Class officers and Student Affairs Council (SAC) representatives were elected for the upcoming school year.
Freshman Daniel Kim will be president and freshman Parker Day will be vice president for the upcoming sophomore class.
Sophomore Samantha Wieczynski will be president and sophomore Amanda Brannan will be vice president for the junior class.
“I wanted to get involved with SAC and really wanted to be one of the leaders of the junior class,” Brannan said. “I really think the next two years are important, and I look forward to working with Sam, the junior class president, and the rest of the class of 2015 to make the next two years of high school the best they can be.”
According to Brannan, she and Wieczynski would like to “try to do new events that haven’t been done before” to raise money for the cost of Junior Ring Dance and Senior Prom.
“I know we really want to come up with some events that the whole class can get involved in. Sam and I haven’t talked about the details yet, but I know that some of our classmates are already excited to help us plan them. We are open to hear everyone’s ideas if they have any,” Brannan said.
For the senior class, junior Karly Horn was elected as president. Junior Cole Alban won the position ofvice president, and junior Emily Cassidy was elected as member at large.
“I really wanted to be a part of planning for prom and all of the events along with fundraising for next year,” Horn said. “Right now, our main priority is fundraising. There are so many easy things we can do to raise money. I hope to have a dining out night at least once a month, giving people as many opportunities as possible to contribute.”
To run for any leadership position in SAC, a student must be member of SAC or National Honors Society for at least two years. Additionally, teacher recommendation forms needed to be submitted.
Junior Kayla Bynion will be SAC president. “I’ve been in SAC all three years so far as my advisory representative and I always thought that the president had a really fun job,” Bynion said. “I thought it would be really cool to run the meetings, plan homecoming, and do lots of other things around the school.”
According to Bynion, the SAC officers have already discussed possible themes for the Back to School Dance and Homecoming. However, they are mainly adjusting to their new positions. “We’re learning all of the rules of things we can and can’t do so I’m just taking things one step at a time,” Bynion said.
Junior Austin Schap will be vice president of SAC “I want to say that I do indeed have a plan, whereas previously candidates have offered hollow promises. I fully intend to deliver on the things I mentioned in my campaign speech,” Schap said.
“My focus is to improve JC by enriching its student life and increasing the efficiency of its operations,” Schap said. “What that means is that I want to help lower the costs of school functions, increase the number of profitable and fun events, cut the number of overly expensive and under attended ones, and bring back the influence and power of student government to build trust and rapport between faculty and students.”
Additionally, junior Kirsten Kyburz was chosen as theSAC secretary treasurer.
“I ran because I wanted to be involved, make a difference, and help people with my service,” Kyburz said. “I want to bring the variety show back.”
Schap agrees. “My primary reason behind running for vice president was to get the Senior Variety Show back for the 50th anniversary, which has in fact been given preliminary permission to return,” he said.
Sydney Setree is a Managing editor for The Patriot and jcpatriot.com.