Your PTSA at work: Making a difference
CURRICULUM AND EDUCATION
Jamie Kody, kody@tidalwave.net
Carolyn Bremer, carolynb894@gmail.com
DIRECTORY "NEW INFORMATION 2010-2011"
Dear Parents and Friends,
Each year the PTSA publishes a Directory that is an invaluable resource for all families. This year we will work with Mike Schoen and his team from School Directorease, to produce a professional quality Directory. By working with School Directorease this year we will reduce the data entry process by allowing families to enter and correct all their information online. The other advantage will be that THE DIRECTORY WILL BE PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT NO COST! School Directorease does this by selling advertising space in the Directory. We would like to invite our Community families and area merchants to purchase advertising space. It is a great way to both show your support for the school, and also gives all who receive a directory a chance to, in turn, support your business and/or service. We heartily encourage our school community to support all advertisers.
The Directory lists important school policies and contact information as well as class lists, student addresses, telephone numbers and parent email addresses. As veteran members of our Community know, the directory is checked many times each week when locating friends, contacting room parents, scheduling volunteer activities, and the like. The Directory will be ready for distribution in the Fall.
There are full page, half page, and classified advertising opportunities available. There might also be some premium location spots available that are more expensive (inside covers, tabs, etc). If you are interested in those, you should contact Mike immediately because those sell quickly! Your ad will be at the fingertips of all our families throughout the school year.
To obtain a directory ad form, contact Mike Schoen at mike@schooldirectorease.com. Please share it with others who may be interested.
All directory ad forms with camera-ready artwork and a check payable to School Directorease need to be mailed to School Directorease by August 15th, 2010.
Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions about the new Directory format. Keep cool, have a great rest of the summer and thanks in advance for your support!
Best regards,
Diane Diner
ddiner@verizon.net
School Directorease Contact information:
Mike Schoen
School Directorease
9710 Traville Gateway Drive #304
Rockville, MD 20850
mike@schooldirectorease.com
301-806-4376 (phone)
240-206-6275 (fax)
ETHICS DAY
Thanks to the time and talents of close to one hundred adult volunteers, the annual Senior Ethics Forum on April 15 was a great success! We owe a special thank you to the Gannett Company for continuing to host the event at their lovely McLean facility. Contributions from the Class of 2010, Langley’s PTSA, Safe Community Coalition, Exxon Mobil and McLean Rotary all helped to make this day possible.
We greatly appreciate all the community leaders and Langley parents who volunteered their time as table leaders, mock trial actors, room monitors, at the registration table, and who worked on the senior breakfast. Our able facilitators Judge Gayl Carr, Kurt Wimmer, Dr. Allan Morrison and Brian Boruff and panelists Patricia Titus and Jared Kaprove were key to leading students through the modules. The class of 2010’s active participation in the day was also critical to the success of the program.
Many thanks to Phyllis Jaffe and Langley drama students Natalie Bozorgzad, Haley Mueller, Brian Patterson and Nick Calandra, for their amazing performance in the mock trial module! Thanks also to Officer Poach for returning in the role of Officer Boyd!
A huge thank you to Sara Vincent and Langley’s Career Pathways class for the outstanding work copying and assembling nearly 600 forum packets for adult volunteers and students! Thanks also to the government teachers, for giving senior students an orientation to ethics, and to Langley’s administrators for their support.
The committee would like to express its gratitude to Fred Amico and Matt Kissling for all of their hard work and ongoing dedication to the ethics program.
Finally, we’d like to thank our terrific committee members: Karin Brown, Ellen DiZio, Donna Hoffman, Jayne Hoffman, Ellyn Pontell, Nancy Rau and Silvia Gonzales Roman. We will miss our graduating parents!
Susan Mayman and Janet Wright-Simpson
FAMILY NETWORK
The committee is already planning programs for next year, so if any staff, parents, or students have any ideas for programs, please let us know.
Betsy Shomaker, shomaker.jb@verizon.net
FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
It is a busy time of year for our Arts departments as they finish the school year with their final performances and exhibits. The monies remaining in the 2009-2010 FAPAS fund will be used to purchase items needed for these events. We appreciate all the support our families have given to FAPAS this school year. With your support, we were able to sustain the excellence of the arts programs, and provide many extra benefits to our students. Hope you have a chance to see the fine work of our talented students in these last few weeks of school. Have a great summer!
SueAnn Morabito, rs4mor@verizon.net
Heide Zufall, Heide@Zufall.com
GROCERY RECEIPTS
Grocery receipt time is here again! Earn money for Langley when you shop. Registration is easy and only takes a few minutes. (Remember, even if you registered last year, you must re-register) Here’s how:
Register your Giant Bonus Card for A+ Bonus Bucks at any Giant or at www.giantfood.com/aplus (school code 01995).
Register your Safeway Club Card at www.escrip.com (school code 6526530).
Register your Harris Teeter VIC card for the Together in Education program. Tell the cashier the school code or link your card at www.harristeeter.com (school code 5420).
Buy supplies at Office Depot and Langley can earn 5% in store credits on qualifying purchases. Mention Langley High School or the school code (70104190) to the cashier when making a purchase.
Use your Target Visa or Target Card and Target will donate 1% of purchases made at the store or at Target.com and 0.5% of Target Visa purchases made elsewhere. To register, call 1-800-316-6142 or go to www.target.com (school code 103662).
