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Show xTHE J )Bt By THOMAS COLLINS RETIREMENT SCHOOL MAJOR: WHAT TO DO t AYBE you have written something like this before, but it would have been back a few years when I thought the sort of column you write was silly. "Well, it's serious to me now and I need advice on setting up a retirement course in an Adult Education School. Can you give me guidance?" Try this: Determine first whether you want a course for people already retired or for people about to retire. re-tire. If the former, your pupils will be mainly lonely oldsters who attend because it is somewhere some-where to go. The 60-to-65 years group, with the pension still to come, is busy looking under the bed, and will be more apt students. Have classes two evenings a week if you can. Once a week doesn't hold together. Six weeks is too short. Three months would do better. Two-part courses of three months each would be fine, and effective. Make the "Major" in your retirement re-tirement course the "What To Do" lessons. You could divide these into three segments: Jobs; Volunteer Civic Activities; and Loafing. In the Jobs category pupils would be assigned to find job openings in the community by contacting employment agencies, personnel managers, bosses of small business houses, etc. The jobs to be sought should be evening or weekend jobs so the pupils, since they are still working, work-ing, could take them. For the Volunteer Civic Activities, Activi-ties, the instructor, with a few 0 phone calls, can find spots in charity char-ity work, etc., for as many pupils as he has. During the evenings when the pupils do not attend classes, they should fill the volunteer vol-unteer jobs. For the Loafing candidates, it is suggested that they be seated at the rear of the room to do nothing and be asked nothing. They will just watch the others. The "Minors" in the retirement course might be these: Wills A half-dozen lessons will be needed, showing who needs a will, what wills can and can't do and the state laws governing them. A member of the local bar association may be guest instructor instruc-tor .. . probably for free. Life Insurance Maybe three lessons will be sufficient, with local lo-cal insurance executives again for free telling the many ways the pupils can convert their policies poli-cies into methods more appropriate appropri-ate to their pension years. Investments Most of the pupils wouldn't be bothering with a retirement re-tirement school if they had more than $10,000 or so. Therefore, a savings executive of a local bank or an executive of a local savings and loan association would make the best instructor. For free. Health Seek as instructors not doctors and not officers of the American Medical Association, but Blue Cross and Blue Shield officials, officials of any insurance company dealing with health insurance. in-surance. For a cop? ot the new Golden Tears booklet by Thomas Collins, send 35 cent In coin (no stamps) to Dept. NWNS. Box IB7J. Grand Central Station, Sta-tion, New York 17, N. Y. |