JOHN MUIR HIGH SCHOOL
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Minutes of Meeting of the Board of Directors
Held Saturday, May 1, 2010
A regular
meeting of the Board of Directors of the John Muir High
School Alumni Association was held on Saturday,
May 1, 2010
at 10:00 a.m. on the campus of John Muir High School.
Call to
Order
– The meeting was called to order by President, Jim
Henderson, and all in attendance introduced themselves. A
list of those in attendance is attached.
Approval of
Minutes
– The minutes from the meeting held April 10, 2010 were
amended to change the date of the meeting from April 10 to
March 6 and approved unanimously.
JMHS Campus Report
–Sheryl Orange, Muir principal, stated that START testing
will begin the second week of May and extend through the
third week in May. AP students were able to take their test
thanks in part to the generosity of the Alumni Association.
Ms. Orange requested that the Association repeat its support
from 2009 and purchase “Jamba Juice” cards to be distributed
to students after they have completed their testing.
A Motion to purchase one-hundred, $5.00 “Jamba Juice” gift cards and
give them to Ms. Orange to distribute at her discretion to
students taking the AP test was made by Jack Setian and
second by Jill Hawkins. The motion was approved unanimously.
Organizational Matters –
David
Rutherford
has resigned as Membership Committee chairperson for
personal reasons. David will continue to support the Alumni
Association as a member of the board of directors and as a
lifetime member. His resignation was accepted and David will
turn over his files to the next Chairperson.
We will seek a new chair as soon as possible as this is the
most important committee within the Association, stated Jim
Henderson. There were no volunteers to serve as chairperson
at this time.
Chuck
Malouf
reminded everyone to keep their personal contact information
current with the secretary. Contact forms were then
circulated so that everyone could affirm their information
or provide any required changes.
Chuck then read a letter from the Pennsylvania Relay Council
which congratulated
John
Muir
High School
for its participation in 1997 with their International Track
& Field event. A certificate was enclosed which bore the
names of the 1997 4x400 relay team representing Muir
awarding them a medal. The award will be placed in the
trophy case in the “A” building, stated Ms. Orange.
Jim
Henderson
requested that the board purchase that the board consider
purchasing a voice digital recorder to be used at board
meetings. This request is due to everyone’s high level of
interest in the board meetings; including the recording
secretary own interest in participating in the discussions.
This meant that at times she did not capture the facts of
the discussion accurately for the minutes.
A Motion was made by Ed Moses to purchase a digital recorder and
required accessories at a cost not to exceed $150.00.
Cynthia
Lake seconded the motion which was approved unanimously.
Tracy Richards will make the purchase of the recorder.
Jim reminded everyone to complete and submit their committee
responsibility forms as soon as possible. He used David’s
resignation as an example of how important this has become
for the organization.
Jim informed the board that Dr. Barbara Mossberg, alumni of
the class of 1966 and Hall of Fame inductee for 2009 has
requested an audience with the board at its next meeting in
June to discuss her project to write a book about John Muir,
the man and the school that bares his name. She will also
speak with Ms. Orange as she would like to interview
students and faculty for this project, too.
Ed
Moses
discovered
an error on the website; this error listed a Hall of Fame
inductee twice. The inductee is Frank Carrard. After much
discussion was determined that there is a duplicate and it
will be corrected as soon as possible by Jim.
Jim
informed the board that the estate of former Muir science
teacher, James Muir, will be making a donation to the
Association. Mr. Muir’s daughter indicated that it was Mr.
Muir’s wish that this donation be earmarked for the Muir
science department. Upon receipt of the donation, his
designation will be honored.
Digital
Yearbook Update
– Jim stated that our sales representative with Royal
Imaging has left the company. His replacement has indicated
that all agreements will be honored and that Royal Imaging
is ready to proceed with the project. Jim stated that Royal
Imaging would like to change one item of the agreement and
that is to invoice the Association as the project progresses
instead of a single invoice at the conclusion. Jim asked the
board to consider this change. After a short discussion the
change was approved. Jim stated that he will deliver the
first set of yearbooks to Royal Imaging next week.
M-Quad
Update - Carina Jacob
stated that
there are no grants available from the Pasadena Educational
Foundation at this time. She will pursue a new source called
the “Refresh Grant” which is a $50,000 grant. For now the
project is on-hold.
Alumni
Commemorative Bricks Update – Cynthia Lake
stated that the first brick has been sold. She asked that
everyone help to spread the word about the bricks. Tracy and
Jill stated that they will post the information via email
and on Facebook.
Pasadena
City Measure
“CC”
– Jill Hawkins attended a public meeting hosted by the
Pasadena
Unified
School District.
