All Clubs Form D 2018-19
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! Federation of Texas A&M University Mothers Clubs 2018-2019 Annual Report of Clubs ABILENE We had 39 members for the 2018-2019 year. Our fundraising efforts enabled us to award two $1000 scholarships to students in our area, as well as eight Barnes and Nobles bookstore scholarships. We also donated $100 to four different student organizations. The organizations receiving those donations included Brotherhood of Aggie Mentors (BAM), Build, Carpool, and Breakaway. This year we had a surprise donation of $750 from an Old Ag, Dwayne Canada ‘69. Our club is donating the gift back as an additional one time scholarship for the students in our area. Graduating seniors were honored with a ring crest with his/her year of graduation. In July, we hosted a Howdy Party, inviting new Aggies and their parents to come meet one another and begin forming their own Aggie network. Special guest, Former Yell Leader - Keith Chapman '71 shared Aggie stories and lead us all in yells. We invited current students to attend and answer questions as well as give tips and advice to the new students. The students met separately from the parents. While the students were meeting, board members shared their own words of wisdom and advice to the new Aggie parents and had our own question and answer session. We had some great programs this year. We enjoyed guest speaker, James Decker ’06 sharing with us about the Rural Entrepreneurship program at Texas A&M. Mr. Norm Archibald spoke to us about Aggie traditions and his experience at TAMU. Local Aggie couple, Jason and Jessica from Vagabond Pizza, told us the story of how their business came to be. We also went to Painting with a Twist and painted the Aggie Barn on Hwy 6 with our own Aggie touch. In addition our club enjoyed making our Aggies Finals Survival Kits, a fun Christmas ornament exchange and hosting a boutique shower. Our fundraiser each year is our boutique raffle for our “Apartment Set Up.” We sell $1 tickets for a chance to win approximately $1500 of apartment necessities: handmade quilt, dishes, towles, silverware, toaster, rugs, etc all with a little Aggie influence! Clubs Form D 8/2019 Page !1 of !46 ALVIN The Alvin Aggie Mom’s Club had 15 members for the 2018-2019 calendar year. We started off the year with a painting social where we painted Texas shaped plaques or footballs with A&M colors at a local art studio. In December we held our Alvin Aggie Moms Christmas party with a white elephant give exchange and kicked off our raffle ticket sales to raise money for scholarships. In February 2019 we had a Valentine Cookie decorating social. We also sold water and soft drinks as the Alvin Food Truck Frenzy in March and April to bring more community awareness to the Alvin Aggie Mom's group. The Alvin Aggie Mom’s Club successfully raised funds via our annual raffle ticket sales and Texas A&M Jewelry sales. As a result, we will be able to award Scholarships to students from the Alvin High School and Manvel High School for a total amount of $4,000 for deserving incoming Texas A&M freshmen. AMARILLO Number of Members: 47 Donations to Texas A&M Organizations: $450.00 total, $150 was given to Camp Berry, $150 to BUILD Command Team, and $150 to Fish Aides. Scholarship Giving: We had 14 drawings for $100 scholarships during our Summer Social - NSC information session and during our regular meetings. Fundraiser: We sold pecans from Millican Pecans. Special Events: In May, we held a social to welcome incoming freshmen, transfer students, and their parents to the A&M family. We had a panel of students there to answer questions about NSC, registration, dorms, parking, etc. (we contacted area high school counselors to get our invitations to the incoming students) In January, we had a dinner at Abuelo's for our Aggie students that were home for Christmas break. This year's guest speaker was Taylor Moore, a graduate of Texas A&M. Memorable Programs: At our September meeting, we had a BBQ sandwich meal before the meeting to allow time for new and old members to get acquainted. Michael Knowles, credit union financial advisor, spoke at our February meeting. He discussed the importance of helping the students obtain good credit and how to avoid common mistakes that students usually make. We gathered Exam Pack gift items for our Aggies at our November and April meetings. We presented ring crests at our September and February meetings to our moms that had recent Aggie graduates. Clubs Form D 8/2019 Page !2 of !46 ARIZONA Our club strives to support the needs of Arizona Aggies. We completed our fifth year as a club. In July 2018, we awarded $9250 in