“FUN-Raising” Helps GACS and Others

The 39th annual GACS magazine sale kicked off Friday, September 11, 2009.  New students should be forewarned, as next week is the craziest and most fun week of the school for many of us here at GAC! We are known throughout the country as the nation’s #1 selling school.

This year’s baseline goal is $285 dollars on average per person, which
is a grand total of $550,000 for our school.

GAC Vice-President Bill Burton: “Our targeted projects this year will be to enhance technological improvements K-12 and to further ‘green’ the campus, both in terms of campus beautification and more eco-friendly infrastructure. In addition, we will be making a $10,000 donation to the GAC missions fund to be able to send students on mission trips who might not have been able to afford to go otherwise.  If we break the school-wide goal of $285 per person, we have also pledged to donate $5,000 of the additional proceeds to the 410 Bridge program in Kenya, the home of the Daraja Children’s Choir that recently performed on campus.”

If we reach the school-wide baseline goal, there will be a “magazine sale reward day” on Thursday December 17. The final 3 exam half days would be moved back to Monday –Wednesday, December 14-16 in Junior High and High School.

But we don’t want you think the magazine sale is another boring fundraising event. We hope you’ll participate in the “fun-raising” on campus through Monday, September 22. Let the FUN-raising begin!

Softball, Volleyball Big Winners

Volleyball Update 9/14/09
Congratulations to the Volleyball Team for winning the championship of the Darlington Invitational Tournament on Saturday.  The Lady Spartans won six straight matches without losing a game.  Amanda Komisarow and Catherine Chason were named to the All-Tournament Team.  The Lady Spartans are now 14-5 on the season and will play at home against Central Gwinnett on Thursday.
Softball  Update 9/14/09:
The Lady Spartan Softball Team brought home the Silver Division Championship Trophy over the weekend, winning the silver division of the 22nd Annual Shaw Invitational in Columbus.  In the Silver Championship on Saturday the Lady Spartans defeated Jones County 4-0, Starrs Mill 1-0 and Northside 1-0.  Carly Busbee, Sarah Armstrong and Brianna Stewart all picked up pitching wins over some tough competition.  Chaney Means, 7 hits, and Sierra Lawrence, 6 hits, led the offense over the weekend.  Carly Busbee and Chandler Alverson each had a game winning RBI as well.  The victories were great team efforts both defensively and offensively for the Lady Spartans now 9-7.