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Frances Harper Junior High School
Welcomes Our Incoming 7th Graders and Their 
Families!
This edition of the Harper Herald is being sent to all the Harper Families 
including the incoming 2006-07 7th graders.  We are already starting to plan 
and prepare for next fall and we are pleased to be sending this newsletter to 
all our current families as well as to the families of our students in the new 
year to come!  We hope you will enjoy reading the news about our school 
courses, events, end of the year activities and information about next year.  
Please note the dates for August registration as well as the events calendar 
for the 7th grade WEB Orientation.  (WEB is for every 7th grader and the 9th 
grade WEB leaders.)  Harper is a great place to be and we are looking forward 
to you joining us next year!
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FOR INCOMING 7th GRADERS & FAMILIES
GET CONNECTED WITH HARPER
The Harper PTO uses several communication tools to keep in touch with the parent community: the Harper 
Herald monthly newsletter, the web site, and two e-mail listservers.  The newsletter provides a 
comprehensive update of school news, messages from school staff, and PTO activities.  The web site, 
http://www2.dcn.org/orgs/harperpto, which is maintained by volunteers and the generosity of the Davis 
Community Network, serves as a virtual bulletin board that anyone can check 24 hours a day for school 
information.  The PTO listserver is a voluntary e-mail service that the PTO and school administrators use to 
send urgent messages and announcements of upcoming events. The Daily Bulletin listserver sends out the 
announcements that are read to the students each school day.  All of these tools provide overlapping 
opportunities to stay connected with your child's school. 
The PTO invites all parents and guardians of current and incoming students to subscribe to the listservers. 
Simply log on to the subscription site at: http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/fhpto for the PTO 
listserver, and log on to http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/fhjh-bulletin for the Daily Bulletin listserver, 
then follow the instructions. You maintain control of the e-mails you receive, and can change the e-mail 
address or unsubscribe at any time. 
The monthly newsletter is posted on the web site before the paper version is mailed out, and a listserver 
announcement alerts subscribers that the newsletter is ready for reading.  Parents have the option to forego 
receiving the paper version of the newsletter in order to conserve limited resources.  This option can 
potentially save the PTO hundreds of dollars in printing and mailing costs that can then be spent on other 
school programs. To opt-out of the paper version of the Herald requires two easy steps: (1) subscribe to the 
PTO listserver, and (2) send an e-mail to [email protected] and ask us to remove your name from the 
paper version newsletter mailing list.  Be sure to tell us your name as well as your student's name.  Please 
note that you will continue to receive paper mailings from the school; this opt-out is just for the PTO 
Harper Herald newsletter.  If you have any questions, please send them to Jane Schafer-Kramer, PTO web 
mom, at [email protected].
YEARBOOKS
When you come to orientation at the end of the summer, you can save some money on your yearbook and 
get a personalized cover too! But only if you buy early! Prices won�t be set until later, but you can count on 
a cost of roughly $37. You won�t want to miss this wonderful memory book with pictures and stories of 
you and your new Harper friends!
PUBLICATION (YEARBOOK) CLASS & CLUB
Incoming 7th graders, you're help is needed! The yearbook class produces the yearbook for the entire school 
and needs you to help cover all the seventh grade events and get your experiences into the permanent 
records of Harper! You can't take the class until you're an 8th grader, but you can come in at lunch or after 
school to help. You�ll have a lot of fun as you interview people, write articles, take photos, design pages,
and use computer software to create the yearbook and other publications. 
Contact Mr. McKim in room G-48, 757-5330 extension 348,  or [email protected]  if you want to 
help during lunches and after school.
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THE PRINCIPAL�S CORNER
This has been a tremendous year.  Harper grew from 530 to 650 this year and will go over 750 
next year.  The staff has really become a team and we are looking forward to more growth and 
changes next year.  
Our WEB program (Where Everybody Belongs!) includes more than 60 of our 9th  grade student 
WEB Leaders whose job it is to welcome and support all 7th graders at Harper.  Through WEB we 
promote a positive school climate and provide opportuni