2025-26 Ann Simpson Davis Middle School PTO

UPDATE:  

We still have 6 open donations for our Davis Welcome Warehouse Adopt-a-Families.  Link is in the message below.

Each year Welcome Warehouse Adopt-a-Family matches Dublin (Ohio) City School District families experiencing a financial or medical crisis with volunteer sponsors from the community seeking to experience the joy of giving. Families receive gifts for their children and a grocery card for a holiday meal.

Davis Middle School PTO has “adopted” two families (with 4 children) for the 2019 holiday season. Please join us in making the holidays merrier for these families in need.

You can find Davis PTO’s Virtual Giving Tree on Signup Genius:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080545A8AC2EA13-davis

MONETARY DONATIONS: If you are interested in making a cash or gift card donation rather than shopping for a specific gift, I will gladly accept and do the shopping for you. Just let me know. You can drop off your monetary donation to me at my home or send to Davis and address: Davis PTO Giving Tree c/o Jennifer Talley

For Questions contact Jennifer Talley at:

jktalley@me.com or 614.406.0371

There is now another week to order spirit wear!

You have until November 15th to place your order for Irish spirit wear!

The order form can be found here => Davis Order Form 2019

Join us for our October Davis PTO Meeting THIS WEEK!

Wednesday October 16th at 12:00 noon

Davis MS PTO Meeting Minutes

September 25, 2019 7:00 pm

Attendees:  Natalie Rich, Clifford Rich, Ginger Kockentiet, Asch Mikhail, Ann Perez, Jason Snyder, Tiffany Marr, Tiffany deSilva, Tisha Rinker, Julie Felts, Noreen Marando

Principal’s Report—Ann Perez

• We have 1044 students in the building which creates some space challenges and hallway congestion. We continue to look for ways to mitigate these challenges.  Counselors have done a great job of balancing the classrooms to be at 27 or below.
• We have a many student opportunities at Davis that many people are not aware:
  • Junior Teen Institute (feeds into Teen Institute at Scioto)
  • National Junior Honor Society (only middle school in the district to have a NJHS chapter)
  • Girls Who Code Club
  • Davis Difference (6^th graders celebrating learning differences)
  • Yearbook Club
  • Math Counts (competition club)
  • Davis Singers
  • Drama Club
  • Davis Alliance (gender identity and fitting in)
  • The Rox (Ruling our Experiences)
  • Power of the Pen (7^th and 8^th graders)
  • Irish Way Advisory (student voice in the building)
  • Dublin Food Pantry and Our Own Davis Food Pantry (to discretely provide nourishment to food insecure kids over the weekends)
  • Interact
  • Fiddle Fusion

Secretary’s Report—Noreen Marando

• Noreen presented the minutes from the August meeting. Natlie Rich made a motion to approve the minutes.  Clifford Rich seconded the motion.  All were in favor.

Treasurer’s Report—Asch Mikhail, Ginger Kockentiet

• Current balances:
  • Checking $19,781.14
  • Savings $31,422.93
• Review of 2019/20 budget items / updates

President’s Report – Tiffany deSilva

• Review of Executive Board and Committee Leadership Status. We have some committee positions that will need to be filled next year (current volunteer will no longer have a student at Davis.).  Tiffany and Tiffany to work on a descriptive list of positions to post to the website. Annual Fall Fundraiser
• Fall Fundraiser/Dance-a-thon update:
  • 29% participation as of the date of the meeting
  • $19,457 raised to date
  • Last day for donations is October 4^th
  • 99Pledges – the online donation tool – will take 10% of online donations as their fee (this was the best / most convenient tool)
• Outreach and Engagement
  • Fall Festival is set for October 24^th. We will need volunteers – look for a signup.
  • Meet and Greet Spirit Wear Winner – Zaria was the winner guessing 363 candies (the correct amount was 362!)

Upcoming events

• No School—October 11
• PTO Meeting—October 16 Noon
• Fall Festival – October 24
• Parent Teacher Conferences/PTO Sponsored Dinner – October 30

The meeting was adjourned at 8:05