RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013

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The Retirees’ Association of Lakehead

University (RALU) was formed in 2007 to give a unified voice to retirees, their IN THIS ISSUE: spouses or partners; to provide social and creative interaction and debate; to be a forum for discussion of matters of President’s Message common interest; to provide contact Did You Know? with similar associations, monitoring Member’s Articles retiree activity; to pursue benefits and Upcoming Events considerations from the University that CURAC report match the best practices of other Our Thunderwolves institutions. Humour Hub

There are eight meetings of the full PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE membership per year; September

(AGM) to April. A field trip is organized RALU President's Report – 2013 in the Fall.

Welcome to our new season. As with all Executive Committee: organizations, summer is a quiet time for RALU, but we are now getting into gear for President: Dave Kemp an interesting fall/winter season. The Program Committee has put together a Vice President: Clem Kent series of talks that over the next few months will introduce us to safe driving for Secretary: Beverley Stefureak seniors, aspects of genealogy, teaching in China, and more. If any of you have Treasurer: Bonny Wigmore suggestions for future presentations please let me know. All of the presentations will Past President (ex officio): Brian take place at the 55+ Centre on River Phillips Street.

Communications Committee: Kathy We continue to keep in touch with other Crewdson, Walter Momot, Margot retirees’ organizations through CURAC. Ponder, Ian Dew Earlier in the year, with the financial support of the Emeritus Professors’ Program Committee: Ernie Epp, Committee of LUFA, Brian Phillips attended Jenny Phillips, Jim Stafford its annual conference in St John’s, Newfoundland. His report can be found Home page: http://ralu.la/ elsewhere in this newsletter.

One issue that has been around for several years now, and is still outstanding,

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RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013 involves pensions. As most of you will The flowers are frozen, and the bees are know, RALU has been working through the nowhere to be seen. They are now Financial Services Commission of confined to and clustered in their abodes (FSCO) to deal with concerns over the for the next five months. Actually, the university’s handling of our pension plan. whole summer has been a preparation for RALU’s Pension and Benefits Committee the coming winter. Our honeybees here in has worked hard over the last several evolved most recently in years to deal with this and we hope that Europe, where the colony must survive a the issue is now close to resolution. At the long winter or perish. The strategy for moment we are still waiting to hear from survival necessitates storing enough nectar FSCO. As soon as we do I will let you and pollen to keep themselves alive until know what has transpired. the days begin to lengthen and rearing of the young begins, as early as January. As always, if you have any comments or The colony population increases more suggestions on RALU’s activities, I would quickly once pollen and nectar are be happy to hear from you. available from pussy willows, alder, fruit trees and dandelions. Gathering the Dave Kemp

Your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body

You burn more calories sleeping that watching TV

A Crowded Hive Will Swarm You begin to feel thirsty when your body loses 1% of water nectar and pollen by the bees involves a The human body contains 96,000 km of complex system of gathering information blood vessels and communication and cooperation among the 80,000 members of the

summer bee hive. Tasks in the colony are usually performed by bees based on their

age. First they are hive cleaners (but MEMBER’S ARTICLES unlike humans who are 74 years old and

still cleaning their abode, bees are Honeybees and Winter promoted), then they become nurse bees feeding the young larvae pollen and secreted brood food. Later they are involved in comb construction, secreting beeswax and turning it into those beautiful combs with hexagonal cells for storing honey and pollen, with areas also used for rearing brood. One of the last tasks is guarding the hive, stinging intruders such as honey collecting robber bees, bears and

