The SPIRIT The voice of The Highland Lakes A&M Club/Foundation No. 73 - January 2011 The Highland Lakes A&M Club is chartered by the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M Happy New Year! The final event of 2010, our Highland Lakes A&M Club Christmas party, was lots of fun and a HUGE Success. Due to the generosity of many of our members, we were able to raise $2040 for the Highland Lakes A&M Foundation during the event. A special thanks goes out to one particular member who matched up to $1000 for any amount over the standard Spirit Sponsor donation of $100. Since this was such a huge success, that same member has offered to do it again this year! Our Foundation s main purpose is to establish and maintain scholarships for those local needy and worthy students (over $104,600 paid to date) and to maintain and encourage the fraternal spirit of friendliness and helpfulness that is traditional among A&M Former Students. We definitely have some great examples of that in our organization! As we ring in the new year, we have some new board members and a new President. Take a look at the bio s for each of them in this newsletter. They are very excited to be serving you and look forward to seeing all of you at our Aggie Functions! There is so much happening as we start this new year, we feel we look forward to making this one of the best years yet for our club! 2011 Highland Lakes A&M Club Golf Tournament Benefiting Highland Lakes A&M Foundation Saturday, March 26, 2011 Horseshoe Bay Resort - Apple Rock Golf Course Horseshoe Bay, Texas The Programs Committee would like to introduce the First Annual Highland Lakes A&M Club Golf Tournament in March! THEY NEED YOUR HELP! WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A SPONSOR OR JUST HELP MAKE THIS A HUGE SUCCESS! Contact Us - board@highlandlakesaggies.com This should be a great time to meet up with your fellow Aggies and their friends! Please sign-up now before we run out of space! Please see the insert for more details and a sign-up sheet.
President s Box Howdy Ags! 2011 is off to a very fast start and we are working hard to help make this year one of the best yet for our club. I am very excited and humbled to be taking on the roll as President of the Highland Lakes A&M Club this year. It is my goal, as well as the board s, to get as many of you participating in our club activities as possible. To that end, we have a group of active members who have more than shown me what it means to be an Aggie outside of College Station. A small group of members took it upon themselves to initiate and drive an idea that I presented at our Christmas party this year - The 1st Annual Highland Lakes A&M Golf Tournament. This small group was jump started this effort by securing a world class golf facility and also starting a sponsorship drive that should benefit our Foundation in a huge way. Their leadership and dedication is a prime example of the characteristics taught to all of us while we were students at A&M. I could think of no better way to start my term as President than to watch and learn as much as I can from these A&M Leaders! THANK YOU! Melanie Wilson 86 77 Dale Klingsporn 83 Page 2
SPIRIT SPONSORS 2011 Our current SPIRIT SPONSORS for 2011 are listed below. It s now time to make your contribution to this most important scholarship program. This program helps fund scholarships for local students to Texas A&M University at College Station. Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Please do help Spread the Spirit by sending your contribution of $100 (or more if you like) to the Highland Lakes A&M Foundation, P. O. Box 1244, Marble Falls, Texas 78654. Spirit Sponsors Ed 59 & Shirley Ayers Jerry 62 & Brenda Gray Sandy Jenkins Ross 48 & Alice Johnson Paul Motheral 52 Macyl Orman Charles 60 & Carolyn Thornton AGGIE CHALLENGE In support of our Scholarship Fund, one of our members has once again stepped-up and presented a challenge to other club members. For the year 2011, if you will send any amount above the $100 Spirit Sponsor fee, your donation will be matched! For instance, if you send in $150, the extra $50 will be matched. This can double our contributions, but only if you take the challenge! Please send your email information to membership@highlandlakesaggies.com We are requesting that every member take up this challenge by providing us with your current email address. This will allow us to send you up-to-date information on events. If you have any feedback on our Website, we would be very interested in hearing it! Please send us an email to membership@highlandlakesaggies.com. 220 South Pierce Burnet, Texas 78611 Office: 512-715-5235 Cell: 512-715-2911 SAVE THE DATE - Highland Lakes Aggie Muster! April 21st, 2011 - Burnet Community Center Our speaker this year is Joe Tortorice Jr. 70, founder of Jason s Deli. This should prove to be a great event and we look forward to seeing everyone there! Highland Lakes Veterinary Clinic, PLLC Donald A. Jung, D.V.M. 82, 86 Margaret K. Jung, D.V.M. 84, 86 Kris Kaspar, D.V.M. 02, 07 Jessica Stroble, D.V.M. 06, 1 0 email: commissionerpct4@burnetcountytexas.org Page 3
