Update on Social Security Retirements/Deaths and Alumni Activity

Hi!  I hope that you are all well.  It's time for me to supplement the information given in the very informative Social Security Alumni Association newsletter:  Social Times.


I want to cover five areas today:

1.  SSA Retirements
2.  SSA Deaths
3.  The Social Security Alumni Association move into the old History Room.
4.  Update on Alumni trips.
5.  Alumni website

Note: If you are a retiree from SSA, the only way to get copies of the OASIS magazine mailed to you, is to join the Alumni Association.

1.  SSA Retirements

This list is compiled from E-Mails that I receive from SSA employees.  Although most of these people are recent retiree, some were mentioned in my last blog entry.

Larry Alexander
Al Bimbiras
Rita Biser
John Chlumsky
Cindy Dudley
Kathi Hanim
Bob Knauf
Denny Lessner
Carl Medura
Richard Miles
Sandra Moody
Janice Mosley
Jan Peddicord
Vashti Pullum
Benzener Stallings
Betsey Stevens
Tom Tobin
Trina Wetherald
Patti Zentz
Sheryll Ziporkin

2.  SSA-related Deaths

Lillian R. Bovelsk
Al Celentano
Ellen Engelhardt
David Greenberg
Jacqueline McCloud
Jackie Powell
Margaret Anne (Peggy) Wells

Janet Balcer's mother
Demetia Brannon's step-father
Carrol Donahey's mother
Joanne Dickinson's father
Dhanapal Gopegowda's father
Angela Johnson's husband
Steve Kautsch's mother
Russ Klunk's daughter
Pat Koehn's father
Robin Ott's father-in-law
Suzanne Rawling's husband
Darlene Restivo's father
Gloria Taylor's father
Janet Taylor's mother

3.  The Alumni Office move to the old SSA History Room.

Last Friday, the Social Security Alumni Association office relocated to the old SSA History Room, located in the Altmeyer Building, near the front entrance.  You remember,  that's the area with a glass wall, inviting you to come in and share the SSA experience.  The History Room material has been updated and expanded and transformed into the remarkable SSA Museum, located in the Operations Building (which is now called the Robert Ball Building.)  Larry DeWitt is still in charge of the SSA History material and might be able to arrange a visit to see some extrememly interesting articles, pictures, and videos.

We are very excited about our new location in the Altmeyer Building.  We should now be able to recruit new members from the ranks of the SSA employed... and we need new members!

4.  Alumni Trips

Is it the economy?  We have had to cancel our sixth trip last week.  It was a trip to the Eastern Shore of Maryland for a crab feast, followed by a boat trip in Annapolis.  During the two prior years, our crab feast trips were sold out and had waiting lists.  This year, we had only 18 people sign up for the trip which required a minimum of 40.  Earlier in the year, we had to cancel five of our day trips because of lack of reservations.  Perhaps in the future, we could entice current SSA employees to join us.

Over the 37 years that the Alumni Association has been in existence, we have had Nation-wide participation in  Caribbean cruises and European tours.   Now, we are afraid to even set one up, because of the monetary loss if we are not able to get enough reservations.

If you have any suggestions on how we can get back to well-attended trips, please let us know.  (You can always contact me at jvaughan9@msn.com  or 410-848-1838.)

5. Alumni Website

Don't forget to visit our website  http://www.ssaanational.org/

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Pleast forward this information to anyone you know who work for SSA now, or worked for SSA at any time in the past.  

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