Interact Club

The Interact Club at Croatan High School is sponsored by Lookout Rotary of Morehead City, North Carolina. Our on-site Rotarian and sponsor is Mr. Rick Heal that is actively involved with our club here at Croatan. We look forward to another great year and continued community involvement. Continue to check our web page for updates on upcoming meetings. We will have our first meeting in September after Labor Day.

2011 Election Results are in!!!!

President:  Grace Bowman

Vice President: Stephen Mauro

Secretary:  Megan Wright

Congratulations and we will see you Wednesday morning at Carteret General Hospital as we meet with Lookout Rotary for breakfast. (Be there between 7:00 and 7:15)

The T-shirts are coming, the T-shirts are coming!!!!

Be on the lookout for our Interact Club t-shirts that have been ordered. For those of you that ordered t-shirts, they should be in the week before Thanksgiving. You will be notified when they are here and the cost is $10.

Holiday Food Drive

The Interact Holiday Food Drive is well underway and students are bringing in non perishables to benefit two local food banks. Food items are being collected by first period classes and the class with the highest percentage of items brought in will feast on Bojangles for breakfast. The food drive ends, Friday, November 18th.

Congratulations to all that contributed to our Pink Out day for Breast Cancer this past week. We were able to collect close to $200 in sells of stickers and donations! Our goal is set for $500. We will continue to raise awareness with future fund raisers. Our donations will be given to the Carteret County Relay for Life.

Election of Officers will take place November 9th at our Wednesday afternoon meeting. T-shirt sizes need to be turned in so that our order may be placed. The cost is $10.00. Please see Mr. Heal or Mrs. Lyon for details.

Officiers along with Mrs.Lyon and Mr.Heal will meet our Sponsor Rotary Club for breakfast Wednesday morning, November 16th. We will meet at the Carteret General hospital in Morehead City for breakfast and then return for school in time for first period class.

We will also be gearing up for our Holiday Food Drive the second week of November. Food items collected will be divided between the Hem of His Garmet and the Salvation Army. We are looking forward to having a great turn out for our food drive.

Welcome back to Croatan and the Interact Club!

Our first meeting was Wednesday afternoon, September 14^th and what a Great turnout we had. WE have a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of projects on our agenda this year, already.

Club membership is five dollars; see Mr. Heal.

Don’t forget the following dates:

Wednesday afternoon, Table decorating committee, 09/21

Thursday morning, 7:45, 09/29 our next meeting

October 1^st, volunteers needed to help with Seafood Festival parking, First Citizen’s Bank in Morehead City, see

Mr. Heal if you are available to assist

Wednesday afternoon, 3:10, October 12^th, general meeting

 President

Vice President

Secretary.

Our membership is open to students attending Croatan High School and have an interest in community service. Our membership fee is $5.00.

Thank you for a fabulous year once again here at Croatan. We accomplished quite a bit this year with our annual Holiday Food Drive, donating food trays to the CHS Alumni tent at Homecoming, Adopting our Christmas Family, raising money for a local teacher and his family, donating money to the victims of the Japan tsumani, Buckets of Love for Hospice and ending out the year by donating food trays to Project Graduation.

Then on top of it all we earned the distinguished Presidential Citation. We were awarded this for our continued dedication to community service. You guys are awesome!

Thank you again for a great year and I look forward to another Interact year beginning in the fall. A sepcial thank you to Mr.Rick Heal, our Lookout Rotary Member that has worked closely with us, Trevor Brownlow, our outgoing President and Lookout Rotary for supporting our efforts.

Mrs. Sarah Lyon, Club Co-Sponsor

"Spring Project"

Our Spring project is entitled, "buckets of love". The agency we will be working with is Hospice. Sand buckets will be filled with the following items: hard candy, (peppermint, butterscoth, lemon), water bottles, stress balls, tissues, hand sanitizer, puzzle books, muffins, etc.

These buckets will be delivered before Spring Break. For futher information, please see

Mrs. Lyon, Mr Heal, or Grace Bowman

There is still time to sign up to work the Bogue Sound Spring Fling, this Friday, April 1st. See Mrs.Krohn in the counseling center for further information

Lookout Rotary Road Race

Saturday, April 23rd

Further information, see Mr. Heal or Mrs. Lyon

Thank you to all that contributed to our first semester projects! As a club we were able to collect food items for two different agencies, The Hem of His Garment in Swansboro, and the Salvation Army in Morehead City. We were also able to provide a local family with Christmas this year. Many items on their wish list were provided by Interact Club members as well as monetary donations that were used for gift cards. The "Hat Day" that raised money for the Brady Dauberman Family was also a success. The student body contributed three hundred dollars just by purchasing a "Brady Buck" for a dollar and wearing a hat for the day. All donations were greatly appreciated.

RYLA News

The following students were selected to attend RYLA this year: Rachel Brazda, Emily Farrington, Adrienne Norman, and Nick Zimarino. Alternate picks are Kelsey Hernandez and Cassie Morris. Congratulations to this students.

Next MEETING............

We are taking a break until after exams, so get some rest and be prepared for our next project; "Buckets of Love". The club hopes to kick this off the beginning of February.  So, stay tuned.

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Our next scheduled meeting is Wednesday, December 7th in room #205.

 Many thanks to all students, staff and community members that generously contributed to the Annual Holiday Food Drive. We were able to distribute over 1400 food items to the Hem of His Garment located in Swansboro and The Salvation Army located in Morehead City. Thank you again for making this a successful venture again this year. We will be delivering the items to the Salvation Army next Tuesday evening at Chick-fil-a in Morehead City around 6:30. Please feel free to come out and help celebrate this act of generosity.

We have also adopted a family for Christmas. Our members will be providing Christmas Cheer for this family of four children. If you would like to find out more about this project, please feel free to contact Mrs.Lyon. (252- 393-7022, ext. 213)

All items should be dropped off with Mrs.Lyon by Wednesday, December 7th.

NEW NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep an eye out for our "Bucks for Brady" campaign.

coming in a couple of weeks.

The Interact club will be selling hat tickets for a dollar. The purchase will allow you to wear your hat at school all day. The ticket purchased will have to be visible for teachers and administrators to see at all times. The money collected will be given to the parents of Brady Dauberman. Mr.Dauberman is presently employed by Carteret County schools. Infant son, Brady has a lot of medical expenses and through your generosity, we can help to alleviate some of this burden at Christmas. More news to come next week.

Posted 12 - 1 - 2010