Texas Exes DC Chapter will be volunteering at DC Central Kitchen on May 18 from 9 am to 12 pm.  Come join your fellow Longhorns as we help prepare meals by cutting, chopping, and peeling thousands of pounds of food.  DC Central Kitchen helps families in the DC area by reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.

For more information on how to register for this event, please RSVP to dctexasexes.volunteer@gmail.com

Interested in getting more involved with the DC Texas Exes? Have ideas for new events or want to lend a hand with existing programs? Come to our monthly board meeting and have your voice heard. Send an email to dctexasexes@gmail.com to let us know that you are interested. Location and agenda will be emailed separately.

Do you want to help our chapter raise funds for scholarship programs to enable others
attend the University? If so, join our newly formed fundraising committee! Please email
dctexasexes@gmail.com  with “Fundraising” as the subject to receive more information.

On Saturday, May 3, hundreds of alumni gathered in University Row for the 16th Annual Virginia Gold Cup at Great Meadow.  Among the attendees were dozens of Texas Exes, including a few Archer Fellow alums, who were welcomed at the Western Expansion Tent co-anchored by the University of Texas and West Virginia University.  Guests at University Row enjoyed catering and open bars throughout the day, exciting steeplechase horse races and trying their hand at human-size Jenga and their aim in cornhole.  The University of Texas (DC Texas Exes) made the Lone Star State proud by snagging the Best School Spirit prize in the Best Dressed Contest (Austin Rackets, pictured) and the Tent Spirit Award.  The Western Expansion tent not only featured school flags from anchor and partner schools, but also Texas Longhorn decals, Western cutouts (boots, hats, horseshoes), Deputy Sheriff badges, Longhorn Rubik's cubes, and Longhorn temporary tattoos.  What really made the tent stand out were the horse pinatas, one of which had to be retrieved from another guest like a stolen mascot, but both provided lots of entertainment and afternoon sweets.  Most guests ended the day back in Ballston (in Arlington, VA) at the Rock Bottom Brewery after party.