Hi everyone,
The Oct. 1 meeting was canceled. If you came to Manoa Gardens after 5pm and I missed you, sorry for that late cancellation. I didn't send a reminder for the meeting, which may have been a problem, but also several people canceled that day. So I don't think meeting on the first Wed. of every month like we agreed to at the last meeting is a good idea. Seems like due to our individual commitments we can meet only for our scheduled events. Which is completely understandable, but if that is the case, we really need to communicate with each other more frequently, and to make clear commitments to the events we have scheduled. I suggest this blog so we don't clog up emails and perhaps have running conversations going. And as always, I welcome your suggestions.
Here are a few updates:
The RSA website is up on the English Dept. server. Here is the new URL:
http://www.english.hawaii.edu/rsa/
Tuesday dinner with Nedra Reynolds:
I've invited Nedra Reynolds to dinner with RSA students after the Tuesday seminar that we are sponsoring. Erica and Jim Henry will also be there, and I've reserved the back room at Little Village for 6pm. The room seats about a dozen people, so space is limited. If you would like to come, please respond to this posting and we'll sign up first come, first serve. I'm looking forward to having a casual dinner with Reynolds and some of our favorite, hard-working professors (Erica and Jim, of course) off-campus, so should be a relaxing way to end a Tuesday.
Fundraising
In order to reserve the room, however, we need to order at least $250 worth of food/drinks for dinner.
So I need some feedback - are people still committed? Can we raise money beforehand? Or should we look for alternative restaurants?
We must brainstorm on this - I've already invited Reynolds to dinner, so we need to commit to planning this.
We also need to raise a small amount of money or think of an alternative (potluck pupus?) for refreshments for the Tuesday seminar that we are sponsoring.
One quick method I know the Philosophy Grad students association does is to pool together unused textbooks and sell them, putting the money into the grad group fund. I have a few contacts of book buyers - what do you think of this option?
THANK YOU in advance for responding to this posting with RSVP to dinner and any feedback/ideas you have for the above. Or you can contact me via email: mecenas@hawaii.edu
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Thanks for keeping us on track, Joli.
Please do sign me up for the dinner at Little Village.
As for fundraising, I have a couple of books that I could add to the pool.
I'd also be happy to bring a dish to the seminar and pitch in on the dinner tab.
That last comment was from Holly, by the way. (:
Hi Joli,
Thank you so much for all of your great work! Please sign me up for the dinner at Little Village if there is still room. I'll try and brainstorm more ideas for fundraising. I'd also be willing to bring refreshments for Tuesday's seminar and contribute to the dinner tab.
Chelsey :)
Hey Joli,
Thanks so much for your work on this. Count me in (and Herb,too, unless it would mean counting a grad student out)for Little Village, and please let us make up the diff on the tab, if there is one. This is a way kool idea.
Jim
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