On June 23, the program speakers were Westbrook High School rising seniors from our Interact Club, Letta Oeur (incoming President) and Natalia Merrill. Both are scheduled to participate in the District trip to the United Nations this fall, along with one other member. Letta is interested in the field of early childhood education and Natalie is interested in some field in the area of medicine.
Their reason for joining Interact was the satisfaction of doing things which make others feel good. Plus “…Who can say no to Bruce Dyer?…”
They are a fairly small group of about 15 members, with various and conflicting time schedules. Therefore they tend to do several small projects and activities, rather than larger scaled ones.
A sampling of these projects:
Big Brother/ Big Sister
Baby sitting teachers’ kids for Parent-Teacher conferences
Mentoring
Panel for 8th graders about decision making
Leaf raking services
Fun nights at the Community Center
They are currently organizing and looking forward to next year’s activities. They represented the Interact club very well and ably fielded many questions.
One project suggestion for them was for them to help us re-establish an Interact Club at Gorham H.S. Their input could greatly help as a student-to-student promotion and source of peer advice.
As thanks for coming to speak with us, our Club will be making a donation in their name to the Polio Plus campaign.
