PLATO is a volunteer organization.  We always need volunteers to coordinate courses.  Without those coordinators, we would lose one of our main reasons to be.  In the past, we have been able to thank coordinators at a luncheon prior to the Fall semester.  The pandemic has made it impossible to have those gatherings for the past two years.  Nevertheless, we are very grateful to each of you who have chosen to coordinate a course through these challenging days.  Many of you have had to learn new online skills in order to continue your courses.  We thank you for all you have done and are doing to keep the learning alive and well!  You are the lights of our organization!

We would especially like to thank coordinators who have served us all and have chosen to retire in 2020 or 2021.  We are grateful for your service to the work of PLATO!  You made a difference and we appreciate that.

In 2020, Greg Bell and Gerry Campbell retired.  Greg coordinated a course entitled, Current Events PM.  Gerry led a course about the Wisconsin Idea.  Thanks to each of you for the time and energy you have given to these important courses.

This year, 2021, we have even more retirements to announce.  The latest retirees are:  Peter Beatty who led French Conversation, Bruce Gregg who coordinated What in the World Happened, Brent Larson and Leslie Larson who co-led PLATO Travel, Arden Trine who coordinated Managing your Money and Vicki Ford who facilitated Biographies East.  To each of these coordinators we give a hearty round of applause in gratitude for their many hours of service to PLATO.

If you are inspired by the volunteer work of these retirees and would like to help make PLATO a success into the future, please take time to fill out a course proposal with an interest or expertise you would like to share.  The form can be found on this curriculum website.

Thank you again to all of our course coordinators and a special acknowledgment of gratitude to those who have recently retired!

Paula McKenzie for the Curriculum Committee