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Newsletter of the Retired Faculty Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBill Cloud, editor [email protected] 919-929-1079
RFA NewsVolume 6 Number 2 April 2013
Friday Center is our new home
From the President
Next RFA luncheon meeting
Tuesday, April 9, at 10:30 a.m.
The Friday Center, Moun-tain Laurel Room
Speaker: Tom Howe
General Manager of UNC-TV
Cost for lunch: $16.00Registration form on Page 3
Virginia Taylor with her old boss.
Hear what’s ahead for UNC-TVPlease turn to Page 2
Please turn to Page 2
Don Boulton
Tom Howe
Dear Members and Colleagues:Virginia Taylor and I are sitting in
our new home, The Friday Center, and let us tell you how that happened:
A little more than a year ago, I had several meetings with Rob Bruce, the Director of the Friday Center. Our conversations ex-
plored what we might do together in the coming years. Those discussions
brought us to a partnership in which The Retired Faculty Association office would be housed at The Friday Center and receive the help of its staff, par-ticularly Virginia Taylor, Community and University Relations Coordinator. She worked as Special Assistant to Bill Friday for eight years and met many retired faculty members while work-ing with him.
Our partnership with the Friday Center also includes meeting space for our Executive Committee and for our regular meetings. After our meetings
What’s the future for UNC-TV in this age of HD-TV, de-clining network audiences and growing use of digital devices?
Tom Howe, director and general manager of the state-wide public television network, will discuss the state of UNC-TV and address your ques-tions at the next meeting of the Retired Faculty Association, at
10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Mountain Laurel Room in the Friday Center.
Howe’s 20-minute speech will include an overview of UNC-TV, as well as comments related to opportunities and challenges it faces in fulfilling UNC-TV’s mission to provide people of all ages with en-
More than 150 retired faculty mem-bers attended a reception at the Friday Center on March 12.
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RFA OFFICERS2012-2013
President & Faculty CouncilDonald Boulton Education/Vice Chancellor 919-929-0045 [email protected]
President-ElectDonald J. Stedman Education 919-967-9355 [email protected]
Past PresidentAndrew W. Dobelstein Social Work 919-929-5011 [email protected]
SecretaryLouise Clifford Institutional Review Board 919-929-6332 [email protected]
TreasurerDana Quade Public Health 919-942-2192 [email protected]
Member-at-large 11-13Donna Falvo Medicine 919-933-4599 [email protected]
Member-at-large 11-12Ronald C. Link Law 919-967-7427 [email protected]
Friday Center is our new home
Next speaker: Tom Howe of UNC-TV
Continued from Page 1
Continued from Page 1riching, life-changing television through its programs and public media services.
Howe serves as chief executive of the UNC-TV network, which consists of 12 sta-tions. He manages a budget of $26.5 mil-lion and a staff of 160 employees.
Since Howe became general manager in 1992, UNC-TV launched the state’s first
statewide weeknight television informa-tion magazine, “North Carolina Now.” As part of its conversion to digital television, UNC-TV has expanded from a single pro-gram service to four full-time services.
During his tenure, statewide viewership has increased significantly, and now more than 4 million viewers watch UNC-TV weekly.
there’ll be a a soup, salad and sand-wich buffet, including tea, lemonade and dessert bars. It will be provided by Carolina Dining Services.
As we begin this walk together, we will offer help in many ways, includ-ing mentoring new faculty and Friday Center students, teaching credit and noncredit classes, speaking, and mak-ing friends and raising funds for The Friday Center.
The Friday Center began this rela-tionship by hosting a reception for re-tired faculty. More than 775 retired fac-
ulty were invited, and more than 150 attended. It was a wonderful success. Many of the attendees expressed their thanks at having such a great event. And now plans are being made for so-cial gatherings next fall and spring.
You can find us at The Friday Cen-ter, Campus Box 1020,Chapel Hill, NC 27599. You can reach Virginia at [email protected], or at 919-962-1618, or you can call the RFA office, 919-843-2367.
