2010 - 2011 BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS |
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PTA EXECUTIVE BOARD |
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CO-PRESIDENT: |
Bridget Bassett
Administrative and Organization |
bridgetjbassett@yahoo.com | |
CO-PRESIDENT:
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Jayashree Morrison
Public Relations and Agendas |
jmorr06@gmail.com | |
CO-VICE PRESIDENT: |
Courtney Hendrix Fundraising |
hend6541@bellsouth.net | |
CO-VICE PRESIDENT:
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Lauren Oselette
Classroom Activities and PTA Sponsored Programs |
ljoatl@yahoo.com | |
RECORDING SECRETARY:
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Yvonne Castaneda
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ivocoqui@hotmail.com | |
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: |
Matthew Shepherd |
claumatt@bellsouth.net | |
TREASURER: |
Becky Kidd |
becky.kidd@hp.com | |
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES
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| BUILDING & GROUNDS: This committee seeks ways to improve the appearance of the school and publicizes and organizes clean-up and planting days. |
Chuck Cureton Angelo Spetseris Bryan Kidd Tracy Stakely |
mxman74b@aol.com elizabethangelo@bellsouth.net rebeccakidd@bellsouth.net tstakely@hotmail.com |
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| SCHOOL COUNCIL: | Bryan Murphey John Oselette |
brian.murphey@comcast.net john.oselette@gmail.com |
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PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEES
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| AMBASSADOR PROGRAM | Angela Maki Jolie Nolf Claudia Mendelsohn |
angela.maki@comcast.net jnolf@bellsouth.net claumatt@bellsouth.net |
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| GRANDFRIENDS: Grandfriends is a program unique to Hawthorne Elementary. Its goal is to invite grandparents and other senior members of the community to volunteer in the classroom throughout the year. The Chair for this committee usually hosts a small breakfast in the Fall for the grandfriends. The breakfast welcomes them back to the school, allows introductions to the administration and the teachers they are assigned to for the year. Following the breakfast, the grandfriends usually volunteer in the classroom once a week. This is a very rewarding position that requires a few hours at the beginning of the year to organize the breakfast and then touch base with the grandfriends a few times throughout the year. |
Kristi Fuqua Bridget Bassett |
kristi.fuqua@comcast.net bridgetjbassett@yahoo.com |
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| HAWTHORNE DIRECTORY: This occurs once a school year during the first quarter (end August-mid Sept.). Proficient skills in Excel are beneficial. 1-2 chairs are needed to possibly split the work. Forms must be sent home to each child requesting either information to be publicized and or an option to opt out of the directory. If student | parent opt out of directory, then no personal information can be publicized. However the student’s name can be listed as part of the classroom. The purpose is to supply a student | school directory that is printed and delivered to each family by October. |
Jolie Nolf Renae Cureton |
jnolf@bellsouth.net renaecure@gmail.com |
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| HOSPITALITY: The Hospitality Committee organizes the events that welcome new parents or visitors to the school. The committee usually organizes a welcome-back breakfast for the teachers at the beginning of the year, as well as any new parent coffees or events throughout the school year. Responsibilities include providing refreshments, organizing volunteers, etc. |
Lauren Oselette |
ljoatl@yahoo.com |
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| PTA MEMBERSHIP: The Membership chairs are responsible for receiving PTA membership information and cards prior to Open House. At Open House these chair(s) are responsible for having membership forms & cards available at open house as well as promoting it for the first two months of school. The goal is to have 100% participation from teachers and parents. This includes having PTA membership forms available, collecting forms, sending in forms to PTA and completing paperwork with PTA for awards involving 100% participation. |
Jayashree Morrison |
jmorr06@gmail.com | |
NEWSLETTER: The PTA Newsletter, Hawthorne Happenings, has been a monthly newsletter in the past... however with today's technology and the school's internal weekly flyers, "Back Pack Bites", it has become a bi-monthly issue and could even go to quarterly. All of it can be done at home, and emailed to the Corresponding Secretary for mass email distribution. The newsletters should include the following: calendar of upcoming events, any news of fundraiser totals, announcements, save the date blurbs, ads of local businesses. The newsletter currently sells ads which are listed on the back page. The time commitment is for the entire school year. It is a good way to keep up with all the events and news of the year. |
