As the school year drew to a rapid close last year, BSU still had a few events left to wrap up, primarily the End of the Year Faculty Reception Dinner. It was a beautiful and warm sunny day on the Whitman campus and at 4pm members began to head over to the amazing Baker Faculty Center to begin setting up.
Nick prepares for the slide show
Olivia, our computer technician for the evening
Bon Appetit was gracious enough to cater the event--the food certainly looked amazing and we all could not wait to try it!
The beautiful table settings
The anxious line for food
We invited more than 20 professors and many of them showed us the honor of attending! Among those I had the pleasure of meeting were Professors Noah Leavitt and Helen Kim of the Sociology department along with their beautiful son...
The Professors are intrigued by Tumi's scintillating conversation
...our Advisor Professor Nadine Knight of the English Department (left)....
Professor Knight and her colleagues are all smiles
... Professor Jacqueline Woodfork of History...
Olivia and Bao-Tram share conversation with Professor Woodfork
...and Juli Dunn of the Academic Resource Center.
Laetitiah and me with Juli
One of our main goals with this event every year is to network and form connections with staff and faculty on campus, along with creating awareness of Black Student Union on campus. We were proud with the huge success the afternoon turned out to be!
Allan speaks with a professor while Juli is animated in the background
Enjoying a conversation around the table
After everyone had sat down and was comfortable...
Presidents Tumisang Mothei and Nick Chow gathered everyone's attention.
All eyes are on Nick and Tumi
After introductory remarks, the slide show put together by Olivia compiling photos from our events during the year is shown.
The show begins...
Then the moment our members were waiting for finally came: time to honor Sarah Deming! Sarah served as BSU President for two years and as Secretary in her last semester. She was involved in everything from a sorority to the Whitman Investment Company to the A-Team--a list too long to mention even here. We respect her and admire and truly miss her now that she's gone! She's off to bigger and better things and we we really to show our appreciation for her and all she's done for BSU!
Earlier in the afternoon, Nick and I ventured off campus and bought Sarah two beautiful bouquets of rich red roses, complete with wrapping.
Nick and I smile for Sarah!
A beautiful card went around and all of our members wrote touching notes to Sarah about how much she means to them.
Nick and I presented the gifts to her in front of the crowd--she was very surprised and happy.
Sarah with her sucessors
To conclude the wonderful afternoon, all guests still remaining gathered on the grand staircase to take a photo to commemorate the day.
Thank to everyone who came and shared this day with us!
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