Minutes from JSA Student Rep Meeting
April 19, 2007
March 15, 2007
February 13, 2007
January 18, 2007
December 14, 2006
November 16, 2006
September 28, 2006

Minutes from JSA Student Rep Meeting The Nightingale-Bamford School Thursday, April 19, 2007

Schools in Attendance: Browning, Chapin, La Scuola d’Italia, Marymount School, Nightingale-Bamford, Spence.

Independent Voices : A student poetry reading.

• will take place at Barnes and Noble (near Lincoln Center) on April 27th at 6:30pm
• works have been submitted and are in the process of being printed
• almost all of the schools have submitted works, totaling about 70 students

Independent Visions : A student photography exhibit.

• will take place at the Marmara Manhattan (a residential hotel - 301 East 94th street)
• there is an opening reception on April 28th from 4:00 - 6:00pm
• the exhibit will be open to the public on April 29th from 12:00 -4:00pm
• the photographs will be hung professionally
• submissions are due by April 21st
• almost all of the schools affiliated with JSA have submitted works

Publicizing Events:  for both Visions and Voices, students to need:

• post flyers at their school
• make announcements at school assemblies
• send flyers to student body via school intranet
• get school newspaper to cover the events
• all reps should have received e-mail copies of flyers; they can be found on the website as well, www.jointschoolsny.org

Yorkville Common Pantry

• 20 students from JSA will have an opportunity to volunteer at the Yorkville Common Pantry on May 12th from 9:30 - 1:30 pm
• students will pack and distribute grocery bags to the Pantry’s clients
• the pantry is located at 8 E. 109th Street
• community service credit will be given
• E-mail Student Committee Coordinator Diane Discenza if you are interested in volunteering, discenza@nyc.rr.com; slots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis

Ballroom Event

• Sacred Heart has offered their Ballroom for JSA to host an event
• the Student Committee has decided on a Masquerade Ball (dress will be semi-formal)
• Sacred Heart is looking into October 26, 2007 as a possible date
• Fundraising possibilities: selling masks and/or decorate-your-own mask
• Students from Spence, Marymount, Chapin and Nightingale have signed-up to assist with planning – we need volunteers from all JSA schools!
• If interested in helping with decorations, refreshments, D.J. selection, theme (finding masks), publicity etc., e-mail Student Committee Coordinator Diane Discenza, discenza@nyc.rr.com

Rock’n Renew Event (flyer distributed by Ben Wallin from Browning)

• Teens against global warming
• Live bands
• ***Free Admission***
• Williamsburg: Grand St. School Campus
• Saturday, April 21, 2007
• 12 pm- 4 pm

Browning Coffee House

• May 18
• The Browning School
• proceeds go to JSA

Nightingale Battle of The Bands

• June 8
• The Nightingale-Bamford School
• Bands playing: The Fuzz (Spence Battle of the Bands winners), The Bones Royal, The Heroes of Seaweed, ModRocket, The Rubberband, The Luxembourg
• proceeds go to Cystic Fibrosis research

Next (and Last Meeting) on Thursday, May 17 at the Dwight School at 4:15pm

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Minutes from JSA Student Rep Meeting The Trinity School Thursday, March 15, 2007

Schools in attendance:  Browning, Calhoun, Chapin, Marymount, Nightingale, Spence and Trinity.   Reverend Moorhouse, chaplain and head of community service at Trinity, was also in attendance.

Independent Voices : A student poetry reading.

• will take place at Barnes and Noble (near Lincoln Center) on April 27th at 6:30pm
• works have been submitted and are in the process of being printed
• almost all of the schools have submitted works, totaling about 70 students

Independent Visions : A student photography exhibit.

