ASB Report Emma Phelps Senior Class President ASB Meeting February-April Position Assessment: March and April have mainly focused on putting together the last final stages of senior year. It has been full of meetings as well as purchase forms. In March the senior officers confirmed our graduation name readers, Hyatt, Ochoa, Lavlasco, and McPherson. We have also looked into finding our speakers for baccalaureate. Our speakers are Chessa Johnson and Bryandon Boyce, with baccalaureate we also sat down and had a meeting with Sylvia Ochoa discussing what we have to do for this event. We helped put together the pamphlet, find speakers and promote. In the upcoming month we have to find a musical performance and have a meeting with the advisor of One Church. For graduation we have chosen the speakers, our graduation song, ordered tickets, passed out all caps and gowns, promoted graduation gifts, just needing to order pamphlets. We have also held meetings with Vasche discussing senior grad Disney trip. We have all numbers and POs ready to order muffins and waters, just needing to pay for 7 subs. College reveal night has also been in the works. We have passed out all invitations and balloons at the senior meeting, more people have signed up. We have ordered the banner, just needing cookies and information for each slide. For the senior gift, despite website difficulties we will be sitting down to put in our order, we just received the Po this week. Grateful graduates have also started up this past month, they will be going until May. Finally for seniors yearbook distribution has started to begin planning. I have kept in touch with Kona Ice, they plan on serving the seniors. We have also put in a Po for sharpies and wrist bands for this event. Further meetings with Felver, One Church and Morty will be held. I was also in charge of the Gallery of the Arts. This year it was a huge success. April was my trainy this year and we worked well together. A lot of different aspects were introduced this year with a huge crowd and great outcome.
Standing Committee: This year I am involved in LinkCrew. I got to attend LinkCrew training over the summer, LinkCrew orientation, and back to school night. My group was Naomi, Avery and I. Our group was very organized and welcoming to the incoming freshmen. At the training we worked on team developing, and developed important information that should be told to the new classmen. At the orientation I got to know new students on campus, including playing games with them, and texting them throughout the first week of school. On campus some students came up to me asking where classes were on the first day of school. At back to school night I was incharge of letting parents know where to go. I had a couple parents ask for directions throughout the night. For the month of February I volunteered to help at 8th grade day welcoming incoming students.
Special Committee: During the months of march and april I was in charge of the Gallery of the Arts committee, assigning people to do what I needed help with. I have also been a part of the teacher and dance committee for the challenge. I helped put together a meal for the teachers and create goody bags for the staff. In these upcoming weeks Bryan,Avery, Anthony and I will all be presenting at the CADA conference to middle schoolers. My topic is how to show gratitude and give the 8th graders a good, meaningful promotion.
Mentorship Evaluation: I still have Ava Brocchini and Abby Hendley as my mentorship buddies. We still use our group chat for advice, examples, updates, easy communication, and to build our relationships. During the months of March and April I have hung out with both of them. With Ava we have gone to birthday parties together, as well as going together to pick out new cows. We have fun talking about when both of our cows are calving as well as visiting me in Oklahoma. With Abby we often find each other in class or in the FFA department to talk to each other. We see each other at FFA meetings and text each other.
Concerns: I would consider this past semester our best semester. As a whole we are all busy working with not much tension. My biggest concern is self evaluations. As a student that judges myself or takes myself down, coming off as “being too harsh on myself” during my self evaluation meant that I could have received a better grade if I had not graded myself as hard. Knowing that some people gave themselves a 50/50, 100% and still received that score after the President and VP both could have disagreed, and stood up to what they thought that person deserved meant that the self evaluation, or reasoning did not matter or was taken seriously. For future purposes more students will be motivated to give themselves a higher score and to not got harsh if they know they can get away with it.
Positive Comments: My positive comment would be the classes desire and work ethic to help each other out when things need to get done. With the conference coming up I have noticed more students lifting a hand to help out. People are quick to help volunteer cutting out papers as well as working together to fill the bags. With great teamwork makes less work or clutter as the events come sneaking up.
Change: A change that I would want to see in the program is the desire to make an impact and the want to make events as successful as possible. As a class we are all motivated in helping Morty with the CADA conference as well as everyone going out to support Gallery of the Arts. If every event has as much success as Gallery of the Arts, small to big events the program will be more noticeable and recognizable through the board and student body. My Impact: As I am creating my last and final impacts in the leadership class I want to be known as someone who doesn’t give up or someone that never puts full effort into creating events or projects. As the seniors are going through the last weeks of planning graduation, baccalaureate, college reveal, gallery of the arts and more I have never been someone to give up and quit trying. I want the best for each event.