Ambria Pfarr
04/04/2010
The latest SAAC meeting held on March 21st, 2010 started with updates from each of the teams and from the Athletic department. The Athletic department is making staff changes and is starting searches for a new head volleyball coach (and assistant athletic director), assistant athletic trainer and a fundraising lead. Ideas for the upcoming awards banquet and our current standing in the all-MIAC sports races were also discussed. Katie Lambert shared a summary of the Women’s Month events that SAAC co-sponsored with the Institute for Women’s Leadership and discussed further ideas for more events with them. Following, Andrea Millerbernd share information about the MIAC SAAC service project Rebuilding Together which will take place on April 24th in either Minneapolis or St. Paul. Our own community outreach projects were then discussed. The first of our projects is a fundraiser for Haiti through a program that Kelly Donahue has set up. This fundraiser will raise money for an orphanage on Haiti that houses and feeds many children. The other is our semi-annual Blazer Buddies Program that will take place on April 10th and involves children from the St. Joseph area. The meeting focused on the last big topic of the successful SAAC semi-formal. A summary of this year was given and insights were shared about changes to make for next year. Ideas for next year’s program such as how effective was the cash bar and should we change the set-up of the desserts, were considered to make the dance a continuing success. We closed with a reminder of upcoming meetings and events for the rest of the school year.
