Author: Katie Miller

EdTech Specialist at the Menlo School.

Minutes 9/22/15

by Katie Miller, posted in Minutes

Who’s here: Magis, Grace, Ellie, Emily, Izzy, Coco, Rachel, Tatum, Jason, Jeff, and Akshay

Who’s not here: Nikky, Claire, Dani, Riya

Ludi

  1. Meeting with everyone who is heading committees for Ludi. Grace is sending out a Google Doc so people can sign up for a date/time that works to meet with Grace, Ellie, and Magis. We want Grace, Ellie, and Magis there so that they all know what is going on, so on the day of if anything goes wrong, we have people who can step in and help. One of the things we need to talk about is the awards that we will be giving out.

  2. As the leaders of Ludi, we will all dress up in unison in something that makes us stand out. Some ideas include matching sweatbands, wristbands or hats. After doing a vote in meeting, we will be ordering 36 purple baseball hats from CustomInk for Menlo JCLers who are heading committees, Magis, and parents helping us at Ludi.

T-Shirt

  1. Coco and the other historians are still working on the t-shirt design and hopefully it will be done for Ludi.

Minutes 9/15/15

by Katie Miller, posted in Minutes

1. Middle School Party

The Middle School Party has been moved to Thursday September 24th. The theme is Olympika. Rachel helped Magis make the flyer. For the event we need to get water balloons, which Ellie will be in charge of. nikky will be in charge of the Tripod races. Pyrrha game will be run by emily, which entails a …. bacchus’ wine race is a competition where the kids drink water (“white wine”) and then spin around 10 times. Rhia will be in charge of that game. We could also add the Donaids game, where each kid is given a cup of water with a hole in the bottom and they have to run and pour the water to fill a bucket. There will be a sign up sheet for the ice cream sundaes.

2. Committees for Ludi

We need someone to work with Magis to organize Certamen. There is a lot of paperwork involved in Open Certamen, so help would be much appreciated. On the day of, this person would help keep score. Also, the Breakfast Committee will now be headed by Rachel.

3. T-Shirt & Scrapbook

The Historians have decided on the color green/olive. For the artwork, they will be asking Kaitlin Yao. From the theme of this year, a possible theme is 60’s/flower child/tie-dye.

4. Ludi

We will be dressing up in Halloween costumes for Ludi!

5. Group Picture

The Group Picture will be postponed to next week when more officers are present at the meeting.

6. Progressive Supper

We are still trying to coordinate who will host the appetizer course. Jeff’s family may be able to host, but as of now it’s a no.

7. Mailing

On the next day 1 tutorial, Magis would love people to come help compile Ludi information to send to all the schools.

NJCL 2015 Convention

by Katie Miller, posted in Lorica Nostra

imageMenlo had a great week at the NJCL Convention at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas this year! Although everyone’s brains were half-fried from sleep deprivation and the daily 90˚F+ heat, we were able to pull home some awards on the state, school, and individual level. California was able to get 3rd place in Advanced Certamen, 9th place in State Publications, and 3rd place in Volleyball; our state t-shirt won 4th place in both Visual and Use of Theme, along with 3rd place overall. Menlo as a school was only able to place for our scrapbook, winning 2nd place. And finally, the individual level. As our school’s only representative, Jeff Frenkel-Popell took quite a few tests, placing in the top ten for three, winning 6th place in Sight Reading, 7th place in Ancient Greek, and 7th place in Classical Art. Overall, it has been a great week for Menlo, and we can’t wait for next year!

Minutes September 9, 2015

by Katie Miller, posted in Minutes

1. Progressive Supper

We still need someone to host appetizers for our upcoming Progressive Supper!

2. Middle School Party

At the moment the date for the Middle School Party is September 17th. This event is to be determined. Last year we did a Scavenger Hunt, and this year are doing a Scavenger Hunt at Ludi, so maybe we can do something different. We will definitely include the ice cream social again this year. Some ideas for the event include relay races called a “marathon,” three legged races and rename them to “tripod” races, a puzzle hunt, water balloon toss called “catch the cyclop’s eye”, sack races, grape catching, and spinning around a baseball bat called “dionysis.” These games could take play on the middle school quad. The kids could be broken up into teams. Emily and Rachel will be working on a flyer for this event and sending it to the middle school latin teacher.

