Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Upcoming Meeting, 18 April 2007, 12:30 p.m.
Jennifer Garcia
Saint Leo University
Assistant Director for Student Involvement
33701 State Road 52
Saint Leo, FL 33574-6665
Office: 352-588-8266
Fax: 352-588-8329
ACT Meeting Minutes, 28 Mar 2007
We talked about quite a few things this week and in the last few days confirmed quite a few details.
Food for Thought-
This month April we will be still having Sandra sponsor the program but we will do it Friday, April 27th to Papa Joe’s-
Here’s the website: http://www.papajoes.us.
Sandy’s comments about the location: I love the little gift shop on the property and the cute outdoor waiting area in front of it. Plus, it’s not very far away but it feels like you’ve really headed out to the boonies if you go out through St. Joe and past Boyette’s Grove and Petting Zoo.
This program was changed back to Friday because of exam week and not distracting our students to much while they should be studying.
September-
Business professor to sponsor the trip to Columbia in Ybor City
October- will be a Saturday trip to Ceviche’s in St. Pete as a day trip and Sandy has proposed that it be sponsored by the whole ACT committee or at least a group of us together. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks!
We talked about doing a community service/ philanthropy program together such as the local breast cancer walk. Anyone interested in spearheading this?
April 11th will be the D- Block (discrimination program), that the leadership course is sponsoring and the sexual assault and abuse program by student services. Act is looking to sponsor a self defense program that day. Monika is working with the Criminal justice department professors to find someone to present on this topic.
Math Week went great!!
Human Rights day-
-Waiting on Father Tony to propose ideas to other areas around campus to move forward with our ideas.
-Rachel has purchased a Darfur Diaries Documentary and can use this resource along with program.
-Group wants to look into adopting a child or a school- talking to the SERVE committee about co-sponsoring this with the committee and doing this as an on going project outside of the service projects at spring break time.
Kite program- Go Fly a Kite. Math club (Monika) is going to help with building the largest kite, Communication club (Rich) is going to help with communicating information about the program and participation, etc. Is this correct Rich anything else?
Sarah helping to coordinate things with this as well, she confirmed Crawford 1&2 to build the kites in.
The event will take place on Friday, April 13, 2007 from 4pm – 5pm prior to spring fling.
Several members of the committee offered to be site leaders for the community service day on April 14th.
Below I have included information about being a site leader if you are interested please let me know. Thanks!
Good afternoon,
Saturday, April 14th is our Spring Community Service Day. You have shown an interest, volunteered in the past as a site leader or are a student leader at Saint Leo University, and we’d like to request your assistance again this fall. It is a list of confirmed sites and agencies that we will be providing services to on Saturday, April 14th so far. As I get additions I will let you know weekly. Please take a look at the list to see if there is a site that you would be willing to be the leader at, but please note this is not a comprehensive list of sites because we are still confirming details. As I confirm with sites I will notify you weekly of additions to the list.
If you would be so kind to respond to me with one of the following three responses it would be very helpful. We’ll try to accommodate everyone’s first choice.
1. Yes, I am willing to help and will lead at any of the sites listed.
2. Yes, I am willing to help and would like to lead at _____________________________ (if more than one option please list them in your order of preference).
3. No, I will not be able to help this fall.
We are trying to give those that have served in the past the first option. I look forward to your response, and appreciate your assistance.
Sites we have confirmed so far this year include:
Pioneer Village
Catholic Charities
Pregnancy Care Center
San Antiono Elementary
Habitat for Humanity Store
Saint Leo Abbey Church
Saint Leo Abbey Grotto
Morning Star Fisherman
Community United Methodist Church
Pasco Library
Food Bank
St.Rita’s Church
ACS Relay for Life
Main Street Dade City
Holy Names Monastery
For those of you who are unfamiliar with what being a site leader is like or just would like a refresher course on the details I have a break down of the duties that being a site leader would include below:
We will open the doors for check-in and breakfast at 7:00 AM and we ask that all site leaders be at the tents between St. Francis and St. Edwards Hall at 7:00 AM to man the site table and check-in your volunteers. At your table will be a folder with the directions to the site; site task sheet; contact information for Jennifer Garcia and Paige Ramsey Hamacher; along with your site sign up sheet and the debrief questions. We will also have a bag of supplies that you’ll carry to the site if supplies are needed.
At the check-in we ask that you stay at your site table and check-in the volunteers for your location. As the students and staff check in, please make sure that they are indicating all clubs and organizations that they belong to so that the clubs they are involved with get credit for their attendance. If the student plans to drive to the site, you can give him/her a direction sheet.
