PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Howdy!
Thanks to those of you who came to our February meeting, where Ron Sasse answered our questions about Residence Halls at A & M, and gave us an overview of the university’s plans for updating and replacing residence halls in the next few years. Ron also brought lots of goodies for door prizes, and we love those door prizes. Thanks, too, to Harriet Sansone for opening her home to us for this meeting.
March is Goody Bag month, so we are returning to Trinity Lutheran for this meeting. Thanks to a contribution from one of our members, our containers this semester are Sterilite boxes with flip top lids, the perfect size for CD storage. We will have 85 Aggies to provide goodies for, so start shopping! We encourage you to look through the directory and call up another Aggie Mom to pool your funds for this project. Homemade items are always appreciated, too, such as bookmarks, refrigerator magnets, or notes of encouragement. Remember, the purpose of these containers is to provide a lift and a little encouragement to help our students get through finals! You will be able to take your students’ box home at the end of the evening, and have it ready for him/her to take back to campus after Easter weekend. If you won’t be able to attend, please contact another member and ask her to pick up your students’ box for you.
As we visit, eat, and prepare goody boxes at this meeting, we will be able to enjoy the Powerpoint presentation that Lanee Warrick’s students prepared for the Singing Cadets concert. What fun, to see these photos of our students in this presentation, and Lanee has updated it with photos from the Singing Cadets concert. I am looking forward to seeing this, and know you won’t want to miss it either. We will also have the judging of the SNAZZY STOOLS, with prizes awarded! Please BRING BACK THOSE SNAZZY STOOLS, and VOTE for your favorites! We will also have our election of officers for next year at our business meeting afterward.
See you soon!
Nevie
MARCH MEETING — Goody Bags
Thursday, March 23, 6:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church - 3536 YMCA Drive - San Angelo
Goody Bags will be assembled for our Ag’s preparing for exams. Moms, please plan for approximately 85 Aggies. Several of you may even wish to go in together when purchasing these items. Some ideas include: snacks, popcorn, candy, gum, hot chocolate, highlighters, note pads, sticky notes, pens, pencils, toothbrushes, razors (please no liquid drinks or breakable items).
Election of officers will also be held at the March meeting. Following is a list of people that the Nominating Committee will be presenting:
President - Suzy Mears
1st Vice President - Che' Rie Barker
2nd Vice President - Theresa Fortin
3rd Vice President - Lanee Warwick
4th Vice President - Yvonne Biedermann
Past President - Nevie Lacy
Secretary - Vicki Foreman
Treasurer - Sherry Flanary
Parliamentarian - Jean Stinnett
Historian - Melissa Faubion
Auditor - Suzette McIntyre
MARCH HOSTESSES
Vicki Combest
Dena Martin
Carolyn Kuhn
Tenny Talley
Che Rie Baker
Vicki Forman
Aggie Mom Officers
OPERATION SNAZZY STOOL
Don't forget your stools for the snazzy stools contest! Bring your decorated stool to the March Membership Meeting on Thursday, March 23. Prizes will be awarded to the top three vote-getters for Best Decorated Stools. All stools will be sold at Spring Boutique during Parents’ Weekend in College Station.
GARAGE SALE
WOW! The Garage Sale was again a great success! We brought in just over $1000. While our donations were down a little bit this year, we seemed to sell more of what we had, and that’s a good thing! Items remaining were donated to the Christian Service Center. Many thanks to all those who helped out, including:
Shelly and Dennis Gregg
Theresa Fortin
Kay Young
Lanee Warrick
Vicki Foreman
Vicki Combest
Valerie Sheppard
Susan Clark
Judy and Tim Turner
Ann Dodgen
Melba Cox
Jane Wardlaw
Nevie Lacy
Carolyn Kuhn
Suzy and Nolen Mears
J. Ann and Aubrey Lange
Debbie Lisoski
Dena Martin
Santa Rita Elementary staff
SAN ANGELO AGGIE MOM ONE TIME SCHOLARSHIP
The San Angelo A&M Mothers’ Club offers a one-time $1000 scholarship. The application for this scholarship can be downloaded at our website: http://sanangeloaggiemoms.org/ or you may contact Penny Talley at 3617 Greenridge Drive, San Angelo, Texas 76904 655-7361 or email her at PATalley1@aol.com. This scholarship must be postmarked before April 16, 2006. The winners will be announced at the May meeting.
