The tie in elections for next year’s junior class president was all sophomore Natalie Vontress needed to decide to push harder for votes. On the day of elections, May 14, Vontress, along with other students running for student council positions in their next year’s class, created and posted stickers, posters and slogans around the school to gather votes.
“I felt qualified to do it,” Vontress said. “I’m a pretty good student, and I’m in a student leadership program at my church and NHS. I also went to a leadership program last summer.”
For Vontress, it was stressful to find out that she had tied Lindsay Lucero with 65 votes each. Vontress remembered being a bit upset because when she asked people to vote, they would say “I’m not feeling well or don’t want to do it today”, and all Vontress could think was “if only they were feeling better.” In response, the next day Vontress changed her campaigning stickers and asked more people to vote for her which, in the end, worked.
“I’m extremely happy that I won,” Vontress said. “Everyone was telling me I could do it.”
The junior class president re-elections took place the following day. The winners for next year’s class representatives:
Student Body:
Pres: Ashley Meister
VP: Emma Hall
Sec: Chris Smith
Treas: Kyle Dragulski
Parliamentarian: Lindsay Lucero
Senior Class:
Pres: Caleb Jones
VP: Mikayla Ballard
Sec: Casey McKean
Treas: Amanda Lanter
Chair: Kelsey Rombach
Junior Class:
Pres: Natalie Vontress
VP: Aubrey Copeland
Sec: Christian Armistead
Treas: Taaj Bakari
Sophomore Class:
Pres: Parker Brown
VP: Bailey Campbell
Sec: Jacob Friedberg
Treas: Madison Brown
