Welcome to UURMaPA!

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WHAT’S NEW:

  • First Notice about our Spring Conference, April 21–23 HERE
  • View the latest full color issue of ElderberriesFALL ’24 (with a review of our recent October 2024 conference): Elderberries FALL 2024
  • Video of 11/21 session with UUA Finance Staff; lots of Qs & As, HERE
  • 2024 AWARDS! Creative Sageing Award to Carole Martignacco HERE and Unsung UURMaPAn to Patt Herdklotz HERE
  • Announcement FOR ALL about our new Membership System HERE
Susan V Rak, UURMaPA President

President’s Ponderings December, 2024

Greetings, friends!

Years ago, I came across a cartoon—might have been a New Yorker gem—that pictured a sporting goods store with a sign in the window: “Now Is the Winter of Our Discount Tents.” Not sure why this stuck with me—maybe because it’s such a sly Shakespeare pun. 

As I write, we in the States are, in one way or another, reckoning with the changing landscape of this country’s essence and being. But this is not another hand-wringing essay of worry and fear (although those things dance at the margins), even as we feel a winter of discontent approaching.

Now we need to find… See ALL of Susan’s message…

Other 2023-24 UURMaPA Board members:
(Find photos and bios under Governance)

  • Ned Wight, Vice-President
  • New Secretary, July 1: Anne Marsh
  • New Treasurer, July 1: Paul Johnson
  • New Editor, July 1: George Buchanan
  • Barbro Hansson, Conferences
  • Wayne Arnason, UU Liaison
  • Fritz Hudson, Connections
  • Joy Atkinson, Connections Asst.