Feeling Accomplished

Great news! Due to the Student Government’s strong commitment and persistent efforts, we have finally gotten the approval to get a new bulletin board in the main building at the Garret Mountain campus. Now Ms. Young has to order the billboard and we have to wait till it goes up. We are all very excited because many other organizations have tried to make this happen before but could not. We will now have one for all the clubs and organizations to use.

For a while we have been trying to come up with a fundraiser that we can organize to raise money for an animal shelter. At first our parking spot raffle got turned down, but we all agreed we should submit a program proposal for a picture contest. We decided to call it the “Pet Picture Contest”. For the contest, students can submit pictures of their pets for a chance to win prizes. For every submission that we get we will charge about $2 so that we can buy products for the animal shelter. The animal shelter I have in mind is the Bloomingdale Animal Shelter, but I will run it by Ms. Young to see if it’s ok. When looking on their website I read that the donations they need are towels, blankets, canned foods, bleach for cleaning, and toys for pets. This project will allow Berkeley students to participate in something good as well as help Berkeley do something for the local community.

Another thing I am working on for Berkeley is to have a guest speaker give a speech during one of our activity periods. Last week I had the pleasure to meet a great motivational speaker. He spoke a lot about leadership and how everyone can be a leader; they just need an opportunity to bring it out in them. When I heard him speak about leadership, I had a flashback of our Leadership Retreat in Princeton, NJ. Since only a selected number of students were able to go to the Leadership Retreat I thought it would be a great idea to invite the speaker to Berkeley to speak to the rest of the student body. I’m still waiting for a response from Student Development to see if we could invite him to speak but I will keep everyone updated on what is happening!