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Federation of Texas A&M University Mothers Clubs 2018-2019 Annual Report of Clubs

ABILENE We had 39 members for the 2018-2019 year. Our fundraising efforts enabled us to award two $1000 scholarships to students in our area, as well as eight Barnes and Nobles bookstore scholarships. We also donated $100 to four different student organizations. The organizations receiving those donations included Brotherhood of Aggie Mentors (BAM), Build, Carpool, and Breakaway. This year we had a surprise donation of $750 from an Old Ag, Dwayne Canada ‘69. Our club is donating the gift back as an additional one time scholarship for the students in our area. Graduating seniors were honored with a ring crest with his/her year of graduation. In July, we hosted a Howdy Party, inviting new Aggies and their parents to come meet one another and begin forming their own Aggie network. Special guest, Former Yell Leader - Keith Chapman '71 shared Aggie stories and lead us all in yells. We invited current students to attend and answer questions as well as give tips and advice to the new students. The students met separately from the parents. While the students were meeting, board members shared their own words of wisdom and advice to the new Aggie parents and had our own question and answer session. We had some great programs this year. We enjoyed guest speaker, James Decker ’06 sharing with us about the Rural Entrepreneurship program at Texas A&M. Mr. Norm Archibald spoke to us about Aggie traditions and his experience at TAMU. Local Aggie couple, Jason and Jessica from Vagabond Pizza, told us the story of how their business came to be. We also went to Painting with a Twist and painted the Aggie Barn on Hwy 6 with our own Aggie touch. In addition our club enjoyed making our Aggies Finals Survival Kits, a fun Christmas ornament exchange and hosting a boutique shower. Our fundraiser each year is our boutique raffle for our “Apartment Set Up.” We sell $1 tickets for a chance to win approximately $1500 of apartment necessities: handmade quilt, dishes, towles, silverware, toaster, rugs, etc all with a little Aggie influence!

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ALVIN The Alvin Aggie Mom’s Club had 15 members for the 2018-2019 calendar year. We started off the year with a painting social where we painted Texas shaped plaques or footballs with A&M colors at a local art studio. In December we held our Alvin Aggie Moms Christmas party with a white elephant give exchange and kicked off our raffle ticket sales to raise money for scholarships. In February 2019 we had a Valentine Cookie decorating social. We also sold water and soft drinks as the Alvin Food Truck Frenzy in March and April to bring more community awareness to the Alvin Aggie Mom's group.

The Alvin Aggie Mom’s Club successfully raised funds via our annual raffle ticket sales and Texas A&M Jewelry sales. As a result, we will be able to award Scholarships to students from the Alvin High School and Manvel High School for a total amount of $4,000 for deserving incoming Texas A&M freshmen.

AMARILLO Number of Members: 47

Donations to Texas A&M Organizations: $450.00 total, $150 was given to Camp Berry, $150 to BUILD Command Team, and $150 to Fish Aides.

Scholarship Giving: We had 14 drawings for $100 scholarships during our Summer Social - NSC information session and during our regular meetings.

Fundraiser: We sold pecans from Millican Pecans.

Special Events: In May, we held a social to welcome incoming freshmen, transfer students, and their parents to the A&M family. We had a panel of students there to answer questions about NSC, registration, dorms, parking, etc. (we contacted area high school counselors to get our invitations to the incoming students)

In January, we had a dinner at Abuelo's for our Aggie students that were home for Christmas break. This year's guest speaker was Taylor Moore, a graduate of Texas A&M.

Memorable Programs: At our September meeting, we had a BBQ sandwich meal before the meeting to allow time for new and old members to get acquainted.

Michael Knowles, credit union financial advisor, spoke at our February meeting. He discussed the importance of helping the students obtain good credit and how to avoid common mistakes that students usually make.

We gathered Exam Pack gift items for our Aggies at our November and April meetings.

We presented ring crests at our September and February meetings to our moms that had recent Aggie graduates.


ARIZONA Our club strives to support the needs of Arizona Aggies. We completed our fifth year as a club. In July 2018, we awarded $9250 in scholarships (10 students received $925).

We had 20 members for the 2018-2019 year. Our garage sale efforts this year yielded proceeds of $444. Additionally, we earned $452.84 from a Kendra Scott sponsored event, $342.54 from corporate donation matching from a third party, and $150 from a private donation. Our April 2019 golf tournament resulted in a profit of $7,543.43.

Our fundraising efforts allowed our club to donate $100 to the Big Event and sponsor food for the Parsons Mounted Cavalry (PMC) as they passed through Arizona enroute to their march in the 2019 Rose Bowl Parade. Providing food and a warm Arizona Aggie welcome to the PMC was one of the highlights of our year! We look forward to being able to donate $8,800 in scholarships for the 2019/2020 school year (8 students will receive $1100 each).

Socially, the moms met at a local painting place to creatively design artwork. A new Aggie Mom hosted our annual Christmas ornament exchange at her home. When the students were home over the holidays, another mom hosted a pizza and game night for the families. At the golf tournament, we recogized the moms of four graduationg seniors with Aggie crest paper weights.

It was another productive, support, spirit-filled year as an Arizona Aggie Mom Club!

ATASCOSA Atascosa County Aggie Moms currently has 31 members. We had two fundraisers this year. Our fall fundraiser consists of selling our Atascosa County Aggie Mom Pecans, 1 pound bags of pieces and halves. Our spring fundraiser was working at the Atascosa Aggie Skeet Shoot. Through these fundraisers we were able to award 14 $500.oo scholarships to graduating seniors accepted to A&M from the towns of Jourdanton, Pleasanton, Charlotte and Poteet. We also delivered goodie bag exam packs to the students in the fall and mailed gift cards to the students in the spring.

AUSTIN May 2018 We hosted our Scholarship Recipients and our Graduates at a reception. The Transition of our Board was completed.

June 2018 Our annual "Howdy Social" was held with approximately 250 attendees. We had representatives from the Housing Office, Study Abroad, Carpool, and a variety of other organizations. The highlight of our event was a talk by Dr. Kathleen Speed from the Academic Success Center.

July/August 2018 We held 2 events for Fish Moms, Transfer Moms, and Blinn Team Moms at Riverplace Country Club. The first, held in July, was our New Mom Q and A and was run by our Fish Mom Mentors. They presented information about sending your Aggie to TAMU: dorm life, what to pack, Fish Camp, Financial Aid, medical care, football games, etc. About 50 moms attended the event and many of them signed up for membership in our club. The other event was Aggie Mom 101, where we


educated potential new members about the responsibilities of being an Austin Aggie Mom. This meeting was run by President Daniela Knight, with assistance from various Board members. The Fall Federation Meeting was attended by Daniela Knight, Denise Isenhour, Shileen Karnes, Carey Boles, and Kathleen Pasquarette.

September 2018 We hosted our first official Austin Aggie Moms meeting for the school year at Riverplace Country Club and opened with an icebreaker: You Know You're an Aggie Mom When". Prior to our General Meeting at 7pm, our Fish Mom Mentors met at 6:30pm with new moms. President Daniela Knight introduced the Board members and announced her theme for the year, which was "Integrity". We also wrote letters to the parents of Mr. Erik Kyle Hanson, whose Silver Taps was being held that night. Denise Isenhour made an appeal for items to be donated for our Reveille Raffle.

October 2018 At our October meeting, we celebrated the birthday of our Past President, Denise Isenhour. Our speaker was Tim Lomax from Texas A&M Transportation. He explained changes being made to traffic patterns around campus and encouraged us to download the Destination Aggieland App. We also sold tickets to our Singing Cadet Concert and our Reveille Raffle.

November 2018 Our November meeting celebrated Veterans, so our speaker was Colonel Gerald Smith of the TAMU Veterans' Resource Center. He's such a great speaker and provided us with tons of data about their work. We continued to sell Singing Cadet tickets and collect items for our raffle.

December 2018 In December, we had a short business meeting and then followed with our annual Christmas party. As in years' past, we had a gift exchange. In addition, for the first time, we had invited our Past Presidents to attend and honored them at our party and provided each of them with a small gift. Our Goody Bag committee delivered goody bags to the TAMU campus for both students and Veteran students. January 2019 We held a "training meeting" in January to provide members with instructions for working our Singing Cadet Concert. The Concert was held on January 12 at the Riverbend Centre. Prior to the concert, prospective students could visit with representatives from the Study Abroad, Carpool, TAMU Housing, Corps of Cadets, Career Center, and the Cap City Ags. We also held our Reveille Raffle, which included 12 "baskets" and a couple of Silent Auction items. About 2000 people attended the concert, from which we earned about 60% of our year's income. In late January, Daniela Knight, Denise Isenhour, Shileen Karnes, Mary Pydyn, and Jana Leeper attended the Federation Winter meeting. February 2019 About 6 of our moms attended Aggie Mom Camp this month and had a great experience. Our February meeting speaker was Dr. Jill Grimes '87, who's talk was titled "Anxiety 101--Beyond Meds and Meditation. She spoke at length about anxiety in students AND parents and listed a variety of support that exists at Texas A&M. Our social event this month was held at Esther's Follies and included husbands.


March 2019 March is generally a slow month for us, but we had about 50 moms attend our March meeting. In addition, our District Meeting was at the end of March and was attended by Sue Munns.

April 2019 Our April speaker was Warren Finch, director of the George HW Bush Presidential Library. He was fascinating and a great idea for any club who needs a speaker. We also discussed working Boutique at Family Weekend. At Boutique, we had about 30 of our moms work our booth along with our Jewelry/Merchandise VP Tomi Johnson. In addition, we had 5 members attend the Spring Federation Meeting. Two of our members, Denise Isenhour and Daniela Knight, were installed as Federation Officers during the Saturday meeting. April 21 was the deadline for students to submit applications for our scholarships. We awarded 12 Merit Scholarships this spring. Our Goody Bag chair delivered goody bags to students and Veteran Students this month. May 2019 We had our last official meeting of the school year this month. Instead of having a speaker, we played Bunco with about 40 of our members. We charged them $10 per person to play, which helped pay for the food catered by Riverplace Country Club. On May 2, we hosted a "Kendra Gives Back" event at the Domain. Finally, on May 22, we hosted our annual "Grads and Brags" event, where we honored all our recent graduates and scholarship recipients. Additionally: Each month, our Fish Mom Mentors hosted a Fish Mom meeting 30 minutes prior to our General Meeting. They did a fantastic job answering questions about college life.

Our Officers met most months prior to the General Meeting.

We tried to plan social events each month in addition to our regular meetings. These varied from Estthers Follies to lunches to happy hours.

This year we decided to forego the Past Presidents' Luncheon. We have had difficulty getting many of them to attend and the event ends up being very expensive, thus, taking away from scholarships and organizational giving. Most of our Past Presidents were happy with this decision.

Financial GIving: Merit Scholarships $12,200. Endowed Scholarship $5000. Singing Cadets $6000. Organizational Giving $4000. JJ Sanchez Award $500. Association of Former Students $350.

We ended the year with 172 Members.

AUSTIN COUNTY 44 Members

5 Scholarships to High School Senoirs and 9 Scholarships to Current Students @ $500 each

$1,000 Donated to Campus Organizations


We meet once a month. Most memorable meeting: We had the local Sheriff's Department Fraud Investigator speak to us about phone fraud, skimming on gas pumps, etc. It was very informative.

We attended the Bellville Small Town Christmas selling our T-shirts and Ornaments made by our members. Proceeds going towards Scholarships and Organizational Donations.

We had a Dinner and Dance. Music provided by Aggieland Orchestra. We have had this fundraiser for several years but moved the location to a local Agricultural Society Hall. Proceeds going towards ScholarshIps and Organizational Donations.

BANDERA COUNTY We had 19 paid members this year and even though we are small, we had a great year! We started out the year with a tailgate party/Membership drive to kickoff Aggie football. We participated in our local Aggie Muster, we donated one of our awesome custom iron works signs to the Big Event. Our iron works sign was designed by a former Aggie student from our club and to get our community involved and of course kids to start thinking about Texas A&M, our Ag teacher, let his FFA ag class cut out the signs on their laser machine. We had two fundraisers which we sold tamales right before Thanksgiving and held a huge rummage sale that enabled us to give out 17 scholarships. We also handed out 30-35 goody bags at exam time for each Fall and Spring. Our offices attended the district meeting and got a lot of cool ideas, and we ended our year with a get together at a local Italian restaurant for a relaxing time to just enjoy a meal together and visit with each other.

BAYTOWN We had 42 paid members this year.

We started out with a HOWDY for new/old moms at a local vineyard.

Our meetings included several wonderful speakers and programs. Marisa Gossett from Academic Success Office gave an excellent presentation on how to help our Aggies and the resources available through their office.

Our January meeting was awesome. We invited the TAMU Police Dept to give us a demonstration of their self-defense class. Our Aggies joined us and it was very informative and fun.

We painted with a purpose in February as a fundraiser. Always a fun time.

Our fundraising efforts were very successful this year, our biggest year to date. We awarded six $1000 scholarships. Four incoming freshmen and two continuing.

We gave back to our University with donations to Carpool, Parsons Mounted Cavalry, Fish Drill Team and Singing Cadets. We also made a $100 donation to the church where we hold our meetings.


BEE COUNTY Our club currently has 36 members. While all do not have a child attending A&M, the members who do not have a current student, foster local students attending Texas A&M. When I took over I wanted three things to change. One, I wanted to recruit more members second I set our financial goal to raise atleast $10,000.00 dollars for scholarships. Third, I wanted support between the mothers and support for all our students. Several of us attended several Aggie workshops to gain a better understanding of the organization and how to make our club more sucessful. While we learned many new ideas at these workshops, we also had an amazing time meeting other Aggie moms. I am happy to report our club accomplished all three of my goals. Whoop!!

We met every first Tueday of each month and held a social for 30 minuets before our meetings began. We had hors d'oeuvres and a selection of wines for their choosing. It became something the moms looked forward to after a long day at work. We would visit about our students and our families before our meetings. It was such a treat……I genuinely enjoyed these gatherings and getting to know the moms better.

