Our Mission
In 1966 the Bartholomew County Retired Teachers Association was founded to promote the welfare of retired teachers in Indiana, specifically in Bartholomew County; to promote fellowship among retired teachers; and to serve as an instrument through which retired teachers could lend support to our local schools.
Propsosed Changes to BARTA Constitution
The BARTA Executive Board would like to present to the BARTA membership proposed changes to the BARTA Constitution at the September 19th general meeting. The purpose of these changes is to update the duties and responsibilities of the BARTA Officers. The following is the proposed new BARTA Officers Duties and Responsibilities. The duties and responsibilities section will be presented to the membership in September for their consideration. The membership must vote to approve the new Duty and Responsibilities section for it to become effective.
Guidelines for BARTA Officers
Duties and Responsibilities of BARTA Officers
PRESIDENT
The duties of the president:
VICE PRESIDENT
The duties of the vice president:
SECRETARY
The duties of the secretary:
TREASURER
Guidelines for BARTA Officers
Duties and Responsibilities of BARTA Officers
PRESIDENT
The duties of the president:
- Preside at all meetings
- Be a member ex-officio of all committees except the nominating committee
- Appoint all standing committees and special committees
- Call Executive Board meetings when needed
- Appoint an auditing committee (1-3 members) each year by the May general meeting date
- Assume such other responsibilities as are generally considered to be the function of a president.
VICE PRESIDENT
The duties of the vice president:
- In the absence of the president, perform all duties of the president
- Schedule luncheon programs
- Arrange for the Pledge of Allegiance and invocation at the luncheons
- Schedule greeters for all luncheons
- Perform any other duties as requested by the president.
SECRETARY
The duties of the secretary:
- Record the minutes of the Executive Board and general membership meetings
- Provide printed minutes to the Executive Board and to each BARTA member in attendance at the general meeting
- Be responsible for collecting, preserving, and managing all official records and documents created by the organization
- Preserve records and documents digitally and organized in such ways as to make them easily accessed and usable
- Provide copies of the Constitution, the By-Laws and the appropriate procedural handbook to each new officer and committee chair when they take office
- Be a member of the executive board and attend executive board meetings
- Perform any other duties as requested by the president.
TREASURER
- The duties of the Treasurer:
- Use the transaction check register to keep an accurate, permanent record of all money received and spent throughout the year.
- Use an Excel document, give a current report of income and expenditure balances at each executive board meeting and general membership meeting
- Keep an accurate listing of paid memberships and memberships of newly retired teachers. Note teacher grant notations next to the names of donors.
- Transfer membership cards to the Data Base Manager after listing BARTA memberships.
- Send a list of deceased local educators and a $10 donation per person each year to the IRTF State Scholarship Fund in memory of each deceased teacher in Bartholomew County during the year.
- Include a letter with each donation to designated, local recipients.
- Have a knowledgeable BARTA member audit the treasurer’s books, in June, at year’s end.
- Create an itemized budget for the upcoming year based on income and expenditures from the previous year.
BARTA Officers 2023 - 2025
Luanne Davis - Vice President
Janice Montgomery - President
Georgianna Waldrop - Secretary
Teresa Heiny - Treasurer
Janice Montgomery - President
Georgianna Waldrop - Secretary
Teresa Heiny - Treasurer
BARTA FALL NEWSLETTER 2023-2024
www.barta2.org https://m.facebook.com/bartholomewretiredteachers/
Programs for 2023-24
November and March Meetings 11:00-11:30 AM
Registration Lunch & Program 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Cost of meals-$10, Cancel Thurs prior to meeting
September 19, 2023
Sandy Hook United Methodist Church (1610 Taylor Rd, Columbus IN 47203)
Speaker: Kathy Oren: President & CEO Community Education Coalition
November 14, 2023 Sandy Hook United Methodist Church
Speaker: Frank Griffin: Program DirectorCorporate ResponsibilityCummins, Inc.
