Texas 500 Club

From the President

Greetings to you all. As most of you know we have moved our annual meeting to April 28, 2006 at 1:30 P.M.  This will surely give all of you that are not early risers a break.  I hope that as many of you as possible can attend.   We need to hear from you.  Your Texas 500 Club has offered you, as a member, such things as this newsletter and the mail-o-graphic tournament.  Do you want the newsletter?   Does it give you the information you want?  Do you read it?  This year we only had 30 entries in the mail-o-graphic tournament.  Was it because you didn’t know about it or are you not interested??  These are just some of the things we need feed back on.  This is your club and we are here to serve you. 

Many changes are taking place in our sport.  We can either sit back and let it come or be a part of starting a new era.  I, personally, want to participate it what is to come.

My first year in office as your president has been a challenge to say the least.  I want you to know that I consider it an honor and privilege to serve this membership.

We hope to see you in April.

Ellen M. White

President

Texas 500 Club Secretary Desk

We are having our Annual meeting this year on Friday, April 28, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. If you are a delegate to the Annual TWBA meeting, please try to attend and bring members of Texas 500 Club to this meeting from your area.   We will have election of Board members and a few changes to be made in 2006-2007.   

I would like to remind you that dues are $5.00.   You will be able to renew at the Double and Singles event during State Tournament or mail your fee to our office.

Thanks to all of you for your support of our Club.

Texas 500 Club

Carol Gomillion, Secretary/Treasurer

P.O. Box 1334, Edinburg, Texas 78540

“YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS”

TEXAS 500 CLUB TOURNAMENT

My how time flies when you’re having fun!!  That’s right, tournament time again!  San Antonio will be the hot spot this year for us to gather.  We all look forward to fun, bowling, traveling, and most of all – spending time with friends!  Some of us look forward to seeing our bowling family more than the act of bowling each year!  We go to have a good time – and if we bowl well – that’s a plus!

We are looking forward to seeing you at the 500 Club Tournament table!  We would like to ask for your help!  When you sign up for our tournament – BRING A FRIEND!  We have set a goal to make 2006 a record participation year.  HELP US!!!

If you would like to help work our sign up table on site, we would like to hear from you.  This is an opportunity for you to help out your club!  Contact the Tournament Manager for scheduling.

May sure you check out our elegant “Yellow Rose of Texas” nightshirts!!  These make excellent gifts!!  This is our annual Ways & Means project for your club.  CHECK IT OUT!!!

We are looking forward to seeing lots of familiar faces and lots of new faces!  Look for our 500 Club sign up table at the D/S house (AMF Country Lanes).  See ya’ sometime between April 1 and June 25 in San Antonio!

Carol Gomillion/Tourn. Dir. – cgomill@earthlink.net

Collen Gore/Tourn. Mgr. – cgore1297@sbcglobal.net

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

TO TEXAS 500 CLUB BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Please be advised that the following positions are up for election this year.

PRESIDENT     

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS  

DIRECTOR #4

DIRECTOR #8

DIRECTOR #9

The incumbents for these positions are:

Ellen White, Denton        President

Collen Gore, Fort Worth Sergeant-At-Arms

Jeanette Bradfield, San Antonio     Director

Betty Williams, Austin    Director

Veta Bruce, Dallas           Director

Eligibility and Qualifications

• A candidate to be eligible for nomination as an Officer or Director shall be a bowling member of a USBC certified league during the current season and a member of the 500 Club.
• A candidate to be eligible for nomination as an Officer must have served as a member of the Board of Directors for a minimum of two (2) years or more.
• A candidate, to be eligible for nomination as a Director must have attended two (2) of the last four (4) annual meetings or have served on Texas 500 Club committees two (2) out of the last four (4) years.
• Nominations may be made from the floor, but written qualifications shall be given to the Chairperson of the Nominating committee before the annual meeting is called to order.
• No more than two (2) members of the same local bowling association shall serve on the Board of Directors at the same time.

Current make up of the board is 2-Denton, 2- Fort Worth, 1 Dallas, 1 Austin, 1 Lubbock, 2 Pasadena, 2 Hidalgo, 1 Temple, 2 San Antonio.

Nomination letters and credentials may be mailed and must be postmarked no later than February 28, 2006 to:

Melissa Pingry, Chairperson

Texas 500 Nominating Committee

4201 Fairmont Pkwy #2009

Pasadena, TX. 77504

HOW GREAT IS OUR SPORT!!!!

Katrina had come and gone leaving behind great paths of destruction and affecting our nation.  Rita followed this.  In September our Youth and the management of Holiday Lanes, Denton TX got together and raised/donated $525.00 for the Texas Baptist Men, an organization of volunteers that go and assist those in need at a time of disaster.

Now along comes Wilma with her 172 mile an hour winds heading for Florida.

We had a parent meeting of the Youth League and decided to have benefit fundraiser.  We agreed on Youth/Adult tournament with all proceeds again going to the Texas Baptist Men.  What a time we had. We even had a lane with Bumpers for the children that wanted to bowl but were too small to hold the ball. There were two squads, a total of 72 participants.  Two centers in Denton County allowed us to advertise the tournament.  We had donations for raffles which included a bowling bag, center piece arrangements, homemade blankets, Pampered Chef items, a basket of Mary Kay and a cruise to the Bahamas donated by Linda Ogden, an independent associate of Cash N Card Worldwide.  The SHW Group donated the back end of a pick-up filled with food and diapers.

The winners of the three divisions were given new bowling pins signed by Lynda Barnes, Chris Barnes and Del Ballard.  Working together we raised another $715.00 for the Texas Baptist Men. We could not have done it without the help from Holiday Lanes, owned by Ted Johnson and managed by Larry Lehrman.  Our lineage for three games was a total of $7.00 for the Youth/Adult team.  This enabled many to participate in both squads.

I strongly urge each of you that work with the youth to get them involved in some sort of community service.  What a great opportunity we have to not only teach them the “sport” of bowling, good sportsmanship and the fun of competition but also help them become a better adult by helping others.

When we say that bowlers are a “family” it means from the smallest/youngest to the oldest.  Our sport is one anyone can compete in regardless of size, gender, age or abilities.  This is the reason for my continued passion and support for this sport.  I hope this will inspire you to do and feel the same.

Ellen M. White

Power

There is something attractive about power to some people. They steadily and sometimes stealthily seek it to get their own way, to get whatever is wanted, whenever it is wanted.

Power without nobility of thinking, calm reasoning and genuine humility flounders in arrogance.  When arrogance defies questioning, beclouds goals, and limits freedom of choice, power is corrupted.

George Bernard Shaw was right when he said

“Power does not corrupt men; fools however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

Domination has always been a problem among humans.  It probably always will be. Since domination indicates power, power must be incessantly watched.  When a lust for power is seen or sensed, caution is necessary.  Common sense tells us it is a matter of self-preservation, for unchecked power has all too often resulted in misused power.

A quote from Socrates seems fitting these days:

“The only people who deserve to be given power are those who do not want it.”

       Author Unknown

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together the club won’t be worth a dime.”

Babe Ruth

“Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future!”

John F. Kennedy