The White Falcon - 12.11.1999, Page 7

With a little help from Kiwanis ...
Kiwanis Club Brii Secretary Anna Maria Gudlaugsdottlr presents Aircraft
Intermediate Maintenance Department’s AZC(AW) Kent Ramsay with a check for
$200. The donation will help to pay for this year’s Kid’s Community Christmas Party
set for Dec. 4 at the Fuel Barn. All profits generated by Kiwanis Club Bru, a U.S. and
Icelandic club on base, go toward funding community projects and activities, (photo by
J03 Mike C. Jones)
School Advisory Committee seeks new members
By Capt. Ken Morell
The next A.T. Mahan High School’s
School Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting
will be held at 4 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14 in
the high school’s multi-media (library) room.
All community members and especially par-
ents of seventh through 12th grade students
are encouraged to attend.
The SAC is the community’s elected edu-
cational advisory committee, composed of
two parents, two educators, a student repre-
sentative and the principal. The committee
advises the principal on matters within the
jurisdiction of the school and Department of
Defense Dependent Schools (DoDDS). The
SAC has the same responsibilities and func-
tions of a school board in any town in the
United States. Parents and community mem-
bers are invited to attend the meetings and
bring items of interest or concern to the
attention of the committee. The SAC goals
for School Year 99-00 are:
- Enhance communication and problem
solving between the school and parent com-
munity and to provide a coordinated process
to address and resolve issues.
- Increase parent participation in SAC.
- Promote and assist education programs at
the school.
- Enhance communications with DoDDS
United Kingdom.
Items discussed at previous meetings
included: sports/academic eligibility rules;
building maintenance status; the Talented
and Gifted program; Azalea Festival partici-
pation; the tutoring program; host nation pro-
gram; student participation in base programs;
service learning graduation requirements;
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distinguished visitors to the base; book avail-
ability/shortage; substitute teacher shortage;
parents/students/teacher conferences; Terra
Nova results; and student enrollment and
staffing.
At our October meeting the SAC was
informed of the following plans:
- The school’s photo lab will go digital.
Money has been allocated to reopen the pop-
ular photo lab in Bill Rigg’s room with new
digital equipment. Hopefully it will be ready
for the second semester.
- Seniors are looking for a different venue
from last year for their commencement.
- Funding has been approved by DoDDs
UK for gym roof repairs.
- Funding has been approved by DoDDs
UK for the design phase of gym floor repairs.
- The book shortages in Spanish 1 are
resolved. Books for English 9 and 10 are on
order. (The suggestion was made for DoDDs
to set aside funding for last minute book pur-
chases each year.)
- Positive feedback has been received on
exit surveys from last year. (Parents are
encouraged to complete surveys each time
they visit the building and/or interact with
the staff.)
- The high school is considering alterna-
tives to participation in the Norfolk Azalea
Festival in April.
- The current student enrollment at the
Middle/High School is 203.
If you want to know more about A.T.
Mahan and have a voice in your community
school, attend the monthly meetings. See
you at the next meeting!
The White Falcon
Base seeks command,
youth participation
in Groundhog Job
Shadow Day
By ATC(AW) Andrew Hite
Because so many people in the
NAS Keflavik military community
have been concerned with the lack of
positive role models for youth, a
unique event that fosters relationships
between young people and caring
adults is kicking off on base for the
first time.
On Feb. 2, NAS Keflavtk will par-
ticipate in the third National
Groundhog Job Shadow Day, an
event dedicated to providing young
people with job shadowing experi-
ences.
Groundhog Job Shadow Day
enables students to shadow a work-
place mentor as he or she goes
through half a normal day on the job,
and provides a firsthand look at how
skills learned in school are put into
action in the workplace.
Job shadowing is a win-win propo-
sition for communities because it ben-
efits students, schools, and business-
es. Students become more motivated
to learn once they see the relevance of
their classwork, while schools build
partnerships with businesses and
organizations that can enhance the
educational experiences of all stu-
dents.
Groundhog Job Shadow Day 1999
provided more than half-a-million
students in the United States with job
shadowing experiences, and event
organizers are hoping to make this
year’s event an even greater success.
Many organizations across the base
have already agreed to participate in
Groundhog Job Shadow Day, includ-
ing Iceland Defense Force, NAS
Keflavik, 85th Group, Naval Hospital
Keflavik, Naval Computer and
Telecommunications Station, Naval
Media Broadcasting Detachment,
Naval Atlantic Meteorology and
Oceanography Detachment,
Personnel Support Detachment,
Resident Officer-in-Charge of
Construction, and others.
If you or your organization would
like to become involved in this year’s
Groundhog Job Shadow Day, please
call Andy Hite at ext. 4424. To learn
more you may like to visit the
National Groundhog Job Shadow Day
web site at www.jobshadow.org.
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