Our 2018 year began with our Annual Aggie send off which included not only incoming freshman students but also students already enrolled. The gathering was held at my home. The evening was themed Fiesta and a traditional Mexican meal was served. We had about 50 guest, which also included alumni. That evening we held a raffle which made about 500 dollars, Winner won an ice cooler with lots of goodies. Ice chest was donated by Matt and Shambryn Huie owners of Blue Ribbon feed store. Also both Aggie's.

Our first scheduled fundraiser was held in November with a Kendra Scott give back event. The evening raised 1,500.00 and guests had a sparkling evening. The event was held at my home and everyone had a great time. Late in November the Aggie Moms made an appearance at the Christmas at the Mansion event and we sold honey.

Throughout the Fall semester we sold organic honey jars from my families ranch. We sold it at the annual Ladies Night Out which was held in March. At that event we also hade Kendra Scott helping us once again.

The members also sold Butter Braid a fundraiser they have been involved in for many years which raised about $ 2,000.00 dollars. It is a fundraiser Beeville waits for as the dessert bread and is delivered before the holidays.

As soon as the holidays were over the membership hit the ground running early January. Our club sold 100 raffle tickets with the winning ticket winning San Antonio Rodeo tickets. The winner won 8 box seats with a parking space to see Alabama on Valentine's Day. Tickets were donated by my family and the event was extremely successful raising $10,000.00 dollars for our Aggie scholarships..

Early May our scholarship committee reviewed the scholarship applications. Our club voted to give one $1,000.00 scholarship to one student from Skidmore-Tynan high school and one $1,000.00 scholarship to a student from George West high school. We gave 6 scholarships ( 2 - $1,500.00 and 4- $500.00) to students from A.C.Jones.


Our club year was extremely successful and I am very proud of all the different things we accomplished. Our membership grew, we had a lot of fun working together and we reached all our goals.

BLANCO COUNTY Although our club is small, 2018-19 saw a substantial increase in membership, up 47% in addition to the increase of 114.3% in 2017-18! Personally I am very proud of the growth of our club during my two years as Blanco County Aggie Mom President. We continued our tradition of supporting our freshmen scholarships in coordination with the Blanco County Aggies, and awarded $250 per scholarship from our Club for total scholarships of $500 for each student ($250 from the Blanco County Aggies as well). We also voted to add a new scholarship for our graduating seniors. Our first senior scholarships will be awarded this fall. The new senior scholarship has been in the works since Spring 2018; it does take a bit of coordination to establish a new scholarship! We also prepared and distributed 36 Goody Bags for semester finals in Spring & Fall to our Blanco County Aggies. In addition to the goodies our Aggies also received a handy insulated "Aggie" tote with the spring bags. In April we again coordinated efforts with the Blanco County Aggies & hosted Muster which included a meal and program. In April-June we conducted our annual Scholarship Raffle Fundraiser. As we have done since our club began in 2006, we continued our annual tradition of welcoming our new Aggies and families to our Howdy Picnic each May. The picnic includes a BBQ dinner which is enjoyed by our existing Aggie Moms & their families and our new Aggies and families. The Aggie freshmen had an opportunity to meet our current students and get "Aggie info" from them. In September we added a Game Watch Gathering for one of the home games. This event served as a fun gathering for our Aggie families as well as a scholarship fundraiser. We know that we will need to increase our scholarship fundraising emphasis in the months to come because of the new scholarship, and we're looking forward to the challenge!

BOSQUE COUNTY The Bosque County Aggie Moms has 20 members. We prepare finals goody bags for our students in both fall & spring, along with gift cards to College Statioin restaurants. We also give a gift to graduates. We love to support our Aggie students.

BRAZORIA COUNTY Brazoria County Aggie Mom’s Club represents the cities of Lake Jackson, Clute, Danbury, Angleton, Brazoria, West Columbia, Freeport and Sweeny. We have 52 active members in our club. Our 2018-2019 Officers were inducted at the Scholarship Banquet May 14, 2018 with Diane Eckols, Federation 6th VP Boutique presiding.

Officer Board meetings were held throughout the year where each officer was given the opportunity to prove status updates and plan for the up-coming general meetings. Our general meetings are held mainly on the 2nd Monday of each month. Our monthly calendar was set and finalized in August. In September we opened with our traditional HOWDY/Tailgate party where we gave many examples of just what it is to be an Aggie, handed out laminated cards with helpful numbers to call as well as set up the “Remind” Notifications for our club.


In October “From Tutors to Paychecks” was presented in which gave some startling statistics and pointed us to resources in which we could guide our students.

In November we had the pleasure of bringing back a Kendra Scott popup shop. One of the scholarship we awarded was solely from this fundraiser (fundraiser amount $1, 057.12). We hope to continue the partnership with Kendra next year. Also in November our club hosted our 1st ever “Paint the Barn” wine and sip party. The Fall Finals Bags were handed out on November 30.

Our December Christmas party consisted of many games and just plain fun. From opening presents with oven mits, to Aggie Mom “PONG” and skittle sorting, we all celebrated the joyous season with a night of smiles and laughter. Our members gave generously by bringing non-perishable foods and money that were donated to the Aggie 12th Can organization by our membership.

January ushered in a new year and new twist in hosting our favorite Officers from Texas A&M Campus Police. Officer Hosea and Officer Donovan presented the state of TAMU to our members and also gave us some extremely powerful lessons in self-defense. In February we had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Andy Duffy, Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 78, the Century Tree Guy! Mr. Duffy awarded our club $320 off the purchase of the trees linked to our club. Also in February we kicked off the raffle of an afghan and port wine basket donated by our members. March brought on our 2nd annual BUNKO party. The bunkos were happening and the bunko baby was flying! Bunko prizes were awarded and great fun was had by all.

As is our custom in April, we had the pleasure of hearing from former student Veronica Padilla, Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 1997 about the time honored Aggie Muster Tradition. Spring Finals Bags were handed out to students on April 26.

In May we celebrated the end of another great year with our annual Scholarship Banquet and Officer Installation. We also had the special treat of having a former BCAMC scholarship recipient to tell us a little bit about how he used his scholarship. We awarded 7 scholarships totaling $5000: $500 each to 4 in-coming freshman and $1,000 each to 3 current students. During this meeting we also drew the raffle winner of the afghan / port wine basket. This raffle raised $500 for our scholarship fund.

We awarded 12 ring crests to our graduating seniors. Our club donated to CARPOOL and the Texas A&M University Police.

It has been a fantastic year. We look forward to an even more exciting 2019-2020.

BRUSH COUNTY Our club meets once a month except for the summer time June and July. We have a send off for our new Aggies and current Aggies in August. We have usually 2-3 fundraisers throughout the year. We have one raffle and two events where we sell goodies and other crafted items donated by our Aggie Moms. We usually have 2-3 on average scholarships we give away to applicants that meet criteria set forth by the Federation. We do also usually donate to a few clubs at Texas A&M. We have had a few new members added to our club and hope to grow some more. Our goals are to participate more in our community and our A&M functions. We also donate to our local Aggie Muster events.


BURLESON COUNTY The Burleson County Aggie Moms' Club has 30 members as of the end of the school year. We began our year by holding our annual Howdy Ice Cream Social in August of 2018. We invited all local Aggies including incoming, current, and former students as well as their families. We also invited Aggie Yell Leaders which were a huge hit! We enjoyed ice cream and snacks, recognized scholarship winners, and had the yell leaders lead us in a yell practice. They also tested the crowd using Aggie trivia questions. Winners were awarded door prizes. In September we hosted our first annual Kolache Krunch 5K as part of the Kolache Festival in downtown Caldwell. The hope was to make this our big fundraiser while partnering with local city officials to bring more people to the Kolache Festival. We are happy to report that our first 5K was a huge success! After months of planning, we were blessed to have over 300 runners the day of the event. This has allowed us to increase the number of scholarships we can provide. In the past, we had provided two $500 scholarships to two high school graduates as well as two $500 scholarships to students currently attending Texas A&M . Beause it is much more difficult for students to acquire scholarship money for subsequent semesters, our club voted to continue to provide the two $500 scholarships to incoming students from our county and to provided three $1,000 scholarships to continuing students. Scholarship applications were advertised through the high school counselors in the various school districts in our county as well as in the local newspaper and through social media and our club website. Scholarship applications are offered to any incoming and continuing students from our county. Members' and non-members' children may apply. Local, non-member, city leaders blind judge the applications, and scholarships are awarded based on their rankings. In December members enjoyed our annual Holiday Social and assembled goody bags for members' students prior to distributing them at the MSC the following day. For our April meeting we gathered at Lissa's Sip & Shop in downtown Caldwell. We brought in April Locke, the owner of The Humble Life, which is also in downtown Caldwell. Members all enjoyed food & drinks while painting with April. We gathered the very beginning of May to once again prepare finals goody bags for our members' students. Each student was given a small Texas A&M insulated cooler containing snacks and a handmade Texas A&M print pillowcase hand-sewn by one of our members. The finals bags were handed out at the MSC the following day. Since that time, our club has been preparing for our second annual Kolache Krunch 5K which will be held the morning of Saturday, September 14, 2019 in downtown Caldwell. Information regarding the race can be found on our website which is burlesonco.aggiemoms.org.

CENTRAL TEXAS Central Texas A&M University Mother’s Club is comprised of 36 members and 4 Associate members as of March 1, 2019. We meet on the first Tuesday of each month in either a club member’s home or a local, designated restaurant. Our most successful fundraiser is held in the fall season. One of our Aggie mom’s travels to San Saba and buys shelled, whole pecans, and brings them into her home and she sets up her own pecan factory. The pecans are weighed and placed in zip lock bags to equal one pound. We sell these pecans by the bag prior to the Thanksgiving holiday when baking is most prevalent. This year we had a successful year with the pecan sales even though the crop had been affected by the flooding in San Saba county. Many of us have our contacts that we make each year to sell these pecans and often times, we are contacted by our customers eager to know when the pecans will be ready.


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We send finals baskets to our Aggies once in the fall and once in the spring. As Aggie moms, we individually donate the money towards the baskets and goodies. Two of our moms are responsible for purchasing the snacks and A&M item such as cooler, lawn chair, hanging bag, etc. The baskets are extremely popular with our students and help to boost their spirits during the stressful, strenuous time. Our club participated in the Lampasas County Museum Christmas tree contest. We decorated a tree with Aggie décor. The theme this year was a “Farmyard Christmas”. Each farm animal ornament had a picture of our Aggies on it.

Our club gives our book awards of $250 each at our Howdy Social which is held either in July or August. We base the number of awards given out on our balance in our account. At our Howdy Social we grill hamburgers for all our Aggies and their families. This is the time we invite the incoming Freshman Aggies and transfer Aggies along with their families. This is a great time to meet the new and transfer students as well as their families. We offer membership into CTAM’s club. We also give out book awards at our January meeting. When these book awards are given to the respective Aggie and family, we require receipts for books, school supplies, (i.e. paper, pens, pencils, folders, spirals, notebooks) as well as laptop computers, as these are items that they will use for college.

We have also made it our club’s policy since we are asked for donations from so many Aggie organizations and groups, we solely donate to our Aggie students clubs. If our Aggies are involved with a student organization or have a certain passion for one group or organization, we make it a priority to donate. For example, this year we gave a donation to an A&M student organization called Flash (Freshman Leaders Advancing in Service). This student organization held a Dance Marathon benefiting the Children’s Miracle Network.

We also honor our graduates by presenting them a ring crest from the club for the year of graduation. However, the crests are purchased by an anonymous donation and funds from the parents. The graduates are recognized and honored at our Howdy Social each year.

We do have memorable meetings. We eat together and fellowship and attend to the business of our club. We have a time of sharing round the table about our Aggies. This is a favorite time of the Aggie Moms at each meeting.

COASTAL BEND The Coastal Bend Aggie Moms Club has had a great year. We have 24 current members and 1 lifetime member. As in the years past, the Coastal Bend Aggie Moms Club continued the tradition of stuffing final goody bags. The fall semester we stuffed monogrammed maroon laundry bags and momogrammed pillowcases in the spring. Our December meeting was a couples Christmas Dinner at Back Street Café in Sinton, Texas. It was a fun night getting to visit with the Aggie Moms & Dads. The Coastal Bend Aggie Moms fundraiser was a raffle with the drawing being held during Family Weekend in April. This year' raffle consisted of ladie's jewelry, a Kodi cooler & waterloo fishing rod, Golfing packages, a guided fishing package, a three night stay in Rockport, Texas, gift cards to various stores, and a beautiful handmade t-shirt quilt. The raffle itmes were generously donated by our memebers and local businesses. Since the raffle was such a success, the Coastal Bend Aggie Moms were able to award 21 scholarships to incoming Freshman as well as current students attending Texas A&M University. Along with the scholarships, a donation was also made to the Traditions Council at Texas A&M. The Coastal Bend Aggie Moms Club ended the 2018-2019 year


with an ice cream social HOWDY on May 14, 2019. Current Aggies were paired up with incoming Freshman Aggies, where they answered questions, gave advice, and shared their experiences while attend Texas A&M. Current Aggie Moms were paired with incoming Freshman parents. Approximately 32 people attended the HOWDY. It was an exciting year for the Coastal Bend Aggie Moms Club serving Aggies from twelve schools located in San Patricio, Aransas, and Refugio counties.

COLEMAN COUNTY We currently have 11 paid members in our club and many supporting Aggie Moms. Our club's projects all focus on raising money for scholarships and supporting each other as Aggie Moms. We accomplish this through an annual bake sale the Monday proir to Thanksgiving. This is a ling time traditon and we hae many repeat customers who place orders prior to the sale. For the last few years, we have focused on taking pre-orders for specialty items as well as having many items available the day of the sale. We also help the Coleman County Aggie Club by organizing the meal and decorations and set up for Aggie Muster each year. In exchange for this service, the Coleman County TAMU Aggie Moms receive the meal proceeds as well as a donation from the Aggie Club. This last year we designated $3000 for scholarships. This allowed us to award five $600 scholarships. We also give $200 to four different Aggie organizations or clubs annually.