Joanie Gross | mljfg@mindspring.com | |
| OPEN HOUSE: This event occurs once during the school year, usually a week before the first day of school. This is organized by the current executive board and some committee chairs are also involved. For example, afterschool programs and fall fundraisers are present. These committees man their own booths | tables. This event is where the majority of parents receive school information, school | pta calendar events, join PTA, sign up for email communication, purchase spiritwear, etc. |
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| POSITIVELY HAWTHORNE/ KINDERGARTEN ROUND-UP : The chair for this position organizes the Kindergarten Roundup in the Spring. This is a one time event for parents of rising Kindergarteners and students moving from Coralwood to Hawthorne in the first or second grade. |
Elizabeth Spetseris | elizabethangelo@bellsouth.net | |
| TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION: The chair of this committee helps bring more fully our Spanish-speaking community into school life. It is necessary to be bi-lingual (Spanish/English), and have a warm heart. The committee members would assist families with limited English, by leading focus groups, helping at registration, and finding people to translate for meetings. This position has a lot of potential for growth as there are many ways we can continue to offer more services. |
Sarah Merkle Claudia Mendelsohn |
claumatt@bellsouth.net slmerkle@yahoo.com |
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| WEBSITE: The chair maintains the www.hawthorne-elementary.org website, its development and ensures that information sent from the corresponding secretary is placed on the website. |
Claudia Mendelsohn | claumatt@bellsouth.net | |
FUNDRAISING COMMITTEES
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| REBATES/FREE MONEY: The Free Money Committee at Hawthorne promotes all Free Money programs that include Box Tops Labels, Campbell's Labels, Publix Partners Program, Office Depot Rebate Program, and Target Take Charge of Education. These programs are promoted in several ways. Brochures are sent out at the beginning of the school year to parents explaining the various programs. There are also 2 contests held during the school year to raise money from Box Tops and Campbell's. The contests usually raise over $1,000 each year. The various Free Money programs combined raise around $3,000 per year (depending on the year). The chairperson coordinates all the contests and promotional activities at Hawthorne. The committee members assist the chairperson in counting labels received from the contests as well as coming up with new fundraising ideas for the committee. The committee is active the entire school year but the busiest time(s) are twice a year during the contests. |
Deborah Donovan Valerie Harrison |
gatexdon@bellsouth.net vharrison10@bellsouth.net |
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| BINGO NIGHT: Are you ready for some Bingo? Bingo night chairs are responsible for this one time event usually in the spring. Responsibilities include securing caterer, DJ, items to be won or given away, finding volunteers to prep the cafeteria and food, organizing the bingo cards and cafeteria use, and promoting the event. |
Lauren Oselette | ljoatl@yahoo.com | |
| BOOSTERTHON: Boosterthon is one of Hawthorne's two major fundraisers for the Year and is a child-centered fun run on our campus. It usually happens in the Fall. The co-chairs meet with the Boosterthon team reps to sign contracts before the event, discuss and plan the run publicity, arrange information to be available about the run at Open House and enlist volunteers to do the following; help with counting donations received after the run, help on the day of the race, help answer questions from the community and publicize the event. It is loved by the children and great way to be involved in the school! |
Lauren Oselette Nancy Jester |
ljoatl@yahoo.com ntjester@hotmail.com |
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| SPIRIT WEAR: Spiritwear is an ongoing fundraising/spirit building event for Hawthorne Elementary. The chairperson(s) typically meet with our vendor once during the year to discuss spiritwear opportunities such as designs, products, and pricing. The chairperson(s) can choose to purchase spiritwear items to have available for sale and display at Hawthorne’s open house/ registration in August. There is one Fall and one Spring ordering period, and one teachers/staff opportunity usually in November. Items offered are selected through our vendor, and approved by the PTA. Order forms are distributed, and collected with prepayment. After the order is placed with our vendor, it is usually filled in 3-4 weeks, and then delivered to teachers for classroom distribution. There are additional opportunities to promote spiritwear at other school sponsored functions. |
