FUNDRAISING SEASON STARTS IN MUSIC DEPARTMENT
BY JONASON ZHANG
At Shanghai Livingston American School (SLAS)
there are a lot of groups that fundraise for specific
purposes. Some of these groups are the student
council, National Honor Society, AP classes, and the
Business class. A newly organized fundraising
group was established by the music department in
order to replace the outdated equipment.
provide Starbucks products for teachers in the
morning. The president and vice-president, Bobby
Harris, worked together to plan and organize the
group.
Junior Bobby Harris, vice-president of the group
said, “Jonason Zhang, Gary Tubbs, and I created this
fundraising group and it took a lot of planning,
Mr. Gary Tubbs, advisor to the music group said, effort, and struggle to get it off the ground.”
“We identified a need. The students were proactive
in wanting to get something done, and I was just SLAS has a lot of fundraising groups such as the
in the right place at the right time to help facilitate student council, Business class, and National Honor
them in accomplishing the things they wanted to Society. All these fundraising groups are created by
do.”
the school or the teachers, but this music
fundraising group was created by students. This will
The music group was approved on November 7, make a huge difference in school. Students are
2015. Jonason Zhang is the president of this group. struggling for the things they want. This will
The goal of this group is to raise funds to buy new motivate other students as well. Although the music
music equipment for the school’s music fundraising group was recently created, they are
department. Their plan is to sell things in school at trying to change things to make the school a better
lunch and in the morning. They are even going to educational environment.
14