Beehives Buried in Snow 2 RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013 beekeepers, as well as bee- eating Bees that emerged in the fall, and didn’t hornets and skunks. Foraging usually have to raise babies will live for the whole doesn’t begin until a bee is about 21 days winter, unlike their hardworking summer of age, although there is some plasticity in sisters who only live about 35 days. The the performance of the various tasks queen honeybee actually begins laying depending on the needs of the colony. eggs in the honeycomb in the center of the Foragers first need to locate a source of clustered bees of the hive in January, even nectar and or pollen. If they find a if it is thirty below zero outside. The particularly rich productive patch of middle of the cluster will be about 93 flowers, they will communicate information degrees Fahrenheit, and the increasing day regarding the source to their hive mates, length stimulates the colony to begin by performing a dance indicating both the brood rearing. The colder it gets, the direction and distance to the location of tighter the bees cluster. Of course, the the find. bees are only able to maintain such a temperature if there is sufficient honey available for fuel to keep them warm, and if there are enough bees in the colony to cuddle together in a ball and generate sufficient heat. Pollen is also necessary as soon as those eggs hatch, so it behooves the colony to have some stored pollen inside the hive, as there is none available to the bees outside at winter temperatures. Larvae require both nectar Harvesting a Beautiful Honeycomb and pollen, and as the colony increases in size, more stores will be required. A In addition, they may give interested bees colony without sufficient stores in the fall, a taste of the nectar they have gathered, about 85 pounds of honey, with pollen as and a whiff of the of the flower’s fragrance. well, will likely perish before flowers bloom Many bees will follow the dancer, and be and nectar is again available in the spring. directed to the source, and in turn perform Lack of pollen will result in the bees using a dance when they return to the hive with stores from their own bodies to secrete the their bounty. It doesn’t take long for royal jelly needed for the queen, and the thousands of bees to start working a brood food for the larvae. When the lucrative area for its honey and pollen. winter temperature occasionally rises to 50 Years ago, clover fields in bloom were a degrees Fahrenheit, the bees may take a fine source of forage for honeybees, but whirl around the bee yard. Even in now farmers cut it before it blooms in January, with snow on the ground, bees order to preserve the protein content of will take these cleansing flights. Some will the hay for the cattle, so one of the best perish in the snow, but they will soon be plants for honey and pollen is no longer replaced by young bees emerging in the available to the bees. July used to be the center of the cluster. best month for honey production. That is Our summer in the area was no longer the case because of “cut before not ideal for honey bees this year. July bloom” regarding the clover and alfalfa. was extremely wet and cold, and it is Bees are more dependent than ever on usually a time when bees gather much of weeds such as dandelions, goldenrod and the honey for the year. Another problem asters growing on their own in the wild. our local bees are dealing with for the first

3 RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013 time is the mite Varroa destructor. It is a roundup on the genetically modified crops. very small external parasite of the Roundup is sprayed on these genetically honeybee, about the size of the period at modified roundup-resistant crops. All the end of this sentence. For 25 years other non-resistant-plants in the field and surrounding the field are killed, resulting in a lack of both nectar and pollen for the bees. That is the current plight of the bees: poor weather and herbicides resulting in lack of winter stores, parasites to weaken them, and poisonous pesticides affecting the winter survival of colonies. Canada lost 30% of its bees last

winter. It is scary, as one third of the food Queen bee with workers we eat is dependent on pollination by concerned local beekeepers successfully honeybees. With the world population ever increasing, we need to guard the kept our Thunder Bay District free of that health of every bee. parasite, but last year some uninformed person foolishly imported infested bees to Jeanette Momot our area. Before they were discovered, the mite had spread to 200 colonies in the Thailand, Our Second Home Slate River area.

The mites suck the blood of the bees. We first went to Malaysia in 1960 (Malaya Varroa mites in a hive will shorten the lives as it was then) to teach in the British Army of the bees, damage their immune systems (making them susceptible to Schools during the communist insurgency. This was a very large-scale, violent and other diseases), and possibly infect them bloody affair much like the Vietnam with viruses. This parasite, together with situation and the principal victims were our lack of a good summer, resulted in a civilians. This was an alternative to very limited amount of honey and pollen the colonies were able to gather this year. military service. The Army garrison near us while we were in Kuala Lumpur was Colonies did not thrive and increase in size primarily that of the 17th Gurkha Rifles. as they usually do over a summer. In The Gurkhas were among the most addition, the new neonicotinoid pesticides honourable and likeable people we have being used as seed treatments including corn, soybeans and canola to control pests ever met. While there we were able, to a limited extent, to travel around Asia and of those crops, causes the whole plant to became greatly interested in the various become toxic and therefore produce nectar cultures. Travel within Malaya, except for and pollen with sublethal effects on bees, the main north-south road and the as well as butterflies and other pollinators. western areas, was restricted because of Lethal effects on bee colonies from the insurgent activity. Later, after a 2-year neonicotinoid contaminated dust generated stint of postdoctoral work in Britain, I was at planting time have also been reported offered an appointment at a Thai by many beekeepers. Europe has recently University (The University of Medical enacted a temporary ban on the use of Sciences, now Mahidol University) in the neonicotinoid pesticides because of these mid-1960s and we leapt at the chance to problems. In addition, there is a lack of return to Asia. We worked in Thailand forage in the form of weeds on today’s (Bangkok) for several years in the 1960s farms, because of the use of the herbicide 4 RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013 and again in the early1970s (on sabbatical Thunder Bay for our remaining time there from LU) and we made lifelong Thai but they were never really satisfactory. friends. We were also able to explore a We still wished, post-retirement, to vibrant and unique culture. resume our visits to Thailand for much longer periods but we needed to be sure that physiotherapy facilities would be available. One of our Thai friends found a truly excellent clinic for Barbara and she used it whenever we visited Bangkok.

