<p>As scary as this is, the class of 2009 has reached the point where we really need to start getting things in order for our ring dance. Well....it turns out we are completely broke as a class. We are trying to do whatever we can to raise money and make sure we have an amazing dance. What I am asking of you, is to let me know if their is anything you would like to see us do that you would buy or donate to. As students we don't have the money to really pay for everything ourselves, and we really want to make sure that our ring dance doesn't end up being in Delano. </p>
<p>So please any ideas or anything would be a big help.</p>
<p>Flynavy 05, give us a good address to send checks to and we will spread the word with the CA families, you know the parents, we will take anything with KP on it.</p>
<p>you guys could always have a "bake sale".. ;)</p>
<p>also, you better save up your pennys for those rings.. My son paid a little over $1,500 for his. Including the dance bids, flying the GF back to Kings Point, etc. he laid out over $2,000. Most of it was paid for from money he earned during "sea year".</p>
<p>Get an email out to all the B spliters at Sea and have them get 3 recepies from the cooks on their ships and turn it into a cook book. Then have the A spliters do the same thing. </p>
<p>Put it together, make it look nice and spiral bind it. Get 100+ recepies and you could sell it for $20 bucks a pop easily (you would clear $15 a copy). Every Mom at parents weekend would buy one and Jamzmon would by 10 or more.</p>
<p>You could aways get the 12 buffest Mids and do a calendar</p>
<p>Cool! Parent's Clubs might help in doing some of the sales as well by advertising it in newsletters & on websites? Easy enough to ask for free advertising. Ya'll would make some buck$ on parent's week-end. </p>
<p>LFWBDad, the cookbook idea is awesome. The guy on my kid's ship has awards for the last four years in a row for his culinary abilities. I had a slice of his Boston Cream Pie. If this is a way for him to give me that recipe, I'm IN!</p>
<p>I'm assuming the calendar would feature the 12 "buffest" male mids, right?
You could always do a "hottest" female mid calendar too... :)</p>
<p>Chief Stewards and Cooks that use recipes....!!! oh man, I'm ROFLMAO...
Maybe on the "white ships"...
You might as well compile the "100 best recipes" from that "chow palace" Delano hall.. My son assures me that would be a BIG seller.. I'll bet eager Moms would be lined up for that.. Maybe even Jamzmom.. ;) as a bonus each book sold could come with a coupon for a free bottle of Pepto-Bismol..</p>
<p>Imagine you're a well to do parent with small children and you need a babysitter for a night. You would a want person you could trust ( been drug tested, national security check, congressional nomination, smart, honor code) wouldn't you pay a premium for that. I'm not joking here. My brother who hosts my son over long weekends and holidays lives in Westchester, in a very nice part of Westchester. At one end of his street is the Sleepy Hollow Country Club and at the other end is the Trump National Golf Club. When his daughter was not able to take a job my son filled in. He got a $100 for studying for school for four hours plus all the pizza and ice cream he could eat. Now that the neighbors have heard about him, he's a midshipman, clean cut etc etc. People keep calling my brother to see if he's available. The people could write the checks to the Class of 2009 morale fund and the midshipman splits the check 75/25. Everybodies happy, the mid gets some cash, the class gets some cash and the people are happy. The only hitch is transportation.</p>