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Board of Directors

Officers-
 
 
Jim Henderson,
President

Chuck Bradford,
Vice President, Emeritus

Lewis Peters,
1st Vice President

Jill Hawkins,
Vice President

Chuck Malouf,
Vice President

Brian Russell,
Chief Financial Officer

Karin Hubbard-Luster,
Secretary


Directors-

Loren Shirar ‘52
Carrie Bradford ‘56
Chuck Bradford ‘56
Doug Kosobayashi ‘56
Ed Moses ‘56
Neal Brockmeyer ‘56
Ko Nishimura ‘56
Jack Setian ‘61
Larry Tharp ‘61
Lewis Peters ‘63
Brian Russell '65
Gerald Ito ‘65
Mark Levy ‘67
Pam Sheffield '67
Frankie Connor ‘68
Jim Hatch ‘69
Jim Henderson ‘70
Cynthia Lake ‘71
Sam Estrada ‘71
David Rutherford ‘79
Karin Hubbard-Luster ‘85
Carina Jacob ‘85
Evelyn Peterson '86
Ronda Carson '88
Jill Hawkins ‘89
Tracy Richards ‘89

Chuck Malouf
Sterling Williams

Standing Committees-
chairperson

Finance
Brian Russell

Allocations
Neal Brockmeyer

Membership
Tracy Richards

Communications
Jim Henderson
Tracy Richards

Hall of Fame

Jill Hawkins
Lewis Peters

Campus Pride
Cynthia Lake

Reunions
Neal Brockmeyer
Frankie Conner

Muir Museum
Loren Shirar
Larry Tharp

Special Events
Ronda Carson

Grants/Scholarships
Carina Jacob

Friends of the Mustang
Chuck Malouf


Next Board Meeting is
Saturday,
February 4, 2012
at 10:00 AM in Library
 

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Board of Directors
(top row)  Jim Henderson, Chuck Malouf, David Rutherford, Neal Brockmeyer, Loren Shirar,  (middle) Sam Estrada, Carina Jacob, Brian Russell, Karin Hubbard-Luster, Jack Setian, Tracy Richards, Doug Kosobayashi
 (front)  Frankie Conner,  Lewis Peters, Jill Hawkins, Larry Tharp,  Mark Levy, Pam Sheffield, Cynthia Lake
 

JOHN MUIR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Minutes of the Board of Directors
Held Saturday, December 3, 2011

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the John Muir High School Alumni Association was held on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. on the campus of John Muir High School. 

1.       Call to Order – The meeting was called to order by President, Jim Henderson, and all those in attendance introduced themselves.

2.       Approval of Minutes – Neal moved and David seconded a motion and the minutes from the meeting held Saturday, November 5, 2011 were approved.

3.       JMHS Campus Update – no report

4.       Visitor/Public Comment – Rhonda Graves from the class of 1983 is the new Muir Pep Advisor.  She is a volunteer.  They’ve recently brought back the Short Flag Girls, the Song Girls and JV Pep Squads. She is teaching the girls the old routines and helping them be more organized and responsible young women.  She hopes to bring back the Yell Leaders in the future, but is concentrating on getting the girls’ squads in order first. 

She is requesting $200 from JMHSAA for the purchase of eight (8) skirts for the Short Flag squad so they’ll have a second skirt.  The girls and their families raised enough money to get the squad into one full uniform and the football coach gave all the girls a jersey for them to wear as a second top, but the girls need another skirt. Especially for weeks when they may have two events in the same week which may not allow enough time to get the one skirt laundered between events.  The skirts will become the property of the squad after the girls graduate.  The topic of hand-me-down uniforms was discussed and decided that it was a non-issue.

Jim gave her our "Grant Request Form."

5.       Organizational Matters

  1. Brownfield Car Sale – the Jaguar remains at JMHS since the picnic and may not return to Brian’s house due to wind storm damage.  It must be sold ASAP.  Tracy suggested we form a Brownfield Scholarship Award Committee for the purpose of soliciting funds and accepting applications and selecting awardees and task them with selling the car.  It was noted that it needs to be sold sooner than that.  She will solicit people to be on the committee for the other tasks.

