Minutes

Smurthwaite House Minutes – 2/24/08

1. Director Notes
2. Zoe: Cooking tips – don’t forget to initial memo. Initial all duties and pay attention. Look for memos. Cooling food has to be in pans, not in cottage cheese containers. No pots and pans cleaners on weekends!! Clean your own pots and pans!! Pizza sauce in upstairs freezer. Make sure to sweep off dust pan so it’s clean for the next person.
3. Karen: Make sure the back door is locked!!
4. Officer Reports
5. Meredith – Scholarship chair: Class schedule list is compiled and can be found in back of Blue notebook. Also planning Scholarship banquet (April 12; needs current home address to send invitations.
6. Kayla – Historian: Send Kayla your pictures for the scrapbook
7. Victoria – Administrative Recruitment: Shadow weekend next weekend; if you signed up to have a shadow, stay after meeting. We might need more people to have shadows. On Saturday it would be good to be around house even if you don’t have a shadow. 4:00-5:30 be here in Smurth for icebreakers and q&a for majors for the girls. If you want to participate in skits, talk to Vic. 5:00 tip off for bball game; Watch party with Smith and the girls. If you can’t be here this weekend, please help Vic this week. If you haven’t filled out shadow form or info sheet, do so. If you are representing Smurthwaite, please don’t act inappropriately.
8. 12:00-4:00 check in/lunch/free time
9. 4:-00-5:30 dinner/skits
10. 5:30-7:00 dinner clean-up
11. 8:00 Watch party
12. Amanda – Community Service: Last week of love month! It’s clothing drive time! Collect your clothes and put them in the corner of the dining room. They will be gone by Friday at noon. A donation = 1 hour of service. Instead of pancake feed, we are going to serve breakfast at Episcapal church. 6:30am-9:30am on Tuesday and Friday (Feb. 26 & Feb. 29) Smurthwaite is on the board at Douglass Tutoring. You should help! Thanks to Meredith for helping with Environ; thanks to Caitlin and Megan C. for shopping. Blood drive this week! Donating = 1 hour. Good job for lots of hours!
13. Meryl – Cultural Chairwoman Al: Monday 25th – Speaker in Forum Hall about Learning to love food again 6:00, Dobranski in All Faiths Chapel 7:00 Tuesday, Wednesday Jazz Band in Forum Hall at 7:00, Too Many Sopranos – tickets: $10, Grocery Bingo in the Union from 7:00-11 on Friday!
14. Andrea – Fundraising Chair: More Bramlage Clean-up Wednesday and Saturday. Only Thursday March 6 will clean (not Friday) Initial board.
15. Amanda K. – Publicity Chairwoman: Pay Amanda or she won’t pick up order!
16. Heather – Informal Social: WOW is Brandy Tyler from Smith House in charge of T-Shirt, will be $8-10 and sign up will be soon.
17. Sarah C – Homecoming Chair B: HOTY bid coming up soon. Needs people to volunteer for skit team/writing. Also written bid that is 10 pages. More info? See Sarah.
18. Caitlin – Vice President:Cars in the lot without a permit = bad. Caitlin knows your car. Park around the block. Will print off phone duty record. Check off name before next house meeting.
19. Allison – Intramural Chair: Sign up sheets for intramurals. Doubles coming up! Teams of softball, dodge ball. Individual: Around the World.
20. Erin – ARH Representative: ARH meeting on March 5. Come! It’s a HOTY goal. If you want to run for an exec board position, go find Erin for a form. Primary elections for campus exec board are this week. Thanks for coming to meeting this last week!
21. Monica – Alumnae Chair: Alumnae event = afternoon on April 5 Needs ideas for mixers and such.

