Sunday, September 21, 2008

FCSIFE Updates

Our projects have been going extremely well, we will be having the following meetings this week:

MONDAY- At 2pm we will be having a meeting with Mike Fretto who works for Rosa Loves. We'll be discussing idea's for our SIFE T-shirts and our upcoming Rosa Loves projects. It'll be in Markland, so come by if you're interested.

TUESDAY- Holly Hill speaks about Life After College. Her speech will be at 7pm in the Flagler Room. Her speeches are awesome, so it's definitely recommended you come to hear her!

WEDNESDAY- Flagler's 40th Anniversary Party. It should be a really exciting day so make sure to stop by. Volunteers need to make sure they are there for whatever time you signed up for. Also, general meeting at 6pm.

If you haven't already, don't forget to friend the Legacy on Facebook.

I will be updating the blog with further details about each project as well as an events calendar in the future.

Officers for this year!
President-Jessica Welch
Vice President- Hannah Garner
Co-Secretaries- Sheila Acharya & Katherine Baggett
Treasurer- Angie Vecchioni
Co-Media Relations Officers- Alicia Abbott & Amanda Cassella
Team Historian- Michelle Santorelli

Thursday, September 11, 2008

We're Off To A Great Start

There is a lot going on with FCSIFE! Yesterday Donna, Barry, Holly, Liz, and I met with Mike from Rosa Loves. Rosa Loves is a t-shirt business which sells shirts in support of various causes around the world. The profits from shirt sales are given to the people affected by whatever problem the shirt is dedicated to—the shirt designs are phenomenal and the causes truly heartwarming. Rosa Loves is extremely popular around St. Augustine and Flagler not only because the founders are Flagler Alumni but also because their shirts pull at your heartstrings. Mike came to FCSIFE wanting to expand the Rosa Loves business outside St. Augustine throughout the United States.

FCSIFE will be working on a few different projects with Rosa Loves aimed at not only their projects but also expanding their business which is in the process of becoming a 501c3 non-profit organization. I will be posting more in the near future as we flush out our ideas and target how we will be helping Rosa Loves. If you’d like more information on Rosa Loves I encourage you to look at their website at: http://rosaloves.com/.

Yesterday also brought more big news to FCSIFE, we had our first general meeting last night in our new offices at Markland. We had 30 students attend including quite a few new students with even more e-mailing me about their desire to get involved in SIFE. I’m so excited about the team this year, everyone

I’m also excited to announce this year’s SIFE officers:

· Hannah Garner- Vice President, SIFEVicePresidentt@flagler.edu
· Sheila Acharya & Katherine Baggett- Co-Secretaries, SIFESecretary@flagler.edu
· Alicia Abbott & Amanda Cassella- Co-Media Relations Officers, SIFEPressSecretary@flagler.edu
· Michelle Santorelli-Team Historian, SIFEHistorian@flagler.edu
· We are still in the process of finding a Treasurer for this year.

As always, if you have any questions or ideas please feel free to let me know. I will continue to write as more information develops with each of our projects this year.

Thank you for your support of FCSIFE!

Jessica Welch
FCSIFE President
FCSIFEPresident@flagler.edu

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A Great New Year!

It’s been a while since our last blog but I wanted to keep everyone updated on the happenings with FCSIFE . We are preparing for a fantastic new year moving forward with our projects and our team. We have some exciting new things to announce not the least of which are our new SIFE offices in Markland. With the acquisition of the Florida East Coast Railroad buildings many of the people working in Markland have moved leaving SIFE with new offices and a place to truly call our own. I’m confident that this new space will help our team both with meeting and projects.

This evening we also had our first team meeting for 2008-2009 with returning students to discuss the direction of FCSIFE this year both as a team and for our projects. Everyone seems very positive and excited about this year and the changes that we will be making to help FCSIFE grow and move forward with our projects and as a competitive team. Our team slogan for the year is “positive power,” with an upbeat attitude we can achieve anything we set out to do.

We will be recruiting new students at club night Thursday evening, although we’ve already been sought out and met with numerous students who are interested in joining SIFE this year.

As the year progresses I hope that you will continue to follow this blog and give us your ideas or opinions as we move forward with the team and our projects. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.

Always,
Jessica Welch
FCSIFE President
SIFEPresident@flagler.edu