Senior Leadership School Year 2012-2013: From left: Peter Santiago, White Section Leader; Mauricio Gonzalez, 7-8th Grade Leader; Olivier Brillant, Maroon Section Leader; Jared Boone, Senior Group Leader; Alexander Melchor, Freshman Leader; Raheem Veal, Transfer Leader; Ahmad Boyd, Blue Section Leader; Daniel Idrovo, Gray Section Leader.
guiding our way, building our strength
Student Leaders motivating our community
One of the challenges of being a leader at St. Benedict’ s is finding the time to be able to be a student while also juggling the responsibilities of being a leader for your group, your section, or even for the whole school. This year’ s senior leaders have been able to find some success with this juggling act as they took on their roles. Several of the student leaders maintained their academic standing to remind us that they are also members( or even officers) of the National Honor Society. The leaders had to be flexible and resilient this year, especially with the ability to make adjustments to the schedule whenever there was a special event at convocation, or some kind of surprise change on the days of reflection. All the while, they had to keep the rest of the students focused on the task that needed to get done, whether it was to be quiet for prayer during convocation, or getting the cafeteria cleaned after lunch, or avoiding being restless during mass on Reflection Days.
The cafeteria was a major challenge this year, because the lines stayed long, or even seemed longer this year. All the senior leaders rotated the job of making the announcements to clean and to pray after lunch. In the middle of March, it got so bad in the cafeteria that the entire Blue section and all the freshmen were kicked out of school for several days until they could come up with a plan to improve their behavior. The leaders helped their fellow students to find a way to be allowed back to school. Several factors prevented a full schedule of Group Games to be played, but the leaders managed to squeeze in a quick Dodgeball tournament into the winter semester; that season is not yet complete as of the publishing of this Yearbook, but it was a good effort from the leaders to get some inter-group competition going on anyway. Summer Fun Day was also another event that the leaders managed to negotiate, and that last day of Summer Phase(“ First Term”) was memorable and definitely fun. Congratulations to this year’ s student leaders on their accomplishments.
Telolog 2013 | Strength In Community | Student Leadership