Board Meeting Minutes For June – Akron East High Alumni

Akron East High Alumni Association

Board Minutes – Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Attending: Michelle Anderson, Larry Bond, Marsha Bond, Chuck Hayes, David Hoff, Ken Larson, Marcia Martz, Mike Oliver

Absent: Rochelle Henderson, Sharon Kerechanin, Mike Nickolich, Paul Mostyn Michelle Sibbio, Janet Stanley, Don Young

President: M. Oliver called the meeting at 12:10 p.m.

Secretary’s Report: M. Oliver, President, asked for acceptance of May minutes.

D. Hoff so moved and M. Bond seconded, accepting the May minutes as written and submitted.

Treasurer’s Report: L. Bond

Business Checking: Balance $3,737.80
Non-Profit Checking: Balance $16,155.13
Money Market Balance: $57,526.93
Credit Card Items:
In Act Now – HOF video, plaques, etc. $493.36
Off site storage – $127.00
Scholarship Miscellaneous expenses – red envelopes $16.00
Credit Card Balance due 6/12/26 – $636.36 transfer scheduled
All accounts were reconciled successfully
Final Report on Hall of Fame – Cost of (- $1,483.37)
Banquet Ticket Sales $3,460
Donations to Hall of Fame – $330.00
Total EHS HOF income – $3,790.00
EHS – HOf Expenses – Awardee Plaques – $182.03
Food Cost – $3,900.38
Photography/video expenses – $750.36
Printing Costs – $140.00
TV Screen and Projector Rental – $300.00
Total EHS – HOF Expenses – $5,273.37
Total – (-$1,483.37)
Discussion of costs for the HOF Ceremony and going forward to look at HOF expenses

Communications: M. Oliver

Posted on website and Facebook, ‘Spirit Wins” for the month is Rosemary Fitzpatrick and her East High students for their excellent and professional work on the HOF video presentation.
Facebook video of the 2025 HOF class was posted. There is a glitch with viewing the actual video and M. Oliver will investigate to correct it for proper viewing.
Posted picture of 2026 HOF inductees on website and Facebook.

Reverse Raffle – S. Kerechanin

Scholarships: M. Bond

M. Anderson, M. Bond and K. Larson attended the Senior Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 19th. $R31,500 in scholarships were awarded to 13 students. Both Matthew Futch and Teresa Manzeti from East Project Grad were notified in writing of all 2026 recipients and scholarship amounts in order to help follow-up; with them this summer,
To date, two (2) of these students have followed through on our expectation in order to claim their awards for the fall semester at both The Ohio State University (Mansfield campus) and at Write State in Ohio. (Total of $6,000)
Vocational emphasis moving forward. M. Bond will meet with Principal Noland in fall for further discussion.

60+ Reunion: M. Bond

Scheduled 6/10/26,for the set-up from 1-3:00 p.m. in both the main South Ballroom and the adjacent small ballroom for photos. Menu count and table floor plan to be submitted to Guy’s on Friday, 6/5/26.
Total number of attendees to date is 241.
Programs have been printed by Akron Public Schools.
M. Bond distributed the clipboard for onboard members to sign up for assisting at the event,
Designated Alumni Association Board table will be available. Doors open at 11:30 am for the public. Board members and volunteers need to arrive by 10:45 a,m.
JROTC will enter through the doors at the entrance way and will proceed through the center aisle.
Note of gratitude to the JROTC for their attendance at the Reunion. The Alumni Association will give the JROTC members $20/each McDonald’s gift cards.
Follow-up evaluation meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. at the Goodyear Branch Library.
To date, scholarship donation to date is approximately $5,000 through 60+ donations. M. Bond expressed much appreciation for those donations,

Hall of Fame: M. Sibbio

M. Sibbio was not present at the meeting.
HOF received $330.00 in donation for the renovation of the HOF Wall at East High.
K.Larson read a letter from Ross Fiorello, a HOF 2026 inductee. In the letter, he gave a special thanks to .M. Sibbio, the Alumni Association, Rosemary Fitzpatrick and students, and the staff at Guys Party Center for a very successful event.

Executive Session – Board of Trustee position – 1:15 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

Memberships: M. Anderson

No new memberships for the month of May,

Recruitment: M. Oliver

M.Oliver posted on Facebook an appeal letter to the alumni, where there are 6000 East High alumni who read the Facebook page, Mike was appealing to the alumni to join the board. Our current board members’ average age is in the 70’s.. We need to have alumni members from those classes at least from the 1970s-1990’s to become involved in our events and be able to provide leadership on committees. We provide a great service to Akron East High, our alma mater, but we need more alumni to assist with these tasks. The future of the Alumni Association does depend on our board members, and our outstanding events. Without the current board members and lack of future board members, we will not be able to be a viable Akron East High Alumni Association.
Mike did not receive one response from the appeal letter.

Annual Golf Outing: L.Bond/K.Larson

The John Stanley Memorial Golf Outing will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at the Mayfair Country Club. The cost is $85/person and there are 20 – 4 person teams.
Hole sponsors are $150.
A 50/50 Raffle will be held at the outing.

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

Other/New Business

Preliminary discussion about the future of the Alumni Association.
We need to begin a strategic plan for the next five (5) years (and beyond, as well) on the future of the Alumni Association. We will begin to look in the fall, 2026 of objectives and action plans on how we can maintain and strive for a continuous, and thriving organization.
Ken Larson talked about their 1976 Reunion on August 1st and he would like Mike or anyone else to speak at the Reunion to get alumni interested in the board positions.
“Spirit Wins” recommendation from K. Larson was for M. Sibbio based on the Ross Fiorello letter. C. Hayes moved and K. Larson seconded, and the board voted, and accepted the recommendation.
No meeting in July, 2026
Next meeting will be Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 12:15 p.m. in the Goodyear Branch Library.

The meeting was adjourned at 2;05 p.m.