• will take place at the Marmara Manhattan (a residential hotel - 301 East 94th street)
• there is an opening reception on April 28th from 4:00 - 6:00pm
• the exhibit will be open to the public on April 29th from 12:00 -4:00pm
• the photographs will be hung professionally
• submissions are due by April 21st
• almost all of the schools affiliated with JSA have submitted works

Browning Coffee House

• canceled due to scheduling and location conflicts
• will take place at a later date ( after spring break)

Yorkville Common Pantry

• 20 students from JSA will have an opportunity to volunteer at the Yorkville Common Pantry on May 12th from 9:30 - 1:30 pm
• students will pack and distribute grocery bags to the Pantry’s clients
• Spence, Browning, Nightingale, Marymount and Trinity all demonstrated interest in sending students to this event
• E-mail Student Committee Coordinator Diane Discenza if you are interested in volunteering, discenza@nyc.rr.com; slots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis

JSA Sports Event

• tentative sports event for the school year of 2007-8 to raise money for JSA
• possible venues to be explored are Calhoun or the Brearley Field House
• different options for the event include - teachers vs. teachers from different schools or teachers vs. students
• money would be raised by pledging money per shot prior to the game

Ballroom Event

• Sacred Heart has offered their Ballroom for JSA to host an event
• possibilities for this event include an improv night or a masquerade ball at which we could sell masks to raise money

Other Upcoming Events
First week in June : Nightingale Battle of the Bands - contact CAAdley@nightengale.org
POSSIBLE COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES : Apollo Soup Kitchen, Beach cleanup, Blood drive
POSSIBLE INTER-SCHOOL COMPETITIONS: Spence Battle of the Acappella Groups, Marymount Math Competition

NEXT MEETING THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH , 4:15 AT NIGHTINGALE

Submitted by Isabel Sheineman

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Minutes from JSA Student Rep Meeting The Browning School Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Schools in attendance:  Chapin, Dwight, La Scuola, Marymount, Nightingale, Sacred Heart and Spence.  Mr. Reynolds, Head of Upper School at Browning, was also in attendance.

• 71 students representing Columbia Prep (29), Calhoun (4), Marymount (6), Dwight (13), La Scuola (6), Nightingale (2), Spence (7), Birch Wathen (2) and Hunter (2) attended.
• Students agreed that they liked the location and time of the event (school cafeteria, early afternoon).
• Next year each student would like to make a complete sandwich bag rather than work on an assembly line doing one task the entire time.
• A BIG THANK YOU to the schools who did fundraising to help underwrite expenses: Dwight, La Scuola, and Spence.  About $1,000 was raised toward the total events costs of $1,440. 

• Will take place at Barnes & Noble near Lincoln Center on Friday, April 27th. 
• Consult website www.jointschoolsny.org for complete information.

Independent Visions – Annual Student Photography Exhibition

• Scheduled for Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29th at an art gallery on the Upper East Side. 
• Consult website for viewing times and location address www.jointschoolsny.org. 

• There may be an opportunity to volunteer in the Saturday morning Pantry Program, assembling and distributing grocery bags
• Several dates in April and May are being investigated
• Will keep you posted – sign-up will be first-come, first-served

Possible JSA-sponsored event at Sacred Heart

• Sacred Heart has generously offered the use of their ballroom for a JSA event. 
• The Committee brainstormed and came up with the idea of a possible “Improv Night”
• A Committee needs to be formed early next fall to work on this

Browning Coffee House

• Friday, March 16th from 7-10 pm at Browning, admission $5. 
• See flyer on website www.jointschoolsny.org for more info.

Next Meeting:  Thursday, March 15th at the Trinity School – The Brass Pavilion, 101 W. 91st St.

