Dec. 9 meeting minutes

Louisiana Peace Corps Association

Board of Directors Meeting

December 9, 2007

10:00 a.m.

CC’s Coffee House

2917 Magazine Street

New Orleans

Susannah Coolidge, presiding

Tierney Davis

Bruce Ingber

Brian Luckett

Brett Montague (guest)

Welcome and Approval of Minutes of the June 24, 2007 meeting:

The minutes of the June 24 meeting were approved with one addition: the Deaf School in Ghana received a $150 donation from LPCA on May 5, 2007.

LPCA Newsletter

o Tierney Davis, Editor of the Newsletter, will coordinate with Josh Norman to post the next edition of the newsletter on the LPCA blog.



o Tierney will post the newsletter by mid-January 2008.



o Brett Montague offered to contribute an article on his recent service to the newsletter.



Follow-up report on Rebuilding Together

o Bruce Ingber announced that the Rebuilding Together project was successfully completed in two weekends.



o In response to an email from Camille Lopez, an RPCV and Assistant Director of Rebuilding Together who requested that LPCA coordinate with NPCA for Rebuilding Together Projects throughout the year, Susannah offered to contact Camille for further information and clarification.





Next Social Event

Tierney Davis offered to host a King Cake Party on January 6 at her home uptown.

Future Service Projects

Suggestions for future service projects included the following:

+ City Park Clean-up
+ Cemetery Clean –up in coordination with Save Our Cemeteries (a suggested date for this was between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest)
+ Possible Project in coordination with Arbor Day on April 5



Peace Corps Week

o Peace Corps Week in 2008 will be February 24-March 1.



o In 2007 13 RPCVs spoke to three schools in New Orleans about their experience in Peace Corps. Susannah said she would contact the MI Coordinators at Tulane School of Public Health and Jason Denlinger, a teacher at Rabouin High School to see if he can assist with the coordination of Peace Corps week for 2008.

Adjournment

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.