It is that time of year where we start ramping up to host our holiday parties at Sam Rosen Elementary in Fort Worth and Webb Elementary in Arlington.

Volunteering for these events is guaranteed to be one of the highlights of your holiday season.

Here’s the schedule for 2011:

Dec 6 (morning) Party Prep at Sam Rosen

Dec 7 (all day) Party at Sam Rosen

Dec 13 (morning) Party Prep at Webb

Dec 14 (all day) Party at Webb

Sandra Szymanski is the volunteer coordinator for Sam Rosen

Vince Heimann is organizing workers for Webb.

Jackie Wisneski is the coat drive coordinator.

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 make a donation of winter coats to each school and try to buy a few items for goodie bags for each child. Your donation of coats and/or cash would be greatly appreciated!

All volunteers must be approved in advance by the district. The procedure for volunteering at Arlington ISD has changed substantially this year. Please review the instructions carefully. In addition to completing the online information, please send a copy of your driver’s license or state ID to Vince, his fax number is 817-273-5913.

The Fort Worth ISD volunteer form must include a copy of your I.D. on the form and fax to Sandra at 817-847-0328.

The deadline to submit the background form is November 10th. 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.

Lastly, check back and check the comments to this post for any subsequent information from the committee.

Credit unions from the Fort Worth Chapter had a lot of hardware to haul home from last week’s TCUL Marketing Council conference in San Antonio! Credit union marketers compete against asset peers in numerous categories. Here is a complete listing of winners from the chapter:

Annual Reports 1st Place to Tarrant County CU, Unity One CU, American Airlines FCU and Merit Award to Fort Worth City CU

Brochures 1st Place & Merit Award to American Airlines

Complete Campaigns 1st place to Fort Worth Community CU

Direct Mail 1st place to Unity One

Logos 1st place to American Airlines

Newsletters 1st place to American Airlines

Outdoor Advertising 1st place to Fort Worth City

PR/Community Involvement 1st place to Tarrant County

Retail Merchandising/Branding 1st place to Tarrant County and Texas Trust CU

Social Media 1st Place to Fort Worth Community

Website/Electronic 1st place to Unity One and Fort Worth Community. Merit Award to Family 1st of Texas FCU

Youth/Senior Marketing 1st place to Unity One

Best in Show AND People’s Choice Awards went to Fort Worth Community for their social media campaign.

Congratulations to all of the marketers and marketing departments for your outstanding accomplishments!

The Spring 2011 edition of the Chapter Communicator is out. Thanks again to Pressman Printing for their support of the chapter!

The Fort Worth Chapter’s calendar of events for this year is rounding out nicely. We’re bringing in a few of our most popular speakers from the past, we’re helping credit unions stay on top of regulatory changes, we’re trying some new things like a “speaker-free” MayFest, we’re going to Shake, Rattle & Bowl, and we’ve moved our golf tournament to benefit TCULPAC to October!

As always, we try to keep our members informed here, on the Facebook, and at our calendar page at Upcoming.org

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

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 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.

First off, congratulations are in order for our own Pamelas Stephens, President of Security One Federal Credit Union who has just been named “Alumni of the Year” by the Southwest CUNA Management School Alumni Association.

Second (but no less important), a big “Thank You!” to everyone who contributed items or shipping money for the USA Home Team and the 10th Combat Support Hospital, Baghdad. This was our third year of conducting a drive and again we topped the previous year’s donations. I just got the following message from Colleen Canion our contact:

“Please give my sincere thanks again to all the members of the Ft. Worth Chapter of Credit Unions for their donations to the 10th Combat Support Hospitals in Baghdad and Tallil. I have copied our current Points of Contact in Iraq so they will know of your generous gifts of cash for postage and “Wish List” items which are or will be on the way soon to their hospitals.

God Bless Americans wherever they are serving our country!”

DFW Airport Administration, the DFW USO and North Texas Commission will celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the U.S. Military arrivals and departures through DFW Airport on Tuesday, June 16, 2009.

In support of the of the celebration, the Fort Worth Chapter of Credit Unions will take part in a Greet the Troops visit at DFW Airport, Terminal D, Gate 22 on the Arrival Level, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. We welcome volunteers to meet and greet the troops. The flight is scheduled to arrive at 9:30 a.m. We encourage you to be in the terminal by 9:00 a.m. To check the approximate arrival time, you are encouraged to call the Hotline number at 972-574-0392 around 7:00 am on the morning of the flight.

The Fort Worth Chapter is 2007 Chapter of the Year in the Group 1 asset category ($1 Billion +). To be eligible for this honor, a chapter must score in at least five of the seven performance categories and post a points total of 500 or more. The Fort Worth Chapter scored in ALL seven performance categories, posting a point total of 980!

Well done!

Winners will be formally announced in tomorrow’s Leaguer. And, a “2007 Chapter of the Year” logo will be posted on the Fort Worth Chapter page on the TCUL web site to commemorate your achievement.

Thank you for all you do. Keep up the great work.

Dean Borland Director, Chapters & Councils