Dallas Digest, 10-23-19

10/22/19
  • To anyone in the TWU community affected by the Oct. 20 tornadoes that struck the Dallas area: We’re here for you. All benefits-eligible faculty and staff and their families have access to a variety of counseling and financial services at no cost through the Emergency Assistance Program (EAP). To access these services, contact Alliance Work Partners online or by phone at 1-800-343-3822. Texas Woman’s also has an Emergency Assistance Fund that enables faculty and staff, to apply for up to $500 in assistance to meet immediate and essential needs for a temporary hardship due to an emergency life situation. Additional resources also are available. Contact Angela Cagle or Holly Harris if you need more information.
  • The Denton Bookstore will set up shop 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, in room 3620. Come by and get your TWU gear!
  • Staff members lent a hand at the first-ever North Texas Food Bank Mobile Pantry Distribution at the TWU Dallas Center on Oct. 17, helping with set-up, registering participants, unloading and handing out food, and clean-up. The next distribution is scheduled Thursday, Nov. 21.
  • Rosalie Mainous, Shelley Hawkins and Mari Tietze (nursing) attended the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council’s 71st Annual Awards Luncheon Oct. 8 in Irving. They met and were photographed with keynote speakers Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters with The Washington Post, who discussed the 45th anniversary of Watergate and “All the President’s Men.”