Sign up today or look for the grocery receipt sign-up form in the back-to-school packet. Please sign up or return the completed form as soon as possible! Contact me with any questions.
Catherine Johns, 703-376-8181, catric@cox.net
HOSPITALITY
Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who provided delicious desserts for our teacher appreciation luncheon and dessert buffet. The donations were tremendously appreciated and enjoyed by all. Thank you also to all who helped us create the Mini Spa, collected all the gift cards and facilitated the event for our teachers, administrators and staff during teacher appreciation week. The teachers enjoyed their little surprise and pampering! The PTSA really appreciates its outstanding faculty, administrators and staff. Thank you again to all for your support during the year.
LANDSCAPING
This year's grounds clean-up event was a huge success, thanks to more than 50 student and parent volunteers, the Langley ECO club, Cooper civics students and people from the community who stopped by to help. It was incredible! We had an ambitious agenda of mulching, pruning, hauling brush and removing litter…ALL of which was accomplished. One of the most important jobs was pruning back more than a dozen 20'-high holly trees in the courtyard that had become diseased because of overcrowding. Volunteers manned chainsaws and hauled lumber and brush out of the courtyard for 3 hours! We are deeply appreciative of our many helpers who spent half their day in service to Langley. They include Kevin Green, Jordan Lopez, Calvin Tang, Sathish Nachiaffan, Alexandra Wojcicki, Bianca Beran, Emily Lowman, Rebecca Cramer, Alex Park, Will Park, Alex Lanp, Morgan Long, Dan Mahoney, Ellen Johnson, Elaine Varner, Bill Woodford, Paul Shafernich, Mark Shafernich, Michele Sambiase, Sydney Orshanski, Deanna Belli, Cristina Belli, Liam Carter Condon, Cynthia Drasbak, Cathy Jones, Armin Ahmadi, Yasha Jaraha, Peitro Keuter, Sheeva Doshireh, Beth Muller, Christina Muller, Emily Olmstead, Ali Fahimi, Taylor Olcott, Elaine Tholen, Mitchell Kiffe, Donna Kiffe, Chip Comstock, H.C. Park, Kathleen Welch, Ava Shomaker, Chris Berkley, Dale Berkley, Lala Johnson and Maxwell McKee. We also would like to extend a special thanks to Lala Johnson, who has had children AND grandchildren graduate from Langley and is responsible for planting many of the beautiful gardens we all now tend and enjoy. She still comes to work and puts in more time and effort than everyone else combined!
Donna Kiffe
Chris Berkley
MEMBERSHIP
The committee would like to thank the wonderful parents, students and faculty who have joined the PTSA this year. So far we have more than 800 members and we look forward to reaching our goal of 100% participation. PTSA funds are used to support students and teachers with field trips, cultural enrichment, academic awards and family network programs as well as provide the directory/handbook. It's not too late to join the PTSA. If you don't have a form you can download it from www.LangleyPTSA.org and send it with your check to the school office or LHS PTSA, c/o Tracey Liberson, 207 Carrwood Rd, Great Falls, VA 22066. Thank you for supporting the PTSA!
Gail Welch, gailwelch@hotmail.com
Tracey Liberson, TNL583@aol.com
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND
We have processed applications from many teachers. We have made the following disbursements since our last anouncement:
Amanda Archibald - Virginia Art Educators Association annual conference
Timothy Ready - American School Counselors Association annual dues
Julia Ventimiglia - World Literature class at NVCC
Brian Lamb - Masters coursework at George Mason
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Marc Leblanc for adding to the contributions. Please look for the thank you letters which will be mailed out this month. You can use these letters as proof of your tax-deductible donations.
If you would like to contribute to this important fund, there is still time. All contributions are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated. Please send contributions to LHS PTSA - PDF, 6520 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101. Please make checks payable to LHS PTSA with PDF on the memo line.
Leslie Anderson, 703-757-6601, lkaleslie@aol.com
Insun Hofgard, 703-759-7877, jhofgard@aol.com
REFLECTIONS
The theme for next school year’s Reflections program is Together We Can. Start now and get your work of art ready early so that when the new school year starts you can turn it in and maybe join the elite group of Langley winners! Entries can be submitted in dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and visual arts. Learn more at www.PTAreflections.org.
Teacher of the Year
Mrs. Brigitte Lavey was selected as the FCPS 2010 Teacher of the Year and recipient of the Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award! Last month, Superintendent Jack Dale presented Mrs. Lavey with a proclamation naming her FCPS 2010 Teacher of the Year. Mrs. Lavey was recognized because of her willingness to do whatever it takes to reach all students, her willingness to help colleagues, her dedication to the success of all students, her ability to challenge and inspire students, for her generosity and compassion, her incredible wealth of knowledge and for being, as one nominator stated, the "heart and soul" of Langley. It is quite an honor to be selected from all of the teachers in Fairfax County. She will represent FCPS in Virginia's Department of Education Teacher of the Year competition. Congratulations to Mrs. Lavey on this well-deserved prestigious award.
TECHNOLOGY FUND
On behalf of the Technology Fund, we would like to thank all of you for your generous contributions. This is a new fundraiser at Langley and we are pleased to see strong support. We are only about a quarter of the way to reaching our aggressive goal of $50,000; so for those of you who have not had an opportunity to donate to this great fundraiser, please consider doing so now. Your donations are still needed and will be greatly appreciated.
Click here for more information.
Carole Walter
Sarah Kearney
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