Hey MAD Clubbers, I hope everyone had an awesome first day of school!

Please keep an eye out for e-mails/bulletin announcements/posters about MAD's first meeting of the year, and help us spread the word about our club!

And as a reminder, the 2006-2007 Officer Application can still be downloaded here. There is currently no set deadline for the apps to be turned in, but the sooner you fill it out and submit it, the better! Please clearly label completed applications with my name (Karen Li) and reg (0701) before putting them into my reg box (box #0701).

We have lots of great volunteering events and activities planned for the year, so be sure to come to meetings and participate in the fun!

If you would like to be removed from our mailing list for whatever reason, there should be a link at the bottom of this e-mail, or you can contact me and I'll get you off the list right away.

Good luck to all with the 2006-2007 school year!

Hey everyone! Depending on how early we can get our club set up again for the Fall, the Walk for Hope to cure breast cancer will most likely be our club's first event of the year. I know it's a little early to announce volunteering events for the fall (school starts in 21 days!), but if you're definitely interested in participating in this event, please let me know ASAP so I can get a rough estimate back to the race directors.


This was our first event of the year last Fall, and the volunteers all had an awesome time working the booths, so don't miss your chance to help this awesome organization!

Walk for Hope is a fundraising event sponsored by City of Hope, an institution dedicated to education, treatment, and research of life-threatening illnesses, like Breast Cancer. The event will take place on Saturday, October 14 at Justin Herman Plaza (across from the Ferry Building) from 6am-11am.

Heads up for seniors: October 14 is also the date of the first SAT of the school year.

There are a variety of fun activities for volunteers at the Walk for Hope such as, setting up, helping register the walkers, working at the sponsor give-away booths, cheering on the participants at the finish line, handing out medals and more. Volunteers are needed from 6am to 11am, working a minimum of 3-hour shifts. All volunteers will be given a Walk for Hope t-shirt, a goody bag, and will be recognized in the event program for their support.

A three hour shift will be worth three volunteering credits, and for every hour you work beyond the minimum, you'll get an extra volunteering credit. Our shift will start at 6AM, so you can get up to six volunteering credits at this event if you work until 11AM.

I'll have more details available once we start meetings again and we get closer to the date of the event, so please watch out for that!

And if you haven't checked it out already, please visit our LJ community and introduce yourself!

Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a great summer vacation, especially since school starts again in just 22 days!

In preparation for the new school year, I've created a new MAD Livejournal Community! This Blogger blog will still be the club's main news bulletin since all posts will be automatically sent to members on our mailing list, but the LJ community will be here to serve as a place for quick Q&A and discussion about club events between club members and club officers. I created the LJ community was because I've noticed a lot of members have been e-mailing us with the similar questions. While we are always more than happy to answer your questions, I've realized that a lot of members probably have the same questions, so it would be helpful to have the questions and answers posted in one place for quick reference.

So if you already have a LJ, please join the community so you can receive full posting privileges. If you don't have a LJ, you can sign up for an account for free! Or if you'd rather not sign up for your own account, you can still get full posting privileges by logging in using our club's username and account: lowellmad The password is lhsmad! (Yes, with the exclamation mark at the end!)

Once you log in with our club account, you will have full posting privileges in the community because I've already joined our community with that username.

Just be sure to put your name and reg (or some other contact info) somewhere in your post when you're posting anything with the club account so we know who you are!

Important news posts will be reposted in the LJ community, but rest assured that all news will still appear on this blog (and in your e-mail inboxes!) first.

If you have any questions about how to do things on LJ, please e-mail me and I'll try my best to answer your questions. I'll try to get a mini-guide up sometime soon to help those who are unfamiliar with Livejournal.

If you want to become an officer next year, please download this application. There is currently no set due date, but the sooner you get it done, the better!