Akron East High Alumni Association
Board Minutes: Thursday, April 2, 2026
Attending: Michelle Anderson, Larry Bond, Marsha Bond, Chuck Hayes, Sharson Kerechanin, Marcia Martz, Paul Mostyn, Mike Nickolich, Mike Oliver, Janet Stanley
President M.Oliver called the meeting to order at 5:07 p.m.
Secretary’s Report: President M. Oliver asked for acceptance of March minutes.
- M. Bond so moved and C. Hayes seconded, accepting the March minutes as written and submitted.
Treasurer’s Report:
- Business Checking: Balance $2,683.80
- Non-Profit Checking Balance $17,140.73
- Money Market Balance: $47,409.87
- Credit Card Items:
- Paid for Keychains – $520
- GoDaddy Website Renewal -Paid for 4 years (2026-2029) – $960
- 60+ Expenses – $292
- OH Charity Non-Profit Fee – $50
- Storage Fee – $124
- RR Fees – $11
- Credit Card Balance Due 4/14/26 – $1,977.30 – Transfer scheduled
- All accounts were reconciled successfully
- Mailings for 60+ Reunion – $472.00
- Robotics Team Request for $350 for a Laser Tag Party for 26 students. A motion was made by S.Kerechanin and seconded by M. Nickolich to approve the request for the cost of a laser tag party for the Robotics Team. The vote was approved unanimously by the board.
Communications Committee: M. Oliver
- Contacted Christine at East CLC to schedule the April 2nd Board Meeting, but the school was closed for spring break during this week, so the meeting was held at Goodyear Heights Library.
- M. Oliver reached out to a couple of people who had told him that in 2018 there was no yearbook staff, so that may be the reason we are having a problem locating a 2018 yearbook.
- Posted on the website about the Annual John Stanley Memorial Golf Outing which will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at Mayfair Country Club.
- Posted on the website for the March “Spirit Wins”, were all the people who donated all the auction gifts at the Reverse Raffle this year.
Reverse Raffle: S. Kerechanin
- The Reverse Raffle met for a recap meeting and decided to change back to the name 50/50 Raffle (which for the 2026 Reverse Raffle was called Cash Prize and it caused some confusion with the guests).
- The Lucky 13 and the 50/50 will be separate games for the 2027 Reverse Raffle. The tickets will be sold separately from the red bag “brick” auction tickets. The location of these ticket tables will be sold in closer proximity to the other ticket sales table, so guests can easily purchase these tickets.
- The table raffle game will be called just the “Table Raffle”.
- We received some memorabilia from the 1969 Class to use as we see fit at other alumni events. Thank you to Judy Mosser, Class of 1969 for donating the memorabilia items.
Scholarships: M. Bond
- Application packets were distributed to the Scholarship Committee.
- 17 applications have been received by East seniors.
- M.Bond explained the process to the board and instructions to the Scholarship Committee
- We will decide who receives the scholarship awards and the amount of the award at the May 1st board meeting.
- The guideline will be that we will award 8-10 scholarships to East seniors.
- The scholarship award letters will be presented to the seniors at the Wed. May 20th East Senior Recognition Ceremony at 8:30 a.m.
- The Scholarship Committee must return the rating sheets via email to M. Bond by Monday, April 27th.
60+ Reunion: M. Bond and J. Stanley
- The next meeting is Wed.April 8th and this is an “all hands on deck” meeting.
- We have 1800 envelopes to be stuffed and labeled for mailing by May 1st.
- With the memorabilia that we received from the 1969 class, we will distribute it to the classes that will receive recognition/photos at this year’s 60+ Reunion.
Hall of Fame: M. Sibbio
- M.Sibbio was not present at the meeting. M. Oliver and committee updated the board for the Hall of Fame Ceremony to be held on April 16th.
- M.Oliver stated that everything is on track and the videos are in the process of being completed.
- The menu was submitted to the Guys Party Center.
- Central Ballroom is the location for the Hall of Fame Ceremony. (Note: the location of the Ceremony was changed after the April 2nd board meeting to the North Ballroom)
- Five (5) of the seven (7) biographies for the program are completed.
- Plaques for the inductees are in the process of completion.
- JROTC will be present at the Hall of Fame Ceremony
- A discussion occurred about the format of the Hall of Fame Ceremony and who will be actually speaking for the inductees
- For next year’s Hall of Fame Ceremony, it has been recommended that guidelines be established for the committee to follow and to communicate with the board any changes for the 2027 Hall of Fame Ceremony in a timely manner for approval.
- K. Larson gave praise to M. Sibbio for the amount of work that she has put into this year’s Hall of Fame.
- M. Sibbio should send out an email to the inductees that they are expected to speak for
3-5 minutes.
- After the HOF is over this year, a recap meeting is recommended to review the program and have guidelines/expectations for next year’s event.
Membership: M. Anderson
- No new memberships for this month.
Annual Golf Outing: L. Bond/K. Larson
- The John Stanley Memorial Golf Outing has been posted on the website under Events and is on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at Mayfair Country Club.
Memorabilia Posted to the Website: L. Bond/M. Oliver
- M, Oliver addressed memorabilia in his Communications report
Other Business:
- M. Bond and L. Bond attended the “Frozen” production at East CLC and stated it was an excellent production. The speaker system was good, but it would help for them to still have a better audio system.
- The alumni association will address the matter of the speaker system with school officials to see if we could help in any way to purchase a new system.
- L.Bond stated that printing costs are rising at the Akron Public Schools Print Shop and we can save costs by printing our own business cards (ex.100 for $50.00)
- K. Larson and his wife, Cindy, are donating all the dessert pies for the Hall of Fame event..
With no further business, the board meeting was adjourned at 6:35 p.m.