In This Issue

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In This Issue

April
2005
Vol. 13 No.4
OSARC newsletter
In This Issue
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- May Meeting Details
- Privatization’s
Foreign Failures
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- Action Needed on Drug
Price Information
4
- Labor History Month
- Onassis Ctr. Trip Report
5
- June OSARC Luncheon
- Nominations Close 5/11
- Cats of a Gray Color
- Why Join NYCARA?
- State of Older America
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-OSARC Underground
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- Ellis Island May 18th
- Thanks OSARCers!
OSARC at the NYC Transit Museum
Twenty-five OSARC members and friends visited the New York City Transit
Museum in Brooklyn Heights on April 13. See the story on page 6.
FUZZY MATH
I
n the ongoing effort by the Bush Administration and its allies to sell its
privatization proposals for Social Security, one element that is often
overlooked is the way the proponents of privatization “cook the books” in
support of their proposal. On the one hand, their projections of annual returns
on private accounts are often in the region of eight or nine percent – historically
average returns. At the same time, the projections by the Social Security
trustees for economic growth over the same period – on which privatizers rely
for their dire Social Security scenarios – are very low.
The same economy that could generate stock market returns of eight to nine
percent a year – in other words a robust, growing economy – would generate
sufficient Social Security taxes to forestall any shortfall [continues on page 4]
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Next Organization of Staff Analysts
Retirees Club Meeting
Wednesday • May 11, 2005 • 12:30–2:30 pm
OSA Office • 220 East 23rd Street •Suite 709
Guest Speaker: Brenda Torres
Therapeutic Recreational Therapist Coordinator
Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation
OSARC Officers 2004-2005
Co-Chair........................................................................................Mary Hillman
Co-Chair.............................................................................................Allan Rose
Co-Vice-Chair...................................................................................Trudy Stone
Co-Vice-Chair................................................................................Sallie Stroman
Co-Vice-Chair....................................................................................Ana T. Vives
Treasurer.......................................................................................Louis Starkey
Secretary......................................................................................Barbara Jones
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Newsletter Editor............Rob Spencer
We’ll Be Seeing You in All the Old Familiar Places
A total of sixteen (16) members and friends took part in
the March OSARC trip to the Onassis Cultural Center,
among them:
Renee Bash, Joan Doheny, Richard Fink, Manny
Friedman, Fred Frost, Mary Hillman, Rosanne Levitt,
Maureen McMahon, Dan Morgan, Allan Rose, Risa Puld,
Stacey Rindler, Louis Starkey, Sallie Stroman, Hattie
Thomas.
A total of twenty-five (25) members and friends took
part in the April OSARC trip to the NYC Transit Museum:
Sallie Stroman, Dan Morgan, Betty Henderson,
Beverly Freierman, Nilsa Mangual, Fred Ranzoni, Rev.
Kaye Lee, Edna Riley, Ana Vives, Margaret Williams,
Herb Wasserman, Rosanne Levitt, Inez Lambert, Trudy
Stone, Renee Bash, Stacey Rindler, Hattie Thomas, Mary
Hillman, Richard Kucera and his wife, Richard Fink,
Elizabeth Borden, Avis Joseph, Louis Starkey and Allen
Rose.
We hope to see you at our next meeting.
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Nursing & Day Care the Subject of May OSARC Meeting
OSARC’s May meeting will feature guest speaker
Brenda Torres, a Therapeutic Recreational Therapist
Coordinator at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in
Brooklyn. Ms. Torres will speak on at-home nursing care,
daycare for seniors, and exercise for the senior population.
The Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is part of a
not-for-profit healthcare network established more than two
decades ago that focuses on chronic diseases suffered by
minority communities and the poor. The Center is a 320 bed
skilled nursing facility and the first in NYC organized on the
“neighborhood” model which focuses on “resident preferences rather than management convenience.” The “neighborhood” includes social workers, recreational therapists and
nurses, as well as residents, who participate in decisions
about how the “neighborhood” is run. The Center includes an
accredited short term in-patient rehabilitation and subacute
care program. The network also includes adult day health
care programs, in-home hospice care and in-home nursing.
