Board Meeting Minutes For July – Akron East High Alumni

Akron East High Alumni Association

Board Meeting Minutes – July 3, 2025

Attendance: Michelle Anderson, Larry Bond, Marsha Bond, Chuck Hayes, David Hoff,

Marcia Martz, Mike Oliver, Michelle Sibbio, Janet Stanley

Absent: Rochelle Henderson, Sharon Kerechanin, Mike Nickolich, Don Young

The meeting began at 5:39 p.m.

Minutes of June 5, 2005: Chuck Hayes moved and seconded by Marsha Bond accepting the June minutes as presented

Treasurer’s Report: L. Bond

Total number of Dinners 237 orders by 183 (10.3%) of 1,750 invitations. Not attending responses by 123.7%
Total Revenue from Reservations and Photo Requests – $8,860
Cost of Dinners – $5,113.50
Cost of Photographer, supplies and mailing (41 photos) – $624
Color Guard from EHS – $200
Printing Reservations – $396
Mailing Reservations – $1,750 – Cost $1,586
Misc.Supplies – $274
Net for event – $705

Communications Report: M. Oliver

Posted June 5th board minutes
Posted the scholarship award of $39,500 to 16 East CLC recipients
Sent letter to Mark Price of the Akron Beacon Journal about our awards to East CLC recipients to see if he is interested in writing a story about the East CLC scholarship program. M, Olver has not heard back from him, but will send a follow-up email to Mark Price.

Reverse Raffle: Sharon Kerachanin

Scholarships: Marsha Bond

Six (6) recipients out of 16 to date have followed through on expectations to claim their awards.
Checks were issued and sent directly to their respective institutions (ie. Stark State, Kent State, Bowling Green)
Matthew Futch, Project Grad Building Representative at East CLC has been invaluable in assisting these student awards.
A discussion about assistance to M. Bond on scholarships due to the amount of work that she does on this project each year. M. Anderson will shadow M. Bond and learn more about the process to assist her in the future.

60+ Reunion: M. Bond/J. Stanley

A follow-up meeting to evaluate this year’s event and make suggestions for next year’s event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 16 at the Tallmadge Library at 1:00 p.m.
L. Bond helped print and M. Bond mailed 42 total class photos to respective alumni classes of 1950, 1955, 1960 and 1965.
This event brought in over $4,000 in scholarship donations. M. Bond mailed out 43 donor scholarship 501c3 letters of gratitude from the Alumni Association in appreciation for their donation.
Update on Chang pin sales: As a result of this reunion function, to date approximately 50% of inventory has been sold.
Thursday, June 11, 2026 date has been reserved for next year’s 60+ Reunion event at Guy’s Party Center. The class of 1966 will be the new, honored class.

Hall of Fame: M. Sibbio

D. Hoff suggested contacting The Venue in September to schedule the Hall ofFame Ceremony for April 2026.
M. Sibbio discussed some of the potential 2026 Hall of Fame nominees
M. Sibbio suggested that business cards of board members be printed for distribution at the 1976 Reunion on August 2,2025 to encourage membership/nominees for Hall of Fame and contact information about the Alumni Association. The business cards could be used at other events to generate awareness about the Alumni Association.
M. Sibbio also discussed using Facebook, and another alumni’s website on East High events, to post information about the Hall of Fame and generate nominations. C, Hayes also stated that it could be posted on the 1972 class reunion information.

Membership: M.Anderson

Recruitment/Memberships – M.Martz

M. Martz stated that a meeting will be held in July to discuss approaching different alumni classes for membership and potential board members
The committee will start with the classes of 1976 – 1986 and create a letter to the known officers of those classes to begin a contact list of alumni; and, secondly, to learn of any class reunions that could provide alumni information to them.

Linda Theater – M. Anderson

M. Anderson gave an update on the Linda Theater Alumni Fun Night for October 3rd.

As of this date, the Linda Theater is under renovations. .

The Alumni Association decided at this point we will not proceed with the October 3rd event at the Linda Theater because we did not want to start advertising or accepting ticket money from alumni in the case that the theater won’t be ready for our October 3rd event.
M.Anderson informed the management at the Linda Theater that we did not want to move forward at this time with the event, but will be monitoring the Linda Theater renovations and their reopening for reconsideration in 2026.

John Stanley Memorial Golf Outing: L. Bond

L.Bond distributed the flyer for the golf outing which will be held on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at Mayfair Country Club beginning at 8:00 a.m.
Payment can be made through Zenn or Venmo at ehsalumni85@gmail.com from your checking account.
$85/person, 4 member teams limited to 20 total teams.
Team and individual prizes, 50/50 drawing, $2 per course dressing (beer, water, gatorade, etc).
Hole sponsors are $150.00
L. Bond distributed a volunteer sign-up sheet to the board
M.Sibbio suggested that we have flags on the beverage carts so our golfers can easily see and buy their beverages from us.

Memorabilia Posting to Website: l. Bond/M. Oliver

2002 yearbook is now live on the website; 2003 yearbook is in process but not yet live on the website
L. Bond stated that he is in the process of packing yearbooks in storage boxes and possibly we will be able to have a yearbook sale at East CLC at a future date.

Other Business

M. Oliver stated that the August board meeting will be at the Tallmadge Library, but starting in September, we will be returning to East CLC for meetings during the school year. M. Oliver will check with the East administration to determine if we can start the meeting earlier, such as 5:00 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. instead of at 6:00 p.m.
M. Oliver asked for any “Spirit Wins” nominations for June, 2025. M. Anderson nominated both Marsha Bond and Larry Bond for their above and beyond dedication and hard work of producing the 60+ Reunion. It was unanimously voted in favor of Larry and Marsha Bond as the well-deserved “Spirit Wins” recipients for June, 2025.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:44 p.m.