Coach Ryan Sayers has put up a Popcorn Pop Up store to help raise funds for The Viking Football Team. Check it out here and purchase some popcorn to show your support!
Let’s Go Lady Vikings!
NHSAF was approached and made aware that the Northland High School Lady Softball Vikings are in desperate need of new equipment. In response, we have decided to make the team one of our fund raising priorities for this upcoming school year.
Two Alumni donors have come forward and generously offered to match the first $1,000.00 donated to help get the Lady Vikings softball team equipped for this coming season.
If you would like to support the Lady Vikings please head over to our donation page. It lists our address for check donations or, if you prefer, click the donate link located in the Gift section. Please indicate that your donation is for softball by noting it in the memo of your check or as a note in your PayPal donation.
2021 Alumni Golf Outing
Our 7th annual NHSAF Alumni Golf Outing is less than 2 months away, happening on Saturday, June 26th at Chapel Hill GC. Reach out to your classmates, friends and neighbors and put together a foursome. Due to the Covid situation we will maintain a more basic golf outing similar to last year, without a dinner or raffle prizes. Proceeds will go to support programs for the students at NHS. We appreciate all of our golfers and hole sponsors. Click the link below for our event flyer.
2021 Alumni Golf Outing Flyer
NHSAF 2nd Annual Bowl-A-Mania Event
NHSAF 2nd Annual Bowl-A-Mania Event
When: Sunday, April 25th, 2021
Where: Sequoia Pro Bowl, 5501 Sandalwood Blvd., Columbus, OH 43229
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, 2 full hours of bowling fun!
(doors open at 2:30pm)
Cost: $15.00 per bowler (includes shoes and ball)
Family (all ages), Alumni, Current Students, Teachers, Staff and Friends are all invited to our family friendly event.
Additional Info Contact: Randy Suver
Sequoia Pro Bowl has implemented these Covid protocols
- Masks are mandatory at all times except when you are up on the approach throwing the ball or raising food/drink to your mouth.
- We have spaced our tables so there is 6ft space around each table.
- Gloves are given to anyone getting a ball from our room of sanitized house balls.
- Dots guide you where to stand when waiting to bowl and avoid congestion of people in a small space.
- We ask for Air 5’s instead of High 5’s that are so typical in bowling.
- We use a very effective cleaning agent called Extreme Bio that is used to clean up places like meat packing plants to kill any virus on surfaces.
- Shields between customers and staff at all counters.
- No pitchers are used to serve beer to eliminate sharing.
- To eliminate sharing of food, we are offering 7 inch individual pizzas and our typical “shareable” size appetizers are not available.
Tickets on sale now!
Pay At The Door
(Please purchase before April 18th, tickets will be $17 at the door)
To purchase tickets you can send a check made out to
NHSAF
PO Box 1894
Westerville, OH 43086
Please write Bowling in the memo And include a note with your contact info.
The Case of the Traveling Ring
Social media can work in mysterious ways. One of our NHSAF board members received a Facebook message just before Thanksgiving 2020 from a total stranger. It was a fluke that the message was even seen as the board member doesn’t really use messenger. But this message was seen along with a snapshot of an NHS 1978 class ring that said:
“I’m looking for someone, most likely female, who graduated in 1978 with the initials KLW, I’m in eastern NC and found a class ring.”
Searching a 78 yearbook, there were indeed 4 senior lady Vikings found with the initials KW. But how to find them? Luckily, Class of 1978 had a Facebook page. Their admin posted to their site to see if 78 classmates could help identify the person. Wouldn’t it be something positive during this pandemic time to find the owner?!? Well, a flurry of excited and encouraging responses from classmates popped up on the post, and low and behold, KLW saw the post and weighed in. A ring had been lost by Kirsta while she was in college over 40 years ago. It had long since been forgotten. Could it be hers?
NHSAF was able to connect Kirsta with the good Samaritan, Mike. It turns out Mike had acquired several boxes of items at a thrift store going out of business. He had plans to sell the goods at flea markets. The ring was in the mix, and something made him want to find the owner when he saw it. What an act of kindness Mike made trying to locate the original owner, and how easily it was done, in one day through social media!
Do you believe in coincidences? The ring made it home again in the mail, and surprisingly both people live in North Carolina! Kirsta’s youngest son was a Viking locally in NC. And another? The inquiry to find the ring’s owner was made after Mike saw a recent post on the class Facebook site, one that NHSAF was seeking Viking Veterans. Kirsta just happens to be married to a Marine! The stars certainly were aligned at the right time for this happy ending!
