Saipe v. Public School Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County affirming a decision of the board of trustees of the public school teachers’ pension and retirement fund of Chicago (the board) against the plaintiff, Florence Saipe. The board’s decision denied Florence Saipe pension credit for her six months of service to the United States government in 1945 as a “clerk/stenographer,” and for her five years of service from 1962-67 to the Chicago board of education as a “theme reader.” In this appeal, Mrs. Saipe asks that the decision of the board be reversed, or in the alternative, that…