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Welcome to Our Retirees' Club!

 VIP Club members' personal friendships started during our legacy companies' working days then continued as we've transitioned into retirement or other life-style pursuits. As of January 2024 we had 1098 active memberships in 28 states plus one each in Canada, Germany, and Greece. This is a living web site; updated aperiodically with new Club information and Legacy Anthology articles. We respectively fly the American Flag on our web pages.
Please send announcements or site corrections to webmaster@vipclubmn.org. 

We are proud of our Legacy Companies, our technology innovations, and our teamwork accomplishments while on the job; an intriguing and continuing legacy illustrated in this MN state icon, detailed in the 60 Legacy Anthology chapters, reflected in our monthly stories, and at Lawshe Memorial Museum exhibits. 

• [4/17] We honored Keith Behnke, Member Emeritus; Les Nelson, Volunteer Extraordinaire; and Bob Pagac, Volunteer Extraordinaire at the today's Volunteer Recognition luncheon. Congratulations to them and thanks to Past President Harvey Taipale for Emceeing the program.  Previous honorees are identified at https://vipclubmn.org/history.html#Milestones.
• [4/12] Posted the April 'Early Machines' and per the January 'Our Stories' updated our Legacy Logo, scroll to: https://vipclubmn.org/OurStories.html#2024. Do you have a STORY for May, send it to webmaster@vipclubmn.org ?
• [4/3] A memorial Service for Clyde Allen will be held at 11am on May 2 at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church - 5025 Knox Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419
• [3/16] Posted the March 'Our Stories' article - UNIVAC memories by John Walker of AutoDesk note.
• [2/8/24] The date of the Syttende Mai celebration has been changed to May 24th to avoid interferring with many other Syttende Mai celebrations on May 17th.
• [1/19/24]Click here to check if your membership expired December 31,2023 or will expire at the end of 2024.  If you updated your membership after October 5, 2023 your name will still be on the list and you can ignore it.  An updated list is being worked on and will be available soon.
• [11/17/23] Welcome to the VIP Club board two new members! Les Flugum was elected at the Old Timers meeting and Eric Spring was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Keith Behnke.  Many thanks to Keith for his many years of service on the board!!  Be sure to thank him personally next time you see him.

Prior Announcements

• 2/3/24] Webinar - ERA to Unisys hosted by U of MN's Software Engineering Center TwinSPIN group.  Slides, script, and video links are the Our Stories for February. Speaker was VIP Club VP Lowell Benson.
• [6/25/23] The Annual VIP Club picnic was held at Eagan Central Park with over 135 people attending.  View photos in the gallery.
• [6/15/23] The Ramsey County Historical Society unveiled a commemorative plaque recognizing the importance of ERA and its spinoff companies to the local economy and the world.   See the last event report on the Activities page for details.
• Unisys Benefits Change - Unisys no longer uses Hewitt for the Benefits Service Center (USBS) HR interface.  The UBSC phone number (1-877-864-7972) is still valid. However, the new UBSC web access address to use is now, https://digital.alight.com/unisys.  The Unisys Benefit contact information is available on the main Unisys web. A detailed multiple contact listing, that includes the new UBSC web address URL, is available for "Current and Former Associates" at: https://www.unisys.com/about-us/current-and-former-associates. [8/8/21]
• No email?  Send correspondence to VIP Club - Board or - Membership or - Newsletter,  P.O. Box  21903, Eagan, MN 55121.  Please allow several days for responses as our volunteers may be traveling or busy with grandchildren! 

REQUEST FREE ZOOM MEETING:

Active VIP club members can request a free ZOOM meeting of unlimited duration by sending an email to vipzoommtg@vipclubmn.org.

• The email must include the requestor’s name, meeting date, start time, and duration.
• When the VIP Zoom Meeting coordinator has scheduled your meeting, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link that you must forward to the participants you are inviting to your meeting.
  No meeting host is required. Participants need to only click on the link to join the meeting.
• Requests are honored on a first come first served basis if date/times overlap.
• Send questions to vipzoommtg@vipclubmn.org.

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Calendar Dates

• May 24th - Syttende Mai
• Jun 19th - Picnic
• Sep 12th - Roseville Good Old Days
• Nov 7th - Old Timers Reunion

2024 Board Meetings
 Jun 5th, Aug 7th, Oct 2nd, Dec 4th

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