Venice High School TeacherÕs Cafeteria
In
Attendance:
Paul Belli, Cindy Johnson, Charles Garcia, Renee Chorpash, Carolyn Chorpash, Norma Mascarenas, Marianne Sierra, Laura Ferrˇ, Bob Rainey, Tom Anderson, Grant Francis, Pierce Weir, Gail Weage, Coleen Rockey, Sergio Diaz, Michel Brooks, Nikki Gilbert, Lillie Hall
Meeting Called to Order at 7:15 p.m.
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Minutes: |
A
motion was in place, seconded, and passed to approve the Minutes of the
Meeting from April 16, 2009 as read. |
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TreasurerÕs Report: |
April,
2009 Operating Funds Report: Beginning
Fund Balance: $26,395.85 Receipts: $1,625.00 Disbursements: ($290.84) Ending
Operating Fund Balance: $27,730.01 Less
Commitments: ($11,253.94) Uncommitted
Fund Balance: $16,476.07 Bank
of America CD: $26,121.60 Myrna
Loy Statue Fund: Beginning
Fund Balance: $47,116.59 Receipts: $280.00 Disbursements:
$0.00 Ending
Balance: $47,396.59 G.O.
Turney Scholarship Fund:
$10,255.00 Laura
Jeanne Gilbert Scholarship Fund:
$6,340.00 Bill
E. Paney Scholarship Fund:
$5,785.00 Shirley
Hall Scholarship Fund:
$51,535.00 Grant
Francis Scholarship Fund: $9,563.84 Quarterly
Statement: 1/1/09-3/31/09: Beginning
Balance Venice High Scholarship Trust Fund (CCF Quarterly Report): $1,096,970.98 Net
Changes to Fund: ($50,982.87) Fund
Balance: $1,045.988.11 A
motion was made, seconded, and passed to approve the TreasurerÕs Report as
read. Tom
passed out the 2009 Budget. |
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School News: |
Spring
Dance was cancelled as there were only 60 tickets sold. CAHSEE Testing is done. On Friday the teachers will be protesting
(before and after school) because of the budget cuts. Prom tickets will go on sale on
Monday; tickets are $110.00. The
Prom will be held at the Long Beach Aquarium. JustinÕs delivered cap and gowns to the Seniors who ordered
them. Eleven teachers will be
retiring in June, 2009. Marianne
will let Laura know who is retiring because the Alumni Board would like to present
Certificates in a frame to them.
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Craft Talk: |
Coleen
(Olson) Rockey is a graduate of the Class of 1971. She was in the Highsteppers Drill Team at Venice High. She attended and graduated from Santa
Monica College in 1973. During
her years at the College she was a Homecoming Princess and was in the Coronette
Dance Drill Team. While in the Drill
Team highlights included the opportunity to perform at many Los Angeles Rams
Half-Time Shows, two Texaco Commercials, 100th Anniversary of the
Shriners, and showcased in the Movie, ŅThe Trial of Billy JackÓ. The most memorable events were to
perform during the Half-Time Show of a Super Bowl Game at the Los Angeles Coliseum
and perform at the MacyÕs Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Married
in 1977, and this year she and her husband will be celebrating 32 years of
marriage. Her husband has worked
for the telephone company for 38 years.
During his career, he has observed their name change from Pacific Telephone
& Telegragh, Pacific Telephone, Pacific Bell, American Bell, Inc.,
Pacific Telesys, PacTel, SBC, and now AT&T. Their son was born in 1992
and turned 17 this year and is a Jr. at Culver City High School. Coleen
worked for a Santa Monica-based business, Pennsylvania Life Insurance Company,
for almost 19 years as a Planning & Administration /Business Systems Analyst
in the Data Processing Department.
In early 1992 the Company moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. She then took a one-year hiatus from
work after her son was born. In
March, 1993 she employed with Chubb & Son Insurance Company located in
Downtown Los Angeles and is in her 16th year with them as Expense
Cashier, managing all business operation controllable budget-related expenses
and receivables for the Branch. Coleen
and her husband have been very involved in working with the Miss California/Miss
America Program since 1983. They
are on the Executive Board of the Miss Los Angeles County Scholarship Program
who send two titleholders, Miss Los Angeles County and Miss Culver City, to
compete at Miss California.
Their local Pageant has had the pleasure of three of their contestants
to have won the title of Miss California and go on to compete at Miss
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Strategic Planning: |
The
Alumni Board completed a questionnaire last year. From this, the Strategic Planning Committee completed a VHSAA
e-Communications Program Concept, Strategic Plan Tasks and Timelines Chart
for Period 2009-2014, Strategic Plan Goals &. Objectives for 2009-2011. We also added vision and values to
the Plan. Vision is very
important and can, of course, change over time. Bob passed out copies of the aforementioned
information. The Board will need
to vote on the Plan at the next meeting in June. The Committee is asking the Board to provide their viewpoints. Tom
wanted to clarify the communications program concepts—a system to be
more current and communication with the community. We have the goals but how does it break down and how much
will it cost? We need to
establish a case for giving—to provide information to gain the interest
of people to contribute money.
