Operational needs: Help make UMRA run
This will be a new regular column where you can find current organizational tasks that need your help!
Member Portal Renewal Cycle Manager
Do you like databases? Would you enjoy working with our many members to help them use the new Member Portal to join, and to renew, and to use the many features of the system. Virgil will continue as mentor to transition.
- Answer member questions
- Track who has paid membership, or if someone is having difficulty
- Welcome new members when they join UMRA through our Portal
Contact Virgil at [email protected].
JOIE
The committee chair provides leadership for the UMRA JOIE Committee. Also, the chair writes the annual report on the committee’s work and annually updates the UMRA JOIE toolkit.
The committee partners with several liaisons to carry out its mission to recruit and publish interesting articles from university retirees and others for publication on the University’s Digital Conservancy.
Contact Kristine Bettin [email protected]
News
Drawing on his training as a historian, his patience and more than a little serendipity, Jim Tracy put together an account of his family history. “This account is for our family, if not now, perhaps later, I hope it may also be of interest for others looking into the history of their families.”
Then there are the unexpected things that happen…
… like a box of family history from a cousin that was completely unexpected. Perhaps it is like an unexpected DNA match.