COMAL COUNTY The Comal County Texas A&M University Mothers’ Club was founded in 1953 with 19 members. This year marks our 66th anniversary with 102 members. Our club is one of the oldest clubs in Texas and has a proud and strong tradition of service to Texas A&M and Aggies everywhere.

Our club began the 2018-2019 season with a Howdy Ice Cream Social in August where we hosted all local incoming freshman Aggies and their families. At this Social, we awarded 4 scholarships to current A&M seniors from Comal County valued at $500 each.

Since 1954, we take orders, mix, bake and package five kinds of German cookies to fund our scholarships. It is a monumental effort held the second weekend in December, and we use the entire commercial kitchen and cafeteria at a local high school. It takes approximately 48 hours to complete this undertaking. On that Sunday afternoon, more than 22,000 cookies were packed by our club members and picked up by the happy customers.

We held our annual January Family Dinner night at a local restaurant, which was attended by over 20 members and their students/spouses. This event gives Aggie Moms an opportunity to mingle with other Aggie Mom families in a non-business setting.

We have produced our 7th authentic German stein for our Boutique contribution. This year’s design was the Albritton Bell Tower. We have a new design each year making it a desirable item to build upon as a collection. We are excited that next year’s stein will again feature original artwork. The proceeds from the stein sales go for scholarships.

This spring we offered our steins at Parents Weekend Boutique, and our club president presented the Commandant’s Flag to the most involved corps outfit. This award signifies the outfit that gives the most back to the community.


In April, we participated in our local general TAMU Club’s Muster event by providing all the desserts for the attendees. Also, in April spring scholarships recipients were recognized as we awarded 12 scholarships valued at $1,000 each. Our Spring Picnic hosted the TX A&M Traditions Counsel. They were a wealth of knowledge. Comal County Aggie Moms also have an endowed scholarship that provides a scholarship to a freshman each year.

With our additional fund-raising dollars, in May of 2019, our club donated $2,500 to the Texas A&M University Police for care of their canines that protect Aggie students and families.

COPPELL The Coppell Aggie Mom Club has 89 full time members. We host meetings on the 2nd Monday of the month for Aggie Moms in the Coppell, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Highland Village, Grapevine and Valley Ranch areas. Our laregest attendance at meetings will be about 60 and smallest was 20. Our year started in May where we hosted our first MayDay2022. We welcomed more than 30 area Aggie Moms to learn about all aspects of the freshman experience…NSC, FLOs, fish camp, impact, connect, dorm life, recruitment, corp/band information, etc. We had our current members and current students volunteer to answer questions for the new mothers. We startred our new mom data base and had a good list to begin bringing in new moms to our club.

Throughout the summer the board met to plan out our year and we operated smoothly from that plan. Our September meeting welcomed about 80 moms to hear Paul Pausky, assoc. director of the Former Student Career Center talk about the importance of summer jobs and career fairs. He stressed the true value of the Aggie Network. He was a great speaker and had all the moms captivated by the services available at the career center.

The October meeting welcomed local counselor Dr. Kelly Jameson talk about mom seperation anxiety and the importance of that "Thanksgiving Conversation." She is a familiar speaker on high school boy and girl topics to area Coppell Moms, but this talk on college kids was amazing. She discussed how to follow your gut with your child, the warning signs of good and bad adjustments and how there is no "normal" college experience.

In October we hosted a Painting Saturday … about 10 members went to a local painting studio, and painted the Aggie Barn along highway 6. We raised about $100 for our scholarship fund. In November our chapter meeting was Exam Pack stuffing and talking about our Chapter tailgate that we were hosting on Nov. 11. During the Ole Miss game we hosted our first chapter tailgate in several years. We welcomed about 30 Coppell friends and served a breakfast taco buffet. We raised about $250 for our scholarship fund. Not sure if we will do this again next year. It was a lot of work and situations are always a little iffy when hosting a tailgate. It was a fun day. In December a member welcomed the club to her home for our Christmas party and ornament exchange. We had about 30 members bring appetizers, desserts and wine. It was a lot of fun. The house was beautifully decorated for Christmas. It was just one of those special fun nights with friends.

In January we hosted a wine tasting at Mesina Hof in Grapevine. We charged $20/person to cover the cost of the tastings. We only had about 8 people attend, but it was fun group of 8. We tasted several wines and if was a different way to start the new year.


In February we were fortunate to have Adelle Hudleston from the Sterling Evans library come to town to talk about the library and all the changes. It was a great talk about place we all can remember studying in, and how what our Aggies are interacting in the library in a totally different way. In March we had a presenation from a local Coppell boy who is part of the Traditions Council. It was a fun way to relearn school traditions. In March we did not have a meeting, then in April we recognized our 12 graduating seniors. We showed a video of each graudate and the mom spoke of future plans. We recognized the mom with a paper weight of their Aggie ring's grad year crest. After we recognized our seniors we prepared Exam Packs for our Aggies. We closed out our year with our second MayDay2023. We welcomed about 25 new Aggie Moms.

This year we decided to cancel our annual Gig 'em Gathering…an evening silent auction held at a member's home. The evening has a wine and heavy appetizers, plus a room full of silent auction items. Tickets sales were slow and this event it seems as run it's course. We moved our silent auction to an on-line auction. We raised @$800 on the on line auction. We are working with the Coppell Aggie Club to host two fundraising events in the 2019-2020 year. We are working to bring in some new ideas and a new audience. We feel good about our plan and hope it all works smoothly.

DALLAS COUNTYNumber of members: 168 (including 4 associate members, and 29 life members)

Donations to A&M: We donated $7,335 to Texas A&M. This includes donations to student organizations, donations to other A&M organizations who provided speakers for our meetings, and a corps award (Outstanding Corps Staff Officer.)

Scholarships: We donated $5,000 to fund five scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each for the upcoming academic year. We also added over $10,000 to funds we are setting aside to establish a new endowed scholarship.

The year began with the installment of the new Board on May 17, 2018 at Breadwinner’s Café. On July 8, we hosted our Howdy Party at University Park United Methodist Church. For the party, we invited the Yell Leaders and several speakers, including some members of the Corps, and a representative from the Prospective Student Center in Arlington.

MEETINGS

We held our general meetings on the third Thursday of each month at the University Park United Methodist Church, and we had some great speakers:

September: Adelle Hedleston ’88, Development Manager for the TAMU Library System. The theme for our dinner was tailgate food.

October: Roland Block from the Career Center and Rodney Boehm from the College of Engineering. Rodney spoke about Aggies Invent. Dinner was a chili cookoff.

November: Rick “Tank” Tankersley ’87 one of the original members of the 12th Man Kickoff Team. Dinner was a collection of side dishes, a “Thanksgiving Sides Test Run.” We also filled our fall goody bags at this meeting

January: Marcos Estrada and Rachel Simpson with the City of Dallas. They spoke about Recycling


February General Meeting and Founders’ Day Dinner: Cindy Quinn from the Texas A&M Center for Population Health and Aging. We hosted our club’s past-presidents and served a lasagna dinner.

March: Angie Rogers ‘84, a Collin County Aggie Mom, who spoke about the Aggie Recovery Community student organization. Dinner was a salad buffet.

April: Jeff Wilson ’84, Associate Director with Residence Life. We also invited high school seniors who’ll be attending A&M next fall. Dinner was a taco bar, and we filled spring goody bags.

FUNDRAISERS

Our largest fundraiser was the Singing Cadets Concert on February 16 at the Lovers Lane United Methodist Church. We had approximately 450 attendees, and we raised funds through ticket sales, sponsorships and a silent auction.

We held our annual Howdy Holidays Gift Market and Craft Fair on December 1. Our guest vendors were Aggie Moms clubs from Collin County, SW Dallas County, Denton County, Kaufman County and NE Tarrant County. The event also included a bake sale and the pick-up table for our tamale fundraiser.

For a third year, we held a tamale fundraiser, with members taking orders from September – November, and picking them up at the holiday sale.

A new fundraiser for us this year was selling books on consignment from the TAMU Press. We were allowed to keep the books for 90 days (Nov-Jan,) sell them at the retail value, pay TAMU Press a wholesale price, and return all unsold books.

Other fundraisers we held this year were profit shares at Kendra Scott, Grub Burger and Swoozie’s. We also participated in the Belk Charity Day Sale in November.

We sold a few items at the new TAMU Conference Center Hotel gift shop.

At our April General Meeting, we held a “Spring Cleaning Silent Auction” where members were invited to bring an item from their home that was no longer needed (new or gently used) for other members

OTHER EVENTS

Last summer we had a cookout for Board members and committee chairs at the home of one of our members.

In July, we had a table at the Dallas A&M Club’s Coach’s Night to raise our visibility among Former Students and to promote our Singing Cadets Concert.

In August, we had a social outing: a walk on the trail at Brookhaven College, followed by a trip to the Juice Bar.

In September and October, we held two New Mom Socials.

In December and May, we used the extra goody bag fillings to prepare goody bags for the students at the A&M Engineering Academy at El Centro.

Instead of a general meeting in December, we had a Holiday Pot Luck and Sock Exchange, where we exchanged fun socks and small gifts, and brought extra regular socks that we donated to the Stew Pot (an agency that serves the homeless population.)

In January we started the new year with a yoga party at Twist Yoga.


In March we had our own Big Event service project. We put together Easter baskets and birthday boxes at Hope Supply Co., an agency that serves homeless and at-risk children.

We also have a Book Club that meets monthly year-round.

Finally, we had several craft workshops and scrapbook sessions. (We create “aggiefied” scrapbooks.)

DEEP EAST TEXAS The Deep East Texas Aggie moms consist of 37 active members - whoop! We are a small group encompassing the Deep East Texas area: Longview, Spring Hill, Kilgore, Diana, Gilmer, Union Grove, & other nearby towns.

Our events for 2018-2019:

July 2018 - Howdy Hullabaloo Event, which was a Tailgate party held inside due to the heat. New & Former Students, Family & Friends all played corn hole, ate tailgate food (hot wings and a variety of finger foods), all while visiting and listening to Aggie music.

September 2018 - We kicked off our first meeting with a Meet & Greet, kind of like "speed dating". Members participated in rotating around to meet & greet all the new Aggie moms. It was a fun and welcoming environment. The current members provided various salads for dinner.

October 2018 - We had a special guest that helped us do Chalk Painting. Everyone had a chance to make one or more Fall-themed Chalkboard paintings - super cute!

November 2018 - We put together our Fall Goody Bags and wrote personal notes to our Aggies encouraging them for Finals. We included a Cold/Flu survival bag in our Goody Bags. Moms could bring extra items to include in their student's goody bag.

December 2018 - We had our Christmas party with lots of good snacks. Each member brought a gift t (Christmas- themed or Aggie-themed), and we held a raffle for the gifts. It was a fun evening.

January 2019 - No meeting so that everyone could enjoy having the Aggie(s) at home during the break.

February 2019 - We reviewed and discussed officer positions to get members to think about being on next year's Board. We then worked on craft items for our Aggie Boutique at Family Weeklend.

March 2019 - We had a guest speaker, Col. Samuel Hawes, from the Fightin' Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets. He spoke to us about being in the Corps, but also about what it takes to be an Aggie, recruiting, and all the options to be accepted into Texas A&M. He included what to expect from new students at TAMU. On top of our regular guest speaker, we had Geracie Mack, Daylon Mack's Aggie

mom, in our audience. She came forward and told us about how Daylon is doing with the NFL Draft, his hopeful plans and her's as a NFL Player Mom. We also had a barbecue dinner. The meat was catered in by Bodacious BBQ with all of us Aggie moms bringing side dishes - yum!


April 2019 - We had another guest speaker, Mr. Ridley Briggs Class of 1954. Originally the TAMU Police Department was going to speak, but due to extending circumstances, they were unable to attend. We were very fortunate to get Mr. Briggs at the last minute! Whoop! He spoke to us about what it means to be an Aggie, the Aggie connections that last forever, the pride of being an Aggie, and how the times have changed. He gave us all a good laugh when he said " I promised to buy all my grandchildren(I think it was 5 or 6) an Aggie Ring, not knowing prices went from $25-$50 to what????"

May 2019 - Our final meeting was a Scholarship and Senior Moms appreciation dinner at the mexican restaurant, Papacitas. We were able to give 2 Current Student Scholarships ($500 each), 2 Incoming Freshmen Scholarships ($500 each), and the Robert "Bobby" Smith Memorial Scholarship ($500) went to Madelyn Mack. Our December 2018 and May 2019 graduates were recognized, and our 2019-2020 officers were introduced. A good time was had by all - whoop!

Our most successful fundraiser of the year was Aggie Mom Boutique. We sold handmade gift items including Aggie corn hole game set, engraved cutting boards, dish towels, jewlery, hats, scarves, wall hangings, etc. Our signature item is our embroidered Aggie Mom bling jersey. We had a new Aggie Grandmother version of our jersey this year which was a big seller as well.

DEL RIO Our Del Rio Texas A&M Moms Club was not very active this year. We started off with a lot of energy hosting the Howdy Party and hosted several meetings but then illness struck several of our members and mainly our officers. After this we weren’t at all successful in reuniting and getting off the ground. We weren’t even able to do “Goody Bags” for either semester.

We are definitely hoping for a more healthy and active year this 2019-2020.

DENTON COUNTY Well this year was a remarkable year, we held our first meeting of the year on the 2nd Thursday of September to allow for more moms to come because they are usually other activities going on the first two weeks of school and it worked out great, high attendance, did learn a lot of things about that social engagement. 1. Have more informaiton available for new moms, 2. Have new moms partner up with an experienced mom, keep the business part of the meeting to less than 10 minutes.

The later months we had lots of wonderful programs that really brought in our membership, Traditions Council, Jane Metz, TAMU Police, Former Students Programs and Andy Duffy of the Aggie Century Tree Project.

We also changed the naming our monthly meetings to socials to encourage more interaction between the membership. As president, I made it a point to greet each member that came to the meetings and make it a point to remember their name and Aggie's name. I also tried to make sure that we kept our programs on track so that way we had plenty of time to have moms chat before being rushed out the door. This increased our monthly attendance, especially with keeping all the presentations upbeat and focused on the information our members wanted. This helped our average attendance at our monthly meetings increase to 40 members per meeting, that is 38% of our total membership.