March 5, 2024 Sandy Hook United Methodist Church September,
Speaker: Dale Nowlin: BARTA Member, BCSC Board Member Life Lessons Learned from the Appalachian Trail
November and March Meetings 11:00-11:30 AM
Registration Lunch & Program 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Cost of meals-$10, Cancel Thurs prior to meeting
May 7, 2024 Four Seasons Retirement Center (1901 Taylor Rd, Columbus IN 47203)
10:45-11:15 Registration 11:15-12:00
Concert 12:00-12:30
Entertainment: Kevin Stonerock: Musician, Storyteller Kevin has 6 solo album releases and hundreds of live performances to his credit.
Meeting 12:30
Delicious Lunch
Message from BARTA Leadership
We are delighted that last year permitted four BARTA meetings to see our friends and fellow educators! Our membership is currently 249 strong. We welcome sixteen BCSC/FRHC retirees. Call or text your retiree friends and get the 2023- 2024 luncheon dates on your calendar. Ask a new retiree to join you. Pennies from Heaven funds incredible projects. The group did a great job of reaching our goals last year and will have opportunities again this year. Fantastic presenters await you! Your membership also tells our legislators that retired teachers COUNT! We are important members of our community as we volunteer, vote, and help one another as we support education in every way possible.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Please submit your 2023-24 Membership card and dues to our new treasurer, Teresa Heiny. An envelope and registration card are provided with this newsletter. You may also donate to teacher grants.
Recognition of our Community Educators
We are so grateful that our community has many ways of rewarding our community’s educators. • BCSC-Teacher of the Year by Building and entire district • Bill and Sally Hanley Award-Heritage Fund • Edna Folger Award Winner-County Award presented by SIHO • Business recognition of Educators
IRTA’s 58 th Annual Representative Assembly
LuAnn Davis, Sandy and Dave Watts, and Janice Montgomery attended the IRTA Annual Representative Assembly as the voting delegates for BARTA. They accepted awards in honor of achievements noted at our May 9, 2023 meeting. A huge debt of gratitude to all who make the programs and components of BARTA work so well.
BARTA OFFICERS and Executive Team
Contact (812.390.9023 or Lmont72@comcast.net 2129 Dale Court, Columbus, IN 47203)
• President-Janice Montgomery
• Vice President-LuAnn Davis
• Secretary & Archivist-Georgianna Waldrop
• Treasurer-Teresa Heiny
• Community Service-Donna Nicholson
• Website-Joe Nicholson
• Reservations-LuAnn Davis
• Facebook-Joyce Heckman
• Database-Joyce Heckman
• Publicity-Cheryl Zuckschwerdt-Ellsbury
• Membership-Lynne Fleming • Member Concerns/Necrology-Mary Ann Ransdell & Dr. Jane Johnson
• Legislative-Dr. John Quick /Lynne Fleming
• IRTA Foundation-Georgianna Waldrop
• Pledge-Dr. Bill Riley
• Prayer-Mary Ann Robbins
• Grants Committee-Janice Montgomery
Treasurer’s Report
We thank Janet Smith for her 8 years of service as our treasurer! We welcome Teresa Heiny as she begins this role. Thanks to Dr. Charlie Dilk for completing the audit on June 10, 2023.
• Balance- June 27, 2023 $3528.00
• Teacher Grants $3199.65
• Montgomery Scholarship $ 300.00
• School Backpacks $ 700.00
• Honoring BARTA’s deceased members for scholarships $ 150.00
BARTA COMMUNITY PROJECT
BARTA is conducting a Clothing Drive for Bartholomew County Public School Nurses Kelli Thompson, BCSC School Nurse Coordinator and Lori Kistler, FRHC School Nurse recommend BARTA collect shirts, shorts, sweatpants of all sizes for kids in school. Sweatshirts and sweatpants are most helpful in gray, black or nongender specific colors. Tennis shoes, socks, underwear for Pre-K through 3rd grade Please collect new items for students of all ages and bring to the Sept. 19th BARTA meeting. Please wash new clothing, if possible.Last year, we collected 234 items. Let’s break that record!