Lauren Oselette Carla Wootton |
ljoatl@yahoo.com carla_wootton@yahoo.com |
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| AUCTION - BIDS FOR KIDS: The 2nd largest fundraiser for our school that occurs in mid March. Preparation for this event begins in September and runs through March. Co Chairs: 2-3 & at least 15 on the committee. This event requires help in the following areas, solicitation letters to vendors (past, new), follow up, thank yous, design, display sheets, technology (ticket sales, bid #’s, check in | out process, supply receipt to winning bidders), venue, catering needs. |
Andrea Smith Becky Kidd Janet Haury |
andreaalexsmith@yahoo.com becky.kidd@hp.com jehaury@mindspring.com |
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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES COMMITTEES
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| ACCELERATED READER: Accelerated Reader is a software program that is used to promote reading. Students take a test on books read throughout the school year and earn points for their correct answers. The test can be taken in the classroom or in the school's library. At Hawthorne, the committee works with the librarian, Ms. Jones, in promoting the AR program and helps with various incentives/contests used to promote the program. The program runs the entire school year so the chairperson would need to devote at least several hours a month depending on the incentives chosen for the school year. The chairperson(s) would also meet once a month with the Media Center Committee. |
Rozina | hamidahkazani@yahoo.com | |
| FIFTH GRADE ACTIVITIES: Can occur through out the year depending on what the committee wants to achieve. Needs 1 Chair and committee members. This committee is the planning and execution of the 5th Graduation | Ceremonies. |
Ramona Duncan | raduncan@bellsouth.net | |
| REFLECTIONS: The PTA Reflections Program provides students the opportunity to create works of art for fun and recognition. The program has six arts areas—dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and visual arts—and four grade divisions—primary, intermediate, middle/junior, and senior. Students enter their pieces based on that year’s theme and compete amongst other students at Hawthorne. The top winners are then sent on to compete at the county level, etc. all the way up to the national level. This program helps students express themselves through words, pictures, music, dance, film, and other art media. The Reflections Program helps parents encourage the creativity, self-discovery, and lifelong learning of their children. Supporting the PTA Reflections Program is one way you can increase student achievement, foster student talents, and promote the arts. The Reflections committee of 2-4 usually holds a workshop or two, providing students with the tools and opportunity to create their masterpiece. The bulk of the program takes place in September and October and then we hold a judging. The chosen pieces in each category are then prepared and sent on to compete against other students their age in the county. We have had students go on to the state level in the past. Some examples of past themes are: “Beauty is...”, “I can make a difference by....”. You can find out more information about this program by going to PTA.org and clicking on Reflections in the Programs menu. |
Debbi Smith Carla Wootton |
dsdesign@bellsouth.net carla_wootton@yahoo.com |
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| ROOM PARENT COORDINATORS: HOMEROOM COORDINATORS As room parent coordinator, you are the voice of reasoning between room parents and parents. You are there to make sure teachers have parental support! Most importantly, you are responsible for providing room parents with information about monthly teacher luncheons, the winter party, silent auction, teacher appreciation week, end of the year party, and any other events requiring their assistance. Your responsibilities start once school begins and end at the end of the year. However, 98% of your work is done via e-mail. With that said, you have to check your e-mails on a regular basis. This is a good way to meet a lot of parents and be involved and know what is going on around school! |
Jenn Sedlack Joanie Gross |
pjsedlack@bellsouth.net mljfg@mindspring.com |
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PTA SPONSORED COMMITTEES |
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| BOOK FAIRS: This fundraiser occurs twice a year; November & March and lasts about a week. Co-Chairs: 2-3 and a committee of volunteers that can either work before school hours or after school hours. Co Chairs, organize event, recruit volunteers, re-order books and close book fair at school & financials w/Scholastic. Its purpose is to supply books to all our children, school library and classroom libraries and in return our school makes a profit of the percentage of sales which are put back into our school library and or school. |
Renae Cureton Jolie Nolf Angela Maki Cheri Stakely |
renaecure@gmail.com jnolf@bellsouth.net angela.maki@comcast.net cstakely@hotmail.com |