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A Model for the United States?
Social Security Privatization Failed in Britain and Chile
by Lawrence J. Kaplan, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Econ omics,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New
York and Chair Emeritus, COMRO
If it's true that experience is the best teacher, it might be
wise, before considering any radical changes in our Social
Security system, to review what has happened in other
countries.
In 1984, with Margaret
Thatcher as Prime Minister,
the British government initiated its privatization program, substituting private
investment accounts for
part of its state retirement
benefits. Although hopes
for the program were high,
the passage of time did not fulfill the promise.
Starting in 2002, many British insurance companies
recognized that holders of its private investment accounts
reached retirement with funds that were much smaller than
what they had expected. The companies began to encourage
their clients to return to the state pension system.
Britain's Pensions Commission warned that at least 75
percent of those with private investment accounts would not
have enough savings to provide an adequate pension in
retirement. Fees and commissions alone reduced accumulated nest eggs by as much as 20 to 30 percent.
An excellent article titled "A Bloody Mess" by Norma
Cohen, a senior corporate reporter for The Financial Times,
appeared in The American Prospect of January 2005. The
author pointed out that in 2004 the British Department of
Work and Pensions reported that 500,000 people in Britain
had abandoned private pension plans and moved back into
the state system. British actuaries expect another 250,000
will return to the state plan in 2005.
When the private system started, British citizens were
urged to substitute private savings accounts for a portion of
their state benefits. Companies guilty of mis-selling" were
OSARCers and friends at the Onassis Cultural Center on
March 23rd (standing l to r) Manny Friedman, Dan Morgan,
Sallie Stroman, Allan Rose, an Onassis Center staffer,
Stacey Rindler, Risa Puld, Hattie Thomas (seated left to
right) Renee Bash, Maureen McMahon, Rosanne Levitt,
Joan Doheny, Madeline Taylor, Fred Frost, Richard Fink.
OSARC Newsletter •April 2005 • Page 2
Tapestries by Greek artist Artemis in her series “Odyssey”
– including The Resourceful Man (1998) above – were on
display in March, as OSARC visited the Onassis Cultural
Center in midtown.
eventually forced to pay about $20 billion in compensation.
Ms. Cohen states: "A simple explanation of what went
wrong is that the costs and risks of running private investment accounts outweigh the value of the returns they are
likely to earn." The United Kingdom spent substantial
taxpayer money on advertising to expedite the transfer.
Many in Britain, including those who had supported the
concept of private investment accounts, recognize that the
savings of those reaching retirement age would not protect
them from a life of poverty in retirement. The British agree
that the U.S. Social Security program seems to offer the best
model. The Chief Executive of the British National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), Christine Famish, notes, "it
(the government) doesn't have to make a profit and it delivers
efficiencies of scale that most companies would die for."
Another country that has experimented with private
accounts and, like Britain, has found that the reality does not
live up to the promise, is Chile. Nearly 25 years ago, Chile
initiated a private investment accounts program under the
authoritarian government of General Augusto Pinochet.
Millions of people began to contribute 10 percent of their salaries
to their individual investment
funds which were under their personal control.
An article in The New York
Times on January 27th, 2005 by
Larry Rohter indicates that about
half the Chilean labor force is excluded from the program because
they worked in the underground
economy, are self-employed, or
work only seasonally.
Over the years, private investment accounts in Chile earned an
average annual return of 10 per- OSARC co-chair Mary
cent, contributing nearly $61 bil- Hillman and Hattie
at the Onassis
lion to the Chilean economy. Ac- Thomas
Cultural Center.
cording to a Chilean government
official who specializes in pension issues and who spoke to
Mr. Rohter on condition of anonymity, said, "What we have
is a system that is good for Chile but bad for most Chileans."
He added, "If people really had freedom of choice, 90
percent of them would opt to go back to the old system."
