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.