Two CORE meetings this month, November 13 and 20; details below

From CORE, November 5, 2008

CORE (Concerned Ohio Retired Educators) will hold its November meeting on Thursday, the 20th at the STRS Building at 275 East Broad Street in Columbus. Parking is free in the STRS parking garage behind the building. We encourage you to also attend the STRS meeting which usually begins around 9:00 a.m. on Thursday in the meeting room on the 6th floor but this beginning time varies from month to month. For this reason, we encourage you to check the STRS website (www.strsoh.org) to confirm the time. CORE meeting attendees usually leave the STRS meeting around 11:30 in order to go to the cafeteria on the 2nd floor to get our lunches. We then take our lunches to the small cafeteria room behind the Sublett Room on the 2nd floor of the STRS building where the CORE Annual Membership Meeting will begin promptly at 11:45.

In response to suggestions from our supporters, CORE is calling for input for agenda items for this November 20th meeting. Please send the agenda item(s) you would like discussed to John Curry (curryjo@watchtv.net). He will forward all suggestions to CORE President, Dave Parshall. In order to have an agenda in place and printed for the meeting, please send your item no later than Tuesday, November 18th. Agenda items which are sent after November 18th will be held over to the December CORE meeting.

Thanks to input from members who attended CORE meetings this summer or who sent suggestions by email, we will be distributing a new CORE pamphlet which can be used to promote CORE membership. Members may pay their CORE membership dues now for the 2008-2009 year ($10.00) and/or make a CORE donation. So please plan to come, actively participate, and take home a new supply of CORE pamphlets to share with your Retired Teacher Association and others. We need each and every member. . . your ideas, your concerns, and your help. BRING A FRIEND OR TWO! We are always encouraging new members to join us.

Please remember the extra meeting this month with Michael Nehf, Executive Director of STRS. CORE President, Dave Parshall, has invited Mr. Nehf to meet with CORE membership on Thursday, November 13th at 1:30 in our usual CORE meeting room, the small room off of the cafeteria on the second floor at the STRS building. Mr. Nehf has been attending many RTA meetings around the state in order to meet STRS members, and he has accepted the CORE invitation to do the same for our group. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of his presentation.

Map/directions to STRS, 275 E. Broad St. Columbus, OH 43215