What went wrong? One recipient, who believed in the
promises made in 1981, explained that fees and commissions
soaked up as much as a third of what he expected to receive.
Those who had remained in the state system, at retirement,
were receiving almost twice as much and that amount was
guaranteed for life.
An advisor in the recipient's private pension fund told
him that his nearly 24 years of contributions would finance
a 20-year annuity paying only $315 a month. Others who
stayed in the government system are retiring at almost $700
a month, guaranteed for life. The recipient could live
comfortably on his salary of $950 a month, but if he retired
on his private pension, he would be reduced to poverty.
The maximum retirement benefit for those who remained
in Chile's original pay-as-you-go system is about $1,250 a
month. Chilean actuaries estimate that to get that same
amount from a private pension fund, workers would have to
contribute more than $250,000 over their working careers, a
target that has been
reached by fewer
than 500 of the private system's 7 million past and present
con t r i b u t o r s . In
short, Chileans are
finding that their system is falling short of
what was originally
advertised.
Among the ad- The irrepressible Richard Fink, who
the Onassis Center trip, is
mirers of the private arranged
repressed by Mary Hillman.
system in Chile is
President Bush, who on a visit to Chile in November 2004,
called Chile "a great example" for other countries. On other
occasions, he has suggested that the U.S. could "take some
lessons from Chile, particularly when it comes to how to run
our pension plans."
As discussions about Social Security intensify in this
country, let's remember the experiences of other countries.
The best path for America to take would be to cherish our
Social Security program which has functioned so successfully for 70 years. A few minor adjustments would enable the
program to pay full benefits through the entire 21st century
and beyond.
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Support Mandatory On-Line Drug Cost Reporting
A legislative alert from AARP New York, urges support
for Assembly bill A.5403, which would require the NYS
Dept. of Education to list the retail prices of prescription
drugs on the internet. Consumers would be able to search by
zip code or drug type to find the lowest price for the drugs
they use at a nearby pharmacy.
AARP notes that more than 5 million New Yorkers lack
prescription drug coverage. The burden is made greater each
year as drug prices continue to soar. The cost of brand name
prescription drugs increased 3.5 times the rate of overall
inflation from June 2003 to June 2004.
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer maintains a website
(www.nyagrx.com) that already provides information, but
since it is based on volunteer involvement, not every pharmacy has their price list posted. The Assembly bill would
mandate the participation of all pharmacies, but the NY State
Dept. of Education is reluctant to support the legislation.
Please call (518) 474-5844 and ask Commissioner of
Education Richard Mills to support A.5403 and help New
Yorkers to save money on their prescription drugs.
saving. Under Mr. Bush’s plan, moreover, people would
need at least 3% a year after inflation just to make up for
automatic cuts in traditional Social Security benefits.”
In a paper written by economists Paul Krugman of
Princeton University, J. Bradford DeLong of the University
of California at Berkeley and Dean Baker of the Center for
Economic Policy and Research, the authors conclude “we
find it arithmetically very difficult to construct scenarios in
which asset returns are at their historic average values and
real GDP growth is markedly slowed.”
Unless you fudge the numbers.
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Onassis Center Trip by Mary Hillman, OSARC co-chair
March 23rd, OSARC visited the Onassis Cultural Center
in midtown. The Center is an affiliate of the Onassis
Foundation of Athens Greece. Aristotelis Onassis, its
founder, provided in his
will for a public benefit
foundation named after his
son Alexander. The Cultural
Center opened in New York
in the fall of 2000 and
carries out the mission of
t h e f o u n d at i on b y
presenting cultural and
artistic activities concerning
ancient Byzantine and
modern
Hellenic
civilization.
“The Archer” (2000), a tapesty
The current exhibit
by Greek artist Artemis.
displayed artifacts from
Greece during the time of Alexander the Great.
