On October 22, 2014, in Corpus Christi Texas, NTCA presenter Michael Whistler (r.) signed up Salvador (c.l.) and Becky (c.r.) Rodriguez of Sal’s Tile in Corpus Christi as the association’s 1000th member, during an NTCA Tile & Stone workshop. Israel Alaniz (l.) is the store manager at the Daltile Sales Service Center in Corpus Christi, which hosted the workshop. Total Solutions – originally a NTCA- only event held from 2003-2009– morphed into the all-industry Total Solutions Plus, in 2010, with the part- nership of CTDA and TCNA. TCAA joined the partner- ship in 2011. In 2011 Tricia Moss joined the staff as office manager and work on membership develop- ment. Bookkeeper Lisa Murphy joined the NTCA office staff in 2010. In June 2015, Becky Serbin was hired as NTCA Training and Education Coordinator, to help design, develop and support the online apprenticeship train- ing curriculum now known as NTCA University. The State Ambassador network is a back- bone of NTCA volunteers, helping at workshops and promoting the NTCA in their local area. Ben Santos from Hamilton Tile in Woodstock, Ga., became NTCA’s 1300th member in 2016. Celebrating 70 years 88 TileLetter | September 2017