    Jim will list it on Craig’s List and other classifieds such as Auto Trader. 

    Tracy will send out a blast on Facebook.

b.       Student Athlete Academic Resource Center (SAARC) grant request – we are unable to give SAARC any funding as they do not have an ASB account. Tracy will send a blast through Facebook to everyone requesting a donation of snacks and drinks for the SAARC organization. Evelyn will encourage the SAARC organizers to obtain an ASB account for future funding request.

6.       New Business – None stated.

7.       Committee Reports

a)       Finance – The finance committee did not meet this month. As of November 30, 2011 our bank balance in the Wells Fargo Operating Account was $3,665.08.  The bank balance in our Special Donation Wells Fargo Savings Account was $29,070.92.  $20,000.00 is allocated for the new sound system for the Rufus Mead Auditorium.  The PayPal account balance is $0000.00.

There were 32 checks written and 1 electronic payment in November 2011 from the operating account totaling $0000.00.  The major expenses for November 2011 were $0000.00, for Faculty “Mini Grants”, $0000.00 for AMS-General Liability/Directors & Officers Insurance, $0000.00for Hall of Fame and Turkey Tussle events, $1,559.91 to Advanced Promotional Products for Turkey Tussle T-Shirts, $10.00 for State Fees, $89.58 for museum expenses, $149.35 for postage (H of F, Membership Drive) and $315.38 to Kopy King Printing for Year-end Solicitation Stationary.  The balance of the expenses, were for normal monthly operating expenses.  There were 00 deposits to the operating account totaling $0000.00 and $0000.00 in PayPal Collections, less $0000.00 in PayPal Service Charges.  The deposits consisted of $0000.00 for Member Dues, $0000.00 for Yearbook Sales, $0000.00 for Digital Yearbook Sales, $65.00 for T-Shirt Sales, $0000.00 for Year End Solicitations, $0000.00 Hall of Fame Donations, $0000.00 for Donations, $0000.00for unknown purposes and $0000.00 transferred from PayPal.

The balance in the Nettie Piggee Scholarship Fund is $1,710.00 and the John Zweers Scholarship Fund has $550.00.  We also have $250.00 for the Brownfield Memorial Fund and $50.00 designated to the Science Department.

b)      Membership – we have had 796 people join the JMHSAA since inception.  That number includes the 190 students from the class of 2010 with their one year free membership which has since expired and none of them have renewed.

There are 28 Lifetime Members, which includes four honorary members (Victor Wright, Carrie and Chuck Bradford, and Walter Worrill). We have 20 multi-year members (alums who attended both Muir Tech and Muir HS); we have 159 one-year members (includes membership drive and renewals).  At the moment there are 207 current members out of the 796 that were members at one time or another.  There are seven known deceased members and 582 who belonged at one time but are not current.   Of the current members 16 are Hall of Fame members.  Of 29 JMHSAA Board Members, 11 are Lifetime, one has never been a member, two are current and 15 will hopefully be renewing with the drive that just got mailed. 

One-hundred-four Hall of Fame members have been included with the most recent membership drive (five are Lifetime Members and need not be contacted) for the first time.  David suggested a membership drive letter tailored to the Hall of Fame members, and Jill suggested that perhaps we add something a little more personal than the standard letter all the other alumni receive; perhaps a personal note from a board member pointing out the good things membership brings to the students.

c)       Communications – Tracy reported that the Facebook group page has 2,390 members. 

Jim reported that during the month of November we had 7,470 visitors to the website.  The daily average was 249.  The busiest day of the month was Thursday, November 10th (the day of the Turkey Tussle) and the most visited section was the Turkey Tussle page. 

d)      Allocations – No report. 

e)       Special Events – Unfortunately, while we lost the “Chicken Tussle,” but it was well attended, which was nice for the athletes. 

