The Chapter’s 1st annual bowling night to benefit Children’s Mireacle Network is slated for Tuesday, August 17th at City View Lanes.

Registration is $35 per person and includes 2 games of bowling, a cool pair of loaner shoes and pizza dinner. We’ll also have

RSVP’s are due by August 13th to this address.

A “BIG THANK YOU” to our Corporate Sponsors

Dinner Sponsor – CUNA Mutual Group

Drink Sponsor – Adobe Title

Shoe Sponsors – Liberty Mutual, Certified Funding, CUDL, SWBC

And a “BIG THANK YOU” to our Credit Union Sponsors

The Powerhouse – American Airlines FCU

The Strike – EECU, Fort Worth City CU, Fort Worth Community CU, Southwest Corporate FCU

The Spare – First Class American CU, Tarrant County CU, Texas Trust CU, Unity One CU, Corps of Engineers FCU

The Split – Arlington Federal CU, Ben E. Keith FCU, Family 1st, Members Choice FCU, My Credit Union, Security One FCU, Texas Health Resources CU

The Kingpin – Guardian First FCU, Kearly & Company, American Income Life

Make plans now to join us for the Fort Worth Chapter of Credit Unions next meeting. You will not want to miss this meeting! Let’s just say it’s not going to be the typical chapter meeting – it’s going to be more of a performance. The Power of Performance is a session that will show you how our credit unions are just like and band and teach us how to:

Exceed the expectations of your audience – or members in our case.

Get a standing ovation for everything you do – who doesn’t want satisfied members?

Leave them wanting more – we want to give our members a reason to keep coming back to us.

Not only will this session help improve our performance, it will help identify who is our audience. Is your idea of Facebook old pictures out of year book? Are you still chasing the Gen Xers or have you recognized the impact of the Millennials yet? Baby Boomers, Gen Xer and the Millennials comprise our staff, management and membership. How do you exceed expectations, get a standing ovation or leave them wanting more if you don’t know who they are and what they want? Join us to find out. Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Raddison Hotel Fort Worth North 6:00 p.m.

Our annual golf tournament to benefit TCULPAC is Wednesday, August 11th at Fossil Creek Golf Club.

The early bird deadline for registration is August 4th. More information and a copy of the registration is available here.

Our vendor exposition will be at Norris Center on June 23rd.

Preferred Partners and other vendors interested in taking part should contact Natalie Parish. You can get a copy of the registration form here.

As we have for the last three years, we will be using the expo to gather donations for the USA Home Team and the 28th Combat Support Hospitals in Baghdad and Tallil, Iraq. In each of the prior years, your generous donations have been overwhelming and are the largest donations USA Home Team have received. We welcome cash donations to support shipping expenses as well as whatever you can donate from their wish list.

Our friends with the Southwest Lending Council asked us to remind all of our member credit unions and vendors of their conference coming up May 24-26.

Information and registration can be found here

The Chapter is once again offering scholarships to Southwest CUNA Management School for employees of member and affiliated credit unions. Beginning this year, we are honoring one of the best people we’ve ever known by renaming our scholarship as the Raymond Shands Memorial Scholarship. Raymond was a SWCMS alum, graduating in 1974.

The application and instructions can be downloaded here:

• Scholarship Application

For more information, conact: Nancy Croix-Stroud, President of First Class American CU and Chair of our scholarship committee.

Its the time of year where we start planning to host our annual holiday party at Sam Rosen Elementary in Fort Worth and Webb Elementary in Arlington.

Year after year our Volunteers have a great time sharing the spirit of the season with two great groups of kids.

Here’s the schedule:

Dec 8 (morning) Party Prep at Sam Rosen

Dec 9 (all day) Party at Sam Rosen

Dec 15 (morning) Party Prep at Webb

Dec 16 (all day) Party at Webb

Natalie Parish is the volunteer coordinator for Sam Rosen

Vince Heimann is organizing workers for Webb.

Even though the parties last all day, you are welcome to work only part of the day if that is what you can do. In addition to volunteers, we collect donations to support the cost of the party.

All volunteers must be approved in advance by the district. Click here for a copy of the Arlington ISD volunteer form Please fill out the form, attach a copy of your ID and forward it to Vince, his fax number is 817-273-5913.

The Fort Worth ISD volunteer form is one page, be sure to copy your I.D. on to the form and fax to Raymond at 817-882-0136.

If you were a volunteer at Webb last year, we ARE able to use last year’s background form provided your name has not changed and your I.D. is still valid.

The deadline to submit the background form is November 20th. If you are recruiting volunteers from your credit union, you may also want to plan in advance for substitute volunteers by having them fill out the form as well.

If you need directions to the schools, click on their names above.

Friday the 13th could be your lucky day. Attend the Brett Christensen lending training sponsored by your TCUL Lending Council and you may just find out how be a better lender. Here’s the details…

This session will cover specific mistakes that credit unions make in the management of the lending operation, the loan interview and the underwriting of loans that lead to low loan-to-share rations or higher than average loan losses.

Topics to be discussed include:

• Management’s misguided attempt to hire and train Superman and Superwoman.
• Why you need a good cop/bad cop sales model.
• Policies written for examiners, not members.
• A good loan interview is more than filling in blanks of a loan origination software package.
• Twenty underwriting mistakes you must avoid.

This timely training session is essential for your credit union’s lending success in this difficult economic climate.

When:

Friday, November 13, 2009 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Where:

Fort Worth Botanic Gardens

3220 Botanic Garden Blvd

Fort Worth, TX 76107-3496

(817) 871-7686

How Much:

TCUL Lending Council Members, $50.00

Non-TCUL Lending Council Members, $75.00 (non-member registration includes a 2009 TCUL Lending Council membership) Space is limited. Seating will be allocated to the first 45 registrations

Lunch will be provided

Register:

Registration is via internet only from the “Council Roundtable” section of the TCUL Lending Council home page

Questions: Contact Mike Delker VP, Credit Union Relations

CONGRATULATIONS!

The Fort Worth Chapter has once again earned the designation of TCUL Chapter of the Year for 2008! The designation of Chapter of the Year provides more than just bragging rights… it is an honor that points to the great work you have done for credit unions and your community, year-in and year-out.

Please accept my congratulations along with those from everyone at TCUL. Thank you, and keep up the great work!

Mike Delker Vice President TCUL Credit Union Relations

Our annual golf tournament to benefit TCULPAC is Wednesday, August 12th at Fossil Creek Golf Club.

The early bird deadline for registration is August 6th. More information and a copy of the registration is available here.