Thank you to everyone who joined our last PTSA meeting of the year!
Congratulations to our new board!
We would be remiss if we did not pause for a moment and say a gigantic, heartfelt thank you to both Principal Heckert and Ms. Gasaway, whom we just learned are both leaving the school for new opportunities this summer. The past eighteen months has been extraordinary – tumultuous, stressful, arduous, sometimes isolating, almost constantly challenging to our emotional, mental and physical well-being. Many of us lost cherished loved ones during this time. Many of us know of families who did. Many of us are still protecting younger children who are not yet eligible for vaccinations, although we can certainly keep hope alive that younger children and even infants may be able to receive a vaccine by the end of the summer. During the trials and tribulations of working almost exclusively in an on-line, Zooming environment for most of the entire prior school year, under her leadership, Principal Heckert’s administrative team and staff have risen to the occasion with creativity, humor, flexibility, resilience and determination. It is important that we acknowledge the extraordinary efforts that went into pulling off a year and a half of academics unlike any other. And as the pandemic finally somewhat loosened its grip on us, Principal Heckert gave our seniors and our community a beautiful outdoors field graduation to remember. We thank her, and we wish her and Ms. Gasaway every success in their future endeavors. The PTSA board has some surprises planned for them next week!
Our New PTSA Board Members Starting July 1st:
- President – Stacy Ganz Kahn
- President Elect – Alexei Dmitriev
- Vice President of Membership – Xinrong Chen
- Treasurer – Jing Wang
- Corresponding Secretary – Cher Serhal
- Recording Secretary – Yan Zeng
- MCCPTA Delegate – Goldie Shturman
- MCCPTA Delegate – Sonia Verdu
Thank you to the many, many hard working volunteers who have organized and donated their time, energy, efforts and skills this extraordinary past year on behalf of our school community! Click here to see our special thanks!
To the outgoing members of our PTSA board, a GIANT THANK YOU for your last two years of service! To:
Eric Myers, our intrepid MCCPTA delegate, who graciously co-signed numerous checks with me, mostly outside with masks on, in all sorts of weather
Vanessa Scott, idea generator extraordinaire, who wrote up our meeting minutes and carefully helped re-craft our Bylaws and provided loads of important insights for two years
Lola Tobun, devoted to the WCHS community and students everywhere, always ready to organize and support, and our MCCPTA delegate
Heidi Wei, our phenomenal and dedicated treasurer, who faithfully prepared every budget and spreadsheet update and kept such careful track of our expenses
We thank the members of our board who will be continuing their service as well!
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A special thank you to Carla Rush, our NAACP rep, who kept track of numerous advocacy efforts on behalf of the NAACP and the Black and Brown coalition and offered us guidance
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A giant thank you also to Heather Braswell and Rebecca Rutberg, for so carefully managing our Facebook community pages, and to Heather for also managing our PTSA web site!
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A special thank you to all of our parent/guardian committee chairs who stepped up to provide a semblance of normalcy, if not celebrations, throughout the past year of organizing back to school support, special education services, the Asian American Festival, staff appreciation events, holiday events, and Reflections. We couldn’t operate some committees this past year, but we programmed where and when we could! In addition, thank you to our Nominating Committee for your hard work.
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An enormous thank you to the many, many parents and guardians who stepped up to the task of creating a memorable graduation set of experiences for their seniors – there are so many of you who stepped up to organize with Heather Epstein the Drive-In Movie Nights, the Car Parade, the Senior Picnic and the Senior Breakfast, including providing photography, prizes, gift cards, vendor donations, signage, etc., etc., etc., we don’t even know where to start, and we don’t want to make a mistake and leave anyone out, but you all know who you are, and for those of you who are graduating out of Churchill with your graduating seniors, GOOD LUCK AND BEST WISHES!!!!