We also had an outstanding year in our fundraising efforts. Pecan sales were tremendous, sold $1,000 more than the previous year. Our Boutique did amazaing work this year with two events, Sip & Knit and Decorating with a Twist, to help out with decorating or making items to sell at each monthly social, Holiday Market and Family Weekend. Our boutique also initiated spear-headed a gift card drive for our Gift Card Tree as a raffle item at Family Weekend and one of our AMAZING Aggie Dads created the most amazing Aggie Cornhole Set that our team was able to use a raffle prize as well. With both of those items, we actually generated an additional $2,000.00+ that went to our scholarships funds. We also partnered up with Andy Duffy of the Aggie Century Tree Project and raised an additional $660.00 dollars towards our scholarship funds, but we also helped Andy hit a new milestone for his organization.This year was amazing because of all the funds we raised, we were able to increase the number of student scholarhips from our standard 6 to 14 $1,000.00 scholarships; 6 All Around Students, 4 Merit based Scholarships and 4 Financial Need Scholarships.

We also received some generous donations from our membership and corporations $1,100.00. The funds raised from our Annual Cruise Fundraiser were better than last year. For every cabin booked and paid for, our club received $75.00, we had 11 cabins sold for first Alaskan cruise,for a total funds raised $825.00.

This year we had our May General meeting and Officer Installtion at a resturant and called it an End of Year celebration. We had many moms come and bring a guest, the food was amazing and we still installed our new board and president without any glitches.

This year was fabulous, because I wanted more open communication for my board and the general membership and we did that giving our membership oppurtunities to give their feedback at several of the meetings and an email survey. All the feedback we received was wonderful to know, from programs our memberships wants to see to what new activites we should do to build up on the Aggie spirit.

Also from the feeback, we got to know what we need to improve on as a board to involve our members more. Like I stated earlier, this year was tremendous, that we are already planning for new activites for our membership so we can continue to build on the momentum we had this year.

DENVER, COLORADO The Denver Aggie Moms’ had a busy year in 2018-2019. We have 31 members and we continued to support both our students and one another while our students are away at school. Members who are former students or whose children have already graduated are invaluable sources as well as moms of upper classmen.

We started off our year with our annual Howdy Picnic-summer 2018, to welcome new members, their students and family members to our Denver Aggie Moms’ group. It was an opportunity for moms, dads, and graduates, current and new students to get together and visit.

At several of our meetings this year we were able to invite a speaker to speak to our group. This included Anne Kimbal of the Denver Aggie Alumni Club who spoke to our group about the importance of our Aggie’s becoming involved in an A&M club after their graduation for group support, networking events, tailgate parties and Muster events. Bailey McCracken spoke to us about her time working for the Association of former students and the honor flight she was a part of for WWII veterans and the


Muster that was held during flight. We also had 2 recent graduates speak to us about their time at A&M from a students’ perspective. During 2 of our meetings fall and spring we stuffed Final Care packages for the students and we had our traditional holiday ornament exchange party in December.

In January the A&M club hockey team was in town for a tournament and our Aggie Moms hosted a team dinner at their hotel and put together snack packages for them to have on the bus. We continue to send Birthday cards to our Aggie’s and once again we donated a couple gift baskets to the local Aggie Muster silent auction. Several of our members attended the local Aggie Muster in Denver and several were able to make the trip to College Station to attend Muster with their Aggie student.

Our final meeting of the year is in May where we celebrate our Aggie graduates and it is also our officer installation. While the graduates are busy with finals and graduation their parents receive a nice gift from the club on their behalf. The graduating students also provide some information for our printed program about their time in College Station and their best memory of their time at Aggieland.

At this time our club does not offer scholarships. We have chosen to provide donations to TAMU organizations instead. The funds used to make these donations were generated from our King Sooper/Kroger gift card fundraiser. This year we gave the following organizations a $250 donations:

$250 Gamma Phi Beta in memory of Jane Tharp $250 PREP in memory of Jane Tharp $250 Aggie’s for Christ on Campus $250 Company D-2 $250 Ross Volunteers $250 Squadron 16 $250 Squadron 17 $250 Corps of Cadets General Sch Fund $250 St. Mary’s Catholic Center $500 Donation to the Denver Aggie family of Mary Gay to help with her son’s brain cancer surgery expenses.

DEWITT-LAVACA The DeWitt-Lavaca A&M Mothers’ Club currently has 116 members and 3 associate members. We meet each year in September and February. Additional officers and committee meetings are held as needed.The September meeting is the kick-off meeting of the year. The February meeting is followed by snacks and Bunco. Most club meetings and goody bag assemlies are held at the office of Hochheim Prairie Farm Mutual Insurance Association in Yoakum.

Donations included $250 donations to each of the following campus organizations - Aggie Southern Darlings; Aggie Women in Business; Future Aggie Nurses; Future Agricultural Science Teachers; and Pro-Life Aggies. Memorial Donations of $250 each were given to Sterling C Evans Library Mothers' Club Account in memory of Former Federation President Donna Bentley and to the Ross Volunteer Company in memory of Former Federation President Jean Kaspar. Our club was represented at the local Muster where we announced the recipients of 10 $1,000 Scholarships that were awarded to incoming freshmen and two $1,000 scholarships awareded to transfer students from our area.


A Howdy Party held in June is for all incoming and prospective students and their families as well as transfer students. Held at the home of club member Terri Dierringer, it allows everyone the opportunity to play A&M Trivia, washers, learn about Texas A&M, visit, make new friends and enjoy a hot dog cookout. New students are presented with a Goody Bag that is filled with useful items they can use when they get to Aggieland. Goody Bag items are donated by club members.

Prior to finals, members donate and fill Goody Bags which includes a variety of snacks and items to be used in preparation for inals. Several Moms travel to campus to deliver the Goody Bags to all of our area students. Graduating students are presented with a Texas A&M Ring Crest paper weight.

Our only fundraiser, the 13th Annual Holiday Market, Style Show and Dinner, is held the first Monday of November at the Yoakum Community Center. This evening includes shopping at area vendor booths while visiting and making new friends. Tables, each beautifully decorated with different themes makes the evening even more enjoyable. A delicious meal prepared by our members is served by Former Students. The evening includes a style show with ladies from our area who model apparel from area businesses. A silent auction and raffle are held in conjunction with this event. The raffle item is a custom bench made and donated by Kaspar Companies in Shiner, TX. This event netted over $15,000 to be used for scholarships and student activities.

EL CAMPO AREA The El Campo Area Aggie Moms Club experienced a bit of growth this year. We had 26 members and 6 associate members. We gave out 2 scholarships of $500 each: one to an El Campo graduating senior and one to an Area graduating senior (both A&M-bound, of course!). Our Club donated $300 to Aggie organizations and gave out TAMU paperweights to graduating seniors from our area. Our officers provided useful Aggie information to our moms at each monthly meeting. Our members made cards and treats for students at Halloween and also put together recipe books for them. We participated in both Goody Bag days, giving our students recipe books in December and beach towels in April. We had t-shirts made that members purchased. Our officers attended the Federation Winter Workshop in January. And our Club also had some fun along the way - we had Howdy pooly party to welcome new members, a Christmas party with an ornament exchange, a paint party where we painted Aggie crosses, and a great end-of-year crawfish boil party with outdoor games.

ELLIS COUNTY During the 2018-19 season the Ellis County Aggie Moms club had a surgance of new members in the fall. We attempted electronic registration and flow charts with students info on them to assist other students in reaching our to others from their area who might be able to share experiences/advice. Another new initiative we started this year was an added “social” event each month to foster camaraderie among the moms. Our total membership number was 42. Although we focus mainly on scholarships, we were contacted by three organizations and chose to donate to two that directly benefited hard working TAMU student organizations. We were fortunate enough to give three $1000 scholarships this year, thru our own scholarship selection committee. Our only fundraiser was the Aggie Moms Boutique where we sold yard signs. We had speakers from TAMU Police as well as the Career Center. Our club enjoyed a fun kick off party in September, as well as a Christmas party where we exchanged TAMU ornaments.


FRIENDSWOOD AREA Our year started with our Howdy Party at Las Brisas Mexican Restaurant in September. One of the highlights was the Yell Leaders presentation. In December we had our annual Christmas Party/Ornament Exchange dinner. Our family dinners were in January and our last one was in May. In January we had a guest speaker but in May we decided to make the focus on the students. Many of them talked about their 2018-2019 year and one special story was shared by a Corps member and the Bush funerals.

We had several crafts days and made ornaments and cards to sell at the Galveston Crafts Day and at Boutique. We also sold ornaments online and this new venture was quite successful for us. At Boutique, we partnered with 4 outside vendors and this was also very successful for our Club. Our raffle at Boutique did exceptionally well. We raffled a Texas/maroon quilt, a Howdy/Gig'em bench with pillows and a fire pit with “A&M” welded on the grates.

Our 22nd annual Fine China Luncheon and silent auction was held in March. It was an enormous success!

Our fundraising this year was very profitable. We were able to give student recognition awards to 12 students and 3 A&M organizations totaling $9,500.

We made donations for mileage stipend or monetary gifts to 5 A&M organizations.

Our membership total was down this year compared to last year, but we had a great group of moms and accomplished our goals for the year.

We had several TAMU organiztions come and speak at our meetings and we enjoyed their information.

In May we installed our new board and we look forward to another successful Aggie Mom year.

GALVESTON COUNTY Galveston County Aggie Mother's Club had 400 full members and 75 associate members for the 2018-2019 year. The members raised money throughout the year by selling licensed A&M Orca drinkware and custom anchor bracelets made by Rustic Cuff, raffling an Orca cooler full of A&M memorabilia, selling hand made items during family weekend and a campus holiday market, and raffling a hand made A&M quilt at Boutique. We raised enough money during the year to donate $3,200 to student organizations on the Galveston A&M campus and 26 $1,000 student scholarships to the College Station and Galveston campuses. The clubs successful year was due to the comraderie the members felt with each other as they came together at monthly meetings and special events. Our members enjoyed spending time together as we prepared finals survival kits for students, made crafts at our holiday party, served students at the Big Event, laughed together at Moms and Margaritas, and appluaded each other at our end of year officer installation banquet. The club is excited to continue it's success with the new leadership in the 2019-2020 years.


GUADALUPE COUNTY The Guadalupe County Aggie Moms Club has 44 paid members and 1 Adopt-a-mom member. The group began the year with an ice breaker social playing bunco. Meetings were held monthly at St. John's Lutheran Church in Marion, TX. Nearly 70 Finals Goody Bags were purchased and distributed to students in the Fall. In December, the group decorated a Christmas tree in downtown Seguin in our Aggie theme and won 1st place.

The Annual Howdy Dinner Fundraiser was held on March 5. 20 scholarships in the amount of $500 each were presented to the 2019 recipients during the event.

The group has voted to fund our 3rd Endowed Scholarship and hope to have this done by June 1.

HAYS COUNTY Our club this year had a total of 48 wonderful Aggie moms! We enjoyed our once a month meeting with a variety of activities. We played Four Corners for our first get to know you gathering. Some of our guest speakers this year included the Traditions Council and Officer Bobby Richardson from the TAMU Police Department. The Aggie moms enjoyed several activities during the monthly meetings. For example, moms participated in a Cookie Exchange, an Aggie Ornament Exchange, an “Anything Chocolate” Exchange, and lastly “Share some Happiness” Exchange. We also assembled and distributed Goody Bags in the Fall and Spring semesters for our beloved Aggie students.

Our group once again participated in a Pet Clinic. The funds that were raised were used to honor our Aggie students at a family get together dinner. We also acknowledged the Aggies that had or were graduating soon.

This year we embraced our first Non-Fundraiser Fundraiser. We asked for donations from our members, the community, and local businesses. We raised for our scholarship funds a total of $5500! AMAZING!!!! This amount, allowed us to give 8 incoming freshmen from our local high schools scholarships. With the endowment that was set up, we were also able to give two current Aggies a scholarship from Hays County. That’s not all, our club donated to TAMU’s Big Event. We truly had an amazing group of Moms this year!

With the end of this year, we had our Salad Social. This is where we said our good-byes to the old Board & Chairs, and greeted the new. We also inducted 3 new mothers to our Ring of Honors. We truly had a great Board and Chairs that led a FANTASTIC group of moms!

HENDERSON COUNTY We had 25 active members this past year. As Aggie moms we support each others kids and families as well. We provided 3 scholarships this past year to help our kids financially. We made donations to Aggie Relay for Life, Animal Science Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M DECA and Texas A&M Ducks Unlimited.

Every 2nd Tuesday of the month we have a meeting were we get together to fellowship and discuss current and future events. We created a quilt square, maintained our Facebook and webpage and we


assembled goodie bags for our Aggies for the Fall and Spring semesters. We participated in Boutique to raise money to give scholarships.

HIGHLAND LAKES 20 members gave 7 Book Awards to students in amount of $250.00 each 2018-2019. Marble Falls Walkway of Lights during Christmas Season concession trailor for book awards fundraising.

Donations: Emergency Care Team $50.00 Carpool $50.00

HILL COUNTRY The Hill Country Aggie Moms' Club had 67 members this year. To kick off our club year, we hosted the new moms with a potluck salad supper. An Aggie Mom hosted at her wine tasting room, with returning members providing the food and drinks. We held 4 club meetings, all at Aggie owned restaurants or businesses.

In addition to regular meetings, this year we added two social events for our members. We had a Christmas party at an Aggie Moms' textile shop where we all made needle-felting Christmas projects. We also had an "Art & Vino" painting party where we painted the Aggie Barn.

Our scholarship fundraising event consisted of a Raffle Drawing in November 2018. We sold 350 tickets this year (50 more than last year) for a gross profit of $7000. Prizes were $1000 Visa card, $500 Visa card, $250 Visa card, $100 Visa card, and a $200 scholarship for the mom who sold the winning ticket. After all expenses and prizes were paid, we netted $5031.54 for 2019 scholarships.

