Advanced Business Management
Woodland Terrace
Jacob Ackerman
My experiences in Mr. Large's service learning class have been exciting, fantastic, and downright fun. I have learned a multitude of new skills and personal attributes that I can take with me outside of the walls of New Palestine High School to benefit the world as a whole. Helping put on the senior prom taught me how to organize an event, how to communicate with adults, how to reach out to other people and ask for help with a variety of tasks, and how to stay positive even when events do not turn out the way I want them to. I have enjoyed every minute of this journey, and I will not soon forget the memories I made working with Tyler, Ethan, and Caralee on this project.
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The week of the Senior Prom at Woodland Terrace is finally here!!! It has been a busy four months planning this event. Tyler, Ethan, and I ended up acquiring eight sponsorships for the senior prom: Bell Mortuary, Hoosier Hear Gear, Sugar Creek Real Estate, American Family Insurance, Life Share, Freedom Home Health & Hospice, John Mitchell Moving, and Woodland Terrace hairstylist Wendy Parish. We thank them for their generous donations and support in helping us put on this outstanding event. As of now, Ethan is piecing together the final product of all of our inter-generational videos by combining individual segments into one video. Tyler has sent out numerous emails to a couple of our sponsors to coordinate some last minute details to make the prom flow as smoothly as possible. I am currently in the process of putting together a volunteer team to help Tyler, Ethan, and I with all of the residents' needs at the prom. These needs could be to carry food from place to place, helping the residents get around to where they want to go, and possibly busting a move with the residents. Everything is coming together on Saturday night. It will hopefully be a Cinco de Mayo celebration Tyler, Ethan, and I will never forget.
There are only three weeks until the Senior Prom at Woodland Terrace! Several events have taken place since then. Tyler, Ethan, and I have acquired three new sponsorships from Hoosier Hear Gear, John Mitchell Moving Company, and Sugar Creek Real Estate. We have four sponsorships that are currently pending right now. The past two weeks, Tyler, Ethan, and I have been meeting with Caralee Griffith to finalize details and to begin putting our plan into action. We met with the head chef at Woodland Terrace, Brian, to finalize the menu and format of the dinner. We will be having a buffet style taco bar with toppings at each of the tables. For now, we will continue to prepare for our Cinco de Mayo celebration. It is going to be great!
The past couple of weeks have been dedicated to acquiring sponsorships to help Tyler Young, Ethan Westrate, and I fund the Senior Prom at Woodland Terrace on May 5. We have had five businesses donate money or services to help make the prom an outstanding experience for the folks at Woodland Terrace. Those five businesses include Bell Mortuary, Studio 52, Freedom Home Health, Life Share, and Insurance Agent John Lytell at American Family Insurance in New Palestine. There are more meetings and sponsorship deals to come! Tyler, Ethan, and I are super excited. We will keep you posted.
It has been a busy two weeks at Woodland Terrace of New Palestine. Last week, Tyler, Ethan, and I had the privilege of passing out Valentines from New Palestine Elementary students to the assisted living residents. Also last week, we met with Caralee for thirty minutes to exchange updates and tasks to be completed for the next week. We gave her our sketch to put on the flyers and handouts to advertise the prom. Caralee also told us about potentially raising money for the Indy Honor Flight Program to send one former veteran living in Woodland Terrace to Washington, D.C. to be recognized for their service to our great country. I talked with Dale True, the Chairman of the Indy Honor Flight Program, last Friday to get an estimate on pricing. He said it was about $1,000 round trip for a former veteran and their escort to go to Washington, D.C.
This week, Tyler, Ethan, and I got to talk to a women named Norma. She is ninety-six years old and lives in the memory care wing of Woodland Terrace's Assisted Living Building. She was reluctant to talk to us at first, but she warmed up as the conversation progressed. We enjoyed talking with her and getting to know her better. Afterward, we had a quick meeting with Caralee to give her an update about what we had accomplished the past week. Tyler Young finalized the letter going out to our potential sponsors to include information about raising money for the Indy Honor Flight. We are marching closer to May 5th! Cannot wait! Tyler, Ethan, and I were assigned this week with putting the finishing touches on our letter to our potential sponsors, working on a flyer design to advertise the prom, and preparing a sales pitch for our potential sponsors. Our meeting with Caralee last week went smoothly. We began to plan whether we are doing buffet style or a plated meal, how we are going to decorate their new dining hall, and what entertainment we are going to provide. We met with Cole Stites, the Executive Director of Operations at Woodland Terrace, on Wednesday this week to put the finishing touches on our flyer design, the letter to our potential donors, and sales pitch. We also discussed whether or not we would invite people from outside of Woodland Terrace and what events we should include to keep our attendees entertained. We are looking forward to working with our potential donors to make this prom a huge success.
The last two weeks, Tyler Young, Ethan Westrate, and I began to talk to Caralee Griffith about the upcoming senior prom we are hosting at Woodland Terrace in early May. We are currently in charge of looking for sponsors for the prom, naming pricing levels based on the amount of funding a particular business gives, and deciding on the day we will actually be putting the event on. We were going to start our sponsor search by asking the sponsors who helped out last year if they were interested in helping again. Unfortunately, our biggest sponsor from last year, Sam's Club, is going out of business. So, Tyler, Ethan, and I plan to replace this loss with sponsors that Woodland Terrace residents are regular customers of. We are looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that are awaiting us in the near future. Senior Prom 2018 is going to be great!!!
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