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Summary

The Emeriti of California State University, Fullerton, first organized in 1975, is a formal association of all persons awarded emeritus status by the president of CSUF. Additionally, the spouses of deceased emeriti participate as associate members. As an association, the Emeriti exists to promote the welfare of California State University, Fullerton; to enhance the continuing professionalism of the emeriti; and to provide for the fellowship of the members.
The Emeriti meets regularly during the academic year for membership luncheons. Members of the active and emeritus faculty appear frequently as guest speakers on topics of interest from the arts, science, politics, foreign policy, literature readings, as well as estate planning and health care.
The members assist, as volunteers, in special projects for the Emeriti and for the University, e.g., aiding the Its Your University program, and in partnership with the Patrons of the Library, staff the Book Sale Center. The university president each year honors the support groups and their volunteer activities at the fall "Concert under the Stars." Emeriti volunteers so recognized have been--

1994 - Kenneth Doane
1995 - Mildred Scott
1996 - Ruth Nycum
1997 - June Pollak
1998 - Ralph Beckett
1999 - Herbert Rutemiller
2000 - Ralph Bigelow
2001 - Charles Frazee
2002 - Emmett Long
2003 - Helen Hayner
2004 - Lee Bellot
2005 - Sy Scheinberg
2006 - Jim Young
2007 - Mark Shapiro

The association regularly conducts excursions to sites of interest in the area. In recent years the group has visited the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Huntington Library and Gardens, the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, the Sherman Gardens in Corona Del Mar, and the Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts in Santa Ana.
The Emeriti publishes an annual directory of all emeriti and maintains the Book of Tributes honoring deceased members.

The Emeriti Center

The Emeriti Association moved in to its new Emeriti Center (Pollak Library S170) in late spring 1999. The Center has two desks, including the first desk used by the university's first president, William Langsdorf, a conference table with chairs, and a computer linked to the campus network. The Center is used for meetings of the executive committee as well as by any member who wishes to schedule a small meeting or to use the computer for research.

Emeriti Endowment Funds

Scholarship Fund. Gertrude Reith, president of the Emeriti in 1986-88, was instrumental in establishing the Emeriti Memorial Scholarship Fund. The Bylaws stipulate that the fund shall be on permanent deposit and that the interest be used for one or more scholarships. The principal sources of money for the fund are member donations and association funds in memory of deceased emeriti. Family and friends of emeriti colleagues also contribute. Initially, one scholarship was awarded each year, and that, by tradition, to a CSUF student concentrating in gerontology studies. In recent years the executive committee has authorized a second scholarship to a CSUF student with an outstanding record in academic studies (open to all majors) and community service.
Library Fund. In February 1998, the CSUF Emeriti officially established the Emeriti Library Endowment Fund. Funds from this account will be used, at the direction of the Executive Committee, to help build collections in the CSUF Library.

In sum, the Emeriti Association—

1. Provides informative and entertaining programs of interest to emeriti.
2. Provides at such programs opportunities for periodic renewal of friendships with fellow emeriti.
3. Provides opportunities to be in touch with the current campus life of the university.
4. Keeps emeriti abreast of developments at the university.
5. Provides representation in the Academic Senate for emeriti where issues relating to emeriti privileges at the university are provided.
6. Provides a newsletter, Emeritopics, to put in print items noted above and to be a source of information about fellow emeriti.
7. Provides an opportunity to award an annual scholarship to a university student studying gerontology and a second general scholarship.
8. Provides a mechanism for memorializing emeriti through the Book of Memorial Tributes, contributions to the scholarship fund in their memory, and an invitation to spouses to continue with us as associates.
9. Provides, through our affiliation with the systemwide emeriti organization, CSU-ERFA, representation of emeriti concerns to all branches of government and the Office of the CSU Chancellor.
10. Provides opportunities for emeriti to maintain relationships with the university in faculty governance, curricular programs, and the many activities on campu