We provided Fall & Spring exam packs to our students. In the Fall, we assembled logo duffel bags stuffed with snacks and school items. We also donated 10 exam packs to Gold Star and Veteran students via the TAMU Veterans Services Office. In the Spring, we distributed Aloha-themed exam packs in colorful bags stuffed with summer-themed items.

In February 2019, it was our honor to partner with the Gillespie County A&M Club to host the Singing Cadets. Aggie Moms provided the meal to the cadets and some hosted cadets in their homes. The event netted $2270 for the Gillespie County A&M Club and will provide three $750 scholarships. All unopened extra food was donated to the Fredericksburg Food Pantry.

We finished our year with a Howdy Party & Ice Cream Social on May 15th, 2019. The social was attended by approximately 50 students and parents. Scholarships funds from the November raffle were distributed by random drawing. Four $200 scholarships were awarded to incoming freshmen and sixteen scholarships were awarded to returning and transfer students (8 to students who pre-registered and 8 to students who attended the social) - two $500 and fourteen $200 scholarships. One $200 scholarship was also awarded to a mom based on attendance at our Aggie Mom meetings. We also gave away prizes based on random drawings.


HOOD AREA Hood Area Aggie Moms had 30 members for the 2018-2019 membership year. We inducted our first Ring of Honor Mom, Mrs. Patty Eberhart for her tireless service with our our club since the inception. We welcomed our new students and their family at our Annual Howdy Party in July.

We elected to open an account to begin saving for an endowment scholarship with putting 10% of our fund raising into the account until we reach our goal. We were able to award 6 scholarships to current and incoming students.

Our club likes to have fun while we serve so we hosted our local kids at a member's camper site in College Station to feed them breakfast and a chili dinner to promote networking amongst the students. The moms played Pokeno, and the Dads joined us for football watch parties, we went to Billy Bobs to see Granger Smith and celebrate an Aggie Victory over the Razorbacks. One member hosted a Friendsgiving for Thanksgiving and we delivered Aggie Cooler Goody bags to our students.Another member hosted an Ugly Sweater Contest Christmas Party and ornament exchange. The New Year kicked off with a lot of painting parties to get our items ready for sale during Aggie Moms Boutique. Our boutique sale items were handpainted and stained doorhangers along with etched bottles with lights. We finished off our year with delivering custom laundry bags for the students Spring Finals Bags.

JOHNSON COUNTY 2018-2019 was a great year for the Johnson County Aggie Moms' Club. We added some new members to our club, but sadly had some not return due to their children graduating last year. Many of those helped us with projects this year and will always be a great source of support. We have 12 members this year.

We filled goody bags in November for the Fall finals and then again in April for Spring finals. Most of the remainder of our year was spent preparing for Boutique. We had a great time and were able to fund four $500 scholarships, as well as donate $250 to Carpool and $250 to the 12th Can Organization.

KATY/WEST HOUSTON The Katy/West Houston Aggie Moms’ Club had 113 members this year. Of this number, we are pleased that 50 of these moms were new members. We’ve had a fun year celebrating our 25th Anniversary!

Meetings: We have a variety of activities at our monthly meetings. We start with a Howdy Social in September to greet our new moms and welcome back our returning ones. We continued with our football theme this year which included food, games and shopping. As the fall progressed, we had meetings that included speakers, making Christmas ornaments, and having an ornament exchange. In October, Dr. Candy Arentz, a local breast cancer surgeon and Aggie, spoke to us about breast care. We also had a group meet at Board & Brush to make cute wooden signs for our homes. In January, we were honored to host Colonel Michael Fossum ’80 from Texas A&M Galveston. We invited our families, so many student Aggies were there to hear him speak. At the February meeting, we celebrated our 25th Anniversary by inviting Diane Eckols, 5th VP-Boutique and Federation President, Peggy Nolan, who brought an official proclamation honoring our special occasion. We also


had several of the past club presidents visit and share their stories. Our BIG EVENT night in March is always fun. We made fleece blankets that we donated to Texas Children’s Hospital. We finished the year playing Easter Bunco and of course, our last meeting is a night to honor our graduates and scholarship recipients.

In addition to monthly meetings, we started a Bunco group and a book club this year. Several moms enjoy getting together at these extra events during the year.

Fundraising: We again partnered with a local shop, The Round Top Collection, to do a fundraising event where a portion of sales were donated to our club. In March, we held a garage sale that did very well. Our major fundraiser is our Ring Crest sales. Many clubs order these for their graduates each year. Thanks to several talented Aggie moms, we were able to raffle a beautiful quilt at Boutique. In addition, we sold various items made by our club members and partnered with a local artist and Aggie mom to sell Aggie Bluebonnet items like scarves, bags and purses.

Student Support & Scholarships: Our club has funded 3 Endowed Scholarships since it was formed in 1993. This year we were able to award seven $1000 scholarships. We also donated $500 to Student Government. To support our students throughout the year, we offer care packages for finals week each fall and spring. The packages are filled with a variety of food and study items.

KAUFMAN COUNTY Howdy! For the 2018-2019 school year the Kaufman County Aggie Moms' Club had 21 paid members. We meet the second Tuesday of each month starting at 6:30 PM at the Forney High School café in Forney, TX. We had several craft days to prepare for the Aggie Mom Boutique to make hand crafted items where all proceeds went directly to our local students in Kaufman County. We also attended the Dallas County Aggie Moms' Club Holiday Howdy sale on December 1, 2018 and did quite well in the six hours we were there to sell many of our holiday items. Four members of our club attended Aggie Mom Camp in February 2019 and all of us had a great time. We have donated to the student organization "Build" in the amount of $75.00 this year. We attended the Aggie Mom Boutique in April as well as had a raffle table this year. We sold just about everything we brought to A&M and could not be more excited! With those funds raised our club is awarding 12 scholarships this year in the amount of $4,500.00. It has been a very fun and successful year supporting each other as Aggie Moms and our Aggie students. Thanks and Gig'em!

KENDALL COUNTY Kendall County Aggie Mothers' Club currently has 46 members this year. Our main fundraiser is our annual golf tournament and raffle that we partner with the Hill Country Aggies to put on in May. This year was our 26th annual tournament and we were able to raise over $16,000. Due to our successful scholarship fundraising last year (over $25,000) we were able to give out 25, $1,000 scholarships to our local students. In addition to our scholarships, we support our students with finals goodie bags in the fall and spring semesters. As a special event, we hosted the Yell Leaders for Howdy Night in the summer to welcome all incoming students as well as current students. We look forward to continuing to support our students and moms any way that we can.


KINGWOOD/HUMBLE Membership: The membership of the Kingwood Humble Area Aggie Moms’ Club currently stands at 116 members which is a five member decrease from last year. We continue to be an active group and our focus this year is to bring together our members into new relationships with other Aggie Moms. We hope to make them feel comfortable with their Aggies’ traditions, events and activities and involve them in serving our wonderful students with Goody Bag preparation and distribution and through scholarships.

Meetings: Our meetings focus primarily on social time with light snacks provided by our members. Typically, we have 30 minutes for members to get something to eat, sign in and find a seat. Then we have a speaker or group activity, followed with our business meeting and conclude with student awards and door prizes. In 2018 we played Bunco at our February meeting, our local Muster Chair came and talked to us in April and in May we invited everyone to our end of the year dinner where we introduced our scholarship winners for the year. At our annual Howdy Party in July, all new and returning Aggies and their families meet and greet. This year, we had Dr. Daniel Pugh , VP of Student Affairs was our main speaker along with the Femmatas. In September we had John Lopez ’84, a former Radio Sports Announcer come and speak about Aggie Athletics. Dr. Angie Rogers, with Aggie Recovery was our speaker for October. In November, we played Bunco again trying to help the Aggie Moms get to know each other. This year we have tried to add some Social events into our Fall agenda. These events are held on different nights than our regular meetings. We have had really good turnout at our Ornament Painting party and our first ever general membership Christmas party where we met at a local restaurant and had dinner and a White Elephant exchange.

Student Support: Our club funded 14 scholarships for the Fall 2018 semester totaling $10,200 and continued a third year to build toward an endowed scholarship. Our philanthropy efforts included $2,600 in donations to 26 student organizations. These amounts vary yearly based on results of our fundraising efforts and scholarship applicants. In addition, 18 student awards were given throughout the year for a total of $3,600. Every student in attendance at our Howdy Party received a Howdy Backpack which included a 12th Man Towel, fun and useful items and resource handouts. We also handed out student and Mom door prizes. Our club offers Goody Bags for purchase which includes a keepsake gift, snacks, and homemade goodies each Fall and Spring semester. 150 Spring 2018 Goody Bags were delivered to our area students in both College Station and Galveston and 140 Fall 2018 Goody Bags were delivered in December.

Fundraising and Projects: Our major fundraiser of the year, a Singing Cadets Concert Event, was held in January and included silent auction items and raffle drawings. Our Boutique is another source of our fundraising having participated in the Parents’ Weekend Boutique and boutique sales during our meetings. In addition, we have held fundraising events with local businesses where the businesses donate a portion of the proceeds for the night.

LAREDO 2018-2019 was an awesome year for Laredo A&M Mothers' Club, This happened all year long. Our Club was involved in different activities : as a president I attended the fall Federation meeting, we sent around 32 care packeges for freshmen Aggies, we had a Chick fil A Saturday, an Aggie Night at Mc Donald's, a bowling Aggie Sunday during Christmas break, Our traditional JJ Sanchez's Memorial Mass in January for our Aggies to be Blessed before they return to College Station.


We attended the federation meeting in January, we also attended our District meeting in Alice.

Laredo A&M Mothers' Club was inducted to the A&M Legacy Society after donating $100,000 to the University.

Our Club participated in Boutique during parents' weekend for the first time.

Our Club helps economically sons or daughters of our active members when they order their rings.

We also helped one student that went to Italy for study abroad and another that went to Santiago de Chile also to study abroad.

We hosted our annual Golf Tournament in Spring with a lot of participants, sponsors, former Aggies, players and Aggie moms.

We also presented 9 Scholarship to students of our local HIgh Schools that will be attending A&M during the Fall semester in a total of $ 4,500.

All this was possible with the help , time and dedication of our Laredo Aggie Moms.

LIBERTY COUNTY We had 17 members for our club. We had a BUNCO tournement/Silent Auction and a gift card raffle to raise money for our scholarship recipients. We gave a total of $5900 in Scholarships to Aggies next year. We also host an Aggie Mom Christmas party with Vintage Aggie Moms and attend a tailgate in the fall.

LONE STAR Lone Star Aggie Mom's is a very small group. We only have around 20 members. We did not have a fundraiser this school year. Our President moved away and I took over for her. We have a new incoming President for this fall and am hoping she can come up with some fundraising ideas!

The new incoming President, Lisa Shoalmire and I attended Aggie Mom Camp and had a great time. As always I look forward to attending it next year.

We did give out two $500.00 scholarships and am excited to say one of the recipeints will be using it for A&M Galveston. If I'm not mistaken, she will be the first to receive a scholarship for attending Galveston campus.

LOUISIANA The year started out with a name change and consolidation of all Aggie Moms in Louisiana into one statewide club. Our name was changed from the Greater New Orleans Texas A&M Mothers Club to the Louisiana Texas A&M University Mothers Club. With this change, the first part of fall 2018 was spent updating bylaws and changing names on accounts and websites. We encouraged regional social meetings to gather Aggie moms together for fellowship and information sharing. A new


Facebook page was created and members were encouraged to get to know one another using the page. We explored ways to have general meetings over the internet.

Fall 2018 A membership drive was initiated right after school started in the Fall. We had 36 paid members. We have students on the College Station and Galveston campus.

A Fall themed greeting card was designed and mailed to the students. The greeting card contained a $10 gift card to Chik-fil-a. The gift cards were donated by the New Orleans Aggie alum club.

Exam goody bags were assembled and delivered to the College Station students in November for Fall exams. Unfortunately we could not offer goody bags to the Galveston students since we do not have a parent who can deliver them in that area.

A drawing was held in December for 5 scholarships in the amount of $500 each ($2500 total in scholarships). The money was sent to financial aid in time to be applied to the students accounts for the Spring 2019 semester. The funds for the scholarships were generated from sales at the previous Aggie Moms Boutique Spring 2018.

Spring 2018 Snacks were delivered in March to the Ross Volunteers for their bus trip to New Orleans to march in the Rex parade on Fat Tuesday of Mardi Gras.

Exam goody bags were assembled and delivered to the College Station students in April for Spring exams.

LUBBOCK AREA The Lubbock Area Aggie Moms club has approximately 31 members. In July we host a Howdy picnic for all current and new Aggies and their families. This event is usuallly well attended. We made donations to student organizations at Texas A&M in the amount of $1600. Our fundraiser at the Cactus theater in Lubbock raised $7,035 dollars. We gave out 6 scholarships at $1,000 each for a total of $6,000. We had a former student (the husband of one of our Aggie Moms) come and talk to us about Aggie traditions, which the Moms really enjoyed. We also had a former student who is an advisor at Texas Tech come and talk to the Moms about helping their student be successful. In December we have a social for all of our members and potential members and in April we have an end of the year dinner. Two of our Aggie Moms attended the Aggie Mom camp in February.

MATAGORDA COUNTY Our Matagorda County Aggie Moms' Club consists of 18 members dedicated to supporting and encouraing our local Aggie students through a variety of ways. We meet on the second Monday of each month with a social followed by the meeting. This past year, several members were able to attend the Aggie Mom's Camp held in February of 2019. We had one successful fundraiser during the 2018 - 2019 school year. In the fall, we held a raffle comprised of items donated by current members and their family and friends. Our facebook page advertised this event which helped with added sales. Winners were announced at our November meeting and also posted on our facebook page. Members commented on how easy it was to sell


tickets and we hope to hold this event again next year. All proceeds generated from the raffle went toward student scholarships.

We continue to offer our Aggie students the best possible support to help them achieve their goals at Texas A&M University. We are proud to have awarded 11 scholarships of $200 each to our students this past 2018 - 2019 year. In addition to the scholarships, we sent notes of encouragment and provided goody bags.

