SERTOMA SERteens

Round Rock Sertoma

The Serteen Clubs

Our club has a relationship with three groups whom we call "Serteens". One group is located at Round Rock High School and another group is located at C.D. Fulkes Middle School. The third group, Lyceum Four, is located in Orenburg, Russia.

The Round Rock High School group is called Zoi Ora Filos. These are Greek words meaning "lifetime friends". Friendship and service are nurtured in this high school club by volunteering at the Round Rock Parks and Recreation Department's programs. The girls provide face-painting at Christmas Family Night and help at the Outlaw Trail and Easter Egg hunt. They also collect needed items for the Williamson County Crisis Center each spring and canned goods for the adopt-a-family program at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Social skills are developed at club-sponsored fundraisers and the Valentine's Ball. Other fundraisers include carwashes and candy sales. Zoi Ora Filos also participates in the Relay for Life event and raises money for the American Cancer Society. Zoi Ora Filos earned Sertoma's Publicity, Honors Club, Youth Incentive, and Gold Community awards for 2001.

Current Club Officers are:

    President - Courtney Roush
    First VP - Meghan Berry
    Second VP - Katherine Horton
    Recording Secretary - Sarah Acker
    Corresponding Secretary - Brittany Cedeno
    Treasurer - Afton Kent
    Parliamentarian - Colby Bouchard
    Historians & Reporters - Mackenzie Darling & Courtney Nichols

The Zoi Ora Filos Serteens now have their own web site at http://groups.msn.com/ZoiOraFilos/home.msnw.
This site is part of MSN Groups with membership restricted to authorized Serteens, adult sponsors and coordinators by MSN Passport. The Zoi Ora Filos Serteens have recently established an internet relationship with Lyceum Four Serteen Group of Orenburg, Russia. Lyceum Four is also sponsored by the Round Rock Sertoma Club.

The C.D. Fulkes group is named The Round Rock Caring Kids SERteen Club. The group of 6th, 7th and 8th grade boys and girls was formed in 1985 and the teacher/sponsor has been Gerry Brown since the group's inception. All activities carried out by the club are to teach kids respect for others and themselves, provide low cost ways for students to recognize their parents, school faculty, other students, and the people in their community. It is all about teaching values.

The children have created two memorial gardens for deceased students and teachers, put on puppet shows at Brackenridge Children’s Hospital, raised funds for a teacher with large medical bills, put together teacher and PTA officers appreciation programs at Valentines and made and delivered cookies to nursing homes.

Fund raising has consisted of car washing, concession stand operations, selling Valentine carnations, balloons, Mother’s Day orchids and face painting.