A Few Brief TPA Accomplishments

TPA was the first fraternal association to request and lead the way to have a center lane divide our highways.

TPA was one of the first fraternals to insist that steel passenger-cars replace wooden passenger-cars on the railroads.

TPA was largely responsible for the creation of a Federal Department of Safety.

TPA was responsible for the Interstate Commerce bill creating the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903.

TPA promoted the Absent Voter Act - 1916 ( Absentee Ballot System ), and also promoted the Federal Sanitation Law.

TPA strongly urged compulsory drivers training & education in the schools.

TPA helped push for compulsory motor vehicle inspection each year.

TPA was strongly behind the requirement that drivers be examined every 4 years.

TPA Homer T. Wilson Fund, for indigent members, widows, widowers and orphans assists members and families in financial need.

Our Child Safety program, inaugurated in 1946, has proven to be a tremendous asset in each and every one of our communities.

Our Community Service programs, since 1966, enlists additional personnel for a more complete civic interest in our communities.

Since the organization of TPA in 1890, approximately 82 million dollars has been paid in benefits to members and their beneficiaries.

TPA assists schools to develop and maintain crossing guard programs.

Scholarship Trust for the Deaf and Near Deaf, inaugurated in 1975, helps hearing-impaired children and others needing financial assistance.

CHAD ( Children Have An iDentity ) program, taken over and expanded nation wide in 1994.