Post date: Feb 16, 2020 4:4:16 PM
February 16, 2020
Dear Fellow Retirees and Former IBMers:
We hope everyone is well as we begin 2020. Thanks to Jim Hughes for providing outstanding leadership as President of the Retiree Club Steering Council in 2019. Jim will serve as Vice President this year. Under Jim’s leadership, your Club has extended its reach through several new initiatives:
- Webinar as an alternative to coming to the seminar
- A Facebook group called IBM Tampa Bay Alumni and Retiree to
further enhance communication
On behalf of all of us, I want to offer our special thanks to Council members who went an extra mile to support the Club activities:
- Eileen Byrne-Halczyn for enabling and supporting state-of-the-art
webinar option for our seminars
- Nancy Schramm for ensuring the availability of appropriate
conference rooms in public libraries
I am happy to report that your Club has met the challenge of losing the IBM facilities and support very well! Following are all the members of the Steering Council who volunteer to serve the Tampa Bay IBM alumni and retiree community:
Hari Arora - President 2020, Medicare Benefits seminars
Eileen Byrne-Halczyn - Secretary, webinars, seminars
Donna Fryza - IBM Club, IBM liaison
Susan Gryzbowski - Seminars
Dianne Hartt - Golf outings
Jim Hughes - Vice President 2020, VR database, mass emails,
Medical Benefits seminars
Judy Manowitz - Day at the Races, social events
Mary Ann McCoy - Treasurer
Harry Schaffhauser - Webmaster
Nancy Schramm - Seminars, facilities
We held the following seminars/webinars in Summer/Fall of 2019:
- Update on the Decoding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act webinar
- Senior Scams and Cyber Security seminar
- Medical Benefits seminar
- Medical Benefits webinar
All seminars and webinars were well attended and received excellent feedback.
Flyers are included for the following upcoming Spring events:
Preparing for Longevity- March 26
Scheduled as per your feedback, this webinar will focus on realistic financial planning for longevity.
Back to the Races - Saturday, April 25
This popular annual event will be held again at the Tampa Bay Downs.
We are planning to hold a Golf Outing during the first week of May. Details will be communicated as plans are firmed up.
There are four remaining shows at the Straz Center with the IBM Club discount. Please visit www.itbrc.org for details.
If you change your email address you will need to enter the change at www.itbrc.org Club Registration feature to continue to receive future communications from the Retiree Club. If you (or others you know) are not receiving Club e-mails, please check if they are going to your spam file. If not, please e-mail Jim Hughes at j.r.hughes45@gmail.com to verify the e-mail address.
We appreciate everyone's support and participation. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
You can contact the Club's Steering Council at:
President itbrc.pres@gmail.com Membership itbrc.reg@gmail.com
Webmaster itbrc/web@gmail.com Seminars itbrc.sem@gmail.com
Events itbrc.event@gmail.com Volunteering itbrc.vol@gmail.com
You can also call Hari Arora at 813-962-8395 or Jim Hughes at 727-937-2429 .
Yours Truly,
Hari Arora
Steering Council President