The 2009 UIRA Potluck Picnic is to be held on
Tuesday, June 16, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the
Northridge Pavilion, 2250 Holiday Road, in Coralville’s
Northridge Park. The Association will provide chicken, table service,
and your choice of lemonade, iced tea, or ice water. Bring your
favorite potluck dish – enough to serve four – and
come for good food and good fellowship with your friends, old
and new.
The Pavilion can be reached by taking the marked entrance on
the south side of Holiday Road – careful, it looks like
an alley entrance or bike path! A short road will lead you to
the Pavilion’s parking lot. (The entrance is located on
Holiday Road between Parkway Drive on the east, and a large apartment
complex on the west.) Other parking is available at the Community
of Christ Church, located at the south end of Southridge Drive,
a short walking distance from the Pavilion.
The registration fee for all three days is $125.00, which
covers all meals the reception and dinner on Friday; breakfast,
lunch and dinner on Saturday; and breakfast and a box lunch on
Sunday. The
registration form, due no later than July 31, 2009, is available
online here.
If you cannot attend the entire meeting, but would like to
attend one or more of the sessions with meals, please remit the
amount specified on the reservation form. UIRA members may attend
non-meal sessions without reservations.
The Planning Committee for the meeting of Big Ten Retirees
Associations will need help with staffing the registration table
on Friday, August 14, in the Iowa House Lobby from 3:30 p.m. to
5:00 p.m. If you can assist with this task, please contact Katherine
Belgum.
The University of Iowa Retirees Association and the Emeritus
Faculty Council will co-host the 2009 Meeting of Big Ten Retirees
Associations on the UI campus August 14-16. With exception of
the campus tour on Saturday afternoon, UIRA and Council members
are encouraged to attend all or part of the conference. Local
members attending events will not be charged the registration
fee, but will need to pay for any meals they attend. The June
issue of The Gray Hawk will include meal costs and information
about registering.
The conference theme is "The Big Ten and Its Academic Counterpart:
The
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)." Registration
will begin late
Friday afternoon in the Iowa House Lobby.
Friday evening's events at the Big Ten Retirees Associations’
2009 Meeting will include a reception in the Wyrick Rotunda and
dinner in the Green Assembly Hall of the Levitt Center. UI Provost
Wallace Loh is scheduled to welcome the group and speak briefly
before dinner. The Tempered Brass will provide musical entertainment
after the meal.
The Saturday morning session in the Morse Board Room of the
Levitt Center will focus on the theme of the conference. President
Sally Mason will open the meeting, followed by presentations by
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney and CIC Executive Director Barbara
Allen. After the break, Emeritus Professor Sam Becker will lead
a discussion by the entire body on "The Relationship of the
Retirees Associations to the Big Ten and the CIC." After
lunch, Rod Lehnertz, UI Director of Design and Construction, will
give a slide presentation on the effects of the flood on the UI
campus. A tour of the campus for the out-of-town guests will follow
his presentation. Dinner Saturday night will be in the South Room
of the Iowa Memorial Union with music by the Soul Friends Jazz
Trio.
The program on Sunday morning will have two parts. The first is
on
Senior College type activities. Emeritus Professor Laird Addis
will give a
brief presentation about teaching in the program. Representatives
from
each retiree association will then have an opportunity to share
information
on the types of classes and activities provided their members.
Following
the morning break, participants will describe their association's
activities
during the past year and the challenges facing their group. The
meeting
will end at noon with a box lunch.
Discussions
of University programs