April 8th

Submitted by: Renna Durham and Drew Dimos

Absent: Meredith Berk, Isabel Sackner-Bernstein, Dawson Nicholson, Lauryl Fischer

(Kerianne Durkin will be 10 minutes late due to a meeting. Lauryl Fischer, Dawson Nicholson and Isabel Sackner-Bernstein will miss most, if not all, of class due to a mandatory study abroad meeting. Jenna Mason may be absent due to a family emergency)

1. Last Minute Planning for Induction Ceremony: 20 Min

Jenna Mason, Lexie Melanson, Anna deDufour

**Jenna Mason needs help/a replacement to help set up on Thursday because she has to go get x-rays for her chest post pneumonia

Induction Ceremony

Location Oaks 212

Time: 5-7

Program

Introduction and Main Program

• Steve Braye- introduction speech and quick overview of the ceremony

• Class speakers: 2016 (Arianna and Caley), 2015 (Bud Warner needs to announce them/get back to me), 2014 (Ethan Smith)

• Tom Arcaro: Skype speech from Costa Rica

• Carol Smith speech (new advisor)

Dinner

• Everyone will have a seat at a table, dinner is buffet style, called to eat by table

• Multimedia videos and such will be playing in background with Namibian music

• Games will be placed on the tables as an ice breaker

Closing

• Official thanks to everyone who helped out

• Presentation of the Periclean Award of the Year (Ross Mcfarland will present it)

• Mentor Mentee reveal! (Puzzle Pieces)

Completed Tasks

• Event set up sheet already filled out we have 2 trashcans, 8 round tables (8 chairs each) 4 large tables, 90 lecture chairs, 1 podium, 2 table cloths, 8 round table cloths as well as flowers (table decorations)

• Email invitations sent out to all classes including inductees

• Catherine Parsons contacted and will be in charge of formatting and printing the program

  • She will print out 17 card stock Periclean emblems for mentor mentee puzzles

  • She will send out the names of all of the people who have RSVPed

• Budget has been found we have $300-500 for food etc

• An inventory of Periclean room 209 has been taken

  • Two packs of 2000 pens

  • Three boxes of mugs (36 per box)

  • 6 table cloths

  • 40+ namibian Cds

  • 40+ Periclean Pins

• All guest speakers have been contacted and they have emailed back a outline of their speech

• Planed out where to order/ get food: Food will come from Sal’s this is the breakdown of the cost:

  • 4 trays of pasta x $50 (serving size 24 per tray)= $200

  • 4 trays of salad x$30 = $120

  • 16 dozen bread sticks x $3.50= $56

  • Total= $376

• New class books have been ordered and will be given as gifts “Soul of a Citizen: Living with conviction in challenging times” By P.R Lobe

• Mentor Mentee ceremony has been planned and outlined

  • Excel document shared with the class (in case you do not have it it is bellow)

  • Mentor Mentee Pairing

Tasks needing to be Completed

• Prepare/ plan seating arrangements

• Print out programs, nametags, and table numbers

• Purchase utensils (the plastic utensils that look metallic)

• Compile RSVP list

• Compose multimedia presentation and Namibian music and inductee biographies

• Find a  Periclean to record event

• Set up on April 12th

• Mentor Mentee big reveal puzzles + Gifts

People who can’t come to the induction:

• Other people act as a temporary mentor for mentees (for puzzle activity)

2. Skype with Morgan’s contact, Maggie Ducayet: 30 min

• Earned a 25,000 grant to do outreach in a third world country–they chose Honduras

  • 50 People went down to a small town near the border of Guatemala (9 years ago)

  • Worked with dentists and doctors

  • Brought clothing and food, Maggie noticed that this wasn’t the best way to create sustainability. She noticed that the town was dependent on these mission trips.

• After her first trip, she went back numerous times taking a different approach to helping

  • Mission to make a difference

  • Worked in the central town of Sula, then moved to a more isolated villages

  • Now there is a clinic that they work out of with the goal of working on/ teaching about education and health

  • Trained interested villagers to become “first responders” for health issues that rise in individuals in the villages.

    • Taught BP, Heart Rate, given all the supplies to complete their tasks, unpaid

  • Goal to have people in the villages take responsibility for themselves/ their health

  • Had many projects focused on things including getting school supplies for schools/teachers, building a school, and a water project–all focused on self-sustainability.

• Are her mission trips religious?

  • Wants to be the hands and feet of God, but to not make it obvious

• Her most successful strategies to fundraising

  • Cowboy Ball– band, auctions, etc. [realized it was hard to people to volunteer to help run the ball/ it was a lot of work]

  • Capital Campaign– writing fundraising letter/newsletter letters with personal notes [have raised 2x as much money]

  • Bake sale and Jewelry sale for summer vacationers

• Working on a grant proposal for Scholarships

• Most people going on these trips will help build

  • No need to know spanish

  • One week

• Coffee crisis

  • fungus that has ruined most crops

• Large groups overwhelm villagers

• Never promise anything that you know you can’t fulfill

• summitinhonduras.org

3. Finish up Cards and Cut outs for Induction

5. Announcements and discussion: 5 min. (Moved to the end to give different people a chance to be involved at different levels during the class since there are some who have to come or go early. If we don’t get to the discussions, we can do them on Moodle.)

1. Charlotte Best has decided to drop the class and the program due to too many other obligations. (April)

2. A $1200 Fund for Excellence Grant was submitted by Christine Harris and Erin Lanzotti to pay for the English classes for the transition home boys last Friday. (April)

3. Hogares Sanos plans (Casey).

4. Class retreat is ________________________________. (Libby/Christine)

5. C2GG campaign is _____________________________. (Erin Lanzotti)

6. Announcements and discussion: 5 min. (Moved to the end to give different people a chance to be involved at different levels during the class since there are some who have to come or go early. If we don’t get to the discussions, we can do them on Moodle.)

1. Charlotte Best has decided to drop the class and the program due to too many other obligations. (April)

2. A $1200 Fund for Excellence Grant was submitted by Christine Harris and Erin Lanzotti to pay for the English classes for the transition home boys last Friday. (April)

3. Hogares Sanos plans (Casey).

4. Class retreat is ________________________________. (Libby/Christine)

5. C2GG campaign is _____________________________. (Erin Lanzotti)

7.Next Class

    2 KGB’s that are left- 30mins

    Committees- 40 mins

    Periclean-in-Residence- 15-20mins

    Announcements- 10-15mins

Announcements

    Cookies to go go is happening next Wednesday 16th

    Everyone sign up for a 2hr shift

    If you can’t attend please provide reason

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