By: Ainsley Northrop

Editor-in-Chief

Over the past month, the LGHS leadership students have been hard at work during one of their busiest times of the year. Coordinating Spirit Week, organizing the homecoming dance, planning the annual blood drive, and more, these students completed their extensive tasks with commitment and pride. 

LGHS held its first Spirit Week of the year starting Oct. 21. However, leadership students began planning months in advance, selecting themes, brainstorming games, and designing class shirts. Senior ASB Spirit Representative Faith Hatch explained, “[Senior ASB Spirit Representative Allie Wen] and I planned games and assigned people to run them…[We] also picked the overarching theme and then the rest of the class voted on the one they liked best.” This year, the class decided on a theme of places around the world, with the freshman as Hawaii, sophomores as Los Angeles, juniors as the Wild West, and the seniors as New York City. 

To prepare for Spirit Week, leadership students met the preceding Sunday to decorate the hallway. The spirit representatives from each class took charge of painting, construction, and more. Throughout the week, students ran lunchtime games and encouraged their peers to dress up. 

On Friday morning, the class decorated the bleachers and set up for the school-wide Spirit Rally. During the rally, Hatch and Wen MCed, announcing activities and declaring winners. Hatch added, “[Wen] and I had to write scripts and make sure that everything was functioning.” At the end, the seniors proved victorious, dominating in musical chairs, which they won unanimously with the final three students all being on their team. 

On Oct. 26, Leadership hosted the annual coronation dance. Junior Alexis Dorn, a leader of the dance commission, detailed, “We started working on the dance the third or fourth day of school…We had to book the DJ and get the decorations and the food and the water. It took a really long time, but it was really fun.” The commission decorated the front lawn with floating jellyfish and more, transporting their guests under the sea. The dance was a product of almost entirely student work as the commission designed, decorated, and ran the event, learning planning and budgeting skills along the way.

Most recently, Leadership coordinated with the Stanford Blood Center to plan their annual fall semester blood drive. Held on Nov. 15, leadership students aided the center in collecting blood for those in need, checking in student donors, and providing them with snack bags to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. Like last year, leadership students offered an incentive for students to donate: donors receive one pint of ice cream when they donate a pint of blood. Additionally, students who donate twice in their high school career will receive a red cord for their graduation.