Every week in April, the Boomer Chapter was programming. The first week began an attendance challenge for the General Assembly. This entailed the Administrative Vice President keeping track of, not only attendance at General Assembly meetings, but any NRHH-sponsored event. The prize for this was a digital camera and it increased competition between members.

The second week was our chapter’s Recruitment Week. This team effort was led by our Service Chairperson. Our theme, “Diamonds Are Forever”, raised awareness of one of our organization’s important symbols, but we put a twist on it that a male demographic could identify with. We decided to put a James Bond spin on the theme, and planned events around it. There was a student leader dinner in one of our conference rooms. The next night was our James Bond: Diamonds Are Forever themed General Assembly. On Wednesday, we supported one of our Hall Council’s campus-wide programs by sponsoring a table at their annual Root Beer Kegger, an alcohol-education event. We gave information about a local designated-driver program and shoulder-tapped student leaders who visited and gave them applications. On Thursday, we did a Murder Mystery Dinner, similar to Mafia, but more scripted. As a result of this recruitment week, we had sixteen member applications.

Even though the board had a busy week, they kept on into the weekend to conduct interviews for prospective members. The board spent many hours interviewing and discussing each applicant as a group. It was a time-intensive process, but their ability to stay focused, unbiased, and dedicated to NRHH was admirable.

At the end of the third week, the chapter had a Graduate School Information Panel. The Scholarship Chairperson invited the Associate Director of Residence Life, a current student in his second year of a Master’s program, and a recently graduated student who had just finished the graduate school application jungle. It was very successful and the speakers had lots of information for our attendees. This program would not have happened without the Scholarship Chairperson and the teamwork of the board.

The third weekend saw our department’s Spring Training event. The Recognition Chairperson, in order to reward the Resident Assistant and Residential Programming Assistants’ hard work, decided to have the monthly student leader social on that Sunday. “Planting the Seeds of Leadership” was an event where participants painted terracotta pots and planted flowers. It was well-attended and successful. Its success would not have happened if not for the dedication of the board, who themselves were going through the training and were short on time that weekend. The last week of April was the Leadership and Service Chairpersons’ time to shine. The Leadership Chairperson did her monthly Building Leaders Together series, in which the topic was conflict mediation. Service implemented a “Spring Into Service” week. On Tuesday, students traveled to Springfield’s Convoy of Hope and stuffed food bags for two hours. On Wednesday and Thursday, there was a successful bake sale in which the funds went to the local Habitat for Humanity. Through the hard work of the Boomer Chapter and its Leadership and Service Chairpersons, they increased conflict awareness, and raised 150% more money than expected for Habitat.

Besides helping with this month’s full schedule of activities, the President worked quite diligently to revise our Constitution and By-Laws. She acted as liaison between administration, the board, and the GA in order to incorporate everyone’s ideas and produce an amazing, up-to-date Constitution for our organization.

All of these activities have helped the Boomer Chapter get its name out on campus, and I’m sure all of these events helped bring in one of the biggest induction classes we’ve had in a long time.

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