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Membership Form for 2012 Click Here 05/11/12 North Texas Meeting CLICK HERE June 8th & 9th Skins and Fins South Shore Harbor Resort - League City, Texas CLICK HERE 22^nd Annual Charity Golf Classic at Trophy Club On September 26, 2011 the Texas Fire Sprinkler Contractors held its 22^nd Annual Charity Golf Classic at Trophy Club Country Club in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. This year’s beneficiary, for the seventh year, is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children located in Dallas, Texas. This year’s total funds raised for the benefit of TSCRH is $55,500.00. Chairpersons for this event were Kim Wisdom with Potter Roemer and Cindy Moroney with Northstar Fire Protection. Our Gold Sponsors were: Geo Systems USA, Lone Star Fire Protection, Inc., Metro Fire Protection, Inc., Murphy Technical, Northstar Fire Protection of Texas, Inc. and Urban Fire Protection. Underwriters were: 1^st Fire Protection Service, American Automatic Sprinkler, Brady Chapman & Holland Insurance, FPC Magazine, Firetrol Protection Systems, Greg & Rosemary Gordon, HG Fire Systems, Local Sprinkler Fitters Union 669, Metro Fire Protection, Southeast Fire Protection, Standard Automatic Fire Enterprises, Urban Fire Protection. Without these sponsors, the players, the hole sponsors and the everyone else who participates by buying raffle tickets and donating and buying auction items, our tournament would not be as successful as it has been over the past twenty-two years. Without YOU, we would not be able to help the children treated by TSRHC. A special thanks to Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. and Geo-Systems USA for participating in the tournament with three or more teams. After a deli lunch a total of 140 golfers enjoyed the day on two courses. In the early evening 175 participants enjoyed a buffet Mom’s Old Fashion dinner of Grilled Chicken and Chicken Fried Steak with all the fixings. Dinner was followed by a live auction, raffle and many door prizes. First place winners of this year’s tournament was the team of Firetrol Protection Systems, Inc., Second place winners: combined team of Ferguson Fire & Fabrication and Automatic Sprinkler of Texas, Third place winners was the team of Northstar Fire Protection of Texas. Next year’s tournament is scheduled for September 17, 2012 to be held at Trophy Club Country Club again with Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children as our beneficiary once again. Special thanks to everyone on the committee who sold hole sponsorships, got donations for the auction and encouraged people to play in the tournament and did whatever needed to be done. Great teamwork. Big pat on the back to Marty and Shorty Self for a setting a record selling raffle tickets and Yolanda Schwindeman for selling mulligans. See you all next year.
ABOUT US The TxFSCA is a non-profit trade association that was formed in 1983. The original purpose of the Association was to bring together Texas Fire Sprinkler Contractors to assure that a recently passed licensing law would be applied accurately and fairly and that the industry would speak with “One Voice.” Since those early days, the Texas Fire Sprinkler Contractors Association has evolved into much more than concern for a single cause. The “specific and primary purpose of TxFSCA is to advance the science of fire protection and fire prevention, to provide educational services to the fire sprinkler industry and general public in the areas of fire protection and fire prevention, and to promote and preserve ethical standards for fire sprinkler contractors.”.		TxFSCA CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC it is with great pleasure that we write to tell you that the 20^th Annual TxFSCA Charity Golf Classic Tournament held at Trophy Club Country Club, Trophy Club, Texas on September 21, 2009 raised $48,000.00 to benefit Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. One hundred forty-five golfers participated in this year’s event. The day started with registration and lunch and then eighteen holes of gold on two courses. Dinner began at 5:00 PM followed by a live auction and raffle. This year’s TxFSCA Charity Golf Classic brings the total funds donated to Dallas hospitals that treat and render needed services to children at no cost to a total of $771,500.00.
2011 TxFSCA / OSU Scholarship Recipient We are pleased to announce the winner of our Annual Texas Fire Sprinkler Contractors Association’s / Oklahoma State University Fire Protection Engineering Student Scholarship. Wesley Deen of Arlington, Texas is the 2011 recipient. Wesley Deen is this year’s winner of the annual $2,000.00 scholarship award. Please see the attached application letter and thank you note from Wesley. Wesley Deen Application Wesley Deen Appreciation Letter		2012 TxFSCA / OSU SCHOLARSHIP Scholarship applications are open to any Texas resident who has completed their sophomore year at OSU in Fire Protection and Safety Technology with at least a 3.0 grade point average. Applications are accepted every spring for the scholarship that is made in August of the same year. Funding for this project is provided from TxFSCA general funds. “Biking for Brains” was the founding endeavor to make members aware of the need for training new life into our industry. TEXAS CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION TxFSCA has joined eleven other trade associations to form the Texas Construction Association. Through our TCA affiliation, our members are provided the information they need to monitor legislative activity that directly affects our industry.
AFSA / NFSA In 1999 TxFSCA Members voted to become a State Affiliate of the American Fire Sprinkler Association. This affiliation has provided our current endeavors with additional funding and educational resources to pursue new projects to benefit our members, our industry and our communities. The AFSA affiliation open many opportunities for our membership to learn and grow.		THE HISTORY OF BIKING FOR BRAINS In 1997 a proposal was made by Art Hartman & Mike PeCoy to the membership of TxFSCA that we provide an annual $2,000.00 scholarship to a student at Oklahoma State University who is majoring in Fire Protection Engineering, is a native of Texas, and having a GPA of 3.0 or better. The proposal was approved. A year later, Art then brought to the members the need for funds to provide patients at Parkland Hospital a grant to attend Camp-I-Thonka-Chi which is dedicated to children who are burn victims and receiving treatment at the hospital. TxFSCA sends a minimum of six children to camp each year. In 2003 TxFSCA members approved a $600.00 scholarship for a student in financial need who is enrolled at the Dallas based Construction Education Foundation’s DFW Education Center in either the fire sprinkler fitter training or fire sprinkler design training programs. To bring attention to these grants and to create some publicity for TxFSCA and the industry Art Hartman proposed a thirty mile bike ride for at White Rock Lake. The participants have been a core of loyal peddlers through the years. TxFSCA is grateful to everyone who has participated in the bike ride and therefore kept the spirit of learning and giving alive. Especially to the man who has peddled his butt off for the team, Art Hartman.