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Howdy Aggie Moms!
I just cannot believe that it is December already – and 2007 will soon be just a memory. December is, I guess, my favorite month of the year because of Christmas. My memories of Christmas as a child are very wonderful and vivid, especially when I look at old pictures of those Christmas’ with my parents and my sister. I hope I’m creating those kinds of memories for my children – and now also, my grandchildren! I sometimes feel that I am reliving my childhood memories of Christmas through the eyes of my grandchildren and feel fortunate to have shared so many with them! I hope that this Christmas will bring each Aggie Mom special memories with your Aggie – and all of your family – this year!
Speaking of special memories, we are planning a very special event for our Christmas meeting this year and hope that it will become a special Christmas memory for all of you! We will have a Christmas gathering at the home of Judy and Tim Turner on Thursday, December 20 beginning at 6 p.m. The information about this is in this newsletter, including directions to the Turner home. For those who would like to carpool and/or caravan together, we will leave from the parking lot of
Trinity
Lutheran
Church at 5:30 p.m. and proceed to the Turner ranch. This will be a social gathering and we do not plan to conduct any Aggie Mom business at that time – unless something really urgent turns up between now and then! All members are asked to bring their favorite Christmas “finger food” to share. ALSO, this is a time to share with spouses and your Aggies, so please invite them to this event as well. Join us in what will become a wonderful Christmas memory of your time with San Angelo Aggie Moms!
We are getting closer to the Singing Cadets performance – January 10th is NOT that far away! We are looking for more sponsors for this event, as we want to offer this as a free concert to the community and can only do this if we line up enough sponsors to help us out. If you, your business, your church – whatever! – would like to be a sponsor, contact
Suzy Mears right away and she will give you the information. Help us present the wonderful Singing Cadets to the greater
San Angelo community as a free concert!
The January Meeting will be on the 24th at Nancy Brockman's house in
Sonora. Directions will be in the January newsletter.
The Ring of Honor gathering will be January 3 at noon at El Mejor; please let J.Ann Lange know if you can attend so that she can reserve enough seats for all.
Have a very special and blessed Christmas this year and we look forward to seeing all of you at the Christmas Party on December 20!
In Aggie Mom Love,
Chris Hunter
DECEMBER MEETING — CHRISTMAS PARTY! Thursday, November 20 at 6 p.m.
Annual Christmas party will be held at Judy & Tim Turner’s Ranch near
Carlsbad. A separate email will be sent with directions. We will be having finger foods. The entertainment will be the "Mothers and Daughters" group. Everyone needs to bring their favorite finger food along with the recipe for those who might want a copy of it.
COOKBOOK UPDATE
The new cookbook, Aggie Traditions, has arrived. If you preordered cookbooks, please contact Chris Hunter at 949-5139 to make arrangements for picking them up. We will also have some cookbooks at the next meeting.
CONGRATULATION! December A&M Graduates
The following names were submitted as graduating in December – Congratulations!!! If your Aggie graduated in December, please let Chris Hunter know at
christine@brazosvalleydesign.com
Michael Lisoski ‘03
SINGING CADETS ARE COMING!
Mark Thursday, January 10, 2008 on your calendars, and DO NOT PLAN TO MISS! Our Club was asked to host the Singing Cadets on their 2008 Winter Tour, and January 10 is our date! This is yet another event that takes many hands!
We will be asking for sponsorships. If you have a business and would like to place an ad in the concert program, we will have a place for you. If you would be willing to host at least two singers in your home overnight on January 10, we will have a place for you. If you would be willing to assist in greeting the group when they arrive in
San Angelo, we will have a place for you. If you can prepare cookies or other snacks that we can make available to the guys, we will have a place for you. If you have a business where we could put up a poster announcing the concert, we will have a place for you.
We hope to provide the concert as a free program to our community. We will pay all concert expenses with funds raised through sponsorships. We will also accept donations on the evening of the concert that we will add to our scholarship fund.
For more information, or to volunteer to help in one of the ways listed, call
Suzy Mears at 944-9146.
HOST HOMES ARE NEEDED!