2022 IRTA Awards given to BARTA
• Volunteers-individuals over 400 hrs
• Outstanding Community Service Group Project -Connected with United Way about ideas and chose School Nurse to receive clothing for students
• Outstanding Volunteer-Sandy Watts SANDY WATTS 2022 BARTA’s Outstanding Volunteer (IRTA State Conference June 2023) Thoughts from Sandy Watts I have felt I wanted to volunteer especially upon retirement due to all Columbus has given us. I also admire the example BARTA has set. My husband, Dave, is always there to help, but unfortunately, I can’t log his hours since he is not a member of BARTA! We volunteer with a variety of organizations. We have been collecting plastic caps from recyclable containers such as water bottles, detergent containers, and more. We worked with Parkside, FUMC, and others and once collected 1,500 pounds. These and others resulted in benches, a picnic table, and trash receptacles. We are still collecting if you want to help. We are very involved in Be SMART, which advocates for safe storage of guns. We helped produce a video with superintendents, police departments, mayor, and CRH to give facts. We are involved in the distribution of free cable gun locks. As a result of this connection with police, we also work to provide snacks for them and for their school tutoring program. Two big volunteer opportunities have been for FUMC and supporting candidates for school board. At FUMC, we prepare hot meals, garden, help with Santa’s workshop, trunk or treat, annual picnic, various observations, and celebrations with an array of endless opportunities. The campaigns have involved helping recruit as many as 72 volunteers, scheduling, creating bags with tshirts, materials, and arranging pickup at our home, securing and distributing snacks, lunches and yard signs, working polls and giving support! Of course, my heart is involved in things that involve schools and church as those will always be a priority. I was taught if you don’t do anything you have no right to complain! Volunteering is so important!
BARTA total 20,200 hours in 2022
We see you throughout the community adding value to so many organizations. We are so pleased you volunteer to make this county a great place to be a young person. Book Buddies, churches, local boards, other organizations like Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center, Love Chapel, Visitors Center, Mill Race Center, CRH, and Déjà Vu Art Show need you.
VOLUNTEER POSSIBILITIES
• Alicia Monroe, Volunteer Action Center Director, https://uwbarthco.galaxydigital.com/ 812.376.0011
• Foundation for Youth 812-348-4558 volunteer@foundationforyouth.com
• iGrad- iGrad@ivytech.edu
• McDowell- Mark Newell- 812-376-4451 Help students prepare for HSE Exam (Formerly GED)
• Family School Partners- 812-376-4387 Prepare learning kits to be sent home with students.
• Turning Point Domestic Violence ServicesDede Parker- 812-657-1304 Deirdre.parker@turningpointdv.org
• Head Start and Early Head Start at Human Services- 812-379-2448
• Horizon House- 812-372-8407
• ARC of Bartholomew County- Grace Kestlergrace.kestler@thearcbc.org 812-372-0610 Joe and
BARTA Notes and Thank Yous
Donna Nicholson collects information from members and determine the total hours donated by BARTA for the IRTA recognition program. Your work is valued and appreciated by the community, fellow educators and legislators.
Member Concerns-BARTA has lost many members in the last couple of years. At BARTA’s May 2023 meeting, our dear friends were remembered. Names are available on the website. (barta2.org)
Notify a BARTA Executive Team member if members need assistance.
Thanks to June Hagan for keeping the necrology information for BARTA and sending cards. Mary Ann Ransdell and Jane Johnson will take the duties.
IRTA Foundation has three major areas of work:
• College Scholarships
• A Hand Up program for retirees in need
• Active Teacher Grants for 2022-23 open now! Aug 15-Sept. 30 for 2023 Details-IRTA website, www.retiredteachers.org Encourage people you know to apply for the various options.
Legislative Update: See IRTA website and read the update about COLA/13th Check info. There was no money appropriated this year. Contact legislators during working sessions to make your opinions known.
