The Ohio Delegation at the NEA-R Organizing Conference in Orlando Florida. Left to right: back row: Bill Otten, OEA-R staff liaison, John Hoyes, President, Bill Sears, OEA-R Representative to the Board of Directors, Don Holub, OEA staff. Front Row: Marti Huss, OEA-R secretary, Kathleen Purdy, ECOEA, Donna Smoot-Walters, Northeast, and Peg Ham, Northeast.

CENTRAL OEA/NEA's Retired Advisory Council recently held their "March into an Informed Retirement" workshop.

Tamla Cole from STRS addresses the group

More pictures from the event are available HERE

Pictured below are OEA-R members who attended the Candidate Training Academy held at the OEA Headquarters in January. They are: (back row)Joyce Williams, Canton; Judy Buschle, Lakota; Lee Shreiner, South Western, Donna Smoot-Walters, Barberton; (front row) Kathleen Purdy, Plain Local, Debbie Bernauer, Brecksville and newly elected State Representative John Patterson.