Host homes are needed for the Texas A & M Singing Cadets on Thursday, January 10, 2008. If you can provide a bed each for two cadets for one night following the concert, please contact Nevie Lacy at 325-651-4532 or email at nevnews@aol.com. Our club must provide 23 homes to house the 46 cadets, so YOU ARE NEEDED!!! Anyone who has hosted a cadet in the past can assure you that this is a pleasure and a privilege, and you will be blessed by the time you spend with these young men.
Your responsbilities would include transporting them to your home following the concert, providing them an after-the-concert snack if the cadet is hungry, breakfast the next morning, and transportation back to their travel bus. PLEASE consider opening your homes for this special event. You will be so glad you did!!
PROGRAM FOR SINGING CADETS
Also - we are still accepting sponsorships -- ads are $100 for a business card size, $250 for a 1/2 page size, and $500 for a full page size.
Judy Turner is in charge of sponsorships. We are about half way to our goal right now, but we need for others to sponsor. We will do the honorarium/memorial thing once again on a page in the program. 1-line for $25, or 2-lines for $50.
ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Applicants for the
San Angelo A&M Mothers' Club Endowed Scholarship can apply beginning January 1, 2008 through March 1, 2008. For more information, check with the San Angelo Area Foundation website, www.sanangeloareafoundation.org. For other questions regarding scholarships, contact Nevie Lacy at nevnews@aol.com
AGGIE MOM BRAGS
If you have “brags,” please let Lanee know at lanee.warrick@wvisd.net
Bryan Sansone '08 (Aggie Mom Harriet Sansone) was chosen to be a co-chair for the 2008 Fish Camp!
Travis Garmon (Aggie Mom Betty Sue Garmon) has been promoted to a Senior Accountant at Alcatel-Lucent in
Plano.
Tara Hunter '99 (Aggie Mother-In-Law Chris Hunter) will graduate in December with her Master's Degree from
Sam
Houston
State. Tara and husband Christopher are expecting their second child in April.
CHANGES AND CORRECTION TO YEARBOOK
Below are some changes and some corrections to the yearbook, please make these changes in your book:
Terra McMahon mcmahon.ranch@dishmail.net
Sherry Flannary aggiemom359@gmail.com
2007-2008 SAN ANGELO AGGIE MOM OFFICERS
Chris Hunter – President
949-5139 (home)
christine@brazosvalleydesign.com
Kathe Conner, 1st VP (Programs)
944-7186 (home)
kathe.conner@angelo.edu
Vickie Foreman, 2nd VP (Membership)
944-1887 (home)
rvf4@verizon.net
Lanee Warrick, 3rd VP (Publications)
484-3005 (home)
lanee.warrick@wvisd.net
Susan Solomon, 4th VP (Fund Raising)
949-8558 (home)
susan.Solomon@suddenlink.net
Lucy Jochum, 4th VP (Fund Raising)
949-7384 (home)
lucyjochum@yahoo.com
Suzy Mears, President at Large
944-9146 (home)
gmommymears@gmail.com
Kande Bahlman, Secretary
944-2987 (home)
kandebahlman@suddenlink.net
Sherry Flanary, Treasurer
944-0401 (home)
s_flanary@yahoo.com
Carolyn Kuhn, Parliamentarian
465-8067 (home)
ck56@zipnet.us
Melissa Faubion, Historian
365-5424 (home)
cliffmel@hotmail.com
Suzette McIntyre (Auditor)
651-7470 (home
suzette.mcintyre@wallisd.net
San Angelo
Texas
A&M
University Mother’s Club
General Meeting Minutes
November 15, 2007
President Christine Hunter called the November meeting of the San Angelo A&M University Mothers’ Club to order at 6:50 p.m. Chris provided an agenda and led us in prayer. She also led us in Yell Practice: Beat the hell out of t.u. We filled Goody Bags prior to the beginning of the meeting.
Members reviewed the October minutes. Harriett Sansone made the motion that we accept the minutes as published and reviewed. Motion seconded. Motion carried.
Treasurer’s report: Treasurer was unable to attend tonight’s meeting.
Membership report: The yearbook has been printed and distributed. Memberships are accepted all year.
