Good Morning!

Changes to the balloon fundraiser plan

Juniors!

Cory, Chris, and I have been doing some hard work behind the scenes to make the balloon bouquet fundraiser better planned and smoother for all involved.

This has changed the schedule slightly.

What we'll need is transport on both Friday night and Saturday morning.

Students who work Friday night will be transporting all 536 balloons to the high school. I have booked rooms 136/139 and 137/138 to store all the balloons at the school overnight. Students who work Saturday will then travel to and from the high school graduation morning to complete the deliveries.

Here's what we need:

Friday Drivers Starting at 5pm Friday, pick up balloons from Party City (904 South Willow St, Manchester, NH), and bring them to the high school to drop them off to a humanities room. Job is done when all balloons are at the school.

Bouquet makers If you can't drive (Or if you're uncomfortable driving), we could still probably get help organizing balloons into the bouquets at the high school.

Saturday Drivers Starting at 7am Saturday, pick up balloons (now organized into bouquets) and deliver them to the addresses on each order. Job is done when all bouquets are delivered to their appropriate homes!

We definitely need and appreciate your help!

Senior Cord Recipients

Completion!
The last deadline has passed; the Class of 2015 record has been frozen.

The following Seniors will be receiving their cord Thursday night:

Julie	Aichinger
Ryan	Anastasi
Christina	Anderson
Kyle	Andersson
Nicholas	Angelini
Elias	Ashooh
Kristen	Barnett
Jacob	Bauer
Hannah	Benson
Cassandra	Berger
Olivia	Blake
Valerie	Boles
Hannah	Buss
Andrew	Carter
Colin	Cashin
Tyler	Cibotti
Hannah	Clarke
Scott	Daly
Reema	Danaf
Hannah	Dempsey
Goutham	Deva
Lindsay	Dyrvik
Madison	Earnshaw
Morgan	Edwards
Amanda	Faxon
Connor	Fleischacker
Regina	Flynn
Kevin	Gambeski
Matthew	Gould
Abigail	Guerra
Margaret	Heaps
Samanatha	Hornsby
Jieer	Huang
Rowan	Joyce
Jacqueline	Kapoian
Rachel	LaBonte
Joshua	Lagerquist
Olivia	Lambert
Jessica	Lavine
Brandon	Levenstein
Stacie	Lin
Kelsey	Linehan
Katelyn	Luck
Tristan	Mac Donald
Lauren	Misage
Molly	Morin
Anna	Murphy
Lauren	Prince
John	Prud' homme
Hannah	Purcell
Taylor	Radke
Merrell	Readman
Joshua	Reeks
Nicole	Ruppel
Erika	Rutherford
Karam	Sandhu
Christina	Santini
Audrey	Schappler
Melissa	Schwartz
Sumana	Shashidhar
Hannah	Smith
Sierra	Soghikian
Will	Soghikian
Madison	Speaker
Lauren	Spendley
Olivia	Stanas
Jenna	Suls
Sadhana	Tadepalli
Megan	Tebbenhoff
Michael	Valeri
Ardenio	Valeri
Brett	Veilleux
Haylee	Villemaire
David	Wang
Kelly	Watson
Gwenyth	Winship
Alexandra	Withee
Ryan	Wittenberg
Kira	Yates
Eliza	Zarka

As I have done in the past, I will be sending out a Google doc with a pronunciation guide so that I say your name correctly during the presentation. I will do this via the Remind app.

Dismissal

As stated in our bylaws, NHS membership is conditional to meeting certain goals. I have had to dismiss the following students from National Honor Society for failing to complete their meetings or service responsibilities:

• Thayu Chander
• Matt Dyer
• Thomas Fortin
• Megan Jurnak
• Asad Pasha
• Brayden Reichenback
• Erica Schimmel
• Sam Zeltner

These students were given numerous reminders of their NHS responsibilities, have had year long access to Mr. Ahnert questions about their record, and have passed up extra opportunities like teacher tasks and make-up meetings. Although the appeals process is still in place, this information will be provided to the Faculty Council when they consider the appeal. If a student wishes an appeal, they must contact Mr. Ahnert ASAP. Appeals meetings will take place at BHS on Monday, June 15th.

