Meet YOUR NEWLY ELECTED 2019-2020 Executive Committee

The General Membership voted in the 2019-2020 slate of Nominees for Office at last night's General Membership meeting. In case you missed it, ladies and gentlemen, here are the newly elected officers for the 2019-2020 school year...

ASHLEY ADLER, nominee for President

Ashley has lived in Norfolk since 2003 and has been a Larchmont parent for seven years.  She and her husband, Josh, have four kids; Sonya, Eleanor (4th grade), Abraham (kindergarten), and Minnie.  She is a cardiac ICU nurse at Sentara Heart Hospital and loves the Norfolk community especially Larchmont.

CHERYL BOOKER, nominee for 1st VP Membership

Cheryl has been active parent at LES since moving to the Larchmont 2017. She has two wonderful boys — Asher (4th) and Winston (2nd). Currently, she is a room mom for both sons' classes. Prior to relocating to Larchmont, she held a seat on the Ingenuity Prep Charter School Board in Washington, DC where she was the parent liaison. Cheryl is excited to share her love of education and helping others.

KIM YURKOVICH, nominee for 2nd VP Volunteers

Kim moved to Larchmont in 2018 with her husband Joe and their daughter Abby (kindergarten). She is a proud military spouse, the co-chair of the 2019 Larchmont Spring Carnival, co-leader of her daughter's Daisy Troop, and her daughter’s class’ room parent! Kim was born and raised in Virginia and is a graduate of Virginia Tech. She has been a volunteer coordinator for several organizations over the years, and has worked as a defense contractor planning special events. She enjoys traveling, beach combing and spending time with her family.

CARIE SHIELS, nominee for Treasurer

Carie is our current PTA treasurer. Carie is also a proud military spouse from Annapolis, MD. She moved to Norfolk with her beautiful family by way of San Diego. She will have a kindergartner and a second grader at LES next year. She also works as a consultant for Booz Allen and is our favorite Barre instructor!

MIRA ROBERTS, nominee for Secretary

Mira is our current PTA Corresponsding Secretary and will have two kids at Larchmont next year. She is passionate about the Larchmont community, and is looking forward to another year in support of Parents, Teachers, Staff & Students at our school.

AMY RHODES, nominee for Corresponding Secretary

Amy has a second grader at LES, Anthony. She has served as room parent for the three years Anthony has been at Larchmont and also serves as the chair of the marketing committee for this year's Spring Carnival. Amy's paying gig is as the director of annual giving for EVMS.

What an AMAZING group of LES parents! Don't forget PTA Elections are on 4/30/2019 at 6PM, just prior to the LES International Night. If you missed getting your nomination in, nominations will be taken from the floor at the election meeting.

Thank you to this year's Nominating Committee — Summer Brennan, Ashley Koch, LaTricia Jennings, Candice Gabriel, and Jen Farrell — who worked diligently to scout out the best nominees to lead the LES PTA.

Thank you to each of the nominees who have so generously agreed to give more of their time and hearts to the Larchmont community.

YOU CAN STILL JOIN the PTA or RENEW your membership!

All families, new and old, should join the PTA for the 2018-2019 school year.
PTA membership provides access to

the website, calendars,
online directory,
weekly email reminders,
important communications,
volunteer opportunities,
and PTA programming.

When you join the PTA, we all benefit — the students, the school, the teachers, and the PTA families!

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What the PTA Funds >>>

The Larchmont PTA budget for the 2018-2019 school year supports over $73,000 of vital programs at the school.

The primary fundraisers to support this goal are (1) the fall Annual Larchmont Run At Twilight (RAT) Race, and (2) the spring Carnival.

Funds raised from these events help the PTA provide:

supplementary music, and cultural arts programming - including an annual Author Visit, and Artist In Residence
supplementary math, science and physical education funding
Destination Imagination and other after school club programming
Scholastic classroom subscriptions, Instructional resources - 10Marks, Reading AtoZ
Watch D.O.G.S., and Reflections programming
Community-building events, including CHKD Parent Academy, Movie Nights, Literacy Nights, Hoedown, International Night, Black History Night, STEAM Family Night...