The Olympic Tower Atrium, at the Center, displayed
beautiful tapestries by the artist Artemis, inspired by her
Greek homeland. Our guide explained the history of
Alexander the Great, from his rise to power at the age of 18,
when his father was assassinated, to his own death at the age
of 32. During his reign, Alexander conquered many countries
and spread Greek ideas and customs in western Asia and
Egypt.
After our tour, we were treated to a tasty snack,
compliments of the Center.
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Fuzzy Math
[continued from page 1] in Social Security revenues.
The Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that
if you use “stock return projections that are consistent with
the trustees economic growth projections, private accounts
will, on average give workers no better return than they
would receive under the existing program, although they
would add risk”
Why is the projection of stock market returns so
important to the debate? According to the March 31 New
York Times, “if investment returns are just one percentage
point lower each year than predicted, a person would end up
with 35% less money than s/he expected after 30 years of
Labor History Month Events
May is Labor History Month and the New York Labor
History Association (www.ilr.cornell.edu/NYLHA) has
assembled a compendium of
events appropriate to a
celebration of labor and its
history. For a free copy of
the complete calendar
poster, you can contact
G e o r g e Altomare o f
NYLHA at (212) 598-7772.
M e m bers h i p i n t he
organization is $20 a year
and $10 for students and
seniors. You can write to
Philoine Fried, 351 West 24
Street NY NY 10011.
Some highlights of this
year’s Labor History Month:
Broadway and the
Blacklist. Monday, May 9,
city worker meets
6:30pm. Actors Equity Retired
worker who helped build the
Association. Second Floor subways. OSARC Treasurer
Lounge, 165 West 46 St. Louis Starkey lends “a hand”
Free. (212)998-2643. The to his fellow worker.
New York Labor History Association’s Spring Labor History
Conference focuses on the McCarthy period in the theater
and features a panel of Madeline Lee Gilford, actor, producer
and widow of noted actor Jack Gilford, who also had
difficulties with the House Un-American Activities
Committee, K.. Kevyne Baar, actor and archivist for the
Actors Equity Collection at the Robert Wagner Labor
Archives, and Peter Friedman, who is on Broadway in
Twelve Angry Men and a researcher on the life of Philip
Loeb, a blacklist victim who committed suicide.
Working in Fasanella’s Tradition. Tuesday, May 10,
6pm. Free. 16 East 34 St. 6th Floor. (212)340-2817 or
[email protected]. A panel discussion with labor artist
Michael Conner and NYC Central Labor Council President
Brian McLaughlin. Fasanella was a pioneering labor artist
and Conner continues in that tradition.
Painting Labor’s History: An Exhibit by Michael
Conner. May 5-May 31, 2005, Monday-Friday 9am-7pm.
Free. 16 East 34th Street 6th Floor. Artist Conner, a union
electrician met Ralph Fasanella and starting painting in 1997.
If you have internet access, check out Solidarity
Forever: A look at Wobbly Culture at www.laborarts.org.
The exhibit celebrates the folk culture of the Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW) in the early 20th Century.
Let’s Do Lunch
It’s that time of year again. OSARC’s gala June
luncheon is just around the corner. For the second year in
a row the location will be La Maganette Restorante at 3rd
Avenue and 50th Street. The date is Wednesday, June 8th.
Enclosed with this newsletter is a form to complete and
return with your payment to reserve your space at what is
always a well attended affair. The cost this year is $20 for
members and $25 for guests.
The State of Older America
AARP recently released its second annual report titled
The State of 50+ America 2005, which includes new numbers indicating the importance of Social Security and
Medicare to older Americans. Among the findings:
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Last Call For Officer Nominations
Now’s the time for all good men and women to come to
the aid of their OSARC. Nominations for officer slots for the
2005-2006 season close at the May meeting. OSARC needs
at least one chairperson, vice-chairperson, secretary and
treasurer. However, each position can be shared.
A nomination form is being mailed with this newsletter.
Elections (if needed) are in May and the results are
announced at the June luncheon.
You may call co-chair Mary Hillman at 718.462.6485 to
let her know of your interest in serving.
