P.O. Box 9056
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
pghpasr@yahoo.com

Pittsburgh, the “City of Bridges,” has garnered a lot of attention in recent years, from being named “Most Livable City in the United States” to winning both the Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup in the same year, to hosting the G-20 summit in 2009. The Pittsburgh Chapter of PASR is part of Pittsburgh’s winning tradition. It has almost 1,000 members and is committed to providing its membership with the best in benefits and leadership. It offers great opportunities for service, socializing, and support.

Join your colleagues at the PASR Region 12 Fall Luncheon, Host: PghASR
It’s time to celebrate fall with your colleagues at the PASR Region 12 luncheon at the LeMont on Thursday, September 22. Click on the link below for the reservation form, or find it in the August PghASR Newsletter.
Reservation form for the Region 12 Fall Luncheon

Enter Your Email Address in the Raffle to Help Us Go Paperless!
Deadline: August 20.
The PghASR needs your help! This raffle is an incentive for our members to send us their email addresses so we can begin emailing our Newsletters instead of mailing them. So far, we have only 42 percent of members’ email addresses. When we’ve called members, we found that about 10 percent have no email, but we don’t know the status of the other 48 percent. Do they or don’t they? PghASR invites all non-leadership members to participate in an email raffle and have the chance to win a $50 VISA gift card! Two $50 VISA gift cards will be raffled off. For more information and for the raffle ticket, click on this link.
PghASR Raffle information and ticket

PghASR Is Going Paperless and Needs your Contact Information.
In order to keep PghASR financially solvent in the coming years, your Leadership Team is planning to move forward in the distribution of our Newsletter via email. Printing and postage costs have gone through the roof, and therefore sending out the newsletters requires a new distribution approach. In 2022, we will begin the process to transition to sending out the newsletters via email when possible, starting with compiling a list of all members who have email addresses. We need your assistance in this endeavor.  We request that PghASR members who have an email address click on the link below to download and print a form to complete about your contact information. Mail the form to PghASR, PO Box 9056, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, or email our Membership Secretary, Dr. A. Jay Gross, at ajaygross@msn.com, so he can add your current email address and contact information to his membership list. We also need to know which of our members don’t have access to a computer or other device. If that is the case with you, place an X on the line on the form that says, “I have no email address,” to let your Leadership Team know the only way we will be able to communicate with you is by mail or phone. We will mail newsletters to members who don’t have email addresses. If you move, let us know. Leadership Team members have their addresses and phone numbers listed on page 13 of this newsletter. Any of us can assist you. We anticipate this process will take a year to implement.
PghASR Member Demographic Information Form

Please contribute to PghASR
Text: PghASR accepts contributions for the Memorial Honor Fund, Scholarship Fund, and Newsletter expenses. Click on the link below to download the contribution form. Fill it out and then send it with your contribution to PghASR, P.O. Box 9056, Pittsburgh, PA 15224. Make your check payable to PghASR. Indicate on the memo line which category the contribution is for. Note: All contributions should be sent to PghASR and not to officers of the organization.
PghASR Contribution Form

PghASR needs you! Please consider volunteering to be an officer, chair, newsletter editor, or member of one of our committees. 
PghASR flourishes on partnership and collaboration. The organization depends on those who think outside the box and are not afraid to take a stand, express ideas or make suggestions. Is that you?

To volunteer or find out more about a committee, email or write a note to PghASR. Contact information is at the top of the website. You can also call one of the PghASR Officers. 

Help is especially needed to assist with computer-related tasks such as keeping the membership database current, creating and maintaining a Facebook page, and emailing members with important updates.

If you are not eligible to be a PghASR member, consider becoming an associate member
Associate members can take advantage of all the benefits and activities of PghASR except they are not eligible to vote or hold office. They can serve as or assist committee chairs and help us to continue offering activities and services that benefit our organization. Contact me, Joe Poerio, at pjpoerio@comcast.net  or 412-489-5443 if you would like to become an associate member or if you have any questions.

An associate member of PASR or PghASR can be any person who is interested in the work of PASR/PghASR, is an active school employee aged 50 or older, a teacher who is not an annuitant of a school employees’ retirement system, a former school employee who has retired from a non-public school, and/or a spouse of an active member of PASR/PghASR. If you know of anyone who fits in one or more of the above categories and is interested in our organization, encourage them to become an associate member. PASR dues are $60 Year/ $700 Lifetime and PghASR dues are $15 Year/ $150 Lifetime.