Minutes for July 7, 2010 Debate Parent Support
Group
Meeting:
-Those present-Mary Dye (Kyle), Nick Valle Sr.
(Nick Jr.),
Cyndi Koester (Olivia), Karen Edmisten (Sierra), Bobbie Rousseau
(Danny), Bill
and Diane Beachly (Evan), Jessica Meeske and her son Robert, Dawn Lapka
(James), Roy Panwitz and his daughter Hannah, Linda Jasch (Brooke), and
the Gragg family (Kenzie).
-Those not present-Linda Cooke (Tom), both Nguyen
families,
Heidi Thomas (Briton), Sharon Deepe (Mariah), Kay Sommerfeld (Katie).
Carolyn
Brown (Shaylee)
-Fajardo went over current status of accounts. We are dipping into student accounts because
we did not make enough money over the year to sustain all costs, and
because
during the summer the copy machine is still being paid for, there is no
choice
but to dip into the student accounts. (548.00 left)…Fajardo will make a
sheet
guesstimating expenses to help out all groups this coming year.
-Fajardo talked about meetings with both Speidell
and
Lifestyle Kitchens to do the Sweepstakes trophies out of black granite
from
Africa. Lifestyles would possibly
provide the scraps in a go-green effort and cut to size, and Speidell
will do
the engraving as a donation.
-Bobbie Rousseau, Danny’s mom, suggested officers
should
come up with a name for the tourney.
Officers will meet on this July 15.
-Fajardo talked about the issue of paying judges
for the
tournament under the budget concerns.
It was suggested to find people within law firms, Hastings
College,
Toastmasters, and Elks. We will do
this, but let’s hope they donate their time rather than ask to be paid. We also have parents who can judge, and some
of our Senior debaters.
-Group discussed ideas for fundraisers
*Bobbie Rousseau
(Danny) suggested
Group babysitting nights, where students engage little ones in life
debate;
like during snack time there could be a little discussion about how to
really
make a PB&J sandwich, or which way is the best way (check with
Opperman
concerning liability)
*Fajardo suggested
dinner fore area
businesses and organizations to come, listen to students, and do
free-will
donations/stocks in students. (Jessica
Meeske, Robert’s mom, said she would look more into this as she has done
this
kind of thing before) As part of this,
students would email and send pictures of progress in debate and at
tournaments. And we would have levels of
stockholders for
appreciation…bronze, silver, gold.
*Nick Valle Sr., Nick
Jr.’s dad,
discussed calendars made up of debate pictures to sell to area
businesses
(Fajardo will bring a sample and get pricing)
*This idea led into
possibly
handing out debate team posters with tournament dates like the sports
teams do
to gain awareness and support, maybe even use it as a “thank you” to
businesses
who donate.
-Fajardo went over the current status of Committee
sign
ups. Here’s who we have for each
committee so far…
*Tournament
coordinator-Jessica Meeske and Todd Pankratz, parents of Robert.
*Awards-Diane Beachly
(Evan) will
chair. Roy Panwitz (Hannah) will help.
*Concessions-Mary Dye,
grandmother
of Kyle Neugin, and Karen Edmisten, mother of Sierra, will chair. Linda Jasch (Brooke), Sharon Deepe (Mariah),
and Kay Sommerfeld (Katie) will help. (Looking into other organizations,
Student Council, and National Honor Society for help on the day of
tournament)...(Going to ask Phuong to see if we can get those egg
rolls!!!)
*Community Public
Relations both
for the tournament and the year-Nick Valle Sr. (Nick) will chair. Dawn Lapka (James), Bobbie Rousseau (Danny),
and Cyndi Koester (Olivia) will help.
(I think Briton’s mom was interested, but need to contact her
again)
*Debater
Housing-Jessica Meeske and
Todd Pankratz (Robert) know people from the college who can help with
this.
*Debate work nights and
listeners-Jenny Ziemba will chair….We haven’t talked about this much
because it
won’t be necessary to discuss until October, but Jenny will be
responsible for
calling/emailing people to remind them of their date to help with food
and/or
listen to debaters.
*T-shirts/Polos-Bill
Beachly (Evan)
*Accounting-Randy
Edmisten
(Sierra)…possibly Nick Valle depending on situation.
*Debanquet-Mary Dye
(Kyle) and Karen
Edmisten (Sierra) will chair as they already are doing food for the
tournament.