Classical-style pavilion on the lake at the Bang-Pa In Summer Palace Upon coming to Canada and LU in 1968 with a young family and university responsibilities, our visits to Thailand could Pagodas in Ayuthaya Historical Park only be sporadic and short-term (except for a sabbatical) although we kept up our After we moved to Qualicum Beach in Thai friendships and a lively interest in 1999, we were able to continue her Thai culture. Incidentally, Thailand was program here and in Bangkok. Initially, the only country in SE Asia never colonised we were able to explore the cultural by European powers and attitudes towards treasures of the country (and of foreigners are generally somewhat neighbouring countries such as Cambodia, different from those in neighbouring Singapore, Vietnam, Bali in Indonesia, countries. One is judged more on one's Brunei, India, etc.) extensively and this personal qualities rather than the colour of continued until about six years ago when one's skin or national origin. One can Barbara's condition deteriorated to the easily feel at home there as indeed we do. point that the physiotherapy program (at a new clinic much closer to our wonderful hotel) became a major focus of our visits while still being able to spend time with our friends and enjoying the more local culture. Just as Thunder Bay has winter snow and blizzards, so coastal BC has frequent heavy rain and high winds. Thus, we go to Bangkok for several months during the period of inclement BC weather Traditional teak house at the Suan and at the time it is the cool(!), dry season there. Pakkad Palace in Bangkok Two years before I retired from LU in 1996, Barbara had a stroke, long-term treatment of which required an ongoing program of physiotherapy. She was able to use the rather limited facilities in 5 RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013

show of the various planes on the display line, which will include the Spitfire, P40, Tomahawk, Corsair, Avenger and Hell Diver. Please come and join us for this presentation, coffee and conversation.

Everyone is welcome and the Centre is handicap accessible. Small tours can be arranged by appointment. Please call 807 Royal barge on the Chao Phya River 623 3522, or email [email protected] for details.

Alan Hughes Northwestern Ontario Aviation Heritage Centre (NOAHC) Open House Editor’s note: Thanks to Jeanette and Alan for their articles. All submissions Please come and join us for coffee and would be welcome! conversation about aviation. Sundays 1 to 4 p.m.

UPCOMING EVENTS Everyone is welcome.

Tuesday 19 November 12:30 pm. 2014 Lumina Series

McNulty Recital Hall, Music and Visual Mid Winter Bash. Arts Building, Thunder Bay campus. More details to follow. Parking in the lot at the side (Security Refreshments available. Annual Midwinter does not ticket for the duration of the Tea and Buzz. concert). Tickets at the door $15 regular For more information [email protected] and $10 for students.

Everett Hopfner piano http://music.lakeheadu.ca/events/?display CURAC REPORT 2013 =events&eventid=197

Thursday 28 November, 7 pm. Northwestern Ontario Aviation Heritage Centre (NOAHC) Special Event

Note new location, 430 Waterloo Street South (Facing the DaVinci parking lot), Thunder Bay.

