The 2003 Senior Executive Committee, the group responsible for organizing class activities over the next five years, elected officers at a meeting last night. Lola Adedokun '03 will serve a five-year term as president, Amit Anand '03 as vice-president, Jill Haltigan '03 as secretary and Evan Konwiser '03 as treasurer.
Typically, the president oversees all activities of SEC, while the vice-president organizes specials projects such as programming at reunions and petitions to the administration, Anand explained. The treasurer is responsible for class dues and the secretary for taking minutes at the weekly meetings during the next two terms as well as for putting together the class newsletter.
The officers said that they were flattered to be elected by a committee of such accomplished people.
"I'm very proud that my peers who are all leaders of our class chose me to be one of their leaders," Anand said.
Adebokun agreed, but noted that she was slightly surprised to win the position.
"While I was familiar with a lot of people on the board, I didn't know them really well, so it was nice that they felt that I had the ability," she said.
Not usually the type to run for such positions, Adedokun said she had not initially thought about running for president, but finally decided that she would be a good person to represent many different segments of the 2003 class.
Although several close friends on the committee are members of class council or Student Assembly, Adedokun said that she felt her range of past and current activities at Dartmouth make her well-suited to serve a very diverse group of '03s.
"I don't just want to represent the certain segment that student assembly or class council does," she explained.
Adedokun's activities have included volunteering with the Tucker Foundation, acting as student spokesperson for the Women in Science program and coordinating dinner-dicussions for diverse groups of students at the Rockefeller Center.
Anand echoed Adebokun's desire for the SEC officers to be as representative of the class as possible.
"All of us bring really distinct but equally important qualities," he said. "All of these qualities put together will make a really great leadership board."
Anand's leadership experience on the Student Assembly means that he is accustomed to representing large groups of students and with sharing their views with administrators, he said.
"I think this will come in really handy when it comes time for our class to express an opinion about something to the administration," he said.
The twenty members of the SEC were announced three weeks ago after 12 of them were elected by members of the senior class, with the remaining eight appointed by a College selection committee.
During its remaining two terms on campus, the SEC will choose class marshals for Commencement and plan events such as Class Day. After graduation they will organize mini-reunions and eventually the five-year reunion, at which new committee members will be chosen.
