UW‐Green Bay Retiree Association
Board of Directors’ Meeting
Minutes
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
ES 307
Attendance
Jim Wiersma (president), Tracy Heaser, Frank Madzarevic, George O’Hearn, Pat Przybelski, Jane Rank,
Chuck Rhyner, Ron Stieglitz
Excused: Gary Mach, Roger Vanderperren, Lee Schwartz
The meeting was called to order at 9:15 a.m.
Approval of Minutes
The minutes of November 13, 2012, were approved without change.
Appointment of Committee Chair
Jane Rank has agreed to be chair of the Service Committee as well as the Oral History Project Committee.
Oral History Committee Report
Jane thanked the Board for the opportunity to speak at the October retiree dinner. The Advancement Office
has given the Committee $1500 and the Chancellor $1800. This money will be used to transcribe interviews
at $150 each; 8 have already been completed with a hope of completing 20 by August. The Committee goal
is to get outside funding. We want to make interviews accessible to everyone. Jane has finished interviews
with Introduction to Environmental Science and she is working on the Cofrin Arboretum. The Committee
wants to tie into the University’s 50th anniversary in some way. We will need publicity. Tracy said a
committee has already been put together for this purpose, and we should request that a member of the Board
be on that committee.
Website Changes
Pat brought rewrites to review for updates on the website for the Oral History Project and Scholarship
Awards.
Shorewood Thank You
The Board received a thank you from the Shorewood Club. It was signed by all employees who worked at
the September Golf Outing.
Financial Report
We have a $1573 balance in our 136 fund. We need to keep money in this account to fund miscellaneous
items. We had good revenue/expense ratio for the golf outing and annual dinner. We will keep a one-year
reserve of $2000 in the fund. Any money over that amount will go to the scholarship fund.
ID Update
Tracy met with Bev Carmichael and discussed our proposal on how ID cards would benefit UW-Green Bay
Retirees in areas of passpoint privileges, free parking, library privileges, discount at Bookstore, membership
at Kress Center, discount for athletic tickets and performing arts events, and discounts at Shorewood Golf
course. Bev brought the proposal to the Cabinet meeting. It was decided that each Cabinet member would
work with the contact person in their area to get approval and estimated costs and dates when each item
could be completed. Currently one-third of the retirees eligible take advantage of free parking. The same
with our listserve, only about one-half will take advantage.
Chuck and Lee met as membership team. They feel there are a large number of retirees who don’t care about
coming back to the University for any event. An ID card would be made available to a person on their
retirement day and that ID would be needed to become a member of the Retiree Association. If a person
chose not to get an ID card, they would then become an associate member and would not be eligible to vote
at the annual dinner. We need to check on how to handle people who have moved out of the state. Can they
send a picture via e-mail and get an ID card?
New Business
Tracy updated the website with individuals retiring as of January 1, 2011.
We need to begin calling people who might be interested in being a member of the Board. Several names
were mentioned.
Meeting adjourned at 10:23 a.m.
As the Board does not have anything pressing to complete, we will not meet in January 2013. Our next
meeting is scheduled for February 12, 2013, at 9:15 a.m. in our ES 307. Tracy will e-mail Board members a
parking permit.
Pat Przybelski, Secretary