By Megha Lakha
With the epic club fair last week, I wanted to get an inside look into how some of these clubs are started and managed.
After watching the club videos, students headed to the Lions Walk, where they could sign up for different clubs. Every club had a signup table, decorated with signs. The presidents of each club stood behind the tables and encouraged students to sign up. (Based on my informal study, the club tables that had candy seemed to be the most popular).
In order to start a club, you must get a faculty sponsor and fill out the required club form.
There are a bunch of new clubs this year, so I wanted to check in with first-year club presidents and see how they were doing.
First, I caught up with Sophomore Christina Dahabreh who started a club called Girls in Business, which is all about “empowerment.”Girls in Business encourages girls to participate without feeling intimidated. “If we just called our club ‘Business Club’ then most girls would not feel comfortable joining the club thinking that it wasn’t for them,” says Christina. She then gave a shoutout to Billy Eilish’s song, ‘What Was I Made For?’.
Christina says that her job as club president means creating “opportunities for girls at Lovett and helping them spark interest in their passions.” Throughout the year, she plans to arrange for successful female businesswomen to come and speak to the club. She also will have some “fun activities, emphasis on the fun, where we market and pitching projects.” They will also watch Shark Tank videos, “which are just fantabulous and very comedic, but most importantly inspiring.” In talking with Christina, you could also describe her with all of these adjectives!
I also spoke with Sophomore Isabelle Cheroff, who is also a new club co-president. Isabelle started a club called YMCA Reading Buddies along with Shelby Morris. They kept the club going after Ms. McFadden, who ran it, left Lovett. “Last year Shelby and I went to YMCA’s reading trip and [Ms. McFadden] told us she wants to keep it going, and we said we would,” Isabelle told me.
Isabelle explained that the mission of YMCA Reading Buddies is “to collect books from different people from Lovett and bring them to the YMCA. This way we can read them to kids and give them to kids.”
The leadership role of being a club president is without a doubt stressful and a big job.
Isabelle is a bit nervous about being a club president. “You have to organize everything for your club and keep [everyone] engaged,” she said.
