TIAA Newsletter Published
The lead story in the Third Quarter 2009 issue of TI Alumni News is the announcement of the 10th Annual TIAA Charity Golf Tournament on Sept. 14 at Woodbridge Golf Club in Wylie. TIAA is also launching a Community Services Initiative and a United Way Campaign. Printed versions of the newsletter are now mailed only to current TIAA members who do not opt out of postal delivery. However, all former TIers can view and/or download and print out a copy of the newsletter using the TIAA website at www.tialumni.org/news/. This eNews bulletin announcing the availability of each newsletter is currently sent to all TI alumni who provide us with a valid email address.
In Memoriam
TIAA has learned of the recent deaths of the following retired TIers or TIAA members: Bernard J. Bagley, Bobbye A. Gaston, Fred H. Guinn, William T. Harlan, Johnnie D. Hutchins, Kenneth L. Jacobs, Harold D. Jones, James L. Nygaard, Helen M. Schromm, Anna D. Spillman, John R. Vandevoort, Warren C. Vivirito, Bob J. Wilkins, and George L. Williams. For more information, go to www.tialumni.org/in-memoriam/. On behalf of TIAA members, we have sent a sympathy card to their families expressing our condolences at their loss.
Communications Volunteers Needed
To enhance our communications, over the last two years we have significantly improved our newsletter, TI Alumni News; added our email bulletin, TI Alumni eNews; and begun sending out single-topic TI Alumni eNotes. Now, we are in the process of updating our website, www.tialumni.org. So we are looking for a person or persons with a communications background to join us in making our website even more informative and easy to use. We could also use help with our print and electronic communications. If you think you would be interested in any of these activities, please contact Dot Adler or Jon Campbell at admin@tialumni.org.
Recent TI Retirees
TIAA members can view a list of recent TI retirees by going to our website, www.tialumni.org and clicking INFOLINK in the Member Services menu and then clicking Retirees in the menu in the left column. Similarly, by clicking Service Anniversaries, you can view these milestones.
United Way Volunteer Fair
TIAA members are invited to attend a United Way Volunteer Fair on Sept. 1 at Texins Activity Center. To help meet this need, TI is hosting this volunteer fair to give current, former, and retired TIers information about some of these agencies and volunteer opportunities to serve our community. Agencies such as Big Brothers and Sisters, Reading and Radio Resource, The Senior Source, Visiting Nurses Association, Girl Scouts, YMCA, and others will be onsite from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to provide information about the agencies' services, to answer questions, and to sign up volunteers. For more information, contact tsbhteamlist@ti.com or 214-480-6808.
Richland College Emeritus Program
Richland College has an Emeritus Program that offers credit and non-credit courses for seniors 55 plus to stay intellectually challenged, physically fit and socially connected. It also hosts special events, planned trips, and volunteer opportunities to keep seniors engaged in lifelong activities. For more information call 972-238-6972 or check the website www.richlandcollege.edu/emeritus.
Upcoming TIAA Travel & Events
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Wednesday, Aug. 26 - Visit the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Printing & Distribution Center. We'll tour a museum that traces the newspaper's history from the days of hot type and mule-drawn wagons to the present computer age. Then we'll see a newsprint storeroom that holds 6,000 rolls of newsprint that weigh a ton each, nine robots that move the rolls that hold eight miles of paper, and a warehouse bigger than a football field. Tour includes the pressroom and the offset printing presses that print 1,000 newspapers a minute. We'll leave Texins Activity Center at 8:30 a.m. and take the 10 a.m. tour which lasts approximately an hour. After the tour, we'll eat lunch at Mi Cocina in Sundance Square at our own expense and return about 2 p.m. Price is $10 for members and $11 for nonmembers. Please register by Aug. 19.
Greet the Troops at DFW - Friday, Sept. 11 - Greet more than 100 armed forces passing through DFW airport on their way home for two weeks of well-deserved R&R from Iraq and Afghanistan. They are currently scheduled to arrive about 8 a.m., so our bus will leave the Texins Activity Center at 7 a.m. After greeting the troops, we will eat at IHOP on the way back. We should return to the Texins Activity Center about noon. If you have a maroon TIAA T-shirt, please wear it. The bus is free, so the only expense is for our food. Be sure to register by Sept. 4 so we can inform you if the arrival time of the plane - and therefore the departure time of our bus - changes.
Trinity River Audubon Center - Thursday, Sept. 17 - Enjoy a guided tour of the new Trinity River Audubon Center just south of downtown Dallas. At 6,000 acres, the Great Trinity Forest is the largest urban hardwood forest in the United States and contains a unique mixture of bottom-land hardwoods, aquatic and wetland systems, and grasslands. We'll leave the Texins Activity Center at 9:30 a.m., tour the Audubon Center, enjoy lunch at Spaghetti Warehouse in the West End at our own expense, and return about 2 p.m. Price is $10 for members and $11 for nonmembers. Please register by Sept. 10.
Contact Jessica Stewart at admin@tialumni.org or 214-567-8444 to register. Make checks payable to TIAA and mail to TIAA, P. O. Box 740181, Dallas, TX 75374 seven days prior to event.
Reserve This Date!
Tuesday, Oct. 27 - TI Retiree Luncheon at Mesquite Convention Center.