Throughout the month of June, one individual from the National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) executive board has truly followed these words by inspiring the organization she leads to go for bigger and higher things.

Without the dedication and hard work of Courtney Anderson, the Omega Zeta Epsilon (OZE) chapter of NRHH would have not accomplished many great things during the month of June.

Since being elected the new president of NRHH, Courtney mapped out many goals to positively impact OZE. One of Courtney’s biggest and most determined goals to accomplish this year is to increase more regional and national involvement within Salem State NRHH. This month, Courtney spent an effective amount of time notifying all the NRHH members of regional and national committees they could be part of throughout the upcoming year. Since sending out applications to the NEACURH OTM voting committee, Courtney’s hard work paid off as of early June when four of her members (including herself) have been selected to the regional OTM voting committee.

Courtney notified her NRHH members again on June 11th about being nationally involved with the NACURH OTM voting committee and sending more application e-mails to her members. While brining excitement and dedication to her goal, Courtney’s inspiration consequently led to two of her NRHH members being selected to the national OTM voting committee.

One week later, on June 19th, Courtney once again sent out applications to her NRHH members about other regional and national committees, and encouraging more of her members to get involved and represent our school, the region and nation.

With only three months as NRHH president, Courtney has without a doubt, accomplished her goal by motivating four members of OZE into regional and national involvement during the month of June. To also reward the hard efforts of her fellow members, Courtney praised all those who were selected to the voting committees as well as for those who nominated and won OTMs within the region.

During the month of June, while Courtney was sending all these notifications, applications and congratulatory messages to all her members, she was not doing it from campus or from home. This summer, Courtney has a summer job working as a summer resident assistant at Brown University. Along with her busy schedule and commitments within her job, Courtney budgeted adequate time into her schedule to make sure all members of OZE were rewarded, responsive to questions, and handed the key to many opportunities for the 2012-2013 academic year.

On June 1st to June 4th, Courtney also represented her school and organization by attending the NACURH 2012 Conference at the University of Colorado-Boulder. At the conference, Courtney met and bonded with many student leaders from across the nation along with her fellow delegates. While gaining positive experience out of her first national conference, Courtney brought back the spirit she had gained and had put it towards her passions and duties to OZE.

Summer is when many executive board members take time to rest before planning things out for the year with their fellow members. Courtney Anderson was on the tip of the iceberg during the month of June as she got her members involved, interacted with students and leaders from all around, and praising others from on-and-off campus.

By successfully proving herself as a true leader, Courtney Anderson deserves to be praised herself by being named the executive board member of the month for June 2012.

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