PRESIDENT’S Newsletter November 2019 | www.tfrw.org Inspire. Unite. Achieve. Table of Contents Galveston, Oh Galveston---- Convention Registration 3 Who will ever forget the wonderful experience Tote Bags 3 of holding the 32nd Biennial Convention in the beautiful city of Galveston at the Moody Convention Decorations 4 Gardens?! Thank You to Our Convention Sponsors! 5 It was a week to remember, the weather was beautiful, and the water and sea breezes were the NFRW Reagan Award 8 perfect backdrop for the TFRW Convention. I know, if A Woman of Courage 9 you attended, you enjoyed the Sip, Shop, and Stroll “10 Outstanding” Honorees 10 in the Historic Strand. The opening session of the Awards 17 convention on Thursday set the pace for the rest of the Campaign Volunteer Awards 19 convention. The speaker line-up was fabulous, thanks to Debbie Roan, Convention Co-Chair, and Karen Newton, Public Relations Awards 20 TFRW President, for the great job with the Speaker Caring for America Awards 21 Program. The session hall was the most beautiful ever! Convention Vendors 23 NFRW Membership Awards 25 Americanism Awards 25 Honoring our Beloved Members 26 The Mighty American Strike Force 27 2019 Patrons 28 From the Desk of Glynis Chester… 30 Merchandise Madness 31 Moments in History 32 Capitol RW 34 It was so great to have our Texas First Lady TFRW Membership 37 Cecilia Abbott welcome us at the Red Wave Welcome Reception. The event was so much fun and very festive (continued on next page) Inspire. Unite. Achieve. 2018-2019 (continued from previous page) ELECTED out on the Poolside Terrace. We had plenty The TFRW Office will be OFFICERS of delicious food, too! closed for these holidays PRESIDENT Karen Newton November 25-29 Alamo Heights RW 210 863 5540 December 23-January 1 [email protected] FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Glynis Chester Friday was amazing and RW of Greater North Texas 214 923 5923 jam packed with activities, [email protected] wonderful speakers, VP BYLAWS the Awards Luncheon, The Honorable Diane Haddock the Workshops, the Cowtown RW 817 917 1100 Patron’s/”10 Outstanding” [email protected] Reception, and the VP CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES Michele Samuelson “10 Outstanding” Dinner. It Northwest Austin RW 214 995 0413 was a challenge to keep up with the crowds wanting to get in to hear all [email protected] about the TFRW and the Republican efforts. VP FINANCE Becky Berger RW of Yoakum After three fun days, we wrapped 979 505 0508 [email protected] up with the installation of the 2020-2021 TFRW Board, who VP LEGISLATION Julie Faubel will carry on the good work Lake Conroe Area RW 918 519 1599 accomplished in 2018-2019. [email protected] VP MEMBERSHIP The 2019 TFRW Convention Rhonda Lacy Midland Co. RW Committee THANK YOU for 432 553 1593 [email protected] participating in a record-breaking VP PROGRAMS convention with us. We had a Linda Hagler Central Texas RW great time planning and preparing for you, 432 254 9990 [email protected] and we hope we met your expectations. SECRETARY Marie Maggio We look forward to seeing you in Golden Triangle RW 409 782 4018 Round Rock in 2021! [email protected] TREASURER Cindy Payne Sherry Peterson, Convention Chair Bulverde Area RW 830 980 7927 Debbie Roan, Convention Co-Chair [email protected] IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Theresa Kosmoski Send us your Photos! Village RW 713 502 3527 Please email photos of your club’s events and activities to tfrwphotos@ [email protected] gmail.com. Look for them in the next edition of the President’s Newsletter. PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2019 TEXAS FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN Inspire. Unite. Achieve. Convention Registration Registration at the Galveston Convention ran smoothly thanks to the volunteers from many clubs who learned the check-in process quickly and ran the Expo Check-In efficiently. Our wonderful volunteers also stepped up and helped stuff Tote Bags, escorted guest speakers to the VIP Room, and any other task that needed doing. We had fun and made many wonderful acquaintances during the three days of the convention. Loretta Roberts and Lillian Murphy Convention Registration Committee Co-Chairs Tote Bags What a great convention for tote bags! The tote bags were awesome this year and had some added beach flair to them. The tote bags were generously donated this year ($10,000) by Representative Mayes Middleton. Representative Middleton is the State Representative for both the Chambers and Galveston County areas, so it was a