The 2024 Jack Emery drive, which raised a total of $12,306.26, fell short of hitting the projected goal of $15,000. However, this deficit should not take away from the efforts of the Associative Student Body (ASB), which held many events throughout the past few weeks to promote the Jack Emery Drive.
We, The Union, commend this creativity in new charity events that have provided for the less fortunate in our community. For example, ASB held new class competitions like Pie Wars on Dec. 4 where students between years were competing for who could sell the most pies, with the winners getting the chance to throw pies at ASB representatives. This generated a lot of attention and was highly publicized with many morning announcements and emails.
Although the Winter Ball Dance was canceled, an event that Jack Emery was going to rely on for donations, ASB handled the situation very well by agreeing to refund everyone who bought tickets while also avoiding monetary loss. They did not lose any money because the budgeted costs for the Winter Ball will go to another event because of MHS’s loyalty to one company, for all school events, according to ASB president Atharv Vyas.
The Winter Ball Dance hasn’t occurred since 2019, so the fact that ASB heard that people would be interested in a possible Winter Ball event and organized it is commendable and shows that ASB is more than willing to listen to the student body.
Some other events that ASB did include Pumpkin Painting on Nov. 20, Duct Tape Wars on Nov. 15, and Jack Emery Spirit Week from Dec. 2 to Dec. 6. All of these events were unique and creative ways to increase donatio ns for the Jack Emery Drive this year, and although MHS as a whole did not reach its goal because the Winter Ball wasn’t held, ASB still put their best effort to encourage students to donate to charity.
We hope there will be a winter ball dance next year and that more students will support the event and help raise more money for the Jack Emery Drive so that we can hit our goals.
