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I first met Hannah the second week of school. She was waiting outside of
her building waiting for the elections to be tallied up for her
position. She was outgoing and easy to start a conversation with about
the first week of school and had great ideas about how to impact the
residents in her hall council. Some say you can't depend on first
impressions and I agree, Hannah was impressive at first and has only
improved since then. Hannah is the Vice President of Folk-Caldwell hall council. Her
responsibilities include representing her hall to the campus wide
legislative meeting, keeping her hall informed about campus wide events
and initiatives and teamwork within her executive board. She has
fulfilled these duties in a stellar way and even exceeded them in a
spectacular way. During the first month of campus wide legislative council meetings
Hannah has displayed an impressive knowledge of parliamentary procedure
and used her abilities to guide us through effective meetings and assist
other members. She was a major supporter of a poker night bill between
five hall councils and was instrumental in it's passing. During the
bill's discussion she, even without a lot of experience, upheld
financial policy and guided the body to amend bill into a better form. Our local RHA is comprised of 20 "hall councils" which have their own
executive board and are responsible for programming and community
building within their residence halls. The Folk-Caldwell hall council
has taken off extremely well in the past month, something that could not
have been possible without Hannah. They have built a website to
communicate volleyball practices and games, whiffleball practices, and
intramural soccer. Hannah has also helped implement weekly programs like
"Thirsty Thursday's" in which the residents get together, make mocktails
and take a break from studying and "Midweek Motivators" in which they do
different events all with a M&M theme. The most challenging and rewarding aspect of working in a hall council
is working with new people, on the executive board and in your daily
dealings trying to get things done. From an outside viewpoint Hannah has
been a great team player and had an excellent group of executive board
members to fall back on. She's brought reports back from the campus wide
meetings to keep residents informed and asked their opinion on upcoming
bills and campus initiatives. Hannah really has been outstanding this past month. It's really hard to
accomplish a lot the first month of hall council but she's managed to
quickly get her hall council operational and then exceed expectations.
She's excelled on a personal level, surpassing expectations in
Legislative council and on a team level, helping her hall council become
one of the best hall councils to this point. Word Count: 457
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