The UGRA Executive will produce three newsletters per operational year with a prominent theme for each year. This year’s theme, as well as in the past several years, is UGRA’s efforts to improve retirees’ pensions and benefits. It will be a dominant theme over the next several issues.

You can see, by the commentaries, opinions and reports contained in this newsletter, that the Executive continually strives to achieve this objective. This is UGRA’s tenth anniversary. There is a lot of history attached to the rationale for forming an organization such as UGRA. It represents retirees’ concerns and issues and through the newsletter, informs you of its endeavours, successes and disappointments over the past ten years. I anticipate that the next and final issue of this year (May 2002) will provide you with some of this historical information.

UGRA proposes to call for more opinions and responses from our readers about its aims, objectives and strategies for the coming planned courses of action. The response to Robert Logan’s piece on “Pensions at the University of Guelph” was most gratifying. Robert Liptrap’s observations on our readers’ responses to Logan’s article should also incite some interesting reactions.

Your UGRA Executive is very accessible and eager to hear from you. It is vital that the Executive remain sensitive and responsive to your concerns and to ensure that you, as University of Guelph retirees, are being heard and adequately represented to University Administration.

You can contact individual Executive members or write to us. Our mailing address is:
University of Guelph Retirees Association, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1