IEA-Retired 25 th Anniversary – – 2015  1983 NEA RA established an ad hoc committee to study the inclusion of retired members  1985 NEA by-laws amended to integrate retired members & require unified membership  1986 IEA Organization and Membership Development Committee charged to establish guidelines for a retired program, continuing their work for the next 2 years

 1990 RA NBI to create IEA-Retired and to begin actively organizing IEA-Retired members beginning with those who retire in 1990  1989 IEA RA NBI authorized the forming of a committee for developing an IEA Retired Program  1989 IEA RA NBI authorized a Retired Membership Committee Retired Membership Committee members were: Dennis Koutouzos, Chair Carol Bland, Staff Anne Davis Virginia Gosse, retiree Keith Hauge, Retiree Molly Phalen This group recommended the following NBI in 1990, which passed.

 1990 Retired implementers developed a set of goals for the IEA-Retired Program IEA-Retired Implementers Felicia Cichy Shirley Evans Samuel Franklin Ivo Grief Jay Hammer Keith Hauge Mary Lou Hauge John Von Kerens Margaret Leyda Don Metzger Nancy Miller Tom Prather Marilyn Rich Phyllis Rousch Vince Wilhelmi

 The Informer was first published in 1991 and won NEA- Retired Outstanding Newsletter Award 2000, 2002, and 2003 and then was voted into the Hall of Fame. Informer Editors Carol Bland Keith Hauge Dave Bishop

 1991 IEA RA by-law defining retired dues options  1992 IEA RA by-law establishing pre-retired enrollment option

 1993 IEA RA by-law authorizing retired chapters First chapter – South Suburban

Second Chapter – Region 9 Third Chapter – North Lakes

 1994 IEA-Retired Task Force appointed, whose work resulted in many by-law changes at the 1995 and 1996 IEA RAs 1994 IEA-Retired Task Force Mary Lou Hauge – retired Barb Gilhaus – retired Ray Price Jack Stone Rob Johan Dottie Beeler Linda Davis Clay Marquardt – staff Carol Bland – staff Betty Thielemann – staff First Council of Retirees

 1994 RA by-law that authorized the formation of an elected Council of Retirees with the Chairperson of the Council becoming a voting member of the IEA Board of Directors COUNCIL of RETIREES OFFICERS 1994 Chair: Mary Lou Hauge Vice Chair: Fred Wagner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gihaus 1995 Chair: Mary Lou Hauge Vice Chair: Fred Wagner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gihaus 1996 Chair: Mary Lou Hauge Vice Chair: Fred Wagner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gihaus 1997 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gihaus Mary Lou Hauge

1998 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gihaus 1999 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gihaus 2000 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gihaus 2001 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Jack Tucker 2002 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Jack Tucker 2003 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Jack Tucker Fred Wagner

2004 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Jack Tucker 2005 Chair: Fred Wagner Vice Chair: Keith Hauge Secretary/Treasurer: Jack Tucker 2006 Chair: Jack Tucker Vice Chair: JoAnn Kenner Secretary/Treasurer: Mae Smith 2007 Chair: Jack Tucker Vice Chair: JoAnn Kenner Secretary/Treasurer: Mae Smith 2008 Chair: Jack Tucker Vice Chair: JoAnn Kenner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gilhaus 2009 Chair: Jack Tucker Vice Chair: JoAnn Kenner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gilhaus Jack Tucker

2010 Chair: Jack Tucker Vice Chair: JoAnn Kenner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gilhaus 2011 Chair: Jack Tucker Vice Chair: JoAnn Kenner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gilhaus 2012 Chair: Jack Tucker Vice Chair: JoAnn Kenner Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gilhaus 2013 Chair: Janet Kilgus Vice Chair: Jim Duffy Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gilhaus 2014 Chair: Janet Kilgus Vice Chair: Jim Duffy Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Gilhaus 2015 Chair: Janet Kilgus Vice Chair: Jim Duffy Secretary-Treasurer: Dave Bishop Janet Kilgus

 1994 Mary Lou and Keith Hauge Award established MARY LOU & KEITH HAUGE AWARD WINNERS 1995Mary Lou Hauge 1996Gene Craig 2006Janet Kilgus 1997Keith Hauge 2007Mae Smith 1998Barb Gilhaus 2008Dave Bishop 1999Marietta McManus 2009No Award Given 2000Fred Wagner 2010JoAnn Kenner 2001Don Metzger (posthumously) 2011Dottie Beeler 2002Sue Rudy 2012Linda Walcher 2003Marcia Ford 2013Elaine Ferguson 2004 Jan May 2014Stewart Adams 2005 Jack Tucker2015 Jim Duffy

Keith Hauge carried on after the death of Mary Lou Retired Membership Committee IEA-Retired Implementer Organizer of the South Suburban Retired Chapter Council of Retirees member Council of Retirees Vice Chair Editor of the Informer for over a decade Retired Conference Program Chair 2000 And so much more!

May 1995

 st IEA-Retired Conference was held IEA-RETIRED CONFERENCE CHAIRS 1998 – 1999 IEA-Retired Council 2000 IEA-Retired Council —Keith Hauge, Program Chair 2001 IEA-Retired Council —Barb Gilhaus & Jan May, Program Co-Chairs 2002 Pearl Mack 2003 Gene Craig 2004 – 2007 Mae Smith 2008 – 2009 C. E. Welch 2010 – 2011 Lana Haines 2012 – 2013 Minnie Glover 2014 Lou Ann Jacobs 2015 Lou Ann Jacobs (spring conference) 2015 Levita Anderson (fall joint conference)

 1999 Mentor Program was created Mentor Program Coordinators Marietta McManus Janet Kilgus Linda Walcher Linda Walcher and Gayla Dial Gayla Dial Marietta Janet Linda Gayla

 1999 IEA RA bylaw establishing unified NEA-Retired and IEA-Retired dues

 st retired scholarship was awarded

 2002 Gene Craig was the 1 st IEA-Retired member elected to the NEA-Retired Advisory Council  2006 Gene Craig was elected Secretary of the NEA-Retired Advisory Council and served 2 three-year terms

 2005 the Living Library was established IEA-Retired Living Library Coordinator present Janet Kilgus Check us out at:

Getting involved politically and in the community became very important to our retired members.

 2009 Mae Smith was elected to the NEA-Retired Executive Council

 2011 IEA RA by-law adding a retired ethnic minority delegate to the IEA RA 2012 – Pearl Mack 2013 – Dottie Beeler 2014 – JoAnn Kenner 2015 – JoAnn Kenner Pearl Dottie JoAnn

IEA-Retired Staff Liaisons Carol Bland Stacy Burroughs Kim Riley  2013 RA passed budget funding full-time retired para-professional staff position. Kim Riley filled this position during the pilot of this program and continues today in this position. Carol Bland

 2014 IEA-Retired was asked to showcase our program at the NEA-Retired Organizing Conference in Houston.

Thank you, Barb Gilhaus! 1994 IEA-Retired Task Force Council of Retirees , Council Secretary- Treasurer , Organized Region 9 Retired Chapter Local and Region Treasurer Support Team And so much more!

 2014 IEA-Retired reached original goal of a retired chapter out of every IEA region office. We now have 27 chapters – 25 in Illinois, 1 in Florida and 1 in Arizona. Several more chapters are in the formation stages.  2014 RA bylaw requiring retired chapter membership along with IEA/NEA-Retired membership to be elected to the Council of Retirees, Chair and Vice Chair, and RA delegates Council of Retirees

For more information go to: Or contact: Janet Kilgus, IEA-Retired Chair Or Kim Riley, IEA-Retired Paraprofessional