Busy Month Ahead!

Summer activity is right around the corner! Now that schools are out and summer is only days away, we can look forward to our Alumni activities beginning this weekend.

New Chapter Year!

Thanks for making our 2010 Crawfish Boil the most successful in our chapter's history! To our many loyal sponsors who contributed greatly, we can't thank you enough! To those who purchased individual as well as group tickets, bid on the silent and live auction items, joined or renewed your membership, purchased Texas Tiger Tees or volunteered your time to help make the festivities even smoother, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Spring Activities

Less than 6 weeks to geaux! With daylight savings time looming next weekend, it's apparent that our LSU Crawfish Boil is right around the corner. You can order tables of 6 or 8, individual servings for crawfish, jambalaya or for the first time, a combination of servings of crawfish and jambalaya. In addition, you can become a member or renew for 2010-2011. Take advantage of the discount for 2 on crawfish boil tickets by becoming a member of our Dallas Chapter. 20 new members have joined since the first of the year. If you haven't joined us or renewed, now is the time. (Click on the Crawfish Boil icon for the order form).

31st Annual Crawfish Boil - April 17, 2010

Hey, gang. What time is it? It's time for the biggest gathering of LSU alumni and fans - our 31st Annual LSU Crawfish Boil at Double D Ranch in Mesquite. Last year's transition to Double D allowed us to expand to the largest number of participants in our Dallas Chapter's history - over 800! This year promises to be not only bigger, but better! We've added more crawfish and beer lines to make lines shorter and faster. We'll have great items again for this year's Silent Auction - and autographed Paul Maineiri Championship Baseball, an autographed Les Miles football, and even a Russell Shepard game day helmet! You don't want to miss it!

You'll notice on our website that we have created an easy ordering system that allows you to purchase your tables of either 6 or 8, inside or out - you choose which section you want to be in! You can also contact us for volunteering your time for the event as well as donating auction items. To purchase or renew your membership, you will need to fill out the application online as normal.

SCHOLARSHIPS
If you recall in the last update we announced our goal of raising $20,000 for LSUAA Scholarships and this is our largest fundraiser of the year. Proceeds from the silent auction, profits from the crawfish boil and 80% of membership dues collected all go toward that goal. Each month we'll post an amount that your membership dues have contributed and to date this year, we have contributed $650 from dues alone. This will be added to the $10,140 that we have invested in our 4th Top 100 Scholarship at the LSU Alumni Association.

MEMBERSHIPS
Check out our website, make your selection early, renew your membership or if brand new, complete your membership application. We have 12 new members this year alone and welcome former members as well. Your cooperation in helping to make our chapter larger and more active is what is achieving our reputation as the fastest growing chapter outside the state of Louisiana and we appreciate your support.

SPONSORSHIPS
New things are on the way. Granada Theater, our newest sponsor, has regular acts appearing in Dallas which you can view by clicking on their icon on our website. When ordering tickets online, use the promo code "NOSRVCFEE" or present your LSU Alumni membership card at the box office (another example of your membership value).

Our numbers have grown so that we're adding a 3rd watch party location with the addition of Press Box Grill at the corner of Elm & Ervay. Watch for an announcement of our first party with them this spring and welcome them to our growing family.

Thanks for making our chapter more diversified and helping us to achieve our goal of making LSU affordable for as many out of state students as we can. Get your crawfish boil orders in for early and choice selections. And while you're at it, click the donate button on our crawfish page to make a donation to the chapter!

Geaux Tigers! Cya on the 17th of April!

Membership Update - 2/1/2010

20K in 2010! At our first monthly Board meeting this year, our Board announced the creation of our goal for 2010. You'll read more of it later.

Just this past week, the annual State of the Union address was given. In keeping with transparency policies, we strive to inform you of what has taken place in the past 12 months. George Washington's original State of the Union address lasted 5 minutes. The last one given took over 70 minutes to complete. I'll try to mimic the former and not the latter in our synopsis of growth.