Dr. Jeanette Gerault, Fiest Elementary School principal, right, and Cameron Dickey, president and CEO at Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union, center, hold commemorative Adopt-a-School certificates after the campus and community partner announced on Aug. 25 they entered an adoption partnership. They were joined by Dawn Tryon, CFISD director of community engagement.

Sept. 1, 2023—Representatives from the Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union visited the staff at Fiest Elementary School on Aug. 25 to officially announce their Adopt-a-School partnership with the campus.

CFISD’s Adopt-a-School program pairs schools with community organizations and business partners to utilize resources of the community to strengthen and enrich the quality of education for students.

Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union has not only been a long-standing advocate for CFISD as a whole but at the campus level as well.

Cameron Dickey, Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union president and CEO, serves cake to Fiest Elementary School staff after the campus and community partner announced on Aug. 25 they entered an Adopt-a-School partnership.

Dr. Jeanette Gerault, Fiest principal, credits Cameron Dickey, Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union president and CEO, and Georgette Salazar, vice president of member experience, among the volunteers who have spent many hours at the school supporting students and staff.

“Our vision statement is ‘Writing good into the life stories of those around us,’” Dickey said. “We’ve been writing into the story of Fiest and they’ve been writing into ours for so long that it felt like it needed that additional formality to be able to say how proud we are to be associated with the excellence here.”

Credit union representatives provided a custom cake to the Fiest staff following the adoption ceremony in addition to handing out gift bags.

Dr. Jeanette Gerault, Fiest Elementary School principal, left, signs an Adopt-a-School partnership agreement after the campus announced its official partnership with Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union on Aug. 25. Looking on are Cameron Dickey, president and CEO at Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union, and Fiest staff.

“This is amazing because this is how we feel about our community. We are all one,” Gerault said. “The more we can be a part of that whether we’re giving or receiving, it’s a mission and an amazing feeling. They’ve been a part of us for a long time so it was good to make it official.”

For more information on the Adopt-a-School program, contact Dawn Tryon, director of community engagement, at 281-894-3950 or dawn.tryon@cfisd.net.