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Howdy everyone! I
hope your summer is going well. This is the first week of summer
classes here in Aggieland and for those of you here enjoying the
warm months in College Station, we hope we can see you at some of
our activities.
THIS SUMMER
We would like to do some outreach this summer and each of you can
be of great help. First, one area we would like to address is
contacting the hometown Aggie Clubs to inform them about our
mission and objectives. Those of you who are not in College
Station this summer could help us out by contacting your area's
club to let them know about the Coalition and our objectives and
goals--we want to contact clubs both in state and out of state. We
will help you by providing the information you'll need. If you'd
be interested in helping out with this effort, please send an
email to chair@bonfirecoalition.org with your name, email address,
summer phone number and which area clubs you could help us
contact.
Second, if you are here in College Station this summer, we would
also like to help spread the word around here to students, the
local community and local business. Also, on Saturday, June 29, we
will be holding another car wash to help raise funds for the
Coalition's efforts. The first car wash was a complete success.
Everyone had a great time and I'd like to again thank everyone who
helped out. If you can help us out with our next car wash on the
29th, we'd love to have you. If you are going to be around
College Station this summer and would like to help us out locally,
please email me at chair@bonfirecoalition.org with your summer
contact information as well.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
On Saturday, May 25, the Coalition's board spent the day with
Frank Cox '65. Mr. Cox owns and operates Hearts Way, a
professional leadership training company, and has traveled the
state and country helping to develop better leadership skills for
people and he did a great job with us. We had a lot of fun and
learned some new skills that will not only benefit us in this
movement, but throughout life. We will have some pictures posted
on our Website (www.bonfirecoalition.org) soon of some of our
training sessions.
NEW BOARD MEMBERS
I would like to tell you all that we have three highly energetic
new board members--Austin Bonds '05, Charles Teel '04 and Joey
Dobbs '02. All three of these members offer great talents to the
board. I would like to thank everyone who applied this time
around. Everyone was highly qualified and it was a very difficult
decision. Also, I would like to announce a new Co-Chair and a new
Vice-Chair for the Coalition. Kristin West, who has served
wonderfully as our Vice-Chair since the inception of the Coalition
has accepted the position of Co-Chair to replace David Rushing,
who is leaving us for law school. Brad Shipman, who co-chaired the
Campus Outreach Committee has taken over as our Vice-Chair.
Again, I hope your summer is going
well and please contact us if you can help us spread the message
this summer or help us at our fundraiser. The board will be hard
at work developing strategies for the fall semester in working
with the new administration to bring a safe Bonfire back to Texas
A&M. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or
comments.
I hope you all have a great summer
and we look forward to hearing from you.
Gig 'em
Marc Barringer '92
Bonfire Coalition Co-Chair
http://www.bonfirecoalition.org
It's an honor to be an Aggie
AIM ID LSullyR 92, Yahoo LSullyR
www.geocities.com/lsullyr
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June
6, 2002 Newsletter 