Wayne Pettit will be showing a DVD video In reporting on the CURAC meeting one of the 2012 Hamilton Air show. It will could follow the more traditional approach include some of the vintage planes on of summarizing the sessions and events. display, and the fly-by of the Harvard, We were greatly entertained by a well Lancaster, B29, B25, Catalina, and DC-3. If known Newfie storyteller; we were scared time permits he will also present a slide 6 RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013 witless by a paper presented on 'elder memoranda of agreement with their abuse' in Canada; I was able to talk with Retirees Association, that maintain a the CURAC Pension Committee chair about database of retiree skills that can be called the LU Pension Amendments recently upon, that subsidize their health care and deemed illegal by the OFSC and responded maintain a plan parallel with active faculty, to by LU with the hiring of a lawyer to that provide space on campus for a contest the issue; I did attend an continuing presence of Retirees, that invite illuminating small group discussion on their Retirees to their major functions, that Retiree Benefits. encourage Retirees to participate and use the fitness and recreational facilities on However, my report focuses instead on campus and formally and annually what I was feeling and thinking as I recognize the special successes of their journeyed home from the meeting, and Retirees in the third phase of their lives. reads as follows :- There are colleges and universities in Canada that head their administrative I returned, as a delegate, from the 2013 memoranda "To all administrators, staff, annual meeting of the Colleges and faculty, students and retirees". How Universities Retirees Associations of wonderfully inclusive that is for all those Canada (CURAC) in St. John's, who are and have been part of those Newfoundland, both saddened and institutions. encouraged. Though the sessions naturally tend to focus on matters of pensions, In Canada, universities and colleges have health issues and insurance, ample a fair degree of autonomy and each opportunity is given for the exchange of develops a different culture, personality experiences between delegates from and focus of excellence. Yet they are not across Canada. isolated from scrutiny and comparison, and it is organizations like CURAC that It is uplifting to hear that there are provide the forum for a national overview institution administrations that place high of how the Retirees of its colleges and value on their Retirees, recognizing first universities are faring and how they are that these older people, with a now old configured within the ongoing activities of fashioned work ethic, built the very their former institutions. The national scale institutions they have inherited and now scenario reveals unfortunate differences administer. A local Retirees Association from institution to institution, one wonders comprised of former administrators, staff, why. librarians, technicians and faculty is a remarkable resource of talents, skills and Is a former administrator, staff member, experience, and very likely predisposed to librarian or academic of one institution of desire the continuing success of the greater worth or more deserving of fair institution in which they spent their play and respect than one from another energies, often over many years of institution? How is it that Retirees figure service. True, they are now grey haired on the administrative and academic and possibly less spritely, but as older agendas of one institution yet perhaps persons know, the body seems to admit to seldom, if ever, in another? How ageing well before the brain loses its reasonable is it that those who worked sharpness. within the Canadian university system should find themselves in widely different There are institutions that have signed circumstances due only to the corporate

