Greetings, Lyceum Directors, Alumni and Advisors!
As The Texas Lyceum begins its 28th year of leadership, we want
to welcome and encourage you to be involved. The Lyceum offers many
opportunities for you to learn from others, connect with your fellow
Directors and make a difference for our communities. The best way
to do this is to attend our four quarterly meetings this year!
- In January, we will convene in Tyler to welcome the new Director Class of 2008
and explore Local Control: Fact or Fiction?
- In March, we will travel to Brenham for an optional meeting in honor of Texas’
Independence Day. This celebration will be family-friendly so we hope to see
your significant others and all those junior Lyceumites.
- In April, we’ll Go West to explore The Future of Warfare and National Security in El Paso.
- In August, we will visit McAllen for a deep dive into "The US Immigration Crisis"
and a better understanding of fellow Directors’ immigration history.
- Our fourth and final meeting of the year will be our 23rd Public Conference.
Transportation Infrastructure: How Much do We Need and How do We Pay for It? will help us frame and answer several key questions challenging our public infrastructure.
How will you participate this year?
- By recruiting a potential new Director to the organization?
- Striving for perfect attendance at the meetings?
- Helping our development team with fundraising?
- Hosting periodic local gatherings to create more networking opportunities for your local Directors?
- Attending and supporting the Stewardship of Texas Values Award dinner?
- Launching a new Lyceum initiative?
The Texas Lyceum inspires us to make good friends, work harder, be more thoughtful,
and appreciate the great diversity of our state. We hope you will have an eye-opening
and fun year in 2008 as a Director of The Texas Lyceum.
Finally, we would like to leave you with the following message: What distinguishes the
Lyceum from other organizations is in part what we do and how we do it. But, the more
important distinction lies in the following question “Why do we do it? The answer is
simple, we believe in a set of shared Texas Values and in service to our community.
This is the core of our existence and why our years in the Lyceum are so dear to us.
God Bless Texas,
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Maggie
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John
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Maggie Radford
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John Boettiger
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Chairman
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President
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A few inspirational thoughts for this coming year:
"What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise."
– Barbara Jordan
"Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom exists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
– Pope John Paul II
"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."
– John W. Gardner