Waltrip PTA - 2007-2008

Officers & Committee Chairperson
  • President – Candace K. Fain         
  • Vice President – Jan Rotenberry
  • Past President – Laura V. Jennett             
  • Secretary – Debbie Lazenby                 
  • Treasurer -  Martha Moravek  
  • Parliamentarian -- George W. Fain       
  • Historian –
  • Parent Ed (SAT) -
  • Membership - Paula Hubbard
  • Communications -Tina Rocha 
  • VIPS – Laura Jennett
Parents, please sign in and get a visitor’s pass at the office when you visit Waltrip.

PTA Newsletter
  • Student Achievement - Paula White        
  • T-shirts - Jo Saa                       
  • Hospitality - Richard Rotenberry         
  •                     Bobby Bakenhaus
  • Registration -
  • Faculty rep – Joni Straker              
  • Choice Dress – Elizabeth Villarreal
  • SDMC - Jan Rotenberry         

For more information, please contact the PTA at waltrippta@yahoo.com

Your comments and requests will be forwarded to the appropriate PTA officer or committee chairman.
   

Board Meetings are held at Waltrip High School in the Distance Learning Center and start around 6:15 P.M.  Anyone who wishes to address the board or to put forth any business before the board may do so.  We will meet on Thursday, March 27, 2008 and on Wednesday, May 21, 2008.

Our final PTA meeting of the year will be on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, where the election of the 2008-2009 officers will occur.

The PTA is a nonprofit, democratic, voluntary organization whose membership is open to all persons who are concerned with the welfare of all children and youth and who are willing to uphold its basic policies, subscribe to its bylaws, and fulfill the objects of the PTA.  More information about PTA can be found on the national PTA website at www.pta.org or the Texas PTA website at www.txpta.org  

The Waltrip PTA is an organization consisting primarily of faculty and staff at Waltrip and parents of students enrolled at Waltrip. Students in grades 9-12 can be members as well. Our overall goal is to develop united efforts of faculty, staff, and parents to provide quality education for all students at Waltrip. Toward this goal we encourage all parents, faculty, and staff to become members of the PTA.  The PTA encourages opportunities for parents to become involved in volunteering in the school and for faculty and staff to seek opportunities for parent volunteers.

The 2007-2008 Waltrip PTA is committed to two goals for this academic year: to increase communication to and from parents of Waltrip students and to continue to raise funds to enhance Waltrip’s ability to service its students’ needs.  To increase communication we hope that we can increase membership in the PTA and build communication networks through our members.  We intend to utilize the school’s call-out system and e-mails to provide more information and communication to our members about upcoming events, testing dates, etc.  To raise funds for the betterment of the school, the PTA this year is continuing the plan begun last year to dedicate all funds raised in excess of budgeted needs to improving the sound system of the auditorium and to any other project that the PTA deems necessary.  The PTA fundraisers for this year are several “choice dress” days set throughout the year and projects still to be named. 

In addition to these goals, the PTA will continue to provide student achievement incentives, two teacher appreciation lunches, parent volunteers, opportunities for parent input in school decisions, and scholarships for senior who have parents who are members of the PTA.     The amount of scholarship money available depends partially on the success of fundraisers conducted by the PTA each year. 

 To join the PTA complete the membership form (Word Doc).