7 RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013 personalities of the specific institutions in playing last season with Lake Superior which they worked? And so I return State of the NCAA. Joining Jeff Bosch in saddened, yet also encouraged in the goal will be Justin McDonald who hails knowledge of what could be. from Saskatchewan. He played in the Saskatchewan Hockey League and last Brian Phillips, Professor Emeritus season posted a win-loss record of 27-13 for the Manitoba Blizzards of the MJHL. Note. Emeritus members of LUFA pay an Other newcomers include Adam Restoule, annual fee of $25. It is from this money David Quesnele (defenceman Mike that LUFA provides partial support for an Quesnele’s brother), Paul Thompson, Matt Emeritus delegate to attend the national Kaarela and Nathan Bruyere. CURAC conferences. Thank you, LUFA. The Wolves started off their season with exhibition losses against the Prince Edward Island Panthers and the Minnesota-Duluth OUR THUNDERWOLVES Bulldogs. They opened their regular season with a sweep of the RMC Paladins Men’s Hockey and followed this with a weekend split with th The Lakehead Thunderwolves hockey team the . October 25 and th is starting off their 2013-2014 season with 26 we hosted the a brand new coach, Bill McDonald, a Laurier Golden Hawks. Thunder Bay native with extensive The fans were treated experience coaching in Thunder Bay, the to two extremely close UHL, CHL, and WPHL. From 2009-2012 he games with the Wolves was an assistant coach with the Allen taking the sweep 5-4 Americans of the CHL where he left in style and 4-2. This past winning the President’s Cup Challenge. weekend the After a tumultuous season last year and an University of Alberta Golden Bears, the early departure from the playoffs, coach number one team in the country, arrived in McDonald has made it clear that the team town. Friday night the Wolves had the will be playing with an emphasis on crowd on the edge of their seats having a persistent hard work and more focus on two goal lead twice in the game but ended playing together as a team. His challenge up losing 7-5 with the Golden Bears will be to restore discipline to a team scoring the last goal into an empty net. which has been prone in the last few years Saturday night was a different story as we to taking ill-advised penalties in often were outplayed and outmuscled, losing 7-2 crucial situations as well as wilting when to the powerhouse team who have not lost the pressure was on. a game this season. Next weekend the The loss of four of our top scorers, team travels to play the rest of its including Matt Caria, Luke Judson, and schedule before Christmas on the road. Adam Sergerie, the team is facing a They swept the th formidable challenge. Coach McDonald’s November 15 and 16 to ramp up the new recruits will hopefully fill some of this momentum for the rest of the season. The void. Both Cody Alcock (offense) and next home games are against Laurentian Andrew Tessier (defence) were former Voyageurs, December 27 and 28th. Hope teammates with the to see you at the Gardens! of the . Forward Kelin Ainsworth, who grew up in Thunder Men’s Bay, is returning to the Lakehead after After a highly successful 2012-2013 8 RALU News – Volume 6 Number 1 November 2013 season which saw the TWolves earn the lack of energy and focus would return in silver medal in the CIS Championships, the the game the next evening against the nucleus of the team which brought them to and they bounced back with a the national Championships has gone. 79-73 victory. Next weekend they host Coach Scott Morrison has taken a year’s Carlton and Ottawa. We wish them luck as leave to work for the Celtic’s organization they continue to rebuild! in the States. His duties have been taken over by assistant coach Matt Erdman. Six Women’s Basketball senior players have left, as well as Joe According to coach Kreiner, last year had Hart, who has opted to play in the Spanish its share of ups and downs, defeating Pro League. Top scorer, Ryan Thomson will Western and being able to compete be sitting out this year to recover from against the strong teams from Regina and knee surgery. This means that there are Ottawa were rewarding. However they four members left who are returning to the lost in OT to Queen’s and lost their split in team. Normally this would result in a year Guelph so were eliminated from the of rebuilding for the team, however coach playoffs. Erdman is optimistic that the new recruits They do, however have some dominant will fill in some of the gaps, and they will players. Ayse Kalkan had a strong year have to learn to rely on using the players’ averaging 11 points per game and an size rather than their quickness. Joining excellent 8 rebounds per game and Kelsey the team include highly touted point guard Bardsley lead all the players in Canada in 3 Nolan Mackenzie from Oakville, shooting pointers. Other players also made guard Josh Bell and brother Justin Bell significant contributions to the team. from Mississauga, shooting guard Mitchell Kreiner has recruited eight players to Hearn from Mount Carmel, Newfoundland, address the team’s weaknesses and feels forward Igor Lebov from Toronto, 7’0” training camp will be very competitive. Australian Brent Wallace, and 7’1” centre New additions include: Essa Jacobsen Andrew McCarthy from Scituate, Mass. It (Post) from Grand Marais; Jerika Baldwin will be interesting to watch as the team (Point Guard) from Brantford; Kylee develops from week to week. Kuchta (Guard) from Cape Breton; Blair In their pre-season play at the Zanatta McNaughton (Forward) from Kitchener; Games Tournament held here October 3-5 and Jylisa Williams (Guard) from Atlanta, against Winnipeg, Brandon and Algoma GA. Cassandra Soulias (Point Guard), they lost two of their three games. They Katelyn Andrea (Forward), and Gillian then travelled to Carleton where they Lavoie (Post) have been recruited from participated in the Carleton House- Thunder Bay. Laughton Tournament. There they lost 79- The women’s team opened their season on 60 to the national champion Carleton October 3rd vs Algoma, Oct. 4th against team, and 68-60 to the Victoria Vikes. The Laurentian, and October 5th against third game they rallied back and took Manitoba at the Zanatta Games down the Bishop’s Gaitors by a score of Tournament where they won all three 78-70. At their final non-conference games, which was an impressive start. tournament held in Winnipeg October 25th Essa Jacobsen and Ayse Kalkan were and 26th they lost 75-64 to the Winnipeg dominant contributors to these games. Wesmen and edged the This was followed by the BOB FM Shootout 74-72. Last weekend their regular season in Winnipeg where they lost 67-59 to the opened with a loss puff 84-64 against the , 60-53 to the Brandon Queen’s Gaels. Coach Erdman hoped their Bobcats, and defeated the Manitoba Bisons

