Students are encouraged to visit Hauser to practice walking their schedules, set up their lockers and meet their teachers tomorrow August 23rd from 1:00-2:00pm.   Parents/Guardians are not required to accompany their children.   Any questions, contact April Mahy or the Hauser office.

Greetings Parents!

On behalf of our Parent Teacher Organization, I would like to welcome all of you to Hauser Jr. High School. We hope everyone enjoyed the summer and is ready for the start of the 2017-2018 school year.

Our goal is a special partnership that bridges a child’s two very important worlds: home and school. If your child attends Hauser, you are automatically a member of the PTO. We have no dues. We do have a few fundraisers throughout the year. Some of the programs sponsored by the PTO include the Eighth Grade Graduation Party, Honor Roll celebrations, Hauser Canned Food Drive, Staff Appreciation Week, Scholastic Book Fair, Family Dinner, and much more!

We encourage you to get involved and be informed and help make the environment at Hauser as rich as possible for our children. If you have an idea you want to organize, please share it! If you just want to lend a hand, there will be many opportunities – if everyone volunteers for one shift at a PTO event, that would be a huge help and greatly appreciated – plus students love to see their parents involved at school!

For now, we encourage you to:

• Subscribe to our Monday Feedblitz at www.hauserpto.org. The Feedblitz will contain information about our fundraisers, events, and volunteer opportunities, as well as important reminders about school and district programs
• Follow us on Facebook!
•  Attend our PTO meetings. Our first meeting is from 5-6pm on Thursday, August 31st in the Auditorium – just prior to the Sarah’s Inn Parent Presentation and Hauser’s Fall Parent Night.
• Mark your calendar for the PTO-sponsored Town Hall meetings. These will be opportunities for you to ask questions and share your concerns with Hauser administration and PTO members. The first Town Hall meeting will be on Friday, October 20th at 9am in the Hauser auditorium.
• Participate in our fall fundraisers: Spiritwear sale, Mixed Bag Designs sale, or 100% Fund. We also collect Box Tops year-round.
• Please feel free to contact me @ jlaube@laubecompanies.com or any PTO board member with your concerns, questions, and/or ideas!
  • Lisa Gaynor, 1st VP of Communications
  • Lisa Hennelly, 2nd VP of Members and Volunteers
  • Lisa Swicionis, 3rd VP Fundraising
  • Jill Glawe, Secretary
  • Sue Gersch, Parliamentarian

Looking forward to a great year!

Julie Laube
President, Hauser PTO

Attached please find the proposed revisions to the Hauser PTO Bylaws. A vote on the proposed amendments will occur at the first PTO meeting of the year on August 31st at 5:00pm.

HAUSER PTO Bylaws_proposed changes_15AUG2017 (003) (1)

Forgot to turn in a receipt for PTO reimbursement before school let out?  No problem.  Please fill out the reimbursement form and drop payment off at Angela Izzo’s home for payment.  Angela’s home address is at 316 Olmsted Rd.  All forms must be dropped of by June 30th.

Any questions, please contact Angela at daz02@sbcglobal.net.

We are looking for 8th grade parent volunteers to help chaperone the 8^th grade graduation party being held on Friday, June 2^nd.   There are two time slots available for chaperones – 8:30pm- 10:00pm  and 10:00pm -11:30pm.  Parent chaperones will help with supervision and student safety as well as assisting with various other tasks during the night. We are also in need of volunteers to assist with check out and clean up.

If you are available to help, please sign-up by using the SignUp Genius button below.

As our school year comes to a close, PTO would like to say thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time to make this year a great success!

Special thanks to these great committee chairs:

Awards Assembly Treats: Deirdre Smith
Box Tops: Michelle Siedlicki
Bubble Soccer: Riia O’Donnell
Conferences Dinner: Lisa Swicionis and Tracy Stanard
8th Grade Corsages: Debbie Brand
8th Grade Graduation Party: Patti Friend and Nancy Carey
Family Dinner: Ann Marie Dixon and Laura Rubio
Family Dinner Silent Auction: Sarah Leone
Food Drive: Lisa Gaynor
Honor Roll Ice Cream Socials: Michelle Marconi
Little Symphony: Lisa Gaynor
Magazine Drive: Carol Barlow
Mixed Bag Designs: Debbie Brand
Nominating Committee: Julie Laube
Philanthropy: Lisa Gaynor
Raging Waves: Debbie Brand
Spiritwear: Diane Cervanka and Julie Laube
Scholastic Book Fair: Angela Izzo and Kim Macchia
School Supply Kits: Sue Gersch
Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week: Lisa Swicionis and Tracy Stanard

Have a wonderful and safe summer!

Don’t want to shop for school supplies? We’ve got the solution!   Hauser PTO will again be offering a school supply kit program for all three grades here at Hauser. We’re using The Write Stuff as the vendor, and the sale runs from now through the end of June.

Some highlights of the 2017-2018 program include:

• You can remove items from the list if you already have them!
• Calculators are not included in the kit, but can be ordered separately if you need one.
• All kits will be shipped to your home later in the summer – the flat shipping rate is $7.95.
• This is an online only sale. There is not an option to write a check.
• A small portion of each sale will benefit our PTO.

Cross it off your to-do list and click here to place your order!

If you have any questions, contact Sue Gersch at tnsgersch@gmail.com

We are looking for 8th grade parent volunteers to help chaperone the 8^th grade graduation party being held on Friday, June 2^nd.   There are two time slots available for chaperones – 8:30pm- 10:00pm  and 10:00pm -11:30pm.  Parent chaperones will help with supervision and student safety as well as assisting with various other tasks during the night. We are also in need of volunteers to assist with check out and clean up.

If you are available to help, please sign-up by using the SignUp Genius button below.

Calling all 8th graders: Permission slip for the 8th Grade Graduation Party is due today May 23….complete and return to the Hauser office…no 8th grader will be allowed to attend the celebration without a signed permission slip!  The permission slip is attached below.

8th Grade Graduation Party Permission Slip