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Hello Eastern Region FBLA members!
Welcome back to an-other exciting and fun filled year of FBLA! By now, I hope your chapters are well on their ways to success by taking active parts in the community and preparing members for their competitive events. I en-courage you all to continue your work to help your chap-ter, state, and region become Simply the Best!
The goal of this newslet-ter is to help bridge the com-munication gap among the states of the eastern region. Here you will be able to read about the exciting activities that chapters and states are participating in, and ways to help better your FBLA chapter which you can implement in the future. You will also be able to get the inside scoop on what is happening at the na-tional level and help the offi-cers achieve their goals. They
have introduced several new programs, such as the Go Green Project, for the future and can only continue with your help! By strengthening our lines of communication, we hope to update as many FBLA members as possible and reach greater heights.
This year has a lot in
store for all FBLA members, so
I dare you to increase your in-
volvement! It would be a
shame to miss out on such
great opportunities to further
cultivate your leadership, and
business education. Strive for
success, and don’t let anything
pull you back, because this
year, we aim to be Simply the
Best!
Sincerely,
Inge Chen
FBLA Eastern Region Commu-
nications Director
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Vice President
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Check out the Eastern Re-
gion online!
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Officer Biographies
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Giving a Hand to the Community
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Maryland FBLA: Reaching Epic Heights
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Inside this Issue:
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NAMENAMENAMENAME Justin
Coleman
Karthik
Krishnan
Inge
Chen
POSITIONPOSITIONPOSITIONPOSITION Eastern Region
Vice President
Eastern Region
Secretary
Eastern Region Communications Director
FAVORITESFAVORITESFAVORITESFAVORITES Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: July 14, 1992
Color: Color: Color: Color: Blue Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Three Days Grace Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: Transformers 2
Food: Food: Food: Food: Pizza Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Halo 3
FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: Public Speaking I,II
Sport: Sport: Sport: Sport: Anything that’s in the X-games. Snowboard-
ing, surfing, skating
Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: August 31, 1993 Color: Color: Color: Color: Blue
Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Love and Theft Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: Harry Potter
Food: Food: Food: Food: Anything Italian! Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Kingdom
Hearts FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event:
FBLA Principles and Proce-dures
Pokemon: Pokemon: Pokemon: Pokemon: Electivire
Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: August 11, 1993 Color: Color: Color: Color: Pink
Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Coldplay, Relient K Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: Cinderella Story
Food: Food: Food: Food: Olive Garden Dishes Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game:
Super Smash Brothers (Blue Kirby)
FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: Marketing
Pokémon: Pokémon: Pokémon: Pokémon: Pikachu
BIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHY Justin Coleman is a 17 year old junior at Hatboro-Horsham High School in Pennsylvania. His older brothers, who both were very active in FBLA, were Justin's major influences to his current FBLA career. Justin has been Freshman Vice President, Sophomore Vice President, and is now Junior Vice President at his local chapter. He was also State Vice President at Large, and is currently State First Vice President. Justin is currently your National Eastern Region Vice Presi-dent.
Karthik Krishnan is a junior at
River Hill High School, in Mary-
land, and is proud to serve as
your 2009-2010 Eastern Region
Secretary. He has been active in
FBLA since his freshman year
and can, without a doubt, say
that he has experienced FBLA at
all levels. Serving as Maryland
State Webmaster and having
served as Eastern Region Secre-
tary in the 2008-2009 fiscal year
has given him the background
he needs to fulfill his duties to
best of his ability. He encour-
ages all members to get as in-
volved as possible, and to always
remember that they are Simply the
Best!
Inge Chen, a junior at Shenende-howa Senior High School in New York., serves as your East-ern Region Communications Director. She has been an active and dedicated member of FBLA ever since she joined this pres-tigious organization in her fresh-man year, and continues to in-crease her involvement every year. This year, she serves as her chapter Co-Vice President and is ready to set precedents within her chapter, state, and region! She joined FBLA in hopes of discovering endless opportuni-ties and meeting new people, and she has not been disap-pointed. Inge hopes that this school year will bring more FBLA successes to help every-one become Simply the Best!
