Prom is one of the most exciting and looked forward to events in High School. Movies such as High School Musical have caused people to look forward to that fateful night filled with dancing and joy, however, planning a night like that does not happen overnight. In fact, it takes years to plan and raise money for prom, and the people behind it all are the Student Government.
At Morgan, each class has their own Student Government that plans fundraisers that help provide funding for events such as their Senior Trip and Prom. The Class of 2027, the current Sophomores, are currently putting all their work into saving up for their class’s prom. The amount of money needed for prom is unknown, since the venue, food, and amount of people is needed to get a total amount. However, Brooke Mazzarella, an English teacher at The Morgan School, and a prom advisor in 2023 stated that the prom that year cost 1200 dollars. The class currently has around 800 dollars saved up.
Every Wednesday, the Student Government meets to work and come up with plans for how they are going to make the money necessary for the dance. In the Class of 2027 Student Government, there are 14 people, and the advisors are Abby Ruth Terreri and Jennifer Sloat.
Grace Holecz, the Social Media Manager for the Class of 2027, stated that the most important quality about Student Government is the leaders that are able to voice their opinions. “If you’re not willing to voice your opinion, things can’t get done, and we can’t hear varying perspectives.” Multiple voices allow for different ideas.
When asked about what the fundraisers were this year for the class, Holecz stated, “This year, we are planning on doing a flower fundraiser to sell at graduation, and we plan on doing a Chow pizza fundraiser, where a percentage of pizza sales will go to our class.” Both these fundraisers were done last year, and raised around 800 dollars. The date for the Chow pizza fundraiser is set for November 7th, 2024.
Holecz also spoke about new fundraisers coming this year, which include selling frozen pizza during the winter time and possibly a Spikeball tournament.
All of these fundraisers are at different locations and times, such as the flower fundraiser. “Some will be held at school, like the flowers will be sold ahead of time, and can be picked up, and the Chow night will be held at the restaurant, and Spikeball, if we do it, will be held here at Morgan,” Holecz said.
When asked about how these fundraisers will be advertised, Holecz said that she will be making posters and posting them around the school, using the Class of 2027 Instagram page(@morganclassof2027), the Class of 2027 Google Classroom, and the Weekly Blast.
Although the pizza and flower fundraiser did well for the Class of 2027, they have not always had this amount of success. Before these two fundraisers, the class had the idea of a Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament, which was a new idea that had never been done at the school. In this tournament, registration to participate took place at lunch during the week of the tournament, which would have happened on March 28th, 2024. People would buy a beaded necklace that represented their class color for 5 dollars, and throughout the day of the tournament would challenge people to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The winner of the game would get their beads, and the person in each garden with the most beads at the end of the day would win a gift card to places such as Ashley’s ice cream, and Amazon.
This event was canceled a day before it was supposed to take place. Addy Beak, a current sophomore at Morgan, yet at the time was a freshman, is not a member of the class Student Government, but had a lot to say about the fundraiser. “I think that it was a good idea to try and raise money, but I feel like we as a community need to learn to not care that much about what other people think, because that is what broke the whole fundraiser. If one person does not do it, then no one wants to do it.”
When asked about the current Student Government fundraisers, Beck stated that she feels the Student Government is doing a good job at getting ideas for fundraisers now. “I feel like this year we will execute our ideas that they shared during Advisory very well, and I think if all goes well, and our class participants, it will be great.”
Beck shared that she thought that the pizza fundraiser from last year was great. “I remember calling Chow, and asking for a pizza, and after I had ordered one I wanted to get some for my friends, and they were completely sold out. It was obviously a hit, and it was a great way to get money.” Beck recounted. She also said the flower fundraiser was great, saying, “Who doesn’t want flowers for graduation?”
When Beck was asked what her idea would be for the class, she shared the idea of having food trucks after midterms and finals, since that was talked about at the class Advisory meeting. “It could be a hit, since a lot of people after midterms are tired.”
These fundraisers are extremely important to a class, as Grace Holecz stated when asked about why they are important, “We need money to do certain events, like prom, and without fundraising we won’t have that money.”
