Meeting Minutes
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April 6, 2008
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March 30, 2008
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March 9, 2008
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February 24, 2008
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February 10, 2008
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January 27, 2008
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November 18, 2007
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SOPHS minutes
3/30/08 8 pm at Higherground
Next meeting: April 13th, 8 pm at Higherground
Members in Attendance: Amy Wroblewski, Chaz Johnson, Kelly Palmer, Nicole Scharrer, Erin Flanagan, Andrew Simon, Stacey Epping, Shelby Johnson, Britney Diercks
Advisors in Attendance: Paula Stuettgen, Blake Westerlund
Reminder: Telethon April 24th 7-12 midnight
Raffle tickets were printed yesterday.
Everyone: be on the lookout for talent and MC’s! Music, comedy, talents, whatever! Get their name and talent and just email it to Jenna at evansjr
We are ordering telethon T-shirts on Friday. Get your name and shirt size to Britney at dierckbr. Attached are the designs for the front and back.
If you missed the meeting, here are the chairs' info:
Publicity – dierckbr , Britney Diercks
Talent- evansjr , Jenna Evans
Prizes- bollinah , Alyssa Bollinger
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SOPHS minutes
3-9-08 at Higherground
Next meeting: March 30 at 8 pm
Members in Attendance: Jenna Evans, Britney Diercks, Laura Vick, Amy Wroblewski, Katie Rydlund, Amber Boyce-Fisk, Kristin Hurley, Erin Flanagan, Tara Bannow, Alyssa Vach, Andrew Simon, Caitlin Hellmich, Kelly Palmer, Alyssa Bollinger
Advisors in Attendance: Manda Krier, Blake Westerlund, Paula Stuettgen
Save the Date! April 24, 7–12 PM for the Telethon. We would appreciate everyone’s help if you’re available, so plan on being there all night!
Set up at around 4:00, cleanup should take now longer than a half hour.
Most of our meeting time consists of discussing plans and progress in our individual groups. You can contact your group’s chair to find out when they talked about.
Publicity – dierckbr , Britney Diercks
Talent- evansjr , Jenna Evans
Prizes- bollinah , Alyssa Bollinger
See you all on Sunday at 8!
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SOPHS Minutes 2/24/08 at Sammy’s Pizza
Next meeting: Sunday March 9th - 8:00 pm at Higherground
Members in attendance:
Jenna Evans, AlyssaVach, Amy Wroblewski, Britney Diercks, Caitlin Hellmich, Andrew Simon, Kristin Hurley, Stacy Epping, Shelby Johnson, Tara Bannow, Alyssa Bollinger
Advisors Present:
Paula Stuettgen, Blake Weston, Manda Krier
Brent Hafele, at the CV Free Clinic, gave us a wonderful tour of the clinic before our meeting. He mentioned a volunteer opportunity he thought of for our group or even individuals. They are looking to get donations of meals for their volunteers from local restaurants. We would be contacting restaurants and asking for 4 meals a year. Please let me know if this interests you; we could definitely look into this.
At the meeting, we broke up into our telethon subcommittees. If you missed the meeting or are interested in joining a committee, please contact the committee ‘leader’ to find out what you missed.
Publicity – dierckbr , Britney Diercks
Talent- evansjr , Jenna Evans
Prizes- bollinah , Alyssa Bollinger
All groups are getting started with all their business and everyone can always use some more help, so don’t hesitate to join a group!
See everyone on the 9th!
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Minutes from February 10, 2008
8 pm at Higherground
Next Meeting: Sunday, February 24th – We’re meeting at 5 pm to tour the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic and then going to Sammy’s for pizza! Please let me know if you need a ride there, there’s plenty of space.
Members in attendance:
Caitlin Hellmich, Kristin Hurley, Jenna Evans, Britney Diercks, Nicole Scharrer, Stacey Epping, Amy Wroblewski, Kelly Palmer, Andrew Simons, Alyssa Bollinger
Organization’s Presentations:
For those of you who were not there, we had invited the various organizations we had thought about donating the Telethon money to our meeting. Representatives from those organizations came to present their cause. Afterwards, we narrowed it down to three.
1. Family Resource Center- They serve families throughout Eau Claire teaching parenting skills, including parents in jail and at homeless shelters. There are few different programs they run. They have first time parent support with monthly visits, they have playtime for mother/pre-k child couples to get the child socialize with other children, and some parent “coaching” classes even for parents of kids in their teens. They are mainly funded through grants and United Way, but their budget is slowly decreasing. They would use the money donated by getting new parent education materials. They also have various ways that we, as a group or individually, could participate in such as childcare and playgroup prep.
2. Big Brothers Big Sisters- Most of you already know what this is all about; this organization pairs ‘bigs’ (high school and older) with ‘littles’ (younger children that need a mentor) to meet 2-4 times a month and just hang out, or work at their school with them. What we can do with the money we raise is sponsor an event for these pairs. The idea of having the event at Action City is what we would like to do, but we’re not sure of the cost of renting the place out for a night.
