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This junk is hard!
I am the advisor of two clubs at my job, the Student Council and the Multicultural Club. What the hell was I think? It's fun though. I have a really great Co-Advisor. She is good at the educational, student-centered part. Not that I am bad at it. More like she is better at making things lessons. I think I am good at the organizational aspect. The previous advisor, who is a great woman and still in the building, just didn't have the time for it anymore, so I was able to step in. :-)
I've been on Student Council in Elementary and High Schools, and did student leadership stuff in college, so a lot of this is fresh in my mind. This group needs a constitution -- I forgot how much a constitution is the backbone of any organization. When my friend Attractive talks about her chapter's bylaws and annual chapter program review, it makes me smile because so few chapters of any group actually review their bylaws on a regular basis.
At any rate, I am sitting here trying to write up the descriptions for the various officers, and I am realizing a few things:
*Vice President is really an important job. When I was President of GUST (The Georgetown University Step Team), I had an AWESOME Vice President that second year. His name was Joe Morrow and he was an awesome, awesome dude. He really was a hard worker, first and foremost, both on the stage and off. But when it came to organization, he really had it together. A true "right hand." VPs really need to be there for their Presidents, because you NEVER know when that nigga gone die, get sick, etc. I had an okay VP the previous year, but Joe took the prize.
*Treasurer is a ridiculously useless job on the student level. Even in college, you were so bound by the rules of your host institution that you never even got to see any money. Okay, it's not a totally useless position, but on the elementary level, I am really going to have to find creative ways to teach Treasurer stuff without letting on how useless I think the position is.
*It is damn near impossible to find a boy/man to run for Secretary in a coed organization without them treating it as a stepping stone to something else. The word still has femme connotations to it, even in 2005.
*I was a self-righteous little snot in elementary school. I just had a memory of this dude who was Secretary of the SGA under me at Keene. I really looked down my nose at him for no reason -- what was wrong with me?
*Parliamentarian is going to be my "pet" position. Darden Trivia: I was a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians back in the day. I love me some Robert's Rules of Order and need a new one. I think the latest came out in 2000. I hope whoever wins that is a little procedure nerd like I am.
Aight, one of my coworkers is IMing me.... have a good one!
Posted by Rashid on November 3, 2005 7:14 PM
Comments
Being the logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective left-brain person that I am, parliamentarian and treasurer positions always appeal to me. "Train a 'treasurer' in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Isn't that in the Bible somewhere? The positions can make a difference in organizations where the person must really account for the funds. The skills you impart to this youngster today might be the groundwork for a major player in banking and finance later. Shem hotep.
Commented by Fratman1906 on November 4, 2005 11:13 AM