[Ma-pta-enotes] eNotes for Thursday

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For general information about M-A, including up-to-date news about school
events and the calendar, visit our website: www.mabears.org  

HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING (READ eNotes FOR MORE INFO) 

NOW! Canned food drive  

Tonight, tomorrow, Saturday: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  

December 1: last day for seniors to order Cap and Gown 

YOU CAN HELP OUR COMMUNITY 

As the holiday season approaches, leadership students hope to collect
110,000 cans of food to distribute to the more than 500 needy families in
our school community.  You can help in several ways:  

DONATE:  Give cans or cash to your students or bring them to the leadership
room, B-21.  If you would like to write a check, you can make it payable to
M-A Leadership or M-A Canned Food Drive and deliver to B-21 or the student's
4th period teacher. 

VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME:  If you would like to help sort cans, fill baskets, or
drive for deliveries we need you!  If you are available during any of the
days listed below, please contact Diane Kelvie (dkelvie at aol.com, 364-5950)
or Sarah Fitzgerald (sarahgfitz at aol.com, 322-7979): 

THURSDAY, December 7-- 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. - sort and organize the food for
distribution.  Many volunteers needed, some physical labor involved 

FRIDAY, December 8 - noon to 6 p.m. - help distribute as food is picked up 

SATURDAY, December 9 - 9a.m. to 3 p.m. Many drivers needed to deliver food
to families.   
 

ALGEBRA RECOVERY  

If your students received a D or F first quarter, we can help.  Encourage
them to visit C-4 during seventh period and after school.  Your students'
algebra teachers can provide more details. 

OPENING TONIGHT! 

Tickets are going fast for the M-A production of Tennesee Williams' play,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Don't miss it tomorrow, December 1, and Saturday,
December 2 with shows at 7 p.m. on each day plus (a 2 p.m. matinee on
December 2. All shows will be held in the Black Box Theatre (room C-16) at
Menlo-Atherton High School. For tickets, email apaye at seq.org or stop by room
C-16 during lunch and buy a ticket for $8. This show will play one weekend
only, and you won't want to miss Julia Robinson in her first starring role
at Maggie the Cat and freshman sensation Keenan Rehlich as Brick Pollit. 

SENIORS 

The day to order Cap & Gown is tomorrow, December 1.  Send your student to
B-21 to get a packet pronto. 

SHOPPING AT BARNES AND NOBLE? 

Help M-A's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program raise
money for a field trip to view Southern California colleges.  Simply buy
books at Barnes & Noble at Sequoia Station in Redwood City with a yellow
AVID ticket.  A percentage of the sales will be contributed to our AVID
Program.  Students can obtain AVID tickets from their 4th period teachers,
or from the teachers in G-9, G-12, and G-12. The Barnes & Noble Book Drive
lasts until December 6, so get some holiday shopping out of the way, and
support M-A's AVID program at the same time. 

WEAR THE BEAR 

Bear Wear is available in the Student Store each day at lunch!  We have
t-shirts for $10, baseball t-shirts for $15, white crewneck sweatshirts for
$20 and gray pocket hoodies for $25.  Also, support your student's class by
buying a class shirt for a mere $10. If you have any questions about Bear
Wear, please feel free to contact Kelly Todd at ktodd at seq.org.  
 

CLASS OF 2007 GRAD NIGHT 

The PTA is hosting a safe and sober all-night party at a top-secret location
to celebrate the Class of 2007's graduation. Tickets are $85 and
scholarships are available.  Get your tickets early, as prices will rise to
$100 after January 1.  For a ticket order form or any questions email
gradnight07 at earthlink.net or phone ticket chair Lanette Kozlowski at
650-248-6377  
 

PROJECT BACKPACK 

Help clothe the chilly: bring your travel-sized toiletries and other
essentials (toothbrush, toothpaste), jackets, warm clothes, and especially
backpacks to A-4 in the office.  Outreach will give all items will be given
to the poor and homeless in San Francisco. 

OLD CELL PHONES 

Got old and unused phones lying around the house? The M-A Key Club
(associated with Kiwanis) is having a cell phone drive with proceeds
benefiting local children in our local area. Please drop your cell phones in
the box in the front office.  

WANTED: OLD COMPUTERS. 

Working or not, for deserving M-A students.  If your family or your business
has computers to donate, please contact Sue Kayton kayton at alum.mit.edu,
650-853-1711 

2007 YEARBOOKS 

Yearbook order forms are now available on line at the M-A website. You can
either download an order form or pay with a credit card on line!  You can
also go directly to Jostens at
http://shop.jostens.com/customer.asp?CID=130520&mscssid=FWVFBWF2SGP99GVL477P
HM5RULSUAMH1 (be careful if you copy/paste the foregoing into your
browser--some of the letters may drop off the end and will have to be
manually appended).  Price for the yearbook is $65 until January 19. 

If you used a check to pay for your yearbook, please keep your returned
check. This is the only proof of your order and your only receipt. You can
also email M-A yearbook at ma_yearbook at yahoo.com and ask if your order has
gone through. 
 

***SPORTS*** 

Girls Lacrose 

Pre-season meeting Friday, Nov. 1st, Coach Tomijima will be in the old dance
studio during your lunch break.  I will be going over important dates and I
will also need to get your updated information.  I expect all intending JV
and Varsity players to be there.  If you all arrive early, we should be able
to end quickly, so please try and head over as soon as you can with your
cans of food.

SOCCER 

Congratulations to the frosh/soph girls' soccer team for their 3-0 victory
over Sequoia yesterday. Casey Burnett, Ashley Roberts, and Becca Mein netted
the goals for the lady bears and keeper Liv Vagelos secured her second
straight shutout.  

And at the varsity level. . . Not that we were keeping score because it was
only a scrimmage but the varsity girls' soccer team scored 5 goals vs.
Castilleja yesterday including a hat trick by senior forward Kaitlin McGhee
plus one each from Tiffany Kung and Kim O'Donnell). 

GO BEARS!  

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