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FROM THE PRESIDENT
2025-02: Looking for something to do? UMRA offers great options!January and February tend to be quieter months for many of us, but I encourage you to find one more way to learn, serve, and connect through UMRA. It will add to your engagement in life. More...
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Japan, Norway, and Sweden
Event Date:UMRA’s first Armchair Traveler program of the new year included two presentations featuring travels in Japan with Wayne “Ironwain” Potratz and in Norway and Sweden with Lynn Anderson. More...

Book Notes | ‘Tom Lake’
Event Date:'Tom Lake' by Ann Patchett is set in the early summer of 2020 at a cherry orchard on the shores of Lake Michigan, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the three daughters of the main character have returned home to help with the harvest. More...

2025 Nominating Committee update: There’s still time to suggest candidates
If you or someone you know would be a good candidate for president-elect or a position on the UMRA Board of Directors, please contact one of the eight members of UMRA’s 2025 Nominating Committee.
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Volunteer Center: Connecting people to projects that really make a difference
Former President Jimmy Carter’s version of “retirement” was remarkable. What if all U of M retirees started the new year stepping up our efforts to make the world better?
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HELLO, my name is Michael Luxenberg
Meet Michael Luxenberg, the new co-leader of the UMRA Hiking Club. A retired data analyst and entrepreneur, he met his wife, UMRA member and Professor Emerita Joan Garfield, when both were grad students at the U of M and rode the campus bus from Minneapolis to St. Paul.
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JOIE has videos!
The UMRA-sponsored Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays has added three videos to its online collection of original publications by UMRA members.
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Out of the basement and into the museum
Event Date:See the Family History presentations on sharing belongings that have historic value outside the family! More...

Give now to the PDGR program, and double your support
Now is an especially good time to support the UMRA grants program because all gifts made by December 31 will be doubled thanks to a challenge grant. Contributions are tax-deductible.
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HELLO, my name is Kathy Cramer.
Kathy Cramer retired from the University as an associate professor of mathematics education and has some good advice for older adults interested in tutoring children: Don’t teach them what you learned.
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Help identify UMRA’s next leaders
Do you have ideas for people who might be good candidates to serve on UMRA’s Board of Directors or as president-elect? If so, please consider volunteering to join the Nominating Committee for UMRA’s 2025 elections. It’s a modest commitment, but important.
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