This is part of the development project. We also need the commitment of people to help. We can retain the help of people
outside the Board. Renee
inquired as to whether this information should be in the Acclaim. |
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Merchandise/ Reunion: |
Nikki
attended her MotherÕs 50th Class Reunion. A Total of $360.00 worth of
merchandise sold. While at the
Reunion she discussed the Myrna Project. Many of the alumnus was unaware this Project was in
existence. More of this communication
needs to be expressed at these events. |
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Parent Conference/Abbott Kinney Festival September 27: |
We
made $200.00 at the Parent Conference.
We will also be selling merchandise at the Graduation. On
September 27, 2009 the Abbott Kinney Festival will be held. If we register by May 25, 2009, the
cost to participate will be at a lesser rate. We always get a great crowd at our booth. At the September, 2009 Board meeting
we need to create shifts for members to help at the booth. Cindy
will be selling merchandise at the 1974 – 35th Reunion at
Tony PÕs. We
need to order more throws. |
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Reunions: |
Grant
commented as to the great job Nikki did to speak about Myrna at one of the
Reunions. It is a good idea to
have a Board Member to speak at the Reunions about these types of Projects
and we would like to continue to do this. There were 150 people who attended the 50-Year Reunion at
the Long Beach Marriott. Currently
working with five people now on their Reunions. |
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Reunions continuedÉ |
NikkiÕs
Reunion is in August. 98% of
ticket sales have been sold using the PayPal Account. We have established cheaper ticket
prices depending on when the tickets are purchased. Each time someone buys a ticket it was announced online. The fee is $1.80 for each $60.00
sale. We
have 140 people confirmed to attend the Class Reunion of 1970; 115 people
confirmed from the Class of 1969 |
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Senior Awards & Scholarships: |
The
students who receive a Scholarship will receive a Certificate. Moving forward, a letter will be
included with the Certificate as it is important for the students to know how
to claim the scholarship. In July
the California Community Foundation sends out a letter to all of the recipients. The deadline was last Friday for the
scholarship requests to be submitted. We got the extra $50,000.00 from the California Community Foundation
as per John. At the Parent/Teacher
night most of the Seniors did not know about this. Grant made a motion to go to Senior Awards Night and give
each parent a letter about this scholarship. We may also gain interest in membership. We
will have the Scholarship Committee meeting soon and Grant will be sending
out a reminder notice. Senior
Awards Night will be held on June 8, 2009. We will have a banner set up and Acclaims at the table in the lobby of the Auditorium so we have a
presence. The
Alumni Board will donate two memberships towards the Senior Raffle. |
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Honorees: |
Laura
has two nominations. We have
eight carryover applications.
Laura now has the Nomination Form. |
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Historian: |
Very
slow right now. Did receive some
items from Coach George Rose (1959-1986). He sent a 2-inch thick notebook
prepared for his retirement party in May, 1986. Included were a number of award banquet programs, newspaper
articles, a number of his motivational sayings and quotes, and about 150
letters from his former students, attesting to the significant impact he had
on their lives. His daughter,
Lori, is putting together a book for his 75th Birthday. |
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Centennial: |
There
will be a meeting next Wednesday night. |
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Acclaim: |
Getting
ready to do the layout. May 10,
2009 was the deadline. June 10,
2009 the Acclaim will come back
from the printer. The next
cut-off is August 10, 2009. |
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Acclaim Ads: |
We
have sold two ads. We have three
other companies who may be interested in buying an ad. |
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School Requests: |
Getting
a lot of letters asking for money but the Alumni Association does not
normally contribute money. One
letter came from the Cheerleaders.
They are asking for a donation for an ad in the Football Program. The money for the purchase of an ad
will go to the Cheer Squad and will offset their costs. A motion was made, seconded, and
passed to approve the donation of $100.00 for an ad by the Alumni Association;
the donation will qualify us for one year of advertising. This will be a great advertisement
for membership to the Alumni Association. We need to put the Facebook and My Space web address on
the ad. |
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Old Business: |
A
motion was made, seconded, and passed to sponsor two students for the Golf
tournament; the total cost will be $300.00. One
of the advertisers in the Acclaim, Rent A Tank, has always offered to allow
us to use his automobiles for the Homecoming Dance: however, no one has ever
called him back to honor his offer.
We need to take this offer into consideration. Sergio
inquired about a Committee who is handling the ad for the yearbook. Tommie Tarling was doing it in the
past. Sergio was asked—and
he accepted—to handle this moving forward. |
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Next Board Meeting: |
June
11, 2009 |
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Adjournment: |
8:34
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Respectfully Submitted By Coleen Rockey