Mass JCL Board Meeting 8.8.09

In attendance: Zach Hall, Grace Thomas, Emily Gallagher, Lucy Sinacola, Alyssa Tomcowicz, Josh Harrington, Khi Nguyen, Emily Chang, Tien Le, Eda Kaceli, Chris Hynds, Ms. Fillion

Regrets: Ms. Keeley, Ms. Miklosky, Casie Kelleher, Michael Howard

10:20 am: meeting is called to order

-Catapult Kickoff

~Several dates available: October 24 (1^st choice), 10 (2^nd), 17 (3^rd)

-Voice Your School Day: September 26^th

-Online Conduct Policy (overview; keep negative comments and official business about Mass JCL off of public online forums)

10:28 Dates for Future meetings

-September 19^th, Lunenburg Public Library, 10-2

-November 14^th, Abby Kelley

-January 30^th, Abby Kelley

-February 6^th, Abby Kelley

-April 10^th, Abby Kelley

10:41 National Convention Report

-Lucy: Spirit was well done, Scrapbook came in 2^nd place (traditional scrapbooks); Publicity won 3^rd; Publication won 4^th; T-shirt won 3^rd overall, plus several other awards

-Grace: Classics Day- 12 presenters have confirmed, 5 maybes, 15 awaiting response; has begun to put packets together

-Eda: New website design is finished, will be up soon

10:57 Community Service Project

-More focus on community service projects

~Have JCLers do same community service activity across the state (maybe)

-Publicity

~Toga Parade: possibly have newspaper coverage; may need to hire policemen

11:03 September mailing

-Mail on Tuesday the 8th

-Information on: Classics Day (not official invitation), Voice Your School, JCL Registration, etc. (some info on State Convention)

-Forum Factorum

11:09 Break for Lunch

12:36 New schools

-Each board member needs to find the Latin teachers’ names and their mailing addresses for two or more schools

12:44 Voice Your School Day

-September 6^th at Lunenburg High School, 10am- 2pm

-Cost for event: free (encourage people to go), but pay for own lunch

-Schedule

~Registration: 30 minutes

~ Opening Remarks: 15 minutes

~ Workshops: 45 minutes

~ Lunch/Bazaar: 1 hour

~Open Forum: 45 minutes

~Closing remarks/invitation to future events/deadline reminders: 15 minutes

-Workshops

~Zach Hall: ‘Leadership’

~Grace Thomas, Lucy Sinacola, Alyssa Tomcowicz, Casie Kelleher: Community Service

~Emily Gallagher, Michael Howard: Newsletter

~Dylan Drolette, Patrick Londa, Derek Booth: Certamen

~Mrs. Sinacola, Dr. Nelson: Becoming a Sponsor

12:56 Other; discussion

-Ms. Fillion: When sending mass e-mails please Bcc people rather than ‘Cc-ing’ them, so as not to give out everyone’s e-mail addresses

-Rename VYS Day?

~Jumpstart JCL

~Join Come Lead: JCL

~Revisit this topic later

1:07 Recruitment Drive

-Several schools have contacted us or have been JCL chapters in the past

~Groton School

~Bancroft School

-Prepare a presentation for interested schools

1:13 College Acceptance Letters

-Many JCL members going into college have received acceptance letters from mentioning their involvement in the JCL; possibly collect those and send them to Latin teachers

1:18 Name of “VYS” Day

- Officer Retreat

-Return to this later (again)

1:25 Publicity and Community Service ideas

-Try to get a shout-out from a television show or radio station

-Charity Walks with signs and/or togas

-Organize a ‘Relay for Life’ team

1:31 Back to “VYS” Day naming!

-Consul Camp

-extensive discussion

1:43 Other

-Nationals contest results (Ms. Fillion will get them from Mr. O’Neil)

-Forum Factorum discussion (content, pictures, deadline)

2:00 Meeting adjourned