Institute Archives and Special Collections

Rensselaer Retirees Forum.
Records, 1988-2008.

MC #: 2008-11

Processed by: T.A.Gobert

Vol.: .6 lin. ft.

Date: June 2008

Restrictions: None

Historical Note

The Rensselaer Retirees Forum (RRF) was incorporated in 1988 as "a non-profit organization to enhance the social, economic, and professional well-being of retirees of Rensselaer" (Article II, RRF Bylaws). By 1990 a spin-off organization, the Rensselaer Pension Study Committee (PSC), was formed to investigate RPI's pension plan, a topic which occupied both groups for the next several years, culminating in a legal challenge which was later dropped by the PSC. Subsequent RRF activities focussed more on educational programming, including financial and estate planning, medical insurance, local history presentations, and a wide range of topics of interest to retirees.

Description

This collection consists largely of minutes of RRF meetings, including supplementary materials such as reports, summaries of speaker presentations, newspaper clippings, and obituraries of recently deceased Rensselaer retirees. From 1988 through 1995 there is a substantial amount of information about the Pension Study Committee and related topics.

Inventory

Box Folder Description Date
1 1 Meeting minutes. May - December 1988
  2 Meeting minutes. February - December 1989
  3 Meeting minutes. January - December 1990
  4 Meeting minutes. January - October 1991
  5 Meeting minutes. November - December 1991
  6 Meeting minutes. January - May 1992
  7 Meeting minutes. June - December 1992
  8 Meeting minutes. January - July 1993
  9 Meeting minutes (includes bylaws). August - December 1993
       
2 1 Meeting minutes. January - May 1994
  2 Meeting minutes. June - December 1994
  3 Meeting minutes. January - December 1995
  4 Meeting minutes. January - December 1996
  5 Meeting minutes. January - December1997
  6 Meeting minutes. January - December 1998
  7 Meeting minutes. January - December 1999
  8 Meeting minutes. January - December 2000
  9 Meeting minutes. January - December 2001
  10 Meeting minutes. January - December 2002
  11 Meeting minutes. January - December 2003
  12 Meeting minutes. January - December 2004
  13 Meeting minutes. January - November 2005
  14 Meeting minutes. January - December 2006
  15 Meeting minutes. January - November 2007
  16 Meeting minutes. January - November 2008
  17 Meeting minutes.  

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