institute, founding chair of its Center for the Future of Aging and distinguished scholar-in-residence at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. The conversation will be moderated by Helen Dennis, nationally recognized columnist, author, and speaker on issues of aging and the new retirement.

Both Mr. Irving and Ms. Dennis are highly respected experts in the field of positive aging and are recognized for their innovative leadership and contributions. Join them as they discuss the upside of aging, purpose and possibilities as we age, ideas for dispelling ageism, the merits of intergenerational engagement, and more.

This interactive conversation will engage the audience in stretching our imaginations and challenging us to generate ideas and solutions to bring back to our organizations and colleges/universities. You will receive cutting edge, up-to-the-minute information and resources to promote and improve our service to retired faculty and staff.

To further engage our attendees, Mr. Irving will provide links to a range of "must read" articles in the fields of aging, encore contributions, and intergenerational opportunities. Read more about Mr. Irving

Ms. Dennis will offer her latest “top 10” list of recommended books. Read more about Ms. Dennis.

Do you have questions you would like our speaker and moderator to address? If yes, email info@arohe.org to submit your questions or comments by July 29.

Registration for AROHE’s 2022 Virtual Summit and 20th Anniversary Celebration is now open. Register by September 2, 2022 to receive an information packet by mail.

Registration fees:

• AROHE members: $30 per person*
• Canadian AROHE members: $25 per person*
• Non-Members: $50 per person

*Anyone affiliated with an AROHE member organization is eligible for the member price. List of AROHE member organizations.

See details on the Summit webpage.

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AROHE would like to thank the USC Emeriti Center for its generous sponsorship of the 2022 AROHE Virtual Summit and 20th Anniversary Celebration.

Eddie Murphy, UCLA, and Janette Brown, USC, co-hosting an AROHE conference

UCLA & USC: Football Rivals, Retirement Collaborators

Elaine Fox, president, UCLARA, and Sue Barnes, executive director, AROHE

This year, AROHE is recognizing and celebrating 20 years of collaboration among North American colleges and universities who engage with their retired faculty and staff. Two institutions, USC and UCLA, may have a legendary crosstown football rivalry, but these campuses serve retirees as collaborators rather than competitors.

We had the opportunity to speak to Janette Brown, executive director of the USC Temeriti Center, and Eddie Murphy, retired director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center (ERRC). We asked Janette and Eddie about their earliest memories of AROHE and the roles USC and UCLA played in that development.

Eddie lauded Marian Broome, the founding director of the UCLA Emeriti Center and an early organizer of AROHE. Marian came to UCLA from The International Society of Retirement Planners in 1967.Chancellor Chuck Young tasked Marian with creating a department to provide guidance to retired professors. In 1969, The UCLA Emeriti Center opened as the first such center in the nation. In 1982, the center began serving retired staff as well as faculty and the name was changed to UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center.

In AROHE’s early years, Marian collaborated with Dr. Paul Hadley from USC, who Eddie called a “prince of a man.” Dr. Hadley was the driving force for AROHE’s establishment. He was an academic who had the vision to collaborate with other institutions of higher education to exchange ideas and support the transition from active research and teaching to retirement. Janette met Paul Hadley in 2005 when she began working at the USC Emeriti Center. “Paul was extraordinary in his vision for AROHE and for the USC Emeriti Center,” said Janette.

The UCLA/USC connection continued after Eddie succeeded Marian and Janette succeeded Paul. Janette remembered, “Eddie Murphy mentored me when I was first hired. She and the UC Berkeley Retirement Center Director Shelley Glazer provided salary and budget information that motivated our provost to increase funding to the Emeriti Center.”

USC and UCLA have been major influences in AROHE and models for AROHE members. Eddie remembered four main contributions the ERRC promoted…initiatives that UCLA shared with AROHE members:

• UCLA was the first academic institution to collaborate with Belmont Senior Living to establish a retirement community near campus, thus creating a model for collaboration with senior living services throughout the nation.
• UCLA developed a survey asking retirees about “life after retirement." This developed into a regularly occurring survey of retirees from all UC locations.
• UCLA successfully lobbied the UC Regents to recognize all UC retired faculty and retired staff associations as official UC affiliates, like alumni associations.