PARENTS’ WEEKEND - April 7-9
Parents’ Weekend is almost here! This is a fun weekend to visit your student, and there are lots of optional activities on campus that you can participate in and attend. A complete listing of events can be found at http://parentsweekend.tamu.edu/events.html. This year’s dates are April 7-9, and among the highlighted events are:
Midnight Yell, BEVO Burn BBQ, Aggie Moms Boutique, Maroon and White Game, All University Awards, and Singing Cadets Spring Concert. Check the websites for details.
One of the fun events this weekend is Spring Boutique which will be held Friday, April 7, 9-4:30 and Saturday, April 8, 9-4 at Reed Arena. If you have never attended Boutique, you are missing out on an amazing spectacle of Aggie Shopping. Boutique is put on exclusively by Aggie Moms clubs as a major fundraiser. You can find Christmas Decorations, Décor, Clothing, Jewelry, Art, Yard art, China, Crystal, and just about anything you can possibly imagine with an Aggie flair, at Boutique, on the floor of Reed Arena. Upstairs on the concourse are raffles for one-of-a-kind items such as quilts, barbecue pits, trunks, chairs, art and more. These are worth a walk-by, as there are really some amazing items offered for raffle. Brings lots of $1 bills and maybe even a page of pre-printed labels with your name, address and cell phone number just in case you win! Make sure you stop by for an hour or two.
WE NEED YOUR HELP AT BOUTIQUE!
We will be selling Cookbooks, Flip flops, Gift jars, Snazzy Stools, Damn-it Dolls and other handcrafted items at Boutique during these two days. Please contact Shelly Gregg at 374-4640 and volunteer to help out for an hour or two during this time. We appreciate your help so we can have time to eat lunch, and do a little shopping, too.
Please consider helping out at this event. Come, work an hour or two, and shop before or after. You’ll have a ball! This is a great opportunity to meet and greet other students and parents, too.
SUNSHINE COMMITTEE
Our Sunshine Committee mailed out Sonic meal cards to our students recently. The envelope also contained a reminder about our scholarships, and how to apply. If your student did not receive a meal card, please contact our VP of Membership, Theresa Fortin to confirm your student’s address. We have had several envelopes returned by the post office, and more may be misdirected, so make sure we have your student’s current address so we can get these cards to them.
APRIL MEETING
Our next regular membership meeting will be Thursday, April 20, 2006 at home of Judy Lacy, 2730 Oak Hills Trail. Bill Johnson will speak to us about his experiences at Aggie Musters around the world.
MUSTER – Friday, April 21
Aggie Muster will be held Friday, April 21, 2006 at First Baptist Church, 6:30pm. Tickets are $12.50 and reservations are required. You may contact Mr. Jon Davis ’80 at 653-4274 or email him at jdavis@shannonporter.com to make your reservation.
TUTORIAL SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION - Please forward this to your Aggie.
- We have several tutorial scholarships available on a first come, first serve basis.
- It is necessary for the scholarship to be requested (by the student) in advance by e-mail to Judy Turner at trtdoc1@wcc.net
- Please put “Tutorial Scholarship” in the subject line area of the email.
- Any student from our area enrolled at Texas A&M University may apply.
- The tutorial scholarship will be valid from the day issued until May 2006.
- It will be advertised by publishing it on the web, e-mail, newsletter, distributed with the food coupons and area newspaper.
- We must have the student’s name, mailing address, parent’s address and student id for the tutorial coupon.
- The student can only use tutorial sources listed on the coupon.
COOKBOOKS
Cookbooks are still available for $20 each. The cookbooks will be available at the monthly club meetings, or you may contact Shelley Gregg at 374-4640 or Judy Turner at 465-4332 and they will be glad to reserve a cookbook for you.
NEW AGGIE MOM COOKBOOK
Over the next year San Angelo Aggie Moms will be putting together a new cookbook with the delivery date scheduled for January 2007. This will give us plenty of time to get the recipes typed in, proofread, and submitted to the publisher. We will have time to proof again once the book is delivered before taking it to Boutique in April of 2007. The main theme for this cookbook will be occasions and we will also feature favorite family menus. We have narrowed down our categories to the following:
- Fall Feasts and Festivals – pretty much self explanatory
- Girls Night Out – Bunko, Bridge, Aggie Mom Sleepovers, Meetings, etc.
