From: Jennifer McCarty and Katie Wilkins, MESA Co-Chairwomen
First, a HUGE thank you to Julie Altemose and Liz Gander. Liz created all the classroom files we use to log the minutes. She helped us each week to make sure the files were set for the latest update. In addition to being a great Librarian, Julie Altemose spent time reviewing Sponsor sheets and Reading Logs with the students before the Read-a-thon got rolling. She was also was very generous in allowing us to take up residence in the library for a couple hours each Tuesday morning to do Reading Log counting.
D. Tidd collected the logs from the classrooms each week. Without our logs we’d have nothing to count!
Our Volunteer Counters:
Tammi Swan prepared our file setup for counting and got the data together for the bulletin board. Her consistent presence and support was so helpful!
Teresa Aranguiz
Bebe Bissell
Rick Cinquegrana
Hope Cinquegrana
Blake Harrison
Tracy Horne
Victoria Jette
Elissa Morton
Elaine Orozco Hammond
May Poduschnick
Jenn Quinn
Ian Ross
Lorraine Tobias
Natali West
Many of our counter volunteers come back each year to help us and we greatly appreciate it!
Renee Ursitti did such a great job on the bulletin board from concept to execution. She was also our fine server of bugs at the Cricket Cafe for the Principals’ Challenge!
Of course, we must thank all MHS teachers who help make the Read-a-thon a success by promoting participation in their classes.
Thank you to “Bonnie’s Book Foundation” via Amy Graham for their contribution of new books to our students during the book cart donation.
To Ellie Friml, Box Office Manager and Jackson Gallery Director at Town Hall Theater, for her several hours working on our events poster. Through several iterations, Ellie prepared our poster for printing. Many, many thanks to her for doing this during a very busy production week at THT.
To Chuck Miller, who worked with the students to write lyrics and record the song used for the video. Of course, he is also the band director, so he leads the band when playing at both our opening and closing assemblies!
To Kurt Broderson of MCTV, who worked with students to write the lyrics and produced the video for the song. Kurt was also behind the camera recording our opening assembly, the Jeff Kinney visit, the instructional video on the digital bookmark and of course the Principals’ Challenge at the “Cricket Cafe.”
To Elizabeth Gaucher of Longridge Editors LLC for curating our blog for the second year in a row!
To Tricia Weeks Allen, Angela Cobrin Landis, and Jenn Staats, who kept showing up over and over again with fresh ideas and new resources to make the Read-a-thon Committee successful.
To April Rule and Sue Kallen, who were always at the ready in the front office to make things happen.
To Tom Buzzell and Steve Lindemann, who were always at the ready EVERYWHERE to make things happen!
To META via Jeff Lester, the semi-covert ultra-elite secret society of . . . oh, heck. The teachers and educators who gave money, time, and support to everything we did!
And last but oh so not at all least, to Mary Longey, who was helped MESA in so many ways during the Read-a-thon that it is too much to list! We appreciate you, Mary!
The Mary Hogan School READ-A-THON 