The Manifesto identifies some ways retirees can help UH:

1. GRATITUDE. In exchange for recognition, hospitality and continuing academic stimulus, retirees will give UH money, legacies, books and archives, wise counsel and volunteer services.

2. WORKSHOPS. The skills and wisdom of retirees is volunteered in workshops, seminars, councils, and symposia where all can benefit. Some volunteer to teach courses for OLLI. Current offerings of OLLI are described in its Fall program.

3. COUNCILS. Some retirees now serve on the UH Board of Regents. Others could participate in various decision-making bodies and advisory councils of the University.

4. MENTORING. Seniors help their juniors at all levels on a face-to-face personal basis, working with students, faculty, administrators, grant-seekers, the disadvantaged and those with special needs.

5. CONGENIALITY. When the University Club becomes established, many retirees will participate, but meanwhile they can join cross-campus activities that pave the way for creating the Club.

6. INNOVATION. No longer constrained by their departmental attachments, retirees are free to promote novel and creative extra-disciplinary inquiries that will help build a stronger university. They have more free time to think ahead, and fewer constraints imposed by contract obligations than those currently on the UH payroll.

II. BASIC PROJECTS. To move toward these goals, a number of activities are now under way and/or have been planned. They include:

1. FRAUHM (The Faculty Retirees Association at UHM) was created 20 years ago and flourishes today as explained in its History. Its by-laws read in Article 2: The purposes of this association are (1) to organize and offer social, professional, and intellectual programs and activities of special interest to its members, and (2) to offer support and service to the University of Hawaii wherever possible. A flyer distributed by FRAUHM asserts that one of its goals is: To provide the University and the community with a pool of expertise.

2. WEB SITE. In response to a request from Denise Konan, Fred Riggs prepared a Web Site for Retirees This site identifies and can facilitate a range of cooperative activities for retirees and serve UH as well. Its introduction contains this language: "The main focus of this site is on the challenges and oportunities faced by robust seniors, the many ways in which they can continue creative living, especially in the context of a University that welcomes their participation in its ongoing life." The Site provides many links to resources for seniors and opportunities for service to UH. It will persist as a frame of refrence for the University and all its retired faculty.

3. CLUH. To organize and plan cooperative activities, FRAUHM created and sponsors a "Committee on Liaison with UH" (CLUH) chaired by Fred Riggs, as explained in a series of plans and proposals offered on the CLUH SITE. This site is continuously changing as new opportunities and activities evolve. It supplements the RETIREES site to which it's linked.

4. ADMINISTRATIVE LIAISON. Upon taking office as UHM Chancellor in August 2005, Denise Konan invited Joanne Clark to take primary responsiblity for working with UH retirees. She succeeds Neal Smatresk and Helene Sokugawa who had carried these responsiblities for Chancellor Peter Englert. On behalf of all retirees at UH, we express our gratitude to these people and hope to continue working closely with them.

5. FUND RAISING. Harold McArthur is in charge of Research Relations and has consulted with us about problems of raising money for research. We have offered to mentor younger faculty in departments where the requisite knowledge of funding sources and procedures is inadequate. McArthur and his staff lack the time and resources to advise them individually -- they organize workshops and provide written materials but they are not able to sit down with individuals to discuss their plans and dreams and help them develop successful grant applications. For details see: Research Relations. No new workshops are scheduled, however. Past workshops, up through 2003, are listed at:Previous events.

Many potential applicants for extra-mural grants settle for small intra-mural funding that meets only a small part of their needs but is easier to get. Our list of retirees will enable us to identify experienced former faculty who have been successful in finding extra-mural funds and are willing to spend some time with a faculty member advising them face-to-face. As a result we should be able to help UH raise more money to support faculty research and enhance the significance of our research programs.

To make this possible, however, administrative leadership is needed. Hal informs us that his office has little or no information about the possible interest of individual faculty in developing research funding plans. Nor is it reasonable to expect retirees to scout for potential applicants they could help. However, some retired faculty will respond when told about faculty members seeking to develop grant proposals.

The best way to identify potential beneficiaries, therefore, will be for department chairs or research directors who are well informed about the interests, capabilities, and plans of their own faculty to identify them and invite them to apply for assistance. For retirees to be helpful, we must generate leads for them to follow. To stimulate requests for help from retirees, the support of deans and top administrators is necessary.

