June 6, 2025

Fri 06/06/2025

Present: Jenn Necker, Miah Manning, Bailey Fluegel, Paige Pfenninger Lilli Enders, Tricia Nesti, Rille Thomas

Absent: Keqi Ren, Natalie Hummel

  1. First year naming ceremony updates

Lilli: We booked the David Center, the form for the name is out. I am unclear how the BBQ will work? I need to talk to Keqi about it.

Paige: We have $500 marked for the naming ceremony.

Lilli: APO needs to set up the grill and get facilities to do that.

Rillee: Date?

Lilli: Yes, one sec – July 10th

  1. JP Summer orientation – Keqi
    1. June 25
    2. Welcome to lunch, ice cream social at 2pm (email students about social)

Rilee: Keqi will send us a schedule next week.

  1. Other summer things – jelly talks + field day
    1. Jelly talks – start next week
    2. Field day – planning meeting today
      1. Rilee: Jenn and Natalie will discuss this later,

Paige: Many things did not get RFP. $1500 things we need to spend. We have $2,200 left to spend.

Tricia: The end of the fiscal year is here, we need to submit these requests.

Rilee: I’ll send reminder to Winter Retreat people and Paige, please email the other who have not submitted reimbursements.

  1. OP Garden event funding request from Marc (if we don’t have majority by Friday)

Rilee: We didn’t get a majority in the slack. Are we good?

*Majority vote*

  1. Kayak funding request from Loicka

Loicka: I am the kayak czar. We have broken paddles. We need new ones and we need things to organize the life vests and the equipment. And we also got the canoe (for free?, never asked for the money).

Tricia: We can pay through MIT credit card (and we can have it tax exempt). We can coordinate with a student who is coming down to bring the paddles down. 

  1. Website – any chance we can get the site working again??

Tricia: What is the platform? Okay it’s wordpress.

Paige: This website works https://jpreps.mit.edu/ we can see the funding form. I will contact the MIT people.

Tricia: I would suggest making a google site.

  1. Paige – should we send email(s) asking people to submit their receipts? (see above)
  2. Hiroki – send reminder to fill in commute ideas form

Rilee: Could you send out a reminder to fill out the form? We will send responses to APO in ~1-2 weeks.

Hiroki: Yes, we already got ~20 responses

  1. When are the listservs updated with new students? Jp-all or whoi-student-com for communication over the summer?

Tricia: All @mit ones are me and all the @whoi are Keqi.

  1. Lilli – run meeting on 20th?
    1. Lilli: Yes! 

Paige: Can you give me access to the website?

Hiroki: Let me take a look.

Paige: You should be able to add me as a collaborator.

Tricia: MIT orientation will be September 2nd. It may be helpful to come again, remind students what their resources are, etc.