January 16, 2009

ENROLLMENT: As of now, Lopez & Meisels are the only ones going on this trip. As enthusiastic as you are about fundraising, remember that you are not officially on the EF Tour roster until you enroll.

VALENTINE'S DAY FUNDRAISER: ROSE SALE
(A) PRE-SALE: JAN 26 - FEB 9
(B) I have placed an order with Kennicott Flowers for 100 pink roses, 100 white roses, and enough flower seram sleeves and ribbon to wrap our orders with. Each rose will cost us $0.80, and the entire order is costing us approximately $180.00. In casual conversations, the tentative selling prices are the following:

1 rose = $2
2 roses = $3
3 roses = $5
6 roses = $8
12 roses = $15

(C) Please start telling all your FRIENDS and TEACHERS about this sale. I just saw Chief Thompson on some flowers.com website, ordering roses for his wife (?). Most websites will sell roses for about $50 per dozen, so we are cutting them a GREAT deal. We are not buying our roses from Costco, but rather a FLOWER SHOP from the Chicago area. In other words, married folks are already thinking of what they are going to buy. INTERCEPT! We need to aim our enthusiasm on our teachers - here is a list of who you should start mildly harassing:

Mr and Mrs. Kohl
Mr. Biela
Mr. Moore
ROTC Staff: ALL of them have significant others/wives
Ms. Ratio: She is engaged!
Ms. O'Kane, Ms. Dubrul
Ms. Lanners, Ms. Uebler
Mr. Svelnys, Ms. Palmer
Mr. Fogel, Mr. Soohov
Mr. Raskin, Ms. Aristizabal (attendance lady)
Ms. Cleary, Mr. Weiss

VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE: February 11, 2009
(A) Theme? Come to the Wednesday meeting with IDEAS
(B) Decorations: Centeno, Acevedo, Lopez, Pantoja: Check out www.orientaltrading.com - I will be placing a decorations order with Ms. Kohl this upcoming week. Come with ideas written out. Be sure to include how MANY you want to order of each. Budget for decorations: $300
(C) Music: Lima - where are you on this?
(D) Food: Meisels - where are you on this? I've asked Ms. Leuschel to help me with this, so please check in with her BEFORE WEDNESDAY
(E) Posters: I will need a handful of helpers to help me make letter-size posters. Garcia, you mentioned that Thorpe would help us make a banner? Is this a banner to help advertise, or banner to help decorate the gym?
(F) Ticketing: Rose Sale Tickets? Dance Tickets? Ideas? We once mentioned cutting out half-heart shapes as tickets. Do we want to give party favors (like the mask at the homecoming dance)? We will need to charge $5 to cover all the fees for this dance.
(G) Dance venue: I am asking PO Reed and Commander Tooker to help us secure the Senn gymnasium. Tentatively, it will be from 6-10pm on Feb 11, but we are not sure if it is available.

I will be keeping a blog for our group. Go to www.rickovernaval.org, scroll down, and click on "Costa Rica Blog." Stay tuned, everyone!

MANDATORY MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY!

See you soon,
Ms. Chen