Mann Elementary Dream Team

August 29, 2001 Meeting Minutes

Attendees: Amanda Doyle, Julia Engelhardt, Kim Cole, Maureen Burton, Karen Fine

Everyone agrees that Kim Cole is St. Louis’ answer to Martha Stewart.

Original date we picked – September 16th - Rams home opener – not good
New date – in conjunction with open house 9/26
Blue Bunny ice cream will donate 3 gallon tubs (68 - 70 scoops) to us – will include their cool new flavors – yippee!
Ice cream cones & scoops are still needed – Amanda will find
Amanda will check in with Sally
Need volunteers to scoop – have all of us – also can ask at TGHNA meeting the night before – will need 10 people
Napkins, tables, trash cans - ask school - Amanda
Flyer for box tops for education - Brian
Playground skit (it sounds weird in the minutes, but really, it’s going to be way cool!)

We will pantomine playing on a playground
We will wear their uniform - white top, blue or black bottom
A voiceover will say something to the effect of “wouldn’t this be even better with playground equipment?”
Then Heather (who we volunteered without her knowledge!) will present our ideas / work about the playground
Kim will try to scan in some pictures of playground equipment which we can blow up into posters (Linda Riekes may have some examples)
We’ll do a dress rehearsal of the skit at TGHNA neighborhood meeting (9/25)

One of the villages at Mann School is already called the Dream Team (darn the luck!) so we need to come up with our own name
Combining the “it takes a village to raise a child” concept with her 1970’s upbringing, Jan suggests The Village People and, surprisingly, the group likes it!
Kim points out that if we call ourselves the Mann Village People, we can use the abbreviation MVPs
We are SO clever!

Once a month (around 7:15 / 7:30 a.m., we are going to deliver donuts and juice (or whatever “treat” means to you) to the teachers' lounge
We’ll include a note that we appreciate them
To pay for this, we can ask for extra change at neighborhood meetings – we can make some cute change bucket with a Village People photo on it (or our photo in Village People costumes – no, I am NOT making this up!!)
Amanda had a brilliant idea to call this Mann Magnificent Mondays. This idea was nixed when we asked Karen what day teachers would really appreciate a break. It turns out that Wednesday is really the best day, so the project is now called Wonderful Wednesdays.
1st Wednesday of month – people will volunteer as their schedules allow. So far:

Everyone

Attend TGHNA meeting on 9/25 for skit dress rehearsal (7:15, First Church of Divine Science, Wyoming just west of Grand)
Attend Open House at Mann on 9/26 – skit and ice cream kickoff

Amanda

Brian M.

Heather

Jan

Julia

Kim

10/3 Wonderful Wednesday
Produce posters of playground pictures for 9/26 Open House (call Linda Riekes for photos)
Find Village People photo on Internet and send it to everyone
Organize photo shoot (week of 9/17) of us in Village People costumes
Make collection can for Wonderful Wednesdays

Maureen