On Saturday, June 1, 2019, our club will host the Howdy Party for incoming students and their parents. It is a highlight of this past year and kickoff to the upcoming year. Current students are also invited and welcomed as they provide a wealth of information to our incoming students and parents. We love the tradition of having the Yell Leaders at this event, as they too, provide an abundance of knowledge. Our Howdy Party is truly memorable and an event worth coming to.

MEDINA COUNTY This is our 25th year as a club and we have 41 members.

July - We had our Howdy party with 7 new aggies and 4 current aggies attend. They enjoyed hotdogs, chips and deserts. Everyone got a door prize after they introduced themselves and the parents received a "New Parent Package".

August - We have all 5 officers attend the Federation Dinner and workshop. We were all trained and ready for the new year. We also had 2 of our Aggie sons attend as well, they really enjoyed Dave South. We also ordered and picked up our Maroon Out shirts from the bulk order while we were there.

September - We had an executive board meeting and planned out our year, discussed future speakers, fundraising and budget. We then had a "member sign up" meeting for everyone to renew their membereship with a guest speaker, Aggie, Judge Chris Schuhart, he spoke of his memories of A&M and traditions. We signed up our moms and handed our a page full of future events.

October - Our speaker for this meeting was skyped with the 12th Can student organization. It was a wonderful and very informative. We held a can food drive and took the food up to the 12th Can a few weeks later.

November - We filled goodie bags for our aggies who would be coming home for Thanksgiving. Everyone brings a bag for their aggie and enough goodies to go in all bags. We line up the bags and just go one by one putting our stuff in the bags. They are full of snacks, sweets, water, jerky, pencils and even a few scantrons.

December - We had our first Kendra Scott Pop Up Party. This fundraiser is very easy to do and we raised over $1200. We also went to Painting with a Twist and painted the Aggie Barn and raised $667 from that event.

January - We had a meeting and voted to participate in the Boutique, formed a scholarship committee and then we listened to our awesome speakers, TAMU police officers. We had 3 officers a one other mom attend the Federation Dinner, again with 2 of our sons.


February - 4 officers attended the District Meeting in Boerne, TX, it was a great time full of information and sisterhood.

March - We held another food drive for the 12th Can and it was taken up the end of the month. We celebrated our 25th year anniversary. Cathleen Inman attended our meeting and read our Proclamation. We took pictures and ate cake.

April - We stuffed goodie bags again. We participated in the Boutique, selling inflatable snowmen and footballs. We participated in our local Muster and then had our annual huge fundraiser along with the Medina County A&M Club, our golf tournament.

May - We had another Kendra Scott Fundraiser. We handed out scholarships to seniors who will be attending A&M in the fall at the senior awards nights at 4 of the 5 schools in our county. We also made Howdy bags for them and they were presented with a bag full of A&M goodies as well.

For our scholarships, we gave out ($4000.00) 8 $500.00 scholarships to high school seniors who will be attending A&M in the fall. We will also give out scholarships to current students with 90+ hours. Not sure on the total yet, because the deadline just ended.

For our A&M student services donation, we gave $150 to the Former Student Association, which is the organization that the Federation President honored in her term.

MID-JEFFERSON COUNTY The Mid-Jefferson County Aggie Moms Club had a very eventful and successful year. We started the year out with our membership drive and grew our club with several new faces. We had 42 paid members and 9 associate members.

One of our fundraisers to fund our scholarships is the sell of our Goody Bags for our students in the fall and spring right before finals. We bring all of the items to fill the bags. Also, our Aggie mom's Boutique is another fundraiser to help with student scholarships. We had a very successful raffle during Family Weekend for a "tailgate package" & a "feed my aggie basket" (full of giftcards to local restaurants). We were able to give scholarships amounting to $4200.00 to be applied to our elgible junior and senior Aggies.

We, also, collected donations for a local charity, "The Rainbow Room", who furnished items for Women, children, & babies that are escaping abusive relationships. One of our Associate members is the director of this wonderful organization and she was able to come and tell us all about it and who and how many individuals that it has helped in this area.

We had many returning officers and voted our next years officers in during our May meeting. We had our May meeting at Sombrero's Mexican Café and our Aggies that were in town were invited to attend. We presented glass paperweights to all of graduating seniors. We look forward to another successful year during 2019-2020.


MILAM COUNTY Milam County Aggie Moms club has 38 members. Monthly meetings from September through May are held in the various towns in the county, including Cameron, Milano, Rockdale and Thorndale.

During the 2018-2019 club year, we had special guests at three meetings. Guest speaker JoAnn Cuplpepper from A.P. Beutal was our speaker. She spoke about the health center and all that they do for our Aggies. In November a presentation by Lynn Hagan and Phyllis Shuffield about Aggie Women Group, discussing Elect her, Women’s Resource Center, Legacy and Eminent, Jumpstart and Giving Back.

Our December and May meetings are always a treat for our moms, we fill the students goodie bags for delivery during finals. The December meeting, we have a fun Christmas party and ornament exchange that is always an entertaining time for all.

The January meeting was a family night, with a meal served by the Officers and all Aggie families were invited. A presentation by Andy Duffie on the Aggie Century Tree Project. Mr. Duffie explained the history of the Century Tree and how this project was started. He donated a seedling for a door prize and one of the visiting dads won.

Milam County Aggie Moms have one large fundraiser during the school year, a golf tournament to raise scholarship money for our current and future aggies. The tournament was originally scheduled for April 6th, but unfortunately had to be rescheduled for May 11. With Mother Nature working against us it was postponed again until June 15th. The weather finally decided to work with us and we had a smaller turnout than in past years, but a great time was had by all. Golfers and non-golfers come out and support our Aggies by playing, as well as contribute to the silent auction.

Milam County Aggie Moms also assist with the Muster held at a local venue in the county, 44-Farms. During this event the Moms provide a Fajita meal to the guest and have a live auction with baked goodies donated by our moms. This year we had special items donated by the Cameron High School Ag Department, two Texas A&M metal art pieces for the scholarship fund.

The 2018-2019 year was a great success for the Milam County Aggie current and future students, we could give out over $10k to the local students.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY We had 102 active members for the 2018-2019 school year. We kicked off the year with our annual HOWDY event, which included representatives from all areas of TAMU campus life; a student Q&A panel, and the Aggie Yell Leaders.

We met on the second Thursday of every month, September through May, with the exception of December. In December we held a Christmas dinner for our board members. Speakers at our monthly meetings included Andy Duffy ’78—The Century Tree Project; Texas A&M Police Department; Jeff Savell, Professor of BBQ; and Nick Kilmer—Aggie Money Center.

We made a priority to build relationships between our members this year and enjoyed a painting social, a happy hour event, and a Bunco night in addition to our monthly meetings. We plan to do more socials for the 2019-2020 school year.


We spent 3 days on campus (October, December, and April) to distribute Goodie Bags. We gave $250 to four campus organizations: Engineering World Health, Camp Kesem, Fish Drill Team, and Pro Life Aggies, for a total donation of $1000 to Texas A&M.

We gave five $1000 scholarships, for a total of $5000.

We did not hold our annual spring fundraiser this year, as we are transitioning to a fall fundraiser, which will be held in October, 2019.

NORTHWEST HARRIS COUNTY Northwest Harris County celebrated our 30th year as a member of the Federation of Aggie Mothers' Clubs. This year we welcomed 228 members, three adopted Moms and 28 Ring of Honor Moms. We were blessed to be able to award $15,000 in scholarships to twelve deserving Aggies. Half of that through our fundraising efforts and half through our endowed scholarships. In addition we awarded $1200 in book scholarships to help defray those specific costs. Our members voted on TAMU student organizations to receive an additional $5700 in financial support.

Highlights from our year included fantastic speakers such as the Galveston Yell Leaders, Sheila Nelson from the Association of Former Students, General Joe Ramirez, Aggie Women's Chorus and 7 Student Organizations from the College Station campus. In an effort to focus on relationship building this year we successfully incorporated fun ice breaker type games, small group discussions and even a Christmas Sweater extravaganza and gift exchange into our meetings that allowed those attending to get to know each other better. In March we enjoyed a Charter Party to celebrate our 30 years and invited special guests including ten of our Past Presidents and Peggy Nolan, current Federation President.

Our fundraising efforts included "give back" nights with Kendra Scott & Round Top Collection, Family Weekend Boutique including several new Traditions items, a family weekend raffle and a combination fun-raising/fundraising football watch party - Hullabaloo Huddle. In its second year, our Spirit of Service Committee led monthly efforts to serve organizations in our local community through donations and also a service day. Our Social Committee ensured there were varied opportunities to relax together such as a monthly Book Club, visits to wineries and breweries, a painting party and a baseball tailgating date. With 180 finals care packages to deliver in both the fall and spring, many moms (and a few dads and future Aggies) got to spend delivery day giving out hugs, smiles and encouragement.

Through the dedication, enthusiasm and Aggie Spirit of the 18-19 Board and Committee members it was an amazing year.

PANOLA COUNTY Panola County Aggie Moms includes members from Carthage, Beckville, Gary, and other smaller areas within our east Texas county. This year we have 22 members who love and support 27 Aggies.

We meet monthly and give away door prizes to a lucky Mom and Aggie at each meeting. After our business meeting, we also enjoy a delicious dinner prepared by a hostess Mom. In December and


May, we treat ourselves to an evening out at a local restaurant. In December, we also have an annual Aggie ornament exchange.

We kicked off the school year with our annual Howdy Burger. We welcomed new and current Aggies and their families, as well as some former Aggies. We got to know our local Aggie family, enjoyed a scrumptious hamburger dinner, and gave away door prizes to a lucky new Aggie and new Aggie Mom.

For Halloween, Valentine's Day, and birthdays, we send our Aggies greeting cards containing Mom-purchased gift cards. We also donate and prepare exciting final goody bags in the spring and fall for all of our Aggies. Custom-decorated Aggie cookies are also given out with the final bags. Each graduating senior receives a Benjamin Knox Aggie print at this time.

This year we had two fundraisers: a raffle and Gig 'Em signs project. In October, we sold raffle tickets and gave away three prizes (an Aggie gift basket, a Yeti cooler, and an event tent) from our booth at the local community festival, "Potlatch". In the spring, we placed, moved, and sold Aggie yard signs. We have found that fundraising is a great way to have fun, interact with our local community, as well as promote Aggie Spirit!

Our fundraising efforts enabled us to award 15 scholarships: one to a high-school senior and fourteen to each and every one of our current Aggies who applied. We also made a donation to The Big Event.

We are proud of our four graduating seniors, and can't wait to meet our seven new Aggies and Moms in 2019-2020!

PASADENA AREA Pasadena Aggie Moms’ Club had a great 2018-2019 year.

We started the year off in August with our annual Howdy Party. This year we had a SnoCone Truck visit and offered snocones to all in attendance. Our Sophomore Aggies, Genevieve Rogers, Taylor Zawacki, and Zoe Ward gave tips, tricks, and advice to the Aggie Class of 2022.

We started off the year by attending the Federation Meetings in August and received lots of good information.

In September, we had the Galveston Aggie Yell Leaders visit and teach us about Aggie Yell Leaders Traditions and led us in some Aggie Yells.

This year we added two new parts to our meeting: Traditions Minute - where we talk about an Aggie Tradition and an Aggie Mom Devotional prepared by Alma Tovias which were amazing.

In October, we had fun with our annual Bunco party.

In November, we created a craft.

Our December Goodie Bags were a hit with a Thermal Bag full of snacks and munchies!


We always enjoy our Christmas Party with a gift exchange. Carol Smith gave us all a wooden A&M ornament that was just so cute!

We had an awesome fundraising year. We did Spirit Nights at 3 local restaurants, Mod Pizza, Willie’s, and the Aquarium at Kemah. We plan to do this again next year because we really enjoyed sharing a meal together and spending time with each other.

Our annual raffle was a huge success. We sold over 750 tickets and raffled away a Mac Airbook laptop. We attended Family Weekend and Aggie Mom Boutique to sell our Raffle Tickets. One of our own members, Annette, won it!

January we honored our 2018 graduates with a gift.

We attended the Federation Meetings in January.

We had so much fun at Aggie Mom Camp.

February we enjoyed each other’s company at Willie for a fundraising night.

March we had Andy Duffie ‘78 attend our meetings and share his Century Trees.

We finished the year strong with Spring Goody Bags in an TAMU Igloo, Kendra Scott Fundraising Night were we received a generous donation, Taylor’s Place visited in May and presented about their wonderful program for Aggies, and we volunteered at the Strawberry Festival ticket booth were we received a generous donation for our efforts.

We elected several new officers.

We gave over $5,000 in Aggie Scholarships! Whoop!

PEARLAND Number of Members: 31

Donations to A&M: PAMC donated $500 to Aggie Clubs this year, $250 to Fish Camp to provide a scholarship so a student could attend, that otherwise would not be able to afford the camp and $250 to Century Men's Society to provide a scholarship to a child to attend Camp Kesem.

Scholarships: PAMC awarded 8 - $500 scholarships to undergradute and graduate students attending the College Station and/or Galveston campuses

Successful Fundraisers: PAMC held a Fall Festival in October. We held several profit share nights that included Kendra Scott, Queen Bling, and Painting with a Twist. Funds went to our scholarship account.

Special Events: PAMC held our Howdy Party in August to welcome new moms. In November and April our club put together Finals Kits for our Aggie's.


Memorable Programs: PAMC begins every meeting with a TAMU tradition. We adopted several Angel Tree families and purchased clothes and toys. We held our December meeting at Los Cucos Mexican Restaurant where we gathered for dinner and brought our donations to be delivered to the families for Christmas. In May, we held our meeting at Allendale's Restaurant and distributed Ring Crests to our graduating seniors. We enjoyed graduation stories, discussed summer plans and what the future holds for our senior that graduated.

RANDOLPH AREA The Randolph Area Aggie Mothers' Club currently has 38 members. We meet the second Tuesday of every month (except July) in Converse, Tx. Our club has enjoyed a very successful 2018-2019 school year. Our success is contributed by a team of wonderful leaders and hardworking awesome members. Before the school year starts, our newly elected officers meet and plan a wonderful program of speakers.

