GRADUATION      TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008      8 P.M      COX
 
CSAS Baseball News: Classen/Northeast combined baseball teams for middle school and high school have been practicing hard throughout the months of January and February.  The high school team has already had one scrimmage.  Games start on March 3rd. More information about dates, times and places will be forthcoming Come and support your team!
 
INFORMATION IS ON THE WAY!  In an effort to distribute information to parents about Enterprise Schools, a mailout was planned.  Well, it’s time to start checking your mailboxes because an informational letter was mailed today!  We were also fortunate to be able to reschedule our Enterprise School experts at an informational meeting to be held on Monday, February 25 at 6:00 p.m. in the Kerr-McGee auditorium in Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University.  Many thanks to Dean Vince Orza for his generous contribution of this facility that allows us to avoid impeding the students at Classen who are busy getting our auditorium ready for a performance.  The location of the meeting is NW 26th & McKinley - from Classen & 26th, go west 4 blocks… hope to see you all there!
Shawn Abernathy
 
CONGRATULATIONS - Rachael Gooding was accepted into Manhattan Marymount College BFA dance program, as one of only 47 students taken from around the country, in New York City
 
SOMETHING WE ALL CAN AGREE ON:
THE RETURN OF THE OU BIG EVENT TO ClassenSAS IS GREAT NEWS.
 
ClassenSAS has been accepted as a job site for the April 5th, 2008 “Big Event at OU” - Be a part of the return of the CSAS “Big Help”  - NOW
 
Between 50 and100 OU student volunteers will arrive on  Saturday April 5th to paint rooms and do some heavy lifting.  We are in the process of confirming our the job specs with OU and need your help to get the job done right.
 
The goal is 10 rooms plus the the cafeteria.  The number of rooms that can be painted depends on the number of OU & CSAS volunteers who can be accommodated on painting day.  That number will depend on the degree to which CSAS parents can supplement the quantity of paint, brushes, rollers, etc that OU can donate.   OU should provide most, but not all of the paint, tools and supplies needed for their own volunteers.
 
Like last year, there is no money in the PTSA budget for this project.
 
1. To establish the $ budget, Pledges are needed now.   Whatever amount you are comfortable with is fine: $5, $15, $500 or $5000.  (Newsflash:  We have a pledge from the Netherlands!  Exchange student Jonah Gerth's mother called while I was typing this.)  
 
2. To have an idea how many rooms that can be scraped, patched and taped, we are asking folks to tell us if you can set aside time the week before the Big Event to scrape, patch and tape.  Please say Yes!
 
3.  Volunteers also needed to help organize… minimal meetings!
 
We would need donations in hand by the end of March through the week of and after the Big Event (I will credit card most purchases - please don't leave me swinging in the wind, friends!)  A portion of the pledges will be reserved for "unexpected" expenses.  The remainder will be used to estimate the number of  extra OU volunteers that we will be able to put to work painting classrooms (and, we hope, the cafeteria) on April 5th. 
 
Please reply to Barbara Rupert bdew@repairman.com with a cc to Jacci Rodgers, PTSA treasurer (jrodgers@okcu.edu), and let us know your name, the first and last name of your student, your telephone number and the amount of your pledge.  (Checks should be made out to CSAS PTSA with OUBigEvent in memo.)
 
Answers to  OU Big Event/CSAS Big Help FAQs to follow.
 
Barbara Rupert, Mr. Scott McAdoo (vice principal) co-chairs.
 
Our students will be competing in vocal contests on
Friday, March 7 (7th/8th grades)
Wednesday, March 26 (9th grade) 
 
I’d love to have a few parents come along on the bus with us and help monitor students when they aren’t performing.  
 
The March 7 Contest is at Oklahoma City Community College
The March 26 Contest is at Norman North High School
 
Times are tentative. . . Right now we’re planning on leaving school around 8 and returning around 1:30 or 2 for both groups.  When Mrs. V knows the exact times, she’ll let us know.
 
Basically, parents volunteering will keep the groups together while they wait to perform and/or leave, and there can be someone for the students to stay with while Mrs. V is with other choirs.  
 
If parents are unable to help physically on either day, donations of bottled water, granola bars… something to keep the kids going throughout the long day of singing and waiting will be appreciated.
 
If you can help out, please contact Mrs. Vanderlugt jlvanderlugt@okcps.org or Trina at TKinOKC@cox.net