Chapter President's Message

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Jo-Ann Paulenda Chapter President

Greetings and welcome to the Alle-Kiski Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of the School Retirees. We are located eighteen miles north of Pittsburgh on the scenic Allegheny River.

Our local chapter is an active organization consisting of public school retirees from seven neighboring school districts. Our members were employees of the following: Apollo-Ridge, Burrell, Freeport, Highlands, Kiski Area, Leechburg and New Kensington-Arnold school districts. We are former administrators, teachers, and support personnel.

We provide our members with social opportunities through our two yearly General Membership Meetings in May and October and we have an annual Christmas Party. To increase our attendance at these functions, we are going to establish a “telephone tree” to give the personal touch to our meetings. We also have a group within our chapter referred to as the “Day Trippers.” We schedule several one-day trips for our members as a social activity.

Our members are also informed twice yearly via newsletters of items pertaining to “retiree issues.”

In addition to being active volunteers in our local communities, we also provide an annual scholarship to a deserving high school senior who has enrolled in an educational program in a college or university. This past May the scholarship was in the amount of $1,000.

We also support PASR, our state organization, that works tirelessly for the benefit of pubic school retirees throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Several of our members have served as region committee chairpersons.

We are continuously looking for additional retirees to support our organization as well as to serve on the various committees which have been established within our local chapter to further the work that we do. One of my goals is to try and recruit support personnel to join our chapter. They have much to give and would be an asset to any organization.

It is my sincere hope that you might be interested in joining us. You’ll be glad you did.

Sincerely

Jo-Ann Paulenda

P.S. If you wish to join our organization or if you have questions about our chapter, please contact Susan McIntosh, our Public Relations Chairman, by clicking on her e-mail address - SCHMMAC272@aol.com.