Hoosier Lottery-Did you know? Since 1989, the Hoosier Lottery has contributed more than $7 billion to good causes and provides annual contributions of $30 million to local police and firefighters’ pensions and $30 million to the Teachers’ Retirement Fund. Starting in 1989, the lottery funds have paid $977 million to the Teacher Retirement Fund.
IRTA (www.retiredteachers.org) IRTA President-David Lennen IRTA President Elect-Dr. Sharon Mukes Barnes IRTA Executive Director-Laura Penman 888-454- 9333 (lpenman@retiredteachers.org) District 7-Marty Mullin 765-580-0031 (mullinm@retiredteachers.org) Indiana Retired Teachers Assoc. 2629 Waterfront Parkway E. Dr., Ste # 105 Indianapolis IN 46214
November and March Meetings 11:00-11:30 AM
Registration Lunch & Program 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Cost of meals-$10, Cancel Thurs prior to meeting
September 19, 2023
Sandy Hook United Methodist Church (1610 Taylor Rd, Columbus IN 47203)
Speaker: Kathy Oren: President & CEO Community Education Coalition
November 14, 2023 Sandy Hook United Methodist Church
Speaker: Frank Griffin: Program DirectorCorporate ResponsibilityCummins, Inc.
March 5, 2024 Sandy Hook United Methodist Church September,
Speaker: Dale Nowlin: BARTA Member, BCSC Board Member Life Lessons Learned from the Appalachian Trail
November and March Meetings 11:00-11:30 AM
Registration Lunch & Program 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Cost of meals-$10, Cancel Thurs prior to meeting
May 7, 2024 Four Seasons Retirement Center (1901 Taylor Rd, Columbus IN 47203)
10:45-11:15 Registration 11:15-12:00
Concert 12:00-12:30
Entertainment: Kevin Stonerock: Musician, Storyteller Kevin has 6 solo album releases and hundreds of live performances to his credit.
Meeting 12:30
Delicious Lunch
Message from BARTA Leadership
We are delighted that last year permitted four BARTA meetings to see our friends and fellow educators! Our membership is currently 249 strong. We welcome sixteen BCSC/FRHC retirees. Call or text your retiree friends and get the 2023- 2024 luncheon dates on your calendar. Ask a new retiree to join you. Pennies from Heaven funds incredible projects. The group did a great job of reaching our goals last year and will have opportunities again this year. Fantastic presenters await you! Your membership also tells our legislators that retired teachers COUNT! We are important members of our community as we volunteer, vote, and help one another as we support education in every way possible.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Please submit your 2023-24 Membership card and dues to our new treasurer, Teresa Heiny. An envelope and registration card are provided with this newsletter. You may also donate to teacher grants.
Recognition of our Community Educators
We are so grateful that our community has many ways of rewarding our community’s educators. • BCSC-Teacher of the Year by Building and entire district • Bill and Sally Hanley Award-Heritage Fund • Edna Folger Award Winner-County Award presented by SIHO • Business recognition of Educators
IRTA’s 58 th Annual Representative Assembly
LuAnn Davis, Sandy and Dave Watts, and Janice Montgomery attended the IRTA Annual Representative Assembly as the voting delegates for BARTA. They accepted awards in honor of achievements noted at our May 9, 2023 meeting. A huge debt of gratitude to all who make the programs and components of BARTA work so well.
BARTA OFFICERS and Executive Team
Contact (812.390.9023 or Lmont72@comcast.net 2129 Dale Court, Columbus, IN 47203)
• President-Janice Montgomery
• Vice President-LuAnn Davis
• Secretary & Archivist-Georgianna Waldrop
• Treasurer-Teresa Heiny
• Community Service-Donna Nicholson
• Website-Joe Nicholson
• Reservations-LuAnn Davis
• Facebook-Joyce Heckman
• Database-Joyce Heckman
• Publicity-Cheryl Zuckschwerdt-Ellsbury
• Membership-Lynne Fleming • Member Concerns/Necrology-Mary Ann Ransdell & Dr. Jane Johnson
• Legislative-Dr. John Quick /Lynne Fleming
• IRTA Foundation-Georgianna Waldrop
• Pledge-Dr. Bill Riley
• Prayer-Mary Ann Robbins
• Grants Committee-Janice Montgomery
Treasurer’s Report
We thank Janet Smith for her 8 years of service as our treasurer! We welcome Teresa Heiny as she begins this role. Thanks to Dr. Charlie Dilk for completing the audit on June 10, 2023.
