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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
Wednesday, February 11,
2015 Meeting Agenda
Campus Center Room 162-175
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10:00 - 10:20 |
Coffee, Tea and Cookies |
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10:20 - 10:40 |
Business
meeting and Announcements |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
Betty Romer
Amherst College |
The Search for an American Identity: Creating a
Usable Past |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Max Page
Professor of Architecture |
UMass
Amherst, An Architectural Tour |
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Betty Romer
Amherst College
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Betty Romer has a degree in Mathematics and after work experience
at Bell Laboratories joined Amherst College in 1968 until 1996 when she retired as the Director of
the Academic Computing Center. Since her retirement she has been a docent at the Wadsworth Athenaeum,
Mead Museum at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and currently the Museum of Fine
Arts in Springfield. She is part of an Outreach Program that takes art presentations to organizations
who have difficulty getting to the Museum. |
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Max Page
Professor of Architecture, MS Design Program Director, Director of Historic Preservation Initiatives
Department of Architecture
BA in History, 1988, Yale University, PhD, 1995 University of Pennsylvania. |
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He is the author and editor of six books, most recently: The Future of
Higher Education (Routledge, 2011, with Dan Clawson); Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (Planners Press, 2011,
co-edited with Tim Mennell); Campus Guide to the University of Massachusetts (Princeton Architecture
Press, 2013, with Marla Miller); and editor of Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in
Argentina (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013). For the hundredth anniversary of Times Square in 2004, he was curator for an exhibition on the history of the Square at the AXA Gallery in New York City. He is the winner of the 2013 Rome Prize and spent the spring of 2014 at the American Academy in Rome. His next book project is entitled
"Priceless: Rethinking Historic Preservation in the 21st Century." |
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