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Richard Guldi Recognized with the
TI Founders Community Impact Award Richard (Dick) Guldi – who has been an environmental activist for years – has been recognized as this year’s TI retiree recipient of the TI Founders Community Impact Award for outstanding contributions to the communities where we live and work. |
The TI Foundation Matching Gifts Program encourages philanthropic giving by TIers, retirees and directors. Dollars contributed to eligible organizations will be matched up to $30,000 on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the Foundation. Matching gifts for 2021 must be requested by Jan. 31.
For details on how to request a match for dollars donated this year to qualified nonprofits (must be at least $25) and/or for volunteer hours (must be at least 10 hours to a qualified nonprofit), click on the link below and sign-in:
Wilma Jean Smith
March 13, 1930 - January 10, 2021
Wilma Jean (Frair) Smith of Allen, Texas passed away on January 10, 2021 at age of 90. She was born on March 13, 1930 to John Craig Frair and Lola Frances (Pigg) in McKinney, Texas. Wilma married Wylie J.C. Smith on February 8, 1947.
Dear TIAA Member:
2020 was a challenging year for TIAA, and also for so many individuals and organizations throughout the country and the world. But there is HOPE for a brighter 2021 with vaccines on the horizon.
TIAA officers have continued to meet (virtually) each month and our hope is that by sometime in the second half of the new year, health guidelines will allow us to begin holding “live” activities.
TI’s annual “Giving Tuesday” volunteer event will be a bit different this year because of the ongoing public health crisis. Instead of our tradition of North Texas TIers and retirees delivering meals to the elderly and homebound in Dallas and Collin counties, we will offer a menu of virtual volunteer options across nonprofit partners that serve the most at risk – the elderly, the homebound, those who are suffering from hunger, families who are experiencing economic hardships, and LGBTQ youth.
The annual TI Health Benefits Seminar for Medicare-Eligible retirees is a recorded video event this year because of the COVID-19 pandemi so click here to view the video. This video will remain accessible from our website to view at anytime of your choosing in the future. David Carter of VIA Benefits has prepared this video update and also answers questions of a general nature which have been submitted in advance.
Our president, Debi Heaton, announced that TIAA has a new TIAA Administrator – Tammy Hernandez. Tammy joined TI in 1982 as a product engineering technician working in DMOS IV & V until 2003. She then became an administrative assistant from 2003 to when she retired in 2018. With retirement, she and her spouse (still an active TIer) joined TIAA as lifetime members. She was one of our tour guides when TIAA toured RFab. Tammy began work August 3 -- click here to view her photo.
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:
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. The complete 2020 SPD can be found here.