• Balance- June 27, 2023 $3528.00
• Teacher Grants $3199.65
• Montgomery Scholarship $ 300.00
• School Backpacks $ 700.00
• Honoring BARTA’s deceased members for scholarships $ 150.00
BARTA COMMUNITY PROJECT
BARTA is conducting a Clothing Drive for Bartholomew County Public School Nurses Kelli Thompson, BCSC School Nurse Coordinator and Lori Kistler, FRHC School Nurse recommend BARTA collect shirts, shorts, sweatpants of all sizes for kids in school. Sweatshirts and sweatpants are most helpful in gray, black or nongender specific colors. Tennis shoes, socks, underwear for Pre-K through 3rd grade Please collect new items for students of all ages and bring to the Sept. 19th BARTA meeting. Please wash new clothing, if possible.Last year, we collected 234 items. Let’s break that record!
2022 IRTA Awards given to BARTA
• Volunteers-individuals over 400 hrs
• Outstanding Community Service Group Project -Connected with United Way about ideas and chose School Nurse to receive clothing for students
• Outstanding Volunteer-Sandy Watts SANDY WATTS 2022 BARTA’s Outstanding Volunteer (IRTA State Conference June 2023) Thoughts from Sandy Watts I have felt I wanted to volunteer especially upon retirement due to all Columbus has given us. I also admire the example BARTA has set. My husband, Dave, is always there to help, but unfortunately, I can’t log his hours since he is not a member of BARTA! We volunteer with a variety of organizations. We have been collecting plastic caps from recyclable containers such as water bottles, detergent containers, and more. We worked with Parkside, FUMC, and others and once collected 1,500 pounds. These and others resulted in benches, a picnic table, and trash receptacles. We are still collecting if you want to help. We are very involved in Be SMART, which advocates for safe storage of guns. We helped produce a video with superintendents, police departments, mayor, and CRH to give facts. We are involved in the distribution of free cable gun locks. As a result of this connection with police, we also work to provide snacks for them and for their school tutoring program. Two big volunteer opportunities have been for FUMC and supporting candidates for school board. At FUMC, we prepare hot meals, garden, help with Santa’s workshop, trunk or treat, annual picnic, various observations, and celebrations with an array of endless opportunities. The campaigns have involved helping recruit as many as 72 volunteers, scheduling, creating bags with tshirts, materials, and arranging pickup at our home, securing and distributing snacks, lunches and yard signs, working polls and giving support! Of course, my heart is involved in things that involve schools and church as those will always be a priority. I was taught if you don’t do anything you have no right to complain! Volunteering is so important!
BARTA total 20,200 hours in 2022
We see you throughout the community adding value to so many organizations. We are so pleased you volunteer to make this county a great place to be a young person. Book Buddies, churches, local boards, other organizations like Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center, Love Chapel, Visitors Center, Mill Race Center, CRH, and Déjà Vu Art Show need you.
VOLUNTEER POSSIBILITIES
• Alicia Monroe, Volunteer Action Center Director, https://uwbarthco.galaxydigital.com/ 812.376.0011
• Foundation for Youth 812-348-4558 volunteer@foundationforyouth.com
• iGrad- iGrad@ivytech.edu
• McDowell- Mark Newell- 812-376-4451 Help students prepare for HSE Exam (Formerly GED)
• Family School Partners- 812-376-4387 Prepare learning kits to be sent home with students.
