Connecticut State Conference
American Association of University Professors
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 10:00 AM
The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy
Norwich, CT.
A guided tour of the permanent collection at the museum and special exhibit featuring
A Vision of Connecticut: Remembering Paul Zmmerman.
Lunch and meeting to follow at the Mona Lisa Restaurant, Norwich, CT.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:00 noon to 2:00- PM.
A presentation by Elsa Nunez, Ph.D., President, ECSU
"How the State Universities are Dealing with the Current Fiscal Crisis"
The Johnson Room, J. Eugene Smith Library, ECSU, Willimantic, CT.
Brief business meeting to follow.
President: Timothy Killeen (2008-2010)
Killeen3@charter.net
Vice President: Eli Dabora (2008-2010)
Dabora@sbcglobal.net
Secretary: Jane Knox (2009-2011)
jane.knox@uconn.edu
Treasuer: Richard P. Wurst (2009-2011)
rpwurst@comcast.net
State Conference Liaison: Morton Tenzer
m.tenzer@sbcglobal.net
Membership chair and Newsletter Editor::
Timothy Killeen
Killeen3@charter.net
Nominating Committee Chair:
Morton Tenzer
m.tenzer@sbcglobal.net
THE SLATER MEMORIAL MUSEUM
108 Crescent Street
Norwich, CT 06320
Telephone (860) 887-2506
Located on the campus of Norwich Free Academy, the Slater Museum awakens visitors to the richness and diversity of the human experience through art and history. For more than one hundred years, the Museum has displayed and interpreted the best examples of fine and decorative art, representing a broad range of world cultures of the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Dedicated in 1888 and housed in a stunning Romanesque Revival building, the Slater's local collection represents 300 years of Norwich history. Included are 18th - 20th century American paintings and decorative arts, including contemporary Connecticut crafts, 17th - 19th century European paintings and decorative arts, African and Oceanic sculpture, Native American objects, and a plaster cast collection of Egyptian, Archaic, Greek, Roman and Renaissance sculpture. The adjacent Converse Art Gallery hosts six changing exhibitions throughout the year.
A VISION OF CONNECTICUT:REMEMBERING PAUL ZIMMERMAN
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 - NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Paul Warren Zimmerman (1921-2007) was an internationally known artist and professor emeritus of the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford.
Throughout his extensive career, Paul received well over 86 awards in both regional and national exhibitions. His numerous landscape paintings are fantasies of every season; the work is exuberant approachable and engaging, drawing the viewer ever closer. Every Zimmerman tells its own story.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
How the State Universities are Dealing with the Current Fiscal Crisis
A Presentation by
Dr. Elsa Nunez, President
Eastern Connecticut State University
Buffet Lunch and Presentation 12 noon to 2:00
The Johnson Room
J. Eugene Smith Library
A brief business meeting will follow.
The cost of the lunch is $13 pp and will consist of tossed salad, gourmet sandwich buffet, chips, cookies, brownies, assorted sodas, and coffee service. If you wish to attend, please write a check, fill out and submit the registration form on the facing page of the print newsletter or use the form available from this site: Reservations.
Directions to the J. Eugene Smith Library:
From Hartford: Take I-84 east and go onto I-384 when it divides off. Take Route 6 east when I-384 ends, Follow Route 6 to Willimantic and stay on 6 when it becomes limited access. Exit at the High Street exit and turn right onto High Street. ECSU will soon be on your right. Turn (right) into the second entrance and the Library will be on your left. There should be plenty of parking in the area, if not by the Library, then by the Gelsi-Young Administration Building on your right.
From Southeast Connecticut: Take Route 32 into Willimantic. Turn right onto Windham Street (Dairy Queen is on the fat right corner). Go two blocks and turn right onto Prospect Street. Then one block and a left onto High street. ECSU is on your left. Turn (left) into the first entrance and proceed as above.
Problems? Call Tim’s cell 860-428-2321
Emeritus Assembly of Connecticut Information
WHAT are we?: Officially, we are the Emeritus Assembly of the Connecticut State Conference of the American Association of University Professors, Inc. Unofficially, we are a group of retired college/university faculty, librarians and other academic professionals which usually meets four times each academic year to learn and to enjoy each others company.
