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Programs are offered monthly September through June, including a picnic in June and an annual banquet in April.
Other examples include:
Discussions of University programs
Local cultural and civic activities
Tours of University buildings
A yearly presentation by Staff Benefits on health insurance
options for retirees
UIRA's annual flu shot clinic

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UIRA Potluck Picnic (Tuesday, June 16, 2009)
UI to Host Big Ten Retirees In August (August 14-16, 2009)

UIRA Potluck Picnic (Tuesday, June 16, 2009)

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.

UI to Host Big Ten Retirees In August (August 14-16, 2009)

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.


 

 
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