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The Junior's After Sneak Dinner

By Anonymous
Sarah Stevens

Last Monday was Dalat's annual After Sneak Dinner. This dinner was put on by the junior class to say "welcome back" to the seniors who were gone the week before on their Sneak.
The After Sneak Dinner is a chance for the juniors to learn to work together and practice putting together an event before the much looked forward to JSB (Junior Senior Banquet). This year's theme was a 50’s dinner with a twist…a murder mystery.
For any junior class, pulling off After Sneak Dinner is the first test. One can usually judge a class based on this event. The keys to pulling it off are hard work, teamwork, and leadership. From an outside perspective, this class did a wonderful job. But what do they think?
"Teamwork is a very important aspect of any event," said Susan Oh (11), leader of the invitations’ committee, when asked about her experience in creating this memorable dinner. "I learned that we could pull something off as a class. We really bonded and it gave us a good picture of what JSB would look like."
Others seemed to say the same thing. "We actually work really well together," said Mersades Zimmer (11), leader of the decorations’ committee.
Teamwork is one of the most important attributes of a good event. Whenever a team works well together, the event can become all that it was planned to be. Not only do the people have to work well together, but they also have to simply work well . Being organized and getting the job done is very important. This ties into the last thing that is required for a good event, being leadership.
To have a good event, good leaders are necessary. Leaders represent the whole group and are often accredited with the group's achievements. Leadership positions are not all they're cracked up to be, though. The leaders often have the most stressful jobs. The leader is the first one there on a work day, and the last one to leave when everything is done. They have to work throughout the week, beyond the 8-4p workday hours. They must be coordinated. They gather the supplies and know where everything is. But, they must also be kind. It requires a lot of patience to work with so many people and not be worried with setbacks. Everything is on their shoulders.
I would like to take a second to recognize and thank the leaders of the junior class:
Committees:
Decorations- Mersades Zimmer
Entertainment- Kimberly Horton
Invitations- Susan Oh
Food- Keito Watanabe
Excom:
President- Jarrod Chang
Vise-president- Andrew Kim
Business Manager- Emmet Balzer
Secretary- Lillian Li
Photography- Ning Kong Chia
Food- Keito Watanabe
Public Relations- Christy Chow
I am sure your class appreciates you and is happy they elected you. We, the seniors, sure are. The dinner turned out great, and the seniors had an awesome time. It was truly a memorable night.

Photo credit: Ning Kang


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