| 2007-2008 CO-CHAIRS
Peggy Hsieh McIntosh, peggy_hsieh@yahoo.com
Amanda Manheim, babhr@aol.com
Linda Wolpert, lgwmoose@yahoo.com
Stephanie
Rigaux, hillridge@comcast.net
The PTSA Used Book Sale co-chairs would
like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of
this weekend's sale. The final tally is not in, yet, but
rest assured that the PTSA will remain in the black and
can continue to support all B-CC students and their families.
To our donors – thank you for your
generosity and support of B-CC and its students. We have
a reputation for having superb books. This year was our
best collection ever!
To the local community – thank you
for coming to the sale and loading up bags and boxes with
books. Your enthusiasm made all the heavy lifting worthwhile!
We also thank all the local business sponsors who supported
the book sale with bookmarks, artwork, boxes, and food.
To B-CC Buildling Maintenance – thank
you Freddie, Curtis, and crew for enduring many weekends
of trash, cardboard, reluctant light switches, and especially,
for helping us this past weekend. Freddie Harris proved
some can work two days without a break. And all the while
with a smile!
To B-CC Staff and Teachers – our appreciation
for your support of the book sale. Linda Beach and Jeff
Kenton provided invaluable help with logistics. Melissa
Roller, Karen Lockard and Paula Tobery were always there
when we needed them. The English, Art, and Music departments
granted our every wish.
To our parent volunteers – we cannot
adequately thank the legions of parents who oversaw publicity,
posted flyers, sorted books, served as cashiers, manned
the café, hoisted heavy loads, searched frantically
for boxes, then worked to recycle them. We especially want
to recognize a very special group of parents (and alum parents!)
who started back in October and sacrificed a lot of weekends
organizing our donations and sale displays of books. You
are truly the backbone of the book sale.
Finally, to our B-CC (and Westland!) student
volunteers – thank you for being the public face of
our book drops, for contributing your musical, artistic
and creative writing talents to the sale, and for doing
more than your fair share of lifting. Several athletic teams
(football, lacrosse, and gymnastics), ESOL students, and
dozens of others helped prepare for the sale AFTER team
workouts (!), worked tirelessly during the sale, and helped
clean up even on their day off from school. We especially
want to acknowledge the incredible contribution of the
Barons Football Team. With Coaches Allen and Foreman, these
young men started moving boxes of books on Friday and didn't
stop until the last one was transported from the basement
to the cafeteria (1400 in all!). We didn't hear a single
complaint.
The PTSA is looking for new leadership and
new opportunities. Please support an organization that supports
the entire student body. It has been a singular pleasure
to work with so many members of the B-CC community.
With thanks,
Amanda Manheim, Peggy McIntosh, Stephanie
Rigaux and Linda Wolpert
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