III. NEXT STEPS. In order to implement the goals and projects outlined above, we need some key tools and procedures as follows:

1. MAILING LIST. We have already created a mailing LIST for all retirees. It is a LISTSERV which automatically sends announcements and proposals to everyone listed, including several liaison officers at UH. The list now contains about 170 names and more are being added. Unfortunately, the list is quite incomplete: many retired faculty cannot be listed because we don't have their names and e-mail addresses. We are making inquiries and adding names on a hit and miss basis. The only way to assure comprehensive coverage is for the Chancellor to ask our deans to request all UHM departments to check the LIST for completeness and provide missing names. Their responses will enable us to promptly & systematically make the list more comprehensive and useful.

This is a FOUNDATIONAL TOOL. So long as it's incomplete, we are seriously handicapped in efforts to encourage stronger support by retirees for UH. This is a basic FIRST STEP that can be taken without reference to all the other things that need to be done. While names on the list are made public, e-mail addresses are confidential. This means those on the list will receive announcements specifically relevant to interests of retirees and how they can help the University -- it will not be available for others to use for unrelated purposes. Without a more complete list, we are trying to operate with our hands tied. THIS IS OUR URGENT TOP PRIORITY!!!

2. DEPARTMENTAL SITES. Some departments include names and informationabout their retirees. Here are some good examples: Anthropology, Linguistics*, Music*, Political Science, and Zoology*. The starred names provide direct links to their retired faculty lists -- the others include the information only at the end of their general faculty lists. Sad to say, most UH departments fail to mention their retired faculty, or they list their names without providing any relevant information about them.

The UHM administration could greatly strengthen our efforts to reach retired faculty by asking all departments to make sure that their departmental Web Sites identify and provide information about their retirees, many of whom continue to serve as advisers to students, guest lecturers, and even adjunct teachers. They are still members of our academic community. Even those living outside of Hawaii are reachable on the Web.

This request stands on its own merits and there are good precedents in the departmental sites mentioned above. We will also investigate practices at other universities and provide, separately, a report on national standards for listing retired faculty on university sites. However, this will take time to do and is not immediately available.

3. RETIREES REGISTRY. We have a growing REGISTRY of retirees. It contains data about what 60 retirees have done, or plan to do, since they left theUH payroll:

It makes an inspiring record that has a variety of potential uses. For example, it provides some leads that can be valuable for planning the UH Centennial Celebration. Anyone looking for experts on any topic who might be tapped as advisers or participants in university projects ought to search the Registry to find good prospects. Students and faculty looking for mentors to help them as volunteers may well find good leads here. Current faculty contemplating retirement may also use the Registry to find role models and ask for advice from those who have preceded them.

Admittedly, the Registry is still quite incomplete and we are working to expand the record. We're using our mailing LIST to appeal to all retirees to provide information about their own plans and work -- expanding this list, therefore, will also help develop the REGISTRY. Departments that include names of retirees on their Web Sites should be invited to include
a link to the Registry so readers can find out more about the post-retirement activities of their former faculty members.

For example, 3 former Music faculty members (Corragio, McKay, & Smith) and 4 Political Science retirees (Kuroda, Neubauer, Paige & Riggs) have entries in the Registry. Since departments often fail to up-date their faculty bio-data, the two sources supplement each other. For an example, consider these two entries for Deane Neubauer:political scientist and retiree. The former is an outdated departmental site with career information; while the latter is a short post-retirement update that has current data. Departments could be advised to provide cross-links to up-date the information they already have about their retirees.

4. AWARDS. Providing official recognition for one's accomplishments is always gratifying to recipients and helps motivate emulation by others. UH offers may awards to its current faculty as expressed in Convocation ceremonies, including the coming event on Sept. 13, 2005. General information is available at:Awards. A comprehensive list and record of past convocations can be found at Events. None of these awards, however, are given for accomplishments by retired faculty. EXCEPT, however, an important innovation will occur for the first time on Sept. 16, 2005, when the College of Social Sciences will announce awards to 4 of its own retired faculty members for their post-retirement achievements.

As one can see by browing our REGISTRY, many UH retirees have been honored for their work by national and international bodies, but not by UH. Recognizing their achievements is not only gratifying for the recipients,but encourages others to emulate them and, in return, the University will benefit. The CSS example might well be emulated by other colleges and this is another idea the Chancellor might well suggest to all UHM deans.

5. MEETING AWARD WINNERS. A tangible pay-off from the CSS initiative will become evident as a result of our "MAW" project . By hosting a small dinner for a select group to "Meet an Award Winner", we hope to generate a lively group that will mingle retirees with faculty, administrators, and community people to develop concrete policy outcomes. Our first such exercise will be with Tom Dinell, one of the CSS awardees. Tom's Reflective Essay on developing the UHM campus environment and the Moiliili neighborhood will be the focus. We are confident this example will produce results that directly benefit UH, as will each of the other MAW projects to follow: there will be two each semester.

