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Published on 3/27/2008

By Clayton Stairs

cstairs@gtowntimes.com

Once again, the Waccamaw High School Student Council has won the top honor in the state. They were named the A-AA Student Council of the Year this month at a convention at Dutch Fork High School in Irmo.

"We are very excited," said Julie Humowitz, co-advisor to the WHS student council. "We could not have done it without all of the student and family support."

The other co-advisor, Briael Blodgett, agrees. She says that she credits the students who worked to create their winning scrapbook, with the theme "Elements of Leadership." The scrapbook is one of the main components in the competition.

"I'm really proud of everyone who helped," Blodgett said. "They gave up their Tuesday afternoons to put together the pages of the scrapbook. It took a lot of time and effort."

A committee of five Student Council members: Student Body President Alexandra Rippy, Historian Hailey Knowles, Kristen Ford, Celecial Glenn and Mary Pat Bradshaw were in charge of creating the scrapbook. They used the periodic table of elements and changed some of the elements to match the seven categories on which the scrapbook was judged: Community service, school service, recognition, recreation, school pride, school spirit for athletes and leadership.

"There had to be evidence of each of the categories," Humowitz said. "The scrapbook had to be pretty well-rounded to have a strong showing."

They also won awards for their recycling program and the Homecoming Parade, which they planned again this year. Attending the event in Irmo were Rippy, Ford, Skyler Woodberry, Joslyn McCall and Laura Saum.

Rippy, a senior who has been on Student Council at WHS for three years, says that winning is extra special this year since she is president.

"I was very pleased that we won because I didn't want to let the past student councils down," Rippy said. "It is something I've been concerned about all year."

She adds that there was a lot of pressure on the scrapbook committee to come up with things to put in it so they could win more points than they did last year. With a total of 124.6 out of 128 points, she says they achieved that goal.

Blodgett says that with such strong competition this year, next year's Student Council will have to be on their toes.

"There were a lot of great projects out there this year," Blodgett said. "We will have to work even harder next year to come up with new ideas."

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