Junior Lauren Grover was elected president of the 2012-13 senior class on Wednesday.
“I really appreciate the support and encouragement of campus,” Grover said. “And I’m really excited to get started.”
The juniors voted on Tuesday and Wednesday for their senior committee. The committee is in charge of planning all senior class events, including the senior party, the senior gift, and future class reunions.
Grover’s vice president will be Hannah Akin. The new secretary is Marissa Philipp; the treasurer is Crystal Marshall; and the social chairwoman is Celia Rothhaas. The class ambassadors will be Eric DeMeuse and Ashley Logan.
Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said 101 votes were cast in the election. She said that was a good representation of the approximately 250 members of this year’s junior class.
Grover will receive the senior committee gavel from the current senior class president Dina Farhat at convocation today. Farhat is Grover’s big in the Chi Omega sorority. Grover said she was very supportive during the election process.
“She’s helping me a lot and putting me in the right direction,” Grover said.
Responsibilities specifically held by the president include having a large say in the senior commencement speaker, acting as hostess for certain college functions, and leading senior class and committee meetings.
Grover, a marketing/management major, was nominated by the Chi Omega house. In addition to Greek life, she is involved with the campus’ Gordie Foundation, of which she is vice president. She also volunteers at the local Humane Society and is a captain on the volleyball team.
Akin is an American studies and French double major. On campus she is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, is involved with Intervarsity, and is a resident assistant at Whitley Residence.
Her duties as vice president, she said, will be to act as a support to Grover, organize campus events with the rest of the committee, and organize senior committee meetings.
She is currently the director of the Student Affairs Mentors. The senior committee meets in the student affairs office, and she has had some firsthand experience of what goes on at meetings and the amount of work that goes into being a class officer.
“If you think about it, anytime you try to organize a whole class of people, it’s a lot of work,” she said.
Philipp is also a Kappa, and in addition to that, she is involved with the Hillsdale reading GOAL program and is the public relations chairman for the Student Activities Board.
Her job as secretary will be taking notes at senior committee meetings, managing publicity for senior class sponsored events, and developing agendas for all class and committee meetings. She will also be hostess at the senior dinners.
“I’m really excited to serve and be a liaison between the entire senior class,” Philipp said. “This is a great group of people.”
Marshall, as treasurer, is in charge of the class gift and everything that goes with it, including figuring out what the gift will be and fundraising any additional money for it that isn’t provided through student fees.
Party planning, the prominent one being the senior tailgate party, is up to Rothhaas as social chairman. She will also be in charge of senior T-shirts.
Finally, DeMeuse and Logan will serve as the communication point between the college and the 2012-13 class after graduation.
Grover, as well as the other class officers, already has a busy schedule, and was initially nervous about juggling more responsibility next year. But she said Farhat assured her she could do it, and she welcomes the challenge.