IV. FUNDED PROJECTS. All of the activities described above can be accomplished without any expenditure of University funds -- only voluntary efforts are called for. However, a modest investment is required to implement the following two projects.

1. ABCD, and the Centennial Celebration. George Simson has accepted responsibility for developing our "Archives, Bibliography, Computing & Documentation" ABCD project. This is a cooperative venture that involves our Centers for Biographical Research, Oral History, Creative Media, and Library Archives. Hence it has long-term research significance for the past and future of UH. However, it also has immediate implications for the Centennial Celebration since it will generate information about people and activities that have served, and will serve, UH well.

To collect, digitize and handle the archival materials and memoirs we expect the ABCD project to produce, we need clerical support and working space. George has produced a modest budget and we've discussed available resources that could be used. A draft budget has already been submitted and it can be viewed and revised in a separate document. It can also be added as an ANNEX.

Apart from the research and other direct benefits of the ABCD project, it has morale-building implications. When we ask retirees to volunteer for work with and for UH, they often ask what the University thinks of them. Is there any reciprocity? They are willing to help as volunteers and even contribute money and tangible goods, but only, I think, if they are valued as partners. Having one small funded project will provide the evidence needed to persuade more retirees to work for and contribute to UH. We may well expect retirees to contribute matching funds but they need evidence to University support: without it, they lose interest.

2. FRAUHM OFFICE SPACE. As now organized, FRAUHM operates without any direct support or recognition from UH. All of its operations are based on volunteer work and dues payments. This has led to instability and gaps as leaders and workers fluctuate. Consider its History. Without any permanent office, the records for all FRAUHM activities have been handled idiosyncratically by its officers who keep whatever records they choose, discard others, and sometimes transfer material to their successors. Agnes Niyekawa and Bart Mathias have struggled mightily, against serious obstacles, to compile this history, scrounging among former colleagues to collect data. The result is impressive but fragmentary and full of holes. If UH could provide a permanent office on campus, with some computer equipment and filing space, FRAUHM could staff and fund its operations much more reliably and efficiently. A contrast may be drawn with the relationship of the University to its 250,000 alumni whose existence is supported by a battery of resources as noted at UH Alumni. The University works actively with the UH Alumni Association and its many components.

No doubt the expectation of financial support provides a powerful motivator, yet the same hope can apply to retirees. They also can be expected to contribute gifts and legacies to UH, but only if they develop a sense of community and reciprocity. The University does nothing to support or encourage FRAUHM yet, like the Alumni Association, it needs encouragement to succeed. A very modest sign of support would not cost any money: it could just involve allocating some space for a permanent office and storage of records: a desk and file cabinet in some appropriate place like the side room of HH 208 which is already designated as the 'FACULTY ROOM' under the control of our Faculty Senate. We will ask the Senate for
its support, but Administration backing is a requisite for success.

The point is not that we ought to have a better, more comprehensive and accurate FRAUHM History, but rather that new officers will be better served if they have a reliable base for information about our past. We could more effectively build on experience to develop an association that not only caters to its members' interests, but elicits their willingness to help UH in accordance with their by-laws which, as noted above, promise"...support and service to the University of Hawaii wherever possible."

Our LIST of retirees is needed to develop and strengthen the Association. Unfortunately, with incomplete information, many retirees are not even informed about FRAUHM and invited to join. We also need a base of operations to maintain the list -- at 88 my own life expectancy is limited and who will replace me? To maintain our continuity of work, we need the institutionalized stability a permanent home base can offer.

Volunteers from FRAUHM will do all the work necessary to make the Association thrive -- but they need a permanent office to house their records and also provide tangible evidence that UH is interested in their success. It will, then, also become the main beneficiary of our work.

LINKS FOR UH RETIREE PAGES

• The UH Retirees Page : with links, on campus, locally, nationally, & internationally
  • Retirees MANIFESTO : thoughts on the role of retirees at UH
  • Registry of UH Retirees : including autobiographical entries
  • Web Sites of Retirees: a list with annotations
  • Mailing list for UH Retirees
• FRAUHM Faculty Retirees Association at UHM
  • History : based on first draft by Agnes Niiyekawa; lists officers and speakers
  • Centennial Planning links : lists people and units interested in planning the celebration