Janette offered some contributions the USC Emeriti Center made to support AROHE and all retiree organizations in higher education:

• The Center hosts the AROHE office, providing in-kind services, and supported AROHE with volunteer executive directors, Betty Redmon (2002-2004) and Janette Brown (2005-2019), as well as student workers.
• The Center staff supported and managed the 2008 AROHE conference with help from Eddie Murphy and the UCLA ERRC.
• The Center shared information about emeriti college best practices, the USC Living History Video Project, the Trojan Encore work/volunteer project, and other programs and initiatives throughout the years.

Janette is still leading the USC Emeriti Center and Ayesha Dixon has taken the helm at the UCLA ERRC. Janette and Ayesha continue to work in partnership and are proud to be “cross town rivals” collaborating together to further opportunities for retirees across North America.

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Suzanne/John Morse, Judy/Charlie White enjoy a Clemson Emeritus College event

Clemson Emeritus College/AROHE Connections

Lucy Eubanks, Clemson Emeritus College

Clemson University Emeritus College (CUEC) and AROHE connections date back to the founding of the Emeritus College in 2003, shortly after the founding of AROHE in 2002. We have learned from the other members of AROHE but also have shared our practices and blueprints for success.

Our programming is constantly evolving and we have successfully weathered the challenges brought by the pandemic. We have heard the provost describe Clemson’s Emeritus College as the best in the country, and we are very grateful for his enthusiastic support! He uses the Emeritus College in his recruitment of new faculty to demonstrate his commitment to faculty for the duration of their Clemson experience through retirement.

CUEC members administer English proficiency tests to students

Our relationship with AROHE has brought us considerable recognition within the University including the recognition of our language program serving international graduate students. This program was given one of the three inaugural Innovation Awards presented by AROHE in 2018.

The success of our language program led to the University’s addition of a fulltime university position to grow and institutionalize the program that the emeritus faculty and college had initiated.

CUEC member enthusiasm for AROHE has been stoked by active involvement in the organization:

• Our members enthusiastically participate in AROHE national conferences. We are pleased that ten of our members participated and many gave presentations at the virtual conference in October 2021. 
• We often have responded to requests for articles in AROHE Matters and have enjoyed the interactions that result. 
  
• Several members have served in leadership roles with AROHE in the last ten years, including:
• Lucy Rollin, past board secretary
• Larry Gahan, past board member
• Hoke Hill, current board member 
• Lucy Eubanks, past board secretary and CUEC liaison to AROHE

For further information, please contact our director, Debra Jackson, 864-656-3990.

AROHE Member Organization Highlights

Whether long-established or newly formed, AROHE member organizations contribute to their campuses and communities in myriad ways. The AROHE member organizations below are just a few of the many that strive to help their retirees remain active and engaged in community life, whether simply for pleasure or for purpose. Visit their websites or email the contacts listed below to learn more.

Skidmore College Retiree Initiative Group

Susan Kress, skress@skidmore.edu

The Retiree Initiative Group is an informal group at Skidmore College, a small liberal arts college in the state of New York. The group facilitates many activities, including:

• hosting events, including one to introduce the new college president.
• advocating for retirees as appropriate.
• offering competitive grants to faculty and staff.
• conducting and preserving interviews with retired faculty and staff.
• continuing to build a library with items of interest to retirees.

Individual retirees contribute in many ways, including:

• serving on the college’s campaign committee and the new president’s inauguration committee.
• facilitating a discussion group on race and racism.
• serving on the community’s police reform task force.
• serving on many local, regional and national boards of non-profits.

