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NOTE: This site provides information about retired faculty and staff of the University of Hawaii. It is managed by Fred Riggs, on behalf of all UH retirees, in response to a request from the UH Chancellor's office. The link for active retirees on the UHM Web Site can be found on the "ABOUT" menu. It takes viewers to this page. We have included many Links to other sites relevant to the concerns of retirees and senior citizens. A model with similar though different features can be viewed on the Alumni page.

Our goal is to provide information that helps retirees keep in touch with each other and also links them with the University for mutually advantageous purposes. Understandably, many programs and sites for the elderly focus on their legal, health, and recreational needs -- as posted under UH below. However, the main focus of this site is on the challenges and opportunities faced by robust seniors, the many ways in which they can continue creative living, especially in the context of a University that welcomes their participation in its ongoing life. The following activities are planned -- each will be elaborated as this project evolves. To jump to any them directly, click on the boxed buttons above.

IDENTITY: browse the Emeriti Professors listed in the Catalog 2005-06. View some of the web sites posted by Faculty and Staff. Some retired faculty have subscribed to a ListServ that permits easy communication, augmented by archiving of texts to facilitate subsequent indexing and retrieval. Anyone interested in joining this list is invited to contact Fred Riggs. We also maintain a Registry for UH Retirees that provides links to sites with their bio-data and a summary of their post-retirement activities and achievements, plus a Master List naming all UH retirees that we can identify. Our Necrology lists those who have recently died with links to obituaries where their life-time achievements are sometimes reported. A Center for Retirees at UH (CRUH) is now being established and it will become a far more efficient agent for monitoring and facilitating the continuing work of UH retirees. Our Committee on Liaison with UH (CLUH) offers includes more thoughts on the STATUS of retirees, some of whom have their own web sites -- here is a start-up sample and others will be added. The stars link a second site. Please help us identify and add more such sites. Available campus lists are given first, followed by an alphabetized LIST of personal sites with annotations.

Campus Lists of Web Sites for Faculty and Others

Web Sites for Retirees from University of Hawaii at Manoa:

The list of sites posted above is just a start -- many more exist and we must not only lengthen the list but develop activities that would make more effective use of them and help those who want to create or improve their own personal Web Pages.


Legacy Path

SEARCH ENGINES; Find individual addresses, including e-mail (for emeriti but not other retirees) in the University Directory. Also search alphabetical list of Faculty and Staff Home Pages, and classified list of personal sites by Departments. Find names, without addresses, in UH Catalog listing of Emeriti. Also a search by individual names on the UH System and UH Manoa sites, often retrieves relevant information, sometimes including addresses. A GOOGLE search on Riggs' UH SITES page will open global as well as local links for individual names.

FRAUHM: For details about the Faculty Retirees Association, University of Hawaii at Manoa, go to FRAUHM You are cordially invited to attend its luncheon forums. If you are not a member, please join, following guidelines given on this page. If you are willing to help develop the FRAUHM page or work with FRAUHM in any way, please contact Cedric Cowing, President of the Association. A Committee on Liaison with UH (CLUH) has been established by FRAUHM, with Fred Riggs as chair, to engage interested retirees in a variety of projects and activities that will more effectively link them to the ongoing work of the University. A major step forward hinges on the plans for a University Club led by Deans Raymond Yeh and Dick Dubanoski. Volunteers are needed to help the Committee and participate in the activities it will sponsor, including some that will pave the way for creation of the much needed Club.. Anyone willing to share in this work is invited to write <fredr@hawaii.edu>.

BULLETIN BOARD: Space will eventually become available for retirees to chat about any of their concerns and university matters that interest them. We can set up a private access group on NICENET . To see how this works, just click on this link and read the explanation. Although designed primarily for academic classes, the system works for any serious group. Anyone interested in joining a chat group for discourse on the common concerns of retirees is invited to contact Fred Riggs .

Momentous events, problems, and achievements at UH can provide a focus for such discourse groups. One suggestion that has been made by CLUH involves the recognition of individuals who have received rewards for meritorious achievements to enable those outside of their own departments to learn about and meet with them. Participation by retirees in such an activity will both inspire and interest them, and also gain wider recognition for the honorees. Chatting about these events on the Internet can make the facts and their implications known not only locally but even globally.

HELP WANTED: A BOR directive (E9.209) asserts that: ...emeriti faculty will provide the University community with expert and mature counsel on a variety of matters. Emeriti faculty may serve as guest lecturers and participate in seminars, colloquia, lectures and other scholarly meetings at the invitation of the sponsoring University unit. The University community is encouraged to call upon the services of emeriti faculty to assist with special committees, task forces, projects, etc., that can benefit from their experience and knowledge. How is this policy to be implemented?

Anyone at UH who wants help or advice from any retired faculty or staff is invited to use this space to specify what is needed and invite responses from interested retirees. A procedure is being planned to facilitate university service by retirees. Such facilities already exist for community service. For a good example, open the Helping Hands Hawaii page, or go directly to their site for the RSVP Retired and Senior Volunteer Program. They offer information about more than 40 non-profit local organizations that need volunteers to help. Many useful clues can be found on the Hawaii Intergenerational Nework. At the national level, one may visit the Corporation for National and Community Service which also supports programs in Hawaii. There are many opportunities for retirees to mentor students, faculty, and others who can benefit from getting to know individual retirees. We hope to establish a UH link for units at UH that need help from volunteers. A discourse group for retirees interested in volunteer service can be set up to help mobilize volunteers and share experiences. Many retirees are active outside the University, and some possilities for fruitful town/gown activities are identified at Community Relations .

