TOSS LEADERSHIP TEAM-NEW YORK

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Welcome to the home of the Troumaca Ontario Secondary School Ex-Students Association....This is the site where you can find out about this dynamic association, its members, scheduled events, and other neat things....Enjoy your visit, please remember to sign our guest book, and come back to visit us again-One Love!

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT

Mission Statement: Preserve Our Past Heritage for the Good of Our Future-By Giving Back Something of Value To Our community.

Our Purpose Is To: Give Back of Our Educational and Professional Acheivements to Our Community.
To fulfill this purpose we acknowledged the fact that first and foremost our government cannot do everything for our children and for our society; therefore, those of us who can help make a difference must do so. Based on that precept, we also acknowledge that charity begins first at home; therefore, as former students with an avid passion for education, we, the Ex-students Association, plan to connect with our extended Vincentian community, especially those abroad, so as to team-up on initiatives and projects to generate funds to effect the highest standard of education, integrity, appreciation, and pride in our school and in the respective surrounding primary schools. We hope that all conscientious former classmates and well-wishers would join us in this noble effort by donating time and resources so that as a team we can provide leadership, educational supplies, scholarships, mentoring, recognition of distinguished alumni, and the preservation of Troumaca Secondary School rich history .
Well, we are not bashful; we encourage gifts of money, tangible goods, and/or property to support this worthy cause. We believe, as a people we will reap what we sow, and sowing good seeds in our Vincentian children will no doubt give us like fruits in the future.

How TOSS Alumini Association Started: During 2001, we (Annora and Whilma) rekindled an old passion held since the early 90's about getting involved to help the children at Troumaca Ontario Secondary School.

Leaders in Action:

We thought it was time again to mobilize others to join the movement to do something more progressive than just sharing great tales about our schooldays and our good desires to help the children of Troumaca Ontario Secondary School. Therefore, we linked up with a few good friends and former schoolmates (namely: Cleo Matthews, Denise Lewis, Bernard Burke, Samuel James (the New York team); Roslyn Blake (Canada), and with Cuthbert James and Venda Dember-Smith in St. Vincent to talk about getting together for an ex-students reunion and to about moving forward with the efforts to raise funds to support Troumaca Secondary School and the surrounding primary schools in our communities.

Special acknowledgement all of our other friends and wellwishers who joined force with us to make the dream of supporting our school and the children of St. Vincent into reality. During August 2002, we were able to return to St. Vincent & the Grenadines to hand over some educational equipment and materials purchased from our fundraising efforts and also to give the school some Math textbooks donated by Mt. Olive High School in New Jersey, USA.

Additionally, the alumni team honored 13 of TOSS' most outstanding past teachers for their great contribution toward ensuring that we got the best education possible.
Much thanks also to all the other teachers whom we acknowledged atthe ceremony and to those we did not get to mention; but are out there working tirelessly to educate St. Vincent's youngsters.

We endeavor to Give Back Something of Value to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

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WORK IN PROGRESS ...

Fundraising for the Rose Hall and Rose Bank Public Library projects respectively

Membership Drive-We are Seeking for Conscientious Well-wishers (alumni and friends) to support the TOSS Alumni's efforts

Soliciting Donation for the following primary schools: Rose Hall, Troumaca, Westwood, and Spring Village

Publishing Alumni SVG Ceremony Handbook

Raffles (Air Jamiaca and BWIA, respectively, donated a ticket to be raffled off)

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MEMBERSHIP

Who Can Join?

Former students, faculty, and friends of education in St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Click To Join

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Benefits to Members

Newsletters
Networking with former classmates and wellwishers in the Vincentian community
Free Membership Business Cards
Participate in scholarship presentation
Recognition of distinguished teachers and alumni
Involvement leadership and mentoring program
Participation in the planning for the implementation of Public Educational Resource Facilities in St. Vincent
Leadership Role in the Association

MEMBERSHIP

LEVEL_______ PRICE___________BENEFITS__________

GREEN	$ 30.00*	.....General Membership .....Name Listed in Reunion Program
BLUE	$35.00 *	.....General Membership .....Name Listed in Reunion Program .....Recognition at General Session .....Name affixed to permanent plaque      displayed in school, as Blue      Membership Level
GOLD	$40.00*	.....Lifetime Membership .....Executive/Leadership Staff Level .....Public Avocate for the Association .....Name Listed in Reunion Program .....Free Reunion Videos .....Recognition at General Session .....Name affixed to permanent plaque      displayed in school, as Gold      Membership Level

*US Dollars(except for those based in St. Vincent)

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MEMBERSHIP FEE PROVIDES:

Annual Scholarships for Outstanding Students
Funding for Growth and Development Educational Programs
Projects that Preserve School History
Annual publication of the Troumaca Secondary School Ex-Students Newsletter
Educational Supplies and Equipment
Postage & Printing
Administrative Functions & Maintenance of Ex-Students database