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•••••
What Kind of Panther Are You?
A gray one perhaps? Gray Panthers is an intergenerational advocacy organization working for social and
economic justice. The group focuses on a range of issues
including universal health care, jobs with a living wage and
the right to organize, preservation of Social Security,
affordable housing, access to quality education, economic
justice, environment, peace and
challenging ageism, sexism, and
racism.
Founded in 1970 by Maggie
Kuhn when she convened a group
of five friends (all of whom were
retiring from national religious and
social work organizations) to analyze the common problems faced by retirees, the group early
on spoke out in opposition to the Vietnam War.
A New York TV talk show producer nicknamed the
group the “Gray Panthers” for their “lively, quick witted,
controversial and action-oriented manner.” The name stuck.
The national organization is located at Gray Panthers,
733 15th Street, NW, Suite 437, Washington, DC 20005,
(800) 280-5362 or (202) 737-6637, Fax: (202) 737-1160,
E-mail: [email protected]. They maintain a website at
www.graypanthers.org. The New York City chapter of the
Gray Panthers can be contacted at 165 West 86th Street, New
York, NY 10024 or by phone to 212-799-7572 or by email to
[email protected].
Retiree incomes are low. More than half of households
headed by those between the ages of 65 and 75 live on
less than $30,000 a year. More than half of households
headed by an individual over 75 are living on less than
$20,000 a year.
Social Security provides more than half the income of
nearly 40% of households headed by those aged 65 to
75. In households headed by those over 75, 60% get the
majority of their income from Social Security.
Financial assets (mostly savings and mutual fund balances) of those over 65 are higher than they were a
decade ago, but remain very low. Nearly half of all
households headed by individuals 65 to 75 have less than
$50,000 in financial assets, and more than half of those
over 75 have less than $40,000.
Older Americans are continuing to work or going back
to work to maintain their incomes. A decade ago, 62% of
those 50 to 65 and 16% of those 65 to 75 still held jobs.
Last year, those numbers had risen to 67% and 22%,
respectively.
Older Americans appear to have reversed the trend
toward earlier retirement and now are working more than
in the past. Nevertheless, their incomes remain low, so
they would seem to be working more than they did a
decade ago to make ends meet.
AARP concludes that most seniors are living very
modestly and that, for the majority of older Americans,
Social Security and Medicare are essential to maintaining a
standard of living in retirement.
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WHY JOIN NYCARA by Monnie Callan, SEIU 1199
[We reprint the following from the April issue of Senior Action, the
NYCARA newsletter. OSAR C is part of the larger labor movement
and OS AR Cers shou ld join forces with o thers fighting to pro tect
active an d retired wo rkers’ interests.]
The origins of NYCARA (New York City Alliance for
Retired Americans) were first sparked by Resolution #13 at
the national convention of the AFL-CIO in Florida in 1995
which officially established the concept of lifelong unionism.
While some unions had retiree chapters, most had only
minimal or no recognition of a role for retirees, and even
today many unions have few or no rosters of active retirees.
In addition, the national Alliance for Retired Americans
was founded on the understanding that union struggles and
retiree struggles are united with the struggles of other seniors
and of community groups, which are also invited to join
ARA. Why do we need the ARA?
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Presently unions represent only 13% of the national
work force. The strength of unions is bled away when
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workers who fought and suffered to establish and protect
their unions become retirees. Many workers retire as
early as 55 or 62, still energetic and deeply committed to
the principles they fought for.
Current battles over healthcare, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and pensions make it obvious that the
issues of current workers and those of retirees and other
seniors are thoroughly linked.
During the struggle over Medicare prescription drug
benefits, it became obvious that the voice of the AARP
(an organization whose large membership numbers
partly reflect its role as a major insurance and prescription drugs provider) was the major force to persuade
legislators to vote for a deeply flawed "benefit" plan.