The Winona State University (WSU) Retiree Center

Jessica Kauphusman, jkauphusman@winona.edu

The Winona State University Retiree Center is a campus-funded center established in 2005 at WSU in Minnesota. Major activities include:

• establishing an endowed scholarship fund for non-traditional students.
• offering Senior University classes, learning club, and Grandparents University.
• coordinating a Living History Video Project.
• offering many events, including outings & the Socrates Café discussion group.

• awarding more than 175 individual retiree scholarships each year.
• making generous financial donations to WSU.
• volunteering – more than 65% of WSU retirees volunteer in some capacity.
• continuing research, teaching, and mentoring activities.
• serving on committees and offering their institutional knowledge and memory.

University of Minnesota Retirees Association

Jan Morlock and Jerry Rinehart, g-rine@umn.edu

With nearly 800 members,the University of Minnesota Retirees Association (UMRA) offers many programs for intellectual stimulation and social engagement, and through the University Retirees Volunteer Center (URVC), promotes a variety of opportunities to be of service to others. Major initiatives include:

• developing a volunteer database and tracking hours; 7,000+ hours of service last year.
• identifying, coordinating, and communicating volunteer opportunities.
• providing mentors for the Undergraduate Research Scholar recipients.
• partnering with the student affairs office to include retirees on restorative justice panels addressing student academic misconduct.
• providing individual tutors for students in the Minnesota English Language Program (MELP).
• creating departmental/unit liaison teams to increase awareness of UMRA and identify volunteer opportunities.
• recruiting retirees to participate in health sciences and other research projects.
• partnering with the UM Alumni Association on a “Month of Service” project.
• supporting participation in the Age-Friendly University initiative.

Kwantlan Polytechnic University Retirees Association

Roger Elmes, mcroger@shaw.ca and Alice Macpherson, alicemac@telus.net

The Kwantlan Polytechnic University Retirees Association (KPURA) is a relatively new organization established in 2017 in British Columbia, Canada. They offer a variety of social and educational programs. One of their signature service projects is their KPU Oral History Project. The project is:

• capturing the development of Kwantlen from its 1970 creation as part of a two-year college, its split to a separate institution and evolution to a four-year university college and ultimately a university.
• conducting 50+ interviews of faculty, staff, administrators, students, and board members.
• transcribing the audio tapes and submitting them to the KPU archives.

Georgetown University Association of Retired Faculty and Staff

Suzanne Bronheim, bronheis@georgetown.edu

The Georgetown University Association of Retired Faculty and Staff (GUARFS), established in 2001, offers social and educational activities such as luncheon meetings and outings and awards research grants. One of their main emphases is on lifelong learning which includes:

• offering a wide variety of non-credit mini-classes taught by volunteer retired faculty, usually six per semester, on topics such as politics, art, literature, and science. Recent courses have included: Exoplanets, the Habitable Zone, and Greenhouse Warming, Psalms of Lamentation: Dealing with Suffering, Gabriel García Márquez and Magical Realism, Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust (Shoah), and The Grimms’ Magic Tales.
• supporting the university's community outreach efforts by engaging the community in the intellectual life of the Georgetown.

Come Join Us in Transforming Retirement

Since 2002 AROHE has supported both institutions and individuals by transforming the experience of retirement – the preparation, the transition, and post-retirement programming – into a smooth and productive life-course change.

To renew, join or learn more, visit arohe.org or contact AROHE by emailing info@arohe.org or calling (213) 740-5037.

Tell Us Your Story

October is Estate Planning Month, so the September issue of AROHE Matters will focus on financial planning topics. Tell us about your programs to help pre-retirees and retirees plan for their financial future. Submit your story of 200 words or less by August 12 to AROHE Matters Editor Patrick Cullinane, pcullinane@berkeley.edu.

About AROHE

AROHE's mantra is "Transforming Retirement."

AROHE is a nonprofit association that champions transformative practices to support all stages of faculty and staff retirement, their mutually beneficial engagement, and continuing contributions to their academic institutions. By sharing research, innovative ideas, and successful practices, AROHE emphasizes the development and enhancement of campus-based retiree organizations and programs which support this continuing engagement in higher education.

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