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Fox Addresses AARP in Tyler
Activists with the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans are eager to participate
in every retiree meeting. Getting out our message of solidarity is essential
if the state's retirees are ever going to defend ourselves.
Brother Shane Fox talked to the AARP Glenwood Chapter 3243 at Rosewood Estates
Retirement Center, 506 Rice Road in Tyler. Fox was a Texas delegate to the 2005
White House Conference on Aging. He serves as vice president/community organizations
for the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans and is on the executive board of
the Alliance for Retired Americans.
As a community
organizer, Fox helped found the first local chapter of TARA. He "is actively
engaged in outreach to all community-based organizations dedicated to organizing,
educating and mobilizing working families and older citizens to empower themselves
to bring about progressive change," according to his bio.
Fox grew up in Alton, Ill., served in the Marine Corps and graduated from the
University of Houston, "with the support and assistance of his wife and
three children, using his GJ Bill benefits, delivering newspapers, and other
odd jobs," his bio stated.
He was a television and radio reporter, talk show host and producer in Houston,
before launching a career as an actor and writer. Fox has traveled extensively
in the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia. He and his wife Sandra, live
in Tyler, where he works for the Tyler Morning Telegraph.
Retirees: please contact us for speakers at your own meetings!