Early Childhood Club T-Shirt Party A Huge Success

Workshop room V118 was transformed this past week with the giggles and smiling faces of the children from the KCC Child Development Center, who joined us for our first ever "Club T-shirt Party" held on March 29.

After some pizza, juice, hot chocolate and other treats, everybody got busy designing their t-shirt. Multi-colored squiggles, dots, lines and swirls quickly adorned the shirts of the pre-schoolers, who grinned from ear-to-ear as they discovered what they could do with our fun fabric markers. And the best part? They got to wear their artwork home! In fact, many of the children wore their t-shirts to school the very next day, and proudly showed them off to visitors of the child care center.

The adults were just as creative, and as children's music played in the background, our club members and guests developed wonderful captions and child-related designs for their shirts. One read, "Practice what you teach!" and another boldly proclaimed, "My girlfriend is a proud member of the Early Childhood Club." Prof. Barbara Frawley attended the event with her two daughters, and created a fun t-shirt with a play-dough recipe written on the front. She promised to wear it in her EDC 30 class when her students make play-dough!

A reporter from "Scepter," KCC's school newspaper, also attended the event. He interviewed the officers and members for an upcoming article about our club. Abe Ginsberg, Scepter's photographer, took some gorgeous pictures, which we hope to have posted on this website (in our new photo gallery) by next week. In the meantime, anyone who attended the party can have a few photos e-mailed to them by contacting us at profnleggio@aol.com

Our event would not have been such a great success without the hard work and dedication of our officers: Reyna, Doreen, Maria, Dawn, Rocio, and Anna. They put in many hours publicizing and preparing for this event. We had such a huge turnout that we had to carry in lots of chairs from other classrooms to accomodate everyone!

We hope you had a good time and that you will join us at our next meeting, to be held on Tuesday, May 3 in room V118 at 3 P.M. We will be hosting a workshop on resume writing and job seeking strategies, after a brief business meeting. See you then!