I asked the President
who worked with
Bob
Kully for
fully
half of his
service
as Executive Director
to prepare a
resolution that
will appear on the front page of the
next issue of
The
Reporter. Bob Maurer of
Cal State Chico was asked to read
his resolution aloud at our recent
State Council meeting, after which
it
was approved
unanimously
by the State Council. Members
voiced their gratitude for
his dedicated
cooperation with
individual
members who sometimes needed help in
coping with the large bureaucracy
that the
CSU
has become.
It is true serendipity that in July
2007 the Executive Committee
established a personnel committee to
deal with staff issues. This
committee is preparing
a
job description and will soon
forward announcements of the vacancy
and seek
applications.
It
will make a recommendation to the
Executive Committee which will, in
turn, recommend a new Executive
Director to the State Council,
surely by the April 2008 meeting.
Please watch for announcements and
if you don’t apply then urge a
colleague to do so.
We are
especially
fortunate that Don Cameron
of CSUN,
who has recently spent
countless
hours in the office as Treasurer,
has accepted appointment as
Acting Executive Director
so
good order
is assured
during this recruitment.
This is just
one
more reason to log on frequently to
the splendid website compiled by
Mark Shapiro of CSU Fullerton. He
and his recent associate Steve
Gregorich of CSU Sacramento add
valuable information about higher
education and retirement
on an almost daily basis. It merits
daily viewing!
As he moved from Secretary of
CSU-ERFA to Archivist
and delivered boxes of papers to the
CSU Archives,
Judson Grenier of Cal State
Dominguez Hills
was impressed by the accomplishments
of CSU-ERFA during its brief
lifetime. He
sagely remarked that
"We
do so much to protect retirees'
benefits and opportunities that the
monthly fees are absurd -- a
pittance compared to what people pay
lawyers, insurance companies, banks,
tax advisors, etc."
He insisted that we must actively
communicate to retiring faculty "exactly
what we do for them."
"Reviewing
Sidney Albert's papers has brought
home to me the vital role that the AEP
and the CSU-ERFA
(both
of which he founded)
played in winning local campus
privileges for retirees
that are
guaranteed by the CSU Board of
Trustees,
and stimulating the granting of
other retiree benefits through
inter-campus shared precedent, as
well as gaining representation on
the state Academic Senate, which
guarantees that
emeriti won't be ignored. We must
constantly
emphasize
these two vital functions and
accomplishments: 1. winning and
preserving a place for emeriti on
their own and other campuses,
and
2. fighting to preserve their
intellectual and financial heritage
within the CSU and the state."
(The AEP was the Association of
Emeriti Professors, which preceded
CSU-ERFA.)
"Retirees cannot afford
not to join CSU-ERFA."
Judson Grenier is a
splendid
example of an historian who seeks to
influence the future
by clarifying
the past.
The Executive Committee proudly
joins him in this worthy endeavor in
behalf of our retired colleagues.