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61-52. In this last game Ayse Kalkan scored a 27 game point high and was A man walks into a bar, drinks a couple of named a Tournament All-Star. At the Shoot beers, and prepares to leave. The for the Cure Invitational tournament in bartender tells him he owes $8. Winnipeg October 25-27th they competed "But I already paid you. Don't you against Winnipeg, Regina and Manitoba. remember?" says the customer. Regina is considered a powerhouse team "OK," says the bartender, "if you say you and one that plays at the national paid, then I suppose you did." championship level so it was a real The man goes outside and tells the first challenge for our team. Unfortunately it person he sees that the bartender can't was not a great weekend to finish off the keep track of whether his customers have pre-season, as they lost all three games. paid or not. The second man rushes in, Their regular season opened November 1st orders a couple beers, and later pulls the and 2nd with a loss against Queen’s by a same stunt. score of 58-52 and a victory against York The barkeep replies, "OK, if you say you by a score of 53-39. Next weekend they paid, then I suppose you did." will host the teams from Carleton and The customer goes outside and tells a Ottawa. friend how to get free drinks. The third man hurries into the bar and begins to Women’s Volleyball drink highballs. Coach Chris Green should be very proud of The bartender leans over and says, "You this team’s efforts so far this year. They know, a funny thing happened tonight. started off with a 3-0 loss against the Two men were drinking beer, neither paid, but bounced back to and both claimed they had. The next guy defeat RMC 3-2 and Brock 3-0 in pre- who tries that stunt is going to get season play. Their regular season started punched in the -- " with an exciting sweep over the Windsor The man interrupts, "Don't bother me with Lancers by scores of 3-2 at the your troubles, bartender. Just give me my Thunderdome, According to Coach Green change and I'll be on my way." both teams traded spike for spike and dig for dig and he was very pleased with their Sending The Bill… focus and hard work. Sarah Hudson, Jen Casey and Jorie Daymond have been A doctor and a lawyer were talking at a big contributors to the team’s success. party. Their conversation was constantly November 1st and 2nd they met the interrupted by people describing their and the University of ailments and asking the doctor for free where they lost both medical advice. After an hour of this, the games 3-1 and 3-0. Their next home exasperated doctor asked the lawyer, games are November 15th and 16th against "What do you do to stop people from RMC and Queen’s. This team has come a asking you for legal advice when you're long way in the last two years so we hope out of the office?" to see them continue to do well. "I give it to them," replied the lawyer, "and then I send them a bill." The doctor was shocked, but agreed to give it a try. The next day, still feeling slightly guilty, the doctor prepared the Humour Hub bills. When he went to place them in his A Man Walks Into a Bar… mailbox, he found a bill from the lawyer.

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Let Us Hear from You If you are a new retiree, could you tell us a bit about yourself, for inclusion in the next newsletter? When you came to Lakehead, the kind of work you did, hobbies, adventures, anything about your family you would like to include. If you have been on the retirees list for awhile, how about updating us on your present whereabouts and what activities you are involved in? RALU is one of the few places where you can stay in touch with one another, whether at our meetings or through the newsletter. Send your piece to

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Membership is $10 annually or $25 per individual per three years, with equal status of membership for retirees, spouses and partners. Annual membership is from Sept 1st to Aug 31st. You are encouraged to support the association by joining us, even if you live far from Northwestern Ontario. Complete the membership form and return with a money order or cheque made out to the Retirees’ Association of 1881 Nickle Street, RR#12, Thunder Bay, ON P7G 2E6. For further information please contact RALU President David Kemp, [email protected]

Please note that there is a new area for expertise, contribution. Tell us how you want to assist RALU, for example, by contributing to the newsletter, givin us a presentation on your expertise, and so on. The Association is inclusive and its membership is open to retirees of colleges and universities.

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