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Introduction

About the DePaul Emeritus Society

DePaul University values its ongoing connections with its faculty and staff retirees, as it values their past contributions to the university’s mission. The DePaul University Emeritus Society was founded in 2008 with the merger of the Staff Emeritus Society and the Emeritus Professors Association. The Society is sponsored by the University’s Office of Mission and Values.

The purpose of the DePaul Emeritus Society is to provide a means for ongoing connection, communication, and socialization between the university and its emeritus faculty and staff, and between individual retirees whose professional lives were for so many years dedicated to university service.

Photos, events, and information of interest to members of the DePaul Emeritus Society will be posted to this blog. Please take a look, add your comment, offer to be an "author" or just enjoy.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Snapshot of DES, September, 2010

  • How many of us? We are 230 retirees strong - 14 more retirees than when we began in May, 2008 plus 53 spouses of deceased retirees

  • Of the 230 retirees, two-thirds are faculty and one-third are staff. (153 faculty; 77 staff)

  • Our gender representation is 60.4% male and 39.6% female (139 male; 91 female)

  • Our current retirees stretch over four decades with the earliest retirement date 1978 - more than 32 years ago.

  • Our ages also span a few decades with our youngest retiree being born in 1953 and our most senior retiree born in 1916.

  • 69.1% (159) of us live in Illinois; the remaining 71 live in 24 states and one foreign country. About 50% of the out-of-state members live in four states: Florida (11) Wisconsin (11), California (8) and Arizona (6).

  • University records show the retiree with the longest association with the University, a combination of active full-time service and retiree status, is William Pasterczyk who started working full time at DePaul on March 1, 1942.

So that is a little bit of who makes up the DePaul Emeritus Society in the fall of 2010. But, I think there is one more thing that we all have in common and that is our decades-long love for the University, its mission and St. Vincent.

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