A Gift When Needed Most
In this trying year full of fear and frustration, something warm and wonderful has happened. Through the kindness of one very special Northland Alumna, the NHS Alumni Foundation’s band fundraiser has hit a beautiful high note.
Laura Spears Frankenberg, a 1980 NHS grad, has graciously helped the NHS Alumni Foundation’s (NHSAF) cause this year. Though Laura was part of the vocal music program while at NHS, she became a band fan when her children, Aundrea and Nick, who also attended NHS, enjoyed their years marching at the football games and in parades. Two of her grandchildren, Laura Jean Tanner and current senior Micah Tanner, also have the NHS band in their blood. Yes, that is three generations of Northland Vikings!
With a heart that is always giving, Laura has chosen to give back to her high school with inheritance money received. She gifted $2,000 to the NHS Alumni Foundation, all this for the simple cause that the students are so deserving. And through that kindness, an anonymous alumnae donor has matched her donation! We cannot thank these Viking alumni enough!
Through the generous and kind hearts of other alumni, NHSAF has raised a total of $7,900 towards the repair or replacement of many band instruments and the cleaning and mending of band uniforms. As one alumnus said “We want to help the band get its beat back!”
NHSAF appreciates the giving spirit of Laura Spears Frankenberg, the matching donation of another alumnus, as well as all of our Viking donors, in support of the current NHS student family. We appreciate the alumni also working with the staff to achieve this goal.
If you, too, want to be a part of this deserving effort, you can make a donation by contacting NHSAF Treasurer Laurie Spinosi at laurie.alum@northlandhigh.com
***Football Mania Update**
A generous NHS Alum has offered to donate $10 for every CharityMania ticket sold now through October 28th. If you have been waiting to buy, or on the fence about getting a ticket, now is the time to make your move. Not only will the instrumental program benefit from your purchase, but also from an additional donation of $10. Buying a ticket is easy just go to https://www.charitymania.com/give/CA00A
If you would like more info go to our webpage: https://northlandhigh.com/2020-football-mania-fundraiser/
or contact Pam Jones Zeirott, ’72, nhs72.pam@gmail.com.
If you wish to just make a donation, please mail a check to NHSAF PO Box 1894 Westerville OH 43086 (please note in the memo:Band)- or click the donate button on the right side of the page.
We are a non-profit, your donations are tax deductible to the extent the law allows. Please help us meet this need.
NHSAF Board Meeting Will Be Virtual Until Further Notice
With safety in mind we will be conducting our monthly meetings virtually for the foreseeable future. Upcoming meeting times are listed below.
Topic: NHSAF Monthly Board Meetings (alumni welcome!)
When: Every month on the Second Tuesday
Jan 12, 2021 06:30 PM
Feb 9, 2021 06:30 PM
Mar 9, 2021 06:30 PM
Apr 6, 2021 06:30 PM
May 11, 2021 06:30 PM
If you are interested in attending, email laurie.alum@northlandhigh.com for the virtual meeting information.
NHSAF 6th Annual Alumni Golf Outing
COVID-19 has had us thinking creatively and safely! This year’s golf outing will still take place, and we’ve streamlined it for your safety.
NEW DATE AND TIME: Saturday, October 24th at 11:00 a.m.
NEW COURSE: Chapel Hill, 7516 Johnstown Rd., Mount Vernon 43050
DETAILS: $60 per golfer includes range time, golf, cart, lunch ticket.
CASH PRIZES: 1st, 2nd and 3rd places!
DUE DATE for FEES: 10/1/2020
Can’t play? Consider being a Hole Sponsor for $100. We’ll advertise your business at all future events!
Proceeds support needy causes at our alma mater, Ol’ Northland High!
Contact Pam Jones Zeirott at nhs72.pam@gmail.com or 614-578-5459 for more info.
New Alumni
Northland HS Alumni Foundation helped to make graduation more festive for the 2020 seniors who missed out on end-of-year activities by gifting them Northland Viking Alumni t-shirts. These shirts were part of the “After Graduation” goodie bags that were put together by the staff at Northland and handed out to this year’s graduating seniors.
Congrats to the 234 students in the Class of 2020, and thanks to those alumni who donated to this wonderful cause!
