Events, Meetings and Speakers
2025-2026 Event Calendar
September to April Monthly Membership Meetings: Second Monday, 1:30 PM MSUFCU, Mt Hope & Farm Lane.
MSURA presents and records the monthly seminars.
Monday, April 13, 2026, Robyn Fralick, MSU Women's Head Basketball Coach Click Here to Reserve Your Spot
Coach Robyn Fralick will be the speaker at the April 13 membership meeting soon after she ends her third season as head women’s basketball coach at MSU.
Fralick holds an impressive overall record of 236–95 (.713) as of early 2026 and is a two-time National Coach of the Year honoree. She is the first MSU women’s basketball coach to make the NCAA Tournament in her first season and the sixth coach in Spartan women’s history.
Before she arrived at MSU, she coached women’s basketball at Ashland and Bowling Green. An Okemos native, she played high school basketball as well as soccer and softball.
Fralick has five core values that she practices: Be a great teammate, manners matter, trust, toughness and commitment.
Her team performed well this season. Last year they were ranked 24th, but her team has climbed to the 15th spot this year.
Eric D. Zemper, eldest son of Duane Zemper, a World War II photographer, will speak to members about his father, Duane Zemper, on Tuesday, April 14, at 2 p.m. at the MSUFCU at Farm Lane and Mt. Hope in East Lansing.
Duane Zemper was a First Lieutenant and commanding officer of the Photo Intelligence unit attached to the 457th Bomb Group of the U.S. Army Navy Force, a B-17 bomber group stationed in England during World War II. First Lt. Zemper was stationed at Glatton airbase, just south of Peterborough in England from January 1944 until the end of June 1945. At the end of the war in Europe, First Lt. Zemper fortunately chose to ignore the base commander’s orders to destroy everything in the photo lab and brought home over 1,800 photographs and photographic negatives, plus about 12,000 feet of 16mm movie film of events around the base and on combat missions.
This treasure trove of historical documentation was inherited by his eldest son, Eric D. Zemper, after Duane Zemper died in 2016. Since then Eric has been organizing, scanning and digitizing to archival quality all these materials, and making them available to museums and other interested groups across the country.
The material presented on April 14 will include a few minutes of video from the movies brought back by First Lt. Zemper, showing activities on the ground at the base and in the air on missions. Also shown will be an 18-minute video produced by the University of Michigan Flint PBS station about Zemper’s experiences in WWII, which won a regional Emmy for best historical documentary in 2007. There will be
another 30-minutes of interviews with Zemper that were not included in the PBS video.
Be sure to attend the MSU Retirees Association Annual Luncheon on Tuesday, May 5, at the University Club. The keynote speaker will be J Batt, MSU Vice President and Director of Athletics. Batt came to East Lansing from Georgia Tech, where he served as Vice President and Director of Athletics since October 2022. Before that he was Executive Deputy Director of Athletics at the University of Alabama.
Accompanying Batt will be Jacob Kirkham, Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director of Development. He leads fundraising efforts for sports and supervises the Spartan Fund staff.
In addition to the speakers, attendees will enjoy good fellowship and food, help elect officers for 2026-2027, meet the MSURA scholarship winners and celebrate the volunteer of the year. The deadline for reservations to the luncheon is April 25.
You may mail in your registration with your check or use Eventbrite if you wish to pay with a credit card. Use this address: https://MSURA_annual_luncheon.eventbrite.com.
Vintage Wine Company invites you to a free wine tasting at Burcham Hills on Wednesday, May 20, at 2 p.m. Gather with other MSURA friends to enjoy this event.
Location: Ada Whitehouse Room, Burcham Hills Life Care Community, 2700 Burcham Dr., East Lansing. Arrival: 1:30-2 p.m. Event 2-3:15 p.m. Limit of 50: Reservations required. Registration deadline: Friday, May 8, 2026
Nicholas Crosser will be our host. His interest in wine goes back as far as he can remember. When most families were vacationing at Disney World the Crosser family vacations stretched from the vineyards of Tuscany to the ports of Portugal. As a representative of Vintage Wine Company, he has the pleasure of sharing some of his favorite bottles and stories.
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MSU RETIREES ASSOCIATION MONTHLY INFORMAL LUNCH AT BRODY HALL
Held on the second Friday of the month at MSU's Brody Square from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, this informal social event has no program. Bring friends.
The Brody Square dining hall is located on the second floor with an elevator and stairs near the front entrance. Meals can be purchased in advance for a discount at EatAtState.msu.edu or pay full price in person. Advanced purchasing links the meals to your MSU ID card, which then acts as a debit card to pay for meals when entering the dining hall. Daily menus are available on the EatAtState.msu.edu website. MSU Retiree Id cards are available at the MSU ID Office in the MSU International Center.
Parking is available at Kellogg Center parking ramp, Jenison Field House or other employee parking with your MSU Retiree Parking Permit. Permits may be ordered for free on the MSU Parking Office website, Visitor Pay-By-Plate parking is also available.
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Members of MSURA are persons officially designated as retired by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and their spouses or surviving spouses, (b) upon their written request, persons retired from other employment who had formerly been employed or appointed to adjunct positions by Michigan State University, and their spouses or surviving spouses, and (c) active Michigan State University employees who pay an annual subscription fee as set by the Board of Directors of MSURA.
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