Spring 2025
January 2025
As we all experienced, 2024 was a tumultuous year for the University of Florida, from the abrupt and spurious departure of Senator Sasse from the office of UF President to the departure of Scott Angle, a true friend and supporter of RFUF, from his position as Provost only to resume his extraordinary leadership of UF IFAS and tenure as Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Fall 2024
August 2024
Welcome back to the new 2024 - 2025 academic year, an especially meaningful and exciting time. It was exactly 50 years ago, during the 1974-1975 academic year, that the Retired Faculty of the University of Florida came into being as a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching life in retirement not only for those who enjoyed a distinguished academic or staff service career at UF, but also for those retirees of other academic institutions who have settled in Gainesville.
Spring 2024
January 2024
Retired Faculty of the University of Florida celebrates its Golden 50th Anniversary! RFUF was founded at UF in 1974. I chose to wear gold in this newsletter photo to signify this milestone. We are planning several programs and events on campus and in the community to advance and promote the mission of RFUF and celebrate the 50th .
Fall 2023
August 2023
When I retired from the University of Florida in 2016 after 26 years, I was eagerly looking forward to lazy days watching old classic movies and maybe sleeping until Noon on Sundays. Well, au contraire! That didn’t happen.
Spring 2023
January 2023
Welcome to the Year 2023 and the Spring semester. Hope you had an enjoyable holiday season, spending time with your family and friends and the great freeze did not interrupt your travel plans and celebration.
Fall 2022
August 2022
Welcome to the new Academic Year and the Fall Program of the Retired Faculty of the University of Florida. I am pleased to announce that the Harn Auditorium is now equipped for Hybrid meetings. Sessions will be held in person as well as zoomed to the members, hence members who wish to attend virtually will be able to do so.
Spring 2022
January 2022
Happy New Year and welcome to the Spring 2022 program of the Retired Faculty of the University of Florida (RFUF). We had hoped to return to in-person meetings at the Harn this spring, but, alas, the appearance and spread of the new Covid variant Omicron made that alternative seem too risky.