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Decorating a Christmas tree was one of the Passing out Valentine carnations are Junior FBLA
activities done by Junior Della Wernimont. DECA members Denise Davenport and Kerry Jonas. as
member. Senior Brent Malnack reads the message on his .

FBLA, DECA Show Success

und raising activities were just was done through all of their fund
F raisers .
half of the job for DECA and FBLA
clubs. Conventions were the
FBLA had similiar ideas in mind.
other half. FBLA's main goal was to " promote
DECA sponsored many activities business and leadership among high
throughout the year so they could school students." said Junior Linda
raise money for their conventions in Hietbrink.
Lincoln and Chicago. The powderpuff One of the highlights of the year
football game was one of the for FBLA students occurred when they
successful fund raising activities. Also were able to get Mayor Mike Boyle to
DECA members sold M & Ms. opened sign a proclamation declaring FBLA
up the DECA book store second Week in Omaha. FBLA students spent
semester. and held a Dance-a-thon at a lot of time on this .
the Brandeis Student Center. Other activities which FBLA par-
As the fund raisers continued. ticipated in were bake sales which
students found that DECA was mainly provided breakfast for many students.
having events to raise money for touring businesses such as Channel 3
people other than themselves. The and IBM. and selling T -shirts and
Dance-a-thon was held to raise Valentine carnations.
money for Muscular Dystrophy. What Did all of these activities pay off?
money they raised from the book FBLA member. Junior Linda Heitbrink
store went to buy more items. summed it up by saying. "We had a
The DECA students' main goal lot of fun and learned a lot."
was to learn how to run a business . This

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