UCR Retirement Center

 

Program Presentations

The UCR Emeriti and Retiree Associations have been proud to offer a variety of programs to enhance your retired life. Whether it's about socializing, staying healthy, learning about benefits or technologies, the following resources will provide you with useful information. 
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  • Presentations
    Garden to Table Vegetables

    Presented Friday, August 18, 2023

    Speaker:

    • Laura Simpson, Riverside County Master Gardeners Program

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    Healthy Habits While at Home, Featuring UCR Recreation

    Presented Thursday, May 20, 2021

    Speakers:

    • Michelle Sansone, Assistant Director, UCR Recreation
    • Edward Marchall, Occupational Wellness Specialist, Human Resources
    • Clyde Spencer Blackwelder, Senior Ergonomic Specialist 
    • Jacqueline Leslie, Wellness Program Specialist

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    Guided Chair Yoga Session

    Presented Thursday, April 22, 2021

    Speaker:

    • Associate of the Chancellor, Diane Del Buono

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    Managing Lifestyle and Career Renewal During Retirement

    Friday, November 6, 2020

    Speaker:

    • John Mattson Chief Executive Officer, Career Coach Consultants LLC

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Mystery Book Club - The Third Girl
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  • Readings

    Mystery Book Club meetings take place monthly on the second Tuesday from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. via Zoom Pacific Time. Interested UCRRA and UCREA members may contact the Retirement Center to join the club meetings by emailing retirees@ucr.edu

    Previous Mysteries

    If you are interested in what Mysteries the Mystery Book Club has enjoyed in the past, please click here.

     

    Mystery Book Club - The Broken Shore

    The Broken Shore
    By Peter Temple

    Coming June 2024

    Big-city detective Joe Cashin is shaken by a scrape with death, he's posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community—everyone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong.
    Mystery Book Club - Devils Peak

    Devil's Peak
    By Deon Myer

    Spring 2024

    A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy.
    Mystery Book Club - The Third Girl

    The Third Girl
    By Nell Gordon

    Spring 2024

    Boston girl Molly Sutton moves to a small village in France to lick her wounds after a divorce. Molly's new life is full of contentment, if a bit short on excitement. But then a girl goes missing...and Molly's world gets turned upside down. And when the missing girl's distraught parents come to stay at Molly's bed and breakfast, she is drawn into the case, like it or not.
    Mystery Book Club - The Grave Tatoo

    The Grave Tattoo
    By Val McDermid 

    Winter 2024

    After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, a long-disregarded old wives' tale takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian, made infamous by Mutiny on the Bounty, staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And once there, what if he could tell his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem—a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive? 

    Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the manuscript ever existed—and whether it still exists today. 
    Mystery Book Club - Forty Theives

    Forty Thieves
    By Thomas Perry 

    Winter 2024

    Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins for hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common - until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. The previous spring, after days of torrential rain, James Ballantine, a middle-aged African American who worked as a research scientist for a prestigious company was recovered from one of the city's overwhelmed storm sewers. Looking like foul play, Ballantine's former employers bring in the Abels to investigate while the Hoyts' mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Ballantine's death stay hidden.
    Mystery Book Club - The Likeness

    The Likeness
    By Tana French     

    Winter 2024

    Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad—until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was.
    Mystery Book Club - Norwegian By Night
    Norwegian by Night
    By Derek Miller

    Winter 2024

    Sheldon Horowitz leaves New York and moves in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway. Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor’s young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. As Sheldon and the boy look for a safe haven in an alien world, past and present weave together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.
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  • Activities
    Walk, Talk, Tours - Citrus State Park
    California State Citrus Park 
    Winter 2024
    Walks, Talks, Tours - CE-Certs
    CE-CERT’s State-of the-Art Labs and Facilities
    Fall 2023
    Walk Talks Tours - Cheech Museum
    Cheech Center at the Riverside Arts Museum (RAM)
    Spring 2023
    Walk Talks Tours - Tour of UCR Trees
    Tour of UCR Trees
    Spring 2022
    Walk Talks Tours - Citrus Variety Collection Tour
    Citrus Variety Collection Tour
    Winter 2021
    Walk Talks Tours - UCR Botanical Garden Tour
    UCR Botanical Garden Tour
    Fall 2021