February 16, 2009 Minutes

Hello, CHILD!

Britney was kind enough to jot notes for me last meeting. Here are the minutes from Monday, February 16.

We will have an optional meeting on Wednesday, February 25 to make posters for the book sale and for tee-shirts. The book lady may not be a possibility – Maggie hasn’t had luck contacting her, but it’s still an option. Dr. Matoush seemed to think that CHILD should get a profit from the book sale, but the nice lady might not come if that’s the case. Britney contacted someone about getting a room in Madison, which will be about $60 a night – so, if the lady comes, we will have a place for her to stay!

Morgan sent out information about the T-shirt sale – please see your e-mails about selling and buying shirts and contact Morgan if you have any questions.

Britney FINALLY heard back from the website guy – yay! She and I will work to fix the glitches and put all of the past minutes up for everyone to see – we will soon have everything in one place, hopefully, which will be wonderful!

Our next regular meeting is scheduled for March 11. Tiffany should have the materials for our book-binding project for everyone to work on. Our deadline is April, so we need to work together to get everything accomplished! We will!

Lastly, Britney is still working on the Smokey Mountain High School project. She will keep us updated.

Happy week, everyone!

April H.

February 4 Minutes

HEY, CHILD!

The first meeting of the Spring 2009 semester was held on February 4 at 5:30 pm. Britney opened the meeting with a discussion of the Smokey Mountain High School (SMHS) project. Though we are still trying to participate in this new and exciting program (see last minutes), Britney is having a hard time getting feedback from the administrators at SMHS. We will keep everyone updated as we acquire more information about the program.

Tiffany spoke about a great service opportunity that ALL CHILD members can be a part of! A first grade teacher at Fairview elementary needs some books put together for Fairview's Science Field Day. Everyone agreed that the books could be easily stitched in one meeting. Tiffany is in charge of getting the pages and the stitching materials - please come to the next meeting to help out! The teacher also said that Fairview will need volunteers for the Field Day, itself, but students from the methods classes will be largely invited to participate in that activity.

Maggie discussed a book sale that is very exciting for CHILD and for WCU. Maggie knows a nice woman in Morganton who sells children's books for HALF of the list price. She also sells damaged books that she has repaired for about $1 - $3 each. After much discussion, we decided that the best way to ensure a worthwhile trip to WCU for Maggie's contact is to rent a room in Maddison, the graduate dorm, and host a 2-day book show. The tentative dates for the show are March 19 and 20. We will need to get our guest a meal card and a temporary parking pass in addition to the room in Maddison. The book show will most likely be held in Killian 104 or in the Killian hallways. This is such an exciting opportunity - it is never too early to start a book collection for one's classroom or children!

Morgan, our resident artist, will bring in a tee-shirt design at our next meeting. She described two designs, and most members prefered a tee with CHILD on the front, upper left corner, and an inspirational quote with the word "CHILD" on the back. We hope to purchase the shirts from Simply T's - Morgan is now in charge of the tee-shirt project.

Britney also had dishartening news about the website. We still cannot use it, and our website man has all but disappeared! Maggie volunteered to try to fix the problems so that we can use the website for CHILD purposes. Yay, Maggie!

The meeting closed with a discussion of meeting times for the remainder of the semester. We plan to alternate Mondays and Wednesdays so that more people can stay involved. Our next meeting will be on Monday, February 16 at 5:15 p.m.

Have a happy semester, and I'll see you all soon!

April