The legislation heavily rewards pharmaceutical companies and others and may very likely influence employers
to drop much better coverage. It also forces all seniors to
gamble that their choice of insurance company will
actually cover the medications they use, and when in
need of multiple medications, the "donut hole" of
non-coverage forces them to continue payment until they
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have expended much more money on pharmaceuticals.
In other words, AARP should not be the only voice to
represent seniors.
The ARA needs to be built as a strong advocate for all
struggles. We retirees and other seniors have families.
Our children are "baby boomers" and our grandchildren
face war and the huge multi-trillion dollar national debt.
We who remember the Depression and the social movements of the 30s, the worldwide war of the 40s, the civil
rights battles of the 60s, and so many other twists of
history, have a legacy to teach from, and we need to
listen to, learn from and link arms with workers of today.
The next NYCARA meeting (the fourth Wednesday
of every month) will be held on Wednesday, May 25
at 10am at the United Federation of Teachers, 52
Broadway. Take the 2,3,4,5 to Wall Street, the
1,9,N,R,W to Rector Street or the J,Z to Broad St.
OSARCers Trace Transit History A report by OSARC Co-Chair Mary Hillman
This year, the annual OSARC trip
The first station was at City Hall turn changed the lives of everyone in
took place April 13 as a sizable group and the route snaked up the east side to the city.
of OSARCers visited the NYC Transit 42nd Street curved west to Times Square
In the beginning, the stations had
Museum in downtown Brooklyn.
and then up the Upper West Side.
pictures or reliefs on the walls because
Clyde, our knowledgeable tour
The BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan many people could not read, but could
guide, was a source of information on Transit) was a reorganization in 1923 of identify locations by the pictures.
many things we never knew about our the bankrupt BRT or Brooklyn Rapid
The city took over the IRT and
transit system.
Transit Company, formed in 1907.
BMT in 1940 and joined their routes
He explained that New York
with the municipally operated
City rapid transit service started
IND. There were very few transwith elevated trains serving Secfer points between lines on the
ond, Third, Sixth and Ninth Avedifferent systems until after
nues.
World War II.
Construction for an underThe original turnstiles were
ground subway system started in
wooden and limited passenger
1900 with private funds from
passage. Since then, they have
wealthy investors led by finangone through many different
cier August Belmont. The substyles to improve passenger serways were initially privately
vice.
owned.
Tokens were introduced beOver 30,000 men of African,
cause the turnstiles could not
Irish and Italian ancestry found
accommodate two coins when
work in construction of the subthe fare went from a dime to fifway.
teen cents.
OSARCers on one of the Transit Museum’s
More than 50 workers lost
Over the years, the form of
vintage subway cars.
their lives and countless more
payment has changed from a
were injured or maimed working under
The first municipally run part of the paper ticket to cash to a variety of tohazardous conditions that included rapid transit system, the IND (Inde- kens to the present Metrocard. Initially
working with dynamite in deep tunnel pendent Subway System) started in a nickel, the fare is now two dollars
mining.
1932. The tunnels under the river were each way.
Upon completion, in 1904, the IRT built on the riverbed and had to be flexiThe museum showed pictures of the
or Interborough Rapid Transit, the first ble enough to bend with the currents.
construction of the tunnels for the subsystem to be completed, included the
The transit system as we know it way, displayed turnstiles from 1904 to
second longest two-track railroad tunnel today has gone through many changes the present, and displayed a miniature
in the United States.
since it was first constructed. It has in elevated train.
On the lower level, old wooden
trains and old cars from the IRT, BMT
and IND were on display.
The museum was well worth the
trip. After the tour, we ate at Dallas
BBQ Restaurant. The food was delicious.
The following members and guests
took part in the tour and are pictured in
the photo on the front page of this issue
of the Newsletter. Front row (left to
right) Beverly Freierman, Elizabeth
Borden, Nilsa Mangual, Betty Hend-
This exhibit traced the history of
subway fares and media, including
tokens and tickets and Metrocards.
erson, Dan Morgan, Louis Starkey,
Transit Museum guide Clyde. Second
row: Richard Fink, Ana Vives (partially
obscured), Edna Riley, Trudy Stone,
Stacey Rindler, Hattie Thomas, Kaye
Lee. Third row: Allan Rose, Renee
Bash, Avis Joseph. Fourth row: Mrs.