Prior to signing in your group, please decide on a place to meet up with them here on campus so that you can then head out to the sites from your meeting spot. You’ll head out to the sites at 8:00 AM and then plan on finishing the work there by 11:30 AM so that you can then gather your group together and spend the next 15 minutes debriefing with them using the questions (on purple paper) that are in your folder. When you arrive at your site, please look for the contact person from the site and they will give an overview of their organization for you prior to starting the community service for the day. At 11:30 AM, if you have a site with 10 or less people, you can debrief with them in one group. If your site is larger than that, please make sure that you break up your group into smaller groups of 10 – 15 people and have a facilitator to help you for each of those groups. Each group should have someone record the feedback and comments from that group on the purple debrief question sheet.
Please make sure that all your supplies that you brought to the site are returned to us under the tents where you checked in at noon so that we can return them to the offices who loaned them.
Please let me know if you are interested in helping out the Saint Leo community and its surrounding communities as well.
Jennifer Garcia
Saint Leo University
Assistant Director for Student Involvement
33701 State Road 52
Saint Leo, FL 33574-6665
Office: 352-588-8266
Fax: 352-588-8329
Thursday, March 15, 2007
ACT Meeting Minutes, 7 March 2007
ACT meeting, March 7th
Sally’s Updates:
I spoke with the Dean, Dr. Michael Nastanski, and he agreed it would be OK for us to host the September dinner, so I assume that would be the last Friday in September, which is September 28?
I’ve spoken with our contact at The Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City. Her name is Lorrie Hero, Group Sales Director. She says that date works for them and she can recommend a nice package for our group. It would include dinner and the flamenco dance show.
I have their PR/Media booklet and can bring it with me to the next meeting. I will also print out some pages from their website and bring them.
Human Rights Day Programming (next year)/Die-in for Darfur (this year) UPDATE:
Needs student buy-in for program to work
Rachel heard back from program that Nelson Mandela no longer travels.
Math Week Update:
Professor Frank Barthel is in charge of Math Week, Week Prior To Spring Break March 14 is Pi Day
Women’s Herstory Month Programming:
“That takes Ovaries” program will be March 14th
Next Movie Night is March 29th
Blog Updates:
Only open to us!
Send suggestions- Sandy
Sandy to make sure that the RSS option is active on the blog so we can use RSS to send notification when new materials are added/updated
New Ideas:
Communication Club, Math Club- “Go fly your kite” day; ACT could perhaps combine with them for our “make your own tetrahedral kite” activity/contest
Future Planning & Monthly Themes:
April 2nd-June Programming: Old-time music convention, Ernie Williams fiddle or violinists. Is this at Wildwood or Sertoma? Will get more information
ACT Series Ideas
a. Food for thought dinner series: Upcoming program for March and April- September Confirmed
b. The Naked Truth (SGU collaboration) Faculty discussion series based on the Benedictine value of integrity. Have box for suggestions for next topic. We talked about a coffee house feel with coffee and desserts. Hot Topics issues instead of a lecture series. They feel like lecture series are overdone and make students feel too much like they are in class.
c. Film Series
d. Hobby Series
* Student Center drawings from Sally Burns next meeting
Webpage Tetrahedral- all faces are triangles
* Kite- Program- Math Club trying to build largest tetrahedral kite to try to get into Guinness Book of World Records during Spring Fling? Is that ok? Commercial round tent just in case no wind
* Sally will talk to Imani at PHCC about collaborative programming.
Monday, March 5, 2007
21 Feb 2007 meeting minutes
Jen will email out themes for each month list to committee members
Coffee & dessert option discussed:
Discussion on article topics instead of lecture series,
Discussed buy-in/how to get people to attend events
Human Rights: "Die In" activity proposed/planned for next year (2008), coordinated by Rachel Longstaff, Catalog Librarian
Lecture series: possible tie-ins discussed and/or ways the ACT members could facilitate
Next Mtg. March 7
Contact for programming: Imani, Director of Diversity @ PHCC
PDF – Calendar for March, Jennifer will distribute to list via email
Sandra and Rachel are hosting April "Food for Thought":
(1) decided not to attempt Viva La Frida because the restuarant is up for sale and might not be there for us to visit in April,
(2) looked into some other Latin restaurant options in Tampa and Brandon,
(3) finally decided to look into either Ceviche Tapas Restaurant in St. Petersburg at the Ponce De Leon Hotel or the sister retaurant in South Tampa (same owners) for a Saturday trip with added cultural actvities (trip to museum, trip to Pier, walking tour of historic district, etc.) instead of usual Friday event
Math Week: Professor Frank Barthel in charge of math week, prior to spring break
March 14th, Pie Day
Other options for future events: (1) Belly Dancing, Middle-Eastern Byblos Café, MacDill and Kennedy (Monika) for future one, (2) Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City (Sally) for August or September
ACT Website: Advertise BLOG, Sandra setting up BLOG
Monika: Math and Science Article Discussion: "How does it relate to math?" and perhaps a mock trial
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Update: April "Food for Thought" location
With that in mind, Rachel Longstaff and I proposed that we consider taking the students to the Ceviche Tapas Restaurant in the Ponce de Leon (historic) Hotel in downtown St. Petersburg near the pier and the Yacht Club, http://www.ceviche.com/index2.php.
