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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Changing room. | Fred Klonsky

Changing room. | Fred Klonsky:

Changing room.

Mae Smith is an energetic woman who is membership chair of NEA Retired.
She’s from Illinois. Michigan before that. When we met the other day she greeted me like we knew each other for years.
“Oh, I read your columns,” she said with a smile.
She was polite enough not to say whether she agreed with them or liked them. But that’s her way. Her job is building membership among retired educators in the NEA. Not reviewing some blogger.
And she has been overwhelmingly successful.
While school closings and charters have contributed to a membership loss for the NEA nationally of over