• Turning Point Domestic Violence ServicesDede Parker- 812-657-1304 Deirdre.parker@turningpointdv.org
• Head Start and Early Head Start at Human Services- 812-379-2448
• Horizon House- 812-372-8407
• ARC of Bartholomew County- Grace Kestlergrace.kestler@thearcbc.org 812-372-0610 Joe and
BARTA Notes and Thank Yous
Donna Nicholson collects information from members and determine the total hours donated by BARTA for the IRTA recognition program. Your work is valued and appreciated by the community, fellow educators and legislators.
Member Concerns-BARTA has lost many members in the last couple of years. At BARTA’s May 2023 meeting, our dear friends were remembered. Names are available on the website. (barta2.org)
Notify a BARTA Executive Team member if members need assistance.
Thanks to June Hagan for keeping the necrology information for BARTA and sending cards. Mary Ann Ransdell and Jane Johnson will take the duties.
IRTA Foundation has three major areas of work:
• College Scholarships
• A Hand Up program for retirees in need
• Active Teacher Grants for 2022-23 open now! Aug 15-Sept. 30 for 2023 Details-IRTA website, www.retiredteachers.org Encourage people you know to apply for the various options.
Legislative Update: See IRTA website and read the update about COLA/13th Check info. There was no money appropriated this year. Contact legislators during working sessions to make your opinions known.
Hoosier Lottery-Did you know? Since 1989, the Hoosier Lottery has contributed more than $7 billion to good causes and provides annual contributions of $30 million to local police and firefighters’ pensions and $30 million to the Teachers’ Retirement Fund. Starting in 1989, the lottery funds have paid $977 million to the Teacher Retirement Fund.
IRTA (www.retiredteachers.org) IRTA President-David Lennen IRTA President Elect-Dr. Sharon Mukes Barnes IRTA Executive Director-Laura Penman 888-454- 9333 (lpenman@retiredteachers.org) District 7-Marty Mullin 765-580-0031 (mullinm@retiredteachers.org) Indiana Retired Teachers Assoc. 2629 Waterfront Parkway E. Dr., Ste # 105 Indianapolis IN 46214
BARTA Officers for 2021 2022
Here are the BARTA officers contingent upon their approval at the next BARTA general meeting:
Luanne Davis - Vice President
Janice Montgomery - President
Janet Smith - Treasurer
Deb Eikenbary - Secretary
Luanne Davis - Vice President
Janice Montgomery - President
Janet Smith - Treasurer
Deb Eikenbary - Secretary
BARTA officers for the next two years are: Lynne Fleming, President
Beth Hazel, Vice President
Connie Daugherty, Secretary
Janet Smith, Treasurer.
In life as well as in the classroom, leadership is simply raising one's hand and saying, "I'll do it."
Here in BARTA we appreciate these people who raise their hands and keep our organization moving forward.
Here in BARTA we appreciate these people who raise their hands and keep our organization moving forward.
Our Leaders2019-20 BARTA Officers
President - Lynne Fleming Vice president - Beth Hazel Secretary - Connie Daugherty Treasurer - Janet Smith 2019-20 Committee Chairs
Communications - LuAnn Davis, Joyce Heckman, Joe Nicholson Community Service - Donna Nicholson Grants - Janice Montgomery Historian - Legislation - John Quick Member concerns - June Hagan Membership - Georgianna Waldrop Public Relations - Cheryl Zuckschwerdt-Ellsbury IRTA and School Leaders
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IRTA Board Elects New Executive Director
The IRTA Board of Directors met this past week to select our new Executive Director. Patricia (Trish) Whitcomb will begin in the office and visiting locals November 4. We are pleased to have the daughter of former Indiana Governor Edgar Whitcomb as our new Exec. Dir. If you would like to meet her at one of your upcoming meetings contact the office to arrange or contact me and I will arrange to bring her with me to introduce her to our members.
Spread the word about our new Exec. Director. Remind retired teachers who are not State IRTA members the 13th check they just received is a good time to use some of that extra money to join IRTA. Without our action and lobbying efforts the check would not have been a reality this year and next in this two year budget. Gerald W. Mohr, Area 7 Director IRTA |