3. Hmong Mutual Assistance Association- They provide services for the Hmong people in our community. With immigration on the rise, their numbers are increasing. They give employee training, family strength, citizenship training, and a ton more to those in need. They usually hold an annual youth leadership camp for kids to learn and have some fun, but it just doesn’t fit in their budget this year. The money donated would cover a majority of the costs for this camp.
If you have any input on which to choose, please forward that to Andrew; we’re hoping to decide fairly soon.
Service Projects
The service committee has thought of a few projects we could do. Clean a highway, make cookies for the Bolton Refuge House, and a few others were mentioned.
That’s all for this week. We hope to see all of you on February 24th to have some pizza!
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8 PM HIGHERGROUND
Members in Attendance: Laura Vick, Nicole Schamer, Erin Flanagan, Jenna Evans, Britney Diercks, Katie Rydlund, Chaz Johnson, Kristin Hurley, Shelby Johnson, Tara Bannow, Amy Wroblewski, Andrew Simon, Stacy Epping. Advisors: Blake Westerlund, Paula Stuettgen, Amanda Krier.
New Advisor:
Welcome Amanda Krier!
SOPHS Scholarship:
Information about the scholarships will be made available in March.
Honors Week:
Consider coming to the Banquet, SOPHS will pay for your ticket if you sit at the SOPHS table.
Honors Banquet Keynote Speaker Competition. As a member of SOPHS everyone is eligible for this competition. There is a $60 prize plus a free banquet ticket for the keynote speaker! If anyone is interested let me know and I can give you more information on the competition. The nomination deadline is February 5th.
Service Committee:
The Service Committee agreed to go to the Community Action Fair this Thursday to help generate Ideas for service Activities.
The Service Committee also generate several ideas including: Playing games either at a nursing home or at the Boys and Girls Club. The committee also decided that we wanted to make Cards for Valentine’s Day and send them to a local Nursing home.
Social Committee:
We will be touring the Free Clinic Facilities on February 24th. We will be touring the clinic at 5:00P.M. and then eating at Sammy's Pizza afterwards (around 5:30). If you need a ride E-mail Jenna Evans at evansjr@uwec.edu, we will be meeting in the Towers Lobby at 4:45. Please E-mail Jenna by February 20th!
Telethon:
Sub Committees:
Publicity/Information
Nicole Scharrer
Katie Rydlund
Kristin Hurley
Britney Diercks
Prizes/Solicitation
Laura Vick
Erin Flanagan
Shelby Johnson
Tara Bannon
Talent Coordination
Kelly Palmer
Jenna Evans
Chaz Johnson
Stacy Epping
Andrew Simon
Co-Chair
Kelly and Amy were going to discuss possibly Co-Chairing the Telethon, please let me know what you two decided.
Organizations to Raise Money For:
Andrew will contact the organizations and prepare them to present their organizations to us next meeting.
Next Meeting - Sunday February 10th at 8:00P.M.Motion to move the meeting time was discussed. Sunday at 8:00 P.M. is the only time that everyone could make, since that time was the original time we decided to keep the meetings at the same time. Terri, make as many meetings as you can, we will continue to send keep you up to date via E-mail. Always feel free to E-mail me with any questions you may have.
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Minutes of first meeting of 2007-2008 SOPHS CHAPTER
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November 18, 2007 7 pm Higherground
Present:
Current Members: Tara Bannow, Alyssa Bollinger, Amber Boyce-Fisk, Britney Diercks, Stacey Epping, Jenna Evans, Caitlin Hellmich, Kristin Hurley, Chaz Johnson, Shelby Johnson, Kelly Palmer, Katie Rydlund, Nicole Scharrer, Andrew Simon, Laura Vick, Amy Wroblewski
Previous year’s officers: Jennifer Behnke (treasurer), Gina Bloczynski (president), Joseph Glatczak (vice president), Julie Meis (secretary)
Advisor: Paula Stuettgen
1. First order of business was orientation for new members -
The purpose of SOPHS is to recognize and cultivate outstanding academic and leadership accomplishment and potential. SOPHS members are selected and brought together to learn from one another while accomplishing something of significance for the campus and the community. Our traditions include participation in annual Honors Week activities and the banquet (April 26, 2008 – SOPHS Tickets are already paid for), our Telethon on campus television TV-10, which benefits an area non-profit (last year we raised $1500 for Chippewa Valley Free Clinic), and several community service activities.
Our primary time of activity is spring semester; fall semester usually only includes one service project and selection of new members.
Our committees are: Telethon (a committee of the whole – all SOPHS members serve in some capacity on the subcommittees of Talent and Contests, Publicity and Information, Solicitation of Donors and Prizes); Social; Service; and Scholarship. We will start filling in these committees at our next meeting.
2. Election of Officers for 2007-08 –
President – Andrew Simon
Vice President – Caitlin Hellmich
Treasurer – Britney Diercks
Secretary – Alyssa Bollinger
Web master – Katie Rydlund
Honors Week Steering Committee Reps – Nicole Scharrer, Kristin Hurley
3. Our meetings will normally be held every two weeks on Sundays at 8 pm in Higherground. The next meeting will be Sunday, December 2, 2007. Since public transportation is not available Sunday nights, anyone needing a ride to the meeting should contact Advisor Paula Stuettgen (stuettpj, 836.4803 or 835.4087)
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