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Meet AARP's New CEO: A. Barry Rand
aarp today ^ | 3/12/2009 | carole fleck

Posted on 08/11/2009 8:00:42 AM PDT by milwguy

A. Barry Rand, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Howard University and a nationally recognized agent for social change, has been tapped as AARP’s new chief executive officer, it was announced Thursday.

Rand, 64, a former top executive at Xerox and Avis Rent A Car, will succeed Bill Novelli when he takes over the association’s top post on April 6. He will become AARP’s first African American CEO.

According to an AARP press release, Rand is “a catalyst for social change and inclusion in the workplace.” He was selected to lead AARP after a national search that lasted nearly a year.

(Excerpt) Read more at bulletin.aarp.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aarp; africanamericans; barryrand; ceo; howardu; obama; rand
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To: Sudetenland

Thanks for the info. I just enrolled with American Seniors Association and will tell everyone I know to do the same. If you are currently a member of AARP, you can get an extra month free with ASA if you send them your torn up AARP card.


41 posted on 08/11/2009 10:12:12 AM PDT by Proud of Texas
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To: Proud of Texas
If you are currently a member of AARP, you can get an extra month free with ASA if you send them your torn up AARP card.

If memory serves me right it is an additional YEAR free...

42 posted on 08/11/2009 10:24:34 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Publius6961

Correct, I meant to say year instead of month.


43 posted on 08/11/2009 10:41:00 AM PDT by Proud of Texas
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To: JoeGar
I got a Robo call from AARP asking me to support Obamacare. I promptly called them to cancel my subscription. They promised to send me a refund of $11.00! Apparently, lots of others are cancelling too.

As did I a few minutes ago, although it took the better part of an hour to figure out how to send a request to cancel my membership and request a refund. There may be an easier way (doubt it) but here's how I did it:

1. Go to the AARP site

2. At the bottom of that page click on "Contact AARP"

3. Click on "Your Membership"

4. On the following page under "Your Membership" click on "More Questions?"

5. At the bottom of the resulting drop down

6. Click on the words "contact us"

7. Fill out the form and provide all the data including the membership number you wish to cancel.

I'm supposed to get a reply within 2 days.

To cut off any BS about getting my refund, I added:
"I do not wish a discussion or a debate about cancelling my membership and receiving a refund."

44 posted on 08/11/2009 10:48:22 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: wita
They don’t offer you or any other senior anything that ins’t available on the open market cheaper

I joined AARP at age 50 because it allowed me to get hotel/motel discounts; however, now that I am over 60, I can get "senior citizen" discounts almost everywhere.

45 posted on 08/11/2009 12:34:06 PM PDT by JoeGar
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To: dirtboy

No kidding. Hiring a CEO for social change?


46 posted on 08/11/2009 12:38:07 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: CPT Clay
Yes, from what I have seen they are a good advocacy group, but they don't appear to offer any benefits like discount insurance offers or Medicare drug benefits like ASA and AARP offer.

People are reluctant to leave AARP if they are losing the extras.

I recommend that all us old farts join ASA, 60 Plus and RetireSave (another advocacy only group).

We need as many sympathetic voices as we can get speaking out against these Leftist policies.
47 posted on 08/12/2009 7:34:30 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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