Thursday, September 6, 2007
It’s 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, and in the Governor’s Room in the Kansas Union Ryan Northup hands out papers with an outline of the topics to be discussed at the first Board of Class Officers meeting of the year.
The board helps plan activities like Rock Chalk and also helps select students and faculty for awards such as the HOPE award. It will help design this year’s senior class banner and will help decide this year’s senior class gift.
Northup, Edmund, Okla., senior, is senior class president of the board. He and three others make up this year’s board: Whitney Gallagher, Springfield, Mo., senior, and senior class vice president; Ellen Stolle, Prairie Village senior, and senior class secretary; and Stephanie Gomez, Newton senior, and senior class treasurer.
“We see it as an organization that has privilege and we want to expand that and use that and try to get students more involved,” Northup said.
Northup previously served as sophomore class officer and had been active in the board over the past few years. He became senior class president through an internal election and said this year the board would be communicating more with the senior class via e-mail, informing them about award selections and the benefits of paying class dues and also asking for input on ideas for the class gift, banner and motto.
“One of the keys to keep people wanting to be involved in the Board of Class Officers is making them feel like they’re responsible for something and they can feel like they have things to do,” Gallagher said.
The board meets once every other week and Gallagher said all students were welcome to attend the meetings.
As secretary, Stolle takes notes during the meetings and is also in charge of advertising and recruiting. She said this year there is one particular goal that she wanted to achieve.
“As far as recruitment goes, I’d like to make sure that we have at least four officers for each class,” Stolle said.
Currently there are four officers in the senior, junior and sophomore classes, but not the freshman class. Stolle said they will begin recruiting additional members in the coming weeks.
As treasurer, Gomez manages a budget of about $10,000 a year. Gomez said she must keep one objective in mind.
“Definitely not spend all of it,” she said. “But make sure it is distributed and used properly, so it’s not like most of it is going to one thing or to one group or another.”
Lori Reesor, associate vice provost for student success, is in her second year as a the board advisor. Having worked with members of the group before, she said students should feel confident.
“This group is so significant to the senior class,” Reesor said. “It’s an experienced group of student leaders who have an excellent breadth of depth in organizations across campus and they have a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and energy to get the work done.”
—edited by Rachel Bock
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