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Longtime Auburn senior center director Radine Lozier to retire after nearly 40 years
Summary
Radine Lozier, director of the Auburn Senior Activity Center, is retiring June 15 after joining the City of Auburn in June 1986. In a recorded conversation with Mayor Nancy Backus, Lozier reflected on program innovations, volunteer networks, pandemic adaptations and plans to keep volunteering.
Radine Lozier, the director who has overseen the Auburn Senior Activity Center for nearly four decades, will retire on June 15, she and Mayor Nancy Backus said in a recorded interview. Lozier told Backus she began work with the city in June 1986 after graduating from Central Washington University with a degree in gerontology and took what she called a "life's calling" in serving older adults.
Lozier said she started at about age 21 and that an internship at the Renton Senior Center helped launch her career. "It was baptism by fire," she said of early staffing gaps and the need to create programming on the fly. Over the years, Lozier said, the center expanded its offerings from traditional social gatherings to hikes, sports, trips and other activities designed to attract baby boomers and new…
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