Founded in 1973, Newcomers & Friends of Georgetown offers a personal invitation to you! We strive to create warm connections to anyone living in the Central Texas/Georgetown area.
As a way of promoting new friendships and sustaining existing ones, Newcomers & Friends is home to about 40 special interest groups. These range from physical fitness to games to dining out.
Newcomers & Friends now has over 200 members. Approximately half of our group’s membership lives in Sun City. Members have moved to the Georgetown area from all parts of the United States and beyond. Members do not have to have recently moved to Georgetown – many of our more recent members discovered our group after living in the Georgetown area for many years!
Newcomers & Friends meets the first Thursday of each month (September through May). Each month’s meeting features a program. Instead of receiving an honorarium, guest speakers choose a charity or non-profit to receive a monetary donation. Donations have been made to Southwestern University, Hope Alliance, the Georgetown Animal Shelter, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Friends of the Georgetown Library, the Caring Place, Master Gardener Naturalists, the Assistance League of Georgetown, and Ride on Center for Kids.
Yearly dues are $35. Each member of the household is included in the membership dues. Most members are women, but men are welcome.
It’s all about forging new bonds to make a new location “home”!
Greetings from the Co-Presidents!
Jeretta Fischer: I grew up in New Mexico, attended NMSU and then moved to El Paso
where I met my husband. I am a CPA with my own practice. We have lived in Scottsdale, AZ
where our son was born, then IA where our daughter was born, then MT, back to TX, back to IA,
and then finally arrived back in TX in 2012.
Believe it or not, I served as the Newcomer president from 2014-2015. When we moved here
permanently, I immediately searched out a Newcomer group. What a godsend that proved to
be. I felt so connected to Georgetown through the friends I have made over the years with this
organization. I encourage everyone to jump in and get involved with our SIGS, the board and
attending the meetings.
We will be meeting in the lovely McMillan Center, a new event center that offers us a place to hold events
that we couldn’t have at the Wellspring Methodist church.
Jeretta
Co-President,
2026-2027
Jo Kinberger: I joined Newcomers last September looking for people to play Mahjong with. What I found was a group of supportive and intelligent people that I am grateful to call friends. I moved to Georgetown from New Mexico five years ago after retiring from 43 years as a Medical Social Worker, primarily in the hospital setting. I have a daughter who lives in Austin, which is why I moved here. Originally born in Illinois, I grew up in Houston and attended college there and graduate school in San Antonio.
I’m looking forward to getting to know more Newcomers and want to help in any way I can to give back to this wonderful group!
Jo
Co-President,
2026-2027