Flying Samaritans | UCI

Hey Everyone! We (The Flying Samaritans Board) wanted to let all of you know that we will be extending the deadline for applications till THIS TUESDAY, February 23rd. Applications will be due at 11:59 in the evening, sharp. If you are interested in becoming part of next year’s Flying Samaritans Board, please be sure to apply! Application download link is below. Please email the filled applications to: president@flyingsams.com
Thanks everyone!

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Greetings Sammers!

Have you been highly involved with Flying Sams and would like to take a more leadership role in the club? If so, we highly recommend you apply for the Flying Sams 2010-2011 Executive Board! Applications are now available! The application deadline is Saturday, February 20th, 2010 by 11:59 PM – NO EXCEPTIONS. Interviews will be taking place during Week 8, February 22 – 28, 2010. Please e-mail completed applications to President@flyingsams.com and please CAREFULLY read all the requirements and guidelines for the application. If you have ANY questions regarding the application, please send an email to Ben at president@flyingsams.com . If you have any questions regarding a specific officer position, please email any of the current officers.

Download the application here

Best of luck!

- Flying Sams Executive Board

The Flying Samaritans’ faculty advisor Dr. Fox is being featured on UCI’s front page. Check it out!

Wave of the Future

Good news everybody: our clinic will be reopened soon! Some board members will be stopping by our clinic on June 20th to notify the locals about our next scheduled club trip on July 18th. Even though we’re on summer break, we’ll still be making regular trips down every month. Everyone is welcome to apply for the July trip once the application window opens. As for the rest of the summer and for Fall quarter, here are the upcoming trip dates (which is also posted on the events page):

July 18th
August 15th
September 19th
October 17th
November 21st
December 19th

Have a great summer!

The year is almost coming to an end, can you believe it? So as we said at the last
meeting, our spring quarter yard sale is coming up this Saturday, May 30th. We're
looking for willing members to come out and help sell, or donate! "One man's trash
is another man's treasure."  The sale will be from 7:00am - noon at the home of our
gracious publicity chair, MJ Vennat.  Please let us know if you are able to donate
or help out, we greatly appreciate it.  We can also arrange to pick up donations
from you.

For the address, sign-ups and contact, please see the Facebook event.  You can also
contact any of the officers for the information.

We are still in need of a new t-shirt design. If you’re interested in having your design immortalized in the annals of Flying Sams history, please submit your designs! Don’t worry if you don’t have all the necessary skills to make an awesome design, other members are more than willing to help out. If you’re only good at drawing, just upload a scan of your hand-drawn picture and another member will photoshop it to perfection for you. If you can’t draw but are willing to help photoshop pictures, leave us your contact information and we’ll make good use of your skills. Feel free to comment or ask questions below. Thanks!

Submit your designs here

On behalf of the current Flying Samaritans Executive Board, we would like to thank those who participated in running and we greatly look forward to working with all of you in the next academic year.

President
Ben Nguyen

Vice President
Diana Vu

Clinic Coordinator
Yas Sanaiha
Mary Jane Vennat

Secretary
Maral Aghazarian

Treasurer
Trisha Sangwattanarat

Director of Photography/Cinematography
Tim Vu

Web Developer
Stephen Yu

Fundraising Chair
Mona Yazdi

Dental Chair
Chris Chun

Pharmacy Chair
Jeanette Fong

Public Health Chair
Danielle Pham

Community Relations Chair
Camille Ferrer

Publicity Chair
Jen Attias
Michelle Huynh

Banquet Coordinator
Diana Glovaci

The OC AIDS walk is coming up and part of our grant is to help out with the event.
We won’t be walking, we’ll just be helping out with set up. We have confirmed the
10am to 2pm spot on Friday May 15th, 2009*. It’s at Angel Stadium in Anaheim and we
can provide the rides there.

Check out the website for more information.

*(It says 16th, but our volunteer day is the 15th)

The goal of our annual banquet/social is to raise money for the clinic and to thank all of our volunteers for their hard work this year.

This year’s program will include:
Silent auction
Raffle
Cash bar
Dinner (2 courses: see below)
End-of-year video
Keynote speaker
Performances from UCI a capella groups Circle of Fifths
and much more!
Dinner Menu:

* Chicken
* Vegetarian

Banquet ticket prices:
$40.00 for students
$75.00 for general admission

*Please make checks out to “UCI Flying Sams”.*

Sign up with Joshua Yue, Banquet Coordinator, at banquet@flyingsams.com with:
1) name, #/ type of guests (i.e. student/gen. admission)
2) main course choice
and I will reply with my address to which checks can be mailed.

Tickets will also be sold at this weeks meeting and at the front door.

If you know any physicians, UCI faculty, or community members that you think would be interested in coming and supporting our cause, please invite them!

Thank you for supporting the El Testerazo Clinic!

- Flying Samaritans Executive Board

Relay for Life

This year’s Relay for Life hosted by the American Cancer Society is May 2nd and 3rd in Aldrich Park. We need a team together to walk all night to support their cause. Please join our Facebook group and see the instructions there to complete the registration form.

Meeting tomorrow (Wed) at 4:00pm in front of Quiznos at the Student Center. We have lots
of important things to discuss and we need to organize what we will bring for the
event. Also, I will pass out bands for people who signed up last week. For those who
signed up this week, you can pick up your bands at the event but also need to sign a
waiver form . I can also collect any donations that you have and turn it in on the
weekly Relay for Life Meeting on Thursday.

Most importantly we will work on posters and information on our cancer-awareness
topic, Colon Cancer.

Also, if you would like to submit pictures for the Luminaria ceremony of loved ones,
friends and family that you would like to see honored please send them to
acresap@uci.edu.