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Parents' Association
Stuyvesant High School
February 28, 2010 News Update |
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Greetings!
It's always inspiring to see parents step up and volunteer to help the Stuyvesant community, and we are grateful to sophomore parents Wei Wah Chin and Bill Kaczmarek; as mentioned below, both will be participating in Assistant Treasurer functions.
We continue to work on the March 19 Lunar Feast, which has a great new location, and you can donate online to the Lunar Dinner Raffle and Silent Auction -- see the announcement below for details. If you have questions or ideas about the Lunar Feast, please contact LunarFeast2010@stuy-pa.org or one of the email addresses provided below.
And there are always opportunities to participate -- in addition to big projects like joining the PA Executive Board or working on the Lunar Feast, you can also help out with other events as they happen -- think about volunteering at the pre-conference faculty dinner reception or sending in books for the Project Cicero book drive!
Sincerely,
Florence Hutner
Corresponding Secretary
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Spring Faculty Reception
The Spring Faculty Reception is on March 18th. We need parent volunteers to help make this event happen. To sign up, please contact Jenny Cho at: jennycho_26@hotmail.com .
Please specify which shift(s) you can cover:
- Set up and serve: 2:30 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
- Serve and cleanup: 3:30 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
We are also asking parents to send in desserts for the reception. Please have your students bring them on the day of the reception (March 18th) to the PA room (Room 271).
Friday March 19
Seventh Annual Lunar New Year Dinner Gala
Note the new location in the Lunar Feast update below. |
Important Lunar Feast and Auction Updates
NEW: There has been a change in the restaurant that will be hosting our 7th annual Lunar New Year Dinner on Friday, March 19 at 6pm. The new location is the
88 Palace Restaurant (formally Triple 8 restaurant; Chinese name: Yi Dong Restaurant) at 88 East Broadway, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002, 212-941-8886. (Note: it is in Chinatown right underneath the Manhattan Bridge on East Broadway; a map with directions will be posted on the PA website).
NEW: DONATE LUNAR FEAST AUCTION ITEMS ON-LINE NOW!
We are pleased to announce the launching of the first Stuyvesant High School Online Auction and Donation Website. This will be run in conjunction with the 7th Annual Lunar Feast Dinner Gala. The website is now live and you can donate items now and over the next 3 weeks. To donate items or contribute money go to: www.biddingforgood.com/stuy-pa. Bidding on items will start on Sunday, March 14, and all bidding will close on Sunday March 28 at 6pm.
We strongly encourage everyone to donate through the website. However, if that is not possible, donations can be dropped off at the office of Harvey Blumm, the wonderful Stuyvesant Parent Coordinator (Room 273 at Stuyvesant) or at the offices of Miriam Chan at 221 Canal Street, Room 303. A donation form must accompany all items dropped off. All Lunar Dinner Forms can be found at the Stuy PA website at: www.stuy-pa.org.
Please visit www.biddingforgood.com/stuy-pa today!
For questions, please contact one of the following:
Leowlee@gmail.com - Lunar Feast Fundraising Committee - Gala Co-Chair
Jcheng6819@earthlink.net - Lunar Feast Program Committee - Gala Co-Chair
asg@amiegrossarchitects.co - Fundraising & Outreach Communication
Sginous@yahoo.com - Bidding For Good Online Auction Technical Support
Thank you in advance for all your help! |
Congratulations to our new Assistant Treasurer and parent volunteer!
Thanks to Wei Wah Chin and Bill Kaczmarek We were fortunate enough to have two sophomore parents express interest in serving as the PA assistant treasurer for the rest of this school year, and we're especially lucky that both will be working on this function for the PA. Wei Wah Chin was approved by motion at the February 23 PA meeting to serve as our new official Assistant Treasurer; she will be assisted by Bill Kaczmarek in filling this job. Thanks to both of you! |
March 1-4
Book Drive to benefit under-resourced NYC schools
From Monday, March 1st through Thursday, March 4th, students from public and private schools around the city will collect new and gently used books in their schools to help Project Cicero (www.projectcicero.org). Project Cicero is a literacy nonprofit that runs a citywide book drive each year to help under-resourced NYC public schools create classroom and school libraries. The Stuyvesant community has been an active and valuable participant for the past six years, and has contributed more books than any other school in the city!
Please bring your gently used books (K-12) to Stuy from March 1 through 4, and drop them in the boxes located on the second floor down the hall from the bridge entrance. Contact Stuy students and Project Cicero student reps Valeriya
Tsitron, villainous@gmail.com or Lea Beltramino, leabeltramino@yahoo.com with questions.
Project Cicero is affiliated with Teach for America, New York City Teaching Fellows, Children for Children, and a consortium of student and parent volunteers around the city.
March 3, 5 and 6
Sing!
Performances in the Murray Kahn Theater at Stuyvesant.
Thursday March 18 (evening) and Friday March 19 (afternoon)
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Faculty Dinner Reception
See details above to volunteer for the pre-conference Faculty Dinner Reception.
Saturday March 25-Tuesday April 6
Spring break: no school
Classes resume Wednesday April 7
Special for Juniors
First week of March
Junior College advisements
Junior college advisements will begin during the first week of March. Instructions for signing up will become available very soon at the school website, www.stuy.edu, and the PA website, www.stuy-pa.org. We will also send out information by email as we receive it. Note that reservations for these after-school sessions will be first-come first-serve. (We are also pleased to note that that this resource is supported by PA funds from last year's Lunar Feast.)
March 25 at 6:30 pm
Junior Parent meeting
A special meeting for Junior parents only is scheduled for March 25th at 6:30 P.M. College Office Coordinator, Pat Cleary, and the college counselors will present an overview of the college application process. |
Check out the PA Bulletin
January 2010 Bulletin available online
The January Parents' Association Bulletin is still on the PA website, at www.stuy-pa.org .
Remember: to receive a hard copy of the Bulletin in the mail, you MUST send in a request for a hard copy. Feel free to email your request with your address to florence@stuypanews.org. |
If you know of any Stuy parents who are not receiving this email, feel free to forward it to them or to let me know their name and email address. Thanks! | |
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