February 7 YAC Agenda

NEW BUSINESS
YAC chairs items
Senior Chairs: RAK Week, Random Acts of Kindness Collaborative Art (Art Club and YAC)
Tuesday: High five day
Wednesday: Compliment day
Thursday: Do you need a hug day?
Friday: Lend a helping hand day...have a heart!
Johnesha will ask permission from Mr. Pena

Junior Chairs: THANK YOU YAC GIFT TO SHINNYO_EN: Zainab explained her thank you artistic creation for Shinnyo-en Foundation to be exhibited at the Respect Diversity Foundation Annual exhibit at the Science Museum in March.  She hopes to have it finished by March. Mrs. Clay will present it to Shinnyo-en in April at the Atlanta conference, where she will be presenting how Casady is Actualizing the Six Billion Paths to Peace.  Johnesha suggested for all YAC members to sign it.  Zainab will make a special place for YAC to sign.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, KNITTERS FOR SOLDIERS, RELAY-4-LIFE:  None of the chairs were present. 

Habitat: Liz B. talked on behalf of STUCO and shared STUCO's fundraising plans:T-shirt sales, lego construction competition in UD and they are also thinking about including other divisions .  YAC offered to help with other divisions and the building of the lego house for $1 per brick. 

RELAY-4-LIFE: None of the people present were planning to participate in Relay for Life.  Mrs. Clay will contact Mr. Fresonke for YAC to have a tent.  YAC might not fundraise, but will help as needed.  The leader of the YAC tent will be Mrs. Milligan, who has had experience with Relay for Life.  Mrs. Clay invited YAC to see the visit of the knitters to OSU in pictures available at this blog.



Sophomore Chairs: WALK THE WORLD 2011.  None of the chairs were present and Mrs. Clay reported that Christine might not be able to lead the effort this year.  Jasmine volunteered to lead this project.  YAC will sponsor this project until 2015.  Ending Hunger/poverty = #1 UN millennium goal.  (The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development)
Jasmine will attend the UN lunch meeting. Mrs. Clay will encourage Josh and Shiva to attend as the organizers of last year's walk.  She will start meetings with the UN and the Food Bank next week.
It's that time of the year again when UNAUSA OKC will be having their Spring Luncheon (April 23rd). This spring, the board decided that we would like to have some sort of panel or discussion with different UN-involved groups in OKC and we thought it would be nice to have one or two of your kids involved in the Walk the World event come and talk to UNA members about themselves and their event. We are also hoping to have a couple of Model UN students from OU and OSU. The idea is to either have a panel or just have kids talk about what they do.

Let me know if your students would be interested in participating. We would love to have them at our Luncheon!  Luis Daniel Palacios luisdaniel@gmail.com







Freshmen Chairs: CLASS MEETINGS-4-SOPHOMORES AND FRESHMEN (January 20th agenda).  Arjun, Jasmine and Shiva did not give ideas in this regard.  We will not have a class meeting tomorrow, but we need to have meetings with the sophomores and freshmen soon.  Mrs. Clay contacted Christine L. They will try to attempt working on this via Internet tomorrow as we will not be in school again due to inclement weather. The A-days left are:

CLASS MEETINGS: 9th and 10th: YAC, Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Korenblit
-April 12 will work for me. I prefer to work with all 150 students at once. The title of this workshop is The art of HAIKU- - Throughout the Day. They will need pen and paper. Warm regards, Joan
How about Monday, April 4, with the 9th graders for Dances of Universal Peace? Elizabeth Mueller> Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the Hunter.~African proverb
As unexpected as this is (and disappointing!!), these are not available dates for me due to teaching and travel. Thank you for the gracious invitation. Wishing you great success! Cheryl Steele
Only Mrs. Webb has not responded

Friday, February 18: Mrs. Clay: What does the Service-Learning Office does? What has YAC Done in 2010-2011? Requirement, Presidential Award for Service,
Monday, February 28: 9th graders for Dances of Universal Peace? Elizabeth Mueller> Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the Hunter.~African proverb.

Tuesday, March 8
Friday, March 25

Monday, April 4:
Tuesday, April 12---National Volunteer Week: Mrs. Joan Korenblit-9th and 10th graders April 12: Celebration of Service: YAC connected to YOU at Chapel; April 13: Presidential Service Awards-Ice Cream celebration at Woods Community Center; Ben and Jerry Ice cream provided by CPO, April 14: Chapel speaker: Mr. Gene Rainbolt, April 15: YAC, STUCO, String Quartet, Foreign Language Department, Middle Division, Upper Division, Lower Division, Primary Division, JASO, Shinnyo-en, Habitat, Food Bank, Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum, Habitat, Food Bank, Mr. John Kennedy, Mr. Chris Black, Dr. Sumeeta Nanda, Green School Committee: Les and Christina thank you lunch (B-block and lunch: Check to make sure, it is on an F-Day. Send save the date notices)
Wednesday, April 20
Monday, May 2
Tuesday, May 10
Wednesday, May 18
Thursday, May 26

OLD BUSINESSSponsor a. Class meeting days: Who, what, when, why, how-KINDNESS CHALLENGE, MLK DAY 25 CHALLENGE
b. Relay-4-Life: YAC participation, Mrs. Millagan sponsor.  Mrs. Clay only volunteer so far.  Mrs. Clay will make arrangements for tent with Mr. Fresonke.
c. Habitat-4-Humanity: YAC participation in construction &and fundraisers: We will help Stuco as needed.  Not much luck on request of donations of art for future coffee house yet.  Stuco is working on other fundraisers.  Silent Auction, if art is donated might have to be a YAC fundraiser.
d. Collaborative art: Yac participation-March due date Only Aamina signed up to participate.  We will have a Russian artist coming to paint tomorrow.  Art club and YAC have been asked to welcome and be with the artist.
e. Presidential Award hours, Sweatmonkey progress.  Tabled for a future meeting
F. Shinnyo-en thank you reflection, healing stories with stuffed animals from the fence Mrs. Clay thanked Zainab for her wonderful gift to Shinnyo-en and reminded YAC members present to create the healing stories if we have another snow day.  Stories need to be finished at the end of the year. 
G. JANUARY 20TH AGENDA  Postponed until next meeting