Please mark your calendars —

The date for our January meeting has been changed to Tuesday, January 17.  All PTO meetings take place at 7:30pm in the high school library.  The recipients of the teacher support mini grants will be announced at this meeting.

The PTO meeting dates for the remainder of this school year are:  March 21, April 18, and May 23.  Thanks go out to Paulette Kampe for providing delicious home baked goods for our meetings and bringing the coffee. Our meetings are one of the best ways to stay in the loop with what’s happening at the high school. 

Membership is up many thanks to all the 850 family and faculty members who joined the PTO.   All are welcome and remember it’s never too late to join the PTO. We reserved some extra all school student directories that are available to new members on a first come first serve basis. 

By now everyone should have received the annual PTO appeal letter.  Please respond as generously as you can.  This is an important part of our PTO budget and helps pay for many worthwhile programs that benefit out students. Thank you to Laura Fennimore for helping us with our  mailings. Thanks are also due to Elaine DeVito for taking on the management of the appeal letter.

The date to purchase  the Sweepstakes Calendar is coming to a close.  If you haven’t yet done so, please support the WHRHS PTO by purchasing a chance to win in the Calendar Sweepstakes.  All Sweepstakes Calendars must be purchased by December 23, 2005.  Drawings for 90 daily cash prizes will be held each week for the months of January, February, and March 2006. We will be giving away almost $5000 in cash prizes.  There are still a few Calendars left for purchase,  please contact Liz George at 908-561-9356 or email:  NKG@aol.com for information or to obtain additional Calendars.  Or you can purchase Calendars in the South Office from Susan Obuch.

This Spring with WHRHS Band Parents Association the PTO is planning the first ever—Parent Teacher Variety Show.  We need parents in all areas:  ticket sales, performance talent, and directing.  This will be a wonderful night out and a lot of fun to be part of the adult talent at WHRHS.  Please contact Laura Mandell or John Skrobacz.

Parents are urged to understand the serious and complex issues regarding the Jan 24 high school referendum.  Please check out the website:  www.4whrhs.org.  This site was created and is maintained by high school parents.

A parent group—All Towns for the High School was formed dedicated to the effort of passing the referendum to pay for the last few months of the 3 year high school construction project completed. For further information, please contact: 

Ellen Meyers—908-626-0812

Thank you to the ongoing hard work of our members and the PTO officers:

Liz George,Rosemary O’Connor, Linda Chehade and Amy Feldman. 

 If you would like to volunteer, extend your ideas, or comments, please contact Laura Mandell, PTO President (908) 561-1286 or LauraGM1@aol.com or check out the PTO website:  www.whrhspto.org