Board Minutes from October 15, 2007
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Present: Cathy Byers, Jeanette Gyukeri, Jim Lee, Gail Macmillan, and Margy Levine Young (recording).
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[edit] Service Auction and Potluck
It's on November 16, a Friday, at the school. Margy will solicit service donations and Jeannette will run the potluck. Gail will ask the kids for a volunteer to be the auctioneer. (Zac Young and Austin Kincaid have volunteered.)
[edit] Creation and Discovery Day
It's on the last day of school before the winter holiday (December 18). We need a set of fun, creative, interesting, and/or educational activities that kids can sign up for. We can have two or four time slots to fill during the day, with one to three events in each time slot. We want to give the kids some choice, but not have so many activities that any workshop leader is left with only a few kids.
Last year, Kate Gridley organized this. We need an organizer for this year. We're sure that Kate can bring a volunteer up to speed and provide ideas for workshop leaders.
Jeanette will ask Prem Prakash if he'll do yoga. Margy will ask Kate Gridley if she'll do some art project.
[edit] Gailer Gala
We need a committee to run this. The committee last year had a blast -- it was Ellie Friml, Cathy Byers, Ron Hallman, and Lars Hubbard (and maybe others). Ellie has a list of how it was organized last year. Things to do include setup, cleanup, cooking (Lars?), drinks, entertainment (Gail), site (Lars?), silent auction (Jeanette), live auction, invitations, PR, raffle.
Cathy is willing to be on the Gala committee again this year. We are looking for additional committee members. It was a amazing event last year -- let's do it again!
[edit] Fundraising Ideas
We talked about a number of fundraising ideas, and liked these:
- Bake sale at the indoor farmers market in Middlebury, the weekend before Thanksgiving: Alison suggested this and will find out when it is and how we can get a table. The Getzes sell cheese at this market. If every family bakes three pies, loaves of bread, quick bread, or whatever, we can have quite a sale!
- Bake sales at town meetings? We wondered whether we can sell stuff at the Municipal Building when people come to meet and/or vote on Town Meeting day in March. Margy will ask Ann Webster, the town clerk.
- Mother's Day baskets: Jeanette had the idea of creating Mother's Day baskets with baked goods (bought at Costco or a local bakery), chocolates, maybe a flower, maybe some other cute little stuff. The kid would assemble the baskets. We could ask parents for donations of empty baskets, cute regiftable items (like mugs or soap), etc.
[edit] February Week
At the coffee with Gail a few weeks ago there was concern about the two week February break. For kids who aren't going on the trip to the Dominican Republic, it's a long break with nothing to do the first week. (The second week is when the public schools are off, so there are ski lessons at the Snow Bowl and more kids around.) Parents (not the school) could organize some events during that first week. Ideas included:
- Hiring teachers who aren't going on the DR trip to hold workshops
- Skiing (group goes up to the Snow Bowl together, comes back for lunch and a movie at someone's house)
- Cooking at someone's house
- Art
- Classes at Frog Hollow
- Chess and other games
- Video class with Jody
The school buildings are available during that week, and Gail will be onsite. Any costs will be borne by the parents of participants -- this isn't part of the school year. We can email the faculty for their ideas and interest, and then ask the parents.
