December 7, 2016


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More food news

Thanks everyone for your suggestions for Thursday PTO sales and  for your patience through the changes.  We have had several suggestions for alternate Vietnamese, but have not yet found a favorable delivery option.  We are still investigating those possibilities and still taking suggestions.   We are also investigating Indian menu options that make the food from Cowboys and Indians more filling.  We did have reviews that their sandwiches were tasty.  So we are tweaking the menu tomorrow with sides.

The remaining PTO lunches this semester will include sandwiches from Cowboys and Indians aka Juan Mon's International Sandwiches, which will include vegetarian options, for $4. After the holiday break, Chick-fil-A sandwiches will be $4, while pizza will go for $2, reflecting increases in PTO food sales costs.

Good luck to everyone studying for finals!

Keep Calm and Rhino On!
 
Sarah Bittner
[email protected]
 
In the Holiday Spirit

With the holidays rapidly approaching, the PTO once again plans to provide holiday baskets to some of our CVHS families in need.  We are collecting donations of money, gift cards, canned goods and nonperishable items for CVHS families in need. Donations can be turned in to Ms. Alvarenga in the attendance office. All donations will be distributed prior to Winter break.  
 
For more information, please contact Ms. Alvarenga at [email protected].
 
Holiday giftcards
Show appreciation to CVHS staff!

Please show your Teachers & Staff appreciation by donating holiday gift cards. The PTO will be collecting gift cards to be passed out on Wednesday, December 14th during the CVHS Staff Holiday Luncheon. Any amount will be appreciated. The school will provide the lunch and the PTO will pass out pies & have a drawing for gift cards. You can sign up here http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090444aeaa2ba75-cvhs, then bring your gift cards to the Front Office by 12:30 p.m on Wednesday, December 14th.
 
One more tour!
As expected, it was standing room only for last week's magnet tour.  This week's tour on Thursday, Dec. 8, will be the last one before HISD's magnet application deadline on Friiay, Dec. 9.  It is also expected to be very full. 

Ms. Moumni has done a wonderful job of recruiting articulate and enthusiastic student volunteers to lead ten magnet tour groups each week.  She has expressed her appreciation for all parent volunteers who have helped showcase Carnegie to prospective students and their parents via magnet tours this semester. 

If you haven't volunteered yet, there's still one slot available for this week's tour.  There's no need to worry about having all the answers if you volunteer.  After the tour, administration and staff members will be available to answer any questions tour attendees might have that are out of the student tour guide's or parent volunteer's realm of expertise. 

As chair of the Magnet Recruiting Committee, I'd also like to express my gratitude to all the parents who stepped up and filled the 90 magnet tour volunteer slots, many of whom signed up for several weeks!!!  Multiple visiting parents commented on how impressive it was to see such a high level of parent participation for a high school the size of Carnegie. 

If you would like to help or for more information, click here.

When reviewing which charities need your support most, we'd like you to consider a cause very close to your home and your heart, your schools' PTO. 
Every $$ donated to CVHS PTO is used to help the students and their families, the teachers and the school
 
The vast majority of our PTO funding comes through generous contributions to the Friends & Family Campaign. Without this money, we cannot complete all our good work. We have not reached our goals for the year, and so we ask that parents consider this worthy, charitable (tax deductible) gift.

We want all parents to have complete knowledge of what we do with the money we collect.  Most of our spending goes to these terrific causes:
  • Teacher Appreciation, Development and Support: $17,000
  • Campus Beautification and Maintenance $3,000
  • Events, Honoraria and School Clubs $6,000
  • Scholarships $2,500
We hope to collect more than our budgetary needs so that we can make the Pavilion (pictured above) a reality. The Pavilion will provide all students a wonderful place for lunch, gathering, and educational activities. We continue to raise money towards our target of an additional $25,000 to complete the $100,000 funding needed for the Pavilion. The PTO has raised the remaining funds through past gifts to the Friends & Family Campaign.

Donations may be made online, by clicking here, or by check made out to "CVHS PTO". Our giving levels are listed online, but the PTO welcomes any donations of any amount!

Please contact Mark J. Levine, First Vice President - Fund Raising at [email protected] or me, Sarah Bittner, President, at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Friends and Family Campaign

Many thanks to our donors. Remember, it's not too late, you can still donate to CVHS PTO! Your generocity will help the school, the teaching staff and the students.
Find more information here.
Please join the list of friends and family of CVHS that preceded you.


PRINCIPAL'S CIRCLE
Laurel Agris & Steve Cole
Darshan and Madhavi Anandu
Adrian and Lisa Baer
The Hamzeh Family
The Hsu Family
Deepak and Joan Khosla
Brent Nyquist and Sarah Selleck
The McLean Family
The Family of Michael Yang
Elizabeth and Edward York

COURTYARD CADRE
The Bittner Family
The Hunsche Family
David Marchese
Caroline and Dave Quenemoen
The Sandweiss Family

BALCONY BUNCH
The Cai Family
The Crabb Family
The Giorgberidze Family
The Go Family
The Grimsinger Family
The Kansara Family
Maria and Andy Keene
Mark and Allison Levine
Prashant and Hira Lotlikar
Family of Nicholas McIntosh
The Numata Family
Lundin and Teresa Schneider
The Vaca Family
Beth Volz and Guillermo Herran
Yi Zhang

GREEN ROOF GANG 
The Argudin Family
Erin Brau
The Cheek Family
The Coleman Family
The Goodfriend Family
Susan and Michael Hawes
Nicolas Jeanjean Family
Lawler Kelly Family
The Lawter Family
Mitzi and Norman Levine Family, Jonah Levine CVHS class of 2016
Shiawyih Lin and Kaiyi Li
Terry Liscano
The Liu Family
The Luthria Family
Jennifer and Lee Mashburn
Stephanie Pedigo and Kent Maulsby
Liliana and Russell McKean
Joumana and Boutros Merhi
Catherine Nanson
Lien and Gordana Nguyen
Palacharla Family
Jim and Lara Powers
The Purcell Family
David & Spencer Redding
Christi Roquemore and Craig Gordy
Kirk and Bay Rummel
Susanne Savely
Alice Savage and Masoud Shafiei
Sandra Smith
Kristie and Alan Sparks Jr.
Lana and Scott Ward
The Whitley-Akin Family
The Williams Family
The Wolfe Family
The Family of Emily Hwu
The Yu Family
The Yun's Family
 
Upcoming Events

Dec. 8
Campus magnet tours

Dec. 9
Winter dance

Dec. 13-16
Finals week 

Dec. 15
PTO Employee Appreciation

Dec. 19-Jan. 3
Winter Break

Jan. 3
Cookies and Cocoa Alumni Reunion

Jan. 4
First day of spring semester

Jan. 5
Alumni panel for students/parents