by Brooke Maxson
In preparation for the ’09-‘10 school year, a new student council was recently elected. The positions were up for grabs for anyone in 9th-11th grade. The PHS student body elected junior Leah Ward as president, junior Derra Clark as vice president, sophomore Morgan McFaul as secretary, and sophomore Abbie Brackman as treasurer.
Our new student council is already making plans concerning what things will improve after we return from summer break and throughout that school year. A couple things you may have heard about are the attendance proposal and the attempt to bring back seminar. In the past, seminar was a part of our school day designed to give students time to finish work and attend important meetings. Because students didn’t use the time wisely, it was taken away.
As president, Leah has big plans for the student council. “We want to reinstate seminar; not every day, but once a week or once every two weeks. We want to get the exam policy going where if you miss two days or less you don’t have to take your exams, and maybe spice up homecoming and blood drives and stuff,” said a hopeful Leah. I’ve heard from Leah and Derra that president and vice president will work as a team. “Derra and I started all those things and we want to see it out, so we have it for our senior year. One more thing we wanted to get was more respect for the student council because everyone thinks it’s just a group that makes plans for homecoming, so we’re probably going to do more community service this year,” explained Leah.
Derra takes her position as vice president very seriously. Like Leah, it’s important to her that the students at PHS are satisfied, and since Leah and Derra are working as a team, many of Derra’s goals are the same as Leah’s. “Our biggest thing that we want to do is bring back seminar once a week, every week. We’re going to try to finish the attendance proposal and make petitions for seminar. Leah and I do a lot together, so we can bring a lot to the table there,” explained Derra.
Usually there’s a reason people run for student council, and many times this reason is that past experience was successful. “I was on student council as representative and I really liked it. My job is to just basically discuss things at the meetings. We don’t really have a lot of power, but that’s what we want to do. That’s something we want to do next year, get more power in the student council. We’re also going to try to do community service,” explained Derra.
Some may think the jobs of secretary and treasurer aren’t as important as president and vice president, but the truth is that each job serves equal purpose. Morgan’s job as secretary is intended to keep organization and record things. “I plan to keep everything organized and just do a nice job,” said a determined Morgan. As far as I know,
The student council keeps track of many events that raise money, and someone has to be appointed to record that money. So, Abbie is going to do just that. “I handle all the money,” explained Brackman. Sometimes, as we all know, something just falls into a person’s hands even when they aren’t necessarily looking for it. “Funny story: Garet (Lee) came out of a meeting and asked if I would be treasurer because no one else was going to do it, so I became the treasurer!” said Abbie with a laugh.
Hopefully during this upcoming year the students at