Richard Kucera, Rosanne Levitt, Margaret Williams, Inez Lambert. Back
row: Richard Kucera, Herb Wasserman,
Sallie Stroman.

OSARC Social Security Activists
Ellis Island Trip on for May 18
OSARC will be visiting Ellis Island on
Wednesday, May 18. So far, 15 OSARCers have
signed up. We will be meeting at 11am at the
Battery Park ferry terminal for Ellis Island. There
is an $8 ferry fee. If you haven’t signed up and are
interested in taking part, please call Mary Hillman
immediately at (718) 462-6485.
A thank you to a number of OSARCers who sent in completed
Social Security petitions for faxing to the AFL-CIO: Flora Jones,
Mary Ellen Phifer, Ina Jenkins and Stan Granat.
Special honors go to Claire Hall who secured 69 signatures,
[Claire, can we entice you to become more active in OSARC?]
It’s not too late to keep getting signatures. If you need additional
copies of the petition, call Rob Spencer at OSA at (212) 686-1229.

Happy Birthday to OSA Retirees Born in May!
Dena Abrams, Robert Armstrong, Kenneth Asbedian, Rafiu Balogun, Maureen Benson, Saul Bick, Adona Blake, Rita
Brennan, Elida Caban, James Castronovo, Gabriela Chaves, John Clark, James Corleto, Frances DeLott, Mary Joan
Doheny, David Dorffman, Nancy Dorn, Alfred Dukes, John Farley, Isadore Feldman, Sharon Poltun Flory, Arthur Gaines,
Ella Gales, Philip Good, Joan Gordon, Mary Goulbourne, Joel Grill, Marcia Grossberg, Mary L Gunn Hardison, Myra
Hailey, Barbara Hanrieder Stewart, Gussie Harris, Dierdre Herrera, Elizabeth Huggins, Nadine Hurwitz, Valerie Jackson,
Hjalmar Jorgensen, Stephen Karp, Youssef Kelada, Marie-Ann Koegler, Jules Kohn, Jerome Kraus, Howard Levin,
Morton Levine, Suzanne Mane, Nilsa Mangual, Carol Marker, Claire Martes, Marylou Martucci, Denis Massey, Laura
Matteo, John McElroy, Hugh McHugh, Ronald Meekins, Pearlie Mennell, Margarita Mercado, Samuel Merson, Michael
Molinari, Mary Murphy, Ruth Murray, Louise Nieves, Stephen M O'Brien, Jane Offen, Aldo Palatini, James Patterson,
Robert Pfefferman, Diane Poland, Vincent Polimeni, Betty Potash, Govind Prabhu, Miriam Quintero, Mimi Raimondi,
Yakov Raykhman, Raymond Riccio, Jeannette Richardson, Amy Rogers, Mary Sakalian, Doris Sanky, Adele Schlapik, Peter Schweitzer,
Victor Sedhom, Ralph Seliger, Janice Sommerville, Trumilla Stone, Frances Suddreth-Hart, Andrew Sutton, Sharon Sweeting-Lindsey,
Natalie Tannenbaum, Marian Taylor, Harriet Thrower, John Toman, Michael Tuccio, Elaine Turkel, Roberta Van Laven, Annie Vento,
Dorothy Wadsley, Rose Weiss-Fischler, Joan Whitsett, William Wilkins, Margaret Williams, Kay Wilson

ACTIVE OSARC MEMBERS [continued from page 8]
Joseph Reeve s
Theodore Reich
Deborah Reid
Je an ette Re id
Claus Reinisch
Fred Re inowitz
Raymond Riccio
Dolores Rice
Dolores R ichards
Jeannette Richardson
Edna Riley
Gw endolyn R iley-Roberts
Stace y Rindle r
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