President’s Message
A few words from the President of the Pine View Association.
Hello Pine View Families!
Welcome back to school! We hope that the first few weeks of school were magical for all of your children!
For those of you who are new to Pine View family, I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Puja Dhanraj and I am a proud Pine View parent and alumna (Class of 1998). My husband Chris and I have two children, Alexander and Annabelle, who are both students at Pine View in 8th grade and 5th grade, respectively.
Over the past number of weeks at the back to school events, many of you have heard about PVA’s mission as a 501(c)(3) non-profit to enhance and enrich Pine View students’ school experience by supporting the school’s academic, social, fine arts and technology objectives. We categorize the the way we support school initiatives into three different buckets: Academic Support & Partnerships, College & Career Counseling and Community & Culture Building.
During this 2023 – 2024 school year, we have already provided faculty and staff with meals before the Open Houses, partnered with an anonymous donor to bring speakers to Pine View to discuss the “Truth About College Admission” and hosted a number of new parent coffees. While PVA plans to continue to support all three of the aforementioned buckets, we are excited to further expand our focus on Community & Culture Building in this school year.
Pine View is truly a family. When I first came back to campus in 2020, it was like coming home. This year at PVA, our theme will be connections: connecting students with students, connecting parents with parents and reconnecting with Alumni and the community. We’ve listened to parents’ feedback and already have some incredible parent volunteers that have started efforts to bring the various grades and the Pine View family together. PVA wants to help you continue these efforts to build upon those connections. We have a number of ways we are planning to do this by creating “grade-specific” parent email groups to help you organize get togethers specific to your child’s grade outside of school hours. We are going to be organizing casual parent and Alumni meet-ups, the first of which will be held on September 23, so please save the date! We also have plans to create a “Community Service” committee under PVA, so that we are all able to give back to our amazing community.
In the spirit of connection, please take a look at pages 9-18 of the most recent Pine Views magazine to get to know a little more about the individuals on your PVA Board. Additionally, if you are interested in volunteering for one of our committees, please take a look at pages 19-22 of the magazine to see descriptions of all of the PVA committees – feel free to reach out to the respective Chairs directly if you are interested in volunteering!
We hope you are as excited as all of us are for the 2023 – 2024 school year and we look forward to connecting with many of you this year to continue Pine View’s tradition of excellence!
Warmest regards,
Puja Dhanraj