- When They All Come Home – Holidays, Family Reunions, Celebrations such as Christenings, Graduation, Birthdays, etc.
- Showers and Brunches – Weddings, Showers, Brunches, Coffees, and Teas
- Tailgating and Bowl Parties – pretty much self explanatory
If anyone would like to submit an entire menu for one of the dividers listed above, we will be charging $25 per menu submitted. You can put as many recipes as you would like at no charge. For more information on this, please contact Lanee Warrick at 484-3005 laneewarrick@aggienetwork.com or Debbie Lisoski at 469-3935 dlisoski@saisd.org.
We have enclosed a form to be used to submit your recipes or to bring them to the next few meetings. We would like to have these in by the November meeting. Please feel free to make copies of the form for additional recipes.
NEW BUNKO GROUP
We have a new Aggie Mom Bunko group which started in January. We could still use 2 or 3 more permanent members. If you are interested in joining this group, please contact Nevie at 949-4656 nevnews@aol.com or Lanee 484-3005 lanee.warrick@wvisd.net
AGGIE MOM BRAGS
If any of you have Aggie Mom Brags, please call Lanee Warrick at 484-3005 and leave a message or you can email her at: laneewarrick@aggienetwork.com
Andrew Logan, (Aggie Mom Marilyn McCarley) will graduate in May. He plans to attend graduate school and has been accepted by Parson's School of Design in New York and is also anxiously waiting to see if he's accepted anywhere else.
Jake Hamilton '05, (Aggie Mom Darlene Hamilton) graduated in December and accepted an Associate Engineering position with Ethicon in San Angelo.
MAY OR AUGUST 2006 GRADUATES
If you have an Aggie graduating in May or August, please call or email Nevie Lacy (651-4532 nevnews@aol.com). Please be sure to include your Aggie’s name and class year (which is not necessarily the year they graduated!)
PARENT & STUDENT INFORMATION
Off-Campus Housing
Several resources are available through Student Life's Adult, Graduate, and Off-Campus Student Services (AGOSS) to assist with the transition to off-campus housing. The "Survival Manual" is available through their office in Cain Hall, and has information about off-campus living options. Additionally, almost all the guide contents are also available to browse on-line including a searchable database for off-campus housing and roommates through Aggie Search <http://aggiesearch.tamu.edu> !
Known as "the best way to search for roommates and housing in the Bryan/College Station area", Aggie Search is a powerful tool to help students locate housing options. See for yourself what resources are
available at: http://studentlife.tamu.edu/agoss/AggieSearch/ Additionally, don't forget to recommend the roommate contract available through Student Conflict Resolution Services (SCRS) in Cain Hall, or
on-line at http://studentlife.tamu.edu/agoss/resources/OffCampus/RMContract.htm
1098-T Information
As the deadline for filing income taxes approaches, it is important to make sure you and your student have all of the forms you need. If a student receives a scholarship, grant or financial aid from the university, he/she will receive a 1098-T form. Students elect whether to receive this form by mail or access it on the internet. The form is available online at: https://myrecord.tamu.edu
Additional information is available online at:
http://finance.tamu.edu/payroll/questions.asp#1098
2006 DATES TO REMEMBER
Remember to Mark Your Calendar
Officer Board Meetings
all at 6 p.m. @ Sierra Vista Methodist Church
Monday, April 3 (Outback)
Monday, May 1
Membership Meetings
Thursday, February 16 (TBA)
Thursday, March 23 (Goody Bags - Trinity Lutheran
Thursday, April 20 (TBA)
Thursday, May 18 (TBA)
Additional Dates of Interest
April 7 – 9 Spring Federation Meetings & Parents Weekend http://parentsweekend.tamu.edu/
April 21 - Muster
May 5, 8 – 10 Spring semester final examinations for all students
May 12 – 13 Commencement, Commissioning, and Final Review.
* The San Angelo A&M Mother’s Club has a sales booth at these functions to raise money for scholarships.
A Big Thanks!
A big thanks goes to Christopher Hunter (son of Aggie Mom, Chris Hunter) for the upkeep of the San Angelo Aggie Moms website and for notifying the members when the newsletter is ready as well as sending out reminders when needed. We sincerely appreciate all of your help.
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