Some of our Spring Semester Activities

*Bounce U Playdate*

We love our playdates and one of our favorite places is Bounce U.  It's always a hit!!

Even the mommas joined in.  =)

*Valentine's Dinner*

SAA provides a dinner for SAA members and their spouses every year for Valentine's Day.  We had a great turn out this year at The Local Table.

 *Valentine's Fundraiser*

Our Fundraiser Chair, Brittany Fisher, put together a booklet for students and faculty to purchase from. There were varieties of arrangements (and prices) as well as chocolates and spa packages.

*Family Movie Night at the School*

A fun friday night at the movies... or OSU-COM's Merkel Auditorium.  We showed Brave and made popcorn!

*Playdate/Birthday Party*

Sweet Miss Afton turned 1!

We've had several things going on this semester and here were just a few to catch you up.

Janelle

NOM Week 2013

The American Osteopathic Association says, "National Osteopathic Medicine (NOM) Week is April 14-20. NOM Week brings the osteopathic medical profession together to focus on one common goal - increasing awareness of osteopathic medicine and DOs in communities across the country." 

(To read more about NOM Week click HERE.)

OSU-COM SAA is doing our part to honor our osteopathic students!  We put together 220 goodie bags (for the 1st and 2nd years who are still at the school), filled with pretzels, peanut butter crackers, apples and Hershey Kisses.  

Thank you Crystal Moore (MSII) and Joy Vedros (MSII) for all your help!  And Hadley of course.  ;)

And thank you students for all the hard work you put in!!

Janelle

Winter CME

AOOA Jewelry Party

The AOOA hosted a wonderful get together to start the day off.  Here's a a shot I caught of the group before getting started.

After some chit-chat and enjoying some delicious hors d'oeuvres it was time to get busy making jewelry.

Janelle Norman (MSIII), Allison Johnston (MSII), Brittany Fisher (MSI), Charity Broam (MSIV)

Showing off our hard work!  

Walli Daniel opening up for our "Tech-y" Information Presentation.

Wine & Cigar Pull Fundraiser

We had numerous donations coming in across the board with wine and cigar to help this fundraiser go off without a hitch.  We are so grateful for each and EVERY one of those donations.  This event would not have been possible without them and we fully recognize that and thank you all beyond words!!

There was seriously so much success from this event.  Here are some of the pictures we caught from the evening.

The set-up crew!!

Bavette Miller, Janelle Norman, Ryan Miller, Brittany Fisher, Allison Johnston

The ladies and our fabulous AOOA President, Walli Daniel.

Walli Daniel (AOOA President), Bavette Miller, Janelle Norman, Brittany Fisher, Allison Johnston

Hard working SAA members.  =)

Janelle Norman (MSIII), Brittany Fisher (MSI), Allison Johnston (MSII), Joy Vedros (MSII)

Our first purchase of the evening: wine, cigar and a wine bag!!!  Thank you Dr. Calabrese.

We ended the night just under $1000!!!  Thank you so much for all the support and again the donations, you all never cease to amaze us!

-Janelle, SAA President

SAA's December

*Christmas Tea*

December 1, 2012

The AOOA hosts a Christmas Tea every year for the SAA members.  This year was specifically an English High Tea, with a fascinator (English hat) contest.

The beautiful spread.

Janelle Norman (MSIII) & Jessica Owens (MSIII)

The top three for the fascinator competition.

Joy (1st Vice president) won first place. 

Apryl Pritchett (MSII), Allison Johnston (MSII), Joy Vedros (MSII) 

The wonderful ladies who hosted our etiquette course following tea. 

The SAA executive board received these wonderful glitzy lanyards.  

No more cloth/shoe string lanyards for us, thank you President, Walli Daniel!  =)

A few of us with the our AOOA president, Walli Daniel.  Thank you so much for opening your home for this event, it was beautiful.

 

*Meal for Finals*

December 3-6, 2012

At the end of every fall semester we give the students a chance to get a week of home cooked meals.  We sell tickets a few weeks prior and then they can spend as much time studying at the school without having to worry about what they're going to eat.

 *SAA Christmas Party*

December 4, 2012

We had our annual Christmas party and had a white elephant gift exchange, plus a cookie exchange. 

Yummo!

Love these ladies!!

Looking forward to our spring semester!

-Janelle

Spook-O-Ween

Well Spook-O-Ween 2012 has come and gone.  Its hard to believe it's already over.  We had so much fun and I honestly wouldn't have been able to pull it off with all of my AWESOME volunteers!!!  I can't go without saying how awesome the students did this year.  We set up boxes every year for candy donations and they exceeded, we had TONS of candy.

Thank you so much!!

I'll just give you the highlights of the night...

*Plenty of Food*

*Hooray for POPCORN*

(Thanks Kari!)

*Yummy Treats*

Amber Wilson (MSIII) and Bekah Petersen (MSIV) went all out with their cupcakes.

Monsters & Spiders

*Great Turn Out*

The Owens (MSIII)

Andrea Clark (MSI) & Chanel Raines (MSII)

The Priddles (MSIII)

Janelle Norman (MSIII) & Airika Robins (MSIII)

All the carnival games went over really well.

*Fishing*

*Duck Pond*

*Bowling*

*Ring Toss*

 A few of my wonderful volunteers.

Kirsten Griffin (MSI), Kari Ransdell (MSII), Allison Johnston (MSII) 

If they weren't entertained by the games we also had 2 JumpJumps set up.

Andrew (MSIII) got some cuddles from Miss Afton.

Lots of cool costumes! 

One of our members, Jami Leavitt (MSI), was so gracious to set up a little station for everyone to get their picture taken.  She did a great job!!  You can see the photos here.

We missed some people, as they had already headed home, but here's a good bit of the SAA members who were there.

Such a fun night, can't wait till next year.  ;)

-Janelle