Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1990 TAG: 9004180199
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B8 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The National Retired Teachers Association, of which the Virginia association is a division, is an affiliate of the AARP.
The Virginia association will hold its annual delegate assembly at the Airport Sheraton Inn in Roanoke on Monday and Tuesday.
Jerald R. White of Roanoke, a former principal of Jefferson High School, is president of the group. White said roughly 300 delegates and as many as 150 more non-voting association members will attend.
Robert Maxwell, incoming AARP president, will speak at 11:35 a.m. Tuesday. Maxwell, of Maryville, Tenn., was chosen AARP's president-elect at the association's 1988 biennial convention. He becomes president this year.
He is on AARP's executive committee and is a member of the Department of Health and Human Services' task force on long-term health-care policies.
Speaking at 2 p.m. Tuesday will be Wallace G. Harris, assistant director of benefit programs for the Virginia Supplemental Retirement System.
The retired teachers are concerned about the status of the system's investments in light of failed investments plaguing retirement systems in other states, White said. The recent shake-up in the board of the state system, following the flap over the sale of the Richmond, Fredricksburg and Potomac Railway, also is a matter of concern, he said.
Earlier Tuesday morning, Sally Kelling, director of the National Association of Retired Teachers, will talk about that organization's activities.
Among the other concerns of this year's assembly, White said, will be the rising cost of health care and efforts to improve benefits for Virginia teachers who retired before 1972.
by CNB