Key Club Newsletter

Key Notes MEMBERS OF THE MONTH:

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Michael Ahokas Alice Barros Chris Braden Catherine Chang

28th Annual Volleyball Marathon

Tara Czyewski Alisha Desai Kaitlyn Fitton Justin Forte Brian Furao Jared Goldstein Carolina Gonzalez Zack Kressaty Christopher Lee Rachel Lee Amanda Lustbader Christina Moschetti Sarah Murphy Alex Neal Teesha Parikh Caitlin Perrone Kristen Pimienta Justin Presto Jenny Regan Rob Rose Sanath Shetty Taylor Stuono Gina Visconti Ian Zlotnik

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Volleyball Marathon 1

Key Club Holiday Party

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Records

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Officer Information

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Events Calendar

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This month is the official kick-off to our biggest event every year, the Volleyball Marathon! VBM will be held on February 27 and singlehandedly raises the most money out of all the events we hold. For those of you who don’t know, the Marathon is basically a volleyball tournament. Anybody can sign up a team, and everyone has a chance to win! But as with most big events, there is a lot of planning and work to be done. So, we have split the work into committees. The committees and their chairpersons are as follows: FOOD COMMITTEE: Responsible for having dinner for possibly over 30 teams and snacks for all the spectators HEAD CHAIRPERSON: Vice President Annie Rubino ASSISTING OFFICERS: Assistant Editor Alex Crane, Treasurer Patty Han, Membership Director Elliot Crane, Technology Director Aditya Gupta

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE: Responsible for making sure everyone knows about VBM and for motivating people to play and attend as spectators HEAD CHAIRPERSON: Public Relations Director Jackie Cheng ASSISTING OFFICERS: Membership Director Dan Rivera, Public Relations Director Anthony Giambra, Historian MaryMay Kozlik INVITATIONS COMMITTEE: Responsible for hand delivering and sending out personalized letters to local organizations, MTHS Clubs, and all MTHS faculty, personally inviting them to form teams and/or to attend the Marathon HEAD CHAIRPERSON: Corresponding Secretary Jennie Penque ASSISTING OFFICER: Recording Secretary Kristine Naputo DECORATING COMMITTEE: Responsible for making sure the atmosphere for the Marathon is exciting and motivating for everyone in attendance HEAD CHAIRPERSON: Editor Isra Shaikh ASSISTING OFFICER: Treasurer Meenakshi Mehra, Historian Grace Son

1st Annual Key Club Holiday Party! Get in the holiday spirit with Key Club! MTHS Key Club is holding its first-ever holiday party. This party is to celebrate the overwhelming success of our service year so far, and to bring the next year. The party will include free food and drinks for all

Key Clubbers in attendance, and will also have holiday crafts that will be made for the Children’s Specialized Hospital. All members are encouraged to attend! The holiday party is Tuesday, December 9, in the Cafeteria afterschool. Look for the flyers for RSVP information!

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MTHS Key Club

Advisors &Officers

Records!

Advisor: Ms. Racanelli Room 411 New Advisor To be Announced

So far, this year is the most successful event, but the number of boxes more service year to date. All of our events than doubled our previous expectations. seem to be amazing successes, and we hope it continues that We sent 2 boxes way! each to 25 families for the Thanksgiving Our Trick-or Treat for Food Drive. This UNICEF event raised event was an out$1,600, which is the standing success. most amount of Thanks to all those money we have ever who donated and submitted for UNICEF helped out with the for that event. Great packing! Thanks to job guys! all your help, that was the fastest we We have submitted have gone through 55 Operation Christpacking. mas Child Boxes to be sent around the world to underprivileged children. This Keep up the good work guys, and this is the first time we have done this service year will keep getting better!

Officers:

Michael Santoro Thomas Hoffmann Annie Rubino Kristine Naputo

President Vice President Vice President Recording Secretary Jennie Penque Corresponding Secretary Isra Shaikh Editor Alex Crane Assistant Editor Patricia Han Treasurer Meenakshi Mehra Treasurer Jackie Cheng Public Relations Anthony Giambra Public Relations Elliot Crane Membership Director Dan Rivera Membership Director MaryMay Kozlik Historian Grace Son Historian Aditya Gupta Technology Director Andrew Lin Technology Director

December 2008 Sunday

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1 General Membership Meeting

2 VBM Food Committee Bake Sale

3 Kiwanis Holiday Pathways/ARCH ways Party

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5 VBM Food Committee Meeting

6 VBM Food Committee Can-Shake

7 Kids Who Care Holiday Wrap-a-thon

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9 Key Club Holiday Party/ Bake Sale

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11 Kiwanis Holiday Caroling/VBM Invitations Committee Meeting

12 Last Day of CSH Art Drive

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14 VBM Food Committee Can-Shake

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16 VBM Publicity & Decorating Committee Meetings/Bake Sale

17 Mandatory CSH Field Trip Meeting

18 CSH Field Trip

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21 VBM Food Committee Can-Sake

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23 VBM Food Committee Bake Sale

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Editor: Isra Shaikh