How to join the Zoom meeting:
Via PC, iPad, Smartphone, or similar device: click on this link and follow the instructions:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82262991836
Via a traditional phone:
Phone Number: 1-346-248-7799
Meeting ID: 822 6299 1836 (Note, if you are asked for a “participant ID”, press #)
Please note that this is the first time TIAA is conducting an Annual Meeting via Zoom, so there may be a few rough edges, please be patient.
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is required to notify participants of important changes to the TI Welfare Benefits Plan and/or the TI Retiree Health Benefit Plan (collectively the “Plan”). This notification, called a Summary of Material Modifications (SMM), reflects the provisions that are effective June 1, 2020. And, it is intended to update the Plan’s 2020 Summary Plan Description (SPD), and is incorporated as such.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 TIAA Annual Meeting was conducted as a “virtual” meeting, over Zoom. Attendees heard presentations from both TIAA President Debi Heaton and Andy Smith, Executive Director of the TI Foundation. Andy’s presentation included a TI update as well as a summary of the TI Foundation’s COVID-19 related work supporting employees, customers, and communities at locations around the world.
With the escalating needs across our country and local communities because of the impact of COVID-19, the TI Alumni Association will host an online United Way giving campaign, April 17 to May 1. Recently retired TI Senior Vice President Greg Delagi and his wife, Beth, will chair the TIAA campaign.
TIAA has been notified that TI will postpone the United Way Campaign, originally set for April, to later this summer. The campaign plans included a large number of volunteer events with active TIers going out in the community to visit United Way agencies. All of these events will be shifted to later this summer. The TIAA Annual Charity Golf Tournament is one of the events affected by this decision; the tournament set for April 6, will be postponed to later in the year.
Crossroads Community Services (CCS) is now located just off Cockrell Hill Road, in a new and large home. Here they partner with educational and medical institutions in Dallas County in order to provide more holistic solutions to deeply entrenched social and economic problems by acting as the southern regional hub for North Texas Food Bank and expanding their food distribution program. On average, a family of four receives 100 pounds of groceries when they visit Crossroads pantry which means CCS distributes 2.25 million pounds of food to approximately 12,000 unduplicated
Wilkinson Center's food bank is a dynamic service provider for families struggling to escape poverty, providing services throughout Dallas County, with a focus in East and Southeast Dallas including Pleasant Grove. They provide one week’s supply of food each month for qualified families which translates into more than 40,000 pounds of emergency food to hungry Dallas families every month. They serve individuals of all ages and approximately one-third of them are children.
Rose-Mary Rumbley, noted speaker-actress-Dallasite, entertained 30 TIAA members and friends in the S/C Lobby Auditorium on January 21, 2020. (She also let us in on a secret -- her outstanding elocution abilities made her one of the voices used in TI's very successful Speak & Spell educational toy in the late '70s.) She reviewed the eight U.S.
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 20, 2020, marks the 25th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy. This is observed each year on the third Monday in January as “A day on, not a day off,” and is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. The Corporation for National and Community service has been charged to lead this effort for the last quarter centur and, on January 15.