Submitted by Diane Discenza, Student Committee Coordinator

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Minutes from JSA Student Rep Meeting Marymount Thursday, January 18, 2007

Sandwich Saturday

Saturday, February 10, 2007 @ Columbia Prep (5 West 93^rd), 1:30-4:30
We’ll be making sandwich bags for the homeless, to be distributed through the Coalition for the Homeless
Please announce at your school and post flyers – get as many volunteers as you can – community service credit will be given!
The expenses for the event are between $1,500 - $2,000
EACH SCHOOL SHOULD HELP FUNDRAISE – do a raffle, bake sale, coffeehouse etc.
Some schools already have fundraisers planned – Browning, Dwight, La Scuola, and Spence

Dare to Dream Conference

Was held January 15 at The American Museum of Natural History – sponsored by Dwight’s Institute for Civic Leadership
It included student presentations on service projects and provided leadership training for high school students
Several JSA schools attended and gave good feedback

Independent Voices

April 27^th at Barnes & Noble on Broadway near Lincoln Center
Written submissions due Feb. 2^nd
Speaker submissions due in March
Check with your English Dept. to make sure they have details

Independent Visions

Will be held April 28 and 29 in the gallery space at The Marmara Manhattan, a residential hotel at 301 E. 94^th St .
More details to follow

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Minutes From JSA Student Rep Meeting Columbia Grammar and Prep School Thursday, December 14, 2006

• The carnival was fantastic –we got great feedback from the Mission Society
• The spin art was successful and easy
• The beanbag toss ultimately needed more prizes because they ran out early
• Some people suggested tickets and a prize table instead of prizes for next year’s carnival – smaller selection of prizes and more uniform prizes
• Prizes used this year include dog/cat calendars, candy, glowsticks – for next year we should consider more unisex prizes
• Everyone agreed that the carnival should be shorter
• The kids from the Mission Society are older now –think of better activities for older kids, etc.

• Saturday February 10, 2006 @ Columbia Prep (5 West 93^rd)
• 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
• Making bag lunches for Coalition for the Homeless
• Each school should try to fundraise because the event will cost about $1500
• Each school’s Community Service Director will be sent the list of participants from that school for community service hours – bring as many people as you want/can

• January 13, 2006
• It’s a floor hockey event –we may not be able to participate –check e mail

• April 27 @ Barnes & Noble on Broadway
• Written submissions due Feb 2
• Speaker submission sometime in March
• Check with your English department – they have the details

• End of April or early May
• SPACE STILL NEEDED
• The Sacred Heart rep suggested that the school’s ballroom could be a possibility
• Few other galleries mentioned – students to check

• January 15 – hosted by The Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL) at Dwight
• Held at the American Museum of Natural History
• A variety of speakers from NYC schools
• 12:00 – 3:00
• For more info, go to www.iclny.org 

• January 14, 2006
• To benefit Save the Children

• January 19^th, 2006

• Marymount Ski trip – January

• Next meeting: January 18, 2007 @ Marymount @ 4:15

Submitted by Cameron Ledy

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Minutes From JSA Student Rep Meeting The Nightingale Bamford School Thursday, November 16, 2006


Contact Diane Discenza, Ritu Banga, Carmen Knoepffler with survey results by next week: short e-mail describing which activities your school liked and which they did not.

• Refreshments
• Bands/ DJ
• Votes or raffle à small fee
• Advertisements on JSA website (send flyer)

• Get prizes à bags will be supplied
• Set up at 12:30 pm
• Carnival starts at 1:00 pm
• End of carnival/ clean up at 3-3:30 pm
• Birch Wathen Lenox School : cupcake decorating
• Marymount: bean bag toss
• Browning: basketball
• Nightingale Bamford: face-paint
• Chapin: limbo
• La Scuola d’Italia: tattoos and nail painting
• Spence: Candy necklaces
• Dwight: freeze dance
• Calhoun: spin art
• Columbia Grammar and Prep School: turkey hand traces

• Congress call-in days
• Letter writing
• T-shirts
• All those who want to participate or start a chapter in their school should contact the Chapin student reps.

• Next fall
• Will probably be kick-off activity à no more Publicolor because they have stopped their high school volunteer program.