If we decide to go there, we could eat upstairs or use the downstairs (former speak-easy) "Ten Beach Drive" that features live Flamenco guitar players but has a limited menu of the cold and hot tapas.
Here is the link to the menu for the main restaurant: http://www.ceviche.com/menu.php. Here's what the site has to say about the food: "Each of the 45 tapas has its own character and reflects traditional dishes from the small tapas bars in old Spain. All contain the purest sherry, almonds, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, olives, Spanish ham, cheeses, great mussels, sea bass pork and quail."
The restaurant is located at the corner of Central Avenue and Beach Drive. Considering the district's rich cultural offerings, it was proposed that we make this a Saturday trip instead of a Friday night, with the intention of including other activities for the students.
With that in mind, here is a link to some events in St. Petersburg for March: http://cms.stpete.org/default.asp?page=1420. Rachel and I are available to sponsor this trip on either the 7th or the 21st of April.
See you at the next meeting.
Blue skies,
Sandy Hawes
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Agenda, 7 Feb 2007
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 12:30 pm
deChantal Hall Conference room
Agenda
I. Introductions
II. Purpose & Perks-
a. ACT is designed to create campus wide programming by exchanging ideas, planning for, and creating events that could stimulate student learning outside of the classroom and complement the skills and lessons that are being taught in the classroom and that facilitate intellectual, interpersonal, and spiritual development in our students while allowing for student, faculty, and staff interaction.
b. Members of this team would get FREE admission to all of the events sponsored by ACT.
III. Meetings times- Twice a month
a. 1st meeting of the month will be used to discuss programs, ideas for the upcoming month.
b. 2nd meeting of the month will be confirming plans and beginning to create new ideas for next month
IV. Signature weeks/months-
a. African American History Week
b. Hate Free Week (month of March)
c. Spring Fling (just students)
d. Women's History Week
e. Latino Heritage Week (April)
V. ACT Events
a. Food for Thought Dinner Series (done in conjunction with ISA, International Student Association)
i. Cindy Lee and Marco Rimanelli, 23 Feb, Sushi restaurant, Tampa
ii. Sandy Hawes, Viva la Frida, Tampa (tentative)
b. The Naked Truth (faculty lecture series based on the Benedictine value of Integrity)- Please brainstorm ideas and come to the next meeting with ideas that we could implement for next month, speakers we could talk too, etc.
c. Film Series
d. Hobby Series
VI. Other ACT Ideas
VII. Confirm polo shirt sizes
VIII. Closing
Agenda, 21 Feb 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 12:30 pm
deChantal Hall Conference room
Agenda
I. Introductions
II. Purpose & Perks-
a. ACT is designed to create campus wide programming by exchanging ideas, planning for, and creating events that could stimulate student learning outside of the classroom and complement the skills and lessons that are being taught in the classroom and that facilitate intellectual, interpersonal, and spiritual development in our students while allowing for student, faculty, and staff interaction.
b. Members of this team would get FREE admission to all of the events sponsored by ACT.
III. Meetings times- Twice a month
a. 1st meeting of the month will be used to discuss programs, ideas for the upcoming month.
b. 2nd meeting of the month will be confirming plans and beginning to create new ideas for next month
IV. Signature weeks/months-
V. ACT Events
a. Food for Thought Dinner Series (done in conjunction with ISA, International Student Association)
i. April , Sandy Hawes, Viva La Frida- others welcome to attend
b. The Naked Truth (faculty lecture series based on the Benedictine value of Integrity)- Please brainstorm ideas and come to the next meeting with ideas that we could implement for next month, speakers we could talk too, etc.
c. Film Series
d. Hobby Series
VI. Other ACT Ideas- Math Week, Human Rights Day, Largest Kite, Twister or other elevator mind teasers, LINGO night, Canoe trips, hiking trips, fundraiser with Rocky Horror Picture Show
VII. Closing
· Thanks for coming to the first meeting for those of you who were able to attend.
· If you were unable to attend I need your Polo shirt size so that we can order some shirts for the group.
· Next time we meet will be Wednesday, Feb. 21st at 12:30 in DeChantal Hall Conference Room. (feel free to bring your lunch) At that meeting we will want to try to make a plan to execute some of these great ideas for March.