scholarships (10 students received $925). We had 20 members for the 2018-2019 year. Our garage sale efforts this year yielded proceeds of $444. Additionally, we earned $452.84 from a Kendra Scott sponsored event, $342.54 from corporate donation matching from a third party, and $150 from a private donation. Our April 2019 golf tournament resulted in a profit of $7,543.43. Our fundraising efforts allowed our club to donate $100 to the Big Event and sponsor food for the Parsons Mounted Cavalry (PMC) as they passed through Arizona enroute to their march in the 2019 Rose Bowl Parade. Providing food and a warm Arizona Aggie welcome to the PMC was one of the highlights of our year! We look forward to being able to donate $8,800 in scholarships for the 2019/2020 school year (8 students will receive $1100 each). Socially, the moms met at a local painting place to creatively design artwork. A new Aggie Mom hosted our annual Christmas ornament exchange at her home. When the students were home over the holidays, another mom hosted a pizza and game night for the families. At the golf tournament, we recogized the moms of four graduationg seniors with Aggie crest paper weights. It was another productive, support, spirit-filled year as an Arizona Aggie Mom Club! ATASCOSA Atascosa County Aggie Moms currently has 31 members. We had two fundraisers this year. Our fall fundraiser consists of selling our Atascosa County Aggie Mom Pecans, 1 pound bags of pieces and halves. Our spring fundraiser was working at the Atascosa Aggie Skeet Shoot. Through these fundraisers we were able to award 14 $500.oo scholarships to graduating seniors accepted to A&M from the towns of Jourdanton, Pleasanton, Charlotte and Poteet. We also delivered goodie bag exam packs to the students in the fall and mailed gift cards to the students in the spring. AUSTIN May 2018 We hosted our Scholarship Recipients and our Graduates at a reception. The Transition of our Board was completed. June 2018 Our annual "Howdy Social" was held with approximately 250 attendees. We had representatives from the Housing Office, Study Abroad, Carpool, and a variety of other organizations. The highlight of our event was a talk by Dr. Kathleen Speed from the Academic Success Center. July/August 2018 We held 2 events for Fish Moms, Transfer Moms, and Blinn Team Moms at Riverplace Country Club. The first, held in July, was our New Mom Q and A and was run by our Fish Mom Mentors. They presented information about sending your Aggie to TAMU: dorm life, what to pack, Fish Camp, Financial Aid, medical care, football games, etc. About 50 moms attended the event and many of them signed up for membership in our club. The other event was Aggie Mom 101, where we Clubs Form D 8/2019 Page !3 of !46 educated potential new members about the responsibilities of being an Austin Aggie Mom. This meeting was run by President Daniela Knight, with assistance from various Board members. The Fall Federation Meeting was attended by Daniela Knight, Denise Isenhour, Shileen Karnes, Carey Boles, and Kathleen Pasquarette. September 2018 We hosted our first official Austin Aggie Moms meeting for the school year at Riverplace Country Club and opened with an icebreaker: You Know You're an Aggie Mom When". Prior to our General Meeting at 7pm, our Fish Mom Mentors met at 6:30pm with new moms. President Daniela Knight introduced the Board members and announced her theme for the year, which was "Integrity". We also wrote letters to the parents of Mr. Erik Kyle Hanson, whose Silver Taps was being held that night. Denise Isenhour made an appeal for items to be donated for our Reveille Raffle. October 2018 At our October meeting, we celebrated the birthday of our Past President, Denise Isenhour. Our speaker was Tim Lomax from Texas A&M Transportation. He explained changes being made to traffic patterns around campus and encouraged us to download the Destination Aggieland App. We also sold tickets to our Singing Cadet Concert and our Reveille Raffle. November 2018 Our November meeting celebrated Veterans, so our speaker was Colonel Gerald Smith of the TAMU Veterans' Resource Center. He's such a great speaker and provided us with tons of data about their work. We continued to sell Singing Cadet tickets and collect items for our raffle. December 2018 In December, we had a short business meeting and then followed with our annual Christmas party. As in years' past, we had a gift exchange. In addition, for the first time, we had invited our Past Presidents to attend and honored them at our party and provided each of them with a small gift. Our Goody Bag committee delivered goody bags to the TAMU campus for both students and Veteran students.