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VEA-Retired: We'll Always Be Your Professional Community

It doesn't all stop on the day you retire from teaching or other school employment. Your daily routine might change, but you are still the professional who invested years, as well as sweat and tears, into making our Virginia public schools the best they can be.

Benefits of VEA-Retired Membership

• Staying connected with fellow NEA members and programs
• Opportunities to share your expertise by volunteering and mentoring
• NEA’s political and legislative efforts to protect your retirement resources
• Continuing subscriptions to VEA News, the Virginia Journal of Education, and VEA’s quarterly retiree newsletter, VEA-R Connections and NEA’s bimonthly retiree magazine, This Active Life
• A variety of money-saving member benefits, such as: insurance programs, credit programs, loan and mortgage programs, deposit savings accounts, and investment programs

Click here for information on who can join and here for answers to frequently-asked questions about VEA-Retired.

VEA-Retired Leadership

Current officers of VEA-Retired are:

Ernest Holley, president and VEA board member-at-Large
R. Edward Fifer, vice president
Martha Wood, secretary-treasurer
Ralph Booher, VEA board member-at-Large

The president and other officers are elected by VEA-Retired members to a two-year term and may be elected to a second two-year term. The president’s term includes a two-year term as delegate to the VEA Delegate Assembly and the NEA Representative Assembly.

The VEA-Retired Council consists of the president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, retired board member, and an elected representative from each of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts.

Want more info? Contact VEA-Retired President Ernest Holley (504-886-2831; emholley@verizon.net) or VEA staff liaison Carol Donohue (804-775-8325; cdonohue@veanea.org).