Reminder

This is a function of how big we are. I can't wait to celebrate the positive on Thursday night. 80 (eighty!!) seniors at Bedford High School are deserving of national recognition. That's an incredible percentage of the overall graduating class, as a community, we should be proud.

Attendance Review Complete

The NHS officers have completed their first review of mandatory meeting excuses for the June 4, 2015 meeting. If your excuse has been accepted, your record has been changed to reflect that. If your excuse was not accepted, you will receive an email from Mr. Ahnert.

Here's the other thing I'm worried about this week...

The picture above represents the number of balloon bouquet orders we have received so far for our fundraiser.

Let's crunch some numbers.

The Good

• 70 * $10 = $700
• 44 * $15 = $660
• Total potentially fundraised = $1360 (minus cost of balloons, see below)

The Concerning

• 70 * 4 = 280 balloons
• 44 * 4 = 176 balloons
• Number of orders we've received = 77
• Therefore, 456 balloons need to be delivered to 77 different places by graduation morning
• Number of Party City locations that are aware we're about to make a huge balloon order = ??

The Terrifying

• Number of cars Chris V told me are ready to work this event Saturday morning = 11
• Number of bouquets (70 + 44)/Number of cars = Each car needs to transport ~ 10 bouquets
• However... 10 bouquets = 40 balloons
• You can't drive with 40 balloons in your car.

I think two things:

1. If we haven't already done so, we need to get Party City in the loop. I will make this call if I have to. But we need to decide for solid when we're going to meet at their locations to create the bouquets and begin delivery.
2. I'm not sure 11 cars are going to cut it. If you can, please get in touch with Chris or Cory. 

We're taking in a lot of money, and promising we can follow through.

I don't sleep much this week.

Teacher Task Sheet for quick reference

Link to editable Teacher Task sheet

Your teachers really care about your success...

... they also hate lifting boxes apparently.

A funny thing happened this weekend. I received an email from a senior NHS member who suddenly found herself short of Chapter Service hours despite her best efforts. Knowing there's only two days to go, she was wondering if there was any other way she could fill that gap with another chapter service project.

I knew that I could just ask the student to sort some binders or something for me, but I didn't think that was in the spirit of Chapter Service. As in, no one would know that this student was giving her time to me because she wanted to uphold the standards of our organization.

Instead, I decided I would shoot an email out to your teachers, principals, counselors, and staff. I knew it was short notice, but I also knew there's lots to do at the end of the year. Plus, I know that when a kid is in need, (and probably more importantly when a kid respectfully asks for help with the need) by nature we want to reach out and do whatever we can. I thought maybe two or three folks would have an idea for this one student...

Within 2 hours I had 6 requests for this one student to help out, and the requests are still coming in.

Here's my request, I'd to turn the tables on this moment. Whether you need hours or not, would you consider reaching out to these teachers this week and helping them finish their year relaxed and rejuvenated?

Working with students like you really boosts us and reminds us what a great job we have. I don't want to let my teacher team down.

Check the Teacher Task Google doc, sign up for a task that interests you. If you need hours, take 'em. If you don't, who cares? These teachers have worked hard to make your year what it was, I think you will enjoy these times to work with them as fellow colleagues sharing the same goal: Finishing this year right, and excited for the next one.

Peer Tutoring Hour Opportunities- In Writing

Hi everyone! Below is the link to a document listing opportunities for NHS members to earn peer tutoring hours by sitting in on an In Writing class and interacting with freshmen. Click on the link and read the information before contacting an In Writing teacher.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QQ5MJV8KA13H-A-wOgIJiUnEO4LW15kugw-ugvPxu4/edit