Our year starts off in June and we hold our Howdy Party. We invite local high school graduates that will be attending A&M in the Fall. The Traditions council speaks to our members and invited guests. After the presentation, we also announce our 4 Freshman scholarships winners at $500 each, but the fun doesn’t end because we then continue to announce 8 other current student scholarships. In addition $500 scholarships, we also award 4 $100 scholarships selected from a drawing of both those in attendance and those who registered online.

In August, we also have a second Howdy Party for those who we missed our even in June. We scheduled a speaker from the Car Pool organization. She shared and informed us about services that are availble to students. We also had a drawing of 4 $100 scholarships for those in attendance and those that registered online. At our meetings, we also have a "Campus Store" which is a table of "all things Aggie" mostly made by our crafty moms. Our campus store brings in a substantial amount of money each month, which also contributes to our scholarships.

In September, our club hosted a potluck and held our Fall Raffle drawing. Members sold raffle tickets at $5 each or 5 for $20. We raised just over $4,500+ with about $500 of expenses. Our members worked diligently to solicit items for raffle donations.

In October, we created an adorable pumpkin at our craft night & potluck.

In November, we scheduled speakers from the 12th Can and enjoyed a game of HOWDY. Members donated cans of food in order to get a HOWDY game card. The 12th can associated returned to college station with plenty of food for their pantry. Near the end of the month, a group of us traveled to A&M to deliver Goodie Boxes to help with studying for finals.

In December, we celebrated with a Holiday Potluck and brought a pair of socks to the meeting. Once sock was filled with goodies and set out on a table while we swaped the other sock to the pair. Once the game (swapping)was over, we were able to claim the filled sock that matched. Another event we participate in is our Stocking Party. We meet montly at the Boysville Campus for free. For use of our meeting place we give back by sponsoring the girls cottage. We visit with the girls and watch them perform for the community followed by dinner. The highlight of the evening is when they open gifts from our club. Our members voluntarity "adopt" a girl and donates items from their wish list.


We didn’t hold a meeting in January, so this is when our board meets for the 2nd time.

In February, we hold a sweetheart themed potluck and invited speakers from the office of the Students Prospective Center in San Antonio. They diseemintate information mostly about financial aid. Our March meeting is called our Boutique Workshop. Our Boutique Chair host a working meeting at her house were a lot sanding, paintig, wrapping etc. occurs to prepare our items that will sell at Boutique.

Our April meeting included a game night with a wonderful potluck. We all learned a little more about Aggie Trivia as we played Aggie Jeopardy! Of coures, we packed up our vehicles and traveled to A&M to participate in Family Weekend Boutique. This year, we had a raffle booth as well as our usual tables inside the ballroom. Also, near the end of the month, moms traveled to Aggieland to deliver Goodie Bags which were sold for $20 to our membership to help student get through finals week.

During our May meeting we ate a donated meal that our hopitality team put together. After we had time to visit, we continued our meeting by honoring our graduates with an A&M portfolio. This semester we only had one graduate to honor. In addition, to honoring our well deserved graduate. The membership surprised the club president and presented her with a unique James Avery Aggie Mom charm. New to our club this year was the opportuntiy to participate in Aggie Day SA. We brout "Aggie Merch" to sell to prospective A&M students from the surrounding area.

In addition to the monthly meetings, we donate $75 to all our speakers. Some speakers are no longer affliated with a campus organization and so they choose what organization to make the donation to. Also, we offer at least 3 $100 scholarships at every meeting.

Other income comes from items that the universtiy hotel sells and our Chilis night. The hotel gives our club a percentage of the income they garner from our merchandise and Chilis also donates a percentage of sales from our members that visit the evening of our event.

All in all, we celebrated many success and awarded over $10,000 in scholarship and donated $300 to University organizations.

RIO GRANDE VALLEY The Rio Grande Valley Aggie Moms Club officially kicked off the year with our Howdy Party at the end of July. We invited all the new Aggies and their families from the area as well as contacting our current and former membership and their families. We had a great turnout that included many Aggie families whose students were accepted to the McAllen campus of TAMU. We were able to give a personal invite to the McAllen campus moms when we attended the McAllen campus NSC earlier in July to let the moms know about this awesome group of ladies.

August was a time for a few of our members to hear what Federation had planned for the year at the Fall Federation meeting. Our club membership came away from the weekend with a better understanding of the mission of the organization and awesome ideas on things we could start implemeting to make us a more effective organization


Our regular meetings resumed the 3rd Monday in September. At this meeting we presented our proposed budget to the members present. Membership present voted to accept the budget. This meeting also established the Chairs of various committees.

As we are known at Boutique as the "group with the stepping stones.' We had stepping stone workshops throughout the year. These are times we get together to work on the stones and maybe watch the Fighting Texas Aggies BTHO some opponent. It is also a time to discuss our pride in our Aggies and support one another if there is a problem. At our November meeting we put together Goody Bags for our Ags to help them through finals. For the kids that were not going to be home for the Thanksgiving Break to pick up their bag we had various moms volunteer to deliver them to College Station to make sure the student had their share. We started the New Year running. Winter Federation meeting once again gave club members insights on things we could do to help our students but more pressing for the club was organizing our annual Scholarship Golf Tournament. Posters and flyers were distributed to the membership so they could recruit teams and sponsors. We also made a final determination on what our Raffle prizes for Boutique would be and discussed Raffle Ticket sales.

We had a good number of members attend the District meeting in Alice in the Spring. It was a good time to hear Federation business updates for the members who did not make it to the Winter meeting and having the more intimate setting allowed for the exchange of information/ideas with members of the other clubs in attendance. We left the meeting with some great ideas about contacting our membership to help with monthly meeting attendance.

March was all about managing our Golf Tournament. This was the first year we had it before Boutique so we were a little more rushed than normal pulling things together. While still a success, we did not bring in as much money as past years. Our "after action report" has identified things that we will need to focus on to ensure upcoming years are more profitable. We did raise enough between the Golf Tournament and other designated scholarship fundraising to award money to all the eligible applicants we had this year.

Boutique was awesome as usual. We had lower sales than in past years but it appeared that there was a lot less foot traffic this year. The weather definitely was not the most cooperative! We introduced a new item for sale this year, "The Aggie Survival Guide and Cookbook," which sold very well. This book features many recipes contributed by our membership that are novice cook and budget friendly as well as helpful tips for those living on their own for the first time.

Several of our members attended the Spring Federation meeting for the first time this year! They were very impressed at what they heard and came away with a much better understanding of the mission of the organization. Kudos to the Spring meeting organizers!

Elections were held in April with a new President and Secretary elected into office. The Club voted to change our election process so that each officer serves a two year term and we elect alternate electing President and Secretary in one election with Vice President and Treasurer in the following year's election. We hope that will allow for better continuity of the Club and make more members willing to serve as officers knowing that there will be experienced individuals on the board with them. In May we awarded scholarships to our eligible applicants. We also voted to give donations to 15 different student organizations.


May is also the month we start planning the new school year's Howdy Party. The new leadership was installed and has taken on the task of finding a venue and putting out the word to get the largest turnout we possibly can.

Total Membership: 51 full members, 2 associate members. One full member is an "Adopt a Mom" from Missouri Total Scholarships Awarded: 7 @ $1200 each Total Student organization contributions: 15 groups @ $100 each

Student Organizations that received funds: Carpool, Career Closet, 12th Can, Squadron 4, Project Sunshine, Society of Women Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Aggie Riveters, TAMU Singing Cadets, Student Retail Association, LGBTQ organization, Aerospace and Women's Engineering, Sports for Kids, Freshman in Liberal Arts Reaching Excellence, Paradigm

ROUND ROCK AREA Scholarships Given: In May 2019, we awarded five $500 scholarships. The number of scholarships each May is dependent on the success of our fundraising through Silent Auction and sales at the Aggie Mom Boutique.

Donations to A&M: Small donations to organizations that speak to our club at our monthly meetings. This year we also did a fundraiser to support 12th Can.

Special Events:

Annual Tailgate – We select one football game a year to have a free tailgate hosted for our students and their friends.

Annual Event and Silent Auction – An annual dinner for friend and families, entertainment and a silent auction fundraiser for scholarships for incoming freshman.

Memorable Programs – We have Traditions Council present each year which is a great educational opportunity for our members, particularly those that are not Aggies. This year, we also had the CARPOOL program speak to our members. This program was well received.

RUSK COUNTY Rusk County Aggie Mothers Club had 10 members during the 2018-2019 school year. Our club is a small club and is trying to rebuild its membership. On a regular basis, each meeting had an average attendance of 6.

Our club focuses on the moms just getting together and enjoying the camaraderie of being Aggie Moms. So basically, Rusk County Aggie Mothers Club is more of a social gathering where we talk about our students and things going on with them. The group had a tailgate party and attended an Aggie football game in November.


Our only fundraiser in 2018-2019 was our Howdy Dinner. The dinner was promoted on Facebook, invites to new incoming students and word of mouth. The dinner was attended by Former Aggie Students, Current Aggie Students, New Aggie Students and Aggie Moms.

Two hundred dollar Scholarships were given to all Aggie Students that attended the Howdy Dinner. Seven students were in attendance.

At our May meeting, Neva Hand was invited to hand out a scholarship to a new incoming Aggie student. This scholarship is given by the Hand family and honors their daughter Jamie Lynn Hand. Mrs. hand shares Jamie’s story and Jamie’s love of Texas A&M with the scholarship recipient.

SAN ANGELO Our club is very proud to announce that we dedicated our annual year book to Barbara Bush.This dedication was largely applauded. As of March 2019, our club has 87 members supporting 55 students. This past fiscal year (2018-2019), our club awarded eight $1,000 scholarships to outstanding students from our area. In addition, we will be supporting 10 student organizations, selected by our membership, with a $100 donation to each organization. Each semester, we support our members’ students by assembling Goody Bags, providing tutorial “Study Bucks” (up to $100 in vouchers for tutorials), and mailing $5 gift cards to support our students during Finals Week. We assemble the Goody Bags (consisting of school supplies and treats) during our November/March meetings. Our members deliver the Goody Bags to their students, while our club mails the gift cards directly to the students. Our club will also be ordering Ring Crest for those Aggies graduating in 2019.

Over the summer, the Board planned the calendar year and continued to host our membership kick-off meeting, “Aggie Moms 101”. We also presented potential members with a “Howdy packet” explaining the benefits and privileges of being a club member. We were encouraged by the high turnout of our first membership meeting in August, the “Aggie Moms 101” program targeted for new members to learn about the Aggie Traditions and the benefits of being part of our club. During the year, we also host a membership meeting each month (August-November and January-April). Our program officers provide a meal, time of fellowship, and program of interest to our members. We have set up a new gmail account; Whoop2021@gmail, to use email to communicate with our members concerning upcoming events and meetings. This year our club hosted a fundraiser in the fall,on October 13, 2018, we invited all Aggies and community members to join us at our Tailgate Fundraiser. We enjoyed a buffet of amazing tailgate food, games, and a chance to win some of the many prizes that were graciously donated to our event. This event was introduced to encourage more interaction between Aggies of all ages, and we plan to continue this or something similar each fall. The tailgate party total net profit was $5389.65. The event was a huge success made possible by our wonderful members and their families. Our second fundraiser for the year took place on January 11,2019 when we hosted the Texas A&M Singing Cadets at Southland Baptist Church. This was a great opportunity to share music and fellowship with residents of San Angelo and the surrounding communities. We were thrilled with the turnout and had a net profit of $1287.25. Traditionally our club hosts the Singing Cadets once every two years.

The San Angelo A&M Mothers’ Club Scholarship Luncheon has been an annual tradition for the past eleven years. Although we did not host the luncheon this year, due to the Singing Cadets,we are making plans to include this fundraiser in our spring calendar of events for next year.


We are currently making preparations for our 2019-2020 year.

We will hold our Officer Installation program on April 25, 2019, where we will install our new officers for the 2019 – 2020 year. We desire to continue to provide our membership with the “Spirit of Aggieland” right here in San Angelo along with fun and fellowship as we help them support their students at Texas.

SAN ANTONIO San Antonio Aggie Moms' club had a total of 238 paid members this year. The SA club publishes a yearly directory the electronic copy is included in membership and hard copies are available for $5. The Memberships begin at $25 for a Ring of Honor Mom (ROH Mom of a Graduate from College Station or Galveston campus), the regular memberships (Moms of current students) begin at $50, and we have higher level memberships which include a tax deductible monetary donation.

We have a "Howdy Social" in July where we invite the new incoming or transfer students to attend with their parents. The "Howdy Social" at Aggie Park is complete with Aggie Yell leaders (Yell Practice), an Ice Cream social, many of the student organizations to give information to the new Aggies, and Scholarship drawings and door prize drawings from our club as well as the San Antonio Prospective Student Center. We also make a Football poster which funds this event and provides additional funds to begin our year.

Our monthly meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month during the school year August to May (except January) at Aggie Park beginning at 6:30 PM. Meetings include dinner, speaker or activity, boutique, and Aggie Mom comaradrie. Our tables are decorated and some labeled for Corps Parents, ROH Moms, Former Presidents, and Speakers. We include Dads if they want to join us for some meetings that may interest them. We give out $250 monthly scholarships at our meetings by drawing name of current students and go through the University Financial Aid office to distribute properly to students account.

This year some of our most memorable meeting programs included a visit by Dr. Musoma, from the business school, Frank Cox III '65 who wrote "I Bleed Maroon", Food Pantry where we donated almost 1000 pounds of food, and a fun gift swap during our December meeting.

Twice a year (Fall and Spring) the SA club provides Free Goody bags (items donated by businesses and parents) to approximately 250 of our Aggies from San Antonio, Bexar County area that attend College Station and Galveston campuses. The Board meets monthly usually the 3rd Tuesday of each month to organize and plan our upcoming meeting and events. The board consists of Officers and key committees.

