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Cheyenne PTO Committees

Artist in Residence
Arts in Education
Back to School Dinner
Bread Dough Sales
Bulletin Boards
Colonial Day
Dad's On Duty
Directory/Business Partners

E-Scrip
Evening Under the Stars
Family Picture Day
Fiddlesticks
Field Days
Friday Fun-Day
Fundraising (Gift Wrap)
Grant Writing
Greek Day
Harvest Fest

Health Screening
Honors Breakfast: 5th - 8th
Jump for Heart
Membership
Newsletter
Outreach
Parent Council

Picture Day
Promotions
Publicity
Room Parent Coodinator
Scholastic Book Fair
Shirt Sales

Silent Auction

SPI (Scottsdale Prevention Institute)
Special Events
Star Performer
Sports Booster: 6th-8th
Teacher Appreciation
Traditional Philosophy
Used Book Fair
Used Uniform Sales
Website/Email


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Committee

What's it About?

Chairperson

Artist in Residence & Arts in Education

Coordinates the Artist with the city and the school

Michelle Blythe

Back to School Dinner Organizes the Back to School Celebration for all Cheyenne Families. PTO Board
Bread Dough Sales Coordinates the publicity, selling, and distributing of Bread Dough. It is currently planned to take place before the Winter Holidays. Nancy Holben

Bulletin Boards

Keeps bulletin boards and sign out front up to date with current information.

Sue Emery

Colonial Day

 

Kathryn DesMarais
Lyric Naquin
Lisa Daliere
Darlene Gerster

Dad's On Duty

Organizes dads to help out during lunchtime, on the playground and carpool lanes before and after school.  Help promote safety and security on campus.

Other activities might include helping with BBQ’s, special events or functions.

Patrick Gorman

Directory/Business Partners

Directory: At the beginning of the year, the chair will distribute a form to every student. Forms are collected, organized and keyed into a computer. All information needs to be compiled, printed, and distributed by October 1.

Soliciting Ads: Price for ads usually covers the expenses of publishing the directory. Prices of the ads are determined by the executive board and chairperson.

Business Partners: This goes hand-in-hand with the soliciting of ads. Businesses are encouraged to become partners with Cheyenne.

Amy Youssefi
Cindy Breen

E-Scrip

Coordinates the E-scrip program and informs and promotes it within the school

Gretchen Goldstein

Evening Under the Stars

Art work is collected right from the start of the school year.  All students’ art work needs to be matted and labeled. 

Juli Yarnall &
Susan Marty
Family Picture Day Families can come at a pre-arranged time to have their picture taken - and then have the opportunity to purchase various picture packages - including Christmas cards. Cindy Breen
Fiddlesticks Coordinates the end-of-the-year party for the families of Cheyenne Students Cindy Breen

Field Days

Work closely with the P.E. teachers in organizing the events, parents, and students.  The event takes place in March.  Many volunteers are needed to make this event successful. 

Andrea Cohen

Fundraising (Gift Wrap)

Organizes, and distributes flyers and brochures of the event.  The chair is also responsible for the collection of forms, placing the order with the company, receiving the order, and distributing the products to the students. This is one of our major fund raisers and success is key.

Nancy Holben
Melissa Gregg

Grant Writing

Research and pursue any grants that will benefit the school.  This committee provides a financial relief to the school, PTO, and Tax Credit monies.

Michelle Blythe

Greek Day

6th Grade to link in with Social Studies curriculum

Michelle McCabe

Harvest Fest

Our largest and most popular after school event! This committee organizes the events, stations, volunteers and food.

Kim Gleason
Pam Kaye

Health Screening

Work closely with the nurses to evaluate their needs.  Volunteers must be recruited and scheduled to work in the health office. 

Nurse will need assistance for the health screening held at the beginning of the school year.

Robin DiRoberts

Honors Breakfast: 


At quarter ends, this committee organizes breakfast for the honor students. All breakfast foods are PTO funded. The committee is responsible for setting up the day before and helping out at the event.

5th - Carolyn Kerr
6th - Yvonne Gierwielaniec
7th-8th - Jill Hocken

Jump for Heart

The event takes place in February.  Many volunteers are needed to make this event successful.  Advertising, distribution of forms, and collection of funds are included in this job.  Promoting of this event is critical.

Frances Schutz

Membership

To promote and organize PTO membership and strive for 100% participation

Amy Youssefi
Cindy Breen

Newsletter

Designs and generates the weekly CTS PTO Roadrunner Newsletter

Bridget Murdock

Outreach

This committee helps those families in need.  Outreach can encompass the used uniform sale, help families in need over the Thanksgiving holiday, and other needs that may arise. 

Cindy Breen
Gretchen Goldstein

Parent Council

Parent Council is a group with one or more representatives from each school that meets once a month and shares ideas, attends Scottsdale Superintendent bag lunch meetings, and deals with issues which concern our children’s education.  This is not a decision-making council, but a group of parents that report back to their respective schools with news about other schools (and maybe new ideas for ours), news about the district, and any other information with regards to our children’s education

Amy Yousseffi

Picture Day

Coordinates volunteers and organization of school pictures

Irene Mourikes
Beth Shapiro

Promotions

This committee advertises to the Cheyenne community the various promotions that Cheyenne PTO is enrolled in to raise funds.  Currently they include Box Tops for Education, Campbell Soup labels, Cartridges for Kids. 

Gretchen Goldstein

Publicity

Keeps our school marquee up to date, and the letter boards outside our school office current.

Christine Kovach

Room Parent Coodinator

Key contact with room parents from all grades. Distributes and coordinates all information.

Suzanne Park

Scholastic Book Fair

Organizes, sets-up, and sells at the book fair.  The sale is held during the first week of November

Robin Zudekoff
Lisa Schiffer

Shirt Sales

This committee is required to purchase shirts with the Cheyenne logo (of good quality at a good price point), inventory, advertise, and sell the shirts.

Patricia Shaw
Cindy Breen

Silent Auction

This is an evening fundraiser where the committee is responsible for securing a site for this event, designing a menu to meet our budget, selling the tickets to the event at a profit, soliciting items to be auctioned off, keeping track of auctioned items, keeping track of items that have been auctioned, and promoting this event.

Lyn Trandal

Special Events

 

Gretchen Goldstein

Sports Booster: 6th-8th

This committee coordinates the ordering and selling of all spirit and athletic shirts. The funds from these sales help support middle school athletics; including uniforms, equipment, awards and trophies.

Melody Taylor

Star Performer

This committee helps promote those children recognized by their teachers for their good work.  On a weekly basis the teachers submit to the office the name and work of those students who have done exemplary work. 

Sue Emery

Teacher Appreciation

 

Suzanne Park

Traditional Philosophy

Works to educate & preserve the 9 cornerstones of our traditional philosophy at Cheyenne

Cheryl Harding

Used Book Fair

This event is typically held in the month of February.  The chair will start promoting the event one month out.  We encourage our families to start collecting any unwanted books for the used book sale.  The collection is a two-week process, in which families bring in the books in the morning and place them in the appropriate boxes (which are marked by teacher). 

Karen Kerr
Laura Pearce

Used Uniform Sales Coordinates collection of used uniforms. Organizes volunteers, promotion and sale of uniforms. Pam Kaye

Website/Email

Keeps the CTS PTO Website current and organizes the group email

Kelly Hall

 
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