- Jun 13, 2013
Join us to celebrate the new JETs about to leave for glorious Nippon!
On Saturday June 22nd, immediately following the pre-departure orientation at the Boston Children’s Museum, NEJETAA is heading to (**please note location change!**) LUCKY’s. Once there, members will heroically regale each other with tales from Japan and give the soon-to-be JETs something fantastic to look forward to. The plan is to be there at 4:30 PM. You should be there, too.
RSVP to Jeff the Vice President by Friday June 21st: vicepres at nejetaa dot com
What: Happy Hour post pre-departure orientation
When: Saturday June 22nd @ 4:30 PM.
Where: Lucky’s Lounge, 355 Congress St., Boston, MA (map)
Who: JET alumni and new JETs.
With the generous support of CLAIR, we will be providing appetizers.
NEJETAA member Natasha is holding a fundraiser to send Boston high school students to Japan! Please see below for her message.
I am JET Alum Natasha Huggins, Nagano 2001-2004. I am currently a teacher at New Mission High School in Boston, MA. I am fundraising to take my students, 80% who qualify for the free-reduced lunch program, to Japan. We are going to have a “Titan Thrify Tag Sale” on June 22, 2013 at our school in Hyde Park, MA from 10am – 2pm. We are going to have a Taiko performance, auction items, raffles, magic show, cultural foods and treats. We request JET Alums in the Boston area to join in our event, or donate items we can sell. If anyone would like to donate, they can email me directly and we can arrange a pick-up. Thank you in advance for your help.
Natasha Huggins
nhuggins2 at gmail dot com
Thank you for voting in May’s NEJETAA’s officer elections!
Jeffrey Kennedy is our Vice President, Patricia Frisoli is our Treasurer, and Katie Mulroy is our Social Chair. There were no platforms submitted for Webmaster/Communications Coordinator. Christina Omori will continue to serve in this position until elections for this position in November 2013 but if you are interested in serving in an interim term as Webmaster please email webmaster at nejetaa dot com.
We wish to thank Jason Currier for his service as Vice President for the past year.
Social Committee member positions remain open. The Social Committee supports the Social Chair to plan approximately one event per month, such as Happy Hours, the Welcome Back party, Nihongo Dake dinners, etc. The members of the social committee (generally about 3-5 members at any given time) are volunteers (rather than elected people) and are not considered officers. If you are interested in getting involved, please email Katie at social at nejetaa dot com.
Click here to view/download minutes from the May 21, 2013 General Meeting and elections. Thank you Brian and Jeff for taking the minutes.