Highland Lakes A&M Club 2011 Officers PRESIDENT Keith Nesrsta, 96 Howdy Ags! My name is Keith Nesrsta, and I am proudly serving as your President. I was previously serving as your VP of Membership and am looking forward to what we as a club can do in 2011! As the son of a Navy Lieutenant, we spent much of my early childhood away from Texas but still called Texas home. Eventually we made it back to San Antonio where I finished high school. After high school, it was on to Texas A&M where I graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering. I now work for a San Jose, CA based semiconductor company, Xilinx Inc., as a Business Development Manager for North America. My wife, Angie 97, and I met at A&M, married a year after graduation and now have four wonderful little girls. We currently live in Horseshoe Bay and have been a part of the Highland Lakes A&M Club since we moved down from Dallas 5 years ago. It is my pleasure to serve and look forward to meeting with all our members. Gig em. Jo Zunker, 86 Vice President of Membership I moved to the Highland Lakes area in 2005 and the first thing I did was find this A&M club! I work in the construction industry and I am currently involved with new water treatment development along the Highland Lakes. I come from a family with 4 generations of Aggie s and my kids are Class of 2006 and Class of 2009. Kara Stewart, 98 Vice President of Programs Happy New Year Ags!!! Hope you are all ready to hit the ground running in 2011! I think I have had the privilege of getting to know most of you, but for those of you that I haven t had the opportunity to meet; my name is Kara Stewart-class of 98, and I will be serving as your Vice President of Programs this year. My husband Shane, class of 97, and I have called Marble Falls home for almost 10 years. Shane is a State Farm Agent in Marble Falls and we have two precious little girls-8 and 4 years old. I have been active in the Highland Lakes A&M Club for many years and am very excited to be serving again this year.we have lots of ideas and activities that we hope you will be a part of. The success of our organization depends upon your involvement and participation! If you have any ideas, suggestions, or comments about things our club could do this year, I welcome your input! We have three GREAT Ags that have already stepped up to the plate and organized a golf tournament for early Spring! Thanks guys, for making my job easyj I look forward to seeing each of you throughout the yearand please find us on the web for all the latest activities and upcoming events! I am looking forward to a fantastic year!!! Gig em!!! If you would like to donate an item for the Silent Auction at Muster, please contact the board using the email address below: board@highlandlakesaggies.com Or call Kara (830) 385-1636 I have enjoyed my role working on the scholarship program for the last few years, but I am very excited about the opportunity to work on Membership this year! I know that this club was founded with a very strong member base and I am honored to serve in a position where I can help this club continue its growth and prosperity for all future Aggies. Main...830-693-5577 Toll Free...888-530-0306 Page 4
Danny Miller, 91 Vice President of Scholarship Howdy! My wife Kim and I moved to the Spicewood area shortly before our daughter, Shelby, was born in July of 2002. We also have a son, Josh, that was born in October of 2005. They both are currently attending Spicewood Elementary, where Kim is President of the PTO. Every fall, we diligently work around soccer and other extracurricular activities, in order to make sure we attend football games at Kyle Field. I work in Austin for a local civil engineering firm, LJA Engineering, as a Senior Project Manager, am a first generation Aggie and was a proud member of Heaven s Eleven in the Corps of Cadets. This club has established itself as being an excellent example of generosity throughout the Highland Lakes area, as evidenced by the number of scholarships given out over the last several years. I myself am honored and very excited to be a part of that tradition, which is the most important role of our Aggie club. I expect this year we will have just as many, if not more, well qualified applicants as last year, and I look forward to being able to present a scholarship to those well deserving new Aggie fish. Vice President of Finance Garnette Klingsporn, 83 Howdy Ags! My name is Garnette Klingsporn, 83, and I will be serving as the club s VP Finance. It is so great getting to know all the new and old Aggies in the Highland Lakes Area. We are so lucky to be able to live and work in such a wonderful community. I grew up in Converse, Texas, but got to College Station and Texas A&M University as soon as I could. I graduated from Texas A&M with a BS in Finance. I am currently Senior Vice President Risk Management at American Bank of Texas, N.A. in Marble Falls. My husband, Dale is also the class of 83, received his BS in Building Construction. He works for Longhorn Granite in Marble Falls. We have lived in Marble Falls since 1998 and have 2 great kids. Walker (18) who I can proudly proclaim has been accepted as a member of the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2015. We look forward to experiencing Aggieland again, through our son s eyes. Walker plans on joining the Corps of Cadets. Emily (15), also plans on attending A&M as the class of 2018. I look forward to a great year with the club. Gig em. Kristi Goebel, 95 Vice President of Publicity/Secretary Howdy! My name is Kristi Goebel, and I am serving as your Vice President of Programs. I have been involved with Aggie Clubs in Lafayette, Houston, Austin and now in the Highland Lakes. I have lived in the area for 6 years and work as a Realtor with Horseshoe Bay Resort Realty. I am also involved with the Chamber of Commerce and the Uptown Marble Art Alliance. I have been involved with the local club for many years and am looking forward to working in this new roll. 830-693-2815 www.marblefalls.org Page 5
Highland Lakes A&M Club/Foundation Post Office Box 1244 Marble Falls, Texas 78654 Return Service Requested PRESORT STD. U.S. Postage Paid Marble Falls, TX 78654 PERMIT NO. 82 MEMBERSHIP DUES, SPIRIT SPONSOR [ ] Spirit Sponsor 2011 for $100 (or more) [ ] 2011 Annual Membership Dues - $15 per family Name(s) & Class Year(s) Mailing Address Email & Phone TOTAL ENCLOSED = $ MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: HIGHLAND LAKES A&M CLUB, PO BOX 1244, MARBLE FALLS, TX 78654