Superintendent Diaz was the main speaker at this meeting.
During the meeting Mr. Diaz presented many facts to the
audience. Jill reminded him that one important fact that was
not covered was the negative affect on extra curricular
activities if the measure should fail. This would impact the
students at Muir very much so, since it is these activities,
that for some students, provide them with that added “push”
to try harder in school.
Next was a series of Committee Reports
A.
Finance Committee
The finance committee met on April 29, 2010 at Brian
Russell’s office. In attendance were Gerry Ito, Doug
Kosobayashi and Brian Russell.
As of April 29, 2010, our bank balance in the operating
Wells Fargo Account is $
. The bank balance in our Special Donation Wells
Fargo savings account is
$
.
$
of this balance is allocated for the new sound system
for the Rufus Meade Auditorium. The PayPal account balance
$
There were 5 checks written and 1 electronic payment in
April, 2010 from the operating account totaling $1,074.94.
Major expense for April, 2010 were; 750.00 to Miller-Hawkins
Productions for the Hall of Fame Night event planning,
$93.37 for museum expenses, $121.00 for printing cost for
our annual Day at the Races (net proceeds are expected to be
$
) and $20.00 for bi-annual Secretary of State filing. The
balance of the expenses were for normal
monthly
operating expenses. There were three deposits to the
operating account totaling
$
(including
a
$
transfer
from our PayPal account. The balance of the deposits was fro
member Dues, Donations, Yearbook Sales, Tee Shirt Sales and
a Year End Solicitation Donation of $25.00 (totaling
$
to
date).
There were 3 membership dues collected this month. The
current membership drive has yielded 155 regular members and
3 lifetime members. We have approximately 573 members who
have enrolled since the beginning of our association, 22
Lifetime members and 2 honorary Lifetime members.
The Class of 1979 made a donation of $500.00 for which they
have requested it be earmarked for the Muir faculty
mini-grant program for the 2010-2011 semester. Their request
will be honored.
A Motion to continue the mini-grant program was made
spontaneously by Neal Brockmeyer. The motion is to grant
each teacher at Muir $100 to reimburse them for expensed
they incur supplying their classroom with equipment not
supplied by the school. The motion was seconded by Tracy
Richards. It passed unanimously.
B.
Allocations Committee –
No activity.
C.
Communications Committee –
There were 6,274 visitors to the website for the month of
April. Of those 1, 110 were new visitors.
Facebook has added many new members and was summarily pulled
into a role of announcing the passing of an alumnus and
sharing the place and time for funeral services. At one
point it became the center collecting point for
contributions to the family of the departed alumnus.
D.
Hall of Fame Committee –
Jill Hawkins stated that the event planning committee has
chosen a venue to hold the Hall of Fame ceremony in November
as the
Boston
Court Theater. A visit to the venue is planned for Tuesday,
May 4th at 10:00 to survey the facility. All are
welcome to attend.
Chuck Malouf has seated all but one teacher and two students
for the HOF selection committee. Cynthia Lake has committed
two members of the ASB to fill the two student’s seats.
There are 14 nominees this year.
Jill would like to obtain the list of Hall of Fame
recipients and paid Association members so that they can be
formally invited to attend the induction ceremony in
November.
E.
Campus
Pride –
Cynthia
Lake reports that a tree was planted in honor of John Muir’s
birthday on April 21st on the school campus. This
is an annual event. The senior class prom is on May 14th
and the class still has about 50 tickets to sell.
The Service Award ceremony is set and the students that will
be the recipients have not been chosen as yet. Cynthia is
attempting to resurrect service clubs that fell apart due to
a lack of interest and the money to run them. Clubs like the
“S” Club.
F.
Muir Museum - Loren
Shirar reports that only 20 visitors toured the museums.
This was disappointing since “Back-to-school night occurred
during this time. However, there was one visitor that made
it a special period. A student that attended La Canada High
expressed to Loren that the Muir museum was a very special
place and he would like to come back and visit again, He
also offered to help with setting up memorabilia if needed.
There being no other business to discuss the meeting was
adjoined at 12:04 PM. The next meeting is scheduled for
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 10:00 Am in the school library.
Respectfully Submitted,
Jim Henderson,
President
Exhibit “A”
Attendance
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Directors |
Guests & Committee Members |
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Jim Henderson |
Ronda Carson |
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Karin Hubbard-Luster |
Sheryl Orange |
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Carina Jacob |
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Cynthia Lake |
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Neal Brockmeyer |
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Chuck Malouf |
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Ed Moses |
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Lewis Peters |
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Larry Tharp |
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Jack Setian |
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Brian Russell |
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Tracy Richards |
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Jill Hawkins |
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