2011 USC tickets – auction begins

The Club has received an allocation of tickets to the 2011 USC game in South Bend on Saturday, Oct. 22. Please visit the 2011 Football Tix link, above, for information on how to bid for tickets to the game.

Welcome BBQ for our 2011 SSLP student: Sun. June 5

Please join us to welcome our Summer Student Learning Project Student (SSLP) to Austin at our welcome BBQ at The Salt Lick at 3pm on Sunday, June 5. We need to give the restaurant a firm number of attendees, so please RSVP to the Pingg invite only if you will definitely attend:

http://ndclubofaustin.pingg.com/2011WelcomeBBQ

We must limit the group to 40 people. We will meet in the courtyard of the Salt Lick beginning at 2:30pm for beer & soda before the meal. Cost will be $20/adult for the family-style meal at the Salt Lick ($7/child), but dues-paying adults will pay only $10. You can pay dues either online at the club’s website before the event or bring cash/check with you on Sunday.

For directions to the Salt Lick, please refer to the restaurant’s website at

http://www.saltlickbbq.com/locations_driftwood.html

The restaurant’s menu is available here:

http://www.saltlickbbq.com/menu.html

Hesburgh Month of Service Event: Sat. May 21

Volunteer Service Event Honoring Fr. Theodore Hesburgh
Saturday, May 21, 9:00am-12noon
(tour available the last 30 minutes of project)

What:   Volunteers will help paint hand railings and re-stripe the SafePlace parking lot
Where: SafePlace (1515A Grove Blvd, Austin, TX)
RSVP:   Nancy Carrales (512) 454-5046 or ncarrales@yahoo.com

Please RSVP by May 15th so Nancy can email you the volunteer release form and directions to the facility.

ABOUT SAFEPLACE

SafePlace exists to end sexual and domestic violence through safety, healing, prevention and social change.  The organization:

* Provides Safety for individuals and families affected by sexual and domestic violence.
* Helps victims in their Healing so they can move beyond being defined by the crimes committed against them, and become Survivors.
* Promotes safe and healthy relationships for the Prevention of sexual and domestic violence.
* Works with others to create Change in attitudes, behaviors and policies that perpetuate the acceptance of, and impact our understanding and responses to, sexual and domestic violence

DONATIONS
The Club will also collect donations of items for SafePlace, so please consider contributing  whether you will be able to volunteer on the 21st or not. (If you would like to donate, please contact Nancy and she can make arrangements to pick up your donation.)

Items: Canned food, Boxed meals, Meat (any kind), Bread, Cooking oil, Juice boxes, Produce, Dairy products, Eggs, Healthy food, Ethnic hair care products, Tampons & pads, Toilet paper, Household cleaning supplies, Laundry detergent, Plus-size clothing, Diapers, Baby wipes

Easter Egg Hunt & Mass: Sat., April 30

Blue & Gold Game – gamewatch on April 16

The Blue & Gold Game will be televised for the first time ever on Saturday, April 16, at 1pm.  We will host a gamewatch at B.D. Riley’s for the game.

If you plan to attend, please park in the Southwest Tower Parking Garage. Enter the garage on the south side of 7th street between Brazos & San Jacinto. Pay the attendant, bring your parking receipt to the bar, and you’ll receive a $6 credit for your bar tab.

ND Baseball team in San Antonio – March 15-20

The ND baseball team will play UTSA in San Antonio at Wolff Stadium (directions here) on Tuesday, March 15, 6pm. This game will be followed by the “Irish Classic” Series at Wolff Stadium where ND will play Iowa (Thurs. March 17 at 4pm and Friday, March 18 at 12noon) and Gonzaga (Sat., March 19 at 12noon and Sun., March 20 at 11am). You can find the official schedule here.

Hesburgh Lecture: 7pm, Thurs, March 10, St. Ed’s University

Join us for the Hesburgh Lecture at 7pm, Thursday, March 10, in the Jones Auditorium in the Ragsdale Center on the campus of St. Edward’s University (please click here for a campus map of St. Ed’s).

Our speaker is Dr. Gilberto Cardenas, Director of the Institute of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Gilberto is an Assistant Provost, holds the Julian Samora Chair in Latino Studies and is a Professor in the Sociology department. He is an alumnus of Notre Dame (Ph.D., M.A.) and is the author, co-author or editor of eight books.Prof. Cardenas will discuss contemporary issues pertaining to Mexican immigration, drawing on historical foundations of immigration policy, utilizing a visual presentation based on contemporary artwork addressing immigration issues. These issues will include works from the “Caras Vemos” exhibit inaugurated at the University’s Snite Museum in 2006 and currently on a national tour.

A wine & cheese reception will follow Dr. Cardenas’ lecture.

SSLP Host Families Needed!

The ND Club of Austin will once again sponsor a Notre Dame student to complete a Summer Service Learning Project in Austin at Heart House, a non-profit summer day program for low-income children. Our 2011 female SSLP student, Dea Satrio, is a freshman living in Pasquerilla West at Notre Dame.

Would you be willing to serve as a host family for this Notre Dame Student during the period of June 4 – August 6, 2011?

Basic Information:

- The Host Family is responsible for providing the SSLP Student with room & board during the time she stays in your home. Three meals need to be available for the student each day.

- Each Host Family must commit to at least 2 weeks of hosting (preferably four weeks) during the 8 week SSLP program (which will be approximately June 4 through August 6, 2011)

- The SSLP student will have her own car for transportation but it is preferable that the Host Family live within the greater metropolitan Austin area within reasonable commuting distance to at least one of the Heart House sites (in NE and South Austin).

- The Host family should plan to interact with the student, share meals with her, and show her some of the fun activities we have in Austin. It is not appropriate to ask the SSLP student to house-sit while you are out of town.

Are you interested or would you like more information? Please contact the SSLP Coordinator, Katy Gallagher-Parker, at SSLP-at-NDclubOfAustin.com (please remove the -at- and replace it with @)

Spring Events – Save the dates

We have several events coming up this spring so please save the following dates. We will email details for the events in the near future:

March 10: Hesburgh Lecture at St. Edward’s University

March 12: St. Patrick’s Parade in Dallas, TX
(in conjunction with the Dallas Young Alums)

March 17: St. Patrick’s Day happy hour bar crawl in downtown Austin

April 30: Easter Egg Hunt and Mass

Voting – Alumni Association’s Board of Directors

Don’t forget to the vote in the 2011 election for the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors. One third of the Board positions are up for election this year: six Regional Directors, one Senior Alumni Director, and one Young Alumni Director.

The Directors play an important role in communicating alumni views and opinions to the University administration and setting strategic direction for the Alumni Association. 

Biographies and statements of the candidates are at myNotreDame.nd.edu/candidates.

Alumni can vote for candidates in each region and category, regardless of your class year or where you live. The Alumni Board members are elected at large by the entire alumni body. The Board represents you, so please be sure to vote!

There are three ways to vote:

• Electronically: log on to myNotreDame.nd.edu/vote
• By phone: call 800-668-0764
• By paper ballot: call the Alumni Association, 574-631-6000, to request a ballot be mailed to you.

Voting closes on February 24, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. ET.

If you have questions about the voting process or logging into myNotreDame, please contact the Help Desk at onlinehelp@alumni.nd.edu or (574) 631-1579. For more information about the election, go tomyNotreDame.nd.edu/election.