Dear Allen County Retired Educators,
Our second of four annual meetings will be held on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, at
UMI Fort Wayne
2912 Getz Rd (near the corner of Getz and W. Jefferson)
There is an elevator inside the main entrance to take you down to the banquet room and adjacent restrooms. We will begin our meeting promptly at 11:00 a.m. Please arrive by 10:45 a.m. to check in and pay for your lunch.
Please make your reservations with MARY JO PURVIS at: 260-492-6992 or mpurvis1@frontier.com by OCTOBER 12th. We will be enjoying a delicious family style luncheon with appetizers and three main courses. Your lunch will cost $15.00 payable when you arrive (cash or check only please). If you are a 2017 retired teacher or administrator, and you are a first time attendee, your meal is FREE. Members who bring a nonmember retiree, attending the first time, will get a TWO-FOR-ONE deal for lunch. Let Mary Jo know this when you make your reservation.
The program for the meeting is a Legislative Panel, arranged and moderated by our Vice-President Mike Caywood. At the time of this printing the following legislators will be attending: Senators Liz Brown and Dennis Kruse and Representatives Martin Carbaugh and Phil GiaQuinta. AREA members will be able to submit questions on a notecard available at the registration table. The notecards will be collected and the questions will be presented to the legislative panel for discussion by the moderator, after each legislator has an opportunity to make a brief introductory statement. In order to get the most questions answered, discussion will be limited to questions on the notecards. Come prepared to get your education, retiree related, and general legislative questions answered!
Our new 2017-2018 Membership Directory will be available at this meeting. It is free to all paid members, or it can be sent to you for an additional $2.00 mailing fee. On pages 3 and 4 of the directory is the annual information for submitting VOLUNTEER HOURS FOR 2017. This information is important to present to our legislators to show our community worth and lobby for COLA. Send your total hours collated by "youth" and "adult" to Judy Nancarrow by December 1 at 1842 Alabama Ave., Fort Wayne, 46805 or to judy.nancarrow@hotmail.com. Let's be the top volunteer chapter in Indiana!
If you have not yet paid your 2017-18 AREA DUES OF $15.00, contact Pam George at: 471-5952, pamgeorgeph@comcast.net or 6316 Tree Top Trail, Fort Wayne, 46845. She also has IRTA information. Please consider joining IRTA through automatic dues deduction from your TRF pension. Support is greatly needed to impact change.
Remaining meetings:
Monday, April 16, 2018 – Biaggi's Ristoranté – Program: Dan Wire – Fort Wayne Rivers
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 – Pine Valley Country Club – Program: Cynthia Thies – Lesser Known First Ladies 1865-1892
Kathy Lepper, President