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Prashant
Kota
Giles
Crelly-Byers
Tim
Fisher
Eastern Region
Webmaster
Eastern Region
VP’s ASsistant
Eastern Region
VP’s ASsistant
Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: August 27, 1993 Color: Color: Color: Color: Red
Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Nickelback, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Food: Food: Food: Food: Tacos
Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Call of Duty 4 FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: Emerging Business Issues
Sport: Sport: Sport: Sport: Tennis
Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: October 29, 1991 Color: Color: Color: Color: Green
Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Lil Wayne, Guster, The Police, The Lonely Island Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: Forrest Gump Favorite Food: Favorite Food: Favorite Food: Favorite Food: Sushi
Favorite Video Game: Favorite Video Game: Favorite Video Game: Favorite Video Game: Halo 3 FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event:
Banking and Financial Systems Season: Season: Season: Season: Summer
Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: March 10, 1994 Color: Color: Color: Color: Blue
Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Beatles, CCR Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: Step Brothers
Food: Food: Food: Food: Crabs Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game:
Beatles Rock Band FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event:
Public Speaking Book: Book: Book: Book: 1984
Prashant Kota, a junior currently at-tending Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, New York, is proud to serve as your Eastern Region Executive Webmaster. In his sophomore year, Prashant joined FBLA, unaware of the wide variety of leadership and academic opportunities that it boasted. On his own time, he manages his own com-pany website and plays tennis at local, state, and national tournaments. He also serves as a National Presidents Assistant for FBLA and holds active roles in his school's newspaper club, science olympiad, and academic team. Throughout this year, Prashant aims to increase communication between local chapters and the national executive board by encouraging more chapters to stay actively involved in the organiza-tions activities.
Giles Crelly-Byers is a senior at
Champlain Valley Union High
School, in Hinesburg, Vermont and
a Vice President’s Assistant with
Special Website Permissions. In his
free time he enjoys hanging out with
friends, travelling, and volunteering.
He is planning on pursuing a career
in either healthcare, or business and
currently holds a part time job at a
local business, as a customer service
representative. He joined FBLA in
his junior year to see what it was all
about and has since become the vice
president of his school’s local chap-
ter and the treasurer of Vermont
FBLA.
Tim Fisher is currently a
sophomore at River Hill
High School in Maryland.
He is an Eastern Region
Executive Board Vice
President’s Assistant. Addi-
tionally, he is the River Hill
chapter Vice President. He
hopes to help lead the
Eastern Region to success
this year so that FBLA can
continue to be Simply the
Best!
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NAMENAMENAMENAME Anthony
Parascondola
Giancarlo
Riso
Darcie
Shaffer
POSITIONPOSITIONPOSITIONPOSITION Eastern Region
VP’s Assistant
Eastern Region
VP’s Assistant
Eastern Region
VP’s Assistant
FAVORITESFAVORITESFAVORITESFAVORITES Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: February 24, 1993
Color: Color: Color: Color: Blue Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Say Anything, Forever
the Sickest Kids Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: Superbad
Food: Food: Food: Food: Buffalo Chicken Sand-wich and Fries
Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Rockband FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: Business Presentation
Sport: Sport: Sport: Sport: Ice Hockey
Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: November 3, 1992
Color: Color: Color: Color: Pink Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: Anything except
Opera! Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: The Gladiator
Food: Food: Food: Food: In and Out Burger Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Call of Duty
4 FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: Impromptu Speaking
Sports Team: Sports Team: Sports Team: Sports Team: NY Giants
Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: Birthday: January 14, 1993
Color: Color: Color: Color: Green Bands: Bands: Bands: Bands: 10th Avenue
North, Newsboys, Bran-don Heath
Movie: Movie: Movie: Movie: What’s up Doc Food: Food: Food: Food: Sesame Chicken Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Video Game: Wii Tennis FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: FBLA Competitive Event: Parliamentary Procedure Events: Events: Events: Events: Renaissance Fairs
BIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHY F.B.L.A. has already been an amaz-
ing experience for Anthony, where
he has been able to gain knowledge
at a regional, state, and national
level. He loves being able to net-
work with others at conferences
because it allows him to be able to
meet new personalities and create
lasting friendships along the way.
This great organization has been
able to encourage him to achieve
goals that never seemed imagin-
able. Joseph Riley once said, “A life
void of service, is a life void of pur-
pose,” so he likes being able to mo-
tivate others and himself to give
back to the community.
Giancarlo Riso hails from the town of Mamaroneck, New York. He attends Mamaroneck High School where he is a senior. This is his sec-ond year on the Eastern Region Board; last year he served as the Inter-national Relations Pro-ject Director. He looks forward to a great year and can't wait for this year to be Simply The Best!
Darcie Shaffer is a junior at
Chestnut Ridge High School
in Pennsylvania. She has been
a member of FBLA for three
years and is currently serving
in the positions of Local
President, Region 17 Presi-
dent, Pennsylvania State Par-
liamentarian, and Eastern
Region VP’s assistant. She is
also involved in Model
United Nations, NHS, Scho-
lastic Scrimmage, Band, Ten-
nis and Track at her school.
She enjoys rollerblading,
singing, and bike riding in her
spare time.
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that currently consists of
45 members who each
have responsibilities fill-
ing the details
of sponsorship,
advertising, fi-
nancials, etc.
We are ex-
pected to make
at least $4000, in which
all of the proceeds go to
March of Dimes. Re-
member it doesn’t matter
how big or small your
fundraiser is! As long as
students are dedicating
their time and efforts,
then they are making a
huge difference in the
community.