Senior Volunteers as Assets reports a study by Michael Cheang, Center on Aging, Office of Public Health Studies, John A. Burns School of Medicine. He found there is a growing need for volunteers and many seniors are willing to serve if invited to do useful and interesting tasks. He notes that 67 percent of non-volunteers are likely to volunteer if they know there is a need for their volunteer time. However, ...the burden is on the organizations to recruit and retain volunteers rather than on potential volunteers to be seeking volunteer work to do. By implication, a goodly crowd of retirees are available to serve in many different capacities as volunteers, but only after they've been recognized and invited to step forward. That's why a well organized Help Wanted service needs to be established.

Retirees interested in teaching or serving overseas should open the Retired Academics Database . This is a global system sponsored by the Association of Commonwealth Universities. They will register interested retirees on a complimentary basis, but universities seeking help are charged to cover the costs of the service. Perhaps a similar set-up could be established locally to enable retirees willing to volunteer to register, and those seeking their services to subscribe. Current information about projects under way will be posted on the CLUH site for HELP WANTED .

SPEAKERS BUREAU: Many retirees are able and willing to speak to classes and community groups. Managers of these activities look for well qualified people. To facilite such engagements, the site will host an information facility, listing available talent and groups seeking speakers. Volunteers will be needed to make this service effective as an on-going activity.

PRE-RETIREMENT: While faculty and staff are considering retirement as an option, they need to be informed about what it will mean for them, and what rewards to expect after they give up their formal relationships to UH. Information about available resources and opportunities for continuing service as volunteers will be posted here. Every Spring the Chancellor at UHM honors faculty and staff at a Retirees Recognition Ceremony. Efforts are under way to organize a FRAUHM-sponsored workshop at which these new retirees would be able to learn about and discuss the various opportunities that will open for them after they leave the UH payroll.

The UH Office of Human Resources offers training workshops on solving the health, legal, and financial problems facing retirees -- for information about the content and procedures involved see OHR Training . Employees considering retirement may also find helpful information through any of the sites listed below at: LINKS.

Abe Arkoff, UH Psychology retiree (arkoff@hawaii.edu) offers a pre-retirement service to UH faculty and staff. His ILLUMINATED LIFE workshop uses a retrospective-proactive orientation -- one that deals with the past and gathers insights. It is designed to help independent older persons better deal with the challenges and opportunities of the "third age." Pre-test and post-test surveys suggest that participants in THE ILLUMINATED LIFE experience genuine gains in well-being and life satisfaction, mobilizing them for more creative, productive post-retirement roles.

Reviewing one's life and acting on the insights drawn from that review have long been recommended for people in their "third age"-- a designation increasingly given to the years past 60. These years can be a time of renewal or rebirth or, sadly, of stagnation and decline. This workshop program can be helpful to those newly retired or soon to retire if it helps create a more fulfilling present and a future open to new direction, meaning, and purpose.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute makes this service a gift to the University. There will be no admission fee for faculty retirees and the accompanying lifebook will be offered free of charge. For details, see the schedule for OLLI courses.

MEMORIES . The first President and real organizer of FRAUHM was Wytze Gorter who died Sept. 24, 2004 -- see his obituary . Dick Kosaki was the Chancellor who supported these efforts. Other founders were Shirley and Bob Kamins, Mitz Aoki, John Craven and Sidney Townsley. They are still around and could contribute lively memories of the founding experiences. During its founding year (1987), Wytze Gorter is reported as recommending: "...at the annual meeting we should note, with appropriate words and ceremony, the death of retired members of the faculty." In the FRAUHM Newsletter, edited by Ralph Berger, obituaries of deceased colleagues are posted from time to time. This information has been cumulated, with additions, and published in our NECROLOGY. It is fitting to publish tributes for the deceased that may range from brief obituaries to more extended commemorative remarks. As occasions arise, this space can also be used to record fond memories of deceased colleagues, or post links to their obituaries. Further thoughts about Death and Dying are offered on the CLUH site. .

Before they die, it is surely possible and interesting to interview those who have vivid memories of their own role and activities at UH. We have an excellent Center for Oral History led by Warren Nishimoto that might organize and record such interviews. Providing a more personal record of UH people could be a challenge for the Center for Biographical Research led by Craig Howes. George Simson, pioneer biographer at UH is himself a professor emeritus and will facilitate such efforts, notably through the ABCD project, based on Archives, Biographies, Computing and Documentation. Other links for UH resources relevant to the history of UH and Hawaii Hall can be found on the UH Sites page prepared by Fred Riggs. A current project that's generating a lot of interest involves planning for the UH Centennial in 2007. CLUH intends to participate actively.

LIFELONG LEARNING. Seniors wishing to expand their horizons are invited to take regular courses at UH as "visitors" enrolled under the Senior Citizen Visitor's Program (SCVP), or become members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute" (OLLI).

The SCVP enables Hawai`i’s senior citizens to “visit” any courses that are offered at the University. There's no tuition charge nor is academic credit given. For information please contact the program manager, Dr. Lee Putnam, who may be reached by phone at: (808) 956-9317, or by e-mail: at "lputnam@hawaii.edu".

OLLI offers "lifelong learning" courses and workshops for members who subscribe by paying a modest membership fee. Instruction is offered by volunteers who are often UH faculty retirees.

Here's an announcement of OLLI courses offered during Fall 2005.

DREAMING THE FUTURE. The activities identified above are all based on current realities and possibilities. However, to anticipate the future, we may dream about developments still barely imagined yet hopefully possible. For example, a few UHM retirees might team up with Emeritus Regents and retirees from other campuses to create an Academy to promote or sponsor research into a wide range of interesting problems, looking for solutions. If UH chooses to look more deeply into some of its organizational and structural problems, it might call upon some actively interested retirees to help, as by forming a Commission of Inquiry. It is premature to say much more than this here, but we must surely remain open to challenging possiblities that lie ahead.

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