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Welcome to the Retired Faculty Association The aims of the Retired Faculty Association are:
• To facilitate
constructive contributions by its members to the
University;
• To ascertain the relevant needs of retired faculty and to communicate this information to the
administration; and
• To promote social and intellectual interaction among its members.
All retired faculty members and librarians are eligible for Active Membership with full voting rights. Retired faculty members and
librarians living outside the Amherst area, retired faculty members and librarians of other colleges or universities, and widows or
widowers of persons who were eligible for Active or Associate Membership, may become Associate Members upon payment of Associate Member
dues. Spouses of Active or Associate Members qualify as Associate members without payment of dues.
This site aims to provide useful information to retired faculty through the links on the menu at left. If you have suggestions for
types of information you would like to find here contact us at retfac@cns.umass.edu |
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Featured News
SAVE THE DATE: Holiday Luncheon on
December 14, 2016
Wednesday,
October 12, 2016 Meeting Agenda
Campus Center Room 911-915
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee, Tea, Juice, Cookies |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Business
meeting and Announcements |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Ryan Bamford
UMass Director of Athletics |
UMass
Athletics: Building Champions in the Classroom,
Competition & Community |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Gerald McFarland
Professor Emeritus
History Department |
Discovering My Inner Novelist |
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Ryan Bamford, UMass Director of Athletics since March 2015
A 2000 graduate of Ithaca (N.Y.) College, Bamford began his college administration career at Springfield (Mass.) College. He has also served at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), Octagon Sports Marketing, Plymouth State University and the University of New Hampshire. Bamford spent eight-plus years at Yale, serving the last five as Senior Associate Director of Athletics. Prior to his arrival in Amherst, Bamford spent four seasons at Georgia Tech, the last two as Senior Associate Director of Athletics
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Gerald McFarland, Professor Emeritus, History Department
B.A., History, U.C. Berkeley, 1960 and PhD from Columbia University. Research focus in nineteenth-century U.S. history, approaching the 1812-1920 period from a variety of angles: political history, social history, borderlands history, and urban history. He is the author of 5 Books in his field. Since retirement in 2008, he has published 3 Novels-- "The Brujo’s Way", "What the Owl Saw", and "The Last of Our Kind"--in the Buenaventura Series--that have a realistic historical setting in early eighteenth-century Spanish New Mexico. He was awarded College of Humanities & Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award in 2002. |
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