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year and continues to
establish an astounding
community service pro-
gram. Annually, we or-
ganize an event where
elementary students
come to the high
school and trick or
treat in Halloween
decorated class-
rooms to keep little
children away from
dangerous streets,
especially at night. All
donations and admissions
sales go towards March
of Dimes, but it is never
too late to get your own
chapter involved! All it
takes is dedication and
organization to pursue
your goal. There are a
plethora of ideas that can
lead to a successful fund-
raiser. Make sure
your target market
matches with the
fundraiser idea so
you are attracting
the right crowd.
One of the major
things that has happened
to our chapter this school
year is we are organizing
a large Char-
ity Basketball
Game where
students on
the boys and
girls varsity
basketball team play
against our entire District
Piscataway teachers. So
far we had a meeting and
I organized a committee
Millions of peo-
ple across the nation de-
vote their time toward
volunteering and making
an impact on one or
many lives. As you
should know, March of
Dimes is the national
charity in which FBLA
chapters have the ability
to donate proceeds for
further research and aid
families who have prema-
ture babies. One inter-
esting fact you should
remember is that FBLA
is the #1 student organi-
zation that donates funds
for such a great cause.
Piscataway High School’s
FBLA chapter has be-
come more involved with
March of Dimes each
By: Anthony Parascondola, VPA
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Maryland FBLA is ready and motivated for a dynamic year, reaching success and Reaching Epic Heights. They have been invalu-able in the planning and preparation for the NFLC in Baltimore, which takes place No-vember 6-7. Maryland FBLA is working to in-crease partnerships, both with businesses and col-leges, to give members a leg up after graduating from high school. In ad-dition, they plan to con-tact government officials to organize shadowing.
Drawing from the suc-cess of last year’s Go Green committee, run by current state president Aaron Moore, Maryland FBLA is working hard to create committees and encourage National FBLA programs to boost Maryland’s performance this year. One such ex-ample is the newly en-acted Scholar Member Advisory Commission which will give members
leadership experience and assist the 2009-2010 offi-cer team.
In the October issue of Maryland’s newsletter, Gloria Majchrzak, state
historian-reporter, inter-viewed Geoffrey Long, former Maryland State officer and current PBL National Secretary to give FBLA members an inside look at PBL and college at large. Long revealed that PBL is much more student run, and advised all FBLA members to take advantage of every opportunity FBLA of-fers, and to dream big.
Maryland FBLA has large goals to increase partner-ship and membership, but is also remembering that the true purpose of FBLA is to prepare members for the college and business experience. Clearly, they are doing a great job, drawing from the experience of former members and giving members the tools to succeed in the organiza-tion and life. With the guidance of a strong offi-cer team, Maryland FBLA is doing their part,
and Reaching Epic
Heights.
By: Tim Fisher, VPA
The Maryland 2009-2010 State Officer Team:
President: Aaron Moore
Vice President: Scott Salopek
Secretary-Treasurer: Dylan Baker
Reporter-Historian: Gloria Majchrzak
Webmaster: Karthik Krishnan
State Parliamentarian: Daniel Li
Region I Vice President: Nina Baum
Region IIA Vice President: Ariel Jones
Region IIC Vice President: Faith Katsman
Region III Vice President: Sedra Gibbs
Region IV Vice President: John Stabile
Region V Vice President: Samantha Still
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Curious to see what’s going on in
chapters in your region?
Check out these photos!
FBLA members at Chestnut Ridge HS participated in Fall Fiesta, a festival for students in grades K-2, where the members set up booths with learning games to promote our partner-
ships with Habitat for Humanity and Project Linus.
Brad Allison and Bethany Barefoot, help students color patches of a quilt.
Liz Lynerd and Jeremy Feight, assist students in learning their coins in a matching activity.
Shenendehowa High School attended the annual New York State District 4 Fall District Meeting on October2, 2009. There, FBLA members were able to attend informative workshops and network with other students in their district.
Co-Presidents of Shenendehowa FBLA, Josh Koop-man [L] and Eric Wockenfuss [R], pose for a pic-
ture at the FDM.
Members of Shenendehowa FBLA, Alyssa Dalrymple [L] and Dakotah Jones[R], smile for the camera while waiting in be-
tween workshops.
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New Jersey FBLA members showing their excitement and state spirit while attending their Fall Leadership Conference in October.
The New Jersey State President, Sachet Choudhary, is delivering an
empowering speech towards his FBLA peers while at their 2009 Fall
Leadership Conference.
Project Manager Karthik Krishnan and
Vice President Tim Fisher speak with
prospective FBLA parents at a freshman
parent night, in an effort to boost mem-
bership.
