Indiana Retired Teachers Foundation Scholarships

The Indiana Retired Teachers Foundation is offering eight scholarships in 2014. One scholarship will be awarded for each area of the state. In August, 2013, the scholarship amount granted for each area was $2,000. The scholarships are available for education majors at an Indiana college or university entering their junior or senior year. Students must be an Indiana resident.

As well, the student must be a son/daughter, grandson/granddaughter, or a legal dependent of an active or retired member of the Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund. Membership in the Indiana Retired Teachers Association is not a prerequisite for consideration.

The guidelines and application can be found on Indiana Retired Teachers Association website: http://www.retiredteachers.org. The application can be downloaded from the front page.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JANUARY 31, 2014.

August 17 AREA Meeting

WHEN: AUGUST 17, 2013 11:00 A.M.

WHERE: PINE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB


Please come to help us honor the Area 2 Scholarship Winner since she is from Fort Wayne! We haven't had a Scholarship Winner in some time!

We also will be paying our respects to the AREA educators who have passed away during the past year with our Necrology Service.

Area 2 Director Carol Larson will be updating us on IRTA and changes being made.

Carol Buttell will give a brief report on good new ideas gained at the July chapter presidents' workshop.
Come see "old" friends and meet some new ones! Bring a new guest!

You'll have some tasty menu choices!

We're looking forward to seeing you!

If you haven’t made your reservation, call Mary Jo Purvis @ 493-4263 or e-mail her: mpurvis1@frontier.com

Contact Legislators

Members and Friends of the Indiana Retired Teachers Association:

• There are several hundred retired teachers in Indiana who taught for at least twenty years and retired before 1980 who get less than $500 in their monthly pension.
• They spent their lives working for the children and youth of Indiana
• They retired before the large inflationary boom of the 1980's that saw increases in salaries.
• Without the COLAs over past years, they would have lost all the purchasing power that was originally in their pension.
• In July, the estimated total cost to give a minimum pension of $500.00 to these retired teachers was $4.8 million.
• Even though most of us will not benefit from this, we are asking this for our oldest, beloved colleagues.

We hope that you will contact your legislators to ask that the legislature put this $500.00 minimum benefit back into the 2013-2014 budget.

In writing to your legislator, please remember to be courteous. We feel strongly about this issue, but they have hundreds of constituents asking for many things, most of which involve money. A written note would be best, but you can find the e-mail address by going to the link:
http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/legislative/contact/contact.pl.

Both Senators and Representative should be addressed as The Honorable (name).
Letters can be sent to:
The Honorable _____
The Indiana General Assembly
200 W. Washington Street,
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Thank you for helping us with this most important issue.
Nancy Tolson
Indiana Retired Teachers Association
Executive Director

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