Fundraising:
China Luncheon - We made approximately $3,000. As reported to the Board, we had total receipts of $3, 758.56 and expenses of $399.73, resulting in a net of $2, 978.83.
Aggie Mom Camp – We grossed $555.94 in the sale of cookbooks. No expenses have been paid.
Singing Cadets – The free concert is January 10, 2008.
Judy Turner attended the Aggie Club meeting to encourage them to help with monetary support and host homes. Aggie Club members donated $900 in business and personal monies. They have challenged the Mothers’ Club to respond in kind.
Suzy Mears shared a pamphlet for business advertising. Posters advertising the concert are available from Suzy. Talley Press did the stickers for the posters. Luke Thomas, of Outback Restaurant has been approached about providing the cadets dinner before the show. A suggestion was made that Texas Roadhouse also be contacted. Fairfield Inns may donate hotel rooms, if needed. Nevie Lacy provided a sign-up sheet for those interested in providing a host home. Hosts are required to provide one bed for each hosted cadet. Hosts will need to provide the cadets a ride after the show, a place to sleep, breakfast, and a ride to the bus. We will have donation baskets at the doors after the concert to accept free-will donations.
Sonora Craft Fair – Jet McGarvey, and Nancy Brockman will attend the Craft Fair. Their goal is to sell cookbooks and visit with the craft fair attendees about our Aggie Mothers’ Club. The Ballinger fair is on Saturday, November 24 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed at this event to sell cookbooks and visit with attendees about our organization.
Boutique at Parents’ Weekend – Parents’ Weekend is April 11-13, 2008. We will again participate in selling items at Boutique. Workers are needed for the two days of Boutique.
Sunshine Committee: Donna Palmer thanked members for filling up the Goody Bag baskets. She encouraged us to take baskets for any Aggies we know whose mothers were not in attendance at tonight’s meeting. She also asked us to make sure our Aggies got their Sonic cards this semester. Please notify her if your Aggie has had trouble with his/her card.
Tutorial Scholarships: Each Aggie student that applies is allowed to receive one tutorial scholarship per semester.
Club Donations: Our Aggie Moms’ Club will donate $1,000 to TAMU student organizations. Twelve organizations were nominated to receive portions of the $1.000. Among the twelve organizations presented were:
FAST (Freshman Aggies Spreading Tradition)
Aggie Access
Carpool
One Army
Ol’ Ags
Delta Zeta Sorority
Kappa Delta
Project Sunshine
Corps Chaplain
Aggie Band
Nevie Lacy made the motion that nominations cease. Shelly Gregg seconded. Motion carried. Kande Bahlman made the motion to accept the twelve organizations nominated and divide the $1,000 evenly among them. Valerie Sheppard seconded. Motion carried. Club Treasurer will write one check to TAMU with the names of the organizations to receive the donation. TAMU will distribute the money to the named organizations. The club will write letters to the organizations to which we are donating. The donations going to sororities/fraternities are earmarked for the philanthropies they support.
Future Happenings:
December Membership Meeting – Dec. 20 at
Judy Turner’s ranch. This meeting will be our Christmas party. Directions to the Turner ranch will be in the e-letter. A carpool will meet at Trinity Lutheran church to caravan out to the ranch. Anyone interested in carpooling, meet at Trinity Lutheran church by no later than 5:30 p.m. Attendees are to bring her favorite Christmas finger food.
Singing Cadets – January 10, 2008 at
First
Baptist
Church
January Membership Meeting – in
Sonora (TBA)
Aggie Mom Slumber Party – TBA January or February
February Membership Meeting – February 21, 2008
March Membership Meeting – Goody Bags on March 20, 2008 @ Trinity Lutheran
Wine Tasting Party – March 27 @ D’Vine Winery
Boutique at Parents’ Weekend at TAMU – April 11-13, 2008
April Membership Meeting – April 7, 2008
May Membership Meeting – New Officer Installation on May 15, 2008
Jet McGarvey, now the Hospitality chair, thanked members who provided tonight’s food.
Door prizes were awarded. Emily DeCordova won the Lucky Loot. Cindy Harper won the Fish Bank. No Aggie Brags were shared tonight.
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Kande Bahlman
Secretary
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