CentennialPlanning Mailing List: Re: Next OT Centennial Meeting Saturday 11/10 at 11

[Oakland Technical High School Centennial Celebration (ot100years]

If you can come early, please come to the pancake breakfast starting at
830.  Adults are $15.  It's a fundraiser for sports boosters and should be
a good time.

See you soon

Terry
On Nov 7, 2012 9:09 PM, "Oakland Technical High School Centennial
Celebration" <ot100years [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> *Hi All - First of all, I apologize if you are getting this message more
> than once.  I'm going to work with Dan to clean up the lists and groups I
> have but for now, I'd rather get everyone than miss someone ... And if you
> have people who you'd like to invite to this next planning meeting, please
> do.  I did not send out a full on announcement.  We can talk about that on
> Sat.*
>
> I'm sorry for getting this out late.  Just a reminder that we are meeting
> again this Saturday in the library at Tech from 11 to 1.  Come prepared to
> quickly review the work from last time (see attachments, etc.) and then
> lets get to work on next steps - outreach, fundraising, planning,
>
> Thank you to Christina, Stacey, Eleanor and Creasie for note taking, note
> compiling and feedback.
>
> I am attaching the terrific minutes Christina took - Thank you!  And the
> roster Eleanor prepared - Thank you too!!!
>
> Please check the roster for accuracy.  I'll bring a hard copy and we can
> mark it up at the meeting.
>
> I am also including the work Stacey did on the notes around the room and
> cutting and pasting comments below.  And also comments from Eleanor.
>
> *Here's the Centennial Celebration/Centennial Planning Committee
> mission statement we crafted today:*
>
> To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Oakland Technical High School, a
> landmark institution that continues to educate and inspire generations of
> Bulldogs, and to honor the richness of our diverse heritage and our
> enduring
> legacy.
>
>
>  *While I sent out the mission statement everyone worked on, I did not
> send out the two main goals I mentioned I heard during the two meetings
> (which I have reworded a bit here but this is the gist of what I heard):*
>
> **1.       **To gather the community of Bulldogs past and present in a
> series of events throughout 2014-15 culminating in a big blow-out/”gala” and
> ****
>
> **2.       **To raise money for an endowment/fund/foundation that will be
> an ongoing source of financial support to the school for the future****
>
>
> I thought it would be something that would come out in the minutes but it
> occurs to me that we should agree as a group on the two goals ASAP because
> they will drive all the actions of the planning process.  In addition, if
> the group is serious about a capital campaign to raise funds for the
> future, that is something that will need to be very carefully planned and
> coordinated with ALL fundraising efforts at Tech for the next two years
> including centennial fundraising, PTSA fundraising, sports program
> fundraising, etc. and there will need to be agreement on who asks what from
> whom when and who has priority. (which really needs to happen anyway but a
> capital campaign makes it way more complicated)****
>
> **
>
>
> *And *
>
>
> Questions:  1.The Mission Statement is excllent now, but shouldn't it
>                     state *how* we will celebrate?
>                       a) shout out loud "it's a BIG DEAL!"
>                       b) flood Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In with updates
>                       c) conduct a variety of public events
>                       d) all of the above (?may cloud the statement's
> succinctness!)
>
>                  2. From now on, could we please sit around one large table
>                      for improved interaction?  (great people!)
>
>