September 18th, 2007

 

GHS Choral Booster Minutes

 

In attendance for the September meeting were Gina Jolly, Kris Abell, Lisa Genson, Marcia Young, Debbie Tharpe, Cecille Davis and Lori Cooper.

 

  • Lisa Genson opened the meeting by thanking Cile Davis, Lori Cooper, Michelle Stallworth and Angie Morgan for helping with measuring for new outfits.
  • Lisa announced that Teresa Salisbury has been added as a Board member and will be helping Debbie Tharpe with fundraising.
  • The music stands are in!!
  • Due to school being out Oct 1st, the Choral Board meeting has been moved to Tuesday, Oct 2nd.
  • The flickr.com is now a link on the choral web page for sharing photos.

 

Financial Report:

Marcia Young gave a budget report and a financial statement was presented to each member.  To date, $1510 has been collected with 30 booster members.  A total of $1065 is the credit amount for doughnut sales with $992 going directly to the student’s accounts to pay for fair shares, outfits, or future trips.  The rest of the credit amount was made from extra doughnuts given to us by Krispy Kreme.

 

Marcia also explained the various membership levels and the benefits of being a booster club member.

 

Fundraising

Debbie Tharpe discussed the following fundraisers:

  • Doughnut sales – each student will receive a credit of $1.68 per box sold.  Another doughnut fundraiser will be held in the spring
  • Pine straw sales – starts today and forms were distributed; we will be getting the pine straw locally at Hobby and Garden.  When selling the pine straw the student should give the purchasers 2 options.  1) If they would like to have the pine straw delivered (responsibility of the seller!) or 2) the pine straw can be picked up by the purchaser at Hobby and Garden.  Oct 19th will be the first $$ collection date; November 2nd will be the 2nd  $$ collection date and November 9th will be the final $$ turn in date.   Pine straw Pick-up dates will be November 17th – November 24th at Hobby and Garden, with the main pick-up date being the 17th.  Please note that many volunteers will be needed that Saturday, November 17th to help unload the truck at Hobby and Garden for our group’s pine straw.  The pine straw is “Loblolly” and is 6-8” long.  Each student will receive a credit of $1.55 per bale.
  • Candles – Home Interior candle sales will begin directly after Pine straw and will be delivered to us in time for Christmas.

 

 

 

 

Coffee House:

The theme for the Coffee House this fall will be “Disney”.   The tentative date is set for November 8th, pending the location.  Several locations are still being looked into as possibilities.    We should have an update by the next meeting.

 

Dinner Theatre will be hosted in the Spring.

 

Several options were discussed about the video taping of the performances.  Rice Videos will be taping our performances this year.  If anyone in the group has the equipment to edit/record a section of a DVD and burn to another DVD please see Mrs. Jolly.  She needs to send a segment of a choral DVD into the state.

 

Publicity

Lisa and Jeff Smith are looking into some PR opportunities.  Some include:

·         Hobby and Garden article

·         Coffee House

 

 

Spring Trip

The spring trip will be Chicago.  Cost will be approximately $650 and includes bus, hotel, 2 meals per day and some cultural events.  Mrs. Jolly will look at the school calendars, AP exams schedules, etc and get us some potential dates.

 

Website

Please remember to access the web page to locate the calendar of events, member meeting dates, pictures and much more!!

 

The next Booster Club meeting will be Tuesday, October 9th in the Choral Room.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Kris Abell, Secretary