Meeting notes
We recently had our second meeting of the year. We announced many things at our latest meeting.
- Dress to impress- We first reminded the members to dress for success every NJHS meeting.
- Sign in- After our brief reminder we introduced a new system to account for attendance. Now to sign in you must pick up the sheet on the table and write your full name, grade, arrival time, and email. Remember if you do not sign in we will assume you were unexcused, unless you have a note for your absence.
- Missing commitment forms- We also collected missing commitment forms. If you have still not turned in your commitment form you need to give it to Ms. Sulzer as soon as possible.
- Grades and behavior forms- Next we reminded members about maintaining good behavior and good grades throughout the year.
- Community and service- We as members are each working towards ten hours of community and service, so make sure to collect as many hours as possible. The first collection of community and service forms will be in January, but it is not necessary to have all of the hours by the first collection. Our president briefly talked about the great success of the Mutt Strut on October 27.
- Upcoming community and service opportunities- We informed members about three upcoming community and service events. On November 23rd the Barnes and Noble Book Fair needs readers. If interested the sign up sheets were given out during the first meeting. Mrs. Holsten will be emailing the volunteers soon. Second, we have an opportunity to support FETCH again by stuffing goodie bags for the holiday bone tree at TMS. We will also be picking a chair to run this event. Lastly, we talked about the Dominion Christmas Parade. We do not have many details yet but we are talking to Emily Alexander who is heading the opportunity. We are sending out emails to members who signed up as soon as possible for all the events.
- Ride home- Remember to get a ride home promptly at 4:00.
- Our next meeting is on November 25th remember to be there our you will have an unexcused absence.
- Google doc sign in – see Mr.s. Sulzer or Ms. Marquis for the address to the survey
- Missing committment forms – These people need to turn in a YELLOW commitment form to Mrs. Sulzer ASAP. Please see Mrs. Sulzer if you need a new one! C. Allen, M. Villegas-Carter, M. Case, H. Holland, J. Holweger, J. Long, A. Motley, R. Salih, H. Stage, C. Taylor, J. Turnage
- Welcome Letters – make sure you picked one up from Mrs. Sulzer or Mrs. Marquis. It contains all the meeting dates for the year so mark your calenders so you do not miss a meeting. All meetings will end by 4:00pm so make sure you have a ride home!
- Maintaining Membership – in order to maintain membership, you must maintain acceptable behavior, grades, and community service. You must maintain a 3.5 GPA every marking period or you will be given a warning letter and put on probation. If you do not increase your grade in that time period, you will be dismissed from NJHS.
- Community service – you need 10 hours logged on the form by May 2014. Summer volunteering and IB hours DO count.
- See the COMMUNITY SERVICE TAB for more info about new community service opportunities – Mutt Strutt and Barnes and Noble readers!
- Dress for meetings should be nice. No jeans and t-shirts!
- VOTE NOW for your 2013-2014 NJHS officers here!!! Voting closes FRIDAY! www.tinyurl.com/njhsballot13