June 5, 2007

News Release

TISD Foundation Hosts Annual Golf Tournament

School’s out for summer… and the school district is hitting the golf course…for a good cause.

The Tyler Independent School District Foundation will once again tee off for their annual charity golf tournament.  This year will be the 14^th consecutive year for the golf tournament with the proceeds going towards the district’s non-profit organization, the Tyler ISD Foundation.  The tournament will be held Monday, June 11^th, 12 noon, at Cascades Golf Club, located at 4511 Briarwood Drive, Tyler.

“More than $250,000 has been raised cumulatively through this event over the years, and we anticipate our most successful tournament ever next week,” said Larry Goddard, Executive Director of the Tyler ISD Foundation. 

The tournament was re-named in memory of Gil Hitt.  He was the school board president at the time of his death in 1997.  This year family members who plan to attend the Gil Hitt Memorial Golf Tournament included: his wife, Debbie Hitt, daughter Christie Hamilton, grandson Austin Hamilton, grand-daughter Hannah Hamilton, and daughter, Erin Hitt.  Erin is a second grade teacher at Dixie Elementary School.

Tom Slack, chair of the tournament and President of Health First Third Party Administrators, has announced Honorary Co-Chairs Jack Davidson (former Tyler ISD Superintendent) and Charles Halstead (former Tyler mayor). 

Major donors of the event include:  Perdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins & Mott LLP, Tyler Morning Telegraph; Eubanks Harris Roberts Craig Architects; Lee’s Carpets; Brookshire Grocery Company; Tyler Coca Cola; Cooperative Teachers Credit Union; Dixie Elementary; Petty’s Irrigation; Health First Third Party Administrators; Lifetouch Photography; Prestige Portraits by Lifetouch; The Staubach Company; Trinity Mother Frances Hospital, East Texas Medical Center; Denson Construction Company; Assured Benefits Administrators; Randy Stuart’s Golf Connection; Achieve Financial; Apex Geoscience; CBS-19; Document Solutions-Xerox; Estes, McClure and Associates; Hibbs-Hallmark; Lanes Chapel United Methodist Church; Merrill Lynch; RBC Dain Rauscher.

The Tyler ISD Foundation is an organization which provides funding for classroom and campus grants, special events and district program support.

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