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RCAA
CENTURY COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON
MONDAY JUNE 8, 2004
The
meeting began at 7:00 p.m.
in the Teacher's Staff Room and was chaired by Doug Slade.
PRESENT:
Douglas Allen, Howard Birnie,
Diane Carleton, Edward Chu, Bill Coxon, Trung Duong, Tuyet Bink Duong,
Jane Eberhard, Judy Endacott, Etty Green, Linda Grieve,
Doug
Hobbs,Tim Kuboniwa, Pat Matthews, Bruce McGregor, Ralph Nigro, Karin Normann,
Seppo
Nousiainen, Colleen Peacock, Jack Seto, Lynne Slade, Art Smith, Mick Spillane,
Sang
Tran, Bob Watson and Jim White.
REGRETS:
Alex Fokine and Jim Hannah
MINUTES:
The minutes of Jan.13,
2004 with the correction of the spelling of Danni Li's name were moved
to be adopted by Diane Carlton and seconded by Doug Slade. CARRIED
BUSINESS
ARISING:
- No
answer yet from the Historical Society - Mick Spillane
- Nominations
for Chair of 100 th Anniversary Committee - Karin Normann nominated
co-chairs Linda Grieve, Doug Hobbs and Doug Slade, seconded by Colleen
Peacock.
- Follow-up
to Malvern's Reunion
were captured nicely in the June 2004 Riverdalian - Mick Spillane.
REPORTS:
PRINCIPAL
- Ralph Nigro
-
School to close for the summer vacations
June 24, 2004
-
Athletic Banquet June
4, 2004
-
Prom June
22, 2004
-
Riverdale's projected fall enrolment 1100
students and 66 staff
-
VP Rob McKinnon promoted to Principal,
leaving Riverdale
SEAT
SALE
- Diane Carlton
-
171 Seats have now been sold.
-
Name plaques are falling off. A solution
must be found to make plaques permanent.
100
TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK - Mick
Spillane
-
Book progressing well
-
Sports section to be compiled by Peter
Warren and Jim McAdams
-
Art will be done by Jane Eberhard who
made a request for input for years before 1970
-
Music so far has no co-ordinator
-
Dec. 31, 2005
will be deadline for submissions for contributions to the book
-
June edition of Riverdalian newsletter
will be ready for end of June distribution
MEMBERSHIP
- Howard Birnie
-
We now have 681 members of whom 20 are
new this year.
TREASURER
- Howard Birnie
-
The operating account has $ 7100.00 as
of June 8, 200
SCHOLARSHIP
- No Report
WEBSITE
- Karin Normann
-
Eric Normann is working with Tony Chan,
Riverdale's host master who suggested we set up the Alumni site on an
external server at a cost of $ 92 a year, plus tax. Colleen Peacock
moved we spend $ 92.00 plus tax to set up our own domain for one year.
Seconded by Etty Green.
-
Karin would like to see students at Riverdale
given 40 hours credit by doing research on Riverdale's entire history
in preparation for the 100 th Anniversary celebrations.
-
Minutes of Alumni meetings will go online.
100
th ANNIVERSARY SITE - Linda
Grieve
-
The new co-chairs will meet in the next
two weeks to discuss various suggestions and options and will report
at the September meeting.
-
Would like to involve staff members, especially
the Library and History departments (for archives) closer to the date
of our Anniversary.
-
There was a discussion regarding choice
of Anniversary being Mother's Day weekend, but no move to change date.
-
Concern was expressed a Liquor license
if a decision is made to use Riverdale as the venue for the Saturday
evening party if we have one.
NEW
BUSINESS - Mick Spillane
-
Bob Watson was introduced by Mick Spillane
who had volunteered to photograph the pictures in the auditorium of
Riverdale's past principals in order to use them in the 100 th Anniversary
Book. Bob's expertise lies in photography and he graciously agreed to
assist us in this are wherever needed.
NEXT
MEETING : Wednesday Sept.
15, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. in the staff room.
ADJOURNMENT:
Meeting adjourned at 8:57 p.m.
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