perfect fit! RW of Trinity County Delegates checked in! We had an army of women to help make the registered Delegates and Guests. It was so tote bags a success this year. We had several great to hear throughout the convention how women drive the tote bags down from Sherry’s much everyone really enjoyed the bags and house on the Tuesday before Convention. goodies inside and said they were the best yet! Wednesday afternoon, we had a grand assembly line in formation to stuff all 700+ I was honored and proud to be this year’s Tote tote bags. The tote bags were stuffed with 20+ Bag Chairwoman and thrilled Sherry Peterson pieces of swag donated by several vendors, and Debbie Roan thought of me for the job. sponsors, candidates, and elected officials It was a lot of fun and am looking forward to from all over the state. Our army worked for convention in Round Rock in 2021. three hours stuffing bags and “toting” them to Thank You! registration to be given out. I am happy to report that all 700+ tote bags Kari Long were used and went home with happy Convention Tote Bag Committee Chair PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2019 TEXAS FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN Inspire. Unite. Achieve. Convention Decorations The Convention Decorations Committee Special thanks also go to Bay Area provided decorations for the banquets and RW members, Carolyn Hopkins and luncheons during the TFRW Beverly Ferguson-Cooper, for Convention. The theme was helping to tend to the floral “It’s Island Time, Again,” so we creations during the convention. decorated the Moody Ballroom A big shout-out and “Thank You” with lovely one-of-a-kind also goes to our sisters in the tropical floral arrangements. San Jacinto RW- Tammie (and This wouldn’t be possible Keith) Neilsen, Dawn McDonald, without the very talented Moriah Guthrie, Janice Broussard of the Angelina Gooden, and Galveston RW. Janice Barbara Legler- for collecting created each of the exquisite donation envelopes and centerpieces – all 87 of them! transporting the remaining center pieces to The Bridge Thank you, Janice, for Over Troubled Waters in Pasadena after the donating your time and talent to making convention. each of the arrangements. They were Elizabeth Lauzon spectacular! Convention Decorations Committee Chair Registration Co-Chair Loretta Roberts Convention Chair Sherry Peterson and with Texas Senator Larry Taylor and Registration Co-Chair Lillian Murphy featured speaker Ken Starr PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2019 TEXAS FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN Inspire. Unite. Achieve. Convention Sponsors by Tina Gibson, Convention Finance Committee Chair Thank You to Our Convention Sponsors! Because of the generous donations of convention, which our sponsors, TFRW was able to keep the shows TFRW’s cost down for our convention delegates, volunteer efforts to alternates, and guests. The Convention support them have Committee had the honor of raising over made a difference in $195,000 to date! Thank you to committee their elections. Our members Cheryl Dalton, Rajada Fleming, and breakfasts, lunches, Kathy Luckenbach. dinners, the big convention kick-off welcome party, and tote bags with the goodies inside were all covered. If you run into them anywhere around the state, please thank them for their support. Thank you to all the Republican women’s clubs who sponsored the convention and gave us your club logos for our The list of convention sponsors was proudly presentations during the luncheons. It has displayed in several locations around the been a pleasure to work with you! convention. Our statewide elected officials stepped forward and supported our PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2019 TEXAS FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN Inspire. Unite. Achieve. Thank You to Our Convention Sponsors! PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2019 TEXAS FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN Inspire. Unite. Achieve. Thank You to Our Convention Sponsors! 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Unite. Achieve. NFRW Reagan Award FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 28, 2019 increases in membership, participation in CONTACT: [email protected] national programs, and excellence in public relations and campaign efforts. Elected as president of TFRW in 2017, Newton is dedicated to keeping Texas “red.” She is a board member of the Voter Registration Project led by Karl Rove and is working with the John Cornyn Campaign to increase TFRW membership.