3. New Business
4. Move to allow guests to sleep in Study room and use common areas on Friday, Feb. 29, approved.

4. Announcements
5. Vic – Don’t leave the scoops in bins in kitchen. DON’T LEAVE DOOR PROPPED!!!
6. Caitlin – Not allowed to prop door at all this week! It is very dangerous to leave the door propped unwatched. Up ‘til Dawn counts for community service! Yay! Any questions? Talk to Caitlin.
7. Stacy – Self-Defense meeting at Front Desk after meeting. Program at Thursday at 8:00.
8. Kayla – Sunday : Dinner with a Purpose; $5.00 for dinner on Sunday night. Also Casino night with prizes! Also come to ARH meeting! It’s part of our HOTY goals and we want to win HOTY. Help with skit and writing the bid. Questions? See Kayla
9. Brandy – Thanks for coming to formal and helping out!
10. Laura – Remember that you are representing Smurthwaite; act appropriately. People are watching our actions. Don’t leave food in inappropriate places in fridge. Good job on Formal. Recruiting – received thank-you for participating. Friday tour at 3:15. HOTY board coming soon. New bookcases in Study Room. Next week after House meeting carry books out of Karen’s office to Study Room. Speaker on Monday night… you should go! Belly dancing at Rec on Thursday at 7:00. Friday Hot Chocolate at Union.
11. Awards
12. Warm Fuzzies
13. Warm fuzzy to all Smurthies for their incredible love and support – Jewels
14. Warm Fuzzy to Emily for our late night laundry room chates you are my rock that keeps me standing tall. Thank you so much. – Kelsey
15. Warm fuzzy to Ann, Thanks so much for fixing my computer. Much love, Erin
16. Warm fuzzy to Larissa for being so perky when waking me up at 5:00 am. – Stacy
17. Warm fuzzy to Megan C. for helping my computer come back to life! – Caitlin
18. Warm fuzzy to you beautiful ladies that helped me clean out the refrigerators and do dishes at 3am last Sunday. You rock my world. –Kelsey
19. Warm fuzzy to all the girls I always forget to warm fuzzy! Love always! Megan H.
20. Warm fuzzy to all the girls that helped with formal. I couldn’t have done it without you all! ? Thanks, Chupa.
21. Spam
22. Major Spam to Chrissy for having cold hands and walking in the house saying my hands are freezing and then reaching into her pockets only to find her gloves.
23. Spam to Sara L. for the following: “apparently we get along well with people who don’t like pants.”
24. Spam to the caramel for running away and hiding so that it wouldn’t be put in the brownies on Wednesday. ?
25. Spam to Laura – for saying to Anna and Kelsey, “You almost dropped my drawers!” as her pants about fell down.
26. Spam to Brook and Rachel Corn – While writing a reaction paper to an article concerning race, Brook says, “I don’t know what to write about. How should I feel about racism?” Rachel Corn replies, “You should be against it…”
27. Spam to Christina for saying, “BAM I’m black!” <3 lauren c.
28. Spam to Christina for blurting “Aris-titties… Darn those Greeks.”
29. Spam to Megan H. for sitting on a plate of chocolate covered strawberries. Bravo, way to go.
30. Spam to Larissa for her inability to put on a mask and then losing it in my car. <3 rachel corn
31. Spam to Allison for the following conversation at the rec: Jewels: Are you gonna fall? Allison: No, I’m just gonna bleed. <3 jewels
32. Spam to Larissa for using her card to open the front door when it was already propped open.
33. Spam to Rachel Corn for spraying me in the face with sanitizer and then wiping it off with the paper towels she used to clean the drinking fountain. :P
34. Meryl – Cultural Chairwoman Al: Monday 25th – Speaker in Forum Hall about Learning to love food again 6:00, Dobranski in All Faiths Chapel 7:00 Tuesday, Wednesday Jazz Band in Forum Hall at 7:00, Too Many Sopranos – tickets: $10, Grocery Bingo in the Union from 7:00-11 on Friday!
35. Andrea – Fundraising Chair: More Bramlage Clean-up Wednesday and Saturday. Only Thursday March 6 will clean (not Friday) Initial board.
36. Amanda K. – Publicity Chairwoman: Pay Amanda or she won’t pick up order!
37. Heather – Informal Social: WOW is Brandy Tyler from Smith House in charge of T-Shirt, will be $8-10 and sign up will be soon.
38. Sarah C – Homecoming Chair B: HOTY bid coming up soon. Needs people to volunteer for skit team/writing. Also written bid that is 10 pages. More info? See Sarah.
39. Caitlin – Vice President:Cars in the lot without a permit = bad. Caitlin knows your car. Park around the block. Will print off phone duty record. Check off name before next house meeting.
40. Allison – Intramural Chair: Sign up sheets for intramurals. Doubles coming up! Teams of softball, dodge ball. Individual: Around the World.
41. Erin – ARH Representative: ARH meeting on March 5. Come! It’s a HOTY goal. If you want to run for an exec board position, go find Erin for a form. Primary elections for campus exec board are this week. Thanks for coming to meeting this last week!
42. Monica – Alumnae Chair: Alumnae event = afternoon on April 5 Needs ideas for mixers and such.
43. New Business
44. Move to allow guests to sleep in Study room and use common areas on Friday, Feb. 29, approved.

