Next Meeting November 21, 2002 7:00 p.m.

Next Meeting August 29, 2002 7:00 p.m. 

at Slack Elementary School Cafeteria  Guest Speaker Mayor Louis Bronaugh

LOUIS A. BRONAUGH

Mayor

Louis A. Bronaugh was elected Mayor of the City of Lufkin in May of 1988. He served as Councilmember of Ward 6 from 1984 to 1988.

Born in Dallas, he attended the University of Houston. He served in the U. S. Navy. He is the owner of Bronaugh Independent Opticians.

Mayor Bronaugh has served as the chairman of the Texas Board of Health Advisory Council Optician Registry, as a member of the Fellow of the National Academy of Opticianary, past president of the Certified Opticians Association of Texas, as a board member for the Opticians Association of Texas, a member of the Southwest Ophthalmic Dispensers Association and is on the advisory board of the Tyler Junior College School of Opticianary.

State involvement includes board member of the Texas Municipal League, past president of TML Region 16, past President and Chairman of the Deep East Texas Council of Governments, member of the Governor’s Regional Community Development Review Committee, Chairman of the 1-69 Alliance for Texas, Vice President of the 1-69 Mid-Continent Highway Coalition, Chairman of the Texans For Safe Roads, Texas Chairman for the El Camino East/West Corridor, and board member of Keep Texas Beautiful.

He received the Deep East Texas Council of Governments Grants Application Review

Committee President’s Award in 1988, The Texas Department of Transportation Road

Hand Award, the Dr. Ralph W. Steen East Texan of the Year Award in 1998, and

received an award from the Texans Who Developed The Transportation Plan in 1994.  

Mayor Bronaugh received the Year 2000 Russell H. Perry Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to transportation through leadership in gaining public awareness of the need for, and benefits of, adequate highway transportation facilities in the State of Texas.

Community involvement includes: Elder, worship leader, past Board member, Pastor’s Council, Sunday School teacher and past President of the Christian Men’s Fellowship at First Christian Church. He was a past Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America, a member of the Advisory East Texas Area Council, a Cubmaster, District Commissioner, and received the District Award of Merit and the Silver Beaver Award. He is a member of the Lions Club where he served as past Vice President and Board Member. He is a member and past Vice President of the Angelina County Chamber of Commerce where he also served as Chairman of Education, Tourism, Hushpuppy Olympics, and the Small Business Councils. He has served as treasurer and board member of the Museum of East Texas. In 1991 he was the President of the SFA University Friends of the Arts. He was the Angelina Wildlife Association’s Conservationist of the Year in 1979.

Mayor Bronaugh is a board member of the Red River National Public Radio, past

Chairman of the Angelina County and Cities Health District, a Board Member of the

Boys and Girls Club, and is also involved in recycling, Pineywoods Resource

Conservation & Development, Hospice, Goodwill Industries, Mayor’s Committee for

People with Disabilities, as well as traveling extensively around Texas and to

Washington, D. C. to speak for the I-69 Highway Project.

Membership Meeting  

Speaker Bob Bowman

Thursday May 23rd at 7:00 p.m. 

SLACK ELEMENTARY

BOB BOWMAN

Councilmember Ward 4  

(936) 634-6433

Bob Bowman was elected to the City Council in May of 1988. He served as Mayor pro-tem from 1999-2000.

Mr. Bowman is the chairman of Bob Bowman & Associates, Inc., a Lufkin marketing and public relations company. He is the author of 25 books, six of which deal with the history of Lufkin and Angelina County.

Mr. Bowman is also a former chair of the Texas Council for the Humanities, former president of the East Texas Historical Association, former chairman of the Lufkin Centennial Commission, and past member of the Texas Sesquicentennial Commission and the Texas Capitol Centennial Commission. He is also a former chairman of the Board of Trustees of Angelina College and former chair of the Angelina County Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Bowman is currently administrative trustee for the Pineywoods Foundation, trustee for Memorial Health System of East Texas, and secretary/administrator for the Deep East Texas Development Association.

Mr. Bowman is married to Doris Bowman and is the father of Jimmy and Neil and has two grandchildren

Board of Directors Meeting

February 7 , 2002 at 7:00 p.m.

 At the Chamber Community Room on Chestnut. 

C.N.A. Membership Meeting 

at 7:00 p.m. February 28, 2002 

at Slack Elementary School Cafeteria 

on Fuller Springs Drive 

C.G. Maclin will be our guest speaker

C. G. Maclin has been the City Manager of Lufkin, Texas for the past nine years. Before this, he served as City Manager of Wharton, Texas for five years. Prior to serving in Wharton, C. G. was the Administrative Assistant, Director of Parks and Recreation and the Director of the Personnel Department in Nacogdoches, Texas for 10 years. He is a graduate of Texas A & M University, and is currently an active member in the international City/County Manager’s Association and the Texas City Manager’s Association. C. G. is currently serving as Chairman of the Economic Development Partnership, and is on the Board of Directors of the Angelina County Chamber of Commerce, and is an active member of the Lufkin Kiwanis Club.  He was Past President of the Deep East Texas Development Association (DETDA), Past President of Region 6 Texas City Manager’s Association, and was a past member and President of the Nacogdoches Kiwanis club. Under C. G.’s tenure as City Manager, the City of Lufkin was recognized by Texas Business Magazine in 1995 as one of the best-managed Cities in the State of Texas.

A dedicated family man with a deep abiding faith, C. G. is a member of Denman Avenue Baptist Church in Lufkin, and is also Angelina County’s Task Force Chairman of Promise Keepers.

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