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Desert Academy’s Relief Efforts for Haiti: Coming together as a community to help.

Relief efforts for Haiti and Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic are already underway at Desert Academy. As a school committed to local, national and international community awareness, education and support via programs like Sharing Our Humanity, Desert Academy students, faculty and staff have come together through our clubs and organizations to raise funds for survivors of the Haitian earthquake. But we need help.

Do YOU want to help but don’t know how? Join Desert’s efforts and help us make a bigger impact!

There are many ways to help through your own child’s school:

• CLICK HERE TO DONATE THROUGH FIRSTGIVING.COM. This is a safe, secure online donation site we have created to allow you to make donations via credit card for our trip and fundraising efforts.
• Donate to the Red Cross with Desert Academy. Kay Rice, Director of Development, is accepting ongoing donations for the Red Cross. Please contact her at krice@desertacademy.org or at (505) 992-8284, ext. 23
• Make a healthy pledge to the high school Dance-a-Thon (Jan. 28th). The Dance-a-Thon is a high school fund-raising event whose proceeds will specifically benefit impoverished Haitian communities and refugees. For more information or to make a direct donation, contact Jessica Cavalli at jcavalli@desertacademy.org.
• Purchase your court-side concessions at home basketball games from the Wildcats Snack Shack, sponsored by the Desert Leo Club. All proceeds go toward service work, supplies and financial support in impoverished Haitian communities.
• Join Desert’s National Honor Society in an awareness and fund-raising campaign for Haiti. For more information on how to help, contact Jocelyne Comstock at jcomstock@desertacademy.org.
  Support the Desert Academy Student Council in its fund-raising efforts. For more information on how to get involved, contact Randy Bennett at rbennett@desertacademy.org.

Our Desert community may be small but we are powerful, and we can make a difference!

Saturday, January 30th, 6:30pm
” A Parisian Soiree” will take place Saturday, January 30 at 6:30pm inside the Farmers Market building at the Santa Fe Railyard. Please join us for a fabulous evening to celebrate Paris in the 1920′s and ’30′s!  We’ll enjoy complimentary champagne, French food, a strolling accordion, period songs by our own Catherine Robinson, the dance band “Soulstice,” and wonderful, unique silent and live auction items.  Our MC, Tom Maguire and our auctioneer, Scott Rice will keep things lively!   Viewing auction items & purchasing tickets couldn’t be easier- just click on the  link www.desertacademyauction.com to access our auction website:   Please help us to support Desert by inviting your friends! Don’t you have 5-7 friends to whom you could mail an invitation to? You can pick up invitations at the front desk.
Volunteers are needed in the afternoon for setup and for the night of the event.
If interested in volunteering, please call Kay Rice: 992.8284 ext 23, krice@desertacademy.org.
Donations: We invite you to make a donation to underwrite staff tickets to the event or  to sponsor a portion of the evening. Please use the form on your email response card to indicate your interest, or call Kay. Look for an email next week with more details!

A Requirement for Juniors & their parents

When: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Big Room

College night is an opportunity to learn about the nuts and bolts of the college application and decision process, and to explore the ways that Desert’s college counseling program assists you and your student.  Desert Academy’s Head of College Counseling, Colin Pierce will give a presentation on the fundamentals of the college search, and our guest speaker Mark Truman, the founder of Omniac Education, will address the issue of how to finance your student’s college education, a topic that is surely on everyone’s mind at the moment.

Click the link below for more information:

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