4. Announcements
5. Vic – Don’t leave the scoops in bins in kitchen. DON’T LEAVE DOOR PROPPED!!!
6. Caitlin – Not allowed to prop door at all this week! It is very dangerous to leave the door propped unwatched. Up ‘til Dawn counts for community service! Yay! Any questions? Talk to Caitlin.
7. Stacy – Self-Defense meeting at Front Desk after meeting. Program at Thursday at 8:00.
8. Kayla – Sunday : Dinner with a Purpose; $5.00 for dinner on Sunday night. Also Casino night with prizes! Also come to ARH meeting! It’s part of our HOTY goals and we want to win HOTY. Help with skit and writing the bid. Questions? See Kayla
9. Brandy – Thanks for coming to formal and helping out!
10. Laura – Remember that you are representing Smurthwaite; act appropriately. People are watching our actions. Don’t leave food in inappropriate places in fridge. Good job on Formal. Recruiting – received thank-you for participating. Friday tour at 3:15. HOTY board coming soon. New bookcases in Study Room. Next week after House meeting carry books out of Karen’s office to Study Room. Speaker on Monday night… you should go! Belly dancing at Rec on Thursday at 7:00. Friday Hot Chocolate at Union.
11. Awards
12. Warm Fuzzies
13. Warm fuzzy to all Smurthies for their incredible love and support – Jewels
14. Warm Fuzzy to Emily for our late night laundry room chates you are my rock that keeps me standing tall. Thank you so much. – Kelsey
15. Warm fuzzy to Ann, Thanks so much for fixing my computer. Much love, Erin
16. Warm fuzzy to Larissa for being so perky when waking me up at 5:00 am. – Stacy
17. Warm fuzzy to Megan C. for helping my computer come back to life! – Caitlin
18. Warm fuzzy to you beautiful ladies that helped me clean out the refrigerators and do dishes at 3am last Sunday. You rock my world. –Kelsey
19. Warm fuzzy to all the girls I always forget to warm fuzzy! Love always! Megan H.
20. Warm fuzzy to all the girls that helped with formal. I couldn’t have done it without you all! ? Thanks, Chupa.
21. Spam
22. Major Spam to Chrissy for having cold hands and walking in the house saying my hands are freezing and then reaching into her pockets only to find her gloves.
23. Spam to Sara L. for the following: “apparently we get along well with people who don’t like pants.”
24. Spam to the caramel for running away and hiding so that it wouldn’t be put in the brownies on Wednesday. ?
25. Spam to Laura – for saying to Anna and Kelsey, “You almost dropped my drawers!” as her pants about fell down.
26. Spam to Brook and Rachel Corn – While writing a reaction paper to an article concerning race, Brook says, “I don’t know what to write about. How should I feel about racism?” Rachel Corn replies, “You should be against it…”
27. Spam to Christina for saying, “BAM I’m black!” <3 lauren c.
28. Spam to Christina for blurting “Aris-titties… Darn those Greeks.”
29. Spam to Megan H. for sitting on a plate of chocolate covered strawberries. Bravo, way to go.
30. Spam to Larissa for her inability to put on a mask and then losing it in my car. <3 rachel corn
31. Spam to Allison for the following conversation at the rec: Jewels: Are you gonna fall? Allison: No, I’m just gonna bleed. <3 jewels
32. Spam to Larissa for using her card to open the front door when it was already propped open.
33. Spam to Rachel Corn for spraying me in the face with sanitizer and then wiping it off with the paper towels she used to clean the drinking fountain. :P

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