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| CULTURAL ARTS: Cultural Arts is a PTA funded program intended to expose the entire student body to different forms of cultural arts. The chairperson of this event is responsible for booking the artists or performers (typically through Young Audiences at the Woodruff Arts Center), conferring the dates with the principal or assistant principal, taking care of the contracts involved, and seeing to the needs of the acts booked (stage, supplies, ect.). Although the performances or artists can be booked anytime throughout the year, most of the time commitment for this is just a few hours spread out in a few days at the beginning of the year. |
Claudia Mendelsohn Cheri Stakely |
claumatt@bellsouth.net cstakely@hotmail.com |
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| FALL ACTIVITY : The fall activity typically takes place on a Saturday evening in October. Planning takes place in August and September. Event chairs coordinate communication regarding the event, organize and plan games, choose menu and order or purchase food. Chairs also are responsible for obtaining volunteers to assist with the event as well as collect and count proceeds from the event. Total time commitment with meeting time totaling 10-12 hours. The event was well attended for the past two years; it is a great community building activity. |
Colleen Rowland Lauren Oselette |
crtr1295@bellsouth.net ljoatl@yahoo.com |
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| INTERNATIONAL NIGHT: The PTA International Night Committee helps Hawthorne staff members organize an International Night, which includes a “Parade of Nations” and student performances in the cafeteria/auditorium and internationally-themed student artwork displayed throughout the school. The PTA committee helps with pre-event planning, set-up, staffing the various activities on International Night, and clean-up. International Night is usually in the fall and most committee responsibilities can be completed in the 4-6 weeks preceding the event. |
Ann Jackson Sarah Merkle Nina Chandramani Saxena |
ann_e_jackson@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us slmerkle@yahoo.com saxenau@bellsouth.net |
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| MOVIE NIGHT: Twice a year Hawthorne’s cafeteria is transformed into a giant movie theater. Children bring blankets and pillows and there are concessions to buy as well as some light dinner. Chairs enlist volunteers to work the concessions as well as get the cafeteria set up. Time commitment is usually a few hours twice a year before the event. This is always a well attended community building event! |
Lauren Oselette Elise Douglas |
ljoatl@yahoo.com douglas97@comcast.net |
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| TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK: Chairs for this event, held in the Spring, start working with their committee in the Winter planning the activities for this great week honoring our teachers. In years past, every day of teacher appreciation week had an event or gift for the teachers. Some ideas included a breakfast, homemade cards and flowers for the teachers by the students, and some kind of gift like a tote bag or other item at the end of the week. While this position does require some planning, it is a really great way to show our teachers how much we care about them and there is always a large number of committee members to help plan the week! |
Lauren Oselette Valerie Harrison Nina Chandramani Saxena Elise Douglas |
ljoatl@yahoo.com vharrison10@bellsouth.net saxenau@bellsouth.net douglas97@comcast.net |
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| TECHNOLOGY LAB: As teachers and parents of Hawthorne we give guidance, strategies and ideas to improve the uses of technology in the school with respect to Utilization of the mobile learning carts, computer lab, ActivBoards, computer lab learning and (video / music / photography / word processing / power point / creative learning / additional computer programs). The committee is responsible for hosting Technology Night. We meet once a month at 7:15 am in the Mac Lab. This is the usual CISP (CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN) meeting day. |
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| YEARBOOK: The Hawthorne Yearbook is a once per year production, but needs attention year-long to keep up with all the events that happen. This would be 5-6 person committee. In the past to keep consumers cost down the front & back cover have been produced in color. Pre order forms are out at Open House and also sent out in March. Pre sales are tracked in excel and are personally delivered to the child’s classroom duting the last week of school. |
Debbi Smith Cherie Boyd |
dsdesign@bellsouth.net cherielboyd@bellsouth.net |
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| GA WALK TO SCHOOL | Sarah Merkle Jennifer Morrison |
slmerkle@yahoo.com themorrisonfour@comcast.net |
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