We also are working on funding our 14th Endowed Opportunity Award Scholarshop Honoring 300 years (TriCentennial) of San Antonio and through our fundraising efforts will be able to complete that this year. Our clubs Fundraising efforts include the Football Poster which we give out at Howdy Social, and many other Aggie events, a full scale Gala in March which includes:dinner, casino, Aggie Wranglers, Yell Leaders, Live and Silent Auction, Boutique throughout the year including at Family Weekend, Raffle at Family Weekend, and our Membership drive which we include the donation levels.


Our Club has a Corps Parent Social and a support group throughout the year. The SA Club also has the privilege of providing the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band desserts after they perform at our yearly "Battle of Flowers" Parade. The A&M club feeds them lunch.

The SA club enjoys the Aggie Moms' Camp and had a good showing this year, as well as attending the Federation meetings to stay informed and to trade info with other clubs.

Our club also has the unique opportunity to participate and collaborate in many of the San Antonio A&M Club, Aggie Women's Club, and Young Aggie Club events at Aggie Park and build a better support system for our club including: Aggie Market Days, Coaches Night, Monday Lunch with Speaker,Family BBQ, Christmas Party ;Feed the Band, and Muster.

At year end our club will donate back to any organizations that helped us during the year or requested assistance for their causes usually approximately $2000.00 in addition to the scholarship we are funding.

SANDSTORM The Sandstorm Aggie Mom's Club in Odessa, TX meets on the first Monday of each month from September through May; however, we meet on the last Monday in August instead of Labor Day. We meet to provide support for each other and our students since A&M is a long way from West Texas. We try to find the families of incoming future Aggies to help prepare them for their new journey. We are a small club but we enjoy the fellowship and sending our Aggies goodies boxes and cards of encouragement during their semester finals.

We began our year in August with 17 members and 1 Adopt-A-Mom from Pennsylvania. Her son is in the same field of study as one of our Aggies, and there aren't any Aggie Mom clubs in her area so she was excited to join us. By the end of the year we also had an Aggie Granny join as an associate member to our club. As a new, incoming President and the mom of a first generation Aggie, I had a lot to learn. I began with collecting photos of all of our Aggies and put them on a giant poster board; we proudly display this board at each of our meetings. We had one meeting where we painted Christmas ornaments. It was so well-received that next year they want to do at least two more painting activities. We also had a family dinner in January where spouses and Aggies attended.

Twice a year we send out goodie boxes to our students at Halloween and Valentine's Day. This year our Aggies' younger siblings here in Odessa helped get the boxes ready to mail out for delivery. We also send out cards of encouragement before their semester finals. This year we mailed birthday cards and holiday cards as well. For the seniors that have just graduated, we give a $50 cash gift as a token from our club of their accomplishment.

Our annual fundraiser in February was very successful. We raffled a Jimbo signed football, a luxury spa gift basket, and a pair of Kendra Scott earrings. This allowed us to send out 14 donations to campus organizations as well as The Big Event and the Mothers' Club Library Endowment.

In March, we had three Aggie moms that were able to attend the district meeting in Lubbock. We learned some valuable information from these other district moms and have already implemented some of their ideas into our future club activities. We also made a club t-shirt and wore them to the district meeting.


In May we started the process of finding our future Aggies and presented them with stadium cups that said "Future Aggie" and "Class of 2023" on them. These cups were filled with candies, a lanyard, an A&M pencil and an invitation to the Howdy Party. At the Howdy party, we met the incoming Aggies and their families and passed out awards to our Aggie Moms, including recognizing our two new Ring of Honor moms. We had over 60 people attend the event.

SHELBY COUNTY Shelby County Aggie Moms had 21 members during the 2018-19 year. Our club gave out scholarships totaling $19,500. We also donated $100 to the CARPOOL organization and $100 to The Big Event at Texas A&M. Moms purchased gift cards for students, and we sent them with encouraging notes to all our Aggies during the Spring semester. Moms also bought lots of goodies and treats, and we made goodie bags for our Aggies that were delivered during the Fall semester. Our Aggie fundraiser was a raffle which was held on October 6, 2018. We had a very busy, but successful, year!

SOUTHWEST DALLAS COUNTY This year we had 29 members representing 29 current students. We started our year by welcoming new Aggie Moms to our group. We played games to get to know each other and going through some Aggie traditions.

In October we continued getting to know each other and prepared Halloween goodie bags for our Aggies. We also did a Mary Kay fundraiser.

In November we had a Pampered Chef fundraiser and played games about Thanksgiving.

In December we had a Christmas ornament exchange and started making plans for our Boutique fundraiser.

In January we had a family meeting and had dinner with our Aggies and the rest of our families. In February we had our regular meeting and another Mary Kay fundraiser.

In March we started working on crafts that we would sell at Boutique.

In April we finished many of the crafts for Boutique.

In May we had our Spring Family Dinner with our Aggies that were home for summer and our families. We invited our scholarship winners to be recognized and presented our graduates with a small gift. This year we were able to present 7 scholarships to returning students and two smaller book scholarships to graduating high school seniors.

STEPHENVILLE Members: 20 Donations: Fish Camp $100.00 & Delta One $100.00 Schlorship: Book schlorship


Fundraiser: Pampered Chef party Special events: Painting with a twist with all current and past aggie moms Tailgate party at a November Football game Howdy party for new students was done in July of 2018

TRI COUNTY The Tri-County A&M Mother's Club consisted of 102 members from Colorado, Lee and Fayette Counties in 2018-2019. We met the third Monday of each month at the Methodist Church in La Grange enjoying a meal together, guest speakers, and door prizes.

In May of 2019 we awarded twenty-two scholarships in the amount of $500 each.

Donations were made to Fish Camp and Transfer Camp as well as to the Methodist Church in La Grange. We had two fundraisers this year. Our drive-thru dinner took place in October and we had a raffle in April. The proceeds of these two events determined the number of scholarships we were able to award in May.

Special events through out the year brought tons of fun. Our year was kicked off at the Howdy Party in August. We held an Aggie Moms tailgate in November on game day in College Station with great food and fellowship. A holiday party was celebrated in December with a fun ornament exchange. In March we had a social in my home to get together and visit about our awesome Aggies and just life in general. We wrapped up the year in May with our Aggie Banquet awarding our scholarships to students and Ring Crests to the Class of 2019 graduates. Whoop!

We had several memorable programs through out the year. At our September meeting, Peter Scott, Student Veteran and Construction Science graduate, spoke to our group. In October, Alyssa Michalke- Fightin' Texas Aggie 2015-16 Corps Commander spoke to us about her experience as the first female corps commander as well as being a member of the women's Aggie basketball team her 5th year at A&M. In January, we had the honor and priviledge of hearing Mr. Dave South speak about his journey to becoming the voice of the Aggies. At our February meeting we heard from Joe Weber, former Vice President of Student Affairs at Texas A&M. He is currently serving as our Fayette County Judge. In April, we heard from a group with TAMU Study Abroad. To round out our year, we heard from Alexandra Gonzales Rainey with the Association of Former Students at the May Banquet. Each program was enlightening and enjoyed by all!

TYLER The 2018-2019 Tyler Aggie Mothers' Club had 84 active members, 4 associate members, 2 adopted moms, 5 Ring of Honor Members, 2 Lifetime members and 1 Honorary member.

We will be awarding 37 $500.00 scholarships to deserving Tyler/Smith County Aggies. We also voted to donate $50.00 to Aggie Wranglers, Traditions Council, Car Pool, Transfer Camp and $100 to Aggie Recovery Community.


We held our Howdy party in July with a Mexican theme with food from San Remo Mexican Restaurant (Aggie owned!) Our guest speaker was Rebecca Josephy'15 from the Association of Former Students. We had 110 attendees and a great start to our year!

The first fundraiser of the year set a record for our club! Butter Braid sales topped $8500.00 Co-chairs Paula Kimmey and Christie Nelson did an amazing job!

Our programs this year featured Traditions Council, Joseph Johnson from The Gardens and Dr. Angie Stooksberry Rogers'84,DVM, who spoke about the Aggie Recovery Community.

For the very first time, Tyler Aggie Moms and Smith County A&M Club entered a float in the Tyler Christmas Parade sponsored by Tyler Rotary Club. It was so much fun and we got a lot of Gig'ems from the crowds as we rolled by blasting the Aggie War Hymn!

Our Christmas Party was held at El Charro on the Ridge.The Christmas Raffle had a wonderful quilt made by our own Patricia Cussen, Life Member, and a Jane Metz silver bracelet and we raised a total of 550.00!

In January, Former Tyler President, Norma Lawson, lost her battle with cancer, but won the victory and is sitting at Jesus' feet. Her last wish was to have friends and family donate to Tyler Aggie Moms' scholarships in lieu of flowers. To date that effort has raised $2135.00. The Executive Board voted to designate all 2019-2020 scholarship recipients as "Norma Lawson Scholars"

Tyler Aggie Moms celebrated their 70th Anniversary on February 16, 2019. We had the Aggie Wranglers perform and former Yell Leader, Col .John (Dukie) Childs '53, led us in some yells and the singing of the War Hymn. There was live music from the band, Six Miles from Mixon and BBQ from Rudy's. We had a successful evening with our Scholarship Silent and Live Auctions along with a Bonfire Wine Pull. We raised over $12,000 for scholarships! Federation President, Peggy Nolan sent a Proclamation honoring our 70 year history as a Texas A&M University Mothers' Club.

In March we held our first Big Event at the East Texas Food Bank and partnered with Kohls Department store who had 5 employees sign up to work with us. They gave us a $500.00 donation which will fund another scholarship!

Family Weekend, April 12-13, 2019 saw our first BTHO Quilt raffle sale. We were excited to make $1,221.00 and thought the number 12 was good bull! We will have to begin a new tradition!

Tyler Aggie Moms had a wonderful year and we look forward to a great 2019-2020 under President Renee Wright ’92.

TYLER COUNTY We are a small club of 11 members representing Tyler County. We strive to award a $500 scholarship to each graduating senior from our county who has been accepted to TAMU and who has fulfilled the scholarship application requirements. Last year we awarded 3 scholarships to our graduating seniors. During this year we have held 4 fundraisers in order to reach our goal of $500 per applicant. The fundraisers include: annual Tyler County Aggie Mom Pecan Sale in the fall, Woodville ISD concession stand work at athletic events, and a profit share night at Whataburger.


VICTORIA COUNTY Our year began in July 2019 with our annual Howdy! gathering of new and current students and their families.

Eleven scholarships were awarded for Fall 2018.

September began our usual Butter Braid fundraiser and is always a good money maker for us.

Two scholarships were awarded in Spring 2019.

Our spring fundraiser was a gun raffle and was extremely successful.

WALKER COUNTY Memebership: The Walker County Aggie Moms’ Club had 35 members this year. Of this number, we are pleased that 4 of these moms were new members.

Programs & Events: We began our year with our traditional Howdy Party in September to greet our new moms and welcome back our returning ones.

This year we were able to have a member offer to host football tailgate gatherings at her family tailgate spot. Several members took advantage of this opportunity and joined in the fun. Over the course of the season, approximately 240 current Aggies were treated to home cooked meals.

As the fall progressed, we had our regularly scheduled monthly meetings, Christmas party/ornament exchange, and we gathered at the local salon for a relaxing day of pampering.

Finals Bags Delivery both in the fall and spring

Scholarships Given: 2/$1000.00

Donations: $500.00/Aggie Fish Club, B-Company, Fish Camp, Terry Foundation, AMU Honor Guard, Aggie Sister for Christ, 12th Can, COALS Ambassadors, CARPOOL, Career Closet

Fundraising: Boutique

WEST BELL COUNTY The West Bell County Texas A&M University Mothers’ Club is all about supporting our Aggie students in College Station and Galveston as well as the family they have left behind at home. A lot of mothers did not attend A&M, so this is a great way to learn the strong traditions and be aware of the activities and organizations that make Texas A&M special. We also encourage our local Aggies by mailing them a card on their birthday.

During our monthly meetings, mothers mingle, socialize and share tips on helping our students. Our Mom Mentor Moment included topics such as available tutoring options, Career Center resources, and how students can make the most of summers.


Being a smaller club of 24 members, we are better able to get to know one another and our Aggies. We dedicated one meeting to each class, beginning with the Class of ’19. Each mother brings photos and shares a little about her student (major studying, stories of student life, and TAMU student organization involvement and achievements). By the second semester, mothers of the Class of ’22 had plenty of successes to share too!

Our fundraisers, including our membership dues and our Fall and Spring BTHO Finals Goody Bags, helped us support six recognized campus student organizations in which our specific students are involved. This fall we supported Texas Runners Against Cancer, Institute of Food Technology Student Association of Texas A&M, and Habitat For Humanity. For the spring semester, A Batt, TAMU African Student Organization, and the Handball Club received donations.

Not to miss out on the camaraderie of Big Event, we are hosted our own service project with a non-perishable food drive for the 12th Can Food Pantry. Over 100 items were delivered to campus on April 29th.

Does any mother need another excuse to visit their Aggie? We invited all moms to join us to deliver goody bags on campus and have lunch together in College Station. It is even better if our Aggies can join us!

WICHITA COUNTY AREA Our club had 41 members this year.

We held two dining out fundraisers and received $175.00 from Jason's Deli and $200.00 from Texas Road House.

We raffled two gift card bundles and a quilt made by one of our members, Terri Coleman and raised $2437.00 through pre-sales and at Boutique.

We awarded two scholarships in the fall for $600.00 and eight scholarships in the spring for $3,100.00

Fall scholarships were awarded when it was discovered that funds had not been dispersed in the Spring of 2018.

We met on the second Tuesday of the month to discuss Fundraising, Finals bags and network about our Aggies.

We prepared Finals bags both semesters and donated five bags a semester to Aggies who were from Gold Star families or Veterans.

WISE COUNTY AGGIE MOMS We held 2 fundraisers and 1 raffle this year. Our 2 fundraisers consisted of selling homemade cinnamon rolls in November and April. The total raised was $2,880. Our gun raffle raised $751.

Scholarships were given to 13 students in the amount of $3,631.


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Federation of Texas A&M University Mothers Clubs 2018-2019 ... · presented information about sending your Aggie to TAMU: dorm life, what to pack, Fish Camp, Financial Aid, medical