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2013-2014 School Pledge Drive
The annual School Pledge Drive has made amazing progress in our last week, and we are SOOO close to our goal of 100% participation and our goal of reaching $515,000. Please, please take a quick moment out of your day today to make your pledge ... remember, all we need is your pledge and remember, you have until June to actually complete your payment(s). We have an easy online option to help you complete this task. If you need any assistance, Debra Hofbauer would be more than happy to help you.
Thank you to all who have supported up to this point --- As of
3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, we have $466,000 pledged and $237,000 paid.
We still have 120 families left to pledge. Please go online today, so that we can finish this drive before the New Year. Mr. Fennessy will be personally contacting those folks left to pledge over the holiday break!
Thank you all for your amazing support. We want to extend a very sincere thank-you for all your contributions to this drive. We also want to thank Alida and Doug Oles for their incredible leadership role as chairs this year. We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and look forward to seeing everyone at the Christmas program this evening!
Calling all Volunteers! Now (at the end of this calendar year) might be a great time to tabulate all of those hours your family has donated to the school and not yet recorded so far. Click here for the Donated Hours Form to fill out and submit. Remember to include any volunteer work done for both the parish and school community. Thanks much, and Happy Holidays!  Thank you again to everyone for another successful auction. Our numbers so far show a gross of over $530,000. A very successful and well-attended event! We still have $39,308 in outstanding balances; you may continue to make payments with your Visa or Mastercard. The 8th Grade Christmas Movie Party is tomorrow, December 20. If you missed buying tickets at the auction, there is still time! We want the whole class to attend, and it is easy to buy the tickets, plus we have a pool of donated tickets if purchasing a ticket doesn't work for you at this time.
To get a ticket please send an email to Lisa Visintainer at the link below or stop by the Special Events Office and Colleen or Laura can help you. Please let me know how many tickets, and we will charge your auction account $25/ticket. Many of you were so generous and purchased extra tickets, and we thank you for that!
We look forward to helping these kids make great memories in their final year together. We could use a few more parent volunteers for the party from 12-3:30 on the day of the event. Please let us know if you would like to help.
Thanks so much, Gretchen, Darcy and Lisa
TO PURCHASE TICKETS-email Lisa at: svisintain@aol.com
Girls Party: Mystics and Martinis - January 10 If you missed buying your ticket at the auction, there are still a few spaces available. Ladies, enjoy a magical mystical night at the lovely home of Julie Lumpkin on Friday, January 10, 2014. Leave the stress of the holidays behind and find out what the New Year holds with our tarot card readers, mystics, and fortune tellers. Their predictions will only be cast in a positive way. Crafty cocktails and nibbles will be served by our wonderful St. Joseph bartenders. A night of music, mystics, and magical surprises await 100 lucky ladies.$75 per person Please email Laura Jager ljager@stjosephsea.org at the Special Events office to get your ticket. Auction DVD If you were at this year's auction, no doubt you enjoyed the amazing Larry Butcher - produced video. If you were not in attendance, perhaps you heard about one of the greatest auction videos in a long history of very funny, high-production value auction videos. Many of you asked to purchase your own copy, well now here's your chance....For $75 you will own a compilation which includes the videos for 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2006 and 2005. All proceeds benefit the school.Click here to access the sign-up form, or come to the Special Events Office to purchase yours. Some "housekeeping" details: - If you still owe for auction items purchased, please come to the Special Events Office ASAP or call us to arrange for payment. Auction items billed to your account will appear on your auction account, not your tuition bill.
- Come to the Special Events Office to pick up your purchases.
- If you did not get the opportunity to get into one of the special group parties, or purchase directories, the 8th grade photos, or professional photos by Katie Simmons, you can still sign up; just come to the Special Events Office to sign up or click here to access.
- It is never too late to donate - get your end-of-the-year donations taken care of; we will gladly accept donations to further underwrite the auction or for the classroom or outreach fund-an-items.
St. Joseph School Spirit Gear! Click here to order your SPORTS BAGS, SOCCER SCARVES, UMBRELLAS, SPORT SOCKS and other great items.
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St. Joe's Scholastic Book Fair. The Book Fair is not until the end of January (January 21-27), but you can order a gift certificate now for any amount. Once the Book Fair is here, your favorite teacher or staff person or child can purchase books, or whatever, with the gift certificate, for themselves or for the classroom collection.
