President's Council of Retired Employees

Message from the Chair, President’s Council of Retired Employees Greetings to University of Maine Retirees, I am looking forward to seeing you at Homecoming on Thursday, June 5. We believe we have another great program including a presentation on staying engaged as we age by Professor Lenard Kaye, School of Social Work. Don’t forget the […]

Message from the Chair, President’s Council of Retired Employees Greetings to University of Maine Retirees, I am looking forward to seeing you at Homecoming on Friday, June 14. Mix, mingle, renew old friendships and make new friends during the Registration/Meet the Organizations hour, during lunch, and after the Homecoming has ended. There will be a […]

Message from the Chair, President’s Council of Retired Employees Greetings to University of Maine Retirees, Great News! We are having a live UMaine Retirees Homecoming on Friday June 16, and you are invited. At the event, meet up with former colleagues, find out about UMaine services and involvement opportunities by talking with members of organizations, […]

Message from the Chair Re: The PCRE and the Health Insurance Saga As Chair of the President’s Council of Retired Employees, I began to think about the upcoming academic year in late summer and what issues we would need to deal with. At just this time I received an unexpected letter in the mail stating […]

Retiree Homecoming 2020 As we all work together to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the health of our members is of the utmost importance. Due to increasing concern over the spread of the virus, we are cancelling our 2020 Retiree Homecoming, which we were planning for Tuesday, June 2. We believe this is the best […]

Greetings! It is an honor to provide my first message to the retired employees of the University of Maine. During my early months here at UMaine I was pleased to meet the wonderful and dedicated President’s Council of Retired Employees (PCRE). It is clear they manage to accomplish extraordinary things and have a lot of […]

Greetings from the President The University of Maine community has a depth and breath unlike any other institution. In our mission as Maine’s public research university, we serve constituents statewide and make contributions on a global scale. Our students come from every county in Maine, and, increasingly, from out of state. UMaine employees also work […]

Save the date! Retiree Homecoming 2015, Tuesday, June 2, Wells Conference Center Benefits News From Tony Richard, Director of Employee Benefits and Payroll, UMS The University of Maine System (UMS) provides Medicare eligible retirees, widows/widowers, and former employees receiving Long Term Disability benefits (hereafter referred to as retirees) with a Medicare Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) […]

$8,000,000 Bond Referendum to Create Animal/Plant Disease & Insect Control Laboratory on Ballot this November Question 2: Do you favor an $8,000,000 bond issue to support Maine agriculture, facilitate economic growth in natural resource based industries, and monitor human health threats related to ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs through the creation of an Animal and Plant […]