·         The Turkey Tussle presented Jill with some challenges due to the construction at the Rose Bowl.  We only had use of one tunnel which became very congested.  The fact that we couldn’t utilize the seats above the main aisle also created congestion in the aisle. 

·         Paid attendance was 3,530 on Muir’s side and 3,155 for PHS.   The overall total was between 7,400 and 7,500, which includes attendees like the pep squads, homecoming courts, band members and JMHSAA Board Members assisting with the event operations. 

·         Jill is working on securing a 5-year contract with the Rose Bowl for the 2nd Friday night of November with the caveats that the UCLA football schedule not conflict with those dates and that stadium construction not be impacted. 

·         Karin relayed a message that the sound tech in the Press Box was dismayed that he wasn’t told that there would be an ROTC member who had escorted a Homecoming Court member standing almost immediately in front of where he had placed the microphone for the singers of the National Anthem and “America the Beautiful.”  Hopefully that doesn’t happen again so the sound flows out better, he said. 

·         Friday at Mijares didn’t garner a lot of attendance.  The class of 1971 had their “get-together,” but not many other folks attended.  We hope that won’t be an issue next year and we’ll be able to have the pre-Tussle party there. 

·         The Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony went well, although we were all disappointed in the attendance and the thought was the weather played a role, even though it wasn’t raining during the ceremony.  We had hoped that Miss Nettie being inducted would bring a lot more folks out.  We actually had better attendance last year when we charged $40 per person. 

·         There were two football players who had agreed to read bios of the inductees who did not show up.  Two students stepped in and read those bios with no notice and did a great job! 

·         It was acknowledged that the janitors assigned to the Homecoming Faire & Picnic this year were amazing!  There were a couple of groups that had signed up to attend that didn’t and a couple of groups changed what they were selling from what they told us they’d be selling. 

·         We made $35.00 facilitating pictures with the Bell since no one from the football team came to do it. 

On the whole the Homecoming weekend activities were deemed a success with all challenges handled.  Great job all and thank you does not cover what we want to say and owe to Jill for her awesome contributions! 

f)        Hall of Fame – No report 

g)       Grants/Scholarships – Carina is working on the Tournament of Roses Grant Application for submission in February.

h)      Reunions/Resource Manual – No report

i)        Campus Pride – No report 

j)        Historical Museum – the museum had approx. 100 visitors in the month of November.  A member of the class of ’37 donated a yearbook and it was worth noting that all the signatures in it were with fountain pen!

Tracy asked for a committee of folks to help inventory the trophies and plaques.  Volunteers to assist are: Karin, Jill and Chuck.  Tracy will ask for more volunteers on the Facebook website. 

8.                   Next Board Meeting will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in the school library. 

9.       Meeting was adjourned at 12:00 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Jim Henderson,
President

Exhibit “A”
Attendees

Board Members

Visitors/Committee Members

Neal Brockmeyer

Rhonda Graves – c/o ‘83

Jill Hawkins

 

Jim Henderson

 

Karin Hubbard-Luster

 

Doug Kosobayashi

 

Chuck Malouf

 

Lewis Peters

 

Evelyn Peterson

 

Tracy Richards

 

David Rutherford

 

Larry Tharp

 

 

* Portions redacted, full disclosure of minutes available upon request.


JMHSAA Founder
Chuck Bradford
Class of 1956


We Want You!

We're looking for Muir alumni from the classes of 1990 through 2005 to become members of the board. The board would like to have members of these classes join so that we can offer new and fresh ideas for social events and ways to better support Muir.

We want alumni that have the desire to help continue the heritage of John Muir High to live on; that within you lives the spirit to give back to the school and the community that gave to 'you' when you were a student at Muir. All it takes is some of your time to make it better.

If this person is YOU then plan to join us at our next meeting, usually on the first Saturday of the month at 10:00 a.m. in the school library.


Board Projects

Alumni Commemorative Bricks
(Pending)

Yearbook Preservation
(Completed)

Muir Museum
(In-Progress)

Muir Auditorium
Sound System
(Pending)

 

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