DC Aggies July Update

 

Happy Hour This Friday With Fellow Texans!

This Thursday, July 22, 7-10pm for Aggie Howdy Hour we're partnering with TCU, The University of Texas, SMU, and Texas Tech for a Texas Universities Young Professionals Alumni Mixer. It will be at George - in the courtyard, 3251 Prospect Street, NW, Washington DC. Over 60 Aggies have signed up!

 

New Aggie Shirts Arriving Soon!

This is an announcement for all current DC Aggie members that our new T-shirts are due to arrive shortly. Make sure to pick yours up at Aggie BBQ on August 1st. Go to the dcaggies.com website for more information on the BBQ, and look for another email in the next couple of weeks with detailed directions to Castle Park at Ft. Belvoir, this year's BBQ site.

 

Call for Stories

Do you know an Aggie serving in the military who is currently on deployment? The DC Aggies are seeking recommendations for brave Aggie guys and gals to feature on our website and spotlight in our upcoming newsletter. If you have a particular Aggie in mind, please email Kelli Usé at kellilynnuse@gmail.com and include the following information:

1. Full Name
2. Class Year
3. Hometown and Current Deployment Location (if unable to disclose please leave blank)
4. Short Bio

We are proud of our military and look forward to hearing from you!

Scholarship Endowment

Last year, the National Capital Texas A&M Club (NCTAMC) began the process of working towards an endowment. Texas A&M University Association of Former Students allows organizations who are recognized by the university to apply for an endowment. Having an endowment provides the organization with guaranteed funding every year. The NCTAMC must raise at least $25,000 dollars in order to officially obtain the endowment, which will return back 4% of the total endowment amount annually.

Every year, the NCTAMC awards a $1,000 scholarship to an outstanding student living in the DC metroplex area who has either just been accepted to Texas A&M or currently attending Texas A&M. It is common practice for us to raise the money every year for the scholarship, but this limits us in how many scholarships we could potentially award. Because we want to significantly help more students financially, it is a goal of the NCTAMC to raise the $25,000 as soon as possible. The endowment will ensure that at least one student will definitely receive some type of financial assistance that is significant in covering college expenses, and it will also provide us with an opportunity to increase the number of scholarship winners.

As your fellow Aggies, we ask that you please thoughtfully consider donating whatever you can to the endowment fund. Any dollar amount donated is a step closer to helping someone else indefinitely. Once the endowment is established, it becomes self-sufficient, always continuing to award scholarships to students even if the NCTAMC were to become non-existent.

You will be hearing more about the endowment throughout the course of the year, and you will also have many opportunities to donate to this great cause. If you would like to make a donation online, please visit the following web address: http://www.dcaggies.com/en/donations/add.asp. Be sure to also indicate in the “comments” section that you are donating to our endowment. For further questions, please contact Emmanual Guillory at eguillory@gmail.com.

Be an Aggie who makes a difference. DONATE TODAY!