WHEN do we meet?: We meet 2 times in the fall, October &; November, and 2 times in the spring, April & May. The fall meetings tend to be "issue oriented" and have comprised such topics as retirement and/or health care issues, recent changes in the law that affect out members, public opinion of higher education, future directions & trends in higher education, public polling techniques, etc. The spring meetings tend to be "cultural events", such as visits to various museums, displays of items of historical interest, attendance at musical performances, etc. Visits to gardens, talks on travel experiences, presentations on ecological issues and disaster relief have been suggested.
WHERE do we meet?: The meeting sites vary with the theme of the meeting. They have included such venues as the Legislative Office Building (Hartford), various campuses, Museums, restaurants, etc. The schedule and themes of the meetings is set by the Executive Committee in the spring or summer before the program year begins. Assembly members are invited to make suggestions on themes and places to be considered for the schedule.
WHO can be a member?: Any retired college or university faculty member is welcome to join. Spouses are welcome to accompany members at meetings.
WHY was the Assembly formed? (November 3, 1986): To promote the social and professional interests and general welfare of emeritus professors of institutions of higher learning in Connecticut." It continues because it comprises people who, though retired, are still interested in learning about events and issues that may affect them and their active faculty colleagues, who like to attend cultural events, and who enjoy socializing with other emeritus faculty.
Interested in joining us? Please contact our Membership Chairperson, Tim Killeen.
Email address: Killeen@charter.net.
Submitted by Richard P. Wurst June, 2006
EMERITUS ASSEMBLY, CSC-AAUP
This is a brief account from cecilia Welna of the variety of programs that have served the members of the Emeritus Assembly, AAUP Connecticut Conference well since the assembly was founded twenty years ago in 1986. For her commentaries on the programs in the past, please go to LookBack at our test site: http://www.geocities.com/aaupctem.
A SAMPLER
by Cecilia Welna
The American Association of University Professors, Emeritus Assembly, Connecticut Conference makes available to its members a variety of most interesting political, cultural, education and travel meetings. In addition, information is provided which deals with health issues, medicare changes, retirement, pensions, social security.
Following is a birdseye view of selected topics of actual meetings held:
CULTURAL: The Mark Twain Museum; The New Britain Museum of American Art; American Clock Museum; the New Britain Symphony Orchestra; Hillstead Museum; Florence Griswold Museum; the Museum of American Political Life at the University of Hartford; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center; Mattatuck Museum; Freeman Center for East Asian Studies; The Noah Webster House; the Goodspeed Opera House; Yale Center for British Art.
EDUCATION:Public Perception about Higher Education; Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education; Status of Higher Education in Connecticut; Connecticut Academy for Education in Math and Science; Experimentation and Innovation in Teaching in Higher Education.
PERSONAL ISSUES: Legislation Affecting Seniors; New Medicare Rules; Geriatrics and Gerontology; Are Pensions Safe in Connecticut; Assisted Living; State Benefits and the Patients' Bill of Rights; Health, Pensions and Social Security; TIAA-CREF Retirement Planning Issues; Tenure Issues; Tax Planning for Retired Professors; Keeping Active in Later Years; Rights and Privileges of Retired Faculty in Public and Private Colleges and Universities; Insurance and Health Care.
POLITICAL: Quinnipiac Polling Studies; Role of Roper Center in Social Inquiry.
TRAVEL: The Russian Far East.
The focus of this edition of the Newsletter is aimed at getting the attention of those academics that have recently retired from the State of Connecticut. We, the Emeritus Assembly of the Connecticut State Conference of the American Association of University Professors, would like you to join our ranks. We offer an avenue for you to comfortably continue and expand your educational horizons and collegial connections after retirement. Information about the nature of the organization and our past and future activities is detailed within the pages of this document. Our yearly dues are minimal ($10.00) and we meet twice in the fall and twice in the spring of each year
I would like to invite you to our fall events, even if you are not sure that you will join our organization at this time. The specifics of these events are inside this issue. Just send in the registration form with any necessary payment.
If you have any questions about the organization please call or email me (860-423-2886 klleen3@charter.net). I am looking forward to hearing from each of you.
Sincerely,
Timothy J. Killeen
Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut
President, Emeritus Assembly of Connecticut