By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor
The Student’s Association finished the semester with a little tradition.
At the changing of the guard at Perini Ranch on Tuesday, this year’s executive officers gave awards to their mentors and SA Executive President Maher Saab passed down a Bible to president-elect Matt Worthington, junior English major from San Antonio, as is tradition.
As Tyler Cosgrove, SA executive treasurer, left his position after three years in office, he began a new tradition, presenting treasurerelect Kevan Kirksey, sophomore finance major from Tyler, with Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations.”
New executive officers Worthington, Kirksey and vice president-elect Daniel- Paul Watkins, sophomore political science major from Fredericksburg, Va., filled all appointed officer positions before the changing of the guard.
The new officers are: secretary Sarah Newton, junior marketing major from Grand Prairie; chief advancement officer Ryan Stephen, sophomore finance major from Spring; chief financial officer Spencer Hemphill, sophomore accounting major from Longview; chief communication officer Ashton Lloyd, sophomore art major from Cleburne; and chief development officer Matt Greenberg, junior political science and English double major from Grand Prairie.
Greenberg returns to SA after taking a year off.
He said he applied for the chief development officer position because Worthington suggested he apply. As chief development officer, Greenberg is responsible for knowing Robert’s “Rules of Order,” which regulates the way SA meetings run.
Greenberg said he is already familiar with the rules as they pertain to SA.
Cabinet members cannot write legislation, but Greenberg said he could contribute by “[making] sure that the proposals written are clear and effective and not a waste of time.”
Stephen returns to the chief advancement position for the second year, and he said this year he plans to focus less on grants and more on immediate results.
While he will continue to look for grants, he said he will also work on getting in-kind donations for organizations – for example, approaching Wal-Mart about donating food.
Stephen said he is meeting with a student next week to apply for a grant that may start a Spring Break Campaign endowment. He also said he hopes to write the grant to open the south library entrance next fall, a project that was stopped earlier this year.
With this year’s Cabinet officially out of office, the new executive officers will be in Abilene part of this summer to begin working.
Appointed officers will return to campus during Welcome Week to begin working.
