"Do we have a meeting this Tuesday?"

Meetings will now be held every other Tuesday. Check the sidebar for the schedule. We decided that having a meeting every other week would be more efficient than having short meetings every week. Plus, having it every other week would open your schedules to other obligations you might have as student leaders at Thomas Jefferson. We hope you will devote your newly freed Tuesday lunches as well as every other day to the four pillars of NHS: scholarship, service, leadership, and character.

The box for box tops will be in the office starting 9/26/11! The box will be emptied into a bag for delivery to Woodmere Elementary. Encourage your peers, families, and friends to start collecting!

And the Winner is...

Last week, we voted on which school or organization would receive the Box Tops Thomas Jefferson will be collecting for the 2011-2012 school year. The results: (drumroll please) ... the Baptist Friendship House accumulated the most votes!

Regarding recycling at Thomas Jefferson, we've decided to apply to be a Dream Machine Recycle Rally school. The Recycle Rally targets K-12 schools and offers benefits to local and national businesses in addition to helping schools maintain the environment. You can find more information on their program at http://www.dreammachinerecyclerally.com/ . We'll update more on recycling when we get a response.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 20th.

Box Tops

In our last meeting, we brought up collecting box tops. They're coupons worth ten cents each and are on packages of select common products (Betty Crocker, Ziploc, Kleenex, and almost every cereal brand).  Here's a list of all products affiliated with Box Tops For Education:
 http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/clip/Brands.aspx?WT.ac=UHP_PartProducts_10012010
Because Thomas Jefferson High School isn't a school that receives benefits from Box Tops, our chapter will choose a school or charity that will receive all the Box Tops we collect throughout the year. On Tuesday, we'll vote on where the Box Tops will go. Here are the schools/organizations we will vote from:

Woodmere Elementary
Shirley Johnson/ Gretna Park Elementary
McDonogh No. 26 Elementary
Gretna Middle
Baptist Friendship House

The schools listed above are low performing schools that are connected in one way or another to Thomas Jefferson. On the other hand, the Baptist Friendship house is a transitional housing program for women with children. They provide hygienic products and food to the homeless and run programs for women in the Greater New Orleans community such as GED tutoring, computer skills, job readiness, etc.

If anyone would like to suggest another organization or school to put on the the list, please comment and explain why you would like to have that school/organization on the ballot. Suggestions are encouraged!
Our next meeting will be on the 13th.

A New Year

Hello fellow National Honor Society members!

Our officers for the 2011-2012 school year are as follows:

Treasurer - Yen Vo
Secretary - Kimberly Beckford
Vice President - Amy Rea
President - Tien Le

We look forward to another year with each of you! Last week, we had our first meeting and shared some of our goals for this year--to be more organized and efficient. One of the ways we hope to do that is by updating this blog at least once a month. The editor for this school year will be the President. We hope that this blog will be a way for you guys to be more aware of our plans and activities. Keep posted!