We look forward to the beginning of this wonderful new journey together. Let us hear from you!
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An attractive buffet drew a crowd at the retired faculty reception on March 12.
Meeting dates listed Here are the RFA meeting
dates for the next 12 months.
All meetings will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Friday Center (room may vary), and all dates are Tuesdays.
• Sept. 10, 2013• Nov. 12, 2013• Feb. 11, 2014• April 8, 2014
RFA News April 2013 Page 3
UNC Retired Faculty Association meetingLuncheon registration for Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Fill out form, clip and mail with your check to:Treasurer, UNC Retired Faculty AssociationP.O. Box 4003Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Your name ______________________________ AmountNumber of luncheon reservations @ $16.00 (_____) _______2013 dues (if not yet paid) @ $20.00 _______(Life membership is $100; life members need pay no further dues)Total amount enclosed _______
Luncheon reservations must be received by April 5If you think your check might not be delivered by then, please notify us at [email protected] or 919-942-2192.
UNC-CH RFA – TREASURER’S REPORT – 18 MARCH 2013 2011 BALANCE | RECEIPTS BY QUARTER | EXPENDITURES BY QUARTER | BALANCE 01JAN11 | Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 | Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 | 31DEC11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CARRYOVER 572 | | | 572 DUES | 820 860 1160 340 | | 3180 MAILINGS | | 371 363 313 371 | -1419 FACILITIES | | | 0 LUNCH | 435 450 528 448 | 336 388 384 384 | 368 AROHE | | 100 | -100 INTEREST | 3 4 3 3 | | 13 MISCELLANY | 19 | 44 58 | -83 GIFT FUND 375 | | 3 3 3 3 | 363 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOTAL 947 | 1258 1314 1710 791 | 710 898 701 817 | 2894 2012 BALANCE | RECEIPTS BY QUARTER | EXPENDITURES BY QUARTER | BALANCE 01JAN12 | Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 | Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 | 31DEC12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CARRYOVER 2531 | | | 2531 DUES | 3080 240 120 100 | | 3540 MAILINGS | | 620 420 426 416 | -1881 FACILITIES | | | 0 LUNCH | 576 336 304 448 | 480 269 195 360 | 361 AROHE | | 100 | -100 INTEREST | 6 11 9 8 | | 33 MISCELLANY | 1 | | 1 GIFT FUND 363 | | 3 3 3 3 | 351 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOTAL 2894 | 3663 587 433 556 | 1102 692 624 878 | 4837 2013 BALANCE | RECEIPTS BY QUARTER | EXPENDITURES BY QUARTER | BALANCE 01JAN13 | Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 | Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 | 18MAR13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CARRYOVER 4485 | | | 4485 DUES | 1220 | | 1220 MAILINGS | | 227 | -227 FACILITIES | | | 0 LUNCH | 464 | 360 | 104 AROHE | | | 0 INTEREST | 8 | | 8 MISCELLANY | | | 0 GIFT FUND 351 | | 3 | 348 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOTAL 4837 | 1692 | 589 | 5940 Notes: The computer program producing these tables accounts for pennies, but rounds to dollars for presentation. The exact total of $5939.59 includes three accounts at State Employees’ Credit Union: $2077.74 checking, $3798.45 money market, and $63.40 shares. This total is considerably higher for the last two years than previously, for four main reasons, as follows: 1) We have in effect borrowed from our 35 life members, who have each paid dues of $80 in advance. However, the number of dues payers has declined from 189 in 2009 and 147 in 2010 to 130 in 2011 and 102 in 2012, and 63 so far in 2013, including the life members. (Dues received are credited in this report to the year IN which – not FOR which – they are paid.) 2) We spent less for mailings in 2011 and 2012 because we did not issue a summer newsletter as in 2009 and 2010. The expense per newsletter has dropped also, mainly because the use of email has reduced the number of hard copies mailed per issue from an average of 588 in 2008 to 317 in 2012. The average cost per mailed hard copy actually increased steadily from about $1.20 in 2007 to $1.40 in 2012, but was only $0.77 for the February 2013 issue using our new printer (Universal Printing). 3) There has been no facilities expense at the Country Club from 2/2011 through 2/2013 (vs. $1035 at the Friday Center in 2010). 4) We made a profit of $368 on lunch in 2011, and $361 in 2012, whereas our profit had never exceeded $50 in any previous year.
