CUPA/ARUC serves to bring together retirees of Concordia University, both for social gatherings and to promote our interests as Concordia retirees, pensioners and golden-agers in general.

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• Spring Meeting
  The 51st General Meeting of CUPARUC was held on Thursday, April 25 at the Loyola campus. Besides various reports, the current slate of officers was re-elected by acclamation. The minutes of this meeting will only be available publicly once they have been approved at the next Meeting, which is scheduled for October 24, 2013. Rita De Santis, Member of the National Assembly, presented a very interesting talk on the experience of being a first-time MNA. More information may follow.

• New Newsletter
  The full-edition of the April issue of the Newsletter (vol 22, no 1) is now available online.
  Here is an electronic copy of that newsletter (Pdf). Copies of earlier newsletters can be found under the 'Newsletters' link at the left.

• CUPARUC Scholarship Awards
  On April 11, Mary Baldwin, CUPARUC board member for our association's scholarship awards, attended the Donor and Student Awards Celebration at the Sofitel Hotel, and is shown here with two of our Retired Faculty and Staff Undergraduate Scholarship recipients. At the left of the photo is Fan Xu, originally from China who is studying Finance at JMSB in her second year and on the right of the photo is Stephanie Coleman, from Fine Arts, whois about to graduate this June with a Major in Fibres with an interest in material practices in the Studio Arts program. For more about our Scholarship Awards Programme, see the link on the menu at the left.

  Photo by Concordia University/Names cited with permission (Click to Enlarge)

• Christmas Luncheon
  The annual Christmas luncheon was held on Tuesday, December 4 and was well-attended. All had great fellowship and had a great time. Our thanks to our social director, Wendy Hedrich (whedrich@bell.net), who spearheaded the organization of the event. Check out these photos from the event.

• Scholarships and Awards
  Did you know your Association funds numerous graduate and undergraduate awards? Check out the new Awards page at the left for more information.

• Did you know that the Newsletter and Annual Minutes pages at the left include the entire collection, from the very first meeting? (There may remain a few gaps, as we cannot be sure of the number of newsletters published each year. Please help us if you have any of the missing material.

• Have we got your latest email address? Check the colour of your name on the Membership List to see if we have an email address on file for you. If you fear that we may not have your most up-to-date email address, send a note to Roger@RogerKenner.ca with your latest email address.