Connections Weekend Planning                    September 19, 2018

Agenda:

In Attendance: Jennifer Allerding, Kyle Baughn, Jim Grubbs, Joe Kleinknecht, Steve Melchior, Sandy Powell, Dave Spraw, Chris Stone, Brian Treisch & Sarah Wegesin;

Financial Report: Dave reported that this past month $945 checks were received for dinner reservations & $1101 was also received from the sponsorship mailing;

Review of Minutes: Minutes were approved by the committee, noting one spelling correction of Tina Eyster's last name;

Coordinator's Report: still waiting for bios from Paul Kim & Van Wagner. Horace Freese bios were submitted by Deb Jeffers; Regina Jutz will be the new Superintendent's secretary as Beth is going to work for Mid Ohio ESC;

Committee Updates:Bonfire/Pep Rally - The 2018 Connections Weekend will begin Thursday, October 11th; the Booster Club will host a hot dog fundraiser; the Pep Rally event will begin @ 6:45 pm; also on Friday, a Tiger Dash will be run by the PTL for elementary students from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm; on Saturday morning, October 12th, a Blood Drive 9:00 - 3:00 will be held in the HS cafetorium, as well as the Donley Ford test drive from 8:00 - 2:00 in the HS/MS parking lots (Kyle distributed promotion flyer);

Pancake Breakfast - the Kiwanis Club has coordinated with Food Service to use the Intermediate School on Saturday morning 10/13 from 7:30 - 10:30 am; Middle School &  Elementary Leadership students will be performing during the breakfast; Sarah Wegesin reported Student Leadership Advisors and students will be helping serve, clean-up and perform; Sarah will coordinate student participation schedule with Miranda Jones;

Alumni Band - Will continue in 2018; Alumni Band rehearsals will begin on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm at HS Band Room;

Hall of Fame Nominations - The following HOF honorees will be recognized for 2018 - Horace Freese, George Guins, Michael Jokerst, Paul Kim, Mark Stepro, John Swain and Van Wagner; 

Dinner Banquet - Sandy will order flowers through Pioneer and Jim has assured that the flowers would be in the district on Friday afternoon; Rev. Ash Welch was also contacted to provide the Invocation for the banquet;  Sandy will also work with MS principals for table set-up prior to Friday @ 3:00 pm; HOF honorees have all confirmed their participation except Van Wagner and Paul Kim;  Mark Stepro will not be able to attend; as of today's meeting, 36 paid registrations have been received.

Fund Raising & Promotion - Letters have been mailed to potential sponsors; Chris will send another news release highlighting the Hall of Fame inductees; letters were not prepared or mailed to previous HOF award recipients;

Program - Dave will coordinate w/the committee members to build the program as in previous years; He has biography's from everyone and will ask Beth for the Horace Freese file;

Awards - Miranda has coordinated the HOF awards again with Schillings and Dave will again arrange with Dean's Trophies for HS plaques; a mini charging station will be given to the Career Day speakers this year; 

Career Day - the MS principal, Paul Wheeler will be taking over the MS morning program for Career Day, w/help from MS staff;  Jennifer would also appreciate hearing from Dr. Kim as he shared interest in speaking last year; lunches have been ordered with the Food Service Dept.;

Capital Planning Updates - Jim announced that Weithman Brothers will be the contractor for the bus garage; completion date expected for next school year, August 2019;

New Business - Chris shared a new nomination post card template to place on tables @ the Hall of Fame dinner and the Alumni Tent during the football game; Chris will also set-up a live stream of the Hall of Fame dinner; 

Next Meeting - Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 @ 7:30 am @ the Galion Schools' Administrative Center.

Meeting adjourned @ 8:30am;