American Enterprise Day is held every year on November 14. It is a national celebration of business professionals. The Livingston High School chapter celebrates American Enterprise Day by inviting a diverse group of business professionals from the community to speak to its student body.

The following article was published in the November 29 issue of the "West Essex Tribune."

"Former Boxer Jow Frazier Is Surprise Guest At High School FBLA American Enterprise Day" Former Boxer "Smokin' Joe" Frazier recently made a surprise to Livingston High School, thanks to alumnus Darren Prince.

The Livingston High School chapter of the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America), in what has become an annual tradition, held a very successful American Enterprise Day last week. Nathaniel Elkins, chairman of the event, explained that the students invite business professionals to share their experiences with the Livingston High School student body. "American Enterprise Day is actually a national holiday instituted by President Jimmy Carter, and celebrated annually on November 15," added board member Matt Scher.

The guest speakers included pathologist Karen Killary; foreign buyer Sarah Kiang; Mark Dinglasen, who works in pharmaceutical advertising; financial planner Brian Cody; David Kamien, who specializes in homeland security software; business analyst Sophia Jeng; Darren Prince, who is in business sports management; and resturant/franchise owner Marc Gillman, who ended the day by giving out 100 "Cinnabon" cinnamon buns.

Prince, a 1988 graduate of Livingston High School, brought along a surprise guest, fromer boxer "Somkin' Joe Frazier," who is among Prince's clients at the Prince Marketing Group.

Prince told the students about how he had pursued what he believed in - even when it was baseball cards at age 14 - and developed his business. He attributed success to "Being in the right place...and believing in yourself," and advised the FBLA students to "keep pushing." Fellow LHS alumni Steve Simon and Ron Belcuore, who work with Prince, also took part in the event.

Frazier chatted with staff members and students, and, when he spoke publicly, offered words of inspiration for the students' lives. He did, however seemed taken aback by some of their wardrobes. "Follow the dress code!" he advised the students.

This year's American Enterprise Day will be run by Nathaniel Elkins.

For graduation, our seniors are required to wear a green (for males) or a white (for females) cap and gown. FBLA takes the stress of finding that cap and gown away from the seniors. By filling out a order form, seniors can have their own cap and gown delivered to their English class, prior to graduation. This committee collects money and sorts the caps and gowns for the seniors.

The Caps and Gowns committee will be run by Nicole Karpas.

The community service committee is a newly formed committee that is resposible for events such as Super Senior Saturday, Computer classes, and other smaller events that are for our community. These events were around in previous years, however due to their similar goals (to improve the community), they have been lumped together in a single catagory.

This year the community service committee will be run by Alex Zhao

Competitions are the highlight of the FBLA year. Throughout the year, our members will have the opportunity to represent the Livingston High School chapter in various levels of FBLA: regionals, states, and nationals. Competitons are all business related with tests and competitions such as accounting, business math, desktop publishing, marketing, website development, and more.

The testing for the FBLA competitive events is being headed by Matt Tse..

Every year at Livingston's Halloween Hoopla, FBLA has a goldfish booth where kids can try to win goldfish by tossing ping pong balls into small fish bowls. The booth is aimed towards younger children who get three chances to toss ping pong balls into fish bowls for $1. For each ball tossed in, they get one goldfish to take home. We sell fish bowls and fish food for the children as well. We also have another table for selling paper pumpkins to raise money for the March of Dimes. It costs $1 to sign your name on a paper pumpkin, which will be displayed later in the year. All the money from selling the pumpkins will go towards the March of Dimes charity. We are always very successful through this event in raising money for our club.

Halloween Hoopla is being run by Catherine Shiau.

March of Dimes is one of the biggest events in the nation. Over the last 30 years, the March of Dimes has had a successful partnership with FBLA. Last time, FBLA raised over $12 million for the March of Dimes and reached hundreds of thousands of young people. The mission of March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurely, birth defects, low birth weight. With the help of LHS FBLA we can make a difference. The committee for this would help sell pumpkins before, during, and after school, and of course during lunch. The pumpkins sell for one dollar and all proceeds go to the March of Dimes. The committee helps to sell pumpkins at the Halloween Hoopla and help hangs the pumpkins around the school in designated areas. Also, the committee puts up flyers and makes a TV commercial to spread the word.

March of Dimes is being run by Josh Miller.