Dana Quade, Treasurer
*Allen, JE*Anderson, JJ*Anderson,NM*Boulton, DA*Brinich, PM*Brooks, FP*Broun, KS Bursey, MM Clark, RL Cloud, GW
*Dedmon, SR Dougherty, MC
*Drake, C Elder, GH
*Flowers, JL*Francisco, DE Friedman, JW Gilbert, LI
*Gooder, H Goodman, SE
*Graves, WH Grisham, JJ Hanker, ST
*Heizer, WD Herzog, WT Holcomb, EJ
*Howes, JB*Hulka, BS*Hulka, JF*Johnson, JD*King, JK*Kohn, RH Kraybill, EN
*Kupper, LL Lubker, BB
Maley, CA McIlwain, DL
*McLendon, WW*Merzbacher, E Mitchell, RU Nelson, CM
*Peach, R Prange, AJ
*Quade, DE*Reed, JS*Reuss, C Sanders, JL Schwab, JH Sessoms, AL
*Sherman, CL*Skelly, AH*Stedman, DJ*Stritter, FT*Taft, TT Taylor, DF Thompson, VD
*Tillman, R Vogler, FW Vogt, AJ Walsh, JM Weatherly, NF
*Wood, WB*Wyrick, PB* Indicates Life Member
Membership rollCurrent members, with dues paid
for 2013:
Dana Quade, Treasurer
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Resolution to honor FridayAs a way to honor his memory, RFA
members will be asked to vote on a resolution honoring William C. Friday at its meeting April 9.
The resolution honoring the late UNC system President, who died in October at the age of 92, will recog-nize Friday for his service to the Uni-versity and cite his “moral and valued leadership” as a “model for the ages.”
Redefining ‘membership’The Executive Committee has de-
cided to take a second look at changes made in November to its membership rules, especially so that spouses and widow(er)s who had been members in good standing may keep their mem-berships.
The bylaws, as revised at the No-vember 2012 meeting, define “(profes-sional) retirees” as “retired members of the UNC General Faculty, and re-tired EPA non-faculty and research as-sociates,” and allow any such retiree
to become a regular member of the RFA (eligible to vote and hold office) by paying dues. Previously, the mem-bers included all such retirees, wheth-er or not they paid dues, and also their spouses and widow(er)s. Anyone in this wider class of members who paid dues became a “member in good standing.”
The Executive Committee at its March 2013 meeting decided that all those who paid dues in the past may continue as regular members if they continue to pay dues or if they have paid for a life membership.
The Executive Committee also de-cided to revisit the question of eligi-bility for membership, considering in particular the following groups:
•The professional retirees, as de-fined above.
•Their spouses (or life partners) and widow(er)s.
•Retirees from other institutions of higher learning living in the Chapel Hill area (who previously were eligible for “associate” membership).
•“Friends,” i.e., any other persons
who subscribe to the mission of the RFA.
This issue will be discussed further at the April general meeting.
A bylaw clarificationAt its February 2013 general meet-
ing, the RFA voted to amend its bylaws “to extend to two years each of the offi-cers’ terms,” according to its minutes. However, no precise statement of this change was presented.
The November 2012 bylaws state that “the RFA shall have seven offi-cers: a President and President-elect, who shall be elected for one-year terms; a Secretary, a Treasurer, and two Representatives-at-large, who shall be elected for two-year terms and be re-electable without limit; and the immediate Past President.”
At the April general meeting those present will be asked to affirm that the amendment simply drops the words “who shall be elected for one-year terms” and “and be re-electable without limit.”
At the next meeting:
