Count Down to the TEA

Many more ppl signed up than anticipated for the TEA. We had a total of 26 ppl for set up, and I think we'll only need about 15 total (including those who will be picking things up for me). Please email me if you can switch from set up to clean up, because we only had 10 ppl there.

Set up ppl can get there at 10am, not 8am. The tables and chairs should be set up for us when we get there.

I will also need either ice chests or big plastic buckets for the soda. It would be a good idea to have towels or something like that for under the sodas just in case they leak (somebody please remind me of this on the day of if I forget!!).

SET UP:Debbie Mehrer & Susan Keller: You two should probably go together to Costco, because I will be ordering around 6-7 sandwich platters and i will ask them to put together a platter of like 120 or so cookies, so it will be probably a 3 person job. If you have someone in mind to help you, please get in touch with them, and let me know who it is so I don't give them additional work! Make sure you have room in the back of your car. As far as ice goes, I am planning on having about 120 drinks (coke, dcoke, sprite and water), please make a judgment call on how much ice we need. Costco opens at 11(!!), but I will prepay for the platters, and I will be asking if they will allow you to enter during business member hours (10am) to pick up the platters.I will be in touch with you about that. If not, just be there at 11am to pick up.

Kristin Morone and Andreya Hooks: Kristin, you can let us know where each of us will be most helpful. Andreya, I will need you to pick up the balloons the day of. I will be ordering these from Party 2000 off of Pacific and robinhood behind Chili's. I think I will be getting about 12. They put them in a bag for you, so it makes transport much easier.

Caroline Ames: Can you please make sure all tables are labeled with the clinical group name? Kim thompson should be getting these to us, but if not, we can make some prior to setting up.

Michelle Berlin
Matt Valerio
Ann Soy
Gemma Sadorra
Marcella bickle
Jessica Kelling
Marilyn Moral
Arlis Barba
Julia Jung
Lisa Newbold
Natalia Edwards
Alan Navarrete
Crystal Ross
Sarilda Chaffin
Rowena Zabala
Susan Gradin
Sheryll Candelaroio
Marian Cruz
Khaer Dimaporo
Ed Tualla
You may leave once set up is through. Depending on how many ppl we have, this could be done fairly quickly. I will try to remember to bring bagels for all of you in order to preserve our sandwiches! Someone may need to call me to remind me of this!!!

DURING (This group will not have much in the way of tasks, except when we are doing the raffle, Melanie will be announcing the raffle ticket numbers and we will need ppl to hand out the prizes. Make sure ALL OF YOU WEAR YOUR SCRUBS so that the first semester students can recognize who we are.)
Brittany Hardy
Katie Strote
Michelle Berlin
Ann Soy
Gemma Sadorra
John de Ramos
John Bigol
Marcella Bickle
May Hunter
Michelle Ragadio
Michael dorsey
Cindy Skillsky
Shareen Kumar
Phoua Yang
Also,Melanie Payne: Speaker. I will be putting together the order of who will speak when. You will get things started. If you can remember the speaker from last time, she was very upbeat, motivating, set expectations for the semester, I'm sure you'll know what to say. I will also have you introduce everyone. I have to go through my list of speakers, but I will be asking Mary Neville, Kim Thompson, Lynne Swanson, Danielle Mathias and a 4th semester student. If anyone knows of someone, please let me know. I will be asking Danielle if she has any suggestions since she is going to be a 4th semester student.

Christine Shipman: set up next sem blog/blog sign up sheet. To keep the line of students moving, you may want to have 2 others at the table with you to help get students signed up.

CLEAN UP:
Kristin, please bring the boxes that the decorations were shipped in, because we will keep the centerpieces and anything else that is reusable for any future semesters to use.
Sue Barnes
Michelle Berlin
Matt Valerio
Ann Soy
Gemma Sadorra
John De Ramos
John Bigol
Chris Seligman
Lucia Lopez
Ijeoma Duru

Remember the TEA is Wednesday, January 9th from noon until 2pm.

TEA donation checks - note slight change to address

Check made out to "SJDC"

Sent to:

SJDC
c/o Nursing Department
5151 Pacific Ave
Stockton, CA 95207

The easiest way would be to get the check and hand deliver to the Nursing Office. Then, we know it got there!

Like I mentioned before, please send all donation information(name, address, what was donated) to Lisa Newbold - lisanewbold@yahoo.com or daixybell@gmail.com.

Also, make a note if the contact person from the hospital was different, so that I can update the folder.

The TEA

To clarify a few things.

I am waiting for a response from Melissa (last year's TEA coordinator) or Kim Thompson about who the donation check is to be made out to. I spoke with Julie Lang, and she thought it was me, but told me to contact Melissa. I will let you know when I get confirmation on that.

If a hospital needs a receipt, let me know, and I can make one up for them.

I will bring in the letters (signed) into lecture Thursday and handing them out. Like I mentioned earlier, if you decide to be the one to contact your hospital, please let me know.

thank you.

Also, there was a questions as to the amount we get from hospitals. We generally get $100-$200 from each hospital (sometimes the hospitals ask this). If I haven't already mentioned this, just make sure when you are requesting donations (from anyone), to make sure you always meet with the person that will make the decision and that you try to get a response in person (people are much less likely to donate when you are not face to face).

There was also a question about what to put in the baskets. I will post as soon as I talk to some of the student who won baskets. Remember, you can request donations for the basket as well.

TEA Update

Hello everyone,

In an effort to get some of the donation 'stuff' out of the way, I had
Julie provide me with the letter we need when asking for donations. I
have attached 5 letters to your Delta email (one for each hospital) that are
just in need of my signature.

Each clinical group will be responsible for contacting their clinical
hospital and soliciting a donation. I have provided all of the
contact information to get in touch with the people responsible for
giving the donations (please let me know if the person is different so
that I can update it for the next TEA planner).
If you will be the one contacting the hospital, please call the person
listed below that is at your hospital, set up a time to meet with
them, give your presentation and give them the letter with the tax
ID#.
If nobody feels comfortable with this, please let me know ASAP, so
that I can contact them.

Dameron - Marla Scott 944-5550 ext 3260

Dr's Manteca - Brenda or Denise Johnson 239-8335

Lodi Memorial - Donna Schultz 339-7609

St. Joseph's - Tish Sullivan 461-5448

Sutter Tracy - Kim Bailey 832-6001 (this is the clinical instructor)
*Kim usually needs a receipt, so let me know the amount, so that I can
get one for her.

Kaiser Manteca - I don't have a contact person/number for this
hospital, so if someone from this clinical group could maybe ask
Sherry who we should contact to find out this information, that would
be great.

I would like to have the big donors (hospitals) taken care before the
Holidays come, so by October 26th at the latest.
As far as other donations, the letter that I have attached can be
changed, so a new contact person, place and address can be typed in.
You will just need to bring the letter to me to get a signature
before you present the letter to the donor. This will help me keep
track of who we are asking.

Lisa Newbold will be doing all of the thank you cards to the donors,
so if you are given a donation, please email Lisa the name, address
and item donated so that she can thank them properly.

As far as people that are wanting to speak at the TEA in return for
their donation, that really isn't the intention of the TEA. We are
wanting to welcome the incoming students, not sell to them or recruit
them. If someone asks if they can do this, please tactfully repeat
this to them.

Gosh, I know I have more to say (I always have more to say), but this
is it for now.

Thank you,

Trina

P.S. Please check your Delta email for the donation letters.
If anyone sees a typing error, please let me know, because I did all of this very fast.

TEA party

There may be some concern as to the amount of money those that are participating in the committee are having to give. I wanted to let everyone know that I will be paying for everything. If you are going to be purchasing anything for the TEA, please let me know, and I can purchase it with my credit card. If you do purchase it with your own money, please save the receipt, and I will reimburse you. After everything is purchased, I will be submitting my costs to the nursing department to get reimbursed. All you have to worry about is the $15 and the clinical baskets.

Now, I know it is hard to do anything without a budget, so do not purchase anything yet. After we contact the hospitals and determine the cost for food, we can get a better idea of what the budget will be.

As far as other contributions, please make a note of the addresses of those who donated so that we can send a thank you card.

Khalid, if you think your friend's pizza place is a viable option for our food, please contact me, and we can look into that (are they in Stockton?). I also have another person in mind that does 'catering' on the side that would give us a pretty good deal.
Shenell (and those of you who are working somewhere that could be possible donors) it would be great to even get a gift certificate as a raffle prize.
I will have more ironed-out after this next week (I guess exams should take priority, right??).
Any-hoo, thank you so much for those of you who have already volunteered, and thanks Cindy for volunteering to be my contact person for your clinical group.

Also, if any of you have questions, PLEASE contact me!