*Press
Releases/Interviews-Most of
this will be done through my debate officer, Mariah Deepe, but there are
some
things she cannot control, like getting our name on the slides for KHAS,
or
talking on the Saturday morning brief on team updates at Hogans. We decided parents can sign up for
individual slots so that one parent would have to commit to every
weekend.
-Bill Beachly, Evan’s dad, asked about what t-shirt
designs
we are going for. They are as follows-
*Team shirt for
10-11…This comes
from an experience last year at a tournament.
My debaters were discussing Affirmative Action, and talked about
Women’s
Suffrage. The other team asked for
proof about the Women’s Suffrage. My
team stated that it was American History, and didn’t need proof that it
happened. The judge voted in favor of
the opposing team and said that my team needed proof. So
this year our shirt will have this quote on it, “Quoting
American History is NOT Credible”, and then we will have statements that
we
cannot assert to be true based on history alone, like “Man never walked
on the
moon”, “England still owns us”, etc.
After confronting other higher-up coaches about this issue, they
agreed
with me, but the damage was already done.
So this is meant to be a witty reminder. J
*Tournament shirt for
Nov. 21,
2010…All debaters and parents will be able to get a shirt like this. The design is a t-shirt with a formal shirt
sketched on with lapels, a tie, and pocket with button. On
the tie we will say “H-Town” or something
HHSish, and then on the side without the sketched pocket, we will have a
name
tag graphic that says, “Hello, my name is…” and each shirt will be
individualized
with names.
*Polos are our
embroidered shirt
for varsity with new stripes added on for every year they get a varsity
letter. This is meant to be a classy
and distinctive shirt to wear the day before a tournament at school, or
traveling to and from tournaments.
*The last shirt is the
team’s
LIST. This is a memories shirt that has
a list of all the exciting, weird, and success moments of the year.
-There was a little discussion about payment for
shirts. The t-shirts are usually
$12-$14 dollars. Bill wants to check
and see if we can go anywhere else besides Hogans, so he’s going to
check other
venues. Students would be paying for
these because it is their choice to get them.
The polos, on the other hand, are quite expensive, which is part
of the
reason why we are dipping into student accounts. New
polos range from $24-$30, while new stripes range from $7.00
to $10.00 depending on the year. It was
suggested that families would be welcome to donate half or all of the
expense
depending on ability.
-Food drive was discussed to help with debate work
nights. This could work several
ways…Ask our business sponsors to donate a can of something, ask parents
to
donate, and/or ask teachers at the school if they’d be willing. (Fajardo will check with Opperman on this,
but the Food drive one way or another should be done.)
-Judging Nights July 27 and/or 28-Parents need only
come to
one if they want to be listeners at practice nights. Come
to more and eventual supplement workshops if they really
want to judge for the HHS tournament.
Workshop will start at 4pm and go until 8pm. We
will learn Congress, PF, and then LD.
-Talked about getting in touch with Randy Kottwitz
from
Kool-Aid Days to donate kool-aid packets, maybe get the kool-aid guy,
and
donate/buy mugs from this year as speaker awards/1st-3rd
place prizes for debaters. He will need
to be contacted after Aug. 15 as Kool-Aid Days will wrap up then to have
free
time to talk with us.
-Committees broke off into brainstorm groups for
the rest of the evening. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT WAS DISCUSSED IN THESE
GROUPS SO I HAVE AN IDEA OF WHERE EVERYONE IS AT IN PLANS.
-NEXT MEETING DATES.....Definitely meeting on
August 4th at 6:30pm. Some dates need to be set for certain fundraising
activities, and committees need to breakout in PLANNING sessions. No, I
will not have a big long speech at the beginning. This is for
individual committee planning time, and I'm there for questions and
setting up the calendar. BTW...from now on, we will be using the
www.hhsdebate.com website to post calendar information for the committee
to help. I also need to get feedback from you by the August 4th date
on which of the next dates would work best for us to meet as we need to
get a lot organized before the school year begins. Teachers are
requested to be back August 19th, and school starts the following week.
So, please choose one of these dates: August 11 or August 18 to make
some final preparations before the year begins. We will be meeting in
the HHS library. Please put my phone number in your phones. Last time
we had parents unable to get in because they were late, but had no way
of contacting us to let them in- 402-984-6997.
Please let me know that a parent has received this.
Thank you so much for your help!