• E-mail Caroline Adley (caadley@nightingale.org) or Caroline Couch (ccouch@nightingale.org) to receive a band application
• All band applications due January 19^th

There may be opportunities for JSA to volunteer at floor hockey event in January – more info to follow
Marymount Ski Trip Invitation to be sent by the Marymount student reps, with a copy marked to the Marymount Athletic Director, Ms. Anderson, so that she is in the loop.

***Next Meeting: Thursday December 14, 2006 4:15 pm at Columbia Grammar & Prep. School (5 West 93 St.)
Submitted by Carmen Ingerman, Nightingale-Bamford

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Minutes from JSA Student Rep Meeting The Brearley School Thursday September 28, 2006

Opening Remarks

New and returning students were welcomed to the meeting.  Diane Discenza, a Spence parent, introduced herself as the new Student Committee Chair.  She will help facilitate student meetings.  Students are encouraged to contact her at discenza@nyc.rr.com with any questions or ideas.

Students should consult the JSA website www.jointschoolsny.org to stay informed about upcoming events.  Both JSA sponsored and non-JSA school sponsored activities will be highlighted.  If you have a school event, i.e. dance, coffeehouse etc., which you would like to advertise to member schools, please send the pertinent information to webmaster@jointschoolsny.org.  In order to raise the profile of JSA among students and parents, schools are encouraged to create a link to the JSA website from their own website.

Winter Athletic Event – students remain interested in having some sort of indoor sporting event that can be social and perhaps raise money for a charity.  Securing school gyms and field houses is difficult, so other ideas are being explored.  The idea of a bowling afternoon/evening was discussed.  Some students were reluctant to consider Harlem Bowling Lanes because they didn’t know how to get there and felt that others would have the same problem. Bowlmor Lanes downtown was suggested as an alternative.  Some students expressed a preference for an afternoon event vs. evening event.  The point was also made that some students have sports competitions on Friday afternoons that would prevent them from attending anything before 8pm .     

Students seemed particularly enthusiastic about having an ice skating event.  Using the seasonal rink at Bryant Park will be explored.

Winter 2007 Browning Coffee House, date TBD.  Proceeds go to JSA.  Other schools are encouraged to host events in support of JSA.  Monies are needed to fund food supplies for Sandwich Saturdays and other JSA community service projects.  

February – Sandwich Saturday (making sandwiches/food bags for the homeless).  Charity and venue TBD.

Friday, April 27, 2007 – Independent Voices.  An annual poetry reading at Barnes and Noble Lincoln Center.  The date is confirmed.  More info to follow.

April/May 2007 – Independent Visions.   An annual student photography exhibition.  A gallery space is needed to host this weekend-long event.  Date and venue TBD.

There is no October event because Publicolor discontinued its student volunteer program.A Breast Cancer Walk on October was briefly discussed but students didn’t feel they could mobilize volunteers on such short notice.Participation in the Goddard Riverside Book Fair in mid-October and mid-November was discussedSubsequent research indicated that the event would not lend itself to JSA participation (the actual book fair space is small and could not accommodate a group of 30 or more students working together).Work will continue throughout the year to find another event to replace Publicolor for next fall.

Other Potential Community Service Events To Be Explored:

·        Gift wrapping at Barnes and Noble (for donations to a specified charity), JCC , or Yorkville Common Food Pantry;

  ·        A planting/renovation project on a Saturday in Central Park (organized through the Central Park Conservancy);

  ·        Care packages for soldiers in Iraq; 

·        Move Against Aids Dance-a-thon (Brearley already participates).

Misc.
Both Spence and Nightingale mentioned that their schools are planning Battle of the Bands evenings.  Details to follow. 

THE NEXT MEETING IS AT 4:15 ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19^TH AT CHAPIN.  This will be a joint student-parent meeting.  Chapin is located at 100 East End Avenue, between 84^th and 85^th.

Submitted by Sriya Sundaresan / edited by Diane Discenza

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