3. Club Lunches!

Magis will tell the cafeteria to prepare 7 normal lunches and 2 vegetarian lunches every week.

4. New Page for Registration

The registration is now more thorough so everyone is well informed about Ludi. For Open Certamen, students can register starting at 8am. Magis will send it to all the officers to proofread to make sure it makes sense via a Google Doc. This page will be up on the website by tomorrow.

4. T-Shirt/Scrapbook

Historians are thinking about involving a peace sign made of olive branches as the central part of the design of the t-shirt. They also need to coordinate with Coco about who will draw the t-shirt design. Additionally, they need pictures of all the officers who were not at the first meeting. For the scrapbook, Historians need to come up with a theme.

5. How to send pdf’s

Upload all the pdfs about Ludi onto website this week.

Minutes for 9/1/2015

by Katie Miller, posted in Uncategorized

Note: Since the seniors were on their retreat, Tatum recorded these minutes. Ellie Y, Tatum, Rachel, Magis, and I were the only ones who could come to meeting.

JCL Minutes for 9/1/15 –

  • Snapchat or Instagram?
  • Separate art and cookie decorating room
    • Especially if it rains because then there will be two rooms for people to get away from the rain
  • Pizza and salad
    • Bring pizza later during lunch for Project Runway participants
    • Mountain Mikes
  • Buy Costco cookies
  • Prizes for games
    • Halloween themed toys
    • Mini candy goodie bags
  • Club Fair
    • Incentives
      • Food
        • Candy
        • Baked goods
  • 21 rooms if raining
    • Mr. Brodie for spelling bee if raining
  • Historians
    • T-shirt
      • Laurel wreath
      • Olive branch
      • Cartoon Caesar (chubby) leaning/stepping on Gaul
      • Cleopatra
      • Trojan War
      • Constellations

 

Minutes for 8/15/2015

by Katie Miller, posted in Uncategorized

Minutes 8/25/2015

 

Officers Present:

 

Consuls – Grace C. and Ellie Y.

Treasurer – Jason M.

Aedile – Riya M.

Historian – Coco G., Tatum T.

Webmaster – Akshay S.

Publicity – Emily D. & Rachel H.

Editor: Jeff FP

Sports – Nikky P & Claire W.

Secretary – Izzy K.

 

  1. Officer Photos/group picture

Coco took photos of all the present officers, but she will wait until the entire board of officers is present to do the group photo.

 

  1. T-shirt design: Historians

Historians will be designing the T-shirt for the coming year. Usually we will order them from Custom Ink, and they need to be delivered before Ludi. Historians will brainstorm ideas for the T-shirt for next meeting.

  1. Membership: treasurer

Membership flyer will be up on the website in a pdf form. Menlo JCL website will now be on all the Latin Haiku pages.

 

  1. Ludi assignments

Ludi is coming up on October 31st! Jason will be in charge of all the treasurer related affairs. Alyssa C. will be in charge of academic testing. Ellie Y. will be in charge of awards. Jason will also be in charge of open certamen, with the help of some other people. For registration, Akshay, Jason, Amrita, and Alex will be checking people in and making sure everyone has paid. Riya will be in charge of commuunity service, so she will manage cookie decorating as well as pumpkin decorating to donate to Lytton Gardens. In terms of workshops, Izzy will manage 3 or 4 workshops in communication with Stanford professors. Since Ludi is Monster themed, Magis is thinking that two of the workshops will be based on the theme. Claire, Charlie, Mackenzie, John, and Alexander will head the sports competitions. Tatum will manage the lunch food, while someones (TBD)  will be in charge of Harry Potter Trivia. Marcelle will be the head parent volunteer. Hospitality will possibly be managed by Alice. Emily will be making a Snapchat account for Ludi so people can add photos from the day the Snapchat story.

 

 

  1. Progressive supper date/time/assignments

Progressive supper will be on September 27th from 5 to 8pm. Dylan said he could host dessert, Mackenzie can host dessert, and Izzy will ask about hosting appetizers.

 

  1. Ludi video planning

 

  1. Other announcements:

If anyone’s interested in taking Beginning Greek, it will be offered as an independent study during F block.