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Fun Days are back! More brotherhood to be built with continuing Class Fun Days

Class fun days will make an appearance in the SLUH schedule for the second year in a row as an integral part of the class unity process. The class fun days emerged in the 2020-2021 school year, when bonding and forming class identity experiences became challenging due to Covid restrictions.

Student Body president A.J. Thompson leading freshmen during freshman fun day. Photo: Kathy Chott.

“The class fun days came out of this Covid world we're living in, and especially last year with having half only half of your class on campus every day. Having one day set aside where only that grade is on campus, when everyone is there, and where you're not focused on academics was very important,” said junior class moderator Tracy Lyons.

The fun days have been a smash hit so far, and some faculty members believe that they are here to stay, even though Covid regulations are slowly starting to disappear.

“And who’s to say the class fun days couldn’t be here for a while, they have been so fun for the students and have helped to build up some spirit that definitely has been hard to create in a world of Zoom, masks, and Covid,” said  Lyons.

“It started out with me and the sophomores that are on the class council,” said sophomore class moderator Frank Corley of the planning.  “They go back to their homerooms and tell them what we're thinking about, and ask if they have any ideas that they would like to see. And then we'll come back and have another meeting, and throw some more ideas around.”

“The class moderator really spearheads the effort and sends the email out to either the whole class or, in the case of the seniors, the senior Student Council and the senior class moderators,” said STUCO president A.J. Thompson. “Then we meet periodically to go over what we’re thinking and what we think the class will enjoy.”

The council members will eventually sort out practical details, such as faculty proctors and meals, just prior to their class fun day. 

Corley believes that the sophomores will have a lot to look forward to for their upcoming class fun day on Nov. 5. While no plans are set in stone yet, he made sure to commend the creativity of the class council members in coming up with ideas.

“It sounds like a great big children's birthday party,” said Corley. “They want to have a hypnotist or magician, they want to have a petting zoo, or maybe even a guy named Serengeti Steve that brings out an 11-foot python that you can hold. These guys want to have root beer float stations around campus where you can get a free root beer float in your free time. They want to play some kickball or dodgeball, or some other type of intramural sports, maybe trivia.”

One thing is for sure, the fun days this year are going to be more developed and refined than what students’ participated in last year. Corley feels like the faculty and students have a better idea of what to expect this year, and a better idea of how to plan it out. 

“I think last year we were sort of just figuring it out,” said Corley. “We had all the Covid restrictions last year, so there were certain things that were off limits. This year I think it will be more developed, and a bigger deal. Last year we didn't really know what we were doing with it, and the students didn’t know what this thing even was, this fun day or this programming day.”

The student-planning aspect of the fun days is vital to the class fun day’s success. These events are unique in that few other events at SLUH have members of each class plan it for their peers. While STUCO events are always a student body favorite, the fun days are unique in this sense.

The fun days have also continued to be a key part in the formation of classes, especially for the underclassmen who haven’t had many chances to bond as a class. Their inclusion last year was vital to class unity so many are glad to see its return.

“Some people saw friends they haven’t seen since freshman year, so the fun days were a way to bond us closer since we had drifted so far apart over quarantine,” said junior Chandler Flowers. “I hope there could be more sports activities and more class interactions. I think there was too much time spent on personal reflection and time with God and not enough of us spending time and bonding together.”

“I think that it’s important to build that sort of a brotherhood with people that you don’t have classes with or that person in your homeroom that you’ve never talked to that much before,” said Thompson. “